On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Mark Allums wrote:
> On 6/15/2012 7:01 PM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Tom H wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Mark Allums wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Synaptic has begun asking for my user password r
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 4:15 AM, Joe wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 17:08:19 -0500
> Mark Allums wrote:
>
>> Synaptic has begun asking for my user password rather than the root
>> password. Why is this happening, and how do I make it stop? I want
>> only users with root privileges to use
>> apt/a
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 4:34 AM, Tom H wrote:
>
> You're welcome. PolicyKit can be more fine-grained than just setting
> an admin group. You can find specific synaptic authorizations by
> running "pkaction" and then display the actual authorization with
> &
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
>
> Unfortunately Joe and Sam still aren't filtered by the Debian mailing
> list filter, but fortunately threads that aren't important for me, also
> aren't filtered by the list server.
I assume that by "Joe" you mean Joe Assistly.
The emails
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:56:59 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
>> On 06/15/2012 12:58 PM, Camaleón wrote:
>
Thank you for your ideas, and I'll return to this thread when I have
any kind of information.
>>>
>>> Ok, keep us informed. I feel
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 17:38 +0100, Brian wrote:
>> On Sun 17 Jun 2012 at 18:00:25 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>>
>>> Joe and Sam (most wanted spammers on this list) never ever will have
>>> impact to your Linux ;). Forget AppArmor! Read about
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 18:45 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote:
>>
>> AppArmor doesn’t add a single thread to a running Linux system.
>
> So it's a voodoo-ghost and doesn't need resources?
If you think that it's using a thread, please show it!
(I
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 15:30 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes, but it's part of the paranoia ;) and comes withs tons of threads,
>>> on Ubuntu Precise:
>>>
>>> spinymouse@precise:~$ ps -eLf|g
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 15:41 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Ralf Mardorf
>> wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 18:45 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote:
>>>>
>>>> AppArmor doesn
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Paul E Condon
wrote:
>
> I think I have already tried that, and I tried again just now, just to
> make sure, and again I got the standard "Bad Archive Mirror"
> message. That message suggests that either the archive is not
> available, or that there is not a valid
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Brian wrote:
>> On Thu 21 Jun 2012 at 14:08:25 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 07:45:38AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
At some point in my series of posts someone said I could not get a
functioning minim
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 12:31 AM, Mark Allums wrote:
> On 6/21/2012 9:58 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
>> Brian wrote:
>>> On Thu 21 Jun 2012 at 13:55:49 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote:
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 07:37:52AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> The new install will not accept root passwor
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:48 PM, Paul Condon wrote:
>
> I think I have also read somewhere that netinst is a minimal system that is
> capable of hardly anything, except downloading and installing more packages
> from a mirror on the web. For this to
> be true in any meaningful sense, I had always
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 12:39 AM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
>
> OT for Lina's issue, but she mentioned /var.
>
> Will /var soon or later be changed for most distros, inculding Debian?
>
> "As of filesystem-2012.6-2 the folders /var/run and /var/lock will be
> replaced by symlinks to /run and /run/lock,
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Richard Owlett wrote:
>> Joe wrote:
>>>
>>> There are various references on the Net to 'Debian From
>>> Scratch' but
>>> they seem to refer to installing Debian using various
>>> methods rather
>>> than actually compiling it from source. I
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote:
>
> And, BTW, Desktop LTS support lasts only for 3 years, not 5.
It's been pushed up to 5 years with 12.04.
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On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> - Original Message -
>>
>> I would like to buy a new macbook pro (15" without retina 9,1) and
>> install Debian. Has anybody been able to install debian/linux on it? I
>> read somewhere else that people are having problems to boot li
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Jon Dowland wrote:
>
> I think he does want tasksel, but it's not really part of the install
> process, it's merely called by the install process. I believe the tasksel
> maintainers have recently moved to a model where their tasks (bundles) are
> now simply packa
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Steve Dowe wrote:
>
> The issue I'm having, using wheezy, is that if I set up a bridged
> ethernet interface for eth0 (br0), as per instructions on the Debian
> wiki etc, NetworkManager can no longer manage my wired ethernet connection.
>
> If I edit /etc/NetworkM
On Sun, Jul 1, 2012 at 10:27 AM, wrote:
>
> virt-install can not really install unattended.
> 1. it installs inside a VM, which was the whole point of VMBuilder, that
> his is not neccessary. Ok, overlooking this one...
> 2. It relies on preseed or kickstart. These methods have other glitches,
>
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Siard wrote:
> Mika Suomalainen wrote:
>>
>> It seems that Debian's grub can only detect Debian and Windows 7, but
>> not Ubuntu.
