Re: Oh no something has gone wrong! after reinstalling Debian and Gnome.

2017-05-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
a lot, If you have not already upgraded again, do you have the packages "xorg and dkms" installed. If not install them and reboot. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid/Testing - Plasma 5.8.6 - EXT4 at sda15 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Upcoming transition to Stretch

2017-06-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
e off about 14Gb's, install Stretch and add Sid and change Stretch to Testing. It's always a learning experience. :) -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Stretch - KDE Plasma 5.8.6 - Intel G3220 - EXT4 at sda11 Registered Linux User #380263

Heads Up! Stretch RC4 non-free netinstall iso has no non-free firmware.

2017-06-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
are doing an install. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Stretch - KDE Plasma 5.8.6 - Intel G3220 - EXT4 at sda11 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-09 Thread Jimmy Johnson
losing all your current settings and have to start over. Hope that helps. -- Jimmy Johnson Ubuntu 16.04 - KDE Plasma 5.8.7 - Intel G3220 - EXT4 at sda19 Registered Linux User #380263

Debian 9 - Stretch has been released!

2017-06-17 Thread Jimmy Johnson
https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/ Cheers! -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid/Testing - KDE Plasma Version 5.8.2 - EXT4 at sda18 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: testing: odd? upgrade today for gnutls-bin to unstable version

2017-06-18 Thread Jimmy Johnson
there are a little over 100 packages installed from Sid/unstable that are not in testing, I'm cleaning those up so I can get a clean start on testing Buster, of course I will still have Sid/testing too. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Buster - KDE Plasma 5.8.6 - Intel G3220 - EXT4 at sda21 Regis

Thank you Debian!

2017-06-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
filemanagement, kdf, quick launch, etc. I hope that Legacy KDE will always be an important part of our future and Debian 10, Buster will become the best Linux Distro to ever be installed on a computer. Thanks again Debian! Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Buster - Plasma Version 5.8.6 - EXT4 at sda17

Re: Debian 9 - Stretch has been released!

2017-06-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 06/18/2017 04:28 AM, RavenLX wrote: On 06/17/2017 11:42 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/ Cheers! I was there in the IRC chat channels while they were working on it and when they released it. It was the first time in YEARS I

Re: Debian 9 - Stretch has been released!

2017-06-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 06/19/2017 05:21 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 08:42:54PM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/ Don't use live images for installations. I agree, the current live DVD's are great for checki

Re: One problem identified - was [Re: ARandR problems: Bug or opderator?]

2017-06-20 Thread Jimmy Johnson
ome up with the VGA monitor as primary? I created /home/richard/.screenlayout/VGA-as-master.sh with preferred settings back when I was experimenting. I had understood ARandR would use it automatically. It evidently doesn't. I would delete what you saved and then let arandr save the setting

Re: Debian 9.0.0 iso

2017-06-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
images will be released very soon. +1 In fact, I've just published them now. https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/ Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Wheezy - KDE 4.8.4 - Intel E5300 - EXT4 at sda8 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues

2017-06-23 Thread Jimmy Johnson
rmware-linux* and install Ubuntu 16.04-xenial linux-image-generic, linux-headers-generic, that made for smooth booting to the desktop and no regression. Good luck! Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Buster - Plasma 5.8.7 - Kernel 4.9.0-3 - EXT4 at sda24 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues

2017-06-23 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 06/23/2017 09:05 PM, Ralph Katz wrote: On 06/23/2017 09:19 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 06/23/2017 02:44 PM, Ralph Katz wrote: ... 2) Returning from xscreensaver screen blanking sometimes shows the lightdm log in screen. Ctrl-alt-F7 once or twice can get my session back after an annoying

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-23 Thread Jimmy Johnson
d find all "libflashplayer.so" on your computer and delete them and then reinstall flashplayer and that should fix your problem. Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Buster - Plasma 5.8.7 - Kernel 4.9.0-3 - EXT4 at sda24 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Debian 9

2017-06-28 Thread Jimmy Johnson
stall takes the passwd while installing. Sudo is installed but the user is not allowed sudo rights. Now I have this install and it's worst than the live dvd, it least you can sudo with the live dvd. Is there an easy fix I can try? I've been googling but nothing easy to do. -- Jimmy John

