Re: Debian can't see raid virtual drive

Денис Денисов wrote: > Greetings! We have some problems with installing Debian on our server. The > machine is: > http://www.fujitsu.com/fts/products/computing/servers/primergy/rack/rx1330m1/ > . > We can't to proceed installation with step "Partitioning". There are no >

Re: What is cisco-sccp?

Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > Sorry - I mean it for that -> > 2000/udp Cisco SCCP (Skinny) > Use "netstat -lupn | grep :2000" as root to get the process listening on UDP port 2000. Grüße, Sven.

Re: What is cisco-sccp?

Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: > What is it - and why it is in Debian? What is it doing here? I don't see any packages named cisco-sccp and I can't find any packages containing a file named cisco-sccp in Debian. Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.

Re: weak repository key

Daniel Schröter wrote: > I still have the problem. Someone else too? Well, Google has not fixed this, so of course you still have the problem. But there is _nothing_ Debian can do here. The bug is at and has not

Re: using mirrorselect in debian

Michael Fothergill wrote: > There is a gentoo package called mirrorselect. > I can't see a version of it in debian. > If I would try to compile and use it in debian what would be the best > way to do that? No need for such a package. Just use

Re: repositories frozen since Mar 20th?

Frank McCormick wrote: >Last time I checked...last night...the google-chrome repository > still wasn't fixed. However my system still downloaded and installed the > latest google-chrome. That still is out of the hands of the Debian maintainers, this is something

Re: repositories frozen since Mar 20th?

Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Any clue to why the debian repositories, especially testing and sid, > seem to be unchanged since Mar 20th? Maybe this has something to do with the removal of the SHA1 checksums in the Release file and the removal of gzipped Packages files? Perhaps

Re: installing icedove from backports

Bob Holtzman <hol...@cox.net> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 08:04:19PM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Bob Holtzman <hol...@cox.net> wrote: >> > apt-get -t jessie-backports install icedove gives "icedove is already >> > the newest version". Sam

Re: Missing firmware after upgrade to 64 bit

Frank McCormick wrote: > Installed 64 bit version of Stretch yesterday and noticed this morning > I am apparently missing some firmware. > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.4.0-1-amd64 > W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/tigon/tg3_tso5.bin for

Re: Apt on SID error with Google-Chrome source

Stephen Allen wrote: > Lot of changes to Apt recently - this warning has been around a few days > now: > W: > gpgv:/var/lib/apt/lists/dl.google.com_linux_chrome_deb_dists_stable_Release.gpg: > The repository is insufficiently signed by key >

Re: installing icedove from backports

Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Saturday 19 March 2016 19:04:19 Sven Hartge wrote: >> Bob Holtzman <hol...@cox.net> wrote: >>> apt-get -t jessie-backports install icedove gives "icedove is already >>> the newest version". Same with

Re: installing icedove from backports

Bob Holtzman wrote: > apt-get -t jessie-backports install icedove gives "icedove is already > the newest version". Same with icedove-extension. > The installed version is 38.6.0-1~deb amd64 and the version in jessie > backports is 38.7.0-1~deb8u1 > Comments, pointers, help,

Re: weak repository key

Jochen Spieker wrote: > Floris: >> After updating to apt version 1.2.7 I get a warning on apt-get update: >> W: >> gpgv:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/dl.google.com_linux_chrome_deb_dists_stable_Release.gpg: >> The repository is insufficiently signed by key >>

Re: chroot directory, and sshd

Ron Leach wrote: > I note that the auth failure does seem to suggest there is something > wrong with permissions for "/" itself. I haven't been able to find > out how to check the permissions on "/", and I'd appreciate a > suggestion how to do that if - as it seems - that

Re: exim4 maildir_tag

Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 09:59:48PM +, Darac Marjal wrote: >> Dovecot has two (relevant) plugins. zlib compresses the stored >> emails. This is transparent to all clients - exim provides >> uncompressed emails, dovecot compresses them to disk and

Re: binary-i386 packages missing in Release file

Reco wrote: > 1) Locate the line like this in a file inside /etc/apt/sources.list.d: > deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ > 2) Change it to: > deb [amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ > This warning should go away. This will only be a temporary fix

