Re: BTRFS and debian

Le 12/07/2018 à 05:01, David Christensen a écrit : On 07/11/18 11:29, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 10/07/2018 à 05:33, David Christensen a écrit :   In the Debian Installer, I choose 'manual' for 'partitioning method', create a new partition table (MBR), and create three primary partitions: 1

apt does not honor trusted=yes from sources.list

It is know as https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=872543 But the workaround proposed here does not work for me : I have no /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.cloudera.com_* file Any idea...? PC

Re: How to"apt update" from an USB key ?

On 07/12/2018 05:05 AM, davidson wrote: On Wed, 11 Jul 2018, Pierre Couderc wrote: brackets.  For example, one sees   deb [ someoption=somevalue ] uri stretch main but never   deb [someoption=somevalue] uri stretch main So maybe the spaces following '[' and preceding ']' are important.

Re: How to"apt update" from an USB key ?

On 07/11/2018 11:53 PM, Pierre Couderc wrote: Now, I have to understand why it says me : Malformed line 6 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (URI parse) when my line 6 is : deb [trusted=yes] file:/media/cdrom/ stretch main I think that I have found an answer in : https://bugs.debian.org/c

Re: No full upgrade to Nvidia 390.67 from bpo

Hi Matthew, > The only way I was able to resolve this was to uninstall the nvidia> > drivers from the main repo, then reinstall via backport repo. Be > careful doing this though. > > Remember to make sure you have the kernel headers for your specific > linux kernel installed as well, or else D

Re: How to"apt update" from an USB key ?

On Wed, 11 Jul 2018, Pierre Couderc wrote: On 07/11/2018 03:14 PM, Curt wrote: On 2018-07-11, Pierre Couderc wrote: On an ultraslim (ACER swift 3) I have no CDROM no Ethernet, only an USB key. I have installed stretch (without GUI) from the USB key, and now I want to install connman, but I

Re: BTRFS and debian

On 07/11/18 11:29, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 10/07/2018 à 05:33, David Christensen a écrit :   In the Debian Installer, I choose 'manual' for 'partitioning method', create a new partition table (MBR), and create three primary partitions: 1   ~1 GiB btrfs mounted at /boot 2   ~2 GiB LUKS (ra

Re: PAM-CGFS[xxx]: Failed to get list of controllers

On 12/07/18 02:18, Curt wrote: > On 2018-07-10, Richard Hector wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I'm getting messages like this in auth.log: >> >> PAM-CGFS[xxx]: Failed to get list of controllers >> > > Found this bug: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=843450 > > Apparently after u

Re: VPN suggestions?

Doug writes: > On 07/10/2018 10:59 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >> Dennis Wicks writes: >> >>> Greetings; >>> >>> I want to set up a VPN for several computers in my house >>> that are all on a local network. >>> >>> And suggestions, hints, warnings? >> Your question as stated doesn't really explain w

Re: No sound/audio

On 07/11/2018 03:31 AM, 70147pers...@telia.com wrote: So is there anyone who can give hints about what I have missed so far? I hate to suggest this on the Debian list, but I installed Ubuntu-Studio to a separate partition which gives you fully functional jack and a real-time kernel to do you

Re: How to"apt update" from an USB key ?

On 07/11/2018 03:14 PM, Curt wrote: On 2018-07-11, Pierre Couderc wrote: On an ultraslim (ACER swift 3) I have no CDROM no Ethernet, only an USB key. I have installed stretch (without GUI) from the USB key, and now I want to install connman, but I do not success to apt-cdrom on an USB. I have

Re: VPN suggestions?

On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 16:09:47 -0400 Doug wrote: > On 07/10/2018 10:59 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > > Dennis Wicks writes: > > > >> Greetings; > >> > >> I want to set up a VPN for several computers in my house > >> that are all on a local network. > >> > >> And suggestions, hints, warnings? > > Y

Re: Buster and apt wanting to remove tons of packages...

On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 11:18:48 -0500 Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 3:01 PM Jochen Spieker > wrote: > > > > There should not be that many changes, but I generally would only > > upgrade to a newer release when the current system is up-to-date > > with regards to its current ver

Re: Why is prename deprecated?

