Re: bewildering boot problem -- a little more info

2015-10-05 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Oct 04, 2015 at 06:14:44PM -0600, Glenn English wrote: > I disabled XDM (sure is nice to have text config files) and rebooted. It came > up at a regular login prompt, and no error messages. startx took a *very* > long time -- said it couldn't

Re: bewildering boot problem -- a little more info

2015-10-05 Thread Glenn English
On Oct 5, 2015, at 1:04 AM, wrote: > All those 30-ish seconds timeout and the error message you mention > above smell of something trying to resolve a host name, failing > and giving up (timeout). Yup. The timeouts do, anyway. The error messages from the kernel when I start XFCE never time ou

error check sum

2015-10-05 Thread Abdelkader Belahcene
Hi, I install a mirror on my server 172.17.11.85 with apt-mirror from a machine ( the server itself ), apt-get update works correctly from another machine (remote machine), I got error on some directory and not in others , here is the output: OK: Atteint ftp://172.17.11.85 jessie-backports/non

Re: uprading from squeeze to jessie

2015-10-05 Thread ikuzar RABE
Hi all, Thank you for your responses. I finallly did it step by step (Squeeze -> Wheezy -> Jessie). I had looked for a "short" way to upgrade from Squeeze to Jessie but it was not a good idea. 2015-09-11 22:41 GMT+02:00 Cindy-Sue Causey : > On 9/11/15, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting ikuzar RAB

install Debian using qemu - fail

2015-10-05 Thread Stanislaw Findeisen
Hi I am trying to install Debian in file, using QEMU and following this guide: https://wiki.debian.org/QEMU . I do this: $ qemu-img create debian.img 2G Formatting 'debian.img', fmt=raw size=2147483648 $ qemu-system-x86_64 -smp 2 -hda ./debian.img -cdrom ../debian-8.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso -boo

OpenVPN fails

2015-10-05 Thread Tony van der Hoff
Hi, I have a VPS running up to date wheezy, with an OpenVPN server, and a wheezy box at home running an OpenVPN client. this used to work fine last year. I haven't had cause to use it much recently, and I now find it's died. I don't know when, or what changed to cause the fault. It appears that t

Re: Persistence with apt-get

2015-10-05 Thread EenyMeenyMinyMoa
Hi, Richard. Thank you for your nice tip! > I think I would have tried for full persistence in your example with only one > line in the persistence.conf file of something like: > > echo "/ union" > /media/usb0/persistence.conf By only this single line in persistence.conf, installng various packag

Re: OpenVPN fails

2015-10-05 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 05/10/15 16:31, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 03:51:17PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a VPS running up to date wheezy, with an OpenVPN server, and a >> wheezy box at home running an OpenVPN client. this used to work fine >> last year. I haven't had c

Re: OpenVPN fails

2015-10-05 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 03:51:17PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Hi, > > I have a VPS running up to date wheezy, with an OpenVPN server, and a > wheezy box at home running an OpenVPN client. this used to work fine > last year. I haven't had cause to use it much recently, and I now

Re: OpenVPN fails

2015-10-05 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 04:46:01PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 05/10/15 16:31, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 03:51:17PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have a VPS running up to date wheezy, with an OpenVPN server, and a > >> wheezy box

Re: OpenVPN fails

2015-10-05 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 05/10/15 17:05, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 04:46:01PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> On 05/10/15 16:31, Reco wrote: >>> Hi. >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 03:51:17PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Hi, I have a VPS running up to date wheezy, with an O

Re: OpenVPN fails

2015-10-05 Thread Reco
On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 05:17:49PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > >> Thanks for the quick response, Reco. > >> > >> 1. Kernel is stock wheezy: > >> 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.57-3+deb7u2 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > > > But very old one. Current one is 3.2.68-1+deb7u4. > > > > It's a shot in th

Re: install Debian using qemu - fail

2015-10-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, replaying your commands i successfully went through the installation of a system without desktop software. I was able to log in as root and to shut down. The stage "Select and install software" is the first one which causes substantial internet traffic. Up to what percentage does it get ? Do

Re: install Debian using qemu - fail

2015-10-05 Thread S. Findeisen
On 2015-10-05 18:47, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > replaying your commands i successfully went through the > installation of a system without desktop software. > I was able to log in as root and to shut down. Maybe that's the point? I selected XFCE. Is there anything special I have to do to be able to i

Re: OpenVPN fails

2015-10-05 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 05/10/15 17:38, Reco wrote: > On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 05:17:49PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Thanks for the quick response, Reco. 1. Kernel is stock wheezy: 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.57-3+deb7u2 x86_64 GNU/Linux >>> >>> But very old one. Current one is 3.2.68-1+de

Re: OpenVPN fails

2015-10-05 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 06:15:58PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 05/10/15 17:38, Reco wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 05:17:49PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > Thanks for the quick response, Reco. > > 1. Kernel is stock wheezy: > 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP

Re: bewildering boot problem -- a little more info

2015-10-05 Thread Glenn English
On Oct 5, 2015, at 1:04 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Then try "ssh @localhost". Works, kinda. It does the same thing to localhost or the hostname, from the console or from a terminal in XFCE. (I've got SSH running with keys around the local net(s) (no login required)). The MOTD comes up right

Re: install Debian using qemu - fail

2015-10-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > installation of a system without desktop software. S. Findeisen wrote: > Maybe that's the point? I selected XFCE. Is there anything special I > have to do to be able to install and use graphical software? Dunno. I now try with kvm support about 10 times faster and half the CPU l

