evince cache of recent files?

2021-09-26 Thread Sharon Kimble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Where does Evince store its memory/cache of recent files that its loaded in bullseye please? Currently it is only showing the last file, but under Debian 10 it showed the last 10. Thanks Sharon Kimble. - -- Debian 11, fluxbox 1.3.7, emacs

rsync failing to back up to synology server

2021-11-13 Thread Sharon Kimble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 After enduring a home move, I'm now trying to restart my rsync backups to my synology server, but none are working! I have this command for backing up my emacs - - --8<---cut here---start->8--- /usr/bin/rsync -a

Unable to print with HP Envy 5030 under Debian 11

2021-12-12 Thread Sharon Kimble
er is still supported by them. So what do I need to do to allow me to print with this printer please? Thanks Sharon Kimble. ~ [fn:1] - --8<---cut here---start->8--- ~ $ hp-doct

backb losing its mount point

2021-03-31 Thread Sharon Kimble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I'm hoping that you folks can help me with a problem that is now happening reasonably regularly, actually twice. I have 2 data drives on my system /mnt/backa and /mnt/backb. Both are 4tb drives, with backa being 2.74tb and backb 2.81tb. Backb is n

Re: backb losing its mount point

2021-03-31 Thread Sharon Kimble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Darac Marjal writes: Thanks for replying Darac. > On 31/03/2021 09:32, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >> I'm hoping that you folks can help me with a problem that is now >> happening reasonably regularly, actually twice. >

Re: backb losing its mount point

2021-03-31 Thread Sharon Kimble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Darac Marjal writes: > On 31/03/2021 09:32, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >> I'm hoping that you folks can help me with a problem that is now >> happening reasonably regularly, actually twice. >> >> I have 2 data d

What command to use to output to a text file?

2021-06-23 Thread Sharon Kimble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I'm hoping that you folk can help me out of my predicament? I have transferred some files in their directories to an external drive mounted in a caddy. How can I get a text file saved from an output of everything on the drive, please? What command

Re: What command to use to output to a text file?

2021-06-23 Thread Sharon Kimble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Mi, 23 iun 21, 13:36:27, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >> I'm hoping that you folk can help me out of my predicament? >> >> I have transferred some files in their directories to an exte

mpd, clementine, lxmusic, qmmp, quodlibet not playing!

2022-03-17 Thread Sharon Kimble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 After downloading and installing the new kernels yesterday I rebooted. And now I cannot get mpd to play any sound at all! Juk can play, as can mpv, but neither can clementine, lxmusic, qmmp, nor quodlibet play! So how can I get them all playin

no sound from MPV

2019-07-10 Thread Sharon Kimble
Ever since upgrading to buster I've been completely unable to get any sound out of MPV. And I haven't found any way online of how to re-enable sound for it either. SMplayer works okay and gives sound, as does mpd, but MPV views a television programmes but no sound. How can I get the sound work

Re: no sound from MPV

2019-07-11 Thread Sharon Kimble
velation to me as I was totally unaware of this file, and in its 'audio section' it showed several uncommented items, so I commented them all out and tested MPV again. And it worked, I had sound again! Thank you very much, I'm a happy bunny again! :) Jonas Smedegaard writes: &

What drivers do I need for a Nvidia geforce GTX 1660 Ti to work?

2019-08-08 Thread Sharon Kimble
Yesterday I installed my new graphics card but when I rebooted the system stopped just before the lightdm login box, and just stayed with a cursor blinking at the top left of the screen. I'm assuming that I need new drivers for it, so my question is - What do I need to install to get a - Nvidia

logwatch at midnight?

2019-09-09 Thread Sharon Kimble
How can I configure logwatch to only fire off at midnight, instead of its current 0738, please? Thanks Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk TGmeds = http://www.tgmeds.org.uk DrugFacts = https://www.drugfacts.org.uk Debian 10.0, fluxbox 1.3.7, emacs 26.3, org 9.2.6 signature.

Re: logwatch at midnight?

