Re: Live Fille System Backup

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 01:35:35PM -0700, Sergei G wrote: > it would be naive at best to think that busy files [...] What is a "busy" file? regards - -- t -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux)

Re: What On Earth Did I do? (was Boot Drives for older Systems)

On 05/05/2017 08:11 PM, Martin McCormick wrote: This story has a good ending but I am mystified. Until the new boot drives I ordered get here, I took an old slow 10GB Maxtor drive and made a new installation of Debian jessie and got it like I wanted it. It booted fine on the

Re: What On Earth Did I do?

Martin McCormick composed on 2017-05-05 22:11 (UTC-0500): ... IIRC, and WRT PCs containing only Debian (and/or another Linux distro), DOS, OS/2 and/or Windows: A boot flag is always irrelevant when set on a logical partition. A boot flag is irrelevant on every Debian system's HD0 not also

Re: Update Notifier

On Fri, 2017-05-05 at 16:32 +, sare...@att.net wrote: > Why doesn't Debian 8 Cinnamon notify when updates are ready to > install after all these years Debian has existed? Don't tell me there > is one, because after installing Debian I waited a long time to see > if a notification would pop up.

What On Earth Did I do? (was Boot Drives for older Systems)

This story has a good ending but I am mystified. Until the new boot drives I ordered get here, I took an old slow 10GB Maxtor drive and made a new installation of Debian jessie and got it like I wanted it. It booted fine on the older Dell system whose drive went to the ultimate

Re: suspend/resume device

> That "apt-listchanges" package comes in handy thanks for that tip, I have it installed now. -- CK pgp0IIh2byNkp.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: /tmp/.X0-lock

> Does the PID in the lock file correspond to a running process? > > ps -f `cat /tmp/.X0-lock` I get nothing from that command > Are there any running instances of an X server? > > ps -fC Xorg UIDPID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD root 2994 2812 0 17:36 tty7 00:01:23

Re: /tmp/.X0-lock

On 06/05/17 12:09, Charles Kroeger wrote: not that I know of how do you tell if there's another X server running. I mean there is after I do a sysvinit boot (from the grub advanced menu) but on a reboot of course the X server obviously shuts down (or does it?) Does the PID in the lock file

Re: suspend/resume device [SOLVED]

thank you Cindy-Sue, I did have both of those files but the one with RESUME in it and it did list a mysterious UUID device number (I don't know where it got that as this is a desktop but it does get a lot of dist-upgrades I'll admit) so that's the one I removed and added 'none' in its place. the

Re: Live Fille System Backup

On Fri, 05 May 2017, John Conover wrote: > Also be advised if "dest/" is a FAT formatted SD card, there is a file > size limit of 4GB, (and the -aAXv argument to rsync(1) may not be > viable to restore the permission/ACL of files/directories.) Using rsync on non-POSIX filesystems is a Bad Idea,

Re: /tmp/.X0-lock

>ls -ld /tmp drwxrwxrwt 10 root root 20480 May 5 18:58 /tmp (looks good) >ls -l /tmp/.S0-lock -r--r--r-- 1 root root 11 May 5 17:36 /tmp/.X0-lock >df /tmp Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sdc1 245996848 42724396 203256068 18% / > If /tmp/.X0-lock

Re: suspend/resume device

On 5/5/17, Charles Kroeger wrote: > on a normal boot I get a long wait (30 seconds +-) whilst the cursor winks > then > the message: waiting on suspend/resume device, before resuming the steps to > boot to a login prompt. Your words, "boot", "wait", and "30

systemd-fstab-generator failed to create mount

the whole error message is: systemd-fstab-generator failed to create mount unit five /run/systemd/generator/-.mount as it already exit possible duplicate entry in /etc/fstab? I've enclosed my fstab file: # proc/proc procdefaults0 0

suspend/resume device

on a normal boot I get a long wait (30 seconds +-) whilst the cursor winks then the message: waiting on suspend/resume device, before resuming the steps to boot to a login prompt. -- CK pgpPyMPjo4Wft.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Live Fille System Backup

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh writes: > On Fri, 05 May 2017, Sergei G wrote: > > I am not convinced that rsync can handle all device type files, all types > > of links and other attributes I don't even know about. I am not convinced > > that anyone actually restored file system using rsync. Does

