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X login problem
by Craig Sanders 30 May '15

30 May '15

can anyone think of any reason why on one of my systems I can't login with lightdm? as soon as I do (with any account, including a brand new one without any weird/old/obsolete dotfiles), it seems to login OK but then logs out again immediately. my normal desktop environment is xfce, but the same thing happens if i tell lightdm to use lxde or gnome or anything else. logging in on a text VT and running startx works perfectly, and is how i've had to login for the last few months. I have four other very similar systems where lightdm works without a problem, including a mythtv box set to auto-login as the mythtv user. two of them are sysvinit, two of them are systemd. i can't see anything in the logs to indicate any problem, even the auth.log just shows that the session was started and then the session terminated immediately afterwards. any hints on what to look for in the logs or where/how to increase debug log levels would also be appreciated. craig -- craig sanders <cas(a)taz.net.au>

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Scanner setup, hiccup. Epson GT7000s OpenSuse 13.2
by Andrew Greig 30 May '15

30 May '15

Hi All I have a SCSI scanner which normally "just works" under Linux. I have just loaded a fresh OpenSuse 13.2 (64bit) OS. The scanner is found in lspci and also in the hardware detection in Suse. For some reason XSANE cannot see it. When using the scanner setup tool in the YAST , it identifies the scanner but reports that the driver is not configured. The driver should be the sane-epson2. What am I missing, please? Andrew Greig

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Re: Scanner setup, hiccup. Epson GT7000s OpenSuse 13.2 - fixed
by zlinw＠mcmedia.com.au 28 May '15

28 May '15

On Wed, 27 May 2015 23:10:03, Andrew Greig said, >My question was how can a proprietary product, completely stand-alone in >my ~/ , load in seconds, and discover the SCSI card in seconds, and be >ready to work? The scsi specifcation requires any device to be able to clearly identify itself. This is required to get around exactly this issue. >Xsane, when installed into a running machine has always needed a reboot to >start working. In fact if I cancel a scan (I have learned not to do >this) Xsane will not even find the scanner until I reboot. I have an Epson Perfection 4990 Photo scanner on a USB port, it does exactly the same thing if one cancels a scan. I have also found a reboot is the only way to get it working again. I cannot now remember if just disconnecting it works. I apologise for the poor formating I have yet to purchase a modem to allow my old email system to work properly again. Lindsay

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Tripathon event=hackathon : This weekend.
by Daniel Jitnah 25 May '15

25 May '15

Hi Luvers, I think LUV could have a (or more) team(s)at this event this weekend. (see below) If anyone is interested, ** please register and let me know **. I have registered. For info: 1. I will go to the idea sprint on 28 May. (Thursday). 2. Last year I went to this event (or equivalent)...and I had no idea what it was all about before going! I just went there teamed up with 4 other people I have never ever met before and ... we actually won the 2nd Prize!! from about 12 or 15 teams. I consider we should have won the first prize, but as it was a return ticket to USA, that made it difficult to share between 5 of us!! ...So put it this way, if the judging criteria is same as last year, I have a fair idea what it takes to win a prize! (and what it takes not not win one!!) 3. If you are interested, please email me with skills you can contribute. Note that non-techies can also be involved, infact I think this is why we did well last year, as we had a good balanced team with highly complementary skills. Someone with Open Street map api skills or Google map api (or the Nokia stuff - forgot how its called?) would also be highly useful. People who can put up a good webfront with python/php/perl etc backend quickly. Someone with good communication/marketing skills also useful. Cheers Daniel. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Public Transport Victoria, Tripathon this weekend Date: Mon, 25 May 2015 01:44:50 +0000 From: Dean Economou <Dean.Economou(a)nicta.com.au> Dear Infrahack participants: I wanted to let you know about another event in the Infrastructure space being run this weekend. PTV and Collabforge are holding a “Tripathon” where PTV’s real time transport API is being made available. The tech jam is this weekend, 30^th and 31^st May with an idea sprint and API launch on Thurs 28^th May. WIN CASH PRIZES (up to $10,250), MENTORSHIP, WORKSHOPS AND A CHANCE TO COLLABORATE WITH INDUSTRY-LEADERS. WHATEVER YOU MAKE, YOU KEEP. All welcome and further details below. /Please send to your networks of developers, UXperts and business innovators/ *Website - *http://www.victripathon.com/#victripathon *Tech Jam registration - *https://victripathon-techjam.eventbrite.com.au <https://victripathon-techjam.eventbrite.com.au/> *PTV Timetable API and Events Launch - *https://victripathon-launch.eventbrite.com.au <https://victripathon-launch.eventbrite.com.au/> *Ideas Sprint registration - *https://victripathon-ideasprint.eventbrite.com.au <https://victripathon-ideasprint.eventbrite.com.au/> Very best, Dean. NB, NICTA folks are not eligible for prizes but we’d love you to come as mentors or judges. *Dean Economou** **Technology Strategist*** *NICTA** l** **www.nicta.com.au <https://webmail.nicta.com.au/owa/redir.aspx?C=24e2a56e5eaa4f299522d113c677a…>*** *T + **61 418899339* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The information in this e-mail may be confidential and subject to legal professional privilege and/or copyright. National ICT Australia Limited accepts no liability for any damage caused by this email or its attachments.

