Re: nfs stale file handle?

2015-09-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 23 September 2015 07:53:22 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all, nfs experts in particular; > > In attempting to achieve a setup where any of my machines can access > all the others with rw privileges, I have been trying to setup an > /etc/exports file on each machine that names the ot

Re: Brightness configuration issue

2015-09-23 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Thu, 24 Sep 2015 00:05:11 +0200 schrieb sp113438: > sudo redshift-gtk -b 0.5 > > dims 50% >From the homepage: Redshift has a brightness adjustment setting, but it does not work the way most people might expect. In fact it is a *fake brightness adjustment* obtained by manipulating the gamma

Re: Deleting i386 packages

2015-09-23 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
I will not argue since truth can be seen from more then one side. Proprietary software usage is normal in all cases. It is as dangerous as the usage of open source software. It might limit but it gives something that not all open source software can give. It doesn't limit freedom but just a mere

Re: Broadcom 4311 network adapter doesn't work under Jessie (was debian-user-digest Digest V2015 #1143)

2015-09-23 Thread Keith Bainbridge
Good morning Edward I had similar problems. My work around was to wire conect the laptops into the modem for the install, then dkpg -ì the firmware. Good luck On 24 September 2015 9:08:11 am AEST, Stephen Powell wrote: >On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 08:23:39 -0400 (EDT), Edward Lukacs wrote: >> >> O

questions about debian installer prompts re: iwlwifi firmware

2015-09-23 Thread tom arnall
Greetings! I am trying to install Debian on a Dell620 with USB stick media. When the installer tried to configure the network software, it asked for an iwlwifi firmware file. I put the file on another USB stick, then tried two things: 1. put the firmware USB stick in another slot before booting.

Broadcom 4311 network adapter doesn't work under Jessie (was debian-user-digest Digest V2015 #1143)

2015-09-23 Thread Stephen Powell
On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 08:23:39 -0400 (EDT), Edward Lukacs wrote: > > Oh, yes ... I can't get the ... Broadcom 4311 internal card > running under Jessie. ... Strange, but up to and including Ubuntu > 10.04, it ran right out of the box without any fuss ... Sounds like missing firmware. Do you have

Re: Brightness configuration issue

2015-09-23 Thread sp113438
On Wed, 23 Sep 2015 23:57:36 +0200 sp113438 wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2015-09-21 at 14:10 +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > > > > I normally dim my laptop's screen, as I work long. However, I > > You could try redshift. It is independent from desktop environment. > > Just one line in your startup

Re: Brightness configuration issue

2015-09-23 Thread sp113438
> > On Mon, 2015-09-21 at 14:10 +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > > > I normally dim my laptop's screen, as I work long. However, I You could try redshift. It is independent from desktop environment. Just one line in your startup script will do the job.

Re: Brazilian portuguese keyboard and accented characters (á, ç, ã) (Solved)

2015-09-23 Thread Markos
Hi Michael, After testing several input sources I found that the best would be: Alternative international USA. (alt-intl) But ccedilla "ç" was not working. Searching on "The Debian Administrator's Handbook" (https://debian-handbook.info/) I found in section "8.1.2 Configuring the Keyboard":

Re: Mounting a DVD (busy message)

2015-09-23 Thread David Wright
Quoting Ric Moore (wayward4...@gmail.com): > On 09/23/2015 02:12 PM, David Wright wrote: > >When I mount a DVD on this wheezy desktop, I get: > > > >$ mount /media/cdrom0 > >mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only > >mount: /dev/sr0 already mounted or /media/cdrom0 busy

Re: Brazilian portuguese keyboard and accented characters (á, ç, ã)

2015-09-23 Thread David Wright
Quoting Markos (mar...@c2o.pro.br): > I just installed Jessie in an IBM ThinkPad X60. > When I select the Keyboard "en" the keys work properly but can not > generate non-English characters or accented characters, such as ç, ã > or á. > > At another laptop (ThinkPad Z61) I type: > > ' + c -> ç > '

Re: Mounting a DVD (busy message)

2015-09-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > $ mount /media/cdrom0 > mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only > mount: /dev/sr0 already mounted or /media/cdrom0 busy > $ mount /media/cdrom0 > mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only It looks like some process is opening /dev/sr0 (t

Re: Mounting a DVD (busy message)

