Re: boot times out after dist-upgrade on Stretch

2016-07-19 Thread Borden Rhodes
Thank you for your message, Michael, and please forgive the delay in responding. I tried booting with the 4.5 kernel after 4.6 failed to boot. It seems, by then, that the damage had been done as I got identical symptoms on both boots. I agree with you that the cryptsetup/LVM is to blame (although

Newer mutt in stable

2016-07-19 Thread Andre Majorel
The version of Mutt in Debian 8 (1.5.23-3) has a very annoying bug (https://dev.mutt.org/hg/mutt/rev/755a18da99bc). I'd like to upgrade to 1.5.24 or newer. Unstable and testing have Mutt 1.6.0-1 but I don't see any back ports of Mutt for stable. Things I'd rather not do : - install from source, -

Re: Newer mutt in stable

2016-07-19 Thread Alberto Luaces
Andre Majorel writes: > Things I'd rather not do : > - install from source, > - install a package from unstable or testing in case it drags in > new versions of libc etc., This is the first thing I would try, because it is the easiest path. If the number of dependencies is unbearable to you, t

After a few days, strange inter-process communication bugs in up-to-date Jessie GNOME

2016-07-19 Thread David Guyot
Hello, there. I run my up-to-date Jessie the whole week, starting it on Monday morning and shutting it down on Friday evening. I noticed strange bugs occurring after a few days running, i.e. often on Wednesday in my case: SSH begins behaving like there is no SSH agent and insists asking my key pas

Re: After a few days, strange inter-process communication bugs in up-to-date Jessie GNOME

2016-07-19 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 19.07.2016 um 14:42 schrieb David Guyot: > should I fill a bug ticket, or how to figure out? Else, what information > should I retrieve to examine the bug from all sides? Have you tried running the applications from a console so you get the output from stdout/stderr? Do you have any specific e

Re: After a few days, strange inter-process communication bugs in up-to-date Jessie GNOME

2016-07-19 Thread David Guyot
Le mardi 19 juillet 2016 à 15:04 +0200, Michael Biebl a écrit : > Have you tried running the applications from a console so you get the > output from stdout/stderr? Do you have any specific error messages? No, I started the applications from the graphical interface; I just started them from termina

GLX, (xserver-)xorg(-dev), and nvidia-driver under jessie(-backports)

2016-07-19 Thread Jeffrey Mark Siskind
I have installed jessie. Among other packages installed, I have apt-get -y install gnome apt-get -y install xorg apt-get -y install xserver-xorg-dev apt-get -y install afni apt-get -y -t jessie-backports install nvidia-driver apt-get -y -t jessie-backports install nvidia-cuda-too

Hot swapping failed disk /dev/sda in RAID 1 array

2016-07-19 Thread Urs Thuermann
In my RAID 1 array /dev/md0 consisting of two SATA drives /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 the first drive /dev/sda has failed. I have called mdadm --fail and mdadm --remove on that drive and then pulled the cables and removed the drive. The RAID array continues to work fine but in degraded mode. I have

Re: does anybody remember which debian release was it that asked for the MAC ID details at the end ?

2016-07-19 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 01:45:58AM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > Not me. > And I think there was never such bug as asking for MAC details from the User. I have certainly never seen it, and don't recall any such thing in any installer I have used since 2.0. > In https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bu

Re: Hot swapping failed disk /dev/sda in RAID 1 array

2016-07-19 Thread Peter Ludikovsky
Ad 1: Yes, the SATA controller has to support Hot-Swap. You _can_ remove the device nodes by running # echo 1 > /sys/block//device/delete Ad 2: Depends on the controller, see 1. It might recognize the new drive, or not. It might see the correct device, or not. Ad 3: As long as the second HDD is w

Re: Hot swapping failed disk /dev/sda in RAID 1 array

2016-07-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Urs, On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 04:01:39PM +0200, Urs Thuermann wrote: > 2. Can I hotplug the new drive and rebuild the RAID array? It should work, if your SATA port supports hotplug. Plug the new drive in and see if the new device node appears. If it does then you're probably good to go. You ca

Re: Newer mutt in stable

2016-07-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2016-07-19 12:05 +0200, Andre Majorel wrote: > The version of Mutt in Debian 8 (1.5.23-3) has a very annoying > bug (https://dev.mutt.org/hg/mutt/rev/755a18da99bc). I'd like > to upgrade to 1.5.24 or newer. > > Unstable and testing have Mutt 1.6.0-1 but I don't see any back > ports of Mutt for

