Re: troubleshooting Kmail

2018-02-19 Thread mark
ruary 1st arrived and passed. The new software was put in place on the 12th. Since then, I have been unable to login to my account. No help on the screen. When I called last week, they said that they were ware of the problem and were working very hard to resolve it. No apology. They can tell me my balance over the phone, but that is about it. IMO, this is absurd. Mark

Re: troubleshooting Kmail

2018-02-19 Thread mark
rked at about the 3.5 point, with kajillions > of bugs fixed. I'm running it here, works perfect. > Thanks Gene, I've been searching for the TDE e-mail client that you mention and I can't find it. Can you please point me in the right direction? Mark

Re: troubleshooting Kmail

2018-02-17 Thread mark
server is configured to leave mail on the server after being read. Also, have you checked that the version of kmail is the same on both computers? Mark Have you ckecked the version of each instance of kmail?

Re: Strange Loss of Synaptic Functionality

2018-02-10 Thread Mark Fletcher
ch here I have deb http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ stretch/updates main contrin non-free ie no /debian-security Mark

Re: Causes, cures and prevention of orphaned inodes?

2018-02-04 Thread Mark Fletcher
as I know, stable. Anyway worth confirming what filesystem(s) is/are actually on the disks where orphaned inodes are occurring. If it is something more unusual, you might have found a bug in the filesystem. Also, do you use encryption on your disks eg LUKS? Just a couple of thoughts Mark

Re: Network setup by installer

2018-01-25 Thread Mark Fletcher
connection, especially if the wireless connection out of the box were in any way compromised eg old / dodgy / incorrectly selected firmware. The wireless part of my home netwxork is moderately populous, the wired part much less so. Mark

Re: Iptables at boot

2018-01-20 Thread Mark Fletcher
ill _not work_ on Debian, but there may be a preferred Debian location for such files, which hopefully my contribution will encourage someone knowledgable to add. then to run it once, as root: systemctl start iptables and to set it up so it runs at boot, as root: systemctl enable iptables HTH Mark

Re: Network setup by installer

2018-01-19 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 02:33:23PM +, Brian wrote: > On Fri 19 Jan 2018 at 22:10:39 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 06:43:10AM +0100, john doe wrote: > > > > > > > So, I return to the essential question, which I led with in my o

Re: Network setup by installer

2018-01-19 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 06:43:10AM +0100, john doe wrote: > On 1/19/2018 12:45 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > Hello the list > > > > Can anyone point me at documentation of how the installer sets up > > network interfaces, out of the several ways there are to do it? >

Network setup by installer

2018-01-18 Thread Mark Fletcher
n in this case? amd64 install on mini-ITX type PCs. Thanks in advance Mark

Re: kernel nvidia dkms rebuild after upgrade?

2018-01-07 Thread Mark Fletcher
ut where I run Debian I run stretch so just installed the stable update from stretch to fix Meltdown. Since my stretch machines are behind my firewall anyway my priority was to get my firewall patched, so if there is more to come in terms of patching stock Debian kernels, I am disinclined to panic. Mark

Re: Weired package policy

2018-01-07 Thread Mark Fletcher
get solved eventually is being made. In the meantime, no claims are being made that buster is anywhere near ready for release, so things like this are to be expected. HTH Mark

Re: tigervnc and multiple users

2018-01-06 Thread Mark Fletcher
kill $DISPLAY > > > Now there is no way I wrote that, so I either copied it from a webpage  > somewhere or that is what the tigervnc package installs by default. > > As I say this works when I run the server as me and try to log into it  > as me. How can I set things up so I

Re: File permission confusion [Debian 9.1 with MATE]

2018-01-01 Thread Mark Fletcher
leges to (for example ownership of) the directory, yes you'd be able to delete it. I'd further postulate that in your scenario when the file was owned by root but the directory was owned by richard, richard would not have been able to append to or shorten the file -- because that would have involved writing to the file which richard did not have permissions to do. Mark

tigervnc and multiple users

2017-12-31 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 problem. I find I c

