Re: systemd (was ... Re: Article on swift, responsive computers)

2014-06-17 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 06/17/2014 10:38 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: > On 06/16/2014 09:43 AM, Brian wrote: >> On the other hand, not running X on the console you started it from >> with startx brings a raft of other problems. > > How so? Unless you are referring specifi

Re: systemd (was ... Re: Article on swift, responsive computers)

2014-06-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 06/16/2014 09:43 AM, Brian wrote: On Tue 17 Jun 2014 at 00:40:14 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 10:34:58AM +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Montag, 16. Juni 2014, 10:11:00 schrieb Chris Bannister: I am now using it. I don't like how it starts X in the first availa

Re: systemd - keyboard key repeat rate (was ... Re: Article on swift, responsive computers)

2014-06-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 07:57:58PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 17 Jun 2014 at 06:25:01 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 05:43:18PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > > On the other hand, not running X on the console you started it from with > > > startx brings a raft of other

Re: Confict [debian installer] vs [installer documentation] ?

2014-06-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 12:56:33PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > Should this bug be reported against installer or the documentation? > Having only dialup and thus unable to download Jessie, is it correct to > report it as a possible bug in Jessie also? Use reportbug packagename where 'packagen

Re: Preseeded setting on openssh-server ignored

2014-06-17 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 6/17/2014 7:41 PM, Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 22:32:16 -0400 > Jerry Stuckle wrote: > >> On 6/14/2014 2:06 PM, Patrick Chkoreff wrote: > > ... > >>> Here's a way to generate a *truly* random password that is *also* memorable: >>> >>> http://diceware.com >>> >>> Instead of using you

Re: Preseeded setting on openssh-server ignored

2014-06-17 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 22:32:16 -0400 Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 6/14/2014 2:06 PM, Patrick Chkoreff wrote: ... > > Here's a way to generate a *truly* random password that is *also* memorable: > > > > http://diceware.com > > > > Instead of using your computer to generate allegedly random bits, yo

Jessie installer hangs on UEFI hardware when creating EFI-fat16 partition

2014-06-17 Thread Peter Jones
When installing Jessie on UEFI hardware, the installer hangs when it attempts to create the EFI-fat16 partition. I can still get a shell on another virtual console. After about 2 minutes syslog show a MCE hardware error. Using the Wheezy installer to create the partition works, and running the J

Re: lost file ownerships in etc?

2014-06-17 Thread Carl Johnson
Zenaan Harkness writes: > On 6/18/14, Carl Johnson wrote: >> Zenaan Harkness writes: >> >>> Unfortunately I have so many packages installed, it would be a rather >>> large chroot once done, just to get ownerships back. Theoretically >>> do-able though... thanks. >>> >>> I have been hoping that

Re: Reply To settings - was - Re: Debian 7.5 amd64 xfce GUI shutdown and restart do not work

2014-06-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 17 June 2014 18:52:08 Bret Busby wrote: > On 18/06/2014, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 00:28:45 +0800 > > > > Bret Busby wrote: > >> Now, if only the list defaulted to "Reply To List", it would be good, > >> and, make replying to the list, easier... > > > > As far as I know

Re: Reply To settings - was - Re: Debian 7.5 amd64 xfce GUI shutdown and restart do not work

2014-06-17 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 18 Jun 2014, Bret Busby wrote: > Where a list (and, I am assuming that the mailing list software for > this list allows it - from the full header, the mailing list software > used for this list, is Claws mail) is configured to by default, > Reply-To the mailing list, it generally is shown i

Re: Mousewheel operation - successful update

2014-06-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 17 Jun 2014 10:10:36 -0700 tony mollica wrote: > Found the problem and it was not a config issue. > Used xev to view the button numbers and there was no action for left > tilt. Used some compressed air and a few taps on the desk with the > mouse and all is working again. 'Percussive main

Confict [debian installer] vs [installer documentation] ?

