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making a bootable usb stick
by dep 15 Nov '17

15 Nov '17

what ought to be a simple task has turned into a huge headache. the idea of a cool linux tablet being postponed, i thought i'd maybe update an old acer aspire one netbook i had in a closet. it was last booted, to kubuntu running a 2.6 kernel and kde-3.5.10, sometime in 2010. in that it has a 1.6 mHz chip and a gig of memory on a 120-gig drive, it seemed a good machine for a Q4OS experiment. (the experiment part being whether i can keep my kde settings -- i have never enjoyed reconfiguring.) so i d/led the .iso for the current stable Q4OS, no problem. it's getting it onto a USB stick that's killing me. reason is, when i insert the USB drive, it automounts and refuses to unmount, and one apparently cannot make a bootable disk onto a mounted drive. i've tried a couple of programs in hope of burning the bootable stick -- the ubuntu startup disk creator and something called unetbootin. they both blow up, apparently because the stick is mounted. the little icon for the usb stick that appears at the top left of my monitor has the green line saying it's mounted. i right click and click "unmount" and either nothing happens or the green line disappears only to reappear soon thereafter. and if i try to umount it, i'm told it's busy. in my younger days one or more pieces of equipment would by now have flown across the room and smashed into the far wall, but i'm older and calmer now. so it is merely driving me insane. there's got to be a way to get the image onto the usb drive and make it bootable, but i'm damned if i can find it, with automount confounding me at every turn. (i'm not interested in turning off automount forever -- i'm a photographer and not having to manually mount sd cards is a wonderful thing.) anybody here have any ideas? -- dep The shortest distance between you and playing great acoustic guitar: the great new instructional DVDs from Marjorie Thompson, available at www.MarjorieThompson.com

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kMail & Distribution lists
by Thierry de Coulon 14 Nov '17

14 Nov '17

Hello all, I'm probably in a very bad day, but I'd like to create a distribution list in kAddressBook and I fail to understand how. I have my addresses and I click "add distribution list". I get a dialog box where I can give the list a name, and an entry field labeled "Distribution List Members". What are we supposed to input there? I tried copy/paste but it only sort of pastes the first address. Select and drop does not work. kAddressBook's help does not help here either. I suppose (I hope) that there *is* a way to create a distribution list from selected addresses in teh address book, otherwise it is not really useful... What am I missing? Thierry -- Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk?

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Session manager logout
by Decarraig 14 Nov '17

14 Nov '17

I can't find any option to configure the graphic on the the session manager logout dialogue . I've checked the help documentation and the FAQ on the wiki . I have found the session manager options in the control centre / components but only things like the default selection etc can be configured there. I dislike the rather gothic iconography on the logout screen in particular - does anyone know where the graphic on the logout screen is sourced from ? Padraig

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SOLVED: making a bootable usb stick
by dep 13 Nov '17

13 Nov '17

as is, it seems, always the way, i went back to the right-click menu on the mounted usb stick and found deep inside a box i could uncheck which when unchecked undoes automount. whereupon a simple command line trick: sudo dd bs=4M if=q4os-2.4-i686pae.r2.iso of=/dev/sde solved the problem. so off we go into the exciting world of Q4OS. pray for me. -- dep The shortest distance between you and playing great acoustic guitar: the great new instructional DVDs from Marjorie Thompson, available at www.MarjorieThompson.com

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Konqueror, kedit and remote files
by andre_debian＠numericable.fr 13 Nov '17

13 Nov '17

Hello, I modify my Web files directly remotely on my server on Konqueror, with sftp:// and kedit. The files are open remotely in the folder "/var/www/..." with sftp. After closing the files, they are modified directly on the server. It works fine. Excepted with the files.jsp : They are not open on the server remotely in "/var/www", but on the hard disk of my PC in the folder : "/home/andre/.trinity/cache.../krun/..." So, after modifications, I close the file and after I have to send the files.jsp from "/home/andre/.trinity/cache/krun/" on the server, into /var/www/... It's not automatic and direct, as the files.php. Why this difference between files.php and files.jsp ? (the both are text files) and how to correct it ? JSP and PHP files have the same rights and owners : 775 and www-data. Thanks, André

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atsd-crash
by Rolf Schmidt 12 Nov '17

12 Nov '17

Hi, I reported a crash of artsd in debian stretch before, but no real solution was given. I will try to ask again, now with a backtrace from the crash-manager (with symbols) attached. I hope this can help some one (perhaps Slàvek) to find my problem. Many thanks Rolf

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Debian 9 repos down?
by Diego M. Vadell 12 Nov '17

12 Nov '17

Hi! I have just installed Debian 9 and, following the wiki, tried to install tinity, but when I run apt-get update (or apt update), I get: ---- Err:8 http://mirror.xcer.cz/trinity-sb stretch/deps-r14 Sources 403 Forbidden [...] Reading package lists... Done W: The repository 'http://mirror.xcer.cz/trinity-sb stretch Release' does not have a Release file. N: Data from such a repository can't be authenticated and is therefore potentially dangerous to use. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. E: Failed to fetch http://mirror.xcer.cz/trinity-sb/dists/stretch/deps-r14/source/Sources 403 Forbidden E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. ---- I tried to access to http://mirror.xcer.cz/trinity-sb with firefox, and I get a "Forbidden" error. Are there any mirrors I can use? Thanks in advance, -- Diego.

