[Dng] LightDM and Xfce issues

2015-06-12 Thread Dima Krasner
Hello, I'm currently investigating various reports of session/power management related issues. Please let me know if you see either: - Greyed-out shutdown/reboot buttons in LightDM or Xfce - Shutdown/reboot buttons which do nothing when clicked Thank you, Dima -- Dima Krasner __

[Dng] Migration

2015-06-12 Thread Bardot Jérôme
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello everybody My schedule was full, i want to know if we can migrate from stretch and what how can i do this. Do you know if there is a version of network-manager-gnome and co without systemd ? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 i

Re: [Dng] Systemd sneaks in was file download zone

2015-06-12 Thread Gautam Nath
We all are sure that you will take care of those things in case of fresh installation. This will take some more time only. Heartfull of thanks. I am a general user and sourcing devuan/merged repositary. This might be better that all bad stuff will be deleted on regular (upgrade)dist-upgrade. For f

Re: [Dng] Systemd sneaks in was file download zone

2015-06-12 Thread KatolaZ
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 02:38:30PM +0530, Gautam Nath wrote: > We all are sure that you will take care of those things in case of fresh > installation. This will take some more time only. Heartfull of thanks. > > I am a general user and sourcing devuan/merged repositary. This might be > better tha

[Dng] A nice candidate substitute to network-manager

2015-06-12 Thread Marlon Nunes
Hi, i've been testing connman for a while and found it to handle very well my network connections. https://01.org/connman https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Connman In my view, we can forget about network-manager completely for desktop usage. -- Stop slacking you lazy bum! ___

Re: [Dng] Systemd sneaks in was file download zone

2015-06-12 Thread fsmithred
On 06/11/2015 02:17 PM, Jude Nelson wrote: > Hi Clarke, > > Can you: > * give us a listing of which systemd packages are installed (something like > "aptitude search systemd | egrep ^i")? > * use "apt-cache rdepends" to show us which packages depend on them? > > Thanks, > Jude > Not the OP h

[Dng] Devuan and sneaker-net

2015-06-12 Thread LM
I started with Debian Squeeze on my desktop computer (since it was one of the few Linux distributions that would work with my hardware) and when it came time to update to Wheezy I did so by sneaker-net. I'd heard that Debian Jessie was out but I just didn't get around to trying to update my system

Re: [Dng] A nice candidate substitute to network-manager

2015-06-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 07:50:25 -0300 Marlon Nunes wrote: > Hi, i've been testing connman for a while and found it to handle very > well my network connections. > > https://01.org/connman The following sentence from the preceding link made me sweat a little bit: =

Re: [Dng] Systemd sneaks in was file download zone

2015-06-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 08:40:44 -0400 fsmithred wrote: > After that, shutdown and reboot buttons stopped working in xfce and > lightdm. Only logout from the desktop worked, bringing me to the > login screen. This has been the bane of my existence since long before systemd. Sometimes my logout and r

Re: [Dng] Systemd sneaks in was file download zone

2015-06-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 04:11:12AM +0200, Franco Lanza wrote: > > Anyway, differently from debian, even in the alpha stage in devuan you > can, right now and avoiding some packages like gnome things, have a > completely systemd install. But it's NOT ready, it's NOT release, it's Might you mean "c

Re: [Dng] Systemd sneaks in was file download zone

2015-06-12 Thread Irrwahn
fsmithred wrote on 12.06.2015 14:40: > > Not the OP here, and not exactly what you're asking, but here's what I did > yesterday: > > Installed devuan-alpha2-amd64 netinstall iso in virtualbox. At tasksel, I > un-checked Print Server and Devuan Desktop Environment, and I checked > XFCE. All seemed

Re: [Dng] Systemd sneaks in was file download zone

2015-06-12 Thread fsmithred
On 06/12/2015 09:33 AM, Irrwahn wrote: > fsmithred wrote on 12.06.2015 14:40: >> >> Not the OP here, and not exactly what you're asking, but here's what I did >> yesterday: >> >> Installed devuan-alpha2-amd64 netinstall iso in virtualbox. At tasksel, I >> un-checked Print Server and Devuan Desktop

Re: [Dng] Systemd sneaks in was file download zone

2015-06-12 Thread Irrwahn
On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 09:54:06 -0400, Fsmithred wrote: > On 06/12/2015 09:33 AM, Irrwahn wrote: >> - Make sure you're using sysvinit-core as init system, and slim or lightdm >> as >> your display manager. >> >> - Purge everything *systemd*! However, you may want to keep libsystemd0, in >> case

Re: [Dng] LightDM and Xfce issues

2015-06-12 Thread Anto
On 12/06/15 10:33, Dima Krasner wrote: Hello, I'm currently investigating various reports of session/power management related issues. Please let me know if you see either: - Greyed-out shutdown/reboot buttons in LightDM or Xfce - Shutdown/reboot buttons which do nothing when clicked Th

Re: [Dng] A nice candidate substitute to network-manager

2015-06-12 Thread Anto
On 12/06/15 12:50, Marlon Nunes wrote: Hi, i've been testing connman for a while and found it to handle very well my network connections. https://01.org/connman https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Connman In my view, we can forget about network-manager completely for desktop usage. He

