Re: X appears to get the wrong resolution SOLVED by workaround

2014-06-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 15:35:37 -0400 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Hi all, My old box with Xubuntu, running the dwm window manager via lightdm, got the right resolution when X started. My new box, with Debian, running dwm via startx, starts with a resolution of 1980x1200 instead

Re: X appears to get the wrong resolution

2014-06-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 21:44:17 +0200 B lazyvi...@gmx.com wrote: On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 15:35:37 -0400 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: What is the output of: xrandr? root@mydesq2:~# xrandr xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default Screen 0: minimum 640 x 480

Re: X appears to get the wrong resolution SOLVED by workaround

2014-06-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 22:16:48 +0200 B lazyvi...@gmx.com wrote: On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 16:11:30 -0400 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: exec /home/slitt/dwm-6.0/dwm This is not a regular pkg. LOL, half my computer isn't a regular package. On my computer, /d/bats, which

Re: X appears to get the wrong resolution

2014-06-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 22:35:23 +0200 B lazyvi...@gmx.com wrote: On Sun, 29 Jun 2014 16:13:43 -0400 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: I just worked around the thing and went on to other things. Please note the preceding xrandr output was *after* applying my solution

Re: flakey wifi access

2014-06-29 Thread Steve Litt
. Find common factors on all the places it succeeds. Find all the common factors on the places it fails. Then contrast the two sets of common factors, and that should point an accusing finger at the root cause. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting

Re: OT: programming languages

2014-06-28 Thread Steve Litt
(in other words, like C, Perl, Python, Ruby, and unlike Scheme or Lisp). Try Lua. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: OT: programming languages

2014-06-28 Thread Steve Litt
without coding. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: Does LXDE really require lightdm?

2014-06-27 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 12:34:54 -0400 Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 6:01 AM, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 22 June 2014 01:31:50 Steve Litt wrote: The whole reason I'm switching from Xubuntu to Debian is to get away from both Plymouth and *dm

Re: apt-get issues with download speed and server access

2014-06-23 Thread Steve Litt
, the debian.org default mirror didn't work, so I switched to the rit.edu mirror and it worked perfectly. I don't know if any conclusions can be drawn from my anecdotes, but if you collect enough anecdotes perhaps it can help you figure out what's going wrong. SteveT Steve Litt* http

Re: Does LXDE really require lightdm?

2014-06-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 23:52:37 +0900 Osamu Aoki osamu_aoki_h...@nifty.com wrote: Hi, On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 08:31:50PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, I installed LXDE on a no-X, no-desktop virgin network Wheezy 64bit install with non-free software allowed, and on the next boot

Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-23 Thread Steve Litt
or disprove that. Anyway, things are going well. My other observation is that Debian is less like Ubuntu than it initially looks. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 18:26:48 +0100 Tom Furie t...@furie.org.uk wrote: On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 07:16:27PM +0200, B wrote: On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 12:43:19 -0400 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: I've got the hardware all set up. AMD dual core 4100, 16GB RAM, 240GB SSD

Re: Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-23 Thread Steve Litt
either. If it does turn out to have that, I'll just replace it with a (hotter) black. My current case is *much* cooler and more air-conductive and has much more fannage than my old one, so one or two WD blacks can probably run just fine without those lame hard disk coolers. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt

Re: Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 04:34:00 +1000 Andrew McGlashan andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au wrote: On 24/06/2014 3:16 AM, B wrote: On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 12:43:19 -0400 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: I've got the hardware all set up. AMD dual core 4100, 16GB RAM, 240GB

Re: Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-23 Thread Steve Litt
Deskstar drive with 6 times the capacity for $300.00 :-) SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Progress on my new Debian box

2014-06-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 20:05:07 +0100 Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Mon 23 Jun 2014 at 12:43:19 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Anyway, things are going well. My other observation is that Debian is less like Ubuntu than it initially looks. Debian looks less like Ubuntu than you originally

Does LXDE really require lightdm?

