Re: hotpluggable member of a bridge

2017-01-08 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 05/01/2017 à 22:36, Reco a écrit : Pascal Hambourg wrote: Bridged interfaces retain their MACs, so they would get different IPv6 ULAs, which are provided by radvd from the different host. Not if they are bridged before they are brought UP I'm not that familiar with openvswitch to

Re: Missing linux-headers-4.7.8-1~bpo8+1

2017-01-08 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 08/01/2017 à 15:32, Graham McNeil-Watson a écrit : | $ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic (...) | Package linux-headers-generic is not available, but is referred to by another package. | This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another

Re: hotpluggable member of a bridge

2017-01-05 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 05/01/2017 à 22:17, Pascal Hambourg a écrit : But according to man interfaces(5), the inet6 "auto" method ignores the "autoconf" option. This option is specific to the "static" method. And "dhcp".

Re: hotpluggable member of a bridge

2017-01-05 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 05/01/2017 à 17:32, Reco a écrit : Joshua Schaeffer wrote: A sample configuration would be: allow-ovs br0 iface br0 inet4 static address … netmask … ovs_type OVSBridge allow-br0 eth0 iface eth0 inet6 auto ovs_type OVSPort ovs_bridge br0 allow-hotp

Re: New to iptables

2017-01-04 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 04/01/2017 à 21:30, Joe a écrit : iptables operates at the level of IP addresses and protocols (and ports, in the case of tcp and udp, other protocols don't use them). Where it appears to work with URLs, as you have discovered, it resolves the URL Not URLs. Hostnames.

Re: New to iptables

2017-01-04 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 04/01/2017 à 18:20, Dan Ritter a écrit : On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 10:54:53AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: One of the links led to _Securing Debian Manual_ and in particular "Appendix F - Security update protected by a firewall" {https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ap-fw-s

Re: not possible to install apt-transport-https package on jessie

2016-12-30 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 30/12/2016 à 16:25, John Naggets a écrit : I have now additional source in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gluster.list which is the following: deb http://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/3.7/3.7.16/Debian/jessie/apt jessie main Although the URL is http, I checked that the site redirects

Re: not possible to install apt-transport-https package on jessie

2016-12-30 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 30/12/2016 à 16:16, Greg Wooledge a écrit : On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 04:11:43PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 30/12/2016 à 15:46, Lisi Reisz a écrit : Is ca-certificates perhaps in contrib or non-free? No. AFAIK, packages in main cannot depend on packages in contrib or non-free. Also

Re: not possible to install apt-transport-https package on jessie

2016-12-30 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 30/12/2016 à 15:46, Lisi Reisz a écrit : Is ca-certificates perhaps in contrib or non-free? No. AFAIK, packages in main cannot depend on packages in contrib or non-free.

Re: not possible to install apt-transport-https package on jessie

2016-12-30 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 30/12/2016 à 14:19, John Naggets a écrit : Do you have an idea which line could be missing? Here is the content of my /etc/apt/sources.list file: deb http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian jessie main deb-src http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ jessie main deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/update

Re: not possible to install apt-transport-https package on jessie

2016-12-29 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 29/12/2016 à 23:14, John Naggets a écrit : $ sudo apt-get update Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates InRelease Ign http://ftp.ch.debian.org jessie InRelease Get:1 http://ftp.ch.debian.org jessie-updates InRelease [145 kB] Hit http://ftp.ch.debian.org jessie Release.gpg Hit http://ft

Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab

2016-12-29 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 29/12/2016 à 22:14, The Wanderer a écrit : On 2016-12-29 at 15:59, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 29/12/2016 à 16:53, Richard Owlett a écrit : I added these two lines to /etc/fstab: /dev/sda7 /media/sda7 ext2users,rw 0 0 /dev/sda8 /media/sda8 ext2users,rw

Re: Problem adding lines to /etc/fstab

2016-12-29 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 29/12/2016 à 16:53, Richard Owlett a écrit : I added these two lines to /etc/fstab: /dev/sda7 /media/sda7 ext2users,rw 0 0 /dev/sda8 /media/sda8 ext2users,rw 0 0 Don't do that. Really. 1) Don't use drive or partition device names such as /dev

Re: Preventing ACL on cdrom drive...

