Re: apt wickened up: Unable to purge package gdm2 ! (solved)
Hello again. I tracked the problem, and it appears there wasn't anymore the file /etc/X11/default-x-manager. As a consequence the postinst-script reached a get_db call which seemed to exit the script with an error. It's the following passus. Excerpt from /var/lib/info/dpkg/gdm2/postinst: vvv # debconf is not a registry, so we only fiddle with the default file if it # does not exist if [ ! -e $DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER_FILE ]; then db_get shared/default-x-display-manager if [ "$THIS_PACKAGE" != "$RET" ]; then echo "Please be sure to run \"dpkg --configure $RET\"." fi > # mi: This here here was reached: db_get "$RET"/daemon_name # <-- mi: This line exits the script > # mi: The following line never was reached : echo "$RET" > $DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER_FILE fi # debconf hangs if gdm gets started below without this db_stop ^^^ Didn't find any 'db_get' in /usr/share/debconf. Perhaps I'm missing some library ? I wondered if there's something with the 'GNU database manager' - curiously, also a 'gdm' ! When i looked for another 'gdm'-lib in aptitude i found a 'gdbm'-lib recursivley automatic-installed: libgnomevfs-dev 22.0.4-3 --> libgnutls5-dev 0.5.9-2 --> ( which conflicts the also installed libgnutls5-dev 0.5.9-2 ! ) libgdbmg1-dev But here i give up. Don't understand the whole thing, i'm no programmer at all. -- mi. > Installed Gnome2 on woody i386 using aptitude. > Then i decided to purge gdm2 (use kdm). > Some dirs not empty, remaining, apt said. > I found empty /etc/gdm directories, and deleted them manually. > Then purged once again. > Now there was an error, and aptitude left the package with status 'C' > half-configured, not purging. > Translated from german it goes like > 'dpkg error while cleaning up: subprocess post-installation returns error > code 10. Procceeding gdm2. dpkg returned error code (1)' > > So, i tried to reinstall again gdm2, but that failed also now with a > similar error message. > > ( btw. it's hard to read the originally dpkg-error because the text > immediateley is overwritten by the loginmanager-chooser) > > I fiddled with dpkg and apt-get, but I'm not used to commandlines. > I tried to recreate the /etc/gdm/* manually. > > Anyway I am unable to purge gdm2. > > The problem is, aptitude really hangs at this, canceling most pending > actions. So I'm not able to proceed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Howto set up a local apt - repository ?
Hello all. I asked a friend to ftp and burn down openoffice for woody from deb ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/packages/openoffice-debian woody main contrib - the only 'url' i knew. I wasn't sure what exactly is needed, though. Now i've got a cd here with the following: Two Packages-files located at cdrom/woody/main/binary-i386/contrib/Packages.gz and ~~ /main/Packages.gz originating from this source-tree: ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/packages/openoffice-debian/dists/woody/contrib/binary-i386 and ftp://~~main/binary-i386 The 'contrib Packages.gz' contains the description for the package with 'filename: pool/openoffice.org/openoffice.org_1.0.1-6_all.deb' where the 'main' one is for with the filename 'pool/main/debhelper/debhelper_4.0.2.openoffice_all.deb' ( sounds like the right package for now;-) There's no further 'Packages' or 'Packages.gz' on cd. Then there are the binaries. This deb-files are in cdrom/openoffice-org. Looking up their original source i found ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/linux/packages/openoffice-debian/pool/contrib/openoffice.org/ I got a little confused about it. It's quite a bunch of stuff. Are there all 'control files' apt needs to install ? And how to proceed ? The cd-tree isn't in the right form, probably. But what then would it be ? Or can i tune apt to find things on CD anyway ? Perhaps i should create a local repository. But i didn't find a detailed description how to do that yet. So what exactly is the 'physically' file path apt will accept ? Whrere to