Re: How to get out of a "...but it is not going to be installed"-type situation with apt-get?

2015-12-19 Thread The Wanderer
refer to the program's internal help documentation as needed; I'm only loosely familiar with it myself, so I can't really guide you very well, but I've used it a few times to track down and resolve such issues in the past. There's a relatively steep learning curve to the apt

Re: wine: Bad EXE format for...

2015-12-17 Thread The Wanderer
recommended building the latter from source, but doing so in current Debian is a _royal_ pain, so you're probably best off trying to get the packaged versions working.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the

Re: Meld in Jessie: how to not install all the insane dependencies

2015-11-28 Thread The Wanderer
is somehow pulling in all the rest of this; that doesn't seem terribly likely, but it's a low-cost thing to check. After that - in addition to the question asked above - I'd want to see your sources.list, in case there's anything strange there. -- The Wandere

Re: Xorg replaces TTY1

2015-11-27 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-11-27 at 13:14, Brian wrote: > On Fri 27 Nov 2015 at 09:09:37 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2015-11-22 at 19:45, Brian wrote: >>> It's the first time I've heard using a bash alias described as a >>> "kludge". >> >&g

Re: Xorg replaces TTY1

2015-11-27 Thread The Wanderer
(Phew. Sorry for the delay in replying.) On 2015-11-22 at 19:45, Brian wrote: > On Sun 22 Nov 2015 at 19:00:36 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2015-11-22 at 18:52, Chris Bannister wrote: >>> In .bashrc (if using bash) >>> >>> alias startx="startx

Re: Xorg replaces TTY1

2015-11-22 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-11-22 at 18:52, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 05:56:04PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > >>> startx -- vt7 >> >> That requires specifying it by hand every time startx is run. As I >> indicated, that is unacceptable; I don't have to

Re: Xorg replaces TTY1

2015-11-22 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-11-22 at 15:24, Brian wrote: > On Sun 22 Nov 2015 at 14:12:09 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2015-11-22 at 13:26, Brian wrote: >>> * 10-startx-Under-Linux-start-X-on-the-current-VT.patch, >>> 11-startx-Pass-vtX-as-long-as-the-user-did-not-s

Re: Xorg replaces TTY1

2015-11-22 Thread The Wanderer
and-line option in 'man Xorg', but still no obvious indication of where to set it in a config file, given that I have no xorg.conf and creating one seems undesirable for other reasons.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one p

Re: Kali, Redux

2015-11-05 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-11-05 at 09:59, David Baron wrote: > On Thursday 05 November 2015 09:47:12 The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2015-11-05 at 09:41, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> >>> On Thursday 05 November 2015 14:26:07 David Baron wrote: >>> >>>> Attempt to apt

Re: Kali, Redux

2015-11-05 Thread The Wanderer
way I did in my previous mail. Similarly, what is the exact output you get from 'apt-get install --reinstall base-files'? Also, just to double-check: you have run 'apt-get update' recently, correct? -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unrea

Re: Kali, Redux

2015-11-05 Thread The Wanderer
dpkg/status 8+deb8u2 0 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable/main amd64 Packages I'd be extremely surprised if it weren't, since it's flagged as "Essential: yes". What repositories do you have listed in /etc/apt/sources.list? I really suspect y

Re: where does unstable appear from?

2015-11-03 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-11-03 at 09:40, Alex Moonshine wrote: > On 11/03/2015 04:06 PM, The Wanderer wrote: >> >> So far, the only structural problem I've had with testing has been >> in the grub-related packages, in the form of longstanding open >> bugs reported by people w

Re: where does unstable appear from?

