On 26/01/20 2:58 pm, Josef Grosch wrote:
The document I used as a guide to set this up is
https://wiki.debian.org/ZFS
Two things I would advise when using ZFS is 1) never let the
filesystem get to more than 80% full and 2) run a weekly zpool scrub.
Mine runs our of cron.
Thanks, this looks
On 27/01/20 12:40 pm, Tom Dial wrote:
I can't tell whether or not this response is facetious. If it is, and
you are not determined for other reasons to use Linux, I recommend
FreeNAS
No, I was serious, but I do have limits. I've looked at FreeNAS, but I
would much rather use Debian,
On 27/01/20 3:58 am, Stefan Monnier wrote:
I want to set up a file server on my home LAN with just consumer-grade
hardware, and run Debian stable on it. For hardware, I am probably
going to get a refurbished mid-range tower with a four to six 3.5" SATA
drive capacity, and put WD Reds in it.
On 28/01/20 7:00 am, Aidan Gauland wrote:
On 27/01/20 12:59 am, ghe wrote:
If you don't already have all the router(s) and WiFi access points
and such, may I suggest a pile of Raspberry Pis.
Can a r-pi be set up with RAID easily?
Going by all the replies on this subthread, even the latest
On 27/01/20 12:59 am, ghe wrote:
If you don't already have all the router(s) and WiFi access points and such,
may I suggest a pile of Raspberry Pis.
Can a r-pi be set up with RAID easily?
On 26/01/20 3:17 pm, Paul Johnson wrote:
ext4 is the best way to go unless you have extremely specific needs or
you really want to overcomplicate things for a hobby.
I love over-complicating my hobbies.
tell whether it can yet
do striping with parity. Any advice?
Regards,
Aidan Gauland
On 2/09/19 6:46 am, deloptes wrote:
Which debian and pulse audio version are you on?
pactl info spits out this:
Server String: /run/user/1000/pulse/native
Library Protocol Version: 32
Server Protocol Version: 32
Is Local: yes
Client Index: 245
Tile Size: 65472
User Name: aidan
Host Name:
initialization failed". I have been unable to find any
reports of this error elsewhere, and I don't know how to get Pulse to
give more verbose output. Can anyone more familiar with Pulse hackery
offer any insight?
Regards,
Aidan Gauland
On 25/06/19 3:38 PM, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> On 24/06/19 06.27, Aidan Gauland wrote:
>
>> I can't really offer an opinion on whether it is dangerous without a
>> more detailed hypothetical scenario, but I would say that is
>> overbroad, and this rule should be narrowed down
On 25/06/19 3:46 AM, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Why is there no "the graphical session is ready"
>> systemd target?
> There is, incidentally it is named graphical-session.target :-)
> See man systemd.special
>
> Unfortunately, no display/session manager is hooked up yet to manage the
> lifetime of
On 21/06/19 8:33 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 06:50:14PM +1200, Aidan Gauland wrote:
>> Someone else suggested running xautolock from my .xsessionrc script so
>> that it is always run after X is running, and that seems to work. I
>> wanted to run thi
On 21/06/19 7:24 PM, john doe wrote:
> Is it always working if you run the command manually?
It has so far, yes.
On 21/06/19 6:25 PM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> Aidan Gauland writes:
>> I have a user service for running xautolock that does not start on login
>> reliably, and I have no idea why, because there is no error message,
>> just an exit code of 1. (Unit file and output of systemc
I have a user service for running xautolock that does not start on login
reliably, and I have no idea why, because there is no error message,
just an exit code of 1. (Unit file and output of systemctl status
attached.) Any suggestions on what to do next to troubleshoot this?
Regards,
Aidan
IPv4, so until IPv6 is deployed
across the majority of the Internet, then if you're not a large entity,
there's not much reason to use IPv6 other than playing around.
Here's a gentler introduction to IPv6 that might also help:
http://www.steves-internet-guide.com/ipv6-guide/
Regards,
Aidan Gauland
On 19/05/19 6:40 PM, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2019-05-19 15:58 +1200, Aidan Gauland wrote:
>
>> I have a bunch of systemd user services for headless daemons that I want
>> to run in both console and graphical logins, which all work fine, but I
>> have one that I only wan
I have the WantedBy field set to graphical.target. I am
using lightdm and i3. The other services' WantedBy field is set to
default.target. What is the correct way to specify that a service
should be started only for X logins?
