Re: stretch: amd64, no dmesg when usb stuff plugged in

2019-09-06 Thread tomas
On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 08:10:07PM -0400, bw wrote: > In-Reply-To: <201909051911.42570.ghesk...@shentel.net> > > Why do you continue with this type of post? It's a joke. I'm shocked > that anybody even answers this stupidity. If you don't like the thread, just keep out of it. If yo've got dif

Re: bumblebee fails to disable discrete graphics card after upgrade nvidia driver to 430.40-2

2019-09-06 Thread Manu Baylac
Hi, Exactly same problem here (bullseye uptodate). Debian bumblebee wiki page (and other searches on the net) didn't help More info : $ systemctl status bumblebeed.service bumblebeed.service - Bumblebee C Daemon Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/bumblebeed.service; enab

Re: Looking for suggestions of a "modern" desktop that runs Debian

2019-09-06 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 06:49:10PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > Dear people, > > As all my computers are quite old so far (including the ones that I > use to develop my packages and contribute to Debian), I would like to > get a "modern" desktop that is able to keep up with compiling stuff > and

Re: tasksel

2019-09-06 Thread Paul Sutton
Hi All thanks for the help on this,  I am slowly getting somewhere with this.  For now, and with the help, I am going to get the option menu working, so this allows a single option to be selected from the menu and run,  then goes back to the menu for the user to choose the next option if needed.

Re: Looking for suggestions of a "modern" desktop that runs Debian

2019-09-06 Thread deloptes
Rogério Brito wrote: > Any recommendations are more than welcome, I bought one used Fujitsu C200 for about 170,- few years ago. It has everything one would need incl. serial port - actually two of them. Intel Core5 - 4CPU 8GB of mem (but I think it can handle up to 16) I do not think it is nece

Install debian armhf on tablet "surface rt"

2019-09-06 Thread hans . ullrich
Hi folks, I am trying to install debian on a Surface RT. Being on 2/3rd on the way, I am now stuck, but an easy problem. At the momant, I am t the ponit, that I can boot from an USB-stick. The USB-stick is loaded with grub (a special version for the Surface RT). On the stick I put the installa

What is the location of the "depmod" program on your machine? vmware tools installation error

2019-09-06 Thread Tapas Mishra
Hi, I am trying to install Vmware tools in Debian 10 on Vmware workstation. The place where I am stuck is following messages. debian:~/vmware_tools/vmware-tools-distrib$ ls bin caf doc etc FILES INSTALL installer lib vgauth vmware-install.pl debian@debian:~/vmware_tools/vmware-tools-dist

usr merge apparently breaks amanda

2019-09-06 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; I don't have a good reason to object to the usr merge, but its causing amanda to crash the systems that have had this modification. I am trying tonight, an exclude scheme that should stop the crashing if indeed that is what is doing it. But if it works, that means your 3 links t

Re: What is the location of the "depmod" program on your machine? vmware tools installation error

2019-09-06 Thread Dan Ritter
Tapas Mishra wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to install Vmware tools in Debian 10 on Vmware workstation. > The place where I am stuck is following messages. > > > debian:~/vmware_tools/vmware-tools-distrib$ ls > bin caf doc etc FILES INSTALL installer lib vgauth vmware-install.pl > debian@de

Re: What is the location of the "depmod" program on your machine? vmware tools installation error

2019-09-06 Thread Erwan David
Le 06/09/2019 à 15:53, Tapas Mishra a écrit : > Hi, > I am trying to install Vmware tools in Debian 10 on Vmware workstation. > The place where I am stuck is following messages. > > It seems to me that vmware on recent linux prefers the open-vm-tools package.

