Re: GNOME Shell can't unmount my USB key

Le dimanche 07 février 2016 à 15:20 -0800, Patrick Bartek a écrit : > You shouldn't have to "eject" it all. Just plug it in and when done, > pull it out. The system should mount and unmount it automatically. We're > not talking Windows here. What if some program, like my backup software, began to

Re: Problems with VLC in jessie

> This may as well be a problem with the nvidia driver I thought it this way initially but then... If this is a driver problem, why SMPlaer plays everything just fine. And BTW, I forgotten to mention that even Totem also plays all my files and DVDs just fine. What is so peculiar about the nvi

Re: GNOME Shell can't unmount my USB key

On Sun, 07 Feb 2016, Me wrote: > Hello, > > In GNOME Shell, when I click on the "Eject" option in the notification > bar to unmount my USB key, it unmounts correctly and then immediately > mounts again, as if I just plugged it. > > It happens only with the Kingston DataTraveler I own. I've tried

Re: Problems with VLC in jessie

On Sun, 07 Feb 2016 08:53:21 -0500, Ric Moore wrote: > On 02/06/2016 11:50 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> Sorry, forgotten to mention I use Nvidia 340.96-1 proprietary driver. > > Under tools/preferences/video pick "X11 video output (XCB)" then save > and exit and re-start VLC again. I also use "

Re: Install ok, boot fail

I tried the stable debian 8.3 netinst, both 64 and 32 bits versions. F. Il 06 feb 2016 5:06 PM, "computer.enthusiastic" < computer.enthusias...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > ​Hi Fabrizio, > ​ > > 2016-02-06 11:39 GMT+01:00 Fabrizio Carrai : > >> >> The system succesfully boot the installation ISO from

Re: Difficulties while installing additional packages from .iso (USB stick) after successful stretch install

On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 09:34:20PM +0100, sb...@secure.mailbox.org wrote: > Hi, > > > Chris Bannister hat am 7. Februar 2016 um > > 14:15 geschrieben: > > > > > > On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 11:06:56AM +0100, sb...@secure.mailbox.org > > wrote: > > > > When I put different forms of identifying the

Re: Trouble mounting nfs share

I solved it. There was a package installed liblockfile1, which was causing grief. Please don't ask who the idiot was that installed that package. Thanks for answer. *Carlos Kosloff* Office: (954) 283-8828 Cell: (954) 464-8822 Fax: (888) 854-5440 ---

GNOME Shell can't unmount my USB key

Hello, In GNOME Shell, when I click on the "Eject" option in the notification bar to unmount my USB key, it unmounts correctly and then immediately mounts again, as if I just plugged it. It happens only with the Kingston DataTraveler I own. I've tried on several desktops, and it seems to happen o

Re: using debian debootstrap and chroot to login to other distro on neighbouring partition etc

On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 09:43:48PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Folks, > > I did the chrooting according to Mr Ingraham's recipe and I used it to > chroot into a gentoo installation I have on the machine here. > > It worked. > Excellent! Thanks for the update.

Re: using debian debootstrap and chroot to login to other distro on neighbouring partition etc

Dear Folks, I did the chrooting according to Mr Ingraham's recipe and I used it to chroot into a gentoo installation I have on the machine here. It worked. I also used terminology. I will try out lxc in a little while. Regards and thanks Michael Fothergill On 5 February 2016 at 20:

Re: Difficulties while installing additional packages from .iso (USB stick) after successful stretch install

Hi, > Chris Bannister hat am 7. Februar 2016 um > 14:15 geschrieben: > > > On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 11:06:56AM +0100, sb...@secure.mailbox.org > wrote: > > When I put different forms of identifying the USB stick into the > > sources.list apt says something like "there is no driver for that > >

Re: Trouble mounting nfs share

Thanks for answer. I replaced IP addresses in both machines and still getting the access denied error: mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting xx.xx.xx.xx:/home/ckosloff mountpoint in notosh only has a hidden file .directory. Cannot figure this one out. *Carlos Kosloff* Office: (954)

Re: Trouble mounting nfs share

On 07/02/16 12:23 PM, Carlos Kosloff wrote: I am having trouble mounting an nfs share. Here is the scenario: I am on the Debian testing branch, all the necessary nfs packages have been installed from repo, nfsd is running, I have checked with pidof, psaux | grep, top, etc. There are two machin

