Re: iceweasel and dolphin

2014-11-25 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/11/14 17:17, Matthias Bodenbinder wrote: > Hi, > > I am getting crazy with iceweasel not opening dolphin for "containing > folders". Hi, I run Debian Wheezy, with some backports, Iceweasel 33.1, KDE4[*1] and *no* GNOME on this workstation. [*1] kdebase-bin 4:4.8.4-2 (heavily customised KD

Re: Purging a package...............

2014-11-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 25 nov 14, 14:25:13, Charlie wrote: > > Thank you for that information, it was most helpful. > > I decided to add: > > >SuggestsImportant >{ > "false" >}; > }; > > To the existing etc/aptapt.conf.d/01autoremove file. This may or may not be what you want, but chan

Re: Fwd: Gnome/X/Display device issues since before Testing freeze

2014-11-25 Thread Stephen Allen
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 12:09:10PM +1100, Peter Miller wrote: > I've had the "Oh no! Something went wrong" screen for a couple of > weeks now, since just before Testing went into freeze. > > I've looked everywhere I can and tried all sorts of things, but > nothing solves the problem. I recently up

Re: Purging a package............... (best practise for SuggestsImportant)

2014-11-25 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/11/14 21:33, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 25 nov 14, 14:25:13, Charlie wrote: >> >> Thank you for that information, it was most helpful. >> >> I decided to add: >> >> >>SuggestsImportant >>{ >> "false" >>}; >> }; >> >> To the existing etc/aptapt.conf.d/01autoremove f

Re: [OT] alternative to dsndynamic.com?

2014-11-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, It seems dsndynamic.com bit the dust this weekend of the 23 of November. Is there an alternative of a free dsn server? Hugo Thanks everybody. I switched to noip. Like Scott said, it works with ddclient. Hugo. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: iceweasel and dolphin

2014-11-25 Thread Matthias Bodenbinder
Scott, you made my day! Your email helped me to solve the issue. Thanks a lot. dolphin was set as my default file browser: 2# xdg-mime query default inode/directory dolphin.desktop I followed your next advice to disable nautilus in /usr/share/dbus-1/services mv org.freedes

Re: find problem

2014-11-25 Thread Roland Mueller
Hello, 2014-11-12 12:40 GMT+02:00 Raffaele Morelli : > On 11/11/14 at 04:09pm, B. M. wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm struggling with a find problem. > > > > I want to combine find and par2create recursively in order to get the > > following done: > > > > Foreach file with a certain suffix (e.g. av

Re: Fwd: Gnome/X/Display device issues since before Testing freeze

2014-11-25 Thread Floris
Op Tue, 25 Nov 2014 02:09:10 +0100 schreef Peter Miller : I've had the "Oh no! Something went wrong" screen for a couple of weeks now, since just before Testing went into freeze. I've looked everywhere I can and tried all sorts of things, but nothing solves the problem. I recently upgraded to

Re: Purging a package...............

2014-11-25 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 12:33:22 +0200 Andrei POPESCU sent: > On Ma, 25 nov 14, 14:25:13, Charlie wrote: > > > > Thank you for that information, it was most helpful. > > > > I decided to add: > > > > > >SuggestsImportant > >{ > > "false" > >}; > > }; > > > > To the existing

Re: Fetchmail (long); continually losing authentication with gmx.net

2014-11-25 Thread Ron Leach
On 24/11/2014 21:02, Frédéric Marchal wrote: The best thing to do when debugging that kind of problem is to have a look at the content of /etc/init.d/fetchmail, find the actual fetchmail command started by the script and run the command manually from the shell. Don't forget to remove the option

How to override fuse args to ntfs-3g to set permissions?

2014-11-25 Thread Rick Macdonald
Well, many hours of googling, and running grep on my entire filesystem, have failed me this time. I'm running up-to-date wheezy. How does one override or change to options fuse gives to ntfs-3g (if I have that right)? I have an NTFS filesystem on a USB-connected hard drive. With nothing in

Re: replacing boot and only disk drive

2014-11-25 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Hendrik Boom a écrit : > > The laptop now uses MBR partitions. Since the new drive is only 2T, I > don't expect to need GPT. Thanks for the details, though I won't need to > worry about these until my *next* hard disk enlargement. And ... will > Windows XP know what to do with GPT? Windows

Re: iceweasel and dolphin

2014-11-25 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 26/11/14 04:45, Matthias Bodenbinder wrote: > Scott, you made my day! Your email helped me to solve the issue. > Thanks a lot. > > dolphin was set as my default file browser: 2# xdg-mime query default > inode/directory dolphin.desktop > > I followed your next advice to disable nautilus in >

Re: Headless server just got suspended by updating systemd

2014-11-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 02:44:19AM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > Or, perhaps a general rule for default settings - "safest/do no harm"? > [just a wild guess] Wouldn't it make more sense having the default meaning: guarranteed to work on the majority of systems/setups enabling the admin to late

Re: How to override fuse args to ntfs-3g to set permissions?

