Re: minissdpd failure in update

2018-02-01 Thread Sven Hartge
Frank M wrote: > Feb 01 13:39:07 franklin minissdpd[9152]: Error: please specify LAN > network interface by name instead of IPv4 address : 0.0.0.0 > Feb 01 13:39:07 franklin minissdpd[9152]: can't parse "0.0.0.0" as a > valid address or interface name Your

Re: How to get rid of gcc4.9

2018-01-30 Thread Sven Hartge
John wrote: > I do not know how it happened but on my jessie machine I seem to have > gcc4.9 as default (as shown by gcc --version) which is causing problems > with compiling/linking seeming to want gcc4.8. Attempts to remove > gcc4.9 seemed to want to remove gcc as well.

Re: squirrelmail or other webmail?

2018-01-30 Thread Sven Hartge
Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > I noticed today that squirrelmail is only in Debian oldstable and > oldoldstable. So, I'm curious as to its status -- is it now deprecated > (as one would suspect from it not being kept up in more recent Debian > versions)? Is there some other

Re: kernel 4.14.15 compilation using GCC 8 in unstable.......

2018-01-26 Thread Sven Hartge
Michael Lange wrote: > When I check /proc/cpuinfo I see that "msr" is listed in the "flags" > section. So why doesn't the driver load automagically? It is not programmed to load automatically, because writing to MSRs is dangerous and can even damage your computer or CPU.

Re: kernel 4.14.15 compilation using GCC 8 in unstable.......

2018-01-26 Thread Sven Hartge
Michael Lange wrote: > Yes, it is the sid kernel, and the module exists. When running the > script as root it is the same. lsmod shows that the msr module is not > loaded. If I load it manually with modprobe it appears to load without > errors, but the output of the

Re: kernel 4.14.15 compilation using GCC 8 in unstable.......

2018-01-26 Thread Sven Hartge
Michael Lange <klappn...@freenet.de> wrote: > On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 18:38:23 +0100 Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote: >> Michael Lange <klappn...@freenet.de> wrote: >>> Hardware check >>> * Hardware support (CPU microcode) for mitigation

Re: kernel 4.14.15 compilation using GCC 8 in unstable.......

2018-01-26 Thread Sven Hartge
Michael Lange wrote: > Hardware check > * Hardware support (CPU microcode) for mitigation techniques > * Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS) > * SPEC_CTRL MSR is available: UNKNOWN (couldn't > read /dev/cpu/0/msr, is msr support enabled in your kernel?)

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-24 Thread Sven Hartge
Michael Fothergill <michael.fotherg...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 24 January 2018 at 12:58, Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote: >> Michael Fothergill <michael.fotherg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > The link within the above one: >>> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-24 Thread Sven Hartge
Michael Fothergill wrote: > The link within the above one: > https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2018-01/msg00148.html > also has a link to the ftp download for the release candidate version of > gcc 7.3 ie 7.3.0rc1 which does actually work for spectre and retpoline.

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-23 Thread Sven Hartge
Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeova...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 3:16 PM, Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote: >> Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeova...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I've installed the patch for CVE-2017-5754 as well as the microcode update

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-23 Thread Sven Hartge
Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > I've installed the patch for CVE-2017-5754 as well as the microcode update: Well, Intel majorly fscked up their microcodes and strongly recommends to revert to an earlier BIOS/UEFI firmware (if possible) and also advised all vendors shipping

Re: IPv6 SLAAC and RFC 7217

2018-01-21 Thread Sven Hartge
Ulf Volmer wrote: > On 21.01.2018 19:29, John Naggets wrote: >> I was wondering if there is a "standard" way in Debian 9 through the >> /etc/network/interfaces file to enable/force using a stable private >> IPv6 address using SLAAC as specified in RFC 7217? > no personal

Re: sshd running in private namespace

2018-01-18 Thread Sven Hartge
Nicolas George wrote: > I noticed that for some time, sshd is being started in a separate > filesystem namespace. As a consequence, mounts done from a SSH shell are > not visible from the main system, and that disrupts my use habits. This was

Re: Crossgrading Wheezy from 32bit to 64bit: Solving package dependency problems after kernel change.

