Re: First hint as to why kaffeine won't rx tv

2016-06-05 Thread Alexandre GRIVEAUX
Hi, Maybe a firmware you need ? Maybe found inside firmware-linux-nonfree. Le 05/06/2016 05:16, Gene Heskett a écrit : > Greetings all; > > Running it from the cli, I fand a channel scan is 100% errors because it > cannot tune a tuner it knows nothing about, in this case the "Oren > OR51132 VSB

aarch64 qemu workaround

2016-06-05 Thread Mike
Folks, I've been having a terrible time attempting to get debian to install into a qemu aarch64 environment. It appears that this is an issue that has been around for some time, though the only information I can find on it seems dated. https://gmplib.org/~tege/qemu.html Scrolling down to the aar

Re: aarch64 qemu workaround

2016-06-05 Thread Christian Seiler
On 06/05/2016 09:43 AM, Mike wrote: > https://gmplib.org/~tege/qemu.html > > Scrolling down to the aarch64 section describes the situation. Is what is describe there for aarch64 actually that bad? Having to modify /etc/initramfs-tools/modules seems to be not too bad of a thing to me... You could

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-05 Thread Curt
On 2016-06-03, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Wheezy, i386. > > libreCAD looks like a simple enough cad I could learn how to use but it > cannot find its help docs. Did you give the built-in help system a try? > I do not see a separate docs package in the repo's. > > Does anyone have

Re: First hint as to why kaffeine won't rx tv

2016-06-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 05 June 2016 03:02:10 Alexandre GRIVEAUX wrote: > Hi, > > Maybe a firmware you need ? > Maybe found inside firmware-linux-nonfree. > That entry seems to be empty. However, I did find it. 3 files from the tarball from pchdtv.com, were, when it was last built in Feb 2005, that are suppo

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 05 June 2016 05:17:13 Curt wrote: > On 2016-06-03, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > Wheezy, i386. > > > > libreCAD looks like a simple enough cad I could learn how to use but > > it cannot find its help docs. > > Did you give the built-in help system a try? > That is what

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-05 Thread Curt
On 2016-06-05, Gene Heskett wrote: >> > >> > libreCAD looks like a simple enough cad I could learn how to use but >> > it cannot find its help docs. >> >> Did you give the built-in help system a try? >> > That is what it is reporting that it cannot find. That is really unfair. All I can find as

Re: Pursuant to my efforts to remove, and update the remaining :amd64 built packages [SOLVED]

2016-06-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 05 June 2016 03:18:38 David Wright wrote: > On Sat 04 Jun 2016 at 21:11:23 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 04 June 2016 17:49:02 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > > > aptitude search '~g' > > > > And that returns an equally lengthy list, all prefaced with an 'id'. No > > clue wha

Re: First hint as to why kaffeine won't rx tv

2016-06-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 05 June 2016 10:40:46 Gene Heskett wrote: > Based on that, I am pointing my finger at the newer kaffeine now. Kaffeine-Trinity, I take it? > But > its been years since I've filed a bug. No clue how to do it on wheezy at > what could be considered this late date. You can't. Security f

Replacing duply for backup

2016-06-05 Thread Erwan David
I have my backups done with duply and duplicity. However duply from stable uses deprecated options of duplicity, and duply from testing has a bug which obliges to write a gpg passphrase in clear text. Since bug 807329 has no answer at all, I am looking to another way to do my backups, which could

Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration

2016-06-05 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 5:34 AM David Christensen wrote: > On 06/04/2016 04:11 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > I assume you've implemented backup, restore, imaging, archiving, etc.. > > > dd'ing the 500 GB onto the second SSD should work. > > > But, if it were my box: > > 1. Buy a 16+ GB SSD to use

Re: jessie install cd no network

2016-06-05 Thread e Lpe
> > If I install it in a Virtualbox machine (with a phisical disk mapped) > and then I boot with that disk, the network cards work perfectly. Hi, with Virtualbox under witch os ? 2016-06-03 12:02 GMT+00:00 Javier Marcon : > Hello, I downloaded the Jessie install cd and added a preseed file to >

Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration

2016-06-05 Thread Felix Miata
Mark Fletcher composed on 2016-06-05 11:40 (UTC): I think both these options have one potential pitfall, which is file ownership after the copy over of stuff I want to salvage from the outgoing HDD. If I do a fresh install, no guarantee that user IDs will be the same on the new system as I of co

