Re: Sid: please fix dependences of nfs-common

2018-08-21 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 20, Michael Stone wrote: > This should probably actually be in the rpcbind package rather than > nfs-common. Once upon a time, when rpcbind was still portmap, it was > actually part of netbase so a dependency was unnecessary. But rpcinfo is And after my slimming cure nowadays netbase is

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 16, Alastair McKinstry alastair.mckins...@sceal.ie wrote: The breakage of compatibility of existing systems (e.g. with /usr on a separate partition) has left a sour taste. I spent a weekend repairing systemd introduces no such breakage. Also, /usr on a separate partition was partially

Re: how to remove libsystemd0 from a live-running debian desktop system

2015-02-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 16, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton l...@lkcl.net wrote: to debian-users: you don't have complete choice (yet), but i have demonstrated with a few hours work that there is a way to run (certain) desktop environments without requiring libsystemd0 or any of its dependencies, and after a

stable update for udev

2009-04-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
Please test and (privately) report breakage. http://www.bofh.it/~md/debian/ -- ciao, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: coldplug udev issue

2008-05-02 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 02, Rainer Dorsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm...ok, I am wondering why /etc/init.d/udev restart does not work. Because it does not do what you guessed it does. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: coldplug udev issue

2008-05-01 Thread Marco d'Itri
On May 01, Rainer Dorsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GROUP=scanner, NAME=umax%n, RUN+=/usr/local/bin/umax1220u start, /usr/local/ may not be available at boot time. echo umax1220u $DEVICE $* /tmp/usb.log /tmp/ is definitely not writeable when the script is run at boot time. Use /dev/something

Re: etch 2.6 kernel and modutils broken symlinks

2008-01-01 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jan 01, Declan Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed that my system has some files that belong to the modutils package (which is used with 2.2 and 2.4 kernels), however I don't have that package installed. The files are /sbin/ksyms and /bin/kallsyms, both of which are symbolic links

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-09-30 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 30, Cord Beermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do I understand correctly that this bot sends out this message when you post to d-user? Looks like a debian-user subscriber created a mail loop, I stopped the gateway while I am investigating. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description:

Re: Debian GNU/Minix?

2006-10-10 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 10, HXC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am wondering if it is possible to use the Minix kernel in Debian. If No. so wouldn't that be an interesting project to release a Debian minix version? (just like Debian BSD and Debian Hurd :-) ) As in the Chinese meaning, maybe. -- ciao, Marco

Re: udevd: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found

2005-10-26 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 26, Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh yeah, would you say the same about the following warnings? Oct 25 15:42:10 olgas udev[9919]: main: action, subsystem or devpath missing Another kernel bug, but this one is known. The sid udev package has a patch to suppress the message in

Re: udevd: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found

2005-10-26 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 26, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm... come to think of it, that's what I use automout for. It could be removable media, then. Anyway, I can't reproduce it anymore, since 8 days ago: daemon.log.0:Oct 18 00:47:44 khazad-dum udevd[14729]: get_netlink_msg: no

Re: udevd: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found

2005-10-26 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 26, md wrote: Anyway, I can't reproduce it anymore, since 8 days ago: daemon.log.0:Oct 18 00:47:44 khazad-dum udevd[14729]: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found, skip event 'umount' I have since learnt that these events are generated by the kernel. Why they are broken should

Re: udevd: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found

2005-10-25 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 26, Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know what this message is all about? This began to appear after a recent upgrade whenever I mount a USB drive. Oct 25 16:34:21 olgas udevd[1109]: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found, skip event 'mount' Kernel brokeness? Is

Re: udevd: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found

2005-10-25 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 26, Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If this is bug, in which package would you recommend that I report it? linux-2.6 would be a good start, unless the HAL maintainer has better ideas about this. Let me know if there is anything more I can do to help with debugging. You should

Re: Gateway newsgroup problem (redux - long)

2005-06-10 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 10, Tony Rowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I notice in the following forwarded message: munged From: field, no X-Original-Message-ID:, no X-Original-Date:, no debian-user Unsubscribe footer. All of these are signs that the message has been posted somehow to Usenet but not gated to the

Re: Gateway newsgroup problem (redux - long)