2018-01-16 Thread Sven Hartge
Pieter Van Isacker wrote: > While testing change a Debian Wheezy from 32bit to 64bit I ran into an > issue. Following the guide on https://wiki.debian.org/CrossGrading > Once we've change to 64bit we > plan to update to

Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie

2018-01-15 Thread Sven Hartge
Elisabetta Falivene wrote: > In the end, changing in > /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/driver-policy > MODULES=dep to MODULES=most and > and then > update-initramfs -u -k 3.16.0.4-amd64 (in my case it was that the > problematic kernel) > did the trick. As I said: you are

Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie

2018-01-11 Thread Sven Hartge
Elisabetta Falivene wrote: >>> Thank you, it was "dep" indeed! >> Then remove those additional files, check that MODULES=most is set in >> /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf, do a "update-initramfs -u -kall", >> and you should be good to go. > The driver policy file?

Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie

2018-01-10 Thread Sven Hartge
Elisabetta Falivene wrote: >>> Unfortunately is already 'most'. >> Please check if you have a file /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/driver-policy >> or any other file containing a different configuration. Anything in >> /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/ takes precedence over the

Re: System won't boot anymore after upgrade to jessie

2018-01-10 Thread Sven Hartge
Elisabetta Falivene wrote: > Unfortunately is already 'most'. Please check if you have a file /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/driver-policy or any other file containing a different configuration. Anything in /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/ takes precedence over the main

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

2017-12-31 Thread Sven Hartge
David Christensen <dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote: > On 12/31/17 09:44, Sven Hartge wrote: >> David Christensen <dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote: >>> On 12/30/17 14:38, Matthew Crews wrote: >>>> The main issue I see with using BTRFS with MDADM is

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

2017-12-31 Thread Sven Hartge
David Christensen wrote: > On 12/30/17 14:38, Matthew Crews wrote: >> The main issue I see with using BTRFS with MDADM is that you lose the >> benefit of bit-rot repair. MDADM can't correct bit rot, but >> BTRFS-Raid (and ZFS raid arrays) can, but only with native raid

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

2017-12-26 Thread Sven Hartge
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 09:48:09PM +0200, Eero Volotinen wrote: >>use XFS, it's mature and suitable for big storage. (or gluster or >>cehp?) > I second XFS for your application. Another to consider might be JFS. I believe development of

Re: Mixing and Matching DHCP and static IPs

2017-12-25 Thread Sven Hartge
Marc Auslander wrote: > The safest way to fix an ip address in a dhcp served network is to tell > the dhcp server to associate that address with the mac of the unit. The > address should be outside the dhcp range you set up. I normall pin down > all my connected devices

Re: Filter logcheck reboot messages?

2017-12-09 Thread Sven Hartge
Ulf Volmer <u.vol...@u-v.de> wrote: > On 09.12.2017 15:37, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Richard Hector <rich...@walnut.gen.nz> wrote: >>> Nobody else uses logcheck? Everyone is fine with how it works? >> >> I use logcheck on all systems and I see no need to

Re: Filter logcheck reboot messages?

2017-12-09 Thread Sven Hartge
Richard Hector wrote: > Nobody else uses logcheck? Everyone is fine with how it works? I use logcheck on all systems and I see no need to change it. In fact, I *want* the reboot messages and filtering them out would be a regression for me. Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation

Re: where to bugreport a possible filesystem problem

2017-11-12 Thread Sven Hartge
Papp Rudolf Péter wrote: > The problem is if I write a file to the mounted ocfs2 fs then add > extended attributes to it after this if I try to read back it is doesn't > show any change until read the same file attributes from the other node. > After if I go back to the original

Re: Nagios in Stretch?

2017-11-08 Thread Sven Hartge
Charlie Grosvenor wrote: > Can somebody explain why packages for Nagios existed in Jessie but have gone > from Stretch? The package nagios3 was removed from Debian completely, because it was buggy and unmaintained.

