Re: Initial install question

2005-06-20 Thread Mark Fletcher
(With apologies in advance if this comes through in HTML -- I have tried to turn HTML-based mailing off but am not sure if have been successful)   Mark -- Debian's "default" way of interacting with the user is through virtual terminals, which is what you're seeing. That said, of course almost no on

Re: Kernel Panic After Sarge Dist-upgrade To Kernel Image 2.4.27-2-386

2005-06-23 Thread Mark Fletcher
--- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > > > VFS: Cannot open rootdevice "301" or 30:01 > > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > > Kernel panic: VFS unable to mount root fs on 30:01 > > Ok, not worried at this time as I have my woody > CD's and can do a >

Upgrade woody-->sarge, KDE stops working

2005-06-24 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hi Got a problem with KDE after upgrading woody to sarge. I am running the i386 distribution. For historical reasons I will get around to sorting out one of these days, I run gdm then select a KDE session at login. My X server has obviously survived the upgrade as gdm starts OK on boot and presen

Re: Upgrade woody-->sarge, KDE stops working

2005-06-25 Thread Mark Fletcher
--- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > >Got a problem with KDE after upgrading woody to > sarge. > > > > > > > >However on login, the X server appears to shut down > >(and gdm promptly re-starts it) -- so I

Re: Upgrade woody-->sarge, KDE stops working

2005-06-25 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Saturday 25 June 2005 12:58, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 05:21:01PM -0700, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > Hi > > > > Got a problem with KDE after upgrading woody to > > sarge. I am running the i386 distribution. For > > historical reasons I will get

Re: realplayer10 and sound quality

2005-06-25 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Saturday 25 June 2005 21:52, Joe Mc Cool wrote: > Sarge, kernel 2.2.20, small home network. Server: PII > 333MHz. > > Thanks a lot for Debian. > > I have just installed RealPlayer10 and it works fine, > listening on line to BBC Radio 3. Wonderful, thanks > again everybody. > > But this is when o

X Window problem after woody --> sarge upgrade

2005-06-27 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hi I recently (last week) upgraded from woody to sarge using aptitude. First off much to my surprise X windows appeared to survive the upgrade although my KDE was shot. Removing and re-installing GDM (which I use to launch X) solved that problem. However over the following days it gradually beca

Re: X Window problem after woody --> sarge upgrade

2005-06-28 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Monday 27 June 2005 22:22, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Hi > > I recently (last week) upgraded from woody to sarge > using aptitude. First off much to my surprise X > windows appeared to survive the upgrade although my > KDE was shot. > > Removing and re-installing GDM (w

libXp -- was there a better way?

2020-10-23 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello I am running Buster on c2009 amd64 hardware -- one of the earliest Intel Core i7s. This was a clean install of Buster done a little over a year ago. Previously I had run many older flavours of Debian on this hardware over the years. I occasionally use a specialist piece of software calle

Re: VPN ideas

2020-12-07 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 04:35:09PM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 11:27:25PM +0200, ellanios82 wrote: > >  Hi List   :) > > > > > >  - any suggestions please , for a handy VPN for everyday use : no specific > > purpose, but only to add a little more privacy ?? > > > >

Two questions as I prepare for a new install

2020-12-07 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello list I am currently amassing the hardware for a new PC build as a Christmas present to myself, and plan to install Bullseye on it when the hardware is all here. My current system runs Buster and I thought it would be interesting to see what's coming. I have two questions: 1. Does anyon

Re: Two questions as I prepare for a new install

2020-12-09 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 06:06:43PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 00:00:54 + > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > 1. Does anyone have any advice (or a link to offcial advice) > > regarding whether a new bullseye install is better done with the > > tes

Re: Permissions on NFS mounts

2020-12-10 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 03:54:10PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > Paul M Foster wrote: > > I have two users on the client: paulf 1000 and nancyf 1001. On the > > server, I have two users: pi 1000 and paulf 1001. I can mount the NFS > > share from the server to /mnt on my client. But any files belongin

Migrating LVM volumes to a new machine

2020-12-11 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello I would like to understand how to move a LVM VG from one machine to another, when the disk to be moved contains filesystems key to the source system. I have read section 13.6 of the LVM HOWTO which talks about moving VGs. However the context of my situation is I am cannibalising an old m