>
> First make sure that Ubuntu's /boot/grub/grub.cfg contains a menuentry
> for Ubuntu in the section starting with
> ### BEGIN /etc/
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Helgi Örn Helgason
wrote:
> On 27 June 2012 07:37, Mika Suomalainen
> wrote:
>>
>> I have three OSes on this computer. They are Debian Sid, Ubuntu Precise
>> and Windows 7.
>>
>> It seems that Debian's grub can only detect Debian and Windows 7, but
>> not Ubuntu
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 7:28 AM, Rodolfo kix Garcia wrote:
>
> I have a mac mini server (2011). I installed Debian one year ago and all was
> fine. I setup grub without problems, but some days ago the computers was
> rebooted and I cannot boot it. I tried to reinstall grub, but no success.
>
> Thi
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Mark Panen wrote:
>
> I do not always have all my machines powered on and when i power up my main
> Squeeze machine, the boot sequence waits forever to mount the NFS mount
> points because machine 2 is powered down for example.
>
> I put "defaults" in my /etc/fstab
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Siard wrote:
> Tom H wrote:
>> Siard wrote:
>>> Mika Suomalainen wrote:
>>>>
>>>> It seems that Debian's grub can only detect Debian and Windows 7,
>>>> but not Ubuntu.
>>>
>>> First ma
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 4:32 AM, Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 10:28:57PM +0200, daniele.g wrote:
>> Camaleón writes:
>>
>> > Frozen != released :-)
>>
>> Yes, you're very right, but, come on, at this point I suppose that it
>> should be defined if, for example, systemd will replace
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 4:04 AM, Joe wrote:
>
> Most ports can be closed by configuration, even the infamous portmap
> can be limited to localhost if you're not using it externally e.g. for
> NIS or NFS. If you have a standalone Linux machine in a foreign
> network, pretty much everything can be cl
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 3:38 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>
> *chuckle* A trillion years ago I used a firewall myself. "Ports" are an
> issue, I wasn't able to down- or upload by ftp. BUT, How many serious
> attacks did you notice around the last 30 days?
Your aversion to security is interesting. You d
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Alan Chandler
wrote:
>
> I am trying to figure out how to move my current rootfs to raid1 (its just a
> partition at the moment).
>
> The plan is to make a a raid device, copy the current root fs in to it - but
> I then need to tell grub to set up this up as the roo
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 2:24 AM, Alan Chandler
wrote:
> On 05/07/12 23:10, Tom H wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Alan Chandler
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I am trying to figure out how to move my current rootfs to raid1 (its
>>> just a partition at th
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> On 11/07/12 04:08, Darren Baginski wrote:
>>
>> Today I have installed Wheezy on UEFI system, Asus UX31A to be more
>> particular.
>> While installing I faced some issues.
>> Looks like installer can't recognize and do not ask whenever syste
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Darren Baginski wrote:
>
> Today I have installed Wheezy on UEFI system, Asus UX31A to be more
> particular.
> While installing I faced some issues.
> Looks like installer can't recognize and do not ask whenever system is BIOS
> or UEFI and installs grub-pc,
> w
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 3:49 AM, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> On 11/07/12 09:19, Tom H wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Jerome BENOIT
>> wrote:
>>> On 11/07/12 04:08, Darren Baginski wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Today I have installed Wheezy on UE
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
>> Am Samstag, 7. Juli 2012 schrieb Camaleón:
>>>
>>> Because it works for me. I've kept installs of previous versions of
>>> Debian on separate partitions for reference as well as the fact that
>>> by doing so I'll have a working install
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 09:06:55 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Martin Steigerwald
>> wrote:
>>>> Am Samstag, 7. Juli 2012 schrieb Camaleón:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 15:31:36 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Camaleón wrote:
>>>>> AFAIK this calls for block list based installation of GRUB 2 which is
>>>>> not recommended cause
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 19:11:41 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Camaleón wrote:
>>> Reading from GRUB's legacy documentation¹, I see none listed. However,
>>> GRUB2 manual² does not
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 19:11:41 -0400 (EDT), Tom H wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the info and the links. You've misunderstood me. I didn't
>> say that Linux could boot without a bootloader. I said that I didn
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 12:14:10 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Camaleón wrote:
>>> Which, generally speaking, it translates into...? I mean, what are
>>> those "block lists" and h
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 3:25 AM, lina wrote:
>
> strangely my netstat showed my 139 and 445 ports are open.
>
> tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:445 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
> tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:139 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
>
> Do I need specify
>
> -A INPUT
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Brian wrote:
>
> No default configuration file will ever suit everyone or fit their
> needs, but the Debian sshd_config doesn't seem to me to be have any
> insecure aspects to it.
