On 03/13/2015 02:38 PM, Michael Biebl wrote:
Am 2015-03-13 19:35, schrieb Michael Biebl:
Maybe [1] has the missing clue. If your mentry is under the Advanced
menu, you need to use a special syntax.
I just tried the following
1. Set GRUB_DEFAULT=saved, as you did and ran update-grub
2. Checked w
On 03/13/2015 02:44 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
* Elimar Riesebieter [2015-03-13 19:33 +0100]:
* Jape Person [2015-03-13 14:12 -0400]:
[...]
However, I can't get grub-set-default to redesignate that new menu entry as
the default.
Here is how I use it:
The first menu entry is 0
On 03/13/2015 04:05 PM, David Wright wrote:
Quoting Jape Person (jap...@comcast.net):
On 03/12/2015 05:48 PM, Michael Biebl wrote:
touch /forcefsck is deprecated under systemd, but still supported.
What sysvinit's shutdown -F does, is simply create that flag file.
That paramete
On 04/12/2015 10:46 PM, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 11:50:40AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
In that situation, my first course of action would be to hide anything
but the essential sources.list contents of, basically, something like
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7.1.0 _Wheezy_
On 04/13/2015 01:11 PM, Brian wrote:
On Mon 13 Apr 2015 at 08:42:45 -0400, Jape Person wrote:
I'd even argue that the deb-src entries are not necessary for the majority of
Debian users.
IIRC apt-listbugs or apt-listchanges (or both) don't work without
the deb-src entries i
Sorry, this message was sent initially from a shared e-mail address. I'm
using the correct address now. The primary owner of that addy is even
older and grumpier than I am. Heh.
On 04/13/2015 11:10 AM, Curt wrote:
> On 2015-04-13, Jape Person wrote:
>>
>> IIRC apt-listbug
On 04/14/2015 03:59 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 08:42:45AM -0400, Jape Person wrote:
IIRC apt-listbugs or apt-listchanges (or both) don't work without the
deb-src entries in /etc/apt/sources.list.
Works fine for me. Did you *actually* try it?
It works fine for me
On 04/17/2015 07:08 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 11:08:15AM -0400, Jape Person wrote:
On 04/14/2015 03:59 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 08:42:45AM -0400, Jape Person wrote:
IIRC apt-listbugs or apt-listchanges (or both) don't work without the
de
Okay, deep breath, and here goes...
I seem to wind up posting about forcing fsck on the boot partition every
few months. Over the past year or so I've had to change the way I
initiate a full file system check on the boot partition of my systems.
I used to use
# touch /forcefsck
On 04/26/2015 03:25 PM, Michael Biebl wrote:
Am 26.04.2015 um 19:58 schrieb Jape Person:
SUMMARY:
It's possible that I don't have the sequence of these changes exactly
right, and this might not be a complete accounting of the changes,
inasmuch as I'm trying to relate changes in
On 04/26/2015 03:39 PM, Michael Biebl wrote:
Am 26.04.2015 um 21:25 schrieb Michael Biebl:
I think your summary is correct. Now that fsck for / and /usr has been
moved into the initramfs (by initramfs-tools), it's simply an oversight,
that initramfs-tools doesn't respect the fsck.mode= parameter
On 04/26/2015 04:57 PM, David Wright wrote:
Quoting Jape Person (jap...@comcast.net):
Can anyone test to see if fsck.mode=force is still working on their
Jessie / testing systems? If so, I must have done something to all
four of my testing systems to screw things up. And, if
fsck.mode=force
On 05/01/2015 02:14 PM, Nicolas George wrote:
Hi.
I wrote some time ago:
I would like to know if some people here have accurate knowledge on the
prospect of running Debian on low- and middle-end hybrid PC/tablet
computers, like Asus Transformer or Acer Aspire Switch that sell for
250-500 EUR ar
At some point during the recent slew of updates in testing I
noticed that one of my four systems began exhibiting a strange
behavior. When I log out from a desktop session to the greeter
or switch to a console screen, the display is so dark I can
hardly see its content. I would point out that t
On 05/23/2015 10:07 AM, Jape Person wrote:
At some point during the recent slew of updates in testing I
noticed that one of my four systems began exhibiting a strange
behavior. When I log out from a desktop session to the greeter
or switch to a console screen, the display is so dark I can
hardly
On 05/23/2015 11:30 AM, Jape Person wrote:
On 05/23/2015 10:07 AM, Jape Person wrote:
At some point during the recent slew of updates in testing I
noticed that one of my four systems began exhibiting a strange
behavior. When I log out from a desktop session to the greeter
or switch to a console
On 05/30/2015 03:25 AM, Stuart Longland wrote:
The other option might be to look at Lenovo's offerings,
there might be some Superfish-ridden ones that sellers will
be trying to offload dirt cheap: the malware being easily
removed with the Debian installer. ;-)
I'll add a vote for Lenovo. I've b
On 06/10/2015 10:43 AM, David Guyot wrote:
Hello.
