Re: Connection closed by [IP] port [port] [preauth]

2020-02-25 Thread Klaus Singvogel
deloptes wrote: > +1 :( and I am not using standard port 22, so they scanned all 3 ports > and found out what is open (well filtered) and now are trying to do brute > force on SSH. Others are trying to exploit apache/php & Co. I'm using portsentry against this:

Re: ifup && iptables error

2020-02-25 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 10:37:18PM +, William Torrez Corea wrote: > I get the following error message > > ifquery: /etc/network/interfaces:19: unknown or no address type and no > inherits keyword specified You have a syntax error at line 19 of your e/n/i. >

Re: Connection closed by [IP] port [port] [preauth]

2020-02-25 Thread deloptes
Tixy wrote: >> Since February 11th at 00:25:09, I am getting the following every 12 >> secondes: >> >> Feb 11 00:25:09 box sshd[17733]: Connection closed by 118.126.105.120 >> port 54422 [preauth] > > I'm getting that too. +1 :( and I am not using standard port 22, so they scanned all 3

Re: Encrypted /boot password has to be entered twice

2020-02-25 Thread john doe
On 2/25/2020 7:48 PM, Matthew Moore wrote: > > On Tue 2020-02-25 17:31, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Grub needs the passphrase for /boot, and then Linux needs it >> separately. Unfortunately there isn't a way for Grub to pass the >> passphrase to Linux so it has to ask you again. People are looking at

Re: Connection closed by [IP] port [port] [preauth]

2020-02-25 Thread steve
Le 24-02-2020, à 15:51:53 -0500, Dan Ritter a écrit : steve wrote: Hi there, Since February 11th at 00:25:09, I am getting the following every 12 secondes: Feb 11 00:25:09 box sshd[17733]: Connection closed by 118.126.105.120 port 54422 [preauth] And when I say every 12 seconds, it is

Re: Understanding the two-year release cycle as a desktop user (and a Debian newcomer)

2020-02-25 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 26/2/20 10:59 am, Stefan Monnier wrote: LVM snapshots I use timeshift for the same purpose; and have needed it a couple of times over 14 months since switching from mint. I look at what packages are to be upgraged, and if more than a few libraries, I create a new timeshift first.

Re: link question

2020-02-25 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 15:29:02 -0500 Greg Wooledge wrote: > Show > the actual COMMAND you run and the actual OUTPUT of the command. Indeed. The only thing I would add is show the next prompt so that the reader knows you've given all the output, not just the first line. charles@jhegaala:~$ ls -l

Re: Understanding the two-year release cycle as a desktop user (and a Debian newcomer)

2020-02-25 Thread John Hasler
Sam writes: > I will give Testing a spin and will definitely take another look at > the Debian derivatives. You also made me admire the Debian community, > so that's a big plus on the > reasons-why-I-definitely-need-to-switch-to-Debian list :) A couple of suggestions if you decide to use Testing

Re: Installing ppa

2020-02-25 Thread Peter Ehlert
have a look here: https://wiki.debian.org/CreatePackageFromPPA On 2/25/20 4:26 PM, Gary L. Roach wrote: Hi All, Debian Buster, AMD64, KDE Desktop. I installed a ppa using the following code: ***sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elmer-csc-ubuntu/elmer-csc-ppa* This installed

Installing ppa

2020-02-25 Thread Gary L. Roach
Hi All, Debian Buster, AMD64, KDE Desktop. I installed a ppa using the following code: ***sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elmer-csc-ubuntu/elmer-csc-ppa* This installed *elmer-csc-ubuntu_ubuntu_elmer-csc-ppa.gpg* in my /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d directory. So far so good. But when I run apt-get

Re: Understanding the two-year release cycle as a desktop user (and a Debian newcomer)

2020-02-25 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I would happily consider using Debian Testing for example, but wherever I see > someone asking about it I always find someone discouraging from using it due > to the possibility of having broken or unsecure packages for a long time due > to it being automated. Other tools you can use: LVM

Re: ifup && iptables error

2020-02-25 Thread deloptes
William Torrez Corea wrote: > [] Loading netfilter rules...run-parts: executing > /usr/share/netfilter-persistent/plugins.d/15-ip4tables start > Bad argument `COMMIT' > Error occurred at line: 4 > Try `iptables-restore -h' or 'iptables-restore --help' for more > information. run-parts: >

ifup && iptables error

2020-02-25 Thread William Torrez Corea
I get the following error message [] Configuring network interfaces...ifquery: /etc/network/interfaces:19: unknown or no address type and no inherits keyword specified ifquery: couldn't read interfaces file "/etc/network/interfaces" ifquery: /etc/network/interfaces:19: unknown or no address

Re: Buster won't boot with Xen hypervisor

2020-02-25 Thread Garrett Reid
Apparently, the similarity in version numbers between Xen and the Linux kernel is more coincidental, and they aren’t required to match. How can I start to debug a boot configuration that’s not working? I’ve tried regenerating with with `update-grub` and `update-initramfs -u`, but no luck. I’ve

