Re: Burn Blu-Ray video on Linux

2018-10-04 Thread Jonathan Dowland
cture port - which is something different to i386 or amd64 and almost certainly not relevant to solving this problem. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-10-04 Thread Jonathan Dowland
d into the Debian package. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

discussing debian wiki on the wiki (was Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?)

2018-09-28 Thread Jonathan Dowland
next week). [1] https://moinmo.in/HelpOnConfiguration/SupplementationPage -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread Jonathan Dowland
t involved in cdrkit development. I opted to restore the text exactly as it was (a pure revert) rather than improve upon it, although I'm not really sure why I rationalised that. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread Jonathan Dowland
space :-) -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread Jonathan Dowland
wodim should not be in the archive either. The binary package name wodim is currently provided by the src package cdrkit. Is that abandoned? (I'm asking this elsewhere, too) -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Why does Debian allow all incoming traffic by default

2018-09-26 Thread Jonathan Dowland
one of a few custom chains. Exactly, it would not be worth attempting to support meshing your setup with the system I sketched out. This is exactly the situation where I'd say you go it alone instead, exactly as you do now. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀

Re: Decrypting LUKS from initramfs; was: Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-26 Thread Jonathan Dowland
scenarios. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Why does Debian allow all incoming traffic by default

2018-09-26 Thread Jonathan Dowland
a subtle distinction). I outline a high-level approach to that in my last email to this thread (a reply to Joe). -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Why does Debian allow all incoming traffic by default

2018-09-26 Thread Jonathan Dowland
e the choice of reworking your configuration to work in harmony with the new arrangement, or override and ignore it, and continue as you are. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: calibre ebook project?

2018-09-26 Thread Jonathan Dowland
mailing list with a Code of Conduct that enshrines "assume good faith", if you are not happy with the rule, please do not post. https://www.debian.org/code_of_conduct -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-26 Thread Jonathan Dowland
tools to trust whatever you need and regenerate your initramfs. When you SSH into the pre-boot environment, you get a shell and need to write the decryption passphrase to /lib/cryptsetup/passfifo. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subsc

Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-26 Thread Jonathan Dowland
of free space, on a 64bit workstation like the original DEC Alphas? This reminds me that I filed a d-i bug to increase the default size of /boot for normal installations, I need to chase that up. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am

Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-26 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ck on just about every power outage. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Why does Debian allow all incoming traffic by default

2018-09-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ed in negative terms such as "hiding" and so on. I don't know to where you have asked the questions that were totally ignored in your words, but a reasonable place to do so would be this very mailing list here. Please feel free to ask again. /rant Indeed. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonath

Re: Why does Debian allow all incoming traffic by default

2018-09-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
should service? I don't think so. If you are setting such a thing up you should be expected to punch the requisite holes in the default firewall as part of that work. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Why does Debian allow all incoming traffic by default

2018-09-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
(in either direction) -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Why does Debian allow all incoming traffic by default

2018-09-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
d has some nicer properties), I think it's also significantly nicer than firewall-cmd, a similar tool that has a much worse UX for the simplest case. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Why does Debian allow all incoming traffic by default

2018-09-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
oming connections. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: calibre ebook project?

2018-09-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ess a reCAPTCHA. They are inherently inaccessible to people with visability issues, such as blindness. Please assume good faith of fellow posters. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-12 Thread Jonathan Dowland
lection of packages (e.g. new kernel, basically anything that might trigger an initramfs rebuild) Looking now it appears I reverted to legacy boot on this host and no longer have a /boot/efi partition at all. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not C

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-09-05 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 10:05:14PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Yes, I probably can, but this is a bit public for that. :( I'm glad to learn your "what's appropriate for Debian User" self-filter has at least *some* bounds. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-09-03 Thread Jonathan Dowland
pants if more people would take advantage of that. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Cannot Install/Uninstall sendmail

2018-08-29 Thread Jonathan Dowland
/master/debian/sendmail-base.prerm.in [2] https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

2018-08-10 Thread Jonathan Dowland
offer a very forum-like interface to mailing lists, permitting people to reply via web, or click "+1" buttons (thus freeing the mail interface of lots of "+1" mails, a blight that debian-user fortunately doesn't suffer) -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: luks, crypttab: why 3 partition only 2 passphrases entered

2018-08-08 Thread Jonathan Dowland
r the removeable drive instead, stored on the internal encrypted drive. I considered my threat model, realised that was fine, so abandoned my attempts to change the systemd/keyctl timeout. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed t

Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo

2018-08-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
7;su -'). I've long forgotten why, but I committed "sudo su -" to muscle memory sometime in the last two decades, and I'm mildly amused to see I'm escaping the coming su-pocalypse unscathed. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: luks, crypttab: why 3 partition only 2 passphrases entered

