Re: Backup's to DVD

2014-03-16 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 04:54:48PM -0500, Mr Queue wrote: > Anyone doing anything interesting to backup data to DVD's? Not personally, > FWIW, I'm mostly concerned with cloning my current backups of family > photos to different media for peace of mind. I already have a pair > of backup servers in

Re: cups bug #741528 "makes system unbootable"

2014-03-16 Thread John Magolske
* Michael Biebl [140316 19:37]: > Am 2014-03-16 22:28, schrieb John Magolske: > > #741528 - cups makes system unbootable with systemd due to > > ordering cycle > > > > Am I reading this correctly to assume that if I allow cups to be > > upgraded my system will not boot? Reading the bug report: >

Re: Backup's to DVD

2014-03-16 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 16:54:48 -0500 Mr Queue wrote: > Anyone doing anything interesting to backup data to DVD's? > > https://packages.debian.org/sid/dkopp I back up to Blu-Ray, among other things. Often (I try to do it daily) I back up to a backup server via rsync. Then, every few weeks, I make

Re: Backup's to DVD

2014-03-16 Thread Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com
On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 23:02:59 +0100 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2014-03-16 at 16:54 -0500, Mr Queue wrote: > > I already have a pair of backup servers in different physical > > locations > > That's good. DVDs IMHO are useless as serious backup medias. Because? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt

Re: open files/ forcing dismount

2014-03-16 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 2/25/14, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 25/02/14 14:58, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> On 2/25/14, Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> On 25/02/14 14:21, Zenaan Harkness wrote: One long term "non-easy" issue that keeps coming up a few times a year, is attempting to dismount an external drive/usb stick

Re: CUPS Zebra EPL2 driver through Iceweasel or Evince

2014-03-16 Thread Mark Copper
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Brian wrote: > On Sun 16 Mar 2014 at 13:28:32 -0500, Mark Copper wrote: > >> Please see here for the zip file: >>straitcity.com/cups_debug_log.zip > > wget http://straitcity.com/cups_debug_log.zip > > It's only 9k in size! We've had off-topic threads larger t

Re: Boot issue - machine ends up in Busybox

2014-03-16 Thread KS
On 16/03/14 07:12 PM, KS wrote: > On 16/03/14 04:26 PM, Joe wrote: >> >> It appears to be an issue with the new grub-pc-bin 2.02~beta2-7. I >> downgraded to 2.00-22 along with grub-common, and it booted again. I >> then downgraded two other 2.02 packages marked as broken, and all was >> well again.

Re: systemd - boot messages

2014-03-16 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 2014-03-15 15:34, schrieb Hans: Hi folks, at boot I get lotsa of messages of this kind: 6.782635] systemd[1]: Job setserial.service/start deleted to break ordering cycle starting with basic.target/start 6.782433] systemd[1]: Breaking ordering cycle by deleting job sockets.target/start

Re: Boot issue - machine ends up in Busybox

2014-03-16 Thread KS
On 16/03/14 04:26 PM, Joe wrote: > > It appears to be an issue with the new grub-pc-bin 2.02~beta2-7. I > downgraded to 2.00-22 along with grub-common, and it booted again. I > then downgraded two other 2.02 packages marked as broken, and all was > well again. > Pinned packages and reinstalled 2

Re: cups bug #741528 "makes system unbootable"

2014-03-16 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 2014-03-16 22:28, schrieb John Magolske: Ok, another upgrade question. On Debian Sid, `aptitude dist-upgrade` wants to upgrade cups, but there's this bug: #741528 - cups makes system unbootable with systemd due to ordering cycle Am I reading this correctly to assume that if I allow cups

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

2014-03-16 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> Is it this bug? > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/1084885 > > And this workaround? > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LightDM#Xresources_not_being_parsed_correctly Yes I tried the workaround mentioned here before posting on the list. Still thanks for talking out time and helping

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

2014-03-16 Thread Anubhav Yadav
Okay before doing what you stated, I restored the file /etc/X11/Xsession.d/30x11- common_xresources to original > 1. Prevent lightdm from being started: > > update-rc.d lightdm disable('enable' reverts this). Done > 2. Delete $HOME/.Xdefaults (It's not used). Never used

Re: When fogetting assigned login name rather than password

2014-03-16 Thread Brian
On Sun 16 Mar 2014 at 18:50:22 +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 16 March 2014 17:52:02 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > When you boot in Recovery mode you get a > > root shell without supplying any password. > > Is Recovery mode not the same as single user? It is.