place the binaries, whrere the Packages.gz (if that's really enough...). How to set up sources.lst then. And what about the implied 'filename' paths ? I guess i have to change them. I hope this is quite a debian question, this time any help greatly appreciated ! -- micha. micha: ls cdrom/openoffice.org/ openoffice.org_1.0.1-5+woody6.diff.gz openoffice.org_1.0.1-5+woody6.dsc openoffice.org_1.0.1-6_all.deb openoffice.org_1.0.1-6.diff.gz openoffice.org_1.0.1-6.dsc openoffice.org_1.0.1-6_powerpc.changes openoffice.org_1.0.1-7_all.deb openoffice.org_1.0.1-7.diff.gz openoffice.org_1.0.1-7.dsc openoffice.org_1.0.1.orig.tar.gz openoffice.org-bin_1.0.1-5+woody6_i386.deb openoffice.org-bin_1.0.1-6_i386.deb openoffice.org-bin_1.0.1-6_powerpc.deb openoffice.org-bin_1.0.1-7_i386.deb openoffice.org-debian-files_1.0.1-6+4_all.deb openoffice.org-debian-files_1.0.1-6+4.dsc openoffice.org-debian-files_1.0.1-6+4.tar.gz openoffice.org-debian-files_1.0.1-7+1_all.deb openoffice.org-debian-files_1.0.1-7+1.dsc openoffice.org-debian-files_1.0.1-7+1.tar.gz openoffice.org-help-de_0.20020222-1.1_all.deb openoffice.org-help-de_0.20020222-1.1.diff.gz openoffice.org-help-de_0.20020222-1.1.dsc openoffice.org-help-de_0.20020222-1_all.deb openoffice.org-help-de_0.20020222-1.diff.gz openoffice.org-help-de_0.20020222-1.dsc openoffice.org-help-de_0.20020222-1_i386.deb openoffice.org-help-de_0.20020222-2_all.deb openoffice.org-help-de_0.20020222-2.diff.gz openoffice.org-help-de_0.20020222-2.dsc openoffice.org-help-de_0.20020222.orig.tar.gz openoffice.org-help-en_1.0.1-6_all.deb openoffice.org-help-en_1.0.1-7_all.deb openoffice.org-help-es_0.20020222-1_all.deb openoffice.org-help-es_0.20020222-1.diff.gz openoffice.org-help-es_0.20020222-1.dsc openoffice.org-help-es_0.20020222-2_all.deb openoffice.org-help-es_0.20020222-2.diff.gz openoffice.org-help-es_0.20020222-2.dsc openoffice.org-help-es_0.20020222.orig.tar.gz openoffice.org-help-fr_0.20020222-1_all.deb openoffice.org-help-fr_0.20020222-1.diff.gz openoffice.org-help-fr_0.20020222-1.dsc openoffice.org-help-fr_0.20020222-2_all.deb openoffice.org-help-fr_0.20020222-2.diff.gz openoffice.org-help-fr_0.20020222-2.dsc openoffice.org-help-fr_0.20020222.orig.tar.gz openoffice.org-help-it_0.20020222-1_all.deb openoffice.org-help-it_0.20020222-1.diff.gz openoffice.org-help-it_0.20020222-1.dsc openoffice.org-help-it_0.20020222-2_all.deb openoffice.org-help-it_0.20020222-2.diff.gz openoffice.org-help-it_0.20020222-2.dsc openoffice.org-help-it_0.20020222.orig.tar.gz openoffice.org-help-sv_0.20020222-1_all.deb openoffice.org-help-sv_0.20020222-1.diff.gz openoffice.org-help-sv_0.20020222-1.dsc openoffice.org-help-sv_0.20020222-2_all.deb openoffice.org-help-sv_0.20020222-2.diff.gz openoffice.org-help-sv_0.20020222-2.dsc openoffice.org-help-sv_0.20020222.orig.tar.gz openoffice.org-l10n-ar_1.0.1-6_all.deb openoffice.org-l10n-ar_1.0.1-7_all.deb openoffice.org-l10n-da_1.0.1-6_all.deb openoffice.org-l10n-da_1.0.1-7_all.deb openoffice.org-l10n-de_1.0.1-6_all.deb openoffice.org-l10n-de_1.0.1-7_all.deb openoffice.org-l10n-el_1.0.1-6_all.deb openoffice.org-l10n-el_1.0.1-7_all.deb openoffice.org-l10n-en_1.0.1-5+woody6_all.deb openoffice.org-l10n-en_1.0.1-6_all.deb openoffice.org-l10n-en_1.0.1-7_all.deb openoffice.org-l10n-es_1.0.1-6_all.deb openoffice.org-l10n-es_1.0.1-7_all.deb openoffice.org-l10n-fr_1.0.1-6_all.deb openoffice.org-
Re: Howto set up a local apt - repository ? (solved)
Hello, i did a little rtfm now about 'dpkg-scanpckages'. It wasn't as much difficult. One has to provide the newly to create 'Packages' file in the deb-packages-dir before updating apt. There was some trouble because woody packages were mixed up with i guess sarge, which confuses new built dependencies. Anyway, in the openoffice major package i looked up what exactly is needed (going to install three languages stuff) and managed to sort things out. First time i ditched a filemanager for shell-expansionsnever been in such situation ! Quite motivating. cheers -- micha. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dpkg returns 'uninitialized values' in debconf perl5 modules
