Re: X not working after apt-get upgrade on sid

On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 02:44:10 + (UTC) John DeVito wrote: > I ran into an issue today where X is not working after andupgrade of > Stretch.  The pervasive errorI am seeing is related to dbus-core. > Xorg.0.log says ... Failed to connect to > socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket.  Manual attem

Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 09:03:20PM -0400, Doug wrote: > > > On 10/28/2015 12:39 AM, David Christensen wrote: > >On 10/27/2015 06:10 PM, David Christensen wrote: > >>You are free to study the source code and help the OP solve his problem. > > > >Sorry

Re: Fwd: Re: System craches when browsing a web site

On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 22:02 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > Forwarded to unsubscribed OP > Lisi I keep forgetting, thanks for doing this! -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 09:03:20PM -0400, Doug wrote: > I am not a programmer. (I am also not a user of Debian, but I do keep > a watch here to see what might be going on in the other popular > distros.) So I feel it is reasonable to put this out to the readers of > this list: > > What percentage

Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 09:03:20PM -0400, Doug wrote: > What percentage of Debian users does anyone reading this believe to be able > to read the source code (if they even know where to look to find it) and then > to modify it to suit their needs? Surely Linux was a programmer's > wonderland when i

Re: System craches when browsing a web site

Forwarded to unsubscribed OP. On Wednesday 28 October 2015 01:56:08 Charlie Kravetz wrote: > On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 20:48:06 +0100 > > Sven Arvidsson wrote: > >On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 14:30 +0100, Peter Ludikovsky wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I've looked into that issue a bit futher, and as far as I c

Re: Fwd: Re: System craches when browsing a web site

On Wednesday 28 October 2015 08:19:50 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 22:02 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Forwarded to unsubscribed OP > > Lisi > > I keep forgetting, thanks for doing this! You're welcome. It's terribly difficult to remember. Or very easy to forget. I am over-sens

Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume

On Wednesday 28 October 2015 01:03:20 Doug wrote: > it is now a system which even grandmothers are using. Hey!! Ada Lovelace was a grandmother. Lisi

Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume

On 28/10/15 11:14, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 28 October 2015 01:03:20 Doug wrote: it is now a system which even grandmothers are using. Hey!! Ada Lovelace was a grandmother. Not while she was alive; sadly, she died before any of her children had children of their own.

Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume

On Wednesday 28 October 2015 12:30:29 Martin Read wrote: > On 28/10/15 11:14, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 28 October 2015 01:03:20 Doug wrote: > >> it is now a system which even grandmothers are using. > > > > Hey!! Ada Lovelace was a grandmother. > > Not while she was alive; sadly, she die

Re: Fwd: Re: System craches when browsing a web site

On Wed, 2015-10-28 at 10:57 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > --  Forwarded Message  -- > > Subject: Re: System craches when browsing a web site > Date: Wednesday 28 October 2015, 01:56:08 > From: Charlie Kravetz > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 20:48:06 +0100

Re: Fwd: Re: System craches when browsing a web site

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 11:02:51AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: [...] > You're welcome. It's terribly difficult to remember. Or very easy to > forget. > I am over-sensitive to it at the moment, after my recent "discussion" on the > subject of CC's.

Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume

Lisi writes: > Yes, very sad - but I don't believe that, had she lived, she would > have turned into a clueless, helpless individual who couldn't use a > computer without the aid of a male. Not a male, a young person. The myth is that everyone over 60 is clueless when it comes to "technology" and

after update kde (plasma) will not start any more

Dear list, after the last update, kde will not start any more (debian/testing). I believe, it is related to one or more libs, so I send the log of my latest update: = == [UPGRADE] at-spi2-core:i386 2.18.0-1 -> 2.18.1-1

Re: RealTek RTL8192EU drivers

For Realtek drivers, you can checkout one on Realtek Driver Download Center Regards Himanshu Shekhar IIIT-Allahabad IRM2015006

Re: Regarding Hotspot configuration

It supports AP mode, as I have used the stuff when I worked on Windows with Connectify. Possibly, this is a driver issue, as "wl" driver may not be supporting AP mode. However, I tried to download drivers from http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11 for this device, "43142", but received errors in

Re: Fwd: Re: System craches when browsing a web site

Am 28.10.2015 um 14:27 schrieb Abou Al Montacir: > On Wed, 2015-10-28 at 10:57 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >>> Only tried 3.16.3 so far, would be interesting to know how it works >>> with 3.14 and 3.18, and other browsers using WebKit. >> >> Midori 0.5.11 is using WebKit. It works without crashing.