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 08:16:45PM +, Curt wrote: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=870472 > > (I guess this addresses your concern.) Ah, thanks. I looked for bug reports in 'perl' but not in 'rename'.

Re: Why is prename deprecated?

On 2018-07-11, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > What I DO NOT WANT is for the name 'prename' to go away. Because then > all the programs that call prename will fail. > > What I DO NOT WANT is for someone in Debian to tell me that I should be > calling 'rename' instead, because this is dangerous. There i

Re: VPN suggestions?

On 07/10/2018 10:59 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Dennis Wicks writes: Greetings; I want to set up a VPN for several computers in my house that are all on a local network. And suggestions, hints, warnings? Your question as stated doesn't really explain why you want a VPN, and what you're planni

Why is prename deprecated?

wooledg:~$ prename Deprecated program in use: rename as shipped with the Debian perl package will be removed after the release of stretch. Please install the separate 'rename' package which will provide the same command. Usage: rename [-v] [-n] [-f] perlexpr [filenames] Hmm, OK, let's do what th

Re: BTRFS and debian

Le 10/07/2018 à 05:33, David Christensen a écrit :  In the Debian Installer, I choose 'manual' for 'partitioning method', create a new partition table (MBR), and create three primary partitions: 1   ~1 GiB btrfs mounted at /boot 2   ~2 GiB LUKS (random key) with swap How do you do that ? A

Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in particular)

On Wed 11 Jul 2018 at 16:34:48 +, Curt wrote: > On 2018-07-11, Brian wrote: > > > > The interest being expressed is one in printing a PDF directly to a > > printer, so CUPS isn't (or needn't be) be involved. No conversion to > > or from PostScript (which is no longer being developed) is under

Re: More on locale

On 7/11/2018 6:38 PM, John wrote: What is the output of "locale" and "locale -a" on this machine? snout:~> locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"

Re: Buster and apt wanting to remove tons of packages...

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 06:12:45PM +0200, sgarrulo wrote: > Situation like "yeah, I'll upgrade my terminal because it's harmless", and > then > it stops working because I did not upgrade also lib-foo-bar-baz which is used > by my terminal. That exact situation would be a bug, and should be report

Re: How to"apt update" from an USB key ?

On 2018-07-11, Brian wrote: > On Wed 11 Jul 2018 at 13:14:22 +, Curt wrote: > >> On 2018-07-11, Pierre Couderc wrote: >> > On an ultraslim (ACER swift 3) I have no CDROM no Ethernet, only an USB >> > key. >> > I have installed stretch (without GUI) from the USB key, and now I want >> > to i

Re: No sound/audio

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 2:31 AM, <70147pers...@telia.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I get no sound. After reinstalling Stretch a couple of months ago, the > computer is silent. May be completely unrelated... Since upgrading to the 4.16.16-2 kernel, anytime I reboot my PC I boot into a soundless envi

Re: More on locale

>> What is the output of "locale" and "locale -a" on this machine? snout:~> locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en

Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in particular)

On 2018-07-11, Brian wrote: > > The interest being expressed is one in printing a PDF directly to a > printer, so CUPS isn't (or needn't be) be involved. No conversion to > or from PostScript (which is no longer being developed) is undertaken. > Any delays would lie in transporting the file to the

Re: Buster and apt wanting to remove tons of packages...

On Tue, 2018-07-10 at 22:00 +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: > sgarrulo: > > > > I had an installation of debian stable (stretch) which was fully upgraded > > something > > like a couple of months ago. Then I passed it to testing (buster). > > There should not be that many changes, but I generally w

Re: Buster and apt wanting to remove tons of packages...

On Tue, 2018-07-10 at 16:29 +0200, Hans wrote: > Please also note, tzhat there is a difference, between using apt (apt-get) > and  > aptitude. > > The way, I prefewr, is using apt-get upgrade (which installs only newer  > packages, and let the problematic ones uninstalled), then using apt-get ful

Re: Buster and apt wanting to remove tons of packages...