Re: libpq-fe.h where and how???

2014-03-16 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* ken [2014-03-16 18:16 -0400]: > Compiling some code off of git failed for lack of libpq-fe.h... I'm a > little new to debian, so how do I locate and then download this file? $ apt-file search libpq-fe.h libpq-dev: /usr/include/postgresql/libpq-fe.h postgres-xc-server-dev: /usr/include/postgre

Re: cups bug #741528 "makes system unbootable"

2014-03-16 Thread Brian
On Sun 16 Mar 2014 at 14:28:15 -0700, John Magolske wrote: > Ok, another upgrade question. On Debian Sid, `aptitude dist-upgrade` > wants to upgrade cups, but there's this bug: > > #741528 - cups makes system unbootable with systemd due to ordering cycle > > Am I reading this correctly to assu

Re: libpq-fe.h where and how???

2014-03-16 Thread Brian
On Sun 16 Mar 2014 at 18:16:54 -0400, ken wrote: > Compiling some code off of git failed for lack of libpq-fe.h... I'm > a little new to debian, so how do I locate and then download this > file? https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages and then Search the contents of packages -- To UNSUB

Re: Sudo package unavailable for debian 7

2014-03-16 Thread Mr Queue
On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 17:39:51 -0400 Chris Henn wrote: > Any ideas on why I would get the error "unable to locate package > sudo" when installing sudo with the apt-get install sudo command on > Debian 7? Sure, your sources.list is probably wrong or incomplete. $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list deb ht

libpq-fe.h where and how???

2014-03-16 Thread ken
Compiling some code off of git failed for lack of libpq-fe.h... I'm a little new to debian, so how do I locate and then download this file? tia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Arch

Re: Backup's to DVD

2014-03-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-03-16 at 16:54 -0500, Mr Queue wrote: > I already have a pair of backup servers in different physical > locations That's good. DVDs IMHO are useless as serious backup medias. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Sudo package unavailable for debian 7

2014-03-16 Thread Chris Henn
Support, Any ideas on why I would get the error "unable to locate package sudo" when installing sudo with the apt-get install sudo command on Debian 7? Thank you, Chris Henn Brightlink Communications, NOC Engineer Office: 970.722.6227 Email: ch...@brightlinkcom.comI www.Brightlinkcom.co

Backup's to DVD

2014-03-16 Thread Mr Queue
Anyone doing anything interesting to backup data to DVD's? https://packages.debian.org/sid/dkopp ^^ Looks interesting and overall it's a pretty simple task. Suppose I could even use tar and split but just curious what others may be doing currently. FWIW, I'm mostly concerned with cloning my curr

Re: When fogetting assigned login name rather than password (and disabling root login)

2014-03-16 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 17/03/14 04:44, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 16 mar 14, 01:24:03, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> >> In the spirit of investigation I tried testing a few methods of >> disabling root login (there are likely other methods) > > AFAIK the installer uses 'passswd -l'. > > Kind regards, Andrei > Tha

cups bug #741528 "makes system unbootable"

2014-03-16 Thread John Magolske
Ok, another upgrade question. On Debian Sid, `aptitude dist-upgrade` wants to upgrade cups, but there's this bug: #741528 - cups makes system unbootable with systemd due to ordering cycle Am I reading this correctly to assume that if I allow cups to be upgraded my system will not boot? Reading

Re: initscripts breaks ifupdown

2014-03-16 Thread John Magolske
* Andrei POPESCU [140316 13:12]: > On Du, 16 mar 14, 10:16:26, John Magolske wrote: > > For several weeks now when I do `aptitude dist-upgrade` there is: > > > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > > initscripts : Breaks: ifupdown (< 0.7.46) but 0.7.44 is installed. > >

Re: [help!] Can not use nvidia driver in debian sid

2014-03-16 Thread john s.
On Mon, 17 Mar 2014 02:40:33 +0800 iijima yoshino wrote: > Hey, there! > I have an old pc with a Nvidia GeForce 6600 card. > Firstly I installed Debian 7.4 and everything was O.K. > (nvidia-detect told me to install nvidia-glx and it worked.) > > Then I changed a monitor and upgraded to Debian s

