Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-12-04 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 03:06:17PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: > Hi Tomas, > > Great you like it! Many people are busy working on smoothing the edges > uncovered by all the inflowing bugreports, so the occasional "thanks!" > is a nice boost to troop morale. :) Btw, debian is the only complex

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-12-04 Thread Troy Benjegerdes
On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 03:06:17PM +0100, David Kalnischkies wrote: > Hi Tomas, > > Great you like it! Many people are busy working on smoothing the edges > uncovered by all the inflowing bugreports, so the occasional "thanks!" > is a nice boost to troop morale. :) I will second the thank you.. I

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-30 Thread Philip Hands
Matthias Urlichs writes: > Hi, > > Philip Hands: >> It seems to me that we could: >> >> Make systemd link runlevel 2 to graphical.target, and 3,4 & 5 to >> multi-user.target, or perhaps in an attempt to be slightly less >> confusing to outsiders, how about: >> 2 & 5 --> graphical >>

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-30 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Philip Hands: > It seems to me that we could: > > Make systemd link runlevel 2 to graphical.target, and 3,4 & 5 to > multi-user.target, or perhaps in an attempt to be slightly less > confusing to outsiders, how about: > 2 & 5 --> graphical > 3 & 4 --> multi-user > Or we could

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-29 Thread Philip Hands
Felipe Sateler writes: ... > This is indeed unfortunate. Because runlevel[234] are links to > multi-user.target it means that distinctions between those runlevels are > not preserved. It also means that the ability to differentiate between > graphical.target and multi-user.target is almost lost

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-29 Thread Felipe Sateler
On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 11:36:20 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 08:34:46 +0100, Matthias Urlichs > wrote: >>Marc Haber: >>> It's learning and understanding more than just a few bizarre new >>> concepts. >>> >>I learned. I (think I) understand. But I do not think these fancy new >>con

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-29 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 08:34:46 +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: >Marc Haber: >> It's learning and understanding more than just a few bizarre new concepts. >> >I learned. I (think I) understand. But I do not think these fancy new >concepts are bizarre at all. If anything, they make my life way easier.

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-29 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, 29 Nov 2014 09:09:19 +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: >Marc Haber: >> Which significantly changes things in Jessie since the majory of >> services is still started via the old rcX.d mechanism, and thus >> starting to runlevels behaves completely different from what users >> expect. >> >Well

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-29 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Marc Haber: > Which significantly changes things in Jessie since the majory of > services is still started via the old rcX.d mechanism, and thus > starting to runlevels behaves completely different from what users > expect. > Well, I wouldn't expect runlevel 2 to start a graphical desktop eit

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-28 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Marc Haber: > It's learning and understanding more than just a few bizarre new concepts. > I learned. I (think I) understand. But I do not think these fancy new concepts are bizarre at all. If anything, they make my life way easier. If anything, IMHO using words like "bizarre" isn't exactly

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 22:33:08 +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >Marc Haber writes: >> A few hours of reasearch later (which could have been a few minutes if >> just the community would have been a bit more helpful) it turned out >> they were right: We start kdm via an init script and sysvrc emulatio

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-28 Thread Alexandre Detiste
Le vendredi 28 novembre 2014, 22:25:28 Marc Haber a écrit : > We start kdm via an init script and sysvrc emulation, > and this does actually break the distinction between multi-user.target > and graphical.target. Hi, Here is a native kdm service I'v copied from an other distro months ago; and use

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 20:55:42 +0100, Philipp Kern wrote: >On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 07:08:09PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: >> And this facing a mostly hostile upstream and a Fedora-Centric >> community. > >I have observed a mostly hostile Debian community in recent months. I'm not >sure if this jab at F

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-28 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Marc Haber writes: > A few hours of reasearch later (which could have been a few minutes if > just the community would have been a bit more helpful) it turned out > they were right: We start kdm via an init script and sysvrc emulation, > and this does actually break the distinction between mu

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-28 Thread Philipp Kern
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 07:08:09PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > And this facing a mostly hostile upstream and a Fedora-Centric > community. I have observed a mostly hostile Debian community in recent months. I'm not sure if this jab at Fedora is particularly warranted. Kind regards Philipp Kern

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 28 Nov 2014 09:30:01 +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: >Marc Haber: >> Updating of such systems has always been a pain, but this time it's >> going to be a gazillion times more painful. >> >Why? (Seriously.) Because this time fixing those things is more than just minor changes in some init

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-28 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Marc Haber: > Updating of such systems has always been a pain, but this time it's > going to be a gazillion times more painful. > Why? (Seriously.) -- -- Matthias Urlichs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-27 Thread Marc Haber
On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 23:50:08 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >On 11/27/2014 09:22 PM, Tomas Pospisek wrote: >> Yesterday I've upgraded my laptop with quite massive foreign package >> sources and installations (qgis packages, backports, stuff from ubuntu >> PPAs, nodejs, a dozen packages from jessie e

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-27 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 27 nov 14, 15:06:17, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > It's also not the worst idea to remove stuff from third party > repositories before upgrading and only install them again after the > upgrade. This way you can sure that they aren't interfering (something > which can't be prevented and just

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-27 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 11/27/2014 09:22 PM, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > Yesterday I've upgraded my laptop with quite massive foreign package > sources and installations (qgis packages, backports, stuff from ubuntu > PPAs, nodejs, a dozen packages from jessie etc.) from wheezy to jessie. That's probably why you had issues

Re: successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-27 Thread David Kalnischkies
Hi Tomas, Great you like it! Many people are busy working on smoothing the edges uncovered by all the inflowing bugreports, so the occasional "thanks!" is a nice boost to troop morale. :) On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 02:22:14PM +0100, Tomas Pospisek wrote: > Allthough apt-get dist-upgrade broke half

successful upgrade to jessie - thanks!

2014-11-27 Thread Tomas Pospisek
Hello list, I hope it's appropriate here, I just wanted to say *thanks to everybody*, in particular the low level package and infrastructure maintainers for the excellent work they've done. Yesterday I've upgraded my laptop with quite massive foreign package sources and installations (qgis packag