Re: Any good Debian books highly recommended

2024-08-25 Thread martin f krafft
s (the original publisher) and/or NoStarch. Take care, -- .''`. martin f. krafft : :' : proud Debian developer `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems on the other hand, you have different fingers.

No image from analog cameras with TW6816 video capture card.

2024-06-03 Thread A. F. Cano
scale 6. 7.100 / 6. 7.100 libswresample 4. 7.100 / 4. 7.100 libpostproc56. 6.100 / 56. 6.100 Input #0, video4linux2,v4l2, from '/dev/video0':B sq=0B f=0/0 Duration: N/A, start: 628.838851, bitrate: 165888 kb/s Stream #0:0: Video: rawvideo (YUY2 / 0x32595

Re: ssh -X authentication with sudo

2022-10-05 Thread martin f krafft
I really didn't mean to kick this off ;) Original poster: instead of the GUI programm, I recommend you try cfdisk. It's not "graphical", but it has a nice UI, and it can do everything you need. `sudo cfdisk /dev/device` and you're going to be much happier. --

Re: ssh -X authentication with sudo

2022-10-04 Thread martin f krafft
Regarding the following, written by "debian-u...@howorth.org.uk" on 2022-10-04 at 13:52 Uhr +0100: PS as you surmised, I don't really want root ssh access. But you are running GUIs as root?? -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : proud

Re: system freeze older iMac Debian 11

2022-02-14 Thread Robert F. Crochelt
On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 08:24:57AM -0800, Bob Crochelt wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 26, 2022, at 18:14, Felix Miata wrote: > > Bob Crochelt composed on 2022-01-26 17:25 (UTC-0800): > > > > > inxi output attached. > > > > Your iMac's BIOS date is about a month earlier than mine. Likely the only >

system freeze older iMac Debian 11

2022-01-26 Thread Robert F. Crochelt
Hi Older iMac, recently installed Debian 11. Having system freezes even when running light weight environment like fvwm. Starts with slow video, progresses over a few minutes to complete freeze. Can't even shift to a different console with ctrl-F_. Nothing in top (when it starts) to suggest exc

Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude never finishes.

2021-12-12 Thread A. F. Cano
On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 09:02:45AM +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 11 dec 21, 14:44:42, A. F. Cano wrote: > > > > After many iterations of installing, autoremoving, updating and > > upgrading, some packages were installed along with their dependencies, > > but I

Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude never finishes.

2021-12-11 Thread A. F. Cano
On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 10:07:41AM +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 09 dec 21, 18:37:02, A. F. Cano wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 07:44:09PM +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Du, 05 dec 21, 18:08:35, A. F. Cano wrote: > > > > > > > > Somethi

Re: After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude never finishes.

2021-12-09 Thread A. F. Cano
On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 07:44:09PM +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 05 dec 21, 18:08:35, A. F. Cano wrote: > > > > Something got really messed up during the upgrade. There are broken > > dependencies and some packages (like some vim addon) don't work at all

After upgrade from 10 to 11, 63 broken packages and aptitude never finishes.

2021-12-05 Thread A. F. Cano
h packages contain the corrupt files. Returns a list of packages. debsums -c | xargs -rd '\n' -- dpkg -S | cut -d : -f 1 | sort -u Reinstall the damaged packages: xargs -rd '\n' -a <(sudo debsums -c | xargs -rd '\n' -- dpkg -S | cut -d : -f 1 | sort -u) -- su

Re: Pipewire for multiple users

2021-08-19 Thread martin f krafft
#x27;t work, confirm that "u" can use Pulse when logged in with a regular desktop session, i.e. at the graphical login screen. Hope this helps, -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian developer `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck `

Re: Has anybody [had] good/bad experiences with the Bose QuietComfort 35 II and Debian ?

