unwanted change to lower desktop resolution during tty1 virtual console boot process

ng changed or how to change the screen resolution by the program that changes it (console-setup.service?)? fbset does not work at all inside VirtualBox. Error message: ioctl FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid argument Cheers, Patrick [1] GRUB_GFXMODE=1024x768x24 GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep or GRUB_GFXPAY

Re: what is sitting on USB device?

On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 11:03:05 -0500 Mark Copper wrote: > Trying to connect to a device, I get this error message: > > *** Error *** > An error occurred in the io-library ('Could not claim the USB > device'): Could not claim interface 0 (Device or resource busy). Make > sure no other program

Re: What are the differences between systemd and non-systemd Linux distros?

On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 05:59:36 + Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > Good afternoon from Singapore, > > What are the differences between systemd and non-systemd Linux > distros? Between disros themselves? Little except the init system. As an example, when I first installed Stretch, it

Re: Micro-report: using Stable without systemd

On Sun, 14 Oct 2018 10:23:15 -0400 Dan Ritter wrote: > Throughout Jessie and Stretch, I have been running Debian without > systemd as the init system. If systemd became installed by accident, I > promptly removed it in favor of sysvinit. So did I. Started with a clean, netistall, terminal only

Re: apt vs apt-get

n:Debian GNU/Linux 9.5 (stretch) Release:9.5 Codename: stretch Patrick

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 21:59:00 +0200 Pétùr wrote: > Le 09/10/2018 à 02:04, Patrick Bartek a écrit : > > First, Firefox is using 50% of your RAM. That's way too much unless > > you have very little RAM to begin with. How much total RAM do you > > have? My system has 8GB.

Re: twitter videos not playing

On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 10:42:23 +0100 mick crane wrote: > hello > basically default Buster install > firefox-esr > pepperflash is there and youtube videos play Try installing the flash player from the Adobe site. Some sites specifically require it and won't work with pepperflash or HTML5. B

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 22:06:18 +0200 Pétùr wrote: > Le 08/10/2018 à 20:59, Patrick Bartek a écrit : > > On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 20:07:26 +0200 > > Pétùr wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I experience a very slow response time (and high cpu usage) for &g

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 20:07:26 +0200 Pétùr wrote: > Hi, > > I experience a very slow response time (and high cpu usage) for > firefox in debian sid these days. > > I use the 62.0.3 version and the latency is particularly present at > the startup. I have to wait few seconds before being able to

Re: And yet another UEFI/BIOS question: Work on both.

g what they really do is a recipe for disaster. Or just folly. Good luck with your quest. B > Wayne Sallee > wa...@waynesallee.com > http://www.WayneSallee.com > > On 09/23/2018 12:18 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Sun, 23 Sep 2018 10:58:54 -0400 > > Wayne Sallee wrote:

Re: And yet another UEFI/BIOS question: Work on both.

On Sun, 23 Sep 2018 10:58:54 -0400 Wayne Sallee wrote: > What do you recommend for setting up a system that will boot in > either UEFI or BIOS mode, so if it is moved back and forth between > UEFI and BIOS, it will boot every time? I recommend you learn how to use Google or DuckDuckGo, etc.

Re: update problem

On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 10:56:14 -0400 Michael Stone wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 07:50:28AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >Plus, you have the advantage of a system that is customized to your > >hardware and personal tastes. System runs and boots faster. > &

Re: update problem

On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 22:56:55 -0400 Default User wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 1:16 PM Patrick Bartek > wrote: > > > On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 00:56:03 -0400 > > Default User wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Sep 10, 2018, 23:42 Patrick Bartek > > > wrote:

Re: update problem

On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 00:56:03 -0400 Default User wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2018, 23:42 Patrick Bartek > wrote: > > [big snip] > > > > Well, it is Unstable. So, problems are expected. It's the nature > > of the beast. Let us know how it goes. At wor

Re: update problem

On Mon, 10 Sep 2018 20:14:05 -0400 Default User wrote: > On Sun, Sep 9, 2018, 20:09 Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > On Sun, 9 Sep 2018 10:52:39 -0400 > > Default User wrote: > > > > > UPDATE: > > > > > > Problem still occurring as of 2018-09

Re: update problem

On Sun, 9 Sep 2018 10:52:39 -0400 Default User wrote: > UPDATE: > > Problem still occurring as of 2018-09-09 14.50 UT. > No indication of whether anyone else is experiencing this condition. > I don't run Sid/Unstable, but "updates" on both Wheezy which I ran for 5+ years and now Stretch on

Re: Unable to install .iso's in virtualbox, but why?