Re: Mixing and Matching DHCP and static IPs

2017-12-28 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 03:31:11PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 28/12/2017 à 13:01, Mark Fletcher a écrit : > > > > Beyond the man pages for DHCPD is > > there a good reference anyone can recommend for exactly what happens > > when a DHCP request is made? > &

Re: Mixing and Matching DHCP and static IPs

2017-12-28 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 06:13:41PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 27/12/2017 à 16:07, Mark Fletcher a écrit : > > > If you want to check this you can just try to accept any packets forwarded > from the internal interface to itself. > > iptables -A FORWARD -i enp0s20u3 -

Re: Mixing and Matching DHCP and static IPs

2017-12-27 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 04:33:57PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 26/12/2017 à 16:05, Mark Fletcher a écrit : > > > > At the risk of further advertising my ignorance, 3 as an 8-bit binary is > > 0011, and 252 in binary is 1100, so why doesn't that mask "

Re: Mixing and Matching DHCP and static IPs

2017-12-27 Thread Mark Fletcher
hat address range. > You guess correctly Pascal, that's a known limitation of the approach that I consider irrelevant. There is no need to initiate connections into the "inner LAN" from the firewall, and connections can be initiated the other way with no problems. Mark

Re: Mixing and Matching DHCP and static IPs

2017-12-27 Thread Mark Fletcher
time=0.596 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=63 time=0.649 ms $ ssh 192.168.1.1 mark@192.168.1.1's password: $ and finally from 192.168.1.1 -- the firewall: $ ssh 192.168.1.3 mark@192.168.1.3's password: If I type the password I can log in. I'd really like to be able to see t

Re: Mixing and Matching DHCP and static IPs

2017-12-26 Thread Mark Fletcher
o reason not to. But nonetheless that is what I will do next. Will advise (tomorrow -- it's past my bedtime now). Mark

Re: Mixing and Matching DHCP and static IPs

2017-12-26 Thread Mark Fletcher
uot; device that's > handing out the 1.0/24 network (make and model please)? > Yeah that was in the TLDR original post. It's a mini-ITX PC running LFS. It came with Windows 10, and I ripped it out of Windows' evil clutches and installed LFS on it. Before bringing the PI into the picture, this box had been acting as my firewall, DHCP server for the AirStation, and occasional VPN server for me for about a year with no problems. Mark

Re: Mixing and Matching DHCP and static IPs

2017-12-26 Thread Mark Fletcher
#x27;t be right. I think the BUT here, though, is that I can ssh from a machine on the inner network (connected to a LAN port of the AirStation) to the firewall at the outermost edge of my network (that is, from 192.168.11.x to 192.168.1.1) and that works. From what you are saying, it shouldn't -- UNLESS, the AirStation makes an exception specifically for 192.168.1.1 because that is what it has been told its default gateway is. Mark

Re: Mixing and Matching DHCP and static IPs

2017-12-26 Thread Mark Fletcher
of call (after I've opened up the netmask to 255.255.255.0). Since both the PI and the firewall are LFS I will probably have to build the tcpdump program for them both as there is nothing installed on either of them that isn't strictly needed. I'll report back when I have done that, if I don't figure something else out in the meantime. Mark

Re: Mixing and Matching DHCP and static IPs

2017-12-26 Thread Mark Fletcher
t; netmask on the Airstation WAN side is actually /24. If for instance the mask > was set to /30 instead, 192.168.1.3 would be considered by the Airstation as > a broadcast address and would explain why it does not work. > The netmask is 255.255.255.252. I just tried changing it to 248, ie zeroing out one more bit, but that did not help. (changed it by changing the netmask supplied by the firewall's DHCP server and then checking in the AirStation's web interface that the netmask had indeed changed). Mark

Re: Mixing and Matching DHCP and static IPs

2017-12-26 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 20:40 Dan Purgert wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > [...] > > AirStation LAN is 192.168.11.0/24, outside AirStation LAN is > > 192.168.1.1, .2 and .3 -- note the third octet difference for

Re: Mixing and Matching DHCP and static IPs

2017-12-25 Thread Mark Fletcher
he dhcp range you set up. I normall pin down > > all my connected devices that way, leaving the dhcp assignment for > > guests etc. > > The technical term of this is "DHCP reservation". > Thanks Sven, that will help me find documentation on doing this with dhcpd. Mark

