Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

On Fri 26 Jan 2018 at 10:14:22 (+0100), Michael Lange wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 20:31:36 -0600 > David Wright wrote: > > > But the main difference between the old and new versions (upgraded > > today) is that the new version spews error messages from the > > configuration files, 152 o

Re: OT: Help with a search and replace script in Perl for a big file with no line breaks

David Christensen wrote: > Yes -- I'm such an insensitive ass.  ;-) > nice to meet you :) > > I've "cleaned up" more files than I care to remember.  Lexing, parsing, > and EBFN are the standard computer science tools for tasks such as this. > (Perl s/// is the road to madness for anything but

Re: clamav, major screwup, need 99.3 from fresh build soonest for wheezy

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 06:37:28PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > If some of this urgency could be relayed to the packagers, I am sure it > will be appreciated. > Understood. The maintainer is aware: https://bugs.debian.org/888484 Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: clamav, major screwup, need 99.3 from fresh build soonest for wheezy

On Friday 26 January 2018 13:50:58 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 01:40:45PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > -- > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > -- > > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > > -Ed Howd

Re: OT: Help with a search and replace script in Perl for a big file with no line breaks

> On Jan 24, 2018, at 11:40 PM, deloptes wrote: > > David Christensen wrote: > >> I used to subscribe to Perl Beginners, but the administrator got draconian >> about discussing other languages, I dropped, and now I appear to be >> banned: > > The way you are writing, no wonder you are banned.

Re: kernel 4.14.15 compilation using GCC 8 in unstable.......

On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 23:49:46 +0100 Sven Hartge wrote: > Michael Lange wrote: > > > When I check /proc/cpuinfo I see that "msr" is listed in the "flags" > > section. So why doesn't the driver load automagically? > > It is not programmed to load automatically, because writing to MSRs is > danger

Re: kernel 4.14.15 compilation using GCC 8 in unstable.......

On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 23:41:07 +0100 Michael Lange wrote: > When I check /proc/cpuinfo I see that "msr" is listed in the "flags" > section. So why doesn't the driver load automagically? > But then, at least with the version of the checker-script here, it > doesn't seem to make any difference, at l

Re: kernel 4.14.15 compilation using GCC 8 in unstable.......

Michael Lange wrote: > When I check /proc/cpuinfo I see that "msr" is listed in the "flags" > section. So why doesn't the driver load automagically? It is not programmed to load automatically, because writing to MSRs is dangerous and can even damage your computer or CPU. In any normal operation

Re: kernel 4.14.15 compilation using GCC 8 in unstable.......

On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 12:45:13 -0500 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 06:07:13PM +0100, Michael Lange wrote: > > I am definitely anything but an expert on this; but with sid's 4.14.15 > > (which I assumed was compiled with said gcc-7.2) the script here says: > > You shouldn't have to

Re: kernel 4.14.15 compilation using GCC 8 in unstable.......

On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 23:25:55 +0100 Sven Hartge wrote: > Do the contents of the /dev/cpu directory change between loaded and > unloaded msr.ko? > > When msr.ko is loaded, there should be directory for each CPU in the > system: > > # ls -ld /dev/cpu/* > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Jan 26 23:23

Re: kernel 4.14.15 compilation using GCC 8 in unstable.......

Michael Lange wrote: > Yes, it is the sid kernel, and the module exists. When running the > script as root it is the same. lsmod shows that the msr module is not > loaded. If I load it manually with modprobe it appears to load without > errors, but the output of the checker-script does not change

Re: kernel 4.14.15 compilation using GCC 8 in unstable.......

On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 21:28:19 +0100 Sven Hartge wrote: > > Not me, that's the sid kernel :) > > No. The kernel from Sid has support for MSR as module: > > root@host:~# modinfo msr > filename: /lib/modules/4.14.0-3-amd64/kernel/arch/x86/kernel/msr.ko > license:GPL > description:x86 ge

Re: Akonadi problem

Gene Heskett wrote: > What version of kde? I am using kmail here, without an akonadi instance > visible in htop. But this kmail is 1.9, from the TDE desktop, a fork of > kde at about the 3.5 point, with tons of bugs fixed that kde never had > the time to listen to. It Just Works now. +1 The new k

Re: kernel 4.14.15 compilation using GCC 8 in unstable.......

Michael Lange wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 18:38:23 +0100 Sven Hartge wrote: >> Michael Lange wrote: >>> Hardware check >>> * Hardware support (CPU microcode) for mitigation techniques >>> * Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS) >>> * SPEC_CTRL MSR is available: UNKNOWN (couldn

Re: kernel 4.14.15 compilation using GCC 8 in unstable.......

