Amd K6 machine - advice please

2005-06-06 Thread Marc Auslander
I'm running a now out of date stable system - the sarge prerelease. When I upgraded to the 2.6 kernel, k6 was no longer available. I found that 386 worked. Now I see that 386 is gone. Does anyone know if 486 or some other kenrel will run on my machine. I suspect not. I'm not up to building a

Re: what is flooding /var/tmp?

2021-11-25 Thread Marc Auslander
On 11/24/2021 10:40 PM, sp...@caiway.net wrote: Hello, My /var/tmp directory gets flooded by big files named: sort01ei1t sort01Eq7u sort01sLAs ... sortzZZtvv the files are approx. 13 Gb each. In 24 hours > 6000 are written. My big partition is filled by it until the system freezes. The file

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-31 Thread Marc Auslander
Anssi Saari writes: >Brian writes: > ... >> >> Now - could I use this non-internet-capable router as a switch? > >Probably. Usually LAN ports on a router are setup as a switch. The >router may have a DHCP server running though which you may want to >disable. In my experiance, you should put the

Re: Thunderbird: how can I set permanent custom headers?

2021-05-14 Thread Marc Auslander
Ottavio Caruso writes: >Hi, > >For the lack of a dedicated Thunderbird mailing list, I am forced to >ask here. > ... try alt.comp.software.thunderbird

Re: Unexplained freezes and crashes, nothing in /var/log/messages

2021-06-03 Thread Marc Auslander
On 6/3/2021 10:20 AM, Ottavio Caruso wrote: On 03/06/2021 09:09, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: I check the temperature regularly with sensors and it's usually between 42 and 52 C. Problem is I can't check the temperature while it's freezing. You might run a background job that keep

Re: Memory allocation failed during fsck of large EXT4 filesystem

2021-07-05 Thread Marc Auslander
On 7/5/2021 4:30 AM, Reiner Buehl wrote: Hi all, I have a corrupt EXT4 filesystem where fsck.ext4 fails with the error message: Error storing directory block information (inode=366740508, block=0, num=406081): Memory allocation failed /dev/vg_data/lv_mpg: * FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***

Google smtp and pop

2022-03-04 Thread Marc Auslander
Google has now said they are pulling the plug on userid/password authentication for apps. I use fetchmail and exim4 to get and send mail. Neither, AFAIK, supports OAUTH2. I'm also still on stretch but will update if I have to. So what suggestions does anyone have for dealing with OAUTH2 acc

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

2022-04-05 Thread Marc Auslander
On 4/5/2022 3:30 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: You gotta be careful: kicking out an IP for just one login failure might shut *you* out because you forgot to ssh-add your key (or because you mistyped your password once). OTOH, if "they" keep changing their IP address for each retry, you wouldn'

Re: file born 30 seconds after its creation on ext4 - bug?

2022-04-29 Thread Marc Auslander
On 4/29/2022 10:20 AM, duh wrote: On 4/27/22 11:05 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: Having skimmed over a number of the replies, and really not being qualified, may I just toss out a probably useless ideas to use the "sync" command. Looking at the 'man sync' shows at the bottom several variant

Re: mdadm usage

2020-12-30 Thread Marc Auslander
Andrei POPESCU writes: > >Automatic mirroring / synchronizing is unsuitable for backups, because >it will also sync accidental changes to files (including deletions) or >filesystem corruptions in case of power outage or system crash (that may >lead to corrupted files or entire directories "disa

Re: mdadm usage

2020-12-30 Thread Marc Auslander
Reco writes: > >And what purpose would it serve? IMO it's not a backup unless it's >stored in a way that's inaccessible to the system its taken from (until >it's actually needed of course). > >Reco IMHO, there are two levels of backup. The more common use is to undo user error - deleting the wron

Re: Add a hard drive to existing system??