Re: /tmp/.X0-lock

On 06/05/17 11:06, Charles Kroeger wrote: running freshly upgraded kernel image 4.9.0.3 on normal boot with startx command but getting the following error message from (X server) xorg: could not create lock file in /tmp/.X0-lock (the contents of, are the numbers 2994) unable to connect to the X

/tmp/.X0-lock

running freshly upgraded kernel image 4.9.0.3 on normal boot with startx command but getting the following error message from (X server) xorg: could not create lock file in /tmp/.X0-lock (the contents of, are the numbers 2994) unable to connect to the X server: connection refused there's a lot

debian-installer preseeding over https

Hello, Playing with unattended deployments of debian using foreman ( https://theforeman.org/) i found out that debian-installer doesn't support loading the preseeding file from a https server. It do it well from a http url but using ssl never works. I have found an old question in

Re: Live Fille System Backup

On 5/4/17 7:17 PM, Sergei G wrote: > I am running Raspberry PI and I would like to dump full file system without > shutting down the system. One machine runs nginx and another runs > PostgreSQL. I have had a good success with FreeBSD and dump software, because > it is part of the OS and core

Re: Live Fille System Backup

On Fri, 05 May 2017, Sergei G wrote: > I am not convinced that rsync can handle all device type files, all types > of links and other attributes I don't even know about. I am not convinced > that anyone actually restored file system using rsync. Does it really work? Yes, it does. Been there,

Re: Live Fille System Backup

On Fri, 05 May 2017, Sergei G wrote: > it would be naive at best to think that busy files can be handled at > application level. No, rsync cannot handle the problem of entire file > system dump. Neither it is safe to handle all special file cases. I am > thinking about sparse files (if Linux

attempt to read or write outside of disk 'hd0'

I've just done the first upgrades for months on a netbook and a USB hard drive, both containing sid installations. Yes, I know that's risky, but the longer you leave it, the riskier it gets... The netbook was fine. The hard drive installation completed an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade while

Re: Live Fille System Backup

I just realized that busy files are pretty much impossible to deal with no matter what. If DB is in the middle of the transaction, then a "snapshot" based backup will work (we simply loose that transaction data as it is equivalent to crash). Other busy files might be corrupted if those files

Re: Live Fille System Backup

it would be naive at best to think that busy files can be handled at application level. No, rsync cannot handle the problem of entire file system dump. Neither it is safe to handle all special file cases. I am thinking about sparse files (if Linux has those). On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 11:52 PM,

Re: Installation Input required

Le 05/05/2017 à 11:16, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 02:26:44PM +0530, Ashok Inder wrote: During the entire setup screen, the debian installer did not asked me for the 2nd or 3rd DVD. Also many a places its mentioned that the DVD is a set of 12 DVD but I only found 3 set

Need help with Pidgin

I installed Pidgin from the repository but I can't get it to work. I have setup my user id, and that seems to work. But when I enable that user it never connects. Everything I try indicates that it is not making connection with the chat server. Does anybody have any ideas? I have searched for

Re: Booting a CF or SD card from an internal card reader

On Fri 05 May 2017 at 13:53:00 (-0400), Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> Of course it all depends on what you mean by "booting from". AFAICT in > >> Leandro's situation, he's loading Grub from some other disk (probably > >> the main HDD or SSD), so he's already "not booting from the SD card" in > >>

Re: Booting a CF or SD card from an internal card reader

On Fri 05 May 2017 at 13:53:00 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> Of course it all depends on what you mean by "booting from". AFAICT in > >> Leandro's situation, he's loading Grub from some other disk (probably > >> the main HDD or SSD), so he's already "not booting from the SD card" in > >>

Re: is there a firewall which blocks the connection

Thanks for reply I solved the problem it was blocked by a firewall enabled by default in linuxlite. I just disabled by usibg ufw . thanks again

Re: Migration 32 bits vers 64 bits gros problème avec dpkg testing

Bonjour Philippe, Philippe Merlin, le 2017-05-04 à 14:53:16 CEST : > Sur ce poste est installé la Debian testing à jour et j'ai > essayé de migrer d'une version 32 bits vers 64 bits en suivant > la doc > > https://wiki.debian.org/CrossGrading Intéressante manipulation, j'ai essayé dans

