Re: [OT] Helpful attitude

2019-08-09 Thread deloptes
The Wanderer wrote: > To be pedantic, "shit" isn't profanity in the first place; it's > vulgarity. > > Profanity deals with matters religious. > > Obscenity deals with matters sexual. > > Vulgarity deals with matters involving other bodily functions, i.e., > primarily matters scatological. >

Re: Server hardware advice.

2019-08-09 Thread deloptes
John Hasler wrote: > Steven Mainor writes: > > It looks like there are some ESPRESSOBIN v7s on Amazon right now. > > Excellent. When I looked yesterday Amazon said "None available". I > think I'll order one today. The ancient Dell I'm now using as a > router/firewall is getting flaky. I've

Re: Helpful attitude (was: Server hardware advice.)

2019-08-08 Thread deloptes
Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > You might theoretically be helping millions of others reading along who > appreciate your continued inout about a derived subject - but it is more > sensible to me, and more visible to those who want that help, if you > change the subject line to match your derived

Re: qDslrDashboard anyone?

2019-08-08 Thread deloptes
Johann Spies wrote: > Thanks for your reply.  I have install the opencv-stuff but it also needs > libjasper and libjpeg8 which is not available for Debian.   There are > Ubuntu packages available but there are conflicts with Debian > libjpeg-stuff and I do not want to break my Debian. both

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-08 Thread deloptes
John Hasler wrote: >> The irony here is that AMD started by reverse engineering Intel. > > Legally.  Reverse-engineering is not illegal in the USA. > >> And unfortunately the US has been protecting monopoly and fake >> competition for years.  Such things as Microsoft, Apple and Google >>

Re: .uvc WebCam Data

2019-08-08 Thread deloptes
Martin McCormick wrote: > Thank you very much.  I started using unix-like OS's 30 > years ago in June but the digital video field is new to me so I > still have a lot of learning to do. > > As an electronics and amateur radio enthusiast, I am > astounded at how fast that A/D converter has to

Re: Helpful attitude (was: Server hardware advice.)

2019-08-08 Thread deloptes
Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Indeed. > > Reading the whole initial post (not only first half) is good too ;-) But please, I tried to make the statement more precise, cause the first half contradicts the second. Of course you could use any hardware that runs linux as a server, but putting those

Re: Server hardware advice.

2019-08-07 Thread deloptes
Steven Mainor wrote: > I would say a server is any piece of software or hardware that serves data > to other devices. > Well strictly speaking two different things are referred as server: hardware software In your case you are talking about buying hardware - correct? And if you

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-07 Thread deloptes
Shahryar Afifi wrote: > Very well said. If debian free is not using amd64 microcode, so what > kernel module runs my cpu as 64bit? I was thinking the CPU is running and not something else running the CPU. I do not think you need something special to run 64bit CPU as such.

Re: How free is Debian

2019-08-07 Thread deloptes
Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > You may not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble this > Software or any portion thereof. The irony here is that AMD started by reverse engineering Intel. And unfortunately the US has been protecting monopoly and fake competition for years. Such things as Microsoft,

Re: Server hardware advice.

2019-08-07 Thread deloptes
Michael Stone wrote: > Newer server hardware is much more power efficient and will draw very > little power when idle. This is one of the drawbacks to saving money by > using old hardware. (You can still use old hardware, just be sure it's > new enough that it's from the era when power efficiency

Re: Server hardware advice.

2019-08-07 Thread deloptes
Steven Mainor wrote: > I would like to keep the budget under $500 not including the hard drive(s) > I already have drives. Less is better. When I read server hardware I understand also server hardware. It has many CPUs a lot of ram, redundant power supply etc. It consumes a lot of power and

Re: qDslrDashboard anyone?

