Re: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control

2009-02-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:41:10 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Hendrik Boom: >> >> I'd like a word processor compatible with version control systems >> (hereafter abbreviated VCS) Having been duly impressed for decades now >> how useful VCSs are for programming, I&#

finding similar files

2009-02-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
ding those pairs of files. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control

2009-02-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
it's revision control systems that need to change. Know any that *don't* diff and merge entire lines? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

GRUB troubles with Re: Distinguishing SATA disks

2009-02-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:02:18 +0100, Frederik Kriewitz wrote: > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Hendrik Boom > wrote: >> Fun. Lost of symlinks. Can I use these to identify the drives to be >> used in RAID pairs or for LLVM? > > Yes Well, that worked. And /etc/fstab is

Re: GRUB troubles with Re: Distinguishing SATA disks

2009-03-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:40:40 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: >> >> Well, that worked. And /etc/fstab is happy with >> >> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3750640AS-5QD4Z81L-part1 /bottom ext3 >> defaults,auto,rw,nodev 0 0 >> >> but /

Re: GRUB troubles with Re: Distinguishing SATA disks

2009-03-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:40:40 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: >> On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:02:18 +0100, Frederik Kriewitz wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Hendrik Boom >>> wrote: >>>> Fun. Lost of symlinks. Can I use th

Re: GRUB troubles with Re: Distinguishing SATA disks

2009-03-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
found wili pages at http://stmaarten.globat.com/~supergrubdisk.org/index.php; other times at the new site. Both aappeared to up intermittently. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

trouble prestarting the etch->lenny upgrade.

2009-03-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
there's enough space, is to upgrade apt and/or aptitide. Any comments? Is this a know bug in etch's aptitude? Or is my configuration wholly screwed up. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: trouble prestarting the etch->lenny upgrade.

2009-03-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:27:11 -0500, Daryl Styrk wrote: > * Hendrik Boom [2009-03-04 18:12:04 +]: > > >> Now I am inclined to ignore this behaviour and proceed with the >> installation. The next step, assuming there's enough space, is to >> upgrade apt and/

Re: trouble prestarting the etch->lenny upgrade.

2009-03-06 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:52:00 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 07:15:03PM +0000, Hendrik Boom > was heard to say: >> I have now upgraded aptitude. Issuing the same command I used before >> gives me lists of lackages to install/remove/upgrade, as usual, a

NFS server fails after upgrade to lenny

2009-03-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
kup copy of the old etch system. I'd like to be able to move to lenny, but right noe it's infeasible. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: find least used packages

2009-03-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
occupy the most space. You can also use deborphan or debfoster to find obsolete packages (see Section 4.11, “Obsolete packages” ). Alternatively you can start aptitude in “visual mode” and find obsolete packages under “Obsolete and Locally Created Packages”. http://www.debian.org/releases/l

Re: NFS server fails after upgrade to lenny

2009-03-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:24:23 +0100, Michael Wagner wrote: > * Hendrik Boom 09.03.2009 > >> I upgraded the server on my LAN to lenny recntly (after making a backup >> of the etch system (everything except user file systems)) in another >> partition. >> >> Now

Re: 'debian-user' list in digest mode does not number the posts

2009-03-13 Thread Hendrik Boom
service (I've never paid anything, anyway) that relays mailing lists as newsfeeds. You can even post messages through it. More information at http://www.gmane.org/ -- hendrik -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Re: NFS server still fails after upgrade to lenny

2009-04-07 Thread Hendrik Boom
etch, lenny, or a not-quite-up-to-date testing on the client. It fails with lenny on the server, but succeeds with etch on the server. (I kept an etch backup on another partition when I upgraded to lenny. I'm glad I did) -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Re: debian testing

2009-04-07 Thread Hendrik Boom
ent through several major changes in rapid order *and* udev was being introduced, I had to go back to woody, which I still had around. X was very much improved by the revolution, but it was tough while it was going on. So run testing, by all means, but keep a stable around just in case. --

Trouble burning netinstall CD

2009-04-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
down and restart it? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Trouble burning netinstall CD

2009-04-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:06:35 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,08.Apr.09, 20:00:14, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> >> I get an iso file, the MD5 checksum checks out, but when I burn it >> using k3b it burns uneventfully, but the readback vheck fails. >> >> I had n

Re: Trouble burning netinstall CD : SOLVED -- it's trouble with k3b's check.

