Kernel problem?

2018-01-06 Thread Rob Hurle
Hi All, I'm running Stretch and yesterday I did my normal: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade It seemed to install vmlinuz-4.9.0-5-686-pae (and associated config and image files, etc) in place of 4.9.0-4-686-pae versions. Now the system won't boot at all. I have reverted to 4.9.0-4-686

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-06 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 07.01.18 13:26, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > This may be more delicate?: https://www.gnu.org/software/a2ps/ Hmmm ... and if ps2pdf isn't yet installed at your end, then an apt-get fixes that. It produces sterling pdf from ps for me - big prints come out perfectly at the local printer. Erik

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-06 Thread Jason
I am grateful for all the suggestions. The reason I would like to setup a PDF printer is so that I can use the lp command to print most of the common file formats that might come as email attachments to the PDF printer to have them all end up in the ~/PDF folder. For example: lp -d PDF-Printer ima

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-06 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 07.01.18 00:19, Brian wrote: > On Sat 06 Jan 2018 at 21:02:15 +, Curt wrote: > > On 2018-01-06, Brian wrote: > > unoconv -f pdf text.txt > > 50+ megabytes of the libreoffice stack to install, But yes, that will > do it. A sledgehammer to crack a nut. This may be more delicate?: https:/

vbox cannot find headers, although they are installed

2018-01-06 Thread Harry Putnam
Having a problem getting the vbox guest additions on a `testing' install to allow for larger monitor resolution. When I attempt to install the additions the ouput says it cannot find the headers for the running kernel. I have checked, rechecked and reinstalled the headers but still get the messag

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-06 Thread Brian
On Sat 06 Jan 2018 at 21:02:15 +, Curt wrote: > On 2018-01-06, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 06 Jan 2018 at 05:54:00 +0100, john doe wrote: > > > >> On 1/6/2018 4:06 AM, Jason wrote: > >> > On a RasperryPi with Raspbian, I would like to create a PDF Printer to > >> > print files to. I only know how

Re: what is the difference between a source package and a package (want alsa-lib in stretch)

2018-01-06 Thread Dan Hitt
On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 1:56 PM, wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 01:38:06PM -0800, Dan Hitt wrote: >> I'm trying to build some software, and one of the long list of items >> to install prior to configuring is 'alsa-lib'. >> >> I tried >> 'su

Re: what is the difference between a source package and a package (want alsa-lib in stretch)

2018-01-06 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 01:38:06PM -0800, Dan Hitt wrote: > I'm trying to build some software, and one of the long list of items > to install prior to configuring is 'alsa-lib'. > > I tried > 'sudo apt-get install alsa-lib' > but got the message >

Re: what is the difference between a source package and a package (want alsa-lib in stretch)

2018-01-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, have a look at https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/alsa-lib To the lower left is a list of links titled "binaries". Those are the readily installable packages which stem from source package "als-lib": https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/alsa-lib Normally you don't build from source pac

Re: what is the difference between a source package and a package (want alsa-lib in stretch)

2018-01-06 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 01:38:06PM -0800, Dan Hitt wrote: > I'm trying to build some software, and one of the long list of items > to install prior to configuring is 'alsa-lib'. > > I tried > 'sudo apt-get install alsa-lib' > but got the message > 'E: Unable to locate package alsa-lib' >

what is the difference between a source package and a package (want alsa-lib in stretch)

2018-01-06 Thread Dan Hitt
I'm trying to build some software, and one of the long list of items to install prior to configuring is 'alsa-lib'. I tried 'sudo apt-get install alsa-lib' but got the message 'E: Unable to locate package alsa-lib' So i looked around on the internet, and saw a page for an alsa-lib package

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-06 Thread Curt
On 2018-01-06, Brian wrote: > On Sat 06 Jan 2018 at 05:54:00 +0100, john doe wrote: > >> On 1/6/2018 4:06 AM, Jason wrote: >> > On a RasperryPi with Raspbian, I would like to create a PDF Printer to >> > print files to. I only know how to do this with the GUI program >> > system-config-printer but

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-06 Thread john doe
On 1/6/2018 9:15 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 06 Jan 2018 at 05:54:00 +0100, john doe wrote: On 1/6/2018 4:06 AM, Jason wrote: On a RasperryPi with Raspbian, I would like to create a PDF Printer to print files to. I only know how to do this with the GUI program system-config-printer but I don't wan

