Re: X not working after apt-get upgrade on sid

2015-10-12 Thread James Richardson
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2015-10-09 22:24 +0200, James Richardson wrote: > >> I just did an apt-get upgrade, rebooted, then X would start but without >> any keyboard or mouse. >> [snip] > > Actually, if you were running systemd, logind would grant access to the &

Re: make system boot straight to browser connection

2015-10-12 Thread James Richardson
Brian writes: > On Fri 09 Oct 2015 at 17:18:28 -0400, James Richardson wrote: > >> Brian writes: >> >> > On Fri 09 Oct 2015 at 15:58:55 -0400, James Richardson wrote: >> > >> >> Brian writes: >> >> >>

Re: make system boot straight to browser connection

2015-10-09 Thread James Richardson
Brian writes: > On Fri 09 Oct 2015 at 15:58:55 -0400, James Richardson wrote: > >> Brian writes: >> >> > On Fri 09 Oct 2015 at 13:50:07 -0400, James Richardson wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> Richard Owlett writes: >> >> >>

X not working after apt-get upgrade on sid

2015-10-09 Thread James Richardson
d Device: Applying InputClass "evdev keyboard catchall" [45.535] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'ACPI Virtual Keyboard Device' [45.535] (**) ACPI Virtual Keyboard Device: always reports core events [45.535] (**) evdev: ACPI Virtual Keyboard Device: Device: "/dev/input/event18" [45.535] (EE) evdev: ACPI Virtual Keyboard Device: Unable to open evdev device "/dev/input/event18". [45.535] (EE) PreInit returned 2 for "ACPI Virtual Keyboard Device" [45.535] (II) UnloadModule: "evdev" [45.956] (II) NOUVEAU(0): EDID vendor "LEN", prod id 16562 [45.956] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines: [45.956] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Modeline "1920x1080"x0.0 139.00 1920 1980 2028 2050 1080 1090 1100 1130 -hsync -vsync (67.8 kHz eP) [45.956] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Modeline "1920x1080"x0.0 115.83 1920 1980 2028 2050 1080 1090 1100 1130 -hsync -vsync (56.5 kHz e) [46.188] (II) NOUVEAU(0): EDID vendor "LEN", prod id 16562 [46.188] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Printing DDC gathered Modelines: [46.188] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Modeline "1920x1080"x0.0 139.00 1920 1980 2028 2050 1080 1090 1100 1130 -hsync -vsync (67.8 kHz eP) [46.188] (II) NOUVEAU(0): Modeline "1920x1080"x0.0 115.83 1920 1980 2028 2050 1080 1090 1100 1130 -hsync -vsync (56.5 kHz e) [ 145.588] (II) NOUVEAU(0): NVLeaveVT is called. [ 145.588] Error dropping master: -13(Permission denied) [ 146.988] (II) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file. -- James Richardson http://jamestechnotes.com

Re: make system boot straight to browser connection

2015-10-09 Thread James Richardson
Brian writes: > On Fri 09 Oct 2015 at 13:50:07 -0400, James Richardson wrote: > >> >> Richard Owlett writes: >> >> > [resend, had not appeared in archives after 2 hours] >> > >> > How to do an autologin? In a DE independent way? >>

Re: make system boot straight to browser connection

2015-10-09 Thread James Richardson
Richard Owlett writes: > [resend, had not appeared in archives after 2 hours] > > Charlie Kravetz wrote: >> On Wed, 7 Oct 2015 19:13:01 -0700 >> tom arnall wrote: >> >>> I want to setup a system so that when the power button is pushed on >>> the PC, the system connects to the internet and starts

Re: How to consistently install a set of packages?

2013-06-05 Thread James Richardson
the users/groups before installing the packages. You can use dpkg --get/--set-selections to set the selection state of the packages, but as this doesn't actually install anything, I would doubt it would give apt-get/aptitude any hints about ordering, but if the user/groups existed before ha

Re: Alsa sound errors

2013-06-05 Thread James Richardson
audio group so that sound works for them. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/51b00cdc.3090...@gmail.com > -- James Richardson http://jamestechnotes.com I prefer encrypted email: keyid D8467AFB signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: a browser for debian that will play pandora.com?

2013-05-31 Thread James Richardson
amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status google-chrome-stable: Installed: 27.0.1453.93-r200836 Candidate: 27.0.1453.93-r200836 Version table: *** 27.0.1453.93-r200836 0 500 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/statu

Re: ssh without password

2009-08-26 Thread James Richardson
you may want to try recopying the private key to [B] with ssh-copy-id and see if that helps as Alex suggested. I didn't know about that little command, but I believe I will find it usefull. ;) -- James Richardson Debian GNU/Linux Consultant http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesrichardsonconsulting signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: ssh without password

2009-08-26 Thread James Richardson
r user 4096 2009-08-27 00:53 .. > -rw-r--r--  1 user user  733 2009-08-27 00:51 authorized_keys > -rw-r--r--  1 user user  733 2009-08-27 00:51 authorized_keys2 > -rw-r--r--  1 user user  442 2009-08-27 00:51 known_hosts > > The permission on authorized_keys should be 600

Re: 5 newbie Linux users & one shared media folder?

