Re: CUPS set-up for the 0.01%

2015-06-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 08:11:51AM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: > > It would, there is an ampersand in there. If you want to pass that URL > from the command line, you have to escape it with a backslash - like this: > > http://localhost:631/help/ref-cupsd-conf.html?TOPIC=References\&QUERY=#Listen

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-14 Thread Bret Busby
On 14/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 14:37:47 +0800 > Bret Busby wrote: >> IIn running Synaptic, and searching on the string nvidia, to find what >> nvidia drivers are installed (as I do not know how else to find that >> information, in Debian 6), I found the following two pac

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-14 Thread Bret Busby
On 14/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > > Check that they support your GPU at all first, sometimes it takes a > little time for the open source drivers to implement support for the > latest models. nVidia is really bad at releasing documentation that is > needed by the nouveau developers. > > Other

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-14 Thread Bret Busby
On 14/06/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > On 14/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: >> On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 14:37:47 +0800 >> Bret Busby wrote: >>> IIn running Synaptic, and searching on the string nvidia, to find what >>> nvidia drivers are installed (as I do not know how else to find that >>> information, in

Problem with Canon FS4000US film scanner and VueScan on Wheezy

2015-06-14 Thread Jean-Francois Bosc
Hello, I am trying to find some help for using a (rather old) Canon FS4000US film scanner with VueScan. Here is my problem : I am running Debian Wheezy (32 bits), and I have been using the scanner for quite a while under previous Debian versions. Now VueScan doesn't detect the scanner any more, i

Re: SMTP/HTTP/Tor Connections Timing Out

2015-06-14 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 12:51:14PM +1000, Riley Baird wrote: > Hi, > > Many of my connections are timing out. For example, I can't use SMTP to > send a message if it's over ~1500 bytes [...] This sounds suspiciously as if your box were using an MTU[1

Re: systemd equivalent

2015-06-14 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sat, 2015-06-13 at 16:35 -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > But it turns out I haven't yet found a way to do that, > that is, replicate (more or less) the output of 'ps > ax| grep ssh' using sysctl commands. They don't seem > to register, as it were, my ssh tunnel. But systemd manages services (d

Re: SMTP/HTTP/Tor Connections Timing Out

2015-06-14 Thread Riley Baird
On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 10:41:18 +0200 wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 12:51:14PM +1000, Riley Baird wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Many of my connections are timing out. For example, I can't use SMTP to > > send a message if it's over ~1500 bytes [...]

Re: systemd equivalent

2015-06-14 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, 14 Jun 2015, Frederic Marchal wrote: Why do you think systemd has a way of doing everything other tools are designed for? That's not a thought I have ever harbored or expressed. My initial question was _meant_ to be, simply: can this (ps ax|grep ssh) be done, or approximated to, u

Re: systemd equivalent

2015-06-14 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Bob Bernstein writes: > My initial question was _meant_ to be, simply: can this (ps ax|grep > ssh) be done, or approximated to, using sysctl? No, systemd is not supposed to replace standard system utilities. (Also sysctl is a completely unrelated tool to configure kernel parameters; the systemd u

Re: Problem with Canon FS4000US film scanner and VueScan on Wheezy

2015-06-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 14 June 2015 08:54:04 Jean-Francois Bosc wrote: > I am trying to find some help for using a (rather old) Canon FS4000US film > scanner with VueScan. Here is my problem : I am running Debian Wheezy (32 > bits), and I have been using the scanner for quite a while under previous > Debian ver

Re: systemd equivalent

2015-06-14 Thread Brian
On Sun 14 Jun 2015 at 05:14:53 -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jun 2015, Frederic Marchal wrote: > > >Why do you think systemd has a way of doing everything other tools > >are designed for? > > That's not a thought I have ever harbored or expressed. > > My initial question was _meant_

Re: CUPS set-up for the 0.01%

2015-06-14 Thread Brian
On Sat 13 Jun 2015 at 22:24:21 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 23:57:16 +0100 > Brian wrote: > > > On Sat 13 Jun 2015 at 12:16:29 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > > > > form cupsd.conf > > > > > > Listen localhost:631 > > > Listen /var/run/cups/cups.sock > > > > Ok.