2015-11-03 Thread The Wanderer
a bald or unequivocal recommendation, unless I'm missing something. I would certainly not recommend that _anyone_ run sid on their primary computer, much less on their only computer. Installing a single package as a one-off is one thing (and I occasionally do it myself), but - as the name impli

Re: Tracking down memory leaks (SOLVED)

2015-10-23 Thread The Wanderer
r mark of 5,190 some months ago. Some of that reduction involves moving things to bookmarks (although not everything in those tabs is suited to being tracked as a bookmark), and some involves getting the project / activity which led me to open that tab to the point where the tab is no longer nec

Re: Tracking down memory leaks

2015-10-13 Thread The Wanderer
aemon, restart that daemon. If it's the kernel, probably not, but it would be worth reporting the problem as a bug against the kernel. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progre

Re: googleearth-package (jessie)

2015-10-03 Thread The Wanderer
#x27; being either a metapackage or a virtual package. (And possibly with a separate 'gdebi-core' or 'gdebi-common' package for the shared elements, which are currently in the same package as the CLI.) The maintainer has not chosen to do it that way, however, and the current

Re: [OT] Free software vs non-free, here we go again

2015-09-30 Thread The Wanderer
aning than might be understood from the generic meanings of the words involved. In this case, the more-specific meaning is probably the one given by the Free Software Foundation in its "Free Software Definition": https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html Generally, when someone go

Re: how do I suggest an enhancement to apticron?

2015-09-30 Thread The Wanderer
ist bug report would probably be the best way, yes. If you include a patch implementing the enhancement, that greatly increases the chances that it will get added. > And is the process documented anywhere ? Not that I'm aware of. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the

Re: Boxed W8/W10 PC; must anything be done, first, to enable dual-bootable later?

2015-09-26 Thread The Wanderer
hat HW used only for video DRM etc? At a glance based on descriptions so far, it looks as if the UEFI is not passing the existence of the hard drives on to the OS, for whatever reason. Could you provide the full 'lspci -nnk' output, just in case there's a detail that'

Re: Removal of a Desktop Environment

2015-09-17 Thread The Wanderer
haracters (see the man page), it treats the requested name as a regular expression to be matched against the complete package list. Therefore, apt-get remove ".*lxde.*" would probably have worked in this case. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unr

Re: systemd ignores / overrides 'shutdown -t' delay?

2015-09-12 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-09-12 at 18:36, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > The Wanderer: > >> It's still odd / bothersome that systemd's shutdown would see the >> unsupported / unrecognized '-t' option and just proceed blithely >> along, rather than erroring out o

Re: systemd ignores / overrides 'shutdown -t' delay?

2015-09-11 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-09-11 at 14:49, Ralph Katz wrote: > On 09/11/2015 02:22 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > >> I've recently built a VM against jessie, and just for the heck of >> it, I left it with the default systemd-based configuration. >> >> When I log in to the console

systemd ignores / overrides 'shutdown -t' delay?

2015-09-11 Thread The Wanderer
hints. Grepping recursively and case-insensitively through /etc/systemd for 'shut' and '60' (separately) produces only two hits, neither of which seems relevant. Any idea why this is happening, and how to get this VM to respect the semantics of the shutdown command again? -- The

Re: adobe flash player in Iceweasel does not work anymore in Jessie

2015-09-11 Thread The Wanderer
th -no-remote, you can also use it to run multiple Firefox instances in parallel using different profiles. (I can't swear to that at the moment, though.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. The

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-10 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-09-10 at 11:36, Richard Owlett wrote: > The Wanderer wrote: > >> [snip] >> >> And/or similar, more-complex twiddlings if you have other >> /media/distribution* directories which you want to handle. (Note >> that this will not work as expected if t

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-10 Thread The Wanderer
ice. > > Will have to check to see if that or orrisox best fits some > personal preferences. 'mount -o loop' is in fact what I'd do myself if I were doing this manually; I'd only fall back to xorriso / orrisox if I needed to script or otherwise automate the process

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-10 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-09-10 at 10:20, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2015-09-10 at 10:06, Richard Owlett wrote: > >> Brian wrote: >> >>> On Thu 10 Sep 2015 at 08:06:36 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> >>>> Environment: >>>> Using dd I have copied ph

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-10 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-09-10 at 10:18, Richard Owlett wrote: > The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2015-09-10 at 09:06, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >>> Environment: >>> Using dd I have copied physical [NO INTERNET AVAILABLE ;] Debian >>> DVD's to >>> /media/d