Re: link question

2020-02-25 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 01:23:19PM -0700, ghe wrote: > What does, in /usr/bin/X11, 'X11 -> .' mean? You mean this: wooledg:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/X11/X11 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Nov 23 2016 /usr/bin/X11/X11 -> . Note how unclear your description is, and how clear mine is. Show the actual COMMAND

link question

2020-02-25 Thread ghe
What does, in /usr/bin/X11, 'X11 -> .' mean? Looks to me like it means 'link to ' When I do 'ls /usr/bin/X11 | grep X11' I get X11. When I do 'ls /usr/bin/X11/X11/X11 | grep X11' I get X11. When I do 'du -sh /usr/bin/X11/' I get 81M. When I do 'du -sh /usr/bin/X11/X11/X11/' I get 81M. When I

Re: Re: Re: Understanding the two-year release cycle as a desktop user (and a Debian newcomer)

2020-02-25 Thread Sam
Thank you very much for the tips! I will give Testing a spin and will definitely take another look at the Debian derivatives. You also made me admire the Debian community, so that's a big plus on the reasons-why-I-definitely-need-to-switch-to-Debian list :) Thank you, Sam

Re: Understanding the two-year release cycle as a desktop user (and a Debian newcomer)

2020-02-25 Thread songbird
Peter Ehlert wrote: > I think Debian Testing would fit you very well > It is like a rock, honestly. that hasn't been my experience, but i know what i'm doing well enough to fix things or to ask for help here if i find something i don't understand well enough. i got bit by some kind of

Re: Understanding the two-year release cycle as a desktop user (and a Debian newcomer)

2020-02-25 Thread John Hasler
Roberto writes: > On strategy would be to run testing and not update too frequently. I do that with Unstable. Works fine (but I use neither Gnome nor KDE) I follow the security list and upgrade the relevant package when I see something there that matters to me. Security fixes reach Unstable as

Re: Understanding the two-year release cycle as a desktop user (and a Debian newcomer)

2020-02-25 Thread Peter Ehlert
I think Debian Testing would fit you very well It is like a rock, honestly. == I demand stability. My machines Must work 24/7 without intervention. for this reason I do have Debian Stable installed and operational on all machines (Mate desktop). However, on the other hand I love Mate,

Re: Encrypted /boot password has to be entered twice

2020-02-25 Thread Matthew Moore
On Tue 2020-02-25 17:31, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Grub needs the passphrase for /boot, and then Linux needs it > separately. Unfortunately there isn't a way for Grub to pass the > passphrase to Linux so it has to ask you again. People are looking at > ways to make this work better... One way to

Re: Modern automounters and umount

2020-02-25 Thread songbird
Mark Allums wrote: ... > /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd --no-fuse > Failed to acquire daemon name, perhaps the VFS daemon is already running? you sound about as frustrated by this sort of thing as i was. you could try to find out what it is via the gio command that is being captured and put it in your

Re: Understanding the two-year release cycle as a desktop user (and a Debian newcomer)

2020-02-25 Thread songbird
Sam wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to hear opinions about the release cycle of the Stable Debian > releases for a Desktop user. > > I love the Debian ideals and perks (its social contract, independence from > big > companies...) and understand to a certain extent the fundamentals on why >

Re: error quitando initrd

2020-02-25 Thread Gonzalo Rivero
El lun, 24-02-2020 a las 20:05 +0100, ruben.mag...@inisis.es escribió: > Muchas gracias Juan. > El caso es que he leído esos links antes, y entiendo lo mismo que tú. > Se > necesita cargar todo en el kernel y no como módulos. Es lo que hago > en > realidad, pero supongo que estoy olvidanto algo. >

Re: Re: Understanding the two-year release cycle as a desktop user (and a Debian newcomer)

2020-02-25 Thread John Cunningham
I install testing on all my machines*. It is very usable. Sid has given me problems in the past, so I stay clear. *While it is true I install testing, I should clarify that I continue to use it as it moves into stable and then old-stable. Eventually, I hit some kind of "you can't get there from

Re: Re: Understanding the two-year release cycle as a desktop user (and a Debian newcomer)

2020-02-25 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 06:48:21PM +0100, Sam wrote: > Thanks for your points of view! I agree that Stable comes at a cost, and of > course if I ever were to set up a server Debian would probably be my choice. > > Regarding derivatives, I know about Ubuntu, Mint, etc., but I don't exactly >

Re: Re: Understanding the two-year release cycle as a desktop user (and a Debian newcomer)

2020-02-25 Thread Sam
Thanks for your points of view! I agree that Stable comes at a cost, and of course if I ever were to set up a server Debian would probably be my choice. Regarding derivatives, I know about Ubuntu, Mint, etc., but I don't exactly like distributions tied to or ultimately dependant on commercial

