Re: OK to upgrade to 8.5?

2016-07-29 Thread Jochen Spieker
Lisi Reisz: > On Thursday 28 July 2016 15:43:43 Jochen Spieker wrote: >> (Please don't top-post. Trim the quotes and reply below the quote you >> are referring to. Thanks.) > > Jochem - Steve is blind. Many (Most? All??)blind people find bottom posting > and trimming very difficult. Thanks for

pppd right settings for users

2016-07-29 Thread Hans
Hi folks, during my experiences with several login tools with gui I remarked a little issue which I offer for discussion. I remarked, when a login is starting, the user is asked for the root password when the process pppd started. So I checked the situation. On my system /usr/bin/pppd is set

Re: PowerPC Debian on IBM Thinkpad 860

2016-07-29 Thread Eero Volotinen
How about running powerpc under kvm ;) Eero 29.7.2016 3.54 ap. "Spencer Gordon" kirjoitti: > Hello! I have been considering buying a used IBM Thinkpad 860 laptop for a > while now, and I was wondering if anyone had tested the PowerPC version of > Debian on this machine. I would hope to install

Re: wicd trouble -- continued

2016-07-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 29 July 2016 01:01:07 Glenn English wrote: > But. When I tried again after telling wicd to use DHCP instead of a static > IP, it successfully connected. It even got the IP I'd set up for the laptop > over on the DHCP server's config. Ah! There's the clue, I would guess. You had reserve

Re: LibreOffice toolbars & menus are rendering badly

2016-07-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 29 July 2016 00:51:42 Borden Rhodes wrote: > Thank you, Siard. I'm grateful for help no matter who gives it! Here's > the PNG of the offending toolbar in LibreOffice: > https://s31.postimg.org/fanuugafv/Screenshot.png . As I hope the photo > shows, the buttons render correctly when they'r

Re: LibreOffice toolbars

2016-07-29 Thread Luis Sánchez Bejarano
A workaround to fix the problem is to install the package libreoffice-gtk3

Re: LibreOffice toolbars

2016-07-29 Thread Luis Sánchez Bejarano
A workaround to fix this problem is to install the package libreoffice-gtk3

Re: wicd trouble -- continued

2016-07-29 Thread Brian
On Thu 28 Jul 2016 at 18:01:07 -0600, Glenn English wrote: > > On Jul 28, 2016, at 5:36 AM, Brian wrote: > > > > Indeed; presumably it has decided association and authentication with > > the access point has successfully taken place and the interface has got > > an IP number. However, there does

bochs; mouse and headerbar.

2016-07-29 Thread peter
Hello, An updated jessie system here with bochs and bochs-sdl. The system has a working PS/2 mouse. The ~/.bochsrc is adjusted to boot from a floppy image. Bochs is started from a console window and this is included in the output. 000i[PLGIN] reset of 'speaker' plugin device by virtual

Re: wicd trouble -- continued

2016-07-29 Thread Glenn English
> On Jul 29, 2016, at 5:18 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 29 July 2016 01:01:07 Glenn English wrote: >> But. When I tried again after telling wicd to use DHCP instead of a static >> IP, it successfully connected. It even got the IP I'd set up for the laptop >> over on the DHCP server's conf

Re: wicd trouble -- continued

2016-07-29 Thread Brian
On Thu 28 Jul 2016 at 15:15:52 -0600, Glenn English wrote: > > On Jul 28, 2016, at 1:27 PM, David Wright wrote: > > > > The answer may lie in the logs. Mine contains the lines > > > > 2016/07/28 07:35:36 :: Setting false IP... ←-- > > Ah! They set an IP that will get to the

Re: wicd trouble -- continued

2016-07-29 Thread Glenn English
> On Jul 29, 2016, at 11:58 AM, Brian wrote: > > The client surely doesn't need an IP address to communicate with a dhcp > server? With a wired connection association is automatically present and > I suspect the initial communication involves a MAC and not an IP address. > > With WiFi the purpo

Re: wicd trouble -- continued

2016-07-29 Thread Glenn English
> On Jul 29, 2016, at 12:04 PM, Glenn English wrote: > > >> On Jul 29, 2016, at 11:58 AM, Brian wrote: >> >> The client surely doesn't need an IP address to communicate with a dhcp >> server? With a wired connection association is automatically present and >> I suspect the initial communicati

Re: wicd trouble -- continued

2016-07-29 Thread Brian
On Fri 29 Jul 2016 at 12:08:16 -0600, Glenn English wrote: > > > On Jul 29, 2016, at 12:04 PM, Glenn English wrote: > > > > > >> On Jul 29, 2016, at 11:58 AM, Brian wrote: > >> > >> The client surely doesn't need an IP address to communicate with a dhcp > >> server? With a wired connection a

Worrisome USB disk messages in 4.6.0-1, but not 4.5.0-2

2016-07-29 Thread Brian Flaherty
Hello, On my desktop, I've been getting messages like this in dmesg connected with an external USB hard disk. This is a block of them from this morning: Jul 29 10:21:48 pelman kernel: sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] tag#0 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_ERROR driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE Jul 29 10:21:48 pelman kernel:

Re: Worrisome USB disk messages in 4.6.0-1, but not 4.5.0-2

2016-07-29 Thread Brian Flaherty
On Friday, July 29, 2016 11:39 AM, Brian Flaherty wrote: > > Hello,> > On my desktop, I've been getting messages like this in dmesg connected with > an external USB hard disk. This is a block of them from this morning: [ rest deleted ] If it is worth more information, I rebooted the desktop

Re: wicd trouble -- continued

2016-07-29 Thread Glenn English
> On Jul 29, 2016, at 12:19 PM, Brian wrote: > > You really intended to delete my perceptive and informative mail and not > reply to it? I'm in a state of shock and will have to leave this > conversation and have a lie down. No, Brian. What I was trying to do was to delete my half-thought-out r

Terminal

2016-07-29 Thread Темир Урокбаев
Hello. Tell me, is there a comprehensive list of terminal commands, and where to find it or download.