On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 3:01 PM Jochen Spieker wrote: > > There should not be that many changes, but I generally would only > upgrade to a newer release when the current system is up-to-date with > regards to its current version. I'm trying to understand your recommendation. It seems you advise t

Re: Buster and apt wanting to remove tons of packages...

On Tue, 2018-07-10 at 10:13 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > If I were experiencing a similar situation, what I'd do is try to > simultaneously install both one of the packages that triggers the > cascade and one or more of the packages which the cascade wants to > remove, and keep adding packages to t

Re: Buster and apt wanting to remove tons of packages...

On Tue, 2018-07-10 at 14:08 +0100, Joe wrote: > > What I do is to temporarily switch from upgrade-system to Synaptic. It > is relatively quick to select a few innocent-looking packages from the > big list, and check that they go through without a problem. After a few > tries, you can see where the

Cannot send local e-mails.

Hi, When some process produces an error, then root should receive an e-mail. Instead I gets some error message forwarded to my gmail account (see below). What should I configure to make a local e-mails working? Regards, Piotr from: Mail Delivery Subsystem to: zaxonx...@gmail.com Subject: Del

Re: How to"apt update" from an USB key ?

On Wed 11 Jul 2018 at 13:14:22 +, Curt wrote: > On 2018-07-11, Pierre Couderc wrote: > > On an ultraslim (ACER swift 3) I have no CDROM no Ethernet, only an USB key. > > I have installed stretch (without GUI) from the USB key, and now I want > > to install connman, but I do not success to ap

Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in particular)

On Wed 11 Jul 2018 at 22:03:57 +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 10.07.18 12:53, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 09 Jul 2018 at 19:05:52 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 06:53:44PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 06:39:29PM -0400, Dan Ritter wr

Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in particular)

> Yes. The all-in-ones are terrible at that, proprietary software or not. FWIW, the XSane thingy worked fairly well for me with my last all-in-one (using the HP driver bundled with Debian). It definitely worked much better than with the crappy software they provided for Windows (I got the impress

Re: PAM-CGFS[xxx]: Failed to get list of controllers

On 2018-07-10, Richard Hector wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm getting messages like this in auth.log: > > PAM-CGFS[xxx]: Failed to get list of controllers > Found this bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=843450 Apparently after updating the libpam-cgfs packages (as linked in the t

Re: Local system program analytics

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 07:18:55AM -0400, David Maulik wrote: > Is there any program that can show me the programs on my system I use the > most? > I'm looking for something that can help me trim unneeded/unused packages as > well as show me which programs I use the most to help inform support/don

Re: How to"apt update" from an USB key ?

On 2018-07-11, Pierre Couderc wrote: > On an ultraslim (ACER swift 3) I have no CDROM no Ethernet, only an USB key. > I have installed stretch (without GUI) from the USB key, and now I want > to install connman, but I do not success to apt-cdrom on an USB. > I have googled but did not find a corr

Re: Separate /home directories etc?

On 07/11/2018 01:10 AM, debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: On 7/10/18 3:28 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 04:54:53PM -0400, Matthew Crews wrote: Separate partitions Pros: if your / partition drive fails, it does not take /home with it You are conflating dri

Re: libgnutls-deb0-28 missing from Debian repos - Re: git clone https://... fails, git://... succeeds — ?

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 09:48:10PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Why is this package missing from the repos, but installed in my > stretch install? Because you upgraded from jessie. This lets you keep older shared libraries or other packages as long as they don't conflict with anything in stret

Re: More on locale

On 2018-07-10 19:50:40 +0100, jpff wrote: > I should have added that I have been running this macine for years > and this started recently, a month or two I think. What is the output of "locale" and "locale -a" on this machine? -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: 100% accessible

Re: More on locale

On 2018-07-10 19:50:40 +0100, jpff wrote: > I have those files except the last htl one. > > I should have added that I have been running this macine for years and this > started recently, a month or two I think. > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2018, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > I'm not sure, but try running loc

Re: More on locale

On 2018-07-09 18:37:19 +0100, John wrote: > A short time ago I sought your advice about messages I am getting > about locales I thought I did what was suggested but I still see > > CC libclamav_internal_utils_nothreads_la-strlcat.lo > ../libtool: line 1748: warning: setlocale: LC_CTYPE:

Re: Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in particular)

On 10.07.18 12:53, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 09 Jul 2018 at 19:05:52 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 06:53:44PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 06:39:29PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > You're both missing the main point, which is that a Brother

Re: Debian testing - release number

On 2018-07-10, David Wright wrote: You following up to Woolege: Hmm, I struggle to see the connection between what I asked for and what you wrote. From your later post, I guess the answer is that editing /etc/debian_version risks provoking expletives from other users of the system. That s

Re: Local system program analytics

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 09:41:39PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: [...] > IDK, except there is a distro-wide popcon: > https://popcon.debian.org/ Yeah, only that popcon gathers analytics on what packages people install (to guide decisions on, for exa

libgnutls-deb0-28 missing from Debian repos - Re: git clone https://... fails, git://... succeeds — ?

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 01:37:44PM +0200, john doe wrote: > On 7/11/2018 12:37 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 11:32:30AM +0200, john doe wrote: > > > On 7/11/2018 11:12 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > > Anyone know why git is failing to clone with the HTTPS protocol (but >

Re: Local system program analytics

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 07:18:55AM -0400, David Maulik wrote: > Is there any program that can show me the programs on my system > I use the most? [...] Define "use most". OK, OK. This was a snotty answer, but there's something behind it :-) The syst

Re: Local system program analytics

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 07:18:55AM -0400, David Maulik wrote: > Is there any program that can show me the programs on my system I use the > most? I'm looking for something that can help me trim unneeded/unused > packages as well as show me which programs I use the most to help inform > support/d

Re: How to"apt update" from an USB key ?

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 07:10:25AM +0200, Pierre Couderc wrote: > On an ultraslim (ACER swift 3) I have no CDROM no Ethernet, only an USB key. > I have installed stretch (without GUI) from the USB key, and now I want to > install connman, but I do not success to apt-cdrom on an USB. > I have google

Re: git clone https://... fails, git://... succeeds — ?

On 7/11/2018 12:37 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 11:32:30AM +0200, john doe wrote: On 7/11/2018 11:12 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Anyone know why git is failing to clone with the HTTPS protocol (but succeeds with the git protocol)? Example: $ git clone https://github.com/g

Local system program analytics

Is there any program that can show me the programs on my system I use the most? I'm looking for something that can help me trim unneeded/unused packages as well as show me which programs I use the most to help inform support/donation decisions.

Re: git clone https://... fails, git://... succeeds — ?

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 11:32:30AM +0200, john doe wrote: > On 7/11/2018 11:12 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > Anyone know why git is failing to clone with the HTTPS protocol (but > > succeeds with the git protocol)? > > > > Example: > > > > $ git clone https://github.com/gnubee-git/GnuBee_Docs.gi

Re: How to"apt update" from an USB key ?

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 07:10:25AM +0200, Pierre Couderc wrote: On an ultraslim (ACER swift 3) I have no CDROM no Ethernet, only an USB key. I have installed stretch (without GUI) from the USB key, and now I want to install connman, but I do not success to apt-cdrom on an USB. I have googled bu

Re: git clone https://... fails, git://... succeeds — ?

On 7/11/2018 11:12 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Anyone know why git is failing to clone with the HTTPS protocol (but succeeds with the git protocol)? Example: $ git clone https://github.com/gnubee-git/GnuBee_Docs.git docs.gits Cloning into 'docs.gits'... fatal: unable to access 'https://github.co

git clone https://... fails, git://... succeeds — ?

Anyone know why git is failing to clone with the HTTPS protocol (but succeeds with the git protocol)? Example: $ git clone https://github.com/gnubee-git/GnuBee_Docs.git docs.gits Cloning into 'docs.gits'... fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/gnubee-git/GnuBee_Docs.git/': gnutls_handshake

No sound/audio

Hi all, I get no sound. After reinstalling Stretch a couple of months ago, the computer is silent. Well, not completely, because these warning beeps at end of line etc.. are coming out. Normally I have all those disabled, but for testing this is established, so I am quite sure the audio card