2019-09-15 Thread Sharon Kimble
Dan Ritter writes: > Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >> How can I configure logwatch to only fire off at midnight, instead of >> its current 0738, please? > > If I recall correctly, logwatch is run via cron.daily, which > means anacron does it as part of its own routine

unable to connect to database in MediaWiki 1.27.4 installation

2018-07-08 Thread Sharon Kimble
I'm unable to get mediawiki from the repos working as it is consistently failing at accessing the database as part of its configuration at the beginning. I say 'consistently' as the same problem has occurred when trying to install mediawiki from source, and this is a clean fresh install so I think

Re: unable to connect to database in MediaWiki 1.27.4 installation

2018-07-08 Thread Sharon Kimble
mick crane writes: > On 2018-07-08 08:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> I'm unable to get mediawiki from the repos working as it is consistently >> failing at accessing the database as part of its configuration at the >> beginning. I say 'consistently' as the same

Re: unable to connect to database in MediaWiki 1.27.4 installation

2018-07-12 Thread Sharon Kimble
mick crane writes: > On 2018-07-08 19:03, mick crane wrote: >> On 2018-07-08 17:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: >>> mick crane writes: >>> >>>> On 2018-07-08 08:53, Sharon Kimble wrote: >>>>> I'm unable to get mediawiki from the repos w

Unable to install .iso's in virtualbox, but why?

2018-09-09 Thread Sharon Kimble
I'm having great difficulty in getting virtualbox running. every time that I try to install an iso it fails and shows this in a pop-up - --8<---cut here---start->8--- Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Debian-64. VT-x is disabled in the BIOS for a

mouse-wheel on a laptop?

2019-03-06 Thread Sharon Kimble
I have an Entroware notebook computer, model W950PU, which when it boots shows it as a 'style-note', and I can disable the touch pad when I use a USB mouse. But I can't get the mouse-wheel working! So how can I get full functions with the mouse please on this laptop? Thanks Sharon. -- A taste

Re: apt-get upgrade problem with libenchant1c2a

2013-08-29 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 22:28:22 +1200 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 02:34:42PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Sharon Kimble wrote: > > >Hugo. > > >Please adjust you're posting style as it is impossible to read what > > >you're sa

A notification tray?

2013-08-29 Thread Sharon Kimble
Cinnamon and Gnome 3 both have a tray that holds all notification messages until their read and deleted. These messages are ones like saying that your backup has just started, or you’ve got 3 new emails, nice simple easily forgotten ones. But, what is this 'tray'? Can it be used in fluxbox, or othe

Re: A notification tray?

2013-08-29 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 18:21:29 +0200 Jochen Spieker wrote: > Sharon Kimble: > > Cinnamon and Gnome 3 both have a tray that holds all notification > > messages until their read and deleted. These messages are ones like > > saying that your backup has just started, or you’ve

Re: A notification tray?

2013-08-29 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 19:19:13 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 18:09 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 18:21:29 +0200 > > Jochen Spieker wrote: > > > > > Sharon Kimble: > > > > Cinnamon and Gnome 3 both have a tray th

Re: A notification tray?

2013-08-29 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 19:23:10 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 19:19 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I hate this notification thingy, that btw. doesn't inform you about > > all incoming mails, but just of the once for your main account. > > However, while I didn't installed the ori

Re: oh no something is definitly wrong adieu debian.

2013-08-30 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 17:35:39 +0200 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > Le 30.08.2013 05:04, Phi Debian a écrit : > > Hi Gary, > > > > Thanx you for getting back to the original post :) while I admit I > > > did learn a bit of history about distro, display manager, > > > etc... :) > > > >

Re: oh no something is definitly wrong adieu debian.

2013-08-30 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 18:02:54 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > git pull/make/make install > > There's a better way of building packages, but I'm short in time now, > so at least checkinstall usually does build a "primitive" package, > IOW I would run > > git pull > (perhaps ./configure) > make >

Re: A notification tray?