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-10 Thread The Wanderer
"the physical disc(s)". And if you don't have the ISOs, you certainly can't extract anything from them. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

2015-09-10 Thread The Wanderer
you can do that with orrisox (part of the xorriso package): orrisox -indev /path/to/file.iso -extract . -subdir /path/to/output/directory -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all pro

Re: how to solve broken package

2015-09-08 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-09-08 at 05:02, mudongliang wrote: > On 09/07/2015 11:33 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2015-09-07 at 11:15, mudongliang wrote: >>> If I want to install libproxy1v5, I find apt-get suggests me to remove >>> all my gnome desktop and tools. >>> May

Re: how to solve broken package

2015-09-07 Thread The Wanderer
bproxy1 (>= 0.4.11) (remainder snipped). I'd guess that you have package versions installed from multiple repositories, which don't agree with one another about dependencies. You may also want to check 'apt-mark showhold' and/or the contents of /etc/apt/preferences

Re: upgrade stable to testing or upgrading testing - very bad situation of the repository!

2015-09-06 Thread The Wanderer
a few days, but might not be more than a week or so, unless you need certain specific packages. I normally dist-upgrade against testing every two or three days (except during a release freeze, where I let it slip to every week or two), but right now, I plan to hold off for a week or until I hear

Re: Reporting a bug affecting multiple packages

2015-09-06 Thread The Wanderer
ch presumably shares a source package with trafficserver-experimental-plugins Since you don't need more than one bug report per source package for a case like this, that makes for a maximum of 5 separate bug reports; if the trafficserver hit turns out to be unrelated, it could be as few as 3

Re: Okay, that's too much now!

2015-09-05 Thread The Wanderer
ent / available, and - to the best of my awareness, which may not be very good in this area - little or nothing else. It's the piece which lets programs be able to work with systemd when it's there, but also work without it when it's not there. It is not systemd itself. -- The Wanderer

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

2015-09-02 Thread The Wanderer
; I just don't think the claim deserves the dignity of a response, and I doubt that responding to it would do anything but fan flames. > You stated "I said that he "_does_ seem to [...] have zero sympathy > or respect in practice for" those things. No, he didn't; I

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

2015-09-02 Thread The Wanderer
I think was the first real wave of discussions there, I recall it as having been more or less dismissed as being somewhere between "not true" and "irrelevant"; I don't recall having seen anyone else even raise that concern, much less treat it as a noteworthy consideration, the

Re: systemd-logind emitting messages to the terminal upon login

2015-09-01 Thread The Wanderer
(It just occurred to me that I posted the previous set of partial "what's happening" descriptions under the unchanged Subject line of the overall thread. Oops.) On 2015-09-01 at 09:49, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 01.09.2015 um 15:08 schrieb The Wanderer: > >> [ 123.

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

2015-09-01 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-09-01 at 09:58, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 09:16:10AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2015-09-01 at 07:38, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 11:36:26AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > > [...] > >>>

Re: systemd-logind emitting messages to the terminal upon login

2015-09-01 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-09-01 at 05:15, Martin Read wrote: > On 01/09/15 04:07, The Wanderer wrote: > >> I believe that's roughly how it works, yes - and I believe rsyslog >> is intentionally set up that way, so that various system messages >> which would appear in the active co

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

2015-09-01 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-09-01 at 07:38, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 11:36:26AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2015-08-31 at 10:49, Christian Seiler wrote: >> >>> On 08/31/2015 02:33 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > > [...] > >> The Subject line

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

2015-09-01 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-08-31 at 13:25, David Wright wrote: > Quoting The Wanderer (wande...@fastmail.fm): > >> Debian could not have chosen systemd if Lennart had not written it, >> and Debian could not have chosen systemd-in-its-current-form if >> Lennart had not designed it in that fo

Re: systemd-logind emitting messages to the terminal upon login

2015-08-31 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-08-31 at 20:37, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > The Wanderer: > >> No, but I believe I still have my laptop configured in a way which >> gets this behavior. If you want, I can reboot it and do a detailed >> examination; I'm probably about due for a reb

Re: systemd-logind emitting messages to the terminal upon login

2015-08-31 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-08-31 at 11:32, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > The Wanderer: > >> Also on a mostly-cosmetic level, if you log in at a text console >> without systemd, you will get a certain set of messages, coming >> mostly from login and from your shell - but with systemd,

Re: Can malware qualify as free software?

