System Dorked -- Help!

After being warned of impending failure of my oldie but goodie 80gig disk -- I had placed my root directory there because the installation's partition was too small and did this successfully -- I moved the root directory to a partition on another disk, edited files, ran lilo, seemingly successfu

Re: Google Chrome

Chromium has not supported chromevox for some time now. I wonder if it's even useable with orca turned on. On Wed, 21 Oct 2015, moxalt wrote: Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 22:25:45 From: moxalt To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Google Chrome Resent-Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 02:26:08 +

Re: System Dorked -- Help!

- Original Message -From: d_ba...@012.net.ilDate: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 10:24 amSubject: System Dorked -- Help!To: debian-user@lists.debian.org> After being warned of impending failure of my oldie but goodie 80gig disk -- I had placed my root directory there because the installati

Re: Reinstall Stretch - Returns to Grub

Hi. On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 03:31:49PM -0700, ray wrote: > Reco, > > Thank you for the info. Can you suggest how this can help resolve the issue? Install either grub-efi-amd64 or grub-efi-ia32 (not both, choose one of these according to UEFI used in the laptop). Disable BIOS compatibili

Re: Backup solutions without reinventig the wheel these days

--lnk-dest is a nice feature of rsync, however, it would require me to write yet another custom script that so many people already have and reinvent the wheel again. I'm trying to find a ready and time-tested and maintained solution before I go down that path. The rsynch handler in backupninja does

Re: Backup solutions without reinventig the wheel these days

Yes, we do use pretty much the setup you describe, i.e. rsync push to backup server, btrfs volume with daily snapshot subvolumes on the server. This particular setup has been in use for more than two years by now, and is working well with 8-10 servers (totals for all backed-up

Re: Backup solutions without reinventig the wheel these days

On Qua, 21 Out 2015, Ondřej Grover wrote: --lnk-dest is a nice feature of rsync, however, it would require me to write yet another custom script that so many people already have and reinvent the wheel again. I'm trying to find a ready and time-tested and maintained solution before I go down that

Re: Backup solutions without reinventig the wheel these days

On 10/21/2015 01:17 PM, mourik jan heupink wrote: This sounds exactly as the solution we're using. Only we backup up to a freenas device, using rsync, zfs and it's snapshots. Using 4*6TB WD disks in a raidz2 config. Allowing for two disks to die at the same time without data loss. The freenas

macbook pro - new install - issues

Hi First of all, I'm a new debian user. I've recently installed debian jessie on my macbookpro 8,2 from 2011. I installed the system using debootstrap from another ubuntu install in the same computer. I have the system running, but I have some issues, the first of which is critical, without fixi

Re: make system boot straight to browser connection

Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 08:20:05AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 19 October 2015 04:55:46 Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 05:21:53PM -0500, David Wright wrote: Ok, that's clarified, I think, what you mean by DE. You want (I'm guessing) a machine to c

Re: make system boot straight to browser connection

It occurs to me that, if one really wants to keep a user from mucking with the rest of one's computer (e.g., in a kiosk mode) - one might consider booting into a hypervisor (e.g., virtualbox) which in turn boots a very restricted virtual machine, set to autostart a browser. Miles Fidelman Ric

Re: System Dorked -- Help!

- Original Message -From: d_ba...@012.net.ilDate: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 11:18 amSubject: Re: System Dorked -- Help!To: debian-user@lists.debian.org> - Original Message -> From: d_ba...@012.net.il> Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 10:24 am> Subject: System Dorked -- Help!>

Re: System Dorked -- Help!

On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 16:32:40 +0300 d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: > - Original Message -From: d_ba...@012.net.ilDate: Wednesday, October > 21, 2015 11:18 amSubject: Re: System Dorked -- Help!To: > >debian-user@lists.debian.org> - Original Message -> From: > d_ba...@012.net.il> Date:

Re: Backup solutions without reinventig the wheel these days

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 11:32:06AM +0200, Ondřej Grover wrote: > --lnk-dest is a nice feature of rsync, however, it would require me to > write yet another custom script that so many people already have and > reinvent the wheel again. I'm trying to find a ready and time-tested and > maintained solu

Regarding language display issues

I am having trouble viewing webpages and text written in regional languages. Possibly, I need the right fonts but have no idea how to get the thing implemented. Details: Browser : Chromium, Iceweasel, and Google Chrome Stable Languages tried : Indian languages - Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, etc. as wel

Re: System Dorked -- Help!

