Re: Mobile devices ... any of them still use Linux?

2012-11-25 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 1:36 PM, der.hans wrote: > Am 25. Nov, 2012 schwätzte Carl Fink so: > >> I don't mean Android, a proprietary OS build on the Linux kernel just as >> MacOS is built on the BSD kernel. > > Is it proprietary? Isn't Cyanogenmod an android rebuild because android is > FOSS? Ther

Re: Mobile devices ... any of them still use Linux?

2012-11-26 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Carl Fink wrote: > Yury Sakarinen wrote: >> Carl Fink писал 2012-11-26 16:03: >>> >>> I am not a developer, the target market. >> >> ahhaha, wrong list to ask questions.. > > Actually this is "Debian User". So it's the wrong list since Debian doesn't publish a p

Re: Boot loaders for Linux that can also boot FreeBSD

2012-11-29 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I need a boot loader for Linux, that is comfortable to use for my needs, > a Linux multi-boot with > trillions of Linux installs, > trillions ^ 2 kernels and > (trillions ^ 2) * 1024 entries with different boot options, so something > as GRU

Re: OT: Boot loaders for Linux that can also boot FreeBSD

2012-11-30 Thread Tom H
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Re: legacy-bootordering in Wheezy?

2012-11-30 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Rob van der Putten wrote: > > When Upgrading from Lenny to Squeeze I run into trouble because NFS wanted > to mount before Bind was running. legacy-bootordering fixed this for me. You can use an insserv override to add Should-Start: $named Should-Stop: $named to t

Re: Failing to install virt-manager on Sid

2012-11-30 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Alan Chandler wrote: > > I am trying to install virt-manager on sid, but I am getting a dependancy > blockage which I don't understand > > virt-manager ultimately depends on libvirt0 - which seems to have version > (0.9.12-5) in the sid repository > > libvirt0 dep

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-01 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > today, I tried to upgrade from squeeze to wheezzy: > - in source.list, I only left: > deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib non-free > > - then, apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade > up to now, no problem, a lot of pa

Re: Preseeding and partman-auto-recipe.txt

2012-12-01 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 09:55:22AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install >> In Section B.4.7 says >> "The examples below only provide basic information on the use of >> recipes. For detailed in

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-02 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 5:47 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Sun, 2 Dec 2012, Chris Bannister wrote: >> >> What is output of: >> >> apt-cache policy udev > > >udev: > Installed: 164-3 > Candidate: 175-7 > Version table: > 175-7 0 >500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/

Re: upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy

2012-12-02 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > > apt-get update > apt-get install linux-image-3.2.0-4-686-pae udev grub apt dpkg I'd start with just the kernel and udev, possibly separately. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: legacy-bootordering in Wheezy?

2012-12-02 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Rob van der Putten wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> You can use an insserv override to add >> Should-Start: $named >> Should-Stop: $named >> to the nfs-kernel-server LSB headers to ensure that bind starts before >> nfs. &g

Re: legacy-bootordering in Wheezy?

2012-12-02 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Rob van der Putten wrote: > Rob van der Putten wrote: > > I just found out: > Without .legacy-bootordering asterisk won't start. Do the logs say why? If not, check how the scripts are numbered with and without legacy ordering to figure out what asterisk's "Require

Re: legacy-bootordering in Wheezy?

2012-12-03 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Rob van der Putten wrote: > Rob van der Putten wrote: >> Tom H wrote: >>> >>> Why a circular dependency? You're adding it to nfs-kernel-server not >>> to bind9. >> >> '$remote_fs' confused me. '/

Re: legacy-bootordering in Wheezy?

2012-12-04 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Rob van der Putten wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> >> AFAIUI, "$remote_fs" being "Required-Start" for bind9 means that nfs >> volumes have to be mounted for bind9 to be started not that >> nfs-kernel-server's shares hav

Re: "apt-get BUG" OR "OPERATOR Error"?

