Re: Debian security: need recipe for blocking root ssh access AND all ssh password access

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 08:08:26AM -0600, Tom Browder wrote: I have several remote Debian 7 servers and would like to secure it in the following manner: 1. root will not be allowed any external access (access is only via a user becoming root while logged in) Ensure all users who may be

Re: Apt-get question

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 08:35:16AM -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:36:33 +0100 arian wrote: you might want to use aptitude (synaptics probably works too), as it makes figuring out why it does what much easier, among other things. For a start, it

Re: Flash problems again.

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 11:43:16PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: Aptitude says: Saving to: `/tmp/pepperflashplugin-nonfree.TkQKb4rXAE/google-chrome-stable_48.0.2564.109-1_amd64.deb' Konsole says: lisi@Tux-II:~$ cd /tmp lisi@Tux-II:/tmp$ ls kde-lisipulse-PKdhtXMmr18n kde-root

Re: systemd Information

On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 02:48:14PM -0600, Tim McDonough wrote: Anyone have a recommendation for a good reference/tutorial on systemd as it applies to Debian Jessie? It's very frustrating to work on configuring static IPs, SSHD ports, etc. and never knowing which files are the correct ones

Re: Postfix log content

On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 05:28:54PM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Hi, Running Postfix under Jessie. At some time in the past I managed to increase the logging verbosity to track down a problem, which I've solved. I now have a vast amount of data in mail.log, which is obscuring useful

Re: SID Update Feb 02

On Tue, Feb 02, 2016 at 09:08:20PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Stephen Allen wrote: Good Morning: Not sure what package to file a bug against, so here goes explaining the issue. After this mornings update to SID, I no longer have video working (won't play). So, what package would be

Re: OT: variables

On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 11:16:17PM +0100, Hans wrote: Hi all, first of all, thanks for the fast response. If you could suggest a specific tool, we could perhaps tell you the right thing to use for that tool (or the reasons to use it). Yes, here is an example: 1. apt-get --purge remove

Re: Debian

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 06:55:49PM +, Brad Rogers wrote: On Thu, 28 Jan 2016 19:20:19 +0100 jdd wrote: Hello jdd, too bad if real. Yes, there are (theoretical) security issues, but IRL, it isn't going to affect non-Windows machines until/unless they get a larger market

Re: About new mail client

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 08:05:07PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 10:51:53AM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote: On 21/12/15 23:59, Chris Bannister wrote: >> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. Umm, I didn't write that. (You went overboard

Re: eagle-lin64-7.5.0.run, won't

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:38:11AM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 19 January 2016 09:59:23 Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 05:19:34PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > I hadn't thought of that. My bad. OTOH, although no one has come thru > the router except to view my web page,

Re: What/How Files to Remove for a Xen Guest

On Sat, Jan 09, 2016 at 06:05:51PM -0800, ray wrote: I would like to remove a specific domU (test01--pv--guest) from my machine. I am not sure how far/to what extent to remove files. Here are the files and properties it seems I should remove: For this task, you're actually better off using

Re: ssh maimed on testing update

On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 11:49:54AM -0500, rvclay...@acm.org wrote: I'm running $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description:Debian GNU/Linux testing-updates (sid) Release:testing-updates Codename: sid $ uname -a Linux BanjaLuka

Re: 3G / UMTS traffic limit/ bandwidth monitor

On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 12:33:47PM +0100, basti wrote: Hello, I have a 3G / UMTS Stick and I want to use my Linuxbox (Raspbbery) as a router to share that UMTS connection to multiple devices. That works so far. Now I want to Monitor the traffic. For example device 1 = 2GB traffic limit

Re: Moving Partitions

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 03:39:15PM +0200, David Baron wrote: In the continuing struggle to undo the damage of the ridiculous partitions made by the installer, I bought another one terra disk and now have loads of /usr space and and real /opt partition. Now, two left: /var which can either go

Re: no response from listmaster

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 01:41:46PM +, Lee Fuller wrote: ​Hey there, I checked your email address using basic telnet and a measurement tool. I identified the likely physicality of your mailbox to be Cincinnati, and the server connecting to you in these measurements is in Texas. I ran the