Re: Improper visuals after update

2016-06-05 Thread Bhasker C V
Just did a dis-upgrade today and everything is back to normal !!! Thanks all On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 8:59 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Sun, 2016-05-29 at 21:38 +0200, Bhasker C V wrote: > > Hi, > > > > After an update I see that my dialog boxes are looking weird. I > > cannot > > describe it

Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration

2016-06-05 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 9:31 PM Felix Miata wrote: > Before you start, print /etc/passwd and /etc/group. :-) > > When forced to create a user during installation, I create user x with > passwd > x, and the first thing I do on first boot is login as root and delete user > x. > I then install mc an

Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration

2016-06-05 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jun 05, 2016 at 01:13:18PM +, Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 9:31 PM Felix Miata wrote: > > > > Before you start, print /etc/passwd and /etc/group. :-) [...] > /etc/passwd and /etc/group are still the last word in identi

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 05 June 2016 05:59:14 Curt wrote: > On 2016-06-05, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> > libreCAD looks like a simple enough cad I could learn how to use > >> > but it cannot find its help docs. > >> > >> Did you give the built-in help system a try? > > > > That is what it is reporting that it can

Re: First hint as to why kaffeine won't rx tv

2016-06-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 05 June 2016 06:49:18 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 05 June 2016 10:40:46 Gene Heskett wrote: > > Based on that, I am pointing my finger at the newer kaffeine now. > > Kaffeine-Trinity, I take it? Yes. > > But > > its been years since I've filed a bug. No clue how to do it on > > wheez

Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration

2016-06-05 Thread David Wright
On Sun 05 Jun 2016 at 08:30:38 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > Mark Fletcher composed on 2016-06-05 11:40 (UTC): > > >I think both these options have one potential pitfall, which is file > >ownership after the copy over of stuff I want to salvage from the outgoing > >HDD. If I do a fresh install, no

Re: Pursuant to my efforts to remove, and update the remaining :amd64 built packages [SOLVED]

2016-06-05 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Gene Heskett wrote on 06/05/16 03:11: > On Saturday 04 June 2016 17:49:02 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > >> Gene Heskett wrote on 06/04/16 23:02: >>> On Saturday 04 June 2016 16:12:30 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: I'm glad it worked for you. Now I'm just curious what aptitude search '

Re: Replacing duply for backup

2016-06-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 05 June 2016 06:59:41 Erwan David wrote: > I have my backups done with duply and duplicity. > > However duply from stable uses deprecated options of duplicity, and > duply from testing has a bug which obliges to write a gpg passphrase > in clear text. Since bug 807329 has no answer at al

Re: Replacing duply for backup

2016-06-05 Thread Erwan David
Le 05/06/2016 à 16:27, Gene Heskett a écrit : > On Sunday 05 June 2016 06:59:41 Erwan David wrote: > >> I have my backups done with duply and duplicity. >> >> However duply from stable uses deprecated options of duplicity, and >> duply from testing has a bug which obliges to write a gpg passphrase

Re: console fonts and systemd (was ... Re: What can AppArmor do?)

2016-06-05 Thread David Wright
Nowadays I use console-setup (specifically /etc/default/console-setup) to set up my default console font (with alternatives commented out in that file so I don't have to look them up). However, to change fonts on the fly, I use setfont which has the advantage that you can have different fonts on d

Re: Pursuant to my efforts to remove, and update the remaining :amd64 built packages [SOLVED]

2016-06-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 05 June 2016 10:24:13 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote on 06/05/16 03:11: > > On Saturday 04 June 2016 17:49:02 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > >> Gene Heskett wrote on 06/04/16 23:02: > >>> On Saturday 04 June 2016 16:12:30 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > I'm glad it worked for

Re: Replacing duply for backup

2016-06-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 05 June 2016 10:29:21 Erwan David wrote: > Le 05/06/2016 à 16:27, Gene Heskett a écrit : > > On Sunday 05 June 2016 06:59:41 Erwan David wrote: > >> I have my backups done with duply and duplicity. > >> > >> However duply from stable uses deprecated options of duplicity, and > >> duply f

Re: Replacing duply for backup

2016-06-05 Thread heqami...@runbox.com
On 06/05/2016 04:29 PM, Erwan David wrote: > Le 05/06/2016 à 16:27, Gene Heskett a écrit : >> On Sunday 05 June 2016 06:59:41 Erwan David wrote: >> >>> I have my backups done with duply and duplicity. >>> >>> However duply from stable uses deprecated options of duplicity, and >>> duply from testi

Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration

2016-06-05 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 11:06 PM David Wright wrote: > On Sun 05 Jun 2016 at 08:30:38 (-0400), Felix Miata wrote: > > Mark Fletcher composed on 2016-06-05 11:40 (UTC): > > > > > I think users and their passwords are the least of the problem. > A fresh install of jessie sets up about 30 system user

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 05 June 2016 14:58:39 Gene Heskett wrote: > I find entirely too often on linux, that the help > tut from that menu pulldown is missing an annoying percentage of the > time. Well, it's open source, Gene. Learn how to use it then write the docs. Or pay a technical author to learn how to

Re: First hint as to why kaffeine won't rx tv

2016-06-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 05 June 2016 15:00:54 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 05 June 2016 06:49:18 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Sunday 05 June 2016 10:40:46 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Based on that, I am pointing my finger at the newer kaffeine now. > > > > Kaffeine-Trinity, I take it? > > Yes. > > > > But > > > its

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-05 Thread Curt
On 2016-06-05, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 05 June 2016 05:59:14 Curt wrote: > >> On 2016-06-05, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >> > libreCAD looks like a simple enough cad I could learn how to use >> >> > but it cannot find its help docs. >> >> >> >> Did you give the built-in help system a try? >> >

Re: Some Flash news

2016-06-05 Thread Sven Hartge
Stuart Longland wrote: > On 17/05/16 04:20, Erwan David wrote: >> Problem is not the browser. Problem is sites/Appliances which require >> it (eg. VMWare vcenter) > VMWare are allegedly getting rid of their Flash dependence. Well, kind of. A new HTML5-based web client for vSphere is in develop

Re: Pursuant to my efforts to remove, and update the remaining :amd64 built packages [SOLVED]

2016-06-05 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
> I just let it do it all, and will "wait for the other shoe to drop" > One thing that seems missing in these procedures is when a bunch of libs > have been purged, is a run of ldconfig to clean up things. > No, when purging a debian package, dpkg triggers actions like ldconfig as prescribed by

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-05 Thread Joe
On Sun, 5 Jun 2016 09:17:13 + (UTC) Curt wrote: > On 2016-06-03, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > Wheezy, i386. > > > > libreCAD looks like a simple enough cad I could learn how to use > > but it cannot find its help docs. > > Did you give the built-in help system a try? >

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-05 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2016-06-05 at 18:10 +0100, Joe wrote: > > > libreCAD looks like a simple enough cad I could learn how to use > > > but it cannot find its help docs.   > > Did you give the built-in help system a try? > > > Mine (2.0.9 on sid) says, and I quote verbatim: > > "Bugger, I couldn't find the he

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-05 Thread Joe
On Sun, 05 Jun 2016 19:28:48 +0200 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Sun, 2016-06-05 at 18:10 +0100, Joe wrote: > > > > libreCAD looks like a simple enough cad I could learn how to use > > > > but it cannot find its help docs.   > > > Did you give the built-in help system a try? > > > > > Mine (2.0

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-05 Thread David Wright
On Sun 05 Jun 2016 at 16:54:02 (+0100), Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 05 June 2016 14:58:39 Gene Heskett wrote: > > I find entirely too often on linux, that the help > > tut from that menu pulldown is missing an annoying percentage of the > > time. > > Well, it's open source, Gene. Learn how to u

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 05 June 2016 11:54:02 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 05 June 2016 14:58:39 Gene Heskett wrote: > > I find entirely too often on linux, that the help > > tut from that menu pulldown is missing an annoying percentage of the > > time. > > Well, it's open source, Gene. Learn how to use it th

Re: First hint as to why kaffeine won't rx tv

2016-06-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 05 June 2016 12:00:59 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 05 June 2016 15:00:54 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 05 June 2016 06:49:18 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Sunday 05 June 2016 10:40:46 Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Based on that, I am pointing my finger at the newer kaffeine > > > > now.

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 05 June 2016 12:50:10 Curt wrote: > On 2016-06-05, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 05 June 2016 05:59:14 Curt wrote: > >> On 2016-06-05, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> >> > libreCAD looks like a simple enough cad I could learn how to > >> >> > use but it cannot find its help docs. > >> >>

Re: Pursuant to my efforts to remove, and update the remaining :amd64 built packages [SOLVED]

2016-06-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 05 June 2016 13:03:09 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > > > > I just let it do it all, and will "wait for the other shoe to drop" > > One thing that seems missing in these procedures is when a bunch of > > libs have been purged, is a run of ldconfig to clean up things. > > No, when purging a d