2015-09-23 Thread Ric Moore
On 09/23/2015 02:12 PM, David Wright wrote: When I mount a DVD on this wheezy desktop, I get: $ mount /media/cdrom0 mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: /dev/sr0 already mounted or /media/cdrom0 busy $ mount /media/cdrom0 mount: block device /dev/sr0 is writ

Mounting a DVD (busy message)

2015-09-23 Thread David Wright
When I mount a DVD on this wheezy desktop, I get: $ mount /media/cdrom0 mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: /dev/sr0 already mounted or /media/cdrom0 busy $ mount /media/cdrom0 mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only $ It doesn't

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > METHODOLOGY: > Copy all DVDs to ISO 9660 conforming files > [dd understood to be correct tool]. dd, libc, the kernel or whatever on your system seems to have a bug with readable size of DVDs. This size seems not to change when a new DVD is loaded into the drive. Never

Re: Brazilian portuguese keyboard and accented characters (á, ç, ã)

2015-09-23 Thread Michael Graham
Hi, Sounds like you had one of the English layouts with dead keys enabled on your other laptop. In Gnome you can just add the extra layouts under Settings -> Region & language -> input sources. HTH, On 23 September 2015 at 11:15, Markos wrote: > Hi > > I just installed Jessie in an IBM ThinkPa

Re: NFS rename sometimes hangs for 15 seconds after upgrade to Debian 8

2015-09-23 Thread Peter Ludikovsky
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I tried to replicate your problem, but couldn't. When mounted as NFS3 over UDP: - root@lab1# echo foo > file1 root@lab1# cp file1 file2 root@lab2# cat file2 foo root@lab1# time mv file1 file2 real0m0.004s user0m0.000s sys 0m

Brazilian portuguese keyboard and accented characters (á, ç, ã)

2015-09-23 Thread Markos
Hi I just installed Jessie in an IBM ThinkPad X60. When I select the Keyboard "en" the keys work properly but can not generate non-English characters or accented characters, such as ç, ã or á. At another laptop (ThinkPad Z61) I type: ' + c -> ç ' + a -> á ~ + a -> ã ... How to configure th

Re: Jessie- iwl3945: could not read microcode: -12 (solved)

2015-09-23 Thread Markos
Hi Stefan, After a few tries, I got (I don't know how) the login screen, then I installed the package firmware-iwlwifi. Problems solved. :^) Thank you, Markos On 23-09-2015 10:59, Stefan Monnier wrote: iwl3945 :03:00.0: firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode (-2) This jus

Re: Jessie- iwl3945: could not read microcode: -12

2015-09-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
> iwl3945 :03:00.0: firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode (-2) This just says that the kernel did not find the firmware for your Wifi chip. It should be installed in /lib/firmware, typically done by installing the non-Free package "firmware-iwlwifi". > and does not enter the login sc

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-23 Thread Richard Owlett
Stuart Longland wrote: On 18/09/15 21:57, Richard Owlett wrote: I'll your points in reverse order. The "repository merging" is handled by the -extract option of xorriso. Thomas Schmitt, author of xorriso, has said in this thread to copy from DVD using dd. Yeah, I basically was just focusing on

Jessie- iwl3945: could not read microcode: -12

2015-09-23 Thread Markos
Hi I just installed Jessie in IBM ThinPad (X60) but when during the boot appears on screen the rolling messages: iwl3945 :03:00.0: could not read microcode: -12 iwl3945 :03:00.0: firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode (-2) iwl3945 :03:00.0: Direct firmware load failed with e

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2015 #1143

2015-09-23 Thread Edward Lukacs
I am running Jessie after some years of running Vectorlinux (Slackware based). I decided to make the change mainly because there were some ham radio packages which required a lot of hand installation, i.e, added libraries, etc. My results have been mixed, but especially in the graphics area. I h

nfs stale file handle?

2015-09-23 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all, nfs experts in particular; In attempting to achieve a setup where any of my machines can access all the others with rw privileges, I have been trying to setup an /etc/exports file on each machine that names the other 3 main, always up and running, machines here. Before someone y

Re: NFS rename sometimes hangs for 15 seconds after upgrade to Debian 8

2015-09-23 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2015-09-22 15:19:10 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > At my lab, with NFS accounts, some machines have been upgraded to > Debian 8, and I get regular hangs on these machines, while they > never occurred before on the same machine and still never occur > on a machine that is still under Debian 7. [