Some might say that "PermitRootLogin yes" default is insecure...
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On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:38:12 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>
>> I'm confused, will Debian or will Debian not switch to systemd?
>
> There's more info about Systemd and its status in Debian here:
>
> http://wiki.debian.org/systemd
>
>
>
> I hope sy
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
>
> I hate pulseaudio, but I could imagine that systemd anyway could have
> some advantages, even if it's from a man (boy) who often takes photos
> from himself in front of a mirror and then publish this snapshots in the
> Internet.
Is there a
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
>>
>> Believing what I read at Arch-general mailing list, configuring systemd
>> will be in some kind of irrational secret language.
>
> An example:
>
> Forwarded Message
> From: [snip]
> Reply-to: General Discussion about Arch
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Kent West wrote:
>
> Why can I ping the hostname, but not the fully-qualified domain name of a
> box?
>
> westk@westek:~$ ping k1000
> PING k1000.acu.local (150.252.149.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from 150.252.149.1: icmp_req=1 ttl=62 time=0.128 ms
> ^C64
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Tom H wrote:
>
> Although you're using "acu.local" as a domain, I suspect that it has
> the same problem as ".local" and clashes with avahi. Do you have any
> "mdns" entries on the "hosts" line of "
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:45:02 -0500, Kent West wrote:
>>
>> Why can I ping the hostname, but not the fully-qualified domain name of
>> a box?
>>
>> westk@westek:~$ ping k1000
>> PING k1000.acu.local (150.252.149.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes f
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Kent West wrote:
>
> westk@westek:~$ cat /etc/nsswitch.conf
> hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns4
>
> Changing the order of the hosts: line to:
> hosts: files dns mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] mdns4
> as you suggested above, s
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 06:50:44 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Camaleón wrote:
>>> I'm not sure to had get it (sorry, I must be a bit dense...). Can you
>>> provide a user case for someo
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 14:05 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> "conservatives" who don't want to transition to anything
>
> If I would be conservative I wouldn't use Linux for pro-audio. But
> here's an
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 2:37 PM, T o n g wrote:
>
> My Autofs auto-mounted NFS share looks like this:
>
> drwxr-xr-x 9 4294967294 4294967294 45056 2011-04-12 09:47 tmp/
>
> I.e., the user id and group id are all mapped wrong.
>
> I have identical user ids and groups between my NFS sharing statio
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 16:09 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> > On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 14:05 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>> >
>> > /media/mount_point
>> >
&g
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 14:05:15 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Camaleón wrote:
>
>>>
>>>
>>> I hope sysvinit is still available (and be the default option) for at
>>> least
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 16:03:12 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Camaleón wrote:
>>> On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 06:50:44 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Camaleón wrote
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Joel Rees wrote:
> On 7/30/12, Tom H wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Ralf Mardorf
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I hate pulseaudio, but I could imagine that systemd anyway could have
>>> some advantages, even if it
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Tom H wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Joel Rees wrote:
>> On 7/30/12, Tom H wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Ralf Mardorf
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I hate pulseaudio, but I could imagine
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Roger Leigh wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 02:05:15PM -0400, Tom H wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Camaleón wrote:
>> I'd *guess* [...] there are hardly more problems with
>> systemd as there are problems with sysvinit o
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Frank McCormick
wrote:
>
> I am running 3 Linux distros with Sid as my main one. I am curious to know
> if it's possible to replace GDM with a BASH script. The issue is complicated
> because I run 3 window managers with Sid and a similar situation with the
> other
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
>
> I have the following setup which worked well after performing a squeeze
> install:
>
> /boot -> Software RAID5
> / -> LVM on top of Software RAID5
>
> I lost a disk of my RAID array a few months ago and ever since
> replacing it and rebui
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
> On 02/08/12 04:19 PM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Frank McCormick
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I am running 3 Linux distros with Sid as my main one. I am curious to
>>> know
>>>
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 6:05 AM, Stephan Seitz
wrote:
>
> When I installed a test VM using debian-wheezy-DI-a1-amd64-netinst.iso I
> used the export mode and manual partitioning.
>
> I chosed GPT and installed grub into the master boot record. No warnings or
> errors occured, and the system booted
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:38 AM, T o n g wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:44:14 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> 1) Does the mount work if you export with nfsv3 specified?
>
> Hmm... that might be the way. How can I do that?