On 21/10/15 14:56, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 16:32:40 +0300 d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: - Original Message -From: d_ba...@012.net.ilDate: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 11:18 amSubject: Re: System Dorked -- Help!To: >debian-user@lists.debian.org> - Original Message

Re: Regarding language display issues

Himanshu Shekhar: > > I am having trouble viewing webpages and text written in regional > languages. Possibly, I need the right fonts but have no idea how to get the > thing implemented. Just use your friendly package manager to find the right fonts to install: $ apt-cache search font tamil fonts

Re: System Dorked -- Help!

On Wednesday 21 October 2015 09:56:18 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 16:32:40 +0300 > > d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: > > - Original Message -From: d_ba...@012.net.ilDate: Wednesday, > > October 21, 2015 11:18 amSubject: Re: System Dorked -- Help!To: > > >debian-user@lists.debian

Re: System Dorked -- Help!

On Wednesday 21 October 2015 10:13:21 Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 21/10/15 14:56, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 16:32:40 +0300 > > > > d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: > >> - Original Message -From: d_ba...@012.net.ilDate: > >> Wednesday, October 21, 2015 11:18 amSubject:

Re: System Dorked -- Help!

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 10:14:05AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 21 October 2015 09:56:18 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > > On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 16:32:40 +0300 > > > > d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: > > > - Original Message -From: d_ba...@012.net.ilDate: Wednesday, > > > October 21, 2015

Re: Backup solutions without reinventig the wheel these days

On 10/21/2015 05:32 AM, Ondřej Grover wrote: > [...] > Your btrfs setup sounds interesting, Sarunas. Are you running those > btrfs volumes on Jessie? Any stability issues? Do you think it could > work with just 1GB RAM + 1 GB swap? I was thinking about doing > out-of-band deduplication to conserve

Re: Regarding language display issues

Himanshu Shekhar wrote: I am having trouble viewing webpages and text written in regional languages. Possibly, I need the right fonts but have no idea how to get the thing implemented. A starting point for adding fonts to a Debian installation would be: https://wiki.debian.org/Fonts htt

Re: Backup solutions without reinventig the wheel these days

I could try to request a RAM upgrade (not super easy in uni environment, but doable), but it goes against my understanding of what a storage server is. In my book, a storage server needs fast IO capabilities (storage drives and NIC) and possibly CPU for compression. Deduplication is the only reason

Re: System Dorked -- Help!

On Wednesday 21 October 2015 10:35:25 Darac Marjal wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 10:14:05AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 21 October 2015 09:56:18 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > > On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 16:32:40 +0300 > > > > > > d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: > > > > - Original Message -

Re: Backup solutions without reinventig the wheel these days

On 10/21/2015 10:47 AM, Ondřej Grover wrote: > I could try to request a RAM upgrade (not super easy in uni environment, > but doable), but it goes against my understanding of what a storage > server is. In my book, a storage server needs fast IO capabilities > (storage drives and NIC) and possibly

Thread dorked. Was: Re: System Dorked -- Help!

Hi, as a bystander i must say that the involved mail clients invest much effort in making this thread a mess. In the archives, the initial message is quite readable but with seriously oversized lines: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/10/msg01079.html The two follow-ups by the original

Re: macbook pro - new install - issues

Miguel Negrão friendlyvirus.org> writes: > 1 - This mac has a portuguese keyboard layout. The portuguese keyboard > layout is not working on gnome and gdm. Although it appears in the list of > keyboard layouts on the top right corner in gdm, typing in the keyboard > always outputs characters acco

Re: How to run 'vnstat' as user?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 02:19:35PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 11:44:41AM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > writes: > > [...] > > > > Still confused here. What's the content of this "eth0" file? > > > > > Its a binary file

