[DNG] frozen messages from dng-bounces

2019-12-16 Thread Haines Brown
pipelined > +MAIL FROM:<> SIZE=5953: 554 5.7.1 Empty Sender Address is > prohibited > through this server Is my mailer telling me it has frozen a message from dng-bounces because its FROM: field is empty? Why is dng-bounces sending me messages? Haines Brown ___

[DNG] sender address rejected

2019-12-02 Thread Haines Brown
00 > From: root > To: sur...@popcon.devuan.org > Subject: popularity-contest submission > > -BEGIN PGP MESSAGE- > ... It seems popcorn messages are sent by root, but the root address is not owned by user. How can I straighten this out? What defi

[DNG] Beowulf: DBus service error

2019-11-22 Thread Haines Brown
, am I not thereby enabling autospawn? I'm not sure whether to comment the line. I have no reason to think that apulse is asking DBus to connect to a Bluetooth device. How do I go about finding out what process is calling on DBus? Haines Brown ___ Dng

Re: [DNG] mlterm to display path in window frame

2019-11-11 Thread Haines Brown
On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 10:44:02PM +0100, marc wrote: > Hello > > I am under the impression that some xterminal emulators > understand a certain escape sequence (maybe tsl ?) which > update the title bar. > > What does > > tput hsl > > and > > tput tsl ; echo -n hello ; tput fsl > > do

Re: [DNG] mlterm to display path in window frame

2019-11-10 Thread Haines Brown
ed of use. One seems to have $SWP checked, but when I unchecked it I any access to the configuration menu. Can't get it back. > ..you may be looking for mlterm's equvivalent of konsole's %w (which > also sets konsole's tab names) and xterm's -title (alias -T

[DNG] mlterm to display path in window frame

2019-11-09 Thread Haines Brown
but failed to find how to get it to display its current path in the frame. Can it be done? Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

[DNG] neomutt hangs with invocation of S/MIME

2019-11-09 Thread Haines Brown
ess at one point this was a debian bug. I don't know why at this point it has not been resolved. I do not really understand the problem nor how to avoid it. Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] How stable Is beowulf? How to upgrade from ascii?

2019-11-09 Thread Haines Brown
On Sat, Nov 09, 2019 at 09:06:04AM +0900, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > Hi Haines, > > Haines Brown writes: > > > However, there was a glitch I do not understand. I could not get SMTP > > authentication (I'm running exim4 and mutt). Turned out that exim > > could not re

Re: [DNG] How stable Is beowulf? How to upgrade from ascii?

2019-11-07 Thread Haines Brown
to get SMTP authentication by reading passwd.client? Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Fetchmail on Beowulf

2019-10-31 Thread Haines Brown
that the new fetchmail looks for an SSL certificate, and finding none breaks the connection. I may have worked around this intering the line sslproto " into .fetchmailrc. Is this correct? I worry that it is not because I found no discussion on line Haines

Re: [DNG] reinstalling GRUB2

2019-07-27 Thread Haines Brown
t;. A pop-up that cannot be dismissed insisted I download a php automatic repair utility before being able to read more of the page. What I did read was that a reason for the error might be invalid entries in my Windows registry. I suspected malware and ran away rather than download the utility.

Re: [DNG] reinstalling GRUB2

2019-07-27 Thread Haines Brown
u to download a php automatic repair utility before you can read read more of the page. What I did read was that a reason for the error might be invalid entries in my Windows registry. I suspected malware and ran away rather than download the utility.

Re: [DNG] reinstalling GRUB2

2019-07-25 Thread Haines Brown
On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 06:59:02AM -0400, fsmithred via Dng wrote: > On 7/24/19 4:40 PM, Haines Brown wrote: > > > > I've no idea what's going on. > > I think you got a non-devuanized util-linux from ascii-security. That > package has been replaced. You should be a

Re: [DNG] reinstalling GRUB2

2019-07-24 Thread Haines Brown
> Probably not relevant is that every morning I get this cron error: > > /etc/cron.daily/apt-compat: > > Cache has broken packages, exiting > > What happens if you empty the cache with 'apt-get clean' or the equivalent? I believe I already tried that