2021-01-17 Thread Marc Auslander
Jerry Mellon writes: >Hello, >New to Debian, but have gotten Debian 10.7 loaded on to my system. I >have an ASUS gaming laptop(dont use it for gaming) with 12gb of memory >and intel corei7 and a 500gb hard drive. > >My question is what is the best(use dummy for linus statements please) >way to ad

Re: Raid 1

2021-01-24 Thread Marc Auslander
Andy Smith writes: >... >So personally I would just do the install of Debian with both disks >inside the machine, manual partitioning, create a single partition >big enough for your OS on the first disk and then another one the >same on the second disk. Mark them as RAID members, set them to >RAID

Re: identifying my LInux machine on my LAN

2021-02-17 Thread Marc Auslander
Paul Scott writes: > >ssh and Bitvise still fail t o connect > >Paul /var/log/auth.log may show what's happening if the request gets that far.

Re: SOLVED - Re: Deb10 installer can't install grub

2021-03-03 Thread Marc Auslander
On 3/3/2021 6:30 AM, Dave Sherohman wrote: Based on this, I'm guessing that the original problem was that the installer forgot to include mdadm support in its grub options, even though it was configured with an mdadm boot device. And then I missed a couple steps after adding mdadm support, so

Re: why is the kernel "unsleeping" a HDD put to sleep with hdparm -Y ?

2018-08-27 Thread Marc Auslander
Zenaan Harkness writes: >So I have a 'spare' internal spinning rust bucket which I only use >for backups, and so most of the time when I'm not using it I put it >to sleep with: > >sudo hdparm -Y /dev/sda > >Unfortunately the kernel wakes the drive up again: > >Aug 27 19:44:40 eye kernel: ata1.00:

Ethernet Performance Problem

2022-09-06 Thread Marc Auslander
I have an Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02) lsmod says the driver is Realtek. firmware-realtek is installed The cable leading to it, when connected to a different computer, runs at almost 1000 Mb according to iperf3. When takin

Ethernet Performance Problem

2022-09-06 Thread Marc Auslander
I have an Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02) Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller There is also a Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8161 (rev 15)     Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor

Re: A correct version follows. Ethernet Performance Problem

2022-09-06 Thread Marc Auslander
Please ignore this - a correct description follows. On 9/6/2022 4:30 PM, Marc Auslander wrote: I have an Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02) lsmod says the driver is Realtek. firmware-realtek is installed The cable leading to it

Re: Ethernet Performance Problem Solved

2022-09-06 Thread Marc Auslander
On 9/6/2022 5:00 PM, Marc Auslander wrote: I have an Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02) Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller There is also a Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8161

linux-image-4.19.0-22-amd64

2022-09-30 Thread Marc Auslander
linux-image-amd64 wants linux-image-4.19.0-22-amd64 but only linux-image-4.19.0-22-amd64-unsigned show up in a search.

Re: exim4 smarthost selection based on sender

2022-11-27 Thread Marc Auslander
On 11/27/2022 12:20 PM, Gregory Seidman wrote: I send email from several email addresses. I pay for an email service for both sending and receiving email, but I pull it down locally (via POP with fetchmail) and send messages from my Debian server with mutt. All of those email addresses wind up fo

Re: ssh trouble

2018-12-18 Thread Marc Auslander
Glenn English wrote: 4 boxes on the same network; an RPi3 running Raspian Stretch, a laptop and a desktop running Buster, and a Cisco router running IOS 12.4 (note upper case 'I' :-). I have an expect script to get into the router. It's the same on all the hosts. The problem is that the RPi and

Re: Sudden “operation not permitted”

2019-04-17 Thread Marc Auslander
David Christensen writes: >On 4/16/19 11:25 PM, Mark Fletcher wrote: >> (Apologies if this mail comes through poorly formatted for the list; my >> main machine is unavailable due to this problem and I’m writing on an >> iPad...) >> >> Running Stretch on a circa-2009 self-built machine which has r

