Re: 404 trying to use stretch/backports

2018-01-10 Thread Felix Miata
likcoras composed on 2018-01-11 16:17 (UTC+0900): > On 01/11/2018 04:08 PM, Felix Miata wrote: >> ... >> err:9 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main i386 Packages >> 404 Not Found... > > Try adding a trailing slash to the deb url: > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ > and not >

Re: 404 trying to use stretch/backports

2018-01-10 Thread likcoras
On 01/11/2018 04:08 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > ... > err:9 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main i386 Packages > 404 Not Found... Try adding a trailing slash to the deb url: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ and not http://ftp.debian.org/debian

404 trying to use stretch/backports

2018-01-10 Thread Felix Miata
Trying to get a non-broken recent version of mc, the instructions on https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/ fail[1]. How can I get a non-broken relatively recent mc package installed, e.g. patched 4.8.19, or 4.8.20? Breakage was fixed 15 months ago[2]. [1] # apt-get update ... err:9 http://ftp

Re: Kernel problem?

2018-01-10 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 01/06/2018 06:58 PM, Rob Hurle wrote: Hi All, I'm running Stretch and yesterday I did my normal: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade It seemed to install vmlinuz-4.9.0-5-686-pae (and associated config and image files, etc) in place of 4.9.0-4-686-pae versions. Now the system won't

Re: Kernel problem?

2018-01-10 Thread Felix Miata
deloptes composed on 2018-01-11 01:12 (UTC+0100): > David Wright wrote: >>> It seemed to install vmlinuz-4.9.0-5-686-pae (and associated config and >>> image files, etc) in place of 4.9.0-4-686-pae versions.  Now the system >> ↑↑↑ really? It's a different package so >> it should install

Re: Kernel problem?

2018-01-10 Thread deloptes
David Wright wrote: >> It seemed to install vmlinuz-4.9.0-5-686-pae (and associated config and >> image files, etc) in place of 4.9.0-4-686-pae versions.  Now the system > > ↑↑↑ really? It's a different package so > it should install alongside the old one. no, this is one and the same pa

Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie

2018-01-10 Thread deloptes
Greg Wooledge wrote: > Moreover, the simple zcat|cpio -i no longer works with stretch's initrd > images.  They're in a different format, and you have to use > lsinitramfs or unmkinitramfs to see or extract their contents. > > On a jessie system, the zcat|cpio -i may still work (not sure about > b

Re: Kernel problem?

2018-01-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2018-01-10 16:58 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > In the case of stable Debian release kernel versioning at least, the .0 in > both > seem to be entirely superfluous. Does any other integer ever appear in place > of > that 0? No. The trailing .0 is only there to appease programs that do not work

Re: Kernel problem?

2018-01-10 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2018-01-10 15:12 (UTC-0600): > On Tue 09 Jan 2018 at 18:18:27 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote: >> Here's a portion of /boot/ on one I just updated minutes ago: >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 26 Jan 9 17:47 initrd -> initrd.img-4.9.0-5-686-pae >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 26 Jan 9 17:47 i

Change in USB Handling for KVM betweeen kernels 4.9.0-5 and 4.14.0-2 ?

2018-01-10 Thread Erwan David
I have a QEMU/KVM virtual machine on which I linked a USB device. I use testing, however with the 4.14.0-2 of testing, the VM does not start because it cannot access the USB device. Running the same testing userland, but with kernel 4.9.0-5 from stable, everything works. What could be the reason,

Re: Kernel problem?

2018-01-10 Thread David Wright
On Tue 09 Jan 2018 at 18:18:27 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote: > Here's a portion of /boot/ on one I just updated minutes ago: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 26 Jan 9 17:47 initrd -> initrd.img-4.9.0-5-686-pae > lrwxrwxrwx 1 26 Jan 9 17:47 initrd-cur -> initrd.img-4.9.0-5-686-pae > -rw-r--r-- 1 17

Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie

2018-01-10 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 03:56:17PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > deloptes composed on 2018-01-10 19:48 (UTC+0100): > > > 7.1 if you need to examine initrd > > > cd /tmp/ > > mkdir test > > cd test/ > > zcat /boot/initrd.img- | cpio -id > > > do whatever you

Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie

2018-01-10 Thread Felix Miata
deloptes composed on 2018-01-10 19:48 (UTC+0100): > 7.1 if you need to examine initrd > cd /tmp/ > mkdir test > cd test/ > zcat /boot/initrd.img- | cpio -id > do whatever you need to do > find . ! -name *~ | cpio -H newc --create | gzip -9 >> /boo

Re: Kernel problem?