Re: System craches when browsing a web site

On Wednesday 28 October 2015 13:26:10 Abou Al Montacir wrote: >On Wednesday 28 October 2015 01:56:08 Charlie Kravetz wrote: > On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 20:48:06 +0100 > > Sven Arvidsson wrote: > >On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 14:30 +0100, Peter Ludikovsky wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I've looked into that issu

Re: Installation Problem

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 06:56:51PM +0400, Ssov Samoht wrote: Hello, Ive recently been trying to install Debian Kali Linux and it takes me a long time to install it but when its done it just goes back to the starting screen and all i can select it Install Advanced Options Help Install with s

Installation Problem

Hello, Ive recently been trying to install Debian Kali Linux and it takes me a long time to install it but when its done it just goes back to the starting screen and all i can select it Install Advanced Options Help Install with speech synthesis Please help me ):

Re: Installation Problem

Hi, this list is for Debian and not for Kali itself. But I will make a guess and say eject the ISO from your (virtual) drive. ;) Cheers Flo Am 28.10.15 um 15:56 schrieb Ssov Samoht: > Hello, > > Ive recently been trying to install Debian Kali Linux and it takes me a long > time to install it

Re: Installation Problem

On Wednesday 28 October 2015 14:56:51 Ssov Samoht wrote: > Hello, > > Ive recently been trying to install Debian Kali Linux "Debian Kali Linux" doesn't actually exist. Debian GNU/Linux exists. Kali Linux exists. Kali Linux is based on Debian (how loosely??). Debian != Kali. > and it takes m

Re: Debian

On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 11:37:53 -0700 Franklin Presley III wrote: > Sent from my iPad And ? Cheers, Ron. -- The difference between science and the fuzzy subject is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

Re: [OT] Linux for Lettuce

On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 12:50:04 +0200 "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > Monsanto's problem is not with getting patents but with > getting permission for their gene manipulated seeds. > Germans mistrust the genetech propaganda because it resembles > the nuclear power propaganda from decades ago. > Same liars

Re: Regarding Hotspot configuration

On Wednesday 28 October 2015 14:53:11 Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > but > received errors in installing them but received errors. And the error messages were? Lisi

Re: Fwd: Re: System craches when browsing a web site

On Wednesday 28 October 2015 12:54:08 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 11:02:51AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > [...] > > > You're welcome. It's terribly difficult to remember. Or very easy to > > forget. I am over-sensitive to i

Re: Debian

>> Sent from my iPad > And ? Indeed, Reminds me of the annoying successful Intel marketing slogan, which was nicely subverted by "Looks good from the outside, but ...". We could similarly add before the above marketing phrase something like "Sounds coherent except that it's ...". Stefa

Re: after update kde (plasma) will not start any more

Try this to see if it works: The solution is to downgrade libqt5x11extras5 to libqt5x11extras5_5.4.2-2+b1_amd64 (or 385 if your system is 32bit). You should find libqt5x11extras5_5.4.2-2+b1_amd64.deb in the /var/cache/apt/archives directory if you haven't run "apt-get clean" recently. Mine was

Re: Regarding Hotspot configuration

/home/himanshu/Downloads/broadcom43142/hybrid_wl/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c: In function ‘wl_dump_ver’: /home/himanshu/Downloads/broadcom43142/hybrid_wl/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c:2049:3: error: macro "__DATE__" might prevent reproducible builds [-Werror=date-time] __DATE__, __TIME__, EPI_VERSION_STR);

Re: [OT] Linux for Lettuce

Hi, i wrote: > > Monsanto's problem is not with getting patents but with > > getting permission for their gene manipulated seeds. Ron wrote: > Problem is not with their genetically modified stuff, but with their refusal > to let GM stuff be labelled as such. That's a slightly different (off-)top

Re: Recommendations for interactive use shell

On 28/10/15 17:30, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: Hello. For interactive use, I have only seriously used Bash and Fish . Oh, yes; from that web site: "Finally, a command line shell for the 90s" Woo, cutting edge, or what! -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderh

Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume

On Wednesday 28 October 2015 13:31:31 John Hasler wrote: > Lisi writes: > > Yes, very sad - but I don't believe that, had she lived, she would > > have turned into a clueless, helpless individual who couldn't use a > > computer without the aid of a male. > > Not a male, a young person. The myth is

Re: Fwd: Re: System craches when browsing a web site

> > Midori 0.5.11 is using WebKit. It works without crashing. > > > > This means probably that the bug is in epiphany and not webkit. It's a problem with the Gtk+ backend of WebKit. If you follow the bug I filed it was closed with a link here: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126122 --

Recommendations for interactive use shell

Hello. For interactive use, I have only seriously used Bash and Fish . I would like to try more shells which have features useful for interactive use. I am interested in good autocompletion modes, and features that allow me to browse and "cd" faster within the file tre