Re: Boot issue - machine ends up in Busybox

2014-03-16 Thread Joe
On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 14:40:21 -0400 X wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, I upgraded my debian box (unstable) using aptitude and then > shut it down. On booting, it gave me an alert about a disk it > couldn't find and brought up the Busybox prompt. I have /boot as a > normal partition and other partitions (

Re: CUPS Zebra EPL2 driver through Iceweasel or Evince

2014-03-16 Thread Brian
On Sun 16 Mar 2014 at 13:28:32 -0500, Mark Copper wrote: > Please see here for the zip file: >straitcity.com/cups_debug_log.zip wget http://straitcity.com/cups_debug_log.zip It's only 9k in size! We've had off-topic threads larger than that. :) > The job 8841 succeeded and was generated f

Re: Boot issue - machine ends up in Busybox

2014-03-16 Thread KS
On 16/03/14 02:40 PM, X wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, I upgraded my debian box (unstable) using aptitude and then shut > it down. On booting, it gave me an alert about a disk it couldn't find > and brought up the Busybox prompt. I have /boot as a normal partition > and other partitions (/, /home, /tmp,

Re: When fogetting assigned login name rather than password

2014-03-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 16 March 2014 17:52:02 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > When you boot in Recovery mode you get a > root shell without supplying any password. Is Recovery mode not the same as single user? I have always been asked for the root password to log in to single user in Debian. I have just rebooted a

[help!] Can not use nvidia driver in debian sid

2014-03-16 Thread iijima yoshino
Hey, there! I have an old pc with a Nvidia GeForce 6600 card. Firstly I installed Debian 7.4 and everything was O.K. (nvidia-detect told me to install nvidia-glx and it worked.) Then I changed a monitor and upgraded to Debian sid. (old one is 1024x768, the new one is 1280x1024.) And nvidia-detect

Boot issue - machine ends up in Busybox

2014-03-16 Thread X
Hi, On Wed, I upgraded my debian box (unstable) using aptitude and then shut it down. On booting, it gave me an alert about a disk it couldn't find and brought up the Busybox prompt. I have /boot as a normal partition and other partitions (/, /home, /tmp, /usr, /var, etc.) in a LVM group. On che

Re: CUPS Zebra EPL2 driver through Iceweasel or Evince

2014-03-16 Thread Mark Copper
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Brian wrote: > On Sun 16 Mar 2014 at 12:35:32 -0500, Mark Copper wrote: > >> On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Curt wrote: >> > >> > Some have been successful in using the Chrome pdf plugin (libpdf.so) in >> > Chromium. >> > >> > Too bad you didn't let Brian help

Re: initscripts breaks ifupdown

2014-03-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 16 mar 14, 10:16:26, John Magolske wrote: > Hi, > > For several weeks now when I do `aptitude dist-upgrade` there is: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > initscripts : Breaks: ifupdown (< 0.7.46) but 0.7.44 is installed. > [...] > The following actions w

Re: systemd - boot messages

2014-03-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 15 mar 14, 15:34:54, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > at boot I get lotsa of messages of this kind: > > 6.782635] systemd[1]: Job setserial.service/start deleted to break ordering > cycle starting with basic.target/start I'm guessing you have some cruft in /etc/init.d/. You could try d

Re: Help setting permissions on a thumb drive

2014-03-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 15 mar 14, 20:29:41, Paul E Condon wrote: > I have a 4GB thumb drive that I have formatted with two > partitions: > > #1 is 100MB with vfat format > #2 is all the rest with ext4 format > > I want to set permissions so that I can read/write on partition #1 on > both my Squeeze computer and

Re: initscripts breaks ifupdown

2014-03-16 Thread Brian
On Sun 16 Mar 2014 at 10:16:26 -0700, John Magolske wrote: > For several weeks now when I do `aptitude dist-upgrade` there is: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > initscripts : Breaks: ifupdown (< 0.7.46) but 0.7.44 is installed. > [...] > The following actions