2019-08-07 Thread deloptes
Johann Spies wrote: > How do I solve these problems? Read https://dslrdashboard.info/introduction/ Install dependencies. The application is written in C++ using the Qt Framework. It uses the OpenCV library for image processing, LibRaw library for RAW image processing and the libusb library for

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-06 Thread deloptes
Curt wrote: > LightDM's dm-tool command can be used to allow multiple users to be logged > in on separate ttys. The following will send a signal requesting that the > current session be locked and then will initiate a switch to LightDM's > greeter, allowing a new user to log in to the system. it

Re: x and virtual consoles

2019-08-05 Thread deloptes
Ed wrote: > For years I would happily ctrl-alt-f<1-6> for an additional x.org > session by running 'startx' and another window manager. Until now-ish. > > The way to reproduce the problem is as follows: > > 1. log in via lightdm/gdm > 2. switch to a text console > 3. run startx and use the

Re: Virtual Box

2019-08-02 Thread deloptes
Patrick Bartek wrote: > Download the .deb directly from Oracle's web site.  This is the way I've > always installed Virtualbox.  Never used the Debian repo versions > ever.  Don't forget the Host Extensions package. > > To help installing the .deb file, install gdebi-core (commandline > version)

Re: Virtual Box

2019-08-02 Thread deloptes
Étienne Mollier wrote: > If you can afford a change of virtualization technology, then > you could try one of the free and open source alternatives made > available in Debian 10 perhaps.  Notably, one can mention Qemu, > Xen, and KVM. So I say my toy is broken and you say take that other toy ...

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-07-31 Thread deloptes
Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > I wasn't keeping track of statistics (I wasn't conducting an experiment, > I had a pamphlet that needed to be recreated and then edited), but the > results were very very close to 100%  I certainly spent a lot more time > on reformatting and editing than I did proofreading.

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-07-31 Thread deloptes
Doug McGarrett wrote: > Does your repo have cuneiform? I found that cuneiform works LOTS better > than tesseract. > (You can find cuneiform in the rpmfind app, and convert it with alien if > you can't find a deb version.) Looks like it is 10y old already - as I said - all the investments in

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-07-31 Thread deloptes
Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > I used tesseract-ocr, mentioned previously, a couple of years ago with > very good success.  Also, the problem he's trying to solve is much what means very good success? You had to proof read it at the end - time spent. For me either something works or it doesn't none of

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

2019-07-30 Thread deloptes
Martin McCormick wrote: > I have 4 older PC's that generally work well running > debian but Right now, 3 of them need varying degrees of attention > to their BIOS setups as Dell motherboards and possibly other > brands will occasionally modify their boot sequences for some > reason and the only

Re: Wireless home LAN - WiFi vs Bluetooth?

2019-07-30 Thread deloptes
Dan Ritter wrote: > These operate at extremely low speed and are generally a > terrible choice. > > However, you have a history of trying to avoid the good > decisions that people steer you towards, so I encourage you to > give Bluetooth a miss entirely and go for an infrared LAN with > a

Re: Possible Bug issues in kernel.

2019-07-28 Thread deloptes
Reco wrote: > lsinitramfs /boot/initrd.img* | grep ttf$ Hmm here it does not find anything, but plymouth is in the initram When looking for ttf grep ttf -r /etc/initramfs-tools /usr/share/initramfs-tools/ /usr/share/lintian/overrides /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/plymouth: if [

Re: Possible Bug issues in kernel.

2019-07-28 Thread deloptes
Reco wrote: > plymouth, maybe? You know, that fancy bootloader program? > yes I know and use it - much better than 80s dos style boot up screen, but ... perhaps needs a check out of curiosity. Do you know how/where to check this? thanks in advance regards

Re: Possible Bug issues in kernel.

2019-07-28 Thread deloptes
J.W. Foster wrote: > OK I got it sorted out. Seems it was a font issue. i had to install ttf > dejavu  and it all installed ok Jut curious what a dejavu ttf font might have to do with building initramfs regards

Re: A followup on github discussion

2019-07-28 Thread deloptes
Shahryar Afifi wrote: > It is natural and normal that any nation would protect its property of > any kind. Germany 2015 was obviously an exception to that :D ... and the Germans elected her once again - OMG, OMG! Consequently it is not a nation anymore, or it is a nation in a big confusion?!

