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ugly VLC after Stretch
by Felmon Davis 08 Dec '18

08 Dec '18

Greets! I decided to upgrade from Jessie to Stretch last night. it seems to have worked though there are some oddities. now VLC has grotesquely large control buttons ("Pause", etc.); the interface in general seems to run on a different 'theme' and anyway is over-large. I have tried the "forced window style" option under "preferences" but none of the various options but they make no different in these respects. maybe 'CDE' comes closest. I have purged and re-installed VLC also to no avail. I have looked at the 'themes' VLC offers. awful. just want my orange-colored working interface back. the only other application I've found which has undergone similar changes is Pan - it has a more 'pastel' shaded control set which I don't appreciate but can ignore. note a complication: I had Devuan installed and just did the Stretch update but not sure of its relevance (thus I mention it). f. -- Felmon Davis

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kmail foibles
by Gene Heskett 08 Dec '18

08 Dec '18

Greetings all; I have been harassed by bad index files notices, but I may have found the cause. I just went thru every folder in its Mail corpus finding several dozen leftover claws files, either in the root of each folder, in the cur or tmp subdirs, nuked them all and restarted kmail, which then bitched about every folder I had cleaned up. I closed the advisory and fully expected to see kmail hogging the cpu up to 100% for an hour or more as it had done in the past, but it was done reindexing everything in just a long minute! All of the claws crap carried dates in 2013 to 2014, which would be about the time frame I did have it installed. So if your kmail is acting likes its infected with flooby dust, see what happens if you do a bit of housecleaning in your ~/Mail subdir. I think it was getting confused over encountering strange file names. Time will tell the truth of this tail of course. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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replacement for tdelibs needs a reboot, but didn't ask for one
by Gene Heskett 08 Dec '18

08 Dec '18

I wondered about it at the time, but not doing it crashed 2 machines who were linked via an ssh login were locked up tight last night, this one and one of my machine controllers. I had to get dressed to walk up the hill in 20F weather and press the reset buttons on both it and this one. Its been yonks since a crash, took me by surprise. And I'd tried to run latency-test from linuxcnc on this machine last night after the reboot, and found a passle of rtapi_app and rtapi running this morning that weren't killable by a root session of htop. Some sort of a ghost or??, as stopping htop, and restarting it made them go away. Strange goings on but it seems to be running normally now. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>

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Re: Re: [trinity-users] Unable to mount this device error when using usb stick but not always
by Kate Draven 05 Dec '18

05 Dec '18

> On Tuesday 04 December 2018 08:01:22 pm Kate Draven wrote: > > > On Tuesday 04 December 2018 07:26:54 pm Kate Draven wrote: > > > > Out of the blue I started getting this error msg. > > > > Using PCLOS 64bit > > > > > > > > Unable to mount this device. > > > > Potential reasons include: > > > > Improper device and/or user privilege level > > > > Corrupt data on storage device > > > > Technical details: > > > > org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Error.Failed: Error mounting /dev/sdk1 > > > > at /media/Lexar: Command-line > > > > `mount -t "vfat" -o > > > > > > "uhelper=3Dudisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=3D0,gid=3D0,shortname=3Dmixed,utf8= > =3D1,showexec > > >,f > > > > > > >lush,noatime,shortname=3Dlower" "/dev/sdk1" "/media/Lexar"' exited with > > > > non-zero exit status 32: mount: /mnt/Lexar: /dev/sdk1 already mounted > > > > or mount point busy. > > > > > > > > It's random and sometimes suddenly goes away. > > > > I've tried it with a variety of USB sticks. > > > > > > I've had "mount point busy" come from both an open shell and a file > > > manager that's sitting on the mount point before. It can also block us= > er > > > > un-mounting > > > > > as well (although I think root umount force un-mounts?). > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > To my knowledge there is nothing at that mount point. > > I can connect 5 usb sticks and they will all give the same error. > > 5 different sticks are almost guaranteed to have different mount points, so= > =20 > having an open shell sitting at /mnt/Lexar/mystuff wouldn=E2=80=99t whack t= > he other=20 > 4. :( > > Do you have access to another comp to test one of the sticks, so you have=20 > a =E2=80=98known good?=E2=80=99 You could then try re-installing whatever = > provides UDisks2. =20 > After that file a bug with PCLOS so they can file an upstream bug. > > Best, > Michael > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael My thinking exactly. I do have several computers in me wee lab. The sticks are all fine, mount and umount on all other computers, including another pclos 64 with the same kernels. At first I thought it was a kernel bug, wrong. I can only guess I'm installing something that messes it up. I reinstalled the OS into the test computer and incrementally installing packages until I find the culprit. I've noticed some odd behavior with some trinity packages such as trinity-tdeio-umountwrapper, it removes the "safely remove" from all menus related to removable drives. I think I'm installing an incompatible packages. I've done it before. Honestly I'm my own worst enemy. Thanks for the UDisks2 tip. I'll check into that. Kate