Hello, (please cc to me, i'm not on the list) I can't remove the dictionary 'wamerican' nor can i reinstall or upgrade it. Two examples: / r: dpkg -r wamerican (Reading database ... 50317 files and directories currently installed.) Removing wamerican ... Can't call method choices on an undefined value at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 85, line 4. Use of uninitialized value in scalar chomp at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm line 125, line 3. Use of uninitialized value in split at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm line 126, line 3. Use of uninitialized value in split at /usr/sbin/remove-default-wordlist line 21, line 3. dpkg: error processing wamerican (--remove): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 9 Errors were encountered while processing: wamerican / r: dpkg -r --force-all wamerican (Reading database ... 50317 files and directories currently installed.) Removing wamerican ... Can't call method choices on an undefined value at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 85, line 4. dpkg: error processing wamerican (--remove): subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 9 Errors were encountered while processing: wamerican It's a recent debian sarge, with: rH wamerican 5-4 ii dpkg 1.10.22 ii debconf1.4.25 ii perl 5.8.3-3 It seems to happen only with doing sth. on wamerican, anything other seem to work as usual. Possibly be some additional install is required to remove this package? What can i try next ? tia michael. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dpkg returns 'uninitialized values' in debconf perl5 modules
Jerome R. Acks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > It's a recent debian sarge, with: > > ii perl 5.8.3-3 > > rH wamerican 5-4 > > ii dpkg 1.10.22 > > ii debconf1.4.25 > ^--^ > The current version of debconf in sarge is 1.4.29. Install 1.4.29 and > see is that fixes the problem. No, sorry, it doesn't. Some other suggestions ? (please cc to me) -- mi > > I can't remove the dictionary 'wamerican' nor can i reinstall or upgrade it. > > / r: dpkg -r --force-all wamerican > > (Reading database ... 50317 files and directories currently installed.) > > Removing wamerican ... > > Can't call method choices on an undefined value at > > /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Question.pm line 85, line 4. dpkg: error > > processing wamerican (--remove): subprocess post-removal script returned error > > exit status 9 Errors were encountered while processing: > > wamerican > > > > It seems to happen only with doing sth. on wamerican, anything other seem to > > work as usual. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
apache
Hello debian people !
I am a happy user of woody 3.0.1.
I tried to set up apache for local use (to read dhelp and info2www and to
learn more about networking).
After installation, it worked fine. However, i face two mysteries:
1) apache started from inetd ?
I thought it's not neccessary to have it listen all the time.
So i removed the rc symlink, and configured:
# /etc/inetd.conf:
www stream tcp nowait root/usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/apache
# hosts.allow:
www: LOCAL, piro.pironic, piro2000.winlan /usr/sbin/apache
(occasionally connected with a laptop)
# hosts.deny:
---
Now it seems the server is terminated immediateley after every single request
from a broser, thus for every request newly started from inetd.
In other words, a ps aux doesn't show any apache though browser can open
localhost:80.
Is this the behavior 'normal' with inetd, or misconfigured sth ?
I attach the httpd.conf (only no-hashed lines).
2) Where is mime_magic ?
This is filling up the log:
# /var/log/apache/error.log:
[Wed Jul 2 19:09:08 2003] [error] (2)No such file or directory:
mod_mime_magic: can't read magic file /etc/apache/share/magic
Though /etc/apache/httpd.conf says it's expected to be like
MIMEMagicFile share/magic
there's no directory 'share' in the server-root; only a symlink to
/etc/mime.types.
Am i expected to do sth about it ?
Any hint please ?
cc to me, i am not on this list.
