Re: MPD on localhost won't work if there's no Wifi!?

2014-06-09 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Teresa e Junior teresaejun...@gmail.com wrote: $ sudo /usr/sbin/tcpdump -nn -i any udp port 53 or udp port 5353 tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode listening on any, link-type LINUX_SLL (Linux cooked), capture size 65535

Re: unable to mount removable media with xfce4 version 4.10.1

2014-06-09 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 09:01:24AM -0400, Tom H wrote: Allow me to remind you this story: http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/3/484 The whole mess started once udev (systemd) upstream took the liberty to rewrite udev's firmware

kalarm warning message

2014-06-08 Thread tom arnall
when i start kalarm, i get the message: QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Applcation may misbehave. i also frequently get a very naughty kalarm. it hogs memory and processor big time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Systemd biting CUPS

2014-06-07 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Gour g...@atmarama.net wrote: Siard shiems...@kpnplanet.nl writes: 'init=/bin/systemd' is added to the kernel command line. By looking at I've got a feeling that 'init=/bin/systemd' should be added automatically to the kernel line in grub, but after I switched

Re: bridges with multiple static IPs or DHPC - how to configure?

2014-06-06 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Steffen Dettmer steffen.dett...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 11:59 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Steffen Dettmer: thanks so much for you mail. As I wrote in my other mail just a minute ago, it seems I solved

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-06 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 5:52 AM, Horatio Leragon hlera...@yahoo.com wrote: dpkg --list 'linux-image-*' \ | perl -ane 'BEGIN { $r = `uname -r` or die; chomp $r } print $F[1], \n if $F[0] eq ii $F[1] !~ /\Q$r\E\b/' \ | xargs -r aptitude purge -y This script'll remove

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-06 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Horatio Leragon hlera...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, June 6, 2014 6:39 PM This script'll remove linux-image-generic and the kernel will no longer be upgraded automatically. What do you mean by kernel will no longer

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-04 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Horatio Leragon wrote: #dhcpcd eth0 There isn't a dhcpcd command in Debian. You must be using a different system with the above notes. It's created via the alternatives system by the dhcpcd/dhcpcd5 postinsts. -- To

Re: Post-installation: how to auto-configure network adapter (ie. enable internet access)?

2014-06-04 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 7:05 PM, Horatio Leragon hlera...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com On Debian that would be isc-dhcp-client. The writer of the guide states that it (the guide) is for Debian users. And you're telling me he's wrong. I'm really confused. I think I

Re: bridges with multiple static IPs or DHPC - how to configure?

2014-06-04 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Steffen Dettmer steffen.dett...@gmail.com wrote: how to configure a bridge with multiple static IPs and/or DHPC via /etc/network/interfaces? I tried many combinations, but I didn't find any working one. Of course everything works as expected when configuring

Re: bridges with multiple static IPs or DHPC - how to configure?

2014-06-04 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Karl E. Jorgensen k...@jorgensen.org.uk wrote: On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 08:00:49PM +0200, Steffen Dettmer wrote: For an ordinary ethernet interface, the following works: auto eth3.10 iface eth3.10 inet static address 10.72.9.17 netmask

Re: Path to solution - was [ Re: Forcing question to be asked while presseeding]

2014-06-02 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: Brian wrote: On Mon 02 Jun 2014 at 15:13:24 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: The problem actually revolves around the installer (both Squeeze and Wheezy) default boot line including priority=critical for an automatic

Re: Problem with Spamassassin since upgrade (permissions)

2014-05-29 Thread Tom Furie
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 08:20:21AM +0200, Oliver Zemann wrote: I changed my permissions with chown -R debian-spamd:debian-spamd /var/lib... so this should be fixed, thanks. Along with ownership, did you also change the permissions on /var/lib/spamassassin? Cheers, Tom -- Different all

Re: What is the difference between linux-image-amd64 and linux-image-3.2.0.4-amd64?

