Re: Users Not Receiving List Mail

2014-04-02 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 08:32:01PM +0100, Brian wrote: > Basically - you get the mail we decide you get. Don't complain, it is good > for you. So much for freedom of communication. You are entirely free to run your own mailserver. (Not a snark: that's exactly what I do). I used to be a co-adminis

Re: Should apt-get autoremove Gain Confirm for Packages Removal?

2014-04-02 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 06:05:26PM -0600, Jeff Bai wrote: >I am not exactly using Debian but building another distribution with > DPKG and APT as basic package management suite. But we just found that, > when doing apt-get autoremove, there was not a warning or extra notice for > removing packa

Re: Not receiving list mail

2014-04-02 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 2 Apr 2014 20:18:11 -0400 Stephen Allen wrote: Hello Stephen, >hurt - besides everyone should be on the whitelist if posting to the >list regularly. Form what I understand, you only need to be whitelisted at Debian if you are *not* subscribed to a list, but wish to post to it. AIUI, it

Re: no eth0 connection

2014-04-02 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 10:31:54PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > I seem to remember this happening after an update but I'm not positive. > It did work before. My wireless connection continues to work. > > Looked at the usual suspects, /etc/ network/interfaces, /etc/resolv.conf, > etc but everyt

Re: Not receiving list mail

2014-04-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20140402_202040, Stephen Allen wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 02:27:05PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > On 20140402_145921, Stephen Allen wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 08:54:54AM -0500, Craig L. wrote: > > > > I have not received any list mailings since 30 March. I see there are > > >

Re: Not receiving list mail

2014-04-02 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 4/2/14, Stephen Allen wrote: > Considering that the reason is unknown,(why they aren't getting email) it > can't > hurt - besides everyone should be on the whitelist if posting to the list > regularly. Ok, that's about the first time that part started to click. I was in there with the crowd

Re: [i3]Not able to get the reboot/suspend script work.

2014-04-02 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> Leave it. Do not delete it. Thanks! Mission accomplished. > > > -- > 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/03042014002035.9f494f9d2...@desktop.copernicu

Re: no eth0 connection

2014-04-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 02 Apr 2014 13:33:58 -0400 (EDT), Brian wrote: > > On Tue 01 Apr 2014 at 21:24:24 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> On Tue, 01 Apr 2014 05:08:12 -0400 (EDT), Brian wrote: >>> >>> Deleting the file is quicker and less hassle. It is rewritten at the >>> next boot. >> >> That used to be t

RE: Debian and Unicode line drawing

2014-04-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 02 Apr 2014 03:29:47 -0400 (EDT), Aleksander Kurczyk wrote: > > ... > I have tried the dpkg-reconfigure locales and console-setup. > The second package was not installed so I installed it and > configured but it is still not working properly with some software. > Mc, irssi, tmux and other

Should apt-get autoremove Gain Confirm for Packages Removal?

2014-04-02 Thread Jeff Bai
Hi, I am not exactly using Debian but building another distribution with DPKG and APT as basic package management suite. But we just found that, when doing apt-get autoremove, there was not a warning or extra notice for removing packages which sometimes leads to a broken system... Well, I w

Re: Not receiving list mail

2014-04-02 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 02:27:05PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20140402_145921, Stephen Allen wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 08:54:54AM -0500, Craig L. wrote: > > > I have not received any list mailings since 30 March. I see there are at > > > least > > > two other people reporting the sa

Re: Not receiving list mail

2014-04-02 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 08:08:25PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Wed 02 Apr 2014 at 14:59:21 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > > > Wonder if the folks having trouble have added their email to the Debian > > Email Whitelist? https://lists.debian.org/whitelist/ > > What does that do for them? Considering t

Re: Jessie Post-Install

2014-04-02 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 10:33:12PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 02 apr 14, 14:36:53, Stephen Allen wrote: > > > > Surely the PopCon results should determine that, no? > > Not really, Gnome has been the default for a long time, so it will > naturally have a much larger user base because

Re: Users Not Receiving List Mail

2014-04-02 Thread Joel Rees
Can't resist the opportunity to editorialize and say things that are easy to take out of context, but, ... On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 4:00 AM, Brian wrote: > On Wed 02 Apr 2014 at 10:47:20 -0500, Mr Queue wrote: > > > Unfortunately this mailing list has been listed with senderscore and > > How does

Re: [i3]Not able to get the reboot/suspend script work.