Re: MTP devices leave multiple copies under Devices in file managers

2018-01-06 Thread Carl Fink
On 01/06/2018 03:06 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: On 07/01/18 03:54, Carl Fink wrote: I have a couple of Android devices that mount using MTP. Recently I was trying to install LineageOS on one (which failed because the USB port on the phone physically failed halfway through, but that's a side-is

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-06 Thread Brian
On Sat 06 Jan 2018 at 05:54:00 +0100, john doe wrote: > On 1/6/2018 4:06 AM, Jason wrote: > > On a RasperryPi with Raspbian, I would like to create a PDF Printer to > > print files to. I only know how to do this with the GUI program > > system-config-printer but I don't want to install that on thi

Re: MTP devices leave multiple copies under Devices in file managers

2018-01-06 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 07/01/18 03:54, Carl Fink wrote: I have a couple of Android devices that mount using MTP. Recently I was trying to install LineageOS on one (which failed because the USB port on the phone physically failed halfway through, but that's a side-issue). As a result, apparently, both caja and thunar

Re: systemd errors

2018-01-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2018-01-06 16:13 +, Michael Grant wrote: > I'm seeing the following errors in my daemon.log: They are warnings, not errors. And systemd 236 only shows one of them. > Jan 5 05:05:30 debian systemd[1]: File > /lib/systemd/system/systemd-journald.service:35 configures an IP > firewall (IPA

Re: MTP devices leave multiple copies under Devices in file managers

2018-01-06 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 1/6/18, Carl Fink wrote: > I'm sure this is a known problem but I can't figure out what the > correct search terms would be. > > I have a couple of Android devices that mount using MTP. Recently I was > trying to install LineageOS on one (which failed because the USB port on > the phone physica

systemd errors

2018-01-06 Thread Michael Grant
I'm seeing the following errors in my daemon.log: Jan 5 05:05:30 debian systemd[1]: File /lib/systemd/system/systemd-journald.service:35 configures an IP firewall (IPAddressDeny=any), but the local system does not support BPF/cgroup based firewalling. Jan 5 05:05:30 debian systemd[1]: Proceeding

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-06 Thread Brian
On Fri 05 Jan 2018 at 21:06:22 -0600, Jason wrote: > On a RasperryPi with Raspbian, I would like to create a PDF Printer to > print files to. I only know how to do this with the GUI program > system-config-printer but I don't want to install that on this > Pi. What shell command do I need to creat

MTP devices leave multiple copies under Devices in file managers

2018-01-06 Thread Carl Fink
I'm sure this is a known problem but I can't figure out what the correct search terms would be. I have a couple of Android devices that mount using MTP. Recently I was trying to install LineageOS on one (which failed because the USB port on the phone physically failed halfway through, but that's

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

2018-01-06 Thread Richard Hector
On 03/01/18 14:02, Gene Heskett wrote: > ... so > used to winslow ... ... > Will it actually happen? Chances are I'd have better results offering a > bridge in Sun City AZ for sale... Is someone used to Winslow likely to be confused in Sun City? (I've never been to either (or, within my memor

Re: GRUB and boot partition

2018-01-06 Thread Richard Hector
On 06/01/18 03:56, Gary Dale wrote: > One once-popular code was to replace all words in a message with 2 > numbers each, referring to a page & word number within an agreed-upon > book. If you used it electronically, you could send a binary file where > each original word was reduced to 2 bytes. Th

Re: [Stable/AMD64] Changing gdm background

2018-01-06 Thread Floris
Op Fri, 05 Jan 2018 18:38:29 +0100 schreef Leandro Noferini : Leandro Noferini writes: I would like to change the default background of gdm login screen on my laptop (to put into my contacts); I looked for a solution but none of my findings worked: is there a way to change this background t

Re: tigervnc and multiple users

2018-01-06 Thread Mark Fletcher
> Happy New Year to the list! > > I use tigervnc on Stretch to provide remote access to my machine from > a  > variety of devices. I'm running VNC over an OpenVPN VPN but I don't  > THINK that is relevant to the problem. > > If I start tigervnc as the same user I log into Gnome as, I have no  > pr