Re: Re: USB wireless dongle not detected

2019-07-18 Thread deloptes
Richard Hobson wrote: > The router is on the other side of a corridor which is used by my wife > in a power wheelchair. I think a twisted pair cable would be in ribbons > within a few passes. Modern PCs do not need twisted pair AFAIK

Re: Ansible : User to use

2019-07-12 Thread deloptes
Thierry Leurent wrote: > I'm beginning to work with Ansible to configure my hosts. > What is the best practice to run playbooks on all of my Linux host ? > I must define a specific user ? Hi, too generic questions. Read more of the docs and you'll find out. Basically for configuration purpose of

Re: How to have password shown?

2019-07-03 Thread deloptes
Renato Gallo wrote: > For the use his old father might do with a computer I think that cheap > board could do. Plus, it's used by babies can be used by everyone. > Plus, it's ready out of the box for the use it's meant. > Plus can be customized for his father use like a tailored tuxedo (better >

Re: How to have password shown?

2019-07-03 Thread deloptes
Renato Gallo wrote: > Fingerprints are a good option > > Renato Gallo > No, they are not and it was explained previously why

Re: How to have password shown?

2019-07-03 Thread deloptes
Renato Gallo wrote: > You did but nevertheless to give such an option would be a bad idea > (someone could be crazy enough to be tempted to use it). For his fathers computer - are you serious? I guess his father does not care.

Re: How Buster release may affect Unstable?

2019-07-01 Thread deloptes
Joe wrote: > Presumably, apt-get will be dropped one day, but apt is already the > preferred system, with more functionality than apt-get. AFAIK apt is frontend to apt-get, or I am wrong?

Re: Document removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster

2019-06-30 Thread deloptes
Tixy wrote: > Or if you have (or can make) a new disk partition, use dm-crypt to > encrypt that and put the file system on that that people want encrypted > (for /home?). > > Personally, for several releases I've used dm-crypt with LUKS for a > partiton containing everything apart from /boot.

Re: Is it possible to install Debian in such a case.

2019-06-29 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 28 June 2019 02:14:42 deloptes wrote: > >> Gene Heskett wrote: >> > There was a period a decade back where the capacitors >> > were legendarily bad.  Your unit may have some of them in it. >> >> It was around

Re: Is it possible to install Debian in such a case.

2019-06-28 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > There was a period a decade back where the capacitors > were legendarily bad.  Your unit may have some of them in it. It was around 2004. From a trustful source I understood that the Chinese manage to steal the formula from Japan, but translated few things wrongly and the

Re: DVD Burning speed

2019-06-25 Thread deloptes
Jude DaShiell wrote: > The speed in the burning command and the fs parameter.  Needs the right > amount of memory in it and that's a factor of machine resource > availability. but I do not have option 1x - it gives me minimum 3x. Why is this so

DVD Burning speed

2019-06-25 Thread deloptes
What does determine the DVD burning speed? Is it the DVD or the burner or both? How can I write DL dvd at 1x speed? thanks and regards

Re: Off topic: Carbon. Was: Off topic: remaja (teens)

2019-06-23 Thread deloptes
Elmo wrote: > and you can say, "take me to the train-station" as peremptorily in > English as in German. > > part of the error in the quotation is the implication that Germans are > curt because they need fewer words to say things. > > first, "take me to the train-station (please)." has pretty

Re: Off topic: Carbon. Was: Off topic: remaja (teens)

2019-06-22 Thread deloptes
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Juhwohl. "Please" with exclamation mark is to be considered imperial. > Tsuck Marsh. > No - you missed some forms in school. For example Der Imperativ ist im Deutschen sehr gebräuchlich, weil wir hier mit wenigen Wörtern sagen können, was der andere tun soll. Für

Re: Off topic: remaja (teens)