Re: [Dng] A nice candidate substitute to network-manager

2015-06-12 Thread Irrwahn
On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 17:30:58 +0200, Anto wrote: > On 12/06/15 12:50, Marlon Nunes wrote: >> Hi, i've been testing connman for a while and found it to handle very >> well my network connections. >> >> https://01.org/connman >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Connman >> >> In my view, we can fo

Re: [Dng] A nice candidate substitute to network-manager

2015-06-12 Thread Anto
On 12/06/15 17:39, Irrwahn wrote: On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 17:30:58 +0200, Anto wrote: On 12/06/15 12:50, Marlon Nunes wrote: Hi, i've been testing connman for a while and found it to handle very well my network connections. https://01.org/connman https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Connman In

Re: [Dng] A nice candidate substitute to network-manager

2015-06-12 Thread Anto
On 12/06/15 17:47, Anto wrote: On 12/06/15 17:39, Irrwahn wrote: On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 17:30:58 +0200, Anto wrote: On 12/06/15 12:50, Marlon Nunes wrote: Hi, i've been testing connman for a while and found it to handle very well my network connections. https://01.org/connman https://wiki.ar

[Dng] One issue with ongoing depoetterization

2015-06-12 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, When Irrwahn mentioned that cups needed depoetterization, my first thought was "what in the world does cups need with systemd? And then I realized the problem. Like a lot of us, I'm on the supervis...@list.skarnet.org mailing list, where they discuss all things init, mainly from the persp

Re: [Dng] A nice candidate substitute to network-manager

2015-06-12 Thread Marlon Nunes
I'm using it on Funtoo. On 2015-06-12 12:30, Anto wrote: On 12/06/15 12:50, Marlon Nunes wrote: Hi, i've been testing connman for a while and found it to handle very well my network connections. https://01.org/connman https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Connman In my view, we can forget abo

Re: [Dng] One issue with ongoing depoetterization

2015-06-12 Thread Matthew Melton
Steve Litt wrote > Hi all, > > When Irrwahn mentioned that cups needed depoetterization, my first > thought was "what in the world does cups need with systemd? And then I > realized the problem. > > Like a lot of us, I'm on the supervis...@list.skarnet.org mailing list, > where they

Re: [Dng] A nice candidate substitute to network-manager

2015-06-12 Thread Marlon Nunes
On 2015-06-12 10:03, Steve Litt wrote: On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 07:50:25 -0300 Marlon Nunes wrote: Hi, i've been testing connman for a while and found it to handle very well my network connections. https://01.org/connman The following sentence from the preceding link made me sweat a little bit:

Re: [Dng] One issue with ongoing depoetterization

2015-06-12 Thread Jude Nelson
Hi Steve, So, if we code up a dummy sd_notify to interface replace the one from > systemd, we can make ongoing future depoetterization easier, and very > possibly give ourselves a better, easier to administer init. > If you're referring to this API [1], it doesn't look too bad. In most cases, it

Re: [Dng] One issue with ongoing depoetterization

2015-06-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 17:31:10 +0100 Matthew Melton wrote: > > > Steve Litt wrote > > > Hi all, > > > > When Irrwahn mentioned that cups needed depoetterization, my first > > thought was "what in the world does cups need with systemd? And > > then I realized the problem. > > > > Like

Re: [Dng] One issue with ongoing depoetterization

2015-06-12 Thread Jaromil
dear Steve, On Fri, 12 Jun 2015, Steve Litt wrote: > Hi all, > > When Irrwahn mentioned that cups needed depoetterization I would really prefer if we avoid such a... "personalising neologism" lets talk about systemd? we all need to continue working to avoid personal attacks. If we don't do t

[Dng] Readiness notification (was: One issue with ongoing depoetterization)

2015-06-12 Thread Laurent Bercot
On 12/06/2015 19:01, Steve Litt wrote: The one thing I *do* know is that we need to provide a sd_notify interface, even if it does nothing at all and drops passed information on the floor. Please don't do this. The more you bend to the systemd interfaces, the more it gets a foot in the door.

Re: [Dng] Readiness notification (was: One issue with ongoing depoetterization)

2015-06-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 19:37:21 +0200 Laurent Bercot wrote: > On 12/06/2015 19:01, Steve Litt wrote: > > The one thing I *do* know is that we need to provide a sd_notify > > interface, even if it does nothing at all and drops passed > > information on the floor. > > Please don't do this. > The

Re: [Dng] Readiness notification

2015-06-12 Thread Laurent Bercot
On 12/06/2015 19:46, Steve Litt wrote: I agree with every single thing you write above, but have one question for you: What does Devuan do when daemons like cupsd and sshd make sd_notify calls, and these don't condition the call on sd_notify being available, and sd_notify cannot be conditionally

Re: [Dng] Readiness notification (was: One issue with ongoing depoetterization)

2015-06-12 Thread KatolaZ
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 01:46:41PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: [cut] > > Hi Laurent, > > I agree with every single thing you write above, but have one question > for you: What does Devuan do when daemons like cupsd and sshd make > sd_notify calls, and these don't condition the call on sd_notify be

