Re: KVM: GPU passthrough

Hi there, Am 2021-04-09 00:37, schrieb Gokan Atmaca: error: pci,host=:01:00.0,id=hostdev0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x9: vfio :01:00.0: group 1 is not viable Please ensure all devices within the iommu_group are bound to their vfio bus driver. This is a known issue with PCIe passthrough:

Re: going beyond a ch341 uart-usb convertor

Hi there, Am 2021-04-12 05:55, schrieb Gene Heskett: Building a design/builder for a 3d printer, which when a std usb to printer cable is connected between the computer and the 3d printer, Identifies as a ch341 convertor cable once it is plugged into the printer. [...] What would the next

Re: OT: Question about 10/100 switch on a LAN with a faster router

Hi there, Am 2019-12-31 14:03, schrieb rhkra...@gmail.com: I'm about to recommend that he get a 10/100 5 port Ethernet switch to connect to the two cameras and then a short cat5 (or better) Ethernet cable to connect from the switch to the router. I'm abouit 99.9% sure that using such a

Re: RCA Cable to USB Video input device

Hi there, Am 2019-12-14 07:45, schrieb Marc Shapiro: I want to copy some videos from VCR and DVD to my computer for editing (simple stuff, like removing commercials).  I found this device on Amazon:

Re: how to enable trim for an external encrypted SSD?

Hi again, A quick follow-up, because cryptsetup 2.0.0 was recently released: On 11/06/2017 02:28 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: > And while you might be able to reconfigure udisks to pass the discard > option to cryptsetup (though I'm also doubtful about that), that > configuration w

Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd

Am 2017-12-08 21:31, schrieb Gene Heskett: On Friday 08 December 2017 14:26:41 Jonathan Dowland wrote: No objection there, and I agree that the release notes should probably have covered the policy changes. That ship has now sailed unfortunately. So now, no effort will ever be made to fix the

Re: Missing pyuic5, pyrcc5 and pylupdate5 from python3-pyqt5 (was Re: Missing qt5-designer in Stretch)

Hi there, Am 2017-11-15 06:12, schrieb Marc Shapiro: Now that QtDesigner is running I can look at the rest of the build chain and I find that the programs listed in the subject (pyuic5, pyrcc5 and pylupdate5 ) are missing from python3-pyqt5.  According to the docs on Sourceforge these should

Re: Missing qt5-designer in Stretch

Am 2017-11-14 08:05, schrieb Marc Shapiro: Am I missing something, somewhere?  Or is qt5-designer not packaged for Debian? Designer for Qt5 can be found in the qttools5-dev-tools package in Stretch. Regards, Christian

Re: how to enable trim for an external encrypted SSD?

On 11/11/2017 02:31 PM, Joerg Desch wrote: > Am Sat, 11 Nov 2017 14:13:12 +0100 schrieb Christian Seiler: > >> Also, did you mount the device with -o discard or set that option with >> tune2fs (_before_ mounting it)? > > No, not now. I want to use fstrim in favo

Re: how to enable trim for an external encrypted SSD?

On 11/11/2017 02:05 PM, Joerg Desch wrote: > Am Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:28:32 +0100 schrieb Christian Seiler: > >> I don't what you want is possible. When you plug in an external drive >> (that is _not_ in /etc/fstab etc.) the process of how it gets mounted is >> different:

Re: Ethernet card locking up when acting as virtual bridge

Hi there, On 11/10/2017 07:24 PM, Andrew W wrote: > That turned out to be the Cisco switch on the other end which is an > ESW500 series Small Business Switch (i.e web gui only no IOS CLI). On > there there is a 'Smartports Wizard' which allows you to set a 'role' > for each port and unless it is

Re: Ethernet card locking up when acting as virtual bridge

Am 2017-11-08 11:54, schrieb Andrew Wood: My configuration is below. Initially it worked fine, except that once in a while the card would seemingly 'lock up' i.e no VMs could get network access but unplugging and replugging the Cat 5 cable fixed it. Recently however the issue has been occuring

Re: Anyone using stretch/buster/sid on ARMv4t ?