Re: INSTALL DEBIAN TOUCH ON SMARTPHONE WITH ANDROID SYSTEM

On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 11:58:50AM +0100, SERGIO TAFUR PINA wrote: Hello, I wear contact you to tell me how I can install Debian in my Smartphone Touch and use it as a phone to make and receive calls, couriers also, sms etc. If this is possible, tell me how it is carried out. I am passionate

Re: My web site is back

On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 11:15:50AM -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: Old site: h t t p : / / u s e r s . w o w w a y . c o m / ~ z l i n u x m a n / New site: http://www.stevesdebianstuff.org/ If you have bookmarks set for the old site you should update your bookmarks. Some pages from the old

Re: Long neglected OS ... updating

On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 12:36:23AM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: Resurrecting a neglected OS, need a little coaching about the output of `aptitude full-upgrade'. I want to know if this output is fairly typical or what one might expect after neglecting an OS a good while... but mostly if going

Re: what is ri in dpkg -l about?

On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 01:02:58PM +0100, alberto fuentes wrote: desired = remove, status = install I dont remember marking this packages in anyway, nor are they removed on a full-upgrade or autoremove. So what are these packages about? Luckily, "dpkg -l" gives you a nice header explaining

Re: amd64-rescue.img & intel Xeon x5650 system

On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 06:33:37AM +, aman nangia wrote: Can below file be used as a bootable image on a usb flash disk to boot a HP Gen7 system with Intel Xeon x5650 CPUs (64bit) on it? "debian-live-6.0.4-amd64-rescue.img" ? The Intel x5650, according to [1], supports the "Intel 64"

Re: apt-get: why massive upgrade despite pinning everything to stable?

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 10:07:49AM -0500, Kynn Jones wrote: OK, I start with my 100% `stable` (`jessie`) system up-to-date. IOW, after `apt-get update`, `apt-get upgrade` reports that there are no candidates for upgrading: % sudo apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building

Re: No sound - seeking ideas

On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 10:38:51 + David Parfitt wrote: > Hi all: > I've newly bought a laptop (details at end) & installed Jessie 8.2. > All's well except that I have no sound. I've done quite a lot of > online research but got nowhere. I'm looking for ANY other practical

Re: Should I report this bug with reportbug?

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 01:16:58PM +0100, David Cimadevilla wrote: I have installed solydk, a debian jessie based distro. In the latest update one of the installed packages messed up all my kde/qt apps. This package comes from debian jessie security updates repository. Installing the

Re: info

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 03:46:52PM +0300, Thabit Omar bin madhi wrote: Dear Mr. No need to exclude people :) hope all the best for you and your team I am one of the users of the best OS debian , I am living in Saudi Arabia and I helped a lot of people my friends and every one near from

Re: LVM info - OTHER than HOWTO's

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 06:08:49PM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: In some of my reading I came across a page recommending LVM for ease of adjusting space. When searching for more information all I'm finding are essentially HOWTO's with only a couple of paragraphs on "Whats" and "Whys".

Re: how execute a script

On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 02:50:25PM +0100, Pol Hallen wrote: Hi all :-) How can I execute a script inside a script? I putted inside /home/user/.bashrc a line like this: /home/user/bin/script1.sh but the script does not run... What is your evidence for the statement that it "does not run"?

Re: How to install Debian on 3TB drive.

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 12:21:15PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: Dear All, I have 3TBx2 drives and want to install debian on them as RAID1. i know rest of the thing. i have been creating software raid on less then 2TB drives for years but now since HD size is growing as per the market

Re: Openbox without other desktop environments.

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 03:34:52PM +0100, Rene Funck wrote: Hello Users I have a virgin installation of Jessie v.8.2 and i want to run Openbox without other desktop environments. So my situation is almost identical to Dwijesh Gajadurs who posted to this list yesterday. I followed the

Re: How to write optimized code for an instruction set not supported by my computer?

