where to submit low security vulnerability in .profile?

2017-06-17 Thread David Bunch
Hi, I'm not sure where or how or even if i should submit a bug small security vulnerability in the default .profile that is created in each users home directory. .profile searches for a ~/bin directory and if it finds it prepends it to PATH like so: PATH='$HOME/bin':$PATH This could be a pote

Wired Network Bridging for Xen

2017-06-17 Thread ray
I am trying to get Xen4.9 up and Debian 9 on a Toshiba laptop with only a wireless connection. I am trying to use: https://wiki.debian.org/BridgeNetworkConnections#Bridging_with_a_wireless_NIC This laptop will be a personal workstation implementing a variety of vms and OSs. My internet connect

gstreamer1.0-libav - necessary for browsers to play videos?

2017-06-17 Thread Jape Person
Apropos of nothing but wishing to supply an explanation to anyone else who might run into the same issue. It is my habit to perform apt update followed by apt full-upgrade every day on my testing systems. I get the impression that this may not be a common practice, but I've been doing this (ap

Re: Stretch release today - How are you upgrading?

2017-06-17 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 17 Jun 2017 09:17:22 -0400 RavenLX wrote: > Today (Sunday June 17, 2017) seems to be the day they are going to > "officially" release Stretch! I never did get my laptops upgraded as > I'm creating an installation script to run post-install to install > and configure applications, utiliti

Debian 9 - Stretch has been released!

2017-06-17 Thread Jimmy Johnson
https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/ Cheers! -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Sid/Testing - KDE Plasma Version 5.8.2 - EXT4 at sda18 Registered Linux User #380263

RE: [SOLVED] Re: Email Problem

2017-06-17 Thread Michael Milliman
-Original Message- From: Brad Rogers [mailto:b...@fineby.me.uk] Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2017 12:57 AM To: Debian Users ML Subject: Re: [SOLVED] Re: Email Problem On Fri, 16 Jun 2017 17:51:16 -0500 Michael Milliman wrote: Hello Michael, >Why is it we always miss what is blatantly ob

Re: Stretch release today - How are you upgrading?

2017-06-17 Thread songbird
RavenLX wrote: ... > My question is, how are people upgrading? This will give me some > inspiration. i'm doing nothing much as i just leave everything set to testing and follow along as it happens (carefully at times :) ). my other partition which is a backup is delayed by a few weeks/months

Re: Debian installer not finding free space

2017-06-17 Thread David Christensen
On 06/16/2017 08:12 AM, David DLC wrote: I have a backup of my files and documents, but not the C: drive. I don't have my installation disk either, so I am trying to find a fix online. Try this: http://www.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c03572829.pdf Using the HP Recovery partition to recover a minimized

Re: ARandR problems: Bug or opderator?

2017-06-17 Thread Curt
On 2017-06-17, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm using Debian Testing on a Lenovo T510 Thinkpad whose screen is too > small and is in the "short and wide" category. > I prefer my 17" diagonal external with a nominal 4:3 aspect ratio. > > I am using ARandR Screen Layout Editor 0.1.9. > It reports: >

Re: Stretch release today - How are you upgrading?

2017-06-17 Thread RavenLX
On 06/17/2017 12:27 PM, Matthew McKinnon wrote: On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 09:17:22AM -0400, RavenLX wrote: Anyone know of any "online" release parties? You can join them in IRC and idle and follow what is happening with the release Server: irc.debian.org Channles #debian-release, #debian-ftp,

Re: Stretch release today - How are you upgrading?

2017-06-17 Thread RavenLX
On 06/17/2017 12:49 PM, RavenLX wrote: On 06/17/2017 12:27 PM, Matthew McKinnon wrote: On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 09:17:22AM -0400, RavenLX wrote: Anyone know of any "online" release parties? You can join them in IRC and idle and follow what is happening with the release Server: irc.debian.org

Re: Stretch release today - How are you upgrading?

