Re: Canon printers on wheezy (solved)

2014-12-06 Thread ken
On 12/05/2014 11:21 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 2:47 PM, ken wrote: Hey, Rob, I've been trying, unsuccessfully, to get a Canon PIXMA MX422 (same as the MX429 sold at Walmart) working. It's a newer all-in-one printer. I downloaded both source code and rpm tarballs fr

Re: Epson XP-820 Small-in-one

2014-12-06 Thread ken
On 12/05/2014 11:43 PM, Gary Dale wrote: I bought the XP-820 because it was on sale and could print to CD/DVD - a feature that I liked about my earlier Espon R-320 printer. Unfortunately the XP-820 needs the Epson escpr driver while the R-320 used the Cups-Gutenprint driver. The former doesn't se

Re: anacron does not run cron.daily reliably

2014-12-06 Thread Rainer Dorsch
On Friday 05 December 2014 23:44:27 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2014-12-05 23:24 +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > I have one machine here on which cron.daily is not run reliably with > > anacron. > > > > I see in > > > > rd@blackbox:~/Managed/LinuxInst$ grep cron.daily /var/log/syslog > > Dec 1 22:5

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-06 Thread Brian
On Sat 06 Dec 2014 at 06:42:50 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 05 December 2014 23:16:47 Brian wrote: > > On Fri 05 Dec 2014 at 19:06:50 -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > > On Fri, 5 Dec 2014 20:59:25 + > > > > > > Brian wrote: > > > > But remember our current slogan "Linux is all about c

Re: boot fails on jessie on Acer Travelmate

2014-12-06 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Pierre Couderc a écrit : > Le 04/12/2014 09:30, Pascal Hambourg a écrit : >> In parted on a GPT disk, the "boot" flag identifies an EFI system >> partition. An alias is "esp". As Simon suggested, you can toggle the >> flag (with parted, not fdisk) and check whether the system can boot again. >> >>

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 06 December 2014 09:44:38 Brian wrote: > On Sat 06 Dec 2014 at 06:42:50 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 05 December 2014 23:16:47 Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 05 Dec 2014 at 19:06:50 -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > > > On Fri, 5 Dec 2014 20:59:25 + > > > > > > > > Brian wrote:

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-06 Thread Curt
On 2014-12-06, Jarle Aase wrote: > > This is exactly the kind of arrogance that have made Windows 8 a total > disaster for Microsoft. I once convinced Windows 8 to stop a forced, > non-interruptible upgrade, by slamming the laptop in the table until the > hard-disk died. > This is a clear demonst

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-06 Thread Brian
On Sat 06 Dec 2014 at 10:10:05 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 06 December 2014 09:44:38 Brian wrote: > > On Sat 06 Dec 2014 at 06:42:50 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Friday 05 December 2014 23:16:47 Brian wrote: > > > > On Fri 05 Dec 2014 at 19:06:50 -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > >

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-06 Thread The Wanderer
(Quoting reordered slightly to make more what-replies-to-what sense.) On 12/06/2014 at 06:27 AM, Brian wrote: > On Sat 06 Dec 2014 at 10:10:05 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> On Saturday 06 December 2014 09:44:38 Brian wrote: >>> His lateness and the scheduled fsck do not appear to be >>> correla

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-06 Thread The Wanderer
On 12/06/2014 at 12:27 AM, Ric Moore wrote: > On 12/05/2014 05:06 PM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > >> On Fri, 5 Dec 2014 20:59:25 + Brian >> wrote: >> >>> But remember our current slogan "Linux is all about choice". One >>> can choose to boot with or without "fsck.mode=skip". >> >> What a

Email remote backup via pop3s

2014-12-06 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi all! I am developing a bash script to make a local backup of the email on the remote mail server. The first approach was to make a backup of all remote email. I could develop it with fetchmail smoothly. Thus using the "keep" parameter, I could make the backup without deleting the emails on the

Re: no microphone in skype

2014-12-06 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 12:29 AM, Ric Moore wrote: > On 12/05/2014 11:13 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: >> >> Can someone please tell me how to get microphone working in Skype? >> >> When I do >> Skype -> Options -> Sound Devices -> Make a test call >> >> I can't hear back my own voice. So the micr

Re: Epson XP-820 Small-in-one

2014-12-06 Thread Gary Dale
On 06/12/14 04:28 AM, ken wrote: On 12/05/2014 11:43 PM, Gary Dale wrote: I bought the XP-820 because it was on sale and could print to CD/DVD - a feature that I liked about my earlier Espon R-320 printer. Unfortunately the XP-820 needs the Epson escpr driver while the R-320 used the Cups-Gutenp

