Re: Lenovo Tiny PCs on sale, today is last day

2021-01-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 18 ian 21, 22:36:22, Brian wrote: > On Mon 18 Jan 2021 at 23:23:56 +0100, deloptes wrote: > > > Long Wind wrote: > > > > > this is really advertisementis it ok to post ad on debian list? > > > > It is not advertisement, because rhkramer does not benefit from it. > > Not even reputational

Re: sharing a network connection from debian to non-debian

2021-01-19 Thread elvis
On 16/1/21 3:02 pm, Dan Hitt wrote: In 2016, i had a computer with mint on it (which is a form of ubuntu), and it was connected to an internet modem.  There was a super simple gui on it that i could use to share that connection with some older hardware that were not directly connected to the

Re: Python 3 wicd

2021-01-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 19 ian 21, 02:54:25, Gareth Evans wrote: > There is apparently a Python 3 fork of wicd (or two) but I can't > figure out what state they're in - are either of these likely to > become available in Buster repos? Backports? Wicd is currently only available in experimental (according to ht

Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-19 Thread steve
Hi, When I boot the machine (5.10.0-1-amd64), I get: Jan 19 09:47:52 box systemd-udevd[611]: sdg5: Failed to update device symlinks: Too many levels of symbolic links Jan 19 09:47:52 box systemd-udevd[581]: sdg6: Failed to update device symlinks: Too many levels of symbolic links Jan 19 09:47:

Re: Debian WSL

2021-01-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 12:52:29PM +0800, Robbi Nespu wrote: > Hello, > > I installed Debian WSL on my windows.. here some details > > ~$ uname -a > Linux PC 4.4.0-18362-Microsoft #1049-Microsoft Thu Aug 14 12:01:00 PST 2020 > x86_64 GNU/Linux > > ~$ cat /etc/debian_version > 10.5 > > But sadly

Re: problem with wifi

2021-01-19 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue, 19 Jan 2021, at 07:53, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 19 ian 21, 02:51:21, Gareth Evans wrote: > > > > If the machine in question has a desktop environment and > > NetworkManager (or equivalent), doesn't /etc/network/interfaces (or > > interfaces.d) config override nm (etc)? > > It shou

Re: Python 3 wicd

2021-01-19 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue, 19 Jan 2021, at 08:16, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 19 ian 21, 02:54:25, Gareth Evans wrote: > > There is apparently a Python 3 fork of wicd (or two) but I can't > > figure out what state they're in - are either of these likely to > > become available in Buster repos? Backports? > > W

pulseaudio-dlna expected behaviour

2021-01-19 Thread elvis
Hello, I have a very general question about what is supposed to happen with audio routing, I'm not sure what I am doing is right and I'd like to rule out the person behind the keyboard before I start on debugging the setup. I am running debian stable with pulseaudio-dlna installed. The widget

Re: Lenovo Tiny PCs on sale, today is last day

2021-01-19 Thread Brian
On Tue 19 Jan 2021 at 10:03:25 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 18 ian 21, 22:36:22, Brian wrote: > > On Mon 18 Jan 2021 at 23:23:56 +0100, deloptes wrote: > > > > > Long Wind wrote: > > > > > > > this is really advertisementis it ok to post ad on debian list? > > > > > > It is not adverti

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 10:03:12AM +0100, steve wrote: > Jan 19 09:47:52 box systemd-udevd[611]: sdg5: Failed to update device > symlinks: Too many levels of symbolic links > Jan 19 09:47:52 box systemd-udevd[581]: sdg6: Failed to update device > symlinks: Too many levels of symbolic links Look

Re: pulseaudio-dlna expected behaviour

2021-01-19 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 1/19/21 1:48 PM, elvis wrote: > Hello, I have a very general question about what is supposed to happen > with audio routing, I'm not sure what I am doing is right and I'd like > to rule out the person behind the keyboard before I start on debugging > the setup. > > I am running debian stable wi

One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread mick crane
hello, I see that you can get a single network card with 2, 3, 4 connections. Can you happily make each one on a separate private address block ? 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0, 192.168.0.0 mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 1/19/21 2:47 PM, mick crane wrote: > hello, > I see that you can get a single network card with 2, 3, 4 connections. > Can you happily make each one on a separate private address block ? > 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0, 192.168.0.0 > I don't know what the purpose is one network card to have multiple co

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 12:47:34PM +, mick crane wrote: > I see that you can get a single network card with 2, 3, 4 connections. They call them "ports" usually. Such things exist for a long time in a server world, but are infrequent in consumer one. > Can you happily make each on

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-19 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 07:41:13AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 10:03:12AM +0100, steve wrote: > > Jan 19 09:47:52 box systemd-udevd[611]: sdg5: Failed to update device > > symlinks: Too many levels of symbolic links > > Jan 19 09:47:52 box systemd-udevd[581]: sdg6: Failed

