Debian 9.6 stable sourelist & how long support

2019-01-03 Thread Latif Shaikh
Hi, Please provide or validate the debian 9.6 stretch stable sourcelist ( /etc/apt/sources.list) to install stable packages. How long support of Debian 9.6 stretch stable version -- Thanks, Latif.

Re: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread Felix Miata
Stephen P. Molnar composed on 2019-01-03 15:39 (UTC-0500): > root@AbNormal:/home/comp# df -hl > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on ... > /dev/sda123G 23G 0 100% / As others have noted, this is your root if not entire problem. du -h on Stretch host fi965 here: Filesyst

Re: zenmap as root, starts on one and not the other system

2019-01-03 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2019 03 Jan 18:30 -0600, Samuel Henrique wrote: > Hello, > > I believe you are experiencing this bug: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=880601 Thanks for that bug report. I probably wouldn't have found it otherwise. > You can try to run gnome with xorg (instead of wayland

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 03 January 2019 16:12:00 deloptes wrote: > On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 10:02 PM Ivan Ivanov wrote: > > "Debian just plain works" - that's until someone discovers a yet > > another one 0-day SystemD vuln and your server is Pwned. > > I am telling it to you as a true Russian hacker, mwahaha

Re: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread Matthew Crews
On 1/3/19 7:09 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > I see from a later response that your / partition is 100% full. That > will defintely cause problems. Whether it's THE problem, we won't know > until you clean out / to less than 100%, say at least 90%. Less would > be better. > > I don't know why your

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 03 January 2019 15:39:51 Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > On 01/03/2019 03:31 PM, deloptes wrote: > > cat /etc/debian_version > > root@AbNormal:/home/comp# cat /etc/debian_version > 9.6 > root@AbNormal:/home/comp# df -hl > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > udev3.

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 03 January 2019 15:36:33 Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > On 01/03/2019 03:31 PM, Nicolas George wrote: > > Stephen P. Molnar (2019-01-03): > >> Thank you for your helpful comment. Unfortunately. I am an > >> Organioc Chemist, not an IT person. Therefore, I am only a user. > > > > Then ask

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread songbird
deloptes wrote: > Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > >> /dev/sda1        23G   23G     0 100% / > > bingo - the root of all evil yep. > you need to free up some space somewhere in / > > Perhaps you have some stuff in root home > > $ sudo du -hs /root > > If not - look where the place is gone? > > rega

Re: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 12:37:36 -0500 "Stephen P. Molnar" wrote: > On 01/03/2019 12:19 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 09:54:44 -0500 > > "Stephen P. Molnar" wrote: > > > >> I am running Debian Stretch and have just encountered a problem during > >> a routine apt-get dist-upgrade

Failure to boot - LVM problems?

2019-01-03 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, This is one of those annoying cases where I claim "It was working, and I didn't do anything, and now it doesn't" - suspicious, I know ... In this case, I can see from my emails that this machine booted (via wake-on-lan from a cronjob) this morning, and then shut itself down (via a local c

Re: Scanner not working

2019-01-03 Thread deloptes
Andrew Wood wrote: > I have a long standing problem with using my scanner (HP ScanJet 5300) > under Debian using either Simple Scan or gscantopdf. Both generate I/O > error messages. It used to work fine but have never been able to get it > to work since upgrading to Jessie and now in Stretch it d

Re: zenmap as root, starts on one and not the other system

2019-01-03 Thread Samuel Henrique
Hello, I believe you are experiencing this bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=880601 You can try to run gnome with xorg (instead of wayland) as a workaround. -- Samuel Henrique

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread deloptes
Nicolas George wrote: > You do realize that in most countries, a license is required to operate > motor vehicles and obtaining it requires acquiring a certain amount of > knowledge, right? Come on, the argument of Roberto C. Sánchez holds. Operator != Mechanic. To operate a PC means you know how