2015-08-31 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-08-31 at 11:25, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > The Wanderer: > >> Some people develop and distribute malware as free software. Do >> they deserve to be treated with respect for doing that? > > I strongly suspect that malwares do not provide freedoms #1, #2,

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

2015-08-31 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-08-31 at 10:49, Christian Seiler wrote: > On 08/31/2015 02:33 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > >> Also, while I agree that Lennart is not out "to get us" in the >> sense of malicious laughter and diabolical plans, he _does_ seem to >> outright reject some pr

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

2015-08-31 Thread The Wanderer
ing" or "averse to change". They deserve to > have their decision respected too. > > Let's get along together, m'kay? Agreed. For what it's worth, I don't think this particular iteration of the discussion has gotten nearly as heated or as hostile or as ha

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

2015-08-31 Thread The Wanderer
uot; on some level for /etc/init.d/ init scripts. However, without _full_ backwards compatibility on _every_ level - including the cosmetic - being at least _available for those who want to choose it_ (and preferably being the default behavior), the behavior seen before a transition to systemd will

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

2015-08-30 Thread The Wanderer
ained by a third party. * A third-party tool cannot safely use or depend on an internal interface of a different project. (I believe even the current systemd project would agree with this statement.) * Therefore, either the interfaces between the components are not internal interfaces, or tho

Re: Prevent package from removal

2015-08-06 Thread The Wanderer
On 08/06/2015 at 04:45 PM, Floris wrote: > Op Thu, 06 Aug 2015 20:44:12 +0200 schreef The Wanderer > : > >> On 08/06/2015 at 02:29 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: >>> Yeah, you can put a package on hold. e.g. >>> http://www.debianadmin.com/how-to-prevent-a-package-

Re: Prevent package from removal

2015-08-06 Thread The Wanderer
ve been able to determine, there is no effective way to say "when calculating dependency resolution, permit upgrading this package, but reject any candidate solution which would require uninstalling this package". There are various approaches which look like they should work, but in my testin

Re: eth0 : no such device

2015-07-31 Thread The Wanderer
glance the output of 'ip address' is significantly less readable than that of 'ifconfig' - which is saying something. I certainly would not want to have to use 'ip' to the exclusion of 'ifconfig', if this sort of output is the best that it provides. -- The Wa

Re: OT Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-26 Thread The Wanderer
g about the dirty knife!". The point being that one tiny complaint got a huge overreaction, and things escalated to a ridiculous proportion without any further input from the person who originally made the tiny complaint. This thread isn't on that scale, obviously, but I can see the argum

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

2015-07-25 Thread The Wanderer
ing an answer which didn't mention other options myself - but for someone who wants to install a time daemon without having to worry about ancillary details, ntp is the package they probably want, so it's not entirely unreasonable to give it as a flat answer to a question which specifical

Re: What pulls in the tray of my /dev/sr1 ?

2015-07-25 Thread The Wanderer
his leaves two possible places to look: * The BIOS, or (more likely in a modern system) UEFI. * The firmware on the optical drive itself. Neither is likely to be nearly as accessible, on this level, as the OS or its userspace, but I can't see where else you could look at this point. --

Re: cp output format

2015-07-18 Thread The Wanderer
far as I've been able to discover there doesn't seem to be any way to do that, so workarounds like this are about the best that can be done. (Aside from possibly filing a feature request against coreutils upstream, anyway. But the odds of that going anywhere soon seem slim.) -- The Wa

Re: mplayer "Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file"