Re: binary-i386 packages missing in Release file

Haines Brown wrote: > I have jessie installed on an AMD64 machine, which lacks any desktop > environment. > I downloaded google-chrome AMD64 deb from the Chrome website and > installed by running dpkg -i on it. It works OK. But now I want to add > flashplugin-nonfree for it

Re: Avoiding to mount /run/lock

Marlen Caemmerer <n...@c-base.org> wrote: > On Fri, 4 Mar 2016, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Looking at smb.conf, you can also do this, just change "lock directory" >> to a sane value. The default is "lock directory = /var/run/samba". > Sounds like a reason

Re: Avoiding to mount /run/lock

to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 10:15:40PM +0100, Marlen Caemmerer wrote: >> On Fri, 4 Mar 2016, Sven Hartge wrote: >>> Why do you want to disable /run/lock? What do you want to accomplish by >>> doing so? It is a 5MB tmpfs, what could be wrong with it

Re: Avoiding to mount /run/lock

Marlen Caemmerer <n...@c-base.org> wrote: > On Fri, 4 Mar 2016, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Why do you want to disable /run/lock? What do you want to accomplish by >> doing so? It is a 5MB tmpfs, what could be wrong with it? > I run a samba server that is heavily used. It curre

Re: Avoiding to mount /run/lock

Marlen Caemmerer wrote: > I want to avoid mounting /run/lock and I found there is an option in > /etc/default/tmpfs. I have set RAMLOCK=no but after reboot /run/lock > is still a partition. Do you have any hints on how to fix this? Why do you want to disable /run/lock? What

Re: systemd and php5-fpm

basti wrote: > I have some errors with systemd and php5-fpm. > I want to create a dir /var/run/php5-fpm where I can place my sockets. Why a separate directory? What do you want to achieve? > In systemd there is a bit different. > I try ExecStartPre=/bin/mkdir ...

Re: Avoiding to mount /run/lock

Marlen Caemmerer wrote: > I want to avoid mounting /run/lock and I found there is an option in > /etc/default/tmpfs. I have set RAMLOCK=no but after reboot /run/lock > is still a partition. Do you have any hints on how to fix this? What version of Debian are you using?

Re: Current stability of Debian testing?

Albin Otterhäll <al...@otterhall.com> wrote: > On 03/02/2016 02:45 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: >> People just doing a blind "apt dist-upgrade" every day without knowing >> what happens, why it happens and how to fix the emerging problems will >> have a

Re: Current stability of Debian testing?

Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > I upgraded from Jessie to Stretch today morning. As per now, things are > working fine. That is the main "problem" with testing: "as per now". Testing can be fine one day and then horribly broken (dependency wise) for weeks, as soon as a major

Re: Using an SSD with strictatime mount option

Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Joel Roth a écrit : >> I have debian installed on a single SSD partition, >> with ordinary desktop use. >> >> When I set the strictatime option, mutt accurately shows new >> mails arriving. (I'm using mbox format.) >> Is this setting going to

Re: iceape availability

Bret Busby wrote: > On 26/02/2016, Peter Ludikovsky wrote: >> That is more than risky. >> 1) Iceape is EOL since 2013: https://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2819 > Now that has me puzzled. > Given that iceape was (I believe) part of Debian 6, I

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Dalios wrote: >> https://mega.nz/#!QwY1EZKJ!GW1gLzXaOUo8sNGF-zddRLwgsfamZy7C5u0CARjaUs0 > Only wgets a small index.html file: > meta name="description" content="MEGA provides free cloud storage with > convenient and powerful always-on privacy. Claim

Re: pam_smbpass.so

Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > I'm seeing a large number of entries in my /var/log/syslog that look > like this: > Feb 16 09:07:31 snowball auth: PAM unable to dlopen(pam_smbpass.so): > /lib/security/pam_smbpass.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or > directory >

Re: Headless Wheezy

David Christensen <dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote: > On 02/01/2016 08:37 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: >> You need TeamViewer with Windows, because Windows has no (or at least >> not yet) a usable SSH-Server for you to log into. > Cygwin provides both an SSH client and

