Re: Want to take over maintenance of package xsnow

2019-06-14 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Michael Stone wrote: > I don't think there's any need to orphan a package to change maintainers. Well possible. Three DDs = four opinions about packaging. :)) (I'm sitting on the fence, enjoying life as user and upstream.) Whatever, Willem Vermin already posted a RFS bug a week ago: https:

Re: Want to take over maintenance of package xsnow

2019-06-14 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 04:03:33PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: The up-to-now maintainer should officially "orphan" the package so that you can express your interest in taking over. I don't think there's any need to orphan a package to change maintainers.

Re: Want to take over maintenance of package xsnow

2019-06-14 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Willem Vermin wrote: > the current maintainer of the package xsnow: > https://packages.debian.org/sid/xsnow > has let me know that he is not maintaining the package any more, and that it > is OK with him that I take over maintenance. > Can you please let me know how to procee

Want to take over maintenance of package xsnow

2019-06-14 Thread Willem Vermin
LS, the current maintainer of the package xsnow: https://packages.debian.org/sid/xsnow has let me know that he is not maintaining the package any more, and that it is OK with him that I take over maintenance. Can you please let me know how to proceed? Regards, Willem Vermin

Re: systemd requires "plymouth" on server? (was: Systemd: no error but "maintenance mode")

2017-01-10 Thread deloptes
Erwan David wrote: > > systemd is NOT an init system. It is a global system pretending to > replace init, session management,dns, ntp, and more and more other > components with incomplete solutions thought only for the laptops of its > developers (see the "we won't support hard disks, we all use

Re: Systemd: no error but "maintenance mode"

2017-01-10 Thread Joe
On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 14:29:17 -0600 David Wright wrote: > > I can see that a post-mortem of what went wrong is useful, but I can't > understand why you say that systemd made the "wrong" assumption. > If you specify something wrongly, you can't really expect it to do > what you want it to do, or

Re: systemd requires "plymouth" on server? (was: Systemd: no error but "maintenance mode")

2017-01-10 Thread Erwan David
Le 01/10/2017 à 21:49, David Wright a écrit : > On Tue 10 Jan 2017 at 20:54:50 (+0100), Steffen Dettmer wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 1:01 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: > I'd rather keep it as simple as possible you can still use sysvinit as init >> >> I read that trying to use sysvin

Re: systemd requires "plymouth" on server? (was: Systemd: no error but "maintenance mode")

2017-01-10 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 08:57:36 -0500 rhkra...@gmail.com sent: > > > This is called evolution. > > > > There are dissenting views, and y'all know that. > > Just to get my $0.02 in, evolution makes many mistakes. In fact, it > is a process of (accidental) trial and error. ;-) After co

Re: systemd requires "plymouth" on server? (was: Systemd: no error but "maintenance mode")

2017-01-10 Thread David Wright
On Tue 10 Jan 2017 at 20:54:50 (+0100), Steffen Dettmer wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 1:01 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: > >>> I'd rather keep it as simple as possible > >> > >> you can still use sysvinit as init > > I read that trying to use sysvinit causes trouble and several things > depend on s

Re: Systemd: no error but "maintenance mode"

2017-01-10 Thread David Wright
On Tue 10 Jan 2017 at 20:08:10 (+0100), Steffen Dettmer wrote: > On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 7:45 PM, Joe wrote: > >> What happened before: > >> I had issue with a Debian server SATA bus [1]. I noticed because > >> apt-get upgrade hung, because initramfs updater calls "sync" which > >> hang because of

Re: systemd requires "plymouth" on server? (was: Systemd: no error but "maintenance mode")

2017-01-10 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 08:54:50PM +0100, Steffen Dettmer wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 1:01 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: > >>> I'd rather keep it as simple as possible > >> > >> you can still use sysvinit as init > > I read that trying to use sysvini

Re: systemd requires "plymouth" on server? (was: Systemd: no error but "maintenance mode")

