Re: WLAN laufende Qualitaetsmessung

2017-06-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, debian-user ist englischsprachig. Probier's mal auf dem deutschen Ableger: debian-user-ger...@lists.debian.org Just in case somebody knows a program for WLAN quality surveillance: The OP suspects that his neighbor after annoying the dogs has now taken measures to hamper the WLAN. The ques

Re: WLAN laufende Qualitaetsmessung

2017-06-25 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, 25 Jun 2017 09:36:57 +0200 "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > Hi, > > debian-user ist englischsprachig. Probier's mal auf dem deutschen Ableger: > debian-user-ger...@lists.debian.org > > > Just in case somebody knows a program for WLAN quality surveillance: > > The OP suspects t

Re: WLAN laufende Qualitaetsmessung

2017-06-25 Thread Reco
On Sun, 25 Jun 2017 11:00:28 +0300 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, 25 Jun 2017 09:36:57 +0200 > "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > debian-user ist englischsprachig. Probier's mal auf dem deutschen Ableger: > > debian-user-ger...@lists.debian.org > > > > > > Just in case somebod

Re: WLAN laufende Qualitaetsmessung

2017-06-25 Thread Hans
I believe tshark (and wireshark of course) is also be capable of showing bad or corrupted traffic. You can set filters, i.e. to filter out rejects and similar, and if they are abnormal high, you know, something is bad. Just an idea... Best Hans

Re: WLAN laufende Qualitaetsmessung

2017-06-25 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, 25 Jun 2017 10:06:38 +0200 Hans wrote: > I believe tshark (and wireshark of course) is also be capable of showing bad > or corrupted traffic. You can set filters, i.e. to filter out rejects and > similar, > and if they are abnormal high, you know, something is bad. > > Ju

Jessie --> Stretch upgrade, apt question

2017-06-25 Thread Mark Fletcher
Hello the list! I have upgraded this weekend from Jessie to Stretch. All went, overall, reasonably smoothly -- the documentation around releases is getting better and better. I plan to write a full report of the upgrade and share it here shortly. In the meantime I have one question. It seems l

Re: WLAN laufende Qualitaetsmessung

2017-06-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Reco wrote: > Using aireplay-ng for the purpose of lowering signal quality > for neighbor WiFi can be subject to criminal penalties That would be a good catch in a neighborhood feud which normally is rather faught by unnecessary lawn mowing, loud music, stinking garbage cans, or obscene garde

Re: WLAN laufende Qualitaetsmessung

2017-06-25 Thread Hans
I read the original post now (in German, and as I am German, no problem). In his case I think "kismet" is a good start. So he can see, if there are other AP on the same frequency. I also suggest "wavemon", which shows all AP and its strenth. If the neighbour is sending weired pckages (maybe with

Re: apt-get upgrade problem

2017-06-25 Thread Curt
On 2017-06-25, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 22 Jun 2017 at 19:44:27 (+), Curt wrote: >> On 2017-06-22, Mike McClain wrote: >> > >> > Rather than telling me why FF was held back it just went ahead and >> > installed it. >> > >> >> Is that the complete description of what you observed? You're

Re: Jessie --> Stretch upgrade, apt question

2017-06-25 Thread Dejan Jocic
On 25-06-17, Mark Fletcher wrote: > Hello the list! > > I have upgraded this weekend from Jessie to Stretch. All went, overall, > reasonably smoothly -- the documentation around releases is getting > better and better. I plan to write a full report of the upgrade and > share it here shortly. In

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-25 Thread Curt
On 2017-06-24, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > > > It returns /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so > it also return one for gnash. could this be the problem or confusion? > > I think it is (although that path is compliant with the Debian wiki on the matter). On my machine, 'about:plugins' re

System locks up while moving file

2017-06-25 Thread John Elliot V
Hey there. Maybe someone can help me with this. I'm running Debian 9.0 (stretch). I have a few scripts which periodically create and then move a file from my 1TB M.2 drive to a MD RAID1 device comprised of 2x 6TB Seagate IronWolf drives. Full details are here [1]. My disks look something like thi

Re: System locks up while moving file

2017-06-25 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 07:54:17PM +1000, John Elliot V wrote: > Hey there. Maybe someone can help me with this. > > I'm running Debian 9.0 (stretch). I have a few scripts which > periodically create and then move a file from my 1TB M.2 drive to a MD