On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 04:33:02PM -0600, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: Hello. What is the usual workflow to write code that takes advantage of an instruction set that is not present in my computer (either in assembly or using intrinsic functions that represent those instructions in an

Re: unrar for lenny

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:31:43AM +0100, BAGI Ákos wrote: Hi List! What are the solutions for installing unrar on lenny? Lenny is archived (i.e not supported), so you will need to fetch the packages from the archive. The good news, though, is that unrar WAS included in lenny:

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 03:03:10PM -0500, Tim McDonough wrote: The older Dell laptop that I use for my mobile work has a broken internal WiFi adapter. I'd like to get a recommendation on a USB "stick" type adapter that plays well with Debian and Linux in general. Since I have nothing now I'd

Re: Suggested apt-get dist-upgrade.........

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 12:45:15PM +1100, Charlie wrote: It was suggested that someone [lost the email] upgrade their system with apt-get dist-upgrade? I suppose depending on what packages are installed on a system would suggest which of these bugs could be problematical: Summary:

Re: Installation Problem

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 06:56:51PM +0400, Ssov Samoht wrote: Hello, Ive recently been trying to install Debian Kali Linux and it takes me a long time to install it but when its done it just goes back to the starting screen and all i can select it Install Advanced Options Help Install with

Re: Service start contingencies?

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 11:10:13AM -0400, John L. Cunningham wrote: Hi All, I have one debian box (Box A) that's connected to a bunch of video cameras. I have another debian box (Box B) with a RAID that is exported via NBD and mounted on Box A to save camera output. Box A is a lot newer and

Re: Debian 8.2 RAID conf. problem

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 05:46:55PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 21/10/15 17:35, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: El 21/10/15 a las 11:11, erdal daghan escribió: [cut] El 21/10/15 a las 11:11, erdal daghan escribió: Please help me.. I have two ssd disks(240gb). I want to make RAID1

Re: System Dorked -- Help!

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 10:14:05AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 21 October 2015 09:56:18 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > > On Wed, 21 Oct 2015 16:32:40 +0300 > > > > d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: > > > - Original Message -From: d_ba...@012.net.ilDate: Wednesday, > > > October 21, 2015

Re: Virtual box

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 09:33:56PM -0500, Mitch Nuss wrote: > I am wanting to install Debian into a pic tower I have and want to use it as > a headless server and use a tight VNC so I can access it anywhere. Do you > have any advice for me and will I need to install virtual box? Amy info you >

Re: Systemd bybasses fstab mounting root partition(?)

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 05:59:15PM +0300, Ivan Boro wrote: > Looks like subj. > Have a KVM machine with jessie assembled via debootstrap. Fstab states > > /dev/vda2 / ext4rw 0 0 > > The partition labeled vda2 is listed in grub.cfg as the > root partition by its

Re: Extract substring from cat

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 02:15:46PM +0200, Alfred Charles Stockton wrote: > > If I issue the command cat /etc/*-release on my Debian system I get:- > > PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)" > NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" > VERSION_ID="8" > VERSION="8 (jessie)" > ID=debian >

Re: fstab entry for a 3.6TB drive

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 01:52:37PM +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > I'm trying to mount a 3.6TB hard drive formatted and labelled with > gparted, and I have twice managed to lock myself out of the computer > until I removed the offending line in fstab. > > This is the fstab line that I'm going to

Re: systemd alternative for Jessie?

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 12:55:36AM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > i read the piece on installing without systemd. i get the feeling > that the bottom line of it is: good luck. or am i missing something? > > who decided that Debian shd be locked to systemd? The Debian Technical Committee

Re: Can't reinstall all Jessie packages

On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 12:16:35AM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > I may be wrong, but I can suggest three methods: > 1. (conceptually shouldn't work) : apt-get remove ; apt-get > install > 2. (should work...your intentions must break your system): apt-get purge > ; apt-get install That won't

Re: Upstart inclusion in Debian

On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 08:15:57PM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > Hey guys! > Do anybody have any idea about upstart to replace systemV in sid: the next > release. By default? Probably not going to happen. Upstart lost out to systemd in the tech-ctte vote. > > If it is not so, how can one