Re: [DNG] reinstalling GRUB2

2019-07-24 Thread Haines Brown
be run by user, but not by root becasue root has no path to /usr/sbin. Probably not relevant is that every morning I get this cron error: /etc/cron.daily/apt-compat: Cache has broken packages, exiting Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng

Re: [DNG] reinstalling GRUB2

2019-07-24 Thread Haines Brown
can be run by user, but not by root becasue root has no path to /usr/sbin. Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] reinstalling GRUB2

2019-07-22 Thread Haines Brown
On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 06:24:32AM -0400, fsmithred via Dng wrote: > On 7/22/19 1:48 AM, Steve Litt wrote: ... I tried the chroot method, but with little luck. I'm set up for BIOS boot. My /root partion is /sdb1, and my broken out /boot partition is /dev/sdb2. So for grub-root-device I use

Re: [DNG] reinstalling GRUB2

2019-07-22 Thread Haines Brown
On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 06:24:32AM -0400, fsmithred via Dng wrote: > On 7/22/19 1:48 AM, Steve Litt wrote: ... I tried the chroot method, but with little luck. I'm set up for BIOS boot. My /root partion is /sdb1, and my broken out /boot partition is /dev/sdb2. So for grub-root-device I use

[DNG] reinstalling GRUB2

2019-07-21 Thread Haines Brown
_DEFAULT="quiet" GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="" Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] /etc/aliases

2018-12-12 Thread Haines Brown
On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 02:10:24PM +0100, Gonzalo Pérez de Olaguer Córdoba wrote: > Hi Haines, > > El Wed, 12 Dec 2018 07:18:35 -0500 > Haines Brown escribió: > > > In debian I had the file /etc/aliases with more or less standard > > entries

Re: [DNG] /etc/aliases

2018-12-12 Thread Haines Brown
On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 01:21:46PM +0100, Antony Stone wrote: > On Wednesday 12 December 2018 at 13:18:35, Haines Brown wrote: > > > In debian I had the file /etc/aliases with more or less standard > > entries, but don't know how it got there (I didn't run sendmail or > &g

[DNG] /etc/aliases

2018-12-12 Thread Haines Brown
provide its functionality elsewhere? Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

[DNG] inconsistent scanner device number on USB bus

2018-11-10 Thread Haines Brown
I'm running ASCII and attempting to get a Canon LiDE 220 scanner to work. It is fully supported by SANE and I know that others are using it. I've installed the packages: sane, libsane, libsane-common, sane-utils, xsane, etc. In /etc/group I have: scanner:x:110:saned,haines

Re: [DNG] systemd and wlan0 interface problem [SOLUTON]

2018-07-19 Thread Haines Brown
is the Dongle's MAC address. I then did # ifup wlx2824ff1a1794 and I'm connected wirelessly. Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] systemd and wlan0 interface problem

2018-07-11 Thread Haines Brown
On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 04:38:42PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 02:34:52PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > > allow hotplug eth0 > > I believe that should be allow-hotplug but since I'm still running > jessie, it's possible this has changed in Ascii. Gre

Re: [DNG] systemd and wlan0 interface problem

2018-07-10 Thread Haines Brown
ring wlx2824ff1a1794 down. Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] systemd and wlan0 interface problem

2018-07-01 Thread Haines Brown
On Sun, Jul 01, 2018 at 07:30:30AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > Stefan, sorry to be dense. With the help of ThinkPenguin I finally resolved the problem and wlan0 is now my interface name, not wlx. In any case, simply modifying /etc/network/interfaces to use that address didn't work (I repla

Re: [DNG] systemd and wlan0 interface problem

2018-07-01 Thread Haines Brown
On Sun, Jul 01, 2018 at 11:30:46AM +0200, Stefan Krusche wrote: > Am Samstag 30 Juni 2018 schrieb Haines Brown: > > c) alter the default policy for picking a different naming > > scheme by copying /lib/udev/rules.d/80-net-link-setup.rules to > > /etc/udev/rules.d/ and then

[DNG] systemd and wlan0 interface problem

2018-06-30 Thread Haines Brown
0-persistent-net.rules file from my old Devuan jessie machine to the new ascii machine and uncomment the two lines? Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] what happened to usbmount?

