Re: How to change installer image?

2015-01-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Steve McIntyre wrote: > You'll also need to use xorriso rather than genisoimage. Thank you for flying xorriso. :) > If you look in the > file .disk/mkisofs on the original CD, you'll see the exact command > that was used to make the original image, .disk/mkisofs is one of my favorites. So

Re: typescript of terminal session (was: Was: Ric Moore)

2015-01-19 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
Am editing an important *oops* where a command is misspelled. Not sure the proper protocol for doing this so will addend it up here. "asciiname auth" should read "asciinema auth"..: On 1/20/15, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 1/19/15, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: >> >> I just tried a long shot with "a

Re: typescript of terminal session (was: Was: Ric Moore)

2015-01-19 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 1/19/15, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > I just tried a long shot with "apt-cache search record terminal" > > Got back couple interesting looking things. That one on top is right > where it showed up, top of the search. Haven't downloaded and tested > but description sure fits. :) > > asciinema - R

Re: typescript of terminal session (was: Was: Ric Moore)

2015-01-19 Thread Joel Roth
Alberto Luaces wrote: > Richard Owlett writes: > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > >> On Sunday 18 January 2015 18:21:02 Mart van de Wege did opine > >> [SNIP] > >>> > >>> apt-get remove network-manager seems to work just fine for me. > >>> > >>> Mart > >> > >> I have attempted that, several times in the

Re: Apache or Radius crash

2015-01-19 Thread Chris
On 01/14/2015 09:19 AM, Carsten Czerner wrote: > I can use it with http an all is fine, but with https the process terminate. > > Any suggestions? Are all https-pages terminating or only those with radius authentification? -- Gruß, Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@li

Where are those files created

2015-01-19 Thread Chris
Danny, On 01/06/2015 07:04 PM, Danny wrote: > ## > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 648K Dec 11 17:17 /boot/dippqejwvf > ## could you narrow down, where those strange files are created? Were

Re: typescript of terminal session

2015-01-19 Thread John Hasler
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Re: How to change installer image?

2015-01-19 Thread mrr
On 19/01/2015 20:30, Johannes Graumann wrote: 3) nano /tmp/debian-7.8.0-i386-CD-1-mod/isolinux/txt.cfg ... I'm not sure about the mean of this step, is it to change the text printed at early boot time (a kind of menu?) ? Anyway, make sure you don't have an error here. 4) genisoimage -o deb

Re: typescript of terminal session (was: Was: Ric Moore)

2015-01-19 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 1/19/15, Alberto Luaces wrote: > Richard Owlett writes: > >> Gene Heskett wrote: >>> On Sunday 18 January 2015 18:21:02 Mart van de Wege did opine >>> >>> I have attempted that, several times in the past 5 or 6 years. The list >>> of stuff it will also remove is usually several printed pages,

Re: debian utilities for this issue?

2015-01-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Karen Lewellen wrote: > The challenge seems to be playing the mpg format on another device. > ... > My google indicates that there are many Linux tools for playing pvr > recordings in mpg format. Yes. > am I reasonably correct in my understanding that if I have this associate > transfer the mater

Re: how to paste selected text / keyboard shortcut

2015-01-19 Thread mrr
On 19/01/2015 19:20, mrr wrote: Is there any way I could paste the selected text with a keyboard shortcut ? Thanks everybody for all the answers, I will think about it tomorrow (time to sleep a bit). Just one thing, I didn't know about the shift+insert shortcut but seems to paste what is in

debian utilities for this issue?

2015-01-19 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi all, Here is the problem. While I am exploring solutions in a number of arenas, I thought I would ask here too. An associated recorded some material I require for a production to their hdpvr unit. I amt old that the material can be exported to an external hard drive, which is no issue. The

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 19 January 2015 14:42:01 Joe did opine And Gene did reply: > On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 04:54:57 -0500 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > But that leads to the next logical question: What's the difference > > between using apt-get to do that, and synaptic? > > > > Synaptic would have literally torn

Re: How to change installer image?

2015-01-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
johannes_graum...@web.de wrote: >Hello, > >To fix some configurations needed to install via a serial connection, I >would like to edit txt.cfg in isolinux of the stable installation CD. >Following https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Modify/CD I try: >1) mkdir /tmp/debian-7.8.0-i386-CD-1-mod >

Re: Foolproof disk device name in fstab

2015-01-19 Thread andmalc
Also, sorry about the wonky formatting of my posts. Posting from Google Groups so no line wrapping and in HTML format too I suppose ): -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Foolproof disk device name in fstab

2015-01-19 Thread andmalc
On Monday, January 19, 2015 at 8:30:04 AM UTC-5, fran...@avalenn.eu wrote: > Would the "nofail" fstab mount option work for you ? > > http://lists.debian.org/546e52a1.2080...@debian.org Interesting: dropping into emergency mode when the device isn't found is new behavior under systemd. Looks

Re: how to paste selected text / keyboard shortcut

2015-01-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > ... but I also would like to mention xsel [0] which is really cool > thing. Also it's manual reveals some interesting stuff about x > selections. > > [0] http://www.vergenet.net/~conrad/software/xsel/ I didn't know about xsel. Thanks for mentioning it. I knew about x

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-19 Thread Joe
On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 04:54:57 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: > > But that leads to the next logical question: What's the difference > between using apt-get to do that, and synaptic? > > Synaptic would have literally torn down the system, removing libc6, > most of build-essentials among many many o

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 19 January 2015 05:37:47 Lisi Reisz did opine And Gene did reply: > On Monday 19 January 2015 09:54:57 Gene Heskett wrote: > > But that leads to the next logical question: What's the difference > > between using apt-get to do that, and synaptic? > > > > Synaptic would have literally tor

How to change installer image?