2014-06-17 Thread Richard Owlett
I've been experimenting with "Using preseeding to change default values" [https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apbs05.html.en#preseed-seenflag] . I've discovered that it does not work unless "priority=critical" is changed to "priority=high" in boot parameters. I see several problems:

Mousewheel operation

2014-06-17 Thread tony mollica
For the last two days I've been trying to find some information on this problem: I used to be able to use the mousewheel left-right to page back and forward in history in Firefox. Unfortunately, I upgraded three things at one time: the usual Debian updates, Firefox from 29 to 30 and Mate from

Reply To settings - was - Re: Debian 7.5 amd64 xfce GUI shutdown and restart do not work

2014-06-17 Thread Bret Busby
On 18/06/2014, Steve Litt wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 00:28:45 +0800 > Bret Busby wrote: > >> Now, if only the list defaulted to "Reply To List", it would be good, >> and, make replying to the list, easier... > > As far as I know, it does. As far as I know, everyone who replies to my > stuff on

Re: Debian 7.5 amd64 xfce GUI shutdown and restart do not work

2014-06-17 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 10:34 PM, Ralph Katz wrote: > On 06/16/2014 06:21 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> Not sure what you mean here. I can still run something like >> gnome-system-monitor (although I'm on the lookout for a better program >> for graphing CPU, RAM, network over time - if all else fai

Mousewheel operation - successful update

2014-06-17 Thread tony mollica
Found the problem and it was not a config issue. Used xev to view the button numbers and there was no action for left tilt. Used some compressed air and a few taps on the desk with the mouse and all is working again. 'Percussive maintenance' it think it's called. ***previous post*** For the l

Re: Debian 7.5 amd64 xfce GUI shutdown and restart do not work

2014-06-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 00:28:45 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > Now, if only the list defaulted to "Reply To List", it would be good, > and, make replying to the list, easier... As far as I know, it does. As far as I know, everyone who replies to my stuff on this list goes to the list. As far as I know,

Re: lost file ownerships in etc?

2014-06-17 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 6/18/14, Carl Johnson wrote: > Zenaan Harkness writes: > >> Unfortunately I have so many packages installed, it would be a rather >> large chroot once done, just to get ownerships back. Theoretically >> do-able though... thanks. >> >> I have been hoping that there was something inside etckeepe

Re: Debian 7.5 amd64 xfce GUI shutdown and restart do not work

2014-06-17 Thread Bret Busby
On 17/06/2014, Ralph Katz wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 06/16/2014 01:52 AM, Bret Busby wrote: > >> I believe that someone else has previously raised this problem, on >> this list, but I could not find the applicable message(s). >> >> I have tried to use the list

Re: Multimedia player for video filte type qs

2014-06-17 Thread Bret Busby
On 17/06/2014, Rob Owens wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 05:24:24PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: >> vlc would open the file, but, Movie Player (mplayer ?) will not - it >> returns an error "failure to parse stream"). >> > Movie Player is probably Totem. In my experience, mplayer is better at > playi

Re: Multimedia player for video filte type qs

2014-06-17 Thread Bret Busby
On 17/06/2014, Brian wrote: > On Tue 17 Jun 2014 at 17:24:24 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > >> vlc would open the file, but, Movie Player (mplayer ?) will not - it >> returns an error "failure to parse stream"). > > There appears to be no information about this .qs file extension so it > would be inte

Re: lost file ownerships in etc?

2014-06-17 Thread Carl Johnson
Zenaan Harkness writes: > Unfortunately I have so many packages installed, it would be a rather > large chroot once done, just to get ownerships back. Theoretically > do-able though... thanks. > > I have been hoping that there was something inside etckeeper that > would make this much easier. I'l

Re: Installation media

2014-06-17 Thread roberto
On Monday, June 16, 2014, Brian > > > Then the only option I had was to repeat the entire installation, under > > this "Resue Mode". > > Why should I repeat the installation? > > It only looks that way because you will (at the start) see the same > screens you saw when you installed. The environme

Re: Chromium cannot access pages.

2014-06-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-06-17 14:39 +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 12:10:21PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> [...] >> For every page I request, even the default Google-search page it normally >> displays in a new tab, chromium tells me >> >> : Aw, Snap! >> [...] >> Even the 'about chromiu

Re: Installation media

2014-06-17 Thread Leonardo Cuyar Morales
What I tried with my usb-stick (/dev/sdb): dd if=/path-to-the-iso-file/filename.iso of=/dev/sdb that's right, direct to the device... - Original Message - From: "B" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2014 10:37:45 AM Subject: Re: Installation media On Sun, 15 J

Re: Chromium cannot access pages.

