T570 Powerkey doesn't work

2018-01-04 Thread Markus Grunwald
Hello, as far as I understand, pressing the power key on my Lenovo T570 should produce some output in the journal like this: Mär 31 18:04:47 my_computer systemd-logind[1402]: Power key pressed. On my laptop, this doesn't work - I see nothing in the journal. Hibernating doesn't work, neither but

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

2018-01-04 Thread deloptes
Pascal Hambourg wrote: > If old things are running, then they have already been set up a long > time ago, and there is not need to tell what's best. ok, I reverse the "best" - you are really persistent

Re: CVE-2017-5754 - ETA?

2018-01-04 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 04 Jan 2018, francis picabia wrote: > Redhat, Ubuntu and others have kernel updates available today for this > kernel patch that has been worked on since November. Normally Debian > has been quick out of the gate with security measures. > > Is there an ETA when Debian will update kernel pa

Re: show searched packages including versions

2018-01-04 Thread Brian
On Wed 03 Jan 2018 at 19:10:03 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 03 Jan 2018 at 19:33:28 (-0500), bw wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, 3 Jan 2018, Felix Miata wrote: > > > > > > > > How did *you* figure out to try apt-cache _pkgnames_ to get a search to > > > include > > > packages' versions? > >

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

2018-01-04 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 04/01/2018 à 08:55, deloptes a écrit : Pascal Hambourg wrote: How is it better than using an initramfs ? By the way, if you compile md in the kernel, you should also compile all necessary host controller and disk drivers in. And expect failure with current drivers which do not guarantee th

Re: “Meltdown” and “Spectre”: Every modern processor has unfixable security flaws

2018-01-04 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
I was hoping to be retired before this happened.. All of AWS EC2 is rebooting today by 4pm UTC AppArmor everywhere: Can't trust the hardware to do it right. Clowns! Buffo! On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 12:19 PM, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > On 4 January 2018 at 17:55, The Wanderer wrote: >> >> O

Re: “Meltdown” and “Spectre”: Every modern processor has unfixable security flaws

2018-01-04 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 4 January 2018 at 17:55, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2018-01-04 at 12:30, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > On 4 January 2018 at 17:22, Curt wrote: > > > >> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/meltdown-and- > spectre-every-modern- > >> processor-has-unfixable-security-fladdws/U > >> > >> > >>

Re: “Meltdown” and “Spectre”: Every modern processor has unfixable security flaws

2018-01-04 Thread The Wanderer
On 2018-01-04 at 13:17, Tixy wrote: > On Thu, 2018-01-04 at 12:55 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > >> Meltdown so far is not known to affect anything other than Intel. > > And ARM's Cortex-A75 [1] which according to The Register [2] > "Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon 845 is an example part that uses

Re: “Meltdown” and “Spectre”: Every modern processor has unfixable security flaws

2018-01-04 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2018-01-04 at 12:55 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > Meltdown so far is not known to affect anything other than Intel. And ARM's Cortex-A75 [1] which according to The Register [2] "Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon 845 is an example part that uses the A75" [1] https://developer.arm.com/support/s

Re: “Meltdown” and “Spectre”: Every modern processor has unfixable security flaws

2018-01-04 Thread The Wanderer
On 2018-01-04 at 13:06, francis picabia wrote: > On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 1:22 PM, Curt wrote: > >> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/meltdown-and-spectre-every-modern- >> processor-has-unfixable-security-fladdws/U >> >> >> TL;DR >> >> Windows, Linux, and macOS have all received security pa

Re: “Meltdown” and “Spectre”: Every modern processor has unfixable security flaws

2018-01-04 Thread francis picabia
On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 1:22 PM, Curt wrote: > https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/meltdown-and-spectre-every-modern- > processor-has-unfixable-security-fladdws/U > > > TL;DR > > Windows, Linux, and macOS have all received security patches that > significantly alter how the operating systems

Re: “Meltdown” and “Spectre”: Every modern processor has unfixable security flaws

2018-01-04 Thread The Wanderer
On 2018-01-04 at 12:30, Michael Fothergill wrote: > On 4 January 2018 at 17:22, Curt wrote: > >> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/meltdown-and-spectre-every-modern- >> processor-has-unfixable-security-fladdws/U >> >> >> TL;DR >> >> Windows, Linux, and macOS have all received security pat

Re: “Meltdown” and “Spectre”: Every modern processor has unfixable security flaws

2018-01-04 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 4 January 2018 at 17:22, Curt wrote: > https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/meltdown-and-spectre-every-modern- > processor-has-unfixable-security-fladdws/U > > > TL;DR > > Windows, Linux, and macOS have all received security patches that > significantly alter how the operating systems han

