Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-02 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sat, 1 Dec 2012, Charles Kroeger wrote: Try this: #dpkg --configure -a -- CK p.s. this is an old one: #apt-get -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=yes dist-upgrade hi Charles, thanks for your suggestions, but alas none worked in my case. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-02 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
c-nox When I run # apt-get install I get "1763 ackages not upgraded" Is it possible to clear this list of packages waiting for upgrade, to start from a clean state? best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-02 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
seems that I'll have to do a Wheezy fresh install ... best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- 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/alpine.deb.2.00.1

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-02 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
apt-listbugs/apt-listbugs/logic.rb:743:in `each_index' from /usr/share/apt-listbugs/apt-listbugs/logic.rb:743:in `create' from /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs:323 E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10 returned an error code (10) E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/apt

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-02 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
nd install from the dvd. (my data being on a separate partition, it is not a problem) What about rebooting now? Why? just because a new kernel was installed... best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &q

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-03 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
e unmet dependencies . As I already said, I'll spend less time installing Wheezy from the iso image best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-04 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
debian-wheezy, and not debian-testing... best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- 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/alpine.deb.2.00.1212040927290.

Re: ntp problem

2014-07-01 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
diatly the exact time (checked with a radio controlled watch) . best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- 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/alpine.de

Re: ntp problem

2014-07-06 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
restablished the correct time, but 30 minutes later, the time has already drifted by 15 seconds. = cf also read my last post, where I said that I fixed the problem, and how I did it. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To

metamail removed

2014-04-03 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
gards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- 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/alpine.deb.2.10.1404031052570.3...@pfr2.frenkiel-hure.net

Re: metamail removed

2014-04-03 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
rding the news RSS following that, the package was removed from testing in 2009, what seems curious, as I still had it until December 2012. Anyway, that doesn't tell me why it was removed. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: metamail removed

2014-04-03 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
ere are, for other applications, a big number of packages to do almost the same job. I found a replacement candidate to metamail, reformime. I'll see wether it can provide the same functiunality(expecting it will not get orphaned too!) best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To UNSUBSCR

ntp problem

2014-06-24 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
restablished the correct time, but 30 minutes later, the time has already drifted by 15 seconds. Any possible explanation? best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Re: ntp problem

2014-06-24 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
ven without ntpd, I suppose that the internal clock can't have a so big drift I'll try stopping ntpd to see what happens. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: ntp problem

2014-06-25 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
ew days ago on a machine running since about 5 years seems indicate a hardware problem (battery?) best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- 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/alpine.deb.2.10.1406250902340.2...@pfr2.frenkiel-hure.net

Re: ntp problem

2014-06-25 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 25 June 2014 08:13:12 Pierre Frenkiel wrote: seems indicate a hardware problem (battery?) I nearly said so, but grandmothers and eggs came to mind. CMOS batteries are cheap enough. Why not just change it and see? It does not sound

Re: ntp problem

2014-06-26 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
each other both trying to adjust the clock. Or some other failure. Maybe a cron job running ntpdate? it's what I did up to now, (ntpdate or rdate), but the drift became too big, even with a call in cron.hourly best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: how to get missing multimedia packages

2013-02-03 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
es of debian / deb-multimedia repos? And if yes, what is its content? best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- 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/al

Re: how to get missing multimedia packages

2013-02-04 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
nt to enable it. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- 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/alpine.deb.2.02.1302041153410.9...@pfr2.frenkiel-hure.net

Re: Re: Reinstall nouveau driver

2013-06-02 Thread Jean Pierre
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Re: Re: Reinstall nouveau driver

2013-06-02 Thread Jean Pierre
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boot fails on wheezy

2013-06-03 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
b executable no more exists): nothing worked. More precisely, "update-grub2" seemed to work, according its log, but the boot still fails. Now I don't know where to look at. Can anybody give me a hint? best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

boot fails on wheezy

2013-06-03 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
b executable no more exists): nothing worked. More precisely, "update-grub2" seemed to work, according its log, but the boot still fails. Now I don't know where to look at. Can anybody give me a hint? best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: boot fails on wheezy (SOLVED

2013-06-03 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Mon, 4 Jun 2013, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: After a problem with a ligthscribe dvd, I had to reboot my PC, . . . At last I found the explanation, which seems rather incredible: In my BIOS settings, the boot sequence has been modified, the 1st internal disc (ST3250410AS) being replaced by

Re: boot fails on wheezy (SOLVED)

2013-06-04 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
quence change, without entering into BIOS at boot. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- 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/alpine.deb.2.02.1306041050220.16...@pfr2.frenkiel-hure.net

Re: boot fails on wheezy (SOLVED - not completely!)