Re: Booting a CF or SD card from an internal card reader

>> Of course it all depends on what you mean by "booting from". AFAICT in >> Leandro's situation, he's loading Grub from some other disk (probably >> the main HDD or SSD), so he's already "not booting from the SD card" in >> this sense. > By "booting from" I mean everything which is needed to

Re: Installation Input required

> That eases problems for Debian servers, I don't see an advantage to me. Given that there is an advantage (for Debian servers), the question isn't if there's an advantage to you, but instead if there's a *dis*advantage to you (or others). Stefan

Re: 3 écrans

Bonjour C'est intéressant, il faudrait que je voie comment ça se passe avec deux GPUs de fabricant différent. Il m'est arrivé dans diverses situations (matérielles) d'avoir des modifications de disposition après un changement de résolution d'un écran. Comme ce n'est pas quelque chose qu'on change

Re: Booting a CF or SD card from an internal card reader

On Fri 05 May 2017 at 08:44:48 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > This is the 4-in-1 card reader; the one you want you are trying to boot > > from. As indicted by /dev/mmcblk0p1 it is on the PCI bus. 'lspci' should > > display the chip used; one from Ricoh? > > > > GRUB doesn't see anything on this

Re: Update Notifier

> Why doesn't Debian 8 Cinnamon notify when updates are ready to install > after all these years Debian has existed? Don't tell me there is one, > because after installing Debian I waited a long time to see if a > notification would pop up. It never did. I know about doing apt-get > update &&

Update Notifier

Why doesn't Debian 8 Cinnamon notify when updates are ready to install after all these years Debian has existed? Don't tell me there is one, because after installing Debian I waited a long time to see if a notification would pop up. It never did. I know about doing apt-get update && apt-get

Re: 4K problemen

Op 27-04-17 om 23:20 schreef Heiko Noordhof: > In de tekst van de link die je hierboven noemt, staat dat de schrijver > versie 1:7.6.1-1 van het > "xserver-xorg-video-radeon" package geinstalleerd heeft. In Debian > Jessie zit een oudere versie, nl: 1:7.5.0-1. > > In stretch en jessie-backports

Re: testing, mhwaveedit, anyone else having problem saving files?

Victor A. Stoichita wrote: ... > Hi songbird. Mhwaveedit works as usual here. I have 1.4.23 from testing > repo. Just tried it on a flac file. Open -> edit -> save -> reopen = no > problem. > > Mhwaveedit is very useful for me too as it is blazing fast for basic > audio file editing. > > Did you

Re: Installation Input required

On Fri 05 May 2017 at 08:17:34 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/05/2017 04:49 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > >[snip] > >This question was asked often enough to cause the existence of > > https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#not-all-images > >which says > > "We don't store/serve the full set of ISO

Re: testing, mhwaveedit, anyone else having problem saving files?

Le 05 May 2017, songbird a écrit : > i haven't had to use this program in a while, but today > was trying to fix an audio file and when i go to save it > the program gives error message: > > Failed to open '/home/me/smb/tmp1.flac'! > > which is also annoying because

Re: Booting a CF or SD card from an internal card reader

On Fri 05 May 2017 at 07:58:06 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/05/2017 04:28 AM, Brian wrote: > >On Fri 05 May 2017 at 05:34:13 +0200, Leandro Noferini wrote: > > > >>Brian writes: > >> > >>>1. This HOWTO is a result of the discussion on debian-user beginning at > > >

testing, mhwaveedit, anyone else having problem saving files?

i haven't had to use this program in a while, but today was trying to fix an audio file and when i go to save it the program gives error message: Failed to open '/home/me/smb/tmp1.flac'! which is also annoying because it opens the file without any problem, but then it also erases it so

Re: Installation Input required

Hi, i wrote: > > The advantage of Jigdo for the DVD mirror servers is that the bulk > > of data can be fetched from Debian servers which provide packages. Richard Owlett wrote: > That eases problems for Debian servers, I don't see an advantage to me. The advantage for those who need them is

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Re: Booting a CF or SD card from an internal card reader

On Fri 05 May 2017 at 07:58:06 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/05/2017 04:28 AM, Brian wrote: > > > >I think you have possibly not appreciated the distinction between a card > >reader on a USB bus and one on a PCI bus. The first should be visible to > >GRUB and nativedisk (but, as you have