Re: When fogetting assigned login name rather than password

2014-03-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 15 mar 14, 09:34:22, Richard Owlett wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >On Sb, 15 mar 14, 05:45:14, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> > >>If another OS had not been available but I knew the root password, is there > >>some way I could have gained access as root? > > > >- Debian installer rescue mode

Re: CUPS Zebra EPL2 driver through Iceweasel or Evince

2014-03-16 Thread Brian
On Sun 16 Mar 2014 at 12:35:32 -0500, Mark Copper wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Curt wrote: > > > > Some have been successful in using the Chrome pdf plugin (libpdf.so) in > > Chromium. > > > > Too bad you didn't let Brian help you troubleshoot the problem. > > > > Did you say that y

Re: [Resolved] Re: When fogetting assigned login name rather than password

2014-03-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 15 mar 14, 09:08:52, Richard Owlett wrote: > > Sequence was: > Do full install install of Squeeze to sda1. Only non-default was > size of install partition. Well, setting a root password is quite a "weak" default. If you just press enter (leaving the password blank) you get the sud

Re: When fogetting assigned login name rather than password (and disabling root login)

2014-03-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 16 mar 14, 01:24:03, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > In the spirit of investigation I tried testing a few methods of > disabling root login (there are likely other methods) AFAIK the installer uses 'passswd -l'. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discuss

Re: CUPS Zebra EPL2 driver through Iceweasel or Evince

2014-03-16 Thread Mark Copper
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Curt wrote: > On 2014-03-16, Mark Copper wrote: >> >> So I have 2 different ways to go at present: from Iceweasel, download >> to gv and print from there and from Chrome viewer printing with system >> print. >> > > Some have been successful in using the Chrome pd

Re: initscripts breaks ifupdown

2014-03-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2014-03-16 at 10:16 -0700, John Magolske wrote: > Hi, > > For several weeks now when I do `aptitude dist-upgrade` there is: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > initscripts : Breaks: ifupdown (< 0.7.46) but 0.7.44 is installed. > [...] > The following ac

initscripts breaks ifupdown

2014-03-16 Thread John Magolske
Hi, For several weeks now when I do `aptitude dist-upgrade` there is: The following packages have unmet dependencies: initscripts : Breaks: ifupdown (< 0.7.46) but 0.7.44 is installed. [...] The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following p

Re: CUPS Zebra EPL2 driver through Iceweasel or Evince

2014-03-16 Thread Curt
On 2014-03-16, Mark Copper wrote: > > So I have 2 different ways to go at present: from Iceweasel, download > to gv and print from there and from Chrome viewer printing with system > print. > Some have been successful in using the Chrome pdf plugin (libpdf.so) in Chromium. Too bad you didn't let

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

2014-03-16 Thread Curt
On 2014-03-15, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > Hello, > Suddenly my .Xresources are not working on startup. Meaning I have to > manually startup a terminal and issue "xrdb .Xresources" and restart > the shell to see my colors. > > I am using(learning to use) i3 although I have xfce installed, and I > start

Re: CUPS Zebra EPL2 driver through Iceweasel or Evince

2014-03-16 Thread Brian
On Sun 16 Mar 2014 at 10:36:26 -0500, Mark Copper wrote: > Before I let this go, let me add some data and a word of explanation > why I posted here. Presumably you wanted help. However, you have not provided information requested in response to your initial post. > Printing file.pdf from the Fir

Re: Testing: Nautilus 3.8 double click expand tree?

2014-03-16 Thread Patrick Chkoreff
Joost Kraaijeveld wrote, On 03/16/2014 11:34 AM: >> I got that to work. In the menu item View/Sidebar, choose Tree, and >> also choose Show Sidebar. > No such menu or menu item in Nautilus 3.8.2. Strange. I see it in my older version, Nautilus 3.4.2. Did they remove this useful feature fro

Re: CUPS Zebra EPL2 driver through Iceweasel or Evince

2014-03-16 Thread Mark Copper
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Mark Copper wrote: > Dear List, > > What might explain this behavior? A Zebra label printer (GX430t) is > configured through CUPS and it is desired to print a PDF file on it. > The PDF file was created with the Perl module PDF::API2. > > The file prints fine from

Re: Testing: Nautilus 3.8 double click expand tree?