2019-06-22 Thread deloptes
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > deloptes wrote: >> Please stop! > > You know what happens if you try to issue commands here, do you ? > I said please - it is not a command - are you German? Your name sounds German and your acting as well ;-) - don't get affected, but more often re

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-22 Thread deloptes
Brad Rogers wrote: >>Is it a TV program or a computer program? > > On TV, it's a programme. > thank you

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-22 Thread deloptes
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I still don't understand the context -- are these teens somehow working at > the TV station deciding which shows to be transmitted, or are these teens > at home, viewing TV, and possibly getting the option to view TV programs > being broadcast with the watermark that

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-22 Thread deloptes
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Curt wrote: >> [...] teenager, who apparently are a PITA world-wide > > Especially for the carbon dioxide producers. :)) Please don't start this! It is a big business and what happens is like advertisement for it. I wouldn't say this if someone would mention the big

Re: Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-21 Thread deloptes
Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > In Indonesia, the case resemble hypothetical case in this thread, where > sysadmins in TV station doesn't care about least privilege security > principle and they gave teens full root privileges, for most programs are > for teens. What a BS! This comes from Windoz for

Re: System on a chip - performance relative size and setup (how can the (Debian) setup make a difference?)

2019-06-19 Thread deloptes
Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > In short, you really _really_ want netinstall from MicroSD! What about debootstrap? IS it possible to use it for that SoC?

Re: System on a chip - performance relative size and setup (how can the (Debian) setup make a difference?)

2019-06-19 Thread deloptes
David Christensen wrote: > I have considered installing and running Debian on SD cards.  At this > point, I would probably choose a "high endurance" device rather than a > "fast' device, because I want the system to last.  (The few solid-state > device failures I have seen all followed the same

Re: Util-linux 2.33.2 cross-compile for arm64

2019-06-13 Thread deloptes
Mihamed Hammouda wrote: > I'm trying to cross-compile util-linux 2.33.2 for an arm64 device, make > command work fine but install no, this is the error: > libtool:   error: error: relink 'libblkid.la' with the above command > before installing it > Makefile:5836: recipe for target

Re: kernel policy vs bug handling (how to followup #919227 ?)

2019-06-09 Thread deloptes
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Debian is typically using LTS kernels for stable releases, so buster > will most likely release with 4.19. This is a good choice - running custom 4.19 I can say that I will not intend to upgrade it in near feature.

Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped?

2019-06-08 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > It could be. And the linuxcnc developers/spinners are being made aware of > these problem's also.  That particular kernel you see above I will > state, has the best latency figures I have ever seen on this particular > machine, which with a normal kernel is so horrible I'd

Re: UEFI beginner questions

2019-06-07 Thread deloptes
tuulen wrote: > Hi, > I am an ordinary GUI and mouse computer user, not a command line user. > But I want to get away from both Apple and Microsoft.  I spent a lot of > time looking into Linux, Unix, BSD, and eventually I discovered Debian. > And because I like to know the details of what I am

Re: What is agetty, and why can't it be stopped?

2019-06-07 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-4.9.0-9-rt-amd64 > root=UUID=0e698024-1cf3-4dbc-812d-10552c01caab ro Gene, I can barely follow your problems with Stretch. I am just amazed how this could be that hard. I was wondering if you possibly copied configurations from your jessie, or is it

Re: USB digital microscope from Walmart

2019-06-05 Thread deloptes
Mike McClain wrote: > I bought a USB digital microscope from Walmart that the ads > claimed would work under Win2K and Linux. So far the supplier has > failed to back up that claim with meaningful info. > Has anyone had any luck getting one of these working under Debian? > This one claims 1000x

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread deloptes
Greg Wooledge wrote: > As does firefox-esr 60.6.3esr-1 in buster, it seems.  I didn't know about > about:buildconfig before.  Handy. > > I don't know the exact story, but I've heard pieces of it over the last > year or two.  Apparently at one point upstream decided not to support > direct ALSA

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread deloptes
Renato Gallo wrote: > I personally use pulse on chrome and firefox without problems of any sort same here but I'm not using chrome at all. I use from time to time BT audio and pulse comes handy there. I am not sure if alsa can handle this.