Re: Migrating LVM volumes to a new machine

2020-12-12 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 06:53:59PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 11:46:46PM +0000, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > I feel > > like I can't follow the instructions in the HOWTO because it wants me to > > unmount the file systems, export the LVs and

Gnome Terminal in Bullseye

2021-01-22 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello Has anyone else noticed in Gnome Terminal in bullseye that, by default, it starts in an 80x24 configuration, but if you press F11 to make it full screen and then press F11 again to take it back to non-full-screen, the configuration it goes back to isn't quite 80x24? It's approx 79x23 or

Archivemail

2021-01-22 Thread Mark Fletcher
Anyone know what happened to archivemail in Debian? packages.debian.org shows it was in Jessie, Stretch and Buster, but it is in neither sid nor Bullseye which presumably means it has been dropped. Anyone know why? bugs.debian.org doesn't show any bugs against it and google is coming up short

Re: Archivemail

2021-01-22 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 11:33:13PM +, Brian wrote: > On Fri 22 Jan 2021 at 23:22:19 +0000, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > Anyone know what happened to archivemail in Debian? > > > > packages.debian.org shows it was in Jessie, Stretch and Buster, but it > > is in

Re: Archivemail

2021-01-23 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 12:17:55AM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Thank you for pointing out that archivemail will be gone soon. Since I > am using it as well, I took a quick look at it ("how hard can it be??") > and tried a quick conversion to Python3: > https://github.com/solexx/archivemail > >

OT: Router behaviour

2021-02-04 Thread Mark Fletcher
First apologies for the off-topic post, but I know this community is full of experts on this topic and my ask in the end is a simple one: Can anyone point me at a reasonably accessible guide to the details of how IP networks work, in particular the communications that occur between router devic

Re: OT: Router behaviour

2021-02-20 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 08:23:39PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I powered the router down again, plugged its WAN port into one of the > > LAN ports of the ISP-supplied router, and brought it back up. > > I you sure you plugged your ISP-router into the WAN port of your > (Buffalo) router and n

Re: [OT] send all email from certain From: addresses into a spam

2019-07-04 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 06:44:42PM +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 11:39:22AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > procmail might have worked, but it's more of a pain to learn procmail > > than it is to write my own filter. I also get more flexibility this way. > > > >

Re: What program is capturing key press on root window of X?

2019-07-18 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 0:26 Brad Sawatzky wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jul 2019, Harry Putnam wrote: > > [ . . . ] > > Somewhere in the last few months my Debian OS has acquired an input > > box on upper right of base window (in X) that appears to grab any key > > presses aimed at the base window and pri

Re: usr merge apparently breaks amanda

2019-09-07 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 03:58:45PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > The manifestation matches, but having read thru amanda's tools own logs, > on that machine, I am not so sure we've pointed the finger in the right > direction. From the emailed backup report, it looks as if its crashed > the instan

New Services in Systemd on Debian

2019-09-20 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hi there If one wants to create a new systemd service on Buster, for example for some home-grown unit, where would be the right place to put the .service file? Candidates are obviously /lib/systemd/system or /etc/systemd/system but in both cases that would mean dropping files in places that re

Rescuing hard disks

2019-09-22 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello While setting up a newly purchased RAID-capable hard disk cage I've damaged the contents of 2 hard disks and want to know if it is possible to recover. The cage has 5 disk slots each occupied by 3TB hard disks. 4 of the disks came from an older cage by the same maker (TerraMaster, in cas

Re: Rescuing hard disks

2019-09-23 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 03:07:15AM -, Debian Buster wrote: > > Posible Options: > 1. if you use lilo, look for a copy of parttions table. > 2. create the parttion exactly as it was. I'm running GRUB not lilo -- used lilo back in the 90's but switched to grub whenever Debian started prescribi

Re: graphics card recommendation

2019-09-23 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 08:09:12PM +0200, email.list...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi! > > I'm building a new machine and I'm looking at graphics cards right now. I > want a card that can handle 4k for regular productivity tasks (if it can > handle gaming at those resolutions doesn't matter), that is as s

Re: Problems with Buster and Bluetooth

2019-09-24 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 01:21:03PM -0400, David Parker wrote: > Ok, I think I may have solved the connectivity issue. Some additional > Googling revealed that GDM starts an instance of PulseAudio, and that > conflicts with the PulseAudio server used by the Bluetooth device. The > steps to stop GD