On Sun, 09 Sep 2018 15:20:14 +0100 Sharon Kimble wrote: > I'm having great difficulty in getting virtualbox running. every time > that I try to install an iso it fails and shows this in a pop-up - > > --8<---cut here---start->8--- > Failed to open a session

Re: changing the desktop environment

On Thu, 06 Sep 2018 11:53:19 +0100 mick crane wrote: > hello, > It is a long time since I fiddled with the display. > is buster. > there are the names > display manager which is lightdm > desktop environment which is mate > and window manager which I think is part of mate > > If I want to

Re: What is Firefox on Debian Stretch nearest future?

On Fri, 31 Aug 2018 23:51:49 +0200 (CEST) local10 wrote: > Aug 31, 2018, 2:49 PM by nemomm...@gmail.com: > > > Well, the first time I installed and loaded it under Wheezy, its > > start up was so slow, I thought it had failed or was broken. (We > > are talking about Firefox ESR from the Debian

Re: What is Firefox on Debian Stretch nearest future?

On Fri, 31 Aug 2018 23:26:23 +0200 (CEST) local10 wrote: > Aug 31, 2018, 2:52 PM by nemomm...@gmail.com: > > > On Fri, 31 Aug 2018 09:20:13 +0200 > > Stefan Krueger <> stefan.krue...@aei.mpg.de > > <mailto:stefan.krue...@aei.mpg.de>> > wrote: >

Re: What is Firefox on Debian Stretch nearest future?

On Fri, 31 Aug 2018 09:20:13 +0200 Stefan Krueger wrote: > Hi Patrick, > > I had the same issue, slow Firefox and use a lot of CPU_power, I > delete the .mozilla folder and then everything works fine, maybe you > can give it a try?! Thanks. I'll look into that. Just did

Re: What is Firefox on Debian Stretch nearest future?

On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 20:34:43 +0200 (CEST) local10 wrote: > Aug 30, 2018, 11:15 AM by nemomm...@gmail.com: > > > I hope it's faster than the previous releases. It was/is dog slow. > > > What do you do with Firefox that it's so slow? Firefox has lots of > problems but its speed was never a

Re: What is Firefox on Debian Stretch nearest future?

On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 09:28:35 +0200 Stefan K wrote: > Hi, > > Debian will be upgrade to Firefox 60.2 esr.,it will be available at > 2018-09-05 > [snip] I hope it's faster than the previous releases. It was/is dog slow. That's one of the reasons I switched to Firefox Quantum. Have had no

Re: [Buster]: Can't start X: no screens found(EE)

On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 18:07:18 +0200 (CEST) local10 wrote: > Hi, > > Am trying to upgrade a Debian Wheezy PC to Buster. The PC was > successfully running Wheezy with KDE as desktop, in terms of hardware > there are no changes. Initially, sddm was intalled to start KDE but > that did not work for

Re: why is the kernel "unsleeping" a HDD put to sleep with hdparm -Y ?

On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 19:48:18 +1000 Zenaan Harkness wrote: > So I have a 'spare' internal spinning rust bucket which I only use > for backups, and so most of the time when I'm not using it I put it > to sleep with: > > sudo hdparm -Y /dev/sda > > Unfortunately the kernel wakes the drive up

Re: Microsoft Does It Again

A quick Google search for 'convert ooxml to tsv' yields several results; this one looks interesting: https://gist.github.com/3290599 Assuming it works, you should then be able to import the TSV file into Libre Office Calc. Patrick On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 11:14 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote

Re: Slow boot

On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 22:43:03 +0200 Johann Spies wrote: > On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 at 17:18, Patrick Bartek > wrote: > > > I'm curious. Did you just do a distribution upgrade on this laptop? > > From what to what? Or was it a clean install? Or is it an old > > install w

Re: Slow boot

On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 08:45:09 +0200 Johann Spies wrote: > I can push the power on button on my laptop, go and make coffee and > come back and wait a few minutes before I can work. > > The following services each takes longer than 10 seconds to activate: > > systemd-analyze blame > 1min