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread deloptes
Joe wrote: >> >> [1] The problem with "modern" is that it carries with itself a value >> judgement, as a stowaway, so to speak. If you ain't "modern", >> you're a luddite or something. That kind of thing makes communication >> hard. It's difficult to listen, with all that shouting. > > Never

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-05 Thread deloptes
humbert.olivie...@free.fr wrote: > Depending on your needs. PA is good at resampling easily different audio > flows at different samplerate. Much easily that what one can do with ALSA. > > Olivier Yes and integration with other subsystems like bluetooth and dbus

Re: tftp problem

2019-06-03 Thread deloptes
ghe wrote: > Response, run as root: > atftpd: can't bind port :69/udp > why do you have /udp after the port? Check the config > They're just kidding. I think -- I don't know what they mean by 'bind'. > I've saved configs over tftp from my Juniper firewall and my Cisco router. This usually

Re: how to integrate ca-certificates with gpgsm (for email s/mime signature verification)

2019-06-03 Thread deloptes
Gregor Zattler wrote: > I thought the location of the certs might be debian specific. Hi, sorry but I do not know anything about S/MIME - I tend to recall, it is insecure and meaningless. Another option would be to ask on the debian dev list or to address the debian maintainer or wait here

Re: how to integrate ca-certificates with gpgsm (for email s/mime signature verification)

2019-06-02 Thread deloptes
Gregor Zattler wrote: > I use notmuch-emacs to read my email and sometimes do use GnuPG, > therefore notmuch-emacs is configured to verify signatures but > does so also for S/MIME  signatures.  When displaying such emails > I'm asked if I trust the respective Root CAs Cert.  That's tedious. > >

Re: WRITING to NTFS drives

2019-05-29 Thread deloptes
mick crane wrote: > Thing is you don't know what windows is going to do next. > Was an update a few days ago that I assume was why PC just started > crashing ( which hasn't happened for years ) and couldn't decide if it > wanted to boot or not. > Then an hour later there was another update and

Re: WRITING to NTFS drives

2019-05-29 Thread deloptes
mick crane wrote: > I move files windows -> Debian with WinScp. > You can move files Debian -> Debian with mc and a ssh connection in the > other window. > Interested to see that there is a ssh server available on windows so it > should be possible Debian -> Windows with mc. I've been writing

Re: Fwd: Debian Stretch, no password prompt for luks-encrypted home partition during boot

2019-05-28 Thread deloptes
Sergey Belyashov wrote: > As expected nothing is changed. I did not forget to run update-initramfs > after change of fstab. > Attached 3 photos: normal boot, recovery boot before pasword enter, > recovery boot after password and Ctrl-D in recovery shell. I am not a systemd expert. The images

Re: Debian Stretch, no password prompt for luks-encrypted home partition during boot

2019-05-28 Thread deloptes
Sergey Belyashov wrote: > Root partition is on mdraid but is not encrypted. Home is encrypted only. > Modules are set to most already. > I have this setup on my server, but I removed all crypted entries from fstab because obviously I can not sit infront of the server to type the password when

Re: Debian Stretch, no password prompt for luks-encrypted home partition during boot

2019-05-28 Thread deloptes
Ross Boylan wrote: > I've discovered that if I type my pass-phrase (waiting long enough > that I think things have settled down), the system boots. > Have you tried setting up the display parameters properly in grub? Sometimes on notebooks the default settings are different and do not match

Re: Debian Stretch, no password prompt for luks-encrypted home partition during boot

2019-05-28 Thread deloptes
Sergey Belyashov wrote: > My problem is about than year old or more. With default options (without > plymouth) only information about root partition mount or fsck. Later it > replaced by partition waiting "progress" (moving red asterisks). I have > try to wait about a minute and try to enter luks