2013-08-30 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 18:03:15 +0200 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > Le 29.08.2013 17:20, Sharon Kimble a écrit : > > Cinnamon and Gnome 3 both have a tray that holds all notification > > messages until their read and deleted. These messages are ones like > &

Re: Thanks

2013-08-31 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Sat, 31 Aug 2013 07:01:42 -0400 "Thod Motte" wrote: > Thanks to debian and Gnome 3 for making my desktop as buggy and > unstable as Windows 95 was in 1997 and less customizable. > > I'm just going to revert to squeeze, that desktop actually worked. Instead of shooting the upgrade, how about

Re: itunes under debian

2013-09-03 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 13:00:56 -0400 Mike McGinn wrote: > My sons computer with Windows 7 has become non-functional. He is > willing to switch to linux, but having itunes work with his iPod and > the music store is a must have for him. So far I have tried > PlayonLinux v 4.2.1 under Squeeze, which i

Re: Ownership of pluggable devices.

2013-09-05 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Fri, 6 Sep 2013 13:51:09 +1000 Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 9/6/13, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > > Given two USB pluggable devices, a Sony Mylo, > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mylo_(Sony) , > > and a Kingston flash store. > > > > # These lines for udev. > > > > root@dalton:/home/peter# tail -n

Re: dictd

2013-09-09 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 18:41:50 +0800 lina wrote: > Hi, > > What is the purpose of the dictd, do I need a local server? for dict? > > tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:2628 0.0.0.0:* > LISTEN 2886/0 > > # more /proc/2886/cmdline > dictd 1.12.0: 0/0 > > > I am not so clear about it, >

Re: How to setup notify-osd

2013-09-09 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 01:01:17 +0800 斟酌鵬兄 wrote: > I got these errors when trying to start the daemon: > > > ** (notify-osd:4791): WARNING **: dbus_create_service_instance(): Got > error "Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote > application did not send a reply, the message

Re: sid upgrade

2013-09-12 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 19:44:46 +0200 François Patte wrote: > Bonjour, > > I made an attempt to upgrade sid (amd64); apt-get report some bugs: > > grave bugs of upower (0.9.21-2 -> 0.9.21-3) > #722474 - upower: on update fails with critical glib errors & doesn't > work properly after reboot > se

Re: nm eth0 connection

2013-09-12 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 14:13:30 -0700 Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 10:22:38AM -0400, Tom H wrote: > >snip... > > > > What's "no-auto-default=00:21:CC:B6:06:8F,"?! > > > > I've never seen "no-auto-default=..." before but I'd blame it for > > your NIC not com

Re: Audio vanished with jessie

2013-09-16 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 17:33:39 + (UTC) Hendrik Boom wrote: > It's an ASUS 1HE running jessie. > > Today sound wouldn't work, though it worked a few weeks ago. > > I won't say nothing has changed; I have been doing regular upgrades > using aptitude. > > I don't even know how to begin dia

Re: access please

2013-09-20 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 11:57:56 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 24 iul 13, 13:31:07, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > > > > > -- > > A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk/index.html > > efever = http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ > > efever = http://sharo

Bash history not propagating.

2013-09-29 Thread Sharon Kimble
I'm having a problem with bash history. Basically, I do a lot of stuff in tmux windows, and then when I open up another terminal window, but not in tmux, it does not have the same history as in the tmux windows. How can I get it so that they both mirror each other please? I find it very easy to ch

Re: Bash history not propagating.

2013-09-29 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Sun, 29 Sep 2013 15:23:25 + (UTC) Curt wrote: > On 2013-09-29, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > > > I'm having a problem with bash history. Basically, I do a lot of > > stuff in tmux windows, and then when I open up another terminal > > window, but not in tmux, i

Mounting a Samsung Galaxy S3.

2013-10-06 Thread Sharon Kimble
I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 which I am attempting to connect to, but it uses the mtp protocol. So after much googling I have created /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules which says `SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="04e8", ATTR{idProduct}=="6860", MODE="0600", OWNER="boudiccas"` and have also install

Re: Mounting a Samsung Galaxy S3.

