shutdown hangs 4+ minutes at "Stopping enhanced syslogd: rsyslog."

2014-08-24 Thread David Christensen
Bump. debian-user: I have a Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop running Wheezy. I recently recompiled the kernel with the realtime patch and installed some music workstation packages (rosegarden, etc.). On shutdown, the machine hangs: INIT: Switching to runlevel: 6 INIT: Sending processes

Loking for TV tuner / media player help

2014-08-24 Thread Timothy Danielson
Hi, I am looking to finish installing a card= Happauge 2250 dual tuner into Debian. I would also like to have a comparable Media center software that would allow recording as I did in win media center as wekk as watch live tv (since it is a dual tuner type and will let me do that) Thanks in ad

[SOLVED] I hate network-manager (was /etc/rc.local and systemd)

2014-08-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 19:05:52 -0400 (EDT), Michael Biebl wrote: > > If you set managed=true, you actually tell NetworkManager to manage the > interface. So I'm not sure why you are surprised that it does. In a previous release of network-manager, if I didn't set "managed=true" in the [ifupdown] s

Re: I hate network-manager (was /etc/rc.local and systemd)

2014-08-24 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 25.08.2014 00:00, schrieb Stephen Powell: > simply "eth0". (I have "managed=true" in the [ifupdown] section > of /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf.) I then select If you set managed=true, you actually tell NetworkManager to manage the interface. So I'm not sure why you are surprised tha

Re: I hate network-manager (was /etc/rc.local and systemd)

2014-08-24 Thread AW
On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 18:00:52 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell wrote: > network-manager! Is there anything I can do to make > it leave eth0 totally in the control of ifupdown and to not > touch it at all The settings in /etc/network/interfaces are automatically used instead of network-manager. Or

Re: I hate network-manager (was /etc/rc.local and systemd)

2014-08-24 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 18:00:52 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell sent: > The default installation of Debian for a > desktop system (XFCE in my case) installs both ifupdown and > network-manager. It allows ifupdown to manage only the local > loopback interface (lo) and allows network-manager to manage > e

Re: I hate network-manager (was /etc/rc.local and systemd)

2014-08-24 Thread Sven Hartge
Stephen Powell wrote: > I hate network-manager! Is there anything I can do to make it leave > eth0 totally in the control of ifupdown and to not touch it at all, > and to not create a stupid extra connection, and to leave my static > routes, that it did not create, alone? Delete ist. XFCE does

Re: How to avoid mounting of usb drive in two places?

2014-08-24 Thread John Song
On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 22:55:31 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Sun 24 Aug 2014 at 11:59:12 -0400, John Song wrote: > > > I run Sid. After a recent upgrade a permanently plugged in usb drive is > > automatically mounted on /media/usb0/64G_backup as well > > as /mnt/backups/64G_backup, even though /etc/fsta

I hate network-manager (was /etc/rc.local and systemd)

2014-08-24 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 15:44:26 -0400 (EDT), David Baron wrote: > On Sunday 24 August 2014 11:45:40 Stephen Powell wrote: >> ... >> Here is how I enabled it. (The following commands are >> executed as root.) >> >> cd /lib/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants >> ln -s ../rc-local.service rc-local.s

Re: How to avoid mounting of usb drive in two places?

2014-08-24 Thread Brian
On Sun 24 Aug 2014 at 11:59:12 -0400, John Song wrote: > I run Sid. After a recent upgrade a permanently plugged in usb drive is > automatically mounted on /media/usb0/64G_backup as well > as /mnt/backups/64G_backup, even though /etc/fstab with the following line > requests mounting on /mnt/backup

Wheezy and PXE boot with non free drivers

2014-08-24 Thread Thomas
Hi, I have still a problem with PXE boot. If Iam installing with CD the RAID drive is recognized but I have problems to boot with GRUB. PXE is booting fine and start the installer but did not see disk drives. It seemed I would need some non free drivers like ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/f/

Re: Q: Wheezy preseed -- How to define default display manager?

2014-08-24 Thread Brian
On Sun 24 Aug 2014 at 14:01:59 -0700, Snow Leopard wrote: > Ok, > > after hands off installation with answering the question "manually" > -- I've installed "debconf-utils" and run some investigation > > root# debconf-get-selections > /tmp/answers > root# vi /tmp/answers > > # Default display ma

Re: pppd not starting scripts for connect and disconnect

2014-08-24 Thread lee
Rusi Mody writes: > On Sunday, August 24, 2014 2:40:01 AM UTC+5:30, lee wrote: >> Hi, > >> what might be the reason that pppd does not start the scripts given in >> the config in use with the connect and disconnect options? > > I had a thread out here on ppp not starting on startup as it used to

Re: Q: Wheezy preseed -- How to define default display manager?

