Re: How to change installer image?

2015-01-20 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, Outstanding! Thank you, both Steve and Thomas! Based on Steve's hint I had it mostly right, but the isobybrid business was beyond my capabilities (and would have come to bite me once actually in front of the machine to be installed). I'll report back once I got a chance to try the new i

Re: Find obsolete packages without using aptitude?

2015-01-20 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Thanks Bob for the pointer. Yes the patch works. I also saw your reply to the bug report. Good idea. -- Regards, jvp. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.or

Re: How to change installer image?

2015-01-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i forgot to point to http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Isohybrid for an overview of this SYSLINUX feature. You do not need the mentioned post processing programs if xorriso already added an isohybrid MBR to the ISO. But you may beef up your genisoimage ISO if you use the same SYSLINUX

Re: video chat in gmail using iceweasel is not working

2015-01-20 Thread Alexis
kamaraju kusumanchi writes: > FWIW, I get > > "A plugin is needed to display this content." > > error even when I go to https://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/ , > https://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/authorwareonly.html . Since > this has nothing to do with the webcam, I believe the problem

Re: How to change installer image?

2015-01-20 Thread mrr
On 20/01/2015 10:00, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, i forgot to point to http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/Isohybrid for an overview of this SYSLINUX feature. You do not need the mentioned post processing programs if xorriso already added an isohybrid MBR to the ISO. But you may beef up your

Re: typescript of terminal session (was: Was: Ric Moore)

2015-01-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 20 January 2015 01:40:23 Joel Roth did opine And Gene did reply: > Alberto Luaces wrote: > > Richard Owlett writes: > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > >> On Sunday 18 January 2015 18:21:02 Mart van de Wege did opine > > >> [SNIP] > > >> > > >>> apt-get remove network-manager seems to work j

ntpd ignoring conf server commands

2015-01-20 Thread R. Clayton
I'm on this $ uname -a Linux erehwon 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.63-2+deb7u2 i686 GNU/Linux $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description:Debian GNU/Linux 7.7 (wheezy) Release:7.7 Codename: wheezy $ and I've got this

Re: ntpd ignoring conf server commands

2015-01-20 Thread Jochen Spieker
R. Clayton: > > Why aren't any specified servers in use? > Why the unspecified clock.monmouth server listed? Does the machine configure its network using DHCP? Does it receive this NTP server from the DHCP server with option 42? http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Support/ConfiguringNTP#Section_6.12

Re: ntpd ignoring conf server commands

2015-01-20 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 07:39:22AM -0500, R. Clayton wrote: > I'm on this > [cut] > > server 0.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst > server 1.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst > server 2.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst > server 3.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst > [cut] > > this happens > > $ ntpq -p >

Re: How to change installer image?

2015-01-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, mrr wrote: > Please skip reading my message below! Too late. I already did. :)) It is not that bad. E.g. the question "When you look inside the usb key, is everything alright?" does hit the point. You'd just had to advise a run of fdisk -l as additional means of looking. The lack of a partit

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-20 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 3:54 AM, Tom H wrote: >> >> Have you looked at the logs? Especially Xorg.0.log and xsessions-errors. > > Xorg lo

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-20 Thread Richard Owlett
Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 19 January 2015 10:13:20 Richard Owlett did opine And Gene did reply: Gene Heskett wrote: On Sunday 18 January 2015 18:21:02 Mart van de Wege did opine [SNIP] apt-get remove network-manager seems to work just fine for me. Mart I have attempted that, several ti

Re: typescript of terminal session (was: Was: Ric Moore)

2015-01-20 Thread Curt
On 2015-01-20, Gene Heskett wrote: > > 2 of my 4 1Tb disks are reporting 512/4096for sector sizes. > > GParted, even with round to cylinders checked, seems helpless at fixing > this. > Really? This seems to imply the contrary: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-linux-on-4kb-sector-dis