2017-01-10 Thread Joe
On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 20:54:50 +0100 Steffen Dettmer wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 1:01 AM, Michael Biebl > wrote: > >> > >> you can still use sysvinit as init > > I read that trying to use sysvinit causes trouble and several things > depend on systemd at the moment. > Various things requi

Re: Systemd: no error but "maintenance mode"

2017-01-10 Thread Joe
On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 20:08:10 +0100 Steffen Dettmer wrote: > On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 7:45 PM, Joe wrote: > >> What happened before: > >> I had issue with a Debian server SATA bus [1]. I noticed because > >> apt-get upgrade hung, because initramfs updater calls "sync" which > >> hang because of [1]

Re: Systemd: no error but "maintenance mode"

2017-01-10 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 10.01.2017 um 20:08 schrieb Steffen Dettmer: > On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 7:45 PM, Joe wrote: >>> What happened before: >>> I had issue with a Debian server SATA bus [1]. I noticed because >>> apt-get upgrade hung, because initramfs updater calls "sync" which >>> hang because of [1]. All operations

Re: systemd requires "plymouth" on server? (was: Systemd: no error but "maintenance mode")

2017-01-10 Thread Steffen Dettmer
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 12:51 PM, Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Monday, 9 January 2017 22:49:02 CET Steffen Dettmer wrote: >> I'm looking at Jessie (Debian 8) man fsck. I found no refernce >> to systemd. I think this is some compatiblity feature of systemd. > > See systemd.mount(5) and systemd.swa

Re: systemd requires "plymouth" on server? (was: Systemd: no error but "maintenance mode")

2017-01-10 Thread Steffen Dettmer
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 1:01 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: >>> I'd rather keep it as simple as possible >> >> you can still use sysvinit as init I read that trying to use sysvinit causes trouble and several things depend on systemd at the moment. > The shell scripts used by sysvinit are not simpler.

Re: Systemd: no error but "maintenance mode"

2017-01-10 Thread Steffen Dettmer
age from fsck either (actually fsck would even pass on the example, which does not matter, since it was not even started). Then I was in "maintenance mode" with 0 failed units, because "fs mount unit" does not count in here. Also on Console all lines were prefixed with "OK&q

Re: systemd requires "plymouth" on server? (was: Systemd: no error but "maintenance mode")

2017-01-10 Thread deloptes
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tuesday, January 10, 2017 03:39:06 AM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 09:14:48AM +0100, deloptes wrote: >> > Michael Biebl wrote: >> > > Am 10.01.2017 um 00:43 schrieb deloptes: >> > >> Steffen Dettmer wrote: >> > >>> I'd rather keep it as simple a

Re: systemd requires "plymouth" on server? (was: Systemd: no error but "maintenance mode")

2017-01-10 Thread David Wright
On Tue 10 Jan 2017 at 12:51:09 (+0100), Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Monday, 9 January 2017 22:49:02 CET Steffen Dettmer wrote: > > I'm looking at Jessie (Debian 8) man fsck. I found no refernce > > to systemd. I think this is some compatiblity feature of systemd. > > See systemd.mount(5) and sys

Re: systemd requires "plymouth" on server? (was: Systemd: no error but "maintenance mode")

2017-01-10 Thread rhkramer
On Tuesday, January 10, 2017 03:39:06 AM to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 09:14:48AM +0100, deloptes wrote: > > Michael Biebl wrote: > > > Am 10.01.2017 um 00:43 schrieb deloptes: > > >> Steffen Dettmer wrote: > > >>> I'd rather keep it as simple as possible > > >> > > >> you can

Re: systemd requires "plymouth" on server? (was: Systemd: no error but "maintenance mode")

2017-01-10 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Monday, 9 January 2017 22:49:02 CET Steffen Dettmer wrote: > I'm looking at Jessie (Debian 8) man fsck. I found no refernce > to systemd. I think this is some compatiblity feature of systemd. See systemd.mount(5) and systemd.swap(5) Compatiblity is done by systemd-fstab-generator HTH --

Re: systemd requires "plymouth" on server? (was: Systemd: no error but "maintenance mode")

