Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-15 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Thu, 14 May 2015, David Wright wrote: . . . $ wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/binary-amd64/Packages --2015-05-14 11:28:30-- http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/binary-amd64/Packages Resolving ftp.us.debian.org (ftp.us.debian.org)... 128.61.240.89, 64.50

Re: Jessie upgrade now means samba is no longer working

2015-05-15 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-05-15, Alan Chandler wrote: > I recently upgraded from wheezy to jessie. > > I was relying in samba providing guest access to various key folders in > my home directory for virtual windows machines to have access to key data > > After the upgrade samba no longer runs and if I try and star

Re: Q: About the futex bug of linux-3.14

2015-05-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, May 15, 2015, at 02:55, Takahide Nojima wrote: > Does anyone know which the state of futex bug of linux-3.14 effects > debian? Jessie has this specific fix in its 3.16-ckt kernel. In fact, that futex fix landed in kernel 3.16.7 through the stable kernel trees, so it should be present on

Re: Remove subject

2015-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 09:16:17AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 11 May 2015, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > [snip] > > I hear that a _lot_. But I am hearing it more and more in cases > > like this above where only the negative makes sense. When it is written, > > some are, I am sure, typos.

Re: usb device umount option in menu missing for some devices

2015-05-15 Thread deloptes
Liam O'Toole wrote: > > Are you using GNOME (the default) in Jessie? If so, the device should > appear in the nautilus sidebar, with an 'unmount' icon next to it. > No I use trinity, but in my opinion it is not about the desktop but how the device is associated with the set of options to displa

Re: out of the box wifi adapter

2015-05-15 Thread Mark Allums
On 05/14/2015 08:25 PM, Raymond Jennings wrote: I need to install a wifi adapter to my newly built desktop machine. It needs to attach to either usb or the rj45 port, and I'd like to avoid models that require downloaded firmware or ndiswrapper or the like. Any options out there? I'm willin

OT: linguistic mis-usages (was Re: Remove subject)

2015-05-15 Thread The Wanderer
On 05/15/2015 at 07:35 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 09:16:17AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: >> Since we're well off-topic already, I can't resist citing a rather >> similar and increasingly prevalent negative usage that makes no >> sense. I quite often read the phrase:

Re: Remove subject

2015-05-15 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 05/12/2015 10:34 AM, Mis Ntmurth wrote: Ok thanks I will contact debian regards You're also good to contact GMAne http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/385152/match=problem+installing+gplflash Marc Info: http://marc.info/?l=debian-user&m=127780632904466 Google: https://groups.goo

Re: Openbox: which packages install to have sound?

2015-05-15 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Juha Heinanen writes: > Rodolfo Medina writes: > >> Thanks, but still no sound when running mplayer. What's missing? I did: >> >> # aptitude install alsa-base alsa-oss alsa-tools alsa-tools-gui alsa-utils >> alsamixergui bluez-alsa gstreamer0.10-alsa libalsaplayer0 libasound2 >> libasound2-da

Jessie - MATE - Places dropdown menu has strange entry

2015-05-15 Thread Richard Owlett
I just installed Jessie from a purchased set of DVDs. The installation went smoothly. The hardware is a Lenovo R61 Thinkpad, 2GB RAM, 80GB hard drive. It is a system set aside for experimenting with configuration experiments. It has had multiple installs of Squeeze and Wheezy without problems.

Re: Openbox: which packages install to have sound?

2015-05-15 Thread Juha Heinanen
Rodolfo Medina writes: > By running alxamixer I turned all volumes on. But still no sound. check with alsamixer that everything is un-muted (no MM letters). also check with 'aplay -l' which card you want to use. then make test 'aplay -c ' -- juha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: OT: linguistic mis-usages (was Re: Remove subject)

2015-05-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 May 2015, The Wanderer wrote: > On 05/15/2015 at 07:35 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 09:16:17AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > >> Since we're well off-topic already, I can't resist citing a rather > >> similar and increasingly prevalent negative usage that ma

Re: Openbox: which packages install to have sound?