Re: Mixing and Matching DHCP and static IPs

2017-12-25 Thread Mark Fletcher
n the same subnet? It would SEEM that the problem boils down to 192.168.1.2 (AirStation) not knowing how to route to 192.168.1.3 (PI), when there is no router required here, they can talk directly... I'll try it anyway. Thanks. Mark

Re: Mixing and Matching DHCP and static IPs

2017-12-25 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Mon, Dec 25, 2017 at 06:00:00PM +0100, deloptes wrote: > Henning Follmann wrote: > > Mark can start by drawing a diagram of the setup, configuring the DHCP an > DNS and firewall properly. > Ad DHCP Mark, you can setup a range with static and a range with dynamic IP > addre

Re: Mixing and Matching DHCP and static IPs

2017-12-25 Thread Mark Fletcher
point in forgetting the DNS caching, it's the only reason I'm doing any of this, otherwise I already have a perfectly functioning network protected by a simple layer of security and there would be nothing to do. And where would the fun in that be? :) Mark

Mixing and Matching DHCP and static IPs

2017-12-25 Thread Mark Fletcher
hat feature (saying words to the effect of "no clients respect this feature, it's useless")... Once I can get the LAN to see the PI, I plan to install dnscache on the PI and modify the DHCP server setup on the firewall to supply the PI as the DNS server to the AirStation. Thanks in advance, Mark

Re: Debian Stretch: Problems with installation - computer froze

2017-12-24 Thread Mark Sack
command - run the $ dpkg --configure -a as suggested by the above - reinstall rtkit, i.e. $ apt-get install --reinstall rtkit Then when I reboot, everything seems to be working fine and the machine comes up with the gnome login screen. -- Mark Sack about.me/marksack<http://about.me/marksack>

Re: hosting emails at home

2017-12-11 Thread mark
nstall the software and restore the config files (including certificates). Poof--mail server up and running. What am I missing in your message? Mark

Re: Gnome strange behavior while typing in some windows

2017-12-10 Thread Mark Fletcher
t way even if that isn't the only way that could work for that language? What languages do you have installed? And what do you find if you search your system for "input method"? Mark

Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd

2017-12-08 Thread Mark Fletcher
The OP has never been seen again since the original post. Just sayin’... On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 9:39 Menelaos Maglis wrote: > Joe writes: > > > I think there's a case for asking which way to set it during an expert > > install or during the upgrade that reversed the default setting. > > I think

Re: OT: Troubleshooting an IP device on a LAN from another LAN--would a VPN work?

2017-12-08 Thread Mark Fletcher
. You’d remote control their Windows machine from your end and use it to ssh or whatever to the Obi. If solutions must be free then I’d suggest to get the same effect with OpenVPN. This will take quite a bit more setup; the OpenVPN instructions are good but there are more steps, so if you want to go that way let us know and I’ll describe in more detail how I would do it. HTH Mark

Re: [OT a bit] -- OpenVPN and mobile safety

2017-11-28 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 02:31:16PM +, Joe wrote: > On Tue, 28 Nov 2017 21:28:55 +0900 > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 04:18:12PM +, Joe wrote: > > > > > > > Note that most (maybe all) free wifi systems will want you to > >

Re: [OT a bit] -- OpenVPN and mobile safety

2017-11-28 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 04:18:12PM +, Joe wrote: > On Mon, 27 Nov 2017 00:33:02 +0900 > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 05:46:23PM +, Joe wrote: > 'Send everything through the VPN' means everything which would be sent > to the default ga

Re: [OT a bit] -- OpenVPN and mobile safety

2017-11-26 Thread Mark Fletcher
able to send to the tablet. ie if some service I'm unaware of (it's stuffed with Samsung bloatware after all) is listening on the device, I don't want it talking to strangers as it were... Thanks for your reply, sorry I took a while to respond but I was travelling for business. Mark

Re: Play On Linux, Wine, & iTunes

2017-11-26 Thread Mark Fletcher
t am not sure. Anyway, not the case that you can't interact with it at all (but I'm not surprised iTunes is difficult to get working). Mark