Hi, Am 2017-11-07 11:49, schrieb Rick Thomas: How do I know if a machine is ARMv4t? I have a sheevaplug and a couple of openrd machines (one “client”, the other “ultimate”) that are still doing useful work. Are they v4t? cat /proc/cpuinfo should do the trick. It might not show the 't' after

Re: how to enable trim for an external encrypted SSD?

Am 2017-11-06 13:09, schrieb Joerg Desch: Now I have bought a SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD. My goal is to add a LUKS encrypted partition without an explicit fstab entry. I've done this with some USB thumbdrives before, but not with TRIM support. The drvie should be plugged into any Linux

Re: NFSv4 without Kerberos and permissions

On 10/16/2017 07:57 PM, John Ratliff wrote: > On 10/15/2017 3:38 AM, Christian Seiler wrote: >> Furthermore, the MANAGED_GIDS setting is only for NFSv2/3 and only >> for supplementary groups, not the primary group. It is not a security >> setting, it really is just for bypassi

Re: NFSv4 without Kerberos and permissions

On 10/15/2017 03:55 AM, John Ratliff wrote: > In my case, the user on the client I was testing was UID 1003, which > on the server he was UID 1000. So they both had the group, but UID > 1003 on the server did not have the group, because that user did not > exist. Therefore, permission denied.

Re: Required help on local Debain mirror

Hi there, Am 2017-08-29 11:57, schrieb Kala Techies: I am using (Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.10 (squeeze)) in my environment and I want to update all systems using one local mirror. I don't think it's a good idea to setup a real local mirror, as that means you'll download the entire archive, which

Re: [Multiarch] armhf on arm64 is not working

Hi there, On 08/29/2017 06:07 PM, Adam Cecile wrote: > Could be an alternative indeed, but what about the speed compared to > my quad-core i5 with qemu ? I haven't actually tried that specific comparison, but form my experience a Pi tends to be a tiny bit faster in pure CPU performance than qemu

Re: [Multiarch] armhf on arm64 is not working

Hi, Am 29. August 2017 17:04:29 MESZ schrieb Adam Cecile : >I was not aware of this optional 32 bit compatibility. That kinda >sucks. Yeah, especially since you had the misfortune of getting the one chip that is sold that doesn't support it. >Actually, I'm already using

Re: [Multiarch] armhf on arm64 is not working

Hi, 32bit ARM compatibility is optional according to the specification, and if your CPU doesn't support it, you won't be able to natively run armhf executables. This is in contrast to x86, where all[*] 64bit x86 CPUs also support running old 32bit programs. From what I've read it appears to be

Re: No ifconfig

Am 2017-08-22 17:11, schrieb Sven Hartge: Christian Seiler <christ...@iwakd.de> wrote: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.1/24 address 192.168.0.42/24 address 10.5.6.7/8 This will work, and it will assign all IPs to the interface (the first one being the p

Re: Relocated Header Directories

Am 2017-08-22 16:47, schrieb Mario Castelán Castro: What about the ELF shared objects that *are* under “/usr/lib”? Are these programs that do not have support for multi-arch? Not programs, but packages, yes. Not all library packages in Debian have been updated to use the Multi-Arch scheme yet

Re: Relocated Header Directories

On 08/21/2017 09:12 PM, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > For example, Fedora (and Gentoo, > etc. ) > also installs glibc for both 32- and 64-bit on the same machine, but > they have not > relocated these header files. So are you saying this was just Debian's > method > of solving the multi-arch issue, and

Re: No ifconfig

On 08/21/2017 07:40 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > I'll have to study up on this "binding" and how its done. Note that that's something a program can do if it wants to, but not something you can generically configure (though individual programs might offer you configuration options for this), and most

Re: No ifconfig

On 08/21/2017 07:07 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 21 August 2017 12:11:38 Christian Seiler wrote: > >> On 08/21/2017 05:03 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> iface eth0 inet static >> address 192.168.0.1/24 >> address 192.168.0.42/24 >> add