2014-04-02 Thread Brian
On Thu 03 Apr 2014 at 02:12:25 +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > No I got no problems with your solution, I only wanted to ask you that > should I let this part: > > # set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists > if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then > PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH" > fi > > Still b

Re: [i3]Not able to get the reboot/suspend script work.

2014-04-02 Thread Brian
On Wed 02 Apr 2014 at 22:59:18 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > As far as I know there is no canonical way, method, etc. Personally I'm > using ~/.xsessionrc to source ~/.profile because: > > * the DM is not doing it > * I don't want to duplicate what ~/.profile already does The interesting asp

Re: how to change default pager for tab completions from 'more' to 'less'

2014-04-02 Thread Tom Furie
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 10:40:13PM +0100, Tom Furie wrote: > There are a few ways to achieve your goal, depending on exactly what > your goal is. As far as I'm aware 'less' has a higher priority than > 'more' in the alternatives system, so... Oops. No there aren't. That should teach me to read mo

Re: how to change default pager for tab completions from 'more' to 'less'

2014-04-02 Thread Tom Furie
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 01:34:54PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > if i use tab completion, and there are a lot of possibilities, 'more' > is used as the default pager to show the list. I want to see the list > with the 'less' pager. There are a few ways to achieve your goal, depending on exactly what

Re: how to change default pager for tab completions from 'more' to 'less'

2014-04-02 Thread Clive Standbridge
> if i use tab completion, and there are a lot of possibilities, 'more' > is used as the default pager to show the list. I want to see the list > with the 'less' pager. You may be out of luck. bash(1) in the "Readline Variables" section states page-completions (On) If set to On, readl

Re: how to change default pager for tab completions from 'more' to 'less'

2014-04-02 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 02 Apr 2014, tom arnall wrote: > if i use tab completion, and there are a lot of possibilities, 'more' > is used as the default pager to show the list. I want to see the list > with the 'less' pager. It's actually readline which has its own internal more-like pager. See this thread: http:

Re: [i3]Not able to get the reboot/suspend script work.

2014-04-02 Thread Anubhav Yadav
On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 12:03 AM, Brian wrote: > On Wed 02 Apr 2014 at 23:30:10 +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > >> > I'll back down on that. ~/.profile tests for $BASH_VERSION, which is >> > empty. Therefore $HOME/.bashrc isn't sourced through ~/.xsessionrc. >> > Is this because dash is the shell bei

how to change default pager for tab completions from 'more' to 'less'

2014-04-02 Thread tom arnall
if i use tab completion, and there are a lot of possibilities, 'more' is used as the default pager to show the list. I want to see the list with the 'less' pager. example: ~/$ cd will get: Display all 150 possibilities? (y or n) if i enter 'y', the 'more' pager is used to display the

Re: Not receiving list mail

2014-04-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20140402_145921, Stephen Allen wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 08:54:54AM -0500, Craig L. wrote: > > I have not received any list mailings since 30 March. I see there are at > > least > > two other people reporting the same problem. I doubt my ISP is blocking > > anything as they don't even se

Re: [i3]Not able to get the reboot/suspend script work.

2014-04-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 02 apr 14, 17:26:04, Brian wrote: > > > > It's possible you may want different paths on the console and in > > > X. > > > > And it's also possible one might not ;) > > It's something to be aware of though. Sure, otherwise I might end with different paths on the console and in X and I

Re: Jessie Post-Install

2014-04-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 02 apr 14, 14:36:53, Stephen Allen wrote: > > Surely the PopCon results should determine that, no? Not really, Gnome has been the default for a long time, so it will naturally have a much larger user base because of that. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUse

Re: Users Not Receiving List Mail

2014-04-02 Thread Brian
On Wed 02 Apr 2014 at 14:12:56 -0500, Mr Queue wrote: > On Wed, 2 Apr 2014 20:00:09 +0100 > Brian wrote: > > > How does one determine that? > > The server logs: > > ... H:RPBL [82.195.75.100] Connection refused due to > abuse. Please contact your E-mail provider. (in reply to RCPT TO command)

Re: Users Not Receiving List Mail

2014-04-02 Thread Mr Queue
On Wed, 2 Apr 2014 20:00:09 +0100 Brian wrote: > How does one determine that? The server logs: ... H:RPBL [82.195.75.100] Connection refused due to abuse. Please contact your E-mail provider. (in reply to RCPT TO command)) ... H:RPBL [82.195.75.100] Connection refused due to abuse. Please con