2018-08-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ssing the password through to systemd, then it need not be caching it itself, as systemd caches disk passwords for a short while (I think 5 minutes if I recall correctly). See systemd-ask-password(1) for an introduction to the architecture of systemd's password stuff. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonath

Re: luks, crypttab: why 3 partition only 2 passphrases entered

2018-08-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
w to enter the passphrase only once? b) When/where (scripts) and how is the passphrase stored? a) Short version: Use LVM to set up your partitions. snip Are you suggesting OP should re-format/reinstall their machine to figure this out? and you call that the *short* version?! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿

Re: problem with modern desktops on Buster

2018-08-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ny drivers from outside Debian to use it? -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: As seen above: use of su vs sudo

2018-08-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ou to), it doesn't install sudo. If you try to set a blank root password, it locks the root account, installs sudo and sets up the user you created with sudo access. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: [OT] An easier database

2018-07-25 Thread Jonathan Dowland
uld be nice for apt to have a feature so that a user could mark packages "never install". ¹ https://endlessos.com/ -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: [OT] An easier database

2018-07-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
I've installed single applications on Macs that are larger than this, and I think that's often the case for Windows too. If tellico proves to be useful, than this is a price well worth paying. And if it doesn't, all this gets undone with a few simple apt commands. -- ⢀⣴

Re: apache not running at boot

2018-07-18 Thread Jonathan Dowland
recall, none of this should be necessary by default, so there is likely a configuration problem. If all of the above does not result in a running apache2, check "journalctl -u apache2.service" for clues, and failing that, /var/log/apache2/* -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https:/

Re: Debian got too fat?

2018-07-16 Thread Jonathan Dowland
orphan it), find an alternative tool to achieve what you want. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Separate /home directories etc?

2018-07-10 Thread Jonathan Dowland
that case. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: anybody maintaining lxc and lxd in Debian?

2018-07-10 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ent status it's not as bleak as I feared; the last dependency was finally finished in February. Does everybody interested in virtualization use Ubuntu now? No; in the grand scheme of virtualization LXD is still quite niche. But I hope we'll see it in Debian soon none-the-less. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻

Re: ~ CD Burning Software

2018-05-21 Thread Jonathan Dowland
wodim from the command-line and had better success. But I'm now in the process of abandoning optical media altogether. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Which packages are my bugs in? (system suspend issues)

2018-05-10 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ys be reassigned as we narrow down the problem. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Backup problem using "cp"

2018-05-10 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sun, May 06, 2018 at 01:55:32PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I thought I had broken the loop by specifying -x. This is one excellent illustration of why cp is the wrong tool for this job. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am

Re: etherape - why removed?

2018-04-11 Thread Jonathan Dowland
's to survive into the next stable release. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: More then 2800 spams from the list...

2018-03-19 Thread Jonathan Dowland
This does not belong on debian-user (and indeed posting it will only make matters worse for you and us) -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: end of security support for wheezy LTS

2018-02-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
. Freexian is concerned with older releases that would not otherwise be supported. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: exim4 wont configure resolved

2018-02-13 Thread Jonathan Dowland
o the debconf-exim-config-generation machinery in newer package versions, but it is quite static anyway. You would also side-step bugs like the above. -- Jonathan Dowland

Re: Playing or Ripping UDF CDs Under jessie

2018-01-31 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 12:03:27PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, i wrote: > They saw a CD and tried UDF. Cluelessly and in vain. Jonathan Dowland wrote: They did that because of the fstab line which specified udf, and the presence of a data track on the CD. The "problem CD&

Re: Playing or Ripping UDF CDs Under jessie

2018-01-29 Thread Jonathan Dowland
specified udf, and the presence of a data track on the CD. I've never seen the use of "iso9660,udf" in that column of fstab before. (would "auto" do the same thing?) You learn something new every day! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄

Re: Playing or Ripping UDF CDs Under jessie

2018-01-29 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 01:27:08AM +0100, deloptes wrote: in any case no one can take the power of dd away :D Good luck reading audio track data from CD-ROMs with dd. Or subcode information. Tip: you can't. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do n

Re: Kernel for Spectre and Meltdown

2018-01-29 Thread Jonathan Dowland
er is packaged (in sid), this is a better route to get the script as it is (or will be) adjusted to work properly on a Debian system. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Aptitude package manager "package"

2018-01-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
rming a Debian release upgrade* is not recommended anymore but for normal use it is perfectly fine. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-24 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ng buffer. So my question becomes: Is it just my server, or others too? And why me? Good question. Is this a VPS? -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Installing and running legacy software (was Re: Problem using "dpkg -i")

