Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-17 Thread Petter Adsen
On Tue, 16 Jun 2015 23:09:31 +0100 Michael Fothergill wrote: > On 16 June 2015 at 21:40, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > On 2015-06-16 21:41 +0200, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > > > Michael Fothergill wrote: > > >> (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. > > > > > > Note that it w

Re: Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-17 Thread Petter Adsen
On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 13:54:51 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 16/06/2015, Ric Moore wrote: > > On 06/15/2015 12:39 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > > > >> Get:1 http://http.debian.net/debian/ squeeze/non-free > >> nvidia-kernel-dkms amd64 195.36.31-6squeeze2 [7,138 kB] > >> Fetched 7,138 kB in 12s (575 kB/s)

After system boot screen goes blank -- [DEBIAN 8 without GNOME]

2015-06-17 Thread venkat
Am trying to upgrade my debian 6 system with debian 8. On the process, am encountering certain issues. Trail 1: 1. Full debian installation (GNOME): After installing full Debian with GNOME* (testing purpose) , the system froze during boot @ "Please wait while loading". Just went through

Still unable to get external monitor wotking on Debian 6 - was Re: Unable to install nVidia driver on Debian 6 LTS - was - Re: How to boot without GUI

2015-06-17 Thread Bret Busby
On 16/06/2015, Ric Moore wrote: > On 06/15/2015 12:39 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > >> Get:1 http://http.debian.net/debian/ squeeze/non-free >> nvidia-kernel-dkms amd64 195.36.31-6squeeze2 [7,138 kB] >> Fetched 7,138 kB in 12s (575 kB/s) >> Selecting previously deselected package nvidia-kernel-dkms. >>

Re: Debian don't detect blank (empty) DVDs

2015-06-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Markos wrote: > My Debian Squeeze can read burned DVDs but doesn't detect blank DVDs, so I > can't burn iso images. > Any suggestion? When I ran into that very same problem the problem was the new media I bought. There are only a very few manufacturers of blank media. Be that as it may be at lea

Re: Safety of upgrading packages while running KVM

2015-06-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 17/06/15 09:42 PM, Ross Boylan wrote: My host system is running Debian wheezy and qemu-kvm; a number of VM's are running on it. I'm running kvm via libvirt. An update to qemu-kvm and related packages is available for my host system. Is it safe to update the package on the host while the VM's

Join Debian 8 to Mac OS X Server 4.x

2015-06-17 Thread M7
Hello I have a few Mac Mini's running OS X Server 4.x. Some host Open Directory and all my mac clients are working great. However, I am adding multiple Debian 8 systems and want to utilize directory services rather than maintaining accounts on each linux machine. I never joined a linux box or wor

Re: Moving from 56k modem

2015-06-17 Thread Jeremy Leonard
There is also a carrier called Ting that sells a wifi hotspot. The billing is based on what you use and I've heard good things about them. The wifi hotspot device can be found at https://ting.com/shop/Netgear-Zing bald_bohemian On 06/17/2015 12:58 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 1

Safety of upgrading packages while running KVM

2015-06-17 Thread Ross Boylan
My host system is running Debian wheezy and qemu-kvm; a number of VM's are running on it. I'm running kvm via libvirt. An update to qemu-kvm and related packages is available for my host system. Is it safe to update the package on the host while the VM's are running? Similarly, is it safe to up

Debian don't detect blank (empty) DVDs

2015-06-17 Thread Markos
Hi, My Debian Squeeze can read burned DVDs but doesn't detect blank DVDs, so I can't burn iso images. Any suggestion? Thanks, Markos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: ThinkPad R51 creeping segmentation faults

2015-06-17 Thread Paul Ausbeck
Thanks to everyone who read and/or responded to my query. I've got some additional information that may prompt some additional discussion. It seems there there is some chance that the problem is due to a RAM fault. I had run memtest86+ before I made the initial posting and hadn't gotten any fa

Nova Desktop

2015-06-17 Thread Jose Martinez
Anyone know anything about the Nova Desktop application. I have it installed and set it up, but it doesn't seem to affect my desktop background. I have several .jpg images that I had wanted to cycle through the desktop background, and it seemed that Nova was just the ticket -- JM -- T

