Posts by Geoff 42

Geoff 42 · Off-topic

golinux wrote:

Music for listening:
Glenn Gould Goldberg Variations (1955)

No, not on the piano! While Bach's music is very good at being transcribed for other instruments, the Goldbergs sound so much better on the harpsichord, the instrument for which they were written. E.g. :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NYqiKm3gng

Geoff

Geoff 42 · Desktop and Multimedia

I recall that when I installed Postfix, that it removed Exim. So it may be that installing your preferred MTA may sort out any dependencies better than removing Exim.

Geoff

Geoff 42 · Hardware & System Configuration

Couldn't you boot off a USB memory stick which has gparted, so that your real disk is not mounted. Then you can use gparted to shrink a partition and move it/them up to give you the room to grow sda1. I should probably include a warning about backing up...

Geoff

Geoff 42 · Other Issues

I worked around some problems with the little program that Didier Kryn posted on the DNG mailing list. It looks like pkexec, but just runs sudo or udevil. It can be installed into /usr/local/bin. Follow the links for details.

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=7703#p7703

Geoff

Geoff 42 · Other Issues

Yes, a lot of people would stop after the apt-get remove pulseaudio ;-)

It seems that many machines these days have an HDMI sound outlet, which is often shared with a normal outlet, using the snd-hda-intel kernel module. This seems to cause problems. If you don't need the HDMI sound then disabling it makes things simpler, using the enable option :-

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=110572#p525601

Geoff

Geoff 42 · Desktop and Multimedia

I have been using Spacefm, which can perform unmounting. If necessary it can use udevil to do the mounting/unmounting.

Geoff

Geoff 42 · Hardware & System Configuration

The other suggestion was to roll back to an earlier kernel, 4.9.0-3

Geoff

Geoff 42 · Off-topic

Have a look at Wikipedia's entry on the compose key :-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key

I am able to type into rxvt using <AltGr><shift>, thus
<AltGr><shift>2A gives me Ä
although entering it into this box on the forum doesn't seem to work! In rxvt I can press <AltGr><shift>2 and then release the keys and then type a and that then gives me the lower case ä. The point of typing 2 is that the shifted version is " which sort of looks like an umlaut.

Geoff

Geoff 42 · Hardware & System Configuration

Could this be related to the problem I had :-

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=1794

The solution was a more recent kernel from backports.

Geoff

Geoff 42 · Desktop and Multimedia

Have you tried lxqt-powermanagement? I use it with lxde and it seems to work nicely without pulling in anything nasty.

Geoff

Geoff 42 · Hardware & System Configuration

I had some fun with sound some time ago. The problem was with 2 outputs sharing the module snd-hda-intel. It found HDMI first, which became the default.
The solution I found was to disable HDMI with

# Disable the HDMI card which shows up first, but enable PCH
options snd-hda-intel enable=0,1

in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=110572#p525601

Geoff

Geoff 42 · Other Issues

Yes, if you follow golinux' link you will see that installing the elogind backends replaces the packages causing the problem. You will need to ignore some worrying looking warnings though...

Geoff

Geoff 42 · News & Announcements

To get round problems with pkexec I use the small wrapper program in C which Didier Kryn posted on [DNG], which looks like pkexec but runs sudo for commands or udevil for mount/umount requests. udevil and ssh-askpass also need to be installed and sudo.conf set-up.

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=430#p430

https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/2 … ea.en.html

Geoff

Geoff 42 · News & Announcements

I have been running ascii for some time, with things working nicely.
I am using lxde with a few bits from lxqt and with lxdm as the display manager.

