Nvdia 304xxx

What is happening with this? I would gladly use nouveau but it has had problems with Firefox and kde.

rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why?

I had used rsync to back up a different partition with no problems. I used that command as a model to attempt to backup another partition. root@debian-jan13:~# root@debian-jan13:~# rsync --verbose --progress --stats --recursive --times --perms --links /media/root/drescued_commo/ /media/root/b

Re: Get the external IP address from a Linux box

On 2018-05-26, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 25/05/2018 à 02:17, Alan Greenberger a écrit : >> On 2018-05-24, André Rodier wrote: >>> >>> I am looking for a native package on Debian, that can give me the >>> external IP address of the machine. >> >> Assuming you are looking for the public internet

Re: rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why?

On 28 May 2018 at 22:07, Richard Owlett wrote: > I had used rsync to back up a different partition with no problems. > > I used that command as a model to attempt to backup another partition. > >> root@debian-jan13:~# root@debian-jan13:~# rsync --verbose --progress >> --stats --recursive --times

Re: rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why?

On 05/28/2018 09:07 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > I had used rsync to back up a different partition with no problems. > > I used that command as a model to attempt to backup another partition. > >> root@debian-jan13:~# root@debian-jan13:~# rsync --verbose  --progress >> --stats --recursive --times

Re: Thunderbird does not start and freezes

Le 27/05/2018 à 15:24, Pétùr a écrit : > In sid, trying to launch thunderbird does do anything and freezes the > system (mouse works but cannot act on windows, going to tty works). I uninstalled apparmor for now and thunderbird is launching. (if someone has the same issue).

Re: rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why?

On 05/28/2018 07:15 AM, likcoras wrote: On 05/28/2018 09:07 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: I had used rsync to back up a different partition with no problems. I used that command as a model to attempt to backup another partition. root@debian-jan13:~# root@debian-jan13:~# rsync --verbose  --progres

Re: rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why?

On 05/28/2018 07:15 AM, David wrote: On 28 May 2018 at 22:07, Richard Owlett wrote: I had used rsync to back up a different partition with no problems. I used that command as a model to attempt to backup another partition. root@debian-jan13:~# root@debian-jan13:~# rsync --verbose --progress

Re: rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why?

On 28 May 2018 at 22:47, Richard Owlett wrote: > > But that raises another question. > Why does error message identify a protocol problem after having correctly > identified the problem as "No such file or directory". man rsync says: "EXIT VALUES 0 Success 1 Syntax or usag

Re: rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why?

Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/28/2018 07:15 AM, David wrote: >> On 28 May 2018 at 22:07, Richard Owlett wrote: >> Which would explain why rsync says: >> "rsync: change_dir "/media/root/drescued_commo" failed: No such file >> or directory (2)" >> >> Does that help? >> > > > *DUH* > > But that ra

Re: rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why?

On 05/28/2018 08:08 AM, David wrote: On 28 May 2018 at 22:47, Richard Owlett wrote: But that raises another question. Why does error message identify a protocol problem after having correctly identified the problem as "No such file or directory". man rsync says: "EXIT VALUES 0 S

Re: rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why?

On 2018-05-28 at 09:08, David wrote: > On 28 May 2018 at 22:47, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> But that raises another question. >> Why does error message identify a protocol problem after having correctly >> identified the problem as "No such file or directory". > > man rsync says: > "EXIT VALUES >

Re: netbeans crashing on testing/sid

Le 25/05/2018 à 18:28, Glenn Holmer a écrit : On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 5:59 AM, rudu > wrote: > Thank you very much Glenn, this was all I needed to know to come back on track. > Do you know if/when a package will be in the sid/testing repositories ? (For easier updates)

Seeing with comprehension - was [ rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why?]

Question 1 I tried to backup another partition. The command I *THOUGHT* I gave was: rsync --verbose --progress --stats --recursive --times --perms --links \ /media/richard/jessie8-6-sda6/ /media/richard/backups/jessie8-6-sda6/ I got a similar error message to last time (i.e. 'file not found'

Re: Seeing with comprehension - was [ rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why?]