Re: Debian 9

2017-06-28 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 06/28/2017 06:24 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 06/27/2017 09:49 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 04:00:13PM +, sare...@att.net wrote: The administrator password is not working in Debian 9 cinnamon. I bet you used a Live CD. I downloaded the iso to check this out, yes

Re: Debian 9

2017-06-29 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 06/28/2017 07:13 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 06/28/2017 06:24 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 06/27/2017 09:49 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 04:00:13PM +, sare...@att.net wrote: The administrator password is not working in Debian 9 cinnamon. I bet you used a Live CD

Re: [Stretch] apt-get has no updates?

2017-06-30 Thread Jimmy Johnson
u will not see updates until the keys are fixed. Or maybe you have some other kind problems. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Stretch - KDE Plasma 5.8.6 - Intel G3220 - EXT4 at sda7 Registered Linux User #380263

Wheezy to Stretch without to much problem.

2017-06-30 Thread Jimmy Johnson
up with upgrade-system, it took sometime but here I am with a clean, upgraded and configured system. Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Stretch - KDE Plasma 5.8.6 - Intel G3220 - EXT4 at sda7 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Wheezy to Stretch upgrade failure

2017-07-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
until done. Would I have been wise to upgrade it to Jessie first? Easier for sure, but you would still use the same steps as above. Regards Andrew Cheers! -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Stretch - KDE Plasma 5.8.6 - Intel G3220 - EXT4 at sda11 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Remotely exploitable bug in systemd (CVE-2017-9445)

2017-07-02 Thread Jimmy Johnson
d it? How was this problem created in the first place? -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Stretch - KDE Plasma 5.8.6 - Intel G3220 - EXT4 at sda11 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Laser Printer recommendation...

2017-07-03 Thread Jimmy Johnson
ried the Brother 2270DW but can't get it to work. Less than a month ago that driver was upgraded: http://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=hl2270dw_all Whit Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Stretch - KDE Plasma 5.8.6 at sda13 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Nvidia legacy driver install..

2017-07-04 Thread Jimmy Johnson
ave used xrender, I don't remember and the boot option nouveau.modeset=0 I did use. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Stretch - KDE Plasma 5.8.6 at sda13 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Problems with apt in a clean stretch install.

2017-07-04 Thread Jimmy Johnson
synaptic', do not use the menu option 'Settings -> Repositories. This could probably do with a bug raising. Regards Phil The OP did not say, but I believe the problem is coming from a 9.1-live-dvd install, I had to same problem using it. The problem does not occur using the net-install

Re: Problems with apt in a clean stretch install.

2017-07-04 Thread Jimmy Johnson
problem, cause I > used it and installed software with no problem. Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Stretch - KDE Plasma 5.8.6 at sda13 Registered Linux User #380263 Hi Jimmy, I saw one of your previous posts regarding the live cd/dvd. I used the following to install, but not sure if this is

Re: Problems with apt in a clean stretch install.

2017-07-04 Thread Jimmy Johnson
rs are bad too. "I recommend using the RC3 installer". -- Jimmy Johnson Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - KDE 4.13.2 - Intel G3220 - EXT4 at sda5 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Replace systemd

2017-07-04 Thread Jimmy Johnson
like something a Slack'er would say. Patrick, we are not all keyboard wizards like you and that other Patrick who can keyboard faster than I can read. That's a compliment on your abilities by the way. -- Jimmy Johnson Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - KDE 4.13.2 - Intel G3220 - EXT4 at sda5 Regist

Re: Replace systemd

2017-07-04 Thread Jimmy Johnson
t; and it seems to be required for kde. This is a very smart system and an easy upgrade. I think some of Linux best developers are working on Devuan. Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Devuan Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - Intel G3220 - EXT4 at sda16 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Replace systemd

2017-07-05 Thread Jimmy Johnson
still has a positive function! You bet ya! -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Buster - KDE Plasma 5.8.7 - Intel G3220 - EXT4 at sda14 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Replace systemd