2018-06-17 Thread Haines Brown
On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 03:25:34PM +0200, J. Fahrner wrote: > Am 2018-06-17 15:14, schrieb Haines Brown: > >Am I wrong, but does the restored usbmount depend on systemd? If so that > >may be why it does not show up on my ascii system. > > It's not in Ascii because it's

Re: [DNG] what happened to usbmount?

2018-06-17 Thread Haines Brown
On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 05:39:02AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 18:29:27 -0400, Haines wrote in message > <20180616222927.gk1...@engels.historicalmaterialism.info>: > > > I go to install usbmount on ascii 2.0.0 and I get "E: Unable to locate > > package usbmount". > > ..you

[DNG] what happened to usbmount?

2018-06-16 Thread Haines Brown
I go to install usbmount on ascii 2.0.0 and I get "E: Unable to locate package usbmount". Has an alternative been developed without the problems associated with usbmount? Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne

Re: [DNG] elogind and startx

2018-06-16 Thread Haines Brown
On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 11:27:31AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Install > > xserver-xorg-input-libinput > > and a graphics driver, unless you like to use the in-built modesettings > driver which is usually just about fine for Intel integrated graphics. > For AMD or NVidia you may like or

Re: [DNG] elogind and startx

2018-06-15 Thread Haines Brown
On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 07:41:52PM +0100, Dave Turner wrote: > You must install the xserver files to get X working. > > More precisely, they MUST be installed. Whether elogind and libpam-elogind > drag them in as dependencies I do not know. I did as you suggest, but with an unhappy outcome. I

[DNG] elogind and startx

2018-06-15 Thread Haines Brown
stall 'elogind' and 'libpam-elogind', and then use either 'startx' or 'xinit' as usual from a regular user account." Is this implying that I do not need to install the xserver files listed above? Or must they be installed, and the elogind simply relocates the X server log? Ha

Re: [DNG] ascii 2.0 installation confused by mount points

2018-06-10 Thread Haines Brown
On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 04:07:17PM +0100, Rowland Penny wrote: > What you are talking about doing is akin to dual-booting, just on > different disks i.e. you will only be able to boot one distro. > > Rowland Yes. In the past I've always had multiple hard drives in one machine, each with an

Re: [DNG] ascii 2.0 installation confused by mount points

2018-06-10 Thread Haines Brown
On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 12:36:02PM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote: > I think you may be confused about what this section is doing. You are > telling the installer a) what to do with a disk & it's partitions (eg, > should it format a partition), and b) where they should be mounted. > So for your

Re: [DNG] ascii 2.0 installation confused by mount points

2018-06-10 Thread Haines Brown
On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 10:05:48AM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 10/06/2018 à 04:01, Haines Brown a écrit : > >On Sat, Jun 09, 2018 at 10:36:46PM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote: > >>Haines Brown wrote: > >> > >>>In the partitioning scheme, sda is HD ST1000DX00

Re: [DNG] ascii 2.0 installation confused by mount points

2018-06-09 Thread Haines Brown
On Sat, Jun 09, 2018 at 10:36:46PM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote: > Haines Brown wrote: > > > In the partitioning scheme, sda is HD ST1000DX002-2DV1. It has a primary > > partition that is bootable and the mount point /. > You probably want to set this partition to unu

Re: [DNG] ascii 2.0 installation confused by mount points

2018-06-09 Thread Haines Brown
On Sat, Jun 09, 2018 at 10:19:01PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 09/06/2018 à 22:13, Haines Brown a écrit : > >I'm installing ascii on a disk, sdc, in a machine that has two other disks, > >one of which, sda already has a bootable devuan jessie on it. > > > >The instal

[DNG] ascii 2.0 installation confused by mount points

2018-06-09 Thread Haines Brown
I've run into trouble with it. In installation options for sdc, I did ask to have a MBR installed. Why does an installation on one disk care about what happens to be on another unmounted disk? Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