2016-12-28 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 28/12/2016 à 11:19, Nimrod a écrit : I guess I have to specify suitable permission in the above file. I tried with: ENV{ID_FS_USAGE}=="filesystem|other|crypto", ENV{UDISKS_FILESYSTEM_SHARED}="1", GROUP="users", MODE="0660" (on a single line), but it seems that GROUP and MODE are simply ign

Re: Sub interface not working in Debian 8

2016-12-27 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 27/12/2016 à 15:15, Muhammad Yousuf Khan a écrit : tcpdump is telling me very interesting story. when i 'tcpdump -i eth3 icmp' it shows all the ping packet that are received for ip 50.x.x161 but not for 50.x.x.162 What about ARP packets ?

Re: Preventing ACL on cdrom drive...

2016-12-26 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 26/12/2016 à 17:28, Nimrod a écrit : On Sat, 2016-12-24 at 05:20 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: Does it help if you mount the cdrom as shared? See https://udisks.freedesktop.org/docs/latest/udisks.8.html → UDISKS_FILESYSTEM_SHARED No, it doesn't. The disk is already mounted in a shared direct

Re: Preventing ACL on cdrom drive...

2016-12-23 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 23/12/2016 à 18:54, Nimrod a écrit : This is the issue: on a computer at home (shared among relatives, each with his/her own account), the first user that logs in after boot locks the cdrom drive, and any other user that logs in can't eject the cdrom: only the first user can eject it. I sus

Re: Help! -- Not enough space to store temporary files

2016-12-18 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 18/12/2016 à 03:21, Dennis Wicks a écrit : Dennis Wicks wrote on 12/17/2016 07:36 PM: I am trying to install Qt on Debian How ? From the Debian repository with APT ? 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u2 This is the kernel version, not the Debian version. The Debian version is in /etc/debian_version.

Re: Usb wont mount

2016-12-17 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 18/12/2016 à 02:10, Ben Caradoc-Davies a écrit : On 18/12/16 13:36, Flipchan wrote: Hello everyone i am haveing some troubles with A usb that wont Mount i have tried it on 2 machines wheezy and Jessie both give me the same error Dmesg log:http://dpaste.com/0JRM79V This looks to me like a de

Re: Wheezy no longer accepts my passwords to open /home and /mnt partitions on boot

2016-12-09 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 09/12/2016 à 04:26, David Christensen a écrit : On 12/07/16 22:06, Ken Heard wrote: In my Wheezy box I have two encrypted hard drive partitions, /dev/mapper/md07_crypt for /home and /dev/mapper/md05_crypt for /mnt. (...) This morning, when I tried to boot this box, I found that the password

Re: non-free software requirement

2016-12-09 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 09/12/2016 à 00:46, Mark Fletcher a écrit : that: 1) some drivers, for esoteric reasons, don't work as modules and have to be compiled into the kernel image, AFAIK, none of built-in drivers need any out-of-kernel firmware. How could such firmware be loaded before a root filesystem is mounte

Re: {Debian (>=Jessie)} AND { MultiMediaCard, SD Memory Card, etc}

2016-12-03 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 03/12/2016 à 13:59, Jochen Spieker a écrit : deloptes: Steven Mainor wrote: I don't know if this helps answer #3 or not. I have ran Debian from a microSD flash card before but the card reader was attached via USB. It didn't last very long before the flash card degraded. I think running an

Re: {Debian (>=Jessie)} AND { MultiMediaCard, SD Memory Card, etc}

2016-12-03 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 02/12/2016 à 23:48, Steven Mainor a écrit : I don't know if this helps answer #3 or not. I have ran Debian from a microSD flash card before but the card reader was attached via USB. It didn't last very long before the flash card degraded. I think running an operating system on flash used up t

Re: Dual Boot

2016-11-27 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 27/11/2016 à 21:02, Jan Bakuwel a écrit : On 26/11/16 11:01, Pascal Hambourg wrote: When embedding is not possible, the core image is stored as a regular file in /boot/grub. Then /boot/grub must be on the same drive as the boot image. However blocklists are not reliable with files, because

Re: Error message from GParted, means what?

