Re: "no soundcards found" after Debian upgrade

2014-09-11 Thread Raffaele Morelli
On 11/09/14 at 05:45pm, Menashè Eliezer wrote: > Thanks Raffaele, > > Please see below. > > With kind regards, > Menashè > > On 09/11/2014 05:15 PM, debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > >try loading snd-hda-intel first ( BTW it sounds really weird that no snd-* > > module is bei

Re: Issues upgrading Wheezy --> Jessie (was ... Re: brasero requires gvfs)

2014-09-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 08:15:59PM +0200, lee wrote: > > Supporting systemd violates Debians' social contract. Hogwash!! > Has this bug report already been filed? https://www.debian.org/Bugs/ -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, an

Re: Supermicro bios upgrade

2014-09-11 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 20:12:30 +0200 Paul van der Vlis wrote: Hello Paul, >I think the flashrom people need more information. I did send them my Quite likely. Flashrom is one of those projects that will always be playing "catch up". That's not a complaint, simply an observation. >I found out w

Debian Update issue

2014-09-11 Thread Björn Djisktra
This is the question: I downloaded Firefox and installed it, because Icewesel can't open a web page. It tell me that I need to upgrade the browser. But when I run Firefox occurs an error, the prompt tells me: firefox: symbol lookup error: /opt/firefox32/libxul.so: undefined symbol: gtk_widget_set_

Update issue

2014-09-11 Thread Björn Djisktra
I just got one question: how do I update my debian lenny 5.0 (lenny) system? I was searching the information at debian.org, but I don't get it. Please help me with this. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact li

Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Fonts providing emojis?

2014-09-11 Thread Paul Wise
A project providing a FLOSS font focused on Emoji: http://www.emojione.com/ -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.de

Re: Brainydeal Receipt Printer - SOLVED

2014-09-11 Thread Ethan Rosenberg
On 09/10/2014 05:23 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 10 September 2014 07:36:15 Lisi Reisz wrote: Sorry, Ethan. Repostingto list. On Wednesday 10 September 2014 04:22:09 Ethan Rosenberg wrote: FYI I tried to set the orientation from the printer setup. It's not part of the printer set-up.

Re: /etc/hosts format WAS [Re: host hostname not found]

2014-09-11 Thread Reco
On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 23:03:25 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Fri 12 Sep 2014 at 00:59:27 +0400, Reco wrote: > > > 2) libnss-myhostname > > I honestly don't know what scares me most about libnss-hostname - the > > need of it in the first place, the author of the library, software that > > behaves funny w

Re: git: how to figure out with a script what the last commit on remote repo is without fetching it

2014-09-11 Thread Joel Rees
2014/09/12 3:35 "lee" : > > [...] > Well, I don't want to program some sort of meta-git ... I merely want a > simple way to be informed about new commits. I'm still wondering whether a cron job that does a status request on the head in question wouldn't be good enough. Otherwise, you're asking t

Problems with lilypond-doc

2014-09-11 Thread Joao Roscoe
I tried updating my jessie system, and lilypond-doc upgrade failed: --- ... The following packages will be upgraded: lilypond-doc 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 81 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/15.6 MB of archives. After unpacking 19.2 MB will be used. Do you

Re: vlc

2014-09-11 Thread Frank McCormick
On 09/11/2014 04:05 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On my Sid installation VLC is broken. It does not display mpegs or mkvs. I have tried all the output modules and none make any difference. All I get is a black screen. Audio does work however. How can I track down the problem? Thanks My apolo

Re: brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 18:45:10 +0200 Slavko wrote: > Ahoj, > > Dňa Mon, 08 Sep 2014 13:14:01 +0100 Martin Read > napísal: > > > Some components of XFCE have a hard dependency on dbus (and this is > > conceptually legitimate). dbus has a build-time-optional dependency > > on libsystemd-login, an

Re: /etc/hosts format WAS [Re: host hostname not found]

2014-09-11 Thread Brian
On Fri 12 Sep 2014 at 00:59:27 +0400, Reco wrote: > 2) libnss-myhostname > I honestly don't know what scares me most about libnss-hostname - the > need of it in the first place, the author of the library, software that > behaves funny without it or the setups that genuinely need it :( People are

packages that depend on systemd (was: Re: brasero requires gvfs)