Re: usr merge apparently breaks amanda

2019-09-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 10:06:39AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I don't have a good reason to object to the usr merge, but its causing > amanda to crash the systems that have had this modification. This is the part where you show us the error messages from the log files that s

Re: What is the location of the "depmod" program on your machine? vmware tools installation error

2019-09-06 Thread MAS Jean-Louis
Le 06/09/2019 à 15:53, Tapas Mishra a écrit : > I am trying to install Vmware tools in Debian 10 on Vmware workstation. > The place where I am stuck is following messages. Alternative answer apt install open-vm-tools Regards -- Jean Louis Mas smime.p7s Description: Signature cryptographiq

Re: What is the location of the "depmod" program on your machine? vmware tools installation error

2019-09-06 Thread Tapas Mishra
Dan Ritter > What should I do to proceed from here? >It's in /sbin/depmod, and you will need to be root to do anything useful with it. >sudo ./vmware-install.pl >might work. Yes that did worked. Thanks for pointing that out. Erwan David >It seems to me that vmware on recent linux prefers the

Re: Looking for suggestions of a "modern" desktop that runs Debian

2019-09-06 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Rogério Brito writes: > Dear people, > > As all my computers are quite old so far (including the ones that I > use to develop my packages and contribute to Debian), I would like to > get a "modern" desktop that is able to keep up with compiling stuff > and doing basic web surfing/web and typing t

Re: usr merge apparently breaks amanda

2019-09-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 06 September 2019 10:20:14 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 10:06:39AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I don't have a good reason to object to the usr merge, but its > > causing amanda to crash the systems that have had this modification. > > This is t

Re: stretch: amd64, no dmesg when usb stuff plugged in

2019-09-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 05 September 2019 19:11:42 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > So what utility thats supposed to monitor that, has taken a holiday? > > Thanks All. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett I found it. A staples brand usb hub that has served on the end of an extension cable, as a place to plugin

Re: usr merge apparently breaks amanda

2019-09-06 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 06/09/2019 à 16:39, Gene Heskett a écrit : On Friday 06 September 2019 10:20:14 Greg Wooledge wrote: I could very easily see amanda itself breaking from usrmerge, if it contains programs that try to invoke commands using their full paths (e.g. /bin/rm -f ...). Why would that break ? Old pa

Re: usr merge apparently breaks amanda

2019-09-06 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 05:52:15PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 06/09/2019 à 16:39, Gene Heskett a écrit : > > On Friday 06 September 2019 10:20:14 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > > I could very easily see amanda itself breaking from usrmerge, if it > > > contains programs that try to invoke

error while doing apt-get update

2019-09-06 Thread Tapas Mishra
Hi, I am getting some error while doing debian@debian:~$ sudo apt-get update [sudo] password for debian: Get:1 http://security-cdn.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease [39.1 kB] Hit:2 http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease Get:3 http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debi

Re: What is the location of the "depmod" program on your machine? vmware tools installation error

2019-09-06 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 6 Sep 2019 19:23:53 +0530 Tapas Mishra wrote: > What is the location of the "depmod" program on your > machine? Use of uninitialized value $gOption{"default"} in numeric eq > (==) at ./vmware-install.pl line 866, line 1. The answer is, that depends. On a Debian 10 (buster) machine that

Re: usr merge apparently breaks amanda

2019-09-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 06 September 2019 11:52:15 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 06/09/2019 à 16:39, Gene Heskett a écrit : > > On Friday 06 September 2019 10:20:14 Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> I could very easily see amanda itself breaking from usrmerge, if it > >> contains programs that try to invoke commands usin

Re: stretch: amd64, no dmesg when usb stuff plugged in

2019-09-06 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 6 Sep 2019 10:44:45 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > I found it. A staples brand usb hub that has served on the end of an > extension cable, as a place to plugin the dongles for the > keyboard/mouse for the last 8 or so years was doing funkity things to > udev. Replaced with another off brand

Re: usr merge apparently breaks amanda

2019-09-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 06 September 2019 11:58:15 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 05:52:15PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > Le 06/09/2019 à 16:39, Gene Heskett a écrit : > > > On Friday 06 September 2019 10:20:14 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > I could very easily see amanda itself breaking from

[Solved] buster: multiple instances of konqueror?