2014-06-17 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello there, On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 12:10:21PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > [...] > For every page I request, even the default Google-search page it normally > displays in a new tab, chromium tells me > > : Aw, Snap! > [...] > Even the 'about chromium' page fails to display, so it won't tell m

Re: Debian 7.5 amd64 xfce GUI shutdown and restart do not work

2014-06-17 Thread Ralph Katz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/16/2014 06:21 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > Not sure what you mean here. I can still run something like > gnome-system-monitor (although I'm on the lookout for a better program > for graphing CPU, RAM, network over time - if all else fails I may >

Re: Debian 7.5 amd64 xfce GUI shutdown and restart do not work

2014-06-17 Thread Ralph Katz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/16/2014 01:52 AM, Bret Busby wrote: > I believe that someone else has previously raised this problem, on > this list, but I could not find the applicable message(s). > > I have tried to use the list archive Search facility linked from > https

Re: Multimedia player for video filte type qs

2014-06-17 Thread Rob Owens
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 05:24:24PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > vlc would open the file, but, Movie Player (mplayer ?) will not - it > returns an error "failure to parse stream"). > Movie Player is probably Totem. In my experience, mplayer is better at playing obscure formats than Totem. VLC is go

Chromium cannot access pages.

2014-06-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
Running a testing i386 system here on my laptop. Did a routine upgrade in the last few days. Finally launched chromium this morning. It fails rather thoroughly. I have no trouble, though, using chrome, which I get directly from google. For every page I request, even the default Google-search pag

Re: debconf bricked -- undefined variable $ARGV[0] and similar issues

2014-06-17 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jun 2014 13:55:37 -0400 (EDT), Tom H wrote: >> >> You might have better luck with "dpkg-reconfigure -fnoninteractive >> -pcritical debconf". > > Thanks for the suggestion, but it did not work. Here's what I got: > > - > > roo

RebuildXX event on mdadm

2014-06-17 Thread Daniel Guillermo Bareiro
Hi all! I'm using a bash script to extend the notification of events on mdadm: # cat /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf: (...) PROGRAM /usr/local/scripts/monitorRaidv2.sh But it seems that mdadm does not trigger the RebuildXX events. This is the portion of the script: -

Re: lost file ownerships in etc?

2014-06-17 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 6/17/14, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 12:28:34PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> On 6/17/14, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell >> wrote: >> > Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> >> On 6/16/14, der.hans wrote: >> >>> Am 16. Jun, 2014 schwätzte Zenaan Harkness so: >> >>> moin moin, >

Re: Multimedia player for video filte type qs

2014-06-17 Thread Brian
On Tue 17 Jun 2014 at 17:24:24 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > vlc would open the file, but, Movie Player (mplayer ?) will not - it > returns an error "failure to parse stream"). There appears to be no information about this .qs file extension so it would be interesting to know what vlc thinks it is.

Re: Multimedia player for video filte type qs

2014-06-17 Thread Bret Busby
On 17/06/2014, Bret Busby wrote: > > > Hello. > > Thank you to both the above poster, and to Chris Bannister. > And, thank you also to Brian, whom I neglected to thank, above. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll kno

hs2350 and wwan0 howto?

2014-06-17 Thread Kamil Jońca
In my laptop I have internal modem which presents as: $lsusb --8<---cut here---start->8--- Bus 001 Device 007: ID 03f0:3d1d Hewlett-Packard --8<---cut here---end--->8--- it works with pppd without troubles, but I want to us

Re: Multimedia player for video filte type qs

2014-06-17 Thread Bret Busby
On 16/06/2014, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 03:38:09PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: >> Hello. >> >> I wonder whether a multimedia player for the video filteype .qs exists >> for Debian Linux. > > I would probably try "file somefile.qs" to see if it's an identifiable > format. If file

Re: Early access to a console (during runlevel 1)

2014-06-17 Thread Martin Richard
2014-06-16 18:21 GMT+02:00 B : > On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 17:54:13 +0200 > Martin Richard wrote: > > I don't know if that is possible, but you can setup an > early SSH access. > That's what I read most of the time, but I don't understand why ssh would be able to do what I want and not getty. 201

Re: lost file ownerships in etc?

2014-06-17 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 12:28:34PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 6/17/14, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell wrote: > > Zenaan Harkness wrote: > >> On 6/16/14, der.hans wrote: > >>> Am 16. Jun, 2014 schwätzte Zenaan Harkness so: > >>> moin moin, > Most files in /etc/ have lost their f