Debian 8.2 RAID conf. problem

Hi, I have a problem with install debian. When I trying to install the Debian 8.2 with RAID1 configuration it does NOT add bootable flag in guided partitioning mode. It Doesn't on option. Please help me.. I have two ssd disks(240gb). I want to make RAID1 configuration. Erdal DAĞHAN

Re: vino/gdm3 keyboard problem

2015-10-20 22:14 GMT+02:00 Sven Arvidsson : Hi Sven, Thanks for your reply! > This sounds like gdm might be crashing? This made me found this: Oct 21 08:25:32 linuxsentinel01 gnome-session[862]: (gnome-shell:1092): Gjs-WARNING **: JS ERROR: Failed to open reauthentication channel: Gio.DBusErro

Re: Thread dorked. (was: Re: System Dorked -- Help!)

Gene Heskett composed on 2015-10-21 10:53 (UTC-0400): >> > > Quoting the relevant query: "So what can I do about this?" >> > > Send properly formatted mail, so it is legible ? >> > +1, this stuff isn't readable. Readable as in legible, yes, but an unintelligible mess, so not really readable. >

Re: vino/gdm3 keyboard problem

On Wed, 2015-10-21 at 18:28 +0200, Martin Herrman wrote: > Oct 21 08:25:32 linuxsentinel01 gnome-session[862]: > (gnome-shell:1092): Gjs-WARNING **: JS ERROR: Failed to open > reauthentication channel: Gio.DBusError: > GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: No session > available > Oc

Re: System Dorked -- Help

Version without any markup-interpreted markings- Original Message -From: Renaud OLGIATI (Ron)Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 4:58 pmSubject: Re: System Dorked -- Help!To: debian-user@lists.debian.orgOn Wed, 21 Oct 2015 16:32:40 +0300d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: - Original Message -

Re: Debian 8.2 RAID conf. problem

On 21/10/15 17:35, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: El 21/10/15 a las 11:11, erdal daghan escribió: Hi, I have a problem with install debian. When I trying to install the Debian 8.2 with RAID1 configuration it does NOT add bootable flag in guided partitioning mode. It Doesn't on option. The probl

Re: 64bit run on mips64r2

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 10:47:23AM +0300, Mehmet CELIK wrote: > I understand Tomas :)) Its not true method (amd64 binary in mips64) But there seems to be something for MIPS32: (trying to emulate a 6

Whitelist security.debian.org

I have a firewall with some whitelisted addresses for the kids, one of them is security.debian.org. The firewall flushes the tables with fresh IP addresses using a scripted cronjob with a nslookup that pulls the addresses and automatically adds them to the whitelist. Doing a nslookup on the firew

Re: Debian 8.2 RAID conf. problem

El 21/10/15 a las 11:11, erdal daghan escribió: Hi, I have a problem with install debian. When I trying to install the Debian 8.2 with RAID1 configuration it does NOT add bootable flag in guided partitioning mode. It Doesn't on option. The problem seems to be your perception, not Debian. Why d

Re: Thread dorked. (was: Re: System Dorked -- Help!)

I apologize for any unreadable gibberish. It does not look like that here, only in quoted replies from the thread. Due to the system dorked problem, I am stuck on the live distro. I can only sensibly due email from the provider's mail site. Those gt signs which are really what is fowling things

Re: System Dorked -- Help!

Version without any markup-interpreted markings and should!! be formatted as plain text. Mail site composer box highlights the alternative rather than actual option as it is a link (to a script?). Sorry for any inconvenience. - Original Message - From: Renaud OLGIATI (Ron) Date: Wednesd

Re: Thread dorked. Was: Re: System Dorked -- Help!