Upgrade Adventure Stretch-to-Buster

2019-09-24 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hi list This long email is just a report on my recent stretch to buster upgrade experience. I had a bit of an adventure, didn't handle some steps well, and thought the experience would be useful to put out there for others to learn from / avoid some mistakes I made. THERE IS NO QUESTION / PROB

Re: Rescuing hard disks

2019-09-29 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 01:41:58PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 03:11:07PM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > > If I understood this right, you have two disks with data and they were > > previously configured as RAID1 volume. > > What make\model RAID-controller do yo

Hard disks auto-spinning-down

2019-09-29 Thread Mark Fletcher
Since a fresh install of buster, an external USB3 hard disk cage from Terramaster that I own is not automatically spinning down the disks in it when they go unused for a time. I used a previous generation of the cage with Stretch previously, it spun down the disks when they were not in use (act

RStudio in Buster

2019-09-29 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello The RStudio application, a popular IDE-like tool for programming in R, is not to my knowledge packaged in the mainstream Debian repositories. The makers of RStudio, however, provide a package which can be downloaded from their website for installation in Debian. The most recent package t

Re: RStudio in Buster

2019-09-30 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 09:28:05AM +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 10:34:17PM +0100, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > The most recent package they provide is aiming at Stretch -- they don't > > seem to have produced a Buster version yet. >

Re: Hard disks auto-spinning-down

2019-09-30 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 01:41:37AM -0700, B wrote: > > > On 9/29/19 4:30 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > Any thoughts on where I might look to find settings that can be tweaked > > to make it spin down when idle? > > > See sdparm and hdparm tools. hdparm is probab

R performance

2020-05-12 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello I have recently had cause to compare performance of running the R language on my 10+-year-old PC running Buster (Intel Core i7-920 CPU) and in the cloud on AWS. I got a surprising result, and I am wondering if the R packages on Debian have been built with any flags that account for the d

Re: R performance

2020-05-12 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 08:16:52AM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: > Mark Fletcher wrote on 5/12/20 7:34 AM: > > Hello > > > > I have noticed that recent versions of R supplied by debian are using all the > available cores instead of just one. I don't know whether tha

Re: R performance

2020-05-13 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 12:06:52PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > You don't mention which distro you are running on the EC2 instance, nor > whether R or the C libraries differ in release levels. Moreover, that EC2 > instance type is AMD-based not Intel. So if not an apples-to-oranges > compar

Re: yabasic problem

2018-08-20 Thread Mark Fletcher
Isn’t the problem that you misspelled “experimental” in your original file paths? Mark On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 21:13 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 08/20/2018 02:35 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > David Wright wrote: > > [snip] > >> Would you agree, though, that "BASIC" is the language that must > >>

pactl and bluetooth

2018-08-26 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello the list I'm running stretch amd64, upgraded from at least jessie and I think wheezy -- memory's a bit hazy now. I use Gnome on this machine. Every time I reboot I find I can't connect my bluetooth headphones to the computer. In the Gnome bluetooth applet, when I click the slide button t

Confused by Amanda

2018-09-02 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello I use Amanda for daily backups on Stretch. I found it not too difficult to set up once I got my head around its virtual tape concept. Recently, prompted by not very much, I have started to question whether having these backups really put me in a position to restore the machine if I need

Re: Confused by Amanda

2018-09-02 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sun, Sep 02, 2018 at 11:46:44AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 02 September 2018 06:27:01 Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Amanda is not good for the situation you describe. > > No its not ideal in some cases,, which is why I wrote a wrapper script > for the make a backup portions of amanda. W

Re: Debian installation

2018-09-02 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sun, Sep 02, 2018 at 09:34:40PM -0700, Harold Hartley wrote: > I had ordered myself a Debian dvd 9.5 and everything was installing > great until it came to scan the mirrors.It seems I was not able to scan a > mirror so that I would be able to apt > an app, but I tried many mirrors and nothing.C

Re: selinux and debian squeeze 9.5

2018-11-03 Thread Mark Fletcher
> squeeze! You could be very lucky and someone with the same outdated, > no longer supported distribution and experiencing the same problem > comes along. I wouldn't count on it though. > > > Any suggestions? > > The obvious. > Speaking of obvious — the OP says 9.5, so presumably they _meant_ to s

