Grub is not showing after install debian on windows 8.1 laptop

2015-04-21 Thread ??????
I tried to install debian whizzey into my laptop which runs windows 8.1 now, and the last step i have chosen to install grub with mbr. Then it asked me to reboot, after reboot, there is no grub and directly launching the windows as normal. Can anyone help? How can i get the grub to be shown bef

python3-xlib lost in Debian

2015-04-21 Thread mudongliang
Today I try to install a software - youdao dict. First I try it in vmware machine: Linuxmint and Ubuntu. It can succeed! But when I do it in Debian , it fails ; And the reason is the lost of python3-xlib. So I search in the web page of Debian: this package is not contained by Debian Jessie or Squee

Re: can't automatically launch lxde

2015-04-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 21/04/15 08:21 PM, James wrote: I installed lxde as a gui desktop but I can't get it to run automatically. I need to login as me and then do sudo kdm (sudo lxdm doesn't work). It sounds like kdm isn't starting automatically, so you probably don't have any gui starting (is this correct?).

Installing open-vm-tools in Debian Wheezy

2015-04-21 Thread Eric Gamess
Hello all, I am trying to install open-vm-tools in Debian 7.8 i386. I tried: apt-get install open-vm-tools And I got an error message: Error! Build of vmhgfs.ko failed for: 3.2.0-4-686-pae (i686) Consult the make.log in the build directory /var/lib/dkms/open-vm-tools/2012.05.21/build/ for mo

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-21 Thread John Hasler
Celejar writes: > I run my main browser instance with all JavaScript disabled… I wrote: > So do I. Lots of sites put up banners warning me that some "features" > may not operate properly without JS but generally those are exactly the > "features" that I specifically don't want. A few other sites

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-21 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 20:51:58 -0500 John Hasler wrote: > Celejar writes: > > I run my main browser instance with all JavaScript disabled… > > So do I. Lots of sites put up banners warning me that some "features" > may not operate properly without JS but generally those are exactly the > "feature

Re: Need help fixing an unhandled irq

2015-04-21 Thread James
What kind of connection for the mouse? Does unplugging it and plugging it back in help? -- 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/55370174.5090...@lockie.ca

Re: Need help fixing an unhandled irq

2015-04-21 Thread Kynn Jones
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 8:49 PM, Kynn Jones wrote: > Looking at the output from `/proc/interrupts` > > CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 > 0: 53 0 0 0 > IR-IO-APIC-edge timer > 1: 3 0 0

Need help fixing an unhandled irq

2015-04-21 Thread Kynn Jones
When my computer returns from sleep, the mouse has a lag so severe that any operation dependent on use of the mouse becomes all but impossible. Looking at the kernel logs I found a message that seems to be related to the problem described above; it's about an unhandled irq: Apr 21 21:51:04 ca

can't automatically launch lxde

2015-04-21 Thread James
I installed lxde as a gui desktop but I can't get it to run automatically. I need to login as me and then do sudo kdm (sudo lxdm doesn't work). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: boot-time messages, /init touch not found

2015-04-21 Thread songbird
Mike Kupfer wrote: > Hi, after updating a jessie VM, I noticed a message during boot, before > lightdm started. The message was something like > > /init [stuff I didn't catch] touch: not found > > After logging in, I tried using journalctl to find the message, with no > success. Is journalctl

Re: Can't send mail with Jessie

2015-04-21 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150421_1048-0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20150421_1137-0500, John J. Boyer wrote: > > I am using msmtp to send mail. However, I get the error "Remote protocol > > errot." The log file shows ""TLS handshake filed. Operation timed out." > > There is no problem on an older Vinux system, whic

Re: Debian 7 and external monitors and graphics adaptors

2015-04-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting Chris Bannister (cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz): > On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 04:03:37PM +, Curt wrote: > > On 2015-04-19, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > > > > > With this many others of us not having any problems on multiple > > > various browsers, I wonder what (other) secondary things might

Re: How do I install the Java jni?