Re: make system boot straight to browser connection

On Wed, Oct 07, 2015 at 07:13:01PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > I want to setup a system so that when the power button is pushed on > the PC, the system connects to the internet and starts a browser > without a login or any other intervention by the user. > > There are no security issues. > > Is

Re: Advertising and commercial services in free software

On Mon, Oct 05, 2015 at 08:58:19PM +0200, Timothy Hobbs wrote: > Dear list, > > I have used Debian for many years now, and I have come to trust it as a > source of software that is safe. That is, the software > that I install with apt-get is not spy-ware, nor ad-ware, nor malicious in > any

Re: need help on mtp config

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 05:24:01AM -0700, Li Wei wrote: > I have Samsung GT-S7572 cell phone > and connect to debian by usb line, lsusb: > > Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub > Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub > Bus 003 Device 001: ID

Re: Debian + Windows with UEFI

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 12:26:13AM -0400, real bas wrote: > Hi again, > Someone managed to install NVIDIA driver for GeForce 830M? I have trouble with > installation automatically and manually (black screen, lightdm can't start). > Someone can help me? The GeForce 830M is listed as a "Supported

Re: Debian + Windows with UEFI

ere. [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Bumblebee > > 2015-09-17 8:26 GMT-04:00 Darac Marjal <[1]mailingl...@darac.org.uk>: > > On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 12:26:13AM -0400, real bas wrote: > > Hi again, > > Someone managed to install NVID

Re: Extracting directories from an ISO image, command line tool?

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 08:06:36AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Environment: > Using dd I have copied physical [NO INTERNET AVAILABLE ;] Debian DVD's to > /media/distributionA resulting in > /media/distributionA/DVD1.iso > /media/distributionA/DVD2.iso > . > . > /media/distributionA/DVDn.iso >

Re: BIOS size limit for USB flash drives

On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 07:43:12PM -0400, shawn wilson wrote: > > On Sep 7, 2015 9:47 AM, "Ken Heard" <[1]kensli...@teksavvy.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Is there any limit to the size of a USB flash drive with the ext2 file > > system encrypted on it which can be addressed through the BIOS > >

Re: get software list of one software repository

On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 10:32:35PM +0800, mudongliang wrote: > Hello everyone : >     There are some software repositories on my computer. >     For example , google chrome software repository >         deb [1]http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main >     I also add ubuntu partner in my

Re: is google earth safe to install?

On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 03:31:22AM -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Tue, September 1, 2015 12:41 am, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > > To facilitate our search for property and discussion over the telephone > > of various properties, my client wishes me to install google earth. > > > > I see

Re: mountpoint: not found Boot Messages and Broken X

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 05:51:48AM -0700, brett.frierm...@gmail.com wrote: Running Debian Jessie on a desktop and did an upgrade Sunday night. Everything continued working fine, although I don't think I rebooted at all. Last night went to boot and I get a ton of mountpoint: not found messages

Re: [CentOS] new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

On Sat, Aug 22, 2015 at 11:53:09PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: Please don't top post on this mailing list. On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 06:04:03AM -0500, Hal Wigoda wrote: I wouldn't outfit a computer with blu-ray (Sent from iPhone, so please accept my apologies in advance for any

Re: systemd vs sysvinit: init script arguments

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 07:48:04AM +1000, Stuart Longland wrote: Hi all, I've got a silly question regarding systemd. I'm currently writing a data collection software package which pulls data from various sources and provides a real-time and historical data interface for trending and

Re: cons25 Terminal is Almost but not Quite Right for a Job.