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 05 June 2016 13:10:52 Joe wrote: > On Sun, 5 Jun 2016 09:17:13 + (UTC) > > Curt wrote: > > On 2016-06-03, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Greetings all; > > > > > > Wheezy, i386. > > > > > > libreCAD looks like a simple enough cad I could learn how to use > > > but it cannot find its hel

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 05 June 2016 13:28:48 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Sun, 2016-06-05 at 18:10 +0100, Joe wrote: > > > > libreCAD looks like a simple enough cad I could learn how to use > > > > but it cannot find its help docs.   > > > > > > Did you give the built-in help system a try? > > > > Mine (2.0.9 on

Re: Pursuant to my efforts to remove, and update the remaining :amd64 built packages [SOLVED]

2016-06-05 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Gene Heskett wrote on 06/05/16 21:52: > On Sunday 05 June 2016 13:03:09 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > >> >> >>> I just let it do it all, and will "wait for the other shoe to drop" >>> One thing that seems missing in these procedures is when a bunch of >>> libs have been purged, is a run of ldconfig

Re: libreCAD, can't find help docs

2016-06-05 Thread Joe
On Sun, 5 Jun 2016 15:58:26 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 05 June 2016 13:10:52 Joe wrote: > > > On Sun, 5 Jun 2016 09:17:13 + (UTC) > > > > Curt wrote: > > > On 2016-06-03, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Greetings all; > > > > > > > > Wheezy, i386. > > > > > > > > libreCAD looks

Re: make ping executable by normal users?

2016-06-05 Thread Jan Bakuwel
Hi Britton, On 03/06/16 09:56, Britton Kerin wrote: > On my old debian system I could ping as a normal user. The ping > binary had the suid bit set. Now I get: > > $ ping www.google.com > ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted > 2 $ > > presumably because the bit isn't set.

Re: make ping executable by normal users?

2016-06-05 Thread Norbert Kiszka
Dnia 2016-06-06, pon o godzinie 10:06 +1200, Jan Bakuwel pisze: > Hi Britton, > > On 03/06/16 09:56, Britton Kerin wrote: > > On my old debian system I could ping as a normal user. The ping > > binary had the suid bit set. Now I get: > > > > $ ping www.google.com > > ping: icmp open sock

Re: Advice sought re HDD --> SSD migration

2016-06-05 Thread David Christensen
On 06/05/2016 04:40 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: ... if I understand correctly, [the SSD 960 GB RAID1] option would end up reducing my available space from 1.5TB in HDD land to 1TB (or 960GB) in SSD land, which is also a disadvantage. A large SSD RAID is great for multimedia editor scratch files,

Re: First hint as to why kaffeine won't rx tv

2016-06-05 Thread deloptes
Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 05 June 2016 15:00:54 Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Sunday 05 June 2016 06:49:18 Lisi Reisz wrote: >> > On Sunday 05 June 2016 10:40:46 Gene Heskett wrote: >> > > Based on that, I am pointing my finger at the newer kaffeine now. >> > >> > Kaffeine-Trinity, I take it? >> >

Re: First hint as to why kaffeine won't rx tv

2016-06-05 Thread Norbert Kiszka
Dnia 2016-06-06, pon o godzinie 00:35 +0200, deloptes pisze: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Sunday 05 June 2016 15:00:54 Gene Heskett wrote: > >> On Sunday 05 June 2016 06:49:18 Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> > On Sunday 05 June 2016 10:40:46 Gene Heskett wrote: > >> > > Based on that, I am pointing my fing

Re: Replacing duply for backup

2016-06-05 Thread Oliver Briscbois
On 2016-06-05, heqami...@runbox.com wrote: > You can use rsync for backup via FTP over SSH. > There is an interesting thread on the freebsd-questions list with Subject: rsync or git backups? Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 10:35:06 +0200 Message-ID: (First post in thread) here's a snippet: > * N.J. Tho

Re: First hint as to why kaffeine won't rx tv

2016-06-05 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 05 June 2016 18:35:34 deloptes wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Sunday 05 June 2016 15:00:54 Gene Heskett wrote: > >> On Sunday 05 June 2016 06:49:18 Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> > On Sunday 05 June 2016 10:40:46 Gene Heskett wrote: > >> > > Based on that, I am pointing my finger at the newer

Re: console fonts and systemd (was ... Re: What can AppArmor do?)

2016-06-05 Thread cbannister
On Sun, Jun 05, 2016 at 09:16:23AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > And here's my observation. When you type real quotation marks (ie ‘’“”), > the correct glyphs appear on the screen. After changing font, those > glyphs turn into different glyphs, but freshly typed quotation marks > appear with the cor