Re: Rsync

2017-11-05 Thread Sven Hartge
Fred Ringwald <f...@ringwald.org> wrote: > Yesterday Sven Hartge responded to my query regarding rsync, quoted > below. > However, my question was not a technical question asking why rsync was > not automatically installed during a stock amd64 debian installation, > but

Re: rsync

2017-11-04 Thread Sven Hartge
Fred Ringwald wrote: > I find it fascinating that the stock amd64 netinst 9.1.0 installation > did not install rsync. Does anyone know why that was not automatically > included? Yes, this was easily remedied, I just find it fascinating > that it was no longer included. rsync

Re: blk-availability.service failure message

2017-11-02 Thread Sven Hartge
Fjfj109 wrote: > Hi, on Debian Sid, how can I diagnose the following? > https://paste.debian.net/993924/ I just filed https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=880625 about this. Grüße, S° -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.

Re: buster ssh problem

2017-11-01 Thread Sven Hartge
Glenn English <ghe2...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 12:47 AM, Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote: >> What do you mean? Just create ~/.ssh/config and put a Host statement >> like above inside it. > No prob, and will do. I'm used to ssh creating

Re: buster ssh problem

2017-10-31 Thread Sven Hartge
Glenn English wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 9:45 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: >> It's ~/.ssh/config. > Typo, please excuse. >> That's the Key-exchange algorithm. > That kinda makes sense. It sounds like that has nothing to do with the > problem, since there

Re: React on change of arp table entry

2017-10-30 Thread Sven Hartge
George Shuklin wrote: > It there any way to react on changes in arp table (except for constant > polling)? I want to reset all TCP connection with directly connected > IP which have changed MAC address. I google a lot but found none. > Why this is needed: we have

Re: Release Key and Keyrings

2017-10-21 Thread Sven Hartge
Josh Webb wrote: > Hello. I am having a very difficult time getting the repositories to > work properly or even at all. It tells me that there is no release > file and that the package cannot perform its functions. Enclosed is an > attachment that gives some examples of my

Re: Debian 9.2, VSphere 6.5.0, "TCP performance may be compromised"

2017-10-19 Thread Sven Hartge
Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeova...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 11:34 AM, Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote: >> You will get the "suspect GRO implementation" with 5.5 as well, but >> it is harmless. I have not yet found any perfor

Re: Sshfs and umask

2017-10-18 Thread Sven Hartge
Paul van der Vlis <p...@vandervlis.nl> wrote: > Op 18-10-17 om 17:31 schreef Sven Hartge: >> Paul van der Vlis <p...@vandervlis.nl> wrote: >>> And adding "session optional pam_umask.so umask=0002" to >>> /etc/pam.d/sshd/ does change the umask

Re: Debian 9.2, VSphere 6.5.0, "TCP performance may be compromised"

2017-10-18 Thread Sven Hartge
Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeova...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote: >> Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeova...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> kernel: TCP: ens192: Driver has suspect GRO implementation, TCP >>&g

Re: Sshfs and umask

2017-10-18 Thread Sven Hartge
Paul van der Vlis wrote: > I try to force the umask of an sshfs on the server side. > I've tried /etc/ssh/sshd_config with for example: > Subsystem sftp/usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server -u 0002 > or: > ForceCommand internal-sftp -u 0002 > But this does not change the

Re: Debian 9.2, VSphere 6.5.0, "TCP performance may be compromised"

2017-10-18 Thread Sven Hartge
Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > I have a 9.2 system running in a VMware VM which receives the > following message at startup which I've never seen before. The VMware > network driver in use is VMXNET 3; the VMware tools daemon is running: > kernel: TCP: ens192: Driver has

Re: systemd process(es) consuming CPU when laptop lid closed

2017-10-17 Thread Sven Hartge
Jimmy Johnson wrote: >>>    object path "/org/freedesktop/systemd1/unit/suspend_2etarget" > Michael I found it interesting that I do not have a folder /org/ .hidden > or not and that's with kde5 desktop on Stretch. The "object path" does not mean a filesystem path.