2013-10-06 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Sun, 6 Oct 2013 10:34:20 +0100 Sharon Kimble wrote: > I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 which I am attempting to connect to, but it > uses the mtp protocol. So after much googling I have > created /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules which says > `SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{i

[SOLVED] Re: Mounting a Samsung Galaxy S3.

2013-10-06 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Sun, 6 Oct 2013 13:15:14 +0100 Sharon Kimble wrote: > On Sun, 6 Oct 2013 10:34:20 +0100 > Sharon Kimble wrote: > > > I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 which I am attempting to connect to, but > > it uses the mtp protocol. So after much googling I have > > created /etc/ud

Re: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-12 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 12:52:17 -0500 "Mark Allums" wrote: > > On Fri, 2013-10-11 at 11:34 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > > > The dialogs from Gnome 3 (zenity) serves, so mate-dialogs-gnome > > > isn't needed if zenity is installed (and mate-dialogs-gnome can > > > serve in place for zenity as well). >

errant mouse-over behaviour.

2013-10-22 Thread Sharon Kimble
I've got this rather weird problem atm, in that if I mouse-over something it is picked up by the mouse! I can mouse-over text and it is immediately highlighted! How can I [a] stop this, and/or [b]re-calibrate the mouse to get rid of this behaviour. Its developed overnight for some reason, and has e

Re: errant mouse-over behaviour.

2013-10-22 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 13:15:34 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 12:08 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > I've got this rather weird problem atm, in that if I mouse-over > > something it is picked up by the mouse! I can mouse-over text and > > it is immediat

Re: errant mouse-over behaviour.

2013-10-22 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 13:42:52 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 12:28 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > Nothing changed overnight to cause it to break > > A mouse's switch or microchip can break from one click or movement to > the other. The PS/2 or USB

Re: errant mouse-over behaviour.

2013-10-22 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 14:28:29 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 11:57 +, Curt wrote: > > On 2013-10-22, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > > > > > I've got this rather weird problem atm, in that if I mouse-over > > > something it is picked u

Re: errant mouse-over behaviour.

2013-10-25 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 22:22:13 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Sharon Kimble > wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 14:28:29 +0200 > > Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 11:57 +, Curt wrote: > >

Re: Extending fluxbox menu with a script.

2013-11-21 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Thu, 21 Nov 2013 17:35:38 -0500 Neal Murphy wrote: > On Thursday, November 21, 2013 01:15:34 PM Sharon Kimble wrote: > > I am trying to write a bash script which has this line in it - > > > > mv ~/.fluxbox/menu ~/.fluxbox/menu-$(/bin/date +%Y%m%d-%R); mmaker > >

Extending fluxbox menu with a script.

2013-11-21 Thread Sharon Kimble
I am trying to write a bash script which has this line in it - mv ~/.fluxbox/menu ~/.fluxbox/menu-$(/bin/date +%Y%m%d-%R); mmaker fluxbox -f;; This line is creating a fluxbox menu which ends with these lines - ' [restart] (Restart) [separator] [exit]

Re: Extending fluxbox menu with a script.

2013-11-22 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:09:23 +1100 Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 22/11/13 08:50, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > On 22/11/13 06:39, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > > > Try #2 :/ > > Try #3 (no sleep last night - trees and power lines down across the > property in last nights storms) Sorry. > This time I r

Re: Extending fluxbox menu with a script.

2013-11-22 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 12:15:21 + Sharon Kimble wrote: > On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:09:23 +1100 > Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > On 22/11/13 08:50, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > On 22/11/13 06:39, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > > > > > > Try #2 :/ > &

Re: Extending fluxbox menu with a script.

2013-11-22 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 12:15:21 + Sharon Kimble wrote: > On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:09:23 +1100 > Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > On 22/11/13 08:50, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > On 22/11/13 06:39, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > > > > > > > Try #2 :/ > &

Re: Script to tell if Qpopper is running.

2013-11-22 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Fri, 22 Nov 2013 13:13:54 -0800 (PST) Account for Debian group mail wrote: > > > On Fri, 22 Nov 2013, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > > > On 11/22/2013 3:54 PM, Account for Debian group mail wrote: > >> >> >> Hello all, > >> >> Once in a while the Qpopper on our mail server will just die. I > >> >>

Re: Setting up wordpress on wheezy using the debian packages?

