Re: going beyond a ch341 uart-usb convertor

2021-04-12 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi there, Am 2021-04-12 05:55, schrieb Gene Heskett: Building a design/builder for a 3d printer, which when a std usb to printer cable is connected between the computer and the 3d printer, Identifies as a ch341 convertor cable once it is plugged into the printer. [...] What would the next thin

Re: KVM: GPU passthrough

2021-04-27 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi there, Am 2021-04-09 00:37, schrieb Gokan Atmaca: error: pci,host=:01:00.0,id=hostdev0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x9: vfio :01:00.0: group 1 is not viable Please ensure all devices within the iommu_group are bound to their vfio bus driver. This is a known issue with PCIe passthrough: depending

Re: RCA Cable to USB Video input device

2019-12-30 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi there, Am 2019-12-14 07:45, schrieb Marc Shapiro: I want to copy some videos from VCR and DVD to my computer for editing (simple stuff, like removing commercials).  I found this device on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Converter-Capture-Support-Android/dp/B06X42H9VZ/ref=sr_1_3?m=A3E

Re: OT: Question about 10/100 switch on a LAN with a faster router

2019-12-31 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi there, Am 2019-12-31 14:03, schrieb rhkra...@gmail.com: I'm about to recommend that he get a 10/100 5 port Ethernet switch to connect to the two cameras and then a short cat5 (or better) Ethernet cable to connect from the switch to the router. I'm abouit 99.9% sure that using such a switch

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-22 Thread Christian Seiler
> Hey, remember that kdbus thing?! That did not entered into Linux 3.15 > as expected?! > > Guess what?! It is now in PID1!! Can you guys see it?! All kinds of > trash are being pushed into PID1. That is very, very misleading at best. First of all: kdbus is currently an out-of-tree kernel module

Re: Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-22 Thread Christian Seiler
> OMFG! Just did an upgrade and guess what?! A "new" packaged appeared, > called: "libsystemd0"... > [...] > I can not believe my eyes... BSD stuff depending on systemd! The bsdutils package is actually not directly from BSD, it's built as part of util-linux, and provides utilities not specified i

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-22 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 22.10.2014 23:03, schrieb Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis: > On 22/10/2014 11:29 μμ, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: >> I meant, it is possible to have sysvinit-core, of course, but, from >> now on, at least libsystemd0 is required, you cannot remove it without >> doing some harm. > > And this is precisely w

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-27 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 26.10.2014 23:38, schrieb lee: >> libsystemd0 is just 140 KiB and contains utility functions that might be >> useful for programs interfacing with systemd. It is absolutely harmless >> on systems with another init system, it will just tell the programs that >> systemd is not running. >> >> logge

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-27 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 27.10.2014 15:05, schrieb Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis: > Στις 27-10-2014 14:53, Christian Seiler έγραψε: >> To me a lot of the anti-systemd response here seems to be a purely >> gut-driven emotional response. I realize that what kind of preferences >> we have in the software

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-28 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 23.10.2014 00:18, schrieb Martinx - ジェームズ: > I'm seeing that systemd is spreading itself everywhere, kind of creepy but, > well, I think that it is better to learn about it now, instead of fighting > it. Note that in my eyes, you should differentiate between two different things: - mandatory

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-28 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 28.10.2014 20:53, schrieb Marty: >> This just being one example of context being leaked. Some of this >> context could be cleaned up if uuidd were setuid root (and not setuid >> uuidd), but not all of it necessarily. > > From what you write it's not clear if a) there is an unavoidable > secur

Re: bc menu files? (Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...)

2014-10-29 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 29.10.2014 12:35, schrieb Joel Rees: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 9:53 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: >> [...] >> Quite a few packages ship Debian menu files and/or freedesktop.org >> .desktop files for the inclusion in menus. For example, bc installs a >> Debian

Re: bc menu files? (Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...)

