Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

With all the confusion on reply reply-all I has send her/him this UTC Time: June 10, 2017 10:06 AM From: fungil...@protonmail.com To: solitone UTC Time: June 10, 2017 9:55 AM From: solit...@mail.com On Saturday, 10 June 2017 05:45:22 CEST Fungi4All wrote: > apt > > Hold a package: > sudo apt-ma

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

On Sunday 11 June 2017 08:16:11 Fungi4All wrote: > Below please find Lisi's answer on whether packages should be reverted or > not. !! There is nothing there - not surprising since I have never passed an opinion on any such thing. Does the version that went directly to solitone have a complete

Re: ifconfig network resolution

On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 11:09 AM, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Joel, > > On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 07:55:50AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: >> # If the address to be assigned is given first, which I think everyone >> # pretty much does: >> >> myadm@mycomp:~$ env LANG=en_US.UTF-8 sudo ifconfig eth0:1 down >> mya

Re: ifconfig network resolution

On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 2:04 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 10 June 2017 21:18:42 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: >> My apologies in advance because I'm asking that without knowing if he >> does or does not actually speak Japanese. He might be able to read >> that quite well. In that case, I'm enviou

Re: ifconfig network resolution (Re: pointers to material for using netbook's wireless as access point)

On Sat, 10 Jun 2017 10:57:47 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > Experimenting from the command line, I find myself puzzled about the > arguments for ifconfig. > > Reading the manual, it would appear that the arguments for ifconfig > should be something like this: > > ifconfig eth0 netmask 255.255.255

Re: ifconfig network resolution (Re: pointers to material for using netbook's wireless as access point)

On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 4:57 PM, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jun 2017 10:57:47 +0900 > Joel Rees wrote: > >> Experimenting from the command line, I find myself puzzled about the >> arguments for ifconfig. >> >> Reading the manual, it would appear that the arguments for ifconfig >> should be something

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

On Sunday, 11 June 2017 08:39:25 CEST Lisi Reisz wrote: > please, Solitone, let me and the list know what I am supposed to have said. No Lisi, I don't have more info than the list regarding what you supposedly said on this topic :-) In any case, I've just removed the hold on the 4 chromium pa

Re: ifconfig network resolution (Re: pointers to material for using netbook's wireless as access point)

On Sun, 11 Jun 2017 17:03:40 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 4:57 PM, Joe wrote: > > > > I've seen this kind of behaviour a very long time ago, and I can't > > really believe it is still happening, but... > > See the other sub-thread. But it does go to class C instead of the

Trying to install Debian on Acer One 10 laptop-tablet (was: Choose between amd64 and i386)

Felix Miata writes: > Rodolfo Medina composed on 2017-06-10 1+:50 (UTC+0100): > . >> ...as I described, Debian doesn't even manage to start up on that machine... >> and that's my problem... I don't use Windows and so the machine is there >> permanently unused, waiting and hoping for next Debian

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

On 11-06-17, solitone wrote: > On Sunday, 11 June 2017 08:39:25 CEST Lisi Reisz wrote: > > please, Solitone, let me and the list know what I am supposed to have said. > > No Lisi, I don't have more info than the list regarding what you supposedly > said on this > topic :-) > > In any case, I'

Re: Trying to install Debian on Acer One 10 laptop-tablet

Rodolfo Medina writes: > Felix Miata writes: > >> Rodolfo Medina composed on 2017-06-10 1+:50 (UTC+0100): >> . >>> ...as I described, Debian doesn't even manage to start up on that >>> machine... and that's my problem... I don't use Windows and so the >>> machine is there permanently unused, w

Re: Trying to install Debian on Acer One 10 laptop-tablet (was: Choose between amd64 and i386)

On 11-06-17, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Felix Miata writes: > > > Rodolfo Medina composed on 2017-06-10 1+:50 (UTC+0100): > > . > >> ...as I described, Debian doesn't even manage to start up on that > >> machine... > >> and that's my problem... I don't use Windows and so the machine is there > >>

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

UTC Time: June 11, 2017 7:39 AM From: lisi.re...@gmail.com On Sunday 11 June 2017 08:16:11 Fungi4All wrote: > Below please find Lisi's answer on whether packages should be reverted or > not. !! There is nothing there - not surprising since I have never passed an opinion on any such thing. Does th