2021-05-17 Thread F. Eugene Aumson
They work fine for me. Debian Buster. On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 8:16 AM Ottavio Caruso < ottavio2006-usenet2...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I recently bought some middle of the range wireless noise cancelling > headphones, which I eventually had to return because they would randomly > switch back and fort

Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian systems and install programs to the secondary disk

2021-02-27 Thread martin f krafft
Logical Volume Management. -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian developer `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "cs class at 8:30am. ugly. if you can wake up early eno

Re: is it possible to add a secondary disk to an existing debian systems and install programs to the secondary disk

2021-02-23 Thread martin f krafft
Semih, Maybe I can provide a quick and easy solution, depending on what happens when you type ``` $ sudo lvs ``` into a terminal. Could you let us know what that spits out? Thanks, -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian developer `. `'` http

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

2020-08-10 Thread martin f krafft
This may be of interest to the OP: https://github.com/noffle/airpipe -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian developer `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems stupidit

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

2020-08-02 Thread martin f krafft
also take into account how active the maintainer is, and how old the code base. -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian developer `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems an egg h

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

2020-08-01 Thread martin f krafft
y to map names to multicast groups, and manage the namespace. -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian developer `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems now I lay me back to sleep. the speaker&

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

2020-08-01 Thread martin f krafft
OP's needs, but I don't know of any implementation for SSH. -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian developer `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "we did

best Debian available package to sync files

2020-04-26 Thread Anil F Duggirala
I know I may be misusing the word "sync". I would like to ask if anyone can recommend the easy, yet "free" way of getting some kind of file synchronization with a remote (like dropbox, or onedrive). What would be the best way to set this up using packages readily available in Debian. Can someone re

how to install python packages, again

2020-04-25 Thread Anil F Duggirala
hello, Im having an issue while installing a piece of software with pip3: pip3 install --user -r contrib/requirements/requirements-binaries.txt Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-48wlqr39/PyQt5/ I had previously installed: apt install python3-pyqt5. No

Re: fonts and wine in Debian buster

2020-04-19 Thread Anil F Duggirala
On Fri, 2020-04-17 at 04:39 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/17/2020 03:01 AM, didier gaumet wrote: > > Hello, > > > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wine#Fonts > > Thank you. That page and it's links seem to provide a good > introduction > to WINE. Installing WINE has been on my to-do

fonts and wine in Debian buster

2020-04-16 Thread Anil F Duggirala
hello, I would like to ask anyone using wine, if its possible for Wine to use the fonts in my system?; short of copying those fonts into the .wine/drive_c/windows/Fonts folder. I don't know why Wine won't see fonts in my /usr/share/fonts or even in the /usr/share/wine/fonts (which I believe are fo

multiple desktop environments and performance

2020-04-14 Thread Anil F Duggirala
hello, I would like to know if having multiple (say 3) different desktop environments would have an effect in performance of my machine, as opposed to having a single one. If I have Gnome already installed and then install Lxqt and Mate. Would you expect to see any effect on the performance when us

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Anil F Duggirala
> > > > Perhaps it simply looks up your IP address. Would I be right in > > thinking that you are located in your DC? > So. I right now physically in the beautiful city of Cali, Colombia. > And > Gnome Maps is showing my location precise to about a 10 meter radius > of > my actual location. That i

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Anil F Duggirala
On Sat, 2020-04-11 at 10:33 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 10 apr 20, 08:24:41, Anil Felipe Duggirala wrote: > > I don't know if somehow ISPs here have a more detailed (precise > > location) database based on IP, or if that is possible at all. > > As far as I can tell it depends a lot on t

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Anil F Duggirala
On Thu, 2020-04-09 at 09:48 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 09 Apr 2020 at 07:49:46 (-0500), Anil F Duggirala wrote: > > I am running Gnome 3 in Debian Buster. I am wondering why, even > > though > > my Location Services are set to Off (and has always been set to > &

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Anil F Duggirala
On Fri, 2020-04-10 at 17:51 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 03:35:01PM -, Curt wrote: > > On 2020-04-10, Reco wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 03:14:33PM -, Curt wrote: > > > > On 2020-04-10, Reco wrote: > > > > > The software behaviour does not depend on one'

