Re: Installing newer kernels

2016-03-23 Thread chrisb
On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 06:40:18PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 03/18/2016 02:13 PM, Curt wrote: > >I have never had a failed dist-upgrade. Of course, you gotta follow the > >goddamn directions, do about five or ten minutes of reading of the > >appropriate material, which isn't too much to

Re: Installing newer kernels

2016-03-23 Thread chrisb
On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 10:52:25PM +, Brian wrote: > William Lee Valentine's only post is about installing newer kernels and > has nothing to with booting a Debian image. Which probably means he wasn't subscribed. :( -- The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to m

Issues running Synaptic on Wayland

2016-03-23 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
I tried running Synaptic on Wayland, received error "Cannot open display 0.0" . It works fine on native XServer. Any solutions ? Debian Stretch; Synaptic Version 0.83+b1 Regards Himanshu Shekhar

Monitor complains on my grub resolution..

2016-03-23 Thread German
Whenever I boot in the system, while in grub, messages pops up on my monitor that I operate in 800x600 while preferred resolution is 1920x1080. After I got login prompt or in the system itself I god 1920x1080. But do I do with monitor message when it is in grub? Can grub go to 1920x1080 resolution

Re: Issues running Synaptic on Wayland

2016-03-23 Thread arian
On 23.03.2016 09:23, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > I tried running Synaptic on Wayland, received error "Cannot open display 0.0" > . > It works fine on native XServer. > Any solutions ? it tries to connect to X - do you have GDK_BACKEND=wayland set? Anyway, if synaptic does does not work with wayla

Re: x86_64 vs i386

2016-03-23 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sun, 20 Mar 2016 18:52:03 +0100 Christian Seiler wrote: > On 03/20/2016 06:45 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > One of the problems I have is architecture related, synaptic thinks > > for some unfathomable to me reason, that this is an i386 machine. > > But its not, currently running kernel 3.16.0-0

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-23 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sun, 20 Mar 2016 14:26:25 + Brian wrote: > On Sun 20 Mar 2016 at 17:08:11 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > > > On Sun, 20 Mar 2016 12:19:55 + > > Brian wrote: > > > > > On Sun 20 Mar 2016 at 12:08:02 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 14:20:03 -0500 > > > >

systemd troubleshooting (was ... Re: computer cann't shut down)

2016-03-23 Thread chrisb
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 10:44:24AM -0700, Lotek wrote: > On 03/19/2016 05:40 AM, lina wrote: > >Every time since I installed the system, > > > >every time I tried Shut Down, it mainly restart again. > > > >I checked online and tried several methods but still don't work. > > > >Can anyone suggest me

Re: Issues running Synaptic on Wayland

2016-03-23 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
On Mar 23, 2016 2:34 PM, "arian" wrote: > > > > On 23.03.2016 09:23, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > > I tried running Synaptic on Wayland, received error "Cannot open display 0.0" . > > It works fine on native XServer. > > Any solutions ? > it tries to connect to X - do you have > GDK_BACKEND=wayland >

Re: How to enable config in Kernel on boot?

2016-03-23 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
Yayy! I updated my system yesterday, which included updating kernel to version 4.4. Now, wifi switch works. Regards Himanshu Shekhar

Re: Issues running Synaptic on Wayland

2016-03-23 Thread arian
> How do I start XWayland? I think it depends on your compositor, but should be mentioned in most wayland getting started guides. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-23 Thread Brian
On Mon 21 Mar 2016 at 07:28:07 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote: > You wrote "contraining". I was asking whether you meant "constraining", > or whether "contraining" was some specialised technical vocabulary used > to describe an implied inverse correlation between two historical > trends. > > "Constrain

Re: Monitor complains on my grub resolution..

2016-03-23 Thread David Wright
On Wed 23 Mar 2016 at 04:46:23 (-0400), German wrote: > Whenever I boot in the system, while in grub, messages pops up on my > monitor that I operate in 800x600 while preferred resolution is > 1920x1080. After I got login prompt or in the system itself I god > 1920x1080. But do I do with monitor me

Re: Monitor complains on my grub resolution..

2016-03-23 Thread German
On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 07:33:29 -0500 David Wright wrote: > On Wed 23 Mar 2016 at 04:46:23 (-0400), German wrote: > > Whenever I boot in the system, while in grub, messages pops up on my > > monitor that I operate in 800x600 while preferred resolution is > > 1920x1080. After I got login prompt or in

Re: systemd troubleshooting (was ... Re: computer cann't shut down)

2016-03-23 Thread David Wright
On Wed 23 Mar 2016 at 21:53:15 (+1300), chrisb@localhost.localdomain wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 10:44:24AM -0700, Lotek wrote: > > On 03/19/2016 05:40 AM, lina wrote: > > >Every time since I installed the system, > > > > > >every time I tried Shut Down, it mainly restart again. > > > > > >I c

Re: Monitor complains on my grub resolution..