Quoting Thomas Schmitt (scdbac...@gmx.net): > as a bystander i must say that the involved mail clients > invest much effort in making this thread a mess. > > In the archives, the initial message is quite readable > but with seriously oversized lines: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/1

Re: System Dorked -- Help!

d_ba...@012.net.il composed on 2015-10-21 20:45 (UTC+0300): > ...So what can I do about this? I'm unable to follow what happened due to lack of partition and disk details. Maybe others who would try to help have the same problem. Provide output from fdisk -l or gdisk -l and maybe the help limitat

Re: Whitelist security.debian.org

Quoting Greencopper (greencopperm...@gmail.com): > I have a firewall with some whitelisted addresses for the kids, one of them is > security.debian.org. > > The firewall flushes the tables with fresh IP addresses using a scripted > cronjob with a nslookup that pulls the addresses and automatically

Re: Whitelist security.debian.org

On Oct 21, 2015, at 12:34 PM, David Wright wrote: >> # nslookup security.debian.org >> Non-authoritative answer: >> Name: security.debian.org >> Address: 212.211.132.32 >> Name: security.debian.org >> Address: 195.20.242.89 >> Name: security.debian.org >> Address: 212.211.132.250 > > My w

Re: Whitelist security.debian.org

On 10/21/2015 09:47 PM, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: >... > There seems to be a geographical dependent load balancing DNS server for > security.debian.org; maybe that is the source of the OP's problem. From > Mexico I get this: > ... I, too, get different answers depending on the country I check f

WiFi Router doesn't give internet connection to other devices when debian pc is connected.

Thread dorked. Was: Re: System Dorked -- Help!

Hi, d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: > I apologize for any unreadable gibberish. It does not look like that here, > only in quoted replies from the thread. It seems to become consensus that several different mail clients were needed to mess it up. So it seems wise to just give them all no chance by usin

Re: Debian 8.2 RAID conf. problem

Mario Castelán Castro a écrit : > El 21/10/15 a las 11:11, erdal daghan escribió: >> >> I have a problem with install debian. When I trying to install the Debian >> 8.2 with RAID1 configuration it does NOT add bootable flag in guided >> partitioning mode. It Doesn't on option. > > The problem seem

Re: System Dorked -- Help!

Hi, Disclaimer: I am much more programmer than sysadmin. d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: > I had been running an up-to-date Sid so > maybe that is the problem. The lilo is on the partition, It is unusual to combine Debian Sid with bootloader LILO. Installation plants GRUB2 by default. I never install

Re: Whitelist security.debian.org

Greencopper a écrit : > > Doing a nslookup on the firewall and on the kids boxes provides the same IP > addresses for security.debian.org: > > # nslookup security.debian.org > Non-authoritative answer: > Name: security.debian.org > Address: 212.211.132.32 > Name: security.debian.org > Address

Re: System Dorked -- Help!

- Original Message - From: Thomas Schmitt Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 10:31 pm Subject: Re: System Dorked -- Help! To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Hi, > > Disclaimer: I am much more programmer than sysadmin. > > d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: > > I had been running an up-to-date S

Re: Whitelist security.debian.org

There seems to be some geographically El 21/10/15 a las 13:34, David Wright escribió: Quoting Greencopper (greencopperm...@gmail.com): I have a firewall with some whitelisted addresses for the kids, one of them is security.debian.org. The firewall flushes the tables with fresh IP addresses usi

Re: suspend and hibernate on acer s7

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello I also try to use Reportbug but I'm not sure what package/category should I must use. thanks in advance ! El 19/10/15 a las 23:31, lupa escribió: > > Hello all, > > I installed Debian since 10 years not using it. And I'm surprised: > almost

Re: System Dorked -- Help!

Hi, > Hope all those >'s do not foul this up. No danger. The only problem with ">" is the dreaded ">From" mailbox escape which might be confused with ">From" meant as quote. > I am using a Debian live CD. So that Kali business comes from there but is > nowhere shown when running of the CD. Str

Re: Tracking down memory leaks

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 13/10/15 15:26, Marc Shapiro wrote: > So how do I tell what is using up the memory and not freeing it up? > Is there a way to free that memory without having to reboot? ps -eo pid --sort rss | tail -1 | xargs sudo strace -fp would show what the

