Re: udev rule for my usb stick

2015-06-11 Thread deloptes
Michael Soulier wrote: > On 2015-06-09 4:22 PM, deloptes wrote: >> ls -a /dev/disk/by-id/ or uuid is an option if you want predictable name, >> no? > > I suppose, but I'd like to know why working through udev isn't working. > > Mike If you post the output of udevadm without grep, could be more

Re: Change for systemd the UUID of the home partition, how to?

2015-06-11 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 00:02:02 -0400 Ken Heard wrote: > On 2015-06-10 13:17, Don Armstrong wrote: > > On Tue, 09 Jun 2015, Ken Heard wrote: > >> After some research I found file /etc/crypttab which contains a > >> list of the UUIDs for encrypted partitions, /home in my case. I > >> thought it would

Re: Nvidia vs AMD open source drivers

2015-06-11 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 20:02:38 +0200 Dan wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 04:45 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > >> OK, for some cases ~it works~, but not ~all~ cases. So, enough > >> with the warm fuzzies, here's actual benchmark comparison. > >>

Re: combine key to output char with xmodmap

2015-06-11 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 00:09:00 +0200 Emanuel Berg wrote: > Sven Arvidsson writes: > > >> How can I change this line > >> > >> xmodmap -e 'keycode 66=0xe2' # rebind key: CAPS (66) -> â > >> (0xe2) > >> > >> so that doesn't happen on CAPS alone (66), but > >> instead (and only) on M-CAPS (her

Re: forum help

2015-06-11 Thread Petter Adsen
On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 23:03:14 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 10 June 2015 21:46:29 bcp wrote: > > I didn't know quite where to send this. I was trying to get onto > > the forum to get hardware help. The problem is I recall neither my > > password nor my username, but the system still has

Disk failure, XFS shutting down, trying to recover as much as possible

2015-06-11 Thread Alejandro Exojo
Hello. Yesterday I found out that my extra disk shut down. I don't know what steps to follow from now on. I'm searching online about the error as I found in the logs, and I don't know what steps to follow. This is the log (I just trimmed which I think it was irrelevant): http://paste.debian.ne

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2015-06-11 Thread Hafez Kamal
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Re: Nvidia vs AMD open source drivers

2015-06-11 Thread Bret Busby
On 11/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 20:02:38 +0200 > Dan wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: >> > On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 04:45 -0400, Ric Moore wrote: >> >> OK, for some cases ~it works~, but not ~all~ cases. So, enough >> >> with the warm fuzz

Re: Upgrade to Jessie - grub-legacy vs grub2; GPT partitions

2015-06-11 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 04:25:18PM +1000, Robert S wrote: > My questions are - should I use grub-legacy (which seems to have all > of our required features) or should I switch to grub2. Will > grub-legacy eventually be phased out? Is GPT preferable to the old > partition scheme? I'm curious: Wha

Re: Upgrade to Jessie - grub-legacy vs grub2; GPT partitions

2015-06-11 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 06/11/2015 09:25 AM, Robert S wrote: > Hi. > > We recently had a hard drive crash on our machine which has been > running debian for many years and has been incrementally upgraded. We > use it for a small business. I have not yet upgraded to debian 8.0. > We plan to transfer our backup to a l

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-11 Thread notoneofmyseeds
On 06/11/2015 07:05 AM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: yes - normally asking the list after giving it the old college try is a good thing. except when it comes to cups, then crying for help immediately gets a free pass in my opinion. i have had similar miserable experiences setting up cups and my

Re: Nvidia vs AMD open source drivers

2015-06-11 Thread notoneofmyseeds
On 06/10/2015 09:10 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: If you're building a new system, you might go with Intel at first, and later buy a discrete graphics card (AMD) if you need higher performance. I've had really good feedback from both AMD and Intel when filing bugs and having problems. I'm sure the n

Re: httpd virtual package

2015-06-11 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 04:01:43PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: [...] > I debootstrapped a Jessie chroot in order to test your case. [...] Bob, just a lurker here. Thanks for this very instructive and well- written walkthrough! - -- t -BEGIN PGP SIG