2012-12-05 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 2:08 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 04 dec 12, 21:25:08, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >> Though I might be classed as a *nix newbie, I've been doing a series >> of manual "expert installs" with the eventual goal of determining >> what *I* might want in a preseed.cfg file fo

Re: grub-legacy fails with its root on raid1

2012-12-05 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Marcus Blumhagen wrote: > Please CC me on reply, since I am not subscribed to the list. I consider rude not to subscribe to a list asking for help - but that's just me... > just recently I was faced with a non-booting remote box running Debian 6.0 > (Squeeze).

Re: "apt-get BUG" OR "OPERATOR Error"?

2012-12-05 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 7:12 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Ma, 04 dec 12, 21:25:08, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> >>> If my initial logon is followed by [ su password apt-get >>> install gdm gedit gnome-terminal] a reboot dumps me at a root >>> terminal screen with apparentl

Re: "apt-get BUG" OR "OPERATOR Error"?

2012-12-05 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 05 dec 12, 04:46:21, Tom H wrote: >>> >>> Sounds like something is missing. >> >> Would installing gdm in a minimal install pull in X and GNOME? > > IIRC it does pull in a minimal Gnome, but on

Re: grub-legacy fails with its root on raid1

2012-12-05 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Marcus Blumhagen wrote: > Am 05.12.2012 17:01, schrieb Tom H: >> >> Since you're using grub-legacy and might be using update-grub and the >> "DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST" system, make sure that "groot" in >> &

Re: Restarting Networking in Debian

2012-12-07 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Steve wrote: > Carlos Mennens gmail.com> writes: >> >> What is the deal now with 'restarting' networking services in Debian 5 >> & Squeeze? I use to be able to run the command: >> >> /etc/init.d/networking restart >> >> Now when I do so in Debian, I get a strange e

Re: Does LXDE really require lightdm?

2014-06-30 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 12:34:54 -0400 > Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 6:01 AM, Lisi Reisz >> wrote: >>> On Sunday 22 June 2014 01:31:50 Steve Litt wrote: >>>> The whole reason I'm switchin

Re: Does LXDE really require lightdm?

2014-06-30 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Brian wrote: > On Fri 27 Jun 2014 at 13:40:48 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: >> On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 12:34:54 -0400 >> Tom H wrote: >> >> functional, graphical boots, framebuffer boots, enforced GUI login just >> get in the way. >&g

Re: Is grub perfect? (was Re: Does LXDE really require lightdm?)

2014-06-30 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Rusi Mody wrote: > On Saturday, June 28, 2014 9:20:02 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: >> On Sat 28 Jun 2014 at 09:00:30 +0200, Thierry de Coulon wrote: >>> On Saturday 28 June 2014 05.55:39 Rusi Mody wrote: PS. No I am not defending grub2 -- I find its document

Re: Is grub perfect? (was Re: Does LXDE really require lightdm?)

2014-06-30 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 10:12 PM, Rusi Mody wrote: > > There used to be a grub wiki: grub.enbug.org. The link is now dead. > > It can however still be found in the webarchive: > https://web.archive.org/web/20100819173835/http://grub.enbug.org/FrontPage The grub manual that I posted earlier was so

Re: Is grub perfect? (was Re: Does LXDE really require lightdm?)

2014-06-30 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 12:24:41 +0200 > berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: >> >> Otherwise, if you do not like grub, there are other boot loaders. >> LILO at least works fine, and seems to be ok for your requirements: a >> single easy text file

Re: Does LXDE really require lightdm?

2014-06-30 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Brian wrote: > On Mon 30 Jun 2014 at 13:42:51 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> >> Removing "splash" disables the bootsplash but it doesn't disable >> plymouth. With upstart, plymouth is the interface for fscking or >> decrypting a

Re: Is grub perfect? (was Re: Does LXDE really require lightdm?)

2014-06-30 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Brian wrote: > On Mon 30 Jun 2014 at 14:05:10 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Rusi Mody wrote: >>> >>> I use the grub command configfile (also multiboot). >>> What do they do? Where are they documented?

Re: Is grub perfect? (was Re: Does LXDE really require lightdm?)