Re: NIC Bonding 802.3ad LACP without switch

2019-05-27 Thread deloptes
Sven Hartge wrote: >> also on a network card with 2 NIC's > >> srv-a nic ens2f0 ens2f0 srv-b >> ens2f1 ens2f1 > >> Can I use a switch that only supoort static LAC to speedup my >> connection? For example tp-link TL-SG108E ? Or must it support LACP? > > For this direct connection you

Re: NIC Bonding 802.3ad LACP without switch

2019-05-27 Thread deloptes
basti wrote: > I want to speedup my network connection beween srv-a and srv-b. There is > only a 1:1 connection. > I have try to use balance-alb and copy some files from a to b with only > 112 MB/s with dd and netcat. In the RHEL Network Guide [1] it says that LACP is supported only with switch

Re: Insidious systemd

2019-05-27 Thread deloptes
Patrick Bartek wrote: >> You could switch to Devuan - it's like a Debian but without this >> SystemD crap of 1.2 million code lines. >> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=Systemd-1.2-Million > > I am aware of Devuan, but at the time I installed Stretch (about a > year ago after

Re: sporadic successfull mount of nfs with Stretch

2019-05-26 Thread deloptes
Stefan K wrote: > I also try to use _netdev as mountoptions, but it didn't work. > Has anyone an idea how to solve this? I use defaults,retry=5,_netdev - never had an issue with this. I must admin I still use init and not systemd. But when testing with systemd I do not recall having problem. I

Re: Laptop does not switch off when shutting down

2019-05-25 Thread deloptes
Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > No harm, no foul. That's cool. I'm sure it incidentally rolled in with > something else I installed. A very BRIEF depends/rdepends snoop around > my installs to see how that likely happened came up empty. > > PPS . Have NOT seen the "resuming from hibernation"

Re: Laptop does not switch off when shutting down

2019-05-25 Thread deloptes
Hans wrote: > I remember, this issue appeared at some other users a long time ago, but I > do not remember, how to fix it. I believe, this issue was related to the > kernel, but I am not sure. > rather with systemd - try to get the logs at the console and see what exactly is hanging > However,

Re: intermittent or not? "Could not resolve 'deb.debian.org'"

2019-05-12 Thread deloptes
john doe wrote: > How do you know/insure that they are identical and is one of the card > working properly? > If no, focus on one card first then clone it! :) > > > Look in '/etc/resolf.conf'. and given that resolv.conf could be static or dynamic, I would look here.

Re: Is Debian 9 supposed to work on a Geode?

2019-05-05 Thread deloptes
Björn Persson wrote: > Yes, some kind of disk access problem seems likely, seeing that the > disk activity light gets stuck on. This SATA SSD is the one and only > storage device in the box, and the bios and Grub read it just fine, but > maybe Linux somehow can't. I suggested to try booting

Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-04 Thread deloptes
Nicolas George wrote: > That is absolutely not true. Partition data, UEFI or not, bootable or > not, are just octets on a medium. They could be created with an Atari if > Atari had USB plugs, that would not make any difference. > > The vague truth behind your statement is: > > To edit UEFI

Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-04 Thread deloptes
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > The problem which you mention could be interesting, too. How about a > sketch of what you tried, what failed, and what succeeded ? > (A new thread would keep this one on topic.) Perhaps I should start another thread, but it is somehow in the context of this, because I was

Re: Trouble making bootable USB from ISO image

2019-05-04 Thread deloptes
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > So you could use a partition editor to create an MBR partition of type > "EF" which begins at 512-block 515 * 4 = 2060 and has 2,590,860 * 4 = > 10,363,440 blocks. > (The EFI image is probably smaller. But El Torito can mark only sizes > up to 32 MiB or unlimited size.

Re: Is Debian 9 supposed to work on a Geode?