2014-05-29 Thread Tom H
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 8:51 AM, The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 05/29/2014 07:49 AM, Horatio Leragon wrote: During installation of Debian 7.5, one is prompted to install either linux-image-3.2.0.4-amd64 or linux-image-amd64 There is no context-sensitive help menu on that

Re: can't get wicd to work

2014-05-28 Thread tom arnall
. discussion here: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/1wfpk8wkh8328/?v=cs=qq=launchpadth=146449130dc82f52 On 5/26/14, tom arnall kloro2...@gmail.com wrote: BTW, I DO NOT SEEM TO HAVE ANY OF THE B43 STUFF ON MY SYSTEM: root@debian:/home/tom# apt-get install firmware-b43-installer Reading

Re: fastest linux distro

2014-05-28 Thread tom arnall
debian over ubuntu hands down for speed and for efficient resources utilization. it's a harder install, but for me well worth the extra work. On 1/24/14, tom arnall kloro2...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for the fastest Linux distro for the following purposes. System: Dell latitude D630

Re: repeatable dpkg-buildpackage

2014-05-26 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 18:58 +0400, Reco wrote: fakeroot ... regarding to some claims on this list is a PITA, at least when building a kernel. I run my scripts to build kernel-rts as root. Why is it a PitA?

Re: can't get wicd to work

2014-05-26 Thread tom arnall
firmware /lib/firmware/tigon/tg3_tso.bin for module tg3 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/tigon/tg3.bin for module tg3 THE RESULT SEEMS NIL: Root@debian:/home/tom/system# ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1c:23:2f:f3:8f inet addr:192.168.0.14 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask

Re: can't get wicd to work

2014-05-26 Thread tom arnall
DID IT: SAME RESULT. SYS CAN'T SEE WIRELESS: Root@debian:/home/tom/system# ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1c:23:2f:f3:8f inet addr:192.168.0.14 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::21c:23ff:fe2f:f38f/64 Scope:Link UP

Re: can't get wicd to work

2014-05-26 Thread tom arnall
BTW, I DO NOT SEEM TO HAVE ANY OF THE B43 STUFF ON MY SYSTEM: root@debian:/home/tom# apt-get install firmware-b43-installer Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: b43-fwcutter The following NEW

can't get wicd to work

2014-05-25 Thread tom arnall
AND DID THE LAST TWO COMMANDS. I FIRED UP WICD AND GOT THE USUAL No wireless networks found. THEN I CHECKED TO SEE THE STATUS OF THE DEVICE. VOILA! IT'S NOT THERE, AS IN: Root@debian:/home/tom# ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1c:23:2f:f3:8f inet addr:192.168.0.14 Bcast

'box' as noun, was: wireless can DHCP but not DNS?

2014-05-23 Thread Tom Roche
to refer to informatic devices generically. FWIW, Tom Roche tom_ro...@pobox.com -- 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/87ha4gz9ew@pobox.com

Re: Accelerated driver for Intel video driver?

2014-05-22 Thread Tom H
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 6:52 AM, Pertti Kosunen pertti.kosu...@pp.nic.fi wrote: On 21.5.2014 2:43, Brad Alexander wrote: I apologize, I thought I had specified, the machine in question is running a relatively recent version of sid. I have not been upgrading as much until some of this chaos

wireless can DHCP but not DNS?

2014-05-22 Thread Tom Roche
assistance is appreciated, Tom Roche tom_ro...@pobox.com -- 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/87sio1zl57@pobox.com

Re: wireless can DHCP but not DNS?

2014-05-22 Thread Tom Roche
Tom Roche Thu, 22 May 2014 15:08:36 -0400 summary: box ethernets via wire, but all wireless fails, including known-good providers: `ifconfig -a` shows a wireless IP#, but `nslookup` fails. How to fix or debug? Brian Thu, 22 May 2014 20:46:38 +0100 You could compare (and post) /etc

Re: systemd - excessive session-creation time

2014-05-20 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: On 5/20/14, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: I use Fluxbox on Fedora without a DM so I'm familiar with the interaction of logind and xinit but I don't see how my reply to your post had anything to do with X or tty7

Re: systemd situation in Jesssie

2014-05-20 Thread Tom H
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 3:24 AM, Erwan David er...@rail.eu.org wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:14:17PM CEST, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com said: On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 3:46 AM, Erwan David er...@rail.eu.org wrote: Le 19/05/2014 00:21, Tom H a écrit : On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:29 AM, David

