LibreOffice5 Writer will not load

I have LibreOffice5 installed on Debian Stretch on an Asus EeePC notebook which uses an Atom N455 processor. All the LibreOffice modules seem to work fine except for Writer. When I try to launch Writer it begins loading and a banner saying "LibreOffice 5" appears across the middle of the screen

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

Rodolfo Medina writes: > David Wright writes: > >> On Sun 02 Jul 2017 at 00:29:13 (+0100), Rodolfo Medina wrote: >>> Rodolfo Medina writes: >>> >>> > My output seems to be the same as yours: >>> > >>> > # ls -lR /dev/snd >>> > /dev/snd: >>> > total 0 >>> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Jul

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

David Wright writes: > On Sun 02 Jul 2017 at 00:29:13 (+0100), Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> Rodolfo Medina writes: >> >> > My output seems to be the same as yours: >> > >> > # ls -lR /dev/snd >> > /dev/snd: >> > total 0 >> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Jul 1 23:55 by-path >> > crw-rw+ 1 r

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

On Sun 02 Jul 2017 at 00:29:13 (+0100), Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rodolfo Medina writes: > > > My output seems to be the same as yours: > > > > # ls -lR /dev/snd > > /dev/snd: > > total 0 > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Jul 1 23:55 by-path > > crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 2 Jul 1 23:55 con

Re: Remotely exploitable bug in systemd (CVE-2017-9445)

On Sun, Jul 02, 2017 at 12:44:20AM +0200, deloptes wrote: > > I don't think it is that new as I have not done any upgrades recently and I > have > dpkg -l | grep systemd > ii libpam-systemd:amd64 215-17+deb8u7 > > amd64system and service manage

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

Rodolfo Medina writes: > My output seems to be the same as yours: > > # ls -lR /dev/snd > /dev/snd: > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Jul 1 23:55 by-path > crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 2 Jul 1 23:55 controlC0 > crw-rw+ 1 root audio 116, 5 Jul 1 23:55 controlC1 > crw-rw+ 1

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

Thanks to all who kindly replied. David Wright writes: > Secondly, most of the error messages involved alsa rather > than the CD player. How does root get on with playing > sound files from other sources? Yes, the error message remains also with sound files, so it actually does not concern cdd

Re: Tracing hard Lockup

Java 7 rarely has issues on Java 8 and if they do it's a program error not system. At this point I'll go back to Jessie or Ubuntu 16. Thanks for the feedback. On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 6:41 PM deloptes wrote: > Mini Trader wrote: > > > I tried oracles version as well and same response. Is there an

Re: Stretch, pulseaudio and bluetooth headphones

On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 09:52:42AM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > On 06/29/2017 09:58 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > Hello the list! > > > > Quite a while ago I bought a pair of Bang & Olufsen bluetooth headphones > > and have been using them from Jessie. > > > > The list may remember I had a little bit

Re: Remotely exploitable bug in systemd (CVE-2017-9445)

Perry E. Metzger wrote: > Howdy! CVE-2017-9445 is a remotely exploitable bug in systemd. It was > first announced to the public about four or five days ago, not sure > when it would have been announced to the security team. > > Am I correct in interpreting this: > https://security-tracker.debian.

Re: (SOLVED) kde4 can't find file usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes/lines

Beco composed on 2017-07-01 18:12 (UTC-0300): > It is similar indeed. Also, by the solution they figured out, (editing > Theme=/usr/share/apps/kdm/themes/oxygen-air) I can see that it is using > "kdm" instead of sddm. > That is the root of the problem. A proper solution is just what I said in > t

Re: Tracing hard Lockup

Mini Trader wrote: > I tried oracles version as well and same response. Is there any sort of > utility that can be used to sandbox this and see what is going on? > If a java program was compiled and designed to run on specific version it could be that it causes problems on higher version - espec

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

Curt writes: > On 2017-07-01, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> deloptes writes: >> >>> Rodolfo Medina wrote: >>> Are you calling me stupid...?  Thanks... ;-) >>> >>> just to be clear. You have had setup an alias for mplayer, correct? So >>> everything people advised here was run via this alias 'mp

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

On Sat 01 Jul 2017 at 18:46:27 (+0100), Brian wrote: > On Sat 01 Jul 2017 at 10:42:45 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > On Sat 01 Jul 2017 at 16:03:13 (+0100), Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > deloptes writes: > > > > > > > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > > > > > >> Are you calling me stupid...?  Thanks..