2016-11-27 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 26/11/2016 à 23:42, Richard Owlett a écrit : I've been getting a strange error messages when looking at some 8 GB flash drives from different manufacturers purchased months apart. There is a title bar at top saying "Libparted Warning (as superuser). The body of the message box has: 1. an Ex

Re: Dual Boot

2016-11-25 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 25/11/2016 à 19:31, Jan Bakuwel a écrit : For reasons beyond my understanding grub complains about being installed in a partition instead of the MBR ("embedding is not supported and a BAD idea", yet it works fine). The GRUB BIOS boot loader is split off in three main parts : - the boot imag

Re: How to mount a LVM?

2016-11-25 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 25/11/2016 à 20:43, Cindy-Sue Causey a écrit : For new users: If provided as a terminal's feature, up and down arrows will present previous commands issued up to some finite point. Command history has nothing to do with the terminal. It is a shell (command interpreter) feature.

Re: Extending Debian partition under VMware

2016-11-19 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 19/11/2016 à 11:28, Jorge Expósito a écrit : I've extended the virtual drive on VMware from 7 Gb to 8 Gb. Rebooted my guest Debian with Gparted and extended the drive with the 1 extra Gb successfuly. Rebooting again and starting my virtualized Debian I make a fdisk -l and it seems that the ex

Re: Distinguishing between hardware, software, and operator induced symptoms

2016-11-19 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 19/11/2016 à 12:01, Richard Owlett a écrit : On 11/18/2016 1:58 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Q. Did the operator change anything to the system before it failed ? A. Yes. He created a permanent automatic mount entry in fstab for a removable device which is not always present. BIG mistake. At

Re: Distinguishing between hardware, software, and operator induced symptoms

2016-11-18 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 18/11/2016 à 15:25, Richard Owlett a écrit : As noted in the "Invoking ddrescue" thread [https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/11/msg00641.html], my laptop [dedicated to educational/experimental projects which could fail spectacularly] used to apparently successfully run ddrescue, malfunct

Re: Progress report Re: Invoking ddrescue

2016-11-17 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 14/11/2016 à 21:23, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : If the computer has EFI boot firmware, if it is in non-legacy mode Windows XP x86/x64 cannot boot in UEFI mode. Any Windows version won't boot in UEFI mode from a disk with a DOS/MBR partition table.

Re: iptables question

2016-11-14 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 14/11/2016 à 00:48, deloptes a écrit : Pascal Hambourg wrote: Well then, all I can suggest is to run a packet capture and try to see what's going on. I guess you mean on the firewall? Yes.

Re: iptables question

2016-11-13 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 13/11/2016 à 21:43, deloptes a écrit : Pascal Hambourg wrote: replace 10.0.0.1/32 with 10.0.0.0/24 it does not work You should double check that. I checked replaced 10.0.0.1/32 with 10.0.0.0/24. Just insert this rule and check whether it changes anything : iptables -I FORWARD -j

Re: iptables question

2016-11-13 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 13/11/2016 à 22:27, Henning a écrit : I followed this thread and i wonder if there is a sane reason why you do nat inside your network. Why don't you just route between different subnets i.e. 10.0.1.0/24 and 10.0.2.0/24 Probably because the modem and hosts in 10.0.0.0/24 don't know about

Re: iptables question

2016-11-13 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 13/11/2016 à 20:40, deloptes a écrit : Pascal Hambourg wrote: Did you check the routing table on the firewall and the targets ? Do they have a route to all the 10.0.0.0/24 range ? the one I posted is on the firewall - firewall is the one I am trying to modify. The one you posted ? I

Re: iptables question

2016-11-13 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 13/11/2016 à 16:05, deloptes a écrit : These are the rules - a friend created this like 10y ago. I added few rules to forward ports from outside to the intranet and to be able to handle VPN. You can ignore 192.168.60.1 on eth2 - not used. IMO, this ruleset is totally insane. However, afte

Re: Invoking ddrescue

2016-11-13 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 13/11/2016 à 14:35, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : Old school is: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/mnt.html "This is a generic mount point under which you mount your filesystems or devices. [...] This directory usually contains mount points or sub-directories where