Re: systemd situation in Jesssie

2014-05-20 Thread Tom H
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 6:07 AM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Tue 20 May 2014 at 09:24:02 +0200, Erwan David wrote: On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:14:17PM CEST, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com said: You'll have the choice to use sysvinit without logind or to use it with logind if systemd-shim

Re: Max number of loop devices OR efficient search of Debian documentation

2014-05-19 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 3:33 AM, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2014-05-18, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: You'll have to run chown root:disk /dev/loop8 too. Nobody mentioned that in my reading! ls -l /dev/loop* Yes, I did that after you mentioned the chown and remarked that all my loopy

Re: systemd - excessive session-creation time

2014-05-19 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 10:32 PM, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: On 5/19/14, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Erwan David er...@rail.eu.org wrote: Le 18/05/2014 08:34, Tom H a écrit : If you want tty2 to be available permanently and persistently

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

2014-05-19 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: On 18/05/14 06:40 PM, Tom H wrote: On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: So I am free to build a fence on public property that denies my neighbour the right to access his house? That seems

Re: systemd situation in Jesssie

2014-05-19 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 3:46 AM, Erwan David er...@rail.eu.org wrote: Le 19/05/2014 00:21, Tom H a écrit : On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:29 AM, David Dušanić ivanovne...@gmail.com wrote: Systemd-shim is there to provide functions by systemd on a system that does not use it as its init system

Re: systemd - excessive session-creation time

2014-05-18 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 10:49 PM, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: Although initial tty session (from boot) is quicker than with sysvinit, additional tty sessions are very slow to start, in the order of 5 seconds (which seems like an eternity). Additionally, this slow tty/session

Re: systemd - excessive session-creation time

2014-05-18 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 3:21 AM, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: On 5/18/14, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 10:49 PM, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: Although initial tty session (from boot) is quicker than with sysvinit, additional tty sessions

Re: systemd situation in Jesssie

2014-05-18 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Nemeth Gyorgy fri...@freemail.hu wrote: 2014-05-17 21:54 keltezéssel, Tom H írta: I have servers running Jessie. Can I continue upgrading packages on a regular basis, without having to worry that one of these updates will uninstall half of my system and install

Re: Max number of loop devices OR efficient search of Debian documentation

2014-05-18 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: My general question is How to search for a particular particle of information that you've seen SOMEWHERE in the reams of information available as formal documentation, web pages, mailing lists, etc. My current

Re: Max number of loop devices OR efficient search of Debian documentation

2014-05-18 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 10:20 AM, The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 05/18/2014 09:52 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Tom H a écrit : If you have loop compiled in to the kernel, as I do below, you can only change the number of loop devices at boot by using max_loop=number_of_loop_devices

Re: DEB Wheezy xfce desktops

2014-05-18 Thread Tom Furie
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 12:16:28AM -0500, c. marlow wrote: Thank you so much TOM you made me SO HAPPY... I found the one I wanted... I just LOVE this background it reminds me of WIN 2000 which was my fav windows os Here is the desktop on Xubuntu 12.04 my current OS for now. I'm glad you

Re: Max number of loop devices OR efficient search of Debian documentation

2014-05-18 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Sun 18 May 2014 at 09:40:29 -0400, Tom H wrote: If you have loop compiled in to the kernel, as I do below, you can only change the number of loop devices at boot by using max_loop=number_of_loop_devices on the kernel

Re: Max number of loop devices OR efficient search of Debian documentation

2014-05-18 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2014-05-18, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: My current instance is attempting to modify the max number of loop devices. One pellet of Google buckshot reminded me that it can be reset for the next re-boot under

can't get wicd to work

2014-05-18 Thread tom arnall
I'm trying to get my wifi set up under wheezy using wicd. I've followed all the instructions at: https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse#Wicd When I do ~/$ wicd-client -n I get: No wireless networks found. The following is the output from the session: (My username is 'tom'.) ~/$ cat /etc

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

2014-05-18 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: A lot of people responding to this post don't seem to understand that freedom applies to more than just personal choice. The United States was not a free nation while it accepted slavery and Firefox is not free software