Apt upgrade problem

2022-10-16 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hi Tonight I am seeing a behaviour pattern in my Debian Bullseye system that I have not seen before. After "sudo apt update", the system informs me there is 1 package that can be upgraded. "sudo apt upgrade" reports nothing to do, 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upg

gnome-remote-desktop on bookworm

2022-12-20 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hi Does anyone know what state gnome-remote-desktop is in on bookworm? I can't get it to work. I have a system recently upgraded to bookworm, running Gnome if that wasn't obvious. In Gnome settings, under Sharing I have turned on Remote Desktop and Remote Control, but other clients on my network

Re: gnome-remote-desktop on bookworm

2022-12-21 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 at 15:41, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > Hi > > Does anyone know what state gnome-remote-desktop is in on bookworm? I can't > get it to work. I have a system recently upgraded to bookworm, running Gnome > if that wasn't obvious. > This turned

Package versions in multi-arch

2023-01-06 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hi list I have a package installation problem which leads to a question about how (and if) package versions interact in different architectures. My system is an amd64 bookworm system, with multi-arch support and some packages from i386 installed, to support a vendor-supplied printer driver and, m

Re: Package versions in multi-arch

2023-01-06 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, 6 Jan 2023 at 15:39, Steve McIntyre wrote: > You've been bitten by a subtle but unfortunately common problem, > yes. In multi-arch systems the versions of packages have to be totally > in sync. But the +b1 syntax here means that the i386 package has had a > binNMU (binary NMU) build which

Re: netgear wna3100 not supported by linux?

2023-01-09 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, 9 Jan 2023 at 09:46, lsg wrote: > i've searched Internet, it doesn't seem supported by linux?? too bad > > Looks like you need to use ndiswrapper with the windows drivers to get it to work. Saw that on an Ubuntu forum but what’s good for the gander is often good for the goose… Mark

Re: issues with stretch, issue 2 from many

2018-11-30 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sat, Dec 1, 2018 at 0:59 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Now, please answer the following questions: > > 1) What version of Debian are you running? > > 2) How do you log in to your computer? If it's by a display manager >(graphical login), which one is it? > > 3) How do you start the X window sy

Fwd: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up?

2018-12-06 Thread Mark Fletcher
Darn it, forgot to monkey with the headers when replying from gmail... please see intended list reply below. -- Forwarded message - From: Mark Fletcher Date: Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 8:19 Subject: Re: Recommendation for Virtual Machine and Instructions to set it up? To: On Fri

Fwd: You removed Weboob package over pollitical reasons?Whole Internet laughs at you

2018-12-24 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 7:56 Miles Fidelman wrote: > Not for nothing... Please don’t top post. but I'd never heard of weboob before. Looks like a > rather powerful set of functions. All the controversy has probably > provided some much needed visibility. > > Personally, I don't care about th

Re: Session Recording

2018-12-27 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 0:46 Ilyass Kaouam wrote: > Hi, > > Please if you know any opensource tools he can recording session ? > Freeipa can do this ? > > Thank's > > Depends what you mean by session. For textual record of a series of commands and their output, as might be useful over ssh, look

Bluetooth audio problem

2019-03-03 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello Since upgrading to Stretch shortly after it became stable, I have had to execute the following after a reboot before being able to connect to bluetooth devices using the Gnome bluetooth applet: $ sudo pactl load-module module-bluetooth-discover Without that command, needed once only afte

Re: Bluetooth audio problem

2019-03-22 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sun, Mar 03, 2019 at 06:04:05PM +0100, deloptes wrote: > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > Hello > > > > Since upgrading to Stretch shortly after it became stable, I have had to > > execute the following after a reboot before being able to connect to > > bluetoo

Re: Bluetooth audio problem

2019-03-23 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 08:44:46PM +0100, deloptes wrote: > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > So this turned out to be a weirdie -- if I dropped the "sudo" my > > original command worked. > > > > So now, suddenly from that update that started this thre

Re: Bluetooth audio problem

2019-04-01 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 08:24:30AM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 9:29 AM Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > > > So this turned out to be a weirdie -- if I dropped the "sudo" my > > original command worked. > > So now, suddenly from th