greets
--
mi
# /etc/apache/httpd.conf:
ServerType inetd
ServerRoot /etc/apache
LockFile /var/lock/apache.lock
PidFile /var/run/apache.pid
ScoreBoardFile /var/run/apache.scoreboard
Timeout 300
KeepAlive On
MaxKeepAliveRequests 100
KeepAliveTimeout 60
MinSpareServers 1
MaxSpareServers 5
StartServers 1
MaxClients 50
MaxRequestsPerChild 100
Listen 127.0.0.1:80
LoadModule config_log_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_log_config.so
LoadModule mime_magic_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_mime_magic.so
LoadModule mime_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_mime.so
LoadModule negotiation_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_negotiation.so
LoadModule status_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_status.so
LoadModule autoindex_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_autoindex.so
LoadModule dir_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_dir.so
LoadModule cgi_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_cgi.so
LoadModule userdir_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_userdir.so
LoadModule alias_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_alias.so
LoadModule rewrite_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_rewrite.so
LoadModule access_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_access.so
LoadModule auth_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_auth.so
LoadModule expires_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_expires.so
LoadModule unique_id_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_unique_id.so
LoadModule setenvif_module /usr/lib/apache/1.3/mod_setenvif.so
ExtendedStatus On
Port 80
User www-data
Group www-data
ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ServerName 127.0.0.1
DocumentRoot /var/www
Options SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
AllowOverride None
Options Indexes Includes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
UserDir public_html
AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.shtml index.cgi
AccessFileName .htaccess
Order allow,deny
Deny from all
UseCanonicalName On
TypesConfig /etc/mime.types
DefaultType text/plain
MIMEMagicFile share/magic
HostnameLookups Off
ErrorLog /var/log/apache/error.log
LogLevel debug
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\" %T
%v" full
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\" %P
%T" debug
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\""
combined
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common
LogFormat "%{Referer}i -> %U" referer
LogFormat "%{User-agent}i" agent
CustomLog /var/log/apache/access.log combined
ServerSignature EMail
Alias /icons/ /usr/share/apache/icons/
Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
IndexOptions FancyIndexing NameWidth=*
AddIconByEncoding (CMP,/icons/compressed.gif) x-compress x-gzip
AddIconByType (TXT,/icons/text.gif) text/*
AddIconByType (IMG,/icons/image2.gif) image/*
AddIconByType (SND,/icons/sound2.gif) audio/*
AddIconByType (VID,/icons/movie.gif) video/*
AddIcon /icons/binary.gif .bin .exe
AddIcon /ic
Re: GeoIP free databases and Geo::IP
I have the same problem. For my needs, the best solution I found turns
out to be the workaround you suggested using https://freegeoip.app.
The alternative seems to be something like
apt install geoipupdate mmdb-bin
# use the free license in GeoIP.conf:
cp /usr/share/doc/geoipupdate/examples/GeoIP.conf.default
/etc/GeoIP.conf
geoipupdate
# update every Tuesday
echo "04 04 * * 2 root /usr/bin/geoipupdate" >> /etc/crontab
Then you have mmdblookup, which outputs some clumsy pseudo-json that
needs to be parsed.
So thank you for the simple workaround you suggested :
wget -qO - https://freegeoip.app/csv/$IP | awk -F, '{print $3}'
So
Is there something better?
For my use case (I only need about a dozen lookups per day), that's the
best I could find
MI
How to prevent /tmp files from being deleted at reboot
In Debian Jessie, systemd ignores the TMPTIME variable in /etc/default/rcS and just blindly deletes everything on every reboot. A bug has been filed about it: "#795269 TMPTIME not honored anymore" ( https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=795269 ) But I tried the suggested solution, and the files in /tmp still get deleted at reboot. What I currently have which doesn't work: $ egrep -v '^(#|$)' /etc/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf D /tmp 1777 root root 30d x /tmp/systemd-private-%b-* X /tmp/systemd-private-%b-*/tmp x /var/tmp/systemd-private-%b-* X /var/tmp/systemd-private-%b-*/tmp Would someone know what I can do so that only files older than some number of days get deleted?
Re: How to prevent /tmp files from being deleted at reboot
/tmp is most likely a tmpfs, a filesystem in RAM which will vanish (and all files and directories in it) as soon as the computer is rebooted. No, it's a dedicated partition on disk. But /tmp being wiped on (re)boot has been the norm and case for UNIX-based operating systems since nearly forever. No program or user should expect its/his files to persist in /tmp across a reboot. That is what /var/tmp is for, a temporary place which will not be wiped upon reboot. Well, we used to have TMPTIME so that everyone could decide for himself how long "temporary" means. If it's not possible anymore, it's a regression, and it's a Debian bug anyway, since the /etc/default/rcS file has a clearly documented setting which is in fact ignored. But anyway, that's beside the point. The point is that I cannot get the syntax right to achieve what the systemd documentation seems to imply: that it is possible to define when a file should be deleted in number of days, indepentently of arbitrary reboots. So if someone knows what I'm doing wrong in trying to obtain the documented behavior, thanks for sharing. MI PS: IMO: If you have a program that relies on files or directories in /tmp being persistent, then that program is buggy, not Debian. It's not a program. It's just me, mostly while setting up and testing a fresh system, which may need frequent reboots.
Re: How to prevent /tmp files from being deleted at reboot
That was how it has "always" worked before. But now systemd ignores TMPTIME, and also seems to ignore it's own "age" option, unless I'm not using it right. Original Message On a testing/sid system with sysvinit-core, the script /etc/init.d/mountall-bootclean.sh (linked to /etc/rcS.d/) calls clean_tmp via clean_all from /lib/init/bootclean.sh . In this function it says "Don't clean remaining files if TMPTIME is negative or 'infinite'" Therefore, to never cleanup set TMPTIME='infinite' What is your exact setting in /etc/default/rcS ? Regards, jvp.