2017-07-05 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 07/05/2017 02:23 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 05, 2017 at 01:56:44PM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: [...] Is it possible that Devuan is becoming more Debian and Debian is becoming less Debian? What do you say to that? Hypothetically

Re: Replace systemd

2017-07-05 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 07/05/2017 12:38 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 07/05/2017 05:56 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 09:33:16PM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: A couple of hours ago this was Debian Wheezy with the kde-plasma-desktop. Now it's Devuan Jessie and kde-plasma-desktop and the

Re: Replace systemd

2017-07-05 Thread Jimmy Johnson
good person, history. Individuals rule. Cheers! -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Buster - KDE Plasma 5.8.7 - Intel G3220 - EXT4 at sda14 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Replace systemd

2017-07-05 Thread Jimmy Johnson
while you are using your computer? Seeking truth. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Buster - KDE Plasma 5.8.7 - Intel G3220 - EXT4 at sda14 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Nvidia legacy driver install..

2017-07-05 Thread Jimmy Johnson
x27;ve seen the difference. Good luck with your install, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Buster - KDE Plasma 5.8.7 - Intel G3220 - EXT4 at sda14 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Relative stability of Testing vs Unstable

2017-07-05 Thread Jimmy Johnson
thing, in both the problems are seasonal, new kernel, new driver, new infrastructure, etc. For stability, the older your Debian system is the better, can it handle your hardware and can you install the package you need. If you like working around problems and using the latest apps Sid/Testing i

Re: Relative stability of Testing vs Unstable

2017-07-05 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 07/05/2017 07:24 PM, John Hasler wrote: Jimmy Johnson writes: From what I read, very serious bugs are likely to be caught before making it to Testing, while Unstable benefits from getting security updates (in the form of new upstream releases) sooner, and is more likely to be consistent

Re: Replace systemd

2017-07-05 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 07/04/2017 09:33 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 07/03/2017 01:41 PM, Jim Ohlstein wrote: Is there a pure Debian alternative? Have a look at https://devuan.org/. A couple of hours ago this was Debian Wheezy with the kde-plasma-desktop. Now it's Devuan Jessie and kde-plasma-deskto

Re: How to gain control over the system?

2017-07-09 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Hi, Start the Stretch install cd/dvd in repair mode and when you get to where you can start a shell in the install at the prompt type:# passwd root and then enter the new root passwd and then reboot. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Buster - KDE Plasma 5.8.7 - Intel G3220 - EXT4 at sda14 Registered

Re: How to gain control over the system?

2017-07-09 Thread Jimmy Johnson
completely other order, dispite I had marked "Keep ajusted" (right click on desktop). So...? /Kaj I don't do sudo nor do I top post. Maybe you should start over and this time use the net install, you will be given the option to install task mate. Good luck. -- Jimmy Johnson

Re: PulseAudio (Some users get sound, orthers do not)

2017-07-18 Thread Jimmy Johnson
pulse and all it's files, run deborphan and clean the system up and then reinstall pulse and vlc or gstreamer, I use gstreamer but vlc is the default install and works too. Good luck! -- Jimmy Johnson Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - KDE 4.13.2 - Intel G3220 - EXT4 at sda1 Registered Linux User #380263

Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie

2017-07-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
few times until I was convinced it was working. :) Questions or suggestions? Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - Intel G3220 - EXT4 at sda7 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: multiple windows, not multiple tabs

2017-07-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 07/19/2017 05:11 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I just tried entering "konsole" from the CLI in a konsole and also got a new instance. I just did a $gksu konsole in konsole and got a separate root konsole, you can put that in your menu if you want. -- Jimmy Johnson Ubuntu 14.04

Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie

2017-07-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 07/19/2017 11:04 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 19/07/2017 à 11:30, Jimmy Johnson a écrit : Some of you may already know that setting up grub-legacy on Debian can be imposable, Imposable ? What would impose it ? Debian grub-legacy setup is no longer supported, yet it can still be install

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
attendedUpgrades Thanks for the reference. I've been aware of this for a long time, but chose not to use it. My problem must be something else. You also have packagekit and discover to deal with and who knows what else. Stopping auto-install is not that difficult, but stopping auto-

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

2017-07-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 07/19/2017 07:05 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 13:47:27 -0700 Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 07/19/2017 01:35 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 20:14:28 +0200 Dejan Jocic wrote: On 19-07-17, Patrick Bartek wrote: Getting no results from apt-get upgrade after a

Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie

2017-07-20 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 07/19/2017 11:33 AM, Felix Miata wrote: Jimmy Johnson composed on 2017-07-19 02:30 (UTC-0700): Some of you may already know that setting up grub-legacy on Debian can be imposable, I've been thinking about this for awhile now and how to solve this problem that Ubuntu does not have.

Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie

2017-07-20 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 07/20/2017 02:46 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: You don't have to use the auto-generated grub.cfg. You can write and maintain your own one manually. You can! Good for you! Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - Intel G3220 - EXT4 at sda1 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Setup Grub-Legacy on Jessie

2017-07-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 07/20/2017 11:34 PM, Felix Miata wrote: Jimmy Johnson composed on 2017-07-20 2:13 (UTC-0700): Felix Miata wrote: ...I wanted Jessie on sda1 where I keep my menu.lst and keep things simple. "Simple" I find impossible in multiboot of any serious extent. Closest thing there

Re: Big problem computer not booting

2017-08-10 Thread Jimmy Johnson
up' and see if that helps get things going. Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda6 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Big problem computer not booting

2017-08-11 Thread Jimmy Johnson
mandline in grub: ivrs_ioapic[7]=00:14.0 ivrs_ioapic[8]=00:00.1." The tip is he restored from a previous system, so his network interface probable got a new name, it should be simple to fix if net-tools is installed. It's 2x60 seconds before the connection will timeout and continu

Re: Buster: problem changing partition size on a RAID 5 array

2017-08-17 Thread Jimmy Johnson
le to see but fdisk and gdisk couldn't and whether this is a bug in mdadm or something else, but I thought I should report it somewhere. I would suggest you boot to a gparted live disc, so none of your partitions are mounted and I will just work better. -- Jimmy Johnson Ubuntu 14.04 LTS -

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-10 Thread Jimmy Johnson
t file had "deb: cdrom:[..." as the first entry, and was not commented out. My installation medium was wrong! John I'm thinking you did not run 'apt update' before 'apt install'? Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Stretch - KDE Plasma 5.8.6 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda6 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Kernel problem?

2018-01-10 Thread Jimmy Johnson
ot with the new kernel, maybe cross your fingers and give it another try or two. Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Stretch - KDE Plasma 5.8.6 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda6 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Problem using "dpkg -i"

2018-01-15 Thread Jimmy Johnson
e package you want to install. There is a gdebi-kde version but never seems to work. Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Buster - KDE Plasma 5.10.5 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda7 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Problem using "dpkg -i"

2018-01-16 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 01/15/2018 11:17 PM, deloptes wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: Instead of using apt, next time use aptitude -f install, reason is if aptitude can not fix the problem it will give you a clue as what you can do.  Also if you apt install and run 'upgrade-system' upgrade-system will tell

Re: How to safely hold kernel packages ?

2018-02-06 Thread Jimmy Johnson
ce... I would use 'apt-mark'. # apt-mark hold 'package-name' and # apt-mark unhold 'package-name' Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Stretch - KDE Plasma 5.8.6 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda6 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: How to safely hold kernel packages ?

2018-02-08 Thread Jimmy Johnson
d to tell just how fast it can work or move a Tb or two of data. Stef All the best from Oleron island, Cool! And blessings to you from sunny California!-- Jimmy Johnson Debian Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda5 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Debian buster & gnucash

2018-02-08 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 02/08/2018 09:25 AM, Donald F. Emery wrote: I am new to debian and was hoping someone could tell me why GNUCASH was not in debian testing. It's not the only package missing from Buster, you can probably install it from Sid without to much problem. Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian J

Re: Debian buster & gnucash

2018-02-08 Thread Jimmy Johnson
about it being fixed in Sid. Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda5 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: I do not want to install Linux

2018-02-08 Thread Jimmy Johnson
things the Debian culture makes possible (another being Ubuntu, of course). So not *completely* off-topic here. Cheers [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Linux - -- tomás -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda5 Registered