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Mailing List Archive
by david.zuccaro＠optusnet.com.au 25 May '15

25 May '15

Is there a way to access a searchable archive of this mailing list? ------------------------- Email sent using Optus Webmail

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OSDC 2015 (Hobart, TAS) Call for Papers now Open!
by Tim Serong 22 May '15

22 May '15

Greetings, I am pleased to announce that the Open Source Developers' Conference 2015 call for proposals is now open! This year OSDC is coming to Hobart for the first time, and will be held from October 27-29, at the Wrest Point Convention Centre. The deadline for proposal submission is July 5, 2015. All you need to provide at this stage is a brief description and abstract, so there's still plenty of time before OSDC to prep your talk. Speakers attend the conference for free; travel and accommodation is still your own gig, although we may be able to make arrangements in some special cases. We welcome first-time speakers; this is a fun conference with a great community. We'd love to hear what you have to say about open source, whether it's software, hardware, data, education or government. Please sign up at https://2015.osdc.com.au/, create a speaker profile and propose a presentation. You can submit as many proposals as you wish, and come back to edit them later, so why not get started today? == Focus == The focus for OSDC 2015 is Opening Up For A Better World. Open source software, hardware and standards facilitate higher quality technology, better security and faster innovation; open data allows us to better discover and understand the world we live in; open government aims to ensure that citizens can participate in their democracy; open access publishing exists to spread knowledge and allow that knowledge to be built upon. Open by design is the best default. == Topics == While we're looking for presentations related to creation or use of open source, naturally, there are many aspects that you could address: * Cultivating an open source community * Showcasing a successful, or unsuccessful open source implementation * Open source in the physical world * Open source in education * Open source in the business world * Closed source in an open source world * Open Standards and Open Data * Open Government These, and many more topics that are relevant to today's open source developers are desirable to help provide a diverse range of subjects at this years conference. Register now at https://2015.osdc.com.au/ - we'd love to hear from you! Please also feel free to forward this CFP to anyone else you feel may be interested. Cheers, Tim (on behalf of the OSDC 2015 team)

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Deleting cache trash OK, outside of Firefox?
by Carl Turney 15 May '15

15 May '15

Hi again All, Prior to doing the complete system backups (as outlined in my last email), I enter Firefox and clear all history. But, during the backup (after booting into Recovery mode), rsync displays the copying of MANY files within this directory... /home/user/.cache/mozilla/firefox/abcd1234.default/cache2/trash/3363925 Given the names of some of those directories, I wonder if it is safe to delete them (rm -r) just before the backup? If so, at which level... trash? cache2? Thanks very much, in advance. Carl Turney Bayswater, Victoria

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Apt-get issue.
by Daniel Jitnah 15 May '15

15 May '15

Hi Luvers, how do I override suggested dependencies using apt-get which conflicts with already installed software that provides equivalent functionalities? For example: If I install phpmyadmin usign apt-get, it will also install apache2, and if I already have say nginx installed, it will remove it, and replace it with apache. But I want to keep nginx. How do I get apt-get to install phpmyadmin while keeping nginx? Thanks Daniel

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Error msg on boot of near-clone (UUID prob)
by Carl Turney 15 May '15

15 May '15

Hi All, BACKGROUND: Am a single-system home-office user of Linux. Not a professional sysadmin. Running Linux Mint 17 Qiana, desktop, 64-bit Intel. My "total system backup" scheme has been (for the last ~10 years) to run rsync (in a script, from / recursively), onto similarly-formatted/installed disks. Has worked perfectly over the years, on Fedora, Ubuntu, and Mint... as backups are essentially clones, and become new master disks in the event of crashes. Am currently doing backups while in Recovery mode, after mounting the target as an external USB drive. (I originally powered up with the backups as a second IDE or SATA, but recent versions of Ubuntu/Mint won't allow booting like that. Found that going via USB does work, although probably much slower.) Have spent MANY hours researching the bootup process, and sending questions relevant to my objectives to LUV, SiliconValley LUG, LinuxMint Forum, GRUB Developers, etc. Questions not suitably answered. So gave up getting help, and have edited... /etc/default/grub /usr/share/grub/grub-mkconfig_lib /etc/fstab /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume ... in ways that worked previously and/or seemed the most logical to one barely grasping the mechanisms. Then ran update-grub If interested: I can email you directly with copies of those 4 files, or lists of the 4 edits that I performed. I can also email you the you-beaut backup script utilising rsync. PROBLEM: When booting up with a backup (near-clone), in place of the master disk, I get the following error message, just after the GRUB2 (?) menu... Error: No such device: c2oc...07CB (i.e. the UUID of the master/source disk) Press any key to continue... Then, after ~4 seconds, and without tapping any key, it just continues with the boot-up sequence and the entire system seems to run normally. QUESTIONS: Should I harbour any concerns? Suggestions on how to refine/bulletproof the current general scheme (rather than use a different scheme)? Thanks very much in advance. Carl Turney Bayswater, Victoria

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Xorg doesn't like new ATI card
by Russell Coker 10 May '15

10 May '15

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Bonaire XTX [Radeon R7 260X] I've just got a new ATI video card, above is the LSPCI output. The Xorg driver from Debian/Unstable doesn't seem to like the card (I've attached the Xorg logs). Any suggestions as to what I should do? Previously the card worked with the VESA driver but I purged the VESA driver to force it to use the ATI driver. The system is running kernel 3.16.7-ckt9-3~deb8u1 (Jessie kernel). -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/

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