Re: No ifconfig

On 08/21/2017 05:03 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 21 August 2017 09:08:11 Christian Seiler wrote: >> 2. Can't add multiple IP addresses to the same interface and >> (worse) even if multiple IP addresses are assigned to the >> same interfaces it only shows the p

Re: No ifconfig

Am 2017-08-21 14:50, schrieb Greg Wooledge: [missing features in ifconfig] (Like Gene, I don't even know what those featues *are*.) From my personal experience, the following two things are features I'm actually using regularly and that don't work with it: 1. IPv6 doesn't really work properly

Re: Systemd: Error when replacing postfix LSB init with postfix.service on Debian 8 (jessie)

Am 2017-08-21 11:52, schrieb Tom Browder: On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 02:36 Sven Hartge wrote: Question: Why do you want to manually replace the init-script from postfix in Jessie with a systemd.unit? What do you want to accomplish by doing so (other than creating a possible

Re: customizing systemd config

Hi there, On 08/11/2017 04:42 AM, Gregory Seidman wrote: > I'm trying to recreate under systemd something I had previously cobbled > together with shell scripts and init levels under sysvinit. > > Only a few services ran under init 2, the default set in /etc/inittab, > including privoxy and ssh;

Re: Btrs vs ext4. Which one is more reliable?

Hi there, On 08/11/2017 06:29 PM, Dejan Jocic wrote: > On 11-08-17, Christian Seiler wrote: >> You can also set DefaultTimeoutStopSec= in /etc/systemd/system.conf >> to alter the default for all units (though individual settings for >> units will still override

Re: Btrs vs ext4. Which one is more reliable?

Am 2017-08-10 16:02, schrieb Dejan Jocic: On 10-08-17, David Wright wrote: On Thu 10 Aug 2017 at 07:04:09 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote: > On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 09:46:09PM -0400, David Niklas wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Jul 2017 04:59:40 + > > Andy Smith wrote: > > > > Also,

Re: howto restart a service in postinst script (Stretch and newer)

Hi there, On 08/04/2017 12:30 PM, Harald Dunkel wrote: > What is the right way to restart a service from the postinst > script for Stretch and newer? The same way as before: if it has both an init script and a systemd service, just call invoke-rc.d script restart or invoke-rc.d script restart

Re: howto restart a service in postinst script (Stretch and newer)

On 08/06/2017 05:28 AM, Richard Hector wrote: > On 06/08/17 04:43, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Harald Dunkel wrote: >>> On Sat, 5 Aug 2017 11:56:07 +0900 Mark Fletcher wrote: On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 12:30:25PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: >> > What is the

Re: Diskless Debian stretch ISCSI boot (uefi) and shutdown hanging problem

Hi, (I'm one of the maintainers of the open-iscsi package in Debian.) On 07/19/2017 07:40 AM, Franz Angeli wrote: > i have one diskless server able to boot with ISCSI, uefi is configures > to reach iscsi target and volume correctly; > > i installed Debian 9 with debian installer ad all works

Re: Stretch generates SLAAC IPv6 address even with /etc/network/interfaces set to manual static address

On 07/05/2017 08:09 PM, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > On a Stretch client I'd like to have manually set static IPv6 addresses. > But what I get are SLAAC addresses with $prefix + MAC-derived according to > the > IEEE-Tutorial EUI-64 . First of all: you can turn off the automatic addresses by

Re: Replace systemd

Hi, On 07/04/2017 02:06 AM, Jason Wittlin-Cohen wrote: > I assume this will work fine for a server system, but will it work on > a desktop system using GNOME? From what I've read, GNOME has several > systemd dependencies, but it's not clear to me whether this requires > systemd to be used as

Re: Clarifying what 'systemd' actually means

On 07/02/2017 01:37 PM, Alessandro Vesely wrote: > On Sun 02/Jul/2017 12:37:33 +0200 Christian Seiler wrote: >> This bug has nothing to do with systemd as the init system, it's in an >> optional component that's disabled by default on Debian. In principle, >> I suspect tha

