Re: Check whether an update for a particular package is available without upgrading

On Sb, 25 oct 14, 14:59:28, Keith Christian wrote: > > Have searched the WWW and man pages without finding anything like "dry > run" or "show possible upgrades" specifically for aptitude. aptitude search '?upgradeable' The full aptitude documentation is in the package aptitude-doc-en. If yo

Re: Installing Debian remotely in an unmanaged VPS

On Sb, 25 oct 14, 16:17:55, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: > Hello. > > I'd like to install Debian in an unmanaged VPS which has Debian installed > already. This is so that I can customize the installation by using LVM for > instance. I'm following bu

Re: Monitor does not turn on after suspend

On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 21:27:07 +1100 Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 19/10/14 02:54, Marko Ranđelović wrote: > > I use Wheezy on desktop computer. I use vesa driver for X because radeon is > > not working. After pm-suspend command, computer is like turned off, when > > press > > power button it wakes u

Re: Who's locking down the code?

Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 26/10/2014 4:30 AM, goli...@riseup.net wrote: > >> The fact that an executable is linked against a systemd library > >> doesn't automatically mean you have to run systemd as PID1. > >> > >> This is especially true for the sd-daemon and sd-journal libraries > >> in this

reInstalling my laptop

Hi the list, I will reinstall my laptop. I have a question about partitioning. I will use this setting: /boot swap The rest under LVM (/, /var, /tmp, /home) ? So, my question: /boot or not /boot ? Jean-Marc P.S. I do not subscribe to the list; keep me in Cc: pgpQ63Rs9ffFs.pgp Description: P

Re: Monitor does not turn on after suspend

> Anything useful in /var/log/pm-suspend.log ?? > What sort of keyboard ?? > Is it a USB keyboard ?? I found in log vbetool was not installed. After installing vbetool, everything looks as working normal. Keyboard is USB. Thanks for your help. -- http://markorandjelovic.hopto.org One should

Re: What to do with dead raid 1 partitions under mdadm

On 25/10/14 11:19 PM, mett wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, I'm running Squeeze under raid 1 with mdadm. One of the raid failed and I replace it with space I had available on that same disk. Today, when rebooting I got an error cause the boot flag was still on both pa

Re: Question re: updating debain stable kernels...

On 26. okt. 2014 00:18, Brian wrote: On Sat 25 Oct 2014 at 22:46:43 +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: I have seen at least two stable kernel updates which changed the ABI without changing the version in the kernel package name and resulted in some new modules not being compatible with the previou

Re: reInstalling my laptop

On 26/10/14 at 12:43pm, Jean-Marc wrote: > Hi the list, > > I will reinstall my laptop. > > I have a question about partitioning. > I will use this setting: > /boot > swap > The rest under LVM (/, /var, /tmp, /home) ? > > So, my question: /boot or not /boot ? Another question is why not /home i

Vanished log files after reboot

Hi! After a reboot of a virtual machine *all* old log files in /var/log and directories under that are gone (.1, .2.gz, ...). Does anyone know how that might happen? I already checked the VM for root kits and I certainly can't remember configuring something like that. TIA mad -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Question re: updating debain stable kernels...

On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 13:13:24 +0100 Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > On 26. okt. 2014 00:18, Brian wrote: > > On Sat 25 Oct 2014 at 22:46:43 +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > >> I have seen at least two stable kernel > >> updates which changed the ABI without changing the version in the > >> kernel p

Re: reInstalling my laptop

On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 12:43:53 +0100 Jean-Marc wrote: > Hi the list, > > I will reinstall my laptop. > > I have a question about partitioning. > I will use this setting: > /boot > swap > The rest under LVM (/, /var, /tmp, /home) ? > > So, my question: /boot or not /boot ? > > Jean-Marc > > P.