Re: Installation Input required

On Fri, 05 May 2017, Richard Owlett wrote: > >The advantage of Jigdo for the DVD mirror servers is that the bulk > >of data can be fetched from Debian servers which provide packages. > >Jigdo loads a compressed ISO image with lots of holes and then loads > >all the package files which fit exactly

Re: 3 écrans

re, j'ai réussi en laissant faire le système à avoir mes 3 écrans ( 1 sur la prise VGA de la carte interne Intel et 2 sur la Nvidia (DVI et HDMI). Je rencontre 2 problèmes : - si je dépasse la résolution 1440x900, mes écrans ne sont plus à la suite l'un de l'autre (1+1+1) mais se décalent

Re: Installation Input required

On 05/05/2017 04:49 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: [snip] This question was asked often enough to cause the existence of https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#not-all-images which says "We don't store/serve the full set of ISO images for all architectures, to reduce the amount of space taken up on the

Re: Installation Input required

On 05/05/2017 03:56 AM, Ashok Inder wrote: Hi, Fairly new to Debian environment. I downloaded the 3 DVD (debian-8.7.1-amd64-DVD-1.iso, debian-8.7.1-amd64-DVD-2.iso, debian-8.7.1-amd64-DVD-3.iso). The reason for downloading all setup were: 1) Speed internet available in my office and allowed to

Re: Booting a CF or SD card from an internal card reader

On 05/05/2017 04:28 AM, Brian wrote: On Fri 05 May 2017 at 05:34:13 +0200, Leandro Noferini wrote: Brian writes: 1. This HOWTO is a result of the discussion on debian-user beginning at It should be stressed that the HOWTO is applicable only to devices on the USB bus.

Re: Only root can write on USB disk

> I have a very annoying problem. I can't write to my usb drives (fat32, > ntfs, etc.) without root permissions. How can I fix this? How did you mount it? I usually mount those with `pmount`. Stefan

Re: Booting a CF or SD card from an internal card reader

> This is the 4-in-1 card reader; the one you want you are trying to boot > from. As indicted by /dev/mmcblk0p1 it is on the PCI bus. 'lspci' should > display the chip used; one from Ricoh? > > GRUB doesn't see anything on this bus (it has no drivers for the device), > so booting from it is not

Re: Only root can write on USB disk

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 10:55:58AM +, Curt wrote: > On 2017-05-05, wrote: > > > > On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 09:17:51AM +, Curt wrote: > >> On 2017-05-02, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> > On

Re: Only root can write on USB disk

On 2017-05-05, wrote: > > On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 09:17:51AM +, Curt wrote: >> On 2017-05-02, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> > On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 07:16:57PM +0430, Mostafa Shahverdy wrote: >> >> I have a very annoying problem. I can't

Re: Installation Input required

Hi, Ashok Inder wrote: > During the entire setup screen, the debian installer did not asked me > for the 2nd or 3rd DVD. Can it be you only asked for installing stuff which is on DVD 1 ? If the lack of requesting other DVDs led to a system which does not contain what you asked for, then this

Re: CD Ripper

Bonjour, Le jeudi 04 mai 2017 à 21:11, Jean-Marc a écrit : > Un conseil pour un ripper efficace dans ceux dispo dans les dépôts Debian ? > > Je rippe en FLAC. J’utilise « morituri » depuis plusieurs années, ça permet de simplifier grandement le processus : — j’insère le CD, — je lance

Connexion wifi dans un hôtel Brit avec Unbound - Réglage DNS

Bonjour. Brit Hotel. Linux Mint Sarah avec Unbound. /etc/resolv.conf affiche : nameserver 127.0.0.1 search lan route affiche : Table de routage IP du noyau Destination Passerelle Genmask Indic Metric Ref Use Iface default 172.16.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 wlp60s0 default 172.16.1.1 0.0.0.0 UG 600 0 0

Re: Only root can write on USB disk

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 09:17:51AM +, Curt wrote: > On 2017-05-02, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 07:16:57PM +0430, Mostafa Shahverdy wrote: > >> I have a very annoying problem. I can't write to my usb

