Wireless Hard Lock on a Dell XPS 15in (releasable only during waking up from suspend)

2015-05-19 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hi, I have installed Jessie on a Dell XPS 9530 (late 2013) and am encountering problems (that are shared by others on the web) using the wireless card: it appears hard locked upon boot under all tested circumstances and no mocking with blacklisting wmi, dell-laptop, or other googled remedies

jessie and unpriviledged lxc containers

2015-05-03 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, I'm playing with unpriviledged lxc containers according to http://tinyurl.com/kvzxlvj on jessie. In order to lxc-create as a non-root user I have to do PROMPT echo 1 /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/cgroup.clone_children PROMPT echo 1 /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_userns_clone How can I make

Re: LXC unprivileged containers

2015-05-03 Thread Johannes Graumann
Darren Baginski wrote: Hello! I'm trying to spawn unprivileged LXC containers as described here http://www.flockport.com/lxc-using-unprivileged-containers/ , however getting: lxc-create -n myvm -t debian -- -r jessie unshare: Operation not permitted read pipe: No such file or

Re: jessie and unpriviledged lxc containers

2015-05-03 Thread Johannes Graumann
Christian Seiler wrote: On 05/03/2015 08:43 AM, Johannes Graumann wrote: I'm playing with unpriviledged lxc containers according to http://tinyurl.com/kvzxlvj on jessie. In order to lxc-create as a non-root user I have to do PROMPT echo 1 /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/cgroup.clone_children

Re: NetworkManager tun/br enigma

2015-03-30 Thread Johannes Graumann
Johannes Graumann wrote: Johannes Graumann wrote: Hello, I'm trying to get a NetworkManager-independent bridg up and running to be able to have my firewall manage traffic to/from lxc containers. My '/etc/network/interfaces' looks like this: auto lo iface lo inet loopback # tun

Re: NetworkManager tun/br enigma

2015-03-29 Thread Johannes Graumann
Johannes Graumann wrote: Hello, I'm trying to get a NetworkManager-independent bridg up and running to be able to have my firewall manage traffic to/from lxc containers. My '/etc/network/interfaces' looks like this: auto lo iface lo inet loopback # tun/tap/bridge combo for lxc

NetworkManager tun/br enigma

2015-03-28 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, I'm trying to get a NetworkManager-independent bridg up and running to be able to have my firewall manage traffic to/from lxc containers. My '/etc/network/interfaces' looks like this: auto lo iface lo inet loopback # tun/tap/bridge combo for lxc container networking auto tun0

nullmailer, cron email email provider requiring appropriate From field

2015-01-31 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, I have setup nullmailer on a debian stable system of mine to forward email to the smtp server of my mykolab.com account. That account requires that From in the header matches the account email. Cron on my system insists to send email (as e.g. produced by a logcheck cron job) using From

Re: nullmailer, cron email email provider requiring appropriate From field

2015-01-31 Thread Johannes Graumann
Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Feb 01, 2015 at 08:01:23AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 09:03:44PM +0300, Johannes Graumann wrote: Hello, I have setup nullmailer on a debian stable system of mine to forward email to the smtp server of my mykolab.com account

Re: How to change installer image?

2015-01-20 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, Outstanding! Thank you, both Steve and Thomas! Based on Steve's hint I had it mostly right, but the isobybrid business was beyond my capabilities (and would have come to bite me once actually in front of the machine to be installed). I'll report back once I got a chance to try the new

How to change installer image?

2015-01-19 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, To fix some configurations needed to install via a serial connection, I would like to edit txt.cfg in isolinux of the stable installation CD. Following https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Modify/CD I try: 1) mkdir /tmp/debian-7.8.0-i386-CD-1-mod 2) bsdtar -C

Updating remote system (testing) through aptitude - non-bootable ... was it intel-microcode?