Re: Debian buster & gnucash

2018-02-08 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 02/08/2018 03:06 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 02/08/2018 10:05 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: Donald F. Emery wrote: I am new to debian and was hoping someone could tell me why GNUCASH was not in debian testing. Because of https://tracker.debian.org/news/859896 and https

Re: [OT] debian (or debian like) terminal program for android

2018-02-10 Thread Jimmy Johnson
or Android so didn't try that one) Best place to look for software https://f-droid.org/en/ Can you get root on your phone? Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Buster - KDE Plasma 5.10.5 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda7 Registered Linux User #380263

Debian Sid spectre-meltdown

2018-02-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
As reported by Linus kernel 4.15 would have the spectre-meltdown fix, Debian Sid just got 4.15 and I installed it on both AMD and Intel and then I ran the spectre-meltdown-checker and Sid is no longer vulnerable to Spectre-1,2 or 3/meltdown. It should be in Buster soon. Cheers, -- Jimmy

Re: Debian Sid spectre-meltdown

2018-02-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 02/21/2018 08:30 AM, Michael Fothergill wrote: On 21 February 2018 at 16:25, Jimmy Johnson wrote: As reported by Linus kernel 4.15 would have the spectre-meltdown fix, Debian Sid just got 4.15 and I installed it on both AMD and Intel and then I ran the spectre-meltdown-checker and Sid is

Re: Wheezy to Stretch

2018-02-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 02/21/2018 10:47 AM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 10:39:54AM -0800, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 02/21/2018 09:45 AM, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: I am running Wheezy (v7 = oldoldstable) and intend to replace it with a fresh install of Stretch (v9 = stable) before

Re: Wheezy to Stretch

2018-02-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
rface whenever I boot? If not, how will I accomplish that? I also thought I had read about some problem with window authentication in Stretch, but I can't find any such posts now. I don't know of any current problems in stretch. Thanks. Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Buster - KD

Re: Wheezy to Stretch

2018-02-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 02/21/2018 10:39 AM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 02/21/2018 09:45 AM, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: I am running Wheezy (v7 = oldoldstable) and intend to replace it with a fresh install of Stretch (v9 = stable) before Wheezy's support runs out on May 31st.  I will try the default sy

Re: Wheezy to Stretch

2018-02-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 02/21/2018 01:01 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 12:58:11PM -0800, Jimmy Johnson wrote: For all the "Na" Sayers here, nothing lost except for sometime and something to gan the system you want and if you can't make it work format and do a new system, but remem

Re: Wheezy to Stretch

2018-02-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 02/21/2018 01:31 PM, deloptes wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: For all the "Na" Sayers here, nothing lost except for sometime and something to gan the system you want and if you can't make it work format and do a new system, but remember there is no "sysvinit" in Stretch

Re: Wheezy to Stretch

2018-02-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
e Jimmy had suggested the reckless method of directly upgrading from Wheezy to Stretch, and I was curious how badly it would break. It's sicking the people who talk with authority about things they have never done and I don't care if they read something somewhere, doing is knowing. Che

Re: Wheezy to Stretch

2018-02-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 02/21/2018 02:10 PM, Karol Augustin wrote: On 2018-02-21 21:42, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 02/21/2018 01:31 PM, deloptes wrote: Jimmy Johnson wrote: For all the "Na" Sayers here, nothing lost except for sometime and something to gan the system you want and if you can't make

Re: Wheezy to Stretch

2018-02-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 02/21/2018 07:02 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, February 21, 2018 03:40:51 PM Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 02/21/2018 10:47 AM, Roberto C. S�nchez wrote: Note that upgrades skipping a release (e.g., wheezy -> stretch instead of wheezy -> jessie -> stretch) are not supported

Re: update bios from debian

2018-03-08 Thread Jimmy Johnson
it needs windows to do the install or not. It's easy to do using WindowsXP Live cd, less than 593Mb Zip file download. https://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid/Testing - Trinity KDE 3.5 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda8 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Debian 9 sucks really badly

2018-03-24 Thread Jimmy Johnson
ference, go and get fucked!!! Chris Anderson Linus! Is that you? -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid/Testing - Trinity KDE 3.5 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda8 Registered Linux User #380263