Re: Installing package *NOT* in repository

On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 08:56:17 +0200 wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 07:05:33PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Aug 2018 17:49:08 +0200 > > wrote: > > [...] > > > > As I said already, d

Re: Installing package *NOT* in repository

On Mon, 13 Aug 2018 17:49:08 +0200 wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 08:35:50AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Aug 2018 06:47:02 -0500 > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > PREAMBLE: > &

Re: Installing package *NOT* in repository

On Mon, 13 Aug 2018 06:47:02 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: > PREAMBLE: > I've downloaded a .deb file. > I've recently done such an install but don't remember how. > Looking at the man pages for apt, apt-get, aptitude didn't help. > Couldn't come up with useful search term for wiki. > Eventually

Re: Claws-mail "Get mail" opens full-page

On Tue, 3 Jul 2018 20:29:02 -0500 ntrfug wrote: > I've been using claws-mail since well before it was claws-mail (back > in the sylpheed days). > > When I checked for new mail or opened dialogs they opened in > the reduced size I specified, and this size was preserved when I > exited the

Re: Claws-mail - which plugin for html mails?

On Wed, 27 Jun 2018 22:19:53 +0200 Aldo Maggi wrote: > It is now more than one year I have to manually send html content to > a browser to see it > I know that fancy plugin, which formerly did that job very well > automatically, was dismissed because of problems of security with a > library, I

Re: trouble installing deb 9.4

On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 16:40:37 -0700 Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 19/06/18 04:00 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > FWIW: I run old XP in a VM now. Actually, it performs better than > > running it natively. > > You too? I also run XP in a VM, and file I/O is wonderfull

Re: trouble installing deb 9.4

On Mon, 18 Jun 2018 19:52:32 +0200 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > On Monday 18 June 2018 10:42:22 Patrick Bartek wrote: > [snip] > > >> You can't mix UEFI and MBR. It's either one or the other. > > Actually you can. The Debian installer can boot either in legacy BI

Re: trouble installing deb 9.4

On Sun, 17 Jun 2018 21:56:02 -0400 Dave wrote: > I have having trouble getting thru the first screen "UEFI Installer". > on this first menu i have full keyboard control. > > Once i choose one of the Sections IE: Graphical Install, Install, > Advanced Options > > once the screen switches i

Re: [Solved, largely] Re: Latest version of X not starting in buster

On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 20:19:15 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Sat 16 Jun 2018 at 12:06:24 +0200, Siard wrote: > > > Now in some local list, I've heard someone maintain that starting X > > with startx is very old, untested, deprecated, certainly in a > > systemd environment. A display manager would

Re: installing 9.4 from the dvd's iso.

On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 18:57:27 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 11 June 2018 16:50:39 Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 11:07:46 -0400 > > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Generally speaking, a big hey y'all to the developers. > > >

Re: installing 9.4 from the dvd's iso.

On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 11:07:46 -0400 Gene Heskett wrote: > Generally speaking, a big hey y'all to the developers. > > All of my squawks about the wheezy installer have been addressed. Good to hear. However, I never had any problem with my custom install of Wheezy 5 years ago. Nor, for that

Re: Correct: System Thinks Hardware Clock is UTC

On Mon, 21 May 2018 09:03:47 -0400 Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 12:15:05PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > Haven't > > > > installed any other OS on this system since Wheezy 5 years ago. > > Oh, good, then you

Re: Correct: System Thinks Hardware Clock is UTC

On Sun, 20 May 2018 22:42:24 +0300 Abdullah Ramazanoğlu <ar...@yahoo.com> wrote: > On Sun, 20 May 2018 12:10:01 -0700 Patrick Bartek said: > > > On Sat, 19 May 2018 03:52:27 +0300 Abdullah Ramazanoğlu > > <ar...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 1

Re: Correct: System Thinks Hardware Clock is UTC

On Sat, 19 May 2018 10:37:39 +1000 Ben Finney <bign...@debian.org> wrote: > Patrick Bartek <nemomm...@gmail.com> writes: > > > I could use hwclock --set --date= with the --localtime > > option, etc., to correct this but is there an easier way? > &