2009-04-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:32:12 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:06:35 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >> On Wed,08.Apr.09, 20:00:14, Hendrik Boom wrote: >>> >>> I get an iso file, the MD5 checksum checks out, but when I burn it >>> u

Re: Japanese write

2009-05-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
! Thanks! > > ありがとう ございます! > Interesting. I had installed a package called 'anthy' but not 'scim- anthy'. I'll have to try that. But there's an error in the URL above. I found the section on Japanese in http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ ch08.en.html#_an_example_for_japanese chapter 8, not 9. `-- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Japanese write

2009-05-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 09 May 2009 02:41:04 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ > ch08.en.html#_an_example_for_japanese This page seems suddenly to have become inaccessible. But I found another at http://phpxref.org/docs/debian/ ch09.en.html#anexampleforja

Re: Japanese write

2009-05-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 09 May 2009 02:41:04 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:37:04 -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: >>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 03:40:06PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: >>>> I'm new to Debia

Re: LVM how to

2009-06-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
volume" at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/extendlv.html are strictly obsolete? I'm talking about an etch system with an ext3 file system on llvm on raid. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: LVM how to

2009-06-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:31:19 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In , Hendrik Boom wrote: >>On Wed, 20 May 2009 00:34:24 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote: >>> You don't need a rescue CD, and you can even do it while the >>> filesystem is mounted! >> >>So t

Re: I'm at my wit's end (was:Re: Help with Flash)

2009-06-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
is to at least get me back to > where I was. No such luck. > > So I decided to try to go with straight up Debian and I installed > Iceweasel and flashplayer-mozilla. This also yielded the same results. > The YouTube video starts to load, displaying the initial frame, and > then

Re: I'm at my wit's end (was:Re: Help with Flash)

2009-06-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
, instead of as system manager in the public space. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Paranoia about DegradedArray

2008-10-29 Thread Hendrik Boom
is probably a problem due to a power failure (We've had a lot of these recently) or something transient. (a) How do I do this? (b) is hda3 the failed drive, or is it the one that's still working? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: Paranoia about DegradedArray

2008-10-29 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:00:25 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Wednesday 29 October 2008, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> I got the message (via email) >> >> This is an automatically generated mail message from mdadm running on >> april >> >> A DegradedArray event

Re: Paranoia about DegradedArray

2008-10-30 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:58:56 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Wednesday 29 October 2008, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> >> I'm a bit surprised that none of the messages identifies the other >> drive, /dev/hdc3. Is this normal? Is that information available >> somewhe

Re: Paranoia about DegradedArray

2008-10-30 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:43:52 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Thursday 30 October 2008, Hendrik Boom wrote: ... >> > I've had trouble with removing drives if I didn't manually fail them. >> > Someone who knows the inner workings of mdadm might be able to >&g

framemaker replacement ?

2008-11-29 Thread Hendrik Boom
ble that have a chance of accomplishing what Framemaker does? Myself, I hand-code HTML in emacs when I want to create a document. Or write a custom C program to generate postscript code. But I think she's enough of an end-user that she'd appreciate this method. In any case, the sale

Re: framemaker replacement ?

2008-11-29 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 02:32:58 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I have friend who's interested in trying out free software. Her > immediate request is for something to replace Framemaker. It seems > she's involved in the use of Framemaker to make "books" for sale

Re: PCI ethernet card from ebay doesn't work at all. Possibly fake, but which?

2008-11-29 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:47:12 -0500, A. F. Cano wrote: > Any hints will be greatly > appreciated. Thanks. > > A. I once had troubles like this -- it turned out that the firewire port on my graphics card was being recognised as eth0. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Distinguishing SATA disks

2009-02-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
boot time. (I've had previous problems with multiple eth devices, solved by removing the ones I didn't need). How can I ensure that the same /dev's are always associated with the same physical drives? Or am I misunderstanding something here and has the problem become obsolete?

Re: Distinguishing SATA disks

2009-02-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:03:39 +0100, Frederik Kriewitz wrote: > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Hendrik Boom > wrote: >> How can I ensure that the same /dev's are always associated with the >> same physical drives? Or am I misunderstanding something here and has >>

Re: SATA disks distinguishable, but missing by-uuid entry.