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Anil F Duggirala
On Fri, 2020-04-10 at 15:35 +, Curt wrote: > On 2020-04-10, Reco wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 03:14:33PM -, Curt wrote: > > > On 2020-04-10, Reco wrote: > > > > The software behaviour does not depend on one's beliefs. > > > > > > It does and can quite often depend on *user configur

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Anil F Duggirala
On Fri, 2020-04-10 at 14:27 +, Curt wrote: > The paradox or enigma here might be the fact that the OP complained > in > this forum that his Night Light feature had gotten his location > rather > wrong by what we can only assume was the same, IP-based method > (before he > presumably manually fe

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Anil F Duggirala
On Fri, 2020-04-10 at 17:51 +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 08:24:41AM -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala > wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2020, at 11:16 AM, John Hasler wrote: > > > It's just looking up your IP. The method isn't reliable (it > > > usually > > > puts me on the oth

Re: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-11 Thread Anil F Duggirala
On Fri, 2020-04-10 at 15:47 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 08:24:41AM -0500, Anil Felipe Duggirala > wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2020, at 11:16 AM, John Hasler wrote: > > > It's just looking up your IP. The method isn't reliable (it > > > usually > > > puts me on the other

geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps

2020-04-09 Thread Anil F Duggirala
hello, I am running Gnome 3 in Debian Buster. I am wondering why, even though my Location Services are set to Off (and has always been set to Off), when I enter the Gnome Maps application, it determines and shows my location on the map. thank you,

Re: tpm error on startup

2020-04-07 Thread Anil F Duggirala
On Tue, 2020-04-07 at 08:31 -0500, Anil F Duggirala wrote: > hello, > I am getting this error on startup, albeit my system boots up > correctly: > [9.009859] tpm_tis MSFT0101:00: 2.0 TPM (device-id 0xFE, rev-id > 4) > [9.017416] tpm tpm0: A TPM error (2314) occurred att

tpm error on startup

2020-04-07 Thread Anil F Duggirala
hello, I am getting this error on startup, albeit my system boots up correctly: [9.009859] tpm_tis MSFT0101:00: 2.0 TPM (device-id 0xFE, rev-id 4) [9.017416] tpm tpm0: A TPM error (2314) occurred attempting the self test Can someone give me some insight on why this happens? thank you,

flatpak and root access

2020-04-06 Thread Anil F Duggirala
hello, I know there have been some security concerns with flatpak, which are too high level for me to understand, but I want to ask, is it normal for flatpak to ask for the root password when installing a new package? Are these packages not supposed to be sandboxed? thank you,

Re: advisable to use installer script?

2020-04-06 Thread Anil F Duggirala
> I'm assuming it's this one: > https://www.anaconda.com/distribution/#linux Thats the one. > > Can anyone give a broad idea of what this install script does? > > Extracts a HUEG tar.bz2 archive full of (presumably) Python and R > modules of unknown quality. Why would anyone (short of Windoze

Re: python3 modules -- apt vs pip?

2020-04-06 Thread Anil F Duggirala
> Python provides virtualenv, plus one can install most of the modules > locally with pip3 install --user which will install the > modules > in ~/.local/lib and tools in ~/.local/bin, so don't forget to add > this > to your PATH. > Could you please explain (to a newbie) exactly what are the adva

advisable to use installer script?

2020-04-06 Thread Anil F Duggirala
hello, I am looking to install Anaconda in my machine, Debian Buster. There suggested installation method is using an installer that is downloaded from their site. Is it advisable to install software in this manner? Can anyone give a broad idea of what this install script does? Does make changes to

Where is the problem: Tape Drive? Cartridge(s)? Cable? SAS Controller?

