On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 2:26 PM, paulwhee...@cox.net
wrote:
> LibreOffice bug - cannot load calc 5.1.4.228 June, 2017
>
> ...
>
> I created a new linuxmint installation. I installed libreOffice. I tried to
> look at a calc file. Got the attached error message.
>
> ...
>
> I have run linuxmint
On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Xen wrote:
> Tom H schreef op 11-10-2016 16:52:
>> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Xen wrote:
I'll reply quickly to the beginning and read and reply to the rest tomorrow.
>>> That's not really true. The vast majority of people
On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Xen wrote:
>
> That's not really true. The vast majority of people would go screaming
> for a Windows or Mac PC if they had Linux preinstalled.
>
> The level of system maintenance I would have to give to my family for
> a Linux box is about 95%.
Please don't extra
On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Xen wrote:
> Ralf Mardorf schreef op 05-10-2016 17:05:
>>> On 05 Oct 2016, at 16:30, Xen wrote:
>>> Ralf Mardorf schreef op 05-10-2016 15:31:
let alone that some people don't use fstab at all on systemd installs.
>>>
>>> So what do they use instead?
>>
>>
On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 1:43 PM, John Moser wrote:
> On Sun, 2016-09-11 at 12:52 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> I've only read a quarter (or less) of the posts in this thread so I
>> don't know how it went from "32-bit ISOs are being deprecated" to
>> so
On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Sep 2016 12:52:14 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> do you really think that this is the best use of ubuntu-devel-discuss@?
>
> Does somebody need 32 bit support?
>
> Neither it was me who opened this thread, n
On Sun, Sep 11, 2016, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>
> You are quoting me out of context. The context is that the poor can't
> donate new computers and they can't pay for infrastructure, such as
> internet access for everyone. _BUT_ rich people could, they are just
> not interested in doing it, they are gr
Could Ubuntu ship samba systemd units with the same names as upstream?
Ubuntu's shipping nmbd, samba (masked), samba-ad-dc, and smbd, whereas
upstream's shipping nmb, samba (equivalent to samba-ad-dc), and smb.
It'd be helpful and kind to those of who use multiple distros - as
well as for those w
On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 4:15 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jul 2016 03:39:48 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 3:58 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>>
>>> It's still more user-friendly to disable secure boot, than to deal
>>> with it, isn
On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 11:32 PM, Dale Amon wrote:
>
> If you roll your own kernels, do the build scripts
> let you generate your own keys?
If you don't generate your own key and set its path in
"CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY", "make" will generate a
"certs/signing_key.pem" key (unless you disable key gen
On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 3:58 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On 04.07.2016, at 00:02, Tom H wrote:
>> The Linux developers who put together a Linux solution/option for
>> Secure Boot must've thought that there's a case to be made for Secure
>> Boot on Linux.
>
&g
On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Jul 2016 15:18:44 -0500, Kaosu NA wrote:
>>
>> Not only will something like this be more user-friendly, but it
>> also allows a large number of Ubuntu users to take advantage of a
>> modern security technology without giving up usabil
On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 5:19 AM, wrote:
>
> GRsecurity is preventing others from employing their rights under
> version 2 the GPL to redistribute (by threatening them with a
> non-renewal of a contract to recive this patch to the linux kernel.)
> (GRsecurity is a derivative work of the linux kerne
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Xen wrote:
> Tom H schreef op 31-03-16 10:38:
>> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 1:31 AM, Xen wrote:
>>> Colin Law schreef op 28-03-2016 18:38:
>>>> Are these not issues for upstream Nautilus developers to consider
>>>> rather
On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 8:08 AM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 04:20:15 +0200, Tom H wrote:
>> If you add "nofail" to an fstab entry's options, the generated mount
>> unit "wants" local-fs.target or remote-fs.target and boot won't fail
On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 1:31 AM, Xen wrote:
> Colin Law schreef op 28-03-2016 18:38:
>>
>> Are these not issues for upstream Nautilus developers to consider
>> rather than Ubuntu?
>
> The point is really that if people "downstream" *care* their voice becomes
> stronger 'upstream'.
>
> If a number
On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 2:23 AM, Xen wrote:
>
> If the halt-on-fstab-problem is Ubuntu related, then it is clear my message
> should have been sent here and not some other Linux distro or whatever.