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 12:47:34PM +, mick crane wrote: > hello, > I see that you can get a single network card with 2, 3, 4 connections. > Can you happily make each one on a separate private address block ? > 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0, 192.168.0.0 You can even put one connection (aka "port") on se

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread Dan Ritter
mick crane wrote: > hello, > I see that you can get a single network card with 2, 3, 4 connections. > Can you happily make each one on a separate private address block ? > 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0, 192.168.0.0 My firewall (yes, it runs Debian) has an Intel 4x 1gig ethernet card in it, as well as the

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-19 Thread steve
Le 19-01-2021, à 14:49:36 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 07:41:13AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 10:03:12AM +0100, steve wrote: > Jan 19 09:47:52 box systemd-udevd[611]: sdg5: Failed to update device symlinks: Too many levels of symbolic links

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-19 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 03:45:41PM +0100, steve wrote: > Le 19-01-2021, à 14:49:36 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : > > >On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 07:41:13AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >>On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 10:03:12AM +0100, steve wrote: > >>> Jan 19 09:47:52 box systemd-udevd[611]: sdg5: Fa

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread Henning Follmann
On Tue, 2021-01-19 at 12:47 +, mick crane wrote: > hello, > I see that you can get a single network card with 2, 3, 4 > connections. > Can you happily make each one on a separate private address block ? > 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0, 192.168.0.0 > > mick > Yes, but depending on your network topology

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread mick crane
On 2021-01-19 14:22, Dan Ritter wrote: mick crane wrote: hello, I see that you can get a single network card with 2, 3, 4 connections. Can you happily make each one on a separate private address block ? 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0, 192.168.0.0 My firewall (yes, it runs Debian) has an Intel 4x 1gig et

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-19 Thread steve
Le 19-01-2021, à 15:53:00 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : find /usr -follow -printf "" find: Boucle détectée dans le système de fichiers ; « ‘/usr/bin/X11’ » est dans la même boucle que ‘/usr/bin’. ls -l /usr/bin/X11 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 6 mai 2013 /usr/bin/X11 -> . find /sys -follow

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Mick, On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 12:47:34PM +, mick crane wrote: > I see that you can get a single network card with 2, 3, 4 connections. > Can you happily make each one on a separate private address block ? > 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0, 192.168.0.0 There is no strong connection between the concept

Backup debconf state

2021-01-19 Thread Erwan David
Hello everybody If I want to be able to fast reinstall a debian after a crash, I already backup /etc (including /etc/apt), a file with the output of apt-show manual to get the list of manually installed packages, /etc, but It would be handy to have the state of debconf (with all the answers I

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread mick crane
On 2021-01-19 15:06, Andy Smith wrote: Hi Mick, On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 12:47:34PM +, mick crane wrote: I see that you can get a single network card with 2, 3, 4 connections. Can you happily make each one on a separate private address block ? 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0, 192.168.0.0 There is no

Re: Backup debconf state

2021-01-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Erwan, On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 04:09:47PM +0100, Erwan David wrote: > It would be handy to have the state of debconf (with all the > answers I already gave). I do: dpkg --get-selections \* > /var/lib/dpkg_selections debconf-get-selections > /var/lib/debconf_selections (and then back up those

Re: Backup debconf state

2021-01-19 Thread Erwan David
Le 19/01/2021 à 16:23, Andy Smith a écrit : Hi Erwan, On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 04:09:47PM +0100, Erwan David wrote: It would be handy to have the state of debconf (with all the answers I already gave). I do: dpkg --get-selections \* > /var/lib/dpkg_selections debconf-get-selections > /var/lib

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread Stefan Monnier
> What is the purpose of remote power switch ? Probably to turn on the popcorn machine when you're not at home. Stefan

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-19 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 04:03:14PM +0100, steve wrote: > Le 19-01-2021, à 15:53:00 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : > > >>find /usr -follow -printf "" > >>find: Boucle détectée dans le système de fichiers ; « ‘/usr/bin/X11’ » est > >>dans la même boucle que ‘/usr/bin’. > >> > >>ls -l /usr/bin/X1

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 04:03:14PM +0100, steve wrote: > > It'd be interesting to know which one your startup is choking on. > > What does it mean more precisely? The lines come from syslog and only > mention partitions: > > Jan 19 09:09:33 box systemd-udevd[607]: sdg6: Failed to update device >

Re: Backup debconf state

2021-01-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2021-01-19 16:09 +0100, Erwan David wrote: > Hello everybody > > If I want to be able to fast reinstall a debian after a crash, I > already backup /etc (including /etc/apt), a file with the output of > apt-show manual > to get the list of manually installed packages, /etc, but It would be > han

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread Dan Ritter
mick crane wrote: > What is the purpose of remote power switch ? It can turn on and off a set of wall outlets, to which other computers are attached. In other words, if the firewall is running, I can power-cycle several other machines. -dsr-