Clarifying what 'systemd' actually means (was: Re: Remotely exploitable bug in systemd (CVE-2017-9445))

On 07/02/2017 11:24 AM, Michael Fothergill wrote: > ​Could this be exploited to force people to use sysvinit instead of systemd ? This bug has nothing to do with systemd as the init system, it's in an optional component that's disabled by default on Debian. In principle, I suspect that resolved

Re: [Stretch]Typing ""clear" on terminal restricts the scrollback to only a screenful

Hi, Am 2017-06-21 11:57, schrieb Avinash Sonawane: On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Christian Seiler <christ...@iwakd.de> wrote: So what happened is that 'tput clear' in Stretch now behaves the same as 'clear', while the version in Jessie of 'tput clear' wouldn't clear the scrollback

Re: [Stretch]Typing ""clear" on terminal restricts the scrollback to only a screenful

Am 2017-06-21 10:06, schrieb Christian Seiler: 'clear' and 'tput clear' are identical in Stretch, both are from ncurses-bin. This was not true in Jessie though, ncurses did change behavior between Jessie and Stretch. By the way. in case anyone was wondering: Upstream changelog about how clear

Re: [Stretch]Typing ""clear" on terminal restricts the scrollback to only a screenful

Am 2017-06-21 05:57, schrieb Avinash Sonawane: On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 3:26 AM, Larry Dighera wrote: Try: tput clear Right. My bad! I already did that. But I have always considered `clear` and `tput clear` to be the same so I didn't mention it before. Anyways I got

Re: Stretch--no network interfaces

On 06/18/2017 09:22 PM, Brian wrote: > On Sun 18 Jun 2017 at 20:54:46 +0200, Christian Seiler wrote: > >> On 06/18/2017 08:25 PM, pplaw wrote: >>> The network I'm on at the moment hands out DHCP addresses. But, sometimes, >>> I'll hard-code the IP address f

Re: Stretch--no network interfaces

On 06/18/2017 08:25 PM, pplaw wrote: > The network I'm on at the moment hands out DHCP addresses. But, sometimes, > I'll hard-code the IP address for the computer (with ifconfig: ifconfig > (eth0--but in this case) enx687f74158a8a 10.x.x.x netmask 255.255.255.0; > route add default gw

Re: shared objects vs. executables in Stretch

Hi there, On 04/13/2017 09:16 PM, Neoklis Kyriazis wrote: > Having just completed installation of development tools in my > first installation of Debian (stretch), I tried to compile the > sources of some of my own apps but I end up with a shared library > object instead of an ELF executable! My

Re: Cannot enable Emulate3Buttons in stretch

On 04/13/2017 06:36 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: > Debian Stretch uses libinput for handling input by default, even > on Xorg, instead of the default evdev driver that was used > previously. The option for the middle mouse button emulation > is disabled. Err, I meant "rename

Re: Cannot enable Emulate3Buttons in stretch

On 04/13/2017 05:56 PM, Neoklis Kyriazis wrote: > I have installed (for the first time) Debian Testing (stretch) on my > laptop and tried to enable Emulate3Buttons for my 2-button Kensington > trackball. I tried a lot of solutions I found by searching but none > seems to work. I have the same

Re: A minimal relational database in Debian?

On 02/27/2017 02:17 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > The last time I needed a relational database my employer was using > dBaseII on a MS-DOS machine. What is a functional equivalent in the > Debian repository? Well, I've never used DBaseII, but if you want a small relational database, take a look at

Re: how to compute predictable network interface names?

On 02/24/2017 10:10 AM, Harald Dunkel wrote: > On 02/23/2017 04:25 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: >> >> There's a policy which are going to be preferred. man 5 systemd.link >> tells you what the options are and /lib/systemd/network/99-default.link >> tells you what the de

Re: how to compute predictable network interface names?

On 02/23/2017 04:16 PM, Harald Dunkel wrote: > On 02/16/2017 12:47 PM, Christian Seiler wrote: >> >> On a system with predictable names running? Or on a system >> pre-upgrade? >> > > Its more "pre-installation". I boot a USB stick and run > my own in

Re: how to compute predictable network interface names?

