Re: New user having trouble with new install

2015-07-12 Thread Brian
On Sat 11 Jul 2015 at 17:58:57 -0600, Jonathan Levine wrote: > On 7/11/15, Brian wrote: > > > Reinstall; one partition for everything. > > > > The base system is installed next. You have no control over this. > > > > When it comes to installing other software do not install anything. > > Also, d

[solved] Re: Midori crashing

2015-07-12 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > Hi all. > > I'm regularly using Midori on old Hyundai laptop, but once installed it also > on old Pentium III, when pointing it to any web address, it crashes down > while on the terminal the following message appears: > > (midori:2863): GLib-CRITICAL **: Source ID 408 wa

Re: YAGF is a seriously screwed package

2015-07-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 09:01:33PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > >Paul E Condon writes: > >>Just "Hi," has the benefit of fewer key strokes. (;-) And it's > >>suitable even for an email addressed to single potted plant. > >I wrote: > >>I've given up emailing them. They never a

Re: New user having trouble with new install

2015-07-12 Thread David Wright
Quoting Brian (a...@cityscape.co.uk): > I'd be inclined to do > > apt-get install xorg fwvm I assume that's fvwm. > and use 'startx' to test the video in X. Logs are in /var/log. Cheers, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: i915 module bug (was: can't disable Thinkpad touchpad)

2015-07-12 Thread Haines Brown
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 11:45:47PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 11 Jul 2015, Haines Brown wrote: > > At kernel.org, there's available a stable kernel 4.1.2 dated 10 > > July. Although I've never ventured to compile a kernel, I suspect I > > could download the tarball and try

Re: Midori crashing

2015-07-12 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > Rodolfo Medina writes: > >> I'm regularly using Midori on old Hyundai laptop, but once installed it also >> on old Pentium III, when pointing it to any web address, it crashes down >> while on the terminal the following message appears: >> >> (midori:2863): GLib-CRITICAL

Re: CPU slow after running web browser, any command to recover it back again soon?

2015-07-12 Thread Ralph Katz
On 07/11/2015 08:55 PM, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Rodolfo Medina (rodolfo.med...@gmail.com): > >> I simply want to speed >> up the natural process through which the machine itself gets back to working >> normally as before, like someone that breaths with difficulty after a >> tremendous scare

Re: CPU slow after running web browser, any command to recover it back again soon?

2015-07-12 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Ralph Katz writes: > On 07/11/2015 08:55 PM, David Wright wrote: >> Quoting Rodolfo Medina (rodolfo.med...@gmail.com): >> >>> I simply want to speed up the natural process through which the machine >>> itself gets back to working normally as before, like someone that breaths >>> with difficulty

Mea culpa

2015-07-12 Thread Bob Bernstein
I see more clearly now in the light of day that my recently posted flight of fantasy concerning plants, involving, as it did, some of the worst images mankind has suffered to deliver to itself during the past hundred years or so, was an abuse of this list and its subscribers. No one here has a

Gloss on the example of sending authenticated email, was Re: Fetchmail may almost be working in pop3.

2015-07-12 Thread David Wright
I believe in learning by doing, so I posted an example that one can actually do. However, private emails show that it's caused a little confusion. To make it as easy as I could, I wrote the example using the information posted by the OP, and using the OP's own placeholder, SECRET, as the password.

Cron not working

2015-07-12 Thread Haines Brown
This may be a FAQ, but it has me stumped. I try to do a weekly backup with this, but nothing happens, and there is nothing in syslog: # crontab -l 0 4 * * 0 /home/haines/scripts/backup I can run the script manually with # /home/haines/scripts/backup. Cron daemon is running: $ ps -ef | gr

Re: Cron not working

2015-07-12 Thread Dan Purgert
On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 13:02:43 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > This may be a FAQ, but it has me stumped. I try to do a weekly backup > with this, but nothing happens, and there is nothing in syslog: > > # crontab -l 0 4 * * 0 /home/haines/scripts/backup > > I can run the script manually with # /hom

Re: Cron not working

2015-07-12 Thread Miles Fidelman
Dan Purgert wrote: On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 13:02:43 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: This may be a FAQ, but it has me stumped. I try to do a weekly backup with this, but nothing happens, and there is nothing in syslog: # crontab -l 0 4 * * 0 /home/haines/scripts/backup I can run the script manually

Re: Cron not working

2015-07-12 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Sun, 2015-07-12 at 13:02 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > This may be a FAQ, but it has me stumped. I try to do a weekly backup > with this, but nothing happens, and there is nothing in syslog: > > # crontab -l > 0 4 * * 0 /home/haines/scripts/backup > > I can run the script manually with

Re: i915 module bug (was: can't disable Thinkpad touchpad)