Re: Remotely exploitable bug in systemd (CVE-2017-9445)

On 2017-07-01 16:36 -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: > Howdy! CVE-2017-9445 is a remotely exploitable bug in systemd. It was > first announced to the public about four or five days ago, not sure > when it would have been announced to the security team. > > Am I correct in interpreting this: > https:

(SOLVED) Re: kde4 can't find file usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes/lines

On 1 July 2017 at 07:02, Curt wrote: > On 2017-06-29, Beco wrote: > > >>From time to time, every one or two boots, KDE won't load, it shows a > > dialog with only an "OK" button and the message: > > > > kde can't find file usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes/lines > > > I click ok and get redirected

Remotely exploitable bug in systemd (CVE-2017-9445)

Howdy! CVE-2017-9445 is a remotely exploitable bug in systemd. It was first announced to the public about four or five days ago, not sure when it would have been announced to the security team. Am I correct in interpreting this: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9445 as meaning

Re: Tracing hard Lockup

I tried oracles version as well and same response. Is there any sort of utility that can be used to sandbox this and see what is going on? Any log files other than kernlog or syslog? On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 4:42 PM deloptes wrote: > Mini Trader wrote: > > > My last two cents on this are that the

Re: Tracing hard Lockup

Mini Trader wrote: > My last two cents on this are that the vCenter consoles shows the machine > going to 100% CPU.  I've tried even executing the java process with the > nice command to see if this could throttle the CPU. > > Whatever it is that this java process is doing is completely throwing

Re: [Stretch] apt-get has no updates?

On 01-07-17, Larry Dighera wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jun 2017 16:31:37 -0400, you wrote: > > >> Someone else mentioned unattended upgrades, which is a thing I have > >> never used, and which is also a thing I would disable if I ever found > >> it running. But that's just me. > > > >I would like to do t

Re: [Stretch] apt-get has no updates?

On Fri, 30 Jun 2017 16:31:37 -0400, you wrote: >> Someone else mentioned unattended upgrades, which is a thing I have >> never used, and which is also a thing I would disable if I ever found >> it running. But that's just me. > >I would like to do that but don't know how. Anyone caring to enlight

Re: Tracing hard Lockup

My last two cents on this are that the vCenter consoles shows the machine going to 100% CPU. I've tried even executing the java process with the nice command to see if this could throttle the CPU. Whatever it is that this java process is doing is completely throwing the system into a loop hole on

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

Hi, Brian wrote: > Once Thomas Schmitt had disposed of the idea that mplayer requires a > cable between drive and sound card it comes down to software and not > hardware. To be exacting, i only doubted the idea. It got disposed by the report that a normal user (the desktop starting user ?) can ha

Re: Questions on nonfree software

On Sat 01 Jul 2017 at 11:12:44 -0700, Charles Chambers wrote: > Is the firmware-9.0.0-amd64-DVD-1 the right media to use during > installation if I have hardware that requires the nonfree repository? Yes.

Questions on nonfree software

Is the firmware-9.0.0-amd64-DVD-1 the right media to use during installation if I have hardware that requires the nonfree repository? I'm trying to puzzle through an offline installation.

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

On Sat 01 Jul 2017 at 10:42:45 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 01 Jul 2017 at 16:03:13 (+0100), Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > deloptes writes: > > > > > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > > > >> Are you calling me stupid...?  Thanks... ;-) > > > > > > just to be clear. You have had setup an alias for m

Re: Debian v9 and auto logoff

tony mollica wrote: > I let the xscreensaver run overnight and it appears that after some > time, whatever amount of time that is, the system still falls back to > the lightdm greeter for logging in. However, after logging in again I > now get the xscreensaver unlock input window, This doesn't s

Re: Debian v9 and auto logoff

FOUND IT! I think. And there's a lot of discussion about it, too. The issue is that Stretch has implemented light-locker as a screen locker for security purposes. A search for 'debian light-locker' brings up a lot of discussion and bug reports concerning this new standard addition to Stretc

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

On Sat 01 Jul 2017 at 16:00:12 (+), Curt wrote: > On 2017-07-01, David Wright wrote: > > > > Secondly, most of the error messages involved alsa rather > > than the CD player. How does root get on with playing > > sound files from other sources? > > > > Actually, upon further reflection, the r

Re: [Stretch] apt-get has no updates?