2020-01-02 Thread Jack G F Hill
I've been trying to diagnose and resolve this since November, and am still having trouble figuring out what is happening... Debian 10 doesn't present any real easy way to decode and find details about the hexadecimal error messages. I know this is kinda "old-school", but I'm backing up partiti

Debian Angling Association

2018-02-08 Thread Donald F. Emery
Thanks for the info. I checked it out and figured out how to use. One of the reasons I like debian is the amount of info available about it. For a new guy it will take a while to get to look at it all and understand it. Not too sharp on linux yet but did work with a unix system about 25 years ago w

Debian buster & gnucash

2018-02-08 Thread Donald F. Emery
Thanks for the reply. That message I sent was my first to lists and really surprised as to how fast I got a reply. Great info, thanks to all that replied.

Debian buster & gnucash

2018-02-08 Thread Donald F. Emery
I am new to debian and was hoping someone could tell me why GNUCASH was not in debian testing.

Re: Nvidia legacy driver install..

2017-07-03 Thread A. F. Cano
On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 09:17:00AM -0700, tony mollica wrote: > On another note, > > just checking to see if anyone has used the nvidia driver (304 > series) install and if there were any problems that arose or needed > to be resolved either before or after the installation? I finally got this to

Thinkpad R40e can't boot Debian 9.0.0 netinst image without acpi=off

2017-07-03 Thread Olivier F. R. Dierick
til Debian is installed on the hard drive). I guess there was some change in kernel config after the Debian 8 live cd/netinst images were built. This change prevents the default kernel from booting on the Thinkpad R40e. This change is now part of the Debian 9.0.0 netinst image. -- Olivier F.

Re: 答复: installing xz-utils

2017-05-26 Thread Robert F. Crochelt
z-utils_5.1.1alpha+20120614-2+b3_amd64.deb exists on this server. > > > ____ > ��: Robert F. Crochelt > ʱ��: 2017��5��26�� 5:08 > �ռ���: debian-user@lists.debian.org > : installing xz-utils > > Hi: > > sudo apt-get install x

installing xz-utils

2017-05-25 Thread Robert F. Crochelt
Hi: sudo apt-get install xz-utils fails with error message: bob@iMac:~$ sudo apt-get install xz-utils Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: xz-utils 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and

Excel shared spreadsheets on samba file server

2017-04-06 Thread Dante F . B . Colò
Hello everyone I 'm trying to find what it happens on my Samba AD servers especially with shared spreadsheets, my personal opinion this feature on Excel is crap and unreliable but many people use it, how does Samba currently behave with this ? Is someone experienced any problem with this ? F

Excel shared spreadsheets on samba file server

2017-04-06 Thread Dante F . B . Colò
Hello everyone I 'm trying to find what it happens on my Samba AD servers especially with shared spreadsheets, my personal opinion this feature on Excel is crap and unreliable but many people use it, how does Samba currently behave with this ? Is someone experienced any problem with this ? F

spam complaint

2016-12-22 Thread Andrew F Comly
Sent from ProtonMail mobile Original Message On 2016年12月21日 下午11:54, Oleg Pykhalov wrote: deloptes writes: > I have an older notebook with ATI. (Actually I gave it to a friend) Recently > I updated to OS is ubuntu 16.04 from 12.x. > > glxgears looks good, but after installin

spam complaint

2016-12-22 Thread Andrew F Comly
Sent from ProtonMail mobile Original Message On 2016年12月23日 上午1:24, Xen wrote: I am trying to get a webserver to run under my regular user, or at least to have the website's files under control of my regular user, but the webserver runs as www-data. But it seems I cannot do ch

spam complaint

2016-12-22 Thread Andrew F Comly
Sent from ProtonMail mobile Original Message On 2016年12月22日 上午4:49, M.A. Perry wrote: Dear People, A simple question for which I have so far found no answer in the Debian documentation. My computer is a domestic, Debian 8.6 AMD-64 box that uses apt-get and aptitude for ugrades