2014-03-16 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
On zo, 2014-03-16 at 09:38 -0400, Patrick Chkoreff wrote: > Ah, understood! > > I got that to work. In the menu item View/Sidebar, choose Tree, and > also choose Show Sidebar. No such menu or menu item in Nautilus 3.8.2. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: Testing: Nautilus 3.8 double click expand tree?

2014-03-16 Thread Patrick Chkoreff
Joost Kraaijeveld wrote, On 03/16/2014 09:31 AM: > No, that is not what I want. I want to *both* focus on the directory > *and* see the context of that directory, i.e. its place in the tree. > Something like in Nautilus 3.4.2, where the left panel showed the tree > and the right panel showed the d

Re: Testing: Nautilus 3.8 double click expand tree?

2014-03-16 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
On zo, 2014-03-16 at 08:02 -0400, Patrick Chkoreff wrote: > Joost Kraaijeveld wrote, On 03/16/2014 05:22 AM: > > > If I double click on a directory icon I go "into" that directory and I > > cannot see the full directory tree any more. I would like Nautilus to > > expand the tree instead. Is that p

Re: Testing: Nautilus 3.8 double click expand tree?

2014-03-16 Thread Patrick Chkoreff
Joost Kraaijeveld wrote, On 03/16/2014 05:22 AM: > If I double click on a directory icon I go "into" that directory and I > cannot see the full directory tree any more. I would like Nautilus to > expand the tree instead. Is that possible? Click the little "[+]" icon to the left of the directory

Re: My experiences with three CD players on Gnome

2014-03-16 Thread Patrick Chkoreff
Chris Bannister wrote, On 03/16/2014 06:10 AM: > Have you reported a bug? > Have you reported a bug? Good idea, I'll sign up at Bugzilla and give it a try. -- Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

2014-03-16 Thread Brian
On Sun 16 Mar 2014 at 23:36:21 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 10:22:21AM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > > Solved. > > Are you sure? What do you think will happen on an upgrade of Xorg? To help him with thinking this through he should find out what a conffile is. Then

Re: galternatives

2014-03-16 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 17:04:44 -0400 Ric Moore wrote: Hello Ric, >I am currently running Jessie with galternatives 0.13.5+nmu2 installed. Like Brian says, that version is from unstable. I installed it on my (mixed) system, and it ran, but complained about the lack of gksu(1), so couldn't reques

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

2014-03-16 Thread Brian
On Sun 16 Mar 2014 at 10:22:21 +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > Solved. > > I edited the file /etc/X11/Xsession.d/30x11-common_xresources and > changed the "xorg -merge ..." lines to "xorge ..." and it worked. > I don't know if it is a good solution or not! I'd see it as a defeat because you are al

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

2014-03-16 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> Weird! What did you read that advised changing "xorg" to "xorge"? Damn I don't know what happened to me while typing. Sorry. \ This is what I actually did! The original line was xrdb -merge $RESOURCEFILE and xrdb -merge $USRRESOURCES I just removed the -merge options. And I made the changes

Re: .Xresources not loading on start

2014-03-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 10:22:21AM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > Solved. Are you sure? What do you think will happen on an upgrade of Xorg? > I edited the file /etc/X11/Xsession.d/30x11-common_xresources and > changed the "xorg -merge ..." lines to "xorge ..." and it worked. > I don't know if it

Re: My experiences with three CD players on Gnome

2014-03-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 12:51:08PM -0400, Patrick Chkoreff wrote: > RhythmBox has a problem. Press Play to begin playing a CD. Press Play > again to Pause. Press Play again to resume playing. Nothing happens. Have you reported a bug? > SoundJuicer has a problem. The Help says: "While playi

Testing: Nautilus 3.8 double click expand tree?

2014-03-16 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi, If I double click on a directory icon I go "into" that directory and I cannot see the full directory tree any more. I would like Nautilus to expand the tree instead. Is that possible? TIA Joost -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Help setting permissions on a thumb drive

2014-03-16 Thread Joe
On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 20:29:41 -0600 Paul E Condon wrote: > I have a 4GB thumb drive that I have formatted with two > partitions: > > #1 is 100MB with vfat format > #2 is all the rest with ext4 format > > I want to set permissions so that I can read/write on partition #1 on > both my Squeeze com