With the release of Ascii 2 beta and doing an update and dist-upgrade, everything still seems to be working, but I thought that I should check the consolekit/logind situation.

libpolkit-agent-1-0 and policykit-1 are both being held back on version 0.105-9+devuan1 and not upgraded to 0.105-18+devuan2.4

Trying to install the elogind backends looks very scary as it wants to remove stuff and complains about dependencies, but I did it anyway and it now seems happy. I can upgrade the held back items.

apt-get install libpolkit-backend-1-0-elogind libpolkit-gobject-1-0-elogind

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  iceweasel-l10n-en-gb linux-image-4.9.0-3-amd64 linux-image-4.9.0-4-amd64
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libpolkit-backend-1-0 libpolkit-gobject-1-0
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libpolkit-backend-1-0-elogind libpolkit-gobject-1-0-elogind
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 2 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 80.2 kB of archives.
After this operation, 18.4 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 
Get:1 https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged ascii/main amd64 libpolkit-backend-1-0-elogind amd64 0.105-18+devuan2.4 [41.6 kB]
Get:2 https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged ascii/main amd64 libpolkit-gobject-1-0-elogind amd64 0.105-18+devuan2.4 [38.7 kB]
Fetched 80.2 kB in 0s (323 kB/s)                         
dpkg: libpolkit-backend-1-0:amd64: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you requested:
 policykit-1 depends on libpolkit-backend-1-0 (>= 0.99).

(Reading database ... 146846 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libpolkit-backend-1-0:amd64 (0.105-18) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libpolkit-backend-1-0-elogind:amd64.
(Reading database ... 146841 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libpolkit-backend-1-0-elogind_0.105-18+devuan2.4_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libpolkit-backend-1-0-elogind:amd64 (0.105-18+devuan2.4) ...
dpkg: libpolkit-gobject-1-0:amd64: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you requested:
 libpolkit-backend-1-0-elogind:amd64 depends on libpolkit-gobject-1-0 (= 0.105-18+devuan2.4).
 consolekit depends on libpolkit-gobject-1-0 (>= 0.94).
 upower depends on libpolkit-gobject-1-0 (>= 0.99).
 policykit-1 depends on libpolkit-gobject-1-0 (>= 0.101); however:
  Package libpolkit-gobject-1-0:amd64 is to be removed.
 libpolkit-agent-1-0:amd64 depends on libpolkit-gobject-1-0 (>= 0.105).
 libpolkit-qt5-1-1:amd64 depends on libpolkit-gobject-1-0 (>= 0.101); however:
  Package libpolkit-gobject-1-0:amd64 is to be removed.

(Reading database ... 146846 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing libpolkit-gobject-1-0:amd64 (0.105-18) ...
Selecting previously unselected package libpolkit-gobject-1-0-elogind:amd64.
(Reading database ... 146841 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libpolkit-gobject-1-0-elogind_0.105-18+devuan2.4_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libpolkit-gobject-1-0-elogind:amd64 (0.105-18+devuan2.4) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-11+deb9u1) ...
Setting up libpolkit-gobject-1-0-elogind:amd64 (0.105-18+devuan2.4) ...
Setting up libpolkit-backend-1-0-elogind:amd64 (0.105-18+devuan2.4) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.24-11+deb9u1) ...

apt-get dist-upgrade

this now upgrades libpolkit-agent-1-0 policykit-1 to 0.105-18+devuan2.4

It seems that libpolkit-backend-1-0-elogind replaces libpolkit-backend-1-0, but upower depends on libpolkit-backend-1-0. I think that it is now working ok, so I presume that libpolkit-backend-1-0-elogind transparently replaces libpolkit-backend-1-0.

Geoff

Geoff 42 · Desktop and Multimedia

I use Claws-mail. See Steve Litt's page for some hints and tips :-

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/cl … wstips.htm

It works nicely in Jessie, however, in Ascii there is a problem where the HTML display plug-in "fancy" just displays an empty white page for many HTML messages. I eventually found a mention of this problem, which seems to be associated with the mime database. They give a workround :-

http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mai … gi?id=3644

Which also refers to :-

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=211484

The solution given is to remove ~/.local/share/mime/packages/user-extension-html.xml

and then run

update-mime-database ~/.local/share/mime

There is a suggestion that removing this entry from the mime database might affect some other software, so it is best to move the file somewhere safe, rather than just deleting it. I have my own sub-directory "src" and have put it there.

cd ~/src/claws
mv ~/.local/share/mime/packages/user-extension-html.xml .
update-mime-database ~/.local/share/mime

I don't know whether it was necessary, but I restarted Claws and then HTML messages could be viewed OK.