Re: Scanner not working

2019-01-03 Thread Siard
Andrew Wood wrote: > I have a long standing problem with using my scanner (HP ScanJet 5300) > under Debian using either Simple Scan or gscantopdf. > [...] > Any suggestions on how I might identify what the problem is? You could install the newbiedoc package. Section 5, 'Help with multimedia in Deb

zenmap as root, starts on one and not the other system

2019-01-03 Thread Nate Bargmann
About an hour ago I installed zenmap on both my desktop and laptop systems running Buster and Gnome. Both had been clean installs back in October, i.e. not upgraded from any previous Debian installation. On the desktop starting "Zenmap (as root)" works as expected while on the laptop it fails to

Re: pthread_mutex_init man page

2019-01-03 Thread Dan Ritter
Riccardo Paolo Bestetti wrote: > Hello, > > In Debian 9, the > $ man pthread_mutex_init > command results in: > No manual entry for pthread_mutex_init. > > Other pthread man pages (such as pthread_create, pthread_join, ...) are > available. > > The "manpages-posix-dev" non-free package is avai

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-03 Thread Johann Klammer
On 01/02/2019 12:00 PM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > Hi list, > I'm new to this list and I'm choosing the right distribution for server > needs. I hope that I'm not OT and don't want start a flame. I'm evaluating > the possibility to switch on debian so I hope you will give your experiences > about

Scanner not working

2019-01-03 Thread Andrew Wood
I have a long standing problem with using my scanner (HP ScanJet 5300) under Debian using either Simple Scan or gscantopdf. Both generate I/O error messages. It used to work fine but have never been able to get it to work since upgrading to Jessie and now in Stretch it doesnt work either.  For

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread Nicolas George
Roberto C. Sánchez (2019-01-03): > That would be like saying that someone who operates a motor vehicle > without also being a mechanic is doing so without acquiring the required > knowlege. You do realize that in most countries, a license is required to operate motor vehicles and obtaining it requ

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-03 Thread deloptes
On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 10:42 PM Ivan Ivanov wrote: > Well, the topic title is "Why choose Debian on server" and I thought > of it as a perfect opportunity to compare Debian with another very > similar OS, Devuan. + To be honest, it is not the removal of a package > that worried me (of course almo

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread Andy Smith
On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 10:27:30PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > > > Then ask your sysadmin. > > > I have no sysadmin. > > Then you are not "only a user", you are a sysadmin, and you are trying > to be one without acquiring the required knowledge. I Have No Sysadmin And I Must Sudo

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 10:27:30PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Stephen P. Molnar (2019-01-03): > > > > Thank you for your helpful comment. Unfortunately. I am an Organioc > > > > Chemist, not an IT person. Therefore, I am only a user. > > > > Then ask your sysadmin. > > > I have no sysadmin.

pthread_mutex_init man page

2019-01-03 Thread Riccardo Paolo Bestetti
Hello, In Debian 9, the $ man pthread_mutex_init command results in: No manual entry for pthread_mutex_init. Other pthread man pages (such as pthread_create, pthread_join, ...) are available. The "manpages-posix-dev" non-free package is available to install the missing man pages. Why are these

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-03 Thread deloptes
On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 10:02 PM Ivan Ivanov wrote: > "Debian just plain works" - that's until someone discovers a yet > another one 0-day SystemD vuln and your server is Pwned. > I am telling it to you as a true Russian hacker, mwahahahaha! > Cheers, > Ivan Ivanov, > hacking SystemD while you sle

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread Nicolas George
Stephen P. Molnar (2019-01-03): > > > Thank you for your helpful comment. Unfortunately. I am an Organioc > > > Chemist, not an IT person. Therefore, I am only a user. > > Then ask your sysadmin. > I have no sysadmin. Then you are not "only a user", you are a sysadmin, and you are trying to be

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread deloptes
Nicolas George wrote: > Could you please read the mails you are answering to before spewing > unhelpful comments? Next time please explain ... not that I did not understand what you mean, but it sounds very personal. You could just point out, that it is not possible to install package when the in

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread deloptes
Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > /dev/sda1        23G   23G     0 100% / bingo - the root of all evil you need to free up some space somewhere in / Perhaps you have some stuff in root home $ sudo du -hs /root If not - look where the place is gone? regards