Re: Max number of loop devices OR efficient search of Debian documentation

2014-05-18 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Filip fi...@fbvnet.be wrote: On Sun, 18 May 2014 15:15:34 + (UTC) Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2014-05-18, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: My current instance is attempting to modify the max number of loop devices. One pellet of Google buckshot

Re: Max number of loop devices OR efficient search of Debian documentation

2014-05-18 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Curt cu...@free.fr wrote: On 2014-05-18, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: I'm reading you can *add* another loop device on the fly with the mknod command: mknod -m 660 /dev/loop8 b 7 8 You'll have to run chown root:disk /dev/loop8 too. Nobody mentioned

Re: systemd situation in Jesssie

2014-05-18 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:29 AM, David Dušanić ivanovne...@gmail.com wrote: Systemd-shim is there to provide functions by systemd on a system that does not use it as its init system. It could be useful when you depend on Gnome 3 software like network-manager but do not want to use systemd.

Re: systemd - excessive session-creation time

2014-05-18 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Erwan David er...@rail.eu.org wrote: Le 18/05/2014 08:34, Tom H a écrit : On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 10:49 PM, Zenaan Harkness z...@freedbms.net wrote: Although initial tty session (from boot) is quicker than with sysvinit, additional tty sessions are very slow

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

2014-05-18 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: So I am free to build a fence on public property that denies my neighbour the right to access his house? That seems to be the crux of your argument. You ought to go in to politics because this is yet another ridiculous

Re: Vertualbox installation errors

2014-05-17 Thread Tom Furie
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 08:23:07AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: Sorry, I thought I had. --print-architecture = i386, --print-foreign-architectures = amd64 And there it is - you are running a 32-bit system with a 64-bit kernel. Cheers, Tom -- QOTD: I never met a man I couldn't drink

Re: systemd situation in Jesssie

2014-05-17 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Martin Vegter martin.veg...@aol.com wrote: I am wondering whether systemd will be mandatory in Jessie. At the moment, I can install Jessie without systemd. Will this stay so, or will this change somewhere before Jessie becomes stable? I have servers running

Re: systemd situation in Jesssie

2014-05-17 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Erwan David er...@rail.eu.org wrote: Le 17/05/2014 20:57, Sven Joachim a écrit : On 2014-05-17 19:58 +0200, Martin Vegter wrote: I am wondering whether systemd will be mandatory in Jessie. At the moment, I can install Jessie without systemd. Will this stay so,

Re: systemd situation in Jesssie

2014-05-17 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Erwan David er...@rail.eu.org wrote: Le 17/05/2014 19:58, Martin Vegter a écrit : I am wondering whether systemd will be mandatory in Jessie. At the moment, I can install Jessie without systemd. Will this stay so, or will this change somewhere before Jessie

Re: DEB Wheezy xfce desktops

2014-05-17 Thread Tom Furie
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 02:16:32PM -0500, c. marlow wrote: I am wondering where I can find the desktops thats used in the latest Debian XFCE desktop Wallpapers? I'm not sure which wallpaper you're talking about, but have you checked xfce4-artwork? Cheers, Tom -- Higher education helps your

Re: DEB Wheezy xfce desktops

2014-05-17 Thread Tom Furie
you're looking for). It's available at ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xfce4-artwork/ or your preferred mirror. Cheers, Tom -- All phone calls are obscene. -- Karen Elizabeth Gordon signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Will Iceweasel stay open source?

2014-05-15 Thread Tom H
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Eelis ee...@eelis.net wrote: I read[1] that Firefox will start shipping parts for which they won't provide the source code (something to do with DRM..). Can I trust that Iceweasel will remain open source, or will I have to switch to Lynx if I want to use an

Re: Default supported service manager in Wheezy

2014-05-11 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2014-05-10 22:40 +0200, Tom H wrote: On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 2:19 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby mihamina.rakotomandi...@rktmb.org wrote: A long time ago, when I was young ;-), services used to be managed with invoke-rc.d

Re: Default supported service manager in Wheezy

2014-05-10 Thread Tom H
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 2:19 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby mihamina.rakotomandi...@rktmb.org wrote: A long time ago, when I was young ;-), services used to be managed with invoke-rc.d update-rc.d on Debian. I've never understood why, but invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are meant for maintainer

Re: Default supported service manager in Wheezy

2014-05-10 Thread Tom H
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 3:49 AM, Marko Randjelovic marko...@eunet.rs wrote: On Wheezy, you can use: invoke-rc.d service action service service action /etc/init.d/service action invoke-rc.d is meant for maintainer scripts and not users (don't ask me why). /etc/init.d/service action doesn't

Re: Is Debian still Debian?