Re: Acess Devian 9 laptop by another devica via wifi

2019-04-01 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 08:31:34AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 5:12 AM Tom Browder wrote: > > > > > > Is there any reliable way to either (1) always connect via the LAN or > > > > (2) > > > > make the laptop broadcast its own LAN so I can login to it wirelessly > > > > fr

Simple Linux to Linux(Debian) email

2019-04-08 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello all As I wrote this I began to consider this is slightly OT for this list; my apologies for not putting OT in the subject line but mutt won't let me go back and edit the subject line. Short version: Is it reasonable to expect a piece of software to exist that establishes a direct connect

Re: Simple Linux to Linux(Debian) email

2019-04-08 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 07:54:30AM -0500, Ryan Nowakowski wrote: > You might check out sSMTP[1] > > [1] https://wiki.debian.org/sSMTP > Thanks, looks like sSMTP will do the job. As was pointed out elsewhere in the thread, it seems to have been dropped from Buster, but that is no barrier for me

Re: Simple Linux to Linux(Debian) email

2019-04-08 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 02:14:33PM +0100, Thomas Pircher wrote: > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > mutt won't let me go back and edit the subject line. > > Hi Mark, > > Yes, have a look at the dma or nullmailer packages. There used to be > more of these programs in Debian

Re: Simple Linux to Linux(Debian) email

2019-04-08 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 02:39:35PM +0100, Joe wrote: > On Mon, 8 Apr 2019 21:33:03 +0900 > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > > > > My image of an ideal solution is a piece of software that can present > > email to a remote MTA (ie an MTA not on the local machine) for &

Re: Tracking the next Stable release

2019-04-09 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 05:42:46PM -0300, Francisco M Neto wrote: > Greetings! > > > https://twitter.com/debian_tracker > Nice! What does the level of release-critical bugs need to fall to before a release can happen -- it's not zero is it? Mark

Re: Simple Linux to Linux(Debian) email

2019-04-11 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Tue, Apr 09, 2019 at 02:34:30AM +0200, Jan Claeys wrote: > On Mon, 2019-04-08 at 21:33 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > I've created a very simple script that is capable of parsing the > > output of "ip addr" and comparing the returned ip address for the > &g

RESOLVED: Simple Linux to Linux(Debian) email

2019-04-11 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 02:14:33PM +0100, Thomas Pircher wrote: > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > mutt won't let me go back and edit the subject line. > > Hi Mark, > > > Short version: Is it reasonable to expect a piece of software to exist > > that establishes a dire

Re: Simple Linux to Linux(Debian) email

2019-04-11 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 11:51:44AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 12:42:12AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > Why not use a dynamic DNS provider? > > > The problem is how I know that the IP > > address has changed and hence the DNS mapping needs

Re: Error Message

2019-04-11 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 07:03:08PM +0200, Michael Lee wrote: > Hello, I would like to know what I am supposed to do about this error > message. Would appreciate guidance. > M Lee > > > Nicht alle Paketquellenindizes konnten heruntergeladen werden > > Die Software-Paketquelle steht möglicherweis

Re: DVD Creation software

2019-04-12 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 12:48:13PM +0100, Paul Sutton wrote: > Hi > > > I would like to take a set of video files (I have mp4  and am aware they > need transcoding) and put these on a dvd along with a menu etc, so they > can be played from VLC or as a normal dvd. > > I did this years ago, it app

Sudden “operation not permitted”

2019-04-16 Thread Mark Fletcher
(Apologies if this mail comes through poorly formatted for the list; my main machine is unavailable due to this problem and I’m writing on an iPad...) Running Stretch on a circa-2009 self-built machine which has run happily without serious issues since it was built, apart from the odd annoyance wi

RESOLVED: Sudden “operation not permitted”

2019-04-17 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 11:17:04AM +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 03:25:39PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > I decided to try a reboot, which cleared the upowerd problem and returned > > load to 0 or close to it. But now, network activity is no

Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-03 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello I'm trying to use Stretch to write a .ISO image to a USB device. The image is the Windows 10 installer (please don't flame me! It's part of an education project for my son!) which I downloaded from Microsoft, and which they claim should be able to be written to a USB device. Microsoft wo

Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-03 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 12:54:17PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 01:50:31AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > it auto-mounted. > > > So as root I did: > > > > cp /dev/sdf > > You need the device NOT to be mounted when you do the cp.