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

2019-01-03 Thread David Wright
On Thu 03 Jan 2019 at 13:43:40 (+), Jonathan Dowland wrote: > I'm replying to the top-level of this thread because it's not a direct > reply to any particular message, but the thread reminded me of > something. > > I occasionally scan large piles of paperwork using an MFP belonging to a > loca

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 01/03/2019 03:31 PM, deloptes wrote: cat /etc/debian_version root@AbNormal:/home/comp# cat /etc/debian_version 9.6 root@AbNormal:/home/comp# df -hl Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev tmpfs 789M 18M 772M 3% /run /dev/sd

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 01/03/2019 03:31 PM, Nicolas George wrote: Stephen P. Molnar (2019-01-03): Thank you for your helpful comment. Unfortunately. I am an Organioc Chemist, not an IT person. Therefore, I am only a user. Then ask your sysadmin. Regards, I have no sysadmin. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Cons

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread deloptes
Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > root@AbNormal:/home/comp# touch /etc/ld.so.cache > root@AbNormal:/home/comp# /sbin/ldconfig > /sbin/ldconfig: Writing of cache data failed: No such file or directory Tell us which version you have $ cat /etc/debian_version 9.6 check and post here if yo

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread Nicolas George
deloptes (2019-01-03): > You don't just copy executables here and there (unless instructed to do so) > You install via package manager Could you please read the mails you are answering to before spewing unhelpful comments? Thanks in advance. -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread Nicolas George
Stephen P. Molnar (2019-01-03): > Thank you for your helpful comment. Unfortunately. I am an Organioc > Chemist, not an IT person. Therefore, I am only a user. Then ask your sysadmin. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread deloptes
Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > strace is in /usr/bin on there.  I copied it to the host and ran it. > > comp@AbNormal:~$ sudo ./strace > [sudo] password for comp: > ./strace: must have PROG [ARGS] or -p PID > Try './strace -h' for more information. > > I'm totally at sea here, which switch should iI

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

2019-01-03 Thread David Wright
On Thu 03 Jan 2019 at 14:07:15 (+0100), Siard wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > So I can't understand your objection to wrapping a scanned image into > > a PDF container, which makes a lot of data handling a lot easier than > > would otherwise be the case. > > After scanning, an image almost always

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-03 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > but > don't burden us users who already have security, with your paranoia. Its > being very inconvenient to have your paranoia forced on us the users. > +1 > Other than that beef, debian just plain works, what more could we need? +1

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 01/03/2019 02:42 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 02:30:49PM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: root@AbNormal:/home/comp# ls -ld / /etc /etc/ld.* drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4096 Dec 19 13:17 / drwxr-xr-x 134 root root 12288 Jan 3 09:43 /etc -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 237114 De

Re: Switching from PS/2 keyboard and mouse connection to (one) USB connection?

2019-01-03 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 03/01/2019 à 01:54, Dan Ritter a écrit : rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: The Question: Will it be straightforward to convert the Wheezy machine (which has USB ports) to use a USB port instead of the PS/2 ports to connect the mouse and keyboard (via the KVM switch) -- is it as simple as shutting t

Re: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 01:58:10PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > Yes, but we don't. Type "df" without the quotes. Hell, even WITH the quotes it'll still work!

Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card?

2019-01-03 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 03/01/2019 à 11:35, Jonathan Dowland a écrit : On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 12:07:21AM -0800, John Conover wrote: I'm want to format a "standard" 16G/32G SD card to OEM format. What is "OEM format" ? Could someone please verify that the following will do this:    mkdosfs -I /dev/sdX    fdisk

Re: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread David Wright
On Thu 03 Jan 2019 at 14:38:09 (-0500), Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > On 01/03/2019 01:27 PM, songbird wrote: > > apt-get install libc --reinstall > > root@AbNormal:/home/comp# apt-get install libc --reinstall > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... D