Re: reInstalling my laptop

On Du, 26 oct 14, 12:43:53, Jean-Marc wrote: > Hi the list, > > I will reinstall my laptop. > > I have a question about partitioning. > I will use this setting: > /boot > swap > The rest under LVM (/, /var, /tmp, /home) ? Why do you need /tmp on slow storage (and a dedicated partition)? /tmp on

Re: Vanished log files after reboot

On Du, 26 oct 14, 13:04:39, mad wrote: > Hi! > > After a reboot of a virtual machine *all* old log files in /var/log and > directories under that are gone (.1, .2.gz, ...). Please post the output of 'df -hf' from inside the VM. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser O

Re: Who's locking down the code?

On Sun, 26 Oct 2014, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > It is an habit in debian to compile the packages with as many options > as possible as long as it's not adding pile of new dependencies or > causing issues to the other packages in the archive. Not an "habit". It is a directive, and we have very go

Re: Question re: updating debain stable kernels...

On 2014-10-26 13:46 +0100, Joe wrote: > On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 13:13:24 +0100 > Håkon Alstadheim wrote: >> >> The point is that loading kernel modules after a kernel update will >> not always work, so a reboot is in my experience advisable before >> you do any configuration changes involving modul

Re: Monitor does not turn on after suspend

On Sun, 26 Oct 2014, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > > Sapphire Radeon R7 240 ?? > > Yes, the card is Radeon R7 240, but I'm not sure about Sapphire. > According to Wikipedia this chipset is lauched Oct 8 2013, so not > strange drivers are still not supporting it (well). You'll likely have a lot more

visualize data transfer in shell

Hi folks, is there a way, to visualize data transfer in the shell? Years ago, I used a command like "hash on" or similar, which shows a progress bar made of hash (#) signs in the shell, when I transferred data with i.e. rsync. But as I did not use this feature now for many years, I forgot, how

Re: visualize data transfer in shell

Hans wrote: Hi folks, is there a way, to visualize data transfer in the shell? Years ago, I used a command like "hash on" or similar, which shows a progress bar made of hash (#) signs in the shell, when I transferred data with i.e. rsync. If you're talking watching data transfer during an ftp

[SOLVED] Re: visualize data transfer in shell

Am Sonntag, 26. Oktober 2014, 09:27:10 schrieb Miles Fidelman: > Hans wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > is there a way, to visualize data transfer in the shell? Years ago, I used > > a command like "hash on" or similar, which shows a progress bar made of > > hash (#) signs in the shell, when I transfer

Re: Who's locking down the code?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 26/10/2014 10:24 PM, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> That is 100% true, I couldn't give a rats if it is PID1 or not. It IS >> systemd, that's more than enough for me to want it OUT -- it's a >> cancer that is spreading and

Re: Who's locking down the code?

Andrew McGlashan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 26/10/2014 10:24 PM, Laurent Bigonville wrote: Andrew McGlashan wrote: That is 100% true, I couldn't give a rats if it is PID1 or not. It IS systemd, that's more than enough for me to want it OUT -- it's a cancer that

Re: What to do with dead raid 1 partitions under mdadm

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 08:05:58 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: > On 25/10/14 11:19 PM, mett wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA256 > > > > Hi, (snip) > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iF4E

systemd: user@9.service failed

This is somewhat puzzling. When I run 'systemctl status' I see: ● merlin State: degraded Jobs: 0 queued Failed: 1 units Since: Sat 2014-10-25 22:52:07 CDT; 9h ago CGroup: / The resulting tree displayed is of the running processes, so I ran 'systemctl --failed' and I see: U

how to get pulse audio controls with easily again?

Till some months ago, before I got a big gnome upgrade in my Debtian Testing machine, I could right click on the audio icon on the status barn in gnome, click on properties and get the pulse audio controls. I cannot do that anymore. I have first open properties window, find the audio section

Re: gnome: cannot use the applets (power, network settings, etc)

On 10/04/2014 11:35 AM, H.S. wrote: Folks, Since a few months now, I have not been able to use some settings from the applets (top right corner of screen, gnome). The log off button works, but reboot/shutdown doesn't. I am also not able to configure my wired network connection from the applet.