Re: [Dng] Readiness notification (was: One issue with ongoing depoetterization)

2015-06-12 Thread Tomasz Torcz
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 07:37:21PM +0200, Laurent Bercot wrote: > On 12/06/2015 19:01, Steve Litt wrote: > >The one thing I *do* know is that we need to provide a sd_notify > >interface, even if it does nothing at all and drops passed information > >on the floor. > > > There's a much simpler mec

Re: [Dng] Readiness notification (was: One issue with ongoing depoetterization)

2015-06-12 Thread Franco Lanza
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 07:37:21PM +0200, Laurent Bercot wrote: > Please don't do this. > The more you bend to the systemd interfaces, the more it gets a foot > in the door. By implementing a dummy sd_notify, you acknowledge the > validity of the interface; you accept that the systemd people have

Re: [Dng] A nice candidate substitute to network-manager

2015-06-12 Thread Anto
On 12/06/15 18:34, Marlon Nunes wrote: On 2015-06-12 10:03, Steve Litt wrote: On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 07:50:25 -0300 Marlon Nunes wrote: Hi, i've been testing connman for a while and found it to handle very well my network connections. https://01.org/connman The following sentence from the pr

Re: [Dng] Readiness notification

2015-06-12 Thread marcxdv
> For months, literally, the supervision list > has been wringing its hands over the very real problem that, for process > dependency purposes, one must know that process X is not only running, > but ready to handle its business. Knowing process X is running isn't > sufficent, because some processe

Re: [Dng] A nice candidate substitute to network-manager

2015-06-12 Thread Anto
On 12/06/15 22:15, Anto wrote: On 12/06/15 18:34, Marlon Nunes wrote: On 2015-06-12 10:03, Steve Litt wrote: On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 07:50:25 -0300 Marlon Nunes wrote: Hi, i've been testing connman for a while and found it to handle very well my network connections. https://01.org/connman

Re: [Dng] Systemd sneaks in was file download zone

2015-06-12 Thread fsmithred
On 06/12/2015 10:45 AM, Irrwahn wrote: > When there's a /lib/systemd/systemd-logind, then not all the systemd > packages were purged properly. :-) Anyway, IIRC dimkr is already working > on a fix for the logind/consolekit clash. Yeah, I know. That file was gone after I removed the systemd pack

Re: [Dng] Systemd sneaks in was file download zone

2015-06-12 Thread Irrwahn
On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 17:15:25 -0400, Fsmithred wrote: > On 06/12/2015 10:45 AM, Irrwahn wrote: >> FWIW, I've got three Devuan installations running: jessie VM, ascii VM, >> ascii on real hardware. In all of them I was able to get everything >> (including shutdown et. al) working without systemd, e

Re: [Dng] Readiness notification

2015-06-12 Thread Laurent Bercot
On 12/06/2015 19:46, Steve Litt wrote: I agree with every single thing you write above, but have one question for you: What does Devuan do when daemons like cupsd and sshd make sd_notify calls, and these don't condition the call on sd_notify being available, and sd_notify cannot be conditionally

Re: [Dng] Readiness notification

2015-06-12 Thread Laurent Bercot
On 12/06/2015 20:09, Tomasz Torcz wrote: Hey, it's almost exactly what sd_notify() does. Instead of one character, it writes "READY=1" to a socket. Nothing more, no D-Bus, no additional libraries needed. In basic form it few lines of C code. Of course https://github.com/systemd/systemd/b

Re: [Dng] Readiness notification

2015-06-12 Thread Laurent Bercot
On 12/06/2015 22:21, marc...@welz.org.za wrote: The trick is for the daemon process to only background when it is ready to service requests (ie its parent process exits when the child is ready). You already mentioned it in a reply to me, indeed. I intentionally did not follow up, and here is w

Re: [Dng] Readiness notification

2015-06-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 22:21:06 +0200 marc...@welz.org.za wrote: > The trick is for the daemon process to only background when > it is ready to service requests (ie its parent process exits > when the child is ready). For those of us who use daemontools-inspired process managers or inits, the pre

Re: [Dng] Readiness notification

2015-06-12 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 13/06/2015 01:53, Laurent Bercot a écrit : On 12/06/2015 22:21, marc...@welz.org.za wrote: The trick is for the daemon process to only background when it is ready to service requests (ie its parent process exits when the child is ready). You already mentioned it in a reply to me, indeed. I

[Dng] task-xfce-desktop, task-mate-desktop task-lxde-desktop proposed changes.

2015-06-12 Thread Daniel Reurich
Hi, I'm currently looking at patching the desktop tasks in taskselect to use slim instead of lightdm (atleast until lightdm has been cleaned up to not depend on systemd). Also I'm planning to replace gnome-network-manager in those tasks with wicd. These changes bring us closer to our goal of

Re: [Dng] Readiness notification

2015-06-12 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 13/06/2015 01:15, Laurent Bercot a écrit : Encouraging daemon writers to use another API and providing a wrapper to make daemons using the simpler API work with the sd_notify mechanism is clearly the better ideological solution, and also technologically preferable because more compatible with