Gnome/gdm mouse invisible after login and cannot set brigtness

2015-01-22 Thread Podrigal, Aron
I'm experiencing some issues after I upgraded a list of packages by running apt-get upgrade. Everything seems to start properly, but after logging in gnome, the mouse pointer disappears. In addition to that I've noticed that during the time the mouse is not visible, I cannot set the brightness thr

Re: Compiling kernel from Github - Howto?

2015-01-22 Thread csanyipal
csanyi...@gmail.com writes: > Gary Dale writes: > >> On 17/01/15 10:19 AM, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: > >>> I have a headless powerpc box and run on it Debian Wheezy with kernel >>> Linux b2 3.2.62-1 #1 Mon Aug 25 04:22:40 UTC 2014 ppc GNU/Linux . >>> >>> But this kernel doesn't have support for

Re: Is this a hacking attempt?

2015-01-22 Thread Marko Randjelovic
On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 08:56:33 +0800 Paul Wise wrote: > 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 al

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 21/01/15 08:36 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 21 January 2015 16:29:45 Bob Proulx did opine And Gene did reply: Gene Heskett wrote: Bob Proulx did opine You seem to believe that the Wheezy debian-installer does not handle the new Advanced Format 4k sectors. However I use it all of t

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 21/01/15 01:09 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 20 January 2015 19:17:59 Lisi Reisz did opine And Gene did reply: 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 o

RE: Is this a hacking attempt?

2015-01-22 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, Van: paul.is.w...@gmail.com [mailto:paul.is.w...@gmail.com] Namens Paul Wise >> 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 f

Re: Is this a hacking attempt?

2015-01-22 Thread Sven Hartge
Bonno Bloksma wrote: > Van: paul.is.w...@gmail.com [mailto:paul.is.w...@gmail.com] Namens Paul Wise >>> 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 t

Re: Is this a hacking attempt?

2015-01-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Jan 2015, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 08:56:33 +0800 > Paul Wise wrote: > > > 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?

Re: network newbie seeks assistance debugging iptables for VPN tunnel

2015-01-22 Thread Tom Roche
summary: Smells like progress! If I'm guessing correctly, the `route` changes imposed by connecting to the F5VPN[3] are conflicting with my server/jumpbox's current `iptables` (through which my client seeks to tunnel[7]. Does that claim seem warranted? If so, how to fix the server firewall? de

Minimal configuration for a laptop

2015-01-22 Thread Alex PADOLY
Good evening to all, Which is according to you the configuration minimal to run the current distribution Debian ( stable version) on a laptop computer intended mainly for the following activities: - OpenOffice - Navigation(browsing) intenet, files transfert ftp, - Use of vlc for listen mp3 f

Re: Minimal configuration for a laptop

2015-01-22 Thread Mihamina RAKOTOMANDIMBY
On 01/22/2015 09:22 PM, Alex PADOLY wrote: - OpenOffice At least 1GB RAM and medium speed HDD (not 5400rpm but ) - Navigation(browsing) intenet, files transfert ftp, Depends on the website you browse: some have heavy Javascripts... - Use of vlc for listen mp3 files and to watch occasion

Re: Minimal configuration for a laptop

2015-01-22 Thread Jarle Aase
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Alex, If you look for an older laptop, Lenovo ThinkPad may be a good choise. The 12" models are relatively portable, and the build quality is fabulous. I've had my old X60T for about 9 years now, and it's still in daily use. I have changed the dis

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 22 January 2015 09:42:13 Gary Dale did opine And Gene did reply: > On 21/01/15 08:36 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 21 January 2015 16:29:45 Bob Proulx did opine > > > > And Gene did reply: > >> Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> Bob Proulx did opine > >>> > You seem to believe

Re: How to recover a damaged partition

2015-01-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 21 January 2015 21:53:23 Kevin O'Gorman did opine And Gene did reply: > I'm working with new 4TB drives, and one of them just had a bad spot in > a fairly awkward place. > The very first block of an ext4 partition was unreadable, and caused > problems in booting, as well as anything el

