Re: Boot up is not Completing, it is Cycling

2014-04-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 05:47:31PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 06 April 2014 06:54:53 Chris Bannister wrote: > > $ man dmesg > > $ man dmesg > text.txt That produces the same result. IOW 'man dmesg' and 'man dmesg > text.txt' followed by 'less text.txt' is no different. > You will get a

Re: Net install cd, Not a Bug Report!!

2014-04-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 11:43:32AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > I suggest you get a good Linux reference book to study. > I started with RUNNING LINUX (O'Reilly, pub.). The latest edition is > 5,released 2005, which is a little dated, but not much. Buy a used one > or find one of the free pdf d

Re: no eth0 connection-redux

2014-04-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 10:06:04AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sat, 05 Apr 2014 20:55:12 -0400 (EDT), Tom Furie wrote: > > > > Thread wasn't broken here. The References: header in Robert's mail > > indicates that it was indeed a reply (to his original post on this > > thread). > > Perhaps I

Re: Problem Installing Debian Testng/Jessie VMware Tools

2014-04-06 Thread Mr Queue
On Sun, 06 Apr 2014 22:20:19 -0400 Jerry Stuckle wrote: > Which does not solve the problem YOU are causing. > > And once again you refuse to copy the relevant information when > replying. > > Jerry Sorry Jerry. We do our best to incorporate all levels of users here. On that note, this should g

Re: Problem Installing Debian Testng/Jessie VMware Tools

2014-04-06 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 4/6/2014 9:52 PM, Mr Queue wrote: On Sun, 06 Apr 2014 20:56:45 -0400 Jerry Stuckle wrote: Seems to be a kernel problem. http://bit.ly/1hvDrs0 Seems to be a kernel problem. http://bit.ly/1hvDrs0 hyperlink Which does not solve the problem YOU are causing. And once again y

Re: missing devel pkgs for emacs build

2014-04-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Tom Furie writes: > On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 05:12:00PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> ./configure returns the error below concerning not finding certain >> pkgs installed concerning X. >> >> Tail of output: >> [...] >> checking whether gcc understands -MMD -MF... yes >> checking for long

Re: missing devel pkgs for emacs build

2014-04-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Tom Furie writes: > On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 05:12:00PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> ./configure returns the error below concerning not finding certain >> pkgs installed concerning X. >> >> Tail of output: >> [...] >> checking whether gcc understands -MMD -MF... yes >> checking for long

Re: Problem Installing Debian Testng/Jessie VMware Tools

2014-04-06 Thread Mr Queue
On Sun, 06 Apr 2014 20:56:45 -0400 Jerry Stuckle wrote: > > Seems to be a kernel problem. > > > > http://bit.ly/1hvDrs0 > > > > > Seems to be a kernel problem. > > http://bit.ly/1hvDrs0 > hyperlink -- I do desire we may be better strangers. -- William Shakespeare, "As

Re: Details behind a GRUB2 warning message?

2014-04-06 Thread Joel Rees
erm, On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > [...] > In the chain-loading approach, every partition has some extra space in > it's structure header, just like the disk itself has some extra space in > the master boot record, [...] > I think I should have said, ... the disk itse

Re: Details behind a GRUB2 warning message?

2014-04-06 Thread Joel Rees
(Thanks for starting this thread, Richard, I finally found out how to access the grub lists.) On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > Tom H wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Richard Owlett >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Thank you. My individual use case appears to be adequately

Re: Problem Installing Debian Testng/Jessie VMware Tools

2014-04-06 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 4/6/2014 4:03 PM, Mr Queue wrote: On Sun, 6 Apr 2014 15:11:57 -0400 "Stephen P. Molnar" wrote: Any assistance will be much appreciated. Seems to be a kernel problem. http://bit.ly/1hvDrs0 What is a kernel problem? Please copy ALL of the applicable information when replying. Many of

Re: missing devel pkgs for emacs build

2014-04-06 Thread Tom Furie
On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 05:12:00PM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: > ./configure returns the error below concerning not finding certain > pkgs installed concerning X. > > Tail of output: > [...] > checking whether gcc understands -MMD -MF... yes > checking for long file names... yes > checkin

missing devel pkgs for emacs build

2014-04-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Sorry to bring this here again. I did so quite some mnths ago but having a problem finding the thread and answers. Building emacs from bzr repository After a `bzr pull' in emacs trunk sources. And inital building steps with reconf etc. ./configure returns the error below concerning not findin

Re: USB Webcam Grabs ALSA Card Index 0

2014-04-06 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Rainer Dorsch [2014-04-06 21:58 +0200]: [...] > > Sounds somewhat different than in your bugreport. > > I decided to try without pulseaudio. Pulseaudio did not really > solve issues (flashplayer was still playing through card 0) and it > did not allow to play sound on two cards concurrently..