2014-07-01 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Rusi Mody wrote: > On Tuesday, July 1, 2014 3:40:02 AM UTC+5:30, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Brian wrote: >>> On Mon 30 Jun 2014 at 14:05:10 -0400, Tom H wrote: >>>> On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Rusi Mody wro

Re: Different behaviour handling NFS mounts after login

2014-07-05 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 4:42 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > I don't think user is valid for nfs mounts. The user flag is usually > for local media. In any case it isn't in the list for nfs mount > options. Also neither is auto. Same with _netdev. Personally I am > only using "async" and nothing mor

Re: unable to upgrade kernel

2014-07-05 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 1:02 PM, François Patte wrote: > Le 04/07/2014 16:12, Lisi Reisz a écrit : >> On Friday 04 July 2014 14:42:47 Stephen Powell wrote: >>> >>> Since you are trying to install a 3.14 kernel from backports, I >>> assume that you are running wheezy. You need to install the >>> in

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-05 Thread Tom H
Why are you trolling both the Debian and Fedora lists with this nonsense simultaneously? Why are you doing so from a Windows system if you're such a Linux "traditionalist"? On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Balint wrote: > http://ewontfix.com/15/ > http://ewontfix.com/14/ > > Just read them and p

Re: Gratuitous reverse rabble rousing? (was Re: why do we use systemd?)

2014-07-07 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > I think it's because they believe, rightly or wrongly, that you're the > same person that came on here before with all sorts of anti-systemd > yelling, not to express an opinion, but to start trouble. If their > belief is wrong, you were treated

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-07 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Erwan David wrote: > Le 05/07/2014 20:50, B a écrit : >> >> I just made a re-installation on my last laptop and it >> installed by itself when upgrading to sid. >> AFAICS, it is really fast; now, we'll see what problem >> will be raised in the future… (hoping it

Re: Clone GPT partition table - with Lenny ?

2014-07-07 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Ron Leach wrote: > > We have a RAID1 server running Lenny, one of whose two 2TB discs comprising > the RAID arrays has failed. The discs were partitioned into 8 partitions > during the Debian Lenny installation, and separate RAID1 arrays were built > on 7 of those p

Re: Clone GPT partition table - with Lenny ?

2014-07-07 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 5:49 PM, B wrote: > > Apparently, this is very easy: > http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/12986/how-to-copy-the-partition-layout-of-a-whole-disk-using-standard-tools You can't uses sfdisk with gpt disks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debi

Re: Clone GPT partition table - with Lenny ?

2014-07-07 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 5:53 PM, B wrote: > Rahhh, read too fast, former was for non-GPT, here's > one good pgm that does the trick (also exist as a pkg > in trudububu): > http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/19047/how-can-i-quickly-copy-a-gpt-partition-scheme-from-one-hard-drive-to-another

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-07 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2014-07-05 20:25 +0200, Steve Litt wrote: >> Then there was >> that upstart thing: a little more convoluted, but still somewhat >> conformant to the Unix Philosophy. Now comes systemd, which, from what >> I've heard, is a further step away

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-07 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Balint wrote: > On 05/07/2014 18:14, Tom H wrote: >> >> Why are you trolling both the Debian and Fedora lists with this >> nonsense simultaneously? > > because I use Debian and Fedora as well. >> >> >> Why are you do

Re: Debian Wheezy additional IP through Gnome-network-manager

2014-07-07 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:20 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > > for some reason i need to assign an additional IP to My LAN. which i did > from Gnome-network-manager but ipconfig doesn't show the new IP, i even > "server networking restart" which didnt help. i dont want to restart my > computer fo

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-07 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 11:15 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > On 07/06/2014 09:54 AM, Martin Read wrote: >> On 06/07/14 00:10, The Wanderer wrote: >>> >>> Can you run logind without systemd or journald? >> >> If you have something else that provides the systemd interfaces >> logind depends on, you can ru

Re: Debian Wheezy additional IP through Gnome-network-manager

2014-07-07 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 6:18 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:20 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan >> wrote: >>> >>> for some reason i need to assign an additional IP to My LAN. which i did &