2014-05-10 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 12:01 PM, John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com wrote: David Guntner writes: Again, as someone else pointed out: The key word here is TESTING. You want less updates? Go with the current stable release. That has updates, but not as often. You can also just not install every

Re: Is zeitgeist safe?

2014-05-07 Thread Tom H
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 10:09 PM, Theodore Alcapotaxis theota...@mail.com wrote: From: Patrick Wiseman Sent: 05/07/14 05:40 AM To: Debian User Lists Subject: Re: Is zeitgeist safe? Will you people please take this crap off-list? Patrick, which parts of the topic make you uncomfortable?

Re: boot in console mode from grub2

2014-05-07 Thread Tom H
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 4:59 AM, 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 only)

Re: boot in console mode from grub2

2014-05-06 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: On Mon, 5 May 2014 12:38:57 +0300 Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Lu, 05 mai 14, 04:58:14, Tom H wrote: On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:29 AM, François Patte francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr wrote: I

Re: boot in console mode from grub2

2014-05-06 Thread Tom H
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom hvw59...@care2.com wrote: François Patte wrote: I would like to boot in console mode from the grub screen (ie not in graphic mode), but I don't want to be in single user mode, ie.: I want to have a normal boot without X. I can't find any tuto

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

2014-05-05 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Du, 04 mai 14, 04:01:25, Tom H wrote: I've never used this search term but aptitude has a search for new packages. I assume that a package is somehow marked as new after apt-get update or aptitude update. New

Re: sudo in X-environment -- polkit solution

2014-05-05 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org wrote: On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 12:43:17PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2014-05-03 at 06:29 -0400, Tom H wrote: I am wondering why you even need to use wrapper explicitly? That's why I've said that I consider using a wrapper

Re: boot in console mode from grub2

2014-05-05 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:29 AM, François Patte francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr wrote: I would like to boot in console mode from the grub screen (ie not in graphic mode), but I don't want to be in single user mode, ie.: I want to have a normal boot without X. I can't find any tuto for

Re: Problems with mdraid on initrd

2014-05-05 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Fredrik Tolf fred...@dolda2000.com wrote: I recently upgraded to Wheezy a system that has its root filesystem on top of LVM and mdraid, and it gained a problem in booting, in that the initrd calls mdadm to scan for the mdraid devices before the kernel is done

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

2014-05-05 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Lu, 05 mai 14, 04:05:28, Tom H wrote: On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: If one is watching for new packages it also makes sense to clear the list from time to time

Re: boot in console mode from grub2

2014-05-05 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 5:38 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Lu, 05 mai 14, 04:58:14, Tom H wrote: On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:29 AM, François Patte francois.pa...@mi.parisdescartes.fr wrote: I would like to boot in console mode from the grub screen (ie not in graphic mode

Re: boot in console mode from grub2

2014-05-05 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 5:57 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Lu, 05 mai 14, 10:30:43, Dom wrote: On 05/05/14 09:58, Tom H wrote: Add text to the kernel cmdline. Which you can do by editing the /etc/default/grub file and changing GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX

Re: What happened to palimpsest disk utility in Jessie?