Re: Re : CD Ripper

On 05/05/2017 08:45 AM, nicolas.patr...@gmail.com wrote: Le 05/05/2017 08:36:16, Bernard Siorat a écrit : Asunder ? Grip (s’il existe encore) ou XCFA ? XCFA est très bien mais il ne permet pas de renommer les pistes. -- Maderios

Re: Booting a CF or SD card from an internal card reader

On Fri 05 May 2017 at 05:34:13 +0200, Leandro Noferini wrote: > Brian writes: > > > 1. This HOWTO is a result of the discussion on debian-user beginning at It should be stressed that the HOWTO is applicable only to devices on the USB bus. > Thanks a lot for this document

Re: Live patching du kernel

Le 04/05/2017 à 20:28, Pascal Hambourg a écrit : Le 04/05/2017 à 10:27, C. Mourad Jaber a écrit : Bonjour, J'ai vu plusieurs post parlant du livepatching (patcher les noyaux sans redémarrage) natif des noyaux 4.x... Est-ce debian propose ce type de possibilité pour les noyaux de la future

Re: Only root can write on USB disk

On 2017-05-02, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 07:16:57PM +0430, Mostafa Shahverdy wrote: >> I have a very annoying problem. I can't write to my usb drives (fat32, >> ntfs, etc.) without root permissions. How can I fix this? > > Mount the file system with "-o

Re: Installation Input required

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 05, 2017 at 02:26:44PM +0530, Ashok Inder wrote: > Hi, [...] > During the entire setup screen, the debian installer did not asked me > for the 2nd or 3rd DVD. Also many a places its mentioned that the DVD is > a set of 12 DVD but I only

Installation Input required

Hi, Fairly new to Debian environment. I downloaded the 3 DVD (debian-8.7.1-amd64-DVD-1.iso, debian-8.7.1-amd64-DVD-2.iso, debian-8.7.1-amd64-DVD-3.iso). The reason for downloading all setup were: 1) Speed internet available in my office and allowed to download and take it on usb flash drive. 2)

how to add a remote login to XDMCP Chooser in the login window

Hi, I want to log in a remote server using xdmcp from my local machine, unfortunately there is no chooser in my local login (I use lightdm). How to add a remote connexion to the list in local login window? I remember 8 or 9 years ago, in the login window (may be with xdm) there was a remote

Re: 3 écrans

Bonjour Ce sont 2 écrans d'un modèle 27 pouces, 2 écrans d'un autre modèle 24 pouces. Ils partagent tous la même résolution.  Je joins mon xorg.conf car il est nécéssaire d'en créer un avec une telle configuration matérielle. Si vous l'utilisez, il faudra adapter le busID des GPUs, le nom des

Re: Live Fille System Backup

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 04:17:46PM -0700, Sergei G wrote: > I am running Raspberry PI and I would like to dump full file system without > shutting down the system. One machine runs nginx and another runs > PostgreSQL. I have had a good success with

Re: CD Ripper

On Thu, 4 May 2017 21:11:02 +0200 Jean-Marc wrote: > salut la liste, bonjour > > Je suis en train de ripper mes CDs. > > La dernière version de Sound Juicer que j'utilise ne me permet plus de > choisir le nom des pistes comme j'aimerai qu'ils soient. > > Un conseil pour un

Re: Live Fille System Backup

On 04-05-17, Sergei G wrote: > That's good to know. > > > Thank you > > > On 5/4/17 6:46 PM, Anders Andersson wrote: > > On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 1:17 AM, Sergei G wrote: > > > I would like a backup tool that does not bring a million dependencies with > > > MBs of

Re : CD Ripper

Le 05/05/2017 08:36:16, Bernard Siorat a écrit : > Asunder ? Grip (s’il existe encore) ou XCFA ? nicolas patrois : pts noir asocial -- RÉALISME M : Qu'est-ce qu'il nous faudrait pour qu'on nous considère comme des humains ? Un cerveau plus gros ? P : Non... Une carte bleue suffirait...

Re: CD Ripper

Asunder ? Le 04/05/2017 à 21:11, Jean-Marc a écrit : > salut la liste, > > Je suis en train de ripper mes CDs. > > La dernière version de Sound Juicer que j'utilise ne me permet plus de > choisir le nom des pistes comme j'aimerai qu'ils soient. > > Un conseil pour un ripper efficace dans ceux