On Fri 30 Jun 2017 at 22:46:35 (+0200), Dejan Jocic wrote: > On 30-06-17, David Wright wrote: > > > > I'm not sure what this is all about; unattended-upgrades appears > > to have been maintained by the same person since the days of etch, > > a decade ago. What constitutes an advertisement, and how

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

On 2017-07-01, David Wright wrote: > > Secondly, most of the error messages involved alsa rather > than the CD player. How does root get on with playing > sound files from other sources? > Actually, upon further reflection, the root error message from his original post was: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (/ru

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

On Sat 01 Jul 2017 at 16:03:13 (+0100), Rodolfo Medina wrote: > deloptes writes: > > > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > >> Are you calling me stupid...?  Thanks... ;-) > > > > just to be clear. You have had setup an alias for mplayer, correct? So > > everything people advised here was run via this ali

Re: Debian v9 and auto logoff

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 08:13:26AM -0700, tony mollica wrote: > Yet more information on this particular issue. > > I let the xscreensaver run overnight and it appears that after some > time, whatever amount of time that is, the system still falls back

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

On 2017-07-01, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > deloptes writes: > >> Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> >>> Are you calling me stupid...?  Thanks... ;-) >> >> just to be clear. You have had setup an alias for mplayer, correct? So >> everything people advised here was run via this alias 'mplayer -demuxer >> lavf'.

Re: Disk Access

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 04:22:29PM +0100, David wrote: > Dear List, > > I am using Linux Mint Debian (Betsy) and I'm having problems writing to > removable hard disks. > > There are no problems reading and writing to USB sticks. > > But removable sa

Disk Access

Dear List, I am using Linux Mint Debian (Betsy) and I'm having problems writing to removable hard disks. There are no problems reading and writing to USB sticks. But removable sata disks I can read, but not write to. These disks are in caddies that are designed to be removed. I thought the prob

Re: Debian v9 and auto logoff

Yet more information on this particular issue. I let the xscreensaver run overnight and it appears that after some time, whatever amount of time that is, the system still falls back to the lightdm greeter for logging in. However, after logging in again I now get the xscreensaver unlock input

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

deloptes writes: > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Are you calling me stupid...?  Thanks... ;-) > > just to be clear. You have had setup an alias for mplayer, correct? So > everything people advised here was run via this alias 'mplayer -demuxer > lavf'. I'm sorry... I apologize. But the problem wi

Re: Problem reserving enough space for Java object heap since stretch upgrade

On 7/1/2017 9:50 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On 01-07-2017 10:47, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote: I have been unable to execute Java with >=2048M memory allocation since upgrading to stretch. I've changed nothing in my configuration otherwise. Might be related to this: https://lists.debian.org/debi

Re: Problem reserving enough space for Java object heap since stretch upgrade

On 7/1/2017 10:37 AM, David Wright wrote: On Sat 01 Jul 2017 at 09:47:38 (-0400), Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote: I have been unable to execute Java with >=2048M memory allocation since upgrading to stretch. I've changed nothing in my configuration otherwise. # ulimit -v unlimited What does # ulim

Re: Tracing hard Lockup

This isn't reserving JVM heap space > 2GB. This is a java process taking down an entire system. I didn't have any memory issues. They do mention that it was fixed in version 4.9.30-2+deb9u2. Which I do have installed. The system is a completely new and updated install. On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 10

Re: Problem reserving enough space for Java object heap since stretch upgrade

On Sat 01 Jul 2017 at 09:47:38 (-0400), Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote: > I have been unable to execute Java with >=2048M memory allocation > since upgrading to stretch. I've changed nothing in my configuration > otherwise. > > I have plenty of RAM: > > # free > totalusedfre

Re: firewall rules for NAT

On 1 Jul 2017 7:31 pm, "Pascal Hambourg" wrote: Le 01/07/2017 à 03:25, Igor Cicimov a écrit : > > You know what, i just checked the iptables rules the op sent again and > realized this: > > -A POSTROUTING -d 10.7.33.109/32 -p tcp -m tcp > > --dport 25 -j SNAT --to-source

Re: Tracing hard Lockup

Mini Trader wrote: > I've installed Debian 9/Stetch and am having issues with what looks to be > a java application. > > When connecting to the app from certain devices the entire system will > lockup inside an ESXi VM. > > There doesn't appear to be any errors. The system just locks up, no > c

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Are you calling me stupid...?  Thanks... ;-) just to be clear. You have had setup an alias for mplayer, correct? So everything people advised here was run via this alias 'mplayer -demuxer lavf'. regards

Tracing hard Lockup

I've installed Debian 9/Stetch and am having issues with what looks to be a java application. When connecting to the app from certain devices the entire system will lockup inside an ESXi VM. There doesn't appear to be any errors. The system just locks up, no console, no IP nothing works. The ESX

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

On 2017-07-01, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> >> Oh, I see. There's something vaguely wild about this goose. > > Are you calling me stupid...? Thanks... ;-) > I'm not calling you stupid and you're not stupid, far from it. -- “Yeah yeah.” --Sidney Morgenbesser's retort to a speaker who said that alt