On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 18:38:23 +0100 Sven Hartge wrote: > Michael Lange wrote: > > > Hardware check > > * Hardware support (CPU microcode) for mitigation techniques > > * Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS) > > * SPEC_CTRL MSR is available: UNKNOWN (couldn't > > read /dev/cpu/0/

Re: clamav, major screwup, need 99.3 from fresh build soonest for wheezy

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 01:50:58PM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 01:40:45PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > -- > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > -- > > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."

Re: clamav, major screwup, need 99.3 from fresh build soonest for wheezy

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 01:40:45PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > -- > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page

clamav, major screwup, need 99.3 from fresh build soonest for wheezy

-- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page

Re: Stretch - bash crash when reach ulimit file size

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 11:05:09AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Yes, it's a bug in his script. Not in bash. > > Resource limits are quite low-level; they are implemented as kernel > system calls (see setrlimit(2)). Processes which violate a resource > limit are signalled by the kernel. > > In

Re: kernel 4.14.15 compilation using GCC 8 in unstable.......

​Dear All, I have decided to get rid of GCC8 using ML's helpful command suggestion. I will install gcc 7 again as sid and try again with kernel 4.14.15. ​Cheers MF >

Re: kernel 4.14.15 compilation using GCC 8 in unstable.......

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 06:07:13PM +0100, Michael Lange wrote: > I am definitely anything but an expert on this; but with sid's 4.14.15 > (which I assumed was compiled with said gcc-7.2) the script here says: You shouldn't have to assume. /proc/version tells you which compiler was used. wooledg:

Re: kernel 4.14.15 compilation using GCC 8 in unstable.......

Hi, On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 22:48:51 +0530 "tv.deb...@googlemail.com" wrote: > > Tested with upstream vanilla 4.14.15 compiled with current Sid gcc-7.3, > i get a pass for Spectre v2 (full generic retpoline) and Meltdown > (a.k.a. "v3"). > > Spectre v1 is still vulnerable, but that will stay tha

Re: kernel 4.14.15 compilation using GCC 8 in unstable.......

Michael Lange wrote: > Hardware check > * Hardware support (CPU microcode) for mitigation techniques > * Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS) > * SPEC_CTRL MSR is available: UNKNOWN (couldn't > read /dev/cpu/0/msr, is msr support enabled in your kernel?) You forgot to enable MSR

Re: kernel 4.14.15 compilation using GCC 8 in unstable.......

On 26 January 2018 at 17:18, tv.deb...@googlemail.com < tv.deb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 26/01/2018 22:37, Michael Lange wrote: > >> On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 22:19:27 +0530 >> "tv.deb...@googlemail.com" wrote: >> >> >>> gcc-7[.2] was really gcc-7.3-rc for a while, and was doing a good job >>> at

Re: kernel 4.14.15 compilation using GCC 8 in unstable.......

On 26 January 2018 at 16:49, tv.deb...@googlemail.com < tv.deb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 26/01/2018 22:08, Michael Lange wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 21:34:51 +0530 >> "tv.deb...@googlemail.com" wrote: >> >> Hi, sorry to jump into the thread this late, I didn't follow the >>> be

Re: kernel 4.14.15 compilation using GCC 8 in unstable.......

On 26/01/2018 22:37, Michael Lange wrote: On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 22:19:27 +0530 "tv.deb...@googlemail.com" wrote: gcc-7[.2] was really gcc-7.3-rc for a while, and was doing a good job at enabling Spectre mitigation (as tested by the spectre-meltdown-checker and /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabil

Re: Stretch - bash crash when reach ulimit file size

On 26/01/18 16:05, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 03:45:22PM +, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: >> On 26/01/18 10:47, Felipe Salvador wrote: >>> $ while true; do echo a>>a; done >>> >>> makes bash crash when file size is reached > >> A crash is always a bug. I suggest that you r

Re: kernel 4.14.15 compilation using GCC 8 in unstable.......

On 26 January 2018 at 16:37, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 04:17:27PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > ​Is the sid gcc now 7.3 as someone said earlier even though it says it is > > 7.2? > > Sid apparently has both "gcc" and "gcc-7" packages. > > https://packages.debian.org/si

Re: kernel 4.14.15 compilation using GCC 8 in unstable.......

On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 22:19:27 +0530 "tv.deb...@googlemail.com" wrote: > > gcc-7[.2] was really gcc-7.3-rc for a while, and was doing a good job > at enabling Spectre mitigation (as tested by the > spectre-meltdown-checker and /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/* > entries). No it is really g

Re: Fingerprint displayed by scp (new host) and in debian-installer

On Fri 26 Jan 2018 at 08:30:43 (+), davidson wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jan 2018, David Wright wrote: > > >The stretch version of scp displays fingerprints using a SHA256 > >hash, but of course a jessie machine has no idea of what its > >fingerprint is except using an MD5 hash. A question and suggest

Re: a potential investor and collaborator has shown a little interest in Climostat

Dear Paul, I think the Beefeater sounds like the best choice for me. 6.30 pm is a good time. Regards Michael Climostat Ltd On 26 January 2018 at 16:34, Paul Barnard wrote: > The Beefeater or the Ring of Bells would be good. > > Early evening would be best for me - say 6.30? But I'm flexibl

Re: kernel 4.14.15 compilation using GCC 8 in unstable.......