2013-07-03 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hi, I administer a remote server running testing and updated it yesterday (apt history and dpkg log below). After that the system wouldn't reboot. I have access through the hosting companies rescue system and can rummage around, but am at a loss how to trouble shoot this, as messages,dmesg etc

Keeping backups until storage runs short (deja-dup style) with command line tools?

2013-02-21 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hi, deja-dup has an option to keep backups forever or until storage on the drive backed up to runs short (at which point it starts deleting old backups). Does someone have any pointers on how to copy that behavior using duplicity and/or other CLI tools? Cheers, Joh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Elegant solution for network-dependent cifs/smb mounting?

2012-09-28 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hi, I am looking for a debian- (and optimally kde-) compatible solution that would allow me to mount cifs/smb network drives ONLY if on the network where they are expected to exist. I there was a solution that would upon attempted access to adrive a) check whether on the right network b) check

python-augeas enigma: error on lxc-container, none on desktop

2012-09-17 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hi, I have to wheezy setups. One is my desktop and another one is a lxc container. Their python setup seems identical and the same version of python-augeas is installed on both. On the desktop calling $ python from augeas import Augeas works just fine, but on the container I get Python

libfprint: configure pam to only (and exclusively) use for xscreensaver

2012-03-18 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hi, Below you find my (testing stock) /etc/pam.d/common-auth xscreensaver files. I have endlessly played around but this eludes me, so any help would be appreciated ... I'm trying to configure pam such that normal password authentication is used UNLESS we are unlocking xscreensaver, when it

Re: Finnishing apt/aptitude runs with a script?

2011-03-31 Thread Johannes Graumann
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-03-31 08:49 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Jo, 31 mar 11, 08:01:46, Johannes Graumann wrote: I'm running a host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS) and have to update it's database whenever I upgrade the system using apt/aptitude. Does that package

Finnishing apt/aptitude runs with a script?

2011-03-30 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hi, I'm running a host-based intrusion detection system (HIDS) and have to update it's database whenever I upgrade the system using apt/aptitude. Does that package management suite provide the functionality to run a script/shell command when it's quitting? I'd prefer such a solution over the

Re: KDE4 and other WM: user-specific avoiding of plasma-autostart?

2011-01-18 Thread Johannes Graumann
Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2011-01-18, Johannes Graumann johannes_graum...@web.de wrote: Hi, This is an u to date Debian testing installation. I'm running kde4 through awesome (having set the KDEWM environment variable). To prevent plasma to start in this environment, I have renamed both

KDE4 and other WM: user-specific avoiding of plasma-autostart?

2011-01-17 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hi, This is an u to date Debian testing installation. I'm running kde4 through awesome (having set the KDEWM environment variable). To prevent plasma to start in this environment, I have renamed both plasma-desktop.desktop and plasma-netbook.desktop, yet I do not like this setup, as it is

Re: Debian VServer in Germany

2010-09-14 Thread Johannes Graumann
David Jardine wrote: On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:44:36PM +0200, Johannes Graumann wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a hosting outfit in Germany that will provide a virtual server running debian with =75GB HD space, full root access and backup management. I'm with strato.de right now and happy

Re: Debian VServer in Germany

2010-09-14 Thread Johannes Graumann
Decided to solve my issues with migrating my domain to dyndns.org's custom offering. Joh Johannes Graumann wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a hosting outfit in Germany that will provide a virtual server running debian with =75GB HD space, full root access and backup management. I'm

Debian VServer in Germany

2010-09-13 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hi, I'm looking for a hosting outfit in Germany that will provide a virtual server running debian with =75GB HD space, full root access and backup management. I'm with strato.de right now and happy, BUT they will NOT allow me to set an MX-Record for the server-associated domain directly. I'm

Re: Unstable, LVM and Grub2: error: you need to load the kernel first

2009-11-30 Thread Johannes Graumann
Thanks guys. After setting the boot disk to hd(0,0) (from hd(0,1)) and removing the /boot suffix by editing the grub entry from the boot menu I got finally in and aptitude update then pulled in a working version of grub-pc. Joh Michael Wagner wrote: * Johannes Graumann johannes_graum

