Re: apt conf

2014-01-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 22 ian 14, 19:54:37, james gray wrote: > #apt.conf > > the quandary: How to express Intel 64 bit processor for the Architecture > and Architectures plural for the apt.conf file in Debian software speak. [more of that snipped] And your question is? Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.deb

Re: ttytter can't tweet

2014-01-23 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 07:07:48PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I'm sure this is trivial, but I can't figure it out yet. > Script started on Wed 22 Jan 2014 07:16:36 PM EST > jude@d-216-36-20-9:~$ cat .ttytterrc > vcheck=1 > autosplit=1 Twitter has moved to an all-SSL API[1], so try adding "ssl=1

XRDP sessions limited

2014-01-23 Thread John L. Ries
This has actually been a problem for over a year, but I'd like to deal with it now since the computer in question is a long way away (500 miles; I telecommute 3 weeks out of 4). /etc/debian_version says "jessie/sid". When I access this particular server over XRDP using XFCE (my usual poison)

Re: ttytter can't tweet

2014-01-23 Thread Dom
On 23/01/14 09:33, Darac Marjal wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 07:07:48PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: I'm sure this is trivial, but I can't figure it out yet. Script started on Wed 22 Jan 2014 07:16:36 PM EST jude@d-216-36-20-9:~$ cat .ttytterrc vcheck=1 autosplit=1 Twitter has moved to an all

Re: audio dropouts still

2014-01-23 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 1/11/14, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 1/11/14, Klaus wrote: >> far as I'm aware of, Zenaan has not tested -- or reported about his >> tests of -- the most minimalist system. > > I shall do so at some point, hopefully in next day or three, and > report back. It's an important test. OK, finally

consistent hibernation failure with kernel 3.12-1-rt-amd64

2014-01-23 Thread Zenaan Harkness
So whilst wrangling with audio-dropouts, I installed: Linux x220a02 3.12-1-rt-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Debian 3.12.6-2 (2013-12-29) x86_64 GNU/Linux and now, every time I choose hibernate from the XFCE gui, or run pm-hibernate cmd, instead of hibernating, the monitors go off, and then my laptop pow

apt-get dist-upgrade on shutdown ?

2014-01-23 Thread Zenaan Harkness
apt-get upgrade seems to have less "reboot requiring" updates. There ought be a way to schedule a dist-upgrade, to occur the next time I shutdown my computer - not on hibernate/suspend or even logout (I work on cmd line here and there). Doing a dist-upgrade right when I'm shutting the machine dow

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade on shutdown ?

2014-01-23 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:40:26AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > apt-get upgrade seems to have less "reboot requiring" updates. > > There ought be a way to schedule a dist-upgrade, to occur the next > time I shutdown my computer - not on hibernate/suspend or even logout > (I work on cmd line her

Using loop devices in Debian

2014-01-23 Thread Richard Owlett
Having read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop_device, I suspect using a loop device will alleviate some of my problems. I'm doing a series of installs to find an optimum configuration for my personal needs. As I DO NOT have high speed internet available I have purchased a set of Squeeze DVD's.

Re: webcam /dev/video missing / ERROR opening V4L interface

2014-01-23 Thread Robin
On 22 January 2014 17:29, Robin wrote: > Was working a couple of months ago, now it's not. > > Sid: 3.12-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.12.8-1 (2014-01-19) x86_64 GNU/Linux > and 3.11-2 debian kernels > > ls /dev/video > ls: cannot access /dev/video: No such file or directory > > webcam logitech c920 > >

RE: Including git commands in preseed

2014-01-23 Thread Todd Maurice
d-i preseed/late_command string in-target sed -i 's,1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty .*tty1 *$,1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty -a user 38400 tty1,' /etc/inittab; Works like a charm on Wheezy! Thank you everybody and a special thanks to Bob for the working code!

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade on shutdown ?

2014-01-23 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 03:08:29PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 23 January 2014 13:52:39 Darac Marjal wrote: > > runlevels 0 (halt) and 6 (shutdown) > > runlevel 6 is surely reboot? Whereas shutdown needs further > information: e.g. "shutdown -r" reboot, "shutdown -h" halt > http://li

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade on shutdown ?