2009-02-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:02:18 +0100, Frederik Kriewitz wrote: > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Hendrik Boom > wrote: >> Fun. Lost of symlinks. Can I use these to identify the drives to be >> used in RAID pairs or for LLVM? > > Yes > >> by-uuid seems to miss

Re: SATA disks distinguishable, but missing by-uuid entry.

2009-02-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:54:05 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I suppose that will work for the immediate purpose. But having one > primary ext3 partition present in by-uuid and another missing is, to say > the least, disquieting. > I rebooted, and now all the entries are

Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control

2009-02-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
ird mark-up that cuts and pastes well into Livejournal. Isn't there something that already does most of what I really need? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Trouble upgrading in a chroot -- no /dev

2010-02-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
ith /proc, though I haven't hit them yet. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Trouble upgrading in a chroot -- no /dev

2010-02-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
/dev > > I usually do the same with /sys, /proc, and /dev/pts. Thanks. Wouldn't doing it for /dev accomplish it for /dev/pts as well? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Trouble with djbdns on upgrade from etch to lenny

2010-02-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
efore that interface existed. But in that case, how do I restart it? There's no /etc/init.d/djbdns file any mopre, although there wa in etch. So I can no longer do /etc/init.d/djbdns restart Why no /etc/init.d file? What is to be done instead? Just how *is* it started now? -- hendr

Both Abiword and OpenOffice fail to read Word file.

2010-03-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
I have a Word file that nither OpenOff ci nor Abiword seem to be able to read. AbiWord reports, AbiWord cannot open file:///farhome/hendrik/books/review-me/ Book1PropertyoftheQueen.doc. It appears to be an invalid document OpenOffice says, General Error, General input/output error. (that&#

Re: Wacom bamboo pen and touch in squeeze.

2010-04-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:41:28 +, Chris Davies wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: >> What's the story on getting this thing working? > > http://udim.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/wacom-bamboo-and-debian/ > > I'm not entirely sure what "version" of Debian you&

Re: Wacom bamboo pen and touch in squeeze.

2010-04-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:05:09 -0600, ajm wrote: > On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 01:53:05AM +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> What's the story on getting this thing working? I'm running Debian >> Squeeze on an ASUS 1000HE. The device doesn't seem to be recognised as >>

Version conflict in squeeze, also in sid for wacom packages

2010-04-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
are in conflict. Nothing new seems to be in the pipeline to squeeze from sid; the versin numbers are the same in both distros. It doesn't seem as if waiting a few days will alleviate the situation in squeeze. Where should this be reported, and what is to be done about it? -- hendrik

Re: Version conflict in squeeze, also in sid for wacom packages

2010-04-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:54:06 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > In squeeze for the i386, the wacom-related packages are wacom-tools and > xserver-xorg-input-wacom. But it is impossible to install both of them. > > wacom-tools is at version 0.8.3.2-1 in both squeeze and sid, whereas &g

Re: GRUB2 == Non Bootable System

2010-04-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
lo -v. This is quite independent of grub. But too late for you, now. There's also the Super Grub Boot Disk, which you can download from somewhere and copy to a floppy. I think it contains all the grub things you need to boot (the ones it usually gets from wherever they hide out on

nfs fails on some clients after power failure.

2007-11-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
Last night power went off for several hours. In the morning there appeared to be no network communication between machines on my LAN when I booted them. A bit of experimentation localized it to one particular ethernet hub (two of the machines did not need that hub to communicate with each other,

Re: nfs fails on some clients after power failure.

2007-11-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:49:29 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I have not changed any > configurations or made any upgrades since they were all working yesterday. I may not have made changes, but something has to be different. I'm hoping someone can help me track down what has happened.

Re: nfs fails on some clients after power failure.

2007-11-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:38:52 -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: > On Nov 14, 2007, at 8:49 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> Would anyone be able to suggest what's failing, and what to do >> about it? >> Or what information I need to gather to diagnose the situation? > >

Problems posting with Pan.

2007-11-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
Every now and then instead of posting, Pan tells me There were problems with this post. Warning: Unknown group "sci.physics.research" It seems to be group-specific. Some groups I read are unknown, others exits. I find it puzzling -- it has no trouble reading from that usenet group. -- T

Re: Problems posting with Pan.