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-08 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 7/7/2014 4:47 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Balint wrote: >>> On 05/07/2014 18:14, Tom H wrote: >>>> >>>> Why are you trolling both the Debian and Fedora lists with this >

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-08 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Miroslav Hrabal wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jul 2014 22:03:53 +0300 > Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> >> Change is difficult and there will be problems. On the other hand >> systemd is used by a lot of distros already and the alternatives either >> bitrot (sysv-init) or aren't rea

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-08 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 16:03:31 +0200 > berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: >> >> I forgot that systemd is able to "spy" processes it starts, IIRC, to >> avoid tricks like the double fork, which means a better control on >> zombie processes. Don't

Re: Sid - grubpc-bin isc-dhcp-client bugs

2014-07-09 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Stephen Allen wrote: > > For some time these bugs have existed in SID: > > critical bugs of grub-pc-bin (2.00-22 → 2.02~beta2-10) > #741464 - grub-pc-bin: hangs after displaying boot menu This one was against 2.02~beta2-7 in experimental. You should let the deve

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-09 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 7/8/2014 5:42 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >>> >>> What's wrong with that? I also have to use Windows, even when I'm >>> working on Lin

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:06 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 17:55:15 -0400 > Tom H wrote: FTR, since you seem to have misunderstood, I copied and pasted someone else's comments on OpenRC. >> If we're going to the effort of >> replacing init syst

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:07 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 17:57:51 -0400 > Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Steve Litt >> wrote: >>> On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 16:03:31 +0200 >>> berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: >>>

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Martin Read wrote: > > Do the programs you launch need to outlive your session? If so, your > launcher program's design will run into problems in a systemd world. loginctl has an "enable-linger" setting for this for a logged in and authenticated user. -- To UNSU

Re: Sid - grubpc-bin isc-dhcp-client bugs

2014-07-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2014-07-09 08:59 +0200, Tom H wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Stephen Allen >> wrote: >>> >>> For some time these bugs have existed in SID: >>> >>> critical bugs of grub-pc-bi

Re: Sid - grubpc-bin isc-dhcp-client bugs

2014-07-10 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2014-07-09 19:43 +0200, Tom H wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> On 2014-07-09 08:59 +0200, Tom H wrote: >>>> This one was against 2.02~beta2-7 in experimental. >>&g

Re: UEFI

2014-07-10 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Slavko wrote: > Dňa Thu, 10 Jul 2014 01:49:12 +0800 Bret Busby > napísal: >> On 09/07/2014, B wrote: >> >>> BTW, sorry to hijack a bit this thread, but what could >>> be the advantages to use UEFI (I just have Debian on my >>> laptop and disabled it from ancie

Re: Network devices "go bad" a lot in Wheezy

2014-07-12 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 7:24 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > > Yeah, you read the subject right. Let me explain... > > Debian (Wheezy 7.5) is the first distro I've seen where this happens. > You reboot, and eth0 doesn't work and neither does lo. It's > intermittent enough I can't give you an exact reprodu

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-12 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Brian wrote: > On Fri 11 Jul 2014 at 12:21:57 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: >> >> A bizarre thought just popped into my head, in the form of a little >> voice. The little voice told me that if they guys who controlled the >> decision to go to systemd had been the decisi

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-12 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Brian wrote: > On Fri 11 Jul 2014 at 12:21:57 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: >> >> A bizarre thought just popped into my head, in the form of a little >> voice. The little voice told me that if they guys who controlled the >> decision to go to systemd had been the decisi

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-13 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Brian wrote: >>> On Fri 11 Jul 2014 at 12:21:57 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: >>>> A bizarre thought just popped into my head, in the form of a little >>>

Re: gedit ugly under xfce

2014-07-15 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 2:47 PM, B wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 22:34:18 +0400 > Reco wrote: >> >> This is … an expected behaviour from any GTK+3 application launched >> outside of GNOME. Googling 'GTK3 client-side decorations' will >> provide you with all the gory details. > > That was my co

