What is the equivalent of the "/sbin/autoboot" command from for ppc64 Macintosh

2017-02-23 Thread Rick Thomas
On powerpc (32-bit) machines, the Debian powerpc-utils package provides the /sbin/autoboot command, which sets the machine’s pmu (power management unit?) chip to automatically reboot it after a power failure. For 64-bit machines, such as the PowerMac G5, Apple replaced the pmu by the smu (syst

Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration

2017-02-23 Thread Richard Hector
On 22/02/17 21:18, Lucio Crusca wrote: > Here is how I copied the disk contents over the SDD. > I booted a live Ubuntu from CD media, checked with fdisk that every > partition is starting 4K aligned and used the following command to copy > the disk contents: > > dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb status=p

Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration

2017-02-23 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 07:53:45AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 04:35:16PM +0100, Lucio Crusca wrote: > > Il 22/02/2017 15:39, Eero Volotinen ha scritto: > > >Try using clonezilla: http://clonezilla.org/ > > > > I can try, but

Re: Attempt to run debootstrap

2017-02-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 22 February 2017 16:14:28 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > (GUI) packages such as aptitude Hey! aptitude has got a TUI, but *not* a GUI, and many of us run it on the command line. Lisi

Re: Attempt to run debootstrap

2017-02-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 22 February 2017 17:32:46 Richard Owlett wrote: > Learn to love apt-get. I does some things more conveniently than a GUI > can. YMMV ;! aptitude is great on the command line. And does some things (but not all) more conveniently than apt-get. Besides, it is NOT a GUI application. It

Re: Attempt to run debootstrap

2017-02-23 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 10:58:49AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 22 February 2017 17:32:46 Richard Owlett wrote: > > Learn to love apt-get. I does some things more conveniently than a GUI > > can. YMMV ;! > > aptitude is great on the command

Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migrationy

2017-02-23 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 11:25:43AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 07:53:45AM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 04:35:16PM +0100, Lucio Crusca wrote: > > > Il 22/02/2017 15:39, Eero Volotinen ha scritto: > > > >Try using clonezilla: http://clonezilla.o

Re: Attempt to run debootstrap

2017-02-23 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 10:58:49AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 22 February 2017 17:32:46 Richard Owlett wrote: > > Learn to love apt-get. I does some things more conveniently than a GUI > > can. YMMV ;! > > aptitude is great on the command line. And does some things (but not all) > m

Re: Secure Boot won't let boot into Debian

2017-02-23 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 09:40:57PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi all. > > I frehly installed Debian Sid in dual boot with Windows 10 on my brand new > Lenovo desktop pc but it won't boot into Debian system I suspect because of > the > new Secure Boot policy. I want to disable it but the prob

Re: Secure Boot won't let boot into Debian

2017-02-23 Thread Eero Volotinen
UBuntu supports secure boot, if you cannot disable it from bios. Eero 2017-02-22 23:40 GMT+02:00 Rodolfo Medina : > Hi all. > > I frehly installed Debian Sid in dual boot with Windows 10 on my brand new > Lenovo desktop pc but it won't boot into Debian system I suspect because > of the > new Sec

debian on a surface pro 2

2017-02-23 Thread Daniel Harris
Hello Just curious to see if anybody is running debian on a surface pro 2 and if so does everything work as expected and specifically does wifi work. I pretty much run stable but as testing is now frozen I would be willing to use testing until that becomes stable. Thanks Dan

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2017 #186

2017-02-23 Thread Michael Ryan
I have a MacBook Pro, Jessie dual-boot. The display will work fine if I close the lid to put it to sleep and then open the lid. No problems there. However, when I connect an external display I have problems with waking up the laptop screen. Here's the scenario: 1. Connect external display as seco

Re: Attempt to run debootstrap

2017-02-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 23 February 2017 06:10:44 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 10:58:49AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Wednesday 22 February 2017 17:32:46 Richard Owlett wrote: > > > Learn to love apt-get. I does some things more conveniently than a > > > GUI can. YMMV ;! > > > > aptit

Re: Attempt to run debootstrap

2017-02-23 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 08:21:43AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 23 February 2017 06:10:44 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 10:58:49AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Wednesday 22 February 2017 17:32:46 Richard Owlett

Re: Attempt to run debootstrap

2017-02-23 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 08:21:43AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 23 February 2017 06:10:44 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 10:58:49AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 22 February 2017 17:32:46 Richard Owlett wrote: > > Learn to love apt-get. I does some things mo

Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration

2017-02-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
> The HDD is a Seagate 250GB 7200rpm, the SDD is a Samsung 250GB EVO 850. > The total capacity matches exactly. You mean they really have *exactly* the same number of blocs? > dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb status=progress bs=4K FWIW, after doing that, I'd recommend you look at the partition table,

Re: bug report

2017-02-23 Thread Thibault Roulet
Hi, It's working fine on windows. I had also the same problem with another USB3 docking, a cheapest one, different brand but the chip inside was probably the same one. Cheers, Thibault On 02/22/2017 03:48 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 09:28:23AM +0100, Thibault Roulet wrote:

Re: Secure Boot won't let boot into Debian

2017-02-23 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Eero Volotinen writes: > UBuntu supports secure boot, if you cannot disable it from bios. > > Eero > > 2017-02-22 23:40 GMT+02:00 Rodolfo Medina : > > Hi all. > > I frehly installed Debian Sid in dual boot with Windows 10 on my brand > new Lenovo desktop pc but it won't boot into

Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration

2017-02-23 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 09:18:26AM +0100, Lucio Crusca wrote: > dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb status=progress bs=4K Why did you decide to do a block-level copy, rather than file-level? Too many partitions/LVM volumes/etc? Personally I'd always recommend a file-level copy, using something like rsync,

Re: Using source packages to bring some programs up to latest version

2017-02-23 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 11:11:27PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > The only thing I'd add here is that in this case, I'd create a dummy > Debian package with no contents but an appropriate version number and > dependencies, and install it, so the system knows it is there and the > dependent librar

Re: CUPS in stretch does NOT WORK - Ricoh printer SP112 SP112-su

2017-02-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 04 February 2017 23:04:00 Roba wrote: > Brian: > > On Sat 04 Feb 2017 at 14:55:18 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > >> Indulge us, and add a line to your cupsd.conf as follows: > >> > >> Listen localhost:631 > >> > >> and restart CUPS and see what happens. > > > > It would solve his problem

Re: Secure Boot won't let boot into Debian

2017-02-23 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Mark Fletcher writes: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 09:40:57PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> Hi all. >> >> I frehly installed Debian Sid in dual boot with Windows 10 on my brand new >> Lenovo desktop pc but it won't boot into Debian system I suspect because of >> the new Secure Boot policy. I wan

Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration

2017-02-23 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 02:27:51PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 09:18:26AM +0100, Lucio Crusca wrote: > > dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb status=progress bs=4K > > Why did you decide to do a block-level copy, rather than file-le

Re: how to compute predictable network interface names?

2017-02-23 Thread Harald Dunkel
On 02/16/2017 12:47 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: > > On a system with predictable names running? Or on a system > pre-upgrade? > Its more "pre-installation". I boot a USB stick and run my own installer (using debootstrap or creating a clone). The NIC name is needed to setup /etc/network/interface

Re: how to compute predictable network interface names?

2017-02-23 Thread Christian Seiler
On 02/23/2017 04:16 PM, Harald Dunkel wrote: > On 02/16/2017 12:47 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: >> >> On a system with predictable names running? Or on a system >> pre-upgrade? >> > > Its more "pre-installation". I boot a USB stick and run > my own installer (using debootstrap or creating a clone).

Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration

2017-02-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
> using something like rsync, which means no duplicate UUIDs, you aren't > spending time copying sectors that aren't referenced, the SSD gets > fewer write cycles and it can be interrupted and resumed. FWIW, copying files has its own form of overhead, so if the drive is reasonably filled, it'll be

Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration

2017-02-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
> among others "same UUID" (I know, I know), so no need to change fstab. Yuck! I recommend you stay away from UUIDs in your fstab. Instead name your partitions. If you use LVM (which you should do anyway for all kinds of other reasons) your volumes are already named anyway so there's nothing sp

Re: Attempt to run debootstrap

2017-02-23 Thread David Wright
On Thu 23 Feb 2017 at 08:21:43 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 23 February 2017 06:10:44 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 10:58:49AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Wednesday 22 February 2017 17:32:46 Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > Learn to love apt-get. I does som

Re: Secure Boot won't let boot into Debian

2017-02-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
rodolfo.med...@gmail.com wrote: >Hi all. > >I frehly installed Debian Sid in dual boot with Windows 10 on my brand new >Lenovo desktop pc but it won't boot into Debian system I suspect because of the >new Secure Boot policy. I want to disable it but the problem is that there's >no Secure Boot opti

User Can Not Log In

2017-02-23 Thread Dan Norton
While playing around with Xfce, startx, and fvwm I've managed to clobber something such that the user can't log in. All attempts result in a fresh login box with my inputs removed. However, it is still possible to log in as root.I've tried passwd to no avail.I've tried editing /etc/shadow and remo

Re: how to compute predictable network interface names?