Re: Problem Installing Debian Testng/Jessie VMware Tools

2014-04-06 Thread Mr Queue
On Sun, 6 Apr 2014 15:11:57 -0400 "Stephen P. Molnar" wrote: > Any assistance will be much appreciated. Seems to be a kernel problem. http://bit.ly/1hvDrs0 -- The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

Re: USB Webcam Grabs ALSA Card Index 0

2014-04-06 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hi Elimar, many thanks for your quick reply. On Sunday 06 April 2014 14:09:18 Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * Rainer Dorsch [2014-04-06 11:00 +0200]: > > Hi, > > > > I have two usb devices on my system, which register with the snd_usb_audio > > module, a USB Headset and a USB webcam (has a microp

Re: pool to dists assocation?

2014-04-06 Thread Slavko
Hi, please, don't CC me, especially no from gmail! Dňa Sun, 6 Apr 2014 10:28:09 -0700 Peter Michaux napísal: > I figure that I need multiple versions in my repositories. You cannot to have different versions of package in one repository. But one repository in mean one release (suite) and one

Re: Exim4: automatically GPG-encrypting messages to specific recipients

2014-04-06 Thread Brian
On Sun 06 Apr 2014 at 21:14:22 +0200, Michael Schuerig wrote: > > How does procmail get called on all your *outgoing* mail? > > It isn't and it doesn't need to. It is called for *incoming* mail. > Remember, I'm interested in messages send to root by system processes > such as cron. By way of /e

Re: Exim4: automatically GPG-encrypting messages to specific recipients

2014-04-06 Thread Michael Schuerig
On Sunday 06 April 2014 19:55:34 Brian wrote: > On Sun 06 Apr 2014 at 18:18:18 +0200, Michael Schuerig wrote: > > On Sunday 06 April 2014 15:23:23 Curt wrote: > > > On 2014-04-06, Michael Schuerig wrote: > > > > I don't intend to use it for personal mail. I want this for > > > > system- > > > > ge

Problem Installing Debian Testng/Jessie VMware Tools

2014-04-06 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
I have installed Debian Testing/Jessie on my 64 bit Laptop in VMware Player v- 6.0.1-1379776. vmhgfs failed the build process. The relevant portion of the build log is (complete log is attached): Using 2.6.x kernel buildInstalling VMware Tools. make: Entering directory `/tmp/modconfig-YbqXQN

Re: Exim4: automatically GPG-encrypting messages to specific recipients

2014-04-06 Thread Brian
On Sun 06 Apr 2014 at 18:18:18 +0200, Michael Schuerig wrote: > On Sunday 06 April 2014 15:23:23 Curt wrote: > > On 2014-04-06, Michael Schuerig wrote: > > > I don't intend to use it for personal mail. I want this for system- > > > generated messages that are send to root. Those messages are alre

Re: Net install cd, Not a Bug Report!!

2014-04-06 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 06 Apr 2014, Miles Wade wrote: > Guys! > > I want to thank ya'll for how well the net installation CD image > works. I have spent many days attempting to install various > distributions from CDs and DVDs ubuntu, fedora, suse mint etc. None > of them could get past the partition editor sta

Re: pool to dists assocation?

2014-04-06 Thread Peter Michaux
Hi Slavko, On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 12:49 AM, Slavko wrote: > Hi, > > Dňa Sat, 5 Apr 2014 21:46:56 -0700 Peter Michaux > napísal: > >> Thank you, Don. I don't think I want to manage my small repository >> with dak. That seems like it would be overkill. > > I use the reprepro for this. I investiga

Re: mbox files - can they be "compacted"?

2014-04-06 Thread Wilko Fokken
On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 02:10:09PM +0200, Rafał Radecki wrote: > > Is there an option to compact large mbox files from the shell? gzip mutt -f .gz wwf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.

Re: Boot up is not Completing, it is Cycling

2014-04-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 06 April 2014 06:54:53 Chris Bannister wrote: > $ man dmesg $ man dmesg > text.txt You will get a text file that you can read properly, and even change the font if you want to. If you want to be able to use gedit to alter root owned files, there are two ways (other than logging in as

Re: Net install cd, Not a Bug Report!!

