passwordless ssh root logins stopped working after testing dist-upgrade

2010-04-06 Thread Russell L. Carter
I dist-upgraded yesterday and ssh root logins started requiring a password. I also tweaked some other stuff and installed calibre and miro to check them out and they came with a boatload of dependencies so maybe there's something lurking there. Regular user ssh logins work just fine. I decided

Re: passwordless ssh root logins stopped working after testing dist-upgrade

2010-04-06 Thread Russell L. Carter
ion method: password r...@localhost's password: Ryan Manikowski ]] Devision Media Services LLC [[ www.devision.us r...@devision.us | 716.771.2282 On 4/6/2010 4:06 PM, d.sastre.med...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 03:24:04PM -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:

Re: passwordless ssh root logins stopped working after testing dist-upgrade

2010-04-06 Thread Russell L. Carter
Ryan Manikowski wrote: On 4/6/2010 4:37 PM, Russell L. Carter wrote: What you're trying to do here is login to the 'root' account using your non-root account to initiate the ssh connection. It is reading the 'id_rsa.pub' pubkey file from /home//.ssh/ and this is w

isc-dhcp-server not receiving DHCPDISCOVER

2013-12-05 Thread Russell L. Carter
Hi, After wearing out the google I'm going to foist my problem onto you good folk. I've got an internal net with several dual-homed jessie boxen. I would like to get isc-dhcp-server up so I can configure my new UniFi toy. The server has two statically configured interfaces, eth0 and eth1. The

Re: isc-dhcp-server not receiving DHCPDISCOVER

2013-12-05 Thread Russell L. Carter
Greetings Bob, On 12/05/2013 04:27 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Russell L. Carter wrote: >> I've got an internal net with several dual-homed jessie boxen. > > I see that you have 10.0.10.0/24 on one and 10.0.11.0/24 on the other. Is > that correct? And you only want dhcpd to

Re: isc-dhcp-server not receiving DHCPDISCOVER

2013-12-07 Thread Russell L. Carter
On 12/05/2013 06:04 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Russell L. Carter wrote: >> Ok, I need to do some experimenting here. I've broken out a long patch >> cable to bypass the switch > > I would really be surprised if the switch has broken down. Not impossible > of cours

cyapa kernel module equivalent in 4.1.0-2-amd64

2015-09-11 Thread Russell L. Carter
Hi, I am tracking testing, currently my kernel version is 4.1.0-2-amd64. I have a nifty ACER c720 working almost perfectly, except for the trackpad, which dmidecode thinks is: Handle 0x0007, DMI type 41, 11 bytes Onboard Device Reference Designation: trackpad Type: Other S

audacity startup fails stretch amd64

2015-06-12 Thread Russell L. Carter
Hi, I am trying to launch audacity on a stretch amd64 system, and the following happens: 1. I get a popup with text "Audacity could not find a place to store temporary files. Please enter an appropriate directory in the preferences dialog." Click ok, then: 2. An error popup appears s

Re: audacity startup fails stretch amd64

2015-06-12 Thread Russell L. Carter
Hi! On 06/12/15 19:29, Ric Moore wrote: On 06/12/2015 08:31 PM, Russell L. Carter wrote: Hi, I am trying to launch audacity on a stretch amd64 system, and the following happens: 1. I get a popup with text "Audacity could not find a place to store temporary files. Please ent

Re: audacity startup fails stretch amd64

2015-06-13 Thread Russell L. Carter
On 06/13/15 01:30, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Saturday 13 June 2015 05:41:02 Russell L. Carter wrote: Hi! On 06/12/15 19:29, Ric Moore wrote: On 06/12/2015 08:31 PM, Russell L. Carter wrote: Hi, I am trying to launch audacity on a stretch amd64 system, and the following happens: 1. I get a

Re: audacity startup fails stretch amd64

2015-06-13 Thread Russell L. Carter
On 06/13/15 10:36, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Fri, 2015-06-12 at 17:31 -0700, Russell L. Carter wrote: Hi, I am trying to launch audacity on a stretch amd64 system, and the following happens: 1. I get a popup with text "Audacity could not find a place to store temporary files. P

debian zfs spl dkms build fails

2017-10-25 Thread Russell L. Carter
This has been happening for over 2 weeks now: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=877694 It has such cheerful effects as: root@knuth> zpool status The ZFS modules are not loaded. Try running '/sbin/modprobe zfs' as root to load them. The symptom displays via several ways like th