2015-01-19 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, To fix some configurations needed to install via a serial connection, I would like to edit txt.cfg in isolinux of the stable installation CD. Following https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Modify/CD I try: 1) mkdir /tmp/debian-7.8.0-i386-CD-1-mod 2) bsdtar -C /tmp/debian-7.8.0-i386-CD-

Re: how to paste selected text / keyboard shortcut

2015-01-19 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 1/19/15, mrr wrote: > Hi everybody. > > Ok, my question is in the title but I think I should be more precise so: > > I often use the mouse to select some text and then I can paste it using > the central wheel button of the mouse (that can be simulated by clicking > both buttons if you don't hav

Re: how to paste selected text / keyboard shortcut

2015-01-19 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 01/19/2015 06:53 PM, mrr wrote: > Hi everybody. > > Ok, my question is in the title but I think I should be more precise so: > > I often use the mouse to select some text and then I can paste it > using the central wheel button of the mouse (that can be simulated by > clicking both buttons if yo

Re: how to paste selected text / keyboard shortcut

2015-01-19 Thread Erwan David
Le 19/01/2015 19:51, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI a écrit : > On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 18:53:31 +0100 > mrr wrote: > >> Maybe this isn't possible with only one shortcut as pasting may depends >> on the application _taking_ the paste (I mean that pasting some text in >> thunderbird or in a shell might involve

Re: how to paste selected text / keyboard shortcut

2015-01-19 Thread Ron
On Mon, 19 Jan 2015 18:53:31 +0100 mrr wrote: > Maybe this isn't possible with only one shortcut as pasting may depends > on the application _taking_ the paste (I mean that pasting some text in > thunderbird or in a shell might involve a different logic but it sure > works with the central but

Re: how to paste selected text / keyboard shortcut

2015-01-19 Thread Bob Proulx
mrr wrote: > I often use the mouse to select some text and then I can paste it using the > central wheel button of the mouse (that can be simulated by clicking both > buttons if you don't have the wheel button but I'm getting out of > subject...). > > Is there any way I could paste the selected te

Re: video chat in gmail using iceweasel is not working

2015-01-19 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 12:42 AM, tv.debian wrote: > On the 19/01/2015 06:02, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: >> Hardware: >> rajulocal@hogwarts ~ % lsusb >> Bus 006 Device 003: ID 046d:0990 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Pro 9000 > > Some series of this webcam have intermittent problems due to a firmware bug

how to paste selected text / keyboard shortcut

2015-01-19 Thread mrr
Hi everybody. Ok, my question is in the title but I think I should be more precise so: I often use the mouse to select some text and then I can paste it using the central wheel button of the mouse (that can be simulated by clicking both buttons if you don't have the wheel button but I'm gettin

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 19 January 2015 10:13:20 Richard Owlett did opine And Gene did reply: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 18 January 2015 18:21:02 Mart van de Wege did opine > > [SNIP] > > > >> apt-get remove network-manager seems to work just fine for me. > >> > >> Mart > > > > I have attempted that,

Re: Find obsolete packages without using aptitude?

2015-01-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Chris Bannister wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > I think everyone should be worried about removed but not purged > > packages too. Otherwise they are a source of lint that builds up on a > > system. > > apt-cache show cruft I had forgotten about cruft. I just tried it again after many years. It

Re: Find obsolete packages without using aptitude?

2015-01-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Note that apt-show-versions is not able to find installed packages > which are no longer available in the suite/release, e.g. on a > testing/sid system, the packages libtiff4 or xlockmore. Works in Wheezy. Wheezy$ apt-show-versions | grep xlockmore xlockmore 1:5.31-

Re: Laptop advice

2015-01-19 Thread Hans
> Is that still the case? > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=96 Not by default, I know. But it appears, that i.e. k3b is using and looking for temporary space in /tmp, when burning DVDs. Most people (i guess) will not have 8GB of RAM free (for double-layer DVDs), so tha

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-19 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Kevin O'Gorman > wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 3:54 AM, Tom H wrote: > > > [snipped. I have xfce4 and lightdm] > > >> Have you looked at the logs? Especially Xorg.0.log and xsessions-errors. > > > > Xorg lo

Re: Laptop advice

2015-01-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 06:07:55PM +0100, Hans wrote: > space you want to give for every partition. Hint: Make the partition, where > /tmp resides a little bigger, so that there is about 10GB free. Some > applications (like a DVD burner) uses it for temporary files. In this special > case, and y

Re: Find obsolete packages without using aptitude?