2017-01-10 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 10:49:02PM +0100, Steffen Dettmer wrote: > Because man page says so? Because fsck's job is to check fs? > Don't know what systemd interferes at all. See systemd-fsck(8). -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list. signature.asc Description: Dig

Re: systemd requires "plymouth" on server? (was: Systemd: no error but "maintenance mode")

2017-01-10 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 09:14:48AM +0100, deloptes wrote: > Michael Biebl wrote: > > > Am 10.01.2017 um 00:43 schrieb deloptes: > >> Steffen Dettmer wrote: > >> > >>> I'd rather keep it as simple as possible > >> > >> you can still use sysvinit as i

Re: systemd requires "plymouth" on server? (was: Systemd: no error but "maintenance mode")

2017-01-10 Thread deloptes
Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 10.01.2017 um 00:43 schrieb deloptes: >> Steffen Dettmer wrote: >> >>> I'd rather keep it as simple as possible >> >> you can still use sysvinit as init > > The shell scripts used by sysvinit are not simpler. More familiar maybe, > but not simpler. > > This is calle

Re: systemd requires "plymouth" on server? (was: Systemd: no error but "maintenance mode")

2017-01-09 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 10.01.2017 um 00:43 schrieb deloptes: > Steffen Dettmer wrote: > >> I'd rather keep it as simple as possible > > you can still use sysvinit as init The shell scripts used by sysvinit are not simpler. More familiar maybe, but not simpler. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking int

Re: systemd requires "plymouth" on server? (was: Systemd: no error but "maintenance mode")

2017-01-09 Thread deloptes
Steffen Dettmer wrote: > I'd rather keep it as simple as possible you can still use sysvinit as init or follow without-systemd.org regards

Re: systemd requires "plymouth" on server? (was: Systemd: no error but "maintenance mode")

2017-01-09 Thread Steffen Dettmer
Hi, thank you for your quick reply. On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 1:38 AM, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 08 Jan 2017 at 15:56:36 (+0100), Steffen Dettmer wrote: >> apparently is ignored and "1" is assumed instead, BUT systemd does not >> call fsck! fsck parsed the line as intended (pass=0 -> no check),

Re: systemd requires "plymouth" on server? (was: Systemd: no error but "maintenance mode")

2017-01-08 Thread David Wright
t I have no clue why it is suddenly missing or suddenly required. > > I found postings in the internet that simply installing plymouth seems > > not to solve this issue. > > > > What can I do about this? > > Any hints appreciated. > > > > In detail: > >

Re: Systemd: no error but "maintenance mode"

2017-01-08 Thread Joe
mment the /etc/fstab entry or give it an extra option 'noauto'. Systemd assumes that any local drive listed in /etc/fstab without 'noauto' is essential for booting, and will drop you to maintenance mode if the drive cannot be found. > > Then server did not come up. Now I w

Re: Systemd: no error but "maintenance mode"

2017-01-08 Thread Joe
On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 14:28:09 +0100 Steffen Dettmer wrote: > Hi, > > What happened before: > I had issue with a Debian server SATA bus [1]. I noticed because > apt-get upgrade hung, because initramfs updater calls "sync" which > hang because of [1]. All operations accessing a certain (backup) disk

Re: systemd requires "plymouth" on server? (was: Systemd: no error but "maintenance mode")

2017-01-08 Thread Steffen Dettmer
" > but I have no clue why it is suddenly missing or suddenly required. > I found postings in the internet that simply installing plymouth seems > not to solve this issue. > > What can I do about this? > Any hints appreciated. > > In detail: > Google suggested "

systemd requires "plymouth" on server? (was: Systemd: no error but "maintenance mode")

2017-01-08 Thread Steffen Dettmer
sue. What can I do about this? Any hints appreciated. In detail: Google suggested "systemctl status". This shows "State: maintenance", "Jobs: 0 queued", "Failed: 0 units" and some output looking like pstree which tells me nothing. Why "maintenance"

Systemd: no error but "maintenance mode"

2017-01-08 Thread Steffen Dettmer
Hi, What happened before: I had issue with a Debian server SATA bus [1]. I noticed because apt-get upgrade hung, because initramfs updater calls "sync" which hang because of [1]. All operations accessing a certain (backup) disk blocked. Shutdown over network. It was reported server power LED still

Maintenance Notification

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Maintenance Notification

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Any stats for quantifying Debian's maintenance magnitude?