Re: Foolproof disk device name in fstab

2015-01-20 Thread Curt
On 2015-01-19, andmalc wrote: > Also, sorry about the wonky formatting of my posts. Posting from Google > Groups so no line wrapping and in HTML format too I suppose ): > > Apparently there is a plain text mode option in the composer. -- “There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetr

So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-20 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; I just started to do a wheezy 2.8 install on a disk with 4k sectors, this after researching and finding a partitioner utility that DOES know about 4k/sector disks. That is gdisk. which found the gparted setup and fixed it, all I had to do was write it to the disk., gparted, an old v

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-20 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 5:51 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Kevin O'Gorman > wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Kevin O'Gorman > wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 3:54 AM, Tom H wrote: > >> > >> Have you looked at t

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-20 Thread Curt
On 2015-01-20, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > It's no surprise to me that changing this makes no difference -- after all, > it never gets as far as asking me to log into that account. > What about .Xauthority and .ICEauthority? Have you tried deleting them? -- “There’s no money in poetry, but then t

Re: typescript of terminal session (was: Was: Ric Moore)

2015-01-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 20 January 2015 09:12:49 Curt did opine And Gene did reply: > On 2015-01-20, Gene Heskett wrote: > > 2 of my 4 1Tb disks are reporting 512/4096for sector sizes. > > > > GParted, even with round to cylinders checked, seems helpless at > > fixing this. > > Really? This seems to imply t

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 20/01/15 09:37 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; I just started to do a wheezy 2.8 install on a disk with 4k sectors, this after researching and finding a partitioner utility that DOES know about 4k/sector disks. That is gdisk. which found the gparted setup and fixed it, all I had to do was

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 20 January 2015 14:37:30 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > I just started to do a wheezy 2.8 Doesn't exist. Do you mean 7.8? And which disk? > install on a disk with 4k sectors, this > after researching and finding a partitioner utility that DOES know about > 4k/sector disks. T

Re: Is this a hacking attempt?

2015-01-20 Thread Marko Randjelovic
On Tue, 20 Jan 2015 17:52:05 +0100 Vincent Deffontaines wrote: > Le 2015-01-20 12:40, Marko Randjelovic a écrit : > > I was running Wheezy Iceweasel with vanilla 3.14 kernel with grsec. I > > tried to play video on YouTube with gnash plugin but Iceweasel > > crashed > > with alike messages > > >

Re: Was: Ric Moore

2015-01-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 20 January 2015 08:57:14 Richard Owlett did opine And Gene did reply: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 19 January 2015 10:13:20 Richard Owlett did opine > > > > And Gene did reply: > >> Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> On Sunday 18 January 2015 18:21:02 Mart van de Wege did opine > >>> [SNI

Re: Is this a hacking attempt?

2015-01-20 Thread Curt
On 2015-01-20, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > > I tried to raise limit some time ago, but I was unsuccessful. Do you > know how to do it? > The following might help: http://posidev.com/blog/2009/06/04/set-ulimit-parameters-on-ubuntu/ Seems you must add a line to /etc/pam.d/common-session ("session

Re: Can't get sound to work

2015-01-20 Thread Robert Latest
On Fri, 16 Jan 2015 15:11:24 -1000 Joel Roth wrote: > Robert Latest wrote: > > With aplay -D hw:0,0 it still works. > > You're 99% to the destination. > > IIRC, directly addressing the sound device > as hw:0,0 takes the whole device, will not > allow software mixing of audio streams from > othe

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-20 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 01:03:50PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: > On 20/01/15 09:37 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >Greetings; > > > >I just started to do a wheezy 2.8 install on a disk with 4k sectors, this > >after researching and finding a partitioner utility that DOES know about > >4k/sector disks. That

Re: Is this a hacking attempt?