Re: Trying to install Debian on Acer One 10 laptop-tablet

Hi, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I downloaded Knoppix and burned it onto DVD support, but unfortunately > it seems no possible to boot the machine from DVD: no such > option in start up boot menu. If it's Knoppix 7, then it will only boot via BIOS or EFI Legacy BIOS Emulation. Knoppix 8 has boot entri

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

On Sunday, 11 June 2017 10:39:25 CEST Dejan Jocic wrote: > In case that you are on stable, perhaps in old stable repository, or its > backports, after you add those to sources.list. No, I'm on stretch, so I'm using the stretch repository: deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ stretch main non-free

how to get xvid codec even though non-free is there in my /etc/apt/sources.list

Dear Friends, Please CC me as I'm not subscribed to the list. I am trying to watch a video which unfortunately uses xvid codec. I do have libxvidcore4 installed (using stretch) but it still complains about not having the right codec. Can anyone help ? -- Regards, Shirish Agar

Re: how to get xvid codec even though non-free is there in my /etc/apt/sources.list

at bottom :- On 11/06/2017, shirish शिरीष wrote: > Dear Friends, > > Please CC me as I'm not subscribed to the list. I am trying to watch a > video which unfortunately uses xvid codec. I do have libxvidcore4 > installed (using stretch) but it still complains about not having the > right codec. Ca

Re: Trying to install Debian on Acer One 10 laptop-tablet

Hi, Dejan Jocic wrote: > Knoppix can be used from USB too, with added bonus of heaving persistent > storage on it. Knoppix 7 can be installed onto USB stick like on a hard disk. But first you need to boot it from DVD. This booting and installation can possibly be done on some other computer. ht

Re: how to get xvid codec even though non-free is there in my /etc/apt/sources.list

Le tridi 23 prairial, an CCXXV, shirish शिरीष a écrit : > Vlc gives me this - > > [7fa1180009c8] vdpau_avcodec generic error: decoder profile not > supported: 7 This means that it is trying to use a hardware-accelerated decoder, and the hardware does not support decoding that particular vide

Re: Trying to install Debian on Acer One 10 laptop-tablet

"Thomas Schmitt" writes: > Hi, > > Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> I downloaded Knoppix and burned it onto DVD support, but unfortunately >> it seems no possible to boot the machine from DVD: no such >> option in start up boot menu. > > If it's Knoppix 7, then it will only boot via BIOS or EFI Legacy BI

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

On 11-06-2017 05:06, solitone wrote: > But where do you find old packages in case you no longer > have them in /var/cache/apt/archives? http://snapshot.debian.org/ -- A rolling disk gathers no MOS. Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br

Re: Trying to install Debian on Acer One 10 laptop-tablet

On 2017-06-11, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > So, as far as I understand, Debian live isos will also probably fail and all I > can do is waiting for Knoppix 8 iso image to be downloadable... Haven't been following the play by play, but maybe something here could be applicable to your case: https://gi

Re: Trying to install Debian on Acer One 10 laptop-tablet

Hi, i wrote: > > The symptoms described in this thread appear to happen already when GRUB > > is still in control and offers its boot menu. Or did i get this wrong ? Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I enter `Boot Manager', and there are two possible options: > Windows Boot Manager > EFI USB Device (Gene

Re: Compiler segfault when building the kernel

Celejar wrote: > So I'll have to decide whether to report against kernel-package, gcc, > or not at all. build a simple and clean chroot and test there. If bug present report if not use the kernel build there on your current system. Avoid mixing build and production systems if possible - chroot i

Re: Adding metadata tags to wav files

Have you tried using Kid3? Doc says it supports wav file. Not CLI program though. On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 1:34 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I successfully add metadata tags (album, artist, title, genre...) to mp3 > files > using ffmpeg: > > $ ffmpeg -i input.mp3 -c copy -metadata title="Yester

Re: Debian installation issues

On 10 June 2017 at 14:05, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/09/2017 03:37 PM, Michael Fothergill wrote: > >> On 9 June 2017 at 20:59, Fungi4All wrote: >> >> Here is some relevant reading of installing linux system besides Win8 and >>> in some cases the same problem exists on Win 10. >>> https://asku