2014-09-11 Thread Joel Roth
Slavko wrote: > Ahoj, > > Dňa Thu, 11 Sep 2014 18:45:10 +0200 Slavko napísal: > > > I did small investigation. The dbus seems only a half of problem, > > because there is the same dependency in the libpulse0 (no, i don't use > > pulse audio, but dependencies...) and a lot of my applications > >

Re: /etc/hosts format WAS [Re: host hostname not found]

2014-09-11 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 16:43:53 -0400 Harry Putnam wrote: The `hosts' entry: > > hosts: files myhostname mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns > > What does all that mean? I understand `files' first and `dns' at the > end but none of what is in between. Every hostname → IP resolving

/etc/hosts format WAS [Re: host hostname not found]

2014-09-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Reco writes: > Hi. > > On Thu, Sep 04, 2014 at 08:26:38PM -0400, Podrigal, Aron wrote: >> Any idea what can be the cause? I am installing proxmox-ve and when >> starting pve-cluster it fails with [main] crit: Unable to get local >> IP address. So I tried >> to look up with host utility and it do

Re: vlc

2014-09-11 Thread Martin Read
On 11/09/14 21:05, Frank McCormick wrote: On my Sid installation VLC is broken. It does not display mpegs or mkvs. I have tried all the output modules and none make any difference. All I get is a black screen. Audio does work however. How can I track down the problem? The first step is to laun

Re: vlc

2014-09-11 Thread Florent Peterschmitt
You should also try to change video output in preferences, and disable hardware acceleration if no change. Le 11/09/2014 22:05, Frank McCormick a écrit : > On my Sid installation VLC is broken. It does not display mpegs or mkvs. > I have tried all the output modules and none make any difference. A

Re: vlc

2014-09-11 Thread Florent Peterschmitt
Hi. It's ok for me. It may depends on contained formats. It sounds like a video problem rather than an container format. Find what is the video format you are reading. Le 11/09/2014 22:05, Frank McCormick a écrit : > On my Sid installation VLC is broken. It does not display mpegs or mkvs. > I h

Re: Query about existence of way to free up unnecessary RAM usage

2014-09-11 Thread Reco
On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 20:51:16 +0200 B wrote: > On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 20:22:01 +0200 > lee wrote: > > > Why would you say that? > > root denied access to sysctl keys (that doesn't even exist on my > systems). No, sysctl works the way it should: $ ls -al /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register \ /

vlc

2014-09-11 Thread Frank McCormick
On my Sid installation VLC is broken. It does not display mpegs or mkvs. I have tried all the output modules and none make any difference. All I get is a black screen. Audio does work however. How can I track down the problem? Thanks -- 1984 was not meant as a blueprint for democratic gove

Re: Searching in PDF-file broken?

2014-09-11 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Thank you Brian and B. As I said, I tried three different viewers on Linux with no success. I'm still trying to convince german Postbank that they have introduced a problem by switching to version 2.0.8 of this iText tool. Their answer is that on Windows it works. -- Regards, Jörg-Volker. -

Re: Query about existence of way to free up unnecessary RAM usage

2014-09-11 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 11 Sep 2014, lee wrote: > "Go down" can have various meanings. When you run a server and a > server process (like an MTA or an IMAP or web server) is killed > because the system runs out of memory, the server is effectively down. This is why you use things like systemd or similar which are

Re: apache2 what is the standard way to enable modules?

2014-09-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Raffaele Morelli writes: [...] >> Thanks for the push... Tinkering with your suggestion lead me to read >> the `LoadModule' lines on the files in mods-available. >> >> The line in cgi.load: >> LoadModule cgi_module /usr/lib/apache2/modules/mod_cgi.so >> >> Looked the most promising, so I trie

Re: Very small font when printing from Icedove

2014-09-11 Thread Brian
On Thu 11 Sep 2014 at 15:57:28 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Thu 11 Sep 2014 at 15:31:40 +0200, Siard wrote: > > > On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 17:17:02 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Wed 10 Sep 2014 at 10:20:39 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > > > > When I turn off the option "ignore scale and reduce to paper

Re: Query about existence of way to free up unnecessary RAM usage

2014-09-11 Thread Bzzzz
On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 20:22:01 +0200 lee wrote: > Why would you say that? root denied access to sysctl keys (that doesn't even exist on my systems). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Ar

