Kernel compilation problem

2018-08-01 Thread Taren
I'm running Stretch, with kernel 4.9.0.7, and am trying to compile a new kernel (preferably 4.17.11) into which I can boot. The kernel builds successfully, but whenever I try booting into the new kernel, I end up in emergency mode, with the error Unit dev-disk-by\x2duuid-.device has fai

Trouble with multistrap and even apt-get

2018-08-01 Thread Tabor Kelly
Hello, What I really want is for this to work (it works without the --source-dir): mkdir packages && multistrap -f /usr/share/multistrap/stretch.conf -d ./chroot --source-dir ./packages > multistrap_log.txt 2>&1 However, apt-get fails to find the source packages, but I can't figure out why. I c

Re: how to prevent security update installation during stretch installation

2018-08-01 Thread David Christensen
On 08/01/2018 01:00 AM, Long Wind wrote: i don't like security update because i suspect it cause problem (some packaged can't be installed) during stretch installation last time I suggest that you obtain the debian-9.5.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso image (via jigdo), burn it to CD/USB, configure your

Re: update hell

2018-08-01 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 02/08/18 13:05, Default User wrote: So, if apt-get is for non-trivial upgrades, then why not for daily use? I use it daily and for trivial upgrades. Not efficient to have multiple choices. Debian, please choose one and deprecate the others. Debian is all about multiple choices. Debian tr

Re: luks, crypttab: why 3 partition only 2 passphrases entered

2018-08-01 Thread David Christensen
On 08/01/2018 03:47 PM, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: Hi, Hello. :-) I have a Debian Stretch and recently I added a new cyphered partition. All works well but I don't understand why and it's bothering me. Setup: $ cat /etc/crypttab m2_root_crypt UUID=4e655198-a111-... none luks,discard m2_sw

Re: a dh keys question?

2018-08-01 Thread Karen Lewellen
There is no error at all in any way shape or form that I am given indicating that there is a key range overflow. I have successfully reached locations with various editions of openssh, including in the 7 plus range...on a different port. There are some indications likewise that my isp indeed b

Re: a dh keys question?

2018-08-01 Thread Dan Purgert
Karen Lewellen wrote: > 1. > I am not using Linux, but an ssh client compiled from a combination of > tools, Linux and otherwise, including putty. > I have been very firm in not stating that I use Linux at all. Kind of a bad move, what with this being a Debian (Linux) mailing list. Lot of wasted

Re: update hell

2018-08-01 Thread Default User
Deep thoughts: Debian docs seem to say that apt-get is best for significant upgrades. Why? But that aptitude is best for daily package management. Why? So, if apt-get is for non-trivial upgrades, then why not for daily use? And if aptitude is preferred for daily, use, why not for serious upgr

Re: luks, crypttab: why 3 partition only 2 passphrases entered

2018-08-01 Thread Matthew Crews
On 8/1/18 3:47 PM, Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a Debian Stretch and recently I added a new cyphered partition. > All works well but I don't understand why and it's bothering me. *snip* > A question would be: > a) How to enter the passphrase only once? > b) When/where (scripts

Re: a dh keys question?

2018-08-01 Thread Karen Lewellen
1. I am not using Linux, but an ssh client compiled from a combination of tools, Linux and otherwise, including putty. I have been very firm in not stating that I use Linux at all. In fact the first sentence of my question stated that while the issue is complex, the question, where dh keys are

Re: a dh keys question?