2014-06-21 Thread Steve Litt
to Debian is to get away from both Plymouth and *dm. Fortunately, I find LXDE desireable, but no way do I find it necessary. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

New computer

2014-06-18 Thread Steve Litt
on this machine. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: Debian 7.5 amd64 xfce GUI shutdown and restart do not work

2014-06-17 Thread Steve Litt
. As far as I know, every one of my replies to this list goes to the list. Perhaps you have coded a Reply to in your email client. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: Mousewheel operation - successful update

2014-06-17 Thread Steve Litt
. 'Percussive maintenance' it think it's called. I teach troubleshooting mindset and tactics for a living, and the preceding is an example of excellent troubleshooting mindset and tactics. Using xev to determine what the mouse was sending was an excellent diagnostic test. Good work! SteveT Steve

Re: Screen size trouble with Xorg

2014-06-16 Thread Steve Litt
backing up the one that didn't, of course). You can keep changing things til you find that one factor that causes the symptom. Somebody recommended switching to VESA as a diagnostic test. That's certainly a quick test that I'd do early. HTH, SteveT Steve Litt* http

Article on swift, responsive computers

2014-06-15 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, Here's my latest Linux Productivity Magazine, themed The Swift, Responsive Machine: http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/201406/201406.htm Hope you enjoy it. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

Re: Iceweasel problem

2014-06-13 Thread Steve Litt
if the problem occurs with user junk. Whether it does or it doesn't, either way it will give you valuable insight into narrowing the root cause scope. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Can Iceweasel and Firefox co-exist on Wheezy.

2014-06-13 Thread Steve Litt
overcame). By the way, I'm highly satisfied with the way xxxterm works. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Handy ls: was Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-10 Thread Steve Litt
you're done with one range, you can ignore files from that range and look at the next range, so start with 1M to 500M, then 500M to 100M, then 100M to 50M, etc, until it's no longer worth pruning your tree. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training

Re: PulseAudio (was Re: Sid Foibles)

2014-06-10 Thread Steve Litt
of it, and three times I failed to get any sound out of it. One of those times was with the Ubuntu distro devoted specifically to sound. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: PulseAudio (was Re: Sid Foibles)

2014-06-09 Thread Steve Litt
) in this thread. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: PulseAudio (was Re: Sid Foibles)

2014-06-09 Thread Steve Litt
with a window manager without a panel, and right now I'm using dwm. So I'm using VLC, it's easy. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-07 Thread Steve Litt
instead of him or her, and got told about it right in class. Canadians have no patience for disrespect of ethnic, gender, or racial groups. Thanks for pointing this out. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

Killfiling: was Should I install chkrootkit?

2014-06-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 07 Jun 2014 15:02:17 -0400 Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: On 6/7/2014 11:34 AM, Steve Litt wrote: On Sat, 7 Jun 2014 09:36:39 +0100 Wow, Lisi, I didn't catch that. So many insults, so little time. Needless to say, lati...@vcn.bc.ca becomes my fourteenth Debian

Re: Remove unwanted, orphaned files and dependencies

2014-06-06 Thread Steve Litt
to listen to your staccato questions and complaints. Maybe you'll have better luck with Ubuntu. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Procmail them out of your life: was how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-06 Thread Steve Litt
of your lives. By procmailing annoyances out of your life, you'd be doing yourself a favor, and as a pleasant side effect, you'd be doing the whole list a favor when the list doesn't have to see highly emotional responses to stupid posts. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http

Re: Sawfish and Openbox: was fastest linux distro

2014-06-05 Thread Steve Litt
this tomorrow. Thanks so much. Eventually I switched completely to Infinality and love it. http://www.infinality.net/blog/ The machine I'm doing this on is Ubuntu, and infinality doesn't install easily on it, so I'll use your Debian/Openbox howto. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http

Re: Sawfish and Openbox: was fastest linux distro

2014-06-01 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 01 Jun 2014 13:18:11 +0200 David Dušanić ivanovne...@gmail.com wrote: 31.05.2014, 18:59, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com: On Sat, 31 May 2014 08:51:13 -0400 Tony Baldwin t...@tonybaldwin.info wrote:  Sawfish and openbox, even metacity would fit in this last just  manages