Re: Not receiving list mail

2014-04-02 Thread Brian
On Wed 02 Apr 2014 at 14:59:21 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > Wonder if the folks having trouble have added their email to the Debian > Email Whitelist? https://lists.debian.org/whitelist/ What does that do for them? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: Users Not Receiving List Mail

2014-04-02 Thread Brian
On Wed 02 Apr 2014 at 10:47:20 -0500, Mr Queue wrote: > Unfortunately this mailing list has been listed with senderscore and How does one determine that? > it would appear the affected users IPS's are utilizing this service. How does one determine that? > The listmaster has requested to be del

Re: Not receiving list mail

2014-04-02 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 08:54:54AM -0500, Craig L. wrote: > I have not received any list mailings since 30 March. I see there are at least > two other people reporting the same problem. I doubt my ISP is blocking > anything as they don't even seem to be able to prevent their internal > communicatio

Re: [i3]Not able to get the reboot/suspend script work.

2014-04-02 Thread Brian
On Wed 02 Apr 2014 at 23:30:10 +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > > I'll back down on that. ~/.profile tests for $BASH_VERSION, which is > > empty. Therefore $HOME/.bashrc isn't sourced through ~/.xsessionrc. > > Is this because dash is the shell being used, I wonder? > > > > echo $BASH_VERSION > 4.2.

Re: google drive client on debian

2014-04-02 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 11:47:19AM -0600, ChadDavis wrote: > > > Of course, the official linux client from google should probably drop one > > > of these months. > > > > Really?! Last time I had a discussion on G+ they were of the mindset > > that they wanted 3rd parties to develop for it, after al

Re: Jessie Post-Install

2014-04-02 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 10:35:40AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 02 April 2014 02:18:18 Stephen Allen wrote: > > Lisi said: > > > Newbies would be ill-advised to start off with Jessie, IMHO. > > >  Stable is a better place to start, especially if the putative > > > newbie has no help. > >

Re: Jessie Post-Install

2014-04-02 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 11:35:14AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 01 apr 14, 21:13:16, Stephen Allen wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 03:05:57PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > > > Install report? Maybe I wasn't clear: from d-i's main menu it only takes > > > a minor bit of exploring for a us

Re: [i3]Not able to get the reboot/suspend script work.

2014-04-02 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> I'll back down on that. ~/.profile tests for $BASH_VERSION, which is > empty. Therefore $HOME/.bashrc isn't sourced through ~/.xsessionrc. > Is this because dash is the shell being used, I wonder? > echo $BASH_VERSION 4.2.37(1)-release So it's not empty. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-us

Re: Unable to start nm-applet

2014-04-02 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> Oh, apparently you use sudo to start nm-applet. > > You really shouldn't do that. All the D-Bus and GConf related error > messages etc are because you are trying to start it as root from within > a user session. > > I'd probably try with another desktop environment. Maybe it's actually > an issue

Re: google drive client on debian

2014-04-02 Thread ChadDavis
> > Of course, the official linux client from google should probably drop one > > of these months. > > Really?! Last time I had a discussion on G+ they were of the mindset > that they wanted 3rd parties to develop for it, after all the toolkit > was released for that purpose. Do you have a cite for

Re: Users Not Receiving List Mail

2014-04-02 Thread Craig L.
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 10:47:20AM -0500, Mr Queue wrote: > Unfortunately this mailing list has been listed with senderscore and it would > appear the affected users IPS's are > utilizing this service. The listmaster has requested to be delisted but it > may take some time for them to process the

Re: Jessie Post-Install

2014-04-02 Thread Brian
On Tue 01 Apr 2014 at 21:13:16 -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 03:05:57PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > Install report? Maybe I wasn't clear: from d-i's main menu it only takes > > a minor bit of exploring for a user to be prompted to install one of the > > three alternative D

Re: Not receiving list mail

2014-04-02 Thread Craig L.
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 04:32:33PM +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > On Wed, 02 Apr 2014, Mr Queue wrote: > > > On Wed, 2 Apr 2014 08:54:54 -0500 > > "Craig L." wrote: > > > > > I have not received any list mailings since 30 March. I see there are at > > > least > > > two other people reporting th

Re: no eth0 connection

2014-04-02 Thread Brian
On Tue 01 Apr 2014 at 21:24:24 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, 01 Apr 2014 05:08:12 -0400 (EDT), Brian wrote: > > > > Deleting the file is quicker and less hassle. It is rewritten at the > > next boot. > > That used to be true, but it isn't anymore. The file no longer gets > re-created d

Re: Unable to start nm-applet

2014-04-02 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> What theme are you using? > Does it help if you use the default Adwaita theme (gnome-themes-standard)? I am using the Elegant_Revisited theme , the warning comes with all the other gtk applications. > >> ** Message: applet now removed from the notification area > > Is nm-applet still running? >

Re: [i3]Not able to get the reboot/suspend script work.

