On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 5:57 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Lu, 05 mai 14, 10:30:43, Dom wrote:
>> On 05/05/14 09:58, Tom H wrote:
>>>
>>> Add "text" to the kernel cmdline.
>>
>> Which you can do by editing the /etc/default/grub file
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
> In Wheezy there is a program called "palimpsest" that gives a nice
> wide-ranging
> overview of all things related to disks: partitions, LVM configuration,
> MD/raid
> configs, SMART data for individual drives, and so on. It was part of the
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Mon, 5 May 2014 12:38:57 +0300
> Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>> On Lu, 05 mai 14, 04:58:14, Tom H wrote:
>>> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:29 AM, François Patte
>>> wrote:
>>>> I would like to boot in
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> François Patte wrote:
>>
>> I would like to boot in console mode from the grub screen (ie not in
>> graphic mode), but I don't want to be in single user mode, ie.: I want
>> to have a "normal boot" without X.
>>
>> I can't find any tuto for
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 10:09 PM, Theodore Alcapotaxis
wrote:
>> From: Patrick Wiseman
>> Sent: 05/07/14 05:40 AM
>> To: Debian User Lists
>> Subject: Re: Is zeitgeist safe?
>>
>> Will you people please take this crap off-list?
>
> Patrick, which parts of the topic make you uncomfortable?
There's
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 4:59 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Ma, 06 mai 14, 17:42:12, Steve Litt wrote:
>> On Tue, 06 May 2014 12:39:03 -0500
>> Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>>>
>>> from /etc/default/grub:
>>>
>>> # Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
>>> #GRUB_TERMINAL=console
>>>
>>>
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 2:19 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby
wrote:
> A long time ago, when I was young ;-), services used to be managed with
> "invoke-rc.d" & "update-rc.d" on Debian.
I've never understood why, but "invoke-rc.d" and "update-rc.d" are
meant for maintainer scripts not users.
> Know
On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 3:49 AM, Marko Randjelovic wrote:
> On Wheezy, you can use:
>
> invoke-rc.d
> service
> /etc/init.d/
"invoke-rc.d" is meant for maintainer scripts and not users (don't ask me why).
"/etc/init.d/ " doesn't sanitize the environment.
> But Jessy will use systemd - sy
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 12:01 PM, John Hasler wrote:
> David Guntner writes:
>>
>> Again, as someone else pointed out: The key word here is TESTING. You
>> want less updates? Go with the current stable release. That has
>> updates, but not as often.
>
> You can also just not install every update.
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 5:09 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2014-05-10 22:40 +0200, Tom H wrote:
>> On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 2:19 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby
>> wrote:
>>> A long time ago, when I was young ;-), services used to be managed with
>>> "
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Eelis wrote:
>
> I read[1] that Firefox will start shipping parts for which they won't
> provide the source code (something to do with DRM..). Can I trust that
> Iceweasel will remain open source, or will I have to switch to Lynx if I
> want to use an open source b
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Martin Vegter wrote:
>
> I am wondering whether systemd will be mandatory in Jessie.
> At the moment, I can install Jessie without systemd. Will this stay so,
> or will this change somewhere before Jessie becomes stable?
>
> I have servers running Jessie. Can I con
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Erwan David wrote:
> Le 17/05/2014 20:57, Sven Joachim a écrit :
>> On 2014-05-17 19:58 +0200, Martin Vegter wrote:
>>>
>>> I am wondering whether systemd will be mandatory in Jessie.
>>> At the moment, I can install Jessie without systemd. Will this stay so,
>>> o
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Erwan David wrote:
> Le 17/05/2014 19:58, Martin Vegter a écrit :
>>
>> I am wondering whether systemd will be mandatory in Jessie.
>> At the moment, I can install Jessie without systemd. Will this stay so,
>> or will this change somewhere before Jessie becomes sta
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 10:49 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
>
> Although initial tty session (from boot) is quicker than with
> sysvinit, additional tty sessions are very slow to start, in the order
> of 5 seconds (which seems like an eternity).