Re: Sawfish and Openbox: was fastest linux distro

2014-06-01 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 1 Jun 2014 07:54:50 -0400 Pete Orrall p...@cs1x.com wrote: On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Sat, 31 May 2014 08:51:13 -0400 Tony Baldwin t...@tonybaldwin.info wrote: Sawfish and openbox, even metacity would fit in this last just

Re: Sawfish and Openbox: was fastest linux distro

2014-06-01 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 01 Jun 2014 13:18:11 +0200 David Dušanić ivanovne...@gmail.com wrote: 31.05.2014, 18:59, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com: On Sat, 31 May 2014 08:51:13 -0400 Tony Baldwin t...@tonybaldwin.info wrote:  Sawfish and openbox, even metacity would fit in this last just  manages

Re: interpreting Gkrellm charts

2014-06-01 Thread Steve Litt
, but that's not a priority issue for me. :) When it was slow, what did top or htop show as the process taking all the CPU? SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: How to declare default browser in JWM

2014-05-31 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 30 May 2014 21:35:55 +0200 Linux-Fan ma_sys...@web.de wrote: On 05/30/2014 06:10 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, After installing JWM, I copied /etc/jwm/system.jwmrc to ~/.jwmrc and changed the window close hotkey, added a Shift+Ctrl+; key to invoke dmenu_run, changed the active

Re: How to declare default browser in JWM

2014-05-31 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 31 May 2014 12:22:55 +0200 David Dušanić ivanovne...@gmail.com wrote: 30.05.2014, 18:10, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com: Anyone know how to change the default browser on JWM? You could use Debian's alternative system: update-alternatives --config x-www-browser

Sawfish and Openbox: was fastest linux distro

2014-05-31 Thread Steve Litt
begin operating Sawfish? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: interpreting Gkrellm charts

2014-05-31 Thread Steve Litt
no KDE libraries or programs, so I no longer use my script. Top or htop would show what's burning up your CPU, or perhaps memory. If it turns around it's rogue dbus-daemon processes, I can give you my script. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com

How to declare default browser in JWM

2014-05-30 Thread Steve Litt
didn't help. Right now it defaults to Arora, and I want it to default to xxxterm. Anyone know how to change the default browser on JWM? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-30 Thread Steve Litt
Manager, but with anything between those extremes, I don't know what to call it, and I guarantee you that if I call it one or the other, the guy I'm talking with will tell me I'm wrong. And even beyond that, I just don't understand the significance of the distinction. SteveT Steve Litt

Re: Cloning hdds of different sizes

2014-05-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 28 May 2014 21:34:12 +0100 Philip Ashmore cont...@philipashmore.com wrote: On 28/05/14 21:02, Steve Litt wrote: If you want to expand a partition to include the unallocated space, I think you have to use whatever partition butts up against the unallocated space to make bigger

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-29 Thread Steve Litt
. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-29 Thread Steve Litt
-appfinder, and a few other priceless apps. I usually install LXDE to get lxrandr. We all have subjective opinions, but does anyone know of objective information about the lightness of these various interfaces? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-29 Thread Steve Litt
KDE off his system and told me I'd been right all along. I know there are distros that do KDE right, without problems. But my stance is that, if using a given user interface requires me to install a specific distro, I won't use that interface. SteveT Steve Litt* http

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 30 May 2014 03:00:21 +1000 Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 2:54 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: When I have an extremely RAM starved computer, I put Debian on it every time. CLI Network install works with almost no RAM, and granular

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 29 May 2014 19:32:01 +0200 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Thu, 29 May 2014 19:04:13 +0200, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Tony, do you know of any documentation or other evidence of how Openbox, Xfce, LXDE, IceWM, and fvwm2 stack up against each other

Re: How to find dirs with single item

2014-05-29 Thread Steve Litt
willing to write a fairly simple Python program it would be pretty easy. You could probably even do it with a find piped to sort piped to a very simple AWK script. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 29 May 2014 23:02:06 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Jo, 29 mai 14, 13:04:13, Steve Litt wrote: LXDE has an (all other things being equal) slow mouse that's disturbing, Mouse speed can be adjusted. How? Remember, I'm talking speed, not acceleration. When

Re: Cloning hdds of different sizes

2014-05-28 Thread Steve Litt
the unallocated space, I think you have to use whatever partition butts up against the unallocated space to make bigger. If there's a tool to enlarge a different partition and move the others to compensate, Im not aware of it. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com

Re: preferred overlay/union filesystem?