Re: Email remote backup via pop3s

2014-12-06 Thread Joe
On Sat, 06 Dec 2014 09:59:00 -0300 Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Hi all! > > I am developing a bash script to make a local backup of the email on > the remote mail server. The first approach was to make a backup of all > remote email. I could develop it with fetchmail smoothly. Thus using > the "keep"

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-06 Thread Ron
On Sat, 6 Dec 2014 11:27:24 + Brian wrote: > A third suggestion is to use grub's scripting to present the user with > a choice of a fsck or not. Another thing to consider: lets say that the system runs fsck once every 50 reboots (figure grabbed out of thin air), and that you may want to abo

Re: Email remote backup via pop3s

2014-12-06 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, Joe. On 06/12/14 10:39, Joe wrote: >> I am developing a bash script to make a local backup of the email on >> the remote mail server. The first approach was to make a backup of all >> remote email. I could develop it with fetchmail smoothly. Thus using >> the "keep" parameter, I could make th

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-06 Thread Mart van de Wege
The Wanderer writes: > On 12/06/2014 at 12:27 AM, Ric Moore wrote: > >> On 12/05/2014 05:06 PM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 5 Dec 2014 20:59:25 + Brian >>> wrote: >>> But remember our current slogan "Linux is all about choice". One can choose to boot with or withou

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 01 dec 14, 23:05:09, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Well, we already know what a lot of Debian server admins think of > systemd. Care to back this up with some data? Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: htt

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 02 dec 14, 16:52:46, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Well, actually, it does involve a little more than downloading debootstrap, > applying the patch, and compiling. As Brian already said, debootstrap is just a bunch of scripts, so no compiling involved. > One has to build a custom copy of d-i

Dependency problem in jessie

2014-12-06 Thread Hans
Hello list, I think, there is a problem with a dependency in debian/jessie. This problem is now for several weeks. I know, jessei is frozen now, buit maybe it will be fixed though. Ther problem is, that camorama wants to be uninstalled, when I want to upgrade. Reason for it is the package libj

Re: squeeze-lts dist-upgrade to wheezy failed @ apt

2014-12-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 03 dec 14, 13:05:11, Kenneth Dombrowski wrote: > Hello debian users, > > I am having trouble dist-upgrading from squeeze-lts to wheezy. > > I have been following these instructions to upgrade from pre-lts squeeze > (didn't find any specific ones for lts): > https://www.debian.org/releases/

Re: squeeze-lts dist-upgrade to wheezy failed @ apt

2014-12-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 03 dec 14, 13:44:31, Kenneth Dombrowski wrote: > Hi again, > > I just wanted to follow up with more info. > > I think these packages that want to stay with squeeze are pinned, for example: > > root@gilgamesh:~/tmp# apt-cache policy perl-base > perl-base: > Installed: 5.10.1-17squeeze6 >

Re: Dependency problem in jessie

2014-12-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 06 dec 14, 16:58:20, Hans wrote: > Hello list, > > I think, there is a problem with a dependency in debian/jessie. > > This problem is now for several weeks. I know, jessei is frozen now, buit > maybe it will be fixed though. > > Ther problem is, that camorama wants to be uninstalled, wh

Re: Dependency problem in jessie

2014-12-06 Thread Hans
Hi Andrei, this is the output. Sorry, it is in German, but should show what I mean: -- snip --- LANG=C aptitude -V full-upgrade Die folgenden Pakete werden aktualisiert: libjpeg62-turbo{b} [1:1.3.1-8 -> 1:1.3.1-11] 1 Pakete aktualisiert, 0 zusätzlich installiert, 0 we

Re: no microphone in skype

2014-12-06 Thread Andreas Weber
On 2014-12-06 05:28, Gary Dale wrote: > The problem is that Skype uses proprietary codecs and closed-source > code. They're simply not very good at keeping it working with Linux. Skype _is_ the problem. Try out Iceweasel/Firefox 34 and its built-in WebRTC - it works perfectly. At the moment you do

Re: no microphone in skype

2014-12-06 Thread Hans
Am Samstag, 6. Dezember 2014, 18:34:55 schrieb Andreas Weber: Latest Skype should work with pulseaudio. To get the old skype (version 4.2) running, which can be used with alsa, use the workaround, I found out: 1. Install latest skype. 2. Enter username ans password, and, very important, activate