Re: Moving from 56k modem

2015-06-17 Thread Mike McClain
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 11:03:47AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > My connectivity for ~3 decades has been at <= 56k. > Current ISP abandoning that market ;/ > > I do not wish DSL, cable, nor satellite as they restrict me to one > physical location. > > I was assuming that meant connecting via cell

Re: PHP-FPM socket disappearing

2015-06-17 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 11:30:33PM +0200, Proxy One wrote: > I installed Jessie on my new server few days ago and moved website that run > previously on Centos 5. I'm using Apache and PHP-FPM. [...] > [...] > If you are using jessie, your Apache version is >= 2.4, so you could ditch fastcgi a

Re: PHP-FPM socket disappearing

2015-06-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Proxy One wrote: > I installed Jessie on my new server few days ago and moved website > that run previously on Centos 5. Welcome! :-) > I'm using Apache and PHP-FPM. I have become an Nginx + php5-fpm advocate in recent years. If you decide you would like to give it a try post something and I wi

Re: Moving from 56k modem

2015-06-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
Hi Richard. I faced a similar situation although a bit differently a few months ago. The only WISP in the area announced they were shutting down the present service which ran at 512 kbps and would offer upgrades to a new service that runs 10 Mbps. Fine, but what they did not say officially was th

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Michael Fothergill wrote: > ​I looked at this file - it is quite big; I need to think what files to > search for within it​ > > I have made a pastebinit link to the dpkg.log file: > > http://paste.ubuntu.com/11731677/ Looking only at entries related to the xserver and filtering out status and co

PHP-FPM socket disappearing

2015-06-17 Thread Proxy One
Hello, I installed Jessie on my new server few days ago and moved website that run previously on Centos 5. I'm using Apache and PHP-FPM. Currently, there is only one website on that server, but I still configured pool for it. What's happening is that, after some time, at least once a day, socket t

Re: System not booting

2015-06-17 Thread Peter Reid
Thanks Santiago, Issue fixed, bad record in fstab Thanks, Peter Reid Thanks, Peter Reid Web: http://reidweb.com Mobile: +44 78 5281 8850 On 17 June 2015 at 21:49, Peter Reid wrote: > Hi, > > Good suggestions, I will try those out. > > However point to note: when I attempt to SSH with any se

Re: System not booting

2015-06-17 Thread Peter Reid
Hi, Good suggestions, I will try those out. However point to note: when I attempt to SSH with any set of credentials to the server, connection is being refused. Nmap of the server also suggests SSH is not running To me this would suggest that the OpenSSH service isn't even running on my server.

Re: Screen goes black after install

2015-06-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Mark Allums wrote: > Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: > > I recently bought and installed a PCI ATI Rage 128 Video card on my pc. > >... > > And then the screen goes black..nothing appears. > > I have tested the video card on windows and it works well. > > > > I also want to run debian on non-graphical mode.

Re: Screen goes black after install

2015-06-17 Thread sp113438
On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 10:25:58 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: > On 06/17/2015 10:12 AM, Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: > > Hello everyone. > > > > I recently bought and installed a PCI ATI Rage 128 Video card on my > > pc. I then installed Debian Jessie on the pc. > > After booting the following lines appear: >

Re: System not booting

2015-06-17 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 02:56:46PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > You can ping but not ssh. This suggests that services are not being started. > dmesg confirms this as nothing is showing up after the network is brought > up. Hmm, no. My system has ssh running but there are no traces of ssh in dmesg at

Re: Problems with 32 bit Jessie and Mate DE

2015-06-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Curt wrote: > Richard Owlett wrote: > >> For example, to set the time and date to 15:00 on 1st February 2014: > >> sudo date 020115002014 > > > > That worked - it took effect after a reboot. > > That's strange; I always thought you had to set the hardware clock > (hwclock) for the modified dat