2013-06-04 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
is not consistent with each reboot" This is not true for internal discs.So, the use of UUID in fstab is mandatory for external drives, but not for internal. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

Re: boot fails on wheezy (SOLVED - not completely!)

2013-06-04 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
gards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- 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/alpine.deb.2.02.1306041844170.20...@pfr2.frenkiel-hure.net

Re: boot fails on wheezy (SOLVED)

2013-06-06 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
ordering: as already said by several people, using UUID makes you independant of any disc ordering. It is to determine what can produce a change in the BIOS settings, apart from a power failure. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: boot fails on wheezy

2013-06-06 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
was nothing to repair... best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- 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/alpine.deb.2.02.1306061402380.18...@pfr2.frenkiel-hure.net

Re: boot fails on wheezy (SOLVED)

2013-06-06 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
needs a given set of conditions to occur. Even when it seems to be not reproducible, one generally finds something which explains why it occured once, and not the other time... best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Debian Sources List Generator

2013-06-11 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
under construction" my questions are: 1/ what is the difference netween this repo and Marillat's deb-multimedia? 2/ what is the status of debgen? best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Debian Sources List Generator

2013-06-11 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
to get rid of the mess introduced by this repo. I'll then have to install Ubuntu (at least as a virtual machine), as it is difficult nowadays to live without some packages which are missing in Debian. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: Debian Sources List Generator

2013-06-11 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
from incompatible deb-multimedia and debian libraries, and it took, not ages, but about 1 week to get rid of them and revert to pure official debian. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Debian Sources List Generator

2013-06-11 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
ity with Debian libraries is not different from malware, when you see the mess this can produce. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

changing the font size in Xdialog

2012-07-03 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
ually used, but not the font. Any idea? best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- 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/alpine.deb.2.00.1207031303410.4...@pfr2.frenkiel-hure.net

Re: changing the font size in Xdialog

2012-07-03 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
owing command is accepted: without any error message: !!! Xdialog --anything --msgbox "xdialog test" 0 0 idem with Xdialog anything bla_bla --msgbox "xdialog test" 0 0 That seems really crazy! do you have the same behaviour? Xdialog --version Version:

Re: changing the font size in Xdialog

2012-07-04 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
than xdialog I'll check whether this is still true. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- 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/alpine.deb.2.00.1207041734210.9...@pfr2.frenkiel-hure.net

Re: cifs mount problem

2013-12-03 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Mon, 2 Dec 2013, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: Password: Password for root@//wehd/hdd: Please note the difference for the 2 paswword requests. I suppose that this can help to explain the difference of behaviour between the 2 nachines. forget this: it's just becaus the cifs-utils ver

Re:[Solved] cifs mount problem

2013-12-15 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
mount -t cifs -o guest //wehd/hdd /d6 works. That obviously means that they changed the default security mode for cifs in the new kernel, although I found nothing about that in the kernel changelog. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

keyboard configuration problem

2013-12-22 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
(that works) as the layout reverts to us when I logout Can this be considered as a kernel bug? best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: keyboard configuration problem

2013-12-23 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
bug somewhere.. As a workaround, I added in /etc/kde4/kdm/Xsetup the 2 lines . /etc/default/keyboard /usr/bin/setxkbmap -layout $XKBLAYOUT but I don't like this solution. I would prefer to understand what is wrong with X best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: keyboard configuration problem

2013-12-23 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
Keyboard Device: Device: "/dev/input/event5" [53.827] (--) evdev: ACPI Virtual Keyboard Device: Vendor 0 Product 0 [53.827] (--) evdev: ACPI Virtual Keyboard Device: Found keys [53.827] (II) evdev: ACPI Virtual Keyboard Device: Configuring as keyboard [53.827] (II)

Re: keyboard configuration problem

2013-12-23 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Mon, 23 Dec 2013, Brian wrote: If you had a .xsessionrc file in your home directory containing the line "setxkbmap us" this would account for what you see in an xterm. However, it does not explain what you get at the kdm login prompt. So you likely do not have such a file. I wonder whether xd

Re: How to install memoizable?