2014-04-02 Thread Brian
On Wed 02 Apr 2014 at 02:16:59 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 01 apr 14, 20:37:40, Brian wrote: > > > > $HOME/.bashrc is executed when you log into X. Then its contents are > > sourced once agiain in your .xsessionrc. A double invocation seems a > > trifle inelegant. > > Could you please

Re: Unable to start nm-applet

2014-04-02 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 02.04.2014 17:50, schrieb Anubhav Yadav: >> That looks ok. >> I completely missed though that apparently nm-applet complains about a >> missing session id for uid=0. >> >> I hope you aren't trying to run it as root? > > No, I just ran nm-applet as normal user, as sudo and as root, to show > the

Re: Debian installs for the bandwidth limited (e.g. dialup)

2014-04-02 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 01 Apr 2014, Richard Owlett wrote: > The types of questions that a single document or a coordinated > documents should cover include { *NOTE* I've already found at least > partial answers}: > How to install with a preseed file > A. what parameters might be entered after "TAB to edit men

Re: Question about firmware in Debian packaging system

2014-04-02 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20140402_145422, Klaus wrote: > On 02/04/14 14:30, Paul E Condon wrote: > >Some time during March I made a fresh install of Wheezy on old HP > >hardware using netinst v. 7.4 (the most recent version, I think). > >During the install, I remember reading a warning message to the > >effect that I mi

Re: Source.list URL

2014-04-02 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
ray writes: > Marc, > > Thank you for your efforts. I tried it again and reached > http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ which seems like the URL in source.list is > just a relay. > > ray One small note -- it would be helpful to include a little bit of context in your messages (like I did here)

Re: Unable to start nm-applet

2014-04-02 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> That looks ok. > I completely missed though that apparently nm-applet complains about a > missing session id for uid=0. > > I hope you aren't trying to run it as root? No, I just ran nm-applet as normal user, as sudo and as root, to show the different log messages. But yes I want to run it as a

Re: Unable to start nm-applet

2014-04-02 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 02.04.2014 17:45, schrieb Michael Biebl: > Am 02.04.2014 17:14, schrieb Anubhav Yadav: >>> And please attach the ck-list-sessions output for completeness sake. >> >> ck-list-sessions >> Session5: >> unix-user = '1000' >> realname = 'Anubhav' >> seat = 'Seat1' >> s

Users Not Receiving List Mail

2014-04-02 Thread Mr Queue
Unfortunately this mailing list has been listed with senderscore and it would appear the affected users IPS's are utilizing this service. The listmaster has requested to be delisted but it may take some time for them to process the request. https://www.senderscore.org/ -- Before borrowing mone

Re: Unable to start nm-applet

2014-04-02 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 02.04.2014 17:14, schrieb Anubhav Yadav: >> And please attach the ck-list-sessions output for completeness sake. > > ck-list-sessions > Session5: > unix-user = '1000' > realname = 'Anubhav' > seat = 'Seat1' > session-type = '' > active = TRUE > x1

Re: getting emails from cron despite redirecting output to a log file

2014-04-02 Thread Markus Schönhaber
02.04.2014 17:20, David Nelson: > Hmm. Ok. I tried removing the part using tee so now it's like this: > if [ -x /usr/bin/mrtg ] && [ -r /etc/mrtg/rm_127_switch-mrtg.cfg ] ; then > env LANG=C /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/rm_127_switch-mrtg.cfg 2>&1 >> > /var/log/mrtg/mrtg.log ; fi > > and I am sti

Re: getting emails from cron despite redirecting output to a log file

2014-04-02 Thread David Nelson
Hmm. Ok. I tried removing the part using tee so now it's like this: if [ -x /usr/bin/mrtg ] && [ -r /etc/mrtg/rm_127_switch-mrtg.cfg ] ; then env LANG=C /usr/bin/mrtg /etc/mrtg/rm_127_switch-mrtg.cfg 2>&1 >> /var/log/mrtg/mrtg.log ; fi and I am still getting emails to root. Shouldn't this be

Re: Unable to start nm-applet

2014-04-02 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> And please attach the ck-list-sessions output for completeness sake. ck-list-sessions Session5: unix-user = '1000' realname = 'Anubhav' seat = 'Seat1' session-type = '' active = TRUE x11-display = ':0' x11-display-device = '/dev/tty7'