Re: Encrypted /boot password has to be entered twice

2020-02-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
John Doe wrote: >Hi all, when encrypting /boot on Buster after a fresh install of Debian >with encrypted lvm, I need to enter three times a passthrase (two times >foor /boot, one time foor /root) > >"... > >GRUB loading.. >Welcome to GRUB! > >Attempting to decrypt master key... >Enter passphrase

Re: Understanding the two-year release cycle as a desktop user (and a Debian newcomer)

2020-02-25 Thread Joe
On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 16:55:46 +0100 Sam wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to hear opinions about the release cycle of the Stable > Debian releases for a Desktop user. > > I love the Debian ideals and perks (its social contract, independence > from big companies...) and understand to a certain

Re: Understanding the two-year release cycle as a desktop user (and a Debian newcomer)

2020-02-25 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 04:55:46PM +0100, Sam wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to hear opinions about the release cycle of the Stable Debian > releases for a Desktop user. > > I love the Debian ideals and perks (its social contract, independence from > big > companies...) and understand to a

Understanding the two-year release cycle as a desktop user (and a Debian newcomer)

2020-02-25 Thread Sam
Hello, I would like to hear opinions about the release cycle of the Stable Debian releases for a Desktop user. I love the Debian ideals and perks (its social contract, independence from big companies...) and understand to a certain extent the fundamentals on why keeping "old-ish" versions of

Re: Modern automounters and umount

2020-02-25 Thread Curt
On 2020-02-25, Mark Allums wrote: >> >> A tricky exercise which can depend on your DE (and maybe even your >> graphical login manager). What have you tried so far? > > The things I tried are naive. I don't know, or have forgotten, where to > put commands that run that early in the process. I

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RE: error quitando initrd

2020-02-25 Thread ruben.magana
Hola buenos días a todos, Efectivamente tengo todas las opciones de scsi activas y respecto a filesystems, también. Uso ext2, pero tengo todas las opciones de ext2, ext3 y ext4 activadas en el kernel. Respecto a lo que comentas de “algunos módulos se tenían que cargar manualmente

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Re: SLiM vs SDDM for KDE (was XFCE doesn't start)

2020-02-25 Thread Dan Ritter
Uwe Bolick wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 09:14:29PM -0500, Kenneth Parker wrote: > > ... > > Anyway, before I burn "SDDM Bridges", is there anyway to configure it to > > refer to Username, instead of "GIven Name"? > > ... > Although marked as "never mind", a hint for anyone having a

Re: How to report bug / enhancement request for official debian docker image

2020-02-25 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 11:40:36PM +1030, heman wrote: I've read https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting but it is still completely unclear to me how I can report what I consider to be a bug or flaw with the debian docker image, as it is not a package, but a container image created from multiple

Re: Modern automounters and umount

2020-02-25 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 04:35:32AM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: On 2/23/20 3:02 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: Can you repeat this, but include the output of "grep sdb1 /proc/mounts" before the udisksctl invocation, and again after it? Thanks. george@martha:~$ grep sdb1 /proc/mounts /dev/sdb1

Re: Modern automounters and umount

2020-02-25 Thread Mark Allums
On 2/25/20 3:43 AM, Curt wrote: On 2020-02-25, Mark Allums wrote: george@martha:~$ systemctl stop gvfs-daemon Failed to stop gvfs-daemon.service: Unit gvfs-daemon.service not loaded. You cannot stop what does not exist. I think the systemd unit involved is run-user-1000-gvfs.mount

Encrypted /boot password has to be entered twice

2020-02-25 Thread john doe
Hi all, when encrypting /boot on Buster after a fresh install of Debian with encrypted lvm, I need to enter three times a passthrase (two times foor /boot, one time foor /root) "... GRUB loading.. Welcome to GRUB! Attempting to decrypt master key... Enter passphrase for hd0,msdos1 (...): Slot 0

Re: One more thing about slim: It may no longer be a Maintained Package

2020-02-25 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Kenneth Parker (2020-02-25 02:03:28) > Based on another Thread, I decided to try out the slim Package on a new, > Text-Only Debian Buster system (on USB).I got the same issue, about not > getting into Graphics. > > But the reason for this Thread? The Package slim may not even be a

Re: Modern automounters and umount

2020-02-25 Thread Curt
On 2020-02-25, Mark Allums wrote: > > george@martha:~$ systemctl stop gvfs-daemon > Failed to stop gvfs-daemon.service: Unit gvfs-daemon.service not loaded. You cannot stop what does not exist. I think the systemd unit involved is run-user-1000-gvfs.mount Try 'systemctl status

Re: XFCE doesn't start

2020-02-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 24 feb 20, 18:52:55, Kenneth Parker wrote: > > That's an interesting concept: What happens if I enter "systemctl start > graphical-target"? Let's see... Because you didn't specify the unit type (.target) systemctl automatically considers a .service unit. > Ah! Some additional setup