Re: Error message at the login prompt

2015-09-27 Thread August Karlstrom
On 2015-09-27 14:40, Jochen Spieker wrote: August Karlstrom: Today when I started my computer running Debian 8.2 the following error message was displayed at the login prompt (where the user name go): macmini login: [ 1615.712744] usb 3-3: 1:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x1 My question

Error message at the login prompt

2015-09-27 Thread August Karlstrom
Hi, Today when I started my computer running Debian 8.2 the following error message was displayed at the login prompt (where the user name go): macmini login: [ 1615.712744] usb 3-3: 1:1: cannot get freq at ep 0x1 My question is not so much about the error message but rather why such

Re: System freeze with multiple ttys in Debian Jessie

2015-07-03 Thread August Karlstrom
On 2015-07-03 00:40, Brian wrote: I do not know what the explanation is in any detail but here is something to do which is constructive and instructive: mv ~/.bash_logout ~/.bash_logout-orig and exit. Where are you now? X or a terminal? Yes, without the logout script it works as expected; no

Re: System freeze with multiple ttys in Debian Jessie

2015-07-03 Thread August Karlstrom
On 2015-07-03 01:00, Brian wrote: On Thu 02 Jul 2015 at 23:35:56 +0100, Brian wrote: The colour has changed to "That looks like light at the end of the tunnel". :) The light is getting brighter. $SHLVL appears to be one of the players. Change if [ "$SHLVL" = 1 ]; then in ~/.bash_logout

Re: System freeze with multiple ttys in Debian Jessie

2015-07-02 Thread August Karlstrom
On 2015-07-02 13:50, Brian wrote: On Thu 02 Jul 2015 at 10:50:07 +0100, Brian wrote: Systemd handles the terminals so this very much looks like a bug in that package. Do you intend to report it? I don't see what is special about tty1. I'm having doubts that systemd is involved in this issue.

Re: System freeze with multiple ttys in Debian Jessie

2015-07-01 Thread August Karlstrom
On 2015-07-01 20:50, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: * August Karlstrom [2015-07-01 08:30 +0200]: I run Debian 8.1. With X-Windows running in tty1, if I login on tty2 (without X) and then logout, instead of seeing the tty2 login prompt the system switches to tty1 and X freezes; I cannot move the

Re: System freeze with multiple ttys in Debian Jessie

2015-07-01 Thread August Karlstrom
On 2015-07-02 00:20, Brian wrote: Suppose you reboot. You will be on tty1 afterwards. Change to tty2, log in and then log out with the exit command. Are you still on tty2? Yes, this works as expected. I then logged in on tty1 and started X. Then I logged in and out of tty2 four times and the c

Re: System freeze with multiple ttys in Debian Jessie

2015-07-01 Thread August Karlstrom
On 2015-07-01 20:50, Brian wrote: On Wed 01 Jul 2015 at 08:30:52 +0200, August Karlstrom wrote: I run Debian 8.1. With X-Windows running in tty1, if I login on tty2 (without X) and then logout, instead of seeing the tty2 login prompt the system switches to tty1 and X freezes; I cannot move the

System freeze with multiple ttys in Debian Jessie

2015-06-30 Thread August Karlstrom
I run Debian 8.1. With X-Windows running in tty1, if I login on tty2 (without X) and then logout, instead of seeing the tty2 login prompt the system switches to tty1 and X freezes; I cannot move the mouse, not even switch to a different tty. The only keyboard command that seems to work is Ctrl-

Re: Gnome Update Notifications in Jessie

2015-05-15 Thread August Karlstrom
On 2015-05-15 17:50, Manuel Lorenzo wrote: Gnome Update Notifications seem not to work in my vanilla installation of Jessie. [...] I know I can use unattended-upgrades and other tools, but I want to know what is happening to Update Manager: if I have to configure something manually or I am doin

Re: blackbox: where is bbkeys package?

2015-05-10 Thread August Karlstrom
On 2015-05-09 15:30, Rodolfo Medina wrote: I installed blackbox in order to choose it as my window manager, but read that, to use keystrokes in it, the bbkeys package is needed. But it seems to be absent from Debian Stable, whereas in Sid there is but aptitude won't install it or it is already t

Re: Wicd - no wireless networks found

2015-04-18 Thread August Karlstrom
On 2015-04-16 21:40, German wrote: Ok, I installed realtek firmware, running modrpobe rtl8723be returns no output, so I think my card is operational. But Wicd doesn't show any wireless networks. Where to go from here? Thank you In wicd-client, have you switched on WiFi and set Preferences->Gen

Re: bugs found

2015-04-18 Thread August Karlstrom
On 2015-04-18 00:00, Richard Jasmin wrote: I have a bug in liberoffice writer that puts text on a new line instead of using the spacebar to do so. I don't understand what you mean. Do you want the spacebar to work like the return key? -- August -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Is gnome-core *really* the gnome minimal install?

2015-04-15 Thread August Karlstrom
On 2015-04-14 17:10, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Tue, 14 Apr 2015, August Karlstrom wrote: What advantages do you see with adding your own udev rule compared to simply starting a ConsoleKit session? exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch instead of exec None really, except to keep system

Re: Is gnome-core *really* the gnome minimal install?