Re: after update kde (plasma) will not start any more

Am Mittwoch, 28. Oktober 2015, 12:53:05 schrieb Bob Weber: > Try this to see if it works: Hi Bob, > > The solution is to downgrade libqt5x11extras5 to > libqt5x11extras5_5.4.2-2+b1_amd64 (or 385 if your system is 32bit). > > You should find libqt5x11extras5_5.4.2-2+b1_amd64.deb in the > /var/cach

Re: Regarding Hotspot configuration

On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 13:17 -0700, Matt Ventura wrote: > What card is it? Intel Centrino 2230. > With my Intel 7260 (which works as an AP if I use hostapd directly), > n-m only wants to create an ad-hoc network. > Does it present you with the option to create an AP mode network? There's not real

Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

The older Dell laptop that I use for my mobile work has a broken internal WiFi adapter. I'd like to get a recommendation on a USB "stick" type adapter that plays well with Debian and Linux in general. Since I have nothing now I'd just as soon get one that covers as many WiFi modes as is pract

Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume

Lisi writes: > But grandmothers get maligned far more often than grandfathers. They just get mentioned more often. Grandfathers are mostly ignored. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: System craches when browsing a web site

On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 15:53:53 +0100 Michael Biebl wrote: >Am 28.10.2015 um 14:27 schrieb Abou Al Montacir: >> On Wed, 2015-10-28 at 10:57 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> Only tried 3.16.3 so far, would be interesting to know how it works with 3.14 and 3.18, and other browsers using WebKit.

Debian Stretch: Gnome - Virt Console switching -- freezes

Hi, has anybody else had problems of instability when running Stretch with GNOME? If I've been working on the GUI a while and then hop between virtual console and GUI: Ctrl-Alt-F1 Ctrl-Alt-F7 Ctrl-Alt-F1 Ctrl-Alt-F7 Ctrl-Alt-F1 Ctrl-Alt-F7 ... my system freezes! To tell you the truth... that

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

On Wed, 2015-10-28 at 15:03 -0500, Tim McDonough wrote: > The older Dell laptop that I use for my mobile work has a broken > internal WiFi adapter. I'd like to get a recommendation on a USB > "stick" > type adapter that plays well with Debian and Linux in general. Since > I > have nothing now I'

Re: Recommendations for interactive use shell

El 28/10/15 a las 12:02, Tony van der Hoff escribió: On 28/10/15 17:30, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: Hello. For interactive use, I have only seriously used Bash and Fish . Oh, yes; from that web site: "Finally, a command line shell for the 90s" Woo, cutting edge, or wha

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

El 28/10/15 a las 14:03, Tim McDonough escribió: The older Dell laptop that I use for my mobile work has a broken internal WiFi adapter. I'd like to get a recommendation on a USB "stick" type adapter that plays well with Debian and Linux in general. Since I have nothing now I'd just as soon get

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

On 10/28/2015 04:03 PM, Tim McDonough wrote: The older Dell laptop that I use for my mobile work has a broken internal WiFi adapter. I'd like to get a recommendation on a USB "stick" type adapter that plays well with Debian and Linux in general. Since I have nothing now I'd just as soon get

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

On Wed, October 28, 2015 3:03 pm, Tim McDonough wrote: > The older Dell laptop that I use for my mobile work has a broken > internal WiFi adapter. I'd like to get a recommendation on a USB "stick" > type adapter that plays well with Debian and Linux in general. Since I > have nothing now I'd just a

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

On Wed, October 28, 2015 1:46 pm, Doug wrote: > I recently bought an adapter fro an old Dell that I couldn't get the > Broadcom driver to work on. The adapter hardly stuck out above the > surface where the USB port was. It worked, but it had very limited range. The antennas on WiFi routers typical

Re: System craches when browsing a web site

Am 28.10.2015 um 20:56 schrieb Charlie Kravetz: > On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 15:53:53 +0100 > Michael Biebl wrote: > >> No, midori and ephiphany use different versions of WebKit. >> midori uses WebKit1 (libwebkigtgtk-1.0-0), epiphany the newer WebKit2 >> (libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37) .. > Thank you for that

Re: Release-Critical Bugs Graph for the Past Year

On Tue, 27 Oct 2015, Hörmetjan Yiltiz wrote: > I am now in a habit of checking the release-critical graph before doing > upgrade (I don't upgrade very often) along with apt-list-bugs. > > We have a bug graphs for the past month, all history and the default. Do we > also have one for the past year?