Re: reInstalling my laptop

> Hi the list, I will reinstall my laptop. I have a question about partitioning. I will use this setting: /boot swap The rest under LVM (/, /var, /tmp, /home) ? So, my question: /boot or not /boot ? Jean-Marc P.S. I do not subscribe to the list; keep me in Cc: Jean-Marc, I think that ever

Re: Screen doesn't turn off

On 2014-10-23, Catalin Soare wrote: > --001a11397ac09df76505061dfacf > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hi, > > I've got 2 computera, both running Debian Wheezy, all updates applied. One > of them seems to ignore the "Brightness and lock" setting which should make > the screen turn off

Re: Question re: updating debain stable kernels...

On 2014-10-26, Joe wrote: > > There was a time when a kernel upgrade always triggered a message which > urged a reboot as soon as possible. I'm not sure when it stopped > happening, a quick Google suggests that it disappeared after lenny. > I get a message to reboot in squeeze after a kernel upgr

Re: reInstalling my laptop

On 10/26/2014 04:43 AM, Jean-Marc wrote: I will reinstall my laptop. I have a question about partitioning. I will use this setting: /boot swap The rest under LVM (/, /var, /tmp, /home) ? So, my question: /boot or not /boot ? Jean-Marc P.S. I do not subscribe to the list; keep me in Cc: I use t

iceweasel "Video can't be played because the file is corrupt"

Hi, I use debian stable (wheezy) on my amd-64 laptop. Somewhere over the last weeks my iceweasel stopped playing mp4 videos. I get the error message "Video can't be played because the file is corrupt". iceweasel was playing the same video file perfectly fine a few weeks ago. I haven't changed a

Re: iceweasel "Video can't be played because the file is corrupt"

On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 17:13:16 + "St-Laurent, Pierre" wrote: Hello Pierre, >Type "http://www.nordet.net/etc/noreaster.mp4"; in the url bar >I get "Video can't be played because the file is corrupt". I don't see that report(1), but the video downloads so slowly (>3 mins here) that playing it i

Re: iceweasel "Video can't be played because the file is corrupt"

> I don't see that report > I'm using iceweasel from experimental on a testing machine. Thanks Brad for giving it a try. I think this confirms that the problem only affects stable (wheezy). As a side note, the video runs fine on Internet Explorer and on Android. Thanks again for giving it a try,

Re: reInstalling my laptop

Sun, 26 Oct 2014 10:32:48 -0700 David Christensen écrivait : > [...] > Thank so much for your answers. After reading them in the list archives, I think I will go for: - no dedicated partition for /boot; - no swap; - one big partition under LVM with: - 2 Lv's for / and /home, maybe a third one f

Re: iceweasel "Video can't be played because the file is corrupt"

On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 18:56:12 + "St-Laurent, Pierre" wrote: Hello Pierre, >Thanks Brad for giving it a try. You're welcome. >I think this confirms that the problem only affects stable (wheezy). I had to look up the version supplied in stable. At v3.15.6 it's /ancient/ in browser terms. >

Re: iceweasel "Video can't be played because the file is corrupt"

On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 19:23:13 +, Brad Rogers wrote: >On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 18:56:12 + >"St-Laurent, Pierre" wrote: > >Hello Pierre, > >>Thanks Brad for giving it a try. > >You're welcome. > >>I think this confirms that the problem only affects stable (wheezy). > >I had to look up the version

Re: reInstalling my laptop

Le 26/10/2014 20:17, Jean-Marc a écrit : > Sun, 26 Oct 2014 10:32:48 -0700 > David Christensen écrivait : > >> [...] >> > Thank so much for your answers. > After reading them in the list archives, I think I will go for: > - no dedicated partition for /boot; > - no swap; > - one big partition under

Re: iceweasel "Video can't be played because the file is corrupt"

On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 20:41:11 +0100 Andreas Rönnquist wrote: Hello Andreas, >Look again - the version of Iceweasel in stable is 31.2.0, Debian has Yes, you're right. I was looking in the wrong place (oldstable)(1). So, much of what I said ref apples and oranges is moot. Sorry for the confusio

Re: Who's locking down the code?