Re: Query about existence of way to free up unnecessary RAM usage

2014-09-11 Thread Bzzzz
On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 20:32:08 +0200 lee wrote: > Mounting swap partitions with the same priority does not provide > redundancy. As RAID doesn't provide data integrity w/ regular RAM. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Free Software postgraduate courses

2014-09-11 Thread Abel García Vitier
Hello everyone, my university is inviting to participate in Free Software postgraduate courses in November. For further information here is a link http://humanos.uci.cu/2014/09/cesol-ofrece-cursos-de-postgrado-en-software-libre-a-profesionales-foraneos/ or fallowing @CESOL_UCI or hashtag #FOSS_U

Re: Query about existence of way to free up unnecessary RAM usage

2014-09-11 Thread lee
B writes: > On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 22:21:07 +0200 > lee wrote: > >> To prevent an undesirable state of the system due to insufficient >> memory, you can use (a large amount of) swap space on a slow medium >> because that may give you a chance to do something before processes are >> being killed

Re: git: how to figure out with a script what the last commit on remote repo is without fetching it

2014-09-11 Thread lee
Jonathan Dowland writes: > On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 10:05:33PM +0200, lee wrote: >> I'm receiving 226542 bytes in 355 lines when I do this for one of the >> repos ... and same for another one: >> >> curl https://github.com/lee-/info/git-newer/refs?service=git-upload-pack | >> wc -cl > > I suspec

Re: Query about existence of way to free up unnecessary RAM usage

2014-09-11 Thread lee
B writes: > On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 15:34:42 +0800 > Bret Busby wrote: > >> :~# sysctl -a|grep swap >> vm.swappiness = 90 >> error: "Invalid argument" reading key "fs.binfmt_misc.register" >> error: permission denied on key 'net.ipv4.route.flush' >> error: permission denied on key 'net.ipv6.rout

Re: Issues upgrading Wheezy --> Jessie (was ... Re: brasero requires gvfs)

2014-09-11 Thread lee
Chris Bannister writes: > On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 09:21:57PM +0200, lee wrote: >> John Hasler writes: >> >> > It appears that there is a good chance that the "upgrade" to Systemd >> > when upgrading to Jessie will not be automatic (or at least not silent). >> >> I would be majorly pissed if a

Re: Supermicro bios upgrade

2014-09-11 Thread Paul van der Vlis
op 11-09-14 16:41, Brad Rogers schreef: > On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 16:25:59 +0200 > Paul van der Vlis wrote: > > Hello Paul, > >> Because of that the program asks with type of programmer to use, and >> presents a list. But I don't know which one to choose. And Supermicro >> support does not know that

Re: Restricted wifi after routine jessie upgrade

2014-09-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 00:28:41 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 00:05:56 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 01:37:33 +0200, B wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 8 Sep 2014 23:21:05 + (UTC) >>> Hendrik Boom wrote: >>> I can't connect to wifi at all. >> >> Not qui

Re: brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-11 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Thu, 11 Sep 2014 18:45:10 +0200 Slavko napísal: > I did small investigation. The dbus seems only a half of problem, > because there is the same dependency in the libpulse0 (no, i don't use > pulse audio, but dependencies...) and a lot of my applications > depends on it. I am afraid, th

Re: terminal doesn't come up in Jessie Beta-1?

2014-09-11 Thread davidson
On Tue, 9 Sep 2014, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 09 September 2014 19:46:56 B wrote: On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 19:40:29 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: "chacun à son goût" Unfortunately for you, I'm french native; so the real expression is: "à chacun ses goûts"; which is commonly shorten in: "chacun

Re: brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-11 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Mon, 08 Sep 2014 13:14:01 +0100 Martin Read napísal: > Some components of XFCE have a hard dependency on dbus (and this is > conceptually legitimate). dbus has a build-time-optional dependency > on libsystemd-login, and a quick experimental check on my system > confirms that the most

Re: "no soundcards found" after Debian upgrade

2014-09-11 Thread Menashè Eliezer
if you are *not* using systemd, then make sure you are in the audio group for example run: id $USER floris Thanks Floris, I'm using systemd and anyway the problem occurs also as Root. -- With kind regards, Menashè