2014-01-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 23 January 2014 13:52:39 Darac Marjal wrote: > runlevels 0 (halt) and 6 (shutdown) runlevel 6 is surely reboot? Whereas shutdown needs further information: e.g. "shutdown -r" reboot, "shutdown -h" halt http://linux.101hacks.com/unix/shutdown/ Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Alias setup through preseed in Wheezy

2014-01-23 Thread Todd Maurice
1. I would like to set d-i preseed/late_command in such way that a line containing alias instructions would get added to ~/.bashrc. That way alias would be active when I first login after the installation (typing 'myalias' would start script1). I tried d-i preseed/late_command string in-target

Re: Kicad and module files

2014-01-23 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Wed, 22 Jan 2014 16:50:08 -0800 Jeremiah Mahler napísal: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 02:30:39PM +0100, Slavko wrote: > It is certainly broken. I tried opening a known working project I > had and CvPcb generated lots of missing *.mod errors. > I also couldn't open the pcb. Thanks for co

Re: Alias setup through preseed in Wheezy

2014-01-23 Thread John L. Ries
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014, Todd Maurice wrote: 1. I would like to set d-i preseed/late_command in such way that a line containing alias instructions would get added to ~/.bashrc. That way alias would be active when I first login after the installation (typing 'myalias' would start script1). I tried

Re: Kicad and module files

2014-01-23 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Thu, 23 Jan 2014 18:16:37 +0100 Slavko napísal: > > I also noticed that the newest version (0.20131208) has almost > > no .mod files whereas the older (0.20130727) version has many. > > Yes, i can to find only four *.mod files in this new package veŕsion. > But i check the kicad-libra

Re: Kicad and module files

2014-01-23 Thread Jeremiah Mahler
Slavko, On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 06:16:37PM +0100, Slavko wrote: > Ahoj, > > Dňa Wed, 22 Jan 2014 16:50:08 -0800 Jeremiah Mahler > napísal: > > > On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 02:30:39PM +0100, Slavko wrote: > > It is certainly broken. I tried opening a known working project I > > had and CvPcb gener

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade on shutdown ?

2014-01-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 23 ian 14, 13:52:39, Darac Marjal wrote: > > When you are happy with the script, create an initscript for it that > *starts* in runlevels 0 (halt) and 6 (shutdown). Pitch it to happen > sometime between X (and other user-facing services) stopping and the > network going down. Not sure if t

Re: Kicad and module files

2014-01-23 Thread Slavko
Hi Jeremiah, Dňa Thu, 23 Jan 2014 10:19:22 -0800 Jeremiah Mahler napísal: > I posted mine for the amd64 architecture in a Git project. > If you download them, double check the file names. > Special characters like '+' might be replaced with %2B. Thanks a lot :-) I am on amd64 too, but i am abl

ssh login problem from one particular client

2014-01-23 Thread Craig L.
I have a couple of VMs running on a remote server: one with an older version of Ubuntu, and one running wheezy. I have an ssh tunnel with X forwarding set up so that I can access the machines from my system as localhost (ssh -p 48828 user@localhost and ssh -p 48829 user@localhost). Yesterday I open

Confused about dist-upgrade

2014-01-23 Thread Bob Bernstein
A thread about dist-upgrade has me confused. In my experience I have only ever run 'apt-get dist-upgrade' when I wanted to move from one release to the next, say, from squeeze to wheezy. Similarly, if I wanted to insure I had the latest versions of packages already installed (and any/all sec

Re: Confused about dist-upgrade

2014-01-23 Thread Shane Johnson
Bob, It was my understanding that dist-upgrade was only needed to resolve issues that couldn't be resolved by upgrade. I have moved from wheezy to jessie with a simple aptitude update and didn't need the dist-upgrade. If this is incorrect I would love to know cause I ran into some issues with my

RE: Alias setup through preseed in Wheezy

2014-01-23 Thread Todd Maurice
> 1. My username is "user" and hand-editing works fine but I want the preseed to do the work for me. > 2. I wasn't clear here. I don't want to invoke the script directly. I want for the script (or alias which then run the script) to start without any user input at all. User logs on, script star

Re: Confused about dist-upgrade

2014-01-23 Thread Robin
On 23 January 2014 20:51, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > A thread about dist-upgrade has me confused. In my experience I have only > ever run 'apt-get dist-upgrade' when I wanted to move from one release to > the next, say, from squeeze to wheezy. > > Similarly, if I wanted to insure I had the latest ve

Re: Confused about dist-upgrade

2014-01-23 Thread Klaus
On 23/01/14 20:51, Bob Bernstein wrote: A thread about dist-upgrade has me confused. In my experience I have only ever run 'apt-get dist-upgrade' when I wanted to move from one release to the next, say, from squeeze to wheezy. Similarly, if I wanted to insure I had the latest versions of packag