2015-07-18 Thread The Wanderer
On 07/18/2015 at 04:38 AM, Emanuel Berg wrote: > The Wanderer writes: > >> Where did you get this mplayer from? >> >> I compile MPlayer myself, and I'd expect this to happen when the >> copy of MPlayer in question was compiled against libvdpau_nvidia >&

Re: mplayer "Failed to open VDPAU backend libvdpau_nvidia.so: cannot open shared object file"

2015-07-17 Thread The Wanderer
t you've asked a similar question over on the mplayer-users mailing list. It may actually be best discussed over there, but I'm not sure at this stage.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himse

Re: Question about the default config of package: recipient?

2015-07-17 Thread The Wanderer
merely configured in relation to this package. I haven't got anything specific to substantiate that, though. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: bug? laptop-mode-tools - mouse turns off after 3s of inactivity after last update

2015-07-11 Thread The Wanderer
n that laptop now, so I can't check easily.) I really hope the option to disable USB auto-suspending hasn't disappeared; last I checked, allowing USB autosuspend would deactivate my mouse in exactly this way. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the

Re: YAGF is a seriously screwed package

2015-07-10 Thread The Wanderer
reds per day. If you substitute in "madams" for "mesdames" (since, AFAIK, "mesdames" is just the French equivalent of the same word), it makes more sense. I had an entire "WTF are you smoking?" reply written up before I realized what she was actually saying

Re: to be rude or not (was: YAGF is a seriously screwed package)

2015-07-10 Thread The Wanderer
timately be called rude. I appear to disagree strongly with Lisi's apparent position on that question, but I don't really feel like investing energy in an argument on the subject, and this would definitely not be the place for it even if I did...) >> [...] BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT W

Re: ffmpeg vs. libav

2015-07-09 Thread The Wanderer
ret "stuck going back to ffmpeg" not as meaning "having to go back to older and presumably worse" but as meaning something more like "having to put in the extra work to get the better option which used to be easily available". Again, "back" in a sense of &qu

Re: ffmpeg vs. libav

2015-07-06 Thread The Wanderer
n be a bit tricky (especially for libraries that can also be built against FFmpeg, such as libx264), at least if you build from the latest git repository - but it's by no means an insurmountable challenge, and I think the result has been worth it. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man a

Re: / 100% used

2015-07-05 Thread The Wanderer
need eth0 working (and thats > all). > > Also, is wpa_supplicant really necessary? AFAIK, it's only needed if you intend to connect to a wireless network (ever) on that machine, and don't have some other software with which to manage that connection. -- The Wanderer The rea

Re: Why Can't Debian Find libusb?

2015-07-03 Thread The Wanderer
tecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, libusb-1.0-0 | libusb-0.1-4, fxload Description: If the two libusb-* packages had a 'Provides: libusb' stanza, you would be able to use the simple 'libusb' package name, but since they don't you can

Re: How do I find what drivers are installed

2015-06-29 Thread The Wanderer
On 06/29/2015 at 11:59 AM, Bret Busby wrote: > On 29/06/2015, The Wanderer wrote: >> Did you try the command based on 'lspci -k' which I gave earlier? >> I think we've tracked down the driver you probably need, but I'm >> fairly sure that command would

Re: How do I find what drivers are installed

2015-06-29 Thread The Wanderer
On 06/29/2015 at 11:32 AM, Nicolas George wrote: > Le primidi 11 messidor, an CCXXIII, The Wanderer a écrit : > >> Going by the PCI ID you posted earlier (from lspci output), and >> looking that ID up in the LKDDB, it appears that the kernel module >> for the graphics c

Re: How do I find what drivers are installed

2015-06-29 Thread The Wanderer
y need, but I'm fairly sure that command would have been an easier way of finding out what driver(s) you're actually currently using. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all

Re: How do I find what drivers are installed

2015-06-28 Thread The Wanderer
es manually researching the output of lsmod, which isn't terribly helpful. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George