2018-01-10 Thread David Wright
On Sun 07 Jan 2018 at 13:58:25 (+1100), Rob Hurle wrote: > I'm running Stretch and yesterday I did my normal: > > sudo apt-get update > sudo apt-get upgrade > > It seemed to install vmlinuz-4.9.0-5-686-pae (and associated config and > image files, etc) in place of 4.9.0-4-686-pae versions. Now

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-10 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 07:10:03PM +, Brian wrote: > On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 17:13:09 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > Downside is that it does the panoramic tour via PS and thus generates > > fairly hefty PDFs. > > With plain text files a

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-10 Thread Brian
On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 10:31:14 +, Brian wrote: > On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 09:02:08 +, Curt wrote: > > > On 2018-01-09, David Wright wrote: > > [...] > > > > And that's without discussing whether having to install a TeX system > > > is any better than installing LibreOffice. > > > > Yes,

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-10 Thread Brian
On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 17:13:09 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 09:38:47AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > And to be fair, results can be pretty exciting, depending on the > actual file content... > > I would go with a2ps, too, btw. > > Downside is that it does the panora

Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie

2018-01-10 Thread deloptes
Elisabetta Falivene wrote: > It wasn't me to configure the machine in the first place so is a bit > tricky. I can give more information if you can point me out what you could > need. thank you a lot well it is interesting to know if you have raid or so, if your boot and root are on LVM, or probab

Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie

2018-01-10 Thread Sven Hartge
Elisabetta Falivene wrote: >>> Unfortunately is already 'most'. >> Please check if you have a file /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/driver-policy >> or any other file containing a different configuration. Anything in >> /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/ takes precedence over the main config file. > Thank

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-10 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 09:38:47AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 10:46:43 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [text, yeah!] > > But for me, (La)TeX *are* text :-) > > Yes, you can put me in the text camp, and a little further over

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-10 Thread David Wright
On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 10:46:43 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 09:02:08AM +, Curt wrote: > > [...] > > > You (a thirty-year veteran latex user we learn elsewhere): Please explain > > the > > first step (which is how to create a latex file). > > > > > than TeX/La

Re: Strange message during boot

2018-01-10 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 08:22:51AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: I multi-boot several varieties of Debian. When booting one specific install I many repetitions to the effect that it is beginning a specific script. It then proceeds to bring up an apparently normal system. Would this be logged s

Re: Why was this package removed but apt?

2018-01-10 Thread Jonathan Sélea
On 2018-01-10 14:58, MAS Jean-Louis wrote: Le 10/01/2018 à 12:30, Jonathan Sélea a écrit : It was installed because CraftCMS depends on it :) According to term.log - unattended-upgrade performed the update 2018-01-06 06:41 and every package was updated (including php7.1-mbstring) Just two

Re: Strange message during boot

2018-01-10 Thread David Wright
On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 08:22:51 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > I multi-boot several varieties of Debian. > When booting one specific install I many repetitions to the effect > that it is beginning a specific script. > > It then proceeds to bring up an apparently normal system. > > Would this be

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-10 Thread David Wright
On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 11:34:57 (+), Steve McIntyre wrote: > hosack...@gmail.com wrote: > > > >This is a bug report. I tried to use the reporting system, but it did not > >seem to be appropriate. So, I will give a narrative: > > > >This is what happened. > >I decided to install Debian on my smal

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-10 Thread David Wright
On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 10:41:12 (+), Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, 2018-01-09 at 23:34 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > > If the entry was not changed to be commented out during the conclusion > > of the initial OS install procedure, that sounds like an issue > > indeed, although a relatively mi

Strange message during boot

2018-01-10 Thread Richard Owlett
I multi-boot several varieties of Debian. When booting one specific install I many repetitions to the effect that it is beginning a specific script. It then proceeds to bring up an apparently normal system. Would this be logged somewhere? Where? TIA

Re: Why was this package removed but apt?

2018-01-10 Thread MAS Jean-Louis
Le 10/01/2018 à 12:30, Jonathan Sélea a écrit : > It was installed because CraftCMS depends on it :) > > According to term.log - unattended-upgrade performed the update > 2018-01-06 06:41 and every package was updated (including php7.1-mbstring) > > Just two minutes after that, unattended-upgrade

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-10 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 01/09/2018 07:54 PM, John Hosack wrote: Hello, This is a bug report. I tried to use the reporting system, but it did not seem to be appropriate. So, I will give a narrative: This is what happened. I decided to install Debian on my small machine (Asus eeePC 900A, 1GB ram, 4GB storage). So I

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-10 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
On 10-01-2018, at 10h 46'43", to...@tuxteam.de wrote about "Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line" > > But for me, (La)TeX *are* text :-) > +1 Ionel

Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie

2018-01-10 Thread Elisabetta Falivene
> > > > Unfortunately is already 'most'. > > Please check if you have a file /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/driver-policy > or any other file containing a different configuration. Anything in > /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/ takes precedence over the main config file. > Thank you, it was "dep" indeed!

Re: CVE-2017-5754 - ETA?

