Re: Thunderbird no longer opens links

2017-12-02 Thread solitone
On 01/12/17 22:59, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 01.12.2017 22:19, Michael Biebl wrote: I think it might be useful to open a (wishlist) bug report against the linux package to not add the recommends when building for stretch-backports Isn't AppArmor required in buster and also required in s

Re: Thunderbird no longer opens links

2017-12-02 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 02.12.2017 14:11, solitone wrote: > On 01/12/17 22:59, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: >> On 01.12.2017 22:19, Michael Biebl wrote: >>> >>> I think it might be useful to open a (wishlist) bug report against the >>> linux package to not add the recommends when building for >>> stretch-backports >>>

playing blurays with vlc (or other)

2017-12-02 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
hi, I'm fighting to play a bluray (OS = Stretch - 32 bit) None of the tips I found on Google (when not leading to a obsolete URL) worked for me. Has anybody a solution, either with vlc or an other program? best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: playing blurays with vlc (or other)

2017-12-02 Thread deloptes
Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > hi, > I'm fighting to play a bluray (OS = Stretch - 32 bit) > None of the tips I found on Google (when not leading to a obsolete URL) > worked for me. > Has anybody a solution, either with vlc or an other program? > > > best regards, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php

Re: playing blurays with vlc (or other)

2017-12-02 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sat, 2 Dec 2017, deloptes wrote: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Blu-ray all links in that page are dead (i.e. error 404) anyway, after downloading bdplus-vm0, I was able to play the bluray with vlc, but with a very bad video. And if I try to select a track other than 1, the vi

Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian (and xtoolwait)

2017-12-02 Thread David Wright
On Fri 01 Dec 2017 at 21:52:33 (+0100), deloptes wrote: > Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > Non-the-less, it's not something that many people will have attempted, > > and there are quite likely to be things that might slip through the net. > > Not just things within the Debian ecosystem: a machine run

Re: playing blurays with vlc (or other)

2017-12-02 Thread Thomas Amm
On Sat, 2 Dec 2017 15:38:23 +0100 (CET) Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Sat, 2 Dec 2017, deloptes wrote: > > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Blu-ray > >all links in that page are dead (i.e. error 404) >anyway, after downloading bdplus-vm0, I was able to play >the bluray with vl

Re: Removing old python packages installed with pip

2017-12-02 Thread David Wright
On Fri 01 Dec 2017 at 12:42:35 (-0300), Eike Lantzsch wrote: > On Friday, December 1, 2017 3:24:47 PM -03 Urs Thuermann wrote: > > On a machine running Debian stretch I have installed python3, which is > > currently python3.5. Nothing of python3.4 is present. > > > > But in /usr/local/lib/python3

Re: Removing old python packages installed with pip

2017-12-02 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Dec 02, 2017 at 09:27:43AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 01 Dec 2017 at 12:42:35 (-0300), Eike Lantzsch wrote: [...] > > If you mix two different package installers the consequence is that one > > does > > not know about the other [..

Re: playing blurays with vlc (or other)CtmpM 7#

2017-12-02 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sat, 2 Dec 2017, Thomas Amm wrote: mplayer allows to select specific chapters/titles: mplayer [br]://[title][/device] [options] I actually tried both syntaxes, i.e.: mplayer br://125//dev/sr0 or mplayer br://125//mnt (note that mplayer br://125/dev/sr0 doesn't work for me) b

Re: playing blurays with vlc (or other)

2017-12-02 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 2 Dec 2017 15:38:23 +0100 (CET) Pierre Frenkiel wrote: Hello Pierre, >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Blu-ray > > all links in that page are dead (i.e. error 404) Odd; All the ones I tried from that page worked. The only exception being that the slysoft page is currently pa

inotifywait in bash script: space

2017-12-02 Thread B.M.
Dear all, not a Debian specific question, but I hope to get an answer here... I try to use inotifywait in a bash script to block until a file in a directory gets changed. Then the script should continue. That's working well unless the path I hand over to inotifywait contains spaces. I already