MDADM RAID1 of external USB 3.0 Drives

2014-09-11 Thread Linux-Fan
Dear list members, some time ago, I bought two external Seagate 2 TB USB 3.0 HDDs in order to expand my local storage (all internal slots are already in use). Having created a RAID1 with MDADM just as normal, it all seemed to work, until at one system startup MDADM told me via local mail that the

Re: Best way to "pin" a kernel

2014-09-11 Thread Brian
On Thu 11 Sep 2014 at 08:27:46 -0700, Matt Ventura wrote: > Quick question: I want Debian to not switch Grub2 to a new kernel when > I update it, since I have a custom kernel on a particular machine. > When I install a new kernel from apt, I don't want to immediately use > it. What's the cleanest

Re: "no soundcards found" after Debian upgrade

2014-09-11 Thread Menashè Eliezer
Thanks Raffaele, Please see below. With kind regards, Menashè On 09/11/2014 05:15 PM, debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: try loading snd-hda-intel first ( BTW it sounds really weird that no snd-* module is being loaded ). Good idea! modprobe snd-hda-intel results in detected

Re: "no soundcards found" after Debian upgrade

2014-09-11 Thread Menashè Eliezer
Thanks Elimar, Please see below. With kind regards, Menashè Looks ok, but it seems your kernel is buggy? What tells $ cat /proc/version Linux version 3.14-2-amd64 (debian-ker...@lists.debian.org) (gcc version 4.8.3 (Debian 4.8.3-7) ) #1 SMP Debian 3.14.15-2 (2014-08-09) $ dpkg -l | grep lin

Re: [CentOS] Buggy power [was: Re: Canon PIXMA mg5420 or HP Photo Smart 7520]

2014-09-11 Thread Robert Heller
At Thu, 11 Sep 2014 08:51:59 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On 09/10/2014 08:46 AM Bonno Bloksma wrote: > > Hi, > > > >> In need of a new printer, having done a bit or research, and considering > >> either the Canon PIXMA mg5420 or the HP Photo Smart 7520. > > > > Besides the Linux supp

Re: Best way to "pin" a kernel

2014-09-11 Thread Bzzzz
On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 08:27:46 -0700 Matt Ventura wrote: > Quick question: I want Debian to not switch Grub2 to a new kernel > when I update > it, since I have a custom kernel on a particular machine. When I > install a new > kernel from apt, I don't want to immediately use it. What's the > cleanes

Best way to "pin" a kernel

2014-09-11 Thread Matt Ventura
Quick question: I want Debian to not switch Grub2 to a new kernel when I update it, since I have a custom kernel on a particular machine. When I install a new kernel from apt, I don't want to immediately use it. What's the cleanest way of doing this? Matt Ventura -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Supermicro bios upgrade

2014-09-11 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 16:25:59 +0200 Paul van der Vlis wrote: Hello Paul, >Because of that the program asks with type of programmer to use, and >presents a list. But I don't know which one to choose. And Supermicro >support does not know that too. Supermicro support may not know(1), but they're b

Re: Very small font when printing from Icedove

2014-09-11 Thread Brian
On Thu 11 Sep 2014 at 15:31:40 +0200, Siard wrote: > On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 17:17:02 +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Wed 10 Sep 2014 at 10:20:39 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > > > When I turn off the option "ignore scale and reduce to paper > > > size" (free translation) in the print options, the probl

Supermicro bios upgrade

2014-09-11 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Hello, Normally I buy Supermicro servers. Updating the bios works most of the time fine with the program Flashrom. [1] But now I have bought a type what is not supported by Flashrom. Because of that the program asks with type of programmer to use, and presents a list. But I don't know which one t

Re: Very small font when printing from Icedove

2014-09-11 Thread Siard
Paul van der Vlis: > Siard: > > In iceweasel and seamonkey, using the same gtk print dialog, it is > > also possible to set this default in about:config. > > In Icedove you can reach this with "preferences | advanced | > configuration editor". Ah! That is, indeed, another method to set this opti

Re: Very small font when printing from Icedove

2014-09-11 Thread Siard
On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 17:17:02 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Wed 10 Sep 2014 at 10:20:39 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > > When I turn off the option "ignore scale and reduce to paper > > size" (free translation) in the print options, the problem is gone, > > but I have to do that every time, I don't kn

Re: terminal doesn't come up in Jessie Beta-1?