On Monday 28 May 2018 11:53:26 Richard Owlett wrote: > Question 1 > I tried to backup another partition. > > The command I *THOUGHT* I gave was: > > rsync --verbose --progress --stats --recursive --times --perms > > --links \ /media/richard/jessie8-6-sda6/ > > /media/richard/backups/jessie8-6-sd

Re: Seeing with comprehension - was [ rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why?]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 10:53:26AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Question 1 [...] > Is there a graphical editor which would high-lite that "something" is there? Emacs, whitespace mode. It'll show you trailing space, tabs, overlong lines... you name

Re: Seeing with comprehension - was [ rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why?]

On 05/28/2018 10:58 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 28 May 2018 11:53:26 Richard Owlett wrote: Question 1 I tried to backup another partition. The command I *THOUGHT* I gave was: rsync --verbose --progress --stats --recursive --times --perms --links \ /media/richard/jessie8-6-sda6/ /media/

Re: Installing Debian on a Minnowboard Turbot with installer on USB stick?

Rick Thomas wrote: > > On May 27, 2018, at 3:57 AM, deloptes wrote: > >> Rick Thomas wrote: >> >>> Can you suggest any way to get around the problem? >> >> Sorry to jump in, but I had a similar experience with Pi few years ago. >> >> I see this board supports network boot - for experimenting

Re: Seeing with comprehension - was [ rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why?]

On 05/28/2018 11:18 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 05/28/2018 10:58 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 28 May 2018 11:53:26 Richard Owlett wrote: Question 1 I tried to backup another partition. The command I *THOUGHT* I gave was: rsync --verbose  --progress --stats --recursive --times --perms -

Re: Nvdia 304xxx

On 2018-05-28 13:26 +0300, David Baron wrote: > What is happening with this? Probably nothing, it is EOL'd officially[1]. > I would gladly use nouveau but it has had problems with Firefox and kde. Buy a cheap Radeon card on the used market if possible. Cheers, Sven 1. https://nvidia.c

Usability BUG - Which package appropriate?

In another thread I asked for text editor recommendations to address a narrowly focused problem - making non-printing (one respondent called them "ink-free) characters obvious. I had specified a GUI editor. One person suggested geany. I checked Synaptic and found it was already installed. Syn

Re: Seeing with comprehension - was [ rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why?]

On 05/28/2018 12:57 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: Question 1 [...] Question 2. When it ran I happened to be sitting by the display and noticed things of the form: var/log/lightdm/x-2.log.old 963 100%2.32kB/s0:00:00 (xfr#88022, to-chk=21/128033) var/log/speec

Re: Seeing with comprehension - was [ rsync error -- "Protocol incompatibility" Why?]

Richard Owlett wrote: > Question 1 > [...] > Question 2. > When it ran I happened to be sitting by the display and noticed things > of the form: >> >> var/log/lightdm/x-2.log.old >> 963 100%2.32kB/s0:00:00 (xfr#88022, to-chk=21/128033) >> var/log/speech-dispatcher/ >> var/mail

Re: Usability BUG - Which package appropriate?

Richard Owlett wrote: > In another thread I asked for text editor recommendations to address a > Later someone else suggested emacs. > My mental image of "emacs" was of something for a 'dumb terminal'. > I went to Synaptic searching for 'emacs'. > Got a hit for a metapaqckage - *NO* associated hom

Re: Get the external IP address from a Linux box

On Mon 28 May 2018 at 07:54:49 (-0400), Alan Greenberger wrote: > On 2018-05-26, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > Le 25/05/2018 à 02:17, Alan Greenberger a écrit : > >> On 2018-05-24, André Rodier wrote: > >>> > >>> I am looking for a native package on Debian, that can give me the > >>> external IP add

Re: Usability BUG - Which package appropriate?