Re: after update kde (plasma) will not start any more

On 10/28/2015 03:46 PM, Hans wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 28. Oktober 2015, 12:53:05 schrieb Bob Weber: >> Try this to see if it works: > Hi Bob, >> The solution is to downgrade libqt5x11extras5 to >> libqt5x11extras5_5.4.2-2+b1_amd64 (or 385 if your system is 32bit). >> >> You should find libqt5x11extras

Re: System craches when browsing a web site

On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 01:16:25 +0100 Michael Biebl wrote: >Am 28.10.2015 um 20:56 schrieb Charlie Kravetz: >> On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 15:53:53 +0100 >> Michael Biebl wrote: >> >>> No, midori and ephiphany use different versions of WebKit. >>> midori uses WebKit1 (libwebkigtgtk-1.0-0), epiphany the

Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 6:50 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > Lots of replies on a subject you don't know the answer for ;) > > The efforts so far have been, - recreated the logical volume with the same drives (as well as the one that had failed previously and now seemed to be working and is back

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

> http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1114662-REG/asus_90ig01c1_ba_wireless_ac1300_usb_adapter.html > http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1025036-REG/asus_usb_ac56_wireless_ac1200_db.html Any word on how well they work on GNU/Linux? E.g. is the driver fully supported in the mainline kern

Suggested apt-get dist-upgrade.........

It was suggested that someone [lost the email] upgrade their system with apt-get dist-upgrade? I suppose depending on what packages are installed on a system would suggest which of these bugs could be problematical: Summary: libreoffice(2 bugs), akonadi-server(1 bug), libkf5auth5(1 bug), libqt

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

On Wed, October 28, 2015 7:59 pm, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1114662-REG/asus_90ig01c1_ba_ >> wireless_ac1300_usb_adapter.html > >> http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1025036-REG/asus_usb_ac56_wireles >> s_ac1200_db.html > > Any word on how well they work

Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume

On 10/28/2015 05:57 PM, Anton Bizzarri wrote: The efforts so far have been, - recreated the logical volume with the same drives (as well as the one that had failed previously and now seemed to be working and is back in the same place). - I can see the logical volume in lvm as well as the device

Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume

On 10/28/2015 07:27 PM, David Christensen wrote: Check UUID's again To clarify -- check UUID's against /dev/sd* assignments. David

Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume

On 10/28/2015 05:52 PM, Anton Bizzarri wrote: Yes, you pretty much nailed it. It's an easily $200 solution but (some) clients can't be bothered to spend it. I am not going to buy them a $200 external drive out of my pocket. Agreed. But, there's nothing like a business data loss event to conv

Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 9:30 PM, David Christensen < dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote: > > Agreed. But, there's nothing like a business data loss event to convert > them to the backup religion. If budget is an issue, there are several > "free" (as in beer) cloud storage and/or backup services to

Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume

On 10/28/2015 07:40 PM, Anton Bizzarri wrote: I will try the Debian lvm2 community. What is the URL? I am trying testdisk[1]. i want to exhaust all options before i decide to start rearranging the drives and resetting BIOSs' and CMOSs'. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk The featur

Re: Recommendations for interactive use shell

I prefer zsh with oh-my-zsh and some customizations. It's bash-like enough and has been refreshing :) On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Mario Castelán Castro < marioxcc...@yandex.com> wrote: > Hello. > > For interactive use, I have only seriously used Bash and Fish < > http://fishshell.com/>. > >

Re: Recommendations for interactive use shell

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > Hello. > > For interactive use, I have only seriously used Bash and Fish > . > > I would like to try more shells which have features useful for interactive > use. I highly recommend zsh. It has superb auto comp

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

On 10/28/2015 9:15 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Wed, October 28, 2015 7:59 pm, Stefan Monnier wrote: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1114662-REG/asus_90ig01c1_ba_ wireless_ac1300_usb_adapter.html http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1025036-REG/asus_usb_ac56_wireles s_ac1200_d

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 15:03:10 -0500, Tim McDonough wrote: > The older Dell laptop that I use for my mobile work has a broken > internal WiFi adapter. I'd like to get a recommendation on a USB "stick" > type adapter that plays well with Debian and Linux in general. Since I > have nothing now I'd

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

On 10/29/2015 01:05 AM, moxalt wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 15:03:10 -0500, Tim McDonough wrote: The older Dell laptop that I use for my mobile work has a broken internal WiFi adapter. I'd like to get a recommendation on a USB "stick" type adapter that plays well with Debian and Linux in gener

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

On Thu, October 29, 2015 12:05 am, moxalt wrote: > https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-dual-band-usb-a > dapter-gnu-linux-tpe-nusbdb > > https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-usb-adapter-gnu > -linux-tpe-n150usb > > https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/pe