>
> Additionally, this slow tty/session creation time i
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 3:21 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On 5/18/14, Tom H wrote:
>> On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 10:49 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
>>>
>>> Although initial tty session (from boot) is quicker than with
>>> sysvinit, additional tty sessions are ver
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 8:23 AM, Nemeth Gyorgy wrote:
> 2014-05-17 21:54 keltezéssel, Tom H írta:
>>> I have servers running Jessie. Can I continue upgrading packages on a
>>> regular basis, without having to worry that one of these updates will
>>> uninstall half of
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> My general question is "How to search for a particular particle of
> information that you've seen SOMEWHERE in the reams of information available
> as formal documentation, web pages, mailing lists, etc."
>
> My current instance is attempt
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 10:20 AM, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 05/18/2014 09:52 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>> Tom H a écrit :
>>>
>>> If you have loop compiled in to the kernel, as I do below, you can
>>> only change the number of loop devices at boot by using
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Brian wrote:
> On Sun 18 May 2014 at 09:40:29 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> If you have loop compiled in to the kernel, as I do below, you can
>> only change the number of loop devices at boot by using
>> "max_loop=>
>>
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:15 AM, Curt wrote:
> On 2014-05-18, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>
>> My current instance is attempting to modify the max number of
>> loop devices. One pellet of Google buckshot reminded me that it
>> can be reset for the next re-boot under /etc/modprobe.d . But I
>> want to
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Gary Dale wrote:
>
> A lot of people responding to this post don't seem to understand that
> freedom applies to more than just personal choice. The United States was not
> a free nation while it accepted slavery and Firefox is not free software
> while it accepts
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Filip wrote:
> On Sun, 18 May 2014 15:15:34 + (UTC)
> Curt wrote:
>> On 2014-05-18, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>>
>>> My current instance is attempting to modify the max number of
>>> loop devices. One pellet of Google buckshot reminded me that it
>>> can be res
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:41 AM, Curt wrote:
> On 2014-05-18, Tom H wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm reading you can *add* another loop device on the fly
>>> with the mknod command:
>>>
>>> mknod -m 660 /dev/loop8 b 7 8
>>
>> You'll have
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:29 AM, David Dušanić wrote:
>
> Systemd-shim is there to provide functions by systemd on a system that does
> not use it as its init system. It could be useful when you depend on Gnome 3
> software like network-manager but do not want to use systemd.
AFAIUI:
It's not c
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Erwan David wrote:
> Le 18/05/2014 08:34, Tom H a écrit :
>> On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 10:49 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
>>>
>>> Although initial tty session (from boot) is quicker than with
>>> sysvinit, additional tty sessions
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
>
> So I am free to build a fence on public property that denies my neighbour
> the right to access his house? That seems to be the crux of your argument.
You ought to go in to politics because this is yet another ridiculous
parallel of the kind t
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 3:33 AM, Curt wrote:
> On 2014-05-18, Tom H wrote:
>>>>
>>>> You'll have to run "chown root:disk /dev/loop8" too.
>>>
>>> Nobody mentioned that in my reading!
>>
>> ls -l /dev/loop*
>
> Yes, I d
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 10:32 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On 5/19/14, Tom H wrote:
>> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Erwan David wrote:
>>> Le 18/05/2014 08:34, Tom H a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> If you want tty2 to be available permanently
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
> On 18/05/14 06:40 PM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
>>>
>>> So I am free to build a fence on public property that denies my neighbour
>>> the right to access his hous
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 3:46 AM, Erwan David wrote:
> Le 19/05/2014 00:21, Tom H a écrit :
>> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:29 AM, David Dušanić
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Systemd-shim is there to provide functions by systemd on a system that does
>>> not use it a
On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 8:07 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On 5/20/14, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> I use Fluxbox on Fedora without a DM so I'm familiar with the
>> interaction of logind and xinit but I don't see how my reply to your
>> post had anything to do with
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 3:24 AM, Erwan David wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:14:17PM CEST, Tom H said:
>> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 3:46 AM, Erwan David wrote:
>>> Le 19/05/2014 00:21, Tom H a écrit :
>>>> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 11:29 AM, David Dušanić
>&g
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 6:07 AM, Brian wrote:
> On Tue 20 May 2014 at 09:24:02 +0200, Erwan David wrote:
>> On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 10:14:17PM CEST, Tom H said:
>>>
>>> You'll have the choice to use sysvinit without logind or to use it
>>> wit
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 6:52 AM, Pertti Kosunen
wrote:
> On 21.5.2014 2:43, Brad Alexander wrote:
>>
>> I apologize, I thought I had specified, the machine in question is
>> running a relatively recent version of sid. I have not been upgrading as
>> much until some of this chaos with systemd settl
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 18:58 +0400, Reco wrote:
>>
>> fakeroot
>
> ... regarding to some claims on this list is a PITA, at least when
> building a kernel. I run my scripts to build kernel-rts as root.