Re: System locks up while moving file

2017-06-25 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, 25 Jun 2017 19:54:17 +1000 John Elliot V wrote: > There seems to be plenty of RAM available, and plenty of CPU. So must be > some I/O thing..? Anyway, I'm a bit stumped. I haven't tried running the > mv command with nice, because it doesn't seem to be a CPU thing... but > may

Re: Jessie --> Stretch upgrade, apt question

2017-06-25 Thread Curt
On 2017-06-25, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > My question is that since the upgrade chromium is held back from > upgrading, and in this new world I don't know how to find out why. In > aptitude I would have done aptitude why-not chromium and it would most > likely have told me something useful about

Re: WLAN laufende Qualitaetsmessung

2017-06-25 Thread Curt
On 2017-06-25, Hans wrote: > I read the original post now (in German, and as I am German, no problem). > In his case I think "kismet" is a good start. So he can see, if there are > other AP on the same frequency. I also suggest "wavemon", which shows all AP > and its strenth. > > If the neighbou

[WARNING] Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading

2017-06-25 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
This warning advisory is relevant for users of systems with the Intel processors code-named "Skylake" and "Kaby Lake". These are: the 6th and 7th generation Intel Core processors (desktop, embedded, mobile and HEDT), their related server processors (such as Xeon v5 and Xeon v6), as well as select

Re: [WARNING] Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading

2017-06-25 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 25 Jun 2017, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > This warning advisory is relevant for users of systems with the Intel > processors code-named "Skylake" and "Kaby Lake". These are: the 6th and > 7th generation Intel Core processors (desktop, embedded, mobile and > HEDT), their related ser

Re: [WARNING] Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading

2017-06-25 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 25 Jun 2017, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > This warning advisory is relevant for users of systems with the Intel > processors code-named "Skylake" and "Kaby Lake". These are: the 6th and > 7th generation Intel Core processors (desktop, embedded, mobile and > HEDT), their related ser

Re: [WARNING] Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading

2017-06-25 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
For the record: the email with the perl script doesn't contain malware. The "malware" alert came from an extremely badly configured system that violates every best practice in the field: it sends email to every original recipient (and not just to local users), and it FORGES its headers to look lik

off topic! What is the error in this script

2017-06-25 Thread Dominic Knight
To convert a series of .flac files to .mp3 files I attempted to use the following line; > $ find -name "*.flac" -exec bash -c 'ffmpeg -i "{}" -y -acodec libmp3lame -ab 320k "${0/.flac}.mp3"' {} \; which I expected to find each flac and convert it to a corresponding .mp3 however, it reads the firs

Re: off topic! What is the error in this script

2017-06-25 Thread Wellington Terumi Uemura
I would do something like... for f in *.flac; do something $f; done It will find all your flac files and do whatever. Em 25 de jun de 2017 11:51, "Dominic Knight" escreveu: > To convert a series of .flac files to .mp3 files I attempted to use the > following line; > > > $ find -name "*.flac"

Re: off topic! What is the error in this script

2017-06-25 Thread Teemu Likonen
Dominic Knight [2017-06-25 15:35:46+01] wrote: > To convert a series of .flac files to .mp3 files I attempted to use the > following line; > >> $ find -name "*.flac" -exec bash -c 'ffmpeg -i "{}" -y -acodec > libmp3lame -ab 320k "${0/.flac}.mp3"' {} \; The arguments for "bash -c" go like this:

Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues

2017-06-25 Thread Ralph Katz
On 06/24/2017 09:48 AM, Ralph Katz wrote: ... > At your suggestion, I'm re-doing my firefox setup, re-install, fresh > profile, eliminate extensions, etc. Report to follow. Update report (quoting original thread post): > Since upgrading my old Acer laptop from jessie to stretch this week, I > ha

konsole blinking screen with irssi when ssh'd to NetBSD

2017-06-25 Thread Glenn Holmer
I've got a freeshell.org account, and they're running NetBSD. When I SSH into that account, the terminal looks fine, but when I start irssi, the entire screen blinks on and off about once a second. This is from my Debian Stretch box running KDE, with konsole as terminal and bash as shell. I've got

