Re: Video problem

2016-08-11 Thread deloptes
Maureen L Thomas wrote: > Ok, so my roommate bought an acer aspire xc-704-g. It has an intel > celeron with intel HD Graphics with DDR3L sdram, shared memory. I have > wiped windows and installed debian 8.5. When it reboots it goes all the > way through the start up to the final sign on page bu

Re: Video problem

2016-08-11 Thread Felix Miata
Maureen L Thomas composed on 2016-08-12 00:56 (UTC-0400): > Ok, so my roommate bought an acer aspire xc-704-g. It has an intel > celeron with intel HD Graphics with DDR3L sdram, shared memory. I have > wiped windows and installed debian 8.5. When it reboots it goes all the > way through the sta

Video problem

2016-08-11 Thread Maureen L Thomas
Ok, so my roommate bought an acer aspire xc-704-g. It has an intel celeron with intel HD Graphics with DDR3L sdram, shared memory. I have wiped windows and installed debian 8.5. When it reboots it goes all the way through the start up to the final sign on page but I get a blank screen with -

Re: cannot POST in Icedove

2016-08-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
On 08/11/2016 10:22 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: On 08/11/2016 10:10 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi all, I am trying to set up icedove on Sid. I only want to use it for Newsgroups, specifically Linux Debian User. That works and I see all the posts. But I cannot post. The SMTP server is set up l

Re: cannot POST in Icedove

2016-08-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
On 08/11/2016 10:10 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi all, I am trying to set up icedove on Sid. I only want to use it for Newsgroups, specifically Linux Debian User. That works and I see all the posts. But I cannot post. The SMTP server is set up like: Desciption: Server Name: smtp.gmail.com P

cannot POST in Icedove

2016-08-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi all, I am trying to set up icedove on Sid. I only want to use it for Newsgroups, specifically Linux Debian User. That works and I see all the posts. But I cannot post. The SMTP server is set up like: Desciption: Server Name: smtp.gmail.com Port: 465 User Name: Authentication Method:Nor

Re: (OT kinda) Newly-discovered TCP flaw

2016-08-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 11 August 2016 16:35:06 deloptes wrote: > Joe wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Aug 2016 20:31:37 +0100 > > > > Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> I copied and pasted the commands exactly, and ran them as root, and > >> got an echo of net.ipv4.tcp_challenge_ack_limit = 9 in > >> response to the first

Re: (OT kinda) Newly-discovered TCP flaw

2016-08-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 11 August 2016 15:31:37 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 11 August 2016 20:06:26 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 11 August 2016 15:44:24 Doug wrote: > > > On 08/11/2016 12:50 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > On Thursday 11 August 2016 12:47:09 Nicolas George wrote: > > > > CC:ing emc

Re: Re: Chromium jumps to any workspace it likes.......

2016-08-11 Thread Rodary Jacques
As far as I remember, it has nothing to do with the OS, nor with the browser or the desktop manager but with the windows manager. In 1999 (perhaps 2000) when Gnome was to be loaded carefully one package at a time, NextStep or Nautilus windows manager (I can't remember which, perhaps a third on

Re: i8042 controller not found

2016-08-11 Thread Maureen L Thomas
The computer is the acer the screen I use with it is the hp w2007 On 08/11/2016 06:52 PM, deloptes wrote: Maureen L Thomas wrote: It is an HP w2007 model. It says it has intel hd graphics on the mother board. Is there something else I can try? you first mentioned it is acer aspire xc-704g n

Re: QEMU accessing VLAN

2016-08-11 Thread Igor Cicimov
On 12 Aug 2016 1:46 am, "Dan Ritter" wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 04:08:35PM +0100, Andrew Wood wrote: > > > > > > On 11/08/16 13:47, Igor Cicimov wrote: > > > > > > > > > > What type of network card did you create the vm with? You need to use > > > the virtio virtual network interface in yo

Re: Chromium jumps to any workspace it likes.......