Re: Boot process hangs at, it seems, network initialisation

2020-03-22 Thread Marc Auslander
On 3/22/2020 10:50 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: Hello, For the first time, I'm having problems installing Debian testing on new hardware; Asus TUF X570 Plus mobo with onboard Realtek network L8200A i/f As things stand, it /seems/ that the boot process is waiting for the network interface to come up,

g++ missing

2008-01-31 Thread Marc Auslander
A while ago I upgraded to etch from sarge. I now discover the g++ is missing. aptitude doesn't show the package. my sources.list points at deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main w

Re: g++ missing

2008-01-31 Thread Marc Auslander
Marc Auslander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A while ago I upgraded to etch from sarge. I now discover the g++ is > missing. aptitude doesn't show the package. my sources.list points > at ... My dumb mistake. aptitude search appears to be reg exp, so searching for g++ d

iceweasel (firefox) and Hummingbird Exceed

2008-03-16 Thread Marc Auslander
I have terrible display update performance when using iceweasel with Hummingbird Exeed on a windows box as the X-server. This started with the etch version of icewasel. I assume its something to do with the X-protocol and/or the network settings, but I can't figure out how to proceed. Any ideas?

Re: iceweasel (firefox) and Hummingbird Exceed

2008-03-17 Thread Marc Auslander
Thanks - but that was not the problem. One thing I notice is that when I trace the connection, iceweasel isn't opening any fonts on the X-server. Could it be doing everything with bit streams to the X-server? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Debian 2.6.18-6-686

2008-06-22 Thread Marc Auslander
You might post your /etc/network/interfaces -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

libsqlclient15off

2008-04-10 Thread Marc Auslander
The slim project recently ran afoul of something in the debian packages. They had been requirement libsqlclient15-dev (or 14-dev) and a user pointed out that they should only depend on the client - so they changed to libsqlclient14 (or 15). But these don't exist - rather only libsqlclient15off ex

Re: aptitude question

2008-04-30 Thread Marc Auslander
Doesn't b in the aptitude gui app take you to the next broken package? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: label swap partition

2009-02-18 Thread Marc Auslander
Adrian Levi writes: > 2009/2/18 : > > Adrian Levi writes: > > > >> 2009/2/18 : > >> > I'm trying to prepare my etch system for upgrade, and am converting to > >> > labels in fstab. > >> > > >> > I tried to label my swap partition (which is swap type in part table) by > >> > doing > >> > mkswa

Re: label swap partition

2009-02-19 Thread Marc Auslander
The last posting asking about previous windows use. Also, blkid thought it was ntfs. This made me guess there was a stale superblock from the previous NTFS use that was confusing linux. So I took the swap partition off line, used dd to zero the beginning of it, and did mkswap again. All is now wo

Re: .Xresources problem

2009-04-02 Thread Marc Auslander
xrdb -query to see what you actually have. if there are NO X clients, the resource data base is reset. so you have to make sure there is a long running X client before you try to set the resources. finally, I don't think XTerm is the right name. IIRC, its Xterm for the class, and xterm for the p

bigmem kernel

2010-03-04 Thread Marc Auslander
having installed the bigmem kernel package, should I then remove the regular kernel package? my concern is that if I don't, the next update to it will replace vmlinuz with the regular kernel. or are the installers smart enough to avoid that?

Re: bigmem kernel

2010-03-05 Thread Marc Auslander
Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta writes: >On 04/03/10 12:16, Marc Auslander wrote: > > having installed the bigmem kernel package, should I then remove the > regular kernel package? > >No. > > my concern is that if I don't, the n

Re: 1 in 2 chance : need to issue "/etc/init.d/networking restart" after boot

2007-11-23 Thread Marc Auslander
is http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#s-asynchronous-network-start relevant? I also believe there is information in the wiki or release notes about workarounds. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Exim3 With multiple domains

2007-11-26 Thread Marc Auslander
Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... > > I hope you have good reasons for using exim3 otherwise upgrade to 4. > > Regards, > Andrei > -- > If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. > (Albert Einstein) Be warned - getting exim4 working can be an adventure. F