Re: bewildering boot problem -- a little more info

2015-10-05 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 11:53:06AM -0600, Glenn English wrote: > > On Oct 5, 2015, at 1:04 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > Then try "ssh @localhost". > > Works, kinda. It does the same thing to localhost or the hostname, from the > console or fro

Re: bewildering boot problem

2015-10-05 Thread rlharris
On Mon, October 5, 2015 12:53 pm, Glenn English wrote: > It seems to me that there's a networking problem, but > intermittent and from several directions. I don't understand it at all. > > Maybe it's hardware... Have you had a lightning storm in the area recently? And is everything connected to t

Re: bewildering boot problem -- a little more info

2015-10-05 Thread Felix Miata
Glenn English composed on 2015-10-04 18:14 (UTC-0600): > I disabled XDM (sure is nice to have text config files) and rebooted. It > came up at a regular login prompt, and no error messages. startx took a > *very* long time -- said it couldn't find the hostname (something like > that) -- but it eve

Re: OpenVPN fails

2015-10-05 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
On 10/5/2015 12:05 PM, Reco wrote: >> 2. I don't know when 3.2.0-4 was released; I suspect the answer is yes. >> >> 3. many reboots; the last one earlier today. >> >> I note bug=767836 describes this problem, but appears closed with 3.2.0-4 > It was closed because the problem was not in the kerne

Re: OpenVPN fails

2015-10-05 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
Actually I went back and it's not the region that is the factor... It is the image that was used to build the droplets. The Debian 7.0 images all require the kernel to be set in the control panel. Even though I've upgraded a few of those to 8.x so looks like I need to just rebuild them (thank goodn

Advertising and commercial services in free software

2015-10-05 Thread Timothy Hobbs
Dear list, I have used Debian for many years now, and I have come to trust it as a source of software that is safe. That is, the software that I install with apt-get is not spy-ware, nor ad-ware, nor malicious in any other way. I also have had the overwhelming feeling that the software is "on

Re: Advertising and commercial services in free software

2015-10-05 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2015-10-05 at 20:58 +0200, Timothy Hobbs wrote: > Lately, I feel that this trust has been violated. Most notably, by > the > addition of advertisements to iceweasel's new tab page. > http://timothy.hobbs.cz/iceweasel-ads.png See the "Booking.com" > sponsored link. AFAICT that's a bug:

Re: Sound card question

2015-10-05 Thread Stuart Longland
On 04/10/15 10:22, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: >> This also lets you adjust volume levels so that you don't overdrive the >> > input on the transceiver. Nothing worse than a contact with a garbled >> > station because the microphone input is being overdriven. > All that is needed for monitoring is

Update-alternatives errors when installing clang or ghc

2015-10-05 Thread ThanhVu (Vu) Nguyen
When doing apt-get install clang (or ghc) on Debian Jessie 8 , I got the following errors with update-alternatives. Is there something wrong with my update-alternatives installation ? ... Setting up ghc (7.6.3-21) ... update-alternatives: error: alternative path /usr/bin/runghc doesn't exist

Re: Advertising and commercial services in free software

2015-10-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 05 October 2015 19:58:19 Timothy Hobbs wrote: > Lately, I feel that this trust has been violated. Most notably, by the > addition of advertisements to iceweasel's new tab page. > http://timothy.hobbs.cz/iceweasel-ads.png See the "Booking.com" > sponsored link. I don't see that. Do other

Re: Advertising and commercial services in free software

2015-10-05 Thread Peter Ludikovsky
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, > Lately, I feel that this trust has been violated. Most notably, by > the addition of advertisements to iceweasel's new tab page. > http://timothy.hobbs.cz/iceweasel-ads.png See the "Booking.com" > sponsored link. Apparently, that's a bug: htt

Re: bewildering boot problem -- a little more info

2015-10-05 Thread Glenn English
On Oct 5, 2015, at 11:53 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Hmm. Weird. I dimly remember that tcpwrappers did something > similar: to check the host name they sometimes tried a > reverse host lookup, which took its time when it failed. I've never seen or heard of anything like this -- the kernel comp

Re: Advertising and commercial services in free software

2015-10-05 Thread Seeker
On 10/5/2015 11:58 AM, Timothy Hobbs wrote: Dear list, I have used Debian for many years now, and I have come to trust it as a source of software that is safe. That is, the software that I install with apt-get is not spy-ware, nor ad-ware, nor malicious in any other way. I also have had the

Re: bewildering boot problem

2015-10-05 Thread Glenn English
On Oct 5, 2015, at 12:45 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Mon, October 5, 2015 12:53 pm, Glenn English wrote: >> Maybe it's hardware... It wasn't. A new install fixed everything. > Have you had a lightning storm in the area recently? Yeah. That's common in Colorado. > And is everything

Re: bewildering boot problem -- a little more info

2015-10-05 Thread Glenn English
On Oct 5, 2015, at 12:51 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > Do you have an entry in /etc/hosts matching your actual IP to the content in > /etc/hostname when you observe this delay? Yup. I rely on the host files, so I keep then correct and accurate. -- Glenn English

Re: Advertising and commercial services in free software

2015-10-05 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Lisi Reisz writes: > On Monday 05 October 2015 19:58:19 Timothy Hobbs wrote: >> Lately, I feel that this trust has been violated. Most notably, by the >> addition of advertisements to iceweasel's new tab page. >> http://timothy.hobbs.cz/iceweasel-ads.png See the "Booking.com" >> sponsored lin

Re: bewildering boot problem -- a little more info

2015-10-05 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 11:05:20PM -0600, Glenn English wrote: [...] > > Hmmm. Sorry to be so unspecific. > > No prob. Everybody's happy now. I just have some data to copy over from the > old disk. At least it wasn't the hardware... In any case, g