2013-11-24 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Sat, 23 Nov 2013 17:39:20 -0800 Rick Thomas wrote: > > Can someone point me at step-by-step instructions for going from > sudo aptitude install wordpress > on a freshly scrubbed, newly installed Wheezy system to a working > wordpress website on the same machine? > > I've read the READM

Removing unwanted language files from texlive.

2014-10-04 Thread Sharon Kimble
I've installed texlive getting *everything* which also includes getting many language files that I am never going to use, such as cjk [japanese I think], etc. How do I go about removing them in a sane way please? Is it as simple as `sudo apt-get remove texlive-lang-*', and then just adding back th

Re: Removing unwanted language files from texlive.

2014-10-07 Thread Sharon Kimble
Jörg-Volker Peetz writes: > How did you install texlive? > > What is the output of > > apt-mark showmanual | grep texlive > > ? Through the jessie repository. Your command gives the output - texlive-full Thanks Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk my git repo = https://bit

udev rules for wheezy

2012-09-09 Thread Sharon Kimble
i'm trying to get udev rules for my usb phone, and they are ... SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0fce:2138", SYSFS{idProduct}=="*", MODE="0777" AND SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0fce", SYSFS{idProduct}=="*", MODE="0777" but neither work. lsusb shows .. Bus 001

Re: udev rules for wheezy

2012-09-11 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 10 September 2012 19:29, Siard wrote: > Op Mon, 10 Sep 2012 05:26 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> i'm trying to get udev rules for my usb phone, and they are ... >> SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0fce:2138", >> SYSF

Re: Removing deb-multimedia pkgs w/o removing everything

2012-09-16 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 15 September 2012 19:45, Dmitriy Matrosov wrote: > On 09/15/12 21:38, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> >> On Sb, 15 sep 12, 12:53:46, Ed Jabbour wrote: >>> >>> I'd like to remove packages gotten from deb-multimedia and replace >>> some from the Debian repos. However, removing them will also remove a >

Notifications changed in LXDE under wheezy

2012-11-30 Thread Sharon Kimble
Since yesterday mid-morning my notifications have changed back to ones similar to Gnome/XFCE being a black box with white text in it, which is saved to a notification file in the status bar. Previously my notifications from LXDE were light grey blocks with black text which weren't apparently logged

Re: Notifications changed in LXDE under wheezy

2012-11-30 Thread Sharon Kimble
at its related to my desktop settings, so time will tell. Thanks Sharon. On 30 November 2012 10:38, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 08:40 +, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > Since yesterday mid-morning my notifications have changed back to ones > > similar to Gnome/XFCE bein

Re: rsync of mtp://[usb:001,012]/ ?

2014-06-29 Thread Sharon Kimble
James Cloos writes: >>>>>> "SK" == Sharon Kimble writes: > > R>> https://github.com/hanwen/go-mtpfs > > SK> Thanks, I was able to download a binary from there, "go-mtpfs.x86", > SK> and made it executable and then ran - > >

unable to access website, getting "502 Bad Gateway" errors

2014-07-21 Thread Sharon Kimble
I am totally unable to access two websites that are very important to me, they're my own! And they are both listed in the sig of this email. I have tried with the following browsers - chromium, google-chrome, iceweasel, konqueror, opera, midori, qupzilla, conkeror, links, and in all of them I get

SOLVED [Re: unable to access website, getting "502 Bad Gateway" errors]

2014-07-21 Thread Sharon Kimble
> On Monday 21 July 2014 15:59:12 Curt wrote: >> On 2014-07-21, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >> http://www.tgmeds.org.uk/ >> http://www.sharons.org.uk/ >> >> I get >> >> 502 Bad Gateway >> nginx/1.2.1 >> >> for both sites. > > I

Logwatch output in the "Kernel" section

2014-07-24 Thread Sharon Kimble
I have two problems that have been bothering me for some time, the first for about several days, and the second for a week or two. - This has begun appearing in my daily Logwatch output, and now using these file managers is virtually impossible as they are so untrustworthy. But what can I d