2018-01-10 Thread francis picabia
On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 5:20 PM, Richard Hector wrote: > On 09/01/18 04:36, francis picabia wrote: > > I have the option to install > > the stretch kernel and run in a hybrid version for awhile, but I'm not > sure > > if there will be problems with that workaround. > > The jessie-backports kernel

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-10 Thread The Wanderer
On 2018-01-10 at 05:41, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, 2018-01-09 at 23:34 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > >> If the entry was not changed to be commented out during the >> conclusion of the initial OS install procedure, that sounds like an >> issue indeed, although a relatively minor one. But th

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-10 Thread Richard Owlett
On 01/10/2018 04:41 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Tue, 2018-01-09 at 23:34 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: If the entry was not changed to be commented out during the conclusion of the initial OS install procedure, that sounds like an issue indeed, although a relatively minor one. But the inclusion

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
hosack...@gmail.com wrote: > >This is a bug report. I tried to use the reporting system, but it did not >seem to be appropriate. So, I will give a narrative: > >This is what happened. >I decided to install Debian on my small machine (Asus eeePC 900A, 1GB >ram, 4GB storage). So I selected debian-9.

Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie

2018-01-10 Thread Sven Hartge
Elisabetta Falivene wrote: > Unfortunately is already 'most'. Please check if you have a file /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/driver-policy or any other file containing a different configuration. Anything in /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/ takes precedence over the main config file. > There is a way

Re: Why was this package removed but apt?

2018-01-10 Thread Jonathan Sélea
It was installed because CraftCMS depends on it :) According to term.log - unattended-upgrade performed the update 2018-01-06 06:41 and every package was updated (including php7.1-mbstring) Just two minutes after that, unattended-upgrade runs again and removes php7.1-mbstring and only that pa

Re: Why was this package removed but apt?

2018-01-10 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:01:50PM +0100, Jonathan Sélea wrote: > Hi > > I am running Debian Stretch but with sury.org repository. :) > > Jonathan Download suggested that I checked what package is depending > php7.1-mbstring  on with: > > apt rdepe

Re: Why was this package removed but apt?

2018-01-10 Thread Jonathan Sélea
Hi I am running Debian Stretch but with sury.org repository. :) Jonathan Download suggested that I checked what package is depending php7.1-mbstring  on with: apt rdepends php7.1-mbstring php7.1-mbstring Reverse Depends: Depends: php7.1-mbstring-dbgsym (= 7.1.13-1+0~20180105151623.14+stre

Re: Why was this package removed but apt?

2018-01-10 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 11:17:50AM +0100, Jonathan Sélea wrote: > Good morning, > > I am trying to figure out why apt did remove this particular package > when unattended-upgrade ran a couple of days ago: > > > Start-Date: 2018-01-06 06:43:44 > Comm

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-10 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, 2018-01-09 at 23:34 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > If the entry was not changed to be commented out during the conclusion > of the initial OS install procedure, that sounds like an issue > indeed, although a relatively minor one. But the inclusion of the > entry in sources.list is not an erro

Re: Why was this package removed but apt?

2018-01-10 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Hi! On Wed, 2018-01-10 at 11:17 +0100, Jonathan Sélea wrote: > I am trying to figure out why apt did remove this particular package  > when unattended-upgrade ran a couple of days ago: The most likely explanation is that it was automatically-installed as a dependency of another package, and an up

Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie

2018-01-10 Thread Elisabetta Falivene
> > looks like initrd and/or udev > There were similar issues with upgrade from wheezy to jessie in my upgrades > as well. > I usually boot with usb stick and fix the initrd - you might need to > configure or reconfigure few things. the easiest to try is to recreate > initrd. Yes, all the hints p

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-10 Thread Brian
On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 09:02:08 +, Curt wrote: > On 2018-01-09, David Wright wrote: [...] > > And that's without discussing whether having to install a TeX system > > is any better than installing LibreOffice. > > Yes, I know, you're all flying to the moon in 1969 and must fit > everything

Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie

2018-01-10 Thread Elisabetta Falivene
> > > > Truly, it boots correctly with the old kernel 3.2, but not with 3.16. > > > > In the kernel 3.16 case, moreover, when the initramfs prompt is shown, it > > seems not to load the usb keyboard so i'm truly able to do anything. > > This sounds like the initramfs doesn't have the appropriate mo

Why was this package removed but apt?

2018-01-10 Thread Jonathan Sélea
Good morning, I am trying to figure out why apt did remove this particular package when unattended-upgrade ran a couple of days ago: Start-Date: 2018-01-06 06:43:44 Commandline: /usr/bin/unattended-upgrade Remove: php7.1-mbstring:amd64 (7.1.13-1+0~20180105151623.14+stretch~1.gbp1086fa) End-

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-10 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 09:02:08AM +, Curt wrote: [...] > You (a thirty-year veteran latex user we learn elsewhere): Please explain the > first step (which is how to create a latex file). > > > than TeX/LaTeX is a useless way to turn a *text*

Re: How to create a PDF-Printer from the command line

2018-01-10 Thread Curt
On 2018-01-09, David Wright wrote: > > Perhaps before this protracted, tangential and niggling subthread > becomes acrimonious or invidious, it might be easier to just state Well, it did, through no fault of mine own, I must say, turn both acrimonious and invidious. I have been neither (up till n