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-14 Thread csanyipal
csanyi...@gmail.com writes: > Gary Dale writes: >> On 13/06/15 03:19 PM, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: [snipped] > My headless powerpc box can't boot from CD because it hasn't CD > device. It only has USB drive. Furthermore, it can't boot with an usual > system rescue image installed on USB stick,

Re: No grub screen or boot after upgrade to jessie [FIXED]

2015-06-14 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Robert S a écrit : > > (Excuse ignorance) How do you display whether a partition is bootable? It > used to be easy with cfdisk, but I can't find the option in gdisk or the > newer fdisk. Your disk uses the new GPT partition format. You can display whether the "legacy boot" flag for a GPT parti

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 14/06/15 08:26 AM, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: csanyi...@gmail.com writes: Gary Dale writes: On 13/06/15 03:19 PM, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: [snipped] My headless powerpc box can't boot from CD because it hasn't CD device. It only has USB drive. Furthermore, it can't boot with an usual s

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-14 Thread Pascal Hambourg
csanyi...@gmail.com a écrit : > Hello, > > on my headless Debian GNU/Linux Jessie server I want to resize > partitions. Why ? The use of LVM should avoid the need to resize partitions (PVs). > root@b2:~# e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/bubba-storage > e2fsck 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014) > Pass 1: Checking inodes

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 14/06/15 12:40 AM, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: Gary Dale writes: On 13/06/15 03:19 PM, csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, on my headless Debian GNU/Linux Jessie server I want to resize partitions. So far I did followings: root@b2:~# df -T FilesystemType 1K-blocksUse

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-14 Thread Pascal Hambourg
csanyi...@gmail.com a écrit : > > Finally, I solved the problem by doing the followings: > # lvresize --size 455.5G /dev/mapper/bubba-storage > # e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/bubba-storage Glad you were lucky. > Now, I can to use parted to resize my partitions. > What is my goal? > > Filesystem

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 14/06/15 09:12 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: csanyi...@gmail.com a écrit : Hello, on my headless Debian GNU/Linux Jessie server I want to resize partitions. Why ? The use of LVM should avoid the need to resize partitions (PVs). root@b2:~# e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/bubba-storage e2fsck 1.42.12 (2

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-14 Thread csanyipal
Gary Dale writes: > On 14/06/15 09:12 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> csanyi...@gmail.com a écrit : >>> Hello, >>> >>> on my headless Debian GNU/Linux Jessie server I want to resize >>> partitions. >> Why ? The use of LVM should avoid the need to resize partitions (PVs). >> >>> root@b2:~# e2fsck -f

Re: CUPS set-up for the 0.01%

2015-06-14 Thread briand
On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 12:35:57 +0100 Brian wrote: > The server listens *on* one or more interfaces. Each interface has a > single network address. 192.168.1.0/24 isn't a single network address. ty, i now have access to server. i have cups-client installed on my client machine. I think this is

social contract should mandate to warn users of tracking by packages like chromium

2015-06-14 Thread pm190
Hi, the Debian social contract should mandate to warn users of internet tracking by debian packages like chromium. I tried everything and I can't turn off some internet tracking features of chromium like gcm which connects to google servers several times per hour. Anyway, there should be a mand

Why Debian 8.1 has no torrents beyond first 3 DVD ISO images

2015-06-14 Thread arnuld uttre
Hi All, I wanted to download all Debian 8.1 DVD images at my friend's place because I don't have net at home. but all I see are 3 DVD ISO images available on torrents, where as jigdo has available 13 DVD images: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.1.0/amd64/bt-dvd/ http://cdimage.debian.org/de