Re: Headless Wheezy

David wrote: > Sorry, I should have given a better explanation as to what I'm trying > to achieve. > I would like to use the Alix box along with TeamViewer as a gateway > into my network. > I've tried TeamViewer on a windoze box and it works well, but the > windoze

Re: Headless Wheezy

Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > On Sun 31 Jan 2016 at 20:12:15 +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: >> David <david.g_jo...@ntlworld.com> wrote: >>> I am running a headless version of Wheezy on an Alix Board, all >>> seems to be working as expected. >>

Re: Headless Wheezy

David wrote: > I am running a headless version of Wheezy on an Alix Board, all seems > to be working as expected. > I'm trying to install TeamViewer so I can gain remote access to my > network. > I think TeamViewer is installed, but I can't find out how to configure

Re: FDisk Help

Steve Matzura wrote: > Sven: On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 08:29:46 +0100, you wrote: >> /dev/sda5 to /dev/sda8 are logical partitions inside an extended >> partition. The extended partition is /dev/sda2. > How did you know that? sda6 isn't even a mounted filesystem--sda1, 5, > 7 and

Re: Installing Debian os

SamuelOPH wrote: > Considering you have a computer that runs Win10, I would strongly > recommend you to use Debian Testing (currently named Stretch) to > ensure hardware functionality and performance. I don't think it is wise to have a new user install Debian Testing.

Re: FDisk Help

Steve Matzura wrote: > I have three physical drives in my system--/dev/sda is presumably my > boot drive, which shows up as six devices in /dev: > /dev/sda1,2,5,6,7,8. Additionally, there's a CD-ROM drive, and a 250GB > standard rotating disk. My boot partition is located on

Re: Attempt to Move Root

Pascal Hambourg <pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org> wrote: > Nicolas George a écrit : >> Le duodi 2 nivôse, an CCXXIV, Sven Hartge a écrit : >>> And this is why I love the GPT. There is a defined space for the >>> bootloader to be and no nether region of swirly unknowness

Re: HAL

Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday 28 December 2015 00:59:38 Sven Hartge wrote: >> Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Is there any way I can install HAL in Jessie? Or do I need to wipe >>> it, and reinstall Wheezy on the box on

Re: HAL

Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote: > But I see there is a package named libhal1-flash available from > Christian Marillat in his deb-multimedia.org repository. It contains the > code from https://github.com/cshorler/hal-flash. Hmm, libhal1-flash is only available for Str

Re: HAL

Lisi Reisz wrote: > Is there any way I can install HAL in Jessie? Or do I need to wipe > it, and reinstall Wheezy on the box on which I need HAL? The real question is: "Why do you need HAL?" Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.

Re: HAL

Nate Bargmann wrote: > Does the flashplugin-nonfree package in Jessie not work for you? It is > a plugin for Iceweasel/Firefox. Or do you need something else? > See also: https://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer/ The problem is not the Flash plugin, but the DRM code that is loaded

Re: Attempt to Move Root

Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote: > Le duodi 2 nivôse, an CCXXIV, Sven Hartge a écrit : >> And this is why I love the GPT. There is a defined space for the >> bootloader to be and no nether region of swirly unknowness between the >> MBR and the start of th

Re: Attempt to Move Root

Nicolas George wrote: > Le duodi 2 nivôse, an CCXXIV, John Hasler a écrit : >> Think about multiboot home user systems. > Multiboot or no multiboot, once the system(s) is/are installed, nobody > writes outside the partitions. In ye olde days (pre-Windowsm 98) some programs (I

Re: Stretch installation boots to read only(SOLVED)

Gary Roach wrote: > That said, what caused this problem. I did not edit the fstab file > during upgrade and the system was working just fine before. Is this a > bug in the upgrade process? As far as I know the upgrade process does not touch /etc/fstab. So my guess

Re: Attempt to Move Root

Nicolas George <geo...@nsup.org> wrote: > Le duodi 2 nivôse, an CCXXIV, Sven Hartge a écrit : >> In ye olde days (pre-Windowsm 98) some programs (I think Photoshop >> did it.) wrote licence data into that space, because it was unused. >> The copy protection scheme of so