2014-04-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 6 Apr 2014 00:24:20 -0700 (PDT) Miles Wade wrote: > Guys! > > I want to thank ya'll for how well the net installation CD image > works. I have spent many days attempting to install various > distributions from CDs and DVDs ubuntu, fedora, suse mint etc. None > of them could get past the

Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 06 April 2014 04:43:51 ray wrote: > > At logon, you can choose between any desktop environments and > > window > > > > managers you have installed, and usually there is also a 'last > > one > > > > used' entry. > > > > Joe > > Great, thank you. I can now switch. I was hoping to see a ch

Re: Unable to start nm-applet

2014-04-06 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 6 Apr 2014 11:21:12 +0530 Anubhav Yadav wrote: > > install xfce > > run xfce > > kill xfwm and start i3 instead ( in the same command, or you might > > be annoyed because not having any wm will make things a lot harder > > to control your system. ). > > I killed xfwm4 using kill and kill

Re: Exim4: automatically GPG-encrypting messages to specific recipients

2014-04-06 Thread Michael Schuerig
On Sunday 06 April 2014 15:23:23 Curt wrote: > On 2014-04-06, Michael Schuerig wrote: > > I don't intend to use it for personal mail. I want this for system- > > generated messages that are send to root. Those messages are already > > forwarded (/etc/aliases) to another user; in addition I'd like

Re: Exim4: automatically GPG-encrypting messages to specific recipients

2014-04-06 Thread Curt
On 2014-04-06, Michael Schuerig wrote: > > I don't intend to use it for personal mail. I want this for system- > generated messages that are send to root. Those messages are already > forwarded (/etc/aliases) to another user; in addition I'd like to send > them to an (presumably) insecure email

Re: Long-term support for Squeeze

2014-04-06 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 03/19/2014 01:42 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: After all, the clock keeps ticking and Debian squeeze is going to reach its End of Life in less than two months otherwise." Whatever happens, I'd keep 'Squeeze LTS' for at least a couple of years more, if for nothing else but for keeping the ol

Re: no eth0 connection-redux

2014-04-06 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 05 Apr 2014 20:55:12 -0400 (EDT), Tom Furie wrote: > > Thread wasn't broken here. The References: header in Robert's mail > indicates that it was indeed a reply (to his original post on this > thread). Perhaps I need to explain what I mean by "broken thread". The original post was in Marc

Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-06 Thread Klaus
On 06/04/14 12:26, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 05 April 2014 22:12:15 ray wrote: >>> Which desktop manager are you using? >> >> I appologize as I am new to Linux I may need some help in the >> terminology. Please help me understand 'which desktop manager'. > > Yes. If you are running GNOM

Re: mbox files - can they be "compacted"?

2014-04-06 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 02:10:09PM +0200, Rafał Radecki wrote: >Hi All ;) >Is there an option to compact large mbox files from the shell? I did not >find anything in google, I have some very large constantly updated mbox >files and would like to know if they can be made smaller with

Re: insserv: warning: script ... missing LSB tags and overrides

2014-04-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 11:44:28PM -0700, John Magolske wrote: > Hi, > > After a recent `aptitude dist-upgrade` I'm getting a long string of > error messages about scripts "...missing LSB tags and overrides" (some > insserv: warning: script 'K02grml-home' missing LSB tags and overrides > insserv:

Re: Exim4: automatically GPG-encrypting messages to specific recipients

2014-04-06 Thread Michael Schuerig
On Sunday 06 April 2014 12:50:09 Joe wrote: > On Sun, 06 Apr 2014 12:57:52 +0200 > > Michael Schuerig wrote: > > I'd like exim4 to automatically encrypt messages to a specific > > recipient with the recipient's GPG public key. > > > > I thought this was a common issue with an established solutio

Re: Exim4: automatically GPG-encrypting messages to specific recipients

2014-04-06 Thread Michael Schuerig
On Sunday 06 April 2014 12:46:45 Brian wrote: > On Sun 06 Apr 2014 at 12:57:52 +0200, Michael Schuerig wrote: > > I'd like exim4 to automatically encrypt messages to a specific > > recipient with the recipient's GPG public key. > > > > I thought this was a common issue with an established solution

Re: USB Webcam Grabs ALSA Card Index 0

2014-04-06 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Rainer Dorsch [2014-04-06 11:00 +0200]: > Hi, > > I have two usb devices on my system, which register with the snd_usb_audio > module, a USB Headset and a USB webcam (has a microphone built-in). I use > > options snd-usb-audio index=-2 > > in modprobe.d to keep the usb devices away from car

mbox files - can they be "compacted"?