Re: iptables question

2016-11-13 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 13/11/2016 à 13:37, Joe a écrit : PPTP rather falls into the "complex protocols" described below. Exactly so. You wouldn't believe how many routers of ten years ago or so didn't handle it properly, at least with their initial firmware. But Why wouldn't I ? Knowing how NAT is tricky, I am

Re: Invoking ddrescue

2016-11-13 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 13/11/2016 à 13:29, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : Check whether there is really no filesystem on /dev/sdb6 ! How ? I may suggest amongst others : file -sk /dev/sdb6 wipefs /dev/sdb6 blkid /dev/sdb6 Only if not, create one by mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdb6 Why use an obsolete filesystem type as ex

Re: iptables question

2016-11-13 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 13/11/2016 à 11:09, Joe a écrit : Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 12/11/2016 à 23:32, Joe a écrit : The SNAT should not be an issue, it can handle all protocols transparently No it cannot. NAT is not possible with some IP protocols. Plain IPSec (without NAT-T encapsulation) is the first one

Re: iptables question

2016-11-13 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 13/11/2016 à 01:19, deloptes a écrit : Yes, it is not working How is it not working ? What do you do and what happens ? From one computer ip 10..6 I can ssh to 10..7 and vv. That does not concern the firewall between the modem and the LAN. I also see that iptables forwards to the outp

Re: iptables question

2016-11-13 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 12/11/2016 à 23:32, Joe a écrit : The SNAT should not be an issue, it can handle all protocols transparently No it cannot. NAT is not possible with some IP protocols. Plain IPSec (without NAT-T encapsulation) is the first one that comes in mind. Also many complex protocols such as FTP or

Re: dd - proper use or more suitable program

2016-11-12 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 12/11/2016 à 18:22, Richard Owlett a écrit : ddrescue /dev/sda /mnt/defective_drive.img /mnt/defective_drive.log (...) Can this be run as a user, or are root permissions required. Unless the user has read permission on the raw device, it must be run as root. My defective drive is /de

Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition

2016-11-11 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 11/11/2016 à 22:17, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : The older format is MBR with 4 primary partitions and 4 logical ones in one of the primary partitions. Huh ? The number of logical partitions is unlimited.

Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition

2016-11-11 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 11/11/2016 à 16:47, Richard Owlett a écrit : Partitions: #1 is ntfs 293 GiB [146 GiB used] labeled "FreeAgent GoFlex Drive" #2 is extended partition for remainder of drive #5 is fat32 62.5 GiB [31.5 GiB used] with no label (...) I attempted to label partition 5 with Gparted, but the "L

Re: parted is ALMOST suitable

2016-11-11 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 11/11/2016 à 17:24, Brian a écrit : As the manual says: CACHE_FILE= Overrides the standard location of the cache file. This setting can be overridden by the environment variable BLKID_FILE. Default is /run/blkid/blkid.tab, or /etc/blkid.tab on systems without a /run directory.

Re: parted is ALMOST suitable

2016-11-11 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 08/11/2016 à 00:54, Brian a écrit : When blkid is run as root it creates the file /run/blkid/blkid.tab. A user running blkid only gets to see the contents of blkid.tab. That does not appear to be completely correct. If I run blkid as a standard user after plugging a USB drive, it lists the

Re: parted is ALMOST suitable

2016-11-07 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 07/11/2016 à 15:18, Richard Owlett a écrit : tomas@rasputin:~$ ls -al /dev/sd* brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 0 Nov 7 09:06 /dev/sda brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 1 Nov 7 09:06 /dev/sda1 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 2 Nov 7 09:06 /dev/sda2 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 5 Nov 7 09:06 /dev/s

Re: new pc and swap

2016-11-01 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 01/11/2016 à 14:07, Stefan Monnier a écrit : The only times I put several PVs in a VG is when moving data between disks: Several PVs does not mean several disks. A use case of multiple PVs per VG on one disk is when you want to create several VGs (for whatever reason) and be able to exten

Re: new pc and swap

2016-11-01 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 01/11/2016 à 09:25, Richard Hector a écrit : On 01/11/16 19:04, Johann Spies wrote: LVM has bitten me more than once in the past and I will not use it again. In both situations it spanned more than one disk and one of the disks failed - leaving you with unrecoverable data. I don't think I'