Why is it a PitA? Because you're philosop
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 8:51 AM, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 05/29/2014 07:49 AM, Horatio Leragon wrote:
>>
>> During installation of Debian 7.5, one is prompted to install either
>>
>> linux-image-3.2.0.4-amd64
>> or
>> linux-image-amd64
>>
>> There is no context-sensitive help menu on that page.
>>
On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Brian wrote:
>> On Mon 02 Jun 2014 at 15:13:24 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>>
>>> The problem actually revolves around the installer (both Squeeze and
>>> Wheezy) default boot line including "priority=critical" for an
>>> automatic install.
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Horatio Leragon wrote:
>>
>> #dhcpcd eth0
>
> There isn't a "dhcpcd" command in Debian. You must be using a
> different system with the above notes.
It's created via the alternatives system by the dhcpcd/dhcpcd5 postinsts.
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On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 7:05 PM, Horatio Leragon wrote:
> From: Bob Proulx
>>
>> On Debian that would be "isc-dhcp-client".
>
> The writer of the guide states that it (the guide) is for Debian users. And
> you're telling me he's wrong.
>
> I'm really confused.
>
> I think I need a second opinion.
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Steffen Dettmer
wrote:
> how to configure a bridge with multiple static IPs and/or DHPC
> via /etc/network/interfaces?
>
> I tried many combinations, but I didn't find any working one.
>
> Of course everything works as expected when configuring manually
> with "ip
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 08:00:49PM +0200, Steffen Dettmer wrote:
>>
>> For an ordinary ethernet interface, the following works:
>>
>> auto eth3.10
>> iface eth3.10 inet static
>> address 10.72.9.17
>> netmask 255.255.255.248
>>
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Steffen Dettmer
wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 11:59 PM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Steffen Dettmer:
> thanks so much for you mail. As I wrote in my other mail just a
> minute ago, it seems I solved the issue (and it works
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 5:52 AM, Horatio Leragon wrote:
>
> dpkg --list 'linux-image-*' \
> | perl -ane 'BEGIN { $r = `uname -r` or die; chomp $r } print $F[1],
> "\n" if $F[0] eq "ii" && $F[1] !~ /\Q$r\E\b/' \
> | xargs -r aptitude purge -y
This script'll remove linux-image-generic and th
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Horatio Leragon wrote:
> From: Tom H
> Sent: Friday, June 6, 2014 6:39 PM
>> This script'll remove linux-image-generic and the kernel will no longer be
>> upgraded automatically.
>
> What do you mean by "kernel will n
On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Gour wrote:
> Siard writes:
>
>> 'init=/bin/systemd' is added to the kernel command line.
>
> By looking at I've got a feeling that 'init=/bin/systemd' should be
> added automatically to the kernel line in grub, but after I switched to
> systemd there is no such li
On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 4:03 AM, Sharon Kimble
wrote:
>
> Revisiting a question that I asked in March last year about how to
> auto-empty a trash bin.
>
> This has worked very well until today, when on one of my drives it
> also deleted the trash bin as well, so my follow-on script to give
> me the
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:23 AM, David Baron wrote:
> libxfont, libxfont-dev --> remove xfs. Is xfs gone/deprecated? In use at all?
xfs was removed from the Debian repositories a while ago.