Re: Debian packages for Sparc

2017-10-07 Thread Sven Hartge
Fred wrote: > I have a Sun Ultra 5 that needs to continue running Wheezy for a > while. I tried to apt-update but binary_sparc is no longer at > http://security.debian.org/dists/wheezy/updates/Release. What do I > need to change the sources list to? Debian Wheezy LTS is

Re: monit and systemd

2017-10-02 Thread Sven Hartge
Debian EN wrote: > someone using monit? > with systemd and different handles of PID files, what is the best way > to configure monit? > i.e. smartd (started from systemd) doesn't have /run/smartd.pid and > monit doesn't "see" that pid > any idea? Replace monit with the

Re: o2cb/ocfs2 : cluster is offline after reboot

2017-09-19 Thread Sven Hartge
Roman Serbski <r.serbski.gro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Roman Serbski <r.serbski.gro...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 6:18 PM, Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote: >>> Roman Serbski <r.serbski.gro...@gmai

Re: o2cb/ocfs2 : cluster is offline after reboot

2017-09-18 Thread Sven Hartge
Roman Serbski wrote: > /etc/fstab > ### > /dev/drbd0 /var/www ocfs2 noauto,noatime 0 0 > ### > After the reboot, no /var/www is mounted. Missing "_netdev"? > The status of both o2cb and ocfs2 services is inactive (dead) with the >

Re: Editing /etc/apt/sources.list breaks update

2017-09-16 Thread Sven Hartge
Eero Volotinen wrote: > You need to import needed gpg key. > Try something like this > gpg --keyserver pgpkeys.mit.edu --recv-key 7638D0442B90D010 > gpg -a --export 7638D0442B90D010 | sudo apt-key add - No! You should *never* manually import any ReleaseKey. Those

Re: Buster SSH

2017-09-13 Thread Sven Hartge
Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 05:45:13PM +, Glenn English wrote: >> Bingo! User has dsa keys. Root has dsa and rsa keys. >> >> Thanks. Now all I have to do is figure out what I did so many years >> ago to generate the dsas :-) > You probably did

Re: testing, upgrade of openssl libssl1.1 ( 1.1.0f-3 => 1.1.0f-4 )

2017-09-08 Thread Sven Hartge
Brian wrote: > And again: >> I have a patch for that at: >> https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/4128 >> >> I might upload this soon. The intention is still to ship Buster >> with TLS 1.0 and 1.1 completly disabled. > Couldn't be clearer. The maintainer does not plan

Re: testing, upgrade of openssl libssl1.1 ( 1.1.0f-3 => 1.1.0f-4 )

2017-09-08 Thread Sven Hartge
Reco wrote: > On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 10:50:00PM +0100, Michael Grant wrote: >> What is the right way for an admin to handle this problem on Debian >> Testing? > The only thing they told me back in the day was 'if you have to do a > server - you use Debian stable'. This

Re: testing, upgrade of openssl libssl1.1 ( 1.1.0f-3 => 1.1.0f-4 )

2017-09-08 Thread Sven Hartge
Michael Grant wrote: > Nifty, been a while since I used the LD_PRELOAD trick myself. > This whole thing has been bothering me over the last couple days. Why > are so few people having this issue? 18 or so posts on this, only 3 > or so of us have done anything about this. I

Re: testing, upgrade of openssl libssl1.1 ( 1.1.0f-3 => 1.1.0f-4 )

2017-09-06 Thread Sven Hartge
Michael Grant wrote: > I downloaded libssl1.1_1.1.0f-3_amd64.deb > and did: > dpkg -i libssl1.1_1.1.0f-3_amd64.deb > restarted sendmail and dovecot and everyone can now connect. Be sure to either pin or hold the package at that version: "apt-mark hold libssl" or the next

Re: testing, upgrade of openssl libssl1.1 ( 1.1.0f-3 => 1.1.0f-4 )