2014-09-21 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
d today? Yes, no, maybe so? Quantitatively multiply out those tens of thousands of packages times how many seconds, how many minutes per each that general maintenance takes, let alone any other developer driven [function] that might be performed on them... Oh, wait NOT done yet... Each p

Re: Package maintenance on Debian

2013-03-31 Thread sirquijote
> On 29/03/13 23:31, sirquij...@lavabit.com wrote: despite the implication of the names, you may find either to be (mostly) stable and useful, especially if old software is your only trouble with Debian squeeze. >>> Yeah, if it weren't for the older packages, I'd be content. >>> How do I migra

Re: Package maintenance on Debian

2013-03-29 Thread Dom
On 29/03/13 23:31, sirquij...@lavabit.com wrote: despite the implication of the names, you may find either to be (mostly) stable and useful, especially if old software is your only trouble with Debian squeeze. Yeah, if it weren't for the older packages, I'd be content. How do I migrate to test

Re: Package maintenance on Debian

2013-03-29 Thread sirquijote
>> despite the implication of the names, you may find either to be >> (mostly) stable and useful, especially if old software is your only >> trouble with Debian squeeze. > > Yeah, if it weren't for the older packages, I'd be content. > > How do I migrate to testing or unstable: does it require a re

Re: Package maintenance on Debian

2013-03-29 Thread SQ
> despite the implication of the names, you may find either to be > (mostly) stable and useful, especially if old software is your only > trouble with Debian squeeze. Yeah, if it weren't for the older packages, I'd be content. How do I migrate to testing or unstable: does it require a re-install

Re: Package maintenance on Debian

2013-03-29 Thread green
sirquij...@lavabit.com wrote at 2013-03-29 16:23 -0500: > Apologies. Guess I'll just have to find a more appropriate OS. As already mentioned, squeeze-backports might help, though neither netatalk nor privoxy currently have more recent versions backported. Consider building your own backports. O

Re: Package maintenance on Debian

2013-03-29 Thread John Hasler
sirquijote writes: > I just got a reply on another list, and it drew my attention to the fact > that Debian is an LTS OS. Debian Stable is. For bleeding edge you want Unstable. > I hadn't realised that would affect package availability too, so the > mistake is mine. You may also want to look at

Re: Package maintenance on Debian

2013-03-29 Thread sirquijote
end of 2011). > > I was looking for a stable, well-established and well-supported OS, but > from the looks of things package maintenance may be flagging badly. > > Is that fair or have I just chanced upon two significant outliers? If so > I'm pretty unlucky, considering net

Package maintenance on Debian

2013-03-29 Thread sirquijote
g for a stable, well-established and well-supported OS, but from the looks of things package maintenance may be flagging badly. Is that fair or have I just chanced upon two significant outliers? If so I'm pretty unlucky, considering netatalk and privoxy represent about 66% of the total pac

Re: Configuration Design for Installation, Maintenance and Upgrades

2012-06-21 Thread Chris Davies
r...@aarden.us wrote: > just to assure that I can get a stable, usable system up and running, > please see the list below. A lot of what you've listed below should have been handled semi-automatically during installation. It's a steep learning curve, though, I'll agree with that. What is wrong wi

Re: Configuration Design for Installation, Maintenance and Upgrades

2012-06-20 Thread ray
I am sorry, I don't know why this did not post in-thread. So here is another try. Chris, I wish I knew all the configuration topics. But just to assure that I can get a stable, usable system up and running, please see the list below. One important aspect is that I do not know everything that

Re: Configuration Design for Installation, Maintenance and Upgrades

2012-06-19 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:02:09 -0700, ray wrote: (now better, thanks for removing the annoying html) > I would like to learn if there is a tool or method to help define what > values configuration parameters should have. Can you rephrase that stanza? I don't get it :-? > I have seen short descr

Re: Re: Configuration Design for Installation, Maintenance and Upgrades

2012-06-19 Thread ray
 Chris,   I wish I knew all the configuration topics.  But just to assure that I can get a stable, usable system up and running, please see the list below.  One important aspect is that I do not know everything that can be configured; while reading posts I keep seeing things I have never heard of. 