> network-manger, ppp,etc --> remove sysvinit-core, install systemd, systemd-
> sysv. Do these supersede
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 4:55 AM, Brian wrote:
> On Mon 09 Jun 2014 at 01:23:43 -0400, Teresa e Junior wrote:
>>
>> $ cat /etc/hostname
>> localhost
>
> I wouldn't use this in /etc/hostname. Contacting this machine from
> elsewhwere on the network could prove frustrating.
The hostname in "/etc/host
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
> Glad you have a solution! All my Debian 7 systems use Xfce instead of
> GNOME, so I can't help you there. Debian Testing, aka Jessie, ships
> with Xfce by default, so if you upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy to
> Jessie, you would see somethin
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 6:56 AM, Reco wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 01:31:26PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>> Quote from the first link:
>>
>> The udev built from the systemd source tree will stay compatible
>> with non-systemd init systems for a long time. This change is mostly
>> a detail of
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 8:10 AM, Brian wrote:
> On Mon 09 Jun 2014 at 07:58:41 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 4:55 AM, Brian wrote:
>>> On Mon 09 Jun 2014 at 01:23:43 -0400, Teresa e Junior wrote:
>>>>
>>>> $ cat /etc/hostname
>>
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Teresa e Junior wrote:
>
> $ sudo /usr/sbin/tcpdump -nn -i any udp port 53 or udp port 5353
> tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
> listening on any, link-type LINUX_SLL (Linux cooked), capture size 65535
> bytes
> 07:21:38.107
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Reco wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 09:01:24AM -0400, Tom H wrote:
>>> Allow me to remind you this story:
>>>
>>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/3/484
>>>
>>> The whole mess started once udev (systemd) upstream
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 8:25 PM, David Glover-Aoki wrote:
> I'm running wheezy but have some packages installed from experimental.
>
> How can I list all the packages currently installed from experimental?
aptitude search "~S ~i ~Aexperimental"
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On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 4:38 AM, Filip wrote:
> Tom H writes:
>> On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 8:25 PM, David Glover-Aoki
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm running wheezy but have some packages installed from experimental.
>>>
>>> How can I lis
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 5:12 AM, Filip wrote:
> Tom H writes:
>>
>> aptitude search -F "%p %t %v" "?narrow(?installed,?archive(unstable)"
>
> I added a missing closing brace
Sorry...
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On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Javier Barroso wrote:
> El 10/06/2014 02:25, "David Glover-Aoki" escribió:
>>
>> I'm running wheezy but have some packages installed from experimental.
>>
>> How can I list all the packages currently installed from experimental?
>
> After having quickly read this
On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Prunk Dump wrote:
>>
>> Yes I installed libreoffice-l10n-fr but in libreoffice draw the paper
>> size stay on US letter...
>
> Configure the default paper settings with libpaper1.
>
> # dpkg-reconfigure libpaper1
>
> That will present a dialog b
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 4:40 AM, lina wrote:
>
> Today I tried to install debian from a CD which dated back to 2011.
>
> Everything went fine,
>
> partition -> and then it arrived at the set up the mirror, I just choose
> default and think later changed in the /etc/apt.
> It started to download fr
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 12:32 AM, wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jun 2014, Bob Proulx wrote:
>>
>> The biggest problem I have found using random passwords is that some
>> sites truncate the password to a shorter number of characters. Some
>> of those are fairly high profile sites! http://www.schwab.com/ i
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 12:40 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
>
> I tried an "apt-get dist-upgrade" of my jessie system yesterday, with bad
> results. It seems that debconf is bricked. Currently, there are three packages
> that are unpacked but not configured: tzdata, locales, and debconf. (There
> wer
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jun 2014 13:55:37 -0400 (EDT), Tom H wrote:
>>
>> You might have better luck with "dpkg-reconfigure -fnoninteractive
>> -pcritical debconf".
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, bu
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 1:48 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Martin Richard wrote:
>>
>> In fact fsck or the mount operation before fsck stalls (usually because of
>> xfs), so I never get to the recovery shell.
>
> xfs? The X Font Server? How is xfs involved? I am sure it is really
> something else.
M
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:42 AM, wrote:
>
> First, a warning: I am basically trying to reinvent a wheel, only for my
> pleasure and knowledge. So, yes, there are easier ways to do the things.