Re: a quick fstab questions

2015-06-17 Thread Bob Proulx
notoneofmyseeds wrote: > Bob, thanks for your very informed response, from which I'm learning a lot. Happy to help. > Bob Proulx wrote: > > You haven't really included enough information in the thread yet. You > > are mounting an ext4 file system over a USB disk. What, in general, > > is on the

Re: Screen goes black after install

2015-06-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:25:58AM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > On 06/17/2015 10:12 AM, Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: > >Hello everyone. > > > >I recently bought and installed a PCI ATI Rage 128 Video card on my pc. > >I then installed Debian Jessie on the pc. > >After booting the following lines appear: >

Re: Moving from 56k modem

2015-06-17 Thread Scarletdown
How about a portable wireless hotspot device and service? The way I understand how those work, you will have your Internet service with you no matter where you are, as long as you can get a signal from your provider. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Re: Screen goes black after install

2015-06-17 Thread Dwijesh Gajadur
Yes John Hasler..I have already done that..the screen still goes black after booting :( On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 11:41 PM, John Hasler wrote: > Dwijesh Gajadur writes: > > I want to use pure command line...I don't want any GUI services to > > load when debian boots..Is there a way to remove all G

Re: Screen goes black after install

2015-06-17 Thread John Hasler
Dwijesh Gajadur writes: > I want to use pure command line...I don't want any GUI services to > load when debian boots..Is there a way to remove all GUI service?. Just don't install a display manager. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-re

Re: System not booting

2015-06-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 17/06/15 02:42 PM, Peter Reid wrote: Hello, I recently rebooted my Debian 8 (Jessie) system, which I upgraded from Wheezy upon the release of Debian 8. I shutdown my system and restarted it, and the system does not appear to be 'booting'. *_Description:_* The system boots and responds to

Re: Moving from 56k modem

2015-06-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 11:03:47AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > My connectivity for ~3 decades has been at <= 56k. > Current ISP abandoning that market ;/ > > I do not wish DSL, cable, nor satellite as they restrict me to one physical > location. > You're in the US? I'd suggest that a laptop

System not booting

2015-06-17 Thread Peter Reid
Hello, I recently rebooted my Debian 8 (Jessie) system, which I upgraded from Wheezy upon the release of Debian 8. I shutdown my system and restarted it, and the system does not appear to be 'booting'. *Description:* The system boots and responds to ping on both IPv4 and IPv6 interfaces, however

Re: Screen goes black after install

2015-06-17 Thread Dwijesh Gajadur
Thanks for your reply Mark Allums.. I want to use pure command line...I don't want any GUI services to load when debian boots..Is there a way to remove all GUI service?. Is the video card driver required when we use command line?? With Regards, Dwijesh On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 7:25 PM, Mark All

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-17 Thread Michael Fothergill
> > Check /var/log/dpkg.log for a trace of what was installed previously > and what was removed and what was recently installed. ​I looked at this file - it is quite big; I need to think what files to search for within it​ I have made a pastebinit link to the dpkg.log file: http://paste.ubuntu.

Re: Moving from 56k modem

2015-06-17 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 11:03:47AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > My connectivity for ~3 decades has been at <= 56k. > Current ISP abandoning that market ;/ > > I do not wish DSL, cable, nor satellite as they restrict me to one > physical location. > > I was assuming that meant connecting via cel

Re: Problems with 32 bit Jessie and Mate DE

2015-06-17 Thread Curt
On 2015-06-17, Richard Owlett wrote: >> For example, to set the time and date to 15:00 on 1st February 2014: >> >> sudo date 020115002014 > > That worked - it took effect after a reboot. > That's strange; I always thought you had to set the hardware clock (hwclock) for the modified date and

Re: Moving from 56k modem

2015-06-17 Thread Richard Owlett
Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 17 June 2015 17:11:11 Mark Allums wrote: On 06/17/2015 11:03 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: My connectivity for ~3 decades has been at <= 56k. Current ISP abandoning that market ;/ I do not wish DSL, cable, nor satellite as they restrict me to one physical location.