2014-10-29 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 2014-10-29 15:42, schrieb Joel Rees: And that tells me exactly zip about why bc doesn't show up in my XFCE4 menus. (I mean the pointy-clicky ones.) I suspect XFCE4, like most DEs available, only parses XDG .desktop files, and doesn't parse Debian's menu system. If you read through the TC bu

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-01 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 01.11.2014 22:17, schrieb Jonathan de Boyne Pollard: > Christian Seiler: >> Finally: Upstart also supports socket activation. It's not quite as > > powerful as systemd's, but is has enough features for this use case. > > I don't know the people develo

Re: Cannot make update-alternatives do what I want

2014-11-07 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 2014-11-07 10:32, schrieb Ken Heard: In my Wheezy machine I use Iceweasel 31.2.0 as my primary web browser. I also have an Lenny version -- I think -- of Iceape installed because I wanted a simple html composer. Unfortunately to have Iceape composer I must install Iceape suite which also incl

Re: network card bridging failing on wheezy

2014-11-09 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 08.11.2014 23:57, schrieb Gary Dale: > For some reason my network card bridging has failed after working > properly for many years. > > My /etc/network/interfaces is: > > auto lo > iface lo inet loopback > iface eth0 inet manual > auto br0 > iface br0 inet static > address 192.168.1.

Re: network card bridging failing on wheezy

2014-11-09 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 09.11.2014 19:48, schrieb Gary Dale: >> This IP seems oddly familiar... Did you recently install libvirt? >> Because that's the default IP for libvirt's default internal bridged >> network (virbr0). Normally, that shouldn't interfere with the standard >> bridge (different interface name), but ma

Re: network card bridging failing on wheezy

2014-11-09 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 09.11.2014 21:13, schrieb Gary Dale: > You're right. Here's my default.xml (I only changed the addresses): > > root@TheLibrarian:/home/garydale# cat /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/default.xml > >default > > > > > > > > > > However when I removed the link t

Re: network card bridging failing on wheezy

2014-11-09 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 10.11.2014 01:33, schrieb Gary Dale: > On 09/11/14 03:30 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: >> Could you post the contents of your /etc/default/networking? >> Specifically, it should have either no explicit settings (everything >> commented out) or the following settin

Re: Wheezy fails to complete boot after last update

2014-11-11 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 11.11.2014 um 17:48 schrieb Gary Dale: >> Update: booting using sysrescuecd, I removed the >> /etc/rcS.d/S13networking link and rebooted into single-user mode. It >> completed OK, so I then ran /etc/init.d/networking start, which >> exhibited the same problems it did when run by init. However

Re: INTEL HD Graphics

2014-11-12 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 2014-11-12 14:31, schrieb Man_Without_Clue: On 11/12/2014 08:32 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 08:04:02PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On 11 November 2014 17:30, Morten Bo Johansen wrote: On 2014-11-11 Lisi Reisz wrote: Intel runs fine on Wheezy, though you do need a kerne

Re: Installing from Backports

2014-11-12 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 2014-11-12 18:23, schrieb Cindy-Sue Causey: On 11/12/14, Christian Seiler wrote: However, in wheezy-backports there are some updated drivers that will *probably* work with your graphics card, but I haven't tested it. So basically, you could try to 1. Activate backports

Re: Joey Hess is out?

2014-11-17 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 2014-11-17 15:54, schrieb The Wanderer: On 11/17/2014 at 08:21 AM, Martin Read wrote: On 17/11/14 12:25, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: There were other poor design choices, it seems that Debian maintainers have fixed some of them (i.e. renaming network devices), other seems to be still there (b

Re: Joey Hess is out?

2014-11-17 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 2014-11-17 16:15, schrieb The Wanderer: Part of what I found reassuring about the statements that Debian's default systemd configuration stores the journal's binary logs only in memory was the idea that it would not be (needing to) write the log data separately to the binary format, or possi

Re: simple, dumb question

2014-11-19 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 19.11.2014 um 22:09 schrieb Hans: > just a simple question. No flamewar, no weighting! At the moment I am > running > debian/jessie with systemd. And at the moment I am happy with it. > > It is nopt quite clear for me, but is the next debian/stable release planned > in that way, that it wi

Re: Genrating a core at boot time

2014-11-21 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 21.11.2014 um 21:51 schrieb Erwan David: > Following one of my bug report, the maintainer asks me to install the > debug packages and try generating a core. > But the crash happens only at boot time, the service can be started > afterwards without problem. > So I must reboot the server, while ge

Re: Headless server just got suspended by updating systemd

2014-11-24 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 2014-11-24 15:47, schrieb Patrick Wiseman: On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 06:01:45PM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: 2014/11/24 17:18 "Jonathan Dowland" : > I guess your argument makes sense if you are talking about all source packages > from the