Re: new pc and swap

2016-10-31 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 31/10/2016 à 19:45, Greg Wooledge a écrit : On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 01:27:22PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: primary extended logical Whither goest LVM? 1) Use GPT partitioning and get rid of this obsolete distinction between primary, extended and logical partition. 2) LVM can use

Re: new pc and swap

2016-10-31 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 31/10/2016 à 14:54, Stefan Monnier a écrit : Of course, it's possible. But if you setup a system from scratch I'd highly recommend you put "everything" into an LVM volume group so you can then use an LVM volume for swap rather than a file (but with the same advantages as using a file: it's e

Re: Online resize of gpt+cryptsetup+lvm

2016-10-30 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 30/10/2016 à 17:53, Ian Jackson a écrit : When I partioned my new netbook I left myself a reasonable amount of space unpartitioned, in case I should ever want it. Well, of course, then I wanted it. Specifically, I have: SSD nvme0n1 containing GPT partitions; nvme0n1p6 is a LUKS volume conta

Re: new pc and swap

2016-10-30 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 30/10/2016 à 17:41, Ben Caradoc-Davies a écrit : RAM disks (tmpfs) Tmpfs and ramdisks are very different. A tmpfs is a filesystem in virtual memory (in RAM or swap) with variable size. A ramdisk is a block device (not a filesystem) in RAM with fixed size.

Re: new pc and swap

2016-10-30 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 30/10/2016 à 15:11, Richard Owlett a écrit : On 10/30/2016 8:52 AM, Markus Grunwald wrote: It migh be. Don't forget that you need some swap space if you want to hibernate your System! I once read that it was possible to swap to a named file, rather than a swap partition. Is that possible w

Re: New install Jesse 8.6.0...grub2 problem

2016-10-30 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 30/10/2016 à 13:13, Lisi Reisz a écrit : On Thursday 06 October 2016 19:12:43 Pascal Hambourg wrote: The result of bootinfoscript would be a good starting point. I have Jessie fully updated and aptitude can't find bootinfoscript. How did you search ? It is a command, not a package

Re: iptables advice

2016-10-29 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 27/10/2016 à 13:36, Pol Hallen a écrit : I've 2LAN (192.168.1/24 and 192.168.2/24) with these rules: Please be more precise. Iptables rules are created on nodes (hosts and routers), not networks. iptables -A FORWARD -s 192.168.1/24 -d 0/0 -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -m state --state E

Re: Reconfiguring grub2 UFEI system

2016-10-23 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 22/10/2016 à 23:17, Mark Neidorff a écrit : On Friday, 10/21/16 10:19:47 PM Pascal Hambourg wrote: What is the output of "os-prober" ? No output. (yes, I ran it as root) Then no other system was detected and added to the GRUB menu when you ran update-grub. Are you sure the

Re: Reconfiguring grub2 UFEI system

2016-10-21 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 21/10/2016 à 20:56, Mark Neidorff a écrit : So, the next step was to clean out the other distros. I used gparted to delete no longer needed partitions and to expand other partitions to fill the space. All is now good. I then ran #update-grub hoping that would regenerate the grub boot men

Re: Most compatible way to prepare USB stick

2016-10-20 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 20/10/2016 à 23:01, Joe a écrit : and Microsoft is unlikely to ever acknowledge the existence of not-invented-here filesystems. They already did : UDF. No, it is not limited to optical discs.

Re: need help on pptp config

2016-10-09 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 08/10/2016 à 19:25, Li Wei a écrit : pptp-linux provides pptpsetup command. I run pptpsetup with some options and it displays: Which options ? (you can mask the server address, login and password)

Re: ICMPv6 and the conntrack table

2016-10-09 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 08/10/2016 à 20:09, Florian Pelgrim a écrit : $ ip route get 2404:6800:400a:800::1012 2404:6800:400a:800::1012 from :: via fe80::1 dev eth0 src fe80::d481:11ff:feee:4908 metric 0 This does not look like a correct setup to me, unless the router performs source NAT (yuck!). A link local so