2018-08-01 Thread Dan Purgert
Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 1 Aug 2018, Dan Ritter wrote: > >> She's been asked for logs and exact error message several times >> now, and has not provided any. > That is because according to the locations I am trying to visit, i. e. > our organizations new server with pair network, m

Re: Set the MTU on the interface

2018-08-01 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 01:28:17PM +0300, Алексей wrote: Well, i can't use the pre-up direcrive without the iface statement. Or I can use one on the first vlan interface however it seems not very obvious decision to maintain it later. You can actually put it on all of the interfaces that need t

luks, crypttab: why 3 partition only 2 passphrases entered

2018-08-01 Thread Carles Pina i Estany
Hi, I have a Debian Stretch and recently I added a new cyphered partition. All works well but I don't understand why and it's bothering me. Setup: $ cat /etc/crypttab m2_root_crypt UUID=4e655198-a111-... none luks,discard m2_swap_crypt UUID=56485640-8a04-... none luks,discard ssd_dades_crypt UU

Re: Specifying multiple NICs

2018-08-01 Thread Brian
On Wed 01 Aug 2018 at 19:54:03 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 12:00:41PM -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > I'm setting up a "just in case" replacement mailserver for my domain and my > > local network. I'm using Debian Jessie, because the latest instructions for > > setting th

Re: a dh keys question?

2018-08-01 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi, On Wed, 1 Aug 2018, Dan Ritter wrote: She's been asked for logs and exact error message several times now, and has not provided any. That is because according to the locations I am trying to visit, i. e. our organizations new server with pair network, my attempts are not producing logs a

Re: a dh keys question?

2018-08-01 Thread Dan Purgert
Dan Ritter wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 03:16:26PM -0400, Dan Purgert wrote: >> On August 1, 2018 2:50:39 PM EDT, Karen Lewellen >> wrote: >> But without seeing logs, it's kind of impossible to see what's going on. > > She's been asked for logs and exact error message several times > now, and

Re: a dh keys question?

2018-08-01 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 03:16:26PM -0400, Dan Purgert wrote: > On August 1, 2018 2:50:39 PM EDT, Karen Lewellen > wrote: > But without seeing logs, it's kind of impossible to see what's going on. She's been asked for logs and exact error message several times now, and has not provided any. -dsr

Re: a dh keys question?

2018-08-01 Thread john doe
On 8/1/2018 9:16 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: On August 1, 2018 2:50:39 PM EDT, Karen Lewellen wrote: Hi, just a slight update..and correction of an idea below. On Wed, 1 Aug 2018, Dan Purgert wrote: Precisely. DH failures are typically because one end or the other is trying to use an "out of

Re: a dh keys question?

2018-08-01 Thread Dan Purgert
On August 1, 2018 2:50:39 PM EDT, Karen Lewellen wrote: >Hi, >just a slight update..and correction of an idea below. > > > >On Wed, 1 Aug 2018, Dan Purgert wrote: > >> Precisely. DH failures are typically because one end or the other is >> trying to use an "out of bounds" keysize. E.g. you have

Re: Specifying multiple NICs

2018-08-01 Thread Brian
On Wed 01 Aug 2018 at 19:57:32 +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 01/08/2018 à 19:32, Brian a écrit : > > On Wed 01 Aug 2018 at 12:00:41 -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > > > > > In the past, I referred to each NIC as eth0, eth1,. but now, these > > > names > > > are not permanent, and the de

Re: Specifying multiple NICs

2018-08-01 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 12:00:41PM -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote: I'm setting up a "just in case" replacement mailserver for my domain and my local network. I'm using Debian Jessie, because the latest instructions for setting the mailserver (qmail) are written for Jessie. The mailserver has 2 NICs

Re: a dh keys question?

2018-08-01 Thread Karen Lewellen
Hi, just a slight update..and correction of an idea below. On Wed, 1 Aug 2018, Dan Purgert wrote: Precisely. DH failures are typically because one end or the other is trying to use an "out of bounds" keysize. E.g. you have a SSH 7.x client, and the server is 6.0 or lower. Not the case here

Re: What's the deal with the mpfr versioning? libmpfr4 vs. libmpfr6

2018-08-01 Thread David Wright
On Tue 31 Jul 2018 at 16:27:27 (-0400), Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I can't find any evidence for that without being told where to look. > > It was in the previous message: > > https://packages.debian.org/sid/libmpfr4 > https://packages.debian.org/sid/libmpfr6 > > >> Doesn't explain why on