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-19 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jul 2014 18:29:23 +0200 Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2014-07-18 17:21 +0200, Steve Litt wrote: >> >>> The other thing is, a lot of people thought the current init system >>> was working just fine. >> >> They should read the mail[1] by o

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-19 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 6:59 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2014-07-19 00:22 +0200, Steve Litt wrote: >> >> And finally, note that the guy's email doesn't specifically recommend >> systemd, and as a matter of fact seems to gravitate toward upstart, > > This is quite easily explained by the fact that

Re: Is this safe?? Chrome in Debian 6

2014-07-19 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 18 iul 14, 00:51:41, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: >> >> I wouldn't update to Wheezy - because I waiting for Jessy. > > Unless you want to reinstall from scratch skipping a release is not > supported. This was discussed on debian-devel@. I

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-19 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 8:00 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > > I suspect it may be the principle which I've been turning over in my > mind lately, and which I think would be expressed as: > > "No functionality which anything not part of the init system might > legitimately want to depend on should be im

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-19 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 11:43 AM, Erwan David wrote: > Le 18/07/2014 18:44, Brian a écrit : >> >> I have no testing install to hand at the moment so perhaps you could >> list these packages for us. Please indicate the ones for which there >> is no "real need". > > Explain why systemd is needed for

Re: Is this safe?? Chrome in Debian 6

2014-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 6:00 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 19 July 2014 23:34:28 Tom H wrote: >> >> To the OP: can't you install a supported and more recent chrome from >> google.com? > > Not on Squeeze. You have to update to at least Wheezy. Thanks. I a

Re: Skipping releases on dist-upgrades [was: Re: Is this safe?? Chrome in Debian 6]

2014-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 6:02 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 19 iul 14, 18:34:28, Tom H wrote: >> >> This was discussed on debian-devel@. I'm sure that if you asked those >> who want this supported they'd tell you that this isn't what was >> decided a

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 10:33 PM, sp113438 wrote: > 1 poweroff takes ages (several minutes), and sometimes fails completely, > this is very annoying On Fedora, v208 introduced "slice" units and I (and many others) had a problem at shutdown with the logged-in user's slice taking a long time to s

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 7:29 AM, Slavko wrote: > Dňa Sun, 20 Jul 2014 07:46:17 +0200 Sven Joachim > napísal: >> On 2014-07-19 19:14 +0200, Slavko wrote: >> >>> Then it seems, that there is way to have policykit without systemd. >> >> The alternative (on which policykit-1 depends on kfreebsd-*) is

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 1:30 AM, Erwan David wrote: > > systemd-shim is no more an option in testing. This is temporary. It's dependent on cgmanager being added to the archives. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Skipping releases on dist-upgrades [was: Re: Is this safe?? Chrome in Debian 6]

2014-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 4:16 AM, Joe wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 04:04:04 -0400 > Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 6:02 AM, Andrei POPESCU >> wrote: >>> On Sb, 19 iul 14, 18:34:28, Tom H wrote: >>>> >>>> This was discussed on debian-dev

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 4:19 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Montag, 21. Juli 2014, 07:30:40 schrieb Erwan David: > > Still… also hibernate and suspend with KDE is currently broken with sysvinit- > core. And systemd 208 just doesn´t boot my workstation at work, while it works > nicely with my l

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Erwan David wrote: > Le 20/07/2014 16:11, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : >> On Du, 20 iul 14, 14:40:27, Erwan David wrote: >>> Add to this the fact it throws away years of habits with yet another >>> language (yes the systemd unit files are nit shellscripts but they u

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 4:18 AM, Erwan David wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 09:59:55AM CEST, Tom H said: >> On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 10:33 PM, sp113438 wrote: >>> >>> Booting is fast >> >> That's one of the development goals. > > I switched to