Re: systemd waisted 5 hours of my work time today

2014-07-24 Thread Sharon Kimble
Johann Spies writes: > This morning my work laptop would not boot.  I could not even get to single > user mode initially and when I got  as far as that I could not > type anything on the terminal.  I suspect some upgrade yesterday caused it. > > In the end I had to search for a windows user who

Re: systemd waisted 5 hours of my work time today

2014-07-24 Thread Sharon Kimble
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2014-07-24 16:18 +0200, Sharon Kimble wrote: > >> Johann Spies writes: >> >>> This morning my work laptop would not boot.  I could not even get to >>> single user mode initially and when I got  as far as that I could >>&

kernel errors present - how to resolve them please?

2014-07-25 Thread Sharon Kimble
Every day the following appears in my logwatch email --8<---cut here---start->8--- WARNING: Kernel Errors Present EXT4-fs (sde1): error count: 1 ...: 1 Time(s) EXT4-fs (sde1): initial error at 1397381477: _ ...: 1 Time(s) EXT4-fs (sde1): last err

Re: kernel errors present - how to resolve them please?

2014-07-25 Thread Sharon Kimble
Curt writes: > On 2014-07-25, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >> Every day the following appears in my logwatch email >>=2D-8<---cut here---start->8--- >> WARNING: Kernel Errors Present >> EXT4-fs (sde1): error count:

how to update TexLive 2014, apt-get or tlmgr?

2014-08-07 Thread Sharon Kimble
I'm using TexLive 2014 from the jessie repos, and also keeping a watching brief on "comp.text.tex" where it shows updates to packages as they occur. I'm interested in the "tcolorbox" and "glossaries" packages and see that they have recently been updated. What is the best way of getting the updated

dieting/losing weight programs?

2014-08-07 Thread Sharon Kimble
I've recently been looking in the jessie repos for any programme relating to diet management, or weight management, i.e. anything at all about dieting or losing weight. And I can't find any! The nearest I could find was for "nut-nutrition" which appeared to be console-based and american-centric alt

Re: how to update TexLive 2014, apt-get or tlmgr?

2014-08-08 Thread Sharon Kimble
Norbert Preining writes: > On Sat, 09 Aug 2014, Chris Bannister wrote: >> > I'm using TexLive 2014 from the jessie repos, and also keeping a >> > watching brief on "comp.text.tex" where it shows updates to packages as >> > they occur. I'm interested in the "tcolorbox" and "glossaries" packages >>

Re: dieting/losing weight programs?

2014-08-08 Thread Sharon Kimble
Florent Bories writes: > On 7 August 2014 10:26, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > Are there any programmes in the repos for dieting/losing weight please? > (...) > Sharon. > > Hi Sharon, > > It appears that pondus helps to track weight. Maybe it would be of som

Re: dieting/losing weight programs?

2014-08-08 Thread Sharon Kimble
Rusi Mody writes: > On Thursday, August 7, 2014 2:00:01 PM UTC+5:30, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> I've recently been looking in the jessie repos for any programme relating >> to diet management, or weight management, i.e. anything at all about >> dieting or losing weight.

backup drive has died.

2014-09-01 Thread Sharon Kimble
Last night my backup drive died and is now totally unresponsive, but it did give this error message when I tried to access it - --8<---cut here---start->8--- Error mounting /dev/sde1 at /media/boudiccas/back1: Command-line `mount -t "ext4" -o "uhelper=udisks2,n

Re: backup drive has died.

2014-09-01 Thread Sharon Kimble
Gary said: Install smartmontools on your system and check the backup drive's SMART status. Something like smartctl -H /dev/sde If it passes, then reusing is OK. Otherwise, try to recover what you can by making a copy of the disk using dd- rescue. Hans said: To your question for reuse: I would s

emacs development?