On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 09:50:36AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: I normally use vt100 when in command-line mode but I needed a different terminal for dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config. The garbage I get is what one usually receives when the application is expecting to see a cons25 terminal

Re: aptitude/dpkg fails at Preparing to unpack

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 09:32:24AM -0700, Bill Brelsford wrote: Recent security updates on jessie (i486) have failed: # aptitude update ... # aptitude -DPR safe-upgrade The following packages will be upgraded: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common ... Reading

Re: Making DXF files, if possible with perl

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 08:36:30AM +0200, a...@alphanet.ch wrote: Hi everyone, I need to make a program (if possible in perl) which does DXF files, having some splines. It seems that it's no splines in CPAN CAD::Drawing module, so I wonder what to do... Have please someone an advice

Re: Openstack images default password

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 11:22:13AM +0200, Valerio Pachera wrote: I tried with [cut] As a last resort, can you boot with init=/bin/bash? If so, you can issue mount -o remount,rw / to remount the root filesystem as read-write, then issue passwd to set root's password to whatever you like. sync

Re: pptp-based vpn I am trying to setup pptpd to initiate a connection to

On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 08:29:31PM -0500, martin McCormick wrote: ukvpn.ufreevpn.com and I have never seen this work before so I am not sure what a working setup behaves like. It appears that it takes a sort of grand tour in which it makes 7 or 8 attempts at connecting but it ultimately gives

Re: Missing qt modules in python2.7

On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 12:06:55PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all, My IDE is throwing the following error on start up: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ninja_ide/core/plugin_manager.py, line 319, in load dir_name) File

Re: eth0 : no such device

On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 08:37:31PM +0200, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: Hi, What's the result of dmesg? In particular: dmesg|grep .fw? Maybe you need some firmware? Eave you checked from lspci -n if the module of the kernel is the correct one? Also, I don't believe the OP states which

Re: Letsencrypt - Debian?

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 03:37:49PM -0400, Michael Bonert wrote: Is there a time line for releasing a Let's Encrypt ( letsencrypt) package for Debian? I wouldn't expect to see a package any time before September (This is when the website goes General Availability:

Re: Next Q, re amd64-microcode

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 07:39:32PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; Is there an autoloading routine I know not about that chooses to see if either the intel-microdoe is loaded and applied, or the amd64-microcode is applied? I cannot find a reference to the attempt to load it in

Re: Wheezy Installer?

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 10:39:35AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Where do I find the latest Wheezy installer now that Jessie has gone stable? https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/debian-installer/ but read the warnings on that page before use. Thanks. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Dell Optiplex Chassis Sound with Pulseaudio

On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 04:00:06PM +0200, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: Dear Users! I've installed Pulseaudio in Jessie x64 and I'd like to use my PC internal chassis speaker. Is this a full-range speaker connected (internally) to a sound card, or is this the little piezo-electric beeper

Re: debian 8 on a raspex raspberry pi2

On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:24:31PM -0400, Joe Zien wrote: I installed raspex on a raspberry pi2 which is using debian 8. Only one problem, can't get sound working. Installed alsaplayer and kmix but can't config to play a sound file. Are there any controls visible in the mixer? If not, you

Re: normalize-audio and video files

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 01:45:23AM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote: Is there a program like normalize-audio only it works on mp4 (video) files as well? And .webm etc. But still what is to be normalized is the audio. You could try stripping the audio from the MPEG file, normalising it and then

Re: the State of Linux Audio

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 02:56:38PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: L'octidi 28 messidor, an CCXXIII, Mart van de Wege a écrit : As you said, that's your opinion. I like being able to easily switch my sound from speakers to a USB or Bluetooth device, for example. There is this, which is less a

Re: anyone booting debian with secure boot enabled? And/or from GPT partitions?

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 09:45:25AM +0900, Joel Rees wrote: Last I heard, debian was not participating in any of the initiatives to get officially microsoft-signed signatures for kernels. I've been out of the community for a few months, so I haven't kept up with this, but quick searches don't

Re: can't disable Thinkpad touchpad

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:07:13AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: On a new Thinkpad x250, I've installed Sid. The touchpad causes problems, and so I want to disable it. The easy way is Fn+F8, but that key combination does nothing. Is this because Windows is not installed? What should be a sure

Re: login version 1:4.1.5.1-1

On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 02:47:38AM +0530, rajiv chavan wrote: Tue, 07 Jul 2015 02:32:45 +0530 debian version:stretch /bin/su does not prompt for password. Changes user id. Any help? Likely this is a problem with your PAM configuration. PAM is basically the arbiter for who can change