Re: Tracking down memory leaks

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 18/10/15 20:53, Don Armstrong wrote: > a plugin or add-on which is buggy I second that. I have this issue with a bug in a thunderbird plugin, goes crazy and eats the memory. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJWKARTA

Re: Tracking down memory leaks

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 13/10/15 15:26, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Is there a way to free that memory without having to reboot? yep, typically when your machine goes super slow due to memory you can always drop to a tty ps and kill the process which will bring your machine b

installing/using grub-legacy

All my many installations are seriously multiboot, with typically no less than 10 distro installations within a HD's first year of use, and upwards of 30 partitions as HD warranty becomes a distant memory. In order to Keep It (multiboot) Stupidly Simple, most booting here is via Grub 0.97.x. So as

Re: System Dorked -- Help!

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 10:32 PM, wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: d_ba...@012.net.il > Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 11:18 am > Subject: Re: System Dorked -- Help! > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >> - Original Message - >> From: d_ba...@012.net.il >> Date: Wednesd

Re: WiFi Router doesn't give internet connection to other devices when debian pc is connected.

I think may be some conflicts with IP is happen. Make sure that in the network manager (in GUI) and for Wi-Fi connection ipv4 and ipv6 is set to automatic. On October 21, 2015 9:33:38 PM GMT+03:30, Pavan Kumar wrote: >When I connect my Debian PC to my WiFi router my PC doesn't get >internet if

Re: Mailing lists, CC, followup-to, netiquette and all the rest [was: direct ethernet connection between computer and printer]

One comment to the thread subject, rather than to any particular post. We would do well to remember that trying to participate in a mailing list or a newsgroup with an MUA is an inherent contradiction in purpose. Put another way, ordinary e-mail and postings to newsgroups and mailing lists are tw

Re: installing/using grub-legacy

Quoting Felix Miata (mrma...@earthlink.net): > All my many installations are seriously multiboot, with typically no less > than 10 distro installations within a HD's first year of use, and upwards of > 30 partitions as HD warranty becomes a distant memory. > > In order to Keep It (multiboot) Stupi

Re: Whitelist security.debian.org

>> Doing a nslookup on the firewall and on the kids boxes provides the same IP >> addresses for security.debian.org: >> >> # nslookup security.debian.org >> Non-authoritative answer: >> Name: security.debian.org >> Address: 212.211.132.32 >> Name: security.debian.org >> Address: 195.20.242.89 >

Re: Whitelist security.debian.org

This is actually getting very frustrating! Doing a nslookup specifying the DNS server provides different results when done minutes apart! $ nslookup security.debian.org 208.67.222.222 Server:208.67.222.222 Address:208.67.222.222#53 Non-authoritative answer: Name:security.debian.o

Fwd: Re: WiFi Router doesn't give internet connection to other devices when debian pc is connected.

-- Forwarded message --From: Pavan Kumar Date: 22-Oct-2015 7:31 amSubject: Re: WiFi Router doesn't give internet connection to other devices when debian pc is connected.To: "Amir H. Firouziyan" Cc: I have it set to automatic already. On 22-Oct-2015 5:35 am, "Amir H. Firouziyan" wro

Re: Fwd: Re: WiFi Router doesn't give internet connection to other devices when debian pc is connected.

Thanks for the help I have set everything to automatic and all other devices work properly. On 22-Oct-2015 7:38 am, Pavan Kumar wrote:-- Forwarded message --From: Pavan Kumar Date: 22-Oct-2015 7:31 amSubject: Re: WiFi Router doesn't give internet connection to other devices when de

Reporting Bug

There appears to be a bug which has Plagued me for years. Oddly I don't have the bug in Linux Mint. Did they edit this part of the installer? My name contains an apostrophe, which causes the Debian installer to not create my user account. Long time ago when I tried to seek help via IRC was tol

Re: Backup solutions without reinventig the wheel these days

Thank you Sarunas for the graphs, it is most illuminating. That's pretty much how I imagine a storage server should behave. Atomic snapshots are very appealing indeed. In my case cp -lr or --link-dest solutions would take a long time as the FS hierarchy is both very broad and deep. So far it seems