The halt-on-fstab-problem isn't an Ubuntu feature, it's a systemd one.
systemd generates mount uni
On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Linus Eklöf wrote:
>
> This breaks the easy set up for folder sharing in nautilus since only the
> guest access will work unless setting up samba manually.
>
> Is this intended or should this feature be present and filed as a bug?
It was removed upstream (pam_smbpa
I have two questions about systemd-fsck@.service.
1) How does the unit now what "%f" is?
$ grep -Ev '^#|^$' /lib/systemd/system/systemd-fsck@.service
[Unit]
Description=File System Check on %f
Documentation=man:systemd-fsck@.service(8)
DefaultDependencies=no
BindsTo=%i.device
Wants=systemd-fsckd.
On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Tom H wrote:
>
> You need to ensure that a proper resolv.conf exists in a chroot before
> switching to it. When installing Gentoo, for example, you "cp -L
> /etc/resolv.conf $chroot/etc" before chrooting because the
> installati
On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 10:19 AM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Sep 2015 08:36:27 -0400, Tom H wrote:
> Thank you Tom for taking the time.
You're welcome.
>> So it works when using "-b".
>>
>> But you're right, it doesn't when not usi
On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 4:16 AM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Sep 2015 21:51:35 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Ralf Mardorf
>> wrote:
>>> by default Wily's /etc/resolv.conf is a link against
>>> ../run/resolvconf/resolv.c
On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
>
> by default Wily's /etc/resolv.conf is a link against
> ../run/resolvconf/resolv.conf. If you want to maintain Wily from another
> install in a systemd-nspawn container, the link needs to be replaced by a
> file /etc/resolv.conf. Since Wily i
On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 4:04 AM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Aug 2015 22:54:22 +0200, I wrote:
>> Tom's hint is useful, menuconfig's search option does the trick, I
>> seemingly got rid of MPILIB=m.
>>
>>Thank you.
>
> Thank you Tom :)
You're welcome.
> I was able to build the kernel pac
On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Aug 2015 08:32:35 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> There's nothing difficult with "make menuconfig" because you can
>> search for a specific config value with "/" except that you like to
>
On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 8:10 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>
> also note that an ubuntu kernel package is more than vmlinuz and
> modules ... there are configs and postinst scripts run at install time
> of the deb. given that make-kpkg is a debian tool that nobody in ubuntu
> uses for building kernel
On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 7:21 AM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Aug 2015 12:20:33 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>>
>> if you just want to know if an arch kernel wakes up your disk when
>> running with ubuntu userspace you could as well just copy over the
>> binaries from a running arch system.
>
On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 5:28 AM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Aug 2015 05:08:03 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> Are you editing ".config" manually?
>
> Yes ...
>
>> if yes, why don't you use "make menuconfig" (or another config target)
>&
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
>
> This line ...
>
> [root@moonstudio src]# export CONCURRENCY_LEVEL=2;wget
> https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.10.61.tar.gz
> https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/rt/3.10/older/patch-3.10.61-rt65.patch.gz
> && ta
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 5:05 AM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
>
> I try to build a kernel for Wily, that is as close as possible to a
> kernel I use for Arch Linux. The reason is, that for the Arch install
> Green drives don't run berserk and I anyway need a 3.x-rt.
>
> Then I tried to build the kernel [1]
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 6:05 PM, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Tom H [2015-08-18 9:33 -0400]:
>>
>> # When this machine is running systemd, standard service calls are turned
>> into
>> # systemctl calls.
>>
>>
>> And this is what you want for the sake of co
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 7:02 AM, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Tom H [2015-08-18 5:40 -0400]:
>> Unless Ubuntu decides "we're going to provide native systemd units for
>> all packages that have sysvrc scripts in Ubuntu version X", these
>> units'll be pro
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 7:00 AM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 05:52:20 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>>On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Ralf Mardorf
>> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 17 Aug 2015 17:32:42 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>>>> unfounded FUD
>>>
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 7:00 AM, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Tom H [2015-08-18 4:49 -0400]:
>>> update-rc.d and invoke-rc.d are tools for package maintainers only (to
>>> be used from pre/postinst scripts) and only applies to sysv-init
>>> scripts ...
>>
>>
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 6:36 AM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 05:40:23 -0400, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> It's a bit messy, SOMETIMES.