2013-12-26 Thread Pierre Etchemaïté
s:294:in `' > E: Sub-process /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt returned an error code (1)E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt The only recent Ruby related package upgrade on my system was ruby-locale, and indeed for the time being I fixed the issue by downgrading this package to v

Re: keyboard configuration problem

2014-01-11 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
t/keyboard were actually applied, for both console and X11. I'll then stick to my modified Xsetup script. . Thank you for your help, and best wishes to everybody for this new year. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

removing debian-multimedia from sources.list

2011-03-24 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
rious" recommandations? -- Pierre Frenkiel -- 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/alpine.deb.2.00.1103241754180.11...@pfr2.frenkiel-hure.net

Re: removing debian-multimedia from sources.list

2011-03-24 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
m users list [1], which any d-m user should follow IMHO. [1] dmo-discuss...@debian-multimedia.org I was not aware of this list. Thank you for the information. -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

changing my e-mail address

2011-04-16 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
robot... -- Pierre Frenkiel -- 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/alpine.deb.2.00.1104160908170.31...@pfr2.frenkiel-hure.net

Re: changing my e-mail address

2011-04-16 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
the good one. So you were luckier than me. -- Pierre Frenkiel -- 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/alpine.deb.2.00.1104161915260.28...@pfr2.frenkiel-hure.net

Re: changing my e-mail address

2011-04-16 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
t people working on Linux, but Occam would say: "If you can't answer, don't ask people to send you questions" -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.d

Re: changing my e-mail address

2011-04-16 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
"how to modify my address without doing unsubscribe/subscribe?" It's curious that I got 5 replys, all about the PS, but not a single answer to my question ! -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

Re: changing my e-mail address

2011-04-16 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
lists that you are subscribed to at lists.ubuntu.com, turn on the Change globally check box. New address: === -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: changing my e-mail address

2011-04-17 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
is: "that's not possiblë with debian lists" -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: changing my e-mail address

2011-04-17 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
not possible", which is obviously true, without any comment. As for the "modify address" feature, do you put the Ubuntu mailing lists in the "snail" category?! -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: changing my e-mail address

2011-04-17 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
g e-mail since a longer time than you. And again, this has nothing to do with my post. regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.

Re: changing my e-mail address

2011-04-18 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
lla.org, turn on the Change globally check box. ^ New address: Again to confirm: -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: changing my e-mail address

2011-04-18 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
s For 11 lists: 24 clicks / 22 replies / 66 mails instead of : 1 click / 1 reply / 1 mail for both cases. -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: changing my e-mail address

2011-04-18 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
ess on one list, expect 3 emails sent to you. hi Boyd, you should read previous posts... I was comparing the Debian way (subscribe/unsubscribe) to the way you modify your settings for Ubuntu or Firefox lists regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

Re: Sound problems (mpd, mpv mainly)

2017-04-08 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sat, 8 Apr 2017, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: . . . % cat /usr/share/distro-info/debian.csv . . . 11,Bullseye,bullseye,2020-11-05 hi, can you explain why I don't have this line? I am on Jessie, but that should not matter. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: Sound problems (mpd, mpv mainly)

2017-04-08 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
s the line with version 11. Nevertheless, I don't see why this package is not upgraded in Jessie: it just gives a list, and have then no dependency problem. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

debootstrap error with dvdrom install

2017-07-29 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
ll in standby for several hours, but this is not my case. So, I don't know what to do. Has anybody an idea? best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: debootstrap error with dvdrom install

2017-07-29 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sat, 29 Jul 2017, Dejan Jocic wrote: On 29-07-17, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: hi, I'm trying to install Stretch on a Lenovo laptop with the KDE dvdrom and each time I get the error: debootstrap error. Unable to find the codename for release I saw a lot of posts about this error, but they