Re: LibreOffice toolbars & menus are rendering badly

2016-07-29 Thread Borden Rhodes
First, my apologies for the wrong subject line in my last message. I normally remember to change the subject when I reply to the digest but this time I either forgot or GMail outwitted me. (My money's on the latter) Thank you all for the suggestions. The problem definitely seems to be in the libre

Re: Terminal

2016-07-29 Thread Tom
On 07/29/2016 04:04 PM, Темир Урокбаев wrote: Hello. Tell me, is there a comprehensive list of terminal commands, and where to find it or download. The following sites may help. http://ss64.com/bash/ http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/dir_section_1.html Tom Ashley

Re: LibreOffice toolbars & menus are rendering badly

2016-07-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 29 July 2016 21:39:47 Borden Rhodes wrote: > First, my apologies for the wrong subject line in my last message. I > normally remember to change the subject when I reply to the digest but > this time I either forgot or GMail outwitted me. (My money's on the > latter) > > Thank you all for

Re: Terminal

2016-07-29 Thread Doug
On 07/29/2016 03:04 PM, Темир Урокбаев wrote: Hello. Tell me, is there a comprehensive list of terminal commands, and where to find it or download. I have found Linux in a Nutshell, 6th edition, extremely useful. It also contains information on package management for deb and rpm system

Re: wicd trouble -- continued

2016-07-29 Thread ghe
On 07/29/2016 07:22 AM, Brian wrote: It obviously wasn't a reasonable routing table. :) The control socket in /run probably disappeared too. Yes it was. Same as I've been using on that net forever. When I set up a static IP, wicd fills in the net mask and the default router automatically. I

Re: Terminal

2016-07-29 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, Jul 29, 2016, at 19:25, Doug wrote: > > I have found Linux in a Nutshell, 6th edition, extremely useful. > ... I'd also like to recommend "The Linux Cookbook: Tips and Techniques for Everyday Use", 2nd Edition, by Michael Stutz. This is a hard-copy book, and to the best of my knowledge i

Re: wicd trouble -- continued

2016-07-29 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 29 July 2016 18:07:43 Glenn English wrote: > > On Jul 29, 2016, at 5:18 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > On Friday 29 July 2016 01:01:07 Glenn English wrote: > >> But. When I tried again after telling wicd to use DHCP instead of a > >> static IP, it successfully connected. It even got the I

Re: PowerPC Debian on IBM Thinkpad 860

2016-07-29 Thread Spencer Gordon
The Thinkpad 860 is from around 1995. I would be ok with Windows NT, but I'd like to run Debian. It has a PowerPC 603e CPU, and a GT20 GPU. -Spencer :) *Be yourself, * *nobody can tell you you're doing it wrong.* *-Snoopy* On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 5:11 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: > How about runn

Re: PowerPC Debian on IBM Thinkpad 860

2016-07-29 Thread limpia
On 2016-07-29 19:12, Spencer Gordon wrote: The Thinkpad 860 is from around 1995. I would be ok with Windows NT, but I'd like to run Debian. It has a PowerPC 603e CPU, and a GT20 GPU. -Spencer :) _Be yourself, _ _nobody can tell you you're doing it wrong._ _-Snoopy_ On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 5:11

Re: PowerPC Debian on IBM Thinkpad 860

2016-07-29 Thread Spencer Gordon
Thanks! -Spencer :) *Be yourself, * *nobody can tell you you're doing it wrong.* *-Snoopy* On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 8:45 PM, limpia wrote: > On 2016-07-29 19:12, Spencer Gordon wrote: > >> The Thinkpad 860 is from around 1995. I would be ok with Windows NT, >> but I'd like to run Debian. It has

Re: Terminal

2016-07-29 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Темир Урокбаев writes: > Hello. Tell me, is there a > comprehensive list of terminal > commands, and where to find it > or download. Others have given good information; I'll just add that there can't be a comprehensive list: in addition to the built-in shell commands and the common utilities, a

Re: Terminal

2016-07-29 Thread limpia
On 2016-07-29 15:04, Темир Урокбаев wrote: Hello. Tell me, is there a comprehensive list of terminal commands, and where to find it or download. This will list all the commands available on your computer, promt@debian~$ compgen -c The commands available to you, would depend on what packages an

Re: Terminal

2016-07-29 Thread limpia
On 2016-07-29 23:14, limpia wrote: On 2016-07-29 15:04, Темир Урокбаев wrote: Hello. Tell me, is there a comprehensive list of terminal commands, and where to find it or download. This will list all the commands available on your computer, promt@debian~$ compgen -c The commands available to yo

Re: PowerPC Debian on IBM Thinkpad 860

2016-07-29 Thread Glenn English
> On Jul 29, 2016, at 7:45 PM, limpia wrote: > > But really, you would have to just try it. I do not think you will get very > good results with the newest version of Debian, current stable, Jessie,... > Perhaps Squeeze, or Wheezy, but I have my doubts. My Raspberry Pi 3's do pretty well with