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Installing TDE on Debian stretch
by Decarraig 12 Nov '17

12 Nov '17

Hi all, Having tried out Q4OS I am interested in trying the "pure" TDE on Debian stretch. I have read the Wiki instructions on how to do so. I don't want to duplicate programs from another DE when I add TDE. Is there a best option for a pre-existing DE on Debian when adding the TDE so as to avoid duplication etc ?

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Mageia 6 crash on login, can't start desktop
by Tim Williams 05 Nov '17

05 Nov '17

Hi all, I'm having a trouble getting Trinity working on Mageia 6. I've installed via the official URPMI repositories, using the trinity-desktop package to ensure all dependencies are present. Note, I've got Trinity running OK on my laptop with Mageia 6, but on my desktop system it's badly broken for reasons I can't trace. My desktop uses an NFS mounted home directory and and is a dual-monitor system. If I use TDM as the login manager, the I get dropped out of X back to the terminal, TDM seems to be unable to start at all. I've switched to LightDM, which fixed this but TDE isn't listed as an available desktop in the relevant menu. Fixing this required a symbolic link from /opt/trinity/share/apps/tdm/sessions/tde.desktop to /usr/share/xsessions. If I login the initial splash screen appears, but I then get a crash message which closes before I can read the details, I then get dumped back at the login manager. If I login using XFCE and try to run starttde, then I get same behaviour and again, the crash handler vanishes before I can get at anything useful. I see the following at the command prompt: [starttde] Starting starttde. [starttde] This script is /opt/trinity/bin/starttde [starttde] TDE version is R14.0.4 [starttde] TDE base directory is /opt/trinity [starttde] TDEHOME is not set. [starttde] Set TDEHOME to /home/timw/.trinity. [starttde] Setting TDEROOTHOME to /root/.trinity. [starttde] XDG_DATA_DIRS: /opt/trinity/share:/usr/local/share:/usr/share Start gpg-agent gpg-agent[18838]: /home/timw/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf:4: obsolete option "use-standard-socket" - it has no effect gpg-agent: a gpg-agent is already running - not starting a new one End start gpg-agent [starttde] TDEDIR: /opt/trinity [starttde] TDEDIRS: [starttde] Starting Trinity... [starttde] Trinity hardware control dbus daemon running. [tdebuildsycoca] tdebuildsycoca running... [dcopserver] DCOP Cleaning up dead connections. [starttde] TDE_FULL_SESSION: true [starttde] TDE_SESSION_UID: 500 [tdeinit] Shutting down running client. --------------------------------- [dcopserver] It looks like dcopserver is already running. If you are sure that it is not already running, remove /home/timw/.DCOPserver_baa.sheep__0 and start dcopserver again. --------------------------------- [kded] Daemon (kded) is already running. [tdebuildsycoca] tdebuildsycoca running... [tdebuildsycoca] Reusing existing tdesycoca. tdeio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : khtmlimage.desktop [dcopserver] DCOP Cleaning up dead connections. [starttde] tdeinit started successfully. [kcrash] TDECrash: Application 'ksmserver' crashing... [starttde] Shutting down Trinity... [tdelauncher] Exiting on signal 1 [starttde] Running Trinity shutdown scripts... [starttde] Running /home/timw/.trinity/shutdown/stop-gpg-agent.sh. Stop ssh-agent unset SSH_AUTH_SOCK; unset SSH_AGENT_PID; echo Agent pid 18843 killed; Finish stop ssh-agent [starttde] Trinity shutdown complete. Note, I'm not sure why this is complaining about /home/timw/.DCOPserver_baa.sheep__0, I've checked prior to start up and this dir does not exist, nor is it left behind after the crash. I've tried using a clean user account and also running this as root, but there is no difference, the start up just crashes. I've audited my system and have removed all the left behind Mageia 5 packages, so the installation is clean as far as I can tell. TDE programmes such as konqueror, kate etc start up OK running on XFCE. Any help much appreciated, I'm somewhat lost without my Trinity desktop and this is my primary work computer. Thanks in advance, Tim W -- Tim Williams BSc MSc MBCS AutoTrain 58 Jacoby Place Priory Road Edgbaston Birmingham B5 7UW United Kingdom Web : http://www.autotrain.org, http://www.utrain.info Tel : +44 (0)844 487 4117 AutoTrain is a trading name of EuroMotor-AutoTrain LLP Registered in the United Kingdom, number: OC317070.

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Re: Re: [trinity-users] Re: Re: rtkit-daemon service !
by Kate Draven 04 Nov '17

04 Nov '17

> > On 4 Nov 2017, at 23:33, deloptes <deloptes(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >=20 > > Kate Draven wrote: > >=20 > >> I have confirmed this answer to be the meaning of life, the universe, and= > > >> everything. > >=20 > > Another hitchhiker through the Universe :) > >=20 > > After founding the answer I stopped reading fiction :) > >=20 > I had to check "what is the question " and then I realised it was "to be or n= > ot to be" :-) > Padraig= LOL! However, we should end this as it's seriously off topic now. But what a good laugh. Cheers, Kate

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