Bluetooth Questions Using wheezy

2016-07-19 Thread Martin McCormick
I see the following messages in dmesg: Bluetooth: Core ver 2.16 Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver

Re: Bluetooth Questions Using wheezy

2016-07-19 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, 19 Jul 2016 11:08:08 -0500 "Martin McCormick" wrote: > I see the following messages in dmesg: > > Bluetooth: Core ver 2.16 > Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized > Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized > Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initializ

Re: gimp resynthesizer

2016-07-19 Thread peter
pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Any tips to make the gimp resynthesizer work? From: Siard Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 22:04:57 +0200 > AFAICT, the Resynthesizer plug-in adds a script called Heal Selection > ... > run the Heal Selection filter (Image Menu > Filters > Enhance > Heal > Selection).

Re: Bluetooth Questions Using wheezy

2016-07-19 Thread Martin McCormick
Reco writes: > No, it does not. These messages mean that assorted bluetooth modules > are loaded. > > > > Another old Dell optiplex running wheezy also produces > > exactly the same messages when running dmesg. > > > > Is there any utility I can run to see if they are alive > > and u

Re: Bluetooth Questions Using wheezy

2016-07-19 Thread David Wright
On Tue 19 Jul 2016 at 12:36:22 (-0500), Martin McCormick wrote: > Reco writes: > > No, it does not. These messages mean that assorted bluetooth modules > > are loaded. > > > > > > > Another old Dell optiplex running wheezy also produces > > > exactly the same messages when running dmesg. >

freezing gnome

2016-07-19 Thread peekaa
Hello, I got quite new comp, Debian testing/sid with Gnome and this is sometimes freezing so that only 5s pressing power button helps. Not sure if its about hw or sw, not sure, how to find, what to test. hw: http://pastebin.com/H9YyJBsb sw: Linux chief 4.6.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.6.3-1 (201

Re: Bluetooth Questions Using wheezy

2016-07-19 Thread Martin McCormick
David Wright writes: > ... because wheezy's hciconfig is in /usr/sbin. I probably should have used locate or which and it would have reported the path. In this case, /usr/sbin is one of the paths in my $pATH and there is no bluetooth interface as running hciconfig with the correct path si

Re: Hot swapping failed disk /dev/sda in RAID 1 array

2016-07-19 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 19/07/2016 à 16:01, Urs Thuermann a écrit : Shouldn't the device nodes and entries in /proc/partitions disappear when the drive is pulled? Or does the BIOS or the SATA controller have to support this? 2. Can I hotplug the new drive and rebuild the RAID array? As others replied, t

synaptic package manager error

2016-07-19 Thread Jesse Stephen
I'm getting an error message when I run ther synaptic package manager that I have to manually run the dpkg-- configure to correct the problem. This is not something I no how to do, I am very green at this.

Re: Internationalisation

2016-07-19 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 17 July 2016 15:03:32 Mark Fletcher wrote: > which may mean I've failed to install something I need, ibus-anthy?? Lisi

Re: synaptic package manager error

2016-07-19 Thread Brian
On Tue 19 Jul 2016 at 17:35:51 -0400, Jesse Stephen wrote: > I'm getting an error message when I run ther synaptic package manager that > I have to manually run the dpkg-- configure to correct the problem. This is > not something I no how to do, I am very green at this. It is almost impossible to

re: Lynx yellowwhite [broken thread]

2016-07-19 Thread Wes
On Wed, 6 Jul 2016 09:48:59 +0300, Oskar Skog wrote: I took a look at my site in Lynx and noticed that it somehow rendered the text that would be extra large on a crappy browser yellow and the rest white. Is this easter egg from a patch or upstream? Lynx renders what in CSS would be span.thenum

Re: synaptic package manager error

2016-07-19 Thread Jesse Stephen
I am using GNOME. I have a problem with no sound on you tube I cant run updates And I can not download the Google talk plug-in because it says the package updater is open On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 6:47 PM, Brian wrote: > On Tue 19 Jul 2016 at 17:35:51 -0400, Jesse Stephen wrote: > > > I'm getting

Re: synaptic package manager error

2016-07-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 19 July 2016 17:35:51 Jesse Stephen wrote: > I'm getting an error message when I run ther synaptic package manager > that I have to manually run the dpkg-- configure to correct the > problem. This is not something I no how to do, I am very green at > this. The proper command is: sudo