Re: Correct: System Thinks Hardware Clock is UTC

On Fri, 18 May 2018 20:59:25 -0500 David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > On Fri 18 May 2018 at 17:13:07 (-0700), Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Okay, it's my fault: I admit it. During the Base Only, Terminal-only > > install of Stretch, I clicked UTC instead of L

Re: Correct: System Thinks Hardware Clock is UTC

On Sat, 19 May 2018 03:52:27 +0300 Abdullah Ramazanoğlu <ar...@yahoo.com> wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2018 17:13:07 -0700 Patrick Bartek said: > > > I could use hwclock --set --date= with the --localtime > > option, etc., to correct this but is there an easier way? >

Re: CD Burning Software

On Sat, 19 May 2018 11:36:35 -0700 Herb Garcia wrote: > I'm running Mate on my laptop. I don't see a CD/DVD burning software > that came with the build. Any suggestions? I use xfburn, the XFCE Desktop utility, but on an Openbox window manager only system. No problems

Correct: System Thinks Hardware Clock is UTC

Okay, it's my fault: I admit it. During the Base Only, Terminal-only install of Stretch, I clicked UTC instead of Local for the hardware clock time. Honestly, I thought the clock was set to UTC. Haven't installed any other OS on this system since Wheezy 5 years ago. So, now system time on Stretch

Re: Problem with Firefox Quantum v-650.0

On Fri, 11 May 2018 11:06:54 -0400 Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 07:55:24PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Thu, 10 May 2018 13:00:27 -0400 "Stephen P. Molnar" > > <s.mol...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > > &g

Re: Problem with Firefox Quantum v-650.0

On Thu, 10 May 2018 13:00:27 -0400 "Stephen P. Molnar" wrote: > > On 05/10/2018 11:13 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 11:07:43AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > >> I've encountered a strange problem with the latest release of > >> Firefox Quantum

Re: Removing libsystemd0 from a non-systemd system

On Mon, 7 May 2018 01:25:15 + (UTC) David Griffith <d...@661.org> wrote: > On Sun, 6 May 2018, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > On Sun, 6 May 2018 02:44:16 + (UTC) David Griffith > > <d...@661.org> wrote: > > > >> Have any advances

Re: Removing libsystemd0 from a non-systemd system

On Sun, 6 May 2018 02:44:16 + (UTC) David Griffith wrote: > > Have any advances been made in figuring out just how to remove > libsystemd0 from a Debian 9 machine that's running sysvinit? The > ongoing presence of libsystemd0 has caused slowly-progressing trouble > with

Re: Sid in virtualbox: vbox drivers not built?

On Sun, 06 May 2018 15:04:28 +0200 Felix Natter wrote: > hello Debian-users, > > I am using virtualbox-guest-x11 5.2.10-dfsg-6, but when starting X11, > "vboxvideo" cannot be found. The other utils ("copy and paste") do not > work either. > > I notice that when installing

Re: color unstable under jessie

. has anyone else had this > problem. > I had that happen some years ago, before my screen failed completely. That laptop has since been a headless server! Patrick >

Re: Inexplicable memory usage after move to Debian9

On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 15:45:23 + Kenneth Parker wrote: > With the help of a "minimal" Debian 8 System, I am learning SystemD. > My guess was, simply due to more "Moving Parts", than the prior Boot > Process. More Open Processes, mean, practically more Memory Usage. > >

Re: Error while upgrading from Wheezy to Stretch

On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 15:31:32 -0400 David Parker wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to upgrade two test boxes from Wheezy to Stretch (skipping > Jessie). The upgrade worked on one of them, although I ran into > errors and had to run "apt-get -f install" a few times, but that >

Re: A Problem with Firefox Quantum

On Sun, 01 Apr 2018 07:20:36 -0400 "Stephen P. Molnar" wrote: > > On 04/01/2018 04:18 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Mar 2018, Curt wrote: > > > >> Try: > >> > >> about:config > >> > >> browser.urlbar.unifiedcomplete > >> > >> Change boolean value to false. >

Re: XFCE problems

ade several versions? Anyway, you can insert a 'Separator', and check its 'Expand' box, between the stuff you want on the right and the stuff you want on the left. Patrick