Update for i965-va-driver-shaders

2018-04-13 Thread Jimmy Johnson
i965-va-driver-shaders in Sid, Buster and Ubuntu 18.04LTS has an upgrade, if applied will remove the i965-va-driver, the upgrades been there for a week. What's up with this? Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Devuan Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda5 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Update for i965-va-driver-shaders - Bug -

2018-04-13 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 04/13/2018 10:45 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Hi Jimmy. Jimmy Johnson - 13.04.18, 18:04: i965-va-driver-shaders in Sid, Buster and Ubuntu 18.04LTS has an upgrade, if applied will remove the i965-va-driver, the upgrades been there for a week. What's up with this? % apt changelog i9

Re: apt-get update on sid: Hash Sum mismatch

2018-04-14 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 04/14/2018 08:24 AM, Felix Natter wrote: > apt-get update on sid: Hash Sum mismatch That means try again later or try a different source. :) Cheers! -- Jimmy Johnson Devuan Beowulf - TDE-Trinity R14.0.5 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda8 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Error while upgrading from Wheezy to Stretch

2018-04-19 Thread Jimmy Johnson
analyze the problem and make suggestions. aptitude update and aptitude -f install. Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Devuan ASCII - Trinity TDE-3 version R14.0.5 - Intel P8400 - EXT4 at sda6 Registered Linux User #380263

Jessie-backports now has spectre patched kernel

2018-04-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
4.9.0-0.bpo.6-amd64 is patched, tested on AMD and Intel - Variant 1,2 and 3 patched. Cheers! -- Jimmy Johnson Devuan Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda5 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Install 9.4 on acer V15 Nitro 4K -> black screen after choosing installation method; Kali live running and Ubuntu installation no problem

2018-04-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
to do is make sure you have the firmware meta package installed, first you need to add non-free to your sources and 'apt-get update' and then 'apt-get install firmware-linux* xorg' Now reboot and see what happens. Good Luck! Cheer! -- Jimmy Johnson Devuan Jessie - KDE

Re: Install 9.4 on acer V15 Nitro 4K -> black screen after choosing installation method; Kali live running and Ubuntu installation no problem

2018-04-23 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 04/23/2018 02:20 AM, Dr. Volker Jaenisch wrote: Dear Jimmy! On 23.04.2018 02:06, Jimmy Johnson wrote: I'm setting here looking at the secs for your laptop and it say's you have an Intel computer with Nvidia Video, but the first thing to do is make sure you have the firmware me

Re: I wish put another Debian, and with its command line.

2018-04-23 Thread Jimmy Johnson
. Package 'net-tools' is installed so you have ifconfig if needed. This is the same for all current Debian releases. Cheers! -- Jimmy Johnson Devuan Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - Intel 4-M, 1.9GHz - 1G RAM - EXT4 at sda5 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: I wish put another Debian, and with its command line.

2018-04-24 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 04/24/2018 05:20 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 04:33:00PM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: While installing and you check no boxes to add packages or desktop you get Debian Base install, command line, apt, dpkg and internet. Correct. Package 'net-tools' is instal

Re: messed up release in apt

2018-05-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
ou have a desktop and Synaptic installed you can do all the things you want to do in Synaptic, like force a different version and reinstalling the keyring or installing distro-info. Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Devuan ASCII - TDE Trinity R14.0.5 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda6 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Intermittent blank screen – Stretch

2018-06-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
oth Wheezy and Jessie with no-systemd do not have this behavior. Maybe the problem can be fixed, maybe. Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Devuan Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda5 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Intermittent blank screen – Stretch

2018-06-09 Thread Jimmy Johnson
happens on both Intel and Nvidia. Does not happen on Wheeze or Jessie without systemd. Thanks, -- Jimmy Johnson Devuan Jessie - TDE Trinity R14.0.4 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda2 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Intermittent blank screen – Stretch

2018-06-09 Thread Jimmy Johnson
stall htop and run htop as root, when the screen goes black press f9. Is that correct? Thanks, -- Jimmy Johnson Devuan Jessie - TDE Trinity R14.0.4 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda2 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: new install of amd64, 9-4 from iso #1

2018-06-14 Thread Jimmy Johnson
n you won't need to crack your case. Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Devuan Jessie - TDE Trinity R14.0.4 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda2 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: How do you exit from Vi mode in Kate?