>
> I remember that I have to specify nfsv3 on the cl
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> T o n g wrote:
>> Bob Proulx wrote:
>>> T o n g wrote:
My Autofs auto-mounted NFS share looks like this:
>
> A pet peeve of mine is "share". Windows has "shares". Unix has
> "filesystems". NFS is itself a Network File System. So sayin
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 3:28 AM, Joel Rees wrote:
> On 8/1/12, Tom H wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Joel Rees wrote:
>>> On 7/30/12, Tom H wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Ralf Mardorf
>>>> wrote:
>>> I don't kn
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 3:31 PM, hvw59601 wrote:
> Tom H wrote:
>>
>> What's the output of
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/bootinfoscript/files/bootinfoscript/
>
> That's a nifty little script! Thanks!
You're welcome.
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On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
>>>
>>> I have the following setup which worked well after performing a squeeze
>>> inst
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Frank McCormick wrote:
> On 03/08/12 01:15 PM, Tom H wrote:
>>>
>>> Interesting stuff. You can have 3-4-5 X sessions each with a different
>>> window manager. It works when run from a TTY but I can't get it working
>>>
On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-08-05 at 20:13 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote:
>>
>> I have one computer running Debian Sid + systemd + pulseaudio without
>> any problems.
>
> In Germany it was common to test Linux with Suse, today most
> people in Germany use Ubu
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Fnzh Xx wrote:
>>
>> root@debian:/home/tiger# dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=10240k
>> 11447+1 records in
>> 11447+1 records out
>> 120034123776 bytes (120 GB) copied, 4729.59 s, 25.4 MB/s
>> root@debian:/home/tiger# blkid
>> ...
>> why /dev/s
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Stephan Seitz
wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 01:29:34PM -0400, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> Both the squeeze and wheezy installers allow you to create a biosboot
>> partition. I think that it's called "Reserved ...".
>
> True,
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 4:53 AM, Joel Rees wrote:
Too much nonsense to bother responding...
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On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 4:35 PM, maderios wrote:
> On 08/11/2012 08:30 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>
>> The strange thing IMO is, that save and save as are completely the same
>> and we need to use export nowadays.
>
> "Save" and "save as" are different
>
> Save= save the same file (same name) after
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 4:37 AM, Joe wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 23:58:54 -0400
> Stephen Allen wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 09:55:13AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
>>>
>>> GNOME 3 is quite different from the GNOME 2 series, and has made
>>> some people correspondingly upset. XFCE is fairly sim
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 6:15 AM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
>
> However, at the moment Linux comes with one negative surprise after the
> other. GNOME3, noveau, forcing people to install systemd dependencies,
> while not using systemd (perhaps not Debian) etc.. Upstream is
> disconnected from the user ba
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Andrei POPESCU
wrote:
> On Lu, 13 aug 12, 15:06:48, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>
>> http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed has inconsistent
>> links.
>
> It's a wiki, feel free to correct it ;)
>>
>> In the sentence "The Installation Guide includes an extensiv
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:47 AM, dAgeCKo wrote:
>
> I wanted to use reportbug to report several bugs.
> But when reportbug does not crash, it does not send the bug report via
> email.
>
> Could someone explain me how to configure it so that it can effectively send
> the report ?
>
> I configure it
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Sladjan Ri wrote:
>
> I am successfully loading the conntrack module with an option:
> nf_conntrack hashsize=2097152
>
> My problem is that I can't seem to define
> '/proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_max' or
> '/proc/sys/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_max'.
>
>
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:08 AM, dAgeCKo wrote:
> Le 15/08/2012 15:31, Tom H a écrit :
>>
>> email "email_address"
>> realname "name"
>> editor vi
>> mode standard
>> ui text
>> no-cc
>> no-check-uid
>> smtphost report
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 7:15 AM, wrote:
>
> I just installed Debian. If I issue:
> ls -alR
> I get output. Some things work.
>
> If I issue:
> fdisk
> or
> fdisk -l
> I get 'command not found'.
Because it's "/sbin/fdisk" and "/sbin" isn't in $PATH.
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On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Ross Boylan wrote:
>
> I setup a chroot on a snapshot. Part of the setup was
> mount --rbind /dev /mnt/chrtest/dev
>
> I have exited the chroot and, I believe, ended the processes I started.
> umount /mnt/chrtest/dev
> gives umount: /mnt/chrtest/dev: device is bus
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Ross Boylan wrote:
>>
>> I setup a chroot on a snapshot. Part of the setup was
>> mount --rbind /dev /mnt/chrtest/dev
>
> Why did you choose "rbind" over "bind". Just curious.