Regards,
Aidan Gauland
On 18/05/19 11:08 AM, Dominik George wrote:
>> Can you give sources for your claim about their discrimination? That
>> one is new to me.
> I did. Please read my mails in this thread.
I have, and I just re-read the articles you gave, and I still do not see
anything about discrimination by age, or
On 17/05/19 7:28 PM, Dominik George wrote:
>>> please do*never* use GitHub for free software
>> Please explain, in detail, why.
> If discrimination against parts of the community is not enough for you,
> here's why:
>
> https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html
>
>
On 25/04/19 6:37 PM, Reco wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 04:58:28PM +1200, Aidan Gauland wrote:
>> I need to know how to either
>> a) disable the instance started under "(sd-pam)", so I can use my
>> systemd user service, or
&g
of my system user service.
I am using lightdm to start X, and my session is the i3 WM. In case
it's relevant, I also start
/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 in my
~/.xsessionrc file. I am running Debian 9.8 on x86_64.
Thanks,
Aidan Gauland
me
trouble.)
Regards,
Aidan Gauland
Jean-Marc jean-m...@6jf.be writes:
Michael jm...@jagmail.southalabama.edu wrote:
Is there any (significant) difference between editing (adding a user to)
the _/etc/sudoers_ file and adding a person to the _admin group?_ Am I
comparing apples and oranges?
Usually, groups are used on
with
the vga=771 boot parameter, but that made no difference.
Right now, I'm want to get the backports kernel to boot cleanly –
because that *should* work – and go from there, but I'll try any other
solutions.
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-backports, get the Debian source packages from wheezy and build
them on your squeeze system. I'll let someone who is more familiar with
the Debian packaging tools instruct you on this, but BE SURE TO VERIFY
THE SIGNATURES OF THE SOURCE PACKAGES!
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Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org writes:
On 14.12.2012 05:06, Aidan Gauland wrote:
How can I fix this? Given that HAL is deprecated, I suspect there is
some other tool that serves the same purpose as pmount-hal that I should
be using instead.
yeah, hal is dead.
You might try udisks --mount
Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org writes:
udisks-daemon does handle luks/cryptsetup encrypted partitions but it
seems the udisks command line tool is too limited.
Try gvfs-mount -d /dev/foo. This should prompt you for the passphrase,
unlock and mount the file system under /media/FS_LABEL
Can
that serves the same purpose as pmount-hal that I should
be using instead.
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change the key on the original server? Or did you mean that an
old server was, in error, put up in place of the one you set up earlier
(before the warning from SSH)?
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Alex Rodriguez xarodrigu...@gmail.com writes:
1. I can't find the version or name to download. Can you just provide
the correct name and version to get.
There is no separate server edition; just install Debian without X11.
You might want to take a look at the Installation Guide:
Rob Owens row...@ptd.net writes:
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 08:29:41PM -0300, Dr Beco wrote:
Unfortunately, my internet baking does not recognize openjdk. Only
sun-java seems to work. When calling technical support, the attendant
insist I should upgrade to the last sun-java plugin. There is
version, a faulty/conflicting driver...). I'd start by
reviewing the logs (/var/log/pm-suspend.log) just in the event there is
something of usefulness.
There is nothing about resuming at the end of the log file; just saying
that the last suspend went well.
Regards,
Aidan Gauland
version, a faulty/conflicting driver...). I'd start by
reviewing the logs (/var/log/pm-suspend.log) just in the event there is
something of usefulness.
I looked there first, and there's nothing about the failed resume, only
messages about the last suspend and that it went well.
Regards,
Aidan
for hardware quirks, but I can't figure
out how to enable them system-wide (so it's used when I suspend from Gnome).
Can anyone offer any help?
Regards,
Aidan Gauland
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appears when the console resolution is changed,
which is well before X starts. I tried booting with the kernel option
vga=771, but it didn't make a difference.