[DNG] ascii installation key exchange problem

2018-06-05 Thread Haines Brown
also running Devuan Jessie on a different disk on the new machine. It took three attempts to get an association, a key exchange. I'm simply reporting that association can be difficult with ascii. Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

Re: [DNG] no display of GRUB menu

2018-06-02 Thread Haines Brown
On Sat, Jun 02, 2018 at 11:10:02AM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 02/06/2018 à 01:55, Haines Brown a écrit : > >On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 11:21:06PM +0200, Florian Zieboll wrote: > >>Am 1. Juni 2018 22:24:47 MESZ schrieb Haines Brown : > >> > >>>I installed J

Re: [DNG] no display of GRUB menu

2018-06-01 Thread Haines Brown
On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 11:21:06PM +0200, Florian Zieboll wrote: > Am 1. Juni 2018 22:24:47 MESZ schrieb Haines Brown : > > > I installed Jessie on a new disk on a new machine. I can boot it from > > the GRUB menu on another disk on that machine, but when I try to boot > &g

[DNG] no display of GRUB menu

2018-06-01 Thread Haines Brown
is: GRUB_DEFAULT=0 GRUB_TIMEOUT=5 Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] broken PDF display

2018-03-23 Thread Haines Brown
On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 06:55:46PM +, Adam Sampson wrote: > Haines Brown <hai...@histomat.net> writes: > > > Recently and not in association with any system changes, atril and xpdf > > no longer displays the content of perhaps half my PDF files. > > I'm se

[DNG] broken PDF display

2018-03-23 Thread Haines Brown
of the font. $ xpdf -fg black Abrams1995.pdf error: "black" file not found Printing the PDF has same result as its display. Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Documentation format philosophies

2017-11-13 Thread Haines Brown
onably convert LaTeX to XML, HTML, Xhtml or the > > > like. > > > > Ever heard about latex2html? Tried them all, and only one that was successful in most respects was the lwarp package. Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Documentation format philosophies

2017-11-11 Thread Haines Brown
t; $ latex2html source $ tex4ht ... I had better luck with the lwarp TeX package. It stumbled on some aspects of my TeX document, but that was a year ago, and at that point it was still under early development. I believe today it does better, but have not checked. Haines Brown _

[DNG] D-Bus and systemd

2017-09-06 Thread Haines Brown
configuration? And why do they depend on the X display or perhaps its getting a 0:0 value? I'm not using systemd, but there are still systemd related files needed by some functions. Could the warning be an artifact that something is expecting a real systemd, but it is not getting it? Haines Brown

Re: [DNG] OT: most processors are insecure (was Re: Nvidia Drivers)

2017-08-15 Thread Haines Brown
It would be naive to think that CPU producers don't build in a backdoor. This is why I take an interest in Chinese CPUs. At this point they are only RISC processors, but before long they should produce a product competitive with Intel. I suppose it will also have a back door, door, but China seems

[DNG] flash player for browser

2017-07-26 Thread Haines Brown
done. However, that does not provide access to the database. Still get the error message. Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] what looks for gsettings?

2017-06-19 Thread Haines Brown
On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 02:37:42PM +0200, Joachim Fahrner wrote: > Am 2017-06-19 13:26, schrieb Haines Brown: > >I found no gsettings in Devuan, but there is one in Debian: > >/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/gsettings. It is a simple > >non-executable script.

[DNG] what looks for gsettings?

2017-06-18 Thread Haines Brown
ng gnomish in the system? What might seeking gsettings even before X server is started? How can I get rid of the alert? Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] lost ability to execute (somewhat resolved)

2017-06-08 Thread Haines Brown
On Thu, Jun 08, 2017 at 01:40:39PM +0100, G.W. Haywood wrote: > Hello again, > > On Thu, 8 Jun 2017, Haines Brown wrote: > > >The problem was more worked around than resolved. > > > >After having no grub modules with an installation on a new disk, whether

Re: [DNG] lost ability to execute (somewhat resolved)

2017-06-07 Thread Haines Brown
is installed names itself UEFI. I have both UEFI and legacy selected in BIOS. If I have just legacy, nothing boots. Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] lost ability to execute