Unstable, LVM and Grub2: error: you need to load the kernel first

2009-11-29 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, A recent update of both my home machines running sid pulled in an update of grub2. Now both machines are stuck with the grub menu showing up fine, but no matter which kernel I choose, I always end up with this error: error: you need to load the kernel first Does anyone here have an

Re: iptables

2009-11-12 Thread Johannes Graumann
-s, --source address[/mask] Source specification. Address can be ... a network IP address (with /mask), ... The mask can be either a network mask or a plain number, specifying the number of 1's at the left side of the network mask. Thus, a mask of 24 is equivalent to

2.6.30-2 does not recognize lvm2 volume group at bootup

2009-11-03 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hi, What might be the issue if stock kernel 2.6.30-1 boots my system just fine, but the 2.6.30-2 version after leaving grub just sits around loading and never recognizes my lvm2 volume group. I'd appreciate any hints on how to troubleshoot this. Thanks, Joh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Iceweasel: Failure to add security exception

2009-08-11 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, When connecting to my home-server (using a self-signed certificate) I unsurprisingly get the famous sec_error_unknown_issuer error. I now navigate to Edit-Preference-Advanced-Encryption-View Certificates- Servers-Add Exception,type in my URL and hit Get certificate ... which fails with

Re: Can't install driveles system from USB memory stick: ISO not found.

2008-06-08 Thread Johannes Graumann
After replacing the ISO with a regular business card one this workes just fine / the netinstall ones failed reporting not being able to access the CDROM ... Joh Johannes Graumann wrote: Johannes Graumann wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install a driveles system via an USB memory stick like so

Can't install driveles system from USB memory stick: ISO not found.

2008-06-07 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hi, I'm trying to install a driveles system via an USB memory stick like so: - get http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz -get http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/mini.iso -

Re: Can't install driveles system from USB memory stick: ISO not found.

2008-06-07 Thread Johannes Graumann
Johannes Graumann wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install a driveles system via an USB memory stick like so: - get http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz -get http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/installer-i386

plone3-site and product buildout

2008-05-05 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hi, What's the most debian-conform way to install a plone3 package requiring buildout in a site create via the debian plone3-package. Is there a mailing list/newsgrou dedicated to plone in debian? Joh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: How to keep a locally compiled *.deb up to date?

2007-12-21 Thread Johannes Graumann
That seems to be one level lower than I'm looking for: checking for true upstream updates. What I want is looking for updates of the source-package *.deb) ... Joh Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Johannes Graumann wrote: Hi, Is there any mechanism to be notified by aptitude or the likes

How to keep a locally compiled *.deb up to date?

2007-12-17 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hi, Is there any mechanism to be notified by aptitude or the likes if a source package downloaded with 'apt-get source' has been upgraded by the maintainer and needs rebuilding? Thanks for chipping away on my ignorance, Joh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

XML editor wanted!

2007-02-01 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hi there, Am crawling through the web on a search for a proper XML editor, that makes life easier and speaks XSD ... got suckered into a trial license of oxygen for Eclipse ... and am loving it ... Desperation takes over: is there no NICE XML editor that's licensed compatibly with the Debian

Re: XML editor wanted!

2007-02-01 Thread Johannes Graumann
Greg Folkert wrote: On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 23:09 +0100, Johannes Graumann wrote: Hi there, Am crawling through the web on a search for a proper XML editor, that makes life easier and speaks XSD ... got suckered into a trial license of oxygen for Eclipse ... and am loving it ... Desperation

Re: XML editor wanted!

2007-02-01 Thread Johannes Graumann
I'd prefer to concentrate on my xml rather than on the editor ... Joh Mathias Brodala wrote: Hello Johannes. Johannes Graumann, 01.02.2007 23:09: Am crawling through the web on a search for a proper XML editor, that makes life easier and speaks XSD ... got suckered into a trial license

Re: XML editor wanted!