Re: Logrotate failure

On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 06:16:37PM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Since installing Jessie from scratch on this laptop, I'm getting a nightly error message from logrotate: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate: error: error running shared postrotate script for '/var/log/mysql.log

Re: Message at boot: `A start job is running for LSB: Raise network interfaces'

On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 10:44:29AM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi all Debian users. On my old Pentium III, at boot, a message similar to: A start job is running for LSB: Raise network interfaces appears for some seconds, accompanied with a sort of red lightening. In Google I saw

Re: Kernel message: `base address not set' at boot

On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 01:23:01PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi all. On my old Pentiium III, at boot the following message appears: via686a :00:04.4: base address not set - upgrade BIOS or use force_addr=0xaddr How can I eliminate it? From the Kernel Documentation:

Re: Dedicated server doesn't boot, can't seem to figure out why

On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 11:43:27AM +, Linux4Bene wrote: Hi, I've done several attempts to install Wheezy (can't use Jessie as I want to eventually copy a working config over from another server) on an OVH dedicated server. It contains 2 x 2TB disks. I boot into the rescue mode,

Re: Debian Jessie install failing on configure acpi-support-base

On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 11:45:47AM -0700, Leslie Rhorer wrote: One of my servers crashed (and I need to get it up in a hurry!) so I am trying to re-install Jessie. The problem is, when I run the install from the netinst CD, it hangs every time when it attempts to configure the

Re: localectl list-keymaps : Couldn't find any console keymaps

On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 11:52:41PM +0200, Alberto Cortés wrote: On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 09:53:22PM +0200, Alberto Cortés wrote: Pretty much what the subject says. I'm trying to configure my virtual consoles in Debian Jessie. When I ask for a listing of the available keymaps, this is

Re: Installing glibc-2.21 on debian-8

On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 12:07:26PM +0530, Dhiraj Bhor wrote: Hi, I have debian jessie (8.0) on virtual machine. $] uname -a Linux rdx86-ds7 3.16.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt9-3~deb8u1 (2015-04-24) i686 GNU/Linux I need to install latest glibc (libc-2.21) on this

Re: how to compile kernel for raspberry

On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 12:30:25PM +0100, Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: Hi, I installed  the rasbian on raspberry, it s ok Now, in order to customize the kernel, I want to recompile  the raspbian, please where can I find  help for the compiling procedure. Is there something

Re: Installing 32 bit Debian 8.1 on a virtual machine (via virtualbox)

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 06:06:40PM +1000, Brenton Horne wrote: Hi,  I have been trying to install Debian 8.1 on my virtual machine, from the netinstall CD ISO. The machine has 64 GB HDD allocated to it and 1 GB RAM. It also has 3D video acceleration enabled. Its video memory is 64

Re: troubling ppa's

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 03:04:13PM +0200, notoneofmyseeds wrote: On 06/23/2015 02:24 PM, mudongliang wrote: I have met it before ! The list file generated by ppa is not right! And it mixed debian with ubuntu! You should change the source file generated by ppa ! What does this mean and how can

Re: KDE in Stretch unusable

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 05:23:41AM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: I just upgraded from Jessie to Stretch. The dist-upgrade went smoothly until I rebooted into the new system then things went wrong. Note that Stretch is still in early testing. This is a good time for maintainers to perform major

Re: troubling ppa's

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 02:12:10PM +0200, notoneofmyseeds wrote: Can someone please say where I can find, for I have looked/googled, these working ppa's as the ones below all give me 404 errors: W: Failed to fetch

Re: OT: Can lot of RAM can slow down a calculation workstation?