2014-08-24 Thread Snow Leopard
Ok, after hands off installation with answering the question "manually" -- I've installed "debconf-utils" and run some investigation root# debconf-get-selections > /tmp/answers root# vi /tmp/answers # Default display manager: # Choices: kdm, lightdm kdm shared/default-x-display-manager

Re: No localhost - I'm stumped

2014-08-24 Thread Brian
On Sun 24 Aug 2014 at 13:43:25 -0400, John wrote: > For some days now, localhost has not responded to anything. I've tried > everything, and am stumped. Here are a few indications: > > netstat -an |grep 631 > tcp0 0 127.0.0.1:631 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN > tcp

Q: Wheezy preseed -- How to define default display manager?

2014-08-24 Thread Snow Leopard
Hi, I am working on "preseed.conf" file for "wheezy" and can not find information on how define default "display manager". --- Snippet from preseed file -- tasksel tasksel/first multiselect standard, desktop tasksel tasksel/desktop multiselect kde, xfce --- Snippet from

Re: Surprisingly cheap HP 255 G2 laptop; Wheezy possible?

2014-08-24 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 8/22/14, niff wrote: > On Fri, 22 Aug 2014 09:02:19 +0100 > > As the others, I'd say "there's a wolf" (fr expression to show that > something's very wrong), look at the price at amazon UK: > http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00IG51JA6?*Version*=1&*entries*=0 > > misco: 261.60 inc VAT > amazo

Re: /etc/rc.local and systemd

2014-08-24 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 24 August 2014 11:45:40 Stephen Powell wrote: > Hello, list. > > I just thought I'd pass along something that I recently discovered. > When using sysvinit as the init system, if the file /etc/rc.local > exists and is executable, it will be invoked at the tail end of the > boot process.

Re: dropbox install break apt-get

2014-08-24 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 23 Aug 2014, tom arnall wrote: > I tried to install dropbox and the result is that apt-get is broken. > (I do not by the way want dropbox on my system and want to purge it > completely.) A few stupid questions, first: How did you initially try to install dropbox? apt-get install naut

Re: Sigil

2014-08-24 Thread Siard
Rusi Mody wrote: > However compiling from source seems to be a major project > How are you installing? I have been able to install the latest version of Sigil in Jessie by following these instructions: http://code.google.com/p/sigil/wiki/RunningFromSource#Compiling_on_Linux Debian still has QT4.8

Re: No localhost - I'm stumped

2014-08-24 Thread Curt
On 2014-08-24, John wrote: > > > I've tried everything I can think of, and hints regarding what to try next > would be higholy welcome. > Some things to try here: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/26487/can-ping-any-hosts-but-localhost-whats-wrong -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Surprisingly cheap HP 255 G2 laptop; Wheezy possible?

2014-08-24 Thread Joe
On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 17:01:09 +0100 Ron Leach wrote: > On 22/08/2014 18:05, Joe wrote: > > > > I couldn't be bothered messing about with dual boot, so I carry a > > pocket USB hard drive containing a sid installation, and also have a > > sid on a VM in Windows. I use the latter for Linux-only soft

Re: /etc/rc.local and systemd

2014-08-24 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > > I just thought I'd pass along something that I recently discovered. > When using sysvinit as the init system, if the file /etc/rc.local > exists and is executable, it will be invoked at the tail end of the > boot process. But under system

No localhost - I'm stumped

2014-08-24 Thread John
For some days now, localhost has not responded to anything. I've tried everything, and am stumped. Here are a few indications: ifconfig shows lo is working: loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LO

Re: sysvinit->systemd transition details

2014-08-24 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Alexandre Ferrieux wrote: > On Saturday, August 23, 2014 3:00:02 PM UTC+2, Brian wrote: >> On Fri 22 Aug 2014 at 17:20:03 -0700, Alexandre Ferrieux wrote: >>> I have a Jessie-based system, which up to the last upgrade used >>> sysvinit of course, and where I had

Re: Sigil

2014-08-24 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 09:22:17 -0700 (PDT) Rusi Mody wrote: > Ok > I tried getting the latest (from git) and building. Hi Rusi, Building from git is always a challenge. It will be different tomorrow than it is today. It often doesn't work without some serious finessing. I can't possibly interpre

Re: /etc/rc.local and systemd

2014-08-24 Thread Brian
On Sun 24 Aug 2014 at 11:45:40 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > I just thought I'd pass along something that I recently discovered. > When using sysvinit as the init system, if the file /etc/rc.local > exists and is executable, it will be invoked at the tail end of the > boot process. But under sys

Re: Towards an instructive minimalist intall of Openbox

2014-08-24 Thread Brian
On Sun 24 Aug 2014 at 10:38:02 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Brian wrote: > >On Sun 10 Aug 2014 at 10:46:56 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >[Snip} > > > >>What should I be reading to understand: > >> 1. what would be minimal set of programs to install? > > > >"minimal" can mean different th

Re: Surprisingly cheap HP 255 G2 laptop; Wheezy possible?