>
> Yesterday, I was experimenting with dpkg ( for my own fun, and to learn
> things ), especially with t
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Bret Busby wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jun 2014, Bob Proulx wrote:
>>
>> This is one of those religious wars that has been fought and won and
>> lost many times across the Internet. Please don't start it up again
>> here. If you do really want to do so please use the off-
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 switching from Xubuntu to Debian is to get away
>> from both Plymouth and *dm.
>
> I hadn't heard of Plymouth. I just googled it and blanched. Thanks for the
> heads up
On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 1:38 PM, wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jun 2014, Tom H wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Bret Busby wrote:
>>> On Fri, 20 Jun 2014, Bob Proulx wrote:
>>>>
>>>> This is one of those religious wars that has been fought and won
&g
On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Diogene Laerce wrote:
>
> I try to authorize the 192.168.0.2 host to connect to samba but the
> server host 192.168.0.1 won't let me with the following statement :
>
>
>
> iptables -A INPUT -i
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Alan Chandler
wrote:
>
> I am trying to setup buster.js to run under node.js in Debian Sid. The
> buster.js video shows a guy on a mac do it in a few seconds.
>
> What I so far have discovered with Debian is
>
> 1) Node.js is not run as "node" (which the buster.js
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>
> Err http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main mysql-common all
> 5.1.63-0+squeeze1
> 404 Not Found [IP: 212.211.132.32 80]
There should be a space between "squeeze/updates" and "main", not a "/".
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On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Thursday 13 December 2012 16:59:57 Tom H wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>>>
>> > Err http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates/main mysql-common all
>> > 5.1.6
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 6:47 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Friday 14 December 2012 09:06:54 Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>> On Jo, 13 dec 12, 20:25:05, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>>>
>>> My sources list entry is:
>>> deb http://security.debian.org/squeeze/updates main contrib non-free
>>> deb-src http://security.deb
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Andrei POPESCU
wrote:
> On Du, 16 dec 12, 06:53:26, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>
>> The response I had hoped for was on the lines of "there's a SIG for
>> documentation which you can contact at ...".
>
> What is a SIG?
It's a Fedora-ism: special interest group.
http
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Tom H wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Andrei POPESCU
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> What is a SIG?
>>
>> It's a Fedora-ism: special interest group.
>>
>> http
On 12/16/12 6:40 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
>>
>> On the topic of pkgsel/include:
>>
>> Here is an example from my preseed configuration:
>>
>> d-i pkgsel/include string dnsutils less nvi openssh-server postfix
>> rsync sudo
>>
>> All of those packages will be installed. Any dep
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Beco wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Lars Noodén wrote:
>
> I don't want to look one by one. There should be a way to process them in
> batch.
>
> I find David's idea of editing passwd dangerous and annoying. It would
> be ok to change a single user,
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 3:46 PM, David Guntner wrote:
> Tom H grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Beco wrote:
>>> On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Lars Noodén wrote:
>>> I don't want to look one by one. There should be a way to p
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 2:44 AM, Slavko wrote:
> Dňa Thu, 27 Dec 2012 07:26:15 +0800 Long Wind
> napísal:
>>
>> I don't have a Debian CD now
>> (so I can't rescue)
>
> This can be done with mostly all of Linux live CDs ;-)
d-i has a rescue mode that even has an option to re-install the boot load
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 3:59 AM, Chris Bannister
wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 01:15:53PM +0530, piruthiviraj natarajan wrote:
>>
>> root@localhost:~# cat /etc/apt/apt.conf
>> // Recommends are as of now still abused in many packages
>
> If you know of any packages where this is occuring, then
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Tom H wrote:
>> Richard Owlett wrote:
>> > Tom H wrote:
>> >> Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>> >>> What is a SIG?
>> >>
>> >> It's a Fedora-ism: special interest group.
>
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 10:26 AM, piruthiviraj natarajan
wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 3:59 AM, Chris Bannister
>> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 01:15:53PM +0530, piruthiviraj natarajan wrote:
>>>>
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>
> I have a problem which I know someone else had recently on the list and there
> was a (slightly complicated) solution. But I am not succeeding in finding
> the thread. PEBKAC, obviously, since I am sure that it is there.