Re: Cannot enable Emulate3Buttons in stretch

2017-04-13 Thread Christian Seiler
On 04/13/2017 05:56 PM, Neoklis Kyriazis wrote: > I have installed (for the first time) Debian Testing (stretch) on my > laptop and tried to enable Emulate3Buttons for my 2-button Kensington > trackball. I tried a lot of solutions I found by searching but none > seems to work. I have the same probl

Re: Cannot enable Emulate3Buttons in stretch

2017-04-13 Thread Christian Seiler
On 04/13/2017 06:36 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: > Debian Stretch uses libinput for handling input by default, even > on Xorg, instead of the default evdev driver that was used > previously. The option for the middle mouse button emulation > is disabled. Err, I meant "rename

Re: shared objects vs. executables in Stretch

2017-04-13 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi there, On 04/13/2017 09:16 PM, Neoklis Kyriazis wrote: > Having just completed installation of development tools in my > first installation of Debian (stretch), I tried to compile the > sources of some of my own apps but I end up with a shared library > object instead of an ELF executable! My a

Re: Stretch--no network interfaces

2017-06-18 Thread Christian Seiler
On 06/18/2017 08:25 PM, pplaw wrote: > The network I'm on at the moment hands out DHCP addresses. But, sometimes, > I'll hard-code the IP address for the computer (with ifconfig: ifconfig > (eth0--but in this case) enx687f74158a8a 10.x.x.x netmask 255.255.255.0; > route add default gw 10.x.x.x).

Re: Stretch--no network interfaces

2017-06-18 Thread Christian Seiler
On 06/18/2017 09:22 PM, Brian wrote: > On Sun 18 Jun 2017 at 20:54:46 +0200, Christian Seiler wrote: > >> On 06/18/2017 08:25 PM, pplaw wrote: >>> The network I'm on at the moment hands out DHCP addresses. But, sometimes, >>> I'll hard-code the IP

Re: [Stretch]Typing ""clear" on terminal restricts the scrollback to only a screenful

2017-06-21 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 2017-06-21 05:57, schrieb Avinash Sonawane: On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 3:26 AM, Larry Dighera wrote: Try: tput clear Right. My bad! I already did that. But I have always considered `clear` and `tput clear` to be the same so I didn't mention it before. Anyways I got exactly same behavior wit

Re: [Stretch]Typing ""clear" on terminal restricts the scrollback to only a screenful

2017-06-21 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 2017-06-21 10:06, schrieb Christian Seiler: 'clear' and 'tput clear' are identical in Stretch, both are from ncurses-bin. This was not true in Jessie though, ncurses did change behavior between Jessie and Stretch. By the way. in case anyone was wondering: Upstream chang

Re: [Stretch]Typing ""clear" on terminal restricts the scrollback to only a screenful

2017-06-21 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi, Am 2017-06-21 11:57, schrieb Avinash Sonawane: On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: So what happened is that 'tput clear' in Stretch now behaves the same as 'clear', while the version in Jessie of 'tput clear' wouldn't clear the scro

Clarifying what 'systemd' actually means (was: Re: Remotely exploitable bug in systemd (CVE-2017-9445))

2017-07-02 Thread Christian Seiler
On 07/02/2017 11:24 AM, Michael Fothergill wrote: > ​Could this be exploited to force people to use sysvinit instead of systemd ? This bug has nothing to do with systemd as the init system, it's in an optional component that's disabled by default on Debian. In principle, I suspect that resolved co

Re: Clarifying what 'systemd' actually means

2017-07-02 Thread Christian Seiler
On 07/02/2017 01:37 PM, Alessandro Vesely wrote: > On Sun 02/Jul/2017 12:37:33 +0200 Christian Seiler wrote: >> This bug has nothing to do with systemd as the init system, it's in an >> optional component that's disabled by default on Debian. In principle, >> I susp

Re: Replace systemd

2017-07-03 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi, On 07/04/2017 02:06 AM, Jason Wittlin-Cohen wrote: > I assume this will work fine for a server system, but will it work on > a desktop system using GNOME? From what I've read, GNOME has several > systemd dependencies, but it's not clear to me whether this requires > systemd to be used as init,

Re: Stretch generates SLAAC IPv6 address even with /etc/network/interfaces set to manual static address