2015-04-21 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-21, John J. Boyer wrote: > Can't find a package that does it so gcc can find it. > > Thanks, > Do you mean that gcc can't find jni.h? It's included with the JDK. You need to add something like '-I/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-i386/include' when invoking gcc. -- Liam -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: using mpxj to convert xml files to mpp format to share projectlibre files more effectively

2015-04-21 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-21, Michael Fothergill wrote: > --001a11c235dcbadff105143f9e64 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Dear Folks, > > I have been experimenting with projectlibre (openproj). > > My associates use Microsoft Project. > > Projectlibre can export files in an xml format that can be im

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie ... great progress

2015-04-21 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150421_1930+0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 21 Apr 2015 at 10:38:03 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > On 20150421_1248+0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Tue 21 Apr 2015 at 11:30:55 +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > > > > > > > Also 'Expert' doesn't really imply that that user is an expert. > > > > >>>

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie ... great progress

2015-04-21 Thread Brian
On Tue 21 Apr 2015 at 10:38:03 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20150421_1248+0100, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 21 Apr 2015 at 11:30:55 +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > > > > > Also 'Expert' doesn't really imply that that user is an expert. > > > >>> > > > >>>It does to me. Strange name choice if th

Re: reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow

2015-04-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > On 2015-04-20 15:59:22 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > > > Possibly, but individual modifications would take much more time than > > > with Maildir (such modifications, consisting in retagging, occur from

using mpxj to convert xml files to mpp format to share projectlibre files more effectively

2015-04-21 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Folks, I have been experimenting with projectlibre (openproj). My associates use Microsoft Project. Projectlibre can export files in an xml format that can be imported into MS Project. But only if you have some extra features installed into it that not everyone has enabled apparently.

Re: Can't send mail with Jessie

2015-04-21 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150421_1137-0500, John J. Boyer wrote: > I am using msmtp to send mail. However, I get the error "Remote protocol > errot." The log file shows ""TLS handshake filed. Operation timed out." > There is no problem on an older Vinux system, which I am using to send > this message. The author of

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie ... great progress

2015-04-21 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150421_1248+0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 21 Apr 2015 at 11:30:55 +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > > > Also 'Expert' doesn't really imply that that user is an expert. > > >>> > > >>>It does to me. Strange name choice if that is not the case. > > >> > > >> Would "advanced setup" be better? Ric

Can't send mail with Jessie

2015-04-21 Thread John J. Boyer
I am using msmtp to send mail. However, I get the error "Remote protocol errot." The log file shows ""TLS handshake filed. Operation timed out." There is no problem on an older Vinux system, which I am using to send this message. The author of msmtp tells me that the problem is most likely with

Re: reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow

2015-04-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Vincent Lefevre wrote: > So, there's still something I don't understand: after dropping the > caches, why is Mutt fast to read the mailbox (about 1 minute), but > not my tool (about 30 minutes)? Are you using mutt's header_cache feature? It keeps a cache of mail files off to the side. It really

Re: /etc/network/interfaces in jessie and systemd?

2015-04-21 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 21.04.2015 um 17:15 schrieb Christian Seiler: > Am 2015-04-21 16:20, schrieb Mihamina Rakotomandimby: >> Thank you Christian, >> >> Just to be sure, I saw that: >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1374521 >> https://github.com/linuxmint/systemd/blob/master/debian/ifup@.serv

Re: reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow

2015-04-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > On 2015-04-20 13:04:41 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > > > But with the current solution (no automatic moving of an entry), you > > > can't miss an entry that hasn't been removed. [...] > > ...so if you h

Re: boot logo in Jessie?

2015-04-21 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 2015-04-21 17:40, schrieb German: Is that possible to set up boot logo in Jessie? Black screen during boot is not nice. Thanks You should install the plymouth and plymouth-themes packages, and add the 'splash' option to your bootloader (e.g. /etc/default/grub, GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT sett

Re: /etc/network/interfaces in jessie and systemd?

2015-04-21 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 21.04.2015 um 16:20 schrieb Mihamina Rakotomandimby: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1374521 > https://github.com/linuxmint/systemd/blob/master/debian/ifup@.service > > If my reading and deduction is correct, systemd will call ifup that will > read /etc/network/interfac

boot logo in Jessie?

2015-04-21 Thread German
Is that possible to set up boot logo in Jessie? Black screen during boot is not nice. Thanks -- German -- 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/2015042111

Re: /etc/network/interfaces in jessie and systemd?