2015-04-14 Thread August Karlstrom
On 2015-04-14 03:20, Patrick Bartek wrote: The rule mounts and unmounts flash drives -- just plug and unplug -- and cards (any type using an external card or multi-card reader. The caveat is: you must plug the card in first, then plug the reader in. Unmount by unplugging reader with the card sti

Re: Is gnome-core *really* the gnome minimal install?

2015-04-13 Thread August Karlstrom
On 2015-04-13 07:20, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 18:55:54 -0700 Patrick Bartek wrote: On Sun, 12 Apr 2015, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Of course, if you really want TOTAL control of your GUI, a window manager is the way to go. That's what I did. Installed Openbox. The same WM

Re: Installing Openbox

2015-03-11 Thread August Karlstrom
On 2015-03-11 06:20, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Tue, 10 Mar 2015, Derek Jansen wrote: Openbox refuses to start after its installation. I get dropped into TTY1. Using startx works, but Debian will not automatically bring my to TTY7 for Openbox to start. This is normal. (And the way I wanted it.

Re: My Friends Make Fun of My UI

2015-03-05 Thread August Karlstrom
On 2015-03-04 23:30, Charles Kroeger wrote: On Wed, 04 Mar 2015 22:30:05 +0100 Erwan David wrote: I would like to upgrade to Gnome so my desktop looks/feels a bit nicer You seem to be saying you're tired of the minimalist life and want to splash out a bit so there's only XFCE for that. That

Re: Digital noise from USB DAC device

2015-03-02 Thread August Karlstrom
On 2015-03-02 21:00, Teemu Likonen wrote: I got a new USB DAC device (digital to analog converter, a "sound card") and I'm having problems with digital noise. What is the name of the DAC? Music goes directly to the device without any mixers, Does alsamixer show only one PCM slider? Is Pulse

Re: FLAC playback in Iceweasel

2015-02-09 Thread August Karlstrom
On 2015-02-09 19:00, Curt wrote: On 2015-02-09, August Karlstrom wrote: But so far none for Iceweasel/Firefox obviously. There is an open source flac decoder in javascript that apparently works in Firefox/Iceweasel. https://github.com/audiocogs/flac.js/tree/master Thanks for the link

Re: FLAC playback in Iceweasel

2015-02-09 Thread August Karlstrom
On 2015-02-09 03:40, Ric Moore wrote: The FLAC project consists of: [...] * Input plugins for various music players (Winamp, XMMS, and more in the works) But so far none for Iceweasel/Firefox obviously. -- August -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: FLAC playback in Iceweasel

2015-02-08 Thread August Karlstrom
On 2015-02-08 07:30, Bob Proulx wrote: August Karlstrom wrote: Does anyone know if there is a package in Debian Wheezy that provides playback of FLAC files in Iceweasel? On the page http://hpr.dogphilosophy.net/test/ all clips work for me except the last one. As far as I know there isn'

Re: FLAC playback in Iceweasel

2015-02-07 Thread August Karlstrom
On 2015-02-07 12:40, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: * August Karlstrom [2015-02-07 10:43 +0100]: Does anyone know if there is a package in Debian Wheezy that provides playback of FLAC files in Iceweasel? On the page http://hpr.dogphilosophy.net/test/ all clips work for me except the last one

FLAC playback in Iceweasel

2015-02-07 Thread August Karlstrom
Does anyone know if there is a package in Debian Wheezy that provides playback of FLAC files in Iceweasel? On the page http://hpr.dogphilosophy.net/test/ all clips work for me except the last one. Regards, August -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

Re: Can't get sound to work

2015-01-16 Thread August Karlstrom
On 2015-01-15 21:40, Daniel Haude wrote: Hi all, this is my umptieth Debian installation I've done on various PCs over the years, but this time the sound setup really has me stumped. I can't hear anything unless I use aplay with -D hw:0,0 but setting that in the configuration file doesn't help.

Thumbnails in PCManFM

2015-01-08 Thread August Karlstrom
Does anyone know if the file browser PCManFM (version 0.9.10 in the Debian Wheezy repository) can show thumbnails for e.g. PDF files? I have Evince installed with the default thumbnailer in place: $ cat /usr/share/thumbnailers/evince.thumbnailer [Thumbnailer Entry] TryExec=evince-thumbnailer E

Re: Late authentication

2015-01-06 Thread August Karlstrom
On 2015-01-05 22:50, Andrei POPESCU wrote: One possible way around it would be to do the update via something like cron-apt, apticron, unattended-upgrades, etc. Those tools also do inform you if updates are available ;) Thanks for the tip, Andrei. I have installed apticron and configured it to

Re: Late authentication

2015-01-06 Thread August Karlstrom
On 2015-01-06 17:40, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-01-05, August Karlstrom wrote: I tried adding the file /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/test.pkla with the content below (and restarting X) but it made no difference; update-manager still asks for root password when launched. $

Re: Late authentication

2015-01-05 Thread August Karlstrom
On 2015-01-04 17:30, August Karlstrom wrote: I run Debian Wheezy with a simple window manager (Blackbox). If I remember correctly, in Ubuntu some applications like Synaptic and Update Manager ask for sudo password only when/if needed. How do I configure the system so I can launch for instance

Late authentication

2015-01-04 Thread August Karlstrom
I run Debian Wheezy with a simple window manager (Blackbox). If I remember correctly, in Ubuntu some applications like Synaptic and Update Manager ask for sudo password only when/if needed. How do I configure the system so I can launch for instance Update Manager as normal user, check if there