Re: How to prevent /tmp files from being deleted at reboot
Hi, Attached is the output. (BTW, findmnt is cool; I didn't know about it). Thanks for any insight, MI # findmnt TARGET SOURCEFSTYPE OPTIONS //dev/sda1 ext4 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered ├─/sys sysfs sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime │ ├─/sys/kernel/security securityfssecurityfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime │ ├─/sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs tmpfs ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755 │ │ ├─/sys/fs/cgroup/systemd cgroupcgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,release_agent=/lib/systemd/systemd-cgr │ │ ├─/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset cgroupcgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset │ │ ├─/sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct cgroupcgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu,cpuacct │ │ ├─/sys/fs/cgroup/devices cgroupcgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices │ │ ├─/sys/fs/cgroup/freezer cgroupcgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer │ │ ├─/sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls,net_prio cgroupcgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls,net_prio │ │ ├─/sys/fs/cgroup/blkio cgroupcgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio │ │ └─/sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event cgroupcgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,perf_event │ ├─/sys/fs/pstore pstorepstore rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime │ ├─/sys/kernel/debugdebugfs debugfsrw,relatime │ └─/sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl fusectlrw,relatime ├─/proc proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime │ ├─/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc systemd-1 autofs rw,relatime,fd=22,pgrp=1,timeout=300,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct │ └─/proc/fs/nfsdnfsd nfsd rw,relatime ├─/dev udev devtmpfs rw,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=1020637,mode=755 │ ├─/dev/pts devptsdevpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000 │ ├─/dev/shm tmpfs tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev │ ├─/dev/hugepages hugetlbfs hugetlbfs rw,relatime │ └─/dev/mqueue mqueuemqueue rw,relatime ├─/run tmpfs tmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,size=1636568k,mode=755 │ ├─/run/locktmpfs tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k │ ├─/run/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefsrpc_pipefs rw,relatime │ └─/run/user/0 tmpfs tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=818284k,mode=700 ├─/etc/machine-idtmpfs[/machine-id] tmpfs ro,relatime,size=1636568k,mode=755 ├─/var /dev/sda2 ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered ├─/home /dev/sda6 ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered ├─/tmp /dev/sda5 ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered └─/net /etc/auto.net autofs rw,relatime,fd=6,pgrp=1147,timeout=60,minproto=5,maxproto=5,indirect # for f in /run/tmpfiles.d/* /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/* /etc/tmpfiles.d/*; do echo "$f"; grep /tmp "$f"; echo; done /run/tmpfiles.d/kmod.conf /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/bind9.conf /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/debian.conf /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/legacy.conf /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/man-db.conf /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/openvpn.conf /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/postgresql.conf /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/samba.conf /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/screen-cleanup.conf /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/sshd.conf /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/systemd.conf /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/systemd-nologin.conf /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf #D /tmp 1777 root root - d /var/tmp 1777 root root 30d x /tmp/systemd-private-%b-* X /tmp/systemd-private-%b-*/tmp x /var/tmp/systemd-private-%b-* X /var/tmp/systemd-private-%b-*/tmp /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf.orig D /tmp 1777 root root - #d /var/tmp 1777 root root 30d x /tmp/systemd-private-%b-* X /tmp/systemd-private-%b-*/tmp x /var/tmp/systemd-private-%b-* X /var/tmp/systemd-private-%b-*/tmp /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/var.conf /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/x11.conf d /tmp/.X11-unix 1777 root root 10d d /tmp/.ICE-unix 1777 root root 10d d /tmp/.XIM-unix 1777 root root 10d d /tmp/.font-unix 1777 root root 10d d /tmp/.Test-unix 1777 root root 10d r! /tmp/.X[0-9]*-lock /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/xconsole.conf /etc/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf D /tmp 1777 root root ~30d #d /var/tmp 1777 root root 30d x /tmp/systemd-private-%b-* X /tmp/systemd-private-%b-*/tmp x /var/tmp/systemd-private-%b-* X /var/tmp/systemd-private-%b-*/tmp