2015-04-21 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 2015-04-21 16:20, schrieb Mihamina Rakotomandimby: Thank you Christian, Just to be sure, I saw that: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1374521 https://github.com/linuxmint/systemd/blob/master/debian/ifup@.service I think that's Ubuntu-specific; even though ifup@.service

Re: /etc/network/interfaces in jessie and systemd?

2015-04-21 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi there, Am 2015-04-21 16:06, schrieb Michael Biebl: Am 21.04.2015 um 15:42 schrieb Christian Seiler: There is something called systemd-networkd, which is not part of Jessie's systemd version, but will (probably) be part of future Debian versions. This offers an alternative way to configure ne

Re: A question about deleting a big file structure from a big disk in Jessie: Why does this work? I'm really worried.

2015-04-21 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150420_1252-0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting David Wright (deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk): > > Quoting Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net): > > > On 20150402_2135-0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > I do get occasional I/O errors on USB transfers, which can make the > > > > disk readonly, bu

Re: How to bypass login screen in Jessie?

2015-04-21 Thread Daniel Harris
If I can remember correctly if you are running lightdm you can edit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf and change autologin-user = username set it to your username but I cannot remember if you then have problems shutting the computer off. Give it a go and see if it works Dan On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 3:3

How to bypass login screen in Jessie?

2015-04-21 Thread German
hi. I'd like to bypass the login screen and boot straight to LXDE desktop. How do I accomplish this? I am the only user on this system. Thanks -- German -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian

Re: /etc/network/interfaces in jessie and systemd?

2015-04-21 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 04/21/2015 04:42 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: Hi, Am 2015-04-21 14:08, schrieb Mihamina Rakotomandimby: I used to manage network through /etc/network/interfaces. Most of my use case are vlans (ie: eth0.1) an aliases (ie: eth1:3) My context in headless VMs (no DE, no Xorg, no GUI) With Je

Re: /etc/network/interfaces in jessie and systemd?

2015-04-21 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 21.04.2015 um 16:06 schrieb Michael Biebl: > If you want to use networkd, you'd have to run > "systemctl enable systemd-network.service" Thats "systemctl enable systemd-networkd.service". Note the missing 'd' -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe a

Re: /etc/network/interfaces in jessie and systemd?

2015-04-21 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 21.04.2015 um 15:42 schrieb Christian Seiler: > There is something called systemd-networkd, which is not > part of Jessie's systemd version, but will (probably) be > part of future Debian versions. This offers an alternative > way to configure networking. > > Note, however, that systemd-network

Re: /etc/network/interfaces in jessie and systemd?

2015-04-21 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 21.04.2015 um 14:08 schrieb Mihamina Rakotomandimby: > Hi all, > > I used to manage network through /etc/network/interfaces. > Most of my use case are vlans (ie: eth0.1) an aliases (ie: eth1:3) > My context in headless VMs (no DE, no Xorg, no GUI) > > With Jessie and systemd: is it still manag

Re: /etc/network/interfaces in jessie and systemd?

2015-04-21 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi, Am 2015-04-21 14:08, schrieb Mihamina Rakotomandimby: I used to manage network through /etc/network/interfaces. Most of my use case are vlans (ie: eth0.1) an aliases (ie: eth1:3) My context in headless VMs (no DE, no Xorg, no GUI) With Jessie and systemd: is it still managed with /etc/n

Re: reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow

2015-04-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-04-20 18:03:01 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > With an uncompressed mbox file, using the Content-Length, it could be > > faster, but there's still the problem with individual changes. > > Have you run across Jamie Zawinski's rant against Content-Length? > > http://

Re: reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow

2015-04-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-04-20 15:59:22 -0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > > Possibly, but individual modifications would take much more time than > > with Maildir (such modifications, consisting in retagging, occur from > > time to time). > > I take it these are real emai

Re: empty directories need disk space

2015-04-21 Thread Nicolas George
> on different servers I have cache folders with a lot of small files. Now > all the files are delete but the folder "need" 151 MB. > Whats gonig on here? What is the problem? How can I fix? Delete and > create would be impracticable. > > --- /home/somedir/cache/baseall/basecache > ---

Re: reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow

2015-04-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-04-20 13:04:41 -0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > > But with the current solution (no automatic moving of an entry), you > > can't miss an entry that hasn't been removed. > > $ mkdir /tmp/testdir > ~ $ mkdir /tmp/testdir/file1 > ~ $ mkdir /tmp/test