Re: Fwd: Unable to locate Bug's package

2015-06-27 Thread The Wanderer
at least three in Debian), and your window manager. From there, it should be possible to at least determine a set of packages, one of which is probably your culprit. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-26 Thread The Wanderer
(Please don't top-post.) On 06/26/2015 at 08:49 AM, Nick T. wrote: > On 06/26/2015 03:33 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 06/26/2015 at 07:55 AM, Nick T. wrote: >>> Ubuntu and debian can boot into recovery mode from the grub >>> menu, from there it asks fo

Re: Slightly OT: SSD question

2015-06-26 Thread The Wanderer
ts category. I would have no hesitation buying or recommending it for general use. https://techreport.com/review/27824/crucial-bx100-and-mx200-solid-state-drives-reviewed -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the wo

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-26 Thread The Wanderer
On 06/26/2015 at 03:40 AM, Arno Schuring wrote: > Hi, > >> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 21:46:33 -0600 From: b...@proulx.com >> >> The Wanderer wrote: >> >>> In which case I return to my original comment on that point: >>> although there might be

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-26 Thread The Wanderer
is post in this thread), it seems to me as if the patch which added this functionality was lost when an important binary was moved to another package. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. T

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-25 Thread The Wanderer
On 06/25/2015 at 10:47 AM, Martin Read wrote: > On 25/06/15 15:37, The Wanderer wrote: > >> What happens if you try to log in as root, or to 'go root' (by >> e.g. running 'su' in a terminal)? >> >> Does it error out directly, or can you

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-25 Thread The Wanderer
On 06/25/2015 at 10:24 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 25 June 2015 09:22:30 Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> On Thursday 25 June 2015 13:33:25 The Wanderer wrote: >>> Why don't you have the root password? Is this not your system, >>> but just one you've b

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-25 Thread The Wanderer
On 06/25/2015 at 09:22 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 25 June 2015 13:33:25 The Wanderer wrote: > >>> Booting into emergency mode doesn't help me, as I can neither >>> login without a root password, nor continue to default mode with >>> Ctrl-D because t

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-25 Thread The Wanderer
On 06/25/2015 at 08:33 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > On 06/25/2015 at 07:54 AM, Matthijs Wensveen wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm running unstable / sid. Yesterday, I suddenly started booting >> into emergency mode and I'm unsure why. I had a hang the day >>

Re: Boots into emergency mode. How to analyze?

2015-06-25 Thread The Wanderer
a valid init installed and configured, by reinstalling the appropriate packages ('apt-get install --reinstall packagename') if necessary. There's not really anything I can say to suggest the possible actual problem without knowing what the messages around the "hang" and/or t

Re: Change systemd to not be default in Stretch

2015-06-24 Thread The Wanderer
hen again, I also don't run a desktop environment, and I manage my network interfaces with ifupdown and wpasupplicant and so forth.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progre

Re: Flash update

2015-06-24 Thread The Wanderer
27;t take effect until the browser is restarted. I've also used Shumway at work (under Windows); it doesn't have broad enough compatibility yet to be really viable for everything, but it works surprisingly well for many basic things. You don't need an experimental Firefox build

Re: I upgraded from jessie to stretch and messed up I used the dist-upgrade command....

2015-06-19 Thread The Wanderer
d a quick test with dropping the hyphen on my own system results in errors on 'apt-get update'. I suspect that the omitted hyphen means his system is not actually seeing non-free at all. I would suggest adding the hyphen and trying again. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts him

Re: Adobe Flash Player in Jessie Iceweasel and Shutterfly?

2015-06-12 Thread The Wanderer
ash found on the major sites that rely on it, it may be worth giving Shumway a try. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: option to favor GNU tools instead of SunOS binaries?

2015-06-07 Thread The Wanderer
e functionality, even if with different syntax. (Actually, I think the functionality may be specified by POSIX, though I can't swear to that without research.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to hi

Re: How to type in Chinese?