2015-01-20 Thread Jann Horn
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 07:42:03PM +0100, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > > My understanding from the grsec logs you pasted is that gnash tried to > > allocate more memory than your RLIMIT-MEMLOCK limit (65536), and this is > > the reason why gnash crashed. > > I wouldn't hint this is sufficient to co

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-20 Thread mrr
On 20/01/2015 15:40, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings; I just started to do a wheezy 2.8 install on a disk with 4k sectors, this after researching and finding a partitioner utility that DOES know about 4k/sector disks. That is gdisk. which found the gparted setup and fixed it, all I had to do was

Wheezy is installed

2015-01-20 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings; Along with around 1300 other pkgs because I like kde yadda yadda. First question: Does it take a reboot before you can select kdm at login? I did 2 or 3 logouts & back in without being presented with a choice. 2nd question: Since I am used to 10 workspaces, where is the workspace cr

Re: Wheezy is installed

2015-01-20 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 06:17:06PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > Along with around 1300 other pkgs because I like kde yadda yadda. > > First question: Does it take a reboot before you can select kdm at login? > I did 2 or 3 logouts & back in without being presented with a choice. >

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 20 January 2015 13:03:50 Gary Dale did opine And Gene did reply: > On 20/01/15 09:37 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings; > > > > I just started to do a wheezy 2.8 install on a disk with 4k sectors, > > this after researching and finding a partitioner utility that DOES > > know about

Re: Wheezy is installed

2015-01-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 20 January 2015 23:44:20 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > First question:  Does it take a reboot before you can select kdm at > > login? I did 2 or 3 logouts & back in without being presented with a > > choice. > > It should normally start up automatically - it's just possible that kdm > did

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 20 January 2015 13:33:43 Lisi Reisz did opine And Gene did reply: > On Tuesday 20 January 2015 14:37:30 Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings; > > > > I just started to do a wheezy 2.8 > > Doesn't exist. Do you mean 7.8? And which disk? Yeah, sorry girl, but typus are the order when I a

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 21 January 2015 00:02:41 Gene Heskett wrote: > If there is a way, then maybe I'll try it again, but give me step by step > I can printout and follow when there is no one in the room, or available > via the net. Since the problem seems to be unique to you, perhaps your installation med

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 20 January 2015 14:43:48 Andrew M.A. Cater did opine And Gene did reply: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 01:03:50PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: > > On 20/01/15 09:37 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > >Greetings; > > > > > >I just started to do a wheezy 2.8 install on a disk with 4k sectors, > > >this af

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 20 January 2015 17:45:34 mrr did opine And Gene did reply: > On 20/01/2015 15:40, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings; > > > > I just started to do a wheezy 2.8 install on a disk with 4k sectors, > > this after researching and finding a partitioner utility that DOES > > know about 4k/sect

Re: Wheezy is installed

2015-01-20 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 20 January 2015 18:44:20 Andrew M.A. Cater did opine And Gene did reply: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 06:17:06PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings; > > > > Along with around 1300 other pkgs because I like kde yadda yadda. > > > > First question: Does it take a reboot before you ca

Re: Is this a hacking attempt?

2015-01-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 2:42 AM, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > Fortunately, this works, but there are sites where doesn't. Do you have any examples of sites that still need Flash? Obviously flash game sites still need it but surely almost all of the web has moved away from it at this point? -- bye

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-20 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 20 Jan 2015, Gene Heskett wrote: > and leave you with a miss-aligned disk that writes like its full of > molsasses. Fdisk complains, gdisk will fix it, but what good does that > do you when there is NO WAY AROUND the partitioner in the installer. Of course there is. In general, the partit

Re: Картридер Realtek device 5287

2015-01-20 Thread retaw
re...@ufamts.ru писал 18.11.2014 12:42: Здравствуйте! Модель ноутбука Acer Aspire v5-572g-73538g50akk. Какой модуль подойдет для картридера? Искал рецепты в гугле, но так и не понял какой лучше всего поставить: rts_bpp или с сайта realtek rts5229 (или еще один вариант rts_pstor тоже с сайта real