Re: empty directories need disk space

2015-04-21 Thread The Wanderer
On 04/21/2015 at 08:54 AM, basti wrote: > Hello, > on different servers I have cache folders with a lot of small files. Now > all the files are delete but the folder "need" 151 MB. > Whats gonig on here? What is the problem? How can I fix? Delete and > create would be impracticable. Are there any

empty directories need disk space

2015-04-21 Thread basti
Hello, on different servers I have cache folders with a lot of small files. Now all the files are delete but the folder "need" 151 MB. Whats gonig on here? What is the problem? How can I fix? Delete and create would be impracticable. --- /home/somedir/cache/baseall/basecache -

/etc/network/interfaces in jessie and systemd?

2015-04-21 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi all, I used to manage network through /etc/network/interfaces. Most of my use case are vlans (ie: eth0.1) an aliases (ie: eth1:3) My context in headless VMs (no DE, no Xorg, no GUI) With Jessie and systemd: is it still managed with /etc/network/interfaces? For the mount component, I found th

How do I install the Java jni?

2015-04-21 Thread John J. Boyer
Can't find a package that does it so gcc can find it. Thanks, -- John J. Boyer; President, AbilitiesSoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.org Madison, Wisconsin USA We develop software for people with disabilities which is abailable at no cost. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@l

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie ... great progress

2015-04-21 Thread Brian
On Tue 21 Apr 2015 at 11:30:55 +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > Also 'Expert' doesn't really imply that that user is an expert. > >>> > >>>It does to me. Strange name choice if that is not the case. > >> > >> Would "advanced setup" be better? Ric > > > > Yeah it would, it implies access to fine

RE: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie ... great progress

2015-04-21 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi, Also 'Expert' doesn't really imply that that user is an expert. >>> >>>It does to me. Strange name choice if that is not the case. >> >> Would "advanced setup" be better? Ric > > Yeah it would, it implies access to finer grained features than to the skill > level of the person installin

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie ... great progress

2015-04-21 Thread Brian
On Tue 21 Apr 2015 at 21:26:07 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 03:49:07PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > > On 04/20/2015 03:44 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > > >On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 07:52:53PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > > >>Also 'Expert' doesn't really imply that that user is a

Re: apt-get upgrade: packages have been kept back

2015-04-21 Thread ML mail
Yes that totally makes sense, I was actually reading the man page but I did not  understand what was the big difference in my case with the OpenJDK packages. I only saw that it had to install an additional and new package, maybe that made it classify more for a dist-upgrade. Because else it was

Re: apt-get upgrade: packages have been kept back

2015-04-21 Thread Patrick Weiden
Hi, as the manpage of apt-get tells: [...] upgrade upgrade is used to install the newest versions of all packages currently installed on the system from the sources enumerated in /etc/apt/sources.list. Packages currently installed with new versions available are retrieved an

Re: apt-get upgrade: packages have been kept back

2015-04-21 Thread ML mail
Hi Patrick dist-upgrade did it. Now as a general rule is it safe to use a dist-upgrade in a production environment? I suppose there is a good reason for having upgrade and dist-upgrade. Regards ML On Tuesday, April 21, 2015 11:39 AM, Patrick Weiden wrote: Hi, have you tried an "apt-get

Re: apt-get upgrade: packages have been kept back

2015-04-21 Thread Patrick Weiden
Hi, have you tried an "apt-get dist-upgrade"? Some packages won't be upgraded by the "apt-get upgrade" operation. Please try the first and tell us the results. Thanks! Cheers, Patrick On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 11:26 AM, ML mail wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering why an "apt-get upgrade"on my Debi

apt-get upgrade: packages have been kept back

2015-04-21 Thread ML mail
Hi, I was wondering why an "apt-get upgrade"on my Debian wheezy box does not want to update the OpenJDK packages as you can see below: shell$ apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages have been kept back: ic

Re: I need guidance about how to configure a newly installed Jessie ... great progress

2015-04-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 03:49:07PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > On 04/20/2015 03:44 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > >On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 07:52:53PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > >>Also 'Expert' doesn't really imply that that user is an expert. > > > >It does to me. Strange name choice if that is not the c