2015-01-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 04:36:06PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > I think everyone should be worried about removed but not purged > packages too. Otherwise they are a source of lint that builds up on a > system. apt-cache show cruft I believe that lint is a c code checker. :) -- "If you're not ca

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-19 Thread Richard Owlett
Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: Hi On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 09:13:20AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: [snip] I had a similar problem some time back. Someone pointed me to a utility that saved everything sent to a console window. It was not "redirection" nor a "pipe" as the console retained all its functi

typescript of terminal session (was: Was: Ric Moore)

2015-01-19 Thread Alberto Luaces
Richard Owlett writes: > Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Sunday 18 January 2015 18:21:02 Mart van de Wege did opine >> [SNIP] >>> >>> apt-get remove network-manager seems to work just fine for me. >>> >>> Mart >> >> I have attempted that, several times in the past 5 or 6 years. The list >> of stuff it

Re: aptitude unhold how

2015-01-19 Thread Rusi Mody
On Monday, January 19, 2015 at 3:00:05 PM UTC+5:30, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 19 January 2015 05:30:40 Rusi Mody wrote: > > On Monday, January 19, 2015 at 10:50:04 AM UTC+5:30, Rusi Mody wrote: > > > Running testing > > > > > > While trying to upgrade, listbugs was giving a bunch of > > > criti

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-19 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 09:13:20AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: Someone pointed me to a utility that saved everything sent to a console window. Was it script? script — make typescript of terminal session Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.ro

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-19 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 09:13:20AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > >On Sunday 18 January 2015 18:21:02 Mart van de Wege did opine > >[SNIP] > >> > >>apt-get remove network-manager seems to work just fine for me. > >> > >>Mart > > > >I have attempted that, several times in the p

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-19 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 09:13:20AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > >On Sunday 18 January 2015 18:21:02 Mart van de Wege did opine > >[SNIP] > >> > >>apt-get remove network-manager seems to work just fine for me. > >> > >>Mart > > > >I have attempted that, several times in t

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-19 Thread Richard Owlett
Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 18 January 2015 18:21:02 Mart van de Wege did opine [SNIP] apt-get remove network-manager seems to work just fine for me. Mart I have attempted that, several times in the past 5 or 6 years. The list of stuff it will also remove is usually several printed pages,

Re: Find obsolete packages without using aptitude?

2015-01-19 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Note that apt-show-versions is not able to find installed packages which are no longer available in the suite/release, e.g. on a testing/sid system, the packages libtiff4 or xlockmore. -- Regards, jvp. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Foolproof disk device name in fstab

2015-01-19 Thread francois
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 06:30:38PM -0800, andmalc wrote: > My question is: how can I specify devices in fstab so if they can't > be found boot proceeds proceeds normally instead of halting? Would > mounting with systemd with the 'device-timeout' option as described > here be a good way? Would the

Re: Can't get sound to work

2015-01-19 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Saturday 17 January 2015 21:41:38, Ric Moore wrote : > On 01/17/2015 07:29 AM, Frédéric Marchal wrote: > > My problem is now solved. I unfortunately can't provide a full scientific > > analysis of what happened. I list every clue that might help anybody else > > facing the same problem. > > All

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 19 January 2015 09:54:57 Gene Heskett wrote: > But that leads to the next logical question:  What's the difference > between using apt-get to do that, and synaptic? > > Synaptic would have literally torn down the system, removing libc6, most > of build-essentials among many many others.  

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-19 Thread Curt
On 2015-01-19, Gene Heskett wrote: > Thanks Mart. Now I know how to cure that headache. And will do exactly > that on my next install. > BTW, I don't know whether anyone has mentioned this yet, but you can "force static network configuration by providing boot parameter netcfg/disable_dhcp=tru

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 19 January 2015 01:24:35 Mart van de Wege did opine And Gene did reply: > Gene Heskett writes: > > On Sunday 18 January 2015 18:21:02 Mart van de Wege did opine > > > > And Gene did reply: > >> Gene Heskett writes: > >> > On Sunday 18 January 2015 14:12:03 Joe did opine > >> > > >> >>

Re: aptitude unhold how

2015-01-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 19 January 2015 05:30:40 Rusi Mody wrote: > On Monday, January 19, 2015 at 10:50:04 AM UTC+5:30, Rusi Mody wrote: > > Running testing > > > > While trying to upgrade, listbugs was giving a bunch of > > critical/grave errors. > > > > Ran > > $ aptitude hold > > > > on all these packages th

Re: Recording sound from a web page

2015-01-19 Thread Curt
On 2015-01-18, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I am trying to record sound that is playing in firefox, or chrome. I am > using Audacity 2.0.1 on Wheezy. I am trying to find an input device > that gets the sound straight from the browser output. I can plug in a > patch cord from speaker to mic and reco

Re: Recording sound from a web page

2015-01-19 Thread Rusi Mody
On Monday, January 19, 2015 at 3:30:05 AM UTC+5:30, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I am trying to record sound that is playing in firefox, or chrome. I am > using Audacity 2.0.1 on Wheezy. I am trying to find an input device > that gets the sound straight from the browser output. I can plug in a > patc