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Re: remove me

2015-06-14 Thread Frank
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Re: Why Debian 8.1 has no torrents beyond first 3 DVD ISO images

2015-06-14 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 09:45:24PM +0530, arnuld uttre wrote: > Hi All, > > I wanted to download all Debian 8.1 DVD images at my friend's place because > I don't have net at home. but all I see are 3 DVD ISO images available on > torrents, where as jigdo has available 13 DVD images: > > http://cd

Re: Why Debian 8.1 has no torrents beyond first 3 DVD ISO images

2015-06-14 Thread arnuld uttre
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 10:41 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater > wrote: > You probably don't need all DVD images - the first three should be enough to > build you a fairly complete > Debian system. > > The other DVDs include all the other packages - 40,000 or so in total - that > make up Debian but you

Re: Why Debian 8.1 has no torrents beyond first 3 DVD ISO images

2015-06-14 Thread John Hasler
arnuld uttre writes: > Well, I need many packages which normal users don't use, like stumpwm, > ppcre, sbcl, clisp, gcc, mpd, gmpc, feh, theora etc. I have used > Debian Sarge (and in those days I only had CDs) and I noticed some > package I wanted were only in last few CDs You don't need the sour

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-14 Thread Pascal Hambourg
csanyi...@gmail.com a écrit : > Gary Dale writes: > >> On 14/06/15 09:12 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >>> There is no partition to correct. The problem is in the LV bubba/storage >>> and its filesystem. >>> >> If you read the original post, it looks like the e2rsize >> failed. Therefor the only pro

Re: CUPS set-up for the 0.01%

2015-06-14 Thread Brian
On Sun 14 Jun 2015 at 08:03:59 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 12:35:57 +0100 > Brian wrote: > > > The server listens *on* one or more interfaces. Each interface has a > > single network address. 192.168.1.0/24 isn't a single network address. > > ty, i now have access to

Re: systemd equivalent

2015-06-14 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 12:19:30PM +0100, Brian wrote: > I think everyone is trying to point out you have encountered > the age-old Square Peg in a Round Hole conundrum. I knew you wouldn't let me down. *plonk* -- Bob Bernstein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: Why Debian 8.1 has no torrents beyond first 3 DVD ISO images

2015-06-14 Thread Curt
On 2015-06-14, John Hasler wrote: > arnuld uttre writes: >> Well, I need many packages which normal users don't use, like stumpwm, >> ppcre, sbcl, clisp, gcc, mpd, gmpc, feh, theora etc. I have used >> Debian Sarge (and in those days I only had CDs) and I noticed some >> package I wanted were only

Re: systemd equivalent

2015-06-14 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, 14 Jun 2015, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: No, systemd is not supposed to replace standard system utilities. I have never believed nor claimed that it was thus "supposed" to be anything of the sort. I framed a query about it, and various subscribers read into that what they wished. (Als

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-14 Thread csanyipal
Pascal Hambourg writes: > csanyi...@gmail.com a écrit : >> >> Finally, I solved the problem by doing the followings: >> # lvresize --size 455.5G /dev/mapper/bubba-storage >> # e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/bubba-storage > > Glad you were lucky. > >> Now, I can to use parted to resize my partitions. >> W

Re: systemd equivalent

2015-06-14 Thread Brian
On Sun 14 Jun 2015 at 13:51:47 -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 12:19:30PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > I think everyone is trying to point out you have encountered > > the age-old Square Peg in a Round Hole conundrum. > > I knew you wouldn't let me down. *plonk* The objectiv

Re: Problem with Canon FS4000US film scanner and VueScan on Wheezy

2015-06-14 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/14/2015 03:54 AM, Jean-Francois Bosc wrote: Hello, I am trying to find some help for using a (rather old) Canon FS4000US film scanner with VueScan. Here is my problem : I am running Debian Wheezy (32 bits), and I have been using the scanner for quite a while under previous Debian versions