Latest kernel security update wont boot

2007-12-13 Thread Marc Auslander
I am running etch on a Dell with ide drives, using LILO I just used aptitude to install the latest security update to the 2.6.18 kernel, 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch5 The install produced a message about the fact that it was updating the running kernel and I should reboot right away - which I did. Reboo

Initial boot messages on terminal

2007-12-13 Thread Marc Auslander
Is there a boot option to have the terminal pause at each page of messages. For early boot problems, I can't see the messages that lead to the panic, because they scroll off the screen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Latest kernel security update wont boot

2007-12-13 Thread Marc Auslander
Graham wrote: On 13 Dec 2007 10:38:00 -0500 Marc Auslander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am running etch on a Dell with ide drives, using LILO I just used aptitude to install the latest security update to the 2.6.18 kernel, 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch5 The install produced a message about th

Re: Latest kernel security update wont boot

2007-12-13 Thread Marc Auslander
I tried again - I did in fact (ignore earlier post) see the OK and clicked on it. initrd.img winds up being 89 bytes long. The output of the configure follow. The only anomoly is the comment about a missing link. There is a /lib/modules/2.6.18-5-686, but it does not contain an entry names sourc

Re: Latest kernel security update wont boot

2007-12-13 Thread Marc Auslander
On 12/13/2007 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: the command will be something like mkinitramfs -o initrd.img-2.6.18-version-arch -k 2.6.18-version-arch be sure to move the other one aside first. and since you're using lilo, make sure you aer aware of what your symlinks are and so forth. I tried

Re: Latest kernel security update wont boot resolved

2007-12-13 Thread Marc Auslander
The problem is operator (that's me) stupidity. I have an overloaded find so I can say find foo and have it mean find . -name foo -print mkinitramfs uses find . | cpio to build the initrd.img I have my stuff in the path (yeh i know i know) I've wasted my time - i deserve it - and your time - yo

firefox (iceweasel) performance problem

2008-01-15 Thread Marc Auslander
After updating to etch and replacing firefox with iceweasel, I'm seeing severe display update performance problems. I normally run my debian sessions against a hummingbird exceed xserver on windows. This is where I see the problem. If I run against a vnc server on my debian box, there is no prob

Re: unable to su to root, sudo works

2008-01-20 Thread Marc Auslander
You might look in the conf files in /etc/security and see if anything is funny. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mdadm gives segmentatin fault on wheezy. RAID array now incomplete.

2013-10-10 Thread Marc Auslander
Hendrik Boom writes: > I ran > > mdadm /dev/md1 --add /dev/sdd2 > > and got a segmentation fault. > > > april:/farhome/hendrik# cat /proc/mdstat > Personalities : [raid1] > md1 : active raid1 sdb2[1] > 2391295864 blocks super 1.2 [2/1] [_U] > > md0 : active raid1 sda4[0] sdc4[1] >

exim4 smtp server userid

2012-10-03 Thread Marc Auslander
I want to configure exim4 to use the same (google) smtp server with two different userid's depending on the from address. I can put the appropriate tests into my c_smarthost string, but I don't know how to specify the userid - passwd.client seems to tie a single userid to each smtp host. Any

Re: exim4 smtp server userid

2012-10-04 Thread Marc Auslander
Jon Dowland writes: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 10:13:34PM -0400, Marc Auslander wrote: >> I want to configure exim4 to use the same (google) smtp server with two >> different userid's depending on the from address. I can put the >> appropriate tests into my c_smarthos

Re: Problem With exim4 smtp authenication

2012-12-03 Thread Marc Auslander
"Thomas H. George" writes: > I have edited passwd and entered server:user:password exactly as > described in exim4_passwd_client and run dpkg-reconfigure > exim4-config. When I try to send mail using exim4 and then tail > /var/log/exim4/mainlog I find authenication has failed. I have double > c