> I'm aware that it wasn't you who blamed me for spreading "unfounded
> FUD", it was Oliver and at the sa
n Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Oliver Grawert [2015-08-17 15:24 +0200]:
>>
>> if you need to prevent an upstart service from starting on boot you need
>> to create a .override files containing the word "manual", as described
>> in your askubuntu links. i dont think there exis
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Aug 2015 17:32:42 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>>
>> unfounded FUD
>
> What next?
>
> Actually everything I pointed out is correct, it's not unfounded FUD.
> Even you mentioned that not all services are ported over.
>
> It's not th
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 9:56 AM, João M. S. Silva
wrote:
>
> The specific problem here is that modemmanager depends on network-manager:
>
> $ cat /etc/init/modemmanager.conf
> (...)
> start on starting network-manager
> stop on stopped network-manager
> (...)
>
> But I don't need network-manager a
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Ralf Mardorf
wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Aug 2015 08:43:50 -0400, Luis Mondesi wrote:
>>
>> When you do a clean install of 15.10 you get the Full Systemd
>> Experience ™ It's very awkward for the first 30 seconds or so, but one
>> gets used to its quirks very fast.
>>
>> C
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> Am Montag, den 17.08.2015, 12:38 +0100 schrieb João M. S. Silva:
First a correction. I meant to say "as in Debian for sysv damons" not
"as in Debian".
This is the problem with hybrid init setups.
With upstart, we could use update-rc.d fo
On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 12:38 PM, João M. S. Silva
wrote:
>
> I suggest an equivalent of Fedora's chkconfig for server startup service
> administration.
>
> It seems strange that a simple solution for this problem does not already
> exist, but from all the questions that I've checked, that seems th
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Saturday, March 14, 2015 06:27:14 PM Aron Xu wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Qiang Huang
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm a Docker user, for some reason, I need to use Docker on Ubuntu 14.04
>>> with devicemapper driver, but we got a se
Sorry. Gmail somehow defaulted to this list rather than the user list.
On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Tom H wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 2:55 AM, John Mok wrote:
>>
>> I tried to use the new release Trusty 14.04.2 amd64 to install a new
>> server, but found that
On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 2:55 AM, John Mok wrote:
>
> I tried to use the new release Trusty 14.04.2 amd64 to install a new
> server, but found that that the expert mode installation became not
> available. Those options, like choosing local archive server and
> enabling root account on console acce
On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 6:28 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> jfprev...@bluewin.ch wrote on 21/01/15 23:17:
>>
>> This bug has been filed in 2004 in the debian bugtracker, but
>> apparently closed by the maintainer as he couldn't reproduce it. I
>> confirm that on my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64bits, the a
On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 9:38 AM, Сергей wrote:
>
> Excuse me, are there any plans of making systemd a default init-system
> in Ubuntu 15.04?
From [1]:
"Although this topic has been discussed before (see References below),
this cycle we fully intend to make the switch to systemd as PID 1."
[1] h
On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 2:11 AM, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Tom H [2014-12-05 8:03 -0500]:
>>>
>>> | $ grep ifup /lib/udev/rules.d/99-systemd.rules
>>> | SUBSYSTEM=="net", KERNEL!="lo", TAG+="systemd",
>>> ENV{SYSTEMD_ALIAS
Sorry. Sent to devel-discuss@ by mistake!
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 6:04 AM, Tom H wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 2:45 AM, Marius Gedminas wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 07, 2014 at 02:33:47PM -0500, John Hupp wrote:
>>>
>>> I created /etc/sysctl.d/20-quiet-printk.conf with con
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 2:45 AM, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 07, 2014 at 02:33:47PM -0500, John Hupp wrote:
>>
>> I created /etc/sysctl.d/20-quiet-printk.conf with content:
>> kernel.printk = 3 3 3 3
>> ...
>> Though I was curious to know a bit more about the mechanisms in
>> play, I didn'
On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 5:30 AM, Martin Pitt wrote:
> sorry for the late answer!
>
> Tom H [2014-11-03 15:06 -0500]:
>> "Cannot add dependency job for unit systemd-vconsole-setup.service,
>> ignoring: Unit systemd-vconsole-setup.service failed to load: No such
>&g
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 6:57 AM, Diego Germán Gonzalez
wrote:
> El 02/12/14 a las 08:12, Tom H escibió:
>>
>> Why would Ubuntu give its users a choice of init now when it hasn't in the
>> past?