Re: Dependency problem in jessie

2014-12-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 06 dec 14, 18:34:32, Hans wrote: > Hi Andrei, > > this is the output. Sorry, it is in German, but should show what I mean: Despite the 'LANG=C'? > -- snip --- > > LANG=C aptitude -V full-upgrade > Die folgenden Pakete werden aktualisiert: > libjpeg62-turbo{b} [

Re: Dependency problem in jessie

2014-12-06 Thread Pascal Obry
Le samedi 06 décembre 2014 à 18:34 +0100, Hans a écrit : > Hi Andrei, > > this is the output. Sorry, it is in German, but should show what I mean: To have message in English you can set LANG: $ LANG=en_US.UTF8 aptitude -V full-upgrade Regards, -- Pascal Obry / Magny Les Hameaux (78) Th

Re: Dependency problem in jessie

2014-12-06 Thread Hans
> Looks like you might have to accept it... > > Kind regards, > Andrei I don't see so. Package camstream depends on libjpeg62, which is just a dummy package. It should be no problem, to remove or to change this dependency without leaving camstream not workable. Same to the version libjpeg62-

Re: Dependency problem in jessie

2014-12-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 06 dec 14, 19:05:41, Hans wrote: > > > Looks like you might have to accept it... > > > > Kind regards, > > Andrei > > I don't see so. Package camstream depends on libjpeg62, which is just a dummy > package. It should be no problem, to remove or to change this dependency > without leavin

Re: Dependency problem in jessie

2014-12-06 Thread Hans
Yeah, ok. Accepted. :) Kind regards Hans > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/camstream > > Kind regards, > Andrei signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-06 Thread Erwan David
Le 06/12/2014 06:27, Ric Moore a écrit : > On 12/05/2014 05:06 PM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: >> On Fri, 5 Dec 2014 20:59:25 + >> Brian wrote: >> >>> But remember our current slogan "Linux is all about choice". One can >>> choose to boot with or without "fsck.mode=skip". >> >> What about the

Re: no microphone in skype

2014-12-06 Thread Ralph Katz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 12/05/2014 11:13 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Can someone please tell me how to get microphone working in Skype? > > When I do > Skype -> Options -> Sound Devices -> Make a test call > > I can't hear back my own voice. So the microphone is n

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-06 Thread Erwan David
Le 06/12/2014 15:19, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : > On Lu, 01 dec 14, 23:05:09, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> Well, we already know what a lot of Debian server admins think of >> systemd. > Care to back this up with some data? > > Kind regards, > Andrei They may think of systemd saying "were is this M%µ£i

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-06 Thread Ric Moore
On 12/06/2014 02:21 PM, Erwan David wrote: Le 06/12/2014 06:27, Ric Moore a écrit : On 12/05/2014 05:06 PM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: On Fri, 5 Dec 2014 20:59:25 + Brian wrote: But remember our current slogan "Linux is all about choice". One can choose to boot with or without "fsck.mod

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-06 Thread Ric Moore
On 12/06/2014 02:40 PM, Erwan David wrote: Le 06/12/2014 15:19, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : On Lu, 01 dec 14, 23:05:09, Patrick Bartek wrote: Well, we already know what a lot of Debian server admins think of systemd. Care to back this up with some data? Kind regards, Andrei They may think of sy

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 06 dec 14, 20:40:21, Erwan David wrote: > Le 06/12/2014 15:19, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : > > On Lu, 01 dec 14, 23:05:09, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >> Well, we already know what a lot of Debian server admins think of > >> systemd. > > Care to back this up with some data? > > > They may think o

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-06 Thread Brian
On Sat 06 Dec 2014 at 07:21:30 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > (Quoting reordered slightly to make more what-replies-to-what sense.) > > On 12/06/2014 at 06:27 AM, Brian wrote: > > > On Sat 06 Dec 2014 at 10:10:05 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > >> On Saturday 06 December 2014 09:44:38 Brian wrote:

Re: no microphone in skype

2014-12-06 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Andreas Weber wrote: > On 2014-12-06 05:28, Gary Dale wrote: >> The problem is that Skype uses proprietary codecs and closed-source >> code. They're simply not very good at keeping it working with Linux. > > Skype _is_ the problem. Try out Iceweasel/Firefox 34 and

Re: no microphone in skype

2014-12-06 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Hans wrote: > Am Samstag, 6. Dezember 2014, 18:34:55 schrieb Andreas Weber: > > Latest Skype should work with pulseaudio. Do you have a working version of Skype? If so, can you give me the exact versions of skype, pulseaudio you are using? How is your microphone c