2007-11-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:50:08 -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > On Nov 16, 2007, at 8:38 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> Every now and then instead of posting, Pan tells me >> >> There were problems with this post. >> Warning: Unknown group "sci.physics.research&q

Re: Problems posting with Pan.

2007-11-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:57:15 -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > On Nov 17, 2007, at 9:36 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:50:08 -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: >> >>> On Nov 16, 2007, at 8:38 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: >>> >>>> Eve

ftell, fgetpos, etc.

2007-12-19 Thread Hendrik Boom
f the sign bit are limited to 31 bits in practise). Is there something else available? Is there another way to use the tools I have already mentioned? Is there a clean way to move to 64-bit relatively system-independent disk addresses? Is there a standard way? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: ftell, fgetpos, etc.

2007-12-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:48:34 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 11:39:58PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 06:09:54PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> > I need to write code that creates, reads, and writes a random-access binary >>

cannot log in with gdm after lenny upgrade

2007-12-30 Thread Hendrik Boom
the NFS volume that contains my home directory. But when I try to log in as an ordinary desktop user after gdm has been started (no, not as root, as the ordinary user "hendrik" which worked fine on etch before the upgrade, and still works fine when I boot my backup etch system) it immed

Re: cannot log in with gdm after lenny upgrade

2007-12-31 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:58:03 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > The kernel I used is 2.6.18-5-486 I tried again with a more recent kernel. uname tells me 2.6.22-3-k7 #1 SMP Mon Nov 12 09:12:50 UTC 2007 i686 GNU Linux Same results. This time, though I noticed that on the first failed lo

Re: cannot log in with gdm after lenny upgrade

2008-01-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:49:43 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 03:58:03AM +0000, Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: >> /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session startup ... >> Setting 1M through im-switch for locale=en_CA >> Sta

Re: cannot log in with gdm after lenny upgrade

2008-01-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:58:22 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:49:43 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > >> That almost sounds like you don't have write permission to $TMPDIR. >> Do you have any configuration that changes the value of $TMPDIR? (if >>

Re: cannot log in with gdm after lenny upgrade

2008-01-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 07:57:22 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 12:58:22AM +0000, Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: >> On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:49:43 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: >> >> > On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 03:58

Re: Kernel (Enable PAE)

2008-01-06 Thread Hendrik Boom
libs get scrambled, you can boot from 2.6.17 instead and try and unscramble them. Not that I've ever had a problem using aptitude to replace a running kernel. But I do reboot after aptitude finishes. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

flock, fcntl, lockf?

2008-01-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
What's the right way these days to lock a file (or possibly a part of a file) to prevent damage from simultaneous writing? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: flock, fcntl, lockf?

2008-01-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:57:12 -0600, Michael Shuler wrote: > On 01/14/2008 09:34 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> What's the right way these days to lock a file (or possibly a part of a >> file) to prevent damage from simultaneous writing? > > I suppose the answer could be, &q

Re: flock, fcntl, lockf?

2008-01-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:17:53 -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 03:34:27PM +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> What's the right way these days to lock a file (or possibly a part of a >> file) to prevent damage from simultaneous writing? > > My impression is

Re: Audio vanished with jessie

2013-09-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 18:44:49 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: > 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

Re: Audio vanished with jessie

2013-09-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 20:40:01 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 17:33:39 +0000, 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 sa

Re: Audio vanished with jessie

2013-09-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 20:40:01 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > Are there any error messages when you start these applications from the > command line in an X terminal? What do you get from running > speaker-test? Running audacity: hendrik@notlookedfor:~$ audacity ALSA li

SUCCESS: though Audio vanished with jessie, it came back with alsamixer.

2013-09-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 21:43:21 +0100, Klaus wrote: > On 16/09/13 20:44, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 20:40:01 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 17:33:39 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: >>>> It's an ASUS 1HE running je

Audio vanished with jessie

2013-09-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
nor in VLC. Neither paplay nor aplay give me any sound. The audio device is *Enabled* in the BIOS. What tests should I be performing to narrow down the problem. Or is this already a well-known bug in jessie? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

NOT QUITE: headphones still don't work.

2013-09-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 00:02:29 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 21:43:21 +0100, Klaus wrote: > >> >> Can this be another instance of a muted Master switch? What do get for: >> >> $ amixer info >> $ amixer contents >> $ amixer scontents

Re: NOT QUITE: headphones still don't work.