Re: Copy 2 partitions to .img file

2012-12-06 Thread Marc Auslander
If you just copy the first 4GB, which includes the partition table, and put it on a 4GB drive, you will have a bogus partitions table (I think). Maybe it will just "work" as long as you don't try to make new partitons. Alternately, I don't know what it would take to repair it although I'm sure it

Re: capitalone banking website compatibility with iceweasel

2014-07-28 Thread Marc Auslander
For what its worth, the site is fine with the latest build of firefox on debian (the 34a nightly). What firefox version is iceweasel? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://

Re: capitalone banking website compatibility with iceweasel

2014-07-28 Thread Marc Auslander
Ok - to firefox 101. Try in safe mode and see if the problem persists. If it doesn't, you have an add-in that's causing the problem. As for your bookmarks etc - you can always find your profile with about:support if you don't know where is is. You can save the whole profile directory using norm

Re: Retaining Older Kernels After Image Update

2014-08-05 Thread Marc Auslander
Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Sb, 02 aug 14, 12:11:43, Kenneth Jacker wrote: >> [ Wheezy; 3.2.0-4-amd64 ] >> >> I've noticed that when I upgrade a kernel image, the prior one appears >> to be removed. So, at any time there is only one kernel image in /boot. > I just manually copy the four files

Re: Great Debian experience, part 2

2014-03-19 Thread Marc Auslander
I'm running squeeze on a 2003 IBM T40 - also 2Gig. It runs fine and runs Lotus Notes fine as well. I'm backlevel because Notes is broken on the latest Gnome. It's just a machine I use to boot, look, shutdown and it's wonderfully fast for that. Replaced Windows XP which was a pig and going out o

PAM Logging

2014-04-21 Thread Marc Auslander
pam is logging every cron event into auth.log, filling it up. Can I control pam logging? -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/e1wckoz-0004xo...@aptiva

Re: Logging of commands in a bash script to a file

2014-04-22 Thread Marc Auslander
exec > filename redefines standard out as filename -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87a9bcgbng@aptiva.optonline.net

Re: How do you read logs?

2012-12-26 Thread Marc Auslander
Hugo Vanwoerkom writes: > jug...@lavabit.com wrote: >> Hello. >> >> There are a lot of `possible break-in attempts' messages in my >> logs. So it's hard to read them `by hand' (with last or more). How do >> you read yours? Do you use any log analyzers? Which ones? I just read them with emacs, an

Re: Is this OK in C++ and C?

2013-01-01 Thread Marc Auslander
Zbigniew Komarnicki writes: > > I wanted to prohibit user to assign negative value to a variable. > This variable is later passed to a recurrence function as > argument and of course I got segmentation fault, because > the function is called 4294967291 times. > You MUST check the input. Consi

Re: (toughed out) Re: reboot/halt/shutdown does nothing

2014-02-18 Thread Marc Auslander
At one point you reported that reboot did nothing. Was that reboot -f or just reboot - which calls shutdown if you're running at 0 or 6 according to the man page. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.

Lotus Notes on Wheezy

2014-02-18 Thread Marc Auslander
In the slim chance that any of you run Lotus Notes on Debian - Notes is broken on Wheezy - it's apparently incompatible with the level of Gnome included. It works on squeeze/gnome. Has any one built a successful workaround? There are lots of partial suggestions from Google but nothing that look

Re: Using -prune option of find to ignore hidden directories

2017-05-03 Thread Marc Auslander
Richard Owlett writes: > The man page for find confuses me. > Looking for explanatory material I found and tried to follow examples > in http://mywiki.wooledge.org/UsingFind#A-prune . > > I tried > find /home/richard \( -type d -name .* -prune \) -o -atime -42 -print > and > find /home/richar

Re: Banishing UUIDs from grub

2018-01-18 Thread Marc Auslander
Dave Sherohman writes: >What is the recommended method for preventing grub from using UUIDs to >refer to filesystems in the current Debian stable distribution? > I don't know about "recommended" but could you put your own menu entry into /etc/grub.d and make it the default?

