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Try turning kernel polling on. Some optical disk drives and some card readers simply don't generate the medium-insertion/removal events that less brutal approaches rely on.

Sorry to necro this, but I'm also mysteriously unable to mount things or shut down after an aptitude upgrade and I'm in the process of tracking down what broke. I can restore the missing abilities using allow_any actions in polkit (either by adding .pkla files or by editing the xml, both work) but i...

OK, so I've just seen this issue again, this time on a box that does already have udisks installed, and enabling kernel polling for device media fixed it.

I've seen this behavior on a Dell Vostro 200 desktop running jessie/sid Xfce with kernel 3.10. SD cards and optical discs just don't get detected on insertion, with nothing happening in dmesg until an attempt is made to read from the card reader or disc drive concerned. Anything that performs a read...

The thing I initially found most annoying about grub2 was the need to remember to run update-grub after making any configuration file changes. I'd got used to the original grub picking up changes to /boot/grub/menu.lst without needing that kind of foolery, and counted this as one of its many advanta...

The absolute minimum you need to do to make recent versions of X use the proprietary driver is create an /etc/X11/xorg.conf containing only Section "Module" Load "glx" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Video Card" Driver "nvidia" EndSection X w...

OK then. If you can Ctrl-Alt-F1 to a text console and log in as root, or log in as some other user and sudo -i to get root, you can use less /var/log/Xorg.0.log and check it for errors and warnings; that might give you a clue about what's going wrong. I expect you'll find that you're using one of th...

GRUB consists of several parts: there's a very small primary boot loader that fits wholly inside disk sector 0 (the MBR), a larger secondary loader (anywhere from 30KiB to around 50KiB depending on which modules are included) that understands filesystems and LVM and mdraid and other complicated stuf...

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I've never seen logging in to a text console cause a totally black screen. Are you sure the black screen thing doesn't happen if, instead of actually logging in when prompted, you just wait? Once the screen has gone black, are you able to get a text console back again by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1? Finall...

I agree with everybody who has said that installing Testing packages on Stable usually causes more problems than it solves. That said, the easiest way I know of to do this is simply to use a browser to download the .deb packages you need directly from the Wheezy packages site into /tmp, then use dpk...

An advanced install of Wheezy amd64 using the daily mini.iso from 2012-06-15 fails at the GRUB2 installation step. Possibly relevant: Large disk (actually a MegaRAID hardware RAID6 array) with manually constructed GPT partitioning. Two partitions only: a 64KiB bios_grub partition starting at 64KiB, ...

Found one in the lightdm tarball available from https://launchpad.net/lightdm/+download - all that needs to be done to make it work after downloading the tarball to /tmp is cd /tmp tar -xzf lightdm*.tar.gz sudo cp lightdm*/utils/gdmflexiserver /usr/local/bin So I'm now successfully switching users w...

I'm using Wheezy on amd64 with XFCE and lightdm. I don't want anything to do with gdm3 or any other part of Gnome 3, but I still want to be able to use multiple concurrent desktop login sessions and it seems I need a gdmflexiserver to make that work. The googles tell me that lightdm is supposed to c...

vbrummond wrote:A nyan cat? Up until now I thought Mate was pointless, now I really hate it.

Yes indeed, MATE changed the logo.

I guess there will always be those who fear change.

Does lightdm offer a face browser?

Just installed MATE into Wheezy using the tridex.net repo linked by grege - I thank you, my blood pressure thanks you and my doctor thanks you. Sanity is restored. The only remaining problems that turned up when Gnome 3 did are these: * Lock Screen doesn't work * Switching users doesn't work * Fonts...

Just to be clear then, flabdablet, do you like it or not? :lol: Just to be clear then: No, I do not. I maintain a network of Windows boxes for a living, which means I spend my working days getting stressed and annoyed by brain-dead misdesign in multitudinous forms. It used to be that I would actual...

You can have a bottom toolbar with task switcher, a Mint style menu on the bottom toolbar and a traditional notification area on the top toolbar. My Skype icon is back next to the clock where it belongs. The Gnome 3 misfeatures that repeatedly spike my own blood pressure are these: :x Lack of a way...