Re: debootstrap error with dvdrom install

2017-07-30 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
menu, but I still get Windows 10 (recognized by grub as "Windows Vista" !!) best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: debootstrap error with dvdrom install

2017-07-30 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
the download. anyway, as I said in my previous post, my problem is now to get the grub menu at boot. May-be installing grub elsewhere than on the MBR will fix that? best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: debootstrap error with dvdrom install

2017-07-30 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sun, 30 Jul 2017, Curt wrote: On 2017-07-30, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Sat, 29 Jul 2017, Curt wrote: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/9.1.0+nonfree/ thanks Curt, I used this one and it worked perfectly, except the last step, i.e. grub

Re: No sound in Firefox

2017-08-05 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
it. I must then continue with v51. the sound works everywhere, but in firefox versions > v51. Any idea ? I can't understand why firefox is the only browser with this issue. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

changing the ethernet interface name

2017-08-07 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
know how to to fix that. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: changing the ethernet interface name

2017-08-07 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
I use #3, and 70-persistent-net.rules persists with the right MAC address on eth0. hi Felix. I have none of the files mentionned in #1 ans #2, and no 70-persistent-net.rules too, but anyway #3 works perfectly. Thanks a lot. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: changing the ethernet interface name

2017-08-08 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
i.e. Jessie, which I saved on disk before doing the Stretch install.. Anyway, the kernel option method works fine for the eth name, and I put it the grub config. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

no /etc/inittab

2017-08-14 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
daemon. The ?/etc/inittab configuration tells init what to do. Especially it contains the lines : Nevertheless, the boot seems to work corectly without it, and without /etc/init.d/rc. Does that means that the Debian wiki is out of date, or did I miss something? best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: no /etc/inittab

2017-08-14 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
no good reason to revert to sysinit. I just wanted to know why the Debian wiki is not updated, 2 months after the Stretch release. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: no /etc/inittab

2017-08-14 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
update it. Me neither. Please proceed. I naively thought that Debian developpers took care of that... Luckily, there is a full set of documentation at https://www.debian.org/doc/ best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: no /etc/inittab

2017-08-14 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, Joe wrote: What the *nix world *really* needs is a worm to locate all old documentation on the Net, and at the very least, mark it OBSOLETE in very big letters. I entirely agree, but if there is no available worm, it is a full-time job... best regards, -- Pierre

Re: no /etc/inittab

2017-08-14 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, Joe wrote: updated or retired, being mostly frozen in closed forum topics, much of them not even carrying a date. I always thougth that it was a big error of Tim Berners-Lee not oblige to date in a visible way all web pages.

Re: no /etc/inittab

2017-08-14 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, Darac Marjal wrote: On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 03:52:09PM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, Joe wrote: updated or retired, being mostly frozen in closed forum topics, much of them not even carrying a date. I always thougth that it was a big error of Tim

Re: no /etc/inittab

2017-08-14 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
tc is not useful. I'm just saying that an "Authored on" date for EVERY web page doesn't make sense. Yes, the most important is the date of documents, but as a lot of people are lazy or dizzy, and they will not put it if they are not obliged. The experience clearly proves that I'm right. If you think that some date useless, you are not obliged to use it. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: No ifconfig

2017-08-15 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Tue, 15 Aug 2017, Greg Wooledge wrote: ip -o link | awk -F": " '{print $2}' and even shorter: ip -o link | cut -d : -f 2 BTW, I suggest to abandon, in the subject, the reference to the OP's subject ("was ..."), as this thread has really nothing to do with inittab stuff

Re: No ifconfig

2017-08-15 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Tue, 15 Aug 2017, Greg Wooledge wrote: wooledg:~$ netstat -in Kernel Interface table Iface MTURX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVRTX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flg eth0 1500 8254258 0 0 0 7682795 0 0 0 BMRU lo 65536 579959 0 0 057

Re: No ifconfig

2017-08-15 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Tue, 15 Aug 2017, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 06:24:42PM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Tue, 15 Aug 2017, Greg Wooledge wrote: ip -o link | awk -F": " '{print $2}' and even shorter: ip -o link | cut -d : -f 2 They are not equivalent.