2017-07-05 Thread Christian Seiler
On 07/05/2017 08:09 PM, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > On a Stretch client I'd like to have manually set static IPv6 addresses. > But what I get are SLAAC addresses with $prefix + MAC-derived according to > the > IEEE-Tutorial EUI-64 . First of all: you can turn off the automatic addresses by configurin

Re: Diskless Debian stretch ISCSI boot (uefi) and shutdown hanging problem

2017-07-19 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi, (I'm one of the maintainers of the open-iscsi package in Debian.) On 07/19/2017 07:40 AM, Franz Angeli wrote: > i have one diskless server able to boot with ISCSI, uefi is configures > to reach iscsi target and volume correctly; > > i installed Debian 9 with debian installer ad all works fin

Re: howto restart a service in postinst script (Stretch and newer)

2017-08-06 Thread Christian Seiler
On 08/06/2017 05:28 AM, Richard Hector wrote: > On 06/08/17 04:43, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Harald Dunkel wrote: >>> On Sat, 5 Aug 2017 11:56:07 +0900 Mark Fletcher wrote: On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 12:30:25PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: >> > What is the right way to restart a service from the

Re: howto restart a service in postinst script (Stretch and newer)

2017-08-06 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi there, On 08/04/2017 12:30 PM, Harald Dunkel wrote: > What is the right way to restart a service from the postinst > script for Stretch and newer? The same way as before: if it has both an init script and a systemd service, just call invoke-rc.d script restart or invoke-rc.d script restart

Re: Btrs vs ext4. Which one is more reliable?

2017-08-11 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 2017-08-10 16:02, schrieb Dejan Jocic: On 10-08-17, David Wright wrote: On Thu 10 Aug 2017 at 07:04:09 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote: > On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 09:46:09PM -0400, David Niklas wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Jul 2017 04:59:40 + > > Andy Smith wrote: > > > > Also, my use case is at home

Re: Btrs vs ext4. Which one is more reliable?

2017-08-11 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi there, On 08/11/2017 06:29 PM, Dejan Jocic wrote: > On 11-08-17, Christian Seiler wrote: >> You can also set DefaultTimeoutStopSec= in /etc/systemd/system.conf >> to alter the default for all units (though individual settings for >> units will still override that

Re: customizing systemd config

2017-08-11 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi there, On 08/11/2017 04:42 AM, Gregory Seidman wrote: > I'm trying to recreate under systemd something I had previously cobbled > together with shell scripts and init levels under sysvinit. > > Only a few services ran under init 2, the default set in /etc/inittab, > including privoxy and ssh;

Re: boot confuses 'fuse' as local file system

2016-05-24 Thread Christian Seiler
On 05/24/2016 04:09 PM, dummy user wrote: > it seems that boot script which runs 'mount' doesn't recognize fuse as > remote file system. Yes, because fuse can also be used for some local file systems, so systemd can't know based on the type that this is indeed a remote file system. > Could you

Re: QEMU MIPS Debian8.4 run issue

2016-05-27 Thread Christian Seiler
On 05/27/2016 06:23 AM, 飞颜 wrote: > QEMU start command below: > qemu-system-mips -M mips -kernel vmlinux-3.16.0-4-4kc-malta -initrd > initrd.gz -hda hda.img -append "root=/dev/ram console=ttyS0" -nographice > > Only show message below, can not run. > qemu: Warning, could not load MIPS bios 'm

Re: cross install 64bit target from 32bit host

2016-05-28 Thread Christian Seiler
On 05/29/2016 01:34 AM, Haines Brown wrote: > This is an extension of my initial question, for I'm not sure my initial > conclusion that it is impossible to chroot a 64bit system from a 32bit > system is correct. With a 32bit kernel you need qemu-user-static for this to work - but expect it to be

Re: aarch64 qemu workaround

2016-06-05 Thread Christian Seiler
On 06/05/2016 09:43 AM, Mike wrote: > https://gmplib.org/~tege/qemu.html > > Scrolling down to the aarch64 section describes the situation. Is what is describe there for aarch64 actually that bad? Having to modify /etc/initramfs-tools/modules seems to be not too bad of a thing to me... You could

Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup, but can run manually without any trouble