2015-05-15 Thread Pete Orrall
>> after installing the packages (- bluez-alsa) you need to configure alsa >> by creating .asoundrc file > > Thanks, but I don't know how. I'm running openbox on my Wheezy systems at home (a ThinkPad and a massive workstation) and haven't needed to create an .asoundrc file. >> or, if the default

Gnome Update Notifications in Jessie

2015-05-15 Thread Manuel Lorenzo
Hello all, Gnome Update Notifications seem not to work in my vanilla installation of Jessie. I have read that Gnome-Packagekit should be taking care of this and that it's a bug that is supposed to be solved [1], but actually in my system it doesn't look for updates automatically. On the other han

Qs re: capture card, composite input, devices

2015-05-15 Thread Kent West
I want to rip some programs off a TIVO to a DVD, figuring to do so with a Debian box. I tried with Debian; failed. So I wiped the box and installed the latest Ubuntu, thinking it might be more "user friendly"; I failed with it also, so I wiped it and went back to Debian (8), which just "feels"

Why is libapache2-mod-auth-mysql not in Jessie?

2015-05-15 Thread Patrick Wiseman
I just upgraded a server from Wheezy to Jessie, only to find that my authentication is broken because libapache2-mod-auth-mysql is not available in Jessie (it's in Squeeze, Wheezy and Sid). I tried to install the package from Sid, but dpkg complains that apache2.2-common is not installed, which is

Re: out of the box wifi adapter

2015-05-15 Thread Raymond Jennings
I wound up buying a 100 foot cat5 cable and running it from the house to the trailer :P But thanks everyone for trying to help. On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 5:16 AM, Mark Allums wrote: > > > On 05/14/2015 08:25 PM, Raymond Jennings wrote: > >> I need to install a wifi adapter to my newly built deskt

What package pulls in default fonts?

2015-05-15 Thread Sven Arvidsson
Hi, I got missing Unicode in the latest xkcd comic[0]. Turns out it's trying to show emoji icons and these doesn't seem to be available on a standard Debian desktop install. There are similar issues with the BBS on Boing Boing (On all Disqus forums?) and I'm sure, many other sites. I'm guessing t

Re: Why is libapache2-mod-auth-mysql not in Jessie?

2015-05-15 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 15 May 2015, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > I just upgraded a server from Wheezy to Jessie, only to find that my > authentication is broken because libapache2-mod-auth-mysql is not > available in Jessie (it's in Squeeze, Wheezy and Sid). I tried to > install the package from Sid, but dpkg complai

Jessie i386 8.0.0 + icecast2 + liquidsoap general protection error

2015-05-15 Thread Detrick Merz
Howdy Folks, I had a streaming server running for a while (wheezy i386 v7.8.0 + icecast2 v2.3.2 + liquidsoap v1.0.1) with liquidsoap sending mp3 data to icecast, and it was doing fine. I upgraded it to jessie and started seeing general protection errors in /var/log/messages: May 15 11:53:28 fluff

[solved] Re: Openbox: which packages install to have sound?

2015-05-15 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Juha Heinanen writes: > Rodolfo Medina writes: > >> By running alxamixer I turned all volumes on. But still no sound. > > check with alsamixer that everything is un-muted (no MM > letters). also check with 'aplay -l' which card you want to use. then > make test 'aplay -c ' Unmuting everything

Re: Openbox: which packages install to have sound?

2015-05-15 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Pete Orrall writes: >>> after installing the packages (- bluez-alsa) you need to configure alsa >>> by creating .asoundrc file >> >> Thanks, but I don't know how. > > I'm running openbox on my Wheezy systems at home (a ThinkPad and a > massive workstation) and haven't needed to create an .asoundr

Re: blackbox: where is bbkeys package?