2017-09-05 Thread Sven Hartge
Michael Grant wrote: > Is there something I can set on Debian side to force this newer > openssl to accept older 1.x connections? No, you can't. Kurt Roeckx, the DD maintaining OpenSSL, patched it in such a way that a program needs to call a special function of OpenSSL to

Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos

2017-08-31 Thread Sven Hartge
The Wanderer <wande...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > On 2017-08-11 at 07:18, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Robert Menes <viewtiful.icc...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Is there a reason why virtualbox hasn't migrated into stretch or >>> buster yet? >> >> Short Answer

Re: [Multiarch] armhf on arm64 is not working

2017-08-28 Thread Sven Hartge
Reco wrote: > The reason being - an executable binary contains CPU instructions that > are suited to CPU of designated architecture only. In your example it's > armv5. Your CPU is amd64 and its unable to interpret those - it can only > understand i386 and amd64 instruction

Re: How does one create virtual ethernet devices with modern tools on Debian 8 (jessie)?

2017-08-28 Thread Sven Hartge
Zenaan Harkness <zen...@freedbms.net> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 05:45:17PM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: >> You don't. Commands like "service networking restart" have been >> deprecated and partially non-functioning since at least Wheezy, >> because of

Re: How does one create virtual ethernet devices with modern tools on Debian 8 (jessie)?

2017-08-25 Thread Sven Hartge
Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 09:26 Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote: >> >> Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Before we start: >> >> "virtual ethernet devices" are so

Re: How does one create virtual ethernet devices with modern tools on Debian 8 (jessie)?

2017-08-25 Thread Sven Hartge
Tom Browder wrote: Before we start: "virtual ethernet devices" are something totally different than you are doing here. You just want to put multiple IP addresses on one interface. "virtual ethernet devices" are for example used with virtualization or docker, to connect

Re: Systemd: Error when replacing postfix LSB init with postfix.service on Debian 8 (jessie)

2017-08-25 Thread Sven Hartge
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <j.deboynepollard-newsgro...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > Sven Hartge: >> systemd happily runs "legacy" LSB init scripts >> > ... except when its one-size-fits-all approach does not work, of > course. Example: > * https:/

Re: No ifconfig

2017-08-22 Thread Sven Hartge
Christian Seiler wrote: > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet static > address 192.168.0.1/24 > address 192.168.0.42/24 > address 10.5.6.7/8 > This will work, and it will assign all IPs to the interface (the first > one being the primary and the source IP of outgoing packets

Re: Static IP not working ("connmand" problem)?

2017-08-22 Thread Sven Hartge
Steffen Dettmer <steffen.dett...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 8:09 PM, Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote: >>> How to configure static IP? network/interfaces as in [1] seem not to >>> work because of a "connmand". >> &g

Re: Apache oddness on jessie => stretch upgrade

2017-08-22 Thread Sven Hartge
Dave Sherohman wrote: > Also, side question: I'm also manually running `systemctl enable > apache2` after upgrading. You shouldn't need to do this, the maintainer scripts in the packages will do this for you during the upgrade. *If* you need to do this to get a service

Re: Systemd: Error when replacing postfix LSB init with postfix.service on Debian 8 (jessie)

2017-08-21 Thread Sven Hartge
Christian Seiler wrote: > Now, that doesn't mean that you should still write _new_ init scripts > for custom services if you're going to use systemd anyway. There it > will be a good idea to learn how to do that with native systemd > service units. Exactly. I was able to

Re: Systemd: Error when replacing postfix LSB init with postfix.service on Debian 8 (jessie)

2017-08-21 Thread Sven Hartge
Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 02:36 Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote: >> Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 12:30 Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote: >>

Re: Systemd: Error when replacing postfix LSB init with postfix.service on Debian 8 (jessie)

2017-08-21 Thread Sven Hartge
Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 12:30 Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote: >> That unit file does effectivly nothing. It just starts "/bin/true" and >> exits. >> >> What it *not* does is starting postf

Re: apt-get: Why "Unable to find source package" errors?

2017-08-21 Thread Sven Hartge
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Your apt-get build-dep command is fine. This could be be a problem > with the particular mirror you are using. Try using > http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ instead of > http://deb.debian.org/debian and see if that works. Both URLs

Re: Static IP not working ("connmand" problem)?