2016-03-23 Thread David Wright
On Wed 23 Mar 2016 at 08:52:46 (-0400), German wrote: > On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 07:33:29 -0500 > David Wright wrote: > > > On Wed 23 Mar 2016 at 04:46:23 (-0400), German wrote: > > > Whenever I boot in the system, while in grub, messages pops up on my > > > monitor that I operate in 800x600 while pre

Re: systemd troubleshooting (was ... Re: computer cann't shut down)

2016-03-23 Thread John Hasler
David Wright writes: > you have to take on trust, or check, that bar="some value" is > the default configured, or set elsewhere, for foo. OTOH, when > you copy /lib/systemd/system/... to /etc, you know you've got > hold of the default configuration. IOW, it's self-documenting. Why is that better t

Error with Apache MPM itk

2016-03-23 Thread Olivier Desport
Hi, I'm using mpm_itk module (on Apache 2.4.10 - Debian Jessie) but the web server returns 403 errors : [Wed Mar 23 12:03:35.303631 2016] [core:error] [pid 18224] (13)Permission denied: [client 172.31.130.36:54815] AH00035: access to /favicon.ico denied (filesystem path '/var/www/portail/fav

Re: Error with Apache MPM itk

2016-03-23 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 02:41:14PM +0100, Olivier Desport wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using mpm_itk module (on Apache 2.4.10 - Debian Jessie) but the > web server returns 403 errors : > > [Wed Mar 23 12:03:35.303631 2016] [core:error] [pid 18224] > (13)Perm

Re: Error with Apache MPM itk

2016-03-23 Thread Olivier Desport
Hi Thomas, I don't want to set 755 permissions to this folder for security reasons. It worked well like this (750) with Wheezy/Apache 2.2 and I want to keep my settings. Le 23/03/2016 15:02, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 0

Re: systemd troubleshooting (was ... Re: computer cann't shut down)

2016-03-23 Thread David Wright
On Wed 23 Mar 2016 at 08:16:18 (-0500), John Hasler wrote: > David Wright writes: > > you have to take on trust, or check, that bar="some value" is > > the default configured, or set elsewhere, for foo. OTOH, when > > you copy /lib/systemd/system/... to /etc, you know you've got > > hold of the def

Re: Error with Apache MPM itk

2016-03-23 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 03:48:41PM +0100, Olivier Desport wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > I don't want to set 755 permissions to this folder for security > reasons. It worked well like this (750) with Wheezy/Apache 2.2 and I > want to keep my settings. Whate

Re: wordpress from packages - wp-content location not applied?

2016-03-23 Thread Jean-Louis Mas
Le 19/03/2016 14:31, Jiri 'Ghormoon' Novak a écrit : > what may I be missing, if the configuration that came with wordpress > package doesn't apply correctly? > there is: /usr/share/wordpress/wp-config.php: > define('WP_CONTENT_DIR', '/var/lib/wordpress/wp-content'); > > but that doesn't have

Re: wordpress from packages - wp-content location not applied?

2016-03-23 Thread Jiri 'Ghormoon' Novak
Jean-Louis Mas wrote: > Le 19/03/2016 14:31, Jiri 'Ghormoon' Novak a écrit : > >> what may I be missing, if the configuration that came with wordpress >> package doesn't apply correctly? >> there is: /usr/share/wordpress/wp-config.php: >> define('WP_CONTENT_DIR', '/var/lib/wordpress/wp-content')

Re: Error with Apache MPM itk

2016-03-23 Thread Olivier Desport
It's true that Apache is running under www-data group on Jessie : root 11718 0.0 3.4 446260 35680 ?Ss 15:03 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 11722 0.0 1.3 446292 13424 ?S15:03 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start www-data 11723 0.0 1.3 446292 13424 ?