2015-05-15 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Siard writes: > On Sat, 09 May 2015 13:30 +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> I installed blackbox in order to choose it as my window manager, but >> read that, to use keystrokes in it, the bbkeys package is needed. >> But it seems to be absent from Debian Stable, > > It looks like Blackbox has been

Re: Jessie: Set up Samba and Winbind, can't log in to the domain

2015-05-15 Thread Dalton Durst
After a search of the bug tracker, this is a confirmed issue with the Winbind package currently in Debian Jessie: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=784656

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Brian wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > You are currently using: > > > > deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian jessie main > > > > That is okay. Good! But for the purpose of this task change that to > > a different but still valid mirror. This would be a good time to try > > out the new http redi

Re: out of the box wifi adapter

2015-05-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Raymond Jennings wrote: > I wound up buying a 100 foot cat5 cable and running it from the house to > the trailer :P My perspective is that nothing is as reliable as hardline wire! It will be much more immune to radio noise trouble. Speedy and reliable. Wire will almost always be my choice if po

Re: out of the box wifi adapter

2015-05-15 Thread Raymond Jennings
good idea, but since it was time sensitive, I opted for best buy at a local brick and mortar. On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Raymond Jennings wrote: > > I wound up buying a 100 foot cat5 cable and running it from the house to > > the trailer :P > > My perspective is that no

Re: out of the box wifi adapter

2015-05-15 Thread Raymond Jennings
Pardon, it was a cat5e cable. On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Raymond Jennings wrote: > good idea, but since it was time sensitive, I opted for best buy at a > local brick and mortar. > > On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > >> Raymond Jennings wrote: >> > I wound up buying a 1

About alternatives in stretch - testing.........

2015-05-15 Thread Charlie
A question about alternatives in stretch: 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt9-3 (2015-04-23) x86_64 GNU/Linux I do: $ update-alternatives --config x-www-browser Selection Path Priority Status 0 /usr/bin/iceweasel 70 auto mode

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Pierre Frenkiel (pierre.frenk...@gmail.com): > hi David, > At least for that problem I found the explanation, and was able to > reproduce it on > my personal web server. I imported the index.html from the us and fr sites, > and the > 3 files, Just try > > wget http://frenki

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-15 Thread Bob Proulx
David Wright wrote: > I noticed that on repeating the former, I got a very different file, > and this might be because ftp.us.debian.org had resolved to a different > IPv4 address (but IPv6 was the same). $ host ftp.us.debian.org ftp.us.debian.org has address 128.61.240.89 ftp.us.debian.org

Re: out of the box wifi adapter

2015-05-15 Thread Andreas Ronnquist
On Thu, 14 May 2015 18:25:46 -0700 Raymond Jennings wrote: >I need to install a wifi adapter to my newly built desktop machine. > >It needs to attach to either usb or the rj45 port, and I'd like to >avoid models that require downloaded firmware or ndiswrapper or the >like. > >Any options out ther

Re: About alternatives in stretch - testing.........

2015-05-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Charlie wrote: > A question about alternatives in stretch: > $ update-alternatives --config x-www-browser > * 1 /usr/bin/chromium 40 manual mode >... > In claws-mail press a URL and it opens in iceweasel. Sounds like claws does not call x-www-browser but instead calls iceweasel directly. However

ulogd2 fails with kernel 4.0.0-1

2015-05-15 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Running Sid dist-upgraded on May 12 2015 which went to kernel 4.0.0-1. I run the firewall via Firehol and use 'FIREHOL_LOG_MODE="ULOG"'. Iptables then gets errors because it cannot find ULOG. That is because ulogd2 failed with: May 15 11:56:39 hdbb ulogd[5785]: Can't create ULOG handle May

Re: Why is libapache2-mod-auth-mysql not in Jessie?

2015-05-15 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Fri, 15 May 2015, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> I just upgraded a server from Wheezy to Jessie, only to find that my >> authentication is broken because libapache2-mod-auth-mysql is not >> available in Jessie (it's in Squeeze, Wheezy and Sid).