Re: Stretch installation boots to read only

Marc Shapiro <marcns...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/21/2015 07:19 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Gary Roach <gary719_li...@verizon.net> wrote: >>> I re-wrote the line to read /dev/sda1/ ext4 rw, noatime0 >>> 1 and commented out the old line. The er

Re: Stretch installation boots to read only

Gary Roach wrote: > I Just upgraded from jessie to stretch. I needed a piece of software > that wasn't available in jessie. Since then, my system boots to a > command line prompt. Since /dev/sda1 has been mounted ro, Xwindows > doesn't start. I have to log in as

Re: Intel 82576 Gigabit on Debian 7 slow speed.

Mimiko wrote: > After reviewing the results of test, I've modified smb.conf. I've added > max protocol = SMB2 and removed SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 from > socket options. The read speed from this server increased to 40MB/s, the > write speed to this server increased to

Re: /dev/block ???

Ed Jabbour wrote: > Ran df -hT, and along with the usual partitions there's this: > /dev/block/8:3 ext4 12G 4.1G 7.3G 36% / > I have never seen that before. What is it? major:minor 8:3 would be /dev/sda3 See for yourself in /dev/block, it should contain symlinks to

Re: Do I need to do fstrim on Jessie?

David Baron <d_ba...@012.net.il> wrote: > On Wednesday 25 November 2015 20:22:59 Sven Hartge wrote: >> David Baron <d_ba...@012.net.il> wrote: >>>>> Either you add "discard" as a mount option to your fstab or you >>>>> crate a cronjo

Re: Do I need to do fstrim on Jessie?

David Baron wrote: >>> Either you add "discard" as a mount option to your fstab or you >>> crate a cronjob to run "fstrim -a -v". > fstab created by the installer (normal SATA HDs) only has "defaults." > Is this implicit here? Sorry, I don't understand. What is implicit

Re: Do I need to do fstrim on Jessie?

Gener Badenas <gener.ong.bade...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Sven Hartge <s...@svenhartge.de> wrote: >> Gener Badenas <gener.ong.bade...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I am currently using Ubuntu as my operating system. I have an Asus &

Re: no more tmp.mount systemd unit on my Debian Sid GNOME !

antistress wrote: > About 2 weeks ago I couldn't start anymore my graphical Debian Sid GNOME > session. I don't know if it was related to the switch to non-root X > server. Some people on debian-fr forum helped me to get a graphical > session again. > But It seems

Re: Do I need to do fstrim on Jessie?

Gener Badenas wrote: > I am currently using Ubuntu as my operating system. I have an Asus > laptop where I replaced the disk with an SSD one for performance. I > read before that I need to do fstrim regularly so that performance > will not degrade. > I am currently

Re: Debian 7 to 8 upgrade changlog displays unstable/experimental packages

Andrew Puschak wrote: > I inherited some Debian servers running 7 wheezy and am upgrading to 8 > jessie. During apt-get upgrade (after setting /etc/apt/sources.list to > jessie) I get a less command displaying changelogs as seen below with > the first package being

Re: debian/sid: yubi key USB error: Access denied (insufficient permissions)

Bruno Voigt wrote: > I'm using debian/sid. > Where do I configure the USB permissions > so that I can run commands as a regular user: > $ ykinfo -s > USB error: Access denied (insufficient permissions) > $ ykpamcfg -v -2 > USB error: Access denied (insufficient permissions) >

Re: Are there packages that modify iptables rules?

Patrick Schleizer wrote: > are there packages that modify the system's iptables rules? fail2ban miniupnpd Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.

Re: How do packages that modify iptables rules prevent race conditions?