Re: CUPS set-up for the 0.01%

2015-06-14 Thread briand
On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 19:02:34 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Sun 14 Jun 2015 at 08:03:59 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > > On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 12:35:57 +0100 > > Brian wrote: > > > > > The server listens *on* one or more interfaces. Each interface has a > > > single network address. 192.168.1.0/2

Re: CUPS set-up for the 0.01%

2015-06-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 14 June 2015 21:14:00 bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > i am not currently using cups-client, No wonder you can't print with CUPS!! And you blame CUPS.. Sheesh. :-( Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact li

Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-14 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/14/2015 03:29 AM, Bret Busby wrote: On 14/06/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: Check that they support your GPU at all first, sometimes it takes a little time for the open source drivers to implement support for the latest models. nVidia is really bad at releasing documentation that is needed b

Re: social contract should mandate to warn users of tracking by packages like chromium

2015-06-14 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2015-06-14 at 17:47 +0200, pm...@laposte.net wrote: > Hi, the Debian social contract should mandate to warn users of > internet tracking by debian packages like chromium. > > I tried everything and I can't turn off some internet tracking > features of chromium like gcm which connects to

Re: Why Debian 8.1 has no torrents beyond first 3 DVD ISO images

2015-06-14 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2015-06-14 at 18:12 +, Curt wrote: > Without having researched the question, is there a simple way of > knowing > which dvds contain what (a package list or something)? Not a list, but this is handy: http://cdimage-search.debian.org/ -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP

RE: Why Debian 8.1 has no torrents beyond first 3 DVD ISO images

2015-06-14 Thread Arno Schuring
> From: cu...@free.fr > Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2015 18:12:11 + > On 2015-06-14, John Hasler wrote: >> arnuld uttre writes: >>> Well, I need many packages which normal users don't use, like stumpwm, >>> ppcre, sbcl, clisp, gcc, mpd, gmpc, feh, theora etc. I have used >>> Debian Sarge (and in those

Re: social contract should mandate to warn users of tracking by packages like chromium

2015-06-14 Thread Riley Baird
> Hi, the Debian social contract should mandate to warn users of internet > tracking by debian packages like chromium. The social contract isn't easy to change, but it isn't normally necessary to do so. > I tried everything and I can't turn off some internet tracking features of > chromium like

ThinkPad R51 creeping segmentation faults

2015-06-14 Thread Paul Ausbeck
I recently replaced the hard disk in my ThinkPad R51 with a solid state drive and when I did so I installed Debian Wheezy LXDE updated with a 3.16 kernel as one of the boot options. I really am pleased with how the system looks and acts except for a curious instability that occurs increasingly

Re: CUPS set-up for the 0.01%

2015-06-14 Thread briand
On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 21:25:47 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 14 June 2015 21:14:00 bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > i am not currently using cups-client, > > No wonder you can't print with CUPS!! And you blame CUPS.. Sheesh. :-( > > Lisi > > I mean the cups-client config file. which, AFA

Re: Why Debian 8.1 has no torrents beyond first 3 DVD ISO images

2015-06-14 Thread Bob Proulx
arnuld uttre wrote: > I wanted to download all Debian 8.1 DVD images at my friend's place because > I don't have net at home. but all I see are 3 DVD ISO images available on Have you considered using apt-offline? apt-cache show apt-offline apt-offline is an Offline APT Package Manager. a

Re: ThinkPad R51 creeping segmentation faults

2015-06-14 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 02:49:22PM -0700, Paul Ausbeck wrote: > I recently replaced the hard disk in my ThinkPad R51 with a solid state > drive and when I did so I installed Debian Wheezy LXDE updated with a 3.16 > kernel as one of the boot options. I really am pleased with how the system > looks a

Re: ThinkPad R51 creeping segmentation faults

2015-06-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Paul Ausbeck wrote: > I recently replaced the hard disk in my ThinkPad R51 with a solid > state drive The ThinkPad R51 is a solid machine. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. > The symptom is that as time goes on more and more programs will cause a > segmentation fault while loading. For instan