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On 03/03/12 15:42, Carl Fink wrote:
Basic suggestion: post the actual model number of your Eee (there are many)
and the video hardware.
Ah, yes, that would help a lot. :P Sorry about that.
The model is 1015BX, and the GPU is an AMD Radeon HD 6250.
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Er, problem solved: forgot to install linux-firmware-nonfree
Sorry to waste your time.
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Er, problem solved: forgot to install linux-firmware-nonfree _
Well, that was stupidly simple.
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I just installed a Pixel Qi screen in my Acer Aspire One am already
enjoying the increased readability in sunlight, but there is a small
problem I need to address: when I turn the screen backlight off via the
Fn key (Fn+F6), the screen goes into minimal-power, monochrome mode;
only problem is the
I seem to remember asking this on IRC a while ago, and the answer I got
(from multiple people) was to backup system config files and, of course,
/home, and do a fresh install of stable. (In the end, I went with this
method.)
I am quite certain that downgrading from testing to stable is not
pacakge for it.
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Aidan Gauland
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On 09/09/11 18:20, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
Could it be the xscreensaver daemon is not running. I found I had to
copy the /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc to ~/.config/xfce4/ AND I had to tell
GDM to explicitly invoke an Xfce session or else it did not read the
xinitrc file - John
The xscreensaver
Hi,
I'm using Xfce4.8 from wheezy. I have ticked the Lock screen when
going for suspend/hibernate checkbox in the Extended section of the
Power Manager settings, but the screen is never locked when I bring my
computer back from suspend or hibernate. This appears to be an upstream
bug, not a bug
went with this solution.
Hope this helps,
Aidan Gauland
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Aaron Toponce aaron.topo...@gmail.com writes:
6) Shrink the partition of /dev/sda5 using fdisk(8) or parted(8)
I've run into trouble at this step: when I try to resize the partition
with parted, it complains that it could not detect file system, and
refuses to do touch the disk. fdisk does
have to use GDM if I want to have multiple logins, or do I
simply need to tweak XScreenSaver's configuration?
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, and then reformat it and restore the LVM logical volumes.
I'm hoping there is a simpler way. Is there?
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for that! I'll try following your instructions this
weekend.
Thanks,
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Aidan Gauland aidal...@no8wireless.co.nz writes:
I just upgraded my video card (from a 9400 GT to a GT 430), and when I
booted my system, X failed to start. When seeing that the Nvidia
drivers in sid are the same version as those direct from Nvidia's
website, I tried upgrading the nvidia
(as directed by
http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Use_DKMS). Still no joy;
the same error.
What do I need to do to use the Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze?
Regards,
Aidan Gauland
(Note: I have attached my xorg.conf file.)
xorg.conf
Description: xorg.conf
) and installing nvidia-kernel-dkms (as
instructed by http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers), but still
no joy; the same error.
What do I need to do to use the Nvidia drivers from sid on squeeze?
Regards,
Aidan Gauland
xdm.log
Description: XDM log file
xorg.conf
Description: xorg.conf
Hans-J. Ullrich hans.ullr...@loop.de writes:
Hi Aidan!
Did you install the nvidia-glx package?
Yes, that was pulled in by nvidia-kernel-dkms (directly or indirectly).
A good way to see, what is happening, is to move /etc/init.d/kdm out of the
way, Doing so, it will not start at boot.
://packages.debian.org/squeeze/gcc
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Mark Goldshtein mark.goldshtein at gmail.com writes:
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Kousik Maiti kousikster at gmail.com
wrote:
Hello Mark
Try from $HOME directory
$cd .wine
Oh, Thanks! It works!
What was that? :)
. (dot) is the current working directory and / (slash) is the
Steven Demetrius wrote:
Please list the full contents of the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and the
kernel version you are using.
Ok, I've attached my xorg.conf file to this message, and my kernel version is
2.6.26-1-686 (as reported by uname -r).
You can also get xorg to generate a xorg.conf file
Hello,
I just upgraded to lenny without any problems, except for one: I'm using the
vesa xorg driver, because using the free nv driver causes the display to
freeze after a few minutes of use (I can move the mouse, but I can't even
switch to a virtual console). I was using the non-free
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