2016-06-09 Thread Christian Seiler
On 06/09/2016 07:46 PM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > The order of the scripts alone allowed for everything to be very, very > simple and no script relied upon any other; they were self dependent. > If you wanted something to be available before your script, you made > sure your numeric number after th

Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup, but can run manually without any trouble

2016-06-09 Thread Christian Seiler
On 06/09/2016 10:10 PM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > What I have now is that with some extra "smarts" that stops the original > concept from working as intended. The smarts is meant to allow for > faster startup and to tie in dependancies; to me, it is trying to be too > smart and that is where the p

Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup, but can run manually without any trouble

2016-06-10 Thread Christian Seiler
out program logic (what you want to do) and configuration (when you want to do it). I do the same for cron jobs: I create a script in /usr/local/sbin, and have the cron job call that script instead of writing it directly into the crontab. > On 10/06/2016 7:29 AM, Christian Seiler wrote: >>

Re: What Linux distribution to use?

2016-07-26 Thread Christian Seiler
On 07/26/2016 11:35 AM, Johann Klammer wrote: > Unfortunately, Debian does not work for me anymore. > > I have special needs: > binary packages. > i386 code without SSE stuff or other surprises. Well, if you don't tell us why Debian doesn't work for you any more, then it will probably not be e

Re: Indexing Unix command

2016-08-01 Thread Christian Seiler
On 08/01/2016 02:52 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > with the following simple script: > > #!/bin/sh > > cat index.idx | sort > index.ind > > I sort the contents of a file and write it in another file. Now, I want that > a > small vertical space, i.e. an empty line or two, were inserted before all

Re: gcc-doc in stretch

2016-08-06 Thread Christian Seiler
On 08/06/2016 04:08 PM, Steven Tan wrote: > https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=gcc-doc&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all > It looks like the package gcc-doc is not provided in stretch, not even in > contrib or non-free, but the package is provided in jessie and sid. > > Is this a bug or in

Re: iscsistart: TargetName not set.

2016-08-19 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi, (writing this from my phone, so please pardon my bottom quote) For reference: I co-maintain open-iscsi in Debian. Could you provide the contents of the initiatorname.iscsi and iscsi.initramfs files in the initramfs verbatim? (Anonymizing users/passwords is OK of course.) Also: did you spec

Re: iscsistart: TargetName not set.

2016-08-19 Thread Christian Seiler
On 08/19/2016 02:11 PM, Fredrik Nilsson wrote: > The contents of initiatornam.iscsi is one line: > > GenerateName=yes Ok, there's the problem. The message from iscsistart is misleading, because not the target name is invalid, but the initiator name. (Probably because of the way the options are pa

Re: How to unpack an repack a deb package?

2016-08-26 Thread Christian Seiler
On 08/26/2016 02:03 PM, Hans wrote: > I need to unpack and repack a debian package. Reason: I want to change the > dependencies in that package. > > How can I do that? I imagine, to unpack the *.deb, then edit my control file, > after that pack it again. Well, the easiest way to do so, if you

Re: update-alternatives failure to set/config x-www-browser

2016-09-05 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi, Am 5. September 2016 14:31:45 MESZ, schrieb Tony Baldwin : >I have done >sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser about 50 times in this >past week, and chosen chromium-browser as my goto/default, but links >from icedove keep opening in iceweasel, no matter what. >??? Most GUI applic

Re: Typing Cyrillic script with a UK keyboard in an en-gb setting

2016-09-24 Thread Christian Seiler
On 09/24/2016 04:10 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > My husband has just asked to do this. His system is vanilla from this point > of view. (Mine is in a mess, with a messed-up scim and no foreign > fonts "working", but that is another story.) > > Advice please on the best way to achieve this for him

Re: Typing Cyrillic script with a UK keyboard in an en-gb setting

2016-09-24 Thread Christian Seiler
On 09/24/2016 05:07 PM, david...@freevolt.org wrote: > On Sat, 24 Sep 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> My husband has just asked to do this. His system is vanilla from this point >> of view. (Mine is in a mess, with a messed-up scim and no foreign >> fonts "working", but that is another story.) >> >

Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

2016-09-24 Thread Christian Seiler
On 09/24/2016 06:02 PM, Glenn English wrote: >> On Sep 24, 2016, at 7:44 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> For my own education, I'm not sure what you mean by "backup your current >> state >> before upgrading"--does that mean a full backup of your system, or is there >> a >> way to somehow sav