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 4:28 AM, Erwan David wrote: > > libpam-systemd now refuses systemd-shim (with v208 in testing)... You must be skipping emails in this thread. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 5:35 AM, David Baron wrote: > On Monday 21 July 2014 08:45:12 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org > wrote: >> >> (Using "init=/sbin/init" on the kernel cmdline will boot systemd if >> you have systemd-sysv installed.) > > More and more complicated, huh? > Will this

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 5:01 AM, Erwan David wrote: >>> 2) You have a specific syntax, and a specific semantics (what does >>> ExecStart, WantedBy, etc mean), that one must learn in order to simply >>> read this. The namles of the sections are also meaningfull. All this >>> defines a full fledge

Re: testing-dedicated ML? ( was Re: End of hypocrisy ? )

2014-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 11:58 AM, wrote: > Le 21.07.2014 15:31, Slavko a écrit : >> >> it seems, that there can good idea to provide separate ML for testing >> users. > > I agree, since testing is not for normal users (well... theoretically at > least), so we could imagine that different MLs for

Re: Skipping releases on dist-upgrades [was: Re: Is this safe?? Chrome in Debian 6]

2014-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Joe wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 04:37:40 -0400 Tom H wrote: >> >> There's already been one thread about this on debian-devel@ and it was >> a typical thread where the pro and con make their points but no >> decision's reache

Re: Sid Systemd upgrade

2014-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Damn right I don't use development or testing versions in production. I'm > looking down the road a year and planning what I will use in production when > my current system is ready for upgrade. It's looking less and less like > Debian,

Re: testing-dedicated ML? ( was Re: End of hypocrisy ? )

2014-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:56 PM, David Guntner wrote: > Tom H grabbed a keyboard and wrote: >> >> There is one >> >> https://lists.debian.org/debian-testing/ >> >> but a quick look at the its archives shows that it isn't a heavily >> used li

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-22 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Erwan David wrote: > Le 21/07/2014 18:23, Tom H a écrit : >> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 4:18 AM, Erwan David wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 09:59:55AM CEST, Tom H said: >>>> On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 10:33 PM, sp113438

Re: Sid Systemd upgrade

2014-07-22 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Miles Fidelman >> wrote: >>> >>> Damn right I don't use development or testing versions in production. >>> I'm >>> looking do

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-22 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 11:01 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > On 07/22/2014 10:34 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Erwan David >> wrote: >>> >>> So it seems there is a quiet on the default command line, which >>> does not mean same thing w

Re: systemd log messages during boot (Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd)

2014-07-24 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 2:02 AM, Erwan David wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 12:06:51AM CEST, Michael Biebl > said: >> Am 22.07.2014 19:22, schrieb Erwan David: >>> Le 22/07/2014 18:59, Michael Biebl a écrit : Am 22.07.2014 18:24, schrieb The Wanderer: > As far as I can see, there

Re: missing LSB tags and overrides

2014-07-27 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > > All this, of course, assumes the OP doesn't want to use the previously > mentioned suggestion of "aptitude purge '~c'". And that's fair enough; > aptitude is not to everyone's taste. If you'd rather not use aptitude to purge packages, you

Re: systemd waisted 5 hours of my work time today

2014-07-27 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Slavko wrote: > Dňa Thu, 24 Jul 2014 13:00:24 +0100 Tom Furie > napísal: >> >> You are, of course, aware that testing and unstable are test platforms >> where breakage is to be expected? They shouldn't be used for anything >> "mission critical", that's what stable

Re: [Wheezy] [networking] post-up NOT executed

2014-07-27 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Mickael MONSIEUR wrote: > > I have a fresh installation of Debian Wheezy 7.6.0 amd64. > The post-up line does not execute when eth0 is mounted! > (by against my eth0 interface is mounted!) > > I have to mount routes, and are not: > > post-up /sbin/route add 1.2.3.4

Re: systemd support for init level use case

2014-07-27 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Gregory Seidman wrote: > > I'm on stable, but I'm reading the threads about systemd and I want to be > prepared for the next stable release. I run a RAID1 with an encryption loop > and LVM on top of that for my home directories and a number of data volumes > (i.e.