Re: New Kernel fails to boot when laptop is plugged in

2018-02-09 Thread Marc Auslander
Have you tried adding pti=off to the kernel boot line? This is supposed to turn off the spectre/meltdown "fix". Henning Follmann writes: >Hello, >I have a strange issue with the newest kernel >4.9.0-5-amd64 on this 2011 Macbook Pro. >As far as I can see it has to do with the power management of

exim4 wont configure

2018-02-11 Thread Marc Auslander
after the recent security update to exim4 im seeing: dpkg: error processing package exim4-config (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 20 what now?

Re: exim4 wont configure

2018-02-11 Thread Marc Auslander
When I trace I see + exec /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/exim4-config.postinst configure 4.89-2+deb9u2 but the installed version of exim4.config is: Version: 4.89-2+deb9u3 I'll assume that's the problem - so what should I do if it is?

Re: exim4 wont configure resolved

2018-02-12 Thread Marc Auslander
quot;) received from confmodule. Issue may be use of continuation but I'm not sure about that. Marc Auslander writes: >after the recent security update to exim4 im seeing: > >dpkg: error processing package exim4-config (--configure): > subprocess installed post-installation script

Re: Were is gapcmon?

2018-02-20 Thread Marc Auslander
"Juan R. de Silva" writes: >I've been using gapcmon GUI to control my APC UPS backup units for years. >I cannot find it in Debian Stretch repos. Was the package removed? For >what reason? What can I use in its stead? > >Thanks. I've always use apcupsd which still works in stretch. My use is p

Re: printer with static ip address inaccessible from lan

2018-02-27 Thread Marc Auslander
I don't think you can talk to a 192.168.1.xxx ip address from a machine that thinks it's on a 192.168.2/24 network - you machine will just try to route the traffic through your router. I might try to change the netmask on the router to 255.255.0.0 which would put the 192.168.1.xxx into your local

Re: Using apcupsd for power failure controle

2018-03-01 Thread Marc Auslander
use the apc to cover short outages and prevent power bouncing which I know from experience can cause damage. When the battery goes flat I get a hard powerfail shutdown which modern linux tollerates quite well - yeah for journaled file systems. Marc Auslander

Re: How to use a particular kernel for only one boot

2018-03-06 Thread Marc Auslander
Roberto C. Sánchez writes: >On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 07:35:37PM +, John wrote: >> I am still looking for a clean way to upgrade my Debian box. >> >> Background is that the m/c is the interface to the world from the LAN, >> runs headless, and is fairly difficult to access physically. My >> at

Re: Add kernel parameter to specific kernel using grub?

2018-03-07 Thread Marc Auslander
Boyan Penkov writes: >Hello folks, > >Let's say I have two kernels -- the default that's maintained by the >distro, and one that I'm playing with that I compile from source to >get dpkgs. Call the distro one linux4.4 and "mine" -- linux4.16 (for >reference, all this is playing out on an ubuntu sy

Re: How to get an older emacs on Jessie

2016-09-29 Thread Marc Auslander
I'm running Jessie with the standard repositories and emacs from 21 on are available. Have you looked?

Re: How to get an older emacs on Jessie

2016-09-29 Thread Marc Auslander
I see what you mean. I must assume that the other packages have survived my upgrades from previous versions and are still in my package database. Sorry for the misleading post - it shows I don't know how aptitude works :-)

Re: How to fix I/O errors?