RE: Alias setup through preseed in Wheezy

2014-01-23 Thread John L. Ries
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014, Todd Maurice wrote: > 1. My username is "user" and hand-editing works fine but I want the preseed to do the work for me. > 2. I wasn't clear here. I don't want to invoke the script directly. I want for the script (or alias which then run the script) to start without any use

Re: audio dropouts still

2014-01-23 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 1/24/14, Klaus wrote: > On 23/01/14 13:32, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> On 1/11/14, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > >> alsaplayer -S myaudio.file -o alsa -d hdmi:PCH,1 -r -F 32000 -l 0.5 >> Kernel: >> Linux x220a02 3.12-1-rt-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Debian 3.12.6-2 >> (2013-12-29) x86_64 GNU/Linux >> >

Re: Confused about dist-upgrade

2014-01-23 Thread Jochen Spieker
Bob Bernstein: > > But the thread currently underway about dist-upgrade suggests that > users are running it rather routinely, and not at all necessarily to > move from one release to the next. > > Can someone please point out what I am missing? What you are doing is generally the safe way. apt-

Re: Confused about dist-upgrade

2014-01-23 Thread Bob Bernstein
Thanks to all who have chimed in! On Thu, 23 Jan 2014, Klaus wrote: When for instance a new version of an already installed package depends on a previously not installed library, then "apt-get update" cannot update this pkg. You need "dist-upgrade" for that job. Aha. Thx for the RTFM; I had

Re: ssh login problem from one particular client

2014-01-23 Thread André Nunes Batista
On Thu, 2014-01-23 at 14:07 -0600, Craig L. wrote: > I have a couple of VMs running on a remote server: one with an older version > of > Ubuntu, and one running wheezy. I have an ssh tunnel with X forwarding set up > so that I can access the machines from my system as localhost > (ssh -p 48828 use

Re: Confused about dist-upgrade

2014-01-23 Thread Brian
On Thu 23 Jan 2014 at 17:52:00 -0500, Bob Bernstein wrote: > At any rate, to move from, say, squeeze, to wheezy, my approach > would be to edit my sources.list, replacing all instances of > "squeeze" with "wheezy", and then running > > # apt-get update > # apt-get dist-upgrade > > That as far as

fwsnort invalid hex char

2014-01-23 Thread André Nunes Batista
Hello debianers! I run fwsnort to update and improve on my iptables rule sets. On updating it's rules though I got this error message: # iptables-restore < /path/to/fwsnort.save iptables-restore v1.4.14: Invalid hex char '|' Error occurred at line: 4013 Try `iptables-restore -h' or 'iptables-rest

Re: Re: Confused about dist-upgrade

2014-01-23 Thread Clive Standbridge
> At any rate, to move from, say, squeeze, to wheezy, my approach would > be to edit my sources.list, replacing all instances of "squeeze" with > "wheezy", and then running > > # apt-get update > # apt-get dist-upgrade It's not always that straightforward for upgrades between major releases. You

Re: Using loop devices in Debian

2014-01-23 Thread David
On 24 January 2014 01:04, Richard Owlett wrote: > > As I DO NOT have high speed internet available I have purchased a set of > Squeeze DVD's. > > My impression is that I should be able to copy the set of DVD's to a flash > drive and access as loop device to save physically handling DVD's when usin

Re: Using loop devices in Debian

2014-01-23 Thread David
I forgot to mention that an alternative approach could be to serve the dvd or mounted iso file contents from another machine on your LAN rather than from a flash drive. Installers usually have some way to do this but I have forgotten the specifics (maybe I even did that on Fedora not Debian, I for

Re: fwsnort invalid hex char

2014-01-23 Thread Michael Rash
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 7:11 PM, André Nunes Batista < andrenbati...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello debianers! > > Hello Andre, > I run fwsnort to update and improve on my iptables rule sets. On > updating it's rules though I got this error message: > > # iptables-restore < /path/to/fwsnort.save > ip

apt.conf wheezy 7.1

2014-01-23 Thread james gray
I am trying to set up apt.conf. The question is: What or How does the Debian developers place in written text the expression for Intel 64 bit. I can see at this page: http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/amd64/ch02s01.html.en#idp5618944 That the Intel 64 bit is expressed as amd64 for the d

Re: Cannot import packages from debian iso to apt-cacher-ng

2014-01-23 Thread Anubhav Yadav
Can anyone please rectify me. I have got some weird doubts. I have set up a PXE boot server. It has a forder /srv/tftp and it has all the required files for PXE install. I have also installed apt-cacher-ng on that PXE server. And that PXE server is also acting as a local DHCP server. So now, wha