RESOLVED: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-04 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 05:03:42AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 11:39:39AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > Nonetheless, I do find "Disks" handy to identity the device associated > with a USB memory stick just plugged in, and to indicate at a gla

Re: RStudio in Buster

2019-10-02 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 06:27:48AM +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 11:45:41PM +0100, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 09:28:05AM +0300, Reco wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 10:34:17PM +0100, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > &g

Re: Hard disks auto-spinning-down

2019-10-28 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 07:44:48PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 01 oct 19, 15:49:57, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > > > > You may want to try hd-idle, it is not yet available in stable, but one > > can install it from testing (it is not advisable in general, but the > > divergence between bus

iPhone as bluetooth audio source for buster

2020-03-16 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello Recently I wanted to connect my iPhone 7 to a new Buster install in the same way I had many years before with an earlier iPhone and earlier Debian, so I could play music from it through my speakers. Bluetooth setup on the Debian machine is basically working; I can connect to a variety of

Re: Why?

2006-07-10 Thread Mark Fletcher
--- S Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am new to Debian - within the last two weeks - and > two things puzzle me. > > Why do you seem to prefer gnome over kde? I have > examined both and kde seems to me to be easier to > use. There must be something I am missing. > It's a very persona

Re: OT: Re: Why?

2006-07-10 Thread Mark Fletcher
--- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > the Great Pyramid at Gizeh (or is it Giza, I can > never > > remember which is right) > It's Pisa. the Great Pyramid of Pisa. > > Oh, wait, that's "Leaning Pyramid of Pisa&quo

SMBFS package vs kernel modules?

2006-07-30 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hi list I have a question about the smbclient package. What does it provide that isn't provided by SMB FS support in the kernel? I currently run a 2.6.15.4 kernel and am about to build myself a 2.6.17.7 kernel from kernel.org (using make-kpkg). I plan shortly to buy myself some NAS and use it wit

SMBFS package vs kernel modules?

2006-07-30 Thread Mark Fletcher
DUH -- question is about smbfs package not smbclient... Hi list I have a question about the smbclient package. What does it provide that isn't provided by SMB FS support in the kernel? I currently run a 2.6.15.4 kernel and am about to build myself a 2.6.17.7 kernel from kernel.org (using make-kp

Debian Install DVD .jigdos out of date?

2007-12-31 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hi Can anyone comment on whether the .jigdo files currently published on cdimage.debian.org and its mirrors for the DVD images of the i386 STABLE distribution are out of date? I tried to use them yesterday to make an image of the first DVD (using http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r1/i386/jig

Re: DVD distorted picture

2008-01-01 Thread Mark Fletcher
hce gmail.com> writes: > > Hi, > > I am using mplayer to watch DVD video movies. Some DVD can be > displayed on the screen well, but others were displayed in a distorted > picture with 3 columns repeated the same contents. Does anyone know > what was that problem and how to fix it? > > I was u

Moving from WEP to WPA

2008-01-03 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hi I have a relatively old (P3) Compaq Evo N600C laptop which I picked up from somewhere, in which I have installed a circa-2002 PCMCIA Buffalo 802.11a/b wireless LAN card which uses the orinoco driver in the kernel. I know that this combination of kernel, machine and laptop work since it's been w

Re: Java swing gui designer???

2008-01-03 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hal Vaughan thresholddigital.com> writes: > > On Thursday 03 January 2008, Margiolas Christos wrote: > > Hello any advise for a good java swing designer? > > Either independent app either eclipse plugin.. > > Margiolas Christos > > Eclipse has a Visual Editor. > Netbeans also has one, a

Re: Wireless card failing after a while

2008-01-06 Thread Mark Fletcher
Tom Raus skynet.be> writes: > > Hello All, > > I've been having some issues on my IBM netfinity server toybox. For some reason the networkcard stops > working while there is no apparent reason. Sometimes it happens during transfers, sometimes just while > it's idle. In /var/log/messages I get t

Re: Autostart programs: How to remove them?

2008-01-07 Thread Mark Fletcher
Paul Johnson ursine.ca> writes: > I'm curious why someone would even bother installing Google Desktop if > they're not going to run it...it's one of those things that more or > less has to run while you're logged in to keep the index synchronized. > Perhaps he installed it to try it out, and

ipw3945 takes a while to warm up???