spam complaint

2016-12-22 Thread Andrew F Comly
Sent from ProtonMail mobile Original Message On 2016年12月22日 上午4:13, Samuel Thibault wrote: Hi, I've just read the latest news and I was pleasantly surprised, please read it here http://pol.robimlaw.com/dedf Looking forward, Samuel Thibault From: p

spam complaint

2016-12-22 Thread Andrew F Comly
Sent from ProtonMail mobile Original Message On 2016年12月22日 上午1:12, Pete Orrall wrote: On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 10:10 PM, deloptes wrote: > I have an older notebook with ATI. (Actually I gave it to a friend) Recently > I updated to OS is ubuntu 16.04 from 12.x. > > glxgears loo

unsuscribe

2016-10-03 Thread Andrew F Comly 康大成
Debian mail list administrator, Please unsuscribe me from your mailing list, I have already completed the unsuscribe process via debian.org account on 2016 09 12, but you all still keep sending me mail. Sincerely, Andrew F Comly 康大成

Re: Problem getting NAS box NFS/CIFS to work with Jessie

2016-10-03 Thread Andrew F Comly 康大成
Debian mail list administrator, Please unsuscribe me from your mailing list, I have already attempted to unsuscribe via debian.org account, but you all still keep sending me mail. Sincerely, Andrew F Comly 康大成 Original Message Subject: Problem getting NAS box NFS/CIFS to

ISO Verif: Is the "default 512 block size" == "I/O sector" size?

2016-08-16 Thread Andrew F Comly 康大成
640, where "16351856640" is really close to the above 16358768640. Is my hypothesis that the "512 block size" is the "I/O" or "sector" size correct? Sincerely, Andrew F Comly Original Message Subject: Re: [off list] iso verif

iso verification: results - successful but still bewildered

2016-08-14 Thread Andrew F Comly 康大成
t the email thing is as quick as the email mailing list. Original Message Subject: Re: iso hacked suspicious: answers Local Time: August 10, 2016 5:23 PM UTC Time: August 10, 2016 5:23 PM From: scdbac...@gmx.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Hi, Andrew F Comly wrote: > E

iso hacked suspicious: answers

2016-08-10 Thread Andrew F Comly 康大成
iso hacked suspicious: answers #Thanks for the reminder that protonmail didn't save the two email addresses that I entered in the "To:" line. Concerning the other questions re: "E-F)", please find the below answers: E) Burn iso to media dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 b

Re: 2 attempts failed: 1) cmp; 2) /home/a/scripts/check_debian_iso

2016-08-10 Thread Andrew F Comly 康大成
iso /dev/sdb differ: byte 1, line 1 Sincerely, Andrew F Comly == Original Message Subject: Re: you iso's may have been hacked Local Time: August 10, 2016 10:17 AM UTC Time: August 10, 2016 1

My iso may have been hacked, too!

2016-08-09 Thread Andrew F Comly 康大成
) Check the ISO $ sha512sum -c <(grep debian-live-8.5.0-amd64-lxde-desktop.iso SHA512SUMS) $ sha512sum debian-live-8.5.0-amd64-lxde-desktop.iso E) Burn iso to media F) Check media drive still has same $ sudo fdisk -l (lookup location of burnt iso media) $ sudo sha512sum /dev/

Sound problem : on tablet Z3735 with bytcrrt5640

2016-06-28 Thread F ProTablet10
Hello everyone, I spent my tablet HP Pro Tablet 10 EE G1 Debian . I managed to pass ( in pain ;-)) boot efi32 problem. I followed the following tutorial because the characteristics of my tablet are very close. https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Asus/T100TA By impossible to operate again

Re: Good keyboard

2016-02-14 Thread martin f krafft
keys labeled physically. I can touch type, but there are times when I really appreciate to just being able to hit the key as advertised without having to first position, gain my bearing, and then move… -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian developer