Re: Configuration Design for Installation, Maintenance and Upgrades

2012-06-19 Thread Chris Davies
r...@aarden.us wrote: > I would like to learn if there is a tool or method to help define what > values configuration parameters should have. To which configuration parameters are you referring? Can you provide some examples? Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Configuration Design for Installation, Maintenance and Upgrades

2012-06-18 Thread ray
I would like to learn if there is a tool or method to help define what values configuration parameters should have. I have seen short descriptions of parameters but not much as to the impact or how any values may impact other parameters. It would be very hand to have an animated map that would

Re: Configuration Design for Installation, Maintenance and Upgrades

2012-06-18 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 19:30:15 -0700, ray wrote: (...) Ray, please, no html formatted postings.. this one of yours it renders like a pure gibberish. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Configuration Design for Installation, Maintenance and Upgrades

2012-06-17 Thread ray
 I would like to learn if there is a tool or method to help define what values configuration parameters should have.  I have seen short descriptions of parameters but not much as to the impact or how any values may impact other parameters.   It would be very hand to have an animated map that would

Re: How to boot PC-BSD from Debian (was: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance)

2012-04-01 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 22:27:07 -0700, Weaver wrote: >> On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:51:05 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Camaleón wrote: >> >> (...) >> > so I believe that, in the circumstances, I have to abandon the > prospect of installing PC-BSD 9 on this computer. > > I

Re: How to boot PC-BSD from Debian (was: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance)

2012-03-31 Thread Weaver
> On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:51:05 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > >> On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > so I believe that, in the circumstances, I have to abandon the prospect of installing PC-BSD 9 on this computer. I had some trouble with this myself and tried all sorts of thing

How to boot PC-BSD from Debian (was: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance)

2012-03-31 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 10:51:05 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Camaleón wrote: (...) >>> so I believe that, in the circumstances, I have to abandon the >>> prospect of installing PC-BSD 9 on this computer. >> >> I already pointed out some alternatives and Keith told you about >> vi

Re: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance

2012-03-30 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:10:19 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Camaleón wrote: (...) What recent operating system needs to be installed still in a primary partition? Can you tell what OS are you going to install? I want to try PC-BS

Re: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance

2012-03-29 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:27:55 +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:15:02 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote in message > : > >> On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:24:00 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: (...) >> > As you can see, the permissions of the mount point have no influence >> > on the permission

Re: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance

2012-03-29 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:15:02 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote in message : > On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:24:00 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Mi, 21 mar 12, 16:29:45, Camaleón wrote: > >> > >> For static mount points, this is usually done/set in "/etc/fstab". > >> You basically need two things: >

Re: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance

2012-03-28 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:10:19 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> In addition to the explanation, show us the output of: >> >> fdisk -l >> >> So we can have an idea of the current state of your hard disk >> partitions. >> >> > " > :~# fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/s

Re: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance

2012-03-28 Thread Keith McKenzie
On 28/03/12 10:10, Bret Busby wrote: On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Camaleón wrote: I can, more or less, use Debian (I am still learning it, after however many years), and PC-BSD would be a learning experience, and probably, a fair bit of hard work (I haven't used BSD, since before GUI's), so it appear

Re: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance

2012-03-28 Thread Bret Busby
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:47:27 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: (...) The first is this; I have some empty partitions for storing data, and they were created using the Ubuntu 10.04 installation (before I installed Debian 6 on the system), and I need to know how to