2007-02-01 Thread Johannes Graumann
Greg Folkert wrote: These are to Oxygen what nano is to emacs ... childsplay. If you want Whizzbang, Wizard style, auto-magic crap, then why use a powerful OS? I say its: Go back to Windows and Visual * something studio Pro-Live-Vista Crap And leave our unpretty but exceptionally

How to install D-Link DGE-550SX?

2006-11-30 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, I'm lost trying to install a D-Link DGE-550SX additionally to my existing network card. I have done the following: 1) add the appropriate 'dl2k' driver to /etc/modules. 2) add this to /etc/network/interfaces: allow-hotplug eth1 iface eth1 inet dhcp After a reboot dmesg|grep eth

Xen kernel for amd64-SMP?

2006-07-26 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, I may be totally not getting something here, but I was planing to play around with Xen and had a look at what's present in the unstable repository. I'm running a amd64 SMP machine and was wondering whether Xen enabled SMP kernels are in the works - maybe I'm misunderstanding this? Can I

lm-sensors watching daemon?

2004-10-10 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, I recently got lm-sensors to play along with my stock unstable 2.6.8 kernel. Now I'm looking for a daemon which utilizes the information read from the Mobo. I have found two which do what I want (shutting down at certain threshold values): 1) sentinelle

Gnome mime (?) problem (zxpdf): gnome.url_show (url)

2004-05-19 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, I'm running sid and ion as a WM. I am very fond of pybliographic and use it extensively for my paper collection. I link archived pdfs through an URL type field in my data base entry like this: file:///location/paper:year.pdf which is pretty nifty, since I can press a button behind the

dhcpd trouble

2004-02-07 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, I just installed 'testing' on my new VIA based machine using 2.6 (uname -a -- Linux server 2.6.0-1-386 #2 Sun Jan 11 16:54:21 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux). Since this is supposed to be the firewall for my home network I'm trying to get dhcpd to run - which I have sucessfully done in the past -

2.6.1 and ALSA trouble (very little volume)

2004-01-19 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, I compiled myself a 2.6.1 kernel and have problems with ALSA. Everything should be statically compiled into the kernel (ali5451 is what I need for my Fujitsu Lifebook). I based my configurations on my 2.4 kernel which used to run ALSA via modules. Seems to work, BUT using mpg123 or

marillat.free.fr

2004-01-14 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, Does anybody know what happened to marillat.free.fr? Thanks, Joh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: marillat.free.fr

2004-01-14 Thread Johannes Graumann
Thanks! Joh On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 20:17:56 +0100 Joan Tur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dimecres Gener 14 2004 17:08, en Johannes Graumann va escriure: Does anybody know what happened to marillat.free.fr? It's down. Now you can get those

CUPS update = lpr trouble from mozilla/galeon

2004-01-04 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, Having returned to my keyboard after the Holiday break, I updated my testing/unstable system to CUPSYS 1.1.20candidate6-6. Following that printing did no longer work - 'lpr -Plj2200' in the galeon printer field resulted in a printed message stating that The Postscript interpreter in [my]

sylpheed-claws/unstable trouble: ssl/gpg support missing?

2003-11-13 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, I've been using sylpheed-claws/unstable (together with sylpheed-claws-plugins/unstable and dependants) VERY happily on my testing system for a while now. Recently I caused some mess on my system and had to reinstall it afterwards ... Linux gives you the power to screw up whatever you feel

How to set up multilingual OO including arabic?

2003-10-30 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, I asked this before on the openoffice mailing list and those people told me to go asking in a debian specific forum, which let me to repost to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list, but that seems to be mainly a developers list ... so here it is again: I am running Sid and have installed OO 1.1.0-1,

Small, silent system with 2 NICs?