2017-06-17 Thread Matthew McKinnon
On Sat, Jun 17, 2017 at 09:17:22AM -0400, RavenLX wrote: > Anyone know of any "online" release parties? You can join them in IRC and idle and follow what is happening with the release Server: irc.debian.org Channles #debian-release, #debian-ftp, #debian-cd The teams are currently testing the CD/

3G-Internet-band width - load balancing not working proper in Stretch

2017-06-17 Thread Zei Ha gmx.net
Hello, I'm using Stretch for a long time now on an amd64-PC together with a 3G-Internet-Modem-Stick. The behaviour how Stretch handles the band width and does load balancing between different applications is simply disastrous! For example: if I download large updates per "apt" it is not possible t

3G-Internet-band width - load balancing not working proper in Stretch

2017-06-17 Thread Zei Ha gmx.net
Hello, I'm using Stretch for a long time now on an amd64-PC together with a 3G-Internet-Modem-Stick. The behaviour how Stretch handles the band width and does load balancing between different applications is simply disastrous! For example: if I download large updates per "apt" it is not possible t

Re: Discovering alternative commands

2017-06-17 Thread Larry Dighera
On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 07:22:36AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > 1. what other commands should I look at? Perhaps you'll find something useful in this little script I wrote: # show_drives.sh    Display Labels and UUIDs of media # LGD: Wed May 24 06:35:20 PDT 2017 # Re-write Fri Jun  9 04:31:03 PDT

Re: Stretch release today - How are you upgrading?

2017-06-17 Thread RavenLX
On 06/17/2017 09:51 AM, Teemu Likonen wrote: rave...@sitesplace.net [2017-06-17 09:17:22-04] wrote: My question is, how are people upgrading? By following the release notes (which I recommend): https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/releasenotes (I upgraded a week ago.) Great resource!

Re: Stretch release today - How are you upgrading?

2017-06-17 Thread RavenLX
On 06/17/2017 09:22 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sat, 17 Jun 2017 09:17:22 -0400 RavenLX wrote: Hello RavenLX, Today (Sunday June 17, 2017) Say that again; *Sunday* 17th?... ;-) LOL! I meant to type Saturday and it came out wrong. See, I need to upgrade the system. Still using Je

Re: Stretch release today - How are you upgrading?

2017-06-17 Thread Teemu Likonen
rave...@sitesplace.net [2017-06-17 09:17:22-04] wrote: > My question is, how are people upgrading? By following the release notes (which I recommend): https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/releasenotes (I upgraded a week ago.) -- /// Teemu Likonen - .-.. //

dist-upgrade jessie->stretch, texlive problems

2017-06-17 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
Hi all, I performed a dist-upgrade from jessie to stretch on my desktop. It did not went well. I manage to solve many problems except the texlive issue. I finally remove anything tex related and try to slowly install it back. I started with tex-common. That went well. Then with texlive-base. That

ARandR problems: Bug or opderator?

2017-06-17 Thread Richard Owlett
I'm using Debian Testing on a Lenovo T510 Thinkpad whose screen is too small and is in the "short and wide" category. I prefer my 17" diagonal external with a nominal 4:3 aspect ratio. I am using ARandR Screen Layout Editor 0.1.9. It reports: laptop as1366 x 768 and normal orientation

Re: Stretch release today - How are you upgrading?

2017-06-17 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 17 Jun 2017 09:17:22 -0400 RavenLX wrote: Hello RavenLX, >Today (Sunday June 17, 2017) Say that again; *Sunday* 17th?... ;-) -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" Drums quite good, bass is too lou

Stretch release today - How are you upgrading?

2017-06-17 Thread RavenLX
Today (Sunday June 17, 2017) seems to be the day they are going to "officially" release Stretch! I never did get my laptops upgraded as I'm creating an installation script to run post-install to install and configure applications, utilities, services, etc. that I normally use. My question is,