Re: apt-get update: unnecessary use of disk space

2014-06-20 Thread Bzzzz
On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 18:54:45 -0600 Bob Proulx wrote: > completely out of disk space. For that the reasonable amount of > disk space reserved is an absolute value that a system might need > on that partitions. That part really shouldn't be a percentage of > the disk but should be a finite reserv

Re: apt-get update: unnecessary use of disk space

2014-06-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > If you are interested in retrieving some disk space on this > partition, I would suggest to reduce the percentage of diskspace > which may only be allocated by privileged processes. It is normally > 5% of the diskspace of a partition. In your case this makes ca. 1.8 > GB.

Re: key troubles

2014-06-20 Thread Mark Neyhart
On 06/18/2014 01:29 PM, Glenn English wrote: > When debmirror runs, the reported problem is a failed checksum verification: > >> sent 228 bytes received 1702 bytes 1286.67 bytes/sec >> total size is 918 speedup is 0.48 >> Getting meta files ... >> [ 0%]#** GET http://ftp.us.debian.org

Re: Installation media

2014-06-20 Thread Brian
On Wed 18 Jun 2014 at 21:01:52 +0900, Joel Rees wrote: > 2014/06/18 0:35 "roberto" : > > > > #grub-install --root-directory=/ /dev/sda > > We wish this approach were reliable, but /dev/sda at boot-time, within > grub, and /dev/sda from bash/dash are often two different drives. If you > have mor

Re: Installation media

2014-06-20 Thread Brian
On Wed 18 Jun 2014 at 17:17:47 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > There were a lot of replies, and I have seen that you succeeded ( at > least partially ) in installation, but for completeness, here is the > easiest solution when you are starting from windows: > http://www.linuxliveusb.

Debian sid - kernel modules do not compile - too many open files

2014-06-20 Thread MRH
Hi, Sorry - a bit long perhaps. But I have no idea what has happened and how should I fix the problem in a 'proper' way. The story: Recently I noticed a weird problem. I'm not sure when it has happened, but since some time the kernel modules do not compile / initramfs do not update on kernel

Re: [SOLVED] Re: wine-unstable 64 bit

2014-06-20 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 20 Jun 2014, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > So I was wrong. Not really surprising honestly, but I think I have > seen such assertion somewhere else from someone more knowledgeable > than me. Now you have the URL to the spec ;-) http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilit

Re: experimenting with dpkg: installing on a different system

2014-06-20 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:42 AM, wrote: > > First, a warning: I am basically trying to reinvent a wheel, only for my > pleasure and knowledge. So, yes, there are easier ways to do the things. > > Yesterday, I was experimenting with dpkg ( for my own fun, and to learn > things ), especially with t

Re: need to roll back nvidia driver

2014-06-20 Thread Ric Moore
On 06/20/2014 10:39 AM, Hans wrote: Am Freitag, 20. Juni 2014, 01:04:30 schrieb Bob Proulx: Ric Moore wrote: Are you familiar with snapshot.debian.org? http://snapshot.debian.org/ A good way, I am using with nvidia is the following: 1. apt-get --purge remove nvidia-* This command remove

Re: Simple system-wide autoconfiguration for GNOME 3

2014-06-20 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Replying to myself, this is the working solution. It is not that pretty, but has the advantage to be easily compatible each time GNOME will change the way it handles configuration files. ---/usr/local/etc/gnome3-user-settings--- #! /bin/bash gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.desktop volumes-visibl

Re: dhclient changes IP address

2014-06-20 Thread prad
Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Hello, > > I have a system which comes up with one IP address 192.168.178.87 via > dhclient, then after one day it gets eventually a different address > 192.168.178.88 from my fritz.box, which runs the dhcp server: > > Any hint what is going on here or how to debug this is

Re: dhclient changes IP address

2014-06-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Rainer Dorsch wrote: > I have a system which comes up with one IP address 192.168.178.87 via > dhclient, then after one day it gets eventually a different address > 192.168.178.88 from my fritz.box, which runs the dhcp server: On your fritz.box what does the dhcpd log to the syslog? grep dhcp

Re: dhclient changes IP address

2014-06-20 Thread Bzzzz
On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 20:07:19 +0200 Rainer Dorsch wrote: On the DHCP svr, what is in /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.leases & dhcpd.leases before the lease renewing and after (the bad one)? -- dylan : what do you think about abortion? spidersnow : leave the choice to the kid. signature.asc Description:

Re: Early access to a console (during runlevel 1)

2014-06-20 Thread Bzzzz
On Thu, 19 Jun 2014 23:55:11 -0600 Bob Proulx wrote: > > Erasing error output just doesn't erase the cause, > > and the cause might be very dangerous to the system's > > health… > > Erasing the error output? Why are you erasing error output? I > never suggested any such thing. So you're follo