2014-04-04 Thread Sharon Kimble
I was a very happy user of the fortnightly 'emacs-snapshot' from 'emacs.naquadah.org' but they stopped producing then back in January. Has anyone been doing the emacs snapshots since then please? And if so, would they be willing to share them please? Has anyone got an url for the testing/developm

you don\u2019t know if you don\u2019t ask

2014-05-11 Thread Sharon Kimble
When copying and pasting some text from a text document into emacs, it starts out as - ╭ │Remember, most breast lumps are not cancerous, but you don't know if you don't ask. ╰ but appears as - ╭ │Remember, most breast lumps are not cancerous, but you don\u2019t know if you don\u2019

Re: you don\u2019t know if you don\u2019t ask

2014-05-11 Thread Sharon Kimble
Scott Ferguson writes: > On 11/05/14 17:06, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> When copying and pasting some text from a text document into >> emacs, it starts out as - ╭ │Remember, most breast lumps are >> not cancerous, but you don't know if you don't a

Re: you don\u2019t know if you don\u2019t ask

2014-05-11 Thread Sharon Kimble
Chris Bannister writes: > On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 06:36:34PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 11/05/14 17:06, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> > But is there a system-wide solution, just in case it starts >> > happening in some other programme please? >> >>

Re: you don\u2019t know if you don\u2019t ask

2014-05-11 Thread Sharon Kimble
Sharon Kimble writes: > Chris Bannister writes: > >> On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 06:36:34PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> On 11/05/14 17:06, Sharon Kimble wrote: >>> > But is there a system-wide solution, just in case it starts >>> > happening

Re: you don\u2019t know if you don\u2019t ask

2014-05-11 Thread Sharon Kimble
Filip writes: > On Sun, 11 May 2014 12:23:19 +0100 > Sharon Kimble wrote: > >> Chris Bannister writes: >> >> --8<---cut here---start->8--- >> locale >> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 >> LANGUAGE=en_GB:en >> LC_C

Auto-emptying of trash.

2014-06-08 Thread Sharon Kimble
Revisiting a question that I asked in March last year about how to auto-empty a trash bin. This has worked very well until today, when on one of my drives it also deleted the trash bin as well, so my follow-on script to give me the size of my trash bin failed as there wasn’t a trash bin to evaluat

rsync of mtp://[usb:001,012]/ ?

2014-06-26 Thread Sharon Kimble
I have a mobile phone and a kindle fire, both of which can be manually mounted, but they are given names like "mtp://[usb:002,042]/" currently the kindle fire. And "mtp://[usb:001,012]/" which is the mobile phone. How can I do a rsync backup of them both, or any backup at all really, just in case

Re: rsync of mtp://[usb:001,012]/ ?

2014-06-27 Thread Sharon Kimble
Reco writes: > Hi. > > On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 06:41:08AM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> I have a mobile phone and a kindle fire, both of which can be manually >> mounted, but they are given names like "mtp://[usb:002,042]/" currently >> the kindle fire. An

Re: rsync of mtp://[usb:001,012]/ ?

2014-06-27 Thread Sharon Kimble
Reco writes: > On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 16:11:41 +0100 > Sharon Kimble wrote: > >> Neither of them show in "mount", although I know that I can mount either >> using "jmtpfs /media/galaxy". But doing that gives a very flakey >> connection, prone to

Arrgghh! Libreoffice woes!

2012-12-26 Thread Sharon Kimble
Yesterday i installed libreoffice 3.6.4.3 alongside Debian libreoffice 3.5.4. today neither worked except via root, so i uninstalled both libreoffices with synaptic, and then re-installed Debian libreoffice with apt-get. but it does not open from the menu. how can i get it working again please? ri

Re: Dead USB drive?