Re: Problem reserving enough space for Java object heap since stretch upgrade

On 01-07-2017 10:47, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote: > I have been unable to execute Java with >=2048M memory allocation > since upgrading to stretch. I've changed nothing in my configuration > otherwise. Might be related to this: https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2017/msg00160.html --

Problem reserving enough space for Java object heap since stretch upgrade

I have been unable to execute Java with >=2048M memory allocation since upgrading to stretch. I've changed nothing in my configuration otherwise. I have plenty of RAM: # free totalusedfree shared buff/cache available Mem:5168396 3326140 24

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

Curt writes: > On 2017-07-01, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> Brian writes: >> > How about > > vlc cdda:// ? Yes, vlc works! >>> >>> Not quite what you wanted but you can now play an audio CD. >> >> Recently I noticed that mplayer, when playing audio CDs, is always >> compl

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

On 2017-07-01, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Brian writes: > >>> > How about >>> > >>> > vlc cdda:// ? >>> >>> Yes, vlc works! >> >> Not quite what you wanted but you can now play an audio CD. > > Recently I noticed that mplayer, when playing audio CDs, is always complaining > this way: When playin

Wired and Wireless with Etables

I would like to determine how to configure dom0 to use either wireless or wired connections automatically depending upon which are available. I am trying to get Xen4.9 up and Debian 9 on a Toshiba laptop with only a wireless and a wired (enx0) connection through a docking station. I am trying

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

Rodolfo Medina writes: > Recently I noticed that mplayer, when playing audio CDs, is always > complaining this way: > > `Audio device got stuck!' > > , and sound continuosly `jumps' so becoming unheardable, and I thought it was > the device's hardware fault. The problem disappears running mplay

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

Brian writes: >> > How about >> > >> > vlc cdda:// ? >> >> Yes, vlc works! > > Not quite what you wanted but you can now play an audio CD. Recently I noticed that mplayer, when playing audio CDs, is always complaining this way: `Audio device got stuck!' , and sound continuosly `jumps' so b

Re: firewall rules for NAT

On Sat, 1 Jul 2017 13:25:30 +0200 Pascal Hambourg wrote: Hello Pascal, >Are you sure that your mailer displays the plain text version, not the >HTML version ? I'll change my answer; I only looked at a couple of Igor's messages and they were fine. However, further study shows that in some pos

Re: firewall rules for NAT

On Sat, 1 Jul 2017 13:25:30 +0200 Pascal Hambourg wrote: Hello Pascal, >Are you sure that your mailer displays the plain text version, not the >HTML version ? Positive. I use Claws Mail *without* any HTML plugin. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)r

Re: firewall rules for NAT

Le 01/07/2017 à 12:54, Brad Rogers a écrit : On Sat, 1 Jul 2017 11:30:41 +0200 Pascal Hambourg wrote: Hello Pascal, PS. Igor, the plain text version of your posts does not properly mark the quoted text from the message you reply to : it appears as if it was your text, without any quotation ma

Re: Wheezy to Stretch upgrade failure

On 06/24/2017 02:04 AM, Andrew wrote: Ive tried to update a non GUI system from Wheezy to Stretch and its gone horribly wrong. Theres so many errors I cant even begin to fathom out what has gone wrong and I think the only solution is going to be a clean install. New infrastructure, new apt. W

Re: firewall rules for NAT

On Sat, 1 Jul 2017 11:30:41 +0200 Pascal Hambourg wrote: Hello Pascal, >PS. Igor, the plain text version of your posts does not properly mark >the quoted text from the message you reply to : it appears as if it was >your text, without any quotation marks. It's fine here. -- Regards _

Re: mplayer won't play audio CD

On Sat 01 Jul 2017 at 01:12:18 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Brian writes: > > > On Fri 30 Jun 2017 at 12:27:18 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > >> "Thomas Schmitt" writes: > >> > >> > Curt wrote: > >> >> mplayer -cdrom-device /dev/hdb cdda://1 > >> >> or wherever the device exists on your

Re: kde4 can't find file usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes/lines

On 2017-06-29, Beco wrote: >>From time to time, every one or two boots, KDE won't load, it shows a > dialog with only an "OK" button and the message: > > kde can't find file usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes/lines > I click ok and get redirected to a console login. > > If I just boot again, it will

Re: firewall rules for NAT

Le 01/07/2017 à 03:25, Igor Cicimov a écrit : You know what, i just checked the iptables rules the op sent again and realized this: -A POSTROUTING -d 10.7.33.109/32 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 25 -j SNAT --to-source 10.7.33.100 is NOT how you would do SNAT with DNAT, you norm