2015-05-18 Thread The Wanderer
nvironment, but since your environment is not mine (for starters, I use E16 as a window manager, and no desktop environment at all), my directions would not reliably be correct for you. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in tryin

OT: linguistic mis-usages (was Re: Remove subject)

2015-05-15 Thread The Wanderer
s in speech, the way the latter can interact with the former, and the ways to represent both in text. It's a complex and, at least to me, interesting subject. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to h

Re: Help with ddrescue

2015-05-08 Thread The Wanderer
On 05/08/2015 at 07:33 PM, German wrote: > On Fri, 08 May 2015 19:20:37 -0400 > The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 05/08/2015 at 07:08 PM, German wrote: >>> That's what I got: >>> >>> spore@asterius:~$ lsblk >>> NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE

Re: Help with ddrescue

2015-05-08 Thread The Wanderer
that I did NOT specify the 'if=' and 'of=' syntax. That is correct syntax for dd, but the ddrescue man page does not mention it, and I believe that it is incorrect syntax for ddrescue. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one

Re: Help with ddrescue

2015-05-08 Thread The Wanderer
kind of surprised you didn't do that before you even contacted the list in the first place. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Re: Help with ddrescue

2015-05-08 Thread The Wanderer
On 05/08/2015 at 04:34 PM, German wrote: > On Fri, 08 May 2015 16:27:22 -0400 The Wanderer > wrote: >> What leads you to conclude that the drive is OK and the filesystem >> is what is bad? What errors are you seeing, in what situations? > > Error mounting /dev/sdc1 a

Re: Help with ddrescue

2015-05-08 Thread The Wanderer
u to conclude that the drive is OK and the filesystem is what is bad? What errors are you seeing, in what situations? -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Help with ddrescue

2015-05-08 Thread The Wanderer
On 05/08/2015 at 02:48 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > On 08/05/15 02:32 PM, German wrote: > >> On Fri, 08 May 2015 14:23:39 -0400 The Wanderer >> wrote: >>> Yes, that's what I'd do in your situation. A 2.5TB drive should >>> be more

Re: Help with ddrescue

2015-05-08 Thread The Wanderer
On 05/08/2015 at 02:16 PM, German wrote: > On Fri, 08 May 2015 13:40:01 -0400 The Wanderer > wrote: > >> On 05/08/2015 at 01:20 PM, German wrote: >>> Thanks, but some clarification is needed. Now I have two drives, >>> failed and a spare. Both are 2TB in si

Re: Help with ddrescue

2015-05-08 Thread The Wanderer
ver, it is not trivial, and in my experience the process requires considerably more space than the size of whatever drive is being rescued. Personally, I would probably recommend the use of myrescue rather than of ddrescue or dd_rescue, but any of them can work if you use them right. -- T

Re: Pining for Qt 5.4

2015-05-02 Thread The Wanderer
On 05/02/2015 at 07:45 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 03 May 2015 00:40:17 Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> On Saturday 02 May 2015 23:56:30 The Wanderer wrote: >>> Given that the original poster's question did not include the >>> word "pin" in any form, a

Re: Pining for Qt 5.4

2015-05-02 Thread The Wanderer
" in any form, and "pinning" did not enter the discussion until Christian Seiler's first response, I think that this _is_ what the Subject line is referring to. I suspect the "pining"/"pinning" parallel here is in fact pure coincidence. -- The Wanderer The

Re: Jessie with ATI Radeon HD 4250 boots black screen after installing drivers...

2015-04-29 Thread The Wanderer
on which it provides, and the directions for accomplishing it with certainty would be considerably more complicated than what's already on that Wiki page. > Why? And why gives me "aticonfig --initial" "No supported adapters > detected"? Most likely because the 4250

Re: Question: Why do you dist-upgrade?

2015-04-29 Thread The Wanderer
ecomes stable, trying to keep track of everything I'd need to reinstall and reconfigure and so forth would just be far more trouble than it would be worth as a default approach. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to a

Re: testing or stable

2015-04-29 Thread The Wanderer
On 04/29/2015 at 11:38 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 02:37:43PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> The "experimental" repository has no codename, at least not that I >> know of. It is used entirely for packages that developers want to >> mak

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