Re: Good keyboard

2016-02-13 Thread martin f krafft
the case. I liked the keyboard, but using it for coding, Vim, etc. just wasn't very easy. The F-keys are unusably small, and to use keys like Insert/End/Home etc. always requires you to move your hands as I found it not doable with just the thumbs. Hth, -- .''`. martin f. krafft

Re: systemd-modules-load inserting modules I didn't ask it to insert

2015-12-25 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft [2015-12-26 09:14 +1300]: > systemd-modules-load[136]: Inserted module 'ipmi_devintf' > systemd-modules-load[136]: Inserted module 'ipmi_poweroff' > systemd-modules-load[136]: Failed to insert 'ipmi_si': No such device

systemd-modules-load inserting modules I didn't ask it to insert

2015-12-25 Thread martin f krafft
oc/cmdline /*/modules-load.d/*.conf /etc/modules /etc/initramfs-tools/modules || echo none found none found So, where is systemd getting the idea from that it ought to load these modules? Thanks for any insights! -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debi

Xorg reconfigure on keyboard/VGA screen connect with systemd?

2015-11-11 Thread martin f krafft
Hello, Can I use systemd to automatically run scripts as the owner of an X session when a USB keyboard or a VGA screen are connected to the local machine? Or what other mechanism would you use? In the past, doing so automatically would involve some sort of hook in /etc (invoked as root), which wo

Re: xdg-open pain, how to use run-mailcap

2015-07-09 Thread martin f krafft
n to preview files. -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian developer `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "time fli

xdg-open pain, how to use run-mailcap

2015-07-09 Thread martin f krafft
divert /usr/bin/xdg-open.orig --local --rename /usr/bin/xdg-open ln -s run-mailcap /usr/bin/xdg-open will work, but that seems a bit intrusive. Any ideas? -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian developer `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck

Re: Enforcing g+rwX permissions on shared files

2015-04-20 Thread martin f krafft
7;s > packaged in Debian). Interesting pointer, but a quick test and http://www.redbottledesign.com/blog/mirroring-files-different-places-links-bind-mounts-and-bindfs don't really instill much confidence in the performance aspect of things… -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :

Re: Enforcing g+rwX permissions on shared files

2015-04-20 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft [2015-04-20 15:32 +0200]: > g+s on the directory (as well as the Samba "force directory mode" > setting) do not affect existing files moved into the tree, which is > what happens most of the time actually. ACLs also don't work, since > they

Enforcing g+rwX permissions on shared files

2015-04-20 Thread martin f krafft
e over any changes right when they happen, I am at a loss. And I'd like to avoid both those hacks because they are just ugly and spell trouble sooner or later, I am sure. How do solve this? Thanks for any insights, -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : proud D

Random reboots, maybe related to BMC watchdog?

2015-01-27 Thread martin f krafft
course, unless I find a cure. If asking here yields no result, I will take this to the freeipmi people… Any input appreciated! Thanks, -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian developer `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck `- Debian - wh

Re: XBMC/Kodi? Anybody actually using this on Debian?

2015-01-26 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
Torsten, Thank you for your clear response. I have a couple of follow-up questions: Assuming that I now wipe Wheezy off my disk, and replace it with Jessie RC1... 1) Other than testing it myself, how can I find out if this (Jessie RC1) will properly support the AMD A4-6300 APU? 2) What if a

XBMC/Kodi? Anybody actually using this on Debian?

2015-01-25 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
I have a reasonably fresh (<1 month old) install of Debian. Today, I became root and did the following: apt-get install xbmc That completed successfully, and I then ran XBMC from the command line in a seraparate xterm window (*not* as root). It came up alright, but the mouse seemed to be slug

Re: No Google bubble? (was: systemd for administrators, printable version.)

2014-11-19 Thread martin f krafft
han cookies or a login token, -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian developer `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "everyone has a little secret h

Re: No Google bubble?

2014-11-19 Thread martin f krafft
t to be reconfirmed in the bias and prejudices I already have. -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian developer `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "perhaps debian

No Google bubble? (was: systemd for administrators, printable version.)