[OT a bit] -- OpenVPN and mobile safety

2017-11-21 Thread Mark Fletcher
but I want that to be the absolute minimum necessary. Is this a matter of configuring OpenVPN right, and if so can anyone point me at a good tutorial? or do I need other software, in which case can anyone give me any pointers? Thanks Mark

Re: mysqldump from mysql 5.1.73 to mariadb 10.1.26 imports no data

2017-11-11 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 11:23:37AM +0200, Tapio Lehtonen wrote: > Mark Fletcher kirjoitti 11.11.2017 klo 08:44: > > > > I'm not sure I'd expect that much newer a mysqldump client to work on > > that much older a server. And the mysql - mariadb divide won't

Re: mysqldump from mysql 5.1.73 to mariadb 10.1.26 imports no data

2017-11-10 Thread Mark Fletcher
ldump output bzip2 achieves better compression and doesn't take noticably longer] If storage space on the old server is a problem, an option would be creative use of mounts to get around that. HTH Mark

Feature suggestion re package metadata

2017-10-29 Thread Mark Summerfield
guage', over 500 under 'Documentation', and over 1000 under 'Development'. ISTM that subcategories or some other finer-grained classification would be a real help. Best wishes, -- Mark Summerfield

Re: Loosing my mind with sending an E-Mail...

2017-10-08 Thread Mark Fletcher
ted it as spam (doh!) > So Thunderbird is actually expecting sentences in German language to make > sense? It probably saw two malformed mails close together, put up with the first one, but then saw the second one and thought "nah, bollix..." Mark

An answer to "Gave up waiting for suspend/resume device"

2017-09-22 Thread Mark Luxton
-f to find the UUID's. Put the correct UUID's into /etc/fstab, especially swap, for this error. Put the correct UUID for swap into /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume. Run sudo update-initramfs -u Reboot. Fixed my triple boot of Stretch all with this error, as the swap file had chang

Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch

2017-09-07 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 08:12:21AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 07:57:58AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > That's fascinating because I found the opposite -- my circa-2009 > > self-built Intel Core i7 920-based machine surged ahead when I upgraded

Re: Debian v9 it's a stretch

2017-09-06 Thread Mark Fletcher
;t help you much, but let the record show that stretch does work great for at least some people... Mark

Re: DHCP server that itself gets an IP address by DHCP

2017-08-25 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 08:14:29AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 07:34:16AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 04:39:13PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > I strongly recommend just running your own caching DNS resolver on the >

Re: DHCP server that itself gets an IP address by DHCP

2017-08-24 Thread Mark Fletcher
oing to be faster. Or am I missing the point? And, in terms of a local caching DNS server -- would BIND be the recommended solution? Thanks Mark

Re: DHCP server that itself gets an IP address by DHCP

2017-08-24 Thread Mark Fletcher
hine, although I am not married to that method, it's just that it was super-easy to set up and worked first time, so I never had reason to look for an alternative. Mark

DHCP server that itself gets an IP address by DHCP

2017-08-24 Thread Mark Fletcher
ere a way to specify that they should be taken from the host the DHCP server is running on? Thanks Mark

Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos

2017-08-14 Thread Mark Fletcher
se stretch, I am on stretch so that is what I use) then apt update and bob will be your uncle, and fanny will be your aunt. Mark

Re: debian 9.1 dpkg error when installing xemacs and erlang

2017-08-14 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 04:19:24PM +0200, Rémy Noulin wrote: > Hi Mark, > After running: > apt-get install emacs25-el > > I get another error: > > While compiling erlang-edoc-xml-context in file > /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/erlang/erlang-edoc.el: > !! File err

Amanda since the upgrade to Stretch

2017-08-10 Thread Mark Fletcher
e. What does "taperflush criteria not met" mean? Mark

Re: debian 9.1 dpkg error when installing xemacs and erlang

2017-08-10 Thread Mark Fletcher
I _think_ you are going to want to go either with the -24 or -25 series, not both, and if you held a gun to my head I would say it's probably the -el package rather than the -common package that you need, but that could easily be wrong. See which ones are not already installed on your system -- something that's already there isn't the missing package! :) Hope that helps. Mark