On 26 January 2018 at 16:26, Michael Fothergill < michael.fotherg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 26 January 2018 at 16:17, Michael Fothergill < > michael.fotherg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> >> >>> Hi, sorry to jump into the thread this late, I didn't follow the >>> beginning. >>> You can s

Re: kernel 4.14.15 compilation using GCC 8 in unstable.......

On 26/01/2018 22:08, Michael Lange wrote: Hi, On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 21:34:51 +0530 "tv.deb...@googlemail.com" wrote: Hi, sorry to jump into the thread this late, I didn't follow the beginning. You can save yourself quite a bit of hassle by downloading the upstream up-to-date vanilla kernel 4.15

Re: kernel 4.14.15 compilation using GCC 8 in unstable.......

On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 16:17:27 + Michael Fothergill wrote: > >> > > Hi, sorry to jump into the thread this late, I didn't follow the > > beginning. You can save yourself quite a bit of hassle by downloading > > the upstream up-to-date vanilla kernel 4.15-rc9 and compile that with > > Unstable g

Re: kernel 4.14.15 compilation using GCC 8 in unstable.......

On 26 January 2018 at 16:17, Michael Fothergill < michael.fotherg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > >>> >> Hi, sorry to jump into the thread this late, I didn't follow the >> beginning. >> You can save yourself quite a bit of hassle by downloading the upstream >> up-to-date vanilla kernel 4.15-rc9 and

Re: kernel 4.14.15 compilation using GCC 8 in unstable.......

Hi, On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 21:34:51 +0530 "tv.deb...@googlemail.com" wrote: > Hi, sorry to jump into the thread this late, I didn't follow the > beginning. You can save yourself quite a bit of hassle by downloading > the upstream up-to-date vanilla kernel 4.15-rc9 and compile that with > Unstable g

Re: extracting file with xz file tar.....

On 2018-01-26, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, January 26, 2018 05:50:45 AM Curt wrote: >> On 2018-01-26, David Wright wrote: >> >> Yes, my bad, that is intended for the amanda list, whose new owner is >> >> attempting to emulate yahoo all those years ago by claiming copyright on >> >> eve

Re: kernel 4.14.15 compilation using GCC 8 in unstable.......

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 04:17:27PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > ​Is the sid gcc now 7.3 as someone said earlier even though it says it is > 7.2? Sid apparently has both "gcc" and "gcc-7" packages. https://packages.debian.org/sid/gcc shows version 7.2.0-1d1. https://packages.debian.org/sid/

Re: kernel 4.14.15 compilation using GCC 8 in unstable.......

>> > Hi, sorry to jump into the thread this late, I didn't follow the beginning. > You can save yourself quite a bit of hassle by downloading the upstream > up-to-date vanilla kernel 4.15-rc9 and compile that with Unstable gcc-7. > All you need is there already and you will get as good a mitigation

Re: Akonadi problem

On Friday, January 26, 2018 02:51:18 AM Gene Heskett wrote: > What version of kde? I am using kmail here, without an akonadi instance > visible in htop. But this kmail is 1.9, from the TDE desktop, a fork of > kde at about the 3.5 point, with tons of bugs fixed that kde never had > the time to list

Re: extracting file with xz file tar.....

On Friday, January 26, 2018 05:50:45 AM Curt wrote: > On 2018-01-26, David Wright wrote: > >> Yes, my bad, that is intended for the amanda list, whose new owner is > >> attempting to emulate yahoo all those years ago by claiming copyright on > >> everthing the server passes thru. Yahoo got burned

KDE - how get back resolution automatically?

Dear list, I am looking for a solution with the following little problem. When I am starting a DOS game or a windows game in wine in the KDE windowmanager, and have to decrease the resolution of this game (i.e. from 1024x768 to 800x600), then the resolution of KDE stays at 800x600 and does

Re: Stretch - bash crash when reach ulimit file size

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 03:45:22PM +, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > On 26/01/18 10:47, Felipe Salvador wrote: > > $ while true; do echo a>>a; done > > > > makes bash crash when file size is reached > A crash is always a bug. I suggest that you report it as such - if not > already reported.

Re: kernel 4.14.15 compilation using GCC 8 in unstable.......