2014-08-24 Thread Richard Owlett
Ron Leach wrote: On 22/08/2014 18:05, Joe wrote: I couldn't be bothered messing about with dual boot, so I carry a pocket USB hard drive containing a sid installation, and also have a sid on a VM in Windows. I use the latter for Linux-only software, and the former for using public wi-fi. [SN

Re: Sigil

2014-08-24 Thread Rusi Mody
On Sunday, August 24, 2014 9:20:02 PM UTC+5:30, Steve Litt wrote: > On Sat, 23 Aug 2014 23:42:16 -0700 (PDT) > Rusi Mody wrote: > > On Saturday, August 23, 2014 8:30:01 PM UTC+5:30, Steve Litt wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > If any of you writes ePubs, you're probably familiar with Sigil, at > > > lea

Re: example scripts used by R

2014-08-24 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 23 Aug 2014, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Does anyone know where R stores the example scripts? For eg, I am > trying to find out the R script that runs when example(min) is run. > > rajulocal@hogwarts:~$ R > > example(min) Your best bet is just to look at the output of example(min,give.l

Re: Sigil

2014-08-24 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 10:08:19 +0200 Morten Bo Johansen wrote: > On 2014-08-23 Steve Litt wrote: > > > If any of you writes ePubs, you're probably familiar with Sigil, at > > least for partial conversions and touchups. But if you haven't used > > Sigil for awhile, you might not be aware that it's

How to avoid mounting of usb drive in two places?

2014-08-24 Thread John Song
I run Sid. After a recent upgrade a permanently plugged in usb drive is automatically mounted on /media/usb0/64G_backup as well as /mnt/backups/64G_backup, even though /etc/fstab with the following line requests mounting on /mnt/backups/64G_backups : /etc/fstab: LABEL=64G_backup /mnt/backu

Re: Surprisingly cheap HP 255 G2 laptop; Wheezy possible?

2014-08-24 Thread Ron Leach
On 22/08/2014 18:05, Joe wrote: I couldn't be bothered messing about with dual boot, so I carry a pocket USB hard drive containing a sid installation, and also have a sid on a VM in Windows. I use the latter for Linux-only software, and the former for using public wi-fi. First, may I thank ev

/etc/rc.local and systemd

2014-08-24 Thread Stephen Powell
Hello, list. I just thought I'd pass along something that I recently discovered. When using sysvinit as the init system, if the file /etc/rc.local exists and is executable, it will be invoked at the tail end of the boot process. But under systemd, this file is not executed during boot. Not by de

Re: Sigil

2014-08-24 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 23 Aug 2014 23:42:16 -0700 (PDT) Rusi Mody wrote: > On Saturday, August 23, 2014 8:30:01 PM UTC+5:30, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi all, > > > If any of you writes ePubs, you're probably familiar with Sigil, at > > least for partial conversions and touchups. But if you haven't used > > Sigil

Re: Towards an instructive minimalist intall of Openbox

2014-08-24 Thread Richard Owlett
Brian wrote: On Sun 10 Aug 2014 at 10:46:56 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [Snip} What should I be reading to understand: 1. what would be minimal set of programs to install? "minimal" can mean different things to different people and different things to the same person at different times.

Re: Towards an instructive minimalist intall of Openbox

2014-08-24 Thread Richard Owlett
* THANK YOU * Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 10 aug 14, 10:46:56, Richard Owlett wrote: My goal: understand Debian from a fairly low level on up Environment: a laptop dedicated exclusively as a learning environment Resources: complete DVD sets for Squeeze and Wheezy (totally isolated from i

List of references - was [Re: Towards an instructive minimalist intall of Openbox]

2014-08-24 Thread Richard Owlett
*THANK YOU* I spent several productive days reading. Following links to links was good also. Patrick Bartek wrote: On Sun, 10 Aug 2014, Richard Owlett wrote: My goal: understand Debian from a fairly low level on up Environment: a laptop dedicated exclusively as a learning environment Res

Re: dropbox install break apt-get

2014-08-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 09:53:58PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > I tried to install dropbox and the result is that apt-get is broken. > (I do not by the way want dropbox on my system and want to purge it > completely.) > > Here is the output which demonstrates the current state of the system: >

Re: Sigil

2014-08-24 Thread Morten Bo Johansen
On 2014-08-23 Steve Litt wrote: > If any of you writes ePubs, you're probably familiar with Sigil, at > least for partial conversions and touchups. But if you haven't used > Sigil for awhile, you might not be aware that it's really grown up in > the past two years, to the point where it's a reason

Re: sysvinit->systemd transition details

2014-08-24 Thread Joe
On Sat, 23 Aug 2014 14:24:59 -0700 (PDT) Alexandre Ferrieux wrote: > Agreed, > systemd allows to continue using sysvinit scripts, service per > service. It just doesn't preserve the integrity at the system level. On the whole, it does. The only real show-stopper I've seen mentioned so far was t