XFCE and network manager

2018-03-15 Thread solitone
Just installed scratch with xfce4 on an oldish machine, downloading all the needed packages through my wifi adapter. On first boot wifi is down, and there is no application I can use to choose and connect to my wifi access point. I realize that xfce's own Airconfig has never lifted off and is cur

Re: OT: dovecot with letsencrypt, K9 mail fails?

2018-03-15 Thread Richard Hector
On 16/03/18 16:15, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > Dovecot (IMAP) is working fine here with K-9. > > Since you're seeing different results in different clients, the most > obvious reason would be a different behavior from the two different ways > to connect to IMAP (or POP3) with TLS: > >  * connect

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-15 Thread rhkramer
On Thursday, March 15, 2018 09:42:25 PM David Wright wrote: > On Thu 15 Mar 2018 at 10:18:20 (-0700), Don Armstrong wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, David Wright wrote: > > > When you reprogram routers with dd-wrt, does that allow it to do, say, > > > wired bridging even though the manufacturer's fo

Re: OT: dovecot with letsencrypt, K9 mail fails?

2018-03-15 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Dovecot (IMAP) is working fine here with K-9. Since you're seeing different results in different clients, the most obvious reason would be a different behavior from the two different ways to connect to IMAP (or POP3) with TLS: * connect to port 993, start TLS negotiation * connect to port 1

Re: dd_help missing from stretch repos

2018-03-15 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 3/15/18, Felix Miata wrote: > My new 2TB HD just arrived. Old 1.5TB to be rescued, made in 2010, has 8 > pending > sectors reported by smartctl. e2fsck locks up the PC trying to fix its EXT2 > filesystem. I know if anything could bail me out, dd_rhelp could. > > Debian bugs Google found about d

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-15 Thread David Wright
On Thu 15 Mar 2018 at 10:18:20 (-0700), Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, David Wright wrote: > > When you reprogram routers with dd-wrt, does that allow it to do, say, > > wired bridging even though the manufacturer's formware doesn't allow > > for that? > > openwrt and dd-wrt both allo

Re: Debian on flash a store.

2018-03-15 Thread David Christensen
On 03/15/18 12:24, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 15/03/2018 à 06:01, David Christensen a écrit : 2.  Instead of RAID1, use a checksumming file system (btrfs), take images periodically, put key configuration files into a version control system, and backup data daily.  This is what I do for all my s

dd_help missing from stretch repos

2018-03-15 Thread Felix Miata
My new 2TB HD just arrived. Old 1.5TB to be rescued, made in 2010, has 8 pending sectors reported by smartctl. e2fsck locks up the PC trying to fix its EXT2 filesystem. I know if anything could bail me out, dd_rhelp could. Debian bugs Google found about dd_rhelp: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bu

Aw: Re: Stretch kernel vulnerable to meltdown

2018-03-15 Thread Peter Steinmetz
> 15. März 2018, 18:05 Uhr, "Henrique de Moraes Holschuh": > > On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, Peter Steinmetz wrote: > > should be fixed wrt meltdown. But I see this > > # grep -R . /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/ > > /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2:Mitigation: Full generic > > r

Re: Debian on flash a store.

2018-03-15 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 15/03/2018 à 06:01, David Christensen a écrit : I also thought about two USB flash drives and RAID: 1.  Instead of RAID0, get a PATA or SATA SSD (or DOM).  Used drives can be found on eBay for cheap, especially SATA I or II. RAID 0 with USB flash drives ? You like to live dangerously. 2.

Re: Finding image file underlying an icon on Mate desktop

2018-03-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/15/2018 11:45 AM, Curt wrote: On 2018-03-14, Richard Owlett wrote: Is there a way? [for current application creating a new icon will be simple] [finding the old icon would be convenient] It seems right-clicking on the desktop and selecting “Change Desktop Background”, then “Customize,

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, Charlie Gibbs wrote: Just as an aside, how about switching to Seamonkey? Back when Firefox brought out release 29, I didn't like what they did to the user interface, and made the switch. Seamonkey is another fork of the original Netscape code which preserves a lot of the

Re: Help needed with home network configuration

2018-03-15 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, David Wright wrote: > When you reprogram routers with dd-wrt, does that allow it to do, say, > wired bridging even though the manufacturer's formware doesn't allow > for that? openwrt and dd-wrt both allow wired bridging[1] (or pseudo-bridging by routing if your wireless hardw

Re: Stretch kernel vulnerable to meltdown

2018-03-15 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, Peter Steinmetz wrote: > should be fixed wrt meltdown. But I see this > # grep -R . /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/ > /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2:Mitigation: Full generic > retpoline > /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v1:Mitigatio

Re: Finding image file underlying an icon on Mate desktop

2018-03-15 Thread Curt
On 2018-03-14, Richard Owlett wrote: > > Is there a way? > [for current application creating a new icon will be simple] > [finding the old icon would be convenient] > It seems right-clicking on the desktop and selecting “Change Desktop Background”, then “Customize,” then "Icons," will reveal a li