2009-08-26 Thread James Richardson
o the new directory will appear in the home folder. I am not real familiar with Gnome so I don't know if this will make the media folder appear on the desktop or not. There may be Desktop folder. -- James Richardson Debian GNU/Linux Consultant http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesricha

Re: related to mail servers, mta and mda

2009-04-12 Thread James Richardson
isp may block outbound port 25 traffic. Mine just redirects all outbound port 25 traffic to their mail servers. I get around this by having a vpn between my home network and my vps. I know you said you did not need to receive any incoming email, just be sure to keep port 25 into your netwo

Re: Lenny/exim4: how to set helo for outgoing SMTP

2009-03-13 Thread James Richardson
s are internet site, number of dns-queries minimal to no. I am thinking the primary_hostname gets set in the config file by doing a reverse lookup on the ip of my server. Does a lookup of the ip of the interface you are sending mail resolve to the name of your firewall? -- James Richardson Debian GNU/Linux Consultant http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesrichardsonconsulting signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Fetchmail

2008-06-14 Thread James Richardson
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > [snip] > yeah. I need to find out why `ps aux` shows fetchmail run by user > '103' and exim run by user '101' instead of by their names... > > A Their names are longer than 8 characters. -- James Richardson James Ri

Re: mutt signatures

2008-06-09 Thread James Richardson
Martin Kraus wrote: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 10:32:20PM -0400, James Richardson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > What package/software do you use to rotate signatures in email? I use mutt. > > > > I googled and found a package called autosig, but it does not have a debi

mutt signatures

2008-06-09 Thread James Richardson
Hi, What package/software do you use to rotate signatures in email? I use mutt. I googled and found a package called autosig, but it does not have a debian package... ADthanksVANCE -- James Richardson signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Aptitude Install Error

2008-06-03 Thread James Richardson
Jeff Grossman wrote: > James Richardson wrote: >> Jeff Grossman wrote: >> >>> Today I did a pretty bonehead move. I was trying to do a >>> chown on a directory in /var and I ended up chowning the whole >>> /var/ directory to www-data. Of course, ri

Re: Aptitude Install Error

2008-06-02 Thread James Richardson
Jeff Grossman wrote: > Today I did a pretty bonehead move. I was trying to do a chown on > a directory in /var and I ended up chowning the whole /var/ > directory to www-data. Of course, right when I hit the enter key > I knew I screwed up. I went and did a chown to root for /var > assuming

Re: Terminal trouble

2006-10-31 Thread James Richardson
cothrige wrote: > * James Richardson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > I am not sure about rxvt, but with xterm you can set the titeInhibit > > resource to true (e.g. add a line like XTerm*titeInhibit: True to your > > .Xresources file), not sure it it works w

Re: Terminal trouble

2006-10-31 Thread James Richardson
erm*titeInhibit: True to your .Xresources file), not sure it it works with rxvt. You may have to mess with the terminfo database and remove the functionality of smcup and rmcup, which of course correspond to the ti and te entries of termcap. -- James Richardson http://jretelcom.com http://jamesricha

Re: document processing

2006-10-29 Thread James Richardson
Douglas Tutty wrote: > I'm revisiting how I make documents. I have been using lout since I > started with linux in 2000 but it has the following shortcomimgs: > > Difficult to change things like margins > > Can't make html > > plain text output has blank lines that must be edi

printing from chroot

2006-10-12 Thread James Richardson
Hi, What is the best way to print from a chroot? I have a 32bit chroot setup for oo. -- signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: X programs inside chroot

2006-10-02 Thread James Richardson
James Richardson wrote: > Greetings! > > I have setup an i386 chroot (sarge) on my amd64 (also sarge) on my > laptop. However I cannot run X programs inside. I get the error can't > open display: :0.0. > > I get the error from xterm and OpenOffice. > > I ha

Re: X programs inside chroot

2006-10-02 Thread James Richardson
James Richardson wrote: > Greetings! > > I have setup an i386 chroot (sarge) on my amd64 (also sarge) on my > laptop. However I cannot run X programs inside. I get the error can't > open display: :0.0. > > I get the error from xterm and OpenOffice. > > I ha

X programs inside chroot

2006-10-02 Thread James Richardson
/etc/passwd, /etc/group, /etc/shadow, /etc/apt/sources.list. I then chrooted (chroot /chroots/sarge-ia32), installed openoffice and xterm. TIA James richardson signature.asc Description: Digital signature

apt-proxy validation failed errors

2006-09-30 Thread James Richardson
Greetings: I have apt-proxy setup and running fine, mostly. I do have an issue I am unable to solve. I am behind a dial up connection and large files (such as kernel images) sometimes do not download in a single session. Before I install apt-proxy, apt-get install ... would resume partial downloa

good personal information manager

2006-09-23 Thread James Richardson
ability to sync with a palm type pda It would be really slick if it could integrate with mutt and emacs and not require KDE. I think I have tried most of the ones in sarge that didn't require KDE and they are not what I am looking for. I feel sure something must exist somewhere --

Re: Troubleshooting Tips for ttyS0 problem

2004-12-13 Thread James Richardson
Pete wrote: > Hi all, > > I need to get some troubleshooting tips for finding out what is causing > my serial port not to function in Sarge. > > If I plug a modem in, boot off an old DOS 6.22 floppy, and run Modem Dr, > it verifies that it can communicate successfully with the modem with not > on

Re: How do I get rid of the mutt mail headers?

2004-07-02 Thread James Richardson
On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 08:38:03AM -0700, Jake Johnson wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to get rid of the mutt mail headers. I don't like it that I have to > page through so much text just to read the email. Please note that it is not the > verbose headers either. in your .muttrc add the following

iSCSI

2004-06-16 Thread James Richardson
Has anyone been sucessful with getting iSCSI working on Debian? I have tried various packages and none seem to quite work. I am looking for both an initiator and a target. I will write a howto when I get something working... Thanks --jr signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: apt-get through a proxy

2004-06-11 Thread James Richardson
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 09:37:14AM -0600, Marvin Gerardo Aguero Salazar wrote: > Hi guys, > > I am currently on an installation that accesses the internet over a > proxy. apt-get stopped working for me with this configuration. > > Is there a way to get apt-get working via a proxy? > yes, in you