Re: httpd virtual package

2015-06-11 Thread Jonathan Dowland
I forgot to CC the below On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 06:57:33PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 07:22:40PM +0800, Anatoly A. Kazantsev wrote: > > $ sudo aptitude install owncloud > > A bit of a long shot, but try just 'apt-get' instead. I think aptitude has > some pretty nast

Re: adding network printer

2015-06-11 Thread Brian
On Wed 10 Jun 2015 at 23:24:52 +0200, notoneofmyseeds wrote: > On 06/10/2015 03:35 PM, Brian wrote: > >Just to be clear on how you solved your problem: was it by installing > >the Debian cups-backend-bjnp package or by following the advice at the > >link given? > I used the directions on the link

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/06/15 05:24 AM, notoneofmyseeds wrote: On 06/11/2015 07:05 AM, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: yes - normally asking the list after giving it the old college try is a good thing. except when it comes to cups, then crying for help immediately gets a free pass in my opinion. i have had simila

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-11 Thread Brian
On Wed 10 Jun 2015 at 22:05:23 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 23:09:42 +0200 > notoneofmyseeds wrote: > > > On 06/10/2015 01:41 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > > Another illustration of this: > > > > > > "Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to >

Re: Disk failure, XFS shutting down, trying to recover as much as possible

2015-06-11 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/11/2015 03:32 AM, Alejandro Exojo wrote: Or should I create an image as a file stored somewhere else? Just for grins, unplug the connector(s) from the drive AND at the motherboard, both. Plug it all back in again. That has worked for me more than once, and I replaced those cables after

Re: udev rule for my usb stick

2015-06-11 Thread Frederic Marchal
On Wednesday 10 June 2015 18:39:11 Michael Soulier wrote: > On 2015-06-09 4:22 PM, deloptes wrote: > > ls -a /dev/disk/by-id/ or uuid is an option if you want predictable name, > > no? > > I suppose, but I'd like to know why working through udev isn't working. Not every subsystem works. You use

Re: Change for systemd the UUID of the home partition, how to?

2015-06-11 Thread Ken Heard
On 10/06/15 09:48 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: What does your /etc/fstab look like? Like this: /dev/mapper/BDS1-root / ext4errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/mapper/BDS1-boot /boot ext2defaults0 2 /dev/mapper/BDS1-home_crypt /home

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/06/15 11:03 AM, notoneofmyseeds wrote: On 06/11/2015 04:57 PM, Gary Dale wrote: In fact the entire process is really just a bash script to take the picture, crop and rotate it, then send it to the print queue. A piece of cake compared to trying to do it in Windows. Hi Gary, With of lo

Re: Disk failure, XFS shutting down, trying to recover as much as possible

2015-06-11 Thread Alejandro Exojo
El Thursday 11 June 2015, Ric Moore escribió: > On 06/11/2015 03:32 AM, Alejandro Exojo wrote: > Or should I create an image as a > > > file stored somewhere else? > > Just for grins, unplug the connector(s) from the drive AND at the > motherboard, both. Plug it all back in again. That has work

Re: Disk failure, XFS shutting down, trying to recover as much as possible

2015-06-11 Thread David Christensen
On 06/11/2015 12:32 AM, Alejandro Exojo wrote: Yesterday I found out that my extra disk shut down. I don't know what steps to follow from now on. I'm searching online about the error as I found in the logs, and I don't know what steps to follow. ... I don't know where to proceed from here. The

Re: combine key to output char with xmodmap

2015-06-11 Thread Emanuel Berg
Petter Adsen writes: > A guess: > > String "0xe2" Sorry, that outputs the literal string as well. Ha, what a silly problem... -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: SOLVED Re: adding network printer SOLVED

2015-06-11 Thread briand
On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 10:57:26 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: > Despite the occasional problem, I find Linux to be far superior to > Windows. While CUPS may send you looking for a driver sometimes, it's > far worse for Windows where the manufacturers often don't produce > updated drivers for the latest

Re: Disk failure, XFS shutting down, trying to recover as much as possible

2015-06-11 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday 11 June 2015 23:46:02 Alejandro Exojo wrote: > This is the whole smartctl output: > > http://paste.debian.net/220687/ > > Can I understand the following line as that the disk might be fine? > > SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED Details show that no bad sectors