Re: Maximal volume size for the client with a NFS v3 mounting

2016-09-28 Thread Christian Seiler
On 09/28/2016 07:18 PM, Jean-Paul Bouchet wrote: > On a Jessie 8.5 system I mount a partition on a NAS server with NFSv3 > protocol using options "nfs rw,soft" in /etc/fstab. > > The size of the volume on the NAS server side has been extended to 20 > To, but for my Debian system, this extension ap

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-02 Thread Christian Seiler
On 10/02/2016 05:59 PM, Hans Kraus wrote: > I upgraded my Debian server about a week ago from Wheezy to Jessie. > After that the GUI stopped, This is a bit vague, so a better explanation would be good. What exactly do you mean "gui stopped"? Did that happen during the update? Or at boot? Does the

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-03 Thread Christian Seiler
On 10/03/2016 06:50 PM, Hans Kraus wrote: > With "gui stopped" I mean the following: > After the boot process, instead of the graphical login screen where > one can select the user, enter the password and do some selections, > the following screen appears: > > A pic of a sad computer with the text

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-03 Thread Christian Seiler
> [ kernel, dist-upgrade ] All looks fine, you seem to have an up to date Jessie system and the only thing that was installed was the security update DSA-3684-1 of this morning. On 10/03/2016 08:42 PM, Hans Kraus wrote: > Oct 02 17:24:37 robbe /etc/gdm3/Xsession[2351]: Xlib: extension "GLX" > m

PID files of services vs. systemd (was: Re: systemd)

2016-10-11 Thread Christian Seiler
On 10/11/2016 08:04 PM, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi all, after upgraded oldstable to stable it happens that systemd > doesn't create PID file of these packages: > > openvpn > smartmontools There's a general misconception here: systemd never creates pid files for daemons. The PIDFile= setting in a uni

Re: Strange crontab message regarding execle

2016-10-31 Thread Christian Seiler
On 10/31/2016 10:06 AM, Johann Spies wrote: > I user testing/sid and do regular dist-upgrades. Sometime last week these > messages started to appear regarding one of my crontab-entries: > > Subject: Cron /usr/bin/fetchmail -L ~/.procmail/log > > /dev/null 2>&1 > > /bin/sh# Edit this file to int

Re: Trivial script will NOT execute

2016-11-04 Thread Christian Seiler
On 11/05/2016 01:51 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > Today I've been having weird problems executing scripts. > As I have no valuable data on the partition containing Debian, I > wiped it and did a fresh install of Debian Jessie (8.6.0) MATE > desktop environment from a purchased set of DVDs. Earlier to

Re: dd - proper use or more suitable program

2016-11-11 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi, Am 11. November 2016 17:57:27 MEZ, schrieb Andy Smith : >Hi Richard, > >On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 10:49:37AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: >> I was considering using dd to copy the entire drive to a *SINGLE* >> partition of a 1 TB drive with the intention making a "byte perfect" >> of of the defe

Re: dd - proper use or more suitable program

2016-11-11 Thread Christian Seiler
On 11/11/2016 10:38 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > I was wondering about that. > https://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/manual/ddrescue_manual.html is > not first time user friendly. Will re-read after a good night's > sleep. Will also look for appropriate tutorials. Suggestions? Well, I would sugges

Re: libvirt-bin on Stretch

2016-11-12 Thread Christian Seiler
On 11/12/2016 11:15 PM, Van Nelle wrote: > I am trying to follow this https://wiki.debian.org/KVM tutorial but i cant > find libvirt-bin on Stretch. > > Is there any replacement of this package The package was split into two parts: libvirt-daemon-system libvirt-clients In most cases you probabl

Re: Where are WiFi passwords (WPA keys) stored?

2016-12-06 Thread Christian Seiler
On 12/06/2016 09:04 AM, Robert Latest wrote: > Not in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf, despite suggestions in > every bit of documentation that I got my hands on. In fact, that file > doesn't even exist on my jessie system. Nevertheless, when I > configured the WiFi network using some GUI t

Re: Where are WiFi passwords (WPA keys) stored?