Re: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance

2012-03-26 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:57:18 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 26 mar 12, 15:15:02, Camaleón wrote: >> > >> > As you can see, the permissions of the mount point have no influence >> > on the permissions of the files on the partition. This is true for >> > about any filesystem that is more or

Re: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance

2012-03-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 26 mar 12, 15:15:02, Camaleón wrote: > > > > As you can see, the permissions of the mount point have no influence on > > the permissions of the files on the partition. This is true for about > > any filesystem that is more or less native to Linux (ext*, xfs, etc.). > > I'm not sure about y

Re: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance

2012-03-26 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:24:00 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 21 mar 12, 16:29:45, Camaleón wrote: >> >> For static mount points, this is usually done/set in "/etc/fstab". You >> basically need two things: >> >> - Set the right permission options for the mount point so users can >> read/ wr

Re: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance

2012-03-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 21 mar 12, 16:29:45, Camaleón wrote: > > For static mount points, this is usually done/set in "/etc/fstab". You > basically need two things: > > - Set the right permission options for the mount point so users can read/ > write/whatever > > - Create a mount point in your system with the r

Re: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance

2012-03-21 Thread Keith McKenzie
On 21/03/12 14:47, Bret Busby wrote: In my primary partition, I have three partitions. I have a hardware manufacturer's partition, a recovery partition, and, as the computer came with MS Windows, a Windows partition, which is 84GB. Having inmstalled Ubuntu and Debian 6, I want to experiment with

Re: Query about hard drive partitions maintenance

2012-03-21 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:47:27 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: (...) > The first is this; I have some empty partitions for storing data, and > they were created using the Ubuntu 10.04 installation (before I > installed Debian 6 on the system), and I need to know how to access them > as a user, to move and

Query about hard drive partitions maintenance

2012-03-21 Thread Bret Busby
Hello. In investigating a problem to do with the UDF filesystem format, in running the Disk Utility, I found the system hard drive partition table, and have a couple of questions. The first is this; I have some empty partitions for storing data, and they were created using the Ubuntu 10.04 i

Re: maintenance

2011-01-13 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 13. 01. 2011 23:12:43 je ghe napisal(a): On 1/13/11 2:45 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Jo, 13 ian 11, 14:38:44, Stephen Powell wrote: The bottom line: NEVER respond to an e-mail from ANYBODY which solicits your userid and password, no matter how legitimate the e-mail seems to be. I

Re: maintenance

2011-01-13 Thread ghe
On 1/13/11 2:45 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Jo, 13 ian 11, 14:38:44, Stephen Powell wrote: The bottom line: NEVER respond to an e-mail from ANYBODY which solicits your userid and password, no matter how legitimate the e-mail seems to be. I didn't -- that's why I asked here. And it's also

Re: maintenance

2011-01-13 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 13 ian 11, 14:38:44, Stephen Powell wrote: > > The bottom line: NEVER respond to an e-mail from ANYBODY which solicits > your userid and password, no matter how legitimate the e-mail seems to be. And it's also a good idea to not reply to them on debian-user (makes cleaning the archives im

Re: maintenance

2011-01-13 Thread Jonathan SIegle
Blake Hodder said the following on 1/13/11 1:59 PM: I did as well but was not sure which it was. On 11-01-13 02:48 PM, ghe wrote: I got 3 of these this morning. Anybody else? Is it real? Or spam? -snip- These are called phish[1]. Looks like ucla.edu has a compromised account. [1] http://en

Re: maintenance

2011-01-13 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:22:01 -0500 (EST), green wrote: > ghe wrote at 2011-01-13 11:48 -0700: >> I got 3 of these this morning. Anybody else? Is it real? Or spam? >> >> From: "Account Verification For This Year" > > Unless you actually have a ucla.edu account, this should be evidence enough >

RE: maintenance

2011-01-13 Thread Simon Hollenbach
- Original message - > Make sure to include your username and  passwords for your bank accounts > when you respond.  Todd has earned a point. This is the oldest scam I can think of, afterwards they got more inventive and gave away mean incentives such as wooden horses. Who do you think