Geoff

Geoff 42 · Desktop and Multimedia

stanz wrote:

Now back to learning your Devaun with LxQt, I thought to use Slim
instead of Lightdm...arg!

In my investigation of LXDE and LxQT on Ascii
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=94
I found that LXDM worked quite nicely.

Geoff

Geoff 42 · Hardware & System Configuration

I don't recall doing anything clever. However, as I look around my own src directory for clues, I have spotted an HP subdirectory which contains hplip-3.16.8.

I have now spotted the HP web pages at :-
https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing
which show which versions are needed to support recent models. You can then download the latest version, if necessary.

Geoff

Geoff 42 · Hardware & System Configuration

I have an HP DeskJet 3630 and I am using printer-driver-hpcups 3.14.6-1+deb8u1 and it all seems to work nicely, including scanning.
This is running under Jessie.

Geoff

Geoff 42 · Other Issues

I knew nothing about AppImage, so went and had a look. VLC would play some music but failed with a video. Anyway I tried MuseScore and it wanted PulseAudio. It would run, but would not play the notes, so I tried it with apulse, as in :-

apulse ./MuseScore-2.1-x86_64.AppImage

and it was much happier and would play the notes.

Geoff

Geoff 42 · Other Issues

libatk-adaptor had not been installed, so I have now installed it. When I ran gksu there was no error message, although there was not always an error message, so it will take some time to verify that it has really fixed it.

Thank you for the suggestion.

Geoff

Geoff 42 · Other Issues

I see that libgksu2-0 depends on libatk1.0-0

Geoff

Geoff 42 · Other Issues

I get an error message too. When I run gksu 'rxvt -rv' I get the message :-

Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "atk-bridge"
Gkr-Message: secret service operation failed: The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files
Gkr-Message: secret service operation failed: The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files
Gkr-Message: secret service operation failed: The name org.freedesktop.secrets was not provided by any .service files

The command does run and the processes which run are :-

xxxxxx    2862  0.3  0.2 172624 20548 pts/0    S    16:44   0:00                  |   |       \_ gksu rxvt -rv
root      2869  0.0  0.0  46864  2672 pts/1    Ss+  16:44   0:00                  |   |           \_ /bin/su root -c /usr/lib/libgksu/gksu-run-helper "rxvt -rv"
root      2871  0.0  0.0  12004  1088 ?        Ss   16:44   0:00                  |   |               \_ /usr/lib/libgksu/gksu-run-helper rxvt -rv
root      2875  0.0  0.0   4292   756 ?        S    16:44   0:00                  |   |                   \_ sh -c rxvt -rv
root      2876  0.0  0.1 107008 13616 ?        S    16:44   0:00                  |   |                       \_ rxvt -rv
root      2877  0.0  0.0  94932  4408 ?        S    16:44   0:00                  |   |                           \_ rxvt -rv
root      2879  0.0  0.0  19992  3752 pts/2    Ss+  16:44   0:00                  |   |                           \_ bash

Is it something to do with gksu-run-helper?

Geoff

Geoff 42 · Desktop and Multimedia

Altoid wrote:

fungus wrote:
... only has Palemoon which is my preferred browser for some time now.
Looks nice but I cannot use my preferred add-ons: UBlockOrigin, Privacy Badger, etc.

Palemoon works nicely with uBlockOrigin, as well as NoScript, as fungus mentions.

Geoff

Geoff 42 · Installation

Looking at kernels on Jessie, you have available linux-image-4.9.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 and linux-image-4.9.0-0.bpo.2-amd64.
These version numbers are the package numbers which are a bit different from the kernel versions.
The bpo.4 package is kernel 4.9.65-3+deb9u1~.
It is kernel 4.9.65 which people are complaining about causing graphics difficulties.
The bpo.2 package is kernel 4.9.18-1~bpo8+1.
Some people have reported that going back to an earlier 4.9 kernel got round their graphics problems.
If it is easy for you to try this earlier version, it may show whether the kernel is the problem.

Geoff

Geoff 42 · Installation

Whoops! 4.13 is in backports in ascii and I just noticed that you are running Jessie. Sorry.

Geoff

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