Re: Unable to start nm-applet

2014-04-02 Thread Anubhav Yadav
>> I just took a moment to read your 2nd initial post. The errors you >> get when starting it as root are probably because the default >> configuration is to not accept ( via policy kit I guess ) using this >> applet as root. VLC have the same kind of restrictions. >> >> The question is, why when y

Re: Unable to start nm-applet

2014-04-02 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> You need an active ConsoleKit session (if you run stable) or a logind > session (if you run unstable). Apparently this is not the case > Assuming you run unstable, do you have libpam-systemd installed? What's > the output of "loginctl list-sessions"? Hi, I am running stable debian wheezy 64 bit

Re: Unable to start nm-applet

2014-04-02 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 02.04.2014 16:34, schrieb Michael Biebl: > Please always mention if you run stable, testing or sid and the versions > of the packages. > > Am 02.04.2014 00:23, schrieb Anubhav Yadav: >> ** (nm-applet:19095): WARNING **: Failed to register as an agent: (32) >> No session found for uid 0 > > You

Re: Unable to start nm-applet

2014-04-02 Thread berenger . morel
Le 02.04.2014 16:37, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org a écrit : Le 02.04.2014 16:03, Anubhav Yadav a écrit : dbus daemon is not something you start by hand, and not something that a window manager have to handle. To know if dbus is started, the easier is to run this command: "$/usr/sbin/service

Re: Unable to start nm-applet

2014-04-02 Thread berenger . morel
Le 02.04.2014 16:03, Anubhav Yadav a écrit : dbus daemon is not something you start by hand, and not something that a window manager have to handle. To know if dbus is started, the easier is to run this command: "$/usr/sbin/service dbus status". [ ok ] dbus is running -- Regards, Anubhav Ya

Re: Unable to start nm-applet

2014-04-02 Thread Michael Biebl
Please always mention if you run stable, testing or sid and the versions of the packages. Am 02.04.2014 00:23, schrieb Anubhav Yadav: > ** (nm-applet:19095): WARNING **: Failed to register as an agent: (32) > No session found for uid 0 You need an active ConsoleKit session (if you run stable) or

Re: Not receiving list mail

2014-04-02 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Wed, 02 Apr 2014, Mr Queue wrote: > On Wed, 2 Apr 2014 08:54:54 -0500 > "Craig L." wrote: > > > I have not received any list mailings since 30 March. I see there are at > > least > > two other people reporting the same problem. I doubt my ISP is blocking > > anything as they don't even seem

Re: Not receiving list mail

2014-04-02 Thread Mr Queue
On Wed, 2 Apr 2014 08:54:54 -0500 "Craig L." wrote: > I have not received any list mailings since 30 March. I see there are at least > two other people reporting the same problem. I doubt my ISP is blocking > anything as they don't even seem to be able to prevent their internal > communications f

Not receiving list mail

2014-04-02 Thread Craig L.
I have not received any list mailings since 30 March. I see there are at least two other people reporting the same problem. I doubt my ISP is blocking anything as they don't even seem to be able to prevent their internal communications from being broadcast to normal users. Is there any way to trou

Re: Unable to start nm-applet

2014-04-02 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> dbus daemon is not something you start by hand, and not something that a > window manager have to handle. > > To know if dbus is started, the easier is to run this command: > "$/usr/sbin/service dbus status". [ ok ] dbus is running -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and

Re: Unable to start nm-applet

2014-04-02 Thread berenger . morel
Le 02.04.2014 15:25, Anubhav Yadav a écrit : Seems like problems related to D-Bus. Either it's not started at all (check 'ps aux') or your session is not setup with the necessary privileges to access D-Bus. How do you start i3? I use lightdm. It starts i3. In /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf I have

Re: Question about firmware in Debian packaging system

2014-04-02 Thread Klaus
On 02/04/14 14:30, Paul E Condon wrote: Some time during March I made a fresh install of Wheezy on old HP hardware using netinst v. 7.4 (the most recent version, I think). During the install, I remember reading a warning message to the effect that I might need to install non-free firmware and/or

Question about firmware in Debian packaging system

2014-04-02 Thread Paul E Condon
Some time during March I made a fresh install of Wheezy on old HP hardware using netinst v. 7.4 (the most recent version, I think). During the install, I remember reading a warning message to the effect that I might need to install non-free firmware and/or drivers. I don't remember the exact wordin