2016-12-06 Thread Christian Seiler
On 12/06/2016 09:26 PM, Brian wrote: > On Tue 06 Dec 2016 at 11:14:56 +0100, Christian Seiler wrote: > >> Note that when using NetworkManager, it configures its own >> instance of wpa_supplicant, so you should never touch a >> configuration file for wpa_supplicant

Re: Kernel Update on Stretch

2017-02-14 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi, On 02/14/2017 12:58 AM, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Some time ago I read that Linux 4.x incorporates the feature to be > updated without requiring a restart of the operating system. They incorporated parts of that. There are still some unsolved issues. See for example this article from last Nove

Re: how to compute predictable network interface names?

2017-02-16 Thread Christian Seiler
On 02/16/2017 12:24 PM, Harald Dunkel wrote: > I understand that the predictable nic names can be turned off > using > > net.ifnames=0 > > on the kernel command line, but I wonder if there is a shell > script to actually predict the "enpYsZ" from the old style > "ethX" initially assigned by

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 in

Re: how to compute predictable network interface names?

2017-02-24 Thread Christian Seiler
On 02/24/2017 10:10 AM, Harald Dunkel wrote: > On 02/23/2017 04:25 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: >> >> There's a policy which are going to be preferred. man 5 systemd.link >> tells you what the options are and /lib/systemd/network/99-default.link >> tells you what t

Re: A minimal relational database in Debian?

2017-02-27 Thread Christian Seiler
On 02/27/2017 02:17 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > The last time I needed a relational database my employer was using > dBaseII on a MS-DOS machine. What is a functional equivalent in the > Debian repository? Well, I've never used DBaseII, but if you want a small relational database, take a look at S

Re: Letsencrypt - Debian?

2015-07-28 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 2015-07-28 11:29, schrieb Darac Marjal: Will it be backported to Debian stable? Jessie? No. The whole point of stable is that the set of packages therein is stable (hence the name). Also, I wouldn't expect it to appear in backports and there's plenty of other ways to HTTPS-enable a website

Re: Letsencrypt - Debian?

2015-07-31 Thread Christian Seiler
On 07/31/2015 05:31 PM, Nicolas George wrote: > Le decadi 10 thermidor, an CCXXIII, Christian Seiler a écrit : >> But no other way without using the service of companies with a >> business model that many people don't necessarily want to >> support. > > The busin

Re: v ia32-libs-i386 on Wheezy

2015-08-12 Thread Christian Seiler
On 08/13/2015 02:05 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > For a program that I want to install on my husband's computer, I need the > following virtual package: > > v ia32-libs-i386 > > On my Wheezy computer it is installed, but it is not on my husband's Wheezy > computer, and aptitude search can't find it

Re: Adapter Names on Stretch

2015-08-26 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi, On 08/26/2015 06:47 PM, Tim Tepatti wrote: > I've just done a fresh minimal install of Debian Stretch, and noticed > something odd. In ifconfig and iwconfig, all of my adapters have weird > names, like "ens2" instead of "eth0". > > Can anyone tell me why this is? I tried to look it up online

Re: Adapter Names on Stretch

2015-08-26 Thread Christian Seiler
On 08/26/2015 10:24 PM, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > I will, as soon as I have decided which of the distributions likely to remain > un-infected by the coming pox of systemd suits me best; until then I will > stay > with Wheezy. Could you please not use this kind of language ("un-infected by t

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

2015-08-30 Thread Christian Seiler
On 08/30/2015 05:00 PM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 29/08/2015 8:49 AM, T.J. Duchene wrote: > Really? Just because you disagree with somebody, their opinion is "rubbish"? > Read Lennart's own blog, you'll see that he is "in the business" of > making Linux his own; thus my coined phrase "Lennart

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

2015-08-31 Thread Christian Seiler
On 08/31/2015 02:33 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > Also, while I agree that Lennart is not out "to get us" in the sense of > malicious laughter and diabolical plans, he _does_ seem to outright > reject some principles which have been valued in the free-software world > for decades, to want to see those

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

2015-08-31 Thread Christian Seiler
On 08/31/2015 05:36 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > Two, I base this assessment on the things he has said and the ways in > which he has reacted when people have objected to various of the things > he has done - on his public comments and discussion, I get the opposite impression, that's why I responded

Re: Another system management tool to disappear.