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 10:52:50AM +0200, Dan wrote: Hi, I have a workstation Dell Precision T7610 that I use for scientific calculations. It has two Xeon CPU E5-2650 v2 @ 2.60GHz with 64GB DDR3 1866MHz. I would like to upgrade the machine and buy 256 GB of RAM. In the case of a

Re: Iceweasel: GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 01:02:35AM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote: When I start Iceweasel it says: (process:3437): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed It don't know what it means, what it does, or how to fix it (if needed). It's a known

Re: Systemd files on a Raspberry Pi

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 03:22:30PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 22 June 2015 14:49:39 Ansgar Burchardt wrote: Andrew McGlashan andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au writes: If it quacks like a duck, it's a duck, plain and simple. I absolutely agree with the post that

Re: Google Chrome and Open-Source derivative listening to me without my approval

On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 10:38:30PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: On 06/21/2015 06:42 PM, John Hasler wrote: Tim Beelen writes: How do I find out which application is accessing what device? It's all software. There is no hardware involved at all: they use a virtual device. It works even when the

Re: Fwd: Transferring files from Debian computer to android phone

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 01:45:55PM +0100, Steve Greig wrote: Thats right I am a newbie despite having used Linux for about 10 years. I seem to have found the apt-get system very tricky to get my head round. It does seem weird to me that transferring files between two computers is

Re: a quick fstab questions

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 02:09:05PM +0200, notoneofmyseeds wrote: On 06/16/2015 01:37 PM, Charlie wrote: UUID=02db0acc-97b3-40b8-b9a1-f6d5fee78e1f 300gb ext4 rw,user,noauto 00 You may want to do something else with the stuff after ext4? You have to take the out of the the label and

Re: systemd equivalent

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 05:53:52PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: I need to steel myself to using systemd commands. What would be the systemd-correct form of this: $ ps ax | grep ssh I use that to check for the existence (or, as the case may be) demise) of an ssh tunnel I use for VNC. What

Re: problems with git after a dist-upgrade update on testing release

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 01:16:20PM +0200, Roi Diaz Real wrote: hi all, today after a dist-upgrade i have problems with git. these are the updated packages Des:1 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main dpkg i386 1.18.1 [2.939 kB] Des:2 http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ testing/main

Re: Cinnamon crashing on Stretch

On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 08:15:03AM -0700, Paul Anzel wrote: Hello everyone, I'm currently running Debian Stretch* and ran the usual apt-get update/upgrade yesterday. Subsequently, when I tried rebooting my machine Cinnamon keeps on crashing, giving me a prompt to go into Fallback mode (and

Re: Disable startup services on Debian 8

On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 10:44:25AM +0200, Danny wrote: Hi guys, (Not all of us are guys. Why exclude a significant portion of the community?) Recently one of the harddrives on my main Debian v7 backup server failed due to multiple power failures where I live. The power failures and spikes

Re: usbkey: mount option gid=100

On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 01:53:52PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: I hosed a USB key, probably by pulling it out while files still being copied to it. I'd like to recover the files. Dmesg: ... [6990701.755708] sd 23:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk [6990702.003269] EXT3-fs

Re: Broadcom b43 drivers

On Thu, Jun 04, 2015 at 05:41:27PM -0500, Jose Martinez wrote: OK, I probably have my system all messed up.  Here's the sequence of events: Discovered errors with the nouveau driver (I'm using NVIDIA GeForce 7130 chipset) and did some research, nvidia-detect recommended the

Re: Using Jessy with an older linux kernel

On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 12:11:11PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 11:21:41AM +0200, Freek Dijkstra wrote: Hi, Is it possible to run Jessy software and packages with an older (3.2 or even 2.6) Linux kernel? I remember dimly that Jessie's systemd requires some

Re: Do a MCQ

On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 07:23:09AM +, Alex PADOLY wrote: Hello, I look for one application in accommodated on a server to edit and manage MCQ. Thank you A web search suggests to me that the most likely expansion of MCQ is Multiple Choice Questionnaire. In that case, this[1] is

Re: Dual NIC network

On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 03:48:51PM +0200, notoneofmy wrote: Hallo, Would some please say, how to configure the wifi card and the Ethernet port on my laptop, so that one can go online and the other can only access the local network. And in such a way that connection from one network, local,

Re: dmesg BIOS error

On Thu, 28 May 2015 23:54:40 -0400 Deb debianu...@gmx.com wrote: What does this error listing in my dmesg mean: [0.00] ACPI BIOS Warning (bug): 32/64X FACS address mismatch in FADT: 0xCF7E4E40/0xCF7E4D40, using 32-bit address (20140424/tbfadt-283) This[1] seems to be a

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