Has anyone successfully installed AdobeAIR? if so could I
have some help please? New to Debian.
Support of AIR under Linux has been stopped in 2011 by
Adobe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_AIR#Availability
Regards.
Yes, although Adobe
On 06/16/2015 02:08 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
I just did a clean install of Jessie w Mate DE
1. How do I use file manager with root privileges?
man pkexec
Or you could invoke the file manager via gksu. That application
(gksu) is probably not installed by default with your DE.
I probably do
On 06/24/2015 03:58 AM, David Demelier wrote:
On Fri, 2015-06-12 at 19:03 +0200, Tim Dengel wrote:
Am 12.06.2015 um 18:39 schrieb David Demelier:
I have Debian Jessie installed and empathy is just unusable. I just
cannot add an account, the combobox is empty in the question "What kind
of chat a
On 06/24/2015 08:51 AM, Weaver wrote:
Greetings all.
I have a spare unstable system that I was thinking of jumping up to
experimental to play with.
Is experimental strictly non-gui, or is there a recommended light
desktop that can sit on top?
Thanks for any advice to this slow and ancient learne
On 06/24/2015 08:01 AM, Zebediah C. McClure wrote:
On Tuesday 23 June 2015 18:33:22 Patrick Bartek wrote:
apt-get install sysvinit-core sysvinit sysvinit-utils
apt-get remove --purge --auto-remove systemd
Fixed my problems, and gave me a 100% working system.
Did you check for any remnants of
On 07/10/2015 10:07 AM, Haines Brown wrote:
On a new Thinkpad x250, I've installed Sid. The touchpad causes
problems, and so I want to disable it. The easy way is Fn+F8, but that
key combination does nothing. Is this because Windows is not installed?
What should be a sure fire way is to disable i
On 07/10/2015 10:55 AM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote:
Time has come to upgrade, for when I travel, from my trusty Asus
EeePC700 palmtop, and I am thinking of a tablet.
I only need something that will run Firefox, Skype and Google Earth.
Can anyone advise on a reasonably priced tablet that will ru
On 07/10/2015 02:26 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Fri, 10 Jul 2015, Jape Person wrote:
One idea (maybe far-fetched) did occur to me. Are you using the
intel-microcode / iucode-tool (or the AMD alternative) for updating
the microcode at boot time? If so, I guess its remotely possible
On 07/10/2015 03:56 PM, Haines Brown wrote:
On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:52:58AM -0400, Jape Person wrote:
On 07/10/2015 10:07 AM, Haines Brown wrote:
On a new Thinkpad x250, I've installed Sid. The touchpad causes
problems, and so I want to disable it. The easy way is Fn+F8, but
tha
On 07/13/2015 12:04 PM, Haines Brown wrote:
I purchased a ThinkPad (x250) installed Sid using ethernet, and just
as I read your message set up wireless. I had to install the driver
for the card (firmware-iwlwifi), had to work around the annoyance
that the RF-kill switch (F8) has no LED to indicat
On 07/15/2015 12:29 PM, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote:
Dear List!
I'd like to know which is the most workable firewall-gui with Debian 8 -
for using by users with basic knowledge.
Thanks!
I only know of two GUIs for firewall control in the main repositories
for Jessie, gufw and fwbuilder.
gufw is
On 07/17/2015 01:49 PM, John J. Boyer wrote:
None of these solutions work. ifconfig is not available on Jessie. ip
seems to be inapropriate. dig produces nothing. I have used ifconfig on
other distros.
John
I think ifconfig isn't a package.
By default on my Jessie systems it's under /sbin.
I
On 07/20/2015 10:20 AM, William Hadfield-Burkardt wrote:
I'm new to Debian.
Someone else configured the system for me. It was running o.k.
Then I downloaded and installed (using the synaptic package manager)
a speech recognition software (pocketsphinx). I removed it without
ever having used it
On 07/20/2015 02:46 PM, David Fuchs wrote:
Hi all,
I have an issue with an external hard drive that I'm at my wit's end with.
I'll try to keep it short:
My system is connected to an external SATA HD via USB 3 (used for backups).
For 6+ months, this setup has worked flawlessly.
About a week ago
On 07/20/2015 08:53 PM, Joel Rees wrote:
I don't seem to be able to string two sentences together these days.
I mean, I think Jape suggests removing the entries entirely. That's one
possibility.