RE: Coucou! vas-tu me dire un petit 'salut'? Victoria

2017-08-15 Thread Pierre 2017
? De : Victoria Hamulumbu Envoyé : mardi 15 août 2017 16:26:32 À : debian-user@lists.debian.org Objet : Coucou! vas-tu me dire un petit 'salut'? Victoria Viens qu'on discute un peu toi et moi. http://bit.ly/2uL2IO5

Re: obsolete wiki (no /etc/inittab)

2017-08-19 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Sat, 19 Aug 2017, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: The systemd people have not explicitly documented inittab, as the upstart people did, although they have explicitly documented run levels as "obsolete" in the systemd manual page for runlevel. This, too, has been copied around the WWW, albe

How to disable V6 DHCP ?

2018-01-15 Thread Pierre Couderc
I have tried to comment INTERFACESv6 in /etc/default/isc-dhcp-server but systemd  tries to start dhcp server ipV6, fails as it is not initiliased and remains in failed status, even if DSCP ipv4 is welle started. But it refuses to start at next power on. So how should I start DHCP v4 only... ?

Re: How to disable V6 DHCP ?

2018-01-16 Thread Pierre Couderc
On 01/15/2018 05:48 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 05:40:54PM +0100, Pierre Couderc wrote: I have tried to comment INTERFACESv6 in /etc/default/isc-dhcp-server but systemd  tries to start dhcp server ipV6, fails as it is not initiliased and remains in failed status, even if

totem not working

2018-02-11 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
liged to use vlc, but the menu handling is very bad, and I expected to get something better with totem... best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: totem not working

2018-02-25 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
up to now, I got no answer, but I would be interested, at least, to know whether anybody here actually uses it. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: totem not working

2018-02-26 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
video what is your OS? fortunately, I was able to find a working configuration for vlc. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: totem not working

2018-02-26 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
lt to understand why, with the same OS version, it doesn't work for me. Anyway, as I said in an other post, I found a working configuration for vlc, and then it's useless to waste more time with totem. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: totem not working

2018-02-26 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Mon, 26 Feb 2018, Greg Wooledge wrote: https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=totem thank you Greg for this link. Now, I actually got 2 answers,but with so many users, I would expect a little more. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: totem not working

2018-02-27 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
, and never got something else than frozen windows, but I'm not really worried, aS vlc works perfectly, best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-14 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
with V59 + pulseaudio: no sound, ffx asks to install pulseaudio! This is for a normal user. Curiously, with the root account, the sound works perfectly (I already saw that behaviour some time ago) So, instead of "firefox", I run "sudo /usr/bin/firefox" best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-14 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote: Wouldn't it render your system root-vulnerable to some malignant active content (JS)? of course, but I try to avoid URLs I don't know. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, Dominique Dumont wrote: On Wednesday, 14 March 2018 20:23:32 CET Pierre Frenkiel wrote: This is for a normal user. Curiously, with the root account, the sound works perfectly (I already saw that behaviour some time ago) So, instead of "firefox", I run &quo

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote: On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 23:00:58 +0100 (CET) Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote: Wouldn't it render your system root-vulnerable to some malignant active content (JS)? of course, but I try to avoid U

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
directory so a new profile is created when you start up. hi Brad, thank you for this suggestion, but I already did that many times. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
have no sound. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, Dominique Dumont wrote: On Thursday, 15 March 2018 10:12:22 CET Pierre Frenkiel wrote: - why, with ffx 59, the sound works for root and not for a normal user, even with pulseaudio? ff59 audio works fine on my system. Can you check if ff59 is seen by pavucontrol (in

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
.html. Also, you can choose the different font sizes (text, toolbar,...) with the file userChrome.css. I didn't find the equivalent in seamonkey. best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

bluetooth not working

2018-03-25 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
also tried "pactl load-module module-bluetooth-discover" with the following result Connection failure: Connection refused pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refused Any idea? best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: bluetooth not working

2018-03-25 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
this basic facility is so difficult to setup on Linux, and so easy on Windows( 30 seconds) best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: A Problem with Firefox Quantum

2018-04-01 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Fri, 30 Mar 2018, Curt wrote: Try: about:config browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete Change boolean value to false. Restart browser. Are you on Linux? For me (on Debian Stretch), with all Firefox versions, the field name is browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled and I don't need to

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