2008-01-07 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hi list I'm running etch on a Toshiba Satellite laptop I picked up about a year ago now in Hong Kong. It's on my home wireless LAN supported by a Buffalo Airstation 54G which I bought recently here in Japan. The wireless LAN card in the laptop is an inbuilt Intel ipw3945. If I configure my interf

Re: Goodbye

2008-01-08 Thread Mark Fletcher
Joel Roberts pinkardcc.com> writes: > I’ve gotten a lot of good information from this list, > and hopefully supplied some as well, but I’m not going to weed through > hundreds > of spam e-mails weekly to pursue this any longer. If the list organizers can > implement some anti-spam measures, I’ll

Re: ipw3945 takes a while to warm up???

2008-01-08 Thread Mark Fletcher
A few days ago, in the middle of a spam storm, I wrote: > > Hi list > > I'm running etch on a Toshiba Satellite laptop I picked up about a year > ago now in Hong Kong. It's on my home wireless LAN supported by a > Buffalo Airstation 54G which I bought recently here in Japan. The > wireless LAN c

Debian Wheezy, Gnome 3, and nVidia graphics cards

2013-11-19 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello the list! I am running Wheezy on a self-built Intel Core i7 920 with 24GB of RAM and an nVidia GeForce 9800 GTX+ graphics card. I am using the nVidia proprietary driver downloaded from the debian repository along with the kernel module built by the usual Debian installation process. I am ru

Re: Debian Wheezy, Gnome 3, and nVidia graphics cards

2013-11-19 Thread Mark Fletcher
Andrei POPESCU gmail.com> writes: > > > Could you please try to run following command before killing gdm3 and > post the output here? > > top -b -n 1 > > Kind regards, > Andrei Thanks Andrei, I will try this at the weekend, machine is running critical tasks while the markets are open s

Re: CIFS and data integrity

2012-07-29 Thread Mark Fletcher
Joe jretrading.com> writes: > > On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 01:50:14 +0900 > Mark Fletcher gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > It looks like what got stored on the NAS is not exactly what was > > originally on the host. This is a huge problem for me as it means I >

Re: what graphics card to choose

2012-07-30 Thread Mark Fletcher
hvw59601 care2.com> writes: > > Camaleón wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 10:41:00 -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > > > > > Then choose one that you like (because of price/design) and then check > > about its current support status in Linux ecosystem, though I would go > > for nvidia; thei

Re: what graphics card to choose

2012-07-30 Thread Mark Fletcher
Chris Bannister slingshot.co.nz> writes: > > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 07:04:34AM +0000, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > Actually, right now, the nVidia-provided nVidia driver packaged in Debian has a > > number of problems with 3D support on several cards. For example I use an nV

Re: what graphics card to choose

2012-07-30 Thread Mark Fletcher
Gary Dale rogers.com> writes: > > On 30/07/12 03:04 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > hvw59601 care2.com> writes: > > > >> Camaleón wrote: > >>> On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 10:41:00 -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > >>> > >>> > &g

Re: CIFS and data integrity ; Sorry for the noise

2012-07-30 Thread Mark Fletcher
Paul E Condon mesanetworks.net> writes: > > Having posted this, which I thought was reasonable, I went and looked at the > archives to see what OP (Mark Fletcher) had written. It turns out that all > of his investigation was done using commands typed in as root. For me, this >

Re: CIFS and data integrity ; Sorry for the noise

2012-07-30 Thread Mark Fletcher
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh debian.org> writes: > > Well... there is an awlful lot of CIFS and NFS-related fixes in the kernel > stable queue. Check that. Also make sure it is not your NIC driver or > memory (or the NAS' memory) that went bad... > I wondered about this too -- and the defecti

Re: CIFS and data integrity

2012-08-03 Thread Mark Fletcher
Martin Steigerwald lichtvoll.de> writes: > Hi Mark, > Could you please try it that way: > > > If the issue does not trigger with zeros, then use sha1sum your database > backup file and then copy it and sha1sum it again. > > Thats just to verify the whole thing a bit more. > > Just to make

Re: Cannot update wheezy

2011-04-02 Thread Mark Fletcher
Stephen Powell wowway.com> writes: > > I had the same problem about a week ago. The solution is to do > a full-upgrade instead of a safe-upgrade. The problem is caused by > libre-office packages taking the place of open-office packages. > full-upgrade allows packages to be deleted, safe-upgrad

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