2003-09-14 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, Sorry for this being slightly OT, but I was wondering whether anybody here could advise me concerning a small debian compatible system that is supposed to sit SILENTLY in my living room and function as a firewall and sshd server for my wireless networ that is supposed to come into

Kernel 2.5.69 compilation issue ...

2003-08-15 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, This is my first attempt on this kernel business, so be kind ... please ... I recently downloaded through dselect kernel-source-2.5.69. I followed the procedures from http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html. When saying 'fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version=.081403

Xfree86 4.3 confusion

2003-07-20 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, A couple of days ago I installed woody with the bf2.4 kernel on my new fujitsu lifebook. I went ahead and apt-get dist-upgraded to 'testing'. At some point I then installed xfree86 to run my beloved ion wm. I must have been able to pull 4.3, since the lifebook needs the 'radeon' driver

PostgreSQL 7.3 Cron job trouble

2003-06-29 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, My daily dselecting recently lead to a PostgreSQL update to version 7.3 on my debian testing box. Everything works fine aside from this error showing up daily: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cron Daemon) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/bin/test -x

Cupsys trouble

2003-06-19 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, I'm running Cupsys 1.1.19final-1 on a testing system and have recently had problems with the http interface - which worked nicely before. When I log on via http://localhost:631/admin and give the administrative account and password, I can handle jobs and such nicely, however, if I click

Vaio PCG-R505TSK Installation Trouble

2003-04-03 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, I'm trying to install woody (bf 2.4) on my Vaio PCG-R505TSK ... with no success. After booting into the bootfloppy cd with 'linux ide2=0x180,0x386 (to makte the pcmcia cdrom drive work during the install) I can install debian without any problems and the system comes up after the

Bastille trouble

2003-03-17 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, Having trouble setting up bastille on my testing system: upon running 'bastille -b' I get the following in /var/log/Bastille/error-log: {Mon Mar 17 09:13:50 2003} Failed to place /psad as /usr/sbin/psad {Mon Mar 17 09:13:50 2003} Failed to place /psadwatchd as /usr/sbin/psadwatchd {Mon Mar

Problems with the installation of IBMJava2-SDK-1.4-0.0.i386.rpm on Testing system

2003-02-11 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, I grabed IBMJava2-SDK-1.4-0.0.i386.rpm from the IBM page and said alien IBMJava2-SDK-1.4-0.0.i386.rpm ibmjava2-sdk_1.4-1_i386.deb dpkg --install ibmjava2-sdk_1.4-1_i386.deb I included '/opt/IBMJava2-14/bin' in the PATH in /etc/profile and said ln -s

Galeon Crashing!

2002-10-27 Thread Johannes Graumann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I'm running a continously update Debian testing system. Galeon is my browser of choice (galeon-1.2.5-0.woody.deb). BUT since a couple of days it crashes continously on me (kill -9 is necessary if that happens). I can not really pin it to

debian-user-digest crippled

2002-10-18 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, Have people aside from me lately had problems with crippled debian-user-digest messages? The digests I get always have less message entries than the TOC says and the number of attached original messages corresponds to the number of entries showing up in the main message (too few as well).

USB storage (memstick) trouble

2002-10-15 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hello, Just got my OmniFlash Uno reader for Sony memsticks. Doesn't work and scanning through the google archives didn't help me out. 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi' gives me Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: SONY Model: CD-ROM CDU5211 Rev:

Re: USB storage (memstick) trouble

2002-10-15 Thread Johannes Graumann
Andrew Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try the following: insmod usbcore 'insmod usbcore' -- Using /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/usb/usbcore.o insmod: a module named usbcore already exists insmod usb-uhci 'insmod usb-uhci' -- Using

Re: USB storage (memstick) trouble

2002-10-15 Thread Johannes Graumann
Andrew Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Johannes Graumann wrote: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [IGD4-1P] System Controller (rev 14) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] AMD-760 [IGD4-1P] AGP Bridge 00:07.0 ISA bridge