2005-06-10 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Jun 10, Anthony Rowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Other linux.debian.* gateways are fine because people using those can be expected to know how gateways work. An faq about what the gateway is There are no other gateways. and how it is meant to be used, specific to this list and which

Re: [ANNOUNCE] debian-multimirror

2004-09-29 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 29, Pedro Larroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm polishing it for the stable release, give it a try and send me some coments! I highly doubt that parallel mirroring is needed (and as I mirror operator I doubt it's a good thing). -- ciao, | Marco | [8247 paqAylp32YaMw] signature.asc

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-01 Thread Marco d'Itri
, full stop. But in another post here, Marco d'Itri (who is the administrator of linux.* and runs bofh.it according to Pascal Hakim) says If one reads a debian mailing list in a linux.debian.* group and wants to reply to the list he is supposed to followup to the newsgroup and NOT to directly

Re: First general purpose unmoderated newsgroup for Debian

2004-09-01 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If one reads a debian mailing list in a linux.debian.* group and wants to reply to the list he is supposed to followup to the newsgroup and NOT to directly reply to the list. Yes. Mail replies will break threading. Mail replies will break threading, unless you're using

Re: can't post to linux.debian.user solved

2004-08-20 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 20, Tim Connors [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, linux.* is not a bidrectional gateway, so the posts Fortunatly, linux.* *IS* a bidirectional gateway, unless your news server is misconfigured. -- ciao, | Marco | [7586 tr0ZHPcY92byA] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: can't post to linux.debian.user solved

2004-08-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 20, Dan Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suppose one is supposed to put both Message-ID's into the References header if one follows-up. No. If one reads a debian mailing list in a linux.debian.* group and wants to reply to the list he is supposed to followup to the newsgroup and NOT

Re: only one new debian-user thread a day according to google

2003-10-31 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 31, Dan Jacobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After Oct 21st, this group has suddenly dwindled to only about one new thread a day: http://groups.google.com/groups?group=linux.debian.user The listserver unsubscribed the gateway. Again. I'll fix it, thank you for your report. -- ciao, |

eciadsl package

2003-10-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
You can find a test eciadsl package at http://www.bofh.it/~md/debian/ . Please try it and report if it works or not, especially the hotplug script. (BTW, I accept votes about which ADSL modem driver I should package next. Right now I'm thinking about the Conexant USB driver.) -- ciao, | Marco |

eciadsl package

2003-10-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
You can find a test eciadsl package at http://www.bofh.it/~md/debian/ . Please try it and report if it works or not, especially the hotplug script. (BTW, I accept votes about which ADSL modem driver I should package next. Right now I'm thinking about the Conexant USB driver.) -- ciao, | Marco |

udev 0.3 package

2003-10-18 Thread Marco d'Itri
http://www.bofh.it/~md/debian/ -- ciao, | Marco | [2477 ca6Z/n9AUWKfQ] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

new ppp package

2003-08-25 Thread Marco d'Itri
from http://linux-usb.sourceforge.net/SpeedTouch/. Untested! (Closes: #101616, #157214, #173546, #183221, #197489) -- Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 24 Aug 2003 13:40:16 +0200 ppp (2.4.1.uus2-2) unstable; urgency=low * New co-maintainer. (Closes: #180720) * Switch to DBS

new ppp package

2003-08-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
from http://linux-usb.sourceforge.net/SpeedTouch/. Untested! (Closes: #101616, #157214, #173546, #183221, #197489) -- Marco d'Itri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 24 Aug 2003 13:40:16 +0200 ppp (2.4.1.uus2-2) unstable; urgency=low * New co-maintainer. (Closes: #180720) * Switch to DBS

Re: Automated message to d-u gateway

2003-08-14 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 08, Anthony Rowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Veering [further] off-topic, I notice that at least one other person - has posted a genuine question to the News gateway in the last few days - (the person was admirably helped by someone else reading and posting - to the gateway). I guess

Re: default editor

2003-03-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Mar 19, Will Yardley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [FYI: since somebody asked about it, bidirectional gating will be enabled for all linux.debian.* newsgroups hopefully before the end of the month, as soon as I can change what is needed in the software. News-mail gating for linux.debian.user will

Re: building mutt SSL deb package (configure error)