2015-07-12 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 08:04:31 -0400 Haines Brown wrote: > On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 11:45:47PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Jul 2015, Haines Brown wrote: > > > At kernel.org, there's available a stable kernel 4.1.2 dated 10 > > > July. Although I've never ventured to comp

Suspend does not work on Debian Jessie

2015-07-12 Thread Andrej Kastrin
Today I observed that suspend sometimes (on each third suspend approximately) does not work properly in freshly installed Debian Jessie. After executing suspend (Alt + Shut Down button) the following message appears on black screen:Loading, please wait... The syslog is as follows. I kindly as fo

Re: Cron not working

2015-07-12 Thread Haines Brown
On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 05:11:21PM +, Dan Purgert wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 13:02:43 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > > > This may be a FAQ, but it has me stumped. I try to do a weekly backup > > with this, but nothing happens, and there is nothing in syslog: > > > > # crontab -l 0 4 * * 0 /

Re: Cron not working

2015-07-12 Thread Dan Purgert
On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 14:22:22 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 05:11:21PM +, Dan Purgert wrote: >> On Sun, 12 Jul 2015 13:02:43 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: >> >> > This may be a FAQ, but it has me stumped. I try to do a weekly backup >> > with this, but nothing happens, and

Re: Cron not working

2015-07-12 Thread Haines Brown
On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 01:37:12PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Dan Purgert wrote: > It could also be as simple as a permissions issue. > > If your syslog isn't showing anything, you might want to push up > your logging level. Thanks Miles. I don't know how permissions might come in because the

Re: Cron not working

2015-07-12 Thread Haines Brown
On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 06:33:40PM +, Dan Purgert wrote: > Perhaps "environment variable" was the wrong phrase. I've run into > issues with cron jobs if I don't have it calling #!/bin/bash at the top > (or #!/bin/[whatever]) ... running from a local terminal doesn't catch it > because "sh s

Re: Cron not working

2015-07-12 Thread Sven Hartge
Haines Brown wrote: > This may be a FAQ, but it has me stumped. I try to do a weekly backup > with this, but nothing happens, and there is nothing in syslog: > # crontab -l > 0 4 * * 0 /home/haines/scripts/backup Is this the only line in that crontab? The default Vixie-cron has the oddity

Re: Cron not working

2015-07-12 Thread David Wright
Quoting Haines Brown (hai...@histomat.net): > On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 06:33:40PM +, Dan Purgert wrote: > > Perhaps "environment variable" was the wrong phrase. I've run into > > issues with cron jobs if I don't have it calling #!/bin/bash at the top > > (or #!/bin/[whatever]) ... running fro

Comments on Lenovo desktops

2015-07-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
Has anyone any comments on either or both of these two for a simple desktop? Email, word processing, browsing, simple photo-editing, recording etc. http://www.ebuyer.com/658955-lenovo-thinkcentre-e50-00-twr-desktop-90bx001huk http://www.ebuyer.com/658956-lenovo-e50-desktop-pc-90bx0018uk I norm

Re: Comments on Lenovo desktops

2015-07-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 12 July 2015 23:09:46 Lisi Reisz wrote: > Has anyone any comments on either or both of these two for a simple > desktop? Email, word processing, browsing, simple photo-editing, recording > etc. > > http://www.ebuyer.com/658955-lenovo-thinkcentre-e50-00-twr-desktop-90bx001h >uk > > http://

Re: writing to an external USB3 HD

2015-07-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/07/15 04:50 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 11/07/15 11:40 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 11/07/15 06:41 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: On Sat, 11 Jul 2015 04:53:42 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: Further to the issue, the problem is triggered by reading from the disk. I can copy files onto the disk without problems

Re: Comments on Lenovo desktops

2015-07-12 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi Lisi, On 13/07/2015 8:48 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > But I don't like the loook of this: > Trusted Platform Module (TPM 1.2) Security Chip > Again, comments please. I would be more concerned Lenovo for other reasons; helping customers with spyware MITM SSL certs for that reason alone, even tho

Varnish

2015-07-12 Thread Gokan Atmaca
Hello I'm using Debian 8. Varnish I installed 4.0.3. A kind of "html, jpeg, png" file not run from my memory. PHP files are running. Sample configuration; http://paste.debian.net/281658/

Re: writing to an external USB3 HD

2015-07-12 Thread Gary Dale
On 12/07/15 08:45 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 11/07/15 04:50 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 11/07/15 11:40 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 11/07/15 06:41 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: On Sat, 11 Jul 2015 04:53:42 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: Further to the issue, the problem is triggered by reading from the disk. I can co

Re: writing to an external USB3 HD

2015-07-12 Thread gautam chekuri
=> I had problems with a large USB 3.0 (3TB and over) external hard-drive. => I have ext3 file system on a drive and I had a single partition for the entire drive. Initially, when the data on the drive was less it would mount (and read/write) fine. When the drive disk space was used up over 70%,