Re: libre office fail

2016-09-24 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 09:22:23PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > Desperate, I tried to use command line to open an odt file. I got this > running sid: > > This is critical. :( Ric > I'm sorry that this doesn't move you closer to an immediate solution, but do you really need to be using Sid? The wor

Re: libre office fail

2016-09-24 Thread Ric Moore
On 09/24/2016 10:39 PM, Carl Fink wrote: On 09/24/2016 09:22 PM, Ric Moore wrote: Desperate, I tried to use command line to open an odt file. I got this running sid: ric@iam:~/Documents/Dennis/pdf$ libreoffice National_Reentry_Resources.odt (soffice:14215): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_set_size

Re: libre office fail

2016-09-24 Thread Carl Fink
On 09/24/2016 09:22 PM, Ric Moore wrote: Desperate, I tried to use command line to open an odt file. I got this running sid: ric@iam:~/Documents/Dennis/pdf$ libreoffice National_Reentry_Resources.odt (soffice:14215): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_set_size_request: assertion 'width >= -1' fail

libre office fail

2016-09-24 Thread Ric Moore
Desperate, I tried to use command line to open an odt file. I got this running sid: ric@iam:~/Documents/Dennis/pdf$ libreoffice National_Reentry_Resources.odt (soffice:14215): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_set_size_request: assertion 'width >= -1' failed ric@iam:~/Documents/Dennis/pdf$ This is

Office borked

2016-09-24 Thread Ric Moore
Has anyone else noticed that the drop down menus in Office writer no longer work??? This is making me REAL crazy. It's the same problem reported with synaptic. -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidit

Re: anyone having problems with python on debian testing

2016-09-24 Thread emetib
running as root to get the journal. no errors.

Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

2016-09-24 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 25/09/16 01:26, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: Good morning! Just a heads up that upgrading the following two packages attempts to remove 141 unrelated packages in Sid/Unstable this morning: perl 5.24.1~rc3-2 perl-base 5.24.1~rc3-2 Before running "apt-get dist-upgrade", I always simulate first with

Re: installing firmware during stretch install

2016-09-24 Thread Glenn Holmer
On 09/24/2016 03:32 PM, pcr1 wrote: > Hi. I am trying to install stretch onto my AMD64 box using wifi. During > install I get a missing firmware message asking me to supply > rtl_nic/rtl8168g-2fw on removable media. I found rtl8168g-2fw on my > laptop in lib/firmware/rtl_nic and copied it to a fo

vncserver problems

2016-09-24 Thread Glenn Holmer
Fresh install of Debian testing on a machine that runs headless. I want to start an X session from my .vnc/xstartup. Installed with XFCE. The machine was previously running Jessie (which is still there in a GRUB multi-boot configuration), so I configured testing according to my notes from Jessie.

installing firmware during stretch install

2016-09-24 Thread pcr1
Hi. I am trying to install stretch onto my AMD64 box using wifi. During install I get a missing firmware message asking me to supply rtl_nic/rtl8168g-2fw on removable media. I found rtl8168g-2fw on my laptop in lib/firmware/rtl_nic and copied it to a folder I labled rtl_nic on a flash drive.

Re: Failed to execute child process (no such file or directory), but the script DOES exist in $HOME/bin, openbox users, especially take a look, please.

2016-09-24 Thread Brian
On Fri 23 Sep 2016 at 17:36:11 +0100, Brian wrote: > ~/.xsessionrc was introduced in 2007 in response to a perceived problem. > If the choice of DE (or WM) and terminal is left in the care of the > system's x-session-manager, x-window-manager and x-terminal-emulator > nothing need be put in ~/.xse

Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

2016-09-24 Thread Seeker
First off I have been playing around with 'compose > text' and 'send > text' options in Thunderbird so I apologize ahead of time if A: lines are excessively long and B: that is an issue for you in whatever you are using to read this. On 9/24/2016 8:33 AM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: What you're

Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

2016-09-24 Thread John Hasler
Christian Seiler wrote: > it's IMHO a good idea to subscribe to debian-release for anyone > running pure sid, so they can have an overview over currently active > transitions. It's also a good idea to subscribe to debian-devel-announce. This transition was announced there, but the announcement un

Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

2016-09-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 06:36:21PM +0200, Christian Seiler wrote: > > Regarding the original problem: I'd recommend to anyone running > sid to also have testing in their sources.list - so they can > force the installation of an older package version while a > transition is still ongoing. Also, it'

Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

2016-09-24 Thread John Hasler
Copied from debian-devel-announce: From: Dominic Hargreaves Subject: Perl 5.24 transition underway To: debian-devel-annou...@lists.debian.org Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 18:57:14 +0100 (17 minutes, 7 seconds ago) Mail-Followup-To: Dominic Hargreaves , debian-devel-annou...@lists.debian.org Resent-Fr

Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

2016-09-24 Thread John Hasler
Package: cron-apt Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 43 Maintainer: Ola Lundqvist Architecture: all Version: 0.9.3 Depends: apt Recommends: liblockfile1, mailx, cron | cron-daemon Conffiles: /etc/cron.d/cron-apt 293b1638131468f398152865bac245d4 /etc/lo

Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

2016-09-24 Thread Glenn English
> On Sep 24, 2016, at 7:26 AM, Cindy-Sue Causey > wrote: > > Am on dialup and have to be > selective about the order in which packages are upgraded Have you considered a local, partial mirror? A 64G thumbdrive doesn't cost much, it'd hold a lot of .debs, the local mirror can be added at the t

Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour

2016-09-24 Thread Joe
On Sat, 24 Sep 2016 23:29:00 +0900 Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 09:20:20AM -0500, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 11:00:33PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 03:28:41AM -0500, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > > > > > > > > Have you tried

Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

2016-09-24 Thread Christian Seiler
On 09/24/2016 06:02 PM, Glenn English wrote: >> On Sep 24, 2016, at 7:44 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> For my own education, I'm not sure what you mean by "backup your current >> state >> before upgrading"--does that mean a full backup of your system, or is there >> a >> way to somehow sav

Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

2016-09-24 Thread Glenn English
> On Sep 24, 2016, at 7:44 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > For my own education, I'm not sure what you mean by "backup your current state > before upgrading"--does that mean a full backup of your system, or is there a > way to somehow save the current "state" of the package list on your system

Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

2016-09-24 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 9/24/16, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, September 24, 2016 09:26:36 AM Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: >> Good morning! Just a heads up that upgrading the following two >> packages attempts to remove 141 unrelated packages in Sid/Unstable >> this morning: > >> Just sharing because I was in a

Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

2016-09-24 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 9/24/16, Sven Hartge wrote: > Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: >> Good morning! Just a heads up that upgrading the following two >> packages attempts to remove 141 unrelated packages in Sid/Unstable >> this morning: > >> perl 5.24.1~rc3-2 >> perl-base 5.24.1~rc3-2 > >> I grab AMD64 packages in case tha

Re: Typing Cyrillic script with a UK keyboard in an en-gb setting

2016-09-24 Thread Christian Seiler
On 09/24/2016 05:07 PM, david...@freevolt.org wrote: > On Sat, 24 Sep 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> My husband has just asked to do this. His system is vanilla from this point >> of view. (Mine is in a mess, with a messed-up scim and no foreign >> fonts "working", but that is another story.) >> >

Re: Typing Cyrillic script with a UK keyboard in an en-gb setting

2016-09-24 Thread Christian Seiler
On 09/24/2016 04:10 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > My husband has just asked to do this. His system is vanilla from this point > of view. (Mine is in a mess, with a messed-up scim and no foreign > fonts "working", but that is another story.) > > Advice please on the best way to achieve this for him

Re: New Dell Inspiron: Screen flicker (SOLVED)