2016-08-11 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 12 Aug 2016 00:00:01 +0200 Rodary Jacques sent: > Did I already told you about Opera > :-D) After contemplation, my reply is: I did consider it. However its **not** a browser supported by Debian. Lisi said that Chromium is probably behaving the way it is because Windows now us

Re: QEMU accessing VLAN

2016-08-11 Thread Igor Cicimov
On 12 Aug 2016 1:08 am, "Andrew Wood" wrote: > > > > On 11/08/16 13:47, Igor Cicimov wrote: >> >> >> > >> What type of network card did you create the vm with? You need to use the virtio virtual network interface in your vm configuration. >> > Thanks for your reply. I wondered about that but the

Re: i8042 controller not found

2016-08-11 Thread deloptes
Maureen L Thomas wrote: > It is an HP w2007 model.  It says it has intel hd > graphics on the mother board.  Is there something else I can try? you first mentioned it is acer aspire xc-704g now it became HP w2007 model. I'm getting confused get the latest ubuntu live CD or USB and try with it.

Re: Re: Chromium jumps to any workspace it likes.......

2016-08-11 Thread Rodary Jacques
Did I already told you about Opera :-D)

Re: i8042 controller not found

2016-08-11 Thread Maureen L Thomas
OK so I did the nomodeset and still nothing. Obviously there is a problem with the video and nothing else but I can't find a driver for the screen I have. It is an HP w2007 model. It says it has intel hd graphics on the mother board. Is there something else I can try? On 08/09/2016 04:21

Re: (OT kinda) Newly-discovered TCP flaw

2016-08-11 Thread Bob Weber
The way to do it is to put the line: net.ipv4.tcp_challenge_ack_limit = 9 in a file in the /etc/sysctl.d directory named xxx.conf (replace xxx with your preferred name). Then run "sysctl -p xxx.conf" and the new value is installed in the kernel tree. My system had a value of 100 before

Re: (OT kinda) Newly-discovered TCP flaw

2016-08-11 Thread deloptes
Joe wrote: > /sys/ I compiled the kernels (4.6.4 and 2.6.26.2) myself and this is not present in any of them. It is present only in the debian kernel ... need to read more tomorrow where it is coming from. One good reason to keep compiling the kernels on the critical machines with only the option

Re: (OT kinda) Newly-discovered TCP flaw

2016-08-11 Thread Joe
On Thu, 11 Aug 2016 22:35:06 +0200 deloptes wrote: > Joe wrote: > > > On Thu, 11 Aug 2016 20:31:37 +0100 > > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > > >> > >> I copied and pasted the commands exactly, and ran them as root, and > >> got an echo of net.ipv4.tcp_challenge_ack_limit = 9 in > >> resp

Re: (OT kinda) Newly-discovered TCP flaw

2016-08-11 Thread deloptes
Joe wrote: > On Thu, 11 Aug 2016 20:31:37 +0100 > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > >> >> I copied and pasted the commands exactly, and ran them as root, and >> got an echo of net.ipv4.tcp_challenge_ack_limit = 9 in >> response to the first and a blank return in response to the second. >> I don't

Re: Icedove crashes after recent update

2016-08-11 Thread Daniel Bareiro
On 07/08/16 09:33, Weaver wrote: >> I've noticed that over the last few weeks Icedove is crashing. I've >> never had a problem with that before. It typically happens when >> clicking on or deleting an email. I don't get any error, it just >> closes. >> > I'm getting exactly the same experience, w

Re: The DISPLAY variable.

2016-08-11 Thread deloptes
pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: deloptes > Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 21:12:53 +0200 >> Screen and display are completely different things in different contexts. > > I have one context. A PC with a "Radeon 9600XT 256M V/D/VO" card. > It has one DVI connector and one VGA connector. > it s

Re: Are Debian online manpages down?

2016-08-11 Thread Felix Miata
Richard Owlett composed on 2016-08-11 14:28 (UTC-0500): http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi gives 404 error Both "Google" and "DuckDuckGo" lead to pages headed "Welcome to glinka!" Any one else having problems? Only with that one particular URL. Glinka is simply one of the hosts in t

Re: (OT kinda) Newly-discovered TCP flaw

2016-08-11 Thread Joe
On Thu, 11 Aug 2016 20:31:37 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I copied and pasted the commands exactly, and ran them as root, and > got an echo of net.ipv4.tcp_challenge_ack_limit = 9 in > response to the first and a blank return in response to the second. > I don't know the significance. >

Re: i8042 controller not found

2016-08-11 Thread Maureen L Thomas
OK so I did the startx and the first time got nothing and the machine froze. So to make sure that my disks were not missing anything I downloaded a new set and re-burned them. I did the startx and this time I got a page full of blue with ( across the page. I had to use an adapter from DVI to

Re: (OT kinda) Newly-discovered TCP flaw

2016-08-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 11 August 2016 20:06:26 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 11 August 2016 15:44:24 Doug wrote: > > On 08/11/2016 12:50 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Thursday 11 August 2016 12:47:09 Nicolas George wrote: > > > CC:ing emc-developers, and trinity-users who may not yet be aware of > > >

Are Debian online manpages down?