Re: network newbie seeks assistance debugging iptables for VPN tunnel

2015-01-22 Thread Matt Ventura
On 1/22/2015 9:43 AM, Tom Roche wrote: summary: Smells like progress! If I'm guessing correctly, the `route` changes imposed by connecting to the F5VPN[3] are conflicting with my server/jumpbox's current `iptables` (through which my client seeks to tunnel[7]. Does that claim seem warranted? If

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-22 Thread Brian
On Thu 22 Jan 2015 at 13:31:36 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 22 January 2015 09:42:13 Gary Dale did opine > > > > 50G for swap?! > > The partitioner that sets this up previously setup a bit over 2x the > memory, 18Gb for swap, then surveyed the system and found 2 more swaps, > dutif

initial Jessie Problems

2015-01-22 Thread Thomas H. George
Installation went perfectly with Jessie CD #1 on new sata harddrive in an old HP desktop, Then Plugged in a usbstick. Registered as sdf ??? Edited fstab accordingly but mount failed. After successfully running several programs I rebooted the system, the splash screen appeared briefly then a cons

Re: Wheezy is installed, blowed up 2 minutes later.

2015-01-22 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 03:05:23PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > ..snip.. > Even in the expert AND manual modes, and I am getting tired of repeating > this, you cannot modify the "do not Use" other than the color of the text. > How are you highliteing the "do not use" item? with

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-22 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 01:15:25AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 20 January 2015 19:58:51 Don Armstrong did opine > And Gene did reply: > > 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,

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-22 Thread Brian
On Thu 22 Jan 2015 at 12:52:16 -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 01:15:25AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > That is a decent writeup. Whats chances there is a printable .pdf of it > > someplace? > > Why need a pdf? You should be able to print from your browser or from a

Re: initial Jessie Problems - More

2015-01-22 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 02:47:32PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > Installation went perfectly with Jessie CD #1 on new sata harddrive in > an old HP desktop, Then > > Plugged in a usbstick. Registered as sdf ??? Edited fstab accordingly > but mount failed. > > After successfully running severa

Re: network newbie seeks assistance debugging iptables for VPN tunnel

2015-01-22 Thread Tom Roche
Tom Roche Thu, 22 Jan 2015 12:43:17 -0500 [1] >> summary: Smells like progress! If I'm guessing correctly, the >> `route` changes imposed by connecting to the F5VPN[2] are >> conflicting with my server/jumpbox's current `iptables`[3] (through >> which my client seeks to tunnel[4]). Does that claim

Re: Can't get sound to work

2015-01-22 Thread Ric Moore
On 01/19/2015 05:46 AM, Frédéric Marchal wrote: On Saturday 17 January 2015 21:41:38, Ric Moore wrote : On 01/17/2015 07:29 AM, Frédéric Marchal wrote: My problem is now solved. I unfortunately can't provide a full scientific analysis of what happened. I list every clue that might help anybody

Keyboard Layout changes after every boot

2015-01-22 Thread Bernhard Frühmesser
Hello, I have setup Debian Wheezy on an old MacBook of a friend. So far installation went find, during installation i choose MacBook/MacbookPro(Intl) for keyboard type, de for language and rwin-key for ALTGr. First everyting was find, but now after every boot the keyboard layout is US English

Re: Can't get sound to work

2015-01-22 Thread Ric Moore
On 01/20/2015 02:07 PM, Robert Latest wrote: I don't understand the first thing about this. I just copied this file from somewhere. Note the "hw:0,2" part. Remember that I had to use -D hw:0,0 with aplay to make sound work while pulseaudio was installed? Now hw:0,2 is the way to go. Search me w

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 22 January 2015 01:59:39 Bob Proulx did opine And Gene did reply: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Bob Proulx did opine > > > > And Gene did reply: > > > > Go ahead and install its way, then run an fdisk -l and read the > > > > result, confirmed by quite slow readings from hdparm -tT on the >

Re: Wheezy is installed

2015-01-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 21/01/15 08:27 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 21 January 2015 15:48:49 Gary Dale did opine And Gene did reply: On 20/01/15 07:46 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: 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

[HITB-Announce] #HITB2015AMS Call for Papers 1st Round is Closing in 10 Days

2015-01-22 Thread Hafez Kamal
Hi guys - Happy New Year! Just a reminder that the first selection round for submissions to HITB Security Conference 2015 in Amsterdam is closing at the end of January! That's T - 10 days and counting!!! === Date: 26th - 29th May 2015 Venue: De Beurs van Berlage Event Website: http://conference