On 26/01/2018 19:35, Michael Fothergill wrote: On 25 January 2018 at 23:28, Michael Lange wrote: Hi, On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 22:23:38 + Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear All, I am continuing the discussion of the kernel 4.14.15 compilation in the Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9 post

Re: Stretch - bash crash when reach ulimit file size

On 26/01/18 10:47, Felipe Salvador wrote: > Hi list, > setting > > ulimit -f 1024 > > and running (for example) > > $ while true; do echo a>>a; done > > makes bash crash when file size is reached > > Warning: Program '/bin/bash' crashed. > > $ du a > 1024 /home/fe

Re: kernel 4.14.15 compilation using GCC 8 in unstable.......

Hi, On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 14:05:12 + Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > > "make[2]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-4.14.15' > > Makefile:942: *** "Cannot generate ORC metadata for > > CONFIG_UNWINDER_ORC=y, please install libelf-dev, libelf-devel or > > elfutils-libelf-devel". Stop." > > ^^^

Re: kernel 4.14.15 compilation using GCC 8 in unstable.......

On 25 January 2018 at 23:28, Michael Lange wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 22:23:38 + > Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > > I am continuing the discussion of the kernel 4.14.15 compilation in the > > Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9 post in a new post. > > > > The r

Re: extracting file with xz file tar.....

On 2018-01-26, David Wright wrote: >> >> Yes, my bad, that is intended for the amanda list, whose new owner is >> attempting to emulate yahoo all those years ago by claiming copyright on >> everthing the server passes thru. Yahoo got burned at the stake in court >> over that, and now CARBONITE

Stretch - bash crash when reach ulimit file size

Hi list, setting ulimit -f 1024 and running (for example) $ while true; do echo a>>a; done makes bash crash when file size is reached Warning: Program '/bin/bash' crashed. $ du a 1024/home/felipe/a I would expect an error or something else (exit?) Is it a b

Re: extracting file with xz file tar.....

On Friday 26 January 2018 04:52:54 Curt wrote: > On 2018-01-26, Gene Heskett wrote: > > In the meantime I'm trying to train this old dog to delete those 2 > > lines when the message is not aimed at the amanda list. > > Just let us talk to Maurice and we'll work it out with him. > > > Cheers, Gene

Re: extracting file with xz file tar.....

On Thursday, 25 January 2018 21:14:24 CET Michael Fothergill wrote: > I ran the tar -xf command: > > root@mikef-PC:/usr/src# tar -xf linux-4.14.15.tar.xz you can use 'a' for automatic and 'v' for verbose. E.g.: tar -axvf linux-4.14.15.tar.xz HTH -- https://github.com/dod38fr/ -o- http://se

Re: extracting file with xz file tar.....

On 2018-01-26, Gene Heskett wrote: > > In the meantime I'm trying to train this old dog to delete those 2 lines > when the message is not aimed at the amanda list. Just let us talk to Maurice and we'll work it out with him. > Cheers, Gene Heskett -- “True terror is to wake up one morning and

Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

A correction to my message below: In the qpdfview settings (accessible from the Edit menu), under the Graphics tab, under the PDF sub-tab, after setting the Backend to Splash rather than Arthur, the PDF file in the link below--as well as other PDF files that were giving me problems--now displays co

Re: How to rebuild a Debian package for a foreign architecture?

On 2018-01-25, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2018-01-25 14:53:14 +, Curt wrote: >> On 2018-01-25, wrote: >> > >> > It seems that you are missing the '386 (or more precisely the '686) >> > executables. Perhaps you need the package dpkg-cross. >> > >> >> If I need binutils-i686-linux-gnu, should

Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

Hi, On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 20:44:46 -0600 Greg Marks wrote: > Thanks for the replies. The most recent upgraded versions of Poppler > in Debian 9 (libpoppler64:amd64 0.48.0-2+deb9u2, libpoppler-glib8:amd64 > 0.48.0-2+deb9u2, poppler-utils 0.48.0-2+deb9u2, libpoppler-qt4-4:amd64 > 0.48.0-2+deb9u2, l

Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

Hi, On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 20:31:36 -0600 David Wright wrote: > But the main difference between the old and new versions (upgraded > today) is that the new version spews error messages from the > configuration files, 152 of them in all. > > Here are the first few. (The program stammers.) > > Conf

Re: Fingerprint displayed by scp (new host) and in debian-installer

On Wed, 24 Jan 2018, David Wright wrote: The stretch version of scp displays fingerprints using a SHA256 hash, but of course a jessie machine has no idea of what its fingerprint is except using an MD5 hash. A question and suggestion: Is there a way to get stretch scp to show the fingerprint in

Re: extracting file with xz file tar.....

On Friday 26 January 2018 00:43:24 Charlie S wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 20:51:47 + Brian sent: > > On Thu 25 Jan 2018 at 15:42:15 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Thursday 25 January 2018 15:14:24 Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > > Dear folks, > > > > > > > > I am trying to extract files f