On 02/16/2017 12:24 PM, Harald Dunkel wrote: > I understand that the predictable nic names can be turned off > using > > net.ifnames=0 > > on the kernel command line, but I wonder if there is a shell > script to actually predict the "enpYsZ" from the old style > "ethX" initially assigned

Re: Kernel Update on Stretch

Hi, On 02/14/2017 12:58 AM, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Some time ago I read that Linux 4.x incorporates the feature to be > updated without requiring a restart of the operating system. They incorporated parts of that. There are still some unsolved issues. See for example this article from last

Re: Where are WiFi passwords (WPA keys) stored?

On 12/06/2016 09:26 PM, Brian wrote: > On Tue 06 Dec 2016 at 11:14:56 +0100, Christian Seiler wrote: > >> Note that when using NetworkManager, it configures its own >> instance of wpa_supplicant, so you should never touch a >> configuration file for wpa_supplica

Re: Where are WiFi passwords (WPA keys) stored?

On 12/06/2016 09:04 AM, Robert Latest wrote: > Not in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf, despite suggestions in > every bit of documentation that I got my hands on. In fact, that file > doesn't even exist on my jessie system. Nevertheless, when I > configured the WiFi network using some GUI

Re: libvirt-bin on Stretch

On 11/12/2016 11:15 PM, Van Nelle wrote: > I am trying to follow this https://wiki.debian.org/KVM tutorial but i cant > find libvirt-bin on Stretch. > > Is there any replacement of this package The package was split into two parts: libvirt-daemon-system libvirt-clients In most cases you

Re: dd - proper use or more suitable program

On 11/11/2016 10:38 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > I was wondering about that. > https://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/manual/ddrescue_manual.html is > not first time user friendly. Will re-read after a good night's > sleep. Will also look for appropriate tutorials. Suggestions? Well, I would

Re: dd - proper use or more suitable program

Hi, Am 11. November 2016 17:57:27 MEZ, schrieb Andy Smith : >Hi Richard, > >On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 10:49:37AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: >> I was considering using dd to copy the entire drive to a *SINGLE* >> partition of a 1 TB drive with the intention making a "byte

Re: Trivial script will NOT execute

On 11/05/2016 01:51 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > Today I've been having weird problems executing scripts. > As I have no valuable data on the partition containing Debian, I > wiped it and did a fresh install of Debian Jessie (8.6.0) MATE > desktop environment from a purchased set of DVDs. Earlier

Re: Strange crontab message regarding execle

On 10/31/2016 10:06 AM, Johann Spies wrote: > I user testing/sid and do regular dist-upgrades. Sometime last week these > messages started to appear regarding one of my crontab-entries: > > Subject: Cron /usr/bin/fetchmail -L ~/.procmail/log > > /dev/null 2>&1 > > /bin/sh# Edit

PID files of services vs. systemd (was: Re: systemd)

On 10/11/2016 08:04 PM, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi all, after upgraded oldstable to stable it happens that systemd > doesn't create PID file of these packages: > > openvpn > smartmontools There's a general misconception here: systemd never creates pid files for daemons. The PIDFile= setting in a

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

> [ kernel, dist-upgrade ] All looks fine, you seem to have an up to date Jessie system and the only thing that was installed was the security update DSA-3684-1 of this morning. On 10/03/2016 08:42 PM, Hans Kraus wrote: > Oct 02 17:24:37 robbe /etc/gdm3/Xsession[2351]: Xlib: extension "GLX" >

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

On 10/03/2016 06:50 PM, Hans Kraus wrote: > With "gui stopped" I mean the following: > After the boot process, instead of the graphical login screen where > one can select the user, enter the password and do some selections, > the following screen appears: > > A pic of a sad computer with the

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

On 10/02/2016 05:59 PM, Hans Kraus wrote: > I upgraded my Debian server about a week ago from Wheezy to Jessie. > After that the GUI stopped, This is a bit vague, so a better explanation would be good. What exactly do you mean "gui stopped"? Did that happen during the update? Or at boot? Does the