Patrick Schleizer wrote: > as I just learned on the mailing list, that at least the packages > fail2ban and miniupnpd [and most likely arno-iptables-firewall also] > modify iptables rules... > Is there a chance for race conditions? I.e. two packages trying to

Re: Whitelist security.debian.org

Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Greencopper a écrit : >> Most likely OpenDNS has some load balancing of their own perhaps >> forwarding the request to different internal servers. >> >> Perhaps the only solution is to fix a specific IP address for >> security.debian.org in my

Re: 64bit under 32bit arch

അഖിൽ കൃഷ്ണൻ എസ്. wrote: > Any way to run a AMD64 package in X86_32 Debian Gnu/Linux? Thanks in > advance. Only if you install and run a 64bit kernel and install the needed dependencies, starting with libc6:amd64. Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.

Re: Google Chrome

Charles Chambers wrote: > I just had google-chrome-stable update to Version 46.0.2490.71-1 via > System update. There's an open bug I reported to Google on this exact > version. I checked bugs.debian.org and find that google-chrome-stable > has no package maintainer within

Re: A server getting mad

rudu wrote: > All I could gather via phone call during the problem with a top and > netstat command on the server is that a "xddlvqhhrd" command is > consuming 25% of CPU and that a connection is established with a > remote IP by a program named "grep "A"" > Sounds like a

Re: moving from stretch to sid

Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 10 2015,Sven Hartge wrote: >> Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Is it enough that I change all references to stretch to sid in >>> sources.list and do the dist-up

Re: moving from stretch to sid

Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > Is it enough that I change all references to stretch to sid in > sources.list and do the dist-upgrade to switch to sid? This is correcnt. > Is there anything else I need to watch out for? Yes: a) remove the references to

Re: Openssh client or server problem?

Karagkiaouris Diamantis wrote: > when i execute shutdown to my Debian 8 stable openssh-server from a > debian laptop, the ssh shell in laptop hangs on even when the > connection is closed due to shutdown. I am not aware of the cause of > this problem. Do i need to

Re: Bug? - Debian does not assign IP address after reboot?

linuxthefish wrote: > I removed allow-hotplug eth0 and it still does not auto configure :( > Where would i find log files to diagnose this? Please run ifup -v eth0 after a reboot if the error persists and paste the output verbatim to the list. Grüße, Sven. --

Re: Bug? - Debian does not assign IP address after reboot?

linuxthefish wrote: > After I reboot my Debian machine it does not assign an IP to eth0. It > brings the interface up after a reboot, but does not set the IP on it! > Running a cronjob every min to set the IP address is the only way to > fix this, but why does it happen?

Re: aptitude full-upgrade causes lots of errors (debian/testing)

Hans wrote: > it looks like aptituide full-upgrade cannot be done at the moment (and > upgrading fro stable to testing, too). This is correct. There are some very intrusive library and compiler transitions happening at the moment. I think it will take about another month

Re: Getting a serial console to work on Jessie

Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> wrote: > On Mon, 07 Sep 2015 11:47:56 -0400 (EDT), Sven Hartge wrote: >> Looks fine, from a cursory glance. >> >> Maybe you can add a section about using >> >>"systemctl cat serial-getty@ttyS0.service"

Re: Getting a serial console to work on Jessie

Stephen Powell wrote: > Sven and Michael, please review this also and correct me if I made a > mistake. I do not want to publish bad advice. Looks fine, from a cursory glance. Maybe you can add a section about using "systemctl cat serial-getty@ttyS0.service" to verfiy

Re: Getting a serial console to work on Jessie

Stephen Powell wrote: > Well, Sven, that's a nice idea, but I can't get it to work for me in this > situation. I issued >systemctl edit serial-getty@ttyS0.service > and placed the following two lines into the file: >[Service] >ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty -8

Re: Getting a serial console to work on Jessie

Stephen Powell wrote: > Do you know a similar technique for overriding individual udev rules in > a system-provided rules file? Ah, that part is a white spot on my (mind)map. Maybe Michael Biebl can provide more input, as one of the DDs maintaining systemd and udev he

Re: Getting a serial console to work on Jessie

David Parker wrote: > Thanks. I actually found that site in a Google search, and it's where > I found the tip on copying the > /lib/systemd/system/serial-getty@.service template file to customize > the baud rate, etc. Specifically, I found the info I needed at: >