On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 11:15:23PM +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > You forgot about the ftp-masters, the release team and the security > team. They all have their word to say about which package can or cannot > be in the archive or part of a release. And usually they are not really > pro having

Re: Who's locking down the code?

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 12:51:22AM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > These reasons alone are quite significant and I don't want any of the > systems that I maintain being effected by these risks. You should do one of the following a) switch to a source-based distribution where you can easily disab

Re: Who's locking down the code?

All good ideas. Another one would be to set up a public repository to make your systemd-free packages (based on Debian source) available. You might even be able to get a Debian developer to assist you. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Check whether an update for a particular package is available without upgrading

Hi Andrei, Thanks for the extra commands. Unfortunately, some don't work on my Wheezy system, are you using a more recent version of aptitude or apt-get perhaps? Here is some output: aptitude search '?upgradeable' E: Unknown term type: "upgradeable". apt-get policy debian-reference-en E: In

Re: reInstalling my laptop

On 10/26/2014 12:17 PM, Jean-Marc wrote: Thank so much for your answers. YW. After reading them in the list archives, I think I will go for: - no dedicated partition for /boot; - no swap; - one big partition under LVM with: - 2 Lv's for / and /home, maybe a third one for /var; - /tmp on tmpf

Linux kernel version for Jessie

Hi list, what kernel version will Jessie have when it became stable ? Is there any chance for newer version than 3.16.x (for example 3.17.x, 3.18.x). Kind regards Georgi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas.

Re: Linux kernel version for Jessie

Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > what kernel version will Jessie have when it became stable ? 3.16.x > Is there any chance for newer version than 3.16.x (for example 3.17.x, > 3.18.x). Zero chance: https://bits.debian.org/2014/07/kernel-version-for-jessie.html Grüße, S° -- Sigmentation fault. Co

oh crap. samba creating files with group root

AFAIC from reading man page and googling that should ONLY happen if i am using admin users = i am not, and the smb.conf man page says the default is blank, so none of the users should be accessing as root. anybody have any ideas what's going on ? more importantly, why is it so hard for me to

Strange behavior in real terminals

Hello. I noticed that by using the cursor keys in the default terminals (Ctrl+Alt+1 to 6) one can move the cursor to empty lines. Is this how it is supposed to behave?. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Keyboard layouts in preseeding

Hello. For Debian installed preseeding, where can I see a list of available keyboard layouts which can be specified as "d-i keymap select "?. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.or

Re: Installing Debian remotely in an unmanaged VPS

I see. I have noticed that there's a preseeding parameter network-console/authorized_keys_url, which may point to an URL. Is there a way I can *embed* my SSH public key in the initrd and then use file:/// or similar and likewise embed the public key to be used by the server? Will it matte

Re: Installing Debian remotely in an unmanaged VPS

I see. I have noticed that there's a preseeding parameter network-console/authorized_keys_url, which may point to an URL. Is there a way I can *embed* my SSH public key in the initrd and then use file:/// or similar and likewise embed the public key to be used by the server? Will it matte

Re: Installing Debian remotely in an unmanaged VPS

Mario Castelán Castro (2014-10-26): > I have followed . It > almost worked. The problem is that the built image still prompts for > a keyboard layout locally, and so the image don't meets it purpose > for local installation. My preseed.cfg is this: >

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

Christian Seiler writes: > But it also includes the utility 'logger'. In recent util-linux > versions, 'logger' has gained a --journald flag that allows one to log > to systemd's journal from the command line. This is the reason for the > dependency on libsystemd0, so that 'logger' may write to t

Re: Debian and upstream choices

Martin Steigerwald writes: > Maybe I failed at avoiding personal attacks, but I still think I didn´t. On > any account, my attempt to bring this upstream did not produce the outcome I > wanted to produce, so I stopped it. Well, remember what I told you? -- Again we must be afraid of speakin