2017-02-02 Thread Marc Auslander
A few observations. Are your filesystems journaled. They say ext3, which IIRC does support journaling? the flashplayer should not be able to trash the file system. /var/log/syslog is a place to look for io errors. If you are having them you likely have a failing disk and need to replace it ASA

Re: determining subnet mask using ip but not using ifconfig in debian 9.0 (stretch)

2017-02-08 Thread Marc Auslander
Dan Hitt writes: > What is the preferred way to determine the subnet mask of your box > using /bin/ip on debian 9.0 (stretch)? > > In the old days, this sort of information would come out of ifconfig, > but it looks like debian really wants to get away from ifconfig, and i > think use ip as a sor

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

2017-02-11 Thread Marc Auslander
You didn't ask for advice so take it or ignore it. IMHO, in this day and age, there is no reason not to run raid 1. Two disks, identially partitioned, each parition set up as a raid 1 partition with two copies. When a disk dies, you remove it from all the raid partitions, pop in a new disk, part

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

2017-02-12 Thread Marc Auslander
Marc Shapiro writes: > the past couple of weeks. AIUI you can use LVM over raid. Is there > any actual advantage to this? I was trying to determine the > advantages of using straight raid, straight LVM, or LVM over raid. If > I decide, later, to use raid, how dificult is it to add to a curren

Re: HELP! Re: How to fix I/O errors? (SOLVED)

2017-02-12 Thread Marc Auslander
Marc Shapiro writes: > BTW, what is your third partition, and why would you not separate it > now if starting from scratch? My third partition is for backups which I make to protect against software or operator error. At one point it was on a separate disk since disks were small and without LVM

Re: /etc/dhcp3 in jessie.

2017-02-17 Thread Marc Auslander
pe...@easthope.ca writes: > During an update or upgrade this message surfaced. > dpkg: warning: while removing resolvconf, directory > '/etc/dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d' not empty so not removed. > dpkg: warning: while removing resolvconf, directory > '/etc/dhcp3' not empty so not removed.

Re: /etc/dhcp3 in jessie.

2017-02-17 Thread Marc Auslander
pe...@easthope.ca writes: > During an update or upgrade this message surfaced. > dpkg: warning: while removing resolvconf, directory > '/etc/dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d' not empty so not removed. > dpkg: warning: while removing resolvconf, directory > '/etc/dhcp3' not empty so not removed.

Re: upgraded config files in /lib/systemd/system

2017-02-28 Thread Marc Auslander
Dominique Dumont writes: > On Tuesday, 28 February 2017 14:01:18 CET Harald Dunkel wrote: >> short question about /lib/systemd/system: AFAICS the config >> files here are supposed to be overridden by local config files >> in /etc/systemd/system, using the same path, as described in >> systemd.uni

Re: How do you disable / enable services from starting in systemd

2017-03-13 Thread Marc Auslander
Jiangsu Kumquat writes: >How do you disable / enable services from starting in systemd? >I have gotten very used to the old way of how to start/stop services >when booting using runlevels but I cannot figure out how to do any of >this using systemd. >So, I don't always use my

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-29 Thread Marc Auslander
Long ago, I decided that inconvenient fsck's were not what I needed. And that cancelling them was not an option - I run quasi headless so there's no way. So - I use tune2fs to set a ridiculous reboot count for automatic fsck. Then a run a cron job the does a reboot with the -F option once a month

Re: Please stop systemd-fsck on _every_ boot!

2015-01-08 Thread Marc Auslander
Just a reminder. fsck is responsible for applying the journal to journaled filesystems. So you really do want it to run everytime. This discussion should be about controlling the "full" fsck that happens if requested or if the mount count or time exceeds it's limit. These are all controlled out

Re: upgrade kernel

2015-01-16 Thread Marc Auslander
Pol Hallen writes: > Hi folks! > > a security updates of kernel is available (from apt-get upgrade), so: > must I reboot my pc (after upgrade) to avoid security problems? Is > there another way? > > thanks for help! > > Pol > > I always reboot after a kernel related upgrade on the grounds that if

Re: firefox compaining about missing library

2015-01-17 Thread Marc Auslander
Gene Heskett writes: > Greetings; > > Does anyone know where to find, for Wheezy, this library? > VDPAU backend libvdpau_nouveau.so? > ... I am running firefox 35 under wheezy with no problem. And I do not have the names library. I just untar that tarball into /usr/lib and go. -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: firefox compaining about missing library