2017-06-05 Thread Haines Brown
On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 10:42:43PM -0400, Robert Marmorstein wrote: > Am I understanding correctly that you are running the Devuan installer > executable from a running 32-bit Debian system? No. The 32-bit Debian system is shutdown down, the Devuan installer key is inserted and it is booted. I

Re: [DNG] lost ability to execute

2017-06-04 Thread Haines Brown
Interim report. Without USB back drive installed, I installed the Jessie DVD ISO from key. Do simply installation routine. When it came to partitioning, I accepted a single partition on entire target disk. Oddly my backup USB drive still reported as a possible target even though it is

Re: [DNG] lost ability to execute

2017-06-04 Thread Haines Brown
Did a re-install from DVD ISO on key. I first commented all commands to boot Devuan partitions from my Debian fstab. In BIOS I changed disk priority so that the Debian disk would boot. I booted the Devuan installer and choose expert install. I select all defaults unless otherwise noted.

Re: [DNG] lost ability to execute

2017-06-04 Thread Haines Brown
On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 02:54:22PM +0100, G.W. Haywood wrote: > Hello Haines, > > On Sun, 4 Jun 2017, Haines Brown wrote: > > >I have an installation routine I've used since Lenny and perhaps > >even Etch. I stuck to it, and generally accepts defaults. > > A li

Re: [DNG] lost ability to execute

2017-06-04 Thread Haines Brown
On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 09:54:38AM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > I don't know exactly what your custom "installation routine" entails, > but since there have been a few dozen thousands successful Devuan > installations in the last few months, and nobody has reported anything > even remotely similar to

[DNG] lost ability to execute

2017-06-02 Thread Haines Brown
.../usr/bin:.. I rebooted, and now I can't run any executable. For example, $ aptitude search xorg -bash: /usr/bin/aptitude: No such file or directory No idea what happened. The executables are in PATH. The syslog no longer being written. Haines Brown

[DNG] Jessie 1.0.1 misconfigured GRUB

2017-05-31 Thread Haines Brown
4. Or is this normal? grub rescue> ls command lists the expected devices, but not vmlinuz etc. Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

[DNG] installation of Jessie 1.0 fails (busybox)

2017-05-29 Thread Haines Brown
at syslog, but it was not informative. Immediately after it says klogd is installed, it says "syslogd started: BusyBox v1.22.1" Searching on line did not help. Could there be a problem with the ISO? If so, would it be best to download it anew or should I simply recopy it to th

Re: [DNG] New documentation on the Surf browser

2017-03-11 Thread Haines Brown
Why do we need PDFs? In my case, I must load files into a database that works with PDF, not with HTML. I am aware of effective conversion tools, but a one-click Save As PDF saves the HTML file being viewed as PDF and puts just one file where I need it to move it to the database. Haines

Re: [DNG] New documentation on the Surf browser

2017-03-10 Thread Haines Brown
on line uses that facility. But in your instruction I could not find any reference to it. Any hope for me? Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

[DNG] eudev status

2016-12-22 Thread Haines Brown
on, and is it likely to be in the upcoming non-beta Jessie Devuan? I hear complaints that there insufficient work being put into the Devuan project. Is there a crisis because of lack of volunteers? Is it likely that a non-beta Devuan Jessie will make the light of day in first half of 2017? Haines Brown

Re: [DNG] Is kernel 4.5.0 flakey ?

2016-06-01 Thread Haines Brown
Unfortunately, when I go back to kernel 3.16.0-4-am64, my X system hung. No MNI hang (in the short time I was running the 3.16.0 kernel), but some application I start in .fluxbox/startup is being disagreeable and causing X system to hang. Because of work pressure, I'll have to put off dealing with

Re: [DNG] Is kernel 4.5.0 flakey ?

2016-06-01 Thread Haines Brown
On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 12:32:15AM +1200, Daniel Reurich wrote: > > > With the new installation I did quite a few updates and safe-upgrades, > > but none brought in the 4.5.0 kernel as far as I know. It was only > > because for some reason I searched the archive for linux-image that I > >

Re: [DNG] Is kernel 4.5.0 flakey ?