Re: need help on pptp config

2016-10-08 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Warning : the "References:" field in your mail header is wrong and does not link to the message you replied to, so it breaks the thread. Le 08/10/2016 à 03:00, Li Wei a écrit : how to add a route to the remote IP 192.168.115.1 on interface ppp0? Thanks! The route should have been added autom

Re: need help on pptp config

2016-10-07 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 07/10/2016 à 03:04, Li Wei a écrit : I want to use vpn to bypass censor. In XP, it's OK In Linux I have installed and run pptp-linux: Why PPTP ? Didn't you just write you wanted a VPN ? Using interface ppp0 Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/pts/1 CHAP authentication succeeded MPPE 128-bit stateless

Re: New install Jesse 8.6.0...grub2 problem

2016-10-06 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 06/10/2016 à 20:12, Felix Miata a écrit : No Linux distro needs more than a tiny fraction of a 750G HD. Wise people would never use all 750 GB for a single OS if it does not need to contain as many data. Once booted into Jessie you can shrink the openSUSE installation to a more reasonab

Re: New install Jesse 8.6.0...grub2 problem

2016-10-06 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 06/10/2016 à 19:22, Mark Neidorff a écrit : Is there more information that you need to help me? The result of bootinfoscript would be a good starting point.

Re: Reuniting disks in a raid1 array

2016-08-30 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 30/08/2016 à 12:14, Mirko Parthey a écrit : On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 07:33:02AM +0200, Frédéric Marchal wrote: Do I have to wipe sdb before adding it to the new computer? If so, how do I make sure raid data is gone from every one of the three partitions? The wipefs tool can remove RAID sign

Re: networking

2016-08-26 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 26/08/2016 à 14:22, Debian maillists a écrit : If you really need to separate your organisation sections use managed switches and VLANs, not subnetworks. How do you use VLANs without subnetting ?

Re: networking

2016-08-26 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 26/08/2016 à 13:55, Karl E. Jorgensen a écrit : You may want to for different networks to allow for future expansion. Your current scheme will only allow for max ~ 250 clients per floor. And you have the IP ranges rubbing against each other without gaps... It is usually a good idea to leave

Re: networking

2016-08-26 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 26/08/2016 à 13:19, Nicolas George a écrit : You give way too few information about the needs of your friend to allow anyone to give relevant advice. Indeed. A "best" solution is only optimal for a given set of requirements. (Also, I wonder why people always fiddle with the cumbersome 192

Re: Adding partition(s) to a Debian install pendrive

2016-08-19 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 19/08/2016 à 11:43, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : Pascal Hambourg wrote: Any _decent_ BIOS should ignore the partition table. It is none of its business. Yep. But there seems to be the tendency to install MBR code which extents the BIOS by looking at the partition table and hop onto the x86

Re: Adding partition(s) to a Debian install pendrive

2016-08-19 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 18/08/2016 à 21:45, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : Pascal Hambourg wrote: i wrote: Let's hope the USB stick still boots via BIOS and EFI ... It boots via any decent BIOS. That would be the more likely candidate for failure, because the BIOS hops on the x86 code in the MBR of whic

Re: Adding partition(s) to a Debian install pendrive

2016-08-18 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 18/08/2016 à 20:57, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : $ /sbin/fdisk /dev/sdc ... Command (m for help): n Select (default p): p Partition number (3,4, default 3): 3 First sector (505856-3915775, default 505856): Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G,T,P} (505856-3915775, default 3915775):

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-18 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 18/08/2016 à 19:18, Reco a écrit : OP is seeking to connect exactly 2 PCs. Both SLAAC and DHCP are overkill in such case IMO. I won't argue. I don't see what's so inconvenient in ipv6 link-local for such simplistic setup. IPv6 link local addresses are harder to remember, and you must ap

Re: Subject: Adding partition(s) to a Debian install pendrive

2016-08-18 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 18/08/2016 à 18:17, rhkra...@gmail.com a écrit : Is there any way to add another partition after copying the the DVD-1 install image to the pendrive? Sure. Just use any partitioning tool as long as it does not choke on the invalid layout of the partition table (the two partitions overlap an