2013-09-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 09:40:05 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Hi Hendrik, > > Am Dienstag, 17. September 2013, 00:32:49 schrieb Hendrik Boom: >> On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 00:02:29 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> > On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 21:43:21 +0100, Klaus wrote: >> >&g

Re: NOT QUITE: headphones still don't work.

2013-09-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 17:32:50 +0100, Klaus wrote: > On 17/09/13 16:36, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> >> How *do* you do it? >> >> -- hendrik >> >> > Just learned something over on Lisi's thread :-) > On my system I get this: > > > $ am

Mail logs missing in wheezy

2013-10-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
zy changed the handling on the mail logs. I use postfix. Where have the mail logs moved to? Or is there some option I need to set to get them back? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

mdadm gives segmentatin fault on wheezy. RAID array now incomplete.

2013-10-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
I ran mdadm /dev/md1 --add /dev/sdd2 and got a segmentation fault. april:/farhome/hendrik# cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] md1 : active raid1 sdb2[1] 2391295864 blocks super 1.2 [2/1] [_U] md0 : active raid1 sda4[0] sdc4[1] 706337792 blocks [2/2] [UU] unused

Re: Mail logs missing in wheezy

2013-10-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
-/var/log/lpr.log mail.* -/var/log/mail.log user.* -/var/log/user.log I can't find it mentioned in the man page for rsyslog.cong what the minus signs mean in front of the file names. -- hendrik > >

Re: mdadm gives segmentatin fault on wheezy. RAID array now incomplete.

2013-10-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, 09 Oct 2013 10:59:48 -0600, Shane Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Hendrik Boom > wrote: >> I ran >> >> mdadm /dev/md1 --add /dev/sdd2 >> >> and got a segmentation fault. >> >> >> april:/farhome/hendrik# cat /proc/mds

Circular initscript dependency prevents use of aptitude on wheezy

2013-11-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
#x27; missing LSB tags and overrides insserv: There is a loop between service mediatomb and modutils if stopped insserv: loop involving service modutils at depth 2 insserv: loop involving service mediatomb at depth 1 insserv: Stopping modutils depends on mediatomb and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true! insserv: exiting now without changing boot order! update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header dpkg: error processing cups (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: samba initscripts cups Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Reading extended state information... Initializing package states... Reading task descriptions... -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/l6l8fu$hb6$1...@ger.gmane.org

Re: mdadm gives segmentatin fault on wheezy. RAID array now incomplete.

2013-11-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 01:59:21 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Wed, 09 Oct 2013 10:59:48 -0600, Shane Johnson wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Hendrik Boom >> wrote: >>> I ran >>> >>> mdadm /dev/md1 --add /dev/sdd2 >>> >&g

Still no wifi passwords after routine Jessie upgrade.

2014-09-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
del number correctly. it was the first ASUS netbook to require no proprietary drivers at all; ironically, it was available only with Windows preinstalled). It has performed well for years. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &q

Re: Wifi works again. Should I post bug reports?

2014-10-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 08 Sep 2014 22:13:52 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > After the last time I did a routine safe-upgrade in jessie, my ASUS > 1000HE no longer connects to wifi after a reboot and login. Presumably > something is wrong with the network manater. What it tells me after I > log in

Re: Wifi works again. Should I post bug reports?

2014-10-06 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 06 Oct 2014 12:35:39 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 06 oct 14, 01:40:23, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> >> Against network manager and wifi radar that they should warn the >> sysadmin on installation or upgrade that there will be a permissions >> problem, and w

wifi password problem solved, or at least, worked around.

2014-10-06 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 21:28:35 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Near the beginning of September, I reported suddenly being unable to > connect to wifi in coffee shops. Around the same time, I has done a > routine upgrade to my jessie system; I do this every week or two. > > Ever

Persistent hash sum mismatch in aptitude

2014-10-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
[+14], 15048 new [+7]. Notice that this happens with *two* mirrors. Is there something I should do to stop this? Is it even something to worry about? My subsequent safe-upgrades seem to work just fine. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Browser font size selection for printer

2014-11-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
nt is destroying my page layout (which looks perfectly OK in the browser itself). I can adjust text size on the screen with control-plus and control- minus, but there sees to be no way to do this for printer output. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debia

Multiple desktops in lightdm?