Re: Moving from 56k modem

2015-06-17 Thread Richard Owlett
Mark Allums wrote: On 06/17/2015 11:03 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: My connectivity for ~3 decades has been at <= 56k. Current ISP abandoning that market ;/ I do not wish DSL, cable, nor satellite as they restrict me to one physical location. I was assuming that meant connecting via cell network.

Re: Moving from 56k modem

2015-06-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 17 June 2015 17:11:11 Mark Allums wrote: > On 06/17/2015 11:03 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > > My connectivity for ~3 decades has been at <= 56k. > > Current ISP abandoning that market ;/ > > > > I do not wish DSL, cable, nor satellite as they restrict me to one > > physical location. >

Re: Moving from 56k modem

2015-06-17 Thread Mark Allums
On 06/17/2015 11:03 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: My connectivity for ~3 decades has been at <= 56k. Current ISP abandoning that market ;/ I do not wish DSL, cable, nor satellite as they restrict me to one physical location. I was assuming that meant connecting via cell network. Is that correct? Wh

Moving from 56k modem

2015-06-17 Thread Richard Owlett
My connectivity for ~3 decades has been at <= 56k. Current ISP abandoning that market ;/ I do not wish DSL, cable, nor satellite as they restrict me to one physical location. I was assuming that meant connecting via cell network. Is that correct? What questions should I be asking? Please note

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Re: Screen goes black after install

2015-06-17 Thread Mark Allums
On 06/17/2015 10:12 AM, Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: Hello everyone. I recently bought and installed a PCI ATI Rage 128 Video card on my pc. I then installed Debian Jessie on the pc. After booting the following lines appear: Loading, Please wait... fsck from util-linux 2.25.2 /dev/sda5: clean, 48855/

Screen goes black after install

2015-06-17 Thread Dwijesh Gajadur
Hello everyone. I recently bought and installed a PCI ATI Rage 128 Video card on my pc. I then installed Debian Jessie on the pc. After booting the following lines appear: Loading, Please wait... fsck from util-linux 2.25.2 /dev/sda5: clean, 48855/7553024 files, 821115/38202368 blocks _ And then

Re: Problems with 32 bit Jessie and Mate DE

2015-06-17 Thread Richard Owlett
Jape Person wrote: On 06/16/2015 02:08 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: I just did a clean install of Jessie w Mate DE 1. How do I use file manager with root privileges? man pkexec Interesting. Will do further reading. Or you could invoke the file manager via gksu. That application (gksu) is pro

Re: Problems with 32 bit Jessie and Mate DE

2015-06-17 Thread Richard Owlett
Nick wrote: On 16/06/15 19:08, Richard Owlett wrote: I just did a clean install of Jessie w Mate DE Note all the examples below assume you have sudo enabled (the default if you left the root password prompts blank during installation) and that you're logged in as the initial user or another on

Re: Bash script calling python script fails

2015-06-17 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 08:16:29AM +0200, rudu wrote: > Le 16/06/2015 17:38, rudu a écrit : [...] > When launched from the symlink, this code set the working directory > to if-up.d where no python script was to be found. > My bad, but thanks a lot to

Re: prevent debian from sleeping

2015-06-17 Thread Haines Brown
On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 11:41:15AM -0400, Jack Dangler wrote: > Hi, all - > Just noticed that my deb sessions are going to sleep. I setup > my .xinitrc file to prevent it using xset, but no joy. > > The .xinitrc contains the following - > xset s off# don't activate screensaver > xset -dpms

Re: Major bug with wired/wireless connections in Debian 7

2015-06-17 Thread linuxthefish
Hey guys, Thanks so much for your help! I can confirm removing the default gateway from eth0 solved this! I don't use ethernet much, so it's not a big deal to add the default gateway manually when I do so. Thanks On 16 Jun 2015 20:24, "Bob Proulx" wrote: > Reco wrote: > > linuxthefish wrote: >

Re: a quick fstab questions

2015-06-17 Thread notoneofmyseeds
Bob, thanks for your very informed response, from which I'm learning a lot. On 06/17/2015 12:10 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: You haven't really included enough information in the thread yet. You are mounting an ext4 file system over a USB disk. What, in general, is on the disk? Is only your own data