Re: A minimalist network

2016-08-18 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 18/08/2016 à 01:26, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a écrit : Too bad it is WinXP, otherwise you'd have instant connectivity via IPv6 SLAAC. Windows XP supports IPv6. It is just disabled by default, so you need to enable it with something like "ipv6 enable". Even Windows 2000 could have exper

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

2016-08-17 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 17/08/2016 à 15:31, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 03:28:57PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 17/08/2016 à 15:16, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : Gparted will grow (or shrink) the partition. Not the file system. AFAIK, Gparted does resize the filesystem too. On its own

Re: Decrease/increase XFS partitions

2016-08-17 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 17/08/2016 à 15:16, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : Gparted will grow (or shrink) the partition. Not the file system. AFAIK, Gparted does resize the filesystem too.

Re: ifupdown: boot console says 'Failed to start Raise network interfaces' yet interface is up

2016-08-17 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 16/08/2016 à 22:07, Rick Thomas a écrit : On Aug 16, 2016, at 12:59 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: iface eth0 inet6 static address 2001:1234:2d2:1:f2ad:4eff:fe00:3077 netmask 64 This IPv6 address looks like an autoconfigured address calculated from the MAC address. You should

Re: ifupdown: boot console says 'Failed to start Raise network interfaces' yet interface is up

2016-08-16 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 16/08/2016 à 09:03, Rick Thomas a écrit : Aug 14 17:02:41 sheeva systemd[1]: Starting Raise network interfaces... Aug 14 17:02:46 sheeva ifup[893]: /sbin/ifup: waiting for lock on /run/network/ifstate.eth0 Aug 14 17:02:49 sheeva ifup[893]: RTNETLINK answers: File exists "RTNETLINK answe

Re: (OT kinda) Newly-discovered TCP flaw

2016-08-13 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 13/08/2016 à 11:04, Curt a écrit : I am reading (see link below) that "The RFC 5961 spec is implemented in Linux kernel v 3.6 and later." As I'm running a v 3.2 kernel, I guess I'm actually not concerned by the matter (or am I)? You are if you are using the latest Debian 3.2 kernel. Please

Re: (OT kinda) Newly-discovered TCP flaw

2016-08-12 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 12/08/2016 à 16:54, Greg Wooledge a écrit : So the flaw appears to be in Linux kernels from 3.6 to 4.6 inclusive, which includes Jessie (3.16) but not Wheezy (3.2) or earlier. Why then is the sysctl present in the current Wheezy's 3.2 kernel ? The patches which introduced the flawed featur

Re: iso hacked suspicious: answers

2016-08-10 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 10/08/2016 à 17:13, Andrew F Comly 康大成 a écrit : iso hacked suspicious: answers Concerning the other questions re: "E-F)", please find the below answers: E) Burn iso to media dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 bs=1M; This action is not needed. The next command will overwrite previous contents

Re: More problems

2016-08-10 Thread Pascal Hambourg
The OP already opened a thread for the same problem under the title "i8042 controller not found". I made about the same suggestions as you. Well, I guess a rephrase cannot hurt.

Re: Networking: unable to get multi-homed host working in Debian 8

2016-08-10 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 10/08/2016 à 14:43, Tom Browder a écrit : $ ip -4 addr 1: lo: mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: eth0: mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000 inet 192.168.0.17/24 br

Re: debian version ID

2016-08-10 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 10/08/2016 à 03:02, Seeker a écrit : On 8/9/2016 4:49 PM, David Wright wrote: On Tue 09 Aug 2016 at 13:27:34 (-0700), Seeker wrote: That was my first thought too, but looking up base-files for one of the LTS releases on packages.ubuntu.com and reading the change log, looks like to do updat

Re: Networking: unable to get multi-homed host working in Debian 8

2016-08-10 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 10/08/2016 à 13:22, Tom Browder a écrit : Ping from the test host itself to its primary first alias IP: PING 192.168.0.18 (192.168.0.18) 56(84) bytes of data. From 192.168.0.17 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable It really looks like the secondary address is not configured on the hos

Re: How to get rid of M10

2016-08-10 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 10/08/2016 à 01:28, Mark Fletcher a écrit : On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 12:19 AM Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 09/08/2016 à 15:35, Mark Fletcher a écrit : 2) The partition table layout needs to be right for UEFI, and what works for an MBR boot won't work for UEFI. I'm not sure I