2016-08-11 Thread Richard Owlett
http://manpages.debian.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi gives 404 error Both "Google" and "DuckDuckGo" lead to pages headed "Welcome to glinka!" Any one else having problems?

Re: (OT kinda) Newly-discovered TCP flaw

2016-08-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 11 August 2016 15:44:24 Doug wrote: > On 08/11/2016 12:50 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 11 August 2016 12:47:09 Nicolas George wrote: > > CC:ing emc-developers, and trinity-users who may not yet be aware of > > this tcp attack vector thats quite dangerous. And my post to > >

Re: (OT kinda) Newly-discovered TCP flaw

2016-08-11 Thread Doug
On 08/11/2016 12:50 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 11 August 2016 12:47:09 Nicolas George wrote: CC:ing emc-developers, and trinity-users who may not yet be aware of this tcp attack vector thats quite dangerous. And my post to trinity-users was in error, so this corrects it. Le quintidi 2

Re: (OT kinda) Newly-discovered TCP flaw

2016-08-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 11 August 2016 12:47:09 Nicolas George wrote: CC:ing emc-developers, and trinity-users who may not yet be aware of this tcp attack vector thats quite dangerous. And my post to trinity-users was in error, so this corrects it. > Le quintidi 25 thermidor, an CCXXIV, Gene Heskett a écrit

Re: (OT kinda) Newly-discovered TCP flaw

2016-08-11 Thread Curt
On 2016-08-11, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 11 August 2016 12:47:09 Nicolas George wrote: > >> Le quintidi 25 thermidor, an CCXXIV, Gene Heskett a écrit : >> > to add should be changed to forward slashes: >> >> You are wrong, sysctl supports both slashes and dots as separators. >> >> Regards,

Re: (OT kinda) Newly-discovered TCP flaw

2016-08-11 Thread Nicolas George
Le quintidi 25 thermidor, an CCXXIV, Gene Heskett a écrit : > to add should be changed to forward slashes: You are wrong, sysctl supports both slashes and dots as separators. Regards, -- Nicolas George

Re: (OT kinda) Newly-discovered TCP flaw

2016-08-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 11 August 2016 12:47:09 Nicolas George wrote: > Le quintidi 25 thermidor, an CCXXIV, Gene Heskett a écrit : > > to add should be changed to forward slashes: > > You are wrong, sysctl supports both slashes and dots as separators. > > Regards, Apparently not on my wheezy based install,

Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients

2016-08-11 Thread didier gaumet
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/askpfeplat/2016/05/02/installing-bash-on-ubuntu-on-windows-10-insider-preview/

Re: (OT kinda) Newly-discovered TCP flaw

2016-08-11 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 12:16:30PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 11 August 2016 11:55:56 Curt wrote: > > > http://www.pcworld.com/article/3106180/security/use-the-internet-this- > >linux-flaw-could-open-you-up-to-attack.html?google_editors_picks=true > > > > Calling all experts: cause f

Re: The DISPLAY variable.

2016-08-11 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 08:14:14AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > A section in xorg.conf is the only way to create screen 1? Yes. Specifically, you need to set up and allocate monitors for each screen that you want, and you need to turn off Xinerama: Option "Xinerama" "0" in the S

Re: (OT kinda) Newly-discovered TCP flaw

2016-08-11 Thread Curt
On 2016-08-11, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 03:55:56PM +, Curt wrote: >> >> http://www.pcworld.com/article/3106180/security/use-the-internet-this-linux-flaw-could-open-you-up-to-attack.html?google_editors_picks=true >> >> Calling all experts: cause for concern? > > Deb

Re: Debian server for backups of Windows clients

2016-08-11 Thread didier gaumet
I recently upgraded a Windows 10 PC to the last 1607 build: with the developper mode enabled, one have access to "windows subsystem for linux (beta)". the official Microsoft port of Ubuntu bash. sshd is part of the bundle (I've not tested it, though).