Re: How to prevent /tmp files from being deleted at reboot
Sounds promising! Would you share what you have in /etc/tmpfiles.d/ ? From what I had read, that is where systemd would read it's tmp settings, and where it would have migrated settings from rcS on upgades. You do have a "normal" Debian Jessie with systemd, right? If you uninstalled systemd or installed a different init system, then of course, you wouldn't have the problem I have. Thanks, MI Original Message MI wrote on 07/10/2016 03:04 PM: That was how it has "always" worked before. But now systemd ignores TMPTIME, and also seems to ignore it's own "age" option, unless I'm not using it right. I am running Jessie, and have TMPTIME=-1 in /etc/default/rcS and it still works fine for me. Doc
Re: How to prevent /tmp files from being deleted at reboot
OK, so you have an empty /etc/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf which indeed works to completely avoid cleaning up /tmp at reboot. That is, it works as an equivalent to TMPTIME=-1. But I do want to cleanup /tmp, just with some value of TMPTIME > 0. Anyway, thanks. It at least confirms that the /etc/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf is indeed read, and does override the defaults. MI Original Message ---- MI wrote on 07/11/2016 09:44 AM: Sounds promising! Would you share what you have in /etc/tmpfiles.d/ ? From what I had read, that is where systemd would read it's tmp settings, and where it would have migrated settings from rcS on upgades. [HN:tmpfiles.d] ls -al total 20 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 25 2015 . drwxr-xr-x 182 root root 12288 Jul 6 18:06 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 247 Aug 25 2015 tmp.conf [HN:tmpfiles.d] cat tmp.conf # Avoid clearing /tmp by shipping an empty /etc/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf file # which overrides /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf. # This file was automatically created because of local modifications in # /etc/default/rcS where TMPTIME was set to infinite. [HN:tmpfiles.d] Which is a very confusing message, but I can assure you that /tmp is definitely NOT cleared. You do have a "normal" Debian Jessie with systemd, right? Completely vanilla Jessie except for ZFS added to support a couple of data disks. Doc
Re: How to prevent /tmp files from being deleted at reboot
Thank you for looking into this. Now to your issue. You said you wanted time based clean-up (remove files older then 30 days) but *not* remove them on boot. In fact, cleanup on boot would be fine. However, "cleanup" should only cleanup files older than the age argument. I tried these: - Empty /etc/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf : As expected, nothing is cleaned up. - "D /tmp/ 1777 root root 30d" Everything is deleted at boot, or when running "systemd-tmpfiles --create --remove --clean" Also with "~30d" instead of "30d". - "d /tmp/ 1777 root root 30d" Nothing is deleted at boot or when running "systemd-tmpfiles --create --remove --clean" without a reboot. # grep ' /tmp' /etc/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf d /tmp 1777 root root 30d x /tmp/systemd-private-%b-* X /tmp/systemd-private-%b-*/tmp # reboot ... # ls -Al /tmp/ total 36 ... -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root8 Jul 16 15:21 KEEPTHIS.txt -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root9 Jan 1 2016 TOOOLD.txt ... So the age argument seems to always be ignored? And I find no way to get the old (before systemd) behaviour: cleanup /tmp at boot, but preserve "recent" files If this is the expected behaviour, then either the documentation is quite unclear and misleading, or I'm too dumb to understand it (which is actually quite possible...) MI
Re: How to prevent /tmp files from being deleted at reboot
Please post the output of stat /tmp/TOOOLD.txt # stat /tmp/TOOOLD.txt File: ‘/tmp/TOOOLD.txt’ Size: 9 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 805h/2053dInode: 14 Links: 1 Access: (0664/-rw-rw-r--) Uid: (0/root) Gid: (0/root) Access: 2016-01-01 12:23:00.0 +0100 Modify: 2016-01-01 12:23:00.0 +0100 Change: 2016-07-16 15:21:28.806601066 +0200 Birth: -
Re: How to prevent /tmp files from being deleted at reboot
Yes, it looks like it's the ctime which prevents the deletion, and "d /tmp ... xxd" is indeed the option which is the closest to the old behaviour. I guess I will have to get used to the "systemd POV" ... Thanks all for your help MI Original Message Am 16.07.2016 um 16:30 schrieb Mark Fletcher: On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 11:28 PM MI mailto:mi.lists.deb...@alma.ch>> wrote: > Please post the output of > stat /tmp/TOOOLD.txt # stat /tmp/TOOOLD.txt File: ‘/tmp/TOOOLD.txt’ Size: 9 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 805h/2053dInode: 14 Links: 1 Access: (0664/-rw-rw-r--) Uid: (0/root) Gid: (0/root) Access: 2016-01-01 12:23:00.0 +0100 Modify: 2016-01-01 12:23:00.0 +0100 Change: 2016-07-16 15:21:28.806601066 +0200 Birth: - I suspect it is the Change line that is doing it -- although I wonder what the difference between Change and Modify is... There are 3 kind of "timestamps": Access - the last time the file was read Modify - the last time the file was modified (content has been modified) Change - the last time meta data of the file was changed (e.g. permissions) So, some process changed the files! metadata, that's why it's not deleted. Everything working as expected from the systemd-tmpfiles POV. Regards, Michael