Re: Wheezy to Stretch

On Wed, 21 Feb 2018 17:45:51 + "Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)" wrote: > I am running Wheezy (v7 = oldoldstable) and intend to replace it with > a fresh install of Stretch (v9 = stable) before Wheezy's support runs > out on May 31st. I will try the default systemd

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Re: Migrate an old debian to a new machine

On Sat, 23 Dec 2017 10:31:16 +0100 Markus Grunwald wrote: > Hello, > > For 10 Years, I've been working with my trusted old T61 (still with > "IBM" logo...). Now I'm waiting for a new T570. > > The last migrations of my Debian installations were just dd'ing a full > disk

Re: Debian, FF & NavyFed

On Mon, 18 Dec 2017 18:10:28 -0800 Mike McClain wrote: > I signed up with Navy Federal Credit Union online banking last week. > I can login, I get the banner in color , it says getting your info. > As soon they come back with and display my balance all the text turnes > to

Re: vbox installation

On Thu, 14 Dec 2017 09:13:59 -0500 Jack Dangler wrote: > On 12/14/2017 09:03 AM, Alex ARNAUD wrote: > > I use Virtualbox 5.1.8 with the extension pack without issue on > > Debian Jessie. > Wondering why it would not have regressed to 5.1 ... > I only built this one because I

Re: please help! debain won't boot

On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 01:41:15 -0800 Jason Brenkus wrote: > I am a novice to linux, and I'm in over my head. I'm not sure what > went wrong or went. I am running Jessie. On startup the pc begins to > load and then goes to a screen with nothing but a cursor. Then > nothing

Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian

On Tue, 28 Nov 2017 10:28:57 -0500 The Wanderer wrote: > I've run across someone who says her machine is running Debian > oldoldoldstable or maybe even oldoldoldoldstable, and who consequently > can't upgrade to newer Debian. > > I seem to recall that there *is* a way to

Re: Debian Live USB fails; bricks the USB stick

On Tue, 7 Nov 2017 15:05:06 -0600 Kent West <we...@acu.edu> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 12:41 PM, Patrick Bartek <nemomm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On Tue, 7 Nov 2017 10:58:58 -0600 Kent West <we...@acu.edu> wrote: > > > > > I wanted to c

Re: Debian Live USB fails; bricks the USB stick

On Tue, 7 Nov 2017 10:58:58 -0600 Kent West wrote: > I wanted to create a Live Debian USB stick (using an existing Debian > system). I remember doing such a few years ago with "unetbootin", but > when I looked for "unetbootin" via aptitude search, I couldn't find > it, so I did a

Re: FOLLOWUP Re: LXDE panel disappeared

On Sat, 21 Oct 2017 21:51:12 +0900 A_Man_Without_Clue <love.cha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 10/21/2017 10:46 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Oct 2017 09:28:00 -0700 Patrick Bartek > > <nemomm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On Fr

Re: LXDE panel disappeared

On Sat, 21 Oct 2017 10:18:25 +0900 A_Man_Without_Clue <love.cha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 10/21/2017 01:28 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Oct 2017 19:31:14 +0900 A_Man_Without_Clue > > <love.cha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> >

FOLLOWUP Re: LXDE panel disappeared

On Fri, 20 Oct 2017 09:28:00 -0700 Patrick Bartek <nemomm...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, 20 Oct 2017 19:31:14 +0900 A_Man_Without_Clue > <love.cha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > On 10/16/2017 12:03 AM, A_Man_Without_Clue wrote: > > >

Re: LXDE panel disappeared

On Fri, 20 Oct 2017 19:31:14 +0900 A_Man_Without_Clue wrote: > > > On 10/16/2017 12:03 AM, A_Man_Without_Clue wrote: > > > > > > [big snip] > > > > Thank you for your input. > > No, it wasn't minimizing feature of the panel. The panel was > > completely gone. > > Alt

Re: virtualbox - missing packages

On Sat, 30 Sep 2017 07:33:50 +0200 Tamas Hegedus wrote: > Hi, > > A few weeks ago I could install virtualbox on stretch w/o any problem. > Now I try to install on a different computer and have the broken > packages error shown below. > > At the same time I have

Re: no sound on Lenovo Ideapad 110

t; > > On 29.09.2017 01:57, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 20:38:13 +0200 (CEST) Pierre Frenkiel > > <pierre.frenk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 28 Sep 2017, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >> > >>> I don't know if thi

