Re: mouse-wheel on a laptop?

2019-03-17 Thread Louis Wust
For starters, have you tried using the mouse on a different computer? Certainly it is possible that the mouse wheel itself is not functioning. I assume that you are trying to use the mouse in a graphical (X) session? >From a terminal window, try running the "xev" command, available in the "x11-uti

Re: totem not working

2018-02-25 Thread Louis Wust
On Sun, Feb 25, 2018, at 10:15, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > m is supposed to "show the DVD menu", but typing "m" just opens a > search window... > Idem for all shortcuts. I have loaded a DVD using Totem and verified that the "m" key works as described in the manpage (and in the "Keyboard Shortcuts" h

Re: Problem with suspend-to-disk

2018-02-21 Thread Louis Wust
On Tue, Feb 20, 2018, at 16:12, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > I am working on a little problem. Just let me shortly describe: > > When I am running suspend-to-disk, I can see, that the RAM is saved to > the partition (in my case I defined the swap partition). Is your swap partition large enough to hol

Re: failed to fetch Sid InRelease

2016-01-30 Thread Louis Wust
On 1/27/16, Haines Brown wrote: > My sense there is something strange going on, but I don't want to mess > things up more by mindless experimenting. Unfortunately all that I have for you is some mindless experimenting! But hopefully something in what I've written here will be fruitful. You've me

Re: error when getmail calls maildrop

2015-08-08 Thread Louis Wust
On Sat, Aug 01, 2015 at 01:47:11PM -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > This post to debian-user concerns the same problem which I described > in a recent post to the getmail list. This posting provides greater > detail. I couldn't find a similar e-mail in the getmail mailing list archives: https:

Re: GTK3-apps: Scrollbar jumps to the bottom after scrolling with mouse wheel when regaining focus

2015-07-20 Thread Louis Wust
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015, at 07:08, Nils Dallmeyer wrote: > I use XFCE and if I move the cursor to the taskbar and back > again to evince and then I scroll a little bit up or down, the > scrollbar jumps to the bottom (thus evince jumps to the last page). I use Openbox without any desktop environment a

Re: open vpn client uses wrong address sometimes

2015-07-18 Thread Louis Wust
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015, at 05:19, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > I need to find out why a plain Debian Wheezy install (fully patched) > acting as firewall router on a remote location sends packets with the > wrong address into the openvpn tunnel. > > 1: lo: mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN > [...] > 2

Re: After kernel update boot hangs wth "raised network interfaces"

2015-07-18 Thread Louis Wust
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015, at 13:19, Hans wrote: > "[***] An LSB job is running: Raise network interfaces" The "LSB job" portion means that the long-running service is a script in /etc/init.d. The "Raise network interfaces" description means that it must be /etc/init.d/networking because that script ha

Re: Rif BugReport #701674

2015-07-18 Thread Louis Wust
On Sat, Jul 18, 2015, at 02:21, Antonello Alonzi wrote: > The package maintainer does not respond, what to do? In general, you will want to follow the recommendations in the Debian Developer's Reference, section 7.4 "Dealing with inactive and/or unreachable maintainers." The first step is to cont

Re: GRUB error: failure reading sector

2015-07-11 Thread Louis Wust
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015, at 12:10, Haines Brown wrote: > cp /usr/lib/grub-rescue-pc/grub-rescue-usb.img /dev/sdb I suspect you need "dd" instead of "cp" as specified in the package documentation at /usr/share/doc/grub-rescue-pc/README.Debian: sudo dd if=grub-rescue-usb.img of=/dev/sdb bs=32k Try

Re: pam_shield is blocking allowed networks

2015-07-08 Thread Louis Wust
On Tue, Jul 7, 2015, at 06:42, Mart van de Wege wrote: > I have set up pam_shield to allow my IP; when I test it by generating > 5 bad logins (threshold is 5 per 10m), I see pam_shield print > 'allowing from /255.255.255.255' in the logs; and yet after 5 > login attempts it blocks my ip. This is d

Re: Missing text characters

2015-07-06 Thread Louis Wust
On Mon, Jul 6, 2015, at 18:11, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > Sorry - I give you another picture - which may shows more. The other > picture I sent has got the missing text on the top panel - Terminal. OK, so at some point the correct title is displayed for the terminal window. But when does the title c

Re: Missing text characters

2015-07-06 Thread Louis Wust
where "louis" is my username, "electron" is my computer's hostname, and "~" is my current directory. Is this the same on your computer? At what point does the title bar change to read "nixnix" ? -- Louis Wust -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: setting up vsftpd

2015-07-05 Thread Louis Wust
the relevant port(s). If it's > not, check vsftpd logs to see whether it produced any errors or > warning on startup, and check your vsftpd configuration accordingly. This is the only other possibility I can think of as well, and based on the output of netstat, vsftpd is up and running. I

Re: setting up vsftpd

2015-07-03 Thread Louis Wust
y mode to transfer files. ftp> passive Passive mode on. ftp> # Conclusion # Of course, if you want things to be easier and more secure, just use SFTP instead ;) The following rule would be sufficient for SSH, SFTP, SCP, etc.; no need to add any kernel modules or set up addit