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 02:42:50PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > When I run "strace /sbin/ldconfig" on my system, I see this line: > > rename("/etc/ld.so.cache~", "/etc/ld.so.cache") = 0 Oh, and there was also this stuff: stat("/var/cache/ldconfig", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 02:30:49PM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > root@AbNormal:/home/comp# ls -ld / /etc /etc/ld.* > drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4096 Dec 19 13:17 / > drwxr-xr-x 134 root root 12288 Jan 3 09:43 /etc > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 237114 Dec 26 14:47 /etc/ld.so.cache > -rw---

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 01/03/2019 02:10 PM, deloptes wrote: Stephen P. Molnar wrote: root@AbNormal:/home/comp# ldconfig ldconfig: Writing of cache data failed: No such file or directory Try touch /etc/ld.so.cache and repeat root@AbNormal:/home/comp# sbin/ldconfig -bash: sbin/ldconfig: No such file or direc

Re: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 01/03/2019 01:27 PM, songbird wrote: apt-get install libc --reinstall root@AbNormal:/home/comp# apt-get install libc --reinstall Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package libc so far as I know, I am not out of spa

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 01/03/2019 12:53 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 12:49:48PM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: root@AbNormal:/home/comp# ldconfig ldconfig: Writing of cache data failed: No such file or directory You NEED to figure out why this is happening. Is the entire /etc directory gon

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 03 January 2019 10:24:41 steef wrote: > having allmost the same history: i agree completely roberto > > steef > > On 03-01-19 16:12, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 11:51:25AM +0100, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > >> Why you choose debian on server? Where for you it is

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread deloptes
Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > root@AbNormal:/home/comp# ldconfig > ldconfig: Writing of cache data failed: No such file or directory Try touch /etc/ld.so.cache and repeat > root@AbNormal:/home/comp# sbin/ldconfig > -bash: sbin/ldconfig: No such file or directory > root@AbNormal:/home/comp# It is

Re: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread songbird
Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I am running Debian Stretch and have just encountered a problem during > a routine apt-get dist-upgrade. > > Specifically, it failed with the following error messages. > > E: libc-bin: subprocess installed post-installation script returned > error exit status 1 > > Ple

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 12:49:48PM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > root@AbNormal:/home/comp# ldconfig > ldconfig: Writing of cache data failed: No such file or directory You NEED to figure out why this is happening. Is the entire /etc directory gone, or something? Show some basic initiative.

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-03 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 1/3/19 5:55 AM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 02:56:41PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: some of the recent politics, has made me far less comfortable that Debian will remain a stable platform - and I'm seriously considering migrating to either Gentoo or a BSD platform. LO

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread Nicolas George
Stephen P. Molnar (2019-01-03): > root@AbNormal:/home/comp# ldconfig > ldconfig: Writing of cache data failed: No such file or directory At this point, I would suggest: strace ldconfig > root@AbNormal:/home/comp# sbin/ldconfig > -bash: sbin/ldconfig: No such file or directory You should re-read

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 01/03/2019 12:35 PM, deloptes wrote: deloptes wrote: man ldconfig -> cache default is /etc/ld.so.cache Was it altered and you forgot? Or is it someting wrong with the default cache file $ ls -al /etc/ld.so.cache -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176004 Jan 1 21:56 /etc/ld.so.cache as root try t

Re: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 01/03/2019 12:19 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 09:54:44 -0500 "Stephen P. Molnar" wrote: I am running Debian Stretch and have just encountered a problem during a routine apt-get dist-upgrade. Specifically, it failed with the following error messages. E: libc-bin: subpro

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread deloptes
deloptes wrote: > man ldconfig -> cache default is /etc/ld.so.cache > > Was it altered and you forgot? Or is it someting wrong with the default > cache file > > $ ls -al /etc/ld.so.cache > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176004 Jan  1 21:56 /etc/ld.so.cache as root try touch /etc/ld.so.cache run manu

Re: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 01/03/2019 11:43 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 17:33:20 +0100 steve wrote: Hello steve, had the same problem. It seems su behaviour has changed recently. I It changed several months ago. I got notification 8 Aug 2018. As you go on to point out, 'su -' should permit OP to