Re: Getting a serial console to work on Jessie

Eike Lantzsch <zp6...@gmx.net> wrote: > On Wednesday 02 September 2015 20:58:29 Sven Hartge wrote: >> David Parker <dpar...@utica.edu> wrote: >>> Thanks. I actually found that site in a Google search, and it's where >>> I found the tip on copying the >&g

Re: Getting a serial console to work on Jessie

Michael Biebl wrote: > As for overriding the system provided service files, I usually recommend > to use drop-ins, i.e. creating a > /etc/systemd/system/foo.service.d/my_custom_config.conf > This way you only need to override what you are actually interested in. Users of

Re: something at init is taking about 31s to finish

bri...@aracnet.com wrote: On Sun, 30 Aug 2015 04:25:36 +0200 Sven Hartge s...@svenhartge.de wrote: bri...@aracnet.com wrote: There's no way anyone can help until i can get a trace of what's going on at boot. Jessie or newer? With systemd? systemd-analyze blame 29.597s

Re: something at init is taking about 31s to finish

bri...@aracnet.com wrote: [6.210098] EXT4-fs (sda7): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null) [ 35.827945] r8169 :03:00.0: firmware: failed to load rtl_nic/rtl8168f-1.fw (-2) [ 35.827963] r8169 :03:00.0: Direct firmware load failed with error -2 [

Re: something at init is taking about 31s to finish

bri...@aracnet.com wrote: it almost looks like something is timing out, and yet the system works fine, so whatever it is that the process is waiting on it doesn't seem to matter. i have a bad feeling it's the dreade ethernet firmware loading thing (just a guess) since that's the message

Re: Problem to apt-get dist-upgrade

Magnus R mara...@gmail.com wrote: Is there anything I can do to fix this? Or do I just have to wait until the packages I need are back to normal (that is installable). There are several very big libary and compiler transitions going on at the moment. You can upgrade upgradable packages by

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

Sven Hartge s...@svenhartge.de wrote: /lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service.d/disable-with-time-daemon.conf That one is not present in Sid. Ah, -ENOCOFFEE, I meant of course That one is not present in Jessie. S° -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: What package contains the time daemon?

Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: Am 26.07.2015 um 13:44 schrieb Chris Bannister: On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 02:03:48AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 25.07.2015 um 21:26 schrieb Holger Schramm: Am 25.07.2015 um 20:52 schrieb John J. Boyer: I am wondering if my Jessie system is updating its

Re: auto-mount NFS shares on boot

n n tin...@hotmail.com wrote: trying to mount nfs-shares at boot I have exactly the problem mentioned by Christian: (in Message-id: 558e8105.5030...@iwakd.de) - On some systems with static IP addresses (and /etc/network/interfaces), I had the problem that even though the

Re: Cron not working

Haines Brown hai...@histomat.net wrote: This may be a FAQ, but it has me stumped. I try to do a weekly backup with this, but nothing happens, and there is nothing in syslog: # crontab -l 0 4 * * 0 /home/haines/scripts/backup Is this the only line in that crontab? The default

Re: Installing glibc-2.21 on debian-8

Dhiraj Bhor dhirajbho...@gmail.com wrote: $] wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.21.tar.xz $] tar xf glibc-2.21.tar.xz $] mkdir glibc-test $] cd glibc-test $] ../glibc-2.21/configure --prefix=/usr You do know that installing your own glibc over the one supplied by Debian in the same

Re: RAID b/w GPT and NON GPT partition.

Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: On 01/07/15 10:39 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: On 30/06/15 07:04 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 30 June 2015 23:30:46 Sven Hartge wrote: Wow. 100MB for a bios_grub partition wastes about 99.8MB. Which used to matter

Re: RAID b/w GPT and NON GPT partition.

Pascal Hambourg pas...@plouf.fr.eu.org wrote: Sven Hartge a écrit : I had an interesting problem once, where I upgraded a server from Squeeze to Wheezy. This server had LVM on MD-RAID and so the core.img has to include the LVM- and MD-RAID drivers in addition to the ext3 code

Re: RAID b/w GPT and NON GPT partition.

Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: On 30/06/15 07:04 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 30 June 2015 23:30:46 Sven Hartge wrote: Wow. 100MB for a bios_grub partition wastes about 99.8MB. Which used to matter. But out of 2T??? Agreed. I remember having a 100M /boot partition which

Re: RAID b/w GPT and NON GPT partition.

Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: If you are referring to the ef02 partition, you don't install grub on it. In fact, installing grub on the mbr is preferred. The first stage is put into the 512 Bytes of the MBR. The rest (the core.img) is installed into the bios_grub partititon. With a

Re: RAID b/w GPT and NON GPT partition.

Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: There is, but 2048 sectors is only 1M. Shrinking the swap partition and creating a 100M ef02 partition in the free space leaves a lot more headroom. Just because something fits today doesn't mean it will always fit. Wow. 100MB for a bios_grub partition

Re: experimental.

Weaver wea...@riseup.net wrote: I have a spare unstable system that I was thinking of jumping up to experimental to play with. Is experimental strictly non-gui, or is there a recommended light desktop that can sit on top? Thanks for any advice to this slow and ancient learner.

Re: NFS on Raspberry Pi high load

Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: I don't know about the new Raspberry quad core. Does it have the same limited usb chip as the original? It does. But because the CPU is more powerful (and you have 4 cores) you can squeeze about 95MBit/s out of it. Right now I am dd'ing a 600MB file over NFS

Re: NFS on Raspberry Pi high load

Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 20:38:12 +0200 Sven Hartge s...@svenhartge.de wrote: Maybe the USB hardware implementation is better in the N900? The one in the Pi is quite bad and finicky. I happen to have Pi too. Not that I need an NFS server on it, NFS client

Re: NFS on Raspberry Pi high load

basti black.flederm...@arcor.de wrote: iotop show me a read speed around 3 MB/s, there is a Class 10 UHS card (10-15 MB/s read, 9-5 MB/s write I guess). More than 3MByte/s is not really achievable with a Pi-1, because the CPU is very weak and the Ethernet-Chip is attached via USB. Under the

Re: NFS on Raspberry Pi high load

Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 20:38:12 +0200 Sven Hartge s...@svenhartge.de wrote: What I suspect was happening with your NFS server is the multiple knfsd threads in D-state (i.e. blocked by iowait by slof MMC card) *plus* this USB Ethernet interrupts. I'd start

Re: NFS on Raspberry Pi high load

Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 02:47:20PM +0200, Petter Adsen wrote: On Fri, 19 Jun 2015 14:09:45 +0200 basti black.flederm...@arcor.de wrote: On 19.06.2015 14:03, Sven Hartge wrote: basti black.flederm...@arcor.de wrote: iotop show me a read speed around 3 MB/s

Re: Moving from 56k modem

Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: Please don't do so. Ssh only provides SOCKS4 proxy, and SOCKS4 can not tunnel DNS requests (or any UDP traffic for that matter). How old is your information on that? Even in Squeeze the man-page for ssh says: , | Currently the SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 protocols

Re: ppas in debian

Ric Moore wayward4...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/07/2015 08:42 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: Anil Duggirala anilduggir...@fastmail.fm wrote: is it possible to use PPAs in debian? how do I go about doing this ? Debian does not (yet) have anything like a PPA. And using Ubuntus PPAs in Debian is a bad

Re: ppas in debian

Anil Duggirala anilduggir...@fastmail.fm wrote: is it possible to use PPAs in debian? how do I go about doing this ? Debian does not (yet) have anything like a PPA. And using Ubuntus PPAs in Debian is a bad idea, won't work half the time and will wreck your system the other. Grüße, S° --

Re: purge packages selected for removal by apt-get

kamaraju kusumanchi raju.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: Say in order to install package A, apt-get wants to remove package B. Is there any way to tell apt-get to purge package B instead of just removing it? Consider the following situation where I am trying to install the vlc package on a

Re: stretch/Xfce: some strings now using larger font

Mike Kupfer m.kup...@acm.org wrote: Sven Hartge wrote: Just for fun: could you check with xdpyinfo | grep resolution what DPI value is reported on your system and in the VM? Both report 96x96 dots per inch. Interesting. Strange. But ... oh well, the work-around works. Grüße, Sven

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