Re: maintenance

2011-01-13 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:59:21 -0400, Blake Hodder wrote: > On 11-01-13 02:48 PM, ghe wrote: >> I got 3 of these this morning. Anybody else? Is it real? Or spam? > I did as well but was not sure which it was. (...) Phishing/spam, for sure... look: *** To: <"Undisclosed-Recipient:;"@liszt.debian

Re: maintenance

2011-01-13 Thread green
ghe wrote at 2011-01-13 11:48 -0700: > I got 3 of these this morning. Anybody else? Is it real? Or spam? > > > From: "Account Verification For This Year" Unless you actually have a ucla.edu account, this should be evidence enough of a phishing attempt. signature.asc Description: Digital signa

RE: maintenance

2011-01-13 Thread Todd Gricol
Make sure to include your username and passwords for your bank accounts when you respond. From: ghe [g...@slsware.com] Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 1:48 PM To: debian-users Subject: maintenance I got 3 of these this morning. Anybody else? Is it real

Re: maintenance

2011-01-13 Thread Blake Hodder
Old-Reply-To: accountactivat...@admin.in.th Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 02:30:36 -0800 Subject: currently carrying-out a Maintenance MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative;  

maintenance

2011-01-13 Thread ghe
ebian.org> Old-Reply-To: accountactivat...@admin.in.th Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 02:30:36 -0800 Subject: currently carrying-out a Maintenance MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_=aspNetEmail=_fec30c335ee04b1b99b83d0a4c4e93bb" X-Mailer: aspNetEmail ver 3.5.2.0 X-se

Re: Bluetooth Package Maintenance

2010-10-26 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:05:29 +0300 Volkan YAZICI wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to get in touch with Bluetooth package maintainers, but no one > responded so far. I found the e-mail address of Filippo Giunchedi from > the mailing lists and sent him below message. As far as I understand, > Nobuhiro Iwa

Bluetooth Package Maintenance

2010-10-26 Thread Volkan YAZICI
Hi, I tried to get in touch with Bluetooth package maintainers, but no one responded so far. I found the e-mail address of Filippo Giunchedi from the mailing lists and sent him below message. As far as I understand, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu appears to be the current "active" maintainer, but he has no sig

Re: Booting in `user-mode' and entering in `maintenance' says `Login incorrect' but this is actually `Incorrect password' that should be said, as `root' is the maintenance user

2010-07-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Camaleón writes: > On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:34:25 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Booting in `user-mode' (once chosen in the GRUB) and entering in >> `maintenance' says `Login incorrect' but this is actually `Inco

Re: Booting in `user-mode' and entering in `maintenance' says `Login incorrect' but this is actually `Incorrect password' that should be said, as `root' is the maintenance user

2010-07-03 Thread Merciadri Luca
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lorenzo Beretta writes: > Il 03/07/2010 12:50, Camaleón ha scritto: >> On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:34:25 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: >> >>> Booting in `user-mode' (once chosen in the GRUB) and entering in >>> `m

Re: Booting in `user-mode' and entering in `maintenance' says `Login incorrect' but this is actually `Incorrect password' that should be said, as `root' is the maintenance user

2010-07-03 Thread Lorenzo Beretta
Il 03/07/2010 12:50, Camaleón ha scritto: On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:34:25 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: Booting in `user-mode' (once chosen in the GRUB) and entering in `maintenance' says `Login incorrect' but this is actually `Incorrect password' that should be said, as `r

Re: Booting in `user-mode' and entering in `maintenance' says `Login incorrect' but this is actually `Incorrect password' that should be said, as `root' is the maintenance user

2010-07-03 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:34:25 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Booting in `user-mode' (once chosen in the GRUB) and entering in > `maintenance' says `Login incorrect' but this is actually `Incorrect > password' that should be said, as `root' is the (default) ma

Booting in `user-mode' and entering in `maintenance' says `Login incorrect' but this is actually `Incorrect password' that should be said, as `root' is the maintenance user