Re: Sudden death of bluetooth headphone connectivity

2017-08-09 Thread Mark Fletcher
normal user. That is presumably an artifact of the upgrade from Jessie to Stretch -- I had previously removed the system one to fix an earlier problem but it seems I can connect and use the headphones without doing so now, if I manually load the module. Thanks a lot for everyone's help with this one. Mark

Re: Sudden death of bluetooth headphone connectivity

2017-08-09 Thread Mark Fletcher
h other devices eg my iPhone, and for anyone coming late into the conversation they also worked with this computer too until about 2 weeks ago now. Mark

Re: RE : ... blah lbah blah ... spam

2017-08-06 Thread Mark Fletcher
one stupid enough) I suspect debian-user has just made it into their lists one way or another and they probably haven't even noticed. So a bunch of hassle for a lot of people, and the perpetrators didn't even specifically intend to do it. (they also are supremely indifferent to the trouble they have caused) Mark

Re: howto restart a service in postinst script (Stretch and newer)

2017-08-04 Thread Mark Fletcher
All these commands have to run with root privilege, either from a root shell or via sudo. Mark

Re: Sudden death of bluetooth headphone connectivity

2017-08-04 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 08:35:23PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 04 Aug 2017, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > suddenly stopped working. I didn't do an apt autoremove last Sunday, but > > may have done one the Sunday before -- which would have been reckless &g

Re: Sudden death of bluetooth headphone connectivity

2017-08-04 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 01:27:57AM +0200, deloptes wrote: > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > If anyone can remember which package that is, I can check if it is > > installed... The only thing is I am not sure how it would have got onto > > the system if it isn't depend

Re: Sudden death of bluetooth headphone connectivity

2017-08-03 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 10:39:03PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > > I vaguely recall there was a package that needs to be installed for the > audio to work, but it does not show into dependencies, so it is not pulled > with bluez or pulse audio (th

Re: Re: Sudden death of bluetooth headphone connectivity

2017-08-03 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 08:25:27PM +0100, dekkz...@gmail.com wrote: > > Mark, > > What BT chipset are you using, have you acccidently disabled it in BIOS? > Nothing shows up in google about protocol not available but there was a bug > in gnome 3.24 and pulseaudio 10 with g

Re: Sudden death of bluetooth headphone connectivity

2017-08-03 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 02:03:36PM +0100, stuart watt wrote: > On 08/03, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > Hello the list! > > > > Suddenly, earlier this week, my bluetooth headphones stopped working > > with Stretch. > > > > I update weekly, usually on Sund

Sudden death of bluetooth headphone connectivity

2017-08-03 Thread Mark Fletcher
my iPhone, so the problem seems to be with the computer, with which they were working fine until a bit over a week ago. Mark

Re: Need to upgrade to jessie need help

2017-07-29 Thread Mark Fletcher
t were marked as non-auto and which nothing depended on. That is a different problem but produces a very similar effect to a dummy package depending on libraries whose package names change with an upgrade. I suspect you, Greg, already know a lot of this, but nonetheless hopefully this will be useful for the archives. Mark

Re: cups

2017-07-20 Thread Mark Fletcher
es, not 15!) when I haven't printed for a while and the printer decides that the moment I need a document in a hurry is the moment to clean the print nozzles... Mark

Re: VPN notification

2017-07-16 Thread Mark Fletcher
s path to the internet and correspondingly you will see a reduction in bandwidth / transfer rate. I found I could stream video using HMA, but I had to put up with occasional slowdowns and, very occasionally, not being able to scrape together enough speed for streaming to work at all. Mark

Re: dhclient or network problem

2017-07-16 Thread Mark Fletcher
er > story. What is your wifi card, do you have something starting with w in > the output of ip addr show? What is the output of the lspci -v | grep -i > -A6 net? > > Uh, no mate, I don't think that is what the OP meant. I suspect the laptop is a different computer. And telling us the cable works in his laptop is designed to head off suggestions the cable might be at fault. He never mentiond WiFi anywhere. Mark

Re: Nvidia legacy driver install..