Re: Early access to a console (during runlevel 1)

2014-06-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Tom H wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Martin Richard wrote: > >> In fact fsck or the mount operation before fsck stalls (usually because of > >> xfs), so I never get to the recovery shell. > > > > xfs? The X Font Server? How is xfs involved? I am sure it is really > > something else. > > More li

dhclient changes IP address

2014-06-20 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hello, I have a system which comes up with one IP address 192.168.178.87 via dhclient, then after one day it gets eventually a different address 192.168.178.88 from my fritz.box, which runs the dhcp server: Jun 19 16:54:05 bokocube NetworkManager[338]: (eth0): DHCPv4 state changed bound -> ex

Re: mandb: 3 questions

2014-06-20 Thread Curt
On 2014-01-05, Mike McClain wrote: > Some program, I presume mandb keeps recreating /var/cache/man/cs/ etc. It looks like a bug! https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=23522 Colin Watson says: Version 0.0.20 or greater of the 'localepurge' package now allows the sysadmin to purge

Re: experimenting with dpkg: installing on a different system

2014-06-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-06-20 17:42 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > First, a warning: I am basically trying to reinvent a wheel, only for > my pleasure and knowledge. Good luck. As you had already noticed, this wheel is going to have some rough corners, and just using debootstrap is much easier.

Re: Reply To settings - was - Re: Debian 7.5 amd64 xfce GUI shutdown and restart do not work

2014-06-20 Thread Bret Busby
On Fri, 20 Jun 2014, Bob Proulx wrote: Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 14:53:14 From: Bob Proulx To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Reply To settings - was - Re: Debian 7.5 amd64 xfce GUI shutdown and restart do not work Bret Busby wrote: email, for the latter, due to the power of PINE)

experimenting with dpkg: installing on a different system

2014-06-20 Thread berenger . morel
Hello list. First, a warning: I am basically trying to reinvent a wheel, only for my pleasure and knowledge. So, yes, there are easier ways to do the things. Yesterday, I was experimenting with dpkg ( for my own fun, and to learn things ), especially with the parameter "--root" which change

Re: need to roll back nvidia driver

2014-06-20 Thread Hans
Am Freitag, 20. Juni 2014, 01:04:30 schrieb Bob Proulx: > Ric Moore wrote: > > Are you familiar with snapshot.debian.org? > > http://snapshot.debian.org/ A good way, I am using with nvidia is the following: 1. apt-get --purge remove nvidia-* This command removes all nvidia-packages even self

Re: audacious wheezy

2014-06-20 Thread Zhiqi Li
On 06/20/2014 06:34 PM, Thierry de Coulon wrote: On Friday 20 June 2014 10.59:43 François Patte wrote: Bonjour, Does anyone use audacious with wheezy and have it working? Yes, I use it regularely and it works, no problem. Audacious 3.2.4-1 here. Can't remember if I had to do anything special,

Re: Early access to a console (during runlevel 1)

2014-06-20 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 1:48 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Martin Richard wrote: >> >> In fact fsck or the mount operation before fsck stalls (usually because of >> xfs), so I never get to the recovery shell. > > xfs? The X Font Server? How is xfs involved? I am sure it is really > something else. M

Re: [SOLVED] Re: wine-unstable 64 bit

2014-06-20 Thread berenger . morel
Le 19.06.2014 16:22, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a écrit : On Thu, 19 Jun 2014, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: This syntax "$(command)" is not portable. It is a POSIX shell construct. Anything that doesn't implement it should not be linked to /bin/sh in the first place. So I was w

Re: audacious wheezy

2014-06-20 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Friday 20 June 2014 10.59:43 François Patte wrote: > Bonjour, > > Does anyone use audacious with wheezy and have it working? > Yes, I use it regularely and it works, no problem. Audacious 3.2.4-1 here. Can't remember if I had to do anything special, but I don't think so. I have the debian mul

Re: Early access to a console (during runlevel 1)

2014-06-20 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 11:48:49PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Martin Richard wrote: > > In fact fsck or the mount operation before fsck stalls (usually because of > > xfs), so I never get to the recovery shell. > > xfs? The X Font Server? How is xfs involved? I am sure it is really > something

audacious wheezy

2014-06-20 Thread François Patte
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Re: need to roll back nvidia driver

2014-06-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Ric Moore wrote: > I'm having a bunch of java problems and it seems many are rolling their > nVidia driver back to 327.23. I currently have 331.67 installed. What is the Debian package name for the driver you have installed? > Since I refuse to use anything other than debian packages, and I am ru