Re: Difficulties while installing additional packages from .iso (USB stick) after successful stretch install

On Mon 08 Feb 2016 at 02:15:31 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 11:06:56AM +0100, sb...@secure.mailbox.org wrote: > > Hi list members, > > > > I have successfully installed stretch from a usb stick onto which I had > > downloaded the latest amd64 weekly-build DVD-1.iso and

Re: Meta key for 'emacs -nw'

> "BB" == Bob Bernstein writes: BB> ... if I launch 'emacs -nw' to avoid running in X that understanding BB> (Meta == Alt) evaporates. That is an issue with your terminal emulator. What do you see if you, in an emacs -nw session, press: C-q M-x Xterm's default settings can be a problem for

Trouble mounting nfs share

I am having trouble mounting an nfs share. Here is the scenario: I am on the Debian testing branch, all the necessary nfs packages have been installed from repo, nfsd is running, I have checked with pidof, psaux | grep, top, etc. There are two machines that I need to communicate: Server's name

Re: Difficulties while installing additional packages from .iso (USB stick) after successful stretch install

On 2016-02-07, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: >> >> Please inform the list of your progress, I too would like to know the >> solution for future reference. >> > > There is a tool called apt-cdrom, but it didn't work the way I wanted. > Here is the thread explaining the procedure of adding a local iso im

Re: Failure of evince to open a PDF.

On Sunday 07 February 2016 09:43:05 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 07 February 2016 07:28:54 Wilko Fokken wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 01:26:30PM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > > Updated a jessie system this morning. Then tried evince. > > > > > > evince afile.pdf > > > > > > A wi

Using hcd files

After following certain manuals on web (like this ), I tried to use the Windows driver for my laptop on Debian. I have Jessie 8.3 Stable, with Dell 1704 Wireless card (Broadcom 43142), using broadcom-sta-dkms for wirele

Re: Failure of evince to open a PDF.

On Sunday 07 February 2016 07:28:54 Wilko Fokken wrote: > On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 01:26:30PM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > Updated a jessie system this morning. Then tried evince. > > > > evince afile.pdf > > > > A window entitled "Document Viewer" with this notice popped open. > > "Una

Re: Postfix log content

On 05/02/16 13:58, Darac Marjal wrote: On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 05:28:54PM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Hi, Running Postfix under Jessie. At some time in the past I managed to increase the logging verbosity to track down a problem, which I've solved. I now have a vast amount of data in mail.

Re: Difficulties while installing additional packages from .iso (USB stick) after successful stretch install

On 02/07/2016 02:15 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 11:06:56AM +0100, sb...@secure.mailbox.org wrote: >> Hi list members, >> >> I have successfully installed stretch from a usb stick onto which I had >> downloaded the latest amd64 weekly-build DVD-1.iso and other necessary >> i

Re: Problems with VLC in jessie

On 02/06/2016 11:50 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: Sorry, forgotten to mention I use Nvidia 340.96-1 proprietary driver. Under tools/preferences/video pick "X11 video output (XCB)" then save and exit and re-start VLC again. I also use "GTK+" under the "interface" tab / "Force Window style". Good

Re: Difficulties while installing additional packages from .iso (USB stick) after successful stretch install

On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 11:06:56AM +0100, sb...@secure.mailbox.org wrote: > Hi list members, > > I have successfully installed stretch from a usb stick onto which I had > downloaded the latest amd64 weekly-build DVD-1.iso and other necessary > init files. > Well, after the install process had fini

Re: Failure of evince to open a PDF.

On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 01:26:30PM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Updated a jessie system this morning. Then tried evince. > > evince afile.pdf > > A window entitled "Document Viewer" with this notice popped open. > "Unable to open document "file:///home/peter/afile.pdf". > File type HTML

Re: Problems with VLC in jessie

Hi On 2016-02-07 04:45:16, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > It is Dell Precision M4800 64 bit with Nvidia Quadro K2100M graphic card. > > Since I've installed Jessie last year I have nothing but problems with > VLC: > > 1. I can play DVDs but the screen is flickering awfully. Useless at > worse, can