2015-08-31 Thread Christian Seiler
On 08/31/2015 05:48 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 31 August 2015 16:36:26 The Wanderer wrote: >> Lennart's proposed alternative (to su) > > After all this discussion, I thought that I ought really to find out what > Lennart was proposing, and I must say that it looks remarkably > disability-

Re: Getting a serial console to work on Jessie

2015-09-06 Thread Christian Seiler
Hello Michael, On 09/06/2015 10:06 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: > See also man 5 systemd.unit , "Example 2. Overriding vendor settings": > >>Note that for drop-in files, if one wants to remove entries from a >> setting that is >>parsed as a list (and is not a dependency), such as >>

Re: Coder friendly font

2015-09-21 Thread Christian Seiler
On 09/21/2015 07:55 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 21 September 2015 18:16:59 Curt wrote: >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frutiger_%28typeface%29 >> >> "Frutiger (pronounced with a hard g) is a series of typefaces named after >> its Swiss designer, Adrian Frutiger. Frutiger is a humanist sans-s

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-16 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 16.02.2015 um 02:54 schrieb Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton: http://lkcl.net/reports/removing_systemd_from_debian/ It's funny that when Wheezy (not Jessie!) came out, nobody complained that libsystemd-login0 (which is now part of libsystemd0) was as a dependency of dbus, so it is probably alrea

Re: No feedback from systemd / "systemctl stop X"... Nothing on stdout, nothing that `echo $?` can see...

2015-03-12 Thread Christian Seiler
On 03/12/2015 05:13 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: I suppose someone could make an argument that including a verbose flag or something might be useful, This is on systemd's TODO list btw.: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/TODO - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends t

Re: Why no security update of apache2 concerning SSLv3?

2015-03-12 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 2015-03-12 15:45, schrieb Darac Marjal: Perhaps people just need to be made more aware of robust SSL settings for apache: https://cipherli.st/ I would also like to link to: https://bettercrypto.org/ (PDF linked in the right sidebar) Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: Subject: network-console installation and ssh keys

2015-04-14 Thread Christian Seiler
On 04/14/2015 10:31 PM, David Wright wrote: I like the new Network Console option in the installer. However, when I reinstall Debian onto a machine called, say, desk select the necessary options, type in the password for the installer session, and then sit back with a machine called, lap, when I

Re: Enforcing g+rwX permissions on shared files

2015-04-20 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi, Am 2015-04-20 15:32, schrieb martin f krafft: Short of the sledgehammer approaches of using either a cronjob to brute-force permissions at regular intervals, or an incronjob to pave over any changes right when they happen, I am at a loss. And I'd like to avoid both those hacks because they a

Re: /etc/network/interfaces in jessie and systemd?

2015-04-21 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi, Am 2015-04-21 14:08, schrieb Mihamina Rakotomandimby: I used to manage network through /etc/network/interfaces. Most of my use case are vlans (ie: eth0.1) an aliases (ie: eth1:3) My context in headless VMs (no DE, no Xorg, no GUI) With Jessie and systemd: is it still managed with /etc/n

Re: /etc/network/interfaces in jessie and systemd?

2015-04-21 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi there, Am 2015-04-21 16:06, schrieb Michael Biebl: Am 21.04.2015 um 15:42 schrieb Christian Seiler: There is something called systemd-networkd, which is not part of Jessie's systemd version, but will (probably) be part of future Debian versions. This offers an alternative way to conf

Re: /etc/network/interfaces in jessie and systemd?

2015-04-21 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 2015-04-21 16:20, schrieb Mihamina Rakotomandimby: Thank you Christian, Just to be sure, I saw that: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1374521 https://github.com/linuxmint/systemd/blob/master/debian/ifup@.service I think that's Ubuntu-specific; even though ifup@.service

Re: boot logo in Jessie?

2015-04-21 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 2015-04-21 17:40, schrieb German: Is that possible to set up boot logo in Jessie? Black screen during boot is not nice. Thanks You should install the plymouth and plymouth-themes packages, and add the 'splash' option to your bootloader (e.g. /etc/default/grub, GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT sett

Re: Laptop automatically sleeps on lid close in Jessie

2015-04-26 Thread Christian Seiler
On 04/26/2015 06:57 PM, Peter Ley wrote: > I recently upgraded to Jessie to fix another problem I posted about on > the list, and it went swimmingly (much to my relief as I'd never > performed a dist-upgrade before). > > Now when I close my laptop lid, it automatically goes to sleep, which > would

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