Re: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 17:33:20 +0100 steve wrote: Hello steve, >had the same problem. It seems su behaviour has changed recently. I It changed several months ago. I got notification 8 Aug 2018. As you go on to point out, 'su -' should permit OP to update without problem. -- Regards _

Re: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 09:54:44 -0500 "Stephen P. Molnar" wrote: > I am running Debian Stretch and have just encountered a problem during > a routine apt-get dist-upgrade. > > Specifically, it failed with the following error messages. > > E: libc-bin: subprocess installed post-installation script

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 01/03/2019 11:29 AM, deloptes wrote: Stephen P. Molnar wrote: ldconfig: Writing of cache data failed: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing package libc-bin (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 man ldconfig -> cache default

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread steve
Hi Stephan, Perhaps have you become root with 'su' only. A couple of weeks ago, I had the same problem. It seems su behaviour has changed recently. I tried 'su -' to become root, and the error disappeared. I guess some reading of su changelog file might explain this. But too lazy for that. Ho

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread deloptes
Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > ldconfig: Writing of cache data failed: No such file or directory > dpkg: error processing package libc-bin (--configure): > subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 man ldconfig -> cache default is /etc/ld.so.cache Was it altered and

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-03 Thread deloptes
steef wrote: > having allmost the same history: i agree completely roberto +1

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

2019-01-03 Thread Nicolas George
deloptes (2019-01-03): > If it is a document, why should I open it in Gimp? The level of "my use case is the only use case" in this subthread is frightening and staggering. -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

2019-01-03 Thread deloptes
Siard wrote: > Very different here. I scan from within Gimp: > File > Create > XSane > Device dialog... > Then the image scanned with XSane opens directly in Gimp. If it is a document, why should I open it in Gimp? The use cases for documents are either you save it somewhere (archive) or you mail

Fwd: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
This is an addendum to my original message. Einstein defined insanity as: "trying the same thing and expecting a different answer". In spite of that I tried apt-get dist-upgrade again and got: root@AbNormal:/home/comp# apt dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Re

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-03 Thread steef
having allmost the same history: i agree completely roberto steef On 03-01-19 16:12, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 11:51:25AM +0100, Alessandro Baggi wrote: Why you choose debian on server? Where for you it is better than centos and other server distro? I actually star

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-03 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 11:51:25AM +0100, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > > Why you choose debian on server? Where for you it is better than centos and > other server distro? > I actually started with Debian on my laptop. As a college student I was assigned a project that had to run on the school Linu

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

2019-01-03 Thread Siard
deloptes wrote: > Siard wrote: > > After scanning, an image almost always needs editing. Crop, rotate > > to correct a skew horizon, remove specks, adjust light and contrast. > > Don't know about you, but I usually press the button and get the > image. Sometimes I use PDF to scan multiple pages in

Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
I am running Debian Stretch and have just encountered a problem during a routine apt-get dist-upgrade. Specifically, it failed with the following error messages. E: libc-bin: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Please advise. Thanks in advance. -- St

Re: have you used ffplay with v4l2?

2019-01-03 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 08:08:13AM +, Long Wind wrote: > ffplay -f video4linux2 -framerate 30 -video_size hd720 /dev/video0 > > sample script above doesn't work: "Segmentation fault" Kind of works for me: $ ffplay -f video4linux2 -framerate 15 -video_size 640x480 /dev/video0 [vi

Re: Switching from PS/2 keyboard and mouse connection to (one) USB connection?

2019-01-03 Thread rhkramer
Thanks to all who replied! On Thursday, January 03, 2019 02:19:37 AM Reco wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 11:14:06PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 07:54:30PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > The Question: Will it be straightforward to con

Re: Switching from PS/2 keyboard and mouse connection to (one) USB connection?