2017-08-20 Thread Sven Hartge
Steffen Dettmer wrote: > How to configure static IP? network/interfaces as in [1] seem not to > work because of a "connmand". connmand? The package "connman" is not contained in the default installation of Debian. > What is "connmand", where can I learn more about

Re: Systemd: Error when replacing postfix LSB init with postfix.service on Debian 8 (jessie)

2017-08-20 Thread Sven Hartge
Tom Browder wrote: > The contents of the postfix.service file are; > [Unit] > Description=Postfix Mail Transport Agent > Conflicts=sendmail.service exim4.service > ConditionPathExists=/etc/postfix/main.cf > [Service] > Type=oneshot > RemainAfterExit=yes >

Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos

2017-08-18 Thread Sven Hartge
RavenLX wrote: > I always used the Oracle repo anyway because it was updated more > frequently. But I do wish that something could be worked out so that > it would be back in Debian. Highly unlikely, as Oracle behaves like this for all software released and distributed

Re: testing, upgrade of openssl libssl1.1 ( 1.1.0f-3 => 1.1.0f-4 )

2017-08-14 Thread Sven Hartge
Kamil Jońca wrote: > Stephan Seitz writes: >> As announced the new version of openssl has disabled TLSv1 and >> TLSv1.1 leaving only TLSv1.2. So if you have an old server without >> TLSv1.2, you can’t connect anymore. > It is also break

Re: Thunderbird almost unusable after upgrade

2017-08-11 Thread Sven Hartge
Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2017-08-10 10:24 -0400, Jape Person wrote: >> After this upgrade >> >> thunderbird:amd64 (1:52.2.1-4, 1:52.2.1-4+b1) >> >> Thunderbird in Cinnamon DE is almost completely useless because >> portions of its windows / text / toolbars don't repaint until

Re: usb flash drives / sd

2017-08-11 Thread Sven Hartge
ju...@tutanota.com wrote: > There are three major types of flash chip types : SLC - MLC - TLC > how-to check my usbkey/sd/memory card ? Break open, find flash chip, type part number into google. Non-destructive? No way. Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.

Re: delay the start of a service until LACP negotiation is complete

2017-08-11 Thread Sven Hartge
John Ratliff wrote: > >> Do you really need STP? Do you really need STP on that group of >> ports? Why not disable it completely. > I'm not aware of any way to disable spanning tree on a per port basis, > and no, I cannot disable it on the switch entirely. Ah, Cisco.

Re: delay the start of a service until LACP negotiation is complete

2017-08-11 Thread Sven Hartge
John Ratliff wrote: > >> John Ratliff wrote: >>> I have a 4 port LAGG (LACP / bond-mode 4) interface named bond0. It >>> seems to take about 45 seconds after the links come up to negotiate >>> with the switch. >> This long delay is not normal.

Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos

2017-08-11 Thread Sven Hartge
Robert Menes wrote: > Is there a reason why virtualbox hasn't migrated into stretch or > buster yet? Short Answer: Because of Oracle. Longer Answer: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794466 Summary: Virtualbox will at the current state of affairs

Re: delay the start of a service until LACP negotiation is complete

2017-08-11 Thread Sven Hartge
John Ratliff wrote: > I have a 4 port LAGG (LACP / bond-mode 4) interface named bond0. It seems > to take about 45 seconds after the links come up to negotiate with the > switch. This long delay is not normal. For me LACP-based bonds never take longer than 1 or at most

Re: howto restart a service in postinst script (Stretch and newer)

2017-08-05 Thread Sven Hartge
Harald Dunkel wrote: > On Sat, 5 Aug 2017 11:56:07 +0900 Mark Fletcher wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 12:30:25PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: >>> What is the right way to restart a service from the postinst >>> script for Stretch and newer? >> I may be

Re: how to run a second copy of firefox in a separate address space with no connection to the first?