2002-02-13 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Feb 13, Matt Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, in woody, the default mutt (1.3.27?) although is supposed to support SSL and is linked against gnutls0 does not work. It gets an error trying to access some X509 method in the library at runtime with you add the ssl stuff in your

Re: exploring debian's users and groups

2001-08-08 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 07, Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is kinda like group mail. People can be added to group uucp, then be able to call the uucp binaries, to interact with the uucp subsystem. No user should be ever added to group uucp. -- ciao, Marco

Re: exploring debian's users and groups

2001-08-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 07, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HELP: I notice that /etc/news/leafnode/config and even /etc/news are here owned by news.news. Which is odd, because those arn't things the programs should be editing on the fly. What gives? The package is

the experimental mutt package

2000-12-22 Thread Marco d'Itri
Some days ago I uploaded mutt 1.3.12 to experimental. Please test it, because if people will not complain I'm going to upload it to woody. README.Debian says: ~~ ~ NOTES ABOUT THE EXPERIMENTAL PACKAGE ~ ~ There is no

Re: resque.bin problem

2000-11-28 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 28, Ethan Benson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I copied rescue.bin onto a floppy using dd on a unix machine. It also failed to be recognized by my Mac G3. Is it corrupted? you cannot boot rescue.bin on a powerpc, instead you need boot-hfs.img or something close to that. and that is

Re: please help updating calendar

2000-09-09 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 08, Julian Gilbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Their list is much more comprehensive than mine, but mine contains far more detail. So it's worth merging them, but I'm not quite sure how you'd like to do this. There is also the implicit assumption in their If there are no fixed events then

Re: please help updating calendar

2000-09-08 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 08, Julian Gilbey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Duplicated events needs to be removed from the yearly calendar.judaic files. I don't understand what you mean by this. Please could you be a little more specific? Has the format of the files changed or something? Perhaps you can give me

please help updating calendar

2000-09-07 Thread Marco d'Itri
A calendar.hindu file is needed for 2000/2001 and the yearly calendar.christian needs to be updated to the new syntax. Duplicated events needs to be removed from the yearly calendar.judaic files. I'll also be happy to add the events of your religion of choice. -- ciao, Marco

Re: PLEASE: standard package README file/orientation

2000-08-19 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Aug 19, John Ackermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I heartily agree with Daniel's plea. Eveb a simple listing of what configuration files the package uses (and where they are), and where it stores data (i.e., does it use space in /var) would be a big help. less

Re: Window Maker/WPrefs and NFS on potato

1999-11-16 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 16, Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see... Sure enough, I'm using the nfs-server package, which is a user- space nfs server. Is there a deb of a kernel-space nfsd? And why is the It's in the very last 2.2.x kernels. user-space nfsd the (apparent) Debian standard,

Re: Window Maker/WPrefs and NFS on potato

1999-11-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 13, Noah L. Meyerhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WPrefs, and I was able to save it. So, it would seem that this is a problem with the errno value that is set from fcntl when it tries to create a lock on an NFS mounted file. Can anybody more knowledgeable You are using a 2.2 kernel on

Re: Window Maker/WPrefs and NFS on potato

1999-11-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 13, Havoc Pennington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fcntl() locks don't work over NFS, unfortunately (well, I'm told they They *do* work with 2.2 kernels. -- ciao, Marco

Re: Window Maker/WPrefs and NFS on potato

1999-11-15 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Nov 15, Dave Sherohman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas what would cause them to not work with 2.2 kernels? I'm running Using the user space nfsd or an old and unpatched knfsd. -- ciao, Marco

[dnelson@emsphone.com: Re: [joey@carelia.infodrom.north.de: [lead@gmx.de: limit of mutt]]]

1998-12-30 Thread Marco d'Itri
-- ciao, Marco ---BeginMessage--- In the last episode (Dec 29), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: but than, i4ve wanted to view into my debian-devel-mbox mutt ran and ran -showing sorting mail (the swap-space decreased so i4ve added a swapfile) - after waiting about three hours i killed mutt (the

debian-isp@linux.it

1997-10-10 Thread Marco d'Itri
Some days ago someone asked in debian-devel why there is not a mailing list for ISPs who run debian, so I created one. To subscribe please send a message with subscribe in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . echo subscribe | /usr/lib/sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ciao, Marco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE