[SOLVED]Re: flakey wifi access

On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 12:13:14 -0700 tom arnall wrote: > SOLVED! > > i use wicd and i changed a preference: > > preferences>external programs and change 'auto' to 'dhclient' > > Mett, is this the equivalent of what you suggest doing manually? > > thanks everyone for your help. > > Tom > > On

Re: "no soundcards found" after Debian upgrade

On 12/09/14 at 05:06pm, Menashè Eliezer wrote: > Just adding information about the current status, after loading manually > snd-hda-intel: > > 1. The main volume control of xfce has no effect. I need to use the Audio > Mixer for controlling the volume. > > 2. There is no sound capture device. Jac

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

On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 10:43 PM, lee wrote: > Joel Rees writes: > >> 2014/09/14 6:55 "lee" yun.yagibdah.de >> >: >>> >>> Joel Rees @ gmail.com >> > writes: >>> >>> > 2014/09/12 3:35 "lee" yun.yagibdah.de >> >: >>> >> >>> >> [...] >>> >> Well, I don't want to program some sort of meta-git ... I

Re: Problems with lilypond-doc - SOLVED, for now

On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 5:33 AM, Curt wrote: > dpkg --remove --force-remove-reinstreq lilypond-doc > *That* did the trick. Great Thanks a lot, Curt. Best regards, Joao

Re: how to reinstall bash

Martin Read wrote: > songbird wrote: >> Marko Randjelovic wrote: >>> I don't know what Debian release do you use, but since Squeeze, /bin/sh >>> should point to dash. >> >>i'm not sure about that... > > I suspect it to be the case that if you've been continuously upgrading > since before the

Re: Query about .xsession-errors file

On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 03:29:04PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > .xsession-errors, which is currently sitting at about 740MB, and has > been growing in the last hour. > > entries from before the current boot session) entries, so as to reduce > the file size to content that is necessary to retain for

Re: USB bootable debian stick wont boot on 890FXA-GD65 mobo.

On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 03:37:57 +0300 Alexandros Prekates wrote: > I wonder if my first mistake was that i used: > #cp debian.iso /dev/sdb1 > and not > #cp debian.iso /dev/sdb It was, the 1st one address a partition, when the 2nd address the whole 'disk'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-

Re: Chroot/Debootstrap Mechanisms (Was: terminal doesn't come up in Jessie Beta-1?)

Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > Yeah, I'm just the other side of ready to attempt testing. Soon. Very > soon. Life keeps getting in the way. Truthfully not sure what I've > got. The simple stuff, like determining version, eludes me often.. DID > miraculously just have uname come to mind so ended up with

Re: preseeding: disable systemd

On 09/14/2014 08:15 AM, The Wanderer wrote: The fourth would require clarification from you as to exactly what it is you do require. (not OP but) I require the exclusion all packages by their dev teams from my computer. Is that clear enough? Linus doesn't trust them. Why should I? Wherever

Re: Error with Latest Google Chrome Stable

>> So instead, I removed the "120" version, and reinstalled "94". >> Flash returned to normal! Just as you suggest later ... >> Is this a known bug? With Chrome? With Flash? sven> This is known. For some unknown reasons Google decided to link their sven> libpepflash.so with glibc-2.1

Re: USB bootable debian stick wont boot on 890FXA-GD65 mobo.

Thanks Brian! It worked. I wonder if my first mistake was that i used: #cp debian.iso /dev/sdb1 and not #cp debian.iso /dev/sdb Anyway thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archi

Re: USB bootable debian stick wont boot on 890FXA-GD65 mobo.

On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 23:23:37 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Mon 15 Sep 2014 at 00:20:29 +0300, Alexandros Prekates wrote: > > > http://paste.debian.net/120890 for /var/log/syslog and fdisk info > > on the machine with the mobo in question (i've already ubuntu > > installed on the machine but want to d

Re: Error with Latest Google Chrome Stable

Kenneth Jacker wrote: > [ Debian stable ] > A few days ago, I updated Chrome from: >google-chrome-stable:amd64 37.0.2062.94-1 > to: >google-chrome-stable:amd64 37.0.2062.120-1 > That update caused pages with embedded Adobe Flash to malfunction (with > various nasty error windows appea

Error with Latest Google Chrome Stable

[ Debian stable ] A few days ago, I updated Chrome from: google-chrome-stable:amd64 37.0.2062.94-1 to: google-chrome-stable:amd64 37.0.2062.120-1 That update caused pages with embedded Adobe Flash to malfunction (with various nasty error windows appearing). I tried to find the "right

Re: Making keyboard remap changes permanent without reboot.

On Sun 14 Sep 2014 at 21:36:49 +0300, Alexandros Prekates wrote: > On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 10:12:32 +0100 > Brian wrote: > > > > How did you go about doing that? > > > > You're using xscreensaver? > > Maybe i didnt state it correctly .I just noticed that after > the screensavers draws its stuff an

Re: server backup

On 09/14/2014 10:56 AM, Glenn English wrote: What do you server admins use for backup? For the past decade or so, I've been using a SCSI Quantum DLT 120 tape device and Amanda software. It's been wonderful, but the tape drive's been making mistakes of late, so I've been thinking about replacing

Re: USB bootable debian stick wont boot on 890FXA-GD65 mobo.

On Mon 15 Sep 2014 at 00:20:29 +0300, Alexandros Prekates wrote: > http://paste.debian.net/120890 for /var/log/syslog and fdisk info on > the machine with the mobo in question (i've already ubuntu installed on > the machine but want to dual boot with debian testing :-) ). >From your paste.debian

Re: USB bootable debian stick wont boot on 890FXA-GD65 mobo.

On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 19:56:04 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Sun 14 Sep 2014 at 21:21:37 +0300, Alexandros Prekates wrote: > > > I made many test but what is more significant ( i think) > > is that the same usb stick with memtest86 (proposed from pendrive > > as a testing case[1]) : > > > > but if fol

Re: brasero requires gvfs

On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 16:06:35 -0400 Doug wrote: > On 09/14/2014 01:00 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > By the way, if you wonder why I'm being so hard on KDE, these three > > articles explain: > > > > http://troubleshooters.com/lpm/201202/201202.htm#_editors_desk > > I didn't read any further than this

Re: brasero requires gvfs

On 09/14/2014 01:00 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 21:54:56 +0200 lee wrote: Steve Litt writes: /snip/ Can you have, say, KDE on Gentoo without systemd? "Without systemd" means *all* of systemd, like systemd-login0 etc.. LOL, If I were the kinda guy who used KDE, I'd *love*

Re: debian-user-digest: Debian install with Windows and ubuntu

On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 15:10:01 -0300 JOÃO ROBERTO Lamberti wrote: > 09/14/2014 > I have installed on my computer Windows 7 and Ubuntu 14:04 LTS, > Debian come with GParted as the Ubuntu installation? If not GParted > or similar if possible how to install? > I believe it is not installed by defaul

Re: server backup

Glenn English wrote: On Sep 14, 2014, at 12:11 PM, B wrote: What do you server admins use for backup? Are you talking personally or professionally? There's no difference here. How about your answer to both? And maybe why there's a difference? Sorry, B, for personal reply instead o

Re: USB bootable debian stick wont boot on 890FXA-GD65 mobo.

On Sun 14 Sep 2014 at 21:21:37 +0300, Alexandros Prekates wrote: > I made many test but what is more significant ( i think) > is that the same usb stick with memtest86 (proposed from pendrive as a > testing case[1]) : > > but if following the debian installation instructions[2] i > execute: > >

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

On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 17:22:16 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 13 September 2014 21:46:31 lee wrote: > > I'd be happy to see some support.  I cannot speak for "the users" > > or for "the free software community". > > No, you can't. > > > You users, and the community members, > > whoever t

Re: server backup

On Sep 14, 2014, at 12:11 PM, B wrote: >> What do you server admins use for backup? > > Are you talking personally or professionally? There's no difference here. How about your answer to both? And maybe why there's a difference? Sorry, B, for personal reply instead of list... --

Re: Making keyboard remap changes permanent without reboot.

On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 10:12:32 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Sat 13 Sep 2014 at 01:53:57 +0300, Alexandros Prekates wrote: > > > On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 16:59:30 +0200 > > B wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 17:48:50 +0300 > > > Alexandros Prekates wrote: > > > > > > > You are right. With fvwm th

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

On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 11:52:24 -0400 (EDT) david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: > On Sun, 14 Sep 2014, B wrote: > > > On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 22:46:31 +0200 > > lee wrote: > > All interesting things you said, plus a bunch of other readings > > confort me in my first impression: Linux was becoming t

debian-user-digest: Debian install with Windows and ubuntu

09/14/2014 I have installed on my computer Windows 7 and Ubuntu 14:04 LTS, Debian come with GParted as the Ubuntu installation? If not GParted or similar if possible how to install? regards, João Roberto Lamberti E-mail: joaolambe...@gmail.com -- LAROJO

Fwd: Re: MDADM RAID1 of external USB 3.0 Drives

Sorry, this should have been sent to the list in the first place. Original Message Subject: Re: MDADM RAID1 of external USB 3.0 Drives Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 18:12:41 +0200 From: Linux-Fan To: Reco On 09/14/2014 06:06 PM, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 17:55:46 +0

debian-user-digest: Debian install with Windows and ubuntu

14/09/2014 Tenho instalados no meu computador o Windows 7 e o Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, o Debian vêem com GParted como o Ubuntu para instalação ? Caso não tenha GParted ou similar, se for possível como fazer a instalação ? atenciosamente, João Roberto Lamberti E-mail: joaolambe...@gmail.com -- LAROJO

USB bootable debian stick wont boot on 890FXA-GD65 mobo.

I made many test but what is more significant ( i think) is that the same usb stick with memtest86 (proposed from pendrive as a testing case[1]) : but if following the debian installation instructions[2] i execute: # cp debian.iso /dev/sdX # sync After rebooting i see no messsage so ever, and t

Re: brasero requires gvfs

On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 15:11:50 +0200 lee wrote: > Martin Read writes: > > > On 13/09/14 20:54, lee wrote: > >> Can you have, say, KDE on Gentoo without systemd? "Without > >> systemd" means *all* of systemd, like systemd-login0 etc.. > > > > [...] > > > > The best place to ask would be the user

Re: server backup

On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 11:56:35 -0600 Glenn English wrote: > What do you server admins use for backup? Are you talking personally or professionally? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Ar

server backup

What do you server admins use for backup? For the past decade or so, I've been using a SCSI Quantum DLT 120 tape device and Amanda software. It's been wonderful, but the tape drive's been making mistakes of late, so I've been thinking about replacing it with a SATA or SAS of some kind. What do

View on UNIX purism in Linux Community

I am probably one of the few people (at least from what I can see by following this topic) on this mailing list, that don't mind systemd and see that the benefits of switching to it outclass the negatives. Therefore I want to poke my three cents into this discussion reminding that "GNU is *Not* Uni

Re: brasero requires gvfs

On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 21:54:56 +0200 lee wrote: > Steve Litt writes: > > > When Jessie goes stable, I'm actually going to try Jessie to see > > whether it will work reasonably, and if so I'll hold my nose and > > use the monolithic entanglement. > > FWIW, I can tell you that it works for Fedora.

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

On Saturday 13 September 2014 21:46:31 lee wrote: > I'd be happy to see some support.  I cannot speak for "the users" or for > "the free software community". No, you can't. > You users, and the community members, > whoever they are, need to speak as well. Perhaps, just perhaps, many of them do

Re: MDADM RAID1 of external USB 3.0 Drives

On 09/14/2014 04:33 PM, lee wrote: > Linux-Fan writes: > >>> On 09/14/2014 12:38 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: >> >> or even buy some additional drives (I know that it is often said that >> "today drives are cheap" but for me being comparatively new to >> computing, 60€ are still much for a HDD) >

Re: MDADM RAID1 of external USB 3.0 Drives

Hi. On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 17:55:46 +0200 Linux-Fan wrote: > Concerning editing the initscript: I am now going to do that but I guess > it is going to produce trouble when upgrading to Jessie. No it won't. Installing a new version of mdadm package will produce a different version of /etc/init.d/m

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

On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 11:52:24 -0400 (EDT) david...@ling.ohio-state.edu wrote: > for those unfamiliar with the french figurative use of the term gas > refinery ("usine à gaz"): > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine#Similar_expressions_worldwide Oops, thanks Wes; I sometimes

Re: MDADM RAID1 of external USB 3.0 Drives

On 09/14/2014 04:35 PM, lee wrote: > Linux-Fan writes: > >> Also, the reliability of the external storage is required to be >> perfect > > Then forget USB disks. Get an HP Microserver and reliable disks. Sorry, forgot to insert a not :). It should read "the reliability of the external storage

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

On Sun, 14 Sep 2014, B wrote: On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 22:46:31 +0200 lee wrote: All interesting things you said, plus a bunch of other readings confort me in my first impression: Linux was becoming too much secured for the taste of agencies (and which better candidate than a gas plant for tho

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

On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 15:53:50 +0200 lee wrote: > Have you actually tested (with hot-pluggable disks) what happens when > one of the partitions the system is swapping to suddenly becomes > unavailable or difficult to access and what happens when the data (on > one of the swap-partitions) becomes co

Re: MDADM RAID1 of external USB 3.0 Drives

On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 02:30:34PM +0200, Linux-Fan wrote: > On 09/14/2014 01:42 PM, Linux-Fan wrote: > > On 09/14/2014 02:06 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > [...] > > >> In the meantime, you can: > >> - add a bitmap file to the RAID, which will speed up rebuilds. > >> - use the --no-degraded flag, to

Re: MDADM RAID1 of external USB 3.0 Drives

Linux-Fan writes: >> On 09/14/2014 12:38 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > or even buy some additional drives (I know that it is often said that > "today drives are cheap" but for me being comparatively new to > computing, 60€ are still much for a HDD) Where do you get good 2TB+ drives for only E

Re: MDADM RAID1 of external USB 3.0 Drives

Linux-Fan writes: > Also, the reliability of the external storage is required to be > perfect Then forget USB disks. Get an HP Microserver and reliable disks. -- Knowledge is volatile and fluid. Software is power. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: brasero requires gvfs

Martin Read writes: > On 13/09/14 20:54, lee wrote: >> Can you have, say, KDE on Gentoo without systemd? "Without systemd" >> means *all* of systemd, like systemd-login0 etc.. > > [...] > > The best place to ask would be the user community discussion spaces > (mailing lists / web forums / IRC ch

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

B writes: > On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 22:56:48 +0200 > lee wrote: > >> Multiplication is an algorithmic operation. > > Well, technically speaking, it is additions. In any case, some algorithm is used :) -- Knowledge is volatile and fluid. Software is power. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

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

Joel Rees writes: > 2014/09/14 6:55 "lee" yun.yagibdah.de > >: >> >> Joel Rees @ gmail.com > > writes: >> >> > 2014/09/12 3:35 "lee" yun.yagibdah.de > >: >> >> >> >> [...] >> >> Well, I don't want to program some sort of meta-git ... I merely want > a >> >> simple way to be informed about new co

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

B writes: > On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 23:09:58 +0200 > lee wrote: > >> Does swapping to partitions use >> checksumming for data integrity? > > Not that I know of (but I always make a looong destructive test > before use, either on regular partitions and swaps). Have you actually tested (with ho

Re: preseeding: disable systemd

Le 14/09/2014 14:15, The Wanderer a écrit : > On 09/14/2014 at 05:15 AM, Martin Vegter wrote: > > > On 09/14/2014 02:22 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > > >> 2014/09/13 22:06 "Brian" >> >: > > >>> Nothing needs to clarified. The only contradictory post is > >>> based on not gras

Re: preseeding: disable systemd

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/14/2014 at 05:15 AM, Martin Vegter wrote: > On 09/14/2014 02:22 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > >> 2014/09/13 22:06 "Brian" > >: >>> Nothing needs to clarified. The only contradictory post is >>> based on not grasping wha

Re: MDADM RAID1 of external USB 3.0 Drives

On 09/14/2014 01:42 PM, Linux-Fan wrote: > On 09/14/2014 02:06 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: [...] >> In the meantime, you can: >> - add a bitmap file to the RAID, which will speed up rebuilds. >> - use the --no-degraded flag, to prevent assembly of a RAID that >> is lacking a disk. > > Thank you very

Re: MDADM RAID1 of external USB 3.0 Drives

On 09/14/2014 12:38 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 08:06:59PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: [...] >> It's almost certainly a real problem, and in my experience it is >> not the disk itself which is bad, but something in the path (the >> USB port, the USB cable, the USB-SATA int

Re: MDADM RAID1 of external USB 3.0 Drives

On 09/14/2014 02:06 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 06:17:00PM +0200, Linux-Fan wrote: [...] >> Is there any means to configure MDADM (or such) to make sure that all >> devices are recognized before attempting to start the array so that I >> could manually reconnect the missing di

Re: preseed

Hi Bob, On 09/02/2014 11:18 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Diogene Laerce wrote: >> Brian wrote: [...] > You didn't say what you were trying to do. I was trying to automatize the process with a python script but I got a broken pipe issue that I couldn't overcome. So I did a bash script that works just f

Re: MDADM RAID1 of external USB 3.0 Drives

On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 08:06:59PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 06:17:00PM +0200, Linux-Fan wrote: > > 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 wit

Re: how to reinstall bash

On 14/09/14 10:44, songbird wrote: Marko Randjelovic wrote: I don't know what Debian release do you use, but since Squeeze, /bin/sh should point to dash. i'm not sure about that... I suspect it to be the case that if you've been continuously upgrading since before the change was made, yo

Re: brasero requires gvfs

On 13/09/14 20:54, lee wrote: Can you have, say, KDE on Gentoo without systemd? "Without systemd" means *all* of systemd, like systemd-login0 etc.. Many components of the KDE Software Collection have no identifiable dependency on systemd's support libraries. (Indeed, a significant fraction o

Re: how to reinstall bash

Marko Randjelovic wrote: > On Sun, 14 Sep 2014 13:29:15 +0800 > lina wrote: > >> $ ls -l /bin/sh /bin/bash /bin/dash >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1029624 Aug 22 05:15 /bin/bash >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 117176 Jan 10 2014 /bin/dash >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Sep 13 17:48 /bin/sh -> /bin/bash

Re: preseeding: disable systemd

> On 09/14/2014 02:22 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > 2014/09/13 22:06 "Brian" >: >> >> On Sat 13 Sep 2014 at 08:08:55 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: >> >> > On 09/13/2014 at 07:42 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: >> > >> > > Am 13.09.2014 um 12:22 schrieb Erwan David: >> > > >> > >> Le 12

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

2014/09/14 6:55 "lee" yun.yagibdah.de >: > > Joel Rees @ gmail.com > writes: > > > 2014/09/12 3:35 "lee" yun.yagibdah.de >: > >> > >> [...] > >> 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 whe