2012-12-26 Thread Sharon Kimble
Do you think that 'Disk utility 2.30.1' would be able to rescue a USB hard drive that has had Debian 6 accidentally installed on it, over the vital backups? The USB drive has just been sitting on the shelf for two years and not been used since the unfortunate incident. Thanks Sharon. On 25 Dece

Re: Lightdm doesn't load

2012-12-26 Thread Sharon Kimble
I installed lightdm last night, and got it working okay. Did you do anything with /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf ? I suspect not, but that's where its configurations are set. And once they're set I rebooted to make sure it would work, and it did. Good luck Sharon. On 26 December 2012 16:39, Frank McC

Re: Lightdm doesn't load

2012-12-26 Thread Sharon Kimble
I changed virtually all of the [LightDM] section, and some of the [SeatDefaults], and I'm on wheezy too. Sharon. On 26 December 2012 17:41, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 26. 12. 2012 18:25:41 je Frank McCormick napisal(a): > > >>What did you change. It's my understanding it should run "out of the

Re: Lightdm doesn't load

2012-12-26 Thread Sharon Kimble
You need to run this 'dpkg-reconfigure lightdm' and choose 'lightdm', and you can show this by 'leafpad /etc/X11/default-display-manager' which should also show 'lightdm'. Then amend 'leafpad /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf' to show ;- [LightDM] start-default-seat=true greeter-user=lightdm minimum-displa

logcheck and bug #657641

2013-01-03 Thread Sharon Kimble
I am seeing lots of emails like this from logcheck '/usr/sbin/logcheck: line 100: kill: (10554) - No such process' which is bug #657641, and there is a patch provided. How do I apply that patch please to my 'logcheck' in wheezy please? Thanks Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.

Re: logcheck and bug #657641

2013-01-04 Thread Sharon Kimble
3 at 17:27:56 +, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > > I am seeing lots of emails like this from logcheck '/usr/sbin/logcheck: > > line 100: kill: (10554) - No such process' which is bug #657641, and > there > > is a patch provided. How do I apply that patch please to my

Re: New wheezy and problems setting up alsa for mpd

2013-01-08 Thread Sharon Kimble
, so rectified here! :) On 8 January 2013 16:16, Sharon Kimble wrote: > Thanks for this, but "Yes" to both. I do have sound, I've just watched a > video in 'Movie Player' with good sound, its just it doesn't seem to happen > in mpd/ncmpcpp, and I really miss my s

Re: New wheezy and problems setting up alsa for mpd

2013-01-09 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 9 January 2013 03:07, Chris Bannister wrote: > [Please don't top post: http://catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html] > [ fixed up as best I could.] > On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 06:02:39PM +, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > > On 8 January 2013 15:06, Chris Bannister >wr

Re: New wheezy and problems setting up alsa for mpd

2013-01-09 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 9 January 2013 12:36, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 12:14:42PM +0000, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > On 9 January 2013 03:07, Chris Bannister > wrote: > > > As I have no experience with mpd (yet) I don't know what may be causing > > > this,

Re: New wheezy and problems setting up alsa for mpd

2013-01-09 Thread Sharon Kimble
Pertti Kosunen pertti.kosu...@pp.nic.fi via<http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&ctx=mail&answer=1311182> lists.debian.org 12:43 (1 hour ago) to Debian On 8.1.2013 16:16, Sharon Kimble wrote: > ALSA lib pulse.c:243:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to conn

Re: New wheezy and problems setting up alsa for mpd

2013-01-09 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 9 January 2013 18:36, Sharon Kimble wrote: > On 9 January 2013 17:48, Pertti Kosunen wrote: > >> On 9.1.2013 16:37, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >>> I've done a 'apt-cache search mpd plugins' which showed nothing relating >>> to mpd and plugins,

Re: [SOLVED] New wheezy and problems setting up alsa for mpd

2013-01-09 Thread Sharon Kimble
On 9 January 2013 18:58, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > On 9 January 2013 18:36, Sharon Kimble wrote: >> >> On 9 January 2013 17:48, Pertti Kosunen wrote: >>> >>> On 9.1.2013 16:37, Sharon Kimble wrote: >>>> >>>> I've done a 'apt-c

MPD and Last.FM, not connecting or working.

2013-01-23 Thread Sharon Kimble
I've spent most of today trying to get mpd playing last.fm music unsucessfully. First some basic facts - version 0.17.1 [from sid], mpd.conf ## # An example configuration file for MPD # See the mpd.conf man page for a more detailed description of each parameter.

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