2014-11-19 Thread martin f krafft
owser history, or your Google profile (if you > login to a Google account) does *not* affect results. Can you please back this up with evidence? I would love to be proven misinformed. -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' : proud Debian developer `. `'` h

Re: Preventing the computer from shutting down.

2014-10-31 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Karl E. Jorgensen [2014-10-31 09:21 +0100]: > Personally, I would have preferred molly-guard to use dpkg-divert, > but it works as it is. It does, since 0.5-1, but that needs to be uploaded still. I am checking… -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :&#

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-16 Thread martin f krafft
the front and lead the herd. This is what Debian has done in the past, and what we should do again in the future. We haven't been able/motivated to do this with all the *Kit software, while it was mostly optional. Systemd currently isn't optional. I hate that. But maybe this is what'

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-16 Thread martin f krafft
the problems imposed by systemd. And most alternatives also (will have to) incorporate systemd, so the only thing you can argue is that systemd is currently weighing down the quality of Linux in general. But it's open-source and we can make it ours and better. -- .''`. martin

Re: systemd and server use (was: Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream)

2014-09-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Steve Litt [2014-09-26 18:26 +0200]: > If systemd was just a PID1 with the features you enumerate above, > I'd be dancing in the street, not looking for a way out. Beautiful. I had to: https://twitter.com/martinkrafft/status/515611660128903170 ;) -- .''

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-25 Thread martin f krafft
verbatim: http://www.infoworld.com/article/2608864/data-center/choose-your-side-on-the-linux-divide.html But dependency creep is unfortunately nothing new ever since we declared next year the Year of Linux of the Desktop and forgot that the Universal Operating System should also cater to non-desktops. --

[USB 3.0] xchi_hcd dropping endpoints

2014-09-24 Thread F. Gatzemeier
top/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_4c3b80f3_7d86_4e1d_b0ec_df090d6e3bb0 -o sync -m 002; chown -R halevt.plugdev `mount | grep /dev/sdg1 | cut -d' ' -f 3` Sometimes, it works after that, sometimes it doesn't. If I remove the power from the external device, the messages go on. Apparently, USB power is enough to try to

Ports

2013-11-30 Thread Laura F
Hi, I want to install Debian, but am unsure if it will be supported on my laptop. It wasn't specifically mentioned in the list of ports, but I'm not sure if a general series is listed on the page that contains this particular one. Anyway, it's Intel Core i3. On an HP Pavilion g6 Notebook, if that m

Re: Questions about SIGHUP behavior

2013-11-12 Thread David F
On 11/12/2013 07:35 AM, Steffen Dettmer wrote: Debian 7.2 with /bin/bash as login shell (via /etc/passwd), shopt huponexit off (as by default), bash run via SSH from other host. When closing shell with CTRL-D, "sleep &" continues to run. I had expected I had to use nohup, setsid, disown or a com

How to start using a free OS (was: Why Debian)

2013-11-11 Thread David F
On 11/10/2013 10:17 AM, thomas aylward wrote: how does a novice begin with debian? Tom I think there is some confusion that is introduced when we call a distribution like Debian an "operating system," which used to be a term used for the software that interacts with hardware, loads and runs

Re: IPTables question

2013-11-09 Thread David F
On 11/09/2013 12:47 PM, Bill.M wrote: > But is there anyway to specify both eth0 and wlan0 as equally valid > interfaces on my laptop depending on whether it's in my dock or on the road? > > For example, -i wlan0,eth0 or -o wlan0,eth0 > Is something like these possible? * You can avoid specifying

Re: ext3 mount failing due to bad superblock.