2014-05-27 Thread Steve Litt
shellscript, called make_pm_filters.sh: === #!/bin/bash ## # Copyright (C) 2014 by Steve Litt # # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any # person obtaining a copy of this software

How to get along without an MTA: Was: exim4 fetchmail delivery more than 10 rejected

2014-05-27 Thread Steve Litt
magic and then calls /usr/bin/procmail -d %T. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: want to revert back to gnome classic mode.

2014-05-26 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 26 May 2014 17:58:26 +1200 Richard Hector rich...@walnut.gen.nz wrote: On 26/05/14 10:09, Steve Litt wrote: If you know how to find out which window manager Xfce is using, please let me known I just ran ps xf (show my processes, in tree format) Then I looked at the descendents

Re: GNOME-Terminal is blank or inactive in Awesome WM on Debian 7

2014-05-26 Thread Steve Litt
into the terminal profile settings and select the system colours (or deselect if this is already selected). When I suspect this (usually on web pages), I highlight the whole thing. Background-colored text then shows up. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com

Re: want to revert back to gnome classic mode.

2014-05-25 Thread Steve Litt
you right click on anything and pick properties. Other than those two things, xfe looks like an excellent file manager. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: want to revert back to gnome classic mode.

2014-05-25 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 25 May 2014 23:05:35 +0200 Filip fi...@fbvnet.be wrote: On Sun, 25 May 2014 22:45:42 +0200 Filip fi...@fbvnet.be wrote: On Sun, 25 May 2014 15:49:27 -0400 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: The coredump must be an Ubuntu thing. I never had it coredump on me, neither

Re: want to revert back to gnome classic mode.

2014-05-24 Thread Steve Litt
/keybind Switches to the desktop where emacs is running, and focuses the window in one keypress. Thanks Filip, This email is a great resource, and when I switch back from Xfce to Openbox I'll refer to it often. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com

Re: Setting up a home gateway/router

2014-05-24 Thread Steve Litt
. As botnets turn into brute force supercomputers, security by obscurity, used properly, is beginning to have some credibility again. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: want to revert back to gnome classic mode.

2014-05-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 23 May 2014 12:46:14 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Mi, 21 mai 14, 08:58:00, Joe wrote: The other medium-weight DE is LXDE. If there is an even lighter weight DE than LXDE I'd be very interested. Kind regards, Andrei Well, I mean, if lightness is your

Re: Setting up a home gateway/router

2014-05-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 23 May 2014 06:57:15 +0200 csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I wish to set up my home headless power pc box as a gateway/router ( GW ). I can connect to it with SSH only. Before, I set up this GW to get an IP address from my ISP with dhcp.client. Now, I ask a static IP address

Re: Iceweasel and DRM

2014-05-22 Thread Steve Litt
, and their pride in not knowing the law, make me hope it happens to them. They're clowns Jerry: ignore them. SteveT Steve Litt Author: Troubleshooting: Tools, Tips and Techniques Author: Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of the Successful Technologist Author: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting Author: Quit

Re: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-22 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 20 May 2014 00:17:06 +1200 Richard Hector rich...@walnut.gen.nz wrote: And in the case where the copyright has elapsed? The main point, rather than my additional comment? Richard Few of us will be alive when Jerry's works go out of copyright, given that even if he died this very

Re: want to revert back to gnome classic mode.