Re: no sound on Lenovo Ideapad 110

On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 20:38:13 +0200 (CEST) Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenk...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 28 Sep 2017, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > I don't know if this will help, but I read a post somewhere (don't > > remember where) of someone who had troubles with the I

Re: no sound on Lenovo Ideapad 110

On Thu, 28 Sep 2017 14:48:27 +0200 (CEST) Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Thu, 28 Sep 2017, Curt wrote: > > > On 2017-09-28, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > >> > >> So, the problem is not with the plug, as generally it must > >> unplugged to get

Re: OT: Hurricane

roads remain flooded (anyone for trout fishing? :) > > BTW: Are you OK Felix? > > > On Sat, 9 Sep 2017 12:56:54 -0700 > Patrick Bartek <nemomm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 9 Sep 2017 12:06:23 -0400 David Niklas <do...@mail.com> > > wrote: > > >

Re: OT: Hurricane

On Sat, 9 Sep 2017 12:06:23 -0400 David Niklas wrote: > There is only one thing worse than a *CAT 5* hurricane headed towards > Florida. Irma's a CAT 3 storm currently (north of Cuba), and if it tracks through Central Florida as predicted, it will loose strength rapidly --

Re: Stretch + nosystemd + VBoxGuestAdditions Quirk

On Fri, 25 Aug 2017 17:12:29 +0300 Reco <recovery...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, 25 Aug 2017 06:15:09 -0700 > Patrick Bartek <nemomm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Have been testing Stretch with alternate inits -- sysvinit and > > runit to be spe

Stretch + nosystemd + VBoxGuestAdditions Quirk

Have been testing Stretch with alternate inits -- sysvinit and runit to be specific -- in Virtualbox on a Wheezy host while leaving systemd files alone. Not even "pinning" them. Well decided to see what removing them would do. I followed the "Variant" option instructions on the Nosystemd site.

Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos

On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 20:23:13 -0500 Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc...@yandex.com> wrote: > On 2017-08-18 17:56 -0700 Patrick Bartek <nemomm...@gmail.com> wrote: > >There's always VMWare or XEN neither of which I have any real > >experience with, just read the manuals.

Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos

On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 18:19:53 -0400 RavenLX <rave...@sitesplace.net> wrote: > On 08/18/2017 10:44 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 10:02:03 -0400 RavenLX <rave...@sitesplace.net> > > wrote: > >> I wonder if there's a replacem

Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos

On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 10:02:03 -0400 RavenLX wrote: > On 08/18/2017 09:14 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: > > RavenLX wrote: > > > >> I always used the Oracle repo anyway because it was updated more > >> frequently. But I do wish that something could be

Re: Where to install Flash Player?

On Thu, 3 Aug 2017 14:01:42 -0400 Thomas George wrote: > I downloaded flash-player-ppapi_26.0.0.137-1_amd64.deb into /opt and > used dpkg -i to install it. > > Is this the best way to do it? dpkg -s flash-player-ppapi responds ok > installed but dpkg -p

Re: Flash Player Problem

On Thu, 3 Aug 2017 13:38:37 -0400 Thomas George wrote: > An attempt to log in to the Bridgebase website fails. > > Login using firefox ESR results in an all blue screen. The firefox > plugin shockwave flash is installed. > > My system is debian stretch using the LXDE

Re: Stretch: xfce and xscreensaver

On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 12:20:33 -0600 Ralph Katz <ra...@ralphkatz.com> wrote: > On 07/30/2017 08:29 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > ... > > I'll reread the s option with new insight. But I really prefer the > > monitor being powered down instead of using a screensaver, since

Re: Stretch: xfce and xscreensaver

On Sun, 30 Jul 2017 12:51:51 -0400 Ric Moore <wayward4...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 07/30/2017 10:29 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > I'll reread the s option with new insight. But I really prefer the > > monitor being powered down instead of using a screensaver, since

Re: Stretch: xfce and xscreensaver

On Sat, 29 Jul 2017 19:49:46 -0500 David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > On Sat 29 Jul 2017 at 07:57:49 (-0700), Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 22:08:41 -0500 David Wright > > <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > On Th

Re: Stretch: xfce and xscreensaver

On Fri, 28 Jul 2017 22:08:41 -0500 David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > On Thu 27 Jul 2017 at 14:18:47 (-0700), Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 07:35:24AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > Or do what I did: dispense with a