>
> Why use Unity when we always use Gnome?
> Why use LibreOffice w
On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 1:55 AM, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
wrote:
> On 01.12.2014 19:15, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> Especially after deciding a few months ago to switch to systemd!
>
> By the way: is it then be mandatory ?
Why would Ubuntu give its users a choice of init now
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Diego Germán Gonzalez
wrote:
>
> I just learned of the launch of Devuan
> https://devuan.org/
> A fork of Debian which eliminates the requirement to use systemd, and
> promises to build a less bureaucratic and more friendly community towards
> the derived distros
>
I'm running 15.04 with systemd as pid 1 and I want to share some observations.
1) systemd-vconsole-setup.service
"Cannot add dependency job for unit systemd-vconsole-setup.service,
ignoring: Unit systemd-vconsole-setup.service failed to load: No such
file or directory." is in the output of journa
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 4:05 PM, John Moser wrote:
> On 01/26/2013 04:01 PM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 2:19 PM, John Moser
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Does this package currently not have a maintainer, or is it just slow in
>>> Debian as well?
>&g
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 2:19 PM, John Moser wrote:
> I'm noticing that 2.7 is still the version of Puppet in Raring; however,
> version 3.0 was released October 1, 2012, before release of 12.04:
I assume that you mean 13.04.
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/puppet-users/lqmTBX9XDtw/d
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Dale Amon wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 06:18:21PM -0500, Tom H wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 6:39 AM, Dale Amon wrote:
>>
>>
>>> # DMA20121218. This is new, suggested to me by Tom H on the ubuntudev list
>>> #GRUB_G
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Sander Smeenk wrote:
> Quoting Jordon Bedwell (jor...@envygeeks.com):
>>>
>>> And framebuffered consoles. I can see *some* value of having larger
>>> terminals than the default 80x24.
>>
>> And this is more constructive than my comments? Jump in and help fix
>> them
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 6:39 AM, Dale Amon wrote:
> # DMA20121218. This is new, suggested to me by Tom H on the ubuntudev list
> #GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text
If you don't set it "text", the value of "GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX" is
that of "GRUB_GFXMODE", which
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Dale Amon wrote:
>
> Second, I am getting hit with a blinking screen even in
> virtual terminals on a quantal amd64 server build. Terminal
> is an ADI ProVista attached to a KVM.
>
> Eventually the screen seems to go to sleep and I cannot
> get it to ever come back
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Kieran Grant
wrote:
>
> Based on the problems that Saqlain had
> (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2012-December/014092.html)
> and I initially had with Ubuntu core and using apt-get, I am wondering
> if Ubuntu Core should include 'net-tools' (
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Daniel J Blueman wrote:
>
> I'd love to hear what other users and developers think about this:
>
> The refreshed update manager (almost) always displays "The computer needs to
> restart to finish installing updates", with a default button "Restart"
> highlighted. N
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 1:20 AM, Emmet Hikory wrote:
>
> Of course, as the tools continue to advance, some other selection may
> make sense in the future, but even then I think we should continue to debate
> the tools in terms of how the system is expected to be used, rather than
> what hardware i
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:18 AM, Tom H wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
> wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:24 AM, Tom H wrote:
>>>
>>> Could NM's "Depends" and "Recommends" be pared down for an X-less
&
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
>
> I guess this whole NM issue might fall under the tasksel issue, I
> prefer not to use it but a friend of mine does...you prefer NM I
> prefer to stay away from it, preference perhaps? But with preference
> comes the problem that NM relies
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:24 AM, Tom H wrote:
>> NM on Fedora can now handle bonding and bridging by reading
>> "/etc/sysconfig/netwok-scripts/ifcfg-*" files.
>>
>> I was curious about wh
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Clint Byrum wrote:
> Excerpts from Tom H's message of 2012-08-22 00:24:11 -0700:
>>
>> IMO, we'll end up sooner or later using NM on X-less boxes by default
>
> I do not share your opinion. While I'm not ifupdown's biggest fan, it
> will likely be the network confi
IMO, we'll end up sooner or later using NM on X-less boxes by default
NM on Fedora can now handle bonding and bridging by reading
"/etc/sysconfig/netwok-scripts/ifcfg-*" files.