2016-09-24 Thread Harris Paltrowitz
> Felix Miata wrote: > > Harris composed on 2016-09-17 09:38 (UTC-0400): > > Felix Miata wrote: > Harris composed on 2016-09-17 08:57 (UTC): > I just got a new Dell laptop to replace my former one that I ran Debian on > with no issues -- unfortunately with this one, the screen flickers when I

Re: anyone having problems with python on debian testing

2016-09-24 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Fri, 23 Sep 2016 15:32:34 -0700 (PDT) emetib wrote: > michael, > > it's not any modules that i know of. only using re for the three > scripts that i'm using. as stated it's working on all of my other > virts, so i'm not that worried about it right now. > > i can't make anything crash

Re: Typing Cyrillic script with a UK keyboard in an en-gb setting

2016-09-24 Thread davidson
On Sat, 24 Sep 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote: My husband has just asked to do this. His system is vanilla from this point of view. (Mine is in a mess, with a messed-up scim and no foreign fonts "working", but that is another story.) Advice please on the best way to achieve this for him. I.e., what

Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour

2016-09-24 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 09:20:20AM -0500, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 11:00:33PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 03:28:41AM -0500, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > > > > > Have you tried backing out of X to a console and observing the behaviour > there? > I ha

Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour

2016-09-24 Thread Dutch Ingraham
On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 11:00:33PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 03:28:41AM -0500, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > > > > I can't address the emulator's scrolling behavior in general, but in > > specific to mutt, you can add: > > > > set pager_stop = yes > > > > to your .muttrc an

Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour

2016-09-24 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 03:28:41AM -0500, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > > I can't address the emulator's scrolling behavior in general, but in > specific to mutt, you can add: > > set pager_stop = yes > > to your .muttrc and that will stop the automatic flip to the next > message. A nice work-a-round

Typing Cyrillic script with a UK keyboard in an en-gb setting

2016-09-24 Thread Lisi Reisz
My husband has just asked to do this. His system is vanilla from this point of view. (Mine is in a mess, with a messed-up scim and no foreign fonts "working", but that is another story.) Advice please on the best way to achieve this for him. I.e., what do those of you doing this or similar

Re: sending authorized_keys to localhost from an account being created with adduser --disabled-password [was] Re: Need a tutorial

2016-09-24 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 04:41:00PM +, Stephan Beck wrote: > Thank you very much, Tomás. glad to help. [...] > But once my user's (in your terminology, steph's) public key is in the > test account's authorized_keys file, user steph can login with

Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

2016-09-24 Thread Sven Hartge
Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > Good morning! Just a heads up that upgrading the following two > packages attempts to remove 141 unrelated packages in Sid/Unstable > this morning: > perl 5.24.1~rc3-2 > perl-base 5.24.1~rc3-2 > I grab AMD64 packages in case that makes a difference AND I have other > la

Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

2016-09-24 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, September 24, 2016 09:26:36 AM Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > Good morning! Just a heads up that upgrading the following two > packages attempts to remove 141 unrelated packages in Sid/Unstable > this morning: ... > Just sharing because I was in a hurry and almost let it happen. I > don't

WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

2016-09-24 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
Good morning! Just a heads up that upgrading the following two packages attempts to remove 141 unrelated packages in Sid/Unstable this morning: perl 5.24.1~rc3-2 perl-base 5.24.1~rc3-2 I grab AMD64 packages in case that makes a difference AND I have other larger packages still waiting to be upgra

Re: Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour

2016-09-24 Thread Dutch Ingraham
On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 05:02:36PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Recently, Gnome terminal's scrolling behaviour has gone strange. If I am > looking at a man page, or scrolling through a long text file with less > etc, or even just scrolling back through terminal history using > Shift-PgUp and Shift

Strange Gnome-terminal behaviour

2016-09-24 Thread Mark Fletcher
Has anyone else noticed strange behaviour around scrolling in Gnome Terminal starting (fairly) recently in Jessie? I am using a long-standing Jessie install which is by no means a new install, but started life I think as etch and has been upgraded repeatedly. I use, as I assume is obvious, Gnome.