Re: No right or middle click on XFCE desktop after Upgrade from Jessie to Stretch

2016-11-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 16 November 2016 07:01:16 dmacdoug wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 06:02:27PM -0800, Mike Kupfer wrote: > > dmacdoug wrote: > > > A month or two ago I moved a certain computer from jessie > > > to stretch and after doing so found that neither the right > > > nor the middle mouse butto

Re: btrfs filesystem full problems (was Re: A full /var partition destroyed 3 hours of my life!)

2016-11-16 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 02:25:55PM -0500, Borden Rhodes wrote: > Correct you are! The various incantations used different filters and > one of them worked. I have no idea what filters are and I would die a > happy man without needing to know. Last time I used 'btrfs balance', I had to run it with

Re: JACK Audio Connection Kit

2016-11-16 Thread Martin Read
Ric Moore wrote: > Is there some reason removing the libjack-jackd2-0 package removes > everything audio/video and the kitchen sink?? Because: 1) some of the things on that list declare libjack-jackd2-0 as a dependency (probably because they are libraries or programs which are linked against t

Re: A_Message_Regarding_Your_DEBT_Situation. vs78

2016-11-16 Thread Jude DaShiell
No, Janet got the message after myself I think. In any event no real originating email address would appear in the chain and that's what this has become chain mail. On Mon, 14 Nov 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote: Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 17:18:07 From: Lisi Reisz To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: J

BRIGHTNESS LEVEL FIXED ON SONY VAIO VPCEH38FN

2016-11-16 Thread Atish Pandey
Hello everyone, I am new to Debian, and have recently installed Debian 8.6 Jessie GNOME 3.0 on my sony vaio VPCEH38FN. It has a Nvidia Geforce 410 M graphics card. The issue is that the screen brightness is set to maximum and it is not changing by hotkeys Fn+F6/F5.The brightness indicator changes

Re: A_Message_Regarding_Your_DEBT_Situation. vs78

2016-11-16 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 16/11/16 11:46, Jude DaShiell wrote: Why the hell are people discussing obvious spam on this list? Take it private, or let it drop! Most of us are not interested. -- Tony van der Hoff| mailto:t...@vanderhoff.org Buckinghamshire, England |

Re: Does hdparm not run at startup anymore?

2016-11-16 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
On 11/12/2016 09:14 PM, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Hi Alex, > > thank you for your reply and your testing. > > On Saturday 12 November 2016 16:40:40 Alex Mestiashvili wrote: >> On 11/12/2016 08:37 AM, Rainer Dorsch wrote: >>> + Alexandre, hdparm maintainer >>> >>> On Friday 11 November 2016 23:11:24

Why? -- "A Modest Proposal"

2016-11-16 Thread Richard Owlett
There exist SOC projects to encourage/mentor fledgling programmers. Considering the state of documentation, esp man pages, why no SOD projects for potential tech writers. In many areas, nerds are considered illiterate. I can see SOD projects as a vehicle to encourage technically oriented tee

Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal"

2016-11-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 16 November 2016 14:13:49 Richard Owlett wrote: > There exist SOC projects to encourage/mentor > fledgling programmers. > Considering the state of documentation, esp man pages, why no SOD > projects for potential tech writers. There is no obvious pay-off for Google - or anyone else

Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal"

2016-11-16 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 02:52:37PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 16 November 2016 14:13:49 Richard Owlett wrote: > > There exist SOC projects to encourage/mentor > > fledgling programmers. > > Considering the state of documentation, esp man pages, why no SOD > > projects for potential t

Re: No right or middle click on XFCE desktop after Upgrade from Jessie to Stretch

2016-11-16 Thread Mike Kupfer
dmacdoug wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 06:02:27PM -0800, Mike Kupfer wrote: > > Is xfdesktop running? > No, it isn't. It looks like pretty much everything else in > xfce is running, but xfdesktop isn't. Assuming it's installed (good point, Lisi), I would try just running it from a shell or A

Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal"

2016-11-16 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 08:13:49AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > There exist SOC projects to encourage/mentor > fledgling programmers. > Considering the state of documentation, esp man pages, why no SOD > projects for potential tech writers. > > In

Mysql failed

2016-11-16 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Hi, I've just discovered that MySQL on my jessie desktop box has died unexpectedly. I'm pretty sure it was working 3/4 days ago. tony@tony-lx:~$ mysql -p Enter password: ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/v

Re: Mysql failed

2016-11-16 Thread Joe
On 16/11/2016 15:48, Tony van der Hoff wrote: The following packages have unmet dependencies: mysql-server-5.5 : Depends: mysql-client-5.5 (>= 5.5.50-0+deb8u1) but it is not going to be installed PreDepends: mysql-common (>= 5.5.50-0+deb8u1) but it is not going to be install

Re: Mysql failed

2016-11-16 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 16/11/16 16:10, Joe wrote: On 16/11/2016 15:48, Tony van der Hoff wrote: The following packages have unmet dependencies: mysql-server-5.5 : Depends: mysql-client-5.5 (>= 5.5.50-0+deb8u1) but it is not going to be installed PreDepends: mysql-common (>= 5.5.50-0+deb8u1) bu

Re: Why? -- "A Modest Proposal"

2016-11-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 16 November 2016 15:18:14 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Your answer highlights the problem, although it's not quite what you said: > the pay-off is, better docs! Which are very important. I said no **obvious** pay-off. That is not the same as no payoff. Lisi

Re: No right or middle click on XFCE desktop after Upgrade from Jessie to Stretch

2016-11-16 Thread dmacdoug
On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 07:25:14AM -0800, Mike Kupfer wrote: > dmacdoug wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 06:02:27PM -0800, Mike Kupfer wrote: > > > Is xfdesktop running? > > > No, it isn't. It looks like pretty much everything else in > > xfce is running, but xfdesktop isn't. > > Assuming i

Re: Kicad Installation Issue Regard Of 4.0.4 Its Only Install 4.0.2 In Debian Jessie 8.5

2016-11-16 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 16/11/16 17:10, Paul Wise wrote: On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 11:24 AM, ARAVIND B KUMAR wrote: We Are Try To Install Kicad 4.0.4 In Debain Jessie 8.5 But It Only Install 4.0.2 Can You Please Help Us How To Install Kicad 4.0.4 In Debian Jessie 8.5 We Are Try To Build And We Try Using PPA But It In

Wmtemp output wrong with kernel 4.8.0-1-amd64

2016-11-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi all. Running Sid which recently went to kernel 4.8.0-1-amd64. But Wmtemp outout is wrong: both CPU and motherboard temps are 41. Wmtemp is a WindowMaker dock applet that displays CPU and motherboard temps as they are gathered by Lm-sensors. Lm-sensors has some programs, one of them the 'se

Re: No right or middle click on XFCE desktop after Upgrade from Jessie to Stretch

2016-11-16 Thread Mike Kupfer
dmacdoug wrote: > It is installed and I've tried running it from a shell. The man page > says it should be started without arguments, but when I do that it > says "Failed to parse arguments: Cannot open display:" I get that message if the DISPLAY environment variable is not set, or if it's set

Re: No right or middle click on XFCE desktop after Upgrade from Jessie to Stretch

2016-11-16 Thread dmacdoug
On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 07:36:29PM -0800, Mike Kupfer wrote: > dmacdoug wrote: > > > It is installed and I've tried running it from a shell. The man page > > says it should be started without arguments, but when I do that it > > says "Failed to parse arguments: Cannot open display:" > > I get