2017-07-30 Thread Sven Hartge
Curt wrote: > I could imagine this restriction being prohibitive in some cases, and > Sven's suggestion, which at first reading I thought unnecessarily > complicated, might then be taken into account. To be fair: I hadn't even thought about multiple profiles. I've been using

Re: how to run a second copy of firefox in a separate address space with no connection to the first?

2017-07-30 Thread Sven Hartge
Dan Hitt wrote: > I would like to run a second copy of firefox in debian, that is > completely unconnected to the first. > That is, the second copy should not share history, cookies, any kind > of storage, passwords, configuration, or anything else with the first. > It

Re: Jessie networking with multiple IPs (IPv and IPv6), single physical NIC

2017-07-26 Thread Sven Hartge
Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote: > So can the above be simplified by leaving out the repeated info like > dns-nameservers, gateway, and netmask t

Re: Jessie networking with multiple IPs (IPv and IPv6), single physical NIC

2017-07-26 Thread Sven Hartge
Georgi Naplatanov <go...@oles.biz> wrote: > On 07/26/2017 09:22 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Tom Browder <tom.brow...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> The proposed /etc/network/interfaces file: >>> # begin = >>> i

Re: Jessie networking with multiple IPs (IPv and IPv6), single physical NIC

2017-07-26 Thread Sven Hartge
Tom Browder wrote: > The proposed /etc/network/interfaces file: > # begin = > iface eth0 inet static > address 142.54.186.2 > netmask 255.255.255.248 > gateway 142.54.186.1 > dns-nameservers 192.187.107.16

Re: Empty logs on VPS server

2017-07-26 Thread Sven Hartge
Hubert Hauser wrote: > I wanted out of curiosity to see what is in /var/log/auth.log and I > seen empty file. All files in /var/log/ except files in /var/log/nginx > are empty. Probably the template from your VPS provider lacks the package rsyslog, cause the logs only to be

Re: Bind 9: consequences of completely removind all bind9 packages on jessie and stretch)?

2017-07-24 Thread Sven Hartge
Tom Browder wrote: > On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 8:23 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 06:55:09AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: >>> I would like to remove all bind9 packages from servers running bind9 >>> and install the latest bind9 from

Re: Bonding not using all 3 interfaces?

2017-07-15 Thread Sven Hartge
Florius wrote: > I'm setting up a Ceph storage with Proxmox 5.0 beta, based on Debian > Stretch. It's based on 3 Dell PowerEdge R610's, bonded with 3 NIC's. > (I'll get back on this in a bit), all 3 with PERC H700 and RAID1 > Kingston SSD. Writing speeds directly on the

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

2017-05-21 Thread Sven Hartge
Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> However, the virtual hard disk is a pretty large size. My method >>> compresses it further so that the size of the backup is much >>> smaller. >> Have a look at "borg". It is ideal to backup VMs (or anything using >> large files with only

Re: Virtual Machines: Newbie / novice questions

2017-05-21 Thread Sven Hartge
RavenLX wrote: > However, the virtual hard disk is a pretty large size. My method > compresses it further so that the size of the backup is much smaller. Have a look at "borg". It is ideal to backup VMs (or anything using large files with only marginal changes inside)

Re: Strange clicking noise from my laptop hard drive

2017-05-10 Thread Sven Hartge
Bob Weber wrote: > To attempt a repair I would boot the SystemRescueCd and run the > command 'badblocks -svn /dev/sdx'. That is a non destructive read > then write test and would try to read the bad blocks and if successful > then write them back giving the drive a chance

Re: How stable is the frozen stretch?

2017-05-08 Thread Sven Hartge
Brian wrote: > experimental is not a distribution. Someone with a sense of humour gave > it the codename "rc-buggy". At the present time many of the packages > there are being held back from unstable because of the freeze. Once > Stretch is officially released they will

Re: Debian 8.8 Released but can't get via apt-get?

2017-05-06 Thread Sven Hartge
RavenLX wrote: > I have 8.7 on my system and read that 8.8 is now available. I did an > update yesterday (I prefer to do this at the command line). I'm still > at 8.7, so after the announcement I did another update. I got no > updates. (sudo apt-get update and then sudo

Re: if you have no swap in your installation this is what you do??? Why???