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread David Wright
On Thu 15 Mar 2018 at 13:37:36 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 08:24:14AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 11:13:42AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > > I seriously doubt they would accept a patch to restore the ALSA > > features that

Stretch kernel vulnerable to meltdown

2018-03-15 Thread Peter Steinmetz
Hi,   according to this https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-5754   this kernel # uname -rv 4.9.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.82-1+deb9u3 (2018-03-02)   should be fixed wrt meltdown. But I see this # grep -R . /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/ /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabil

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On 15/03/18 02:12 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote: On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 23:00:58 +0100 (CET) Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote: Wouldn't it render your system root-vulnerable to some malignant active content (JS

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 08:24:14AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 11:13:42AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > I seriously doubt they would accept a patch to restore the ALSA > features that they intentionally removed with

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 11:13:42AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Most things work out of the box. OK, newer Firefoxes are ripping > out Alsa support... I don't really care: I consider the browser > a necessary evil anyway, so some amount of dysfunctionality is > a Good Thing. If you want Alsa su

Re: Debian on flash a store.

2018-03-15 Thread David
On Thu, 2018-03-15 at 19:33 +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > On 15/03/18 18:01, David Christensen wrote: > > That said, why do you have storage in a thin client? I thought the idea > > is to boot the clients over the network, run from RAM, and have the > > server do most of the work (?). > > They w

Re: Finding image file underlying an icon on Mate desktop

2018-03-15 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2018-03-15, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 03/14/2018 05:30 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> On 2018-03-14, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> Several months ago I needed a fully custom desktop icon for a shortcut. >>> I had no trouble creating an appropriate png file and having it display. >>> Now I need a simi

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread Brian
On Thu 15 Mar 2018 at 09:29:54 +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, Dominique Dumont wrote: > > > On Wednesday, 14 March 2018 20:23:32 CET Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > > This is for a normal user. Curiously, with the root account, > > > the sound works perfectly (I already saw t

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 From: tomas To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Bcc: Subject: Re: No sound in Firefox Reply-To: In-Reply-To: On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 11:27:49AM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hi, [...] > PluseAudio is the last crap on earth and I do not even kno

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, Dominique Dumont wrote: On Thursday, 15 March 2018 10:12:22 CET Pierre Frenkiel wrote: - why, with ffx 59, the sound works for root and not for a normal user, even with pulseaudio? ff59 audio works fine on my system. Can you check if ff59 is seen by pavucontrol (in

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, Michelle Konzack wrote: This can not be true, because I use Debian Stretch, have FF58 installed and it works perfectly except that I hate pulseaudio, because it need 5 minutes to start! (Login up to WindowManager usage) PluseAudio is the last crap on earth and I do not even

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, Brad Rogers wrote: I have found that, sometimes, even when starting in safe mode, with an extant settings directory some things remain messed up. The easiest way to overcome was move settings out of the way and start again. See what happens by renaming your FF settings dir

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hi, Am 2018-03-15 hackte Pierre Frenkiel in die Tasten: > On Mon, 20 Mar 2017, Marc Shapiro wrote: > >> I think that I'll keep my copy of Firefox v51.0.1 around for a >> while, until I >> am sure that I don't need to revert to it. > > I reopen this thread, as there are news issues with versions

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 15 Mar 2018 10:12:22 +0100 (CET) Pierre Frenkiel wrote: Hello Pierre, > - why, with ffx 59, the sound works for root and not for a normal > user, even with pulseaudio? I have found that, sometimes, even when starting in safe mode, with an extant settings directory some things remain

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Thursday, 15 March 2018 10:12:22 CET Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > - why, with ffx 59, the sound works for root and not for a normal user, > even with pulseaudio? ff59 audio works fine on my system. Can you check if ff59 is seen by pavucontrol (in Playback tab) when playing audio ?

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote: On Wed, 14 Mar 2018 23:00:58 +0100 (CET) Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote: Wouldn't it render your system root-vulnerable to some malignant active content (JS)? of course, but I try to avoid URLs I do

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread Pierre Frenkiel
On Thu, 15 Mar 2018, Dominique Dumont wrote: On Wednesday, 14 March 2018 20:23:32 CET Pierre Frenkiel wrote: This is for a normal user. Curiously, with the root account, the sound works perfectly (I already saw that behaviour some time ago) So, instead of "firefox", I run "sudo /usr/bin/f

Freezes after Lock Screen or switched off Monitors

2018-03-15 Thread Salve Mundus
Hello, I wanted to report the freezes I observe with debian testing. I already mocked it up by choosing "bugs.debian.org" as the responsible in the Reportbug GUI: * https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=892982 Now I want to do report these freezes in the right way and I'm wonderin

Re: No sound in Firefox

2018-03-15 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Wednesday, 14 March 2018 20:23:32 CET Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > This is for a normal user. Curiously, with the root account, > the sound works perfectly (I already saw that behaviour some time ago) > So, instead of "firefox", I run "sudo /usr/bin/firefox" Can you check if "normal user" is