Re: Debian installation issues

On 06/11/2017 08:34 AM, Michael Fothergill wrote: On 10 June 2017 at 14:05, Richard Owlett wrote: On 06/09/2017 03:37 PM, Michael Fothergill wrote: On 9 June 2017 at 20:59, Fungi4All wrote: Here is some relevant reading of installing linux system besides Win8 and in some cases the same pr

Re: Choose between amd64 and i386

Richard Owlett writes: > I suggest using > > > It is a command line only version of Debian -the lowest common denominator > approach to what will run on your hardware. Impossible to boot from

Re: Choose between amd64 and i386

Rodolfo Medina composed on 2017-06-11 15:53 (UTC+0100): > Impossible to boot from live iso, neither with Knoppix nor Debian... It only > allows booting into Windows. Instead, with non-live Debian iso, it is > possible > to boot into USB stick but then, when you choose any item from Debian > Ins

Re: NTP.conf pool vs server

On Wed 07 Jun 2017 at 17:26:30 (+0100), Brian wrote: > On Wed 07 Jun 2017 at 10:30:54 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > > Remove Ntp and install Chrony. > > Too easy. There would be nothing to rant about. :) > > https://chrony.tuxfamily.org/comparison.html I read this and did exactly that: Start-D

Re: Choose between amd64 and i386

Felix Miata writes: > Rodolfo Medina composed on 2017-06-11 15:53 (UTC+0100): > >> Impossible to boot from live iso, neither with Knoppix nor Debian... It >> only allows booting into Windows. Instead, with non-live Debian iso, it is >> possible to boot into USB stick but then, when you choose a

Re: Choose between amd64 and i386

Rodolfo Medina writes: > Felix Miata writes: > >> Rodolfo Medina composed on 2017-06-11 15:53 (UTC+0100): >> >>> Impossible to boot from live iso, neither with Knoppix nor Debian... It >>> only allows booting into Windows. Instead, with non-live Debian iso, it is >>> possible to boot into USB

Re: NTP.conf pool vs server

On Sun 11 Jun 2017 at 10:57:51 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 07 Jun 2017 at 17:26:30 (+0100), Brian wrote: > > On Wed 07 Jun 2017 at 10:30:54 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > > > > Remove Ntp and install Chrony. > > > > Too easy. There would be nothing to rant about. :) > > > > https://chron

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

On Sun 11 Jun 2017 at 11:13:21 +0200, solitone wrote: > On Sunday, 11 June 2017 10:39:25 CEST Dejan Jocic wrote: > > In case that you are on stable, perhaps in old stable repository, or its > > backports, after you add those to sources.list. > > No, I'm on stretch, so I'm using the stretch repos

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

On Sunday, 11 June 2017 20:06:48 CEST Brian wrote: > if you change your sources.list to use a suitable > one from snapshot.debian.org it will be found. I didn't know that, thanks!

Grave bug when playing flash videos

I have a serious bug when using flashplayer in debian sid. This bug freezes everything and I have to do a hard reboot. It happens with flashplugin and pepperflash when I play a video with flash (both tested with firefox and chromium). Today I am using pepperflash, installed by the package browser-

Please help me resize my ext4 file system to size > 16TB

Hi, I have kernel 3.13 and e2fsprog 1.42.9 (as part of mybuntu 14.04.5 LTS). With this, is it possible to resize2fs my ext4 RAID6 /dev/md0 to 24TB (ie >16TB)? If so, please help me get there. If not, please recommend the upgrades needed to the setup before this can be done. So, far, my goog

Re: Compiler segfault when building the kernel

On Sun, 11 Jun 2017 14:52:55 +0200 deloptes wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > > So I'll have to decide whether to report against kernel-package, gcc, > > or not at all. > > build a simple and clean chroot and test there. If bug present report if not > use the kernel build there on your current system

slow connections to non-bridged hostapd/dnsmasq wireless access point (was pointers to material...)

(famous last words) On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > I now have connection for both the wireless and the netbook that is acting > as the AP. I took out the bridge entirely, quit trying to play with > port forwarding, > just used dead simple setup. dnsmasq was the only missing p