Re: social contract should mandate to warn users of tracking by packages like chromium

2015-06-14 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, 14 Jun 2015, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Sun, 2015-06-14 at 17:47 +0200, pm...@laposte.net wrote: debian-user is probably not the right place for this. The linux-elitists list is very involved with these issues, and the list archives are open to public examination: http://zgp.org/m

Re: CUPS set-up for the 0.01%

2015-06-14 Thread Brian
On Sun 14 Jun 2015 at 15:07:51 -0700, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 21:25:47 +0100 > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Sunday 14 June 2015 21:14:00 bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > > > i am not currently using cups-client, > > > > No wonder you can't print with CUPS!! And you blame CUPS

Apt pinning breaks apt-get update when net is temporarily down

2015-06-14 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, yesterday I noticed something strange in the behavior of apt-get on my debian Jessie system. When I do apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade the system is reported as up to date, no upgrades available - fine. Now I tried and "simulated" a temporarily broken internet connection (just to se

Re: systemd equivalent

2015-06-14 Thread Bob Holtzman
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 07:25:36PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 14 Jun 2015 at 13:51:47 -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 12:19:30PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > > I think everyone is trying to point out you have encountered > > > the age-old Square Peg in a Round Hole con

HP printer not added

2015-06-14 Thread Maureen L Thomas
I upgraded Wheezy to the latest version 7.8.0. Actually I had to reinstall it since the keyboard and mouse quite working and I was unable to log in even in recovery. Anyway, I got it back up and running and I tried to use my printer. I have a cheapy HP 1000 and it worked fine before. When I

Regading an installation experiment

2015-06-14 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
Hello, I would greatly acknowledge you for making me develop a greater understanding of the debian community. Recently, I received a laptop from.one of my friends for repair. Actually,.it doesn't boot properly. I have a copy of DVD 1 of Jessie i386. The laptop has actually an AMD Athlon processor.

Re: Regading an installation experiment

2015-06-14 Thread Kevin Ross
On 6/14/2015 10:06 PM, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: Hello, I would greatly acknowledge you for making me develop a greater understanding of the debian community. Recently, I received a laptop from.one of my friends for repair. Actually,.it doesn't boot properly. I have a copy of DVD 1 of Jessie i

Re: Regading an installation experiment

2015-06-14 Thread Gary Dale
On 14/06/15 10:29 PM, Kevin Ross wrote: On 6/14/2015 10:06 PM, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: Hello, I would greatly acknowledge you for making me develop a greater understanding of the debian community. Recently, I received a laptop from.one of my friends for repair. Actually,.it doesn't boot pro

Re: make oldconfig bzImage

2015-06-14 Thread Dhiraj Bhor
Hi all, I mistakenly replied to only Tomas and not CC'ed the debian-user list in my last mail so forwarding to wider audience. If anyone having solution to this, please jump in. Would be delighted to hear any suggestions. Regards, Dhiraj On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 9:25 PM, wrote: > -BEGIN PGP

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-14 Thread csanyipal
Pascal Hambourg writes: > csanyi...@gmail.com a écrit : >> >> Finally, I solved the problem by doing the followings: >> # lvresize --size 455.5G /dev/mapper/bubba-storage >> # e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/bubba-storage > > Glad you were lucky. > >> Now, I can to use parted to resize my partitions. >> W

Re: Resizing partitions on a headless server

2015-06-14 Thread csanyipal
Pascal Hambourg writes: > csanyi...@gmail.com a écrit : >> >> Finally, I solved the problem by doing the followings: >> # lvresize --size 455.5G /dev/mapper/bubba-storage >> # e2fsck -f /dev/mapper/bubba-storage > > Glad you were lucky. > >> Now, I can to use parted to resize my partitions. >> W