2018-01-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
so I can tell if my changes display as intended? I can't answer this question because I am not familiar with a particular tool that does this, but I would recommend investigating this option thoroughly before resorting to #1. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd

Re: Frustration over Debian naming (was: Re: Meltdown fix for wheezy-backports)

2018-01-13 Thread Jonathan Dowland
no guarantee it will be there Tomorrow. Some people always seem to remain confused. Perhaps they have the same confusion with timezones, for similar reasons. Both are confusing. One, Debian has the possibility to improve. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Pl

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-10 Thread Jonathan Dowland
hether it is already reported.) Even if the OP left the install USB plugged into their machine, the sources.list line would never work. -- Jonathan Dowland

Re: Why was this package removed but apt?

2018-01-10 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Hi! On Wed, 2018-01-10 at 11:17 +0100, Jonathan Sélea wrote: > I am trying to figure out why apt did remove this particular package  > when unattended-upgrade ran a couple of days ago: The most likely explanation is that it was automatically-installed as a dependency of another package, and an up

Re: Faulty .iso? No public key...

2018-01-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
What does "apt policy debian-archive-keyring" show? Which version (if any) do you have installed? You could also try "apt install debian-archive-keyring" This should clear up the issues with stretch-updates, but not the virtualbox repository. For that you'll need to find, verify and import the re

Re: Android Debian - Lets start Debian for Android hw phones

2018-01-08 Thread Jonathan Dowland
curious: https://www.planetcom.co.uk/ -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Is there a way to know the ISP with the default installation of Stretch?

2018-01-02 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ast not as long as there are people maintaining them, hint, hint). As someone who dislikes ip(8), I suspect the eventual solution will be a new, third tool. In the meantime I indeed just install net-tools and get on with my life. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀

Re: LUKS password gets printed as stars

2017-12-19 Thread Jonathan Dowland
more luck in at least getting a discussion of the various merits of each approach, if not a change of behaviour, by posting to the systemd-devel mailing list[1] [1] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net

Re: hosting emails at home

2017-12-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Thanks for sharing!

Re: hosting emails at home

2017-12-14 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, 2017-12-11 at 20:02 -0500, m...@neidorff.com wrote: > So, I have a very similar problem (I use qmail instead of postfix) > and when I  > upgrade the server, I make a backup of my config files.  I then > install the  > software and restore the config files (including certificates).  > Poof--

Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd

2017-12-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sat, 2017-12-09 at 10:00 +, Brian wrote: > Consistencey can be achieved by not installing policykit. The OP > appears to have chosen the wrong target.Consistencey can be achieved > by not > installing policykit. As Michael pointed out in [1], that's not the case; prior to polkit, there was

Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd

2017-12-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
false, it *could* be changed. Let me know if you find one. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd

2017-12-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 03:31:54PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: 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

Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd

2017-12-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
A bug report against the release notes with a patch is always worth a try. The relevant release notes would be the ones for the release that introduced systemd which has been and gone. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd

2017-12-08 Thread Jonathan Dowland
t should be a documented configuration option to allow for alternative use cases. No objection there, and I agree that the release notes should probably have covered the policy changes. That ship has now sailed unfortunately. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ P

Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd

2017-12-08 Thread Jonathan Dowland
d or unrelated to this example. You may not like the default policy that is now applied using [a new system], but that does not change the essential truth of the previous paragraph. -- Jonathan Dowland

Re: Embarrassing security bug in systemd

2017-12-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ate binary. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Debian boot and LUKS

2017-12-04 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ebuild the initramfs. There are still some improvements that could be made here. (I have to check my own page describing my NAS setup whenever I reboot to remember which fifo to write the passphrase to: https://jmtd.net/hardware/phobos/#index6h3) -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https:

Re: Thunderbird no longer opens links

2017-12-04 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 03:30:50PM +0100, solitone wrote: On 01/12/17 15:22, Jonathan Dowland wrote: AppArmor is not enabled in current stable, so you should only hit this bug if you are using stable's thunderbird on a testing/sid system, or manually enabling AppArmor yourself on stable

Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian

2017-12-01 Thread Jonathan Dowland
o releases. That's bound to be troublesome. but almost no problem from lenny to stretch. That's the path that OP's friend would be attempting (as lenny is currently oldoldoldoldstable). I'm glad it worked for you, but I would still not recommend it to anyone else. -- ⢀⣴

Re: Thunderbird no longer opens links

2017-12-01 Thread Jonathan Dowland
hunderbird on a testing/sid system, or manually enabling AppArmor yourself on stable. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Why the release-critical bugs status page has erroneous colors in the plots?