Re: Unable to start nm-applet

2014-04-02 Thread Anubhav Yadav
> Seems like problems related to D-Bus. Either it's not started at all > (check 'ps aux') or your session is not setup with the necessary > privileges to access D-Bus. How do you start i3? I use lightdm. It starts i3. In /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf I have set the option 'user-session=i3' so that by

Re: Source.list URL

2014-04-02 Thread Klaus
On 02/04/14 13:44, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 02 apr 14, 04:30:45, ray wrote: Andrei, Thank you for the information. I have subsequently turned off that computer; I don't know if I can go back and retrieve the session. I would like to learn how to retrieve a session and the limitations. I

installing redmine

2014-04-02 Thread berenger . morel
Hello. I am trying to install redmine on a Debian testing, from the Debian package, but I have some problems because it seems that there are no index files. At least, that's what apache says: [Wed Apr 02 14:56:21.787836 2014] [authz_core:debug] [pid 25461] mod_authz_core.c(802): [client 127.

Re: Source.list URL

2014-04-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 02 apr 14, 04:21:22, ray wrote: > Marc, > > Thank you for your efforts. I tried it again and reached > http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ which seems like the URL in > source.list is just a relay. Rather a redirector, but as far as end users are concerned the difference is not importan

Re: Source.list URL

2014-04-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 02 apr 14, 04:30:45, ray wrote: > Andrei, > > Thank you for the information. I have subsequently turned off that > computer; I don't know if I can go back and retrieve the session. I > would like to learn how to retrieve a session and the limitations. I > would appreciate a link to so

Re: Source.list URL

2014-04-02 Thread ray
Andrei, Thank you for the information. I have subsequently turned off that computer; I don't know if I can go back and retrieve the session. I would like to learn how to retrieve a session and the limitations. I would appreciate a link to some specifics. ray -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: Source.list URL

2014-04-02 Thread ray
Joe, Yes, that is what happened; I couldn't get a package. I tried a couple times and it did not find the package. I tried several hours later (just so I could document the steps) and it worked. It seems like the mirror I was directed to what not functioning correctly. ray -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Source.list URL

2014-04-02 Thread ray
Marc, Thank you for your efforts. I tried it again and reached http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ which seems like the URL in source.list is just a relay. ray -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Re: Jessie Post-Install

2014-04-02 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 02 April 2014 02:18:18 Stephen Allen wrote: > Lisi said: > > Newbies would be ill-advised to start off with Jessie, IMHO. > >  Stable is a better place to start, especially if the putative > > newbie has no help. > > Disagree - most probably would want testing or SID. Stable is well >

Re: Boot up is not Completing, it is Cycling

2014-04-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 01 apr 14, 17:47:07, ray wrote: > My recent and first build of Debian 7.4 has just started cycling > during the boot. It has been doing this for an hour. It does it each > time I start up. When it first started, it was going almost too fast > to read, after an hour, it is much slower.

Re: Source.list URL

2014-04-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 01 apr 14, 17:27:18, ray wrote: > The URL in the default source.list doesn't seem correct: > > /etc/apt/sources.list -> > deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free > > The above path is to a directory with other folders. But Wheezy is a > subdirectory of dists, no

Re: Unable to start nm-applet

2014-04-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 02 apr 14, 03:53:50, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > Hi, I am using i3 windows manager and I need nm-applet to show in > i3status bar. I have added this line in my ~/.i3/config ... > ** (nm-applet:19416): WARNING **: Failed to initialize D-Bus: Did not > receive a reply. Possible causes include: the

Re: Unable to start nm-applet

2014-04-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 02 apr 14, 05:20:28, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > > If you don't need the VPN support that nm has, take a look at wicd. Wicd > > has the advantage of also having a cli and a curses interface. > > Hi, thanks for helping me out, I tried wicd. > But wicd only contained a gui to manage wireless netw

Re: Jessie Post-Install

2014-04-02 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 01 apr 14, 21:13:16, Stephen Allen wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 03:05:57PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > Install report? Maybe I wasn't clear: from d-i's main menu it only takes > > a minor bit of exploring for a user to be prompted to install one of the > > three alternative DEs. Surely

RE: Debian and Unicode line drawing

2014-04-02 Thread Aleksander Kurczyk
Hello, Thanks for your replay, I always use Consolas because it is very similar to the Monaco Mac font which i just love :) The missing chars are sometimes displayed as an empty box but it is not a problem for me. I have tried the dpkg-reconfigure locales and console-setup. The second package