2016-06-01 Thread Haines Brown
On Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 12:22:14PM +0200, Florian Zieboll wrote: > On Tue, 31 May 2016 16:14:58 -0400 > Haines Brown <hai...@histomat.net> wrote: > > > How (simply) do you tell GRUB to boot an earlier available kernel? > > > If you want to leave the problematic

[DNG] Is kernel 4.5.0 flakey ?

2016-05-31 Thread Haines Brown
is too difficult for me. Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Evince

2016-05-26 Thread Haines Brown
lot of garbage in (okular). Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Evince

2016-05-23 Thread Haines Brown
On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 01:35:27PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Mon, 23 May 2016 08:59:15 -0400 > Haines Brown <hai...@histomat.net> wrote: > > > > In light of the discussion here, what is the difference between > > automatic installation and being default? If q

Re: [DNG] Evince

2016-05-23 Thread Haines Brown
turn to atril? Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] [helle...@dyne.org: Re: Missing packages]

2016-04-30 Thread Haines Brown
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 05:41:18PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2016 29 Apr 16:53 -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > > Let me see if I understand you correctly. the package firmware-iwlwifi > > is not open software, and so is not available from the devuan packa

Re: [DNG] [helle...@dyne.org: Re: Missing packages]

2016-04-29 Thread Haines Brown
On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 04:54:44PM +, hellekin wrote: > On 04/29/2016 04:24 PM, Haines Brown wrote: > > > > Thank you. That solved the problem. I put this line into > > sources.list: > > > > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie non-free contrib &g

[DNG] invalid security certificate

2016-04-29 Thread Haines Brown
(Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain) How do I resolve this? Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

[DNG] dist upgrade from alpha4 to beta

2016-04-29 Thread Haines Brown
be at beta level. That is, a simple aptitude update/safe upgrade would be all I need to do, rather than a dist-upgrade. Is that so? Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

[DNG] Missing packages

2016-04-29 Thread Haines Brown
I've been installing alpha 4, and find that the firmware-iwlwifi and task-mail-server packages are not available. While I can work around this, before I do I wonder if there a reason why they are unavailable? Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng

[DNG] chroot sees wrong version of libc

2016-04-27 Thread Haines Brown
of chroot? I do: $ ldd /bin/bash ... libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7609000) $ ldd /usr/sbin/chroot ... libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb7643000) Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing li

[DNG] problems with devuan iso on key

2016-04-25 Thread Haines Brown
"Bad archive mirror". I tried FTP, I tried a more distant mirror, etc, but result was the same. Why does the error appear after it seems to have already successfully downloaded the files? Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne

Re: [DNG] debootstrap requires key

2016-04-25 Thread Haines Brown
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 05:47:15PM +0200, parazyd wrote: > On Mon, 25 Apr 2016, Haines Brown wrote: > > Perhaps my problem was that I unpacked the devuan.debian.tar.gz archive > > on the target /mnt/debinist/usr/share. If instead I run > > > > # dpkg -i debootstr

Re: [DNG] debootstrap requires key

2016-04-25 Thread Haines Brown
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 12:55:45PM +0200, parazyd wrote: > On Mon, 25 Apr 2016, Haines Brown wrote: > > > It installed a base system on the target disk mounted on > > /mnt/debinst. But that base system is apparently broken because of a > > version inconsistency: > >

Re: [DNG] debootstrap requires key

2016-04-25 Thread Haines Brown
am you wrote. Much appreciated, but I have no idea what it is for or how to use it. Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] debootstrap requires key

2016-04-24 Thread Haines Brown
se system wherever it is told to do it. Years ago I did cross installations, but the process has gotten a lot more complicated. Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] devuan-jessie-i386-alpha4-netboot.iso has AMD64 files?