2014-04-06 Thread Rafał Radecki
Hi All ;) Is there an option to compact large mbox files from the shell? I did not find anything in google, I have some very large constantly updated mbox files and would like to know if they can be made smaller with any tool. AFAIK mutt does such operation when for example an email is deleted but

Re: Exim4: automatically GPG-encrypting messages to specific recipients

2014-04-06 Thread Joe
On Sun, 06 Apr 2014 12:57:52 +0200 Michael Schuerig wrote: > > I'd like exim4 to automatically encrypt messages to a specific > recipient with the recipient's GPG public key. > > I thought this was a common issue with an established solution, but > surprisingly I could not find anything. When

Re: Exim4: automatically GPG-encrypting messages to specific recipients

2014-04-06 Thread Brian
On Sun 06 Apr 2014 at 12:57:52 +0200, Michael Schuerig wrote: > I'd like exim4 to automatically encrypt messages to a specific recipient > with the recipient's GPG public key. > > I thought this was a common issue with an established solution, but > surprisingly I could not find anything. When

Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-06 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 05 April 2014 22:12:15 ray wrote: > > Which desktop manager are you using? Once we know, one of us > > will be able to tell you how to switch. > > I'm sure that you don't need to edit anything. > > I appologize as I am new to Linux I may need some help in the > terminology. Please he

Exim4: automatically GPG-encrypting messages to specific recipients

2014-04-06 Thread Michael Schuerig
I'd like exim4 to automatically encrypt messages to a specific recipient with the recipient's GPG public key. I thought this was a common issue with an established solution, but surprisingly I could not find anything. When I asked elsewhere, the reply was in effect "it's complicated". I'm ba

Puzzled: synaptic wants to install 'unauthenticated' ssh (and others)

2014-04-06 Thread Ron Leach
List, I must have done something odd or, maybe, missed a Debian release certificate change, or something. But I'm not sure how to reinstate security for software upgrades or installations. Wheezy 64, using synaptic, on a laptop with a pretty normal set of desktop applications. Synaptic marke

Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-06 Thread Joe
On Sat, 5 Apr 2014 20:43:51 -0700 (PDT) ray wrote: > > > At logon, you can choose between any desktop environments and window > > > > managers you have installed, and usually there is also a 'last one > > > > used' entry. > > > > Joe > > > > Great, thank you. I can now switch. I was hopin

USB Webcam Grabs ALSA Card Index 0

2014-04-06 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hi, I have two usb devices on my system, which register with the snd_usb_audio module, a USB Headset and a USB webcam (has a microphone built-in). I use options snd-usb-audio index=-2 in modprobe.d to keep the usb devices away from card index 0, since I want to be snd_hda_intel the default. T

Re: How to Switch Between Gnome and KDE

2014-04-06 Thread Joe
On Sat, 5 Apr 2014 20:22:55 -0400 Stephen Allen wrote: > > ray wrote: > > > > Gnome is referred to as a desktop environment, as it is much more > > than just a manager of windows, menus etc. KDE is the other > > heavyweight DE, there are two medium-weight DEs, LXDE and Xfce4. > > There is als

Re: pool to dists assocation?

2014-04-06 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Peter Michaux wrote: > On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: >> On Sat, 05 Apr 2014, Peter Michaux wrote: >>> >>> Using dpkg --info for these two packages, I don't see what information >>> is used about the package so that dpkg-ftparchive knows with

Re: pool to dists assocation?

2014-04-06 Thread Slavko
Hi, Dňa Sat, 5 Apr 2014 21:46:56 -0700 Peter Michaux napísal: > Thank you, Don. I don't think I want to manage my small repository > with dak. That seems like it would be overkill. I use the reprepro for this. It manages two repositories for me - one public (where i share packages) and one loca

Re: pool to dists assocation?

2014-04-06 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Sat, 05 Apr 2014, Peter Michaux wrote: >> >> Using dpkg --info for these two packages, I don't see what information >> is used about the package so that dpkg-ftparchive knows with which >> distribution to associate each package. > > The as

Net install cd, Not a Bug Report!!

2014-04-06 Thread Miles Wade
Guys! I want to thank ya'll for how well the net installation CD image works. I have spent many days attempting to install various distributions from CDs and DVDs ubuntu, fedora, suse mint etc. None of them could get past the partition editor stage of the install process. I have no clues why no

Re: insserv: warning: script ... missing LSB tags and overrides

2014-04-06 Thread John Magolske
I forgot to mention in my last email that this is on Debian Sid. And while I don't want to paste the entire 1000+ lines of output, below I've included the tail end for some additional context. * John Magolske [140405 23:46]: > After a recent `aptitude dist-upgrade` I'm getting a long string of >