On 05/28/2018 02:14 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: In another thread I asked for text editor recommendations to address a Later someone else suggested emacs. My mental image of "emacs" was of something for a 'dumb terminal'. I went to Synaptic searching for 'emacs'. Got a hit for a

exim4 and TLS Once Again

After about two weeks of going down all sorts of rabbit holes and wasting tons of time, I am at a loss trying to get exim4 to resume the ability to send messages via the smarthost used by our ISP. The real trouble here is that all one really knows is that something's broken. It happens

Re: Thunderbird does not start and freezes

On 29/05/18 10:03, The Wanderer wrote: I thought they'd gotten so many problems with Thunderbird under AppArmor when they first enabled it for user-based testing that they'd wound up disabling the Thunderbird AppArmor profile entirely, with the option for the local admin to enable it if desired.

Re: Thunderbird does not start and freezes

On 2018-05-28 at 17:09, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 29/05/18 00:20, Pétùr wrote: > >> Le 27/05/2018 à 15:24, Pétùr a écrit : >> >>> In sid, trying to launch thunderbird does do anything and freezes >>> the system (mouse works but cannot act on windows, going to tty >>> works). >> >> I uninst

Re: Usability BUG - Which package appropriate?

On Mon 28 May 2018 at 15:03:09 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/28/2018 02:14 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: > >Richard Owlett wrote: > >>In another thread I asked for text editor recommendations to address a > >>Later someone else suggested emacs. > >>My mental image of "emacs" was of something for

basics of CUPS troubleshooting

Having upgraded to Stretch, a file that I need to print no longer prints properly. (It did before.) I am sure the difficulty is so idiosyncratic no one here will have experienced it. So I'm not asking how to fix it specifically. Rather I'm looking for advice how to isolate the difficulty, general

Re: Get the external IP address from a Linux box

Le 28/05/2018 à 13:54, Alan Greenberger a écrit : On 2018-05-26, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 25/05/2018 à 02:17, Alan Greenberger a écrit : Assuming you are looking for the public internet address of your router, you could try: /usr/sbin/arp -n and it may show up on a line with the HWadress of

Re: Thunderbird does not start and freezes

On 29/05/18 00:20, Pétùr wrote: Le 27/05/2018 à 15:24, Pétùr a écrit : In sid, trying to launch thunderbird does do anything and freezes the system (mouse works but cannot act on windows, going to tty works). I uninstalled apparmor for now and thunderbird is launching. (if someone has the same

Re: exim4 and TLS Once Again

On Mon 28 May 2018 at 15:32:44 (-0500), Martin McCormick wrote: > > After about two weeks of going down all sorts of rabbit holes > and wasting tons of time, I am at a loss trying to get > exim4 to resume the ability to send messages via the smarthost > used by our ISP. The real trouble her

File managers show files and directories in reverse order.........

Hello Everyone, Suddenly my file managers show the files in reverse order to the norm, i.e directories on top and individual files beneath. Don't know how it was accidentally done? Using FVWM - Debian Stretch Any clues where I might configure this to return it to what is was

Re: File managers show files and directories in reverse order.........

On 29/05/18 13:08, Charlie S wrote: Hello Everyone, Suddenly my file managers show the files in reverse order to the norm, i.e directories on top and individual files beneath. Don't know how it was accidentally done? Using FVWM - Debian Stretch Any clues where I might configure th

Re: File managers show files and directories in reverse order.........

On Tue, 29 May 2018 13:26:37 +1200 Ben Caradoc-Davies sent: > On 29/05/18 13:08, Charlie S wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > Suddenly my file managers show the files in reverse order to > > the norm, i.e directories on top and individual files > > beneath. Don't know how it was accidentally d

Re: exim4 and TLS Once Again

David Wright writes: > And exim's logs say …? 2018-05-28 14:56:38 1fNL0J-0003CQ-70 H=smtp.suddenlink.net [208.180.40.68]: Remote host closed connection in response to initial connection 2018-05-28 14:56:38 1fNL0J-0003CQ-70 == mar...@okstate.edu R=smarthost T=remote_smtp_smarthost defer (-18