Re: how to prevent security update installation during stretch installation

2018-08-01 Thread Matthew Crews
On 8/1/18 1:00 AM, Long Wind wrote: > i don't like security update because i suspect it cause problem (some > packaged can't be installed) during stretch installation last time > > and i've used linux for a long time and i think it's stable even without > security update. and installing update alw

Re: Specifying multiple NICs

2018-08-01 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 01/08/2018 à 19:32, Brian a écrit : On Wed 01 Aug 2018 at 12:00:41 -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote: In the past, I referred to each NIC as eth0, eth1,. but now, these names are not permanent, and the designation can change on boot. I looked at the "Network Coinfiguration" document which did

Re: Specifying multiple NICs

2018-08-01 Thread Brian
On Wed 01 Aug 2018 at 12:00:41 -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote: > I'm setting up a "just in case" replacement mailserver for my domain and my > local network. I'm using Debian Jessie, because the latest instructions for > setting the mailserver (qmail) are written for Jessie. The mailserver has 2

RE: Specifying multiple NICs

2018-08-01 Thread Edwin Pers
Toss something like this for each interface into /etc/udev/rules.d/10-interface-names.rules SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add",ATTR{address}=="00:25:90:80:2e:a4", NAME="1gig1" Replace the mac address with the one your interface has. -Ed -Original Message- From: Mark Neidorff Sent: Wedne

Specifying multiple NICs

2018-08-01 Thread Mark Neidorff
I'm setting up a "just in case" replacement mailserver for my domain and my local network. I'm using Debian Jessie, because the latest instructions for setting the mailserver (qmail) are written for Jessie. The mailserver has 2 NICs (one for local network, and one for Internet). In the past,

Re: LXC Memory Limits wont work

2018-08-01 Thread Markus Raps
Ok somehow the processes bypasses the group/namespace under libvirt the cgroups.procs file ( /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/machine/lxc-4296-deb4.libvirt-lxc/cgroup.procs ) shows only one process with the lxc tools the cgroups.procs file ( /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/lxc/debian/cgroup.procs ) shows up to

Re: LXC Memory Limits wont work

2018-08-01 Thread Dan Purgert
Markus Raps wrote: > --=_d351436e7ed6bda8f193a786d6f710fa > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; > format=flowed > > Hello, > > iam currently trying to run LXC Containers with libvirt > but the memory limit doesn't want to work > > in the container i see the f

LXC Memory Limits wont work

2018-08-01 Thread Markus Raps
Hello, iam currently trying to run LXC Containers with libvirt but the memory limit doesn't want to work in the container i see the full 32GB from the Host OS iam pretty sure that iam missing a configline in the xml lxc-template ~ # free -m totalusedfree share

Re[2]: Set the MTU on the interface

2018-08-01 Thread Алексей
Hi. Well, i can't use the pre-up direcrive without the iface statement. Or I can use one on the first vlan interface however it seems not very obvious decision to maintain it later. I followed the advice by Pascal Hambourg (setting the iface statement to manual) and it worked. Thank you all fo

Re: a dh keys question?

2018-08-01 Thread Dan Purgert
Richard Hector wrote: > On 01/08/18 03:57, Dan Ritter wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 11:38:34AM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote: >>> I have a problem now where each place I try to visit using my ssh >>> client, and my sftp one, I am getting a dh key exchange failure. >>> using the -v command is not

Re: update hell

2018-08-01 Thread Joe
On Wed, 1 Aug 2018 15:14:57 +1200 Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 01/08/18 11:11, Default User wrote: > > synaptic? No love for synaptic? > > > Would Debian please just settle on one, and stick with it? > > They do different things at different levels and seem to play nicely > together. >

Re: a dh keys question?

2018-08-01 Thread Joe
On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 17:49:52 -0400 (EDT) Karen Lewellen wrote: > Hi > just putting my answer at the top. > My client does have a log option, will aim for that. still again my > first priority is finding a place to test with a nonstandard port. > then I can be sure it really is all about port 2