2014-11-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
good, actually; they don't have to all be there at boot. In case it makes a difference, I'm running squeeze with the traditional sysv init. I use icewm and fvwm as window managers and do not run gnome or kde. Not that some of those libraries aren't there anyway. -- hendrik

Re: Browser font size selection for printer -- SOLVED, but I'd llike to understand.

2014-11-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 04 Nov 2014 03:02:03 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I cannot get chrome or chromium (or Iceweaasel either) to print a web > page in a twelve-point font on my laser printer. It insists on using a > font that's about twice the size. Well, let me apologize for even posting tha

Re: Multiple desktops in lightdm?

2014-11-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 04 Nov 2014 14:19:52 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: > On 03/11/14 11:20 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> I've been using lightdm, and it more or less works. >> >> About a decade ago, on another ancient Linux, I could get multiple >> desktops, selected by ctl-alt-f7 th

How *not* to concatenate my domain name?

2014-11-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
already containing a dot)? I'm running a jessie system with systemv init and systemd-shim, in case it matters. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: How *not* to concatenate my domain name?

2014-11-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 04:57:57AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > 2014/11/09 3:50 "Hendrik Boom" : > > > > When I do a web search from my laptop, connected via wifi to my server > > and then too the rest of the world, if it for any reason fails to find, > > say, a

Re: Multiple desktops in lightdm? -- SOLVED

2014-11-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 06 Nov 2014 10:15:51 +, Brian wrote: > On Thu 06 Nov 2014 at 11:14:58 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> On Jo, 06 nov 14, 03:58:13, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> > >> > I want to be able to log on multiple times, simultaneously, to the >> > same machi

Re: forks, derivatives, other distros - what are you thinking/doing

2014-11-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
ctions still told me to use floppy disks. Remember those days? > 3.What other options/initiatives are you aware of that you've discarded or > otherwise are not considering, and why? I'm not going back to Windows, OS/2, or DOS. Except maybe in emulation for really ancient lega

Re: How *not* to concatenate my domain name?

2014-11-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, 08 Nov 2014 20:05:05 +, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 8 Nov 2014 18:49:50 + (UTC) > Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> When I do a web search from my laptop, connected via wifi to my server >> and then too the rest of the world, if it for any reason fails to find, >> sa

Re: Joey Hess is out?

2014-11-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
a San > Francisco sort of thing. Possibly a Montreal thing, too. But despite being a Montrealer, the originally intended meaning of 'out' was still at the top of my mind. Here we too say, 'I'm out' as a statement of nonparticipation. Or possibly winning or los

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
as Debian-based Refracta which just posted > a systemd-free 'Proto-Refracta Jessie with sysvinit' iso (without > libsystemd0): Does Refracta mean that the long-wanted systemd0free Debian for is a reality? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: forks, derivatives, other distros - what are you thinking/doing

2014-11-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 09 Nov 2014 14:22:46 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 09 nov 14, 04:05:56, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> >> I've started to have trouble mounting the NTFS partition on my machine >> from Linux. No problem doing this in Windows, of course. I used to be >>

Has the systemd fork already happened?

2014-11-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
body know more? Does it use Debian's repositories? Are there any other forks? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/m3nsab$cit$2...@ger.gmane.org

Re: Has the systemd fork already happened?

2014-11-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 09 Nov 2014 14:40:47 +, Brian wrote: > On Sun 09 Nov 2014 at 14:04:59 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> I just encountered a link about refracta. >> >> Refracta would appear to be rather close to Debian testing. Its home >> page is http://www.ibiblio

Re: Has the systemd fork already happened?

2014-11-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 09 Nov 2014 20:27:56 +, Brian wrote: > On Sun 09 Nov 2014 at 18:19:21 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> On Sun, 09 Nov 2014 14:40:47 +, Brian wrote: >> >> > On Sun 09 Nov 2014 at 14:04:59 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> > >> &

systemd-free alternatives are not off topic.

2014-11-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
e viable, whether default or not, and whether there are packages taht cannot run without it. But it is absurd to say that discussing these real problems faced by Debian users, and their potential remedies, is off topic in the debian- user mailing list. There are lots of topics on this list that ar

replacing boot and only disk drive

2014-11-22 Thread Hendrik Boom
rive even though when that gets used it will be in a different electronic location on the machine. (it'll be /dev/sda instead of /dev/sdb) What are the gotchas that are easy to get wrong in an operation like this? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.

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