Configuration to support login restrictions in LightDM with pam_time(8)

2016-03-23 Thread Darren S.
Greetings, Debian GNU/Linux 8.3 (jessie) lightdm 1.10.3-3 lightdm-gtk-greeter 1.8.5-2 I currently have a configuration in place using pam_time(8) to enforce user login times at the Linux console (i.e. against the PAM login(1) service). This entry works in this case: # /etc/pam.d/login account r

ANNOUNCEMENT: AMD processor microcode security update

2016-03-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
THIS ANNOUNCEMENT IS ONLY RELEVANT TO SYSTEMS THAT HAVE AMD PILEDRIVER MICROPROCESSORS (AMD-FX, and AMD Opteron 3300 / 4300 / 6300). AMD has released a microcode update that fixes a severe fault (also known as "erratum") on AMD Piledriver processors. This erratum can cause dangerous system instab

Re: Does anyone know how to configure a Brother MFC-J5720DW with cups?

2016-03-23 Thread Brian
On Wed 16 Mar 2016 at 16:14:47 +, Brian wrote: > On Wed 16 Mar 2016 at 12:06:40 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Wednesday 16 March 2016 10:12:59 Brian wrote: > > > > > Now find a *small* PDF file and send it directly to the printer with > > > netcat: > > > > > > nc 192.168.71.20 9100 <

Re: Error with Apache MPM itk

2016-03-23 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 04:40:57PM +0100, Olivier Desport wrote: > It's true that Apache is running under www-data group on Jessie : [...] > But on Wheezy, Apache is running under root, so I don't have to give > execute access to the folder : [...]

Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script

2016-03-23 Thread David Wright
On Tue 22 Mar 2016 at 22:35:32 (+), Russell Gadd wrote: > On 22/03/16 19:00, The Wanderer wrote: > >... > > > >How did you test? By launching a new terminal (with bash set as your > >default shell), by running the command 'bash' in an existing terminal, > >by logging all of the way out (to the

Re: User's bin path not recognised in login script

2016-03-23 Thread The Wanderer
On 2016-03-23 at 20:23, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 22 Mar 2016 at 22:35:32 (+), Russell Gadd wrote: > >> On 22/03/16 19:00, The Wanderer wrote: >>> Also, at least on my system, ~/.bashrc is invoked only by being >>> sourced from ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile. Unless your system is >>> conf

Re: repositories frozen since Mar 20th?

2016-03-23 Thread David Wright
On Tue 22 Mar 2016 at 12:45:46 (+0100), Sven Hartge wrote: > Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > > > Any clue to why the debian repositories, especially testing and sid, > > seem to be unchanged since Mar 20th? > > Maybe this has something to do with the removal of the SHA1 checksums in > the Release fil

Re: Throughput riddle

2016-03-23 Thread David Christensen
On 03/21/2016 09:28 PM, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 20 Mar 2016 21:49:43 -0700 David Christensen wrote: 4. The laptop TX bytes (1.2 GiB) and NAS RX bytes (731.5 MiB) do not correlate well. Why would [laptop TX bytes and NAS RX bytes] match? You want to devise experiments that isolate and measur

Re: Sudo

2016-03-23 Thread Thomas D Dial
On 03/20/2016 10:30 PM, Michael Milliman wrote: > On 03/20/2016 03:26 AM, Adam Wilson wrote: >> On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 19:30:57 + >> Joe wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 19:57:56 +0100 >>> Sven Arvidsson wrote: >>> On Sat, 2016-03-19 at 18:38 +, Joe wrote: > I've never seen sudo in

Re: Installing newer kernels

2016-03-23 Thread David Christensen
On 03/23/2016 12:44 AM, chrisb@localhost.localdomain wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 06:40:18PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: I'm not a good Debian owner. I download and install 3rd party software. I modify system configuration files. As do most of us. An upgrade won't overwrite configurati

Re: Installing newer kernels

2016-03-23 Thread John Hasler
David Christensen writes: > If I am running version N, have changed the configuration file to M', > and then upgrade to version N+1, you're saying dist-upgrade throws > away +X and -Y. I may want or need those. The package management system will notice that you have changed the file. You will be

Re: Throughput riddle

2016-03-23 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 18:48:23 -0700 David Christensen wrote: > On 03/21/2016 09:28 PM, Celejar wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Mar 2016 21:49:43 -0700 > > David Christensen wrote: > >> 4. The laptop TX bytes (1.2 GiB) and NAS RX bytes (731.5 MiB) do not > >> correlate well. > > > > Why would [laptop TX by

Re: Installing newer kernels

2016-03-23 Thread David Christensen
On 03/23/2016 07:46 PM, John Hasler wrote: David Christensen writes: If I am running version N, have changed the configuration file to M', and then upgrade to version N+1, you're saying dist-upgrade throws away +X and -Y. I may want or need those. The package management system will notice tha