2017-12-01 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Thanks [1] https://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

2017-11-29 Thread Jonathan Dowland
bbering the existing partitions or volume group by accident. (No offense intended. I've done it myself very recently.) -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Upgrading from very-old Debian

2017-11-29 Thread Jonathan Dowland
e that an old init script that was modified (and therefore won't be replaced by package upgrades) could come along for the ride and cause problems. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: How can I determine package containing error?

2017-11-17 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Report it against "lxde", Once reported, if it turns out that it should be against a different package, the bug can be re-assigned: but "lxde" is likely to be the correct maintainer at the very least. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Pleas

Re: No KODI for buster?

2017-11-13 Thread Jonathan Dowland
should be unblocked once the maintainer makes a normal upload to unstable. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: ~ Handhelds that conviently run Debian

2017-11-08 Thread Jonathan Dowland
possibly DIY answer is a Raspberry Pi 3, or Zero W, and a suitable case and battery for it. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Another Devuan annoyance: CLI default apps

2017-11-02 Thread Jonathan Dowland
/contact#mailing-lists -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames

2017-10-13 Thread Jonathan Dowland
path, I dunno, like /usr/share/X11R7/bin? (/s) -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames

2017-10-13 Thread Jonathan Dowland
is sort of thing. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: How to change the console font?

2017-09-28 Thread Jonathan Dowland
he setfont(1) and console-setup(5) manual pages for more information. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

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

2017-09-01 Thread Jonathan Dowland
to change". But I haven't produced this yet. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Replace systemd

2017-07-07 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ll, it was essentially invoking aptitude within d-i, either after or instead of the normal task selection stage. I've just gone through an expert mode install with stretch netinst and that option is no longer available. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do

Re: Replace systemd

2017-07-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ode offers you a choice to select packages manually, at which point you can select the init of your choice. But tell you what, I'll actually try this Tomorrow to ensure that it is still the case. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I a

Re: Replace systemd

2017-07-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ny of them myself *screeching halt* Let me know when you have, and I may be prepared to discuss it with you again. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Replace systemd

2017-07-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
solution least biased in favor of any particular init system. It seems quite proper that there *is* a bias here: towards the system that Debian recommends, that is judged to be the best choice for the majority of users, and will receive the most testing. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland

Re: Replace systemd

2017-07-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
true. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Replace systemd

2017-07-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
using a desktop environment. I was arguing that some people *want* the desktop environment to do that for them. Of course you can DIY. But not everyone wants to. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Einstellungen in Kontact

2017-07-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user-german/ -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Replace systemd

2017-07-06 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ptions are there too, you are right. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Replace systemd

2017-07-05 Thread Jonathan Dowland
d..." which seems to have been ignored. Perhaps David will find those messages in the archives. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Replace systemd

2017-07-05 Thread Jonathan Dowland
systemd0 installed anyway? And you're a full Debian release behind at the same time! Anyway, since you are no longer a Debian user, you are unlikely to see this message, as surely you have dutifully unsubscribed and will not be posting here anymore, as is right and proper. -- ⢀⣴⠾

Re: Replace systemd

2017-07-05 Thread Jonathan Dowland
on manager) -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: How did you update to stretch?

2017-06-26 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 03:04:30AM +1000, John Elliot V wrote: Can I ask why you did the apt-get upgrade before the apt-get dist-upgrade? Why not just go straight for apt-get dist-upgrade..? Merely because that's what the release notes said to do. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Do

Re: No live CD ISOs without GUI desktops?

2017-06-26 Thread Jonathan Dowland
maybe some of the tinyCore ones that offer a boot-time choice to avoid GUIs, and have them on the image. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: How did you update to stretch?

2017-06-26 Thread Jonathan Dowland
) very well at the moment. That's not going to happen. I'm not even sure aptitude is maintained anymore. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Creating a deb package from source

2017-06-08 Thread Jonathan Dowland
ur needs; however, if you really want to understand how all the various bits work, you can instead try to create everything from scratch (start with debian/control, debian/changelog and debian/rules as a bare minumum). -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

Re: Oh no! Something has gone wrong

2017-06-05 Thread Jonathan Dowland
OP, I'd try the XFCE based live CD inside vbox if I were you. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

where to report a bug for touchpad issues (was Re: Report bug.)

2017-05-22 Thread Jonathan Dowland
wo drivers I think. You can determine which by reading /var/log/Xorg.0.log. That should indicate which of the two packages to report a bug against. (But first please check the existing bug reports to make sure it is not already reported) -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net

Re: Debian Developers Have Been Listening!

2017-05-19 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Thank you for sharing your experiences! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Jonathan Dowland ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://jmtd.net ⠈⠳⣄ Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.

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