2014-05-22 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 21 May 2014 16:30:13 +1000 Chris Angelico ros...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan sir...@gmail.com wrote: i have just installed debian 7 and i am feeling a bit uncomfortable with the new look (unity type) i want the all time old menu gnome

Re: Tails

2014-05-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 17 May 2014 21:06:42 +1200 Richard Hector rich...@walnut.gen.nz wrote: On 16/05/14 16:42, Weaver wrote: Greetings all, Is there anybody on the list in Forteleza, Brazil? There's a young, female, investigative journalist there, who wants to install Tails onto a USB stick,

Re: evolution

2014-05-14 Thread Steve Litt
? Yes. IMAP is one I know of. What has your Google search come up with? I don't know anything about Evolution, but here's an article on creating your own local IMAP server with Dovecot: http://www.troubleshooters.com/emailtech/imap_troubleshooting.htm SteveT Steve Litt* http

Re: [OT] How long is an unused HD 'new'?

2014-05-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 12 May 2014 16:48:20 + (UTC) Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2014-05-12, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Maybe he's got one of the greens that gets old fast (once very 8 seconds) if steps aren't taken. I have a WD green disk (3GB, IIRC) in my backup server. Could

Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement

2014-05-12 Thread Steve Litt
won't let you do blkid, just do it as root. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement

2014-05-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 12 May 2014 03:26:08 -0400 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Sun, 11 May 2014 22:38:20 +0300 Itay Furman it...@fastmail.fm wrote: mount point /proc does not exist [Note: similar errors for few more missing mount points such as /usr/local, /cache] special device

Re: [OT] How long is an unused HD 'new'?

2014-05-12 Thread Steve Litt
because all my backup data is stored there. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: mount inconsistencies

2014-05-12 Thread Steve Litt
== When ready to unmount the disc, I work backwards, all as root or using sudo: * Unmount the disc from the mapper device. * Eject the disc. * use cryptsetup luksClose to close the encrypted device. * Use losetup -d to delete the loopback device. HTH, SteveT Steve Litt* http

One of those threads, old stuff: was Confusion

2014-05-11 Thread Steve Litt
://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/200610/200610.htm#_Computers_Ive_Known_and_Loved SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Problems getting Debian DVD to work (Re: Confusion)

2014-05-11 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 11 May 2014 12:40:58 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Vi, 09 mai 14, 19:50:18, Steve Litt wrote: I think John is asking whether Josh burned the ISO file onto the DVD rather than (correctly) the DVD image contained in the ISO file. Thanks

Re: Can't boot after harddrive replacement

2014-05-11 Thread Steve Litt
mount -a. I bet you'd get a lot of information. If all of the above works right, then I'd imagine your problem is either in your bootloader or your kernel. If some of the above fails, that tells you where to apply your Troubleshooting Foo. HTH, SteveT Steve Litt* http

Hijack: was Confusion

2014-05-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 08 May 2014 14:18:49 -0400 Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/08/2014 02:07 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Thu, 08 May 2014 16:31:03 +0930 josh j...@thefamousjoneses.com wrote: [big clip] And narrowing the terms may just have excluded the only relevant entry. I think

Re: Confusion

2014-05-09 Thread Steve Litt
and an .iso? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: Problems getting Debian DVD to work (Re: Confusion)

2014-05-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 10 May 2014 05:44:11 +0800 Testosticore testostic...@openmailbox.org wrote: On Saturday, 10 May, 2014 12:13 AM, Steve Litt wrote: On Fri, 09 May 2014 09:54:04 -0500 John W. Foster jfoster81...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 2014-05-08 at 16:31 +0930, josh wrote: Hi, When one

Re: Confusion

2014-05-08 Thread Steve Litt
used to Linux, you'll find it 10 times less of a maintenance hassle than Windows. HTH, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: boot in console mode from grub2

2014-05-07 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 7 May 2014 11:59:29 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Ma, 06 mai 14, 17:42:12, Steve Litt wrote: On Tue, 06 May 2014 12:39:03 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: from /etc/default/grub: # Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc

Re: boot in console mode from grub2

2014-05-07 Thread Steve Litt
configuration item CONFIG_DRM_LOAD_EDID_FIRMWARE was introduced. This is good info, Tom. Thank you. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: boot in console mode from grub2

2014-05-06 Thread Steve Litt
without a framebuffer. In this one respect, 1998 Redhat 5.1 sure was a breath of fresh air. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: boot in console mode from grub2

2014-05-05 Thread Steve Litt
combo. The minute a bootloader comes along that can do UEFI booting, read the disk as a filesystem instead of as a sector, and make it reasonably easy to boot no gui, no framebuffer, I'll be kicking that stupid Grub2 to the curb and never looking back. /rant SteveT Steve Litt* http

Re: Debian 7.x and desktop environments

2014-05-04 Thread Steve Litt
Linux people have been dragging our feet. :-) SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Faster instantiation of xfce4-appfinder

2014-05-04 Thread Steve Litt
Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: sudo in X-environment

2014-05-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 3 May 2014 02:15:14 -0400 Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: A change in su has broken sux: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=659832 Doesn't surprise me one bit. I've been telling you all for years that sux sux! /* Litt ducks and runs */ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Debian 7.x and desktop environments

2014-05-03 Thread Steve Litt
very cool in their own ways. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive

Re: `ls` shows file, `bash` says No such file ???

2014-05-03 Thread Steve Litt
a little more about what's going on, but do the two one-minute tests first to avoid the possibility of going on a wild goose chase. By the way, the preceding shellscript works wonders any time one thing is forking/spawning another and you need to see what's going on inside the fork/spawn. SteveT Steve

Re: Debian 7.x and desktop environments

2014-05-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 3 May 2014 07:45:40 -0700 (PDT) Go Linux goli...@yahoo.com wrote: On Sat, 5/3/14, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Subject: Re: Debian 7.x and desktop environments To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Saturday, May 3

Re: Debian 7.x and desktop environments

2014-05-03 Thread Steve Litt
ideas? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: Debian 7.x and desktop environments

2014-05-03 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 3 May 2014 11:38:40 -0700 (PDT) Go Linux goli...@yahoo.com wrote: On Sat, 5/3/14, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Subject: Re: Debian 7.x and desktop environments To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Saturday, May 3

Re: Debian 7.x and desktop environments

2014-05-03 Thread Steve Litt
is exactly what I want! SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: Debian 7.x and desktop environments

2014-05-03 Thread Steve Litt
that lightdm and xdm and their KDE and Gnome counterparts should be part of an X install. I like things pretty granular. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Laptop pads: was Weird random reboot -- thinkpad x220

2014-05-02 Thread Steve Litt
on and off. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

Re: JWM was: [...]

2014-05-02 Thread Steve Litt
Desktop Environment I intend to use, I always install Xfce just to get xfce4-appfinder. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: SMART data, should I change my HDD?

2014-04-30 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 04:50:13 -0400 Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/29/2014 10:31 AM, Steve Litt wrote: I'm very pleased with my Mastercooler HAF912 case, and plan to get more of them. Only one thing I do not like at all, having the front USB and audio front connections

Re: Upgrade debacle........

2014-04-30 Thread Steve Litt
. Whenever I put Linux on a different computer, I reinstall. When I get a problem, right away I know I can rule out ghosts of versions past that upgrades let slip through. I almost never upgrade between one version and another, even minor versions. SteveT Steve Litt* http

Re: SMART data, should I change my HDD?

2014-04-29 Thread Steve Litt
a year. I'm very pleased with my Mastercooler HAF912 case, and plan to get more of them. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Asus H81M-C motherboard

2014-04-29 Thread Steve Litt
it booting the latest version of System Rescue CD. Let us know what happens with those two, and it might point a little closer to the problem. Also, what in particular, did you find complicated about the Bios? SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting

Re: SMART data, should I change my HDD?

2014-04-28 Thread Steve Litt
been about 15 minutes since I killed my test program so that my backup server was idling. My CPU is now 42C, the WD black system disk is 40C, and the WD green data disk is now 36C. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

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