DBus error: how to fix.

2016-11-20 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I last upgraded my Wheezy installation on 2016-11-11. Ever since, whenever I run "apt-get update" or "apt-get upgrade", at the end the following message appears: Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: Failed to execute program

Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific

2016-11-20 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/19/2016 2:33 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 12:51:58PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: I use fat16 and fat32 formatted USB flash drives for _EXACTLY_ *ONE* purpose. It is to transfer data to/from a Windows machine. There is N

Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific

2016-11-20 Thread Nicolas George
Le decadi 30 brumaire, an CCXXV, Richard Owlett a écrit : > Those don't address my problem definition. Yes, they do. Tomas' answer was exactly the correct one to your problem. -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific

2016-11-20 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/20/2016 6:11 AM, Nicolas George wrote: Le decadi 30 brumaire, an CCXXV, Richard Owlett a écrit : Those don't address my problem definition. Yes, they do. Tomas' answer was exactly the correct one to your problem. Not as I read them. They give methods of handling an explicitly specifie

Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific

2016-11-20 Thread Nicolas George
Le decadi 30 brumaire, an CCXXV, Richard Owlett a écrit : > Not as I read them. Then you did not read correctly. > They give methods of handling an explicitly specified device. Tomas' answer contains the solution to your problem: the umask mount option. This it, no more no less. To know how to

Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific

2016-11-20 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/20/2016 6:33 AM, Nicolas George wrote: Le decadi 30 brumaire, an CCXXV, Richard Owlett a écrit : Not as I read them. Then you did not read correctly. https://manned.org/fstab.5 states " The first field (fs_spec). This field describes the block special device or remote filesyst

Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific

2016-11-20 Thread Brian
On Sat 19 Nov 2016 at 19:51:06 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 11/19/2016 5:07 PM, Brian wrote: > >On Sat 19 Nov 2016 at 12:51:58 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >>I use fat16 and fat32 formatted USB flash drives for _EXACTLY_ *ONE* > >>purpose. > >>It is to transfer data to/from a Windows ma

Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific

2016-11-20 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/20/2016 7:29 AM, Brian wrote: On Sat 19 Nov 2016 at 19:51:06 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: On 11/19/2016 5:07 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 19 Nov 2016 at 12:51:58 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: I use fat16 and fat32 formatted USB flash drives for _EXACTLY_ *ONE* purpose. It is to transfer data

Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific

2016-11-20 Thread Joe
On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 13:33:51 +0100 Nicolas George wrote: > Le decadi 30 brumaire, an CCXXV, Richard Owlett a écrit : > > Not as I read them. > > Then you did not read correctly. > > > They give methods of handling an explicitly specified device. > > Tomas' answer contains the solution to y

Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific

2016-11-20 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/20/2016 7:58 AM, Joe wrote: On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 13:33:51 +0100 Nicolas George wrote: Le decadi 30 brumaire, an CCXXV, Richard Owlett a écrit : Not as I read them. Then you did not read correctly. They give methods of handling an explicitly specified device. Tomas' answer contains

Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific

2016-11-20 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 01:58:04PM +, Joe wrote: > On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 13:33:51 +0100 > Nicolas George wrote: > > > Le decadi 30 brumaire, an CCXXV, Richard Owlett a écrit : > > > Not as I read them. > > > > Then you did not read correctly. >

Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific

2016-11-20 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 06:08:51AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 11/19/2016 2:33 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [mount options, fstab] > Those don't address my problem definition. > Having a USB flash drive with a fat16/fat32 file system in hand, on

Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific

2016-11-20 Thread rhkramer
I'll answer with something a little bit like Joe's answer. On my daily working machine, which uses Wheezy, I use Dophin as a file manager. After I plug in a USB stick, after a few seconds (maybe up to 20??), a new entry appears on the left hand list of partitions in Dolphin. If I click on tha

Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific

2016-11-20 Thread Brian
On Sun 20 Nov 2016 at 08:10:09 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 11/20/2016 7:58 AM, Joe wrote: > > > >This all Just Works, and I have no idea what configuration it depends > >on. "I didn't build this," sid basically builds and rebuilds itself, so > >I tend to keep my fingers out of the works. I d

All settings are lost at logout

2016-11-20 Thread 70147persson
After a journey in GNU/Linux for some years via Suse, Ubuntu and Linux Mint for Debian (LMDE) I finally decided to take the step into the master himself, Debian. So I downloaded the live ISO file and started the install process of Debian 8.6 with Mate and Marco window manager from a usb memory

Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific

2016-11-20 Thread rhkramer
Ok, I tried it on Jessie, and it works essentially the same way, with a few slight differences: * when the USB stick shows up in dolphin, it does not show the mount point, instead it says something like "Removable 8MiB device" * if I then go to a CLI and look under media, I find the devic

Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific

2016-11-20 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 10:15:40AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Ok, I tried it on Jessie, and it works essentially the same way, with a few > slight differences: > >* when the USB stick shows up in dolphin, it does not show the mount > poi

Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific

2016-11-20 Thread Joe
On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 08:10:09 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: > Do you have a file named "pmount.allow"? > Web searches turn up references to it, but haven't found any > details on syntax and/or examples. > > > I don't have pmount installed. I tried it years ago, when I was having usbmount troub

Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific

2016-11-20 Thread Joe
On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 15:14:47 +0100 wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 01:58:04PM +, Joe wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 13:33:51 +0100 > > Nicolas George wrote: > > > > > Le decadi 30 brumaire, an CCXXV, Richard Owlett a écrit : > > > >

Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific

2016-11-20 Thread The Wanderer
On 2016-11-20 at 11:46, Joe wrote: > On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 15:14:47 +0100 wrote: >> Sorry I can't offer more details: I'm not "in" the intricacies of >> desktop environments. For me, they are too intricate and finicky, >> therefore I prefer to run without. >> >> I mount my media explicitly. > >

Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific

2016-11-20 Thread Brian
On Sun 20 Nov 2016 at 07:40:17 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 11/20/2016 7:29 AM, Brian wrote: > > > >Doesn't pmount fit the bill if all you want is to read/write? > > No. > > Maybe the problem is D.E. specific? I'm using MATE and thus Caja as > file-manager. TBH, the problem as such isn't c

Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific

2016-11-20 Thread Brian
On Sun 20 Nov 2016 at 13:58:04 +, Joe wrote: > I'm running sid with systemd, with absolutely nothing in /etc/fstab > which refers to USB sticks, but nonetheless any USB stick inserted is > recognised and automounted under /media/joe (maybe immediately and maybe > on access, I'm not sure, but i

Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific

2016-11-20 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 12:19:49PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2016-11-20 at 11:46, Joe wrote: > > > On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 15:14:47 +0100 wrote: > > >> Sorry I can't offer more details: I'm not "in" the intricacies of > >> desktop environments. Fo

Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific

2016-11-20 Thread Nicolas George
Le decadi 30 brumaire, an CCXXV, Joe a écrit : > Tomas' answer contains *a* solution, for a specific device. Tomas' answer points to the umask mount option. Since all current reasonable methods for accessing an USB stick in FAT end up using the mount system call, it is THE solution. Regards, --

Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific

2016-11-20 Thread Joe
On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 19:45:27 +0100 Nicolas George wrote: > Le decadi 30 brumaire, an CCXXV, Joe a écrit : > > Tomas' answer contains *a* solution, for a specific device. > > Tomas' answer points to the umask mount option. Since all current > reasonable methods for accessing an USB stick in FA

Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific

2016-11-20 Thread Brian
On Sun 20 Nov 2016 at 19:41:59 +, Joe wrote: > On Sun, 20 Nov 2016 19:45:27 +0100 > Nicolas George wrote: > > > Le decadi 30 brumaire, an CCXXV, Joe a écrit : > > > Tomas' answer contains *a* solution, for a specific device. > > > > Tomas' answer points to the umask mount option. Since a

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

2016-11-20 Thread Brian
On Sat 19 Nov 2016 at 16:38:20 -0500, Jape Person wrote: > On 11/19/2016 03:09 PM, Brian wrote: > > > >Sorry to be awkward, but what does "it's" refer to? > > > > Uh, I'm the awkward one here. That's why I'm asking for help. Not at all. I've learned a thing or two from this thread. For example,

Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific

2016-11-20 Thread Nicolas George
Le decadi 30 brumaire, an CCXXV, Joe a écrit : > Conceptually so, but some means of mounting USB sticks do not involve > the user explicitly issuing a mount command. Yet, eventually it involves mount and options. The OP's task now is to find out what system is used to automagically mount USB stick

MURPHY'S LAW RULES - was [Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific]

2016-11-20 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/19/2016 12:51 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: I use fat16 and fat32 formatted USB flash drives for _EXACTLY_ *ONE* purpose. It is to transfer data to/from a Windows machine. There is NO [nor will there ever be] a network connection between them. When I plug one into my Debian machine I want tota

Re: MURPHY'S LAW RULES - was [Re: Coercing sane file permissions -- site specific]

2016-11-20 Thread Brian
On Sun 20 Nov 2016 at 14:25:16 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 11/19/2016 12:51 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > >I use fat16 and fat32 formatted USB flash drives for _EXACTLY_ > >*ONE* purpose. > >It is to transfer data to/from a Windows machine. > >There is NO [nor will there ever be] a network con

Setting up reportbug

2016-11-20 Thread Gary Roach
I have tried several times to set up debians reportbug. I do not have an MTA installed and further I don't whant an MTA installed. I use Mozilla firebird (icedove) mail client and am a happy camper. But every time I try to report a bug, reportbug starts wanting an MTA. How do I get around this

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

2016-11-20 Thread Jape Person
My apologies. Accidentally replied using another e-mail address from our business. I'm resending from the proper account, jap...@comcast.net. On 11/20/2016 02:52 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 19 Nov 2016 at 16:38:20 -0500, Jape Person wrote: On 11/19/2016 03:09 PM, Brian wrote: Sorry to be awkwa

Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"

2016-11-20 Thread James P. Wallen
On 11/20/2016 02:52 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 19 Nov 2016 at 16:38:20 -0500, Jape Person wrote: On 11/19/2016 03:09 PM, Brian wrote: Sorry to be awkward, but what does "it's" refer to? Uh, I'm the awkward one here. That's why I'm asking for help. Not at all. I've learned a thing or two f

Re: Setting up reportbug

2016-11-20 Thread David Christensen
On 11/20/2016 02:07 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > I have tried several times to set up debians reportbug. I do not have an > MTA installed and further I don't whant an MTA installed. I use Mozilla > firebird (icedove) mail client and am a happy camper. But every time I > try to report a bug, reportbug st

Last Call: VIETNAM TAX BRIEFING (Kuala Lumpur 8 Dec 2016)

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Re: [OT] Last Avidemux appimage

2016-11-20 Thread Ric Moore
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