Re: you iso's may have been hacked

2016-08-10 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 10/08/2016 à 08:36, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : Andrew F Comly wrote: Notice how the two sha512sum numbers (local vs burnt usb) don't match! Of course : the image and the device do not have the same size. Determine the ISO size on /dev/sdb by program isosize and curb its reading by help of

Re: Networking: unable to get multi-homed host working in Debian 8

2016-08-10 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 10/08/2016 à 03:16, Tom Browder a écrit : Then, as root, I executed "service networking restart" and all looked well until I logged in to another host and tried to ping the new IP and got no good ping. Can you elaborate "all looked well" and "no good ping" ? Commands, results ? What's the

Re: i8042 controller not found

2016-08-10 Thread Pascal Hambourg
[Please reply on list. Also, when replying on list, consider using interleaved style as I do instead of top posting.] Le 10/08/2016 à 01:03, Maureen L Thomas a écrit : When I boot in rescue mode it asks for the admin password or Ctrl D. Good. You must type the root password to start a shell.

Re: i8042 controller not found

2016-08-09 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 09/08/2016 à 22:21, Maureen L Thomas a écrit : I have an acer aspire xc-704g 64 bit machine. I installed debian 8.5 on it and it went through the whole install with no problems once I had the rtl driver on a separate usb drive. So I booted it up and it went through the whole process to the f

Re: Help on investigating partition-related changes

2016-08-09 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 09/08/2016 à 15:56, limpia a écrit : On 2016-08-09 00:45, Ric Moore wrote: Please don't top post. Ric Oops, sorry about that,... Please don't bottom post without trimming either. It's just as nasty as top post (or even nastier when you need to scroll down pages of quoted text to read th

Re: How to get rid of M10

2016-08-09 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 09/08/2016 à 15:35, Mark Fletcher a écrit : it isn't necessary to disable UEFI to get Debian to install / boot. Sometimes is it, due to unworkable UEFI firmware bugs. I've been hit by a couple of them, notably graphic issues. probably time to get used to UEFI, so as not to get a nasty

Re: debian version ID

2016-08-09 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 09/08/2016 à 10:44, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard a écrit : Andrew M.A. Cater: /etc/os-release just contains major version You are going to have to explain that to its manual page, which gives VERSION_ID=11.04 as an example of what can be in the file. This is obviously not a Debian version. R

Re: Help on investigating partition-related changes

2016-08-07 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 07/08/2016 à 14:43, Parsa Hassan Abadi a écrit : Is there any way to see if a partition has been resized or shrunk? Any log, any command, anything?? AFAIK there is no direct way. The only idea which comes into my mind is to examine the contents (e.g. filesystem) metadata of the partition.

Re: Problem with NON-STANDARD install

2016-08-07 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 06/08/2016 à 16:18, Felix Miata a écrit : Pascal Hambourg composed on 2016-08-06 12:01 (UTC+0200): (location of GRUB's core image) - or as a regular file in a filesystem appearing as /boot/grub/i386-pc/core.img (or /boot/grub/core.img with older versions of GRUB such as the one in W

Re: Problem with NON-STANDARD install

2016-08-06 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 06/08/2016 à 16:18, Felix Miata a écrit : Pascal Hambourg composed on 2016-08-06 12:01 (UTC+0200): ... If the boot image is in a PBR, the BIOS won't load it directly It will if the PBR is on a primary partition on the same disk. On the same disk as what ? Do you mean that the BIO

Re: Problem with NON-STANDARD install

2016-08-06 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 06/08/2016 à 12:01, Pascal Hambourg a écrit : The first chunk is the "boot image" and must be stored into a MBR (whole disk boot sector) or PBR (partition boot sector). As it must fit into a 512-sector size Oops. I meant 512-byte sector size.

Re: Problem with NON-STANDARD install

2016-08-06 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 01/08/2016 à 21:15, Joe a écrit : There are two chunks of storage for grub: Actually three, or even four. the files, stored in a normal filesystem and available under /boot, Actually /boot/grub. GRUB does not store anything directly in /boot. and the bootloader itself, which generally

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