Re: Installing Debian 8

2016-07-24 Thread Felix Miata
Parsa Hassan Abadi composed on 2016-07-24 13:02 (UTC): I have an issue installing Debian 8 64 bit on a 32bit grub boot-loader on my Acer Aspire 5228 and I want to know how can I start a 64bit Kernel from a 32bit grub boot loader.** What makes you think bits are relevant to any bootloader? Boot

Re: boot times out after dist-upgrade on Stretch

2016-07-24 Thread Borden Rhodes
As my previous messages have gone entirely ignored, I'm hoping that someone can help me with this problem, which I hope is simpler. My boot times out trying to start a number of devices. One of them, for example, is dev-mapper-LVGx2dtmp.device. Another is dev-disk-byx2duuid-.device. I can `systemct

Re: [Gimp-user] Next gotcha

2016-07-24 Thread phil
On 25/07/2016 9:45 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > (Bringing it back to both lists so those who are telling Gene he > should upgrade his debian can get a clue.) > > > On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 7:19 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Saturday 23 July 2016 05:41:29 Michael Schumacher wrote: >> >>> On 07/22/2016

Re: [Gimp-user] Next gotcha

2016-07-24 Thread Joel Rees
(Bringing it back to both lists so those who are telling Gene he should upgrade his debian can get a clue.) On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 7:19 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 23 July 2016 05:41:29 Michael Schumacher wrote: > >> On 07/22/2016 10:32 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > But when I hit the

Re: Force Re-installation

2016-07-24 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 24 July 2016 20:31:56 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 7/24/2016 1:40 PM, S. P. Molnar wrote: > > [snip] > > > > Problem solved. Many thanks for all that answered my plea for > > assistance. > > And the solution was? ?? ? > > Remember someone will have same/similar problem. > W

Re: Force Re-installation

2016-07-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/24/2016 1:40 PM, S. P. Molnar wrote: [snip] Problem solved. Many thanks for all that answered my plea for assistance. And the solution was? ?? ? Remember someone will have same/similar problem. When they search all they will discover is "solution exists". I suspect t

Re: Next gotcha

2016-07-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 24 July 2016 12:35:32 Tom Browder wrote: > On Saturday, July 23, 2016, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 23 July 2016 18:00:30 David Wright wrote: > > > On Sat 23 Jul 2016 at 16:20:12 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Saturday 23 July 2016 14:15:09 David Wright wrote: > > > > >

Re: Force Re-installation

2016-07-24 Thread S. P. Molnar
On 07/24/2016 11:34 AM, Hans wrote: Deinstalling has two flaws : 1) Deinstalling a package requires to deinstall all packages which depend on it. Yes. 2) The dependencies may be used by other packages, so they may not be orphaned. If you deinstall all the dependencies too, see 1). As many pac

Re: [SOLVED] Re: weired - no sound after upgrade

2016-07-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
Every account on a machine running pulseaudio gets a .pulse directory structure which when pulse is disabled also needs deleting otherwise pulseaudio returns on reboot or system start. That may be under ~/.config/.pulse or ~/.config/.pulseaudio. hth. On Sun, 24 Jul 2016, Hans wrote: Date:

Re: Force Re-installation

2016-07-24 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 24 July 2016 16:24:27 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 24/07/2016 à 15:47, Hans a écrit : > > Am Sonntag, 24. Juli 2016, 09:30:12 schrieb S. P. Molnar: > >> How do I force the re-installation of a file and all of it's > >> dependencies? > > A file or a package ? > > > 1. I would deinstall the

Re: Next gotcha

2016-07-24 Thread Tom Browder
On Saturday, July 23, 2016, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 23 July 2016 18:00:30 David Wright wrote: > > On Sat 23 Jul 2016 at 16:20:12 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Saturday 23 July 2016 14:15:09 David Wright wrote: > > > > On Sat 23 Jul 2016 at 13:13:27 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: >

Re: Force Re-installation

2016-07-24 Thread Hans
> Deinstalling has two flaws : > > 1) Deinstalling a package requires to deinstall all packages which > depend on it. Yes. > > 2) The dependencies may be used by other packages, so they may not be > orphaned. If you deinstall all the dependencies too, see 1). As many > packages depend on libc6,

Re: Force Re-installation

2016-07-24 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 24/07/2016 à 15:47, Hans a écrit : Am Sonntag, 24. Juli 2016, 09:30:12 schrieb S. P. Molnar: How do I force the re-installation of a file and all of it's dependencies? A file or a package ? 1. I would deinstall the package (aptitude purge packagename), then maybe all orphaned libs Dein

Re: Installing Debian 8

2016-07-24 Thread Gary Dale
On 24/07/16 09:02 AM, Parsa Hassan Abadi wrote: Dear Sir/Madam: I have an issue installing Debian 8 64 bit on a 32bit grub boot-loader on my Acer Aspire 5228 and I want to know how can I start a 64bit Kernel from a 32bit grub boot loader.** Thanks. I'm looking forward to hear from you, Parsa

Installing Debian 8

2016-07-24 Thread Parsa Hassan Abadi
Dear Sir/Madam: I have an issue installing Debian 8 64 bit on a 32bit grub boot-loader on my Acer Aspire 5228 and I want to know how can I start a 64bit Kernel from a 32bit grub boot loader. Thanks. I'm looking forward to hear from you, Parsa Samet. uname -a Linux richard-laptop 3.2.0-4-amd6

Re: Force Re-installation

2016-07-24 Thread S. P. Molnar
On 07/24/2016 09:47 AM, Hans wrote: Am Sonntag, 24. Juli 2016, 09:30:12 schrieb S. P. Molnar: Debian Jessie. How do I force the re-installation of a file and all of it's dependencies? Thanks in advance. Two solutions: 1. I would deinstall the package (aptitude purge packagename), then maybe

Re: Force Re-installation

2016-07-24 Thread Hans
Am Sonntag, 24. Juli 2016, 09:30:12 schrieb S. P. Molnar: > Debian Jessie. > > How do I force the re-installation of a file and all of it's dependencies? > > Thanks in advance. Two solutions: 1. I would deinstall the package (aptitude purge packagename), then maybe all orphaned libs (aptitude p

Force Re-installation

2016-07-24 Thread S. P. Molnar
Debian Jessie. How do I force the re-installation of a file and all of it's dependencies? Thanks in advance. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.Life is a fuzzy set www.Molecular-Modeling.net Stochastic and multivariate (614)312-7528 (c) Skype: smolnar1

Re: Near clones of a Debian install

2016-07-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/23/2016 2:16 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 7/22/2016 2:55 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: [snip] Quite. I have cloned a root partition on the same disk in order to do some experiments on the cloned system. I think I just changed the UUID and label in the filesystem metadata and in /etc/fstab.

[SOLVED] Re: weired - no sound after upgrade

2016-07-24 Thread Hans
Hi folks, sound is back! Yeah! However, I do not know, what was the reason. But this is what I did: First, tried to initialize the card. The first thing I did, was pulseaudio --system, which was a bad idea, as the system told me. Then I tried alsactl --init , alsctrl -F and alsactl -f, whic