Re: debian zfs spl dkms build fails

2017-10-25 Thread Russell L. Carter
s, Russell On 10/25/17 21:18, David Christensen wrote: On 10/25/17 19:42, Russell L. Carter wrote: This has been happening for over 2 weeks now: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=877694 It has such cheerful effects as: root@knuth> zpool status The ZFS modules are not loa

Re: debian zfs spl dkms build fails

2017-10-26 Thread Russell L. Carter
On 10/25/17 22:19, David Christensen wrote: On 10/25/17 21:23, Russell L. Carter wrote: Greetings.  Your reply is completely nonresponsive to the zfs kernel upgrade situation as it is today on debian. Why did you bother?  It's weird. I don't actually care very much.  I'm goin

3w-9xxx performance bug in kernel 3.1.0-amd64

2011-12-02 Thread Russell L. Carter
Hi, I've got a testing amd64 system with two 3Ware 9500S controllers and performance with the newest kernel is dramatically slower than with 2.6.32-5-amd64. Also response to tw_cli and 3dm2 is glacial. Possibly an IRQ issue? Anyway my question is what list is best to ask about this problem. Or

NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-14 Thread Russell L. Carter
Hi, I have a system with a fixed hardware config over the last two years that I have kept current with testing through that time. Yesterday's update/dist-upgrade/reboot results in a blank screen when launching X. I swapped out the GTX285 for a GT520 and got identical results. I tried a different

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-14 Thread Russell L. Carter
On 05/14/2011 04:56 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sat, 14 May 2011 17:23:19 -0400 (EDT), Russell L. Carter wrote: >> >> I have a system with a fixed hardware config over the last two >> years that I have kept current with testing through that time. >> Yesterday&#

Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-14 Thread Russell L. Carter
Hi Curt, On 05/14/2011 07:00 PM, Curt Howland wrote: > I've found that I have to re-install the binary Nvidia driver often > after updates, when the X system gets updated, due to changes to > simlinks. > > If you're using the Nvidia binary driver, try reinstalling it. I did that. I reinstalled

[some progress] Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-15 Thread Russell L. Carter
First, thanks much to the people on the other side of the globe who see a new day before me. I have dug deeper and can now get more specific about the nvidia blank screen problem. (For the record, I have a fixed hardware config that I've tracked debian-testing on for two years, and also tracking

Re: [some progress] Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-15 Thread Russell L. Carter
I left out the step of replacing Driver="nouveau" with Driver="nvidia" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, sorry. On 05/15/2011 11:52 AM, Russell L. Carter wrote: > > First, thanks much to the people on the other side of the globe who > see a new day before me. I have du

Re: [some progress] Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-15 Thread Russell L. Carter
On 05/15/2011 12:17 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Du, 15 mai 11, 11:56:18, Russell L. Carter wrote: >> I left out the step of replacing Driver="nouveau" with Driver="nvidia" >> in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, sorry. > > Does this mean that everything is ok no

Re: [some progress] Re: NVIDIA cards stopped working with recent testing updates

2011-05-16 Thread Russell L. Carter
On 05/16/2011 01:57 PM, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: >> 15/05/2011 20:52, Russell L. Carter wrote: >> [...] >> > > Do you have the logs from the upgrade right before the crash, what > packages got upgraded ? > In between your different trials you cleaned u

recent iceweasel desktop switching problem

2011-08-02 Thread Russell L. Carter
Hi Folks, First, I'm not sure I have the diagnosis right so if my description is wrong I would appreciate tips on how to improve it. I'm on testing (wheezy) and I'm using fvwm, as I always have for the last 20 years (not sure I should admit that). Comparing 5 browsers: stock testing: iceweasel 3

Re: recent iceweasel desktop switching problem

2011-08-02 Thread Russell L. Carter
On 08/02/2011 07:56 AM, Russell L. Carter wrote: > Hi Folks, [...] > The problem is that when using the squeeze backports iceweasel versions, > when I click on a URL with mouse-2, it switches me to the fvwm desktop > directly below the active desktop, instead of opening a new ta