2016-04-24 Thread Haines Brown
On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 05:53:38AM +0200, aitor_czr wrote: > > On 04/24/2016 12:57 AM, Haines Brown <hai...@histomat.net> wrote: > > I downloaded devuan-jessie-i386-alpha4-netboot.iso and installed it on a > key with unetbootin. However, it would not boot, a

Re: [DNG] debootstrap requires key

2016-04-23 Thread Haines Brown
ou are using the > gpg key for the install. > > Cheers, > > chillfan > > On Saturday, April 23, 2016 1:13 PM, Haines Brown > <hai...@histomat.net> wrote: > > This has come up before, but I still don't know the basic > > procedure. I've installed deboo

[DNG] devuan-jessie-i386-alpha4-netboot.iso has AMD64 files?

2016-04-23 Thread Haines Brown
? Is not devuan-jessie-i386-alpha4-netboot.iso for a 32 bit system? Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

[DNG] debootstrap requires key

2016-04-23 Thread Haines Brown
This has come up before, but I still don't know the basic procedure. I've installed debootstrap on a new disk and run: # debootstrap --arch amd64 jessie /mnt/debinst \ https://packages.devuan.org/devuan I: Retrieving Release I: Retrieving Release.gpg I: Checking Release signature

Re: [DNG] What do we want for ascii ?

2016-04-19 Thread Haines Brown
many other problems with Jessie that I hesitate to do so and await Devuan beta/Ascii. But this has been a long wait. Is there any sense of when beta/testing/Ascii will be ready? This year? In six months? Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] problem installing JRE

2016-04-18 Thread Haines Brown
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 11:49:39AM +0200, Florian Zieboll wrote: > On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 21:30:53 -0400 > Haines Brown <hai...@histomat.net> wrote: > > > I'm running devuan alpha4 > > I assume that there is no other alpha4 than the current Jessie... > >

[DNG] problem installing JRE

2016-04-17 Thread Haines Brown
be found. This is a known bug. Is there a work-around or will that bug soon be resolved? I need to go from LaTeX to Word. I find that lwarp does an excellent job converting TeX to HTML, but HTML format does not convert well to Word. This is why I need to convert PDF directly to Word. Haines Brown

Re: [DNG] Speaking of Window Managers

2016-02-28 Thread Haines Brown
On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 12:20:50PM +, Dave Turner wrote: > I hate hotkeys in GUIs and never use them. At all. Ever. Give me a > menu and a mouse. I can understand that, but there seems no reason not to provide both hot keys and menus. My sense is that switching between mouse and keyboard is

Re: [DNG] systemd is haunting me

2016-02-03 Thread Haines Brown
On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 08:04:26AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > I suspect I could remove the /lib/systemd/ directory entirely, and it > might block any systemd-udev from changing network interface name, and > systemd=logind from freezing user's frozen desktop. > > So let me a

Re: [DNG] systemd is haunting me

2016-02-03 Thread Haines Brown
On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 03:05:52PM +, Rainer Weikusat wrote: > Haines Brown <hai...@histomat.net> writes: > > On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 08:04:26AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > Not having received an answer, > > I answered both of your questions. My apologies. Your

Re: [DNG] systemd is haunting me

2016-01-31 Thread Haines Brown
I was asked why I do not run Devuan rather than Sid on the laptop. When I installed Sid, Devuan was not even in Alpha. I am not anxious to reinstall Sid, but but when Devuan beta comes out I'll install it. Mitt Green pointed out that the /etc/apt/preferences.d/systemd script I've been using is

[DNG] systemd is haunting me

2016-01-30 Thread Haines Brown
g.freedesktop.login1 was not provided by any .service \ files. Systemd is not on the system, so where did systemd-logind come from? How can I block it and recover a usable virtual desktop for user? Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng@

Re: [DNG] Devuan Weekly News LX

2016-01-04 Thread Haines Brown
lack hole? Is there a consensus over this? Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Please Adopt Bastille Linux Security Script for Devuan. Please.

2016-01-03 Thread Haines Brown
rchive or that hardenk-tools should be installed automatically? Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Office pack

2015-11-08 Thread Haines Brown
On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 05:16:20PM +0100, Stefan Mark wrote: > On 02.11.2015 16:50, Mitt Green wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm in search for an office pack. Considering Gnumeric as a decent > > spreadsheet > > application (even better than LibreOffice's one?), I can't be sure about > > word > >

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