Re: “Meltdown” and “Spectre”: Every modern processor has unfixable security flaws

2018-01-04 Thread The Wanderer
On 2018-01-04 at 12:22, Curt wrote: > https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/meltdown-and-spectre-every-modern-processor-has-unfixable-security-fladdws/U > > > TL;DR > > Windows, Linux, and macOS have all received security patches that > significantly alter how the operating systems handle vi

“Meltdown” and “Spectre”: Every modern processor has unfixable security flaws

2018-01-04 Thread Curt
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/meltdown-and-spectre-every-modern-processor-has-unfixable-security-fladdws/U TL;DR Windows, Linux, and macOS have all received security patches that significantly alter how the operating systems handle virtual memory in order to protect against a hither

Re: After upgrade jessie -> stretch : munin/perl

2018-01-04 Thread Jochen Spieker
Markus Grunwald: > > I learned that the apache configuration of munin is now included in the > package. So I adjusted the settings in /etc/apache: > > ./conf-enabled/munin.conf > ./conf.d/munin > Now I have a working www.the-grue.de/munin again :) > But: With this config, /all/ of my sites show m

Re: After upgrade jessie -> stretch : php problems

2018-01-04 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 05:29:10PM +0100, Markus Grunwald wrote: > Hello, > > after you told me that cli and http don't have to use the same php > (sigh), I have a workaround: > > 17 3 * * * www-dataphp5 -f > /srv/www/the-grue.de/owncloud/htdocs/cron.php > > > Now I explicitly call

Re: After upgrade jessie -> stretch : php problems

2018-01-04 Thread Markus Grunwald
Hello, after you told me that cli and http don't have to use the same php (sigh), I have a workaround: 17 3 * * * www-dataphp5 -f /srv/www/the-grue.de/owncloud/htdocs/cron.php Now I explicitly call php5 instead of php and all is fine... But this is only a workaround, I think. cu --

Re: After upgrade jessie -> stretch : munin/perl

2018-01-04 Thread Markus Grunwald
Hello, I remembered that I installed a nicer theme a good while ago. This seems to have messed up some templates. So I apt-get purged munin, deleted the rest of /etc in /etc/munin and re-installed munin. This left me with a 404 in www.the-grue.de/munin :( I learned that the apache configuration

Re: After upgrade jessie -> stretch : php problems

2018-01-04 Thread basti
Hello, first of all check the installed / activate modules in you php environment. that means and "php -i" on cli can have other results than run phpinfo() via browser / apache2 or fastcgi if used. Are the relevant modules active ? Have you try to reload / restart your http / (fastcgi if used) se

After upgrade jessie -> stretch : munin/perl

2018-01-04 Thread Markus Grunwald
Hello, Today I tackled the upgrade from jessie to stretch on my "production" server (hosts a few websites). Almost all went smoothly, but a few problems remain. One is this: My munin doesn't work anymore and I get these errors from its cron job: HTML::Template->new() : Cannot open included file

Re: After upgrade jessie -> stretch : php problems

2018-01-04 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 04:16:25PM +0100, Markus Grunwald wrote: > > Maybe of interest: that's part of the phpinfo() output: > > PHP Version 5.6.30-0+deb8u1 > Directive Local Value Master Value > allow_url_fopen On On > allow_ur

After upgrade jessie -> stretch : php problems

2018-01-04 Thread Markus Grunwald
Hello, Today I tackled the upgrade from jessie to stretch on my "production" server (hosts a few websites). Almost all went smoothly, but a few problems remain. One is this: The cron job of my owncloud installation reports this: ---

CVE-2017-5754 - ETA?

2018-01-04 Thread francis picabia
Redhat, Ubuntu and others have kernel updates available today for this kernel patch that has been worked on since November. Normally Debian has been quick out of the gate with security measures. Is there an ETA when Debian will update kernel packages? https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/C

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

2018-01-04 Thread deloptes
Pascal Hambourg wrote: > The kernel cannot use UUIDs to mount the root filesystem. Using UUIDs > requires an initramfs. I forgot to mention that UUID is not meant to be used (only) by the kernel or the initrd, but by GRUB - to find the boot md - no idea how it works but it works. Those machines

Re: Different language per user in MATE and change default lang of greeter

2018-01-04 Thread Alex ARNAUD
Hello John, I've configured a multilingual system based on Debian Jessie last month. The steps I've followed are: 1) Install the language pack of your targeted languages like "task-english", don't miss to install the language pack for Firefox, Thunderbird and LibreOffice if needed. 2) Enable