2010-07-02 Thread Merciadri Luca
Hi, Booting in `user-mode' (once chosen in the GRUB) and entering in `maintenance' says `Login incorrect' but this is actually `Incorrect password' that should be said, as `root' is the (default) maintenance user. Or that could be understood if `login' were to

Re: Car / Bike Maintenance Software

2009-09-28 Thread Mark
Maybe this is just me showing my ghetto side, but I took the Haynes manual and my car's owners manual for scheduled maintenance and made a spreadsheet that I print on 11x17 paper to log date and miles at time of maintenance. I know every spring and fall it's maintenance time, so I do

Car / Bike Maintenance Software

2009-09-28 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi there, I am looking for a software for logging my bikes maintenance. I found two: Car Companion: http://sourceforge.net/projects/car-companion Versatile Maintenance Tracker http://sourceforge.net/projects/vmt But they both seems very old. Is anyone using something else ? Thanks

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-08-01 Thread Rob Owens
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 07:45:43AM +0100, AG wrote: > Hi > > Having recently upgraded to sid, I want to try to ensure that I am able > to maintain a more or less stable system under those circumstances and > in the full knowledge that, by definition, sid is unstable and may be > subject to br

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-30 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
AG wrote: > Hi > > Having recently upgraded to sid, I want to try to ensure that I am able > to maintain a more or less stable system under those circumstances and > in the full knowledge that, by definition, sid is unstable and may be > subject to breakages. > > With this in mind, what do the m

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:34:19 +0900 Miles Bader wrote: > AG writes: > > As an aside, I noticed that none of the respondents picked up on the > > scripts sxmi, et al. Is that because of a lack of experience with > > these, or because they are no good, or possibly because they are > > superfluous

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:09:34 +0200 Siggy Brentrup wrote: ... > In my understanding there is no warranty whatsoever that testing / > unstable won't burn your house, void the universe or whatever you can > imagine. Nitpick: *no* version of Debian, not even stable, comes with any warranty, as per

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread Miles Bader
AG writes: > As an aside, I noticed that none of the respondents picked up on the > scripts sxmi, et al. Is that because of a lack of experience with > these, or because they are no good, or possibly because they are > superfluous from the perspective of an experienced sid user? I think such thi

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
AG: > > As an aside, I noticed that none of the respondents picked up on the > scripts sxmi, et al. Is that because of a lack of experience with > these, or because they are no good, or possibly because they are > superfluous from the perspective of an experienced sid user? I can only spea

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread AG
AG wrote: Hi Having recently upgraded to sid, I want to try to ensure that I am able to maintain a more or less stable system under those circumstances and in the full knowledge that, by definition, sid is unstable and may be subject to breakages. With this in mind, what do the more experie

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread AG
Tim Beauregard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 AG wrote: Having recently upgraded to sid, I want to try to ensure that I am able to maintain a more or less stable system under those circumstances and I manually use apt-get update then apt-get upgrade. If no packa

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread AG
John Hasler wrote: AG writes: With this in mind, what do the more experienced sid users do in terms of the daily updates of packages that come through - for example - the Update Notification? Nothing. I make no attempt to "track" Unstable. I keep an eye on what's new and what is bein

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread AG
Jochen Schulz wrote: AG: With this in mind, what do the more experienced sid users do in terms of the daily updates of packages that come through - for example - the Update Notification? I usually install all available upgrades daily (or even twice a day) using 'sudo aptitude update

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread AG
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-07-27 02:32, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 27 Jul 2009, Siggy Brentrup wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 07:45 +0100, AG wrote: Hi Having recently upgraded to sid, I want to try to ensure that I am able to maintain a more or less stable system under those circumstances an

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread AG
Siggy Brentrup wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 07:45 +0100, AG wrote: Hi Having recently upgraded to sid, I want to try to ensure that I am able to maintain a more or less stable system under those circumstances and in the full knowledge that, by definition, sid is unstable and may be subject

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