Re: Maximal volume size for the client with a NFS v3 mounting

On 09/28/2016 07:18 PM, Jean-Paul Bouchet wrote: > On a Jessie 8.5 system I mount a partition on a NAS server with NFSv3 > protocol using options "nfs rw,soft" in /etc/fstab. > > The size of the volume on the NAS server side has been extended to 20 > To, but for my Debian system, this extension

Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

On 09/24/2016 06:02 PM, Glenn English wrote: >> On Sep 24, 2016, at 7:44 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> For my own education, I'm not sure what you mean by "backup your current >> state >> before upgrading"--does that mean a full backup of your system, or is there >> a >> way to somehow

Re: Typing Cyrillic script with a UK keyboard in an en-gb setting

On 09/24/2016 05:07 PM, david...@freevolt.org wrote: > On Sat, 24 Sep 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> My husband has just asked to do this. His system is vanilla from this point >> of view. (Mine is in a mess, with a messed-up scim and no foreign >> fonts "working", but that is another story.) >>

Re: Typing Cyrillic script with a UK keyboard in an en-gb setting

On 09/24/2016 04:10 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > My husband has just asked to do this. His system is vanilla from this point > of view. (Mine is in a mess, with a messed-up scim and no foreign > fonts "working", but that is another story.) > > Advice please on the best way to achieve this for

Re: update-alternatives failure to set/config x-www-browser

Hi, Am 5. September 2016 14:31:45 MESZ, schrieb Tony Baldwin : >I have done >sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser about 50 times in this >past week, and chosen chromium-browser as my goto/default, but links >from icedove keep opening in iceweasel, no matter what.

Re: How to unpack an repack a deb package?

On 08/26/2016 02:03 PM, Hans wrote: > I need to unpack and repack a debian package. Reason: I want to change the > dependencies in that package. > > How can I do that? I imagine, to unpack the *.deb, then edit my control file, > after that pack it again. Well, the easiest way to do so, if

Re: iscsistart: TargetName not set.

On 08/19/2016 02:11 PM, Fredrik Nilsson wrote: > The contents of initiatornam.iscsi is one line: > > GenerateName=yes Ok, there's the problem. The message from iscsistart is misleading, because not the target name is invalid, but the initiator name. (Probably because of the way the options are

Re: iscsistart: TargetName not set.

Hi, (writing this from my phone, so please pardon my bottom quote) For reference: I co-maintain open-iscsi in Debian. Could you provide the contents of the initiatorname.iscsi and iscsi.initramfs files in the initramfs verbatim? (Anonymizing users/passwords is OK of course.) Also: did you

Re: gcc-doc in stretch

On 08/06/2016 04:08 PM, Steven Tan wrote: > https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=gcc-doc=names=all=all > It looks like the package gcc-doc is not provided in stretch, not even in > contrib or non-free, but the package is provided in jessie and sid. > > Is this a bug or intended? Well,

Re: Indexing Unix command

On 08/01/2016 02:52 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > with the following simple script: > > #!/bin/sh > > cat index.idx | sort > index.ind > > I sort the contents of a file and write it in another file. Now, I want that > a > small vertical space, i.e. an empty line or two, were inserted before all

Re: What Linux distribution to use?

On 07/26/2016 11:35 AM, Johann Klammer wrote: > Unfortunately, Debian does not work for me anymore. > > I have special needs: > binary packages. > i386 code without SSE stuff or other surprises. Well, if you don't tell us why Debian doesn't work for you any more, then it will probably not be

Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup, but can run manually without any trouble

t to do) and configuration (when you want to do it). I do the same for cron jobs: I create a script in /usr/local/sbin, and have the cron job call that script instead of writing it directly into the crontab. > On 10/06/2016 7:29 AM, Christian Seiler wrote: >> The main problem with this scheme a

Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup, but can run manually without any trouble

On 06/09/2016 10:10 PM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > What I have now is that with some extra "smarts" that stops the original > concept from working as intended. The smarts is meant to allow for > faster startup and to tie in dependancies; to me, it is trying to be too > smart and that is where the