Re: (OT kinda) Newly-discovered TCP flaw

2016-08-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 11 August 2016 11:55:56 Curt wrote: > http://www.pcworld.com/article/3106180/security/use-the-internet-this- >linux-flaw-could-open-you-up-to-attack.html?google_editors_picks=true > > Calling all experts: cause for concern? I do not know if wheezy is/can be affected, however the fix p

Re: (OT kinda) Newly-discovered TCP flaw

2016-08-11 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 03:55:56PM +, Curt wrote: > > http://www.pcworld.com/article/3106180/security/use-the-internet-this-linux-flaw-could-open-you-up-to-attack.html?google_editors_picks=true > > Calling all experts: cause for concern? Debian stable is affected. If you're rel

Re: NFS no_root_squash not working (permission denied)

2016-08-11 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 05:43:12PM +0200, Ulf Volmer wrote: > /etc/exports is > > /export/backup-n40l bob.clients(rw,no_subtree_check) > virt(rw,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check) I changed my /etc/exports from what I had to: /home arc1(ro,no_root_squash,sync,no_subtree_check) Ran exp

(OT kinda) Newly-discovered TCP flaw

2016-08-11 Thread Curt
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3106180/security/use-the-internet-this-linux-flaw-could-open-you-up-to-attack.html?google_editors_picks=true Calling all experts: cause for concern? -- Même l’avenir n’est plus ce qu’il était. Paul Valéry

Re: The DISPLAY variable.

2016-08-11 Thread peter
From: Dutch Ingraham Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 14:59:59 -0500 > Yes, xrandr is capable, but you need to spend time with xrandr(1). Specifically, "--screen snum This option selects which screen to manipulate." This parameter allows reference to an extant screen. It doesn

Re: QEMU accessing VLAN

2016-08-11 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 04:08:35PM +0100, Andrew Wood wrote: > > > On 11/08/16 13:47, Igor Cicimov wrote: > > > > > > > What type of network card did you create the vm with? You need to use > > the virtio virtual network interface in your vm configuration. > > > Thanks for your reply. I wonder

Re: NFS no_root_squash not working (permission denied)

2016-08-11 Thread Ulf Volmer
On 08/10/2016 11:17 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Any suggestions on what I can try to change? Could you post your jessie > server's /etc/exports and /etc/default/nfs-kernel-server configs, or at > least the parts relevant to the working no_root_squash mount? And any > other configs that I don't kn

Re: QEMU accessing VLAN

2016-08-11 Thread Andrew Wood
On 11/08/16 13:47, Igor Cicimov wrote: > What type of network card did you create the vm with? You need to use the virtio virtual network interface in your vm configuration. Thanks for your reply. I wondered about that but the QEMU wiki doesnt seem to detail how to configure it to to what

Re: debian version ID

2016-08-11 Thread David Wright
On Wed 10 Aug 2016 at 14:31:29 (+0200), Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 10/08/2016 à 03:02, Seeker a écrit : > > > >On 8/9/2016 4:49 PM, David Wright wrote: > >>On Tue 09 Aug 2016 at 13:27:34 (-0700), Seeker wrote: > >>> > >>>That was my first thought too, but looking up base-files for one of > >>>the

Re: The DISPLAY variable.

2016-08-11 Thread peter
From: deloptes Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 21:12:53 +0200 > Screen and display are completely different things in different contexts. I have one context. A PC with a "Radeon 9600XT 256M V/D/VO" card. It has one DVI connector and one VGA connector. > If you have 1 graphic card you usually h

Re: NFS no_root_squash not working (permission denied)

2016-08-11 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 05:17:32PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Any suggestions on what I can try to change? Could you post your jessie > server's /etc/exports and /etc/default/nfs-kernel-server configs, or at > least the parts relevant to the working no_root_squash mount? And any > other config

Re: QEMU accessing VLAN

2016-08-11 Thread Igor Cicimov
On 11 Aug 2016 1:56 am, "Andrew Wood" wrote: > > I've got a host with some QEMU virtual machines on it, the host did have just one IP address (untagged VLAN) on eth0, Ive now added a second IP on VLAN 2 (eth0.2). The host machine is working fine but a QEMU VM is not able to access anything on VLAN