2017-07-04 Thread Mark Fletcher
re were helpful nuggets here and there which, when combined by a reasonably technical person who was paying attention, could be pulled together into enough information to solve the problem and get it working. Mark

Re: Remotely exploitable bug in systemd (CVE-2017-9445)

2017-07-01 Thread Mark Fletcher
must be at least few weeks old as I recently > updated back then. > >From my reading of the issue it isn't that it is fixed in Jessie, it is that it was never an issue in the first place in Jessie -- Jessie's version of systemd never had the vulnerable code (presumably because the vulnerable code is newer than that) Mark

Re: Stretch, pulseaudio and bluetooth headphones

2017-07-01 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 09:52:42AM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > On 06/29/2017 09:58 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > Hello the list! > > > > Quite a while ago I bought a pair of Bang & Olufsen bluetooth headphones > > and have been using them from Jessie. > > >

Stretch, pulseaudio and bluetooth headphones

2017-06-29 Thread Mark Fletcher
solutions to be had? (Solutions that aren't likely to fall apart after I've forgotten what I did) Mark

Re: Jessie --> Stretch upgrade, apt question

2017-06-28 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 11:36:37AM +, Curt wrote: > On 2017-06-25, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > > My question is that since the upgrade chromium is held back from > > upgrading, and in this new world I don't know how to find out why. In > > aptitude I would hav

Re: Jessie --> Stretch upgrade, apt question

2017-06-28 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 11:18:46AM +0200, Dejan Jocic wrote: > On 25-06-17, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > Hello the list! > > > > I have upgraded this weekend from Jessie to Stretch. All went, overall, > > reasonably smoothly -- the documentation around releases is gettin

Re: Jessie --> Stretch upgrade, apt question

2017-06-25 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 12:29:27PM -0700, Cousin Stanley wrote: > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > > > I do wish apt show made it easier to tell > > if a package is installed > > > > $ apt policy some-pkg-name > > which evolved from > &

Jessie --> Stretch upgrade, apt question

2017-06-25 Thread Mark Fletcher
omium has been kept back, but not why. sudo apt --fix-broken install finds nothing to do. Suggestions would be much appreciated. Mark

Re: openvpn updates?

2017-06-22 Thread Mark Fletcher
up! Any chance someone could post a link with details? Mark

Re: switching flavors

2017-06-06 Thread Mark Fletcher
titude, search for dist-upgrade, in the section on full-upgrade -- "This command was originally named dist-upgrade for historical reasons, and aptitude still recognises dist-upgrade as a synonym for full-upgrade." The man page does not acknowledge just upgrade as a command. According to the man page, the two options are safe-upgrade and full-upgrade, but I can testify that upgrade still works (and I _think_ does a safe-upgrade). Mark

Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network

2017-06-01 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 10:39:07AM -, Dan Purgert wrote: > Curt wrote: > > On 2017-05-26, Mark Fletcher wrote: > >>> > >> It seems like you read my original problem as slowness accessing the > >> internet. That isn't the problem, I'm concern

Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network

2017-06-01 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 05:08:16PM +, Curt wrote: > On 2017-05-26, Mark Fletcher wrote: > >> > > It seems like you read my original problem as slowness accessing the > > internet. That isn't the problem, I'm concerned about intra-LAN speeds. > >

Re: unsigned linux-image?

2017-05-29 Thread Mark Kamichoff
ps://packages.debian.org/sid/linux-image-4.7.0-1-amd64 > > Cheers - I don't tend to look at the detailed descriptions of packages I > think I'm familiar with :-) > > I might make a suggestion on the kernel list, to add something to the > description of -unsigned packages ...

Re: spammers go personal

2017-05-27 Thread Mark
what up On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 7:49 PM, Fungi4All wrote: > Here are the headers I got > > Return-Path: X-Original-To: fungil...@protonmail.com > Received: from mail-io0-f176.google.com (mail-io0-f176.google.com > [209.85.223.176]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 > (128/1

Re: unable to repartition SD card from Android phone

2017-05-27 Thread Mark Copper
> > Does you SD card and/or SD card adapter have a write-protect tab or other > such mechanism? If so, put it in the unlocked position. The micro SD cards used in phones don't appear to have such mechanisms, but your point is well taken; viz. I've not adequately checked the hardware path (MB, car

Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network

2017-05-26 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 10:09:08AM -, Dan Purgert wrote: > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 02:18:06PM -, Dan Purgert wrote: > >> Mark Fletcher wrote: > >> > > >> > > Channel selection is automatic -- shouldn't it pick

Re: Error on install: Repository "couldn't be accessed"

2017-05-26 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 09:28:21AM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2017-05-26, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 07:36:08AM -0400, RavenLX wrote: > >> On 05/23/2017 10:07 AM, Robert Hardy (r.hardy) wrote: > >> >Err http://deb.debian.org

unable to repartition SD card from Android phone

2017-05-26 Thread Mark Copper
Maybe I should just toss it, but I'm curious why none of my tools can recover an SD card previously used for Android internal storage. Here's how gdisk sees it: gdisk -l /dev/sdc GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.10 Partition table scan: MBR: protective BSD: not present APM: not present GPT:

unsibscribing from the list

2017-05-26 Thread Mark Peveto
How do I unsub from this list? I meant to sub to the accessibility list only. Mark Peveto Registered Linux user number 600552 Everything happens after coffee!

Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network

2017-05-26 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 02:18:06PM -, Dan Purgert wrote: > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > > My home network consists of 2 Debian machines, one Jessie and one > > Stretch, an LFS mini-ITX machine acting as my firewall, another LFS > > laptop that is connected only

Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network

2017-05-26 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 09:49:43AM -0400, Catherine Gramze wrote: > > > > On May 20, 2017, at 9:38 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > >> On Saturday 20 May 2017 01:41:20 Mark Fletcher wrote: > >> > >> Hello! > >> > >> I have some dou

Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network

2017-05-26 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 09:38:21AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 20 May 2017 01:41:20 Mark Fletcher wrote: > > Couple things here. I have no such problems. My routing is from the cable > modem, to a buffalo netfinty router running dd-wrt, so I need no > firewall.

Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network

2017-05-26 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 06:17:41AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, May 20, 2017 01:41:20 AM Mark Fletcher wrote: > > What is the laptop using--802.11a, b, g, n, or ac? It's a high-end couple-of-years-old Toshiba laptop sold in Japan. It'll be either N or AC. I

Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network

2017-05-26 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 09:29:12AM +0200, Nemeth Gyorgy wrote: > 2017-05-20 07:41 keltezéssel, Mark Fletcher írta: > > I'd like to be able to diagnose what's going on here, why the transfer > > was so slow. Any recommendations for tools I should research? I am very >

Re: Error on install: Repository "couldn't be accessed"

2017-05-26 Thread Mark Fletcher
t; Note that it's jessie/updates not jessie-updates. Replace the hyphen with a > dash in your sources.list and update again. See if that works? > Why would it be jessie/updates? Looking at deb.debian.org/debian/dists with a web browser, there is no updates/ folder under jessie/ but there is a jessie-updates/ folder... Mark

Re: [A bit OT] Diagnosing home network

2017-05-23 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 02:18:06PM -, Dan Purgert wrote: > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > > My home network consists of 2 Debian machines, one Jessie and one > > Stretch, an LFS mini-ITX machine acting as my firewall, another LFS > > laptop that is connected only

[A bit OT] Diagnosing home network

2017-05-19 Thread Mark Fletcher
which I could look into but I would prefer to use Linux-based tools if possible. Pointers to tools I should research -- and even better, links to good tutorials on those tools if you know any -- would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance Mark

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

2017-05-19 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 11:03:56PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > craigswin wrote: > > > Can you expand on that?  New to VMs, considering them as an alternative > > to dualboot, with Stretch as host and Win7 as a guest to run Vectorworks. > > VMs come with a penalty in performance and functionality >

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

2017-05-19 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 11:10:00PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 12:57:57PM -0400, RavenLX wrote: > >> On 05/17/2017 12:42 PM, craigswin wrote: > >> > > >> > > >> >On 05/17/2017 06:03 AM, Ra

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

2017-05-18 Thread Mark Fletcher
l backup solutions (which _still_ have no need for the nuclear-warhead-to-slice-a-banana approach described above). Restore is smooth, and no license issues -- the Windows machine never knows anything happened. Mark

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