Re: Colorized Prompts Problem - Thanks for the Deconstruction

2015-05-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Thomas H. George (li...@tomgeorge.info): > > > Your explanation is very helpful, converts the jumble I copied from a > website into a logical sequence of instructions. I really appreciate > being able to understand the meaning of the prompt. This conversation made me revisit my own prompt

Re: aptitude update errors for upgrade to Jessie on amd64

2015-05-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting Bob Proulx (b...@proulx.com): > When the program looks up the ftp.us.debian.org name it will get all > three of the above in some order. If your system is IPv6 capable it > will prefer the IPv6 address and always use it. If not then it will > select one of the two IPv4 addresses and use

Re: ulogd2 fails with kernel 4.0.0-1

2015-05-15 Thread Sven Hartge
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Running Sid dist-upgraded on May 12 2015 which went to kernel 4.0.0-1. > I run the firewall via Firehol and use 'FIREHOL_LOG_MODE="ULOG"'. > Iptables then gets errors because it cannot find ULOG. That is > because ulogd2 failed with: > May 15 11:56:39 hdbb ulogd[5785]:

Re: Why is libapache2-mod-auth-mysql not in Jessie?

2015-05-15 Thread Sven Hartge
Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: >> On Fri, 15 May 2015, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >>> I just upgraded a server from Wheezy to Jessie, only to find that my >>> authentication is broken because libapache2-mod-auth-mysql is not >>> available in Jessie (it

Re: Why is libapache2-mod-auth-mysql not in Jessie?

2015-05-15 Thread Sven Hartge
Sven Hartge wrote: > Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: >>> On Fri, 15 May 2015, Patrick Wiseman wrote: I just upgraded a server from Wheezy to Jessie, only to find that my authentication is broken because libapache2-mod-auth-mysql is not >

Re: Colorized Prompts Problem - Thanks for the Deconstruction (correction)

2015-05-15 Thread David Wright
Quoting David Wright (deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk): > export PROMPT_COMMAND+=" || echo -ne '\e]0;${HOSTNAME^^} > $(tty) ${HOSTNAME^^}\a'" Forgive the typo; that || was in the penultimate version that I accidentally included. It should of course be ; otherwise the title only

Re: About alternatives in stretch - testing.........

2015-05-15 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 15 May 2015 19:52:38 -0600 Bob Proulx sent: > Very likely the alternatives for x-www-browser are correct. Did you > try it? Please try it and check that it works. Check that it returns > a non-zero exit code. > > $ x-www-browser > $ echo $? > > What starts? Chromium? Then your

Re: About alternatives in stretch - testing.........

2015-05-15 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 15 May 2015 19:52:38 -0600 Bob Proulx sent: > For me when I installed claws just now as a test, set x-www-browser to > chromium, and then clicked on a link to open in a web browser window > it opened chromium. Therefore it isn't a systematic problem. It must > be something in your enviro

Re: About alternatives in stretch - testing.........

2015-05-15 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 16 May 2015 14:26:23 +1000 Charlie sent: > On Fri, 15 May 2015 19:52:38 -0600 Bob Proulx sent: > > > For me when I installed claws just now as a test, set x-www-browser > > to chromium, and then clicked on a link to open in a web browser > > window it opened chromium. Therefore it isn't

Re: About alternatives in stretch - testing.........

2015-05-15 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 16 May 2015 14:41:09 +1000 Charlie sent: > Since you gave the way of how to discover what I need to know, I > googled it and found that link. Alternatives works now: Did: apt-mark hold libgnutls-deb0-28 That held it. Upgraded and I saw that it upgraded chromium and now it works. Thank

Re: Gnome Update Notifications in Jessie

2015-05-15 Thread August Karlstrom
On 2015-05-15 17:50, Manuel Lorenzo wrote: Gnome Update Notifications seem not to work in my vanilla installation of Jessie. [...] I know I can use unattended-upgrades and other tools, but I want to know what is happening to Update Manager: if I have to configure something manually or I am doin