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Re: [trinity-users] Unable to mount this device error when using usb stick but not always
by Michael 05 Dec '18

05 Dec '18

On Tuesday 04 December 2018 08:01:22 pm Kate Draven wrote: > > On Tuesday 04 December 2018 07:26:54 pm Kate Draven wrote: > > > Out of the blue I started getting this error msg. > > > Using PCLOS 64bit > > > > > > Unable to mount this device. > > > Potential reasons include: > > > Improper device and/or user privilege level > > > Corrupt data on storage device > > > Technical details: > > > org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Error.Failed: Error mounting /dev/sdk1 > > > at /media/Lexar: Command-line > > > `mount -t "vfat" -o > > > > "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=0,gid=0,shortname=mixed,utf8=1,showexec > >,f > > > > >lush,noatime,shortname=lower" "/dev/sdk1" "/media/Lexar"' exited with > > > non-zero exit status 32: mount: /mnt/Lexar: /dev/sdk1 already mounted > > > or mount point busy. > > > > > > It's random and sometimes suddenly goes away. > > > I've tried it with a variety of USB sticks. > > > > I've had "mount point busy" come from both an open shell and a file > > manager that's sitting on the mount point before. It can also block user > > un-mounting > > > as well (although I think root umount force un-mounts?). > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To my knowledge there is nothing at that mount point. > I can connect 5 usb sticks and they will all give the same error. 5 different sticks are almost guaranteed to have different mount points, so having an open shell sitting at /mnt/Lexar/mystuff wouldn’t whack the other 4. :( Do you have access to another comp to test one of the sticks, so you have a ‘known good?’ You could then try re-installing whatever provides UDisks2. After that file a bug with PCLOS so they can file an upstream bug. Best, Michael

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Unable to mount this device error when using usb stick but not always
by Kate Draven 05 Dec '18

05 Dec '18

Out of the blue I started getting this error msg. Using PCLOS 64bit Unable to mount this device. Potential reasons include: Improper device and/or user privilege level Corrupt data on storage device Technical details: org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Error.Failed: Error mounting /dev/sdk1 at /media/Lexar: Command-line `mount -t "vfat" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=0,gid=0,shortname=mixed,utf8=1,showexec,flush,noatime,shortname=lower" "/dev/sdk1" "/media/Lexar"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: /mnt/Lexar: /dev/sdk1 already mounted or mount point busy. It's random and sometimes suddenly goes away. I've tried it with a variety of USB sticks. It happens as user and root. Anyone have any idea what this might mean. I've also noticed uuidd doesn't start, claiming "failed to open/create /run/uuidd/uuidd.pid" Thanks for any help. Kate

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03 Dec '18

Hi, I made an accout with name "jürgen", password "jürgen" and the home directory is named "jürgen" too (for testing purpose only). Without tdm i.e. from a console I can login without any problems, but TDM-Login says "wrong password" So is it a bug or a feature? Fine regards Rolf

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TDE power management config file.
by relosrl 03 Dec '18

03 Dec '18

Where can I find it? Rodolfo

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Re: Re: [trinity-users] Scanner Problems
by Kate Draven 02 Dec '18

02 Dec '18

> said Kate Draven: > > | Try grabbing the firmware binary from the windows drivers and have it > | load when you call the scanner. > | > | You will have to check out some howtos to get it right. > | This is assuming it's a firmware loading problem like mine was. > | > | Find the conf file for your scanner and add something like > | > | # Path to the firmware file > | # This file comes with the Windows driver > | # The scanner won't work without it > | option artecFirmwareFile /usr/share/sane/artec_eplus48u/Artec48.usb > | > | Userful Sites: > | https://everythinglinux.org/scanner/index.html > | http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man5/sane-epson2.5.html > | http://ljm.home.xs4all.nl/SANE-faq.html > > Thanks very much -- I'll do this if I can't get the native software to=20 > work. What puzzles me about it is that the Epson-provided Linux IScan=20 > application has always worked reliably here, and only now when I invoke it= > =20 > does it explode. > --=20 > dep > > Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. Because privacy matters. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Check to see if you're using 32bit on a 64 or vice versa. Also, try doing a complete uninstall of all related drivers etc. Clear you're using dir of any configs etc. Then reinstall. Good luck lad, Kate

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Downloading mail when not logged on
by J Leslie Turriff 02 Dec '18

02 Dec '18

To compartmentalize my activities I have several accounts on my machine, and usually I'm only logged onto one at a time. I'd like to somehow have the email for these various accounts download even if I'm not logged onto them. Is there anything in Trinity that can do that, or will I have to set up some sort of mail server? Leslie

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