2014-11-25 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 26/11/14 08:03, Rick Macdonald wrote: > Well, many hours of googling, and running grep on my entire filesystem, > have failed me this time. > > I'm running up-to-date wheezy. DE? > > How does one override or change to options fuse gives to ntfs-3g (if I > have that right)? > > I have an NTF

Re: Headless server just got suspended by updating systemd

2014-11-25 Thread Joe
On Wed, 26 Nov 2014 11:14:40 +1300 Chris Bannister wrote: > > Now, (I hope I'm not wrong on this.) It seems that the default GNOME > installation required a graphics card with hardware acceleration. How > stupid is that? It goes against the whole concept of a sensible > default. It isn't a def

Re: [OT] alternative to dsndynamic.com?

2014-11-25 Thread Howard Eisenberger
On 2014-11-25, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> It seems dsndynamic.com bit the dust this weekend of the 23 of November. >> Is there an alternative of a free dsn server? > > Thanks everybody. I switched to noip. Like Scott said, it works with > ddclient. Good thing. dnsdynamic stopped working again to

latest backports kernel not booting when LVM is involved

2014-11-25 Thread lee
Hi, what could be the problem with the backport kernels? They never finish booting when the root fs is on an LVM volume. Do I need to take special precautions with the backports kernel to get it to boot? I have a separate /boot partition not on LVM and a biosgrub partition with the root fs on a

solved: nfs mounting

2014-11-25 Thread lee
lee writes: > Hi, > > any idea why an NFS volume is being unmounted when a VM runs out of > memory and kills some processes? These processes use files on the NFS > volume, but that's no reason to unmount it. > > Also annoying: The volume doesn't get mounted when booting despite it's > in /etc/fs

Re: Headless server just got suspended by updating systemd

2014-11-25 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 26/11/14 09:14, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 02:44:19AM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> >> Or, perhaps a general rule for default settings - "safest/do no harm"? >> [just a wild guess] > > Wouldn't it make more sense having the default meaning: guarranteed to > work on the m

Re: [OT] alternative to dsndynamic.com?

2014-11-25 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 26/11/14 10:49, Howard Eisenberger wrote: > On 2014-11-25, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > Good thing. dnsdynamic stopped working again today. Seems they may have a systemic problem:- https://twitter.com/dnsdynamic > > Regards, > > Howard E. > > Kind regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: How to override fuse args to ntfs-3g to set permissions?

2014-11-25 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 25/11/14 04:04 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 26/11/14 08:03, Rick Macdonald wrote: Well, many hours of googling, and running grep on my entire filesystem, have failed me this time. I'm running up-to-date wheezy. DE? Sorry, I don't know what DE means! It's an i386 desktop that's been runni

Haven't seen this ssh output before

2014-11-25 Thread Harry Putnam
Running debian jessie I have one openindiana (solaris) host on my home lan. That host has had no updates or changes recently. Following a `full-upgrade' yesterday on a debian host, I am now seeing an ssh failure with output I have not seen before, when ssh from openindian host to debian host (new

Re: Headless server just got suspended by updating systemd

2014-11-25 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 26/11/2014 11:07 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > And *what do we know about the original "customisation"* that was > made - which may have 'some' bearing on the "badness" of the > upgrade/update "defaults"?? Oh, I get it, you think Debian is perfect

Re: [OT] alternative to dnsdynamic.com?

2014-11-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 09:11:04AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Paul Scott wrote: > >On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 07:40:42AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >>Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>It seems dsndynamic.com bit the dust this weekend of the 23 of November. > >>>Is there an alternati

Re: How to mount an iPod Touch

2014-11-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/24/2014 02:39 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: Thanks for the replies. On 24/11/14 05:12, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 11/23/2014 12:23 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: Briefly as it's been 40 degrees Celsius here and I've been outside working all day (almost beer o'clock) On 23/11/14 18:27, Marc Shapiro w

Re: Headless server just got suspended by updating systemd

2014-11-25 Thread dE
On 11/24/14 04:06, Patrick Wiseman wrote: I am NOT starting another flamewar about systemd, but I was just upgrading a headless system (an old T61p laptop which has no functioning screen any more but which otherwise runs well and which I use as an internal webserver) by running aptitude in an ssh

Re: Haven't seen this ssh output before

2014-11-25 Thread Jochen Spieker
Harry Putnam: > > harry-on-REMOTE-sol > ssh REMOTE-deb > >no common kex alg: client >'diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group1-sha1', >server > > 'curve25519-sha...@libssh.org,ecdh-sha2-nistp256,ecdh-sha2-nistp384,ecdh-sha2-nistp521,diffie-hellman-group-exchange

Re: How to override fuse args to ntfs-3g to set permissions?