Re: konsole blinking screen with irssi when ssh'd to NetBSD

2017-06-25 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 01:51:01PM -0500, Glenn Holmer wrote: I've got a freeshell.org account, and they're running NetBSD. When I SSH into that account, the terminal looks fine, but when I start irssi, the entire screen blinks on and off about once a second. This is from my Debian Stretch box ru

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-25 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 24 Jun 2017 22:17:13 -0400 Maureen L Thomas wrote: > > > On 06/24/2017 07:29 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > > On 2017-06-24 at 18:56, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > > > >> As a last desperate attempt I completely removed firefox-esr and > >> reinstalled it. I opened it up and the first game actu

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-25 Thread Carl Fink
On 06/25/2017 03:42 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: ... The only file you need be concerned with is libflashplayer.so As root, using a terminal (or if your filemanager is able to switch to root priviledge), copy libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ One thing that has bitten me when doing th

Re: Jessie --> Stretch upgrade, apt question

2017-06-25 Thread Cousin Stanley
Mark Fletcher wrote: > > I do wish apt show made it easier to tell > if a package is installed > $ apt policy some-pkg-name which evolved from $ apt-cache policy pkg-name will display installation status of some-pkg-name -- Stanley C. Kitching Human Being Phoenix,

firewall rules for NAT

2017-06-25 Thread Lucio Crusca
I have a server with Debian GNU/Linux as host system. The host runs several guest virtual machines, but it has only one public IP address. Each virtual machine is a QEMU/KVM Debian GNU/Linux system that runs some specific service (so I have one for websites, one for mail, one for database, o

Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues

2017-06-25 Thread Mike Kupfer
Ralph Katz wrote: > > 2) Returning from xscreensaver screen blanking sometimes shows the > > lightdm log in screen. Ctrl-alt-F7 once or twice can get my session > > back after an annoying pause. This never happened on jessie. This is a bit of a shot in the dark, but is light-locker running? mi

Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues

2017-06-25 Thread Ralph Katz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 06/25/2017 02:39 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote: > Ralph Katz wrote: > >>> 2) Returning from xscreensaver screen blanking sometimes shows the >>> lightdm log in screen. Ctrl-alt-F7 once or twice can get my session >>> back after an annoying pause. This

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-25 Thread Dan Norton
On 06/25/2017 03:42 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Sat, 24 Jun 2017 22:17:13 -0400 Maureen L Thomas wrote: On 06/24/2017 07:29 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2017-06-24 at 18:56, Maureen L Thomas wrote: As a last desperate attempt I completely removed firefox-esr and reinstalled it. I opened

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-25 Thread Maureen L Thomas
On 06/25/2017 05:18 PM, Dan Norton wrote: On 06/25/2017 03:42 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Sat, 24 Jun 2017 22:17:13 -0400 Maureen L Thomas wrote: On 06/24/2017 07:29 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2017-06-24 at 18:56, Maureen L Thomas wrote: As a last desperate attempt I completely remov

Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues

2017-06-25 Thread Floris
Op Sun, 25 Jun 2017 19:10:40 +0200 schreef Ralph Katz : 3) The sound volume up/down function keys [Fn up/down arrow] no longer respond (xfce4). However the screen brightness keys function normally [Fn left/right arrow]. The mute sound function key is also ignored [Fn F8]. I can control vo

light-locker (was Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues)

2017-06-25 Thread Mike Kupfer
Ralph Katz wrote: > Yes! apt history shows light-locker was installed by the dist-upgrade. > I've just purged xscreensaver and can confirm that the time-out errors > in syslog occur on resume from screen blanking. Did you also kill the xscreensaver daemon? You might have been getting odd behav

Re: Jessie --> Stretch upgrade, apt question

2017-06-25 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 12:29:27PM -0700, Cousin Stanley wrote: > Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > > > I do wish apt show made it easier to tell > > if a package is installed > > > > $ apt policy some-pkg-name > > which evolved from > > $ apt-cache policy pkg-name > > > will d

su won't work from a debian live USB install

2017-06-25 Thread daniel theobald
I installed the Debian 9 from a Debian live amd64 image I downloaded today. Everything works great, but I can't su to apt-get anything new. theo@debian:~$ su Password: su: Authentication failure I have reinstalled twice, being super careful to get the password right, etc. But it simply doesn't