2014-09-11 Thread John Holland
On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 10:31:14AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 13:24:51 +0200 > B wrote: > > > On Tue, 9 Sep 2014 00:53:37 -0700 > > Rick Thomas wrote: > > > > > And, I guess, that then begs the further question: I love to RTFM, > > > but what FM should I read for question

Re: Is there any documentation on how to configure the Gnome Desktop environment?

2014-09-11 Thread Brian
On Wed 10 Sep 2014 at 23:35:53 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > In particular, I’m interested in getting Gnome under Jessie to use a > terminal program that isn’t gnome-terminal. Activities -> Show Applications -> Settings -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts Custom Shortcuts -> Name/Command -> Apply Click on "

Buggy power [was: Re: Canon PIXMA mg5420 or HP Photo Smart 7520]

2014-09-11 Thread ken
On 09/10/2014 08:46 AM Bonno Bloksma wrote: Hi, In need of a new printer, having done a bit or research, and considering either the Canon PIXMA mg5420 or the HP Photo Smart 7520. Besides the Linux support there is one other thing to consider. The HP Photosmart 7520 was designed never to be

Re: Is there any documentation on how to configure the Gnome Desktop environment?

2014-09-11 Thread Jape Person
On 09/11/2014 02:35 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: In particular, I’m interested in getting Gnome under Jessie to use a terminal program that isn’t gnome-terminal. Anybody know how to do that? TLDNR: Gnome terminal, apparently, is broken if you use the “C” locale. It wants to see a UTF8 locale, and r

Re: 32 bit color depth with NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2)

2014-09-11 Thread Bzzzz
On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 07:17:27 -0400 Carl Fink wrote: > I'm afraid this is not correct. If I use, say, the VESA server, I > can set color depth to 32 bits. This is correct, a tiny bit of self researches would have told you so (and if you don't trust me, try to get an integer number of bits dividin

Re: Making keyboard remap changes permanent without reboot.

2014-09-11 Thread Brian
On Wed 10 Sep 2014 at 20:02:04 +0300, Alexandros Prekates wrote: > My system is Debian stable with xfce. > > Wanting to swap CAPSLOCK with CONTROL i changed /etc/default/keyboard > and following debian wiki page on keyboard i executed: > > sudo udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=input --action=ch

Re: 32 bit color depth with NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2)

2014-09-11 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 10:58:27AM +0200, B wrote: > On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 00:07:48 -0400 > Carl Fink wrote: > > > NVIDIA driver downloaded today. "nvidia-settings" shows color > > depth as 24 bit and offers no way to change that. > > > > I know this chipset is capable of 32 bit depths. What a

Re: "no soundcards found" after Debian upgrade

2014-09-11 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Menashè Eliezer [2014-09-11 10:41 +0200]: > Thanks Elimar. > > $ dpkg -l | grep "alsa\|asound" : > > > ii alsa-base 1.0.27+1 > ii alsa-oss 1.0.28-1 > ii alsa-tools 1.0.28-1 > ii alsa-tools-gui 1.0.28-1 > ii alsa-utils 1.0.28-1 > ii alsamixergui 0.9.0rc2-1-9.1 > ii libalsaplayer0 0.99.

Re: 32 bit color depth with NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2)

2014-09-11 Thread Bzzzz
On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 00:07:48 -0400 Carl Fink wrote: > NVIDIA driver downloaded today. "nvidia-settings" shows color > depth as 24 bit and offers no way to change that. > > I know this chipset is capable of 32 bit depths. What am I missing? You are missing 2 things: 1- color plans are 8 bits (ex

Re: "no soundcards found" after Debian upgrade

2014-09-11 Thread Menashè Eliezer
Thanks Elimar. $ dpkg -l | grep "alsa\|asound" : ii alsa-base 1.0.27+1 all dummy package to ease purging of obsolete conffiles ii alsa-oss 1.0.28-1 amd64ALSA wrapper for OSS applications ii alsa-tools 1.0.28-1

Re: Very small font when printing from Icedove

2014-09-11 Thread Paul van der Vlis
op 10-09-14 21:00, Siard schreef: > On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 17:17:02 +0100, Brian wrote: >> On Wed 10 Sep 2014 at 10:20:39 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: >> >>> I've tested it with 2 different printers (HP, Samsung). >>> >>> When I turn off the option "ignore scale and reduce to paper >>> size" (free