Re: Installing Debian remotely in an unmanaged VPS

I have followed . It almost worked. The problem is that the built image still prompts for a keyboard layout locally, and so the image don't meets it purpose for local installation. My preseed.cfg is this: d-i debian-installer/localest

Re: Linux kernel version for Jessie

On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 10:56:19PM +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > what kernel version will Jessie have when it became stable ? Is there > any chance for newer version than 3.16.x (for example 3.17.x, 3.18.x). Is this important at all? You will always be able to build your own kernel or use one

Fwd: Re: Installing Debian remotely in an unmanaged VPS

Thanks for your help, but I have already included the part of the example that relates to keyboard configuration and it doesn't work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

On Sun, 26 Oct 2014, lee wrote: > That's an abuse of dependencies, and I consider it a bug. The package > management needs to take care of this itself. > > That shouldn't need to be installed when systemd isn't used. > > libselinux might then also fall under "abuse of dependencies". If a binary li

Re: Installing Debian remotely in an unmanaged VPS

I achieved success with this preseed: d-i debian-installer/localestring en_US d-i console-setup/ask_detect boolean false d-i console-setup/layoutcode select us d-i keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap select us d-i keyboard-configuration/toggle select No togglin

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

Don Armstrong writes: > Debian has packages which have dependencies on some of the libraries > that systemd provides. That's orthogonal to whether Debian requires > systemd to be PID 1 or not. Some people are phobic of the string "systemd". Rename systemd-shim pid1-shim. Rename libsystemd libmis

SCSI driver for use with Jessie: which one?

I found today that I don't have a scsi driver on my Jessie install. I search for 'scsi' in aptitude and see several competing packages. Which one is most likely to enable burning a new debian netinst CD today or tomorrow? I need to reinstall Jessie on a different host before this one crashes. I'm r

Re: Re: Keep using Debian without GNOME and SystemD

Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis: >> >> after spending two days trying unsuccesfuly to have a usable Jessie >> with one of the defaults DE and with no systemd utilities, i decided >> the following. In the companie's pc's i support, i'll continue with >> Wheezy and if there is no a clear path to Jess

Re: Check whether an update for a particular package is available without upgrading

> On a Wheezy system, I have used aptitude exclusively for > updates/upgrades, etc. Looking for a command line option to use with > aptitude to check whether updates are available for a single arbitrary > package, e.g. "debian-reference-en" for example. > Have searched the WWW and man pages wit

Re: SCSI driver for use with Jessie: which one?

On 26/10/14 09:33 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: I found today that I don't have a scsi driver on my Jessie install. I search for 'scsi' in aptitude and see several competing packages. Which one is most likely to enable burning a new debian netinst CD today or tomorrow? I need to reinstall Jessie on a

debian-installer grub install problem

I need to install wheezy via pxe boot to many (hundreds) of systems. The problem I am currently running into in my testing is that my boot drive is enumerated by udev as /dev/sdat in many of those systems, and the grub-install routine inside debian-installer will not install to that device...

Re: Monitor does not turn on after suspend

On 26/10/14 21:26, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 21:27:07 +1100 > Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> On 19/10/14 02:54, Marko Ranđelović wrote: >>> I use Wheezy on desktop computer. I use vesa driver for X because radeon is >>> not working. After pm-suspend command, computer is like turn

Re: SCSI driver for use with Jessie: which one? [Solved]

On 20141026_2314-0400, Gary Dale wrote: > On 26/10/14 09:33 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > >I found today that I don't have a scsi driver on my Jessie install. > >I search for 'scsi' in aptitude and see several competing packages. > >Which one is most likely to enable burning a new debian netinst CD >

Re: iceweasel "Video can't be played because the file is corrupt"

On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 08:41:11PM +0100, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: > On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 19:23:13 +, > Brad Rogers wrote: > > >On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 18:56:12 + > >"St-Laurent, Pierre" wrote: > > > >Hello Pierre, > > > >>Thanks Brad for giving it a try. > > > >You're welcome. > > > >>I think