Re: no microphone in skype

2014-12-06 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Ralph Katz wrote: > > While I have no specific suggestions for you, I can confirm that Skype > works with my debian wheezy ver. 7.7 and xfce desktop on my laptop: >> ralph@spike2 ~$ dpkg -l skype \*pulseaudio\* | grep ^ii >> ii gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio:amd64

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-06 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 06 Dec 2014, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 01 dec 14, 23:05:09, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > Well, we already know what a lot of Debian server admins think of > > systemd. > > Care to back this up with some data? Why? You've read this list regarding systemd and Debian same as I. Su

Re: no microphone in skype

2014-12-06 Thread Ron
On Sat, 6 Dec 2014 16:31:14 -0500 kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > Or simply use Hangouts. There's no need anymore for sticking with > > Microsoft code on Linux if you want video calls and destop sharing. > I use Skype mostly for video calls. For some reason, the quality from > skype is way better

Re: no microphone in skype

2014-12-06 Thread Ron
On Sat, 6 Dec 2014 16:46:29 -0500 kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Do you have a working version of Skype? If so, can you give me the > exact versions of skype, pulseaudio you are using? How is your > microphone connected (USB?)? What model of microphone do you have that > is working with Skype? How

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-06 Thread Ric Moore
On 12/06/2014 04:56 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Sat, 06 Dec 2014, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 01 dec 14, 23:05:09, Patrick Bartek wrote: Well, we already know what a lot of Debian server admins think of systemd. Care to back this up with some data? Why? You've read this list regarding

Re: no microphone in skype

2014-12-06 Thread Ric Moore
On 12/06/2014 05:04 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Ralph Katz wrote: While I have no specific suggestions for you, I can confirm that Skype works with my debian wheezy ver. 7.7 and xfce desktop on my laptop: ralph@spike2 ~$ dpkg -l skype \*pulseaudio\* | grep ^

Re: no microphone in skype

2014-12-06 Thread Mark Carroll
Ralph Katz writes: > On 12/05/2014 11:13 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: (snip) >> If someone got Skype working can you please share your configuration details? (snip) > While I have no specific suggestions for you, I can confirm that Skype > works with my debian wheezy ver. 7.7 and xfce desktop o

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 06 dec 14, 13:56:34, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Sat, 06 Dec 2014, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Lu, 01 dec 14, 23:05:09, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > > Well, we already know what a lot of Debian server admins think of > > > systemd. > > > > Care to back this up with some data? > >

Re: no microphone in skype

2014-12-06 Thread Ralph Katz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 12/06/2014 05:04 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Couple of questions: > 1) What type of microphone are you using? Are you using a USB > connection? In my case, I am using Logitech web camera that is > connected via USB. The web camera provides bo

Re: no microphone in skype

2014-12-06 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Ralph Katz wrote: > > While I have no specific suggestions for you, I can confirm that Skype > works with my debian wheezy ver. 7.7 and xfce desktop on my laptop: >> ralph@spike2 ~$ dpkg -l skype \*pulseaudio\* | grep ^ii >> ii gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio:amd64

Re: no microphone in skype

2014-12-06 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Sat, 6 Dec 2014 16:31:14 -0500 > kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > >> > Or simply use Hangouts. There's no need anymore for sticking with >> > Microsoft code on Linux if you want video calls and destop sharing. > >> I use Skype mostly for vid

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-06 Thread seeker5528
On 12/6/2014 5:58 AM, Mart van de Wege wrote: Well, it is not as if fscks happen out of the blue. Either you weren't paying attention and you were hit with the periodic fsck, or you make a habit of doing dirty shutdowns, and you know the fsck is going to happen anyway. Assuming your partit

Re: no microphone in skype

2014-12-06 Thread Bret Busby
On 07/12/2014, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Renaud OLGIATI > wrote: >> On Sat, 6 Dec 2014 16:31:14 -0500 >> kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: >> >>> > Or simply use Hangouts. There's no need anymore for sticking with >>> > Microsoft code on Linux if you want video calls

Re: no microphone in skype

2014-12-06 Thread Man_Without_Clue
On 12/07/2014 03:04 PM, Bret Busby wrote: On 07/12/2014, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: On Sat, 6 Dec 2014 16:31:14 -0500 kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Or simply use Hangouts. There's no need anymore for sticking with Microsoft code on Linux