2015-01-18 Thread Marc Auslander
Gene Heskett writes: > On Saturday 17 January 2015 19:32:16 Marc Auslander did opine > And Gene did reply: >> Gene Heskett writes: >> > Greetings; >> > >> > Does anyone know where to find, for Wheezy, this library? >> > VDPAU backend libvdpau_n

Re: tzdata=2015a-0wheezy1 breaks other packages

2015-02-02 Thread Marc Auslander
When I ran the update is replaced tzdata-java with 2015a-0wheezy1 and nothing broke. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/87vbjk1c8u@aptiva.optonline.n

Re: Moving from a "686-pae" kernel to "amd64"?

2015-02-28 Thread Marc Auslander
I did exactly that several years ago with no problem. I installed an amd64 kernel at which point grub knew about both. Changed default boot to the new kernel and ran for a while. Once all was well I uninstalled the pae kernel. I did it mostly because I expect that amd64 is the dominant kernel in

google-chome aborted

2016-05-08 Thread Marc Auslander
I am running Jessie with the default architecture x88 and amd64 as a foreign architecture. The kernel is amd64. I install the amd64 google-chrome-stable. When I try to start it I get "Aborted" Me set up does not have a desktop manager or windows manager on the linux machine. I run x-clients ta

dh-python:amd64

2017-11-25 Thread Marc Auslander
I am running Jessie x86 with amd64 as a foreign architecture. I want to replace python3 with python3:amd64 but I get a dependency on dh-python:amd64 which is not satisfied. dh-python is marked as all architectures and is installed. So it appears that dh-python all architectures is not being

dh-python:amd64

2017-11-25 Thread Marc Auslander
I am running Jessie x86 with amd64 as a foreign architecture. I want to replace python3 with python3:amd64 but I get a dependency on dh-python:amd64 which is not satisfied. dh-python is marked as all architectures and is installed. So it appears that dh-python all architectures is not being

Re: dh-python:amd64

2017-11-26 Thread Marc Auslander
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2017-11-25 21:39 -0500, Marc Auslander wrote: I am running Jessie x86 with amd64 as a foreign architecture. I want to replace python3 with python3:amd64 Do you intend to crossgrade your whole system to amd64, or why do you want to do that? but I get a dependency on

Install stretch in existing Raid 1 partition

2017-11-30 Thread Marc Auslander
I have a debian system with three raid 1 partitions, root and 2 data partitions. It's x86 and I've decided to clean install amd64 and face the music of re configuring everything. My plan/hope is to install a new amd64 stretch in my root partition and then clean up the mess. The installer man

Re: mplayer changed behaviour in stretch

2017-12-18 Thread Marc Auslander
In stretch mplayer may be linked to mpv - the current prefered multi-media player in debian. The mplayer2 package does this. Look at /usr/bin/mplayer and see if its a symlink. There is an mplayer package as well - I don't know if its the old mplayer.

Re: Mixing and Matching DHCP and static IPs

2017-12-25 Thread Marc Auslander
The safest way to fix an ip address in a dhcp served network is to tell the dhcp server to associate that address with the mac of the unit. The address should be outside the dhcp range you set up. I normall pin down all my connected devices that way, leaving the dhcp assignment for guests etc. I

Re: “Meltdown” and “Spectre”: Every modern processor has unfixable security flaws

2018-01-05 Thread Marc Auslander
Nicholas Geovanis writes: >On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 6:55 AM, wrote: >> (mainframes of that time had at least VM, possibly >> speculative prefetch). > >Is it correct to call branch prediction the same as speculative execution? >If so, then "yes" they had it, but I don't honestly know if that's cor

Re: Kernel problem?

2018-01-07 Thread Marc Auslander
The new kernel implements the "fix" for meltdown. You could try booting with the fix turned off - I believe the kernel parameter is pti=off Rob Hurle writes: >Hi All, > >I'm running Stretch and yesterday I did my normal: > >sudo apt-get update >sudo apt-get upgrade > >It seemed to install vmlinu

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