Boot fails unless nomodeset is set

Hi, Since the upgrade from jessie to stretch and despite several kernel upgrades from backports I am bitten by the bug described here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=914517 I am running the stretch system with the old 3.16 kernel from jessie. Could please someone have a look

Question about changed logout behavior.

Hi there, since starting using testing a month or so ago my xsession behavior (I pressume) seem to have changed. I get logged out automatically after exiting 'X'. I actually read that one person experienced the same thing about a week ago. Debian user, used testing and within the same time-frame a

Re: Missing /var/log/wtmp

Colleen Keegan

Re: backintime

On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 02:09:20AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: Finally, some understands the difference, thank you. Finding the save-as stuff in geany, apparently disabled by default, is exactly the stuff I needed. Yes we should have changed the Subject, really, when we changed the subject… any

Synaptic failure to function

Hello All, just a little information which may be useful. I recently experienced a system crash caused by a power failure and was left with no access to Synaptic after re-starting and cleaning up as much of the mess as possible. Googling wasn't very helpful so I tried creating another user account

Re: mariadb error on start (Debian 9)

On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 08:52:13AM +0100, Jose Velasco wrote: > It's true, I did an upgrade 7 to 8 and after 8 to 9. > > the output of uname -a: > Linux x-server.info 3.2.41-042stab127.2 #1 SMP Thu Jan 4 16:41:44 MSK > 2018 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > I suppose that it is a custom kernel by VPS prov