2014-05-05 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: In Wheezy there is a program called palimpsest that gives a nice wide-ranging overview of all things related to disks: partitions, LVM configuration, MD/raid configs, SMART data for individual drives, and so on. It was

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

2014-05-04 Thread Tom Furie
available packages which have a version in backports (specifically it will limit to any packages with bpo in the version string, which all backports do). Cheers, Tom -- : How would you disambiguate these situations? By shooting the person who did the latter. -- Larry Wall

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

2014-05-04 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 1:28 AM, Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: I have added to my sources.list the following line: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-backports main But according to http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/, that won't make the backport appear in

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

2014-05-04 Thread Tom Furie
On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 06:23:05PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Tom Roche tom_ro...@pobox.com wrote: summary: solution: install jessie package=libc6:i386 et al Well, you've actually pinned the problem pretty well. Who, or, rather, which tool should

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

2014-05-04 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 5:35 AM, Tom Furie t...@furie.org.uk wrote: On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 06:23:05PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Tom Roche tom_ro...@pobox.com wrote: summary: solution: install jessie package=libc6:i386 et al Well, you've actually pinned

[multiarch] easy fix for interarchitectural package conflict?

2014-05-04 Thread Tom Roche
targeting a package end-user while either casually DDGing or a less casual read of https://wiki.debian.org/Multiarch (which seems more targeted to package maintainers). Feel free to pass pointers to Fine Manuals; I will cheerfully RTFM. your assistance is appreciated, Tom Roche tom_ro

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

2014-05-04 Thread Tom Furie
On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 12:03:17PM -0400, Tom H wrote: But installing libc6:i386 and a few others allows firefox to work: Meaning installing the :i386 versions of the libraries was (part of) the solution, not the problem. Any bug report would have to go against a part of the system

Re: [multiarch] easy fix for interarchitectural package conflict?

2014-05-04 Thread Tom Furie
On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 04:04:30PM -0400, Tom Roche wrote: summary: jessie/sid:amd64 box must install an i386 package which depends on libgif4:i386, but - libgif4:i386 conflicts with libgif4:amd64 - important apps depend on libgif4:amd64 Is this the same box that you were having

Re: [multiarch] easy fix for interarchitectural package conflict?

2014-05-04 Thread Tom Roche
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/05/msg00291.html [Tom Roche Sun, 04 May 2014 16:04:30 -0400] me@it ~ $ inxi -r Repos: Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main Active apt sources

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

2014-05-04 Thread Tom Furie
, are more recent versions more precise in their error messages in this kind of situation? Cheers, Tom -- Should I start with the time I SWITCHED personalities with a BEATNIK hair stylist or my failure to refer five TEENAGERS to a good OCULIST? signature.asc Description: Digital signature

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

2014-05-04 Thread Tom Furie
reference to the 8086's lack of extra address registers. :-\ ) Indeed. I think my brain just broke. Let's just say the bug report should be against Tom Roche's workplace's network security bods :) Cheers, Tom -- I've got a COUSIN who works in the GARMENT DISTRICT ... signature.asc Description

SOLVED: [multiarch] easy fix for interarchitectural package conflict?

2014-05-04 Thread Tom Roche
] [you have an] older version of libgif4 than the one in jessie/sid[, since] Multiarch support was enabled in 4.1.6-11 back in December 2013. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/05/msg00302.html [Tom Roche Sun, 04 May 2014 17:10:28 -0400] [So] 1. add [repository=`deb http://ftp.debian.org

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

2014-05-03 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 1:33 AM, Charlie aries...@ipstarmail.com.au wrote: On Sat, 3 May 2014 01:12:23 -0400 Tom H sent: And the message: Try running the command gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache to make things work again for the time

Re: sudo in X-environment

2014-05-03 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 1:35 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Sat, 2014-05-03 at 07:24 +0200, Slavko wrote: sux was removed from testing and unstable, then it is not a solution to future. It's just a short script everybody could copy paste from any other distro or from

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

2014-05-03 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 2:10 AM, filip fi...@fbvnet.be wrote: On Fri, 02 May 2014 22:25:34 -0400 Tom Roche tom_ro...@pobox.com wrote: For background on my problem (and why I very much need to solve it), see http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=190t=166506p=855700#p855700

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

2014-05-03 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 2:13 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Sat, 2014-05-03 at 02:02 -0400, Tom H wrote: For x86_32: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache For x86_64: /usr/lib

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

2014-05-03 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 2:25 AM, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 07:48:45AM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2014-05-01 at 22:56 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: On 05/01/2014 02:37 PM, Selim T. Erdogan wrote: At the time, I didn't check to see if the file