2019-05-02 Thread deloptes
Björn Persson wrote: > bw wrote: >> Before you dump it, I'd sure confirm the situation, document the flags >> and file a bug against the release notes, so maybe that can get fixed in >> buster release notes? > > I filed this bug report: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=928340

Re: Is Debian 9 supposed to work on a Geode?

2019-04-29 Thread deloptes
Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > Yes, if you want to continue use Debian then should indeed look for > replacement: Geode CPUs is clearly on its way out (if it hasn't happened > already - posibly by accident). > I would say here unfortunately. > As others write, you obviously have the alternative of

Re: Is Debian 9 supposed to work on a Geode?

2019-04-28 Thread deloptes
Björn Persson wrote: > So if this processor is actually not supported anymore (contrary to the > information that Jonas Smedegaard linked to), then it looks like I > should get started on replacing the hardware, rather than putting a lot > of work into temporary solutions. It's sad to have to

Re: Is Debian 9 supposed to work on a Geode?

2019-04-28 Thread deloptes
Björn Persson wrote: > deloptes wrote: >> I have latest kernel custom build > > Built by you? Or does somebody publish custom kernels for Debian on > Geode? > to be exact I configured and the computer build, but for the record - built by me. >> and I am on the ge

Re: Is Debian 9 supposed to work on a Geode?

2019-04-28 Thread deloptes
Brian wrote: > I have seen a reference to its being a Geode LX800. Sorry, I am not > rebooting to look at what the bios says as I do not want to interupt > the services it is operating. This is a GX2 - perhaps someone finds it interesting $ uname -a Linux fw 4.19.25gx2 #2 Wed Mar 20 21:13:42

Re: Is Debian 9 supposed to work on a Geode?

2019-04-28 Thread deloptes
bw wrote: > In-Reply-To: <20190428184348.390dc...@tag.xn--rombobjrn-67a.se> > [...] >>So my question is: Is the Geode LX among the dropped processors, or is >>the hang a bug that should be fixed? > > You tested a live 686 image, or the installer? Hi, I am running few small firewalls/openvpns on

Re: Request for a Good Practice for webdev doc.

2019-04-28 Thread deloptes
aprekates wrote: > Experimenting with wsgi and python webapp dev > i came upon issues and roads to choose mainly > regarding to installation , deployment and security > related issues. > > sudo pip install ..   or  pip install > don't work as root if not necessary > is virtualenv secure or is

Re: Obtaining/compiling/installing python3.7

2019-04-26 Thread deloptes
Richard Owlett wrote: > I wish to try some beta software which assumes python3.7 is installed. I > have Debian 9.8 installed on a machine dedicated to this exercise. I did > a web search and got a half dozen on topic hits. There were enough > differences that I wasn't sure if I was missing

Re: just mail forwarding to smart mailer

2019-04-14 Thread deloptes
Bonno Bloksma wrote: > Hi, > > All along I just installed the standard system on a Debian machine. > Created an alias for the root user with the email address of our > servicedesk to have it send any mails to my servicedesk account and that > was it. The last Debian installations no longer have

Re: BTRFS snapshot space consumption (was: New laptop: need advice on choice...)

2019-04-13 Thread deloptes
Felix Miata wrote: > Anders Andersson composed on 2019-04-13 17:31 (UTC+0200): > >> Felix Miata wrote: > >>> Because of its snapshotting, BTRFS requires considerably more space than >>> older filesystems, as much as double. > >> A btrfs snapshot takes approximately zero space. Where did you

Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for installation?

2019-04-12 Thread deloptes
David Wright wrote: > Your figures are virtually meaningless without any sort of breakdown > even into what's system and what's your documents. > yeah yeah ... use your imagination. Sqldeveloper, couple of virtual machines, some installation packages each of which is 1-2GB and so one Software

Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for installation?

2019-04-12 Thread deloptes
Greg Wooledge wrote: > A lot of people are still using cached knowledge from pre-jessie days. no you know at least one in the context of fdisk. I don't know why but I got the impression it does not understand GPT. Just 2 months ago I had to partition 5TB RAID5 disk and fdisk did not work.

Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for installation?

2019-04-12 Thread deloptes
David Wright wrote: > We have a laptop that was used with windows for just under four > years. Main applications are Office for excel/word/powerpoint, > Outlook for email, Coreldraw for publication figures. Disk usage > is approximately 90GB, of which the user's own files are 45GB, > in a

Re: Debugging samba

2019-04-12 Thread deloptes
Kevin DAGNEAUX wrote: > The bug id 13439 give me an interesting info (about kernel / glibc). > I'll follow this thread to see if a solution will be added. > > I'm running kernel 4.9.144-3.1 (from debian repo) I always optimize and use a newer version of the kernel, which I build for the machine

Re: Debugging samba

2019-04-12 Thread deloptes
Kevin DAGNEAUX wrote: > [2019/04/12 10:31:57.105329,  0] > ../source3/locking/posix.c:455(decrement_lock_ref_count) > PANIC: assert failed at ../source3/locking/posix.c(455): > lock_ref_count >= 0 > [2019/04/12 10:31:57.105373,  0] ../source3/lib/util.c:791(smb_panic_s3) > PANIC (pid 2206):

Re: Debugging samba

2019-04-12 Thread deloptes
Kevin DAGNEAUX wrote: > I'm using samba for lot of years too, i'm having trouble only with the > last version from debian repo. > Which debian version and which samba version - perhaps I missed this. > When crashing, samba don't need to be restarted and windows client just > see a small

Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for installation?

2019-04-12 Thread deloptes
Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Why not ? Current versions support GPT. Thank you my fault - I have missed something

Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for installation?

2019-04-12 Thread deloptes
Felix Miata wrote: >> No Win10 will not be happy with 120GB - better take 300GB from the large >> disk for windows and the rest for data linux, windows or both > > I limit Win10 system partitions to 48GB, and disable paging. You always want to arge - but tell me how many applications or how

Re: Debugging samba

2019-04-11 Thread deloptes
Kevin DAGNEAUX wrote: > But now, i've a dependency problem, version of samba in debian-security > repo and samba-dbgsym in debian-debug repo are not the sames : may be a similar problem is the root cause for your crashes, because I am running samba for years and my wife uses it from windows on

Re: New dual boot laptop: Best file system for a USB live image for installation?

2019-04-11 Thread deloptes
Tom Browder wrote: > I'm preparing to install Win 10 and Deb 9 on a new ZaReason laptop which > has no installed OS on it. > > It comes with one 120 Gb SSD as its primary drive and has an empty bay > where I will install a Samsung evo 860 1 Tb SSD. > > I would like to use a live image on a

Re: Tracking the next Stable release

2019-04-11 Thread deloptes
Francisco M Neto wrote: > Yes, the freeze began March 12. Thank you, appreciated!

Re: How to build linux kernal package

2019-04-10 Thread deloptes
Thomas Nyberg wrote: > 1. If someone here knows the specific issue with the linux package, what > am I doing wrong here? > 2. Is there a general procedure e.g. `debian/rules build && debian/rules > binary` which _should_ work (in other words if it doesn't work, it's a > bug). Or is the specific

Re: Tracking the next Stable release

2019-04-10 Thread deloptes
Francisco M Neto wrote: > There is no defined number, I think. If I'm not mistaken it happens when > the Release Team decides the bugs in that list - if any - are not relevant > enough to extend the freeze any longer Is Buster in freeze now? If so I would rather start preparing for an upgrade.

Re: Debian bridge with one VLAN iface - after upgrade from Deb 8 to 9 tc filters are bypassed for VLAN traffic?

2019-04-03 Thread deloptes
kask...@email.cz wrote: > This setup worked smoothly for years until I upgraded Debian 8 do Debian 9 > (which I didn`t like to do but I had to, lets say). And now, in Debian 9 > only customer traffic which is not TAGged can reach tc filters and than is > properly send to appropriate tc class and

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