Re: Python 3 wicd

2021-01-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2021-01-19 10:16 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 19 ian 21, 02:54:25, Gareth Evans wrote: >> There is apparently a Python 3 fork of wicd (or two) but I can't >> figure out what state they're in - are either of these likely to >> become available in Buster repos? Backports? > > Wicd is cu

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-19 Thread steve
Le 19-01-2021, à 17:11:58 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : >It'd be interesting to know which one your startup is choking on. What does it mean more precisely? The lines come from syslog and only mention partitions: Jan 19 09:09:33 box systemd-udevd[607]: sdg6: Failed to update device symlink

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-19 Thread David Wright
On Tue 19 Jan 2021 at 11:15:05 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 04:03:14PM +0100, steve wrote: > > > It'd be interesting to know which one your startup is choking on. > > > > What does it mean more precisely? The lines come from syslog and only > > mention partitions: > > >

Re: sharing a network connection from debian to non-debian

2021-01-19 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-18 16:40, Dan Hitt wrote: First, the setup is that i have 3 hosts: A --- runs debian 10 B --- runs linux mint 16.04 C --- old hardware which cannot connect to my internet-modem-router. Each of the 3 hosts has 2 network interfaces; there are thus 3 LANs (local area networks), and e

Re: problem with wifi

2021-01-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 19 ian 21, 10:37:57, Gareth Evans wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jan 2021, at 07:53, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Ma, 19 ian 21, 02:51:21, Gareth Evans wrote: > > > > I thought without eg. connman, a dropped connection on a wifi NIC > > > configured in /etc/network/interfaces would not automatically

Re: Python 3 wicd

2021-01-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 19 ian 21, 17:40:47, Sven Joachim wrote: > > The version in experimental is a git snapshot from September 2019, > apparently development has stalled. People upgrading to bullseye should > probably look for alternatives, I think network-manager is the only > reasonable one unless you are wi

Re: problem with wifi

2021-01-19 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue, 19 Jan 2021, at 19:59, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 19 ian 21, 10:37:57, Gareth Evans wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Jan 2021, at 07:53, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Ma, 19 ian 21, 02:51:21, Gareth Evans wrote: > > > > > > I thought without eg. connman, a dropped connection on a wifi NIC > > >

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-19 04:47, mick crane wrote: hello, I see that you can get a single network card with 2, 3, 4 connections. Can you happily make each one on a separate private address block ? 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0, 192.168.0.0 Yes, and more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_aggregation One feature

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread Sven Hartge
David Christensen wrote: > One feature of link aggregation is increased throughput -- two physical > connections can work together as one logical connection that is twice as > fast. With the caveat that this does not increase the throughput of a single flow. > But the killer feature is redun

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-19 06:22, Dan Ritter wrote: mick crane wrote: hello, I see that you can get a single network card with 2, 3, 4 connections. Can you happily make each one on a separate private address block ? 10.0.0.0, 172.16.0.0, 192.168.0.0 My firewall (yes, it runs Debian) has an Intel 4x 1gig et

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread Dan Ritter
David Christensen wrote: > On 2021-01-19 06:22, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > My firewall (yes, it runs Debian) has an Intel 4x 1gig ethernet > > card in it, as well as the 1 gig port on the motherboard. Each > > is completely independent, so I have: > > > > - one connection to the public Internet >

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-19 14:35, Dan Ritter wrote: David Christensen wrote: On 2021-01-19 06:22, Dan Ritter wrote: My firewall (yes, it runs Debian) has an Intel 4x 1gig ethernet card in it, as well as the 1 gig port on the motherboard. Each is completely independent, so I have: - one connection to the p

Re: Debian WSL

2021-01-19 Thread Robbi Nespu
On 19/1/2021 6:18 pm, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote Updating should be exactly the same: the critical thing is that the kernel remains the one provided by Microsoft, I think, and doesn't update from Debian. Thank for the information. I never know kernel on WSL are provided by microsoft. Why podm

Re: One network card many rj45 sockets

2021-01-19 Thread Dan Ritter
David Christensen wrote: > On 2021-01-19 14:35, Dan Ritter wrote: > > So I could drop down to a 2-port NIC, using 3 total and not > > having any spares, but I already have this setup, and it's been > > running nicely since 2014. I spent about $250 on it, including > > some parts I had lying around

[SOLVED] Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-19 Thread steve
Hi, I deleted some symlinks found in my home, updated the system (bullseye) this morning, increased udev log level to debug and rebooted the system. grep symlinks /var/log/syslog didn't show any mention of previous problem. Le 19-01-2021, à 11:01:24 -0600, David Wright a écrit : On Tue 19

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-19 Thread steve
Oups, spoke too quickly. I decreased udev log level, rebooted and the messages came back in syslog.