2016-07-05 Thread Jimmy Johnson
corner of the screen beside a colon prompt. Enter the following:q! -- Jimmy Johnson Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda22 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: howto avoid "apt-get update" going guru?

2016-07-05 Thread Jimmy Johnson
t to avoid this kind of problem? Every helpful comment is highly appreciated. Regards Harri In testing/sid, it's a new apt. Try and using '#apt update' and no longer use apt-get. -- Jimmy Johnson Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda22 Registered Linux User #380263

Testing/Unstable Synaptic broken again.

2016-09-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
The latest upgrades have broken Synaptic, unable to use Menus or right click and Search is affected too. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Stretch - KDE-Plasma-Desktop 5.7.4 - EXT4 - AMD64 at sda12 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Testing/Unstable Synaptic broken again.

2016-09-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 09/01/2016 09:05 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 08:51:57 -0700 Jimmy Johnson wrote: Hello Jimmy, The latest upgrades have broken Synaptic, unable to use Menus or right click and Search is affected too. All seems well here; Synaptic functions normally with Debian testing/KDE

Re: Testing/Unstable Synaptic broken again.

2016-09-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 09/01/2016 02:50 PM, Floris wrote: Op Thu, 01 Sep 2016 18:49:15 +0200 schreef Joe : On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 17:05:59 +0100 Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 08:51:57 -0700 Jimmy Johnson wrote: Hello Jimmy, >The latest upgrades have broken Synaptic, unable to use Menus or >right

Re: Testing/Unstable Synaptic broken again.

2016-09-01 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 09/01/2016 09:49 AM, Joe wrote: On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 17:05:59 +0100 Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 08:51:57 -0700 Jimmy Johnson wrote: Hello Jimmy, The latest upgrades have broken Synaptic, unable to use Menus or right click and Search is affected too. All seems well here

Re: Testing/Unstable Synaptic broken again.

2016-09-04 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 09/02/2016 12:53 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 1 Sep 2016 19:09:32 -0700 Jimmy Johnson wrote: Hello Jimmy, Thanks Brad for letting me know that testing was okay, one of my 5 Sid/Testing systems was still not upgraded with the bug yet, so I Glad to be of service. Even if it was a

Re: Testing/Unstable Synaptic broken again.

2016-09-06 Thread Jimmy Johnson
to effect all apps using gtk-3 and for me that is synaptic, gdebi, gufw, pavucontrol and parole, menus and right click don't work, but they do not crash. Maybe this new testing upgrade is introducing new bug. It's all over my head, I'm just a point-n-click user. -- Jimmy

Re: Testing/Unstable Synaptic broken again.

2016-09-06 Thread Jimmy Johnson
s still buyer beware on SID. Hope you all filed bug reports. ;-D I'm on testing, so have nothing to report in terms of the issues in this thread. Stephen, apt-listbugs is not helping me, what I need is a tool that will list bugs after they've been installed. :) -- Jimmy Johnson Debia

Re: Testing/Unstable Synaptic broken again.

2016-09-06 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 09/06/2016 04:25 PM, Peter wrote: On 06/09/16 19:29, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 09/06/2016 09:12 AM, Peter wrote: I believe the problem was caused by the libgtk upgrade. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=836341 Thanks Peter, I upgraded all but the 4 gtk-3 packages with

Re: Testing/Unstable Synaptic broken again.

2016-09-06 Thread Jimmy Johnson
it was the gtk-3 packages? Thanks! -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid - KDE Plasma 5.7.4 - AMD64 - EXT4 at sda15 Registered Linux User #380263

Re: Testing/Unstable Synaptic broken again.

2016-09-07 Thread Jimmy Johnson
ving okay that 5th system's gtk-3 will be upgraded too. Those 4 are the only gtk-3 packages I have on my system and I pinned them, like I said everything else is upgraded. -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Stretch - KDE-Plasma-Desktop 5.7.4 - EXT4 - AMD64 at sda12 Registered Linux User #380263

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