2014-11-25 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 26/11/14 11:41, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On 25/11/14 04:04 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 26/11/14 08:03, Rick Macdonald wrote: >>> Well, many hours of googling, and running grep on my entire >>> filesystem, have failed me this time. >>> >>> I'm running up-to-date wheezy. >> DE? > > Sorry, I

Re: How to override fuse args to ntfs-3g to set permissions?

2014-11-25 Thread Scott Ferguson
I missed some questions there :( On 26/11/14 14:46, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 26/11/14 11:41, Rick Macdonald wrote: >> On 25/11/14 04:04 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> On 26/11/14 08:03, Rick Macdonald wrote: >> >> "fuse" doesn't seem to be a binary executable, Not by that name. /sbin/mount.f

Re: latest backports kernel not booting when LVM is involved

2014-11-25 Thread Gary Dale
On 25/11/14 02:14 PM, lee wrote: Hi, what could be the problem with the backport kernels? They never finish booting when the root fs is on an LVM volume. Do I need to take special precautions with the backports kernel to get it to boot? I have a separate /boot partition not on LVM and a biosg

Re: Headless server just got suspended by updating systemd

2014-11-25 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 26/11/14 12:46, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 26/11/2014 11:07 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> And *what do we know about the original "customisation"* that was >> made - which may have 'some' bearing on the "badness" of the >> upgrade/update "defaults"?? > > Oh, I get it, Patently, and demonstrab

Re: [OT] alternative to dnsdynamic.com?

2014-11-25 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 26/11/14 13:53, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 09:11:04AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >> Paul Scott wrote: >>> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 07:40:42AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > It seems dsndynamic.com bit the dust this weekend

Re: How to override fuse args to ntfs-3g to set permissions?

2014-11-25 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 25/11/14 08:46 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: Sorry, I don't know what DE means! Desktop Environment e.g. GNOME, KDE, XFCE, LXDE, etc KFCE. I had to abandon GNOME when they removed all the customization settings... but it's already on the mount command line. The problem seems to be the dmask

Re: How to override fuse args to ntfs-3g to set permissions?

2014-11-25 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 25/11/14 10:14 PM, Rick Macdonald wrote: OK, I tried all that and it makes no difference. With either line in fstab there are no messages in syslog from fuse/ntfs-3g about that partition, and I have to mount it manually. We're you expecting it to auto-mount? The following run as root mou

icedove+iceowl+junk +"This message contains an invitation to an event"

2014-11-25 Thread Matthias Bodenbinder
Hi, since a few days I am getting the following message when applying the junk filter to my inbox: "This message contains an invitation to an event" I can not do anything about it and it does not tell me which message it means. Any idea how to solve that? 7# dpkg -l | egrep "icedove|iceowl"

Partitioning gpt disk

2014-11-25 Thread Rusi Mody
Trying to setup linux on lenovo laptop. I find that its gpt as expected and there are some 5 partitions (as shown by compmgmt in windows) | recovery | 1G | | EFI | 260M | | OEM | 1G | | Windows8 (C:) | 424G | | Lenovo (D:) | 25G | | Recovery | 14G | Clearly i

Re: Headless server just got suspended by updating systemd

2014-11-25 Thread Erwan David
> > It isn't a default, the Gnome3 GUI will not work without hardware > acceleration. In the beginning, after an upgrade, there was a fallback > to a sort of Gnome2 display, but minus all the panels, icons etc. that > had been there before the upgrade. The long-term fallback is Xfce and > other li

Re: How to override fuse args to ntfs-3g to set permissions?

2014-11-25 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 26/11/14 16:14, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On 25/11/14 08:46 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> Sorry, I don't know what DE means! >> Desktop Environment e.g. GNOME, KDE, XFCE, LXDE, etc > > KFCE. ?? https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=kfce&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all Gives me nothing :(

Re: Fetchmail (long); continually losing authentication with gmx.net

2014-11-25 Thread Frédéric Marchal
2014-11-25 21:34 GMT+01:00 Ron Leach : > Did the trick. Logs show that fetchmail is > 1. using opportunistic TLS on pop3, but > 2. Sometimes times out after receiving a certificate, and then > 3. Fetchmail declines to use TLS with the *next* user, but > 4. gmx complains about not using ssl, and fa