Re: Stretch: xfce and xscreensaver

On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 10:55:23 -0400 Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 07:35:24AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Or do what I did: dispense with a screensaver entirely. Haven't > > used one in years. Waste of CPU cycles. Besides modern

Re: Jessie to Stretch Upgrade: Enable Predictable Network Interface Names

Hi Michael, great, that was the problem, removed the file, recreated the initramfs, now it works like a charm. Thanks a lot for the help. Patrick > Am 27.07.2017 um 21:29 schrieb Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org>: > > Am 27.07.2017 um 20:21 schrieb Patrick Flaig: >> Sure

Re: Jessie to Stretch Upgrade: Enable Predictable Network Interface Names

usernames or groups not present in the /etc/{passwd,group} files and the system is configured to use a network-based database like LDAP or NIS then udev may fail at boot time because users and groups are looked up well before the network has been initialized. A possible solution is to configure /etc/n

Re: Jessie to Stretch Upgrade: Enable Predictable Network Interface Names

Oh my fault, 99-default.link is available, I checked the wrong folder. The file is containing some text, saying that the machine is most likely a virtualized guest. > Am 27.07.2017 um 19:28 schrieb Michael Biebl : > > Am 27.07.2017 um 18:55 schrieb debian-li...@patschie.de: >

Re: Jessie to Stretch Upgrade: Enable Predictable Network Interface Names

> Am 27.07.2017 um 18:25 schrieb Michael Biebl : > > Am 27.07.2017 um 18:04 schrieb debian-li...@patschie.de: >> Hi Michael, >> >> I forgot to mention that I also recreated the initramfs: >> after several tries just to update it, I deleted the initramfs and recreated >> it

Re: Jessie to Stretch Upgrade: Enable Predictable Network Interface Names

Thanks, confirmed, the initrd doesn’t contain any udev rule files in /etc/udev/rules.d > Am 27.07.2017 um 18:11 schrieb Greg Wooledge : > > On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 06:04:49PM +0200, debian-li...@patschie.de wrote: >> Is there a way to manually check the contents of the

Re: Stretch: xfce and xscreensaver

On Thu, 27 Jul 2017 09:52:42 +0400 Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello Debian Users, > > I have recently upgraded my box from Jessie to Stretch. > I encountered a few little issues that I could fixed easily. > Nevertheless, so far, I failed to fixed one of them, and a

Re: Need to upgrade to jessie need help

On Wed, 26 Jul 2017 00:24:00 +0100 Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > On Tue 25 Jul 2017 at 16:14:52 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > On Tue, 25 Jul 2017 20:06:01 +0100 Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> > > wrote: > > > > > On Tue 25 Jul

Re: Need to upgrade to jessie need help

On Tue, 25 Jul 2017 20:06:01 +0100 Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > On Tue 25 Jul 2017 at 07:04:29 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > On Tue, 25 Jul 2017 11:42:12 +0530 VigneshDhanraj G > > <vigneshdhanra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi Team,

Re: Need to upgrade to jessie need help

On Tue, 25 Jul 2017 11:42:12 +0530 VigneshDhanraj G wrote: > Hi Team, > > I am using kernel 3.2.x, i know that support from wheezy will be > stopped soon. can i upgrade to jessie with same kernel version. > > Is that correct way of handling? LTS (Long Term Support)

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 08:48:17 +0200 Dejan Jocic <jode...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 20-07-17, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 08:48:17 +0200 Dejan Jocic <jode...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > If you have minimal install, why d

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 05:55:15 + (UTC) david...@freevolt.org wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jul 2017, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > Getting no results from apt-get upgrade after a week. Can install > > apps, etc., but get no security or stretch-update "fixes," etc. I > &

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 08:48:17 +0200 Dejan Jocic <jode...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 19-07-17, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 13:47:27 -0700 Jimmy Johnson > > <field.engin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On 07/19/2017 01:35 PM, Patrick Bartek w

Re: Apt-get Upgrade Problem in Stretch?

On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 20:41:33 -0700 Jimmy Johnson <field.engin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 07/19/2017 07:05 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 13:47:27 -0700 Jimmy Johnson > > <field.engin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On 07/19/2017 01:35

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