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

2014-05-03 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Charlie aries...@ipstarmail.com.au wrote: On Sat, 3 May 2014 02:02:49 -0400 Tom H sent: For x86_32: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache For x86_64: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux

Re: sudo in X-environment

2014-05-03 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 3:21 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Btw. xhost is needed when using gksudo: $ chuser firefox No protocol specified No protocol specified Error: cannot open display: :0 size == 0' failed $ cat /usr/local/bin/chuser #!/bin/sh #

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

2014-05-03 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 2:10 AM, filip fi...@fbvnet.be wrote: On Fri, 02 May 2014 22:25:34 -0400 Tom Roche tom_ro...@pobox.com wrote: For background on my problem (and why I very much need to solve it), see http

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

2014-05-03 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz jvpe...@web.de wrote: On my machine /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin is a link to /usr/lib/iceweasel/iceweasel . So maybe on your machine /usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28/firefox-bin is a dangling link. What is the output of $ ls -lF

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

2014-05-03 Thread Tom Roche
summary: solution: install jessie package=libc6:i386 et al details: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/05/msg00126.html [Tom Roche Fri, 02 May 2014 22:25:34 -0400] me@it ~ $ /usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28/firefox-bin bash: /usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28/firefox-bin: No such file

Re: Debian 7.x and desktop environments

2014-05-03 Thread Tom Furie
, and they are certainly not crucial to a working operating system. Added to that, intalling one of the -desktop tasks (for the most part) pulls in a particular office suite and a particular browser, which might not be those I want installed. Cheers, Tom -- Did an Italian CRANE OPERATOR just experience

Re: qemu not grabbing control keys

2014-05-02 Thread Tom H
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 3:04 PM, Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson ojs...@gmail.com wrote: I tried that, didnt work. Neither does -alt-grab work. But in all cases grabbing and ungrabbing the mouse works. So normally the ctrl-alt grabs ungrabs the mouse but ctrl-alt-2 does not give me the qemu console,

Re: sudo in X-environment

2014-05-02 Thread Tom Furie
On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 02:04:46PM +0200, Slavko wrote: On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 07:29:08PM +0100, Tom Furie wrote: Here, have a wrapper script --8x #!/bin/sh xhost + si:localuser:root sudo $@ xhost - si:localuser:root --8x

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

2014-05-02 Thread Tom Roche
/share/firefox-3.6.28/firefox-bin (of which I'm aware). desperately confused, Tom Roche tom_ro...@pobox.com -- 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/877g63oaxt

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

2014-05-02 Thread Tom Roche
Tom Roche Fri, 02 May 2014 22:25:34 -0400 For background on my problem (and why I very much need to solve it), see http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=190t=166506p=855700#p855700 But the essence of the problem appears to be me@it ~ $ /usr/local/share/firefox-3.6.28/firefox-bin

Re: sudo in X-environment

2014-05-02 Thread Tom H
On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Fri, 2014-05-02 at 14:04 +0200, Slavko wrote: Dňa Thu, 1 May 2014 20:33:17 + Артур Истомин art.is...@yandex.ru napísal: On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 07:29:08PM +0100, Tom Furie wrote: Here, have a wrapper

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

2014-05-02 Thread Tom H
On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 7:48 PM, Charlie aries...@ipstarmail.com.au wrote: I case it hasn't been fixed at the source and you missed it Paul. Ralf put it right for me, but my system was more damaged than yours for some reason? Probably my system was a little too lean and mean. So I had to

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

2014-05-02 Thread Tom H
On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 10:25 PM, Tom Roche tom_ro...@pobox.com wrote: For background on my problem (and why I very much need to solve it), see http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=190t=166506p=855700#p855700 But the essence of the problem appears to be me@it ~ $ /usr/local/share

Re: sudo in X-environment

2014-05-01 Thread Tom H
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 4:51 AM, Johann Spies johann.sp...@gmail.com wrote: For years I have used sudo both in server administration and on the desktop. Lately I get the following error message and I do not really know what to do about it other than logging into the xserver as root - which I

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