>
> I want to instal
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Saturday 29 December 2012 11:19:31 Tom H wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>>>
>>> I have a problem which I know someone else had recently on the list and
>>> there was a (sligh
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Saturday 29 December 2012 13:24:58 Tom H wrote:
>> Kenshi Muto provides installers with backported kernels so he might
>> have one/some with atl1c.
>
> Thanks, Tom. I didn't know that. Downloading now
You'
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Saturday 29 December 2012 14:30:02 Tom H wrote:
>>
>> Did you mount it? :)
>>
>> Was the filesystem fat or ext2?
>
> I couldn't find the kernel module to download it in the first place!! Just
> vast
On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 10:21 AM, AG wrote:
> On 28/12/12 15:31, Chris Bannister wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 02:11:14PM +, AG wrote:
>>> I thought that the Debian user community might want to be aware of
>>> the response from one of the Amarok team I received when asking
>>> about a pr
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 12:42 AM, Chris Bannister
wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 06:51:38AM +0200, Dionyssis Goulimis wrote:
>>
>> I downloaded the last edition of Debian yesterday but I can't remember
>> my Admin password, what is the best way to stop using an Admin password?
>
> You mean the r
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On 12/30/12, Dionyssis Goulimis wrote:
>> 2012/12/30, Dionyssis Goulimis :
>>>
>>> I downloaded the last edition of Debian yesterday but I can't remember
>>> my Admin password, what is the best way to recover it?
>>
>> I downloaded the la
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> From: Roger Leigh
> Sent: Friday, January 4, 2013 3:02 AM
>>
>> LVM does not use unpartitioned space for anything TTBOMK. It uses
>> physical volumes (PVs) which are block devices (either partitions or
>> whole disks or RAID arrays etc.). Th
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
>> From: Tom H
>> Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2013 4:32 AM
>> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Patrick Bartek
>> wrote:
>>> From: Roger Leigh
>>> Sent: Friday, January 4, 2013 3:02 AM
>>
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
> I have two RAID arrays on my Debian squeeze system. The old one, which
> still works, and has worked for years, is on a pair of partitions on two
> 750GB disks. THe new one is not recognized at boot.
>
> boot is *not* on any of these RAIDs;
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Sven Hartge wrote:
> Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
>> But it is not recognized at boot. The dmesg output tells me all about
>> finding the old RAID, but it doesn't even notice the new one, not even to
>> complain about it.
>
>> It seems the significant differences bwtwee
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 2:14 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:
>
> Also I know that RHEL/CentOS at least also moved from an autoraid of
> 0xFD to an explicitly mounted system too for the same reasons. But
> they do it by specifying the UUIDs on the kernel command line from
> grub. It makes for some very long c
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Tom H wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>>
>> I have two RAID arrays on my Debian squeeze system. The old one, which
>> still works, and has worked for years, is on a pair of partitions on two
>> 750GB
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 6:06 AM, Sven Hartge wrote:
> Tom H wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 12:07 AM, Sven Hartge wrote:
>>> Hendrik Boom wrote:
>
>>>> Any ideas where to look? Or how to work around the problem?
>
>>> What type are those partiti
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 03:40:07 -0500, Tom H wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 3:19 AM, Tom H wrote:
>>>
>>> Did you rebuild your initramfs?
>
> No, and no, and that's probably the problem.
Most probably.
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Ross Boylan wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-01-07 at 03:23 -0500, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> "FD00" only matters when using v0.9 metadata. Squeeze defaults to v1.x
>> (1.2 IIRC), which isn't auto-assembled by the kernel.
>
> This leaves me
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 12:52 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:14:31 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
>> Hendrik Boom wrote:
>> Did you rebuild the initrd images for the booting kernel after having
>> done this?
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64
>
> dpkg-reconf
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:20:45 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
>> Hendrik Boom wrote:
>>>
>>> Won't boot. Gets stick at the initramfs prompt after complaining
>>> that it can't run /sbin/init
>>>
>>> I look with ls, and discover that /sbin exists, bit
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