2017-02-23 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, Feb 23, 2017, at 10:16, Harald Dunkel wrote: > On 02/16/2017 12:47 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: > > > > On a system with predictable names running? Or on a system > > pre-upgrade? > > > > Its more "pre-installation". I boot a USB stick and run > my own installer (using debootstrap or crea

Re: Secure Boot won't let boot into Debian

2017-02-23 Thread Ric Moore
On 02/23/2017 11:50 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: rodolfo.med...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. I frehly installed Debian Sid in dual boot with Windows 10 on my brand new Lenovo desktop pc but it won't boot into Debian system I suspect because of the new Secure Boot policy. I want to disable it but the

Re: User Can Not Log In

2017-02-23 Thread Michael Milliman
On 02/23/2017 10:47 AM, Dan Norton wrote: While playing around with Xfce, startx, and fvwm I've managed to clobber something such that the user can't log in. All attempts result in a fresh login box with my inputs removed. However, it is still possible to log in as root. I've tried passwd t

Re: Secure Boot won't let boot into Debian

2017-02-23 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Steve McIntyre writes: > rodolfo.med...@gmail.com wrote: >>Hi all. >> >>I frehly installed Debian Sid in dual boot with Windows 10 on my brand new >>Lenovo desktop pc but it won't boot into Debian system I suspect because of >>the new Secure Boot policy. I want to disable it but the problem is t

Re: Secure Boot won't let boot into Debian

2017-02-23 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 23/02/2017 à 15:26, Rodolfo Medina a écrit : I frehly installed Debian Sid in dual boot with Windows 10 on my brand new Lenovo desktop pc but it won't boot into Debian system I suspect because of the new Secure Boot policy. (...) I installed Ubuntu but it won't boot into it eit

Re: Secure Boot won't let boot into Debian

2017-02-23 Thread GiaThnYgeia
On most Lenovo the boot menu is F12, see what this is telling you based on what you have. If F12 is not working, F11, or Fn according to this list https://craftedflash.com/info/how-boot-computer-from-usb-flash-drive should work Do you have a live linux dvd/usb Rescatux is relatively small and I be

Re: User Can Not Log In

2017-02-23 Thread GiaThnYgeia
Michael Milliman: > On 02/23/2017 10:47 AM, Dan Norton wrote: >> While playing around with Xfce, startx, and fvwm I've managed to >> clobber something such that the user can't log in. All attempts result >> in a fresh login box with my inputs removed. However, it is still >> possible to log in as r

Re: Secure Boot won't let boot into Debian

2017-02-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
rodolfo.med...@gmail.com wrote: >Steve McIntyre writes: >> rodolfo.med...@gmail.com wrote: >>>Hi all. >>> >>>I frehly installed Debian Sid in dual boot with Windows 10 on my brand new >>>Lenovo desktop pc but it won't boot into Debian system I suspect because of >>>the new Secure Boot policy. I w

Re: User Can Not Log In

2017-02-23 Thread Michael Milliman
On 02/23/2017 04:16 PM, GiaThnYgeia wrote: Michael Milliman: On 02/23/2017 10:47 AM, Dan Norton wrote: While playing around with Xfce, startx, and fvwm I've managed to clobber something such that the user can't log in. All attempts result in a fresh login box with my inputs removed. However,

Re: Freeipa on Wheezy 7.11

2017-02-23 Thread Philippe Clérié
On 02/17/2017 02:05 PM, Per Qvindesland wrote: Hi All Is there is an official way of installing freeipa-client on 7.11? judging from https://packages.qa.debian.org/f/freeipa.html then it looks like there is packages available, but I must admit I have no idea how to add that into /etc/apt/sour

Re: Secure Boot won't let boot into Debian

2017-02-23 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 24/02/2017 à 01:32, Steve McIntyre a écrit : Alternatively, you may have booted the installer in BIOS/CSM mode, in which case it might install but fail to install a boot loader at the end of the process. Even if the boot loader is successfully installed, it would be a BIOS/legacy bootloade