Re: Linux startup, Wheezy -- a required script won't run on startup, but can run manually without any trouble

On 06/09/2016 07:46 PM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > The order of the scripts alone allowed for everything to be very, very > simple and no script relied upon any other; they were self dependent. > If you wanted something to be available before your script, you made > sure your numeric number after

Re: aarch64 qemu workaround

On 06/05/2016 09:43 AM, Mike wrote: > https://gmplib.org/~tege/qemu.html > > Scrolling down to the aarch64 section describes the situation. Is what is describe there for aarch64 actually that bad? Having to modify /etc/initramfs-tools/modules seems to be not too bad of a thing to me... You could

Re: cross install 64bit target from 32bit host

On 05/29/2016 01:34 AM, Haines Brown wrote: > This is an extension of my initial question, for I'm not sure my initial > conclusion that it is impossible to chroot a 64bit system from a 32bit > system is correct. With a 32bit kernel you need qemu-user-static for this to work - but expect it to be

Re: QEMU MIPS Debian8.4 run issue

On 05/27/2016 06:23 AM, 飞颜 wrote: > QEMU start command below: > qemu-system-mips -M mips -kernel vmlinux-3.16.0-4-4kc-malta -initrd > initrd.gz -hda hda.img -append "root=/dev/ram console=ttyS0" -nographice > > Only show message below, can not run. > qemu: Warning, could not load MIPS bios

Re: boot confuses 'fuse' as local file system

On 05/24/2016 04:09 PM, dummy user wrote: > it seems that boot script which runs 'mount' doesn't recognize fuse as > remote file system. Yes, because fuse can also be used for some local file systems, so systemd can't know based on the type that this is indeed a remote file system. > Could

Re: C program launched by start-stop-daemon fails to catch signals

On 05/07/2016 06:39 AM, CN wrote: > The following compilable C++ program catches signals as expected if it > runs directly from shell /tmp/a.out. > > However, this program fails to catch any signal and silently terminates > if it is fired by Debian's start-stop-daemon. No, it does catch the

Re: cross-debootstrap error

Hi, On 04/30/2016 10:20 PM, Diddier Hilarion wrote: > I have the following problem when I try to do crossdebootstrap of arm64 > as specified in the following page of the wiki > > https://wiki.debian.org/Arm64Qemu > > I got stuck in the fourth step, after doing the specified i get the >

Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup)

On 04/24/2016 08:11 PM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > systemd continues to cause much more trouble than it is worth for so > many people -- I really wish it wasn't so, but it truly is so. :( You don't seem to understand the criticism that has been levelled at your conduct here. Ansgar didn't ask you

Re: open-iscsi & multipath-tools

Hello, (CC'ing the bug report I created, dropping debian-user in reply-to.) Am 2016-04-22 16:10, schrieb BASSAGET Cédric: I'm unable to reproduce for about 1 hour... Now, everyhting works fine after a reboot, but... the only thing I've done is to remove the vg / pv i created on multipath

Re: open-iscsi & multipath-tools

Package: open-iscsi Version: 2.0.873+git0.3b4b4500-8+deb8u1 Severity: normal Owner: ! Tags: jessie moreinfo Hi there, FYI: I'm co-maintainer of open-iscsi in Debian, but not multipath-tools. CC'ing the bugtracker, assigning to open-iscsi for now, will reassign to multipath-tools later if

Re: Failure to install request-tracker4 in Jessie Newest

On 04/07/2016 10:41 PM, John T. Haggerty wrote: > That was able to work, however at the moment I've run into an issue that I > think I had years before namely the inability of the base installation > (even with the questions that the system asks during configuration of > request-tracker4) failing

Re: Failure to install request-tracker4 in Jessie Newest

Hi, On 04/07/2016 12:14 AM, John T. Haggerty wrote: > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8.3.0 _Jessie_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 > 20160123-19:03]/ jessie contrib main > > deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8.3.0 _Jessie_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-2 > 20160123-19:03]/ jessie contrib main > > deb