2019-01-03 Thread rhkramer
David, Thanks -- I never thought they might both work at the same time -- that will probably be a help in the transition from the old kvm to the new! On Wednesday, January 02, 2019 10:38:51 PM David Wright wrote: > I just plugged a USB keyboard into my ancient Pentium III which uses > a PS/2 ke

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

2019-01-03 Thread deloptes
Siard wrote: > After scanning, an image almost always needs editing. Crop, rotate to > correct a skew horizon, remove specks, adjust light and contrast. > Gimp can open a pdf, but not in its original resolution, so there is > loss of quality.  Pdfimages can extract the image first, but its > origi

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

2019-01-03 Thread Jonathan Dowland
I'm replying to the top-level of this thread because it's not a direct reply to any particular message, but the thread reminded me of something. I occasionally scan large piles of paperwork using an MFP belonging to a local University. It emails me the results and has several options for the form

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

2019-01-03 Thread Nicolas George
Siard (2019-01-03): > After scanning, an image almost always needs editing. Crop, rotate to > correct a skew horizon, remove specks, adjust light and contrast. That depends on the purpose. > Pdfimages can extract the image first, but its > original format (tiff? jpg? pnm?) remai

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

2019-01-03 Thread Siard
David Wright wrote: > So I can't understand your objection to wrapping a scanned image into > a PDF container, which makes a lot of data handling a lot easier than > would otherwise be the case. After scanning, an image almost always needs editing. Crop, rotate to correct a skew horizon, remove sp

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-03 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 02:56:41PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > some of the recent politics, has made me far less comfortable that Debian > will remain a stable platform - and I'm seriously considering migrating to > either Gentoo or a BSD platform. LOL, you've made my day, sir. I

Re: Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card?

2019-01-03 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 12:07:21AM -0800, John Conover wrote: I'm want to format a "standard" 16G/32G SD card to OEM format. Could someone please verify that the following will do this: mkdosfs -I /dev/sdX fdisk /dev/sdX n,p,1,default,default,w mkfs.vfat /dev/sdX1 It seems to work, bu

Re: Firefox Quantum can not open ProfileManager

2019-01-03 Thread Michelle Konzack
Now it become more bizzar because I rebooted the Laptop and opened firefox with the new profile: The bookmark and history system will not be functional because one of Firefox's files is in use by another application. Some security software can cause this problem. Any suggestions? It

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-03 Thread Alessandro Baggi
Il 02/01/19 20:56, Miles Fidelman ha scritto: Today, as I face some upgrade issues of my own, I'm really not so sure. All of the debacle around systemd, and some of the recent politics, has made me far less comfortable that Debian will remain a stable platform - and I'm seriously considering mi

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-03 Thread Alessandro Baggi
Il 02/01/19 18:03, David Christensen ha scritto: On 1/2/19 2:51 AM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: Hi list, I'm new to this list and I'm choosing the right distribution for server needs. I hope that I'm not OT and don't want start a flame. I'm evaluating the possibility to switch on debian so I hope

Re: [OT] scanned files are large in size

2019-01-03 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Maybe you could then try some of the switches for ps2pdf, for example $ ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer old.pdf new.pdf "/printer" makes it 300dpi, "/ebook" 150 dpi, and "/screen" 72 dpi, the documentation can tell you more. Regards, Jörg.

have you used ffplay with v4l2?

2019-01-03 Thread Long Wind
ffplay -f video4linux2 -framerate 30 -video_size hd720 /dev/video0 sample script above doesn't work: "Segmentation fault" i can use mplayer: mplayer -tv alsa:input=1:driver=v4l2:width=720:height=540 -vf screenshot -vo x11 tv:// three options are related to video input setting: 1) driver=v4l2

Firefox Quantum can not open ProfileManager

2019-01-03 Thread Michelle Konzack
Good day and Happy new Year, Does anyone know, why firefox v64.0 does not support -ProfileManager or -P only? I want to manage profiles, but it does not work with Quantum. Only with the Debian provided version. However, it load also the wrong profile if the profile name is added. If I start th

Formatting a 32G or 16G SD card?

2019-01-03 Thread John Conover
I'm want to format a "standard" 16G/32G SD card to OEM format. Could someone please verify that the following will do this: mkdosfs -I /dev/sdX fdisk /dev/sdX n,p,1,default,default,w mkfs.vfat /dev/sdX1 It seems to work, but could someone please verify that its correct? Thanks