Re: su won't work from a debian live USB install

2017-06-25 Thread Jim Ohlstein
Hello, On 06/25/2017 07:20 PM, daniel theobald wrote: I installed the Debian 9 from a Debian live amd64 image I downloaded today. Everything works great, but I can't su to apt-get anything new. theo@debian:~$ su Password: su: Authentication failure I have reinstalled twice, being super caref

Re: off topic! What is the error in this script

2017-06-25 Thread Dominic Knight
On Sun, 2017-06-25 at 18:30 +0300, Teemu Likonen wrote: > Dominic Knight [2017-06-25 15:35:46+01] wrote: > > > To convert a series of .flac files to .mp3 files I attempted to use > > the > > following line; > > > > > $ find -name "*.flac" -exec bash -c 'ffmpeg -i "{}" -y -acodec > > > > libmp3la

Recommended Items Missing From Base Install

2017-06-25 Thread James Kruth
Hi, I’ve been working with minimal Debian installs for a bit and have noticed something that seems odd. After installing a very minimal system (just base, system utils, and SSH server), the following recommended packages are not installed in Debian 9: firmware-linux-free (recommended by linux-ima

Re: su won't work from a debian live USB install

2017-06-25 Thread Phil Wyett
On Sun, 2017-06-25 at 19:20 -0400, daniel theobald wrote: > I installed the Debian 9 from a Debian live amd64 image I downloaded > today.  Everything works great, but I can't su to apt-get anything > new. > > theo@debian:~$ su > Password:  > su: Authentication failure > > I have reinstalled twice

Re: light-locker (was Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues)

2017-06-25 Thread Ralph Katz
On 06/25/2017 05:18 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote: > Ralph Katz wrote: > >> Yes! apt history shows light-locker was installed by the dist-upgrade. >> I've just purged xscreensaver and can confirm that the time-out errors >> in syslog occur on resume from screen blanking. > > Did you also kill the xscre

Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues

2017-06-25 Thread Ralph Katz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 06/25/2017 04:22 PM, Floris wrote: > > Op Sun, 25 Jun 2017 19:10:40 +0200 schreef Ralph Katz > : >> >>> 3) The sound volume up/down function keys [Fn up/down arrow] no >>> longer respond (xfce4). However the screen brightness keys >>> function

Re: [WARNING] Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake processors: broken hyper-threading

2017-06-25 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Minor update on the issue: The check command provided in the advisory to test for hyper-threading doesn't work: it will always report hyper-theading as enabled. A better command is provided below. Note: this also means the perl script will give some false-positives. I apologise for the inconveni

Re: light-locker (was Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues)

2017-06-25 Thread Mike Kupfer
Ralph Katz wrote: > While purging xscreensaver removed 2 or 3 packages, installing now would > bring in a host of packages, for whatever reason. I don't need a > screensaver as much as I need the lock. Take a look at /usr/bin/xflock4. It's just a script that runs through a fixed list of lock pr

Re: Recommended Items Missing From Base Install

2017-06-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2017-06-25 20:54 -0400, James Kruth wrote: > I’ve been working with minimal Debian installs for a bit and have > noticed something that seems odd. After installing a very minimal > system (just base, system utils, and SSH server), the following > recommended packages are not installed in Debian

Re: konsole blinking screen with irssi when ssh'd to NetBSD

2017-06-25 Thread Glenn Holmer
On 06/25/2017 02:34 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 01:51:01PM -0500, Glenn Holmer wrote: >> I've got a freeshell.org account, and they're running NetBSD. When I SSH >> into that account, the terminal looks fine, but when I start irssi, the >> entire screen blinks on and off about

Process kill on logout

2017-06-25 Thread Alan Chandler
I have just upgraded from Jessie to Stretch and my arrangement where I logout and then mythtv shuts my computer down and sets a wakeup time just before the next recording time has stopped working. In the past when that happens I have set up "screen", and entered an used "sleep 1m && who -u" to

Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues

2017-06-25 Thread Floris
Op Mon, 26 Jun 2017 03:23:32 +0200 schreef Ralph Katz : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 06/25/2017 04:22 PM, Floris wrote: Op Sun, 25 Jun 2017 19:10:40 +0200 schreef Ralph Katz : 3) The sound volume up/down function keys [Fn up/down arrow] no longer respond (xfce4). H