Re: Failure to install request-tracker4 in Jessie Newest

On 04/06/2016 10:23 PM, John T. Haggerty wrote: > There is a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ but only have a chrome.txt or something > like that in there. That's good to know, but that doesn't answer my other questions: what is the contents of your /etc/apt/sources.list (without .d) and what happens

Re: Failure to install request-tracker4 in Jessie Newest

On 04/06/2016 10:12 PM, John T. Haggerty wrote: > I would like to get request tracker working but the main package fails to > install. I am getting the following errors: [...] > > request-tracker4 : Depends: libhtml-mason-perl (>= 1:1.43) which is a > virtual package. libhtml-mason-perl is not

Re: x86_64 vs i386

On 03/20/2016 06:45 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > One of the problems I have is architecture related, synaptic thinks for > some unfathomable to me reason, that this is an i386 machine. But its > not, currently running kernel 3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64, and no currently > installed 32 bit application

Re: Verify packages?

On 02/26/2016 03:05 PM, Hans wrote: >> Please try (don't need to be root): >> [...] > great! This helped. It was tvbrowser and fakturama (both Debian/Ubuntu > packages and not from the repo) which interfered. > > I moved teh md5sums out of the way during the test. I would like to note two

Re: Verify packages?

On 02/26/2016 12:01 PM, Hans wrote: >> 'sudo dpkg --verify' will tell you what files have been altered from >> the ones installed by packages. > thanks for the advice. But it looks like dpkg has a bug. I get: > > dpkg: error: control file 'md5sums' missing value separator > > However, maybe a

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

On 02/25/2016 03:07 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> MD5 alone can be somewhat dangerous even in benevolent environments: if the >> data sets are large enough or you are just unlucky, you are going to hit a >> colision and corrupt-or-lose-data-on-dedup sooner or later. > > [G]it doesn't seem worried

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

On 02/24/2016 01:48 PM, Nicolas George wrote: > Le sextidi 6 ventôse, an CCXXIV, Christian Seiler a écrit : >> Yes, I know what an HMAC is. But an HMAC is _utterly_ useless for a >> digital signature. > > Please stop commenting the finger when I try to show you the moon. Th

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

>> So a valid way to construct an OpenPGP v4 signature would be to >> use >> >> H(contents || 0x04 0x00 0x01 0x08 0x00 0x00) >> >> as the input for the RSA algorithm (and then pack that up in a >> nice OpenPGP packet). > > I did not have the reference of what OpenPGP does near at hand, I was

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

On 02/23/2016 07:52 PM, Nicolas George wrote: > What you quote is about signing a summary of files at once versus signing > each file individually. This is not what I was talking about. What I was > talking about was signing the file contents itself versus signing the hash > of the file. But if

Re: Warning Linux Mint Website Hacked and ISOs replaced with Backdoored Operating System

On 02/23/2016 04:49 PM, Nicolas George wrote: > Le quintidi 5 ventôse, an CCXXIV, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : >> If the SHA512SUMS.sign > > Stop right there. Signing a bunch of hashes is a beginner's mistake, I have > already emphasized that in this thread. You have _emphasized_ it, but you haven't

Re: pam_smbpass.so

On 02/18/2016 02:49 AM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Christian Seiler <christ...@iwakd.de> writes: >> Just a hunch: do you run dovecot chroot'ed? If so, then it is most >> likely the case that the specific PAM module is not available within >> the chroot and that's w

Re: dovecot -- Require different setting for mail_location for each of POP3S and IMAPS protocols

On 02/22/2016 06:00 PM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > I've tried getting this answered on dovecot mailing list, but not > having success so far; so I'm trying here too now (considering it is a > Debian system that was upgraded from squeeze-lts to wheezy). Not tested, but you could try the following

Re: pam_smbpass.so

Hi, On 02/17/2016 05:11 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Christian Seiler writes: >> [Suggesting journalctl -o verbose to debug this] > I'm running a current Debian testing installation, and journal is > enabled. > > It turns out it's only coming from /usr/lib/dovecot/auth. What

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