2017-04-09 Thread Sven Hartge
Darac Marjal wrote: > A swap partition is not subject to the controls of a file system. That > is, it can't get fragmented, it can be positioned at the fast (or slow) > end of a disk, it can be (as you suggest) placed on a completely > separate device. It can be shared

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-04-03 Thread Sven Hartge
Carl Fink wrote: > On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 07:01:45AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: >> Eh? You *do* have a choice of which init system to run; many people >> running Debian are still using sysvinit, myself included. The system >> handles this just fine; if you file a bug

Re: Future upgrade from Stretch RC2 to release

2017-03-29 Thread Sven Hartge
Niclas Arndt wrote: > * Does anybody know if Squirrelmail is working properly with PHP7 now? > (I know that this is off-topic.) Squirrelmail is dead. I would not invest any time in it. Try Roundcube as a replacement. Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.

Re: Anyone know what this means when running aptitude update?

2017-03-28 Thread Sven Hartge
Mark Fletcher <mark2...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 09:51:18AM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Mark Fletcher <mark2...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Possibly stupid question -- this is Jessie, does this mechanism of >>> dropping the files i

Re: Anyone know what this means when running aptitude update?

2017-03-28 Thread Sven Hartge
Frank wrote: > Op 28-03-17 om 00:57 schreef Mark Fletcher: >> Right, for the key issue, that has taken me right back to where I started: >> >> W: There is no public key available for the following key IDs: >> 1397BC53640DB551 > Odd. If you do a web search with that number,

Re: Anyone know what this means when running aptitude update?

2017-03-28 Thread Sven Hartge
Mark Fletcher wrote: > Possibly stupid question -- this is Jessie, does this mechanism of > dropping the files in trusted.gpg.d work properly in Jessie or is it > new? It works properly. I have several hundred servers as proof. Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core

Re: libjasper in Stretch

2017-03-28 Thread Sven Hartge
David Griffith <d...@661.org> wrote: > On Mon, 27 Mar 2017, Sven Hartge wrote: >> David Griffith <d...@661.org> wrote: >>> I also saw this >>> https://packages.qa.debian.org/j/jasper/news/20170212T221713Z.html, which >>> suggests that the original

Re: libjasper in Stretch

2017-03-27 Thread Sven Hartge
David Griffith wrote: > I also saw this > https://packages.qa.debian.org/j/jasper/news/20170212T221713Z.html, which > suggests that the original maintainer has stepped back up. In any case, I > should perhaps convert my code from using Jasper to using OpenJPEG. But > then I

Re: Anyone know what this means when running aptitude update?

2017-03-27 Thread Sven Hartge
Mark Fletcher <mark2...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 08:51:55PM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Frank <zuiderd...@gmx.com> wrote: >>> The hash sum mismatch is usually a passing issue: updating while the >>> repository/mirror itself is

Re: Anyone know what this means when running aptitude update?

2017-03-26 Thread Sven Hartge
Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeova...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote: >> Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeova...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 1:51 PM, Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote

Re: Anyone know what this means when running aptitude update?

2017-03-26 Thread Sven Hartge
Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeova...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 1:51 PM, Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote: >> Frank <zuiderd...@gmx.com> wrote: >> No, please do NOT use "apt-key add" but instead download the key and >> put it as

Re: Anyone know what this means when running aptitude update?

2017-03-26 Thread Sven Hartge
Frank wrote: > The hash sum mismatch is usually a passing issue: updating while the > repository/mirror itself is in the process of updating. If it keeps > showing up, that mirror is probably borked. Try deb.debian.org instead > of http.debian.net. deb.debian.org,

Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...

2017-03-14 Thread Sven Hartge
Miles Fidelman wrote: > There USED TO BE a lot of demand for a choice of installer at init > time - from pretty much all of us who object to systemd. Nobody > listened, eventually people gave up, and a lot moved to other distros. Can we please not have this

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