Meld in Jessie: how to not install all the insane dependencies
I'm setting up a new server, and wanted to install "meld", a nice "graphical tool to diff and merge files". Surprised by the huge amount of dependencies it was about to install, I had a closer look. And indeed, the dependencies seem ridiculous: spell-checkers, multimedia codecs, a modem manager, wifi, etc. Below is the full list, with the short descriptions, and "??" in front of those which seemed obviously unneeded. I'm sure there are even more unneeded ones, which I didn't mark because I'm not sure what they are for. It looks like the meld package wants to install a full desktop with all the bells and whistles on my headless server. So the question is: what is the best way to install meld without all the cruft? - with dpkg --force-depends -i ? - by installing from the repository of an older distribution? How? - compile the source? (but will also have dependencies, harder to track down?) What would you do? Here is the list of meld dependencies: The following NEW packages will be installed: adwaita-icon-theme - default icon theme of GNOME ?? aspell - GNU Aspell spell-checker ?? aspell-en - English dictionary for GNU Aspell at-spi2-core - Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface (dbus core) colord - system service to manage device colour profiles -- system daemon colord-data - system service to manage device colour profiles -- data files dconf-gsettings-backend - simple configuration storage system - GSettings back-end dconf-service - simple configuration storage system - D-Bus service ?? enchant - Wrapper for various spell checker engines (binary programs) fonts-dejavu - metapackage to pull in fonts-dejavu-core and fonts-dejavu-extra fonts-dejavu-extra - Vera font family derivate with additional characters (extra variants) ?? geoclue-2.0 - geoinformation service gir1.2-atk-1.0 - ATK accessibility toolkit (GObject introspection) gir1.2-freedesktop - Introspection data for some FreeDesktop components gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0 - GDK Pixbuf library - GObject-Introspection gir1.2-glib-2.0 - Introspection data for GLib, GObject, Gio and GModule gir1.2-gtk-3.0 - GTK+ graphical user interface library -- gir bindings gir1.2-gtksource-3.0 - gir files for the GTK+ syntax highlighting widget gir1.2-pango-1.0 - Layout and rendering of internationalized text - gir bindings glib-networking - network-related giomodules for GLib glib-networking-common - network-related giomodules for GLib - data files glib-networking-services - network-related giomodules for GLib - D-Bus services gnome-user-guide - GNOME user's guide gsettings-desktop-schemas - GSettings desktop-wide schemas ?? gstreamer1.0-plugins-base - GStreamer plugins from the "base" set ?? gstreamer1.0-plugins-good - GStreamer plugins from the "good" set ?? gstreamer1.0-x - GStreamer plugins for X11 and Pango ?? hunspell-en-us - English_american dictionary for hunspell libaa1 - ASCII art library ?? libasound2 - shared library for ALSA applications ?? libasound2-data - Configuration files and profiles for ALSA drivers ?? libaspell15 - GNU Aspell spell-checker runtime library libatk-bridge2.0-0 - AT-SPI 2 toolkit bridge - shared library libatspi2.0-0 - Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface - shared library ?? libavc1394-0 - control IEEE 1394 audio/video devices libcaca0 - colour ASCII art library libcairo-gobject2 - Cairo 2D vector graphics library (GObject library) ?? libcanberra-gtk3-0 - GTK+ 3.0 helper for playing widget event sounds with libcanberra ?? libcanberra-gtk3-module - translates GTK3 widgets signals to event sounds ?? libcanberra0 - simple abstract interface for playing event sounds ?? libcdparanoia0 - audio extraction tool for sampling CDs (library) ?? libcolord2 - system service to manage device colour profiles -- runtime ?? libcolorhug2 - library to access the ColorHug colourimeter -- runtime libcroco3 - Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) parsing and manipulation toolkit libdconf1 - simple configuration storage system - runtime library ?? libdrm-intel1 - Userspace interface to intel-specific kernel DRM services -- runtime ?? libdrm-nouveau2 - Userspace interface to nouveau-specific kernel DRM services -- runtime ?? libdrm-radeon1 - Userspace interface to radeon-specific kernel DRM services -- runtime ?? libdrm2 - Userspace interface to kernel DRM services -- runtime ?? libdv4 - software library for DV format digital video (runtime lib) libelf1 - library to read and write ELF files ?? libenchant1c2a - Wrapper library for various spell checker engines (runtime libs) ?? libexif12 - library to parse EXIF files libfile-copy-recursive-perl - Perl extension fo
Re: Meld in Jessie: how to not install all the insane dependencies