I should probably be more careful in the way I word things. I meant to
say that *I* won't let USB-
On 07/21/2015 12:28 PM, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote:
Quoting Erick Ocrospoma :
On 21 July 2015 at 10:32, Martin Skjöldebrand
wrote:
Hi,
Mail from desperate user here:
OS: Debian 8.1 Jessie
Scenario: Mail/web server with file corruption. I have I/O errors on a few
blocks which results in re
On 07/23/2015 12:59 PM, David Wright wrote:
Quoting Ralph Katz (ralph.k...@rcn.com):
Yesterday I learned (from this list) that apparently Debian now defaults
to no periodic disk checks after file system installation. So I
manually added one yesterday.
Yet when I rebooted after today's kernel u
On 07/23/2015 01:48 PM, Ralph Katz wrote:
On 07/23/2015 12:59 PM, David Wright wrote:
Yes, you missed yesterday's posting:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/07/msg00977.html
I saw it, but perhaps I don't understand it.
From man tune2fs:
-i interval-between-checks[d|m|w]
On 07/23/2015 02:52 PM, David Wright wrote:
Quoting Jape Person (jap...@comcast.net):
On 07/23/2015 12:59 PM, David Wright wrote:
Quoting Ralph Katz (ralph.k...@rcn.com):
Yesterday I learned (from this list) that apparently Debian now defaults
to no periodic disk checks after file system
On 08/21/2017 10:46 PM, Mario Castelán Castro wrote:
On 21/08/17 17:09, Alle Meije Wink wrote:
Does anyone understand the cause of this problem
*The USB wireless keyboard IS itself a problem*. You are
unnecessarily contaminating the environment consuming Voltaic cells
where none is needed (obv
On 08/22/2017 09:33 AM, Mario Castelán Castro wrote:
On 21/08/17 23:02, Jape Person wrote:
The keyboard communications are encrypted, and both mouse and keyboard
are rechargeable. But I at least have to check with Cherry support to
learn whether or not my new toys are vulnerable. I suspect that
On 08/22/2017 01:17 PM, Mario Castelán Castro wrote:
On 22/08/17 10:22, Jape Person wrote:
Hence, why I suspect that they are vulnerable. I bought these
things because my wife trips over her cables 3 or 4 times a day,
and wireless ones are just easier to deal with from a workstation
logistics
On 08/22/2017 02:40 PM, Mario Castelán Castro wrote:
On 22/08/17 13:01, Jape Person wrote:
There's no fix for my wife and the presence of cables. In this case, the
cables for keyboard and mouse run from the Intel NUC computer nestled in
a table beside her recliner to the keyboard on her la
On 08/22/2017 03:46 PM, Brian wrote:
On Tue 22 Aug 2017 at 10:04:59 -0500, Mario Castelán Castro wrote:
I have the following line in my Bash init file:
“alias gen-password="head -c 16 /dev/urandom | base64 | head -c 22 && echo"”
This generates a password with just above 128 bits of entropy. Y
On 08/22/2017 05:12 PM, Mario Castelán Castro wrote:
On 22/08/17 15:11, Jape Person wrote:
You have been *very* helpful. You educated / reminded me on why even
testing for exploits isn't necessarily useful when the firmware is not
Open Source, and you told me about the existence of mag
On 08/22/2017 06:01 PM, Jape Person wrote:
On 08/22/2017 05:12 PM, Mario Castelán Castro wrote:
On 22/08/17 15:11, Jape Person wrote:
You have been *very* helpful. You educated / reminded me on why even
testing for exploits isn't necessarily useful when the firmware is not
Open Source, an
On 10/11/2017 04:20 AM, debian-user@lists.debian.org wrote:
> Check
> Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"
>
I'm seeing something from debian-user@lists.debian.org that I've
never seen before. The most recent three days I have received a
single e-mail as quoted above.
Is this a normal funct
On 10/11/2017 08:48 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> On 10/11/2017 10:14 AM, Jape Person wrote:
>> On 10/11/2017 04:20 AM, debian-user@lists.debian.org wrote:
>>> Check
>>> Re: hplip and use of the "driver plugin"
>>>
>>
>> I'm seeing some
On 10/12/2017 11:50 AM, David Wright wrote:
> On Thu 12 Oct 2017 at 11:44:29 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Greetings all;
>>
>> What does the word Unifying, as I see in dmesg for some, but not all, the
>> the rx buttons for wireless keyboards/mice, actually mean?
>>
>> I took that to mean that i
On 11/22/2017 01:52 PM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> hi,
> For the first time in my life, I was unable to configure a printer for
> Linux,
Which GNU/Linux? Debian? If so, you should specify whether
you're using a release or testing or unstable. It could make a
difference, particularly with respect to
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