The advantage of using "rbind" is that you don't have to mount
"/
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Gary Kline wrote:
>>
>> Can someone send me a tarball of the original /etc/bind from my
>> debian 6.0.5? my old ubuntu server and otther hardware broke, and
>> until I can get a new Dell, I want to put back my test [Debian]
>> computer to its o
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 1:34 PM, T Elcor wrote:
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> I have two identical hard drives, one HD contains a bootable wheezy
> installation and I'd like to clone it to the other HD. My first idea was
> to use "dd" but since grub2 uses disk IDs in /boot/grub/devices.map
> and /etc/fstab then once the di
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 12:14 AM, Richard Hector wrote:
> On 03/12/13 12:55, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> I don't know whether or not it's a bug but this should work:
>>
>> aptitude remove $(aptitude search ~ainstall -F%p)
>
> That's great, thanks - the
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 9:46 PM, Stephen Powell wrote:
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> Well, the latest update to Debian jessie did it. GNOME 3 apparently
> no longer has a "fallback mode" for X drivers which don't support 3D
> acceleration. Mine doesn't. And the native GNOME 3 interface is
> apparently unusable with such
On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-12-07 at 07:24 -0500, Jeff Bauer wrote:
>> On 12/07/2013 05:55 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>>
>>> Reading the whole thread is impotent
>>
>> heh
>
> If something should be unclear, rephrase your request.
You mistyped "important."
-
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
> Lisi Reisz writes:
>> On Saturday 07 December 2013 21:36:30 Bob Proulx wrote:
>>> If you look back in the mailing list archives you will find a
>>> recent discussion where there were some people who didn't like
>>> sudo. I was shocked by
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
> Andrei POPESCU writes:
>> On Lu, 09 dec 13, 09:09:11, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
>>> What are the benefits of The "Macintosh/Ubuntu" use of sudo? Improved
>>> security? Are you kidding? Whatever the user I compromise I have root
>>> access
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 15:15 +0530, Kailash Kalyani wrote:
>>
>> The issue started when I removed old linux images from Ubuntu which is
>> on another partition. That resulted in a grub update from ubuntu and
>> since then I've had this issue.
>
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Helmar Gerloni wrote:
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>> Starting VMware Tools services in the virtual machine:
>>Switching to guest configuration: [71G done
>>
>> /etc/init.d/vmware-tools: 1090: local: ': bad variable name
>> /etc/init.d/vmware-tools: 1090: local: ': bad variable name
>>
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 2:30 PM, Kailash Kalyani wrote:
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> Here's the boot.cfg (attached).
Since 10_linux has Debian entries, it's Debian that created this
grub.cfg. But it might be that the Ubuntu grub.cfg is the one that's
loaded from the MBR.
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On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Neal Murphy wrote:
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> Grub 2 is, as far as I know, still broken.
This is the kind of statement that makes me laugh, this case or NM's or...
1) The silent majority of grub2 users have no problems.
2) File a bug report if grub2 (or any other package) fails for you
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Don Grimm wrote:
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> I'm sure this will have some of you rolling your eyes, but I can't
> download/install the cmake package.
> Here is my command line : apt-get install cmake
> The result is
> Reading package lists...Done
> Package cmake is not available
>
> In sou
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Michael Gulick wrote:
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> I'm looking for a way to override the default kernel package versions
> generated by make-kpkg. With 3.0+ kernels, the kernel sublevel (as in
> VERSION.PATCHLEVEL.SUBLEVEL), which is incremented when there are stable
> updates for a kernel
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Don Grimm wrote:
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> Thanks for your attention.
> I added the last two lines that you suggested and not the first two. (I
> don't know what means.
> I assume it is not taken literally)
>
> The result was still unsuccessful.
>
> "Package cmake is not available, but
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 10:38 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Monday 09 December 2013 18:55:33 Tom H wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Yes, I don't like it and always want a root password. As you
>>>> say, this is and has been contentious.
>>
>> Having a passwor
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 1:25 AM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 19:08 +0000, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> The Ubuntu-created grub.cfg cannot be blamed for a GDM problem. If GDM
>> is being launched, grub's job has been done many seconds ago.
>
> This seems to b
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 1:57 AM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-12-10 at 02:25 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 19:08 +0000, Tom H wrote:
>>>
>>> The Ubuntu-created grub.cfg cannot be blamed for a GDM problem. If GDM
>>> is being lau
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
> Tom H writes:
>> On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
>>> If some users needed to have the root power for a small set of
>>> operation, then sudo would give them that extact power, no mor
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
>
> http://www.paritynews.com/2013/03/05/762/sudo-authentication-bypass-vulnerability-emerges/
>
> But note! The Chaos Computer Club does publish howtos using sudo on
> Linux: http://muc.ccc.de/uberbus:ubd
>
> I don't think the Chaos Computer C
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