Yes, "--no-install-recommends" which I had forgotten seems to help a bit, but still not significantly. "aptitude's interactive mode" sounds like a good lead. Will try that. Thanks Original Message On 11/28/2015 12:55 PM, MI wrote: I'm setting up a new server, and wanted to install "meld", a nice "graphical tool to diff and merge files". Surprised by the huge amount of dependencies it was about to install, I had a closer look. And indeed, the dependencies seem ridiculous: spell-checkers, multimedia codecs, a modem manager, wifi, etc. Below is the full list, with the short descriptions, and "??" in front of those which seemed obviously unneeded. I'm sure there are even more unneeded ones, which I didn't mark because I'm not sure what they are for. It looks like the meld package wants to install a full desktop with all the bells and whistles on my headless server. So the question is: what is the best way to install meld without all the cruft? - with dpkg --force-depends -i ? Even if you manage to make the application run, the package will be permanently in a broken state, and for every other future operation you'll need to tell apt/dpkg to ignore the broken dependencies. You could create dummy packages to fulfill those dependencies, but then if you install a package that really needs one of those libraries, that package won't work, and it might take a while for you to find out why. - by installing from the repository of an older distribution? How? This might work, but one day it will stop working. - compile the source? (but will also have dependencies, harder to track down?) If it's some optional feature of the program that can be turned off, then yes, that might decrease the number of packages. But otherwise, the same problems are likely to arise. What would you do? It could be that some dependencies are actually recommends. Try with apt-get --no-install-recommends. If you use aptitude's interactive mode, you can see why each package is pulled (which other package requires or recommends it), and you can work up the chain.
Re: Meld in Jessie: how to not install all the insane dependencies
It looks like the meld package wants to install a full desktop with all the bells and whistles on my headless server. So the question is: what is the best way to install meld without all the cruft? I finally did install the previous version 1.6.1-1 (from Debian 7 Wheezy). I only needed few dependencies, and it is actually much better than the version currently in Jessie. (I use meld over remote ssh X sessions, and the Jessie version of meld does something which prevents me from getting to the menu, saving references, etc.) The old version is perfect for my needs. If others have the same problem I had, here is what I did: # wget http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/meld/meld_1.6.1-1_all.deb # apt-get install python-gtk2 python-glade2 python-gobject-2 The following extra packages will be installed: libglade2-0 liblapack3 python-cairo python-numpy Suggested packages: python-gtk2-doc python-gobject-2-dbg gfortran python-dev python-nose python-numpy-dbg python-numpy-doc The following NEW packages will be installed: libglade2-0 liblapack3 python-cairo python-glade2 python-gobject-2 python-gtk2 python-numpy # dpkg -i meld_1.6.1-1_all.deb That's all.
Re: Problem chain loading Jessie's pxelinux via http using iPXE (failed to load ldlinux.c32)
Not that it really helps, but you are not alone. I have a different config (no iPXE), but the same problem. Hopefully someone has a solution... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55a8da7a.5020...@alma.ch
Re: apt-get bugzilla/sid ....Preconfiguring packages....
On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 06:31:09AM -0800, Charles Baker wrote: > Here is a snippet of the output of the command: > debconf (developer): --> 0 ok > debconf (developer): <-- GET > bugzilla/bugzilla_admin_name > debconf (developer): --> 0 > debconf (developer): <-- FGET > bugzilla/bugzilla_admin_pwd seen > debconf (developer): --> 0 false > debconf (developer): <-- SET bugzilla/pwd_check > debconf (developer): --> 0 value set > debconf (developer): <-- BEGINBLOCK > debconf (developer): --> 0 > debconf (developer): <-- INPUT high > bugzilla/bugzilla_admin_name > debconf (developer): --> 30 question skipped > debconf (developer): <-- INPUT high > bugzilla/bugzilla_admin_real_name > debconf (developer): --> 30 question skipped > debconf (developer): <-- INPUT high > bugzilla/bugzilla_admin_pwd > debconf (developer): --> 30 question skipped > debconf (developer): <-- ENDBLOCK > debconf (developer): --> 0 > debconf (developer): <-- GO > debconf (developer): --> 0 ok > debconf (developer): <-- GET > bugzilla/bugzilla_admin_name > debconf (developer): --> 0 > debconf (developer): <-- FGET > bugzilla/bugzilla_admin_pwd seen > debconf (developer): --> 0 false > debconf (developer): <-- SET bugzilla/pwd_check I don't understand very well where the probleme come from. I've fix possible weekness in the package. Could you download it from http://people.debian.org/~rperrot/bugzilla/prospective-package/bugzilla-doc_2.14-7_all.deb and let me know if it is better Thanks Rémi.