Re: initial Jessie Problems

2015-01-22 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 22. Januar 2015 20:47:32 MEZ, schrieb "Thomas H. George" : >Installation went perfectly with Jessie CD #1 on new sata harddrive in >an old HP desktop, Then > >Plugged in a usbstick. Registered as sdf ??? Edited fstab accordingly >but mount failed. > >After successfully running several progra

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-22 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 22 January 2015 19:26:02 Brian wrote: > > Removing the boot partition removes the guarantee that boot related files > > will be within reach of the bios.  However, 50Gb is out of line as I have > > been using 1Gb for years, which has all sorts of cruft I haven't used in > > yonks in it.

SIOCDELRT, or: proper syntax to delete default route for an interface?

2015-01-22 Thread Tom Roche
summary: me@client:~$ sudo route del default ppp0 SIOCDELRT: No such process me@client:~$ sudo route del default dev ppp0 SIOCDELRT: No such process me@client:~$ sudo route del -net default dev ppp0 SIOCDELRT: No such process me@client:~$ sudo route del -net default gw 10.144.15.234 dev ppp0 SIOC

Re: Butt in - Re: Wheezy is installed, blowed up 2 minutes later.

2015-01-22 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 22 Jan 2015, Charlie wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 14:29:42 -0800 Don Armstrong sent: > > > You can do it *exactly* the way I just posted pictures. > > I shouldn't butt in but, hey you clever man how did you take those > shots.? Oh no. with a camera? With import foo.png; the insta

Re: Butt in - Re: Wheezy is installed, blowed up 2 minutes later.

2015-01-22 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 22 Jan 2015 16:57:34 -0800 Don Armstrong sent: > On Thu, 22 Jan 2015, Charlie wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 14:29:42 -0800 Don Armstrong sent: > > > > > You can do it *exactly* the way I just posted pictures. > > > > I shouldn't butt in but, hey you clever man how did you take those > >

Re: Minimal configuration for a laptop

2015-01-22 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 22 Jan 2015, Alex PADOLY wrote: > > > Good evening to all, > > Which is according to you the configuration > minimal to run the current distribution Debian ( stable version) on a > laptop computer intended mainly for the following activities: > > - > OpenOffice > > - Navigation(brows

Re: SIOCDELRT, or: proper syntax to delete default route for an interface?

2015-01-22 Thread Matt Ventura
On 1/22/2015 3:55 PM, Tom Roche wrote: summary: me@client:~$ sudo route del default ppp0 SIOCDELRT: No such process me@client:~$ sudo route del default dev ppp0 SIOCDELRT: No such process me@client:~$ sudo route del -net default dev ppp0 SIOCDELRT: No such process me@client:~$ sudo route del -ne

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

2015-01-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 02:41:10AM -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 1/19/15, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > > > I just tried a long shot with "apt-cache search record terminal" > > > > Got back couple interesting looking things. That one on top is right > > where it showed up, top of the search. H

Re: Minimal configuration for a laptop

2015-01-22 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 1/22/15, Jarle Aase wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > If you look for an older laptop, Lenovo ThinkPad may be a good choise. > The 12" models are relatively portable, and the build quality is > fabulous. I've had my old X60T for about 9 years now, and it's still in

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

2015-01-22 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 1/22/15, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 02:41:10AM -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: >> >> Ok, sooo... I went ahead and tried asciinema. FAIR WARNING: When it >> asks you if you want to upload your session, it *uploads* your session >> *onto the Net*: >> >> https://asciinema.org/

Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail

2015-01-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 22 January 2015 14:26:02 Brian did opine And Gene did reply: > On Thu 22 Jan 2015 at 13:31:36 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 22 January 2015 09:42:13 Gary Dale did opine > > > > > 50G for swap?! > > > > The partitioner that sets this up previously setup a bit over 2x the >

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

2015-01-22 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 1/23/15, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 1/22/15, Chris Bannister wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 02:41:10AM -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: >>> >>> Ok, sooo... I went ahead and tried asciinema. FAIR WARNING: When it >>> asks you if you want to upload your session, it *uploads* your session >>>