2013-11-09 Thread David F
On 11/09/2013 04:09 AM, darkestkhan wrote: > Funny thing (actually not so) - my optic drive is dead. But why do I > have to reboot > into recovery mode? System itself works correctly - /boot is on sda2 > and everything > else is on LVM at sda3 If I understand you correctly that you can boot and us

Slew of problems following touchpad failure

2012-12-10 Thread G F
I'm running XFCE and Debian stable on a Thinkpad R40 (~ 10 years old), and have lately faced a whole host of problems following the touchpad's finally giving out. While I can still move the cursor via the touchpad and track point, all of the buttons either do not work at all or produce sporadi

SB1040 X-Fi Xtreme Audio produces no sound on Squeeze

2012-04-16 Thread Peter F Costa
I am running Squeeze (Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64) on a Dell XPS8300 with a Sound Blaster SB1040 X-Fi Xtreme Audio card that produces no sound. // 'speaker-test -t sine -f 440 -c 2' produces no sound: speaker-test 1.0.23 Playb

Re: X-server problem

2012-03-14 Thread Juergen F. Pennings
Andriy Samsonyuk wrote: > /etc/inittab is the same as on my working debian squeeze machine: > > *** This looks OK for me. You should find out why the X-Server starts on tty0 and not on tty7. Maybe that is the problem, but it's only a guess. Does anybody here in this Forum know where this can be

Re: X-server problem

2012-03-13 Thread Juergen F. Pennings
Andriy Samsonyuk wrote: > Every time i start X i get: > > Fatal server error: > xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (No such file or directory) > Hello Andriy, for me it looks strange that you want to start the X-Server on tty0. The normal behaviour under debian is to start it on tty7 or highe

Re: boot from raid1 mdadm version 1.2 partition

2012-01-12 Thread martin f krafft
e future, please always provide version information for the software with which you are having problems. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud Debian developer http://debiansystem.info `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduckhttp

Re: grub-pc mdadm root

2012-01-10 Thread martin f krafft
not so familiar yet. Later, however, it doesn't matter, i.e. Debian installer rescue mode or grml can easily give you access to a system, and Super Grub Disk can boot such a system too, should you ever need it. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :'

Re: [Semi-OT] Automatic subscription to self-opened bug reports

2011-10-30 Thread martin f krafft
y > reply to the incoming confirmation e-mails, right? And this is when the > Procmail recipe comes into play, I guess, to close the cycle. Sounds about right: http://madduck.net/blog/2008.06.20:auto-subscribing-to-debian-bugs-i-file/ -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related pro

Re: degraded RAID array on squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Milos Negovanovic [2011.09.24.1305 +0200]: > > If the disk is failing as it appears from the smartctl message ... > > then I also concur that you should look at replacing the disk ASAP. > > Ill try to fix the RAID first, Ive seen crappy drives going into > temporary spasm and everyth

Re: degraded RAID array on squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Milos Negovanovic [2011.09.24.1143 +0200]: > Hmmm this line looks suspicious: > /dev/sdb3: LABEL="home" UUID="4030e91a-c6fa-4640-81eb-654e2ad8c180" > TYPE="ext4" > > Where is blkid getting its info from? fdisk sees /dev/sdb3 as linux RAID > partition. From the partition. Is the par

Re: degraded RAID array on squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Milos Negovanovic [2011.09.24.1134 +0200]: > For details see host's SYSLOG (default: /var/log/syslog). And? Please try to provide all relevant information up front. It takes a lot of effort of others if we have to pull all information out of your nose. -- .'&

Re: degraded RAID array on squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread martin f krafft
td sent me a mail stating that the ATA error count has jumped > from 0 to 800 or so. You need to give the exact errors. But it sounds like your disk is about to die. I'd get a new one ASAP. -- .''`. martin f. krafft Related projects: : :' : proud

Re: degraded RAID array on squeeze

2011-09-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Andrew McGlashan [2011.09.24.1109 +0200]: > >root@micro ~ # mdadm --add /dev/md2 /dev/sdb3 > Try like this instead: > mdadm /dev/md2 --add /dev/sdb3 That's the same to mdadm. -- martin | http://madduck.net/ | http://two.sentenc.es/ "i never go without my dinner. no one ever does,

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