Re: 'strictatime' vs. 'relatime' for /tmp

2014-07-30 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 4:12 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > When mounting a tmpfs on /tmp systemd sets 'strictatime'. I was > wondering whether this is really needed. Does anybody know of software > that would break with 'relatime' (the default) or even 'noatime'? > > I'd be happy to RTFM if anybod

Re: [Wheezy] [networking] post-up NOT executed

2014-07-31 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Tom H a écrit : >> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Mickael MONSIEUR >> wrote: >>> >>> post-up /sbin/route add 1.2.3.4 dev eth0 >> >> your "route ..." syntax looks wrong to me. > &

Re: systemd waisted 5 hours of my work time today

2014-07-31 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Slavko wrote: >>> Dňa Thu, 24 Jul 2014 13:00:24 +0100 Tom Furie >>> napísal: >>>> >>>> You are, of course,

Re: systemd requires kernel to have CONFIG_CGROUPS enabled -> installer check!

2014-07-31 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 31 iul 14, 20:13:23, JPT wrote: >> >> my self built system is dead because systemd installer does not check if >> control groups are enabled BEFORE upgrading the package. >> >> Could someone take care so the installer checks current k

Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working

2014-08-01 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Rusi Mody wrote: > On Friday, August 1, 2014 12:10:02 AM UTC+5:30, Rusi Mody wrote: >> >> After some recent upgrades (this is on jessie) >> auto starting of ppp has stopped working. >> >> So every time after booting I now have to run pppoeconf. > > Some progress...

Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working

2014-08-01 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 2:49 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 09:32:08PM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: >> >> So now the question is: >> >> What is the 'modern' way of automatically doing 'modprobe pppoe' >> at boot/ifup time? >> >> Evidently something has changed that has made that st

Re: Skype access cancelled for Debian versions before 7

2014-08-03 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > > I have found, in the last day, that Microsoft has apparently cancelled > Skype access for versions of Debian before 7.x. > > With the error message that I encountered, with my Skype 2.2 (beta) > running on Debian 6, I went to the Skype web site

Re: Skype access cancelled for Debian versions before 7

2014-08-03 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > There must be an alternative to Skype. > > http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/fed-up-with-skype-here-are-6-of-the-best-free-alternatives/ In theory but not in practice - unless you want to use one of the above and talk to yourself. -- To UN

Re: systemd waisted 5 hours of my work time today

2014-08-03 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Joel Rees wrote: >>> In this case, yeah, experimental is experimental, but there are >>> limits. And that was not the way to have

Re: /usr on own filesystem, not already mounted -- yeech!

2014-08-03 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 2:59 AM, David Baron wrote: > > Started to get this message several times in bootup or maybe was simply not > quick enough to catch it before. Everything seems to play. > > The Debian installer itself will place /usr on it own partition/filesystem. So > what gives? > > Is it

Re: fsck progress not shown on boot with systemd as pid 1

2014-08-03 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 8:53 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > On 08/02/2014 03:15 PM, Brian wrote: >> On Sat 02 Aug 2014 at 12:24:46 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: >>> Brian wrote: With sysvinit the default at booting is for the screen messages to fly past at a bewildering speed and then for the

Re: Bug#736258: acpid won't stop, won't upgrade (systemd) - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736258

2014-08-03 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > > [snip] > > Is there a reason debian-user is subscribed to this bug report? Please don't top-post. Probably because it's a debian-user@ thread that resulted in the the bug report and we were added to the cc as a (thoughtful) courtesy. -

Re: fsck progress not shown on boot with systemd as pid 1

2014-08-03 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > if [ -f /etc/inittab ]; then > if grep -q '^1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty' /etc/inittab; then > log "Fixing getty --noclear in /etc/inittab" > sed --in-place '/^1/s/getty 38400/getty --noclear 38400/' /etc/initt

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-04 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 6:37 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > My own view is "why systemd" fix sysinit instead, where it is > broken or rather the packages [whatever they are] that don't work properly. Who should fix sysvinit? The upstream sysvinit developers are DDs and they didn't do it (I'm

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