2019-09-06 Thread Étienne Mollier
D. R. Evans, on 2019-09-05: > Étienne Mollier wrote on 9/5/19 1:38 PM: > > $ konqueror . # brings up a new window showing the CWD > > If I map "alt-S" to "konqueror " instead of just > "konqueror" then it seems perfectly happy to start multiple instances. > > So the problem is solved -- if not

Re: usr merge apparently breaks amanda

2019-09-06 Thread Tixy
On Fri, 2019-09-06 at 13:12 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 06 September 2019 11:52:15 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > Le 06/09/2019 à 16:39, Gene Heskett a écrit : > > > On Friday 06 September 2019 10:20:14 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > >> I could very easily see amanda itself breaking from usrmer

Re: usr merge apparently breaks amanda

2019-09-06 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 06 Sep 2019 18:30:30 +0100 Tixy wrote: > Is the problem being talked about here different to amanda usr-merge > bug 939411 [1] which I saw that mentioned in another thread [2] ? > > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=939411 > [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/20

Re: usr merge apparently breaks amanda

2019-09-06 Thread John Hasler
Gene writes: > Firewall rule? I haven't run iptables on any of these machines since > forever but with systemd taking over, I've no clue how to disable it > if it is running. htop see's nothing that looks like iptables, has it > been renamed? Iptables is not a daemon. It is a tool for installin

Re: usr merge apparently breaks amanda

2019-09-06 Thread David Wright
On Fri 06 Sep 2019 at 11:39:43 (-0600), Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 06 Sep 2019 18:30:30 +0100 > Tixy wrote: > > > Is the problem being talked about here different to amanda usr-merge > > bug 939411 [1] which I saw that mentioned in another thread [2] ? > > > > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cg

Re: What is the location of the "depmod" program on your machine? vmware tools installation error

2019-09-06 Thread David Wright
On Fri 06 Sep 2019 at 10:48:43 (-0600), Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 6 Sep 2019 19:23:53 +0530 > Tapas Mishra wrote: > > > What is the location of the "depmod" program on your > > machine? Use of uninitialized value $gOption{"default"} in numeric eq > > (==) at ./vmware-install.pl line 866, l

Re: error while doing apt-get update

2019-09-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2019-09-06 21:59 +0530, Tapas Mishra wrote: > I am getting some error while doing > debian@debian:~$ sudo apt-get update > [sudo] password for debian: > Get:1 http://security-cdn.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates > InRelease [39.1 kB] > Hit:2 http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian bust

Re: What is the location of the "depmod" program on your machine? vmware tools installation error

2019-09-06 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 6 Sep 2019 13:47:19 -0500 David Wright wrote: > Bear in mind that depmod itself has been a symlink for quite a while. And still is. However, if the symlink you're expecting isn't there... Fresh install: root@jhegaala:~# ll /sbin/depmod /usr/sbin/depmod lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Feb 9

Re: stretch: amd64, no dmesg when usb stuff plugged in

2019-09-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 06 September 2019 12:53:54 Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 6 Sep 2019 10:44:45 -0400 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > I found it. A staples brand usb hub that has served on the end of an > > extension cable, as a place to plugin the dongles for the > > keyboard/mouse for the last 8 or so yea

Re: What is the location of the "depmod" program on your machine? vmware tools installation error

2019-09-06 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 06/09/2019 à 21:05, Charles Curley a écrit : Fresh install: root@jhegaala:~# ll /sbin/depmod /usr/sbin/depmod lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Feb 9 2019 /sbin/depmod -> /bin/kmod* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Feb 9 2019 /usr/sbin/depmod -> /bin/kmod* Upgraded: root@hawk:~# ll /sbin/depmod /usr/sb

Re: usr merge apparently breaks amanda

2019-09-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 06 September 2019 13:30:30 Tixy wrote: > On Fri, 2019-09-06 at 13:12 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 06 September 2019 11:52:15 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > Le 06/09/2019 à 16:39, Gene Heskett a écrit : > > > > On Friday 06 September 2019 10:20:14 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > >> I

Re: usr merge apparently breaks amanda

2019-09-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 06 September 2019 13:39:43 Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 06 Sep 2019 18:30:30 +0100 > > Tixy wrote: > > Is the problem being talked about here different to amanda usr-merge > > bug 939411 [1] which I saw that mentioned in another thread [2] ? > > > > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bi

Re: usr merge apparently breaks amanda

2019-09-06 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 06 September 2019 14:32:29 John Hasler wrote: > Gene writes: > > Firewall rule? I haven't run iptables on any of these machines > > since forever but with systemd taking over, I've no clue how to > > disable it if it is running. htop see's nothing that looks like > > iptables, has it b