Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-12-04 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 03:06:17PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: Hi Tomas, Great you like it! Many people are busy working on smoothing the edges uncovered by all the inflowing bugreports, so the occasional thanks! is a nice boost to troop morale. :) I will second the thank you.. I got

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-12-04 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 03:06:17PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: Hi Tomas, Great you like it! Many people are busy working on smoothing the edges uncovered by all the inflowing bugreports, so the occasional thanks! is a nice boost to troop morale. :) Btw, debian is the only complex

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-30 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Philip Hands: It seems to me that we could: Make systemd link runlevel 2 to graphical.target, and 3,4 5 to multi-user.target, or perhaps in an attempt to be slightly less confusing to outsiders, how about: 2 5 -- graphical 3 4 -- multi-user Or we could simply pop

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-30 Thread Philip Hands
Matthias Urlichs matth...@urlichs.de writes: Hi, Philip Hands: It seems to me that we could: Make systemd link runlevel 2 to graphical.target, and 3,4 5 to multi-user.target, or perhaps in an attempt to be slightly less confusing to outsiders, how about: 2 5 -- graphical

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-29 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Marc Haber: Which significantly changes things in Jessie since the majory of services is still started via the old rcX.d mechanism, and thus starting to runlevels behaves completely different from what users expect. Well, I wouldn't expect runlevel 2 to start a graphical desktop either.

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-29 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 09:09:19 +0100, Matthias Urlichs matth...@urlichs.de wrote: Marc Haber: Which significantly changes things in Jessie since the majory of services is still started via the old rcX.d mechanism, and thus starting to runlevels behaves completely different from what users

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-29 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 08:34:46 +0100, Matthias Urlichs matth...@urlichs.de wrote: Marc Haber: It's learning and understanding more than just a few bizarre new concepts. I learned. I (think I) understand. But I do not think these fancy new concepts are bizarre at all. If anything, they make my

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-29 Thread Felipe Sateler
On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 11:36:20 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 08:34:46 +0100, Matthias Urlichs matth...@urlichs.de wrote: Marc Haber: It's learning and understanding more than just a few bizarre new concepts. I learned. I (think I) understand. But I do not think these fancy new

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-29 Thread Philip Hands
Felipe Sateler fsate...@debian.org writes: ... This is indeed unfortunate. Because runlevel[234] are links to multi-user.target it means that distinctions between those runlevels are not preserved. It also means that the ability to differentiate between graphical.target and multi-user.target

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-28 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Marc Haber: Updating of such systems has always been a pain, but this time it's going to be a gazillion times more painful. Why? (Seriously.) -- -- Matthias Urlichs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 09:30:01 +0100, Matthias Urlichs matth...@urlichs.de wrote: Marc Haber: Updating of such systems has always been a pain, but this time it's going to be a gazillion times more painful. Why? (Seriously.) Because this time fixing those things is more than just minor changes

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-28 Thread Philipp Kern
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 07:08:09PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: And this facing a mostly hostile upstream and a Fedora-Centric community. I have observed a mostly hostile Debian community in recent months. I'm not sure if this jab at Fedora is particularly warranted. Kind regards Philipp Kern

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-28 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Marc Haber mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de writes: A few hours of reasearch later (which could have been a few minutes if just the community would have been a bit more helpful) it turned out they were right: We start kdm via an init script and sysvrc emulation, and this does actually break

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 20:55:42 +0100, Philipp Kern pk...@debian.org wrote: On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 07:08:09PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: And this facing a mostly hostile upstream and a Fedora-Centric community. I have observed a mostly hostile Debian community in recent months. I'm not sure if this

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-28 Thread Alexandre Detiste
Le vendredi 28 novembre 2014, 22:25:28 Marc Haber a écrit : We start kdm via an init script and sysvrc emulation, and this does actually break the distinction between multi-user.target and graphical.target. Hi, Here is a native kdm service I'v copied from an other distro months ago; and used

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 22:33:08 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt ans...@debian.org wrote: Marc Haber mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de writes: A few hours of reasearch later (which could have been a few minutes if just the community would have been a bit more helpful) it turned out they were right: We start kdm

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-28 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Marc Haber: It's learning and understanding more than just a few bizarre new concepts. I learned. I (think I) understand. But I do not think these fancy new concepts are bizarre at all. If anything, they make my life way easier. If anything, IMHO using words like bizarre isn't exactly

successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-27 Thread Tomas Pospisek
Hello list, I hope it's appropriate here, I just wanted to say *thanks to everybody*, in particular the low level package and infrastructure maintainers for the excellent work they've done. Yesterday I've upgraded my laptop with quite massive foreign package sources and installations (qgis

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-27 Thread David Kalnischkies
Hi Tomas, Great you like it! Many people are busy working on smoothing the edges uncovered by all the inflowing bugreports, so the occasional thanks! is a nice boost to troop morale. :) On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 02:22:14PM +0100, Tomas Pospisek wrote: Allthough apt-get dist-upgrade broke half

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/27/2014 09:22 PM, Tomas Pospisek wrote: Yesterday I've upgraded my laptop with quite massive foreign package sources and installations (qgis packages, backports, stuff from ubuntu PPAs, nodejs, a dozen packages from jessie etc.) from wheezy to jessie. That's probably why you had issues

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 27 nov 14, 15:06:17, David Kalnischkies wrote: It's also not the worst idea to remove stuff from third party repositories before upgrading and only install them again after the upgrade. This way you can sure that they aren't interfering (something which can't be prevented and just

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-27 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 23:50:08 +0800, Thomas Goirand z...@debian.org wrote: On 11/27/2014 09:22 PM, Tomas Pospisek wrote: Yesterday I've upgraded my laptop with quite massive foreign package sources and installations (qgis packages, backports, stuff from ubuntu PPAs, nodejs, a dozen packages from