I was curious about whether NM could do the same by reading
"/etc/network/interfaces" so I've just tried to install NM i
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 3:12 PM, John Moser wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Tom H wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Phillip Susi wrote:
>>> On 8/8/2012 11:01 AM, John Moser wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Put your mouse pointer in the middle of the
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:52 PM, John Moser wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
>>
>> It has a lot of bearing for people. Proper usability testing would have
>> pointed that out, and Canonicals decision not to allow the toolbar to be
>> on the right if users wanted is c
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Phillip Susi wrote:
> On 8/8/2012 11:01 AM, John Moser wrote:
>>
>> Put your mouse pointer in the middle of the screen.
>>
>> Put your mouse somewhere you can grab it.
>>
>> Now reach out and grab the mouse.
>>
>> Where does the pointer end up?
>
> It ends up in th
On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Dylan McCall wrote:
> Speaking of release notes, I was looking for the 10.04 release notes
> to see what we had going on there for the button layout change, but I
> actually _couldn't find them_ from ubuntu.com. Am I just going crazy?
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubun
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 9:08 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs
wrote:
> On 6 May 2010 01:38, Brandon Holtsclaw wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 20:34 -0400, Daniel Hollocher wrote:
>>> I'm pretty sure that getdeb.net and the ppa's on launchpad satisfy
>>> most cravings for rolling releases.
>>
>> And Debian sid
http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/1004
and
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidLynx/ReleaseNotes
$ diff -su wrong right
--- wrong 2010-04-29 14:47:14.200010874 -0400
+++ right 2010-04-29 14:46:42.727997369 -0400
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
Avahi will always start even if a .local domain is p
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2010-April/216013.html
Since the person who posted does not want to file a bug report, I
thought that i should point this out.
>From the link above:
Long story short: the only way to be safe right now is to physically
remove drives with important da
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Joao Pinto wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Patrick Goetz
> wrote:
>> > Subject: Re: Troubleshooting boot problems
>> > From: Brian Vaughan
>> > Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:53:30 -0700
>>
>> Next, suppose I don't want to run ufw -- what's the procedure for
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Patrick Goetz wrote:
>> Subject: Re: Troubleshooting boot problems
>> From: Brian Vaughan
>> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 07:53:30 -0700
>>
>> I'd like to see a good overview of Ubuntu's startup process. I just took
>> a class on Unix/Linux system administration, and we
>>> Can you explain why gksu is a bad idea and why gksudo is better?
>> gksu - executes as superuser using $HOME = /root
>> gksudo - executes your current environment e.g. $HOME=/home/$user but
>> with superuser priviliges.
> However, on Ubuntu:
> ~$ diff -as $(which gksu) $(which gksudo)
> File
>> I assume that the samba job has been split into two because there was
>> a problem with nmbd not starting when smbd and nmbd were launched
>> through samba.
>> If you look at the respective conf files, you will see that nmbd
>> requires a nic other than lo to be up before starting.
> So, althou
>> 1. Why does /lib/init/upstart-job direct us to use service rather than
>> initctl?
> Because /usr/sbin/service can handle the start/stop/restart/status
> actions of both traditional System V init scripts in /etc/init.d as
> well as Upstart scripts in /etc/init.
> It's intended to be one-stop-
>>> 999. Could initctl be made to recognize, for example, both
>>> avahi-daemon and avahi-daemon.conf? (If I am in /etc/init - it is rare
>>> but it happens - and type "stop av//tab//", I end up with "stop
>>> avahi-daemon.conf" which, after pressing //enter// results in an
>>> "unknown job" messag
Patrick's two Upstart posts reminded me of 2.5 queries of my own.
1. Why does /lib/init/upstart-job direct us to use service rather than initctl?
2. With initctl, upstart has the equivalent of invoke-rc.d/service. Is
there or will there be the equivalent of update-rc.d/chkconfig?
999. Could init
> So, I'm testing samba on a Lucid alpha 3, and I decide to restart the
> smbd daemon:
> sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart
> sudo: /etc/init.d/samba: command not found
> Oops, I guess it's a service now?
> sudo service samba restart
> samba: unrecognized service
> So of course it only took a littl
>> Everybody knows that a terminal has white text on black background.
>> Windows has a terminal like this. Mac OS X have a terminal like this.
OS X's terminal is a very civilized black text on white background...
> Ugh. I really thought that only primitive systems use white text on a black
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