Re: playing blurays with vlc (or other)

2017-12-02 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sat, 2 Dec 2017, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sat, 2 Dec 2017 15:38:23 +0100 (CET) Pierre Frenkiel wrote: Hello Pierre, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Blu-ray all links in that page are dead (i.e. error 404) Odd; All the ones I tried from that page worked. The only exception being

Re: inotifywait in bash script: space

2017-12-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, B.M. wrote: > MYCOMMAND = "inotifywait -qqr -e create \"$MYDIR\"" I assume you later execute this by $MYCOMMAND (and that you have no blanks around the '='). > echo shows the command correctly Not for me. I get already riddled in dialog: $ Y="a b c" $ X="echo \"$Y\"" $ $X

Re: playing blurays with vlc (or other)

2017-12-02 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 2 Dec 2017 17:32:06 +0100 (CET) Pierre Frenkiel wrote: Hello Pierre, >oops, I should have say also "all the links I tried"... Aaah. :-) >[11] ==> The requested URL /aacs/ was not found on this server. >[12] ==> The requested URL /aacs/advanced-users.php was not found > on

[OT] Relavant mailing list or USENET group

2017-12-02 Thread Richard Owlett
This is part of my search for a LINUX PDA. [1] [2] Those threads and Raspberry Pi links have been educational and have firmed up my goals {e.g. There is no longer a strong preference for an x86 processor}. A Raspberry Pi has attractive features for some future unrelated projects {physical form

Re: [OT] Relavant mailing list or USENET group

2017-12-02 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, December 02, 2017 12:17:39 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > 6. *NOT* be a "smartphone". Well, I am curious about why you don't want it to be a smartphone, and whether doing something like removing the SIM from a cell phone (and possibly epoxying the socket) would meet your needs?

Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk

2017-12-02 Thread Dan Norton
On 12/01/2017 02:58 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Dan Norton wrote: # fdisk -l ... Disklabel type: gpt In the dim past, fdisk could set a partition as "active", which was its euphemism for "bootable". I guess, this applies only to MBR partition tables, not to GPT as on your disk. As Pascal st

Re: [OT] Relavant mailing list or USENET group

2017-12-02 Thread Richard Owlett
On 12/02/2017 12:02 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, December 02, 2017 12:17:39 PM Richard Owlett wrote: 6. *NOT* be a "smartphone". Well, I am curious about why you don't want it to be a smartphone, and whether doing something like removing the SIM from a cell phone (and possibly ep

Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk

2017-12-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Dan Norton wrote: > OK, the syslinux and syslinux-efi packages are now installed SYSLINUX and GRUB are competitors (with GRUB winning the race on hard disk but lagging behind on ISO 9660 for old BIOS). I mentioned the SYSLINUX file "mbr.bin" (source: mbr.S) only to substantiate my statement a

Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk

2017-12-02 Thread David Christensen
On 12/01/17 20:07, Dan Norton wrote: On 12/01/2017 08:54 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 12/01/17 10:50, Dan Norton wrote: >>> Maybe this is the wrong forum, but please bear with me a little bit. This post was sent from a desktop with jessie installed. The problem is it will not boot normally.

Re: [OT] Relavant mailing list or USENET group

2017-12-02 Thread David Wright
On Sat 02 Dec 2017 at 13:17:14 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 12/02/2017 12:02 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > >On Saturday, December 02, 2017 12:17:39 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > >>6. *NOT* be a "smartphone". > > > >Well, I am curious about why you don't want it to be a smartphone, > >and whet

Re: [OT] Relavant mailing list or USENET group

2017-12-02 Thread John Hasler
David Wright writes: > what would be the principal use of this device, who would it be aimed > at, and what would be the size of its market? I'd buy one were it cheap enough (it wouldn't be). -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: [OT] Relavant mailing list or USENET group

2017-12-02 Thread Joe
On Sat, 2 Dec 2017 13:17:14 -0600 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 12/02/2017 12:02 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Saturday, December 02, 2017 12:17:39 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > >> 6. *NOT* be a "smartphone". > > > > Well, I am curious about why you don't want it to be a smartphone, > > and

Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk

2017-12-02 Thread Michael Lange
On Fri, 1 Dec 2017 23:07:15 -0500 Dan Norton wrote: (...) > > What bootloader was installed -- LILO, GRUB, GRUB2, whatever? And, > > where? > > > > > GRUB2 to sda1. > I did not read this thread in detail, so maybe this has already been discussed, but I have just now been thinking, shouldn't g

Re: Thunderbird no longer opens links

2017-12-02 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 02/12/17 23:43, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: Now, when I hit this buggy profile problem, I'm thinking about how to deal with these problems in the future for other applications. After consulting AppArmor manual I have not found any reference about how to override AppArmor profile. All profile

Re: [OT] Relavant mailing list or USENET group

2017-12-02 Thread David Wright
On Sat 02 Dec 2017 at 13:52:41 (-0600), John Hasler wrote: > David Wright writes: > > what would be the principal use of this device, who would it be aimed > > at, and what would be the size of its market? > > I'd buy one were it cheap enough (it wouldn't be). Well, I just might¹. But I'm afraid

Re: Thunderbird no longer opens links

2017-12-02 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 03.12.2017 02:57, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 02/12/17 23:43, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: >> Now, when I hit this buggy profile problem, I'm thinking about how to >> deal with these problems in the future for other applications. >> After consulting AppArmor manual I have not found any refer

Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk

2017-12-02 Thread Felix Miata
Michael Lange composed on 2017-12-02 22:33 (UTC+0100): > On Fri, 1 Dec 2017 23:07:15 -0500 Dan Norton wrote: > (...) >> > What bootloader was installed -- LILO, GRUB, GRUB2, whatever? And, >> > where? >> GRUB2 to sda1. > I did not read this thread in detail, so maybe this has already been > dis

Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk

2017-12-02 Thread Michael Lange
On Sat, 2 Dec 2017 18:09:56 -0500 Felix Miata wrote: > Michael Lange composed on 2017-12-02 22:33 (UTC+0100): > > > On Fri, 1 Dec 2017 23:07:15 -0500 Dan Norton wrote: > > > (...) > >> > What bootloader was installed -- LILO, GRUB, GRUB2, whatever? And, > >> > where? > > >> GRUB2 to sda1. > >

Re: [OT] Relavant mailing list or USENET group

2017-12-02 Thread John Hasler
David Wright writes: > what would be the principal use of this device, who would it be aimed > at, and what would be the size of its market? I wrote: > I'd buy one were it cheap enough (it wouldn't be). David Wright writes: > Well, I just might¹. But I'm afraid your reply doesn't actually > addre

Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk

2017-12-02 Thread Dan Norton
On 12/02/2017 02:35 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 12/01/17 20:07, Dan Norton wrote: On 12/01/2017 08:54 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 12/01/17 10:50, Dan Norton wrote: >>> Maybe this is the wrong forum, but please bear with me a little bit. This post was sent from a desktop with jessie inst

Re: BIOS Can Not Find Disk

2017-12-02 Thread deloptes
Michael Lange wrote: > Windows is a pain in the neck of > course, still booting a Live system and reinstalling grub from a chroot > environment seems comparatively easy to me compared to the OP's > troubles ;) Agreed here and this is exactly what I do. + grub2 finds windows automatically and perh

A user with two faces?

2017-12-02 Thread A_Man_Without_Clue
Hi all, I am encountering mysterious phenomenon with Buster/LXDE. Seems like my user account has two identities. One day I log into my account, do some work, for instance I copy files to one directory or I install an application software then logout, shutdown or reboot. I will login again with s

Re: A user with two faces?

2017-12-02 Thread A_Man_Without_Clue
On 12/03/2017 03:14 PM, A_Man_Without_Clue wrote: > Hi all, > > I am encountering mysterious phenomenon with Buster/LXDE. > Seems like my user account has two identities. > > One day I log into my account, do some work, for instance I copy files > to one directory or I install an application so