Re: stretch/Xfce: some strings now using larger font

2015-06-04 Thread Sven Hartge
On 05.06.2015 00:24, Mike Kupfer wrote: >> Pinning the DPI setting in Appearance>Fonts to a fixed value >> instead of letting it auto detect the value fixed that for me. > Yes, that worked for me, too. Thanks! Just for fun: could you check with xdpyinfo | grep resolution what DPI value is r

Re: stretch/Xfce: some strings now using larger font

2015-06-04 Thread Sven Hartge
Mike Kupfer wrote: > Mike Kupfer wrote: >> Last night I updated my stretch VM (VirtualBox), and I now see larger >> characters in several places, including >> >> - xfwm4 titlebar >> - labels in the Xfce window buttons applet >> - Xfce application menu >> - Xfce logout dialog > [...] >> The VM wa

Re: much longer boot time with jessie

2015-06-04 Thread Sven Hartge
David Wright wrote: > $ systemd-analyze blame > 36.727s wicd.service > 22.102s binfmt-support.service > 20.789s alsa-restore.service > 20.618s lm-sensors.service > 20.565s systemd-logind.service > 20.471s rsyslog.service > 20.468s rc-

Re: systemd, openvpn and automatically created services at boot

2015-05-19 Thread Sven Hartge
George Shuklin wrote: > When systemd starts openvpn it creates new services dynamically. F.e. if > I have /etc/openvpn/test.conf it added as openvpn@test.service > Any changes I do with this service (f.e. 'disable') are lost after reboot. > I've tried to disable it (and starts later manually:

Re: Why is libapache2-mod-auth-mysql not in Jessie?

2015-05-15 Thread Sven Hartge
Sven Hartge wrote: > Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: >>> On Fri, 15 May 2015, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >>>> I just upgraded a server from Wheezy to Jessie, only to find that my >>>> authentication is broke

Re: Why is libapache2-mod-auth-mysql not in Jessie?

2015-05-15 Thread Sven Hartge
Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: >> On Fri, 15 May 2015, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >>> I just upgraded a server from Wheezy to Jessie, only to find that my >>> authentication is broken because libapache2-mod-auth-mysql is not >>> available in Jessie (it

Re: ulogd2 fails with kernel 4.0.0-1

2015-05-15 Thread Sven Hartge
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Running Sid dist-upgraded on May 12 2015 which went to kernel 4.0.0-1. > I run the firewall via Firehol and use 'FIREHOL_LOG_MODE="ULOG"'. > Iptables then gets errors because it cannot find ULOG. That is > because ulogd2 failed with: > May 15 11:56:39 hdbb ulogd[5785]:

Re: bad ABI version?

2015-05-08 Thread Sven Hartge
Bob Proulx wrote: > Sven Hartge wrote: >> - how to pin pacakges to a specific version > I am not a fan of pinning. Generally people try to use it to keep a > mixed system. Pinning in this context was not meant to have a mixed system but as a method to keep a specific version o

Re: bad ABI version?

2015-05-07 Thread Sven Hartge
Bob Proulx wrote: > Sven Hartge wrote: >> My Magic Crystal Ball of Bug Seeing™ tells me, your system is dead >> but does not realize that fact. Your system will fall back to >> llvmpipe and seem to work fine (but a bit slow) but there will be >> problems and program

Re: bad ABI version?

2015-05-06 Thread Sven Hartge
Bob Proulx wrote: > But perhaps that is because it maybe happened recently and I haven't > logged out for a while. My system could be dead and doesn't know it > yet. Meaning that I am going to be logging out this evening and > testing carefully. I have this Intel graphics adapter. My Magic Cr

Re: Remove safely rsyslog on a fresh Debian Jessie ?

2015-05-02 Thread Sven Hartge
Ludovic Gasc wrote: > After a fresh install of a Debian Jessie, I see that journald and rsyslog > are both installed and launched. > I've found this post how to remove rsyslog: > http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1xm6x3/getting_started_with_systemd_on_debian_jessie/cfcpx2f > Nevertheless,

Re: Question: Why do you dist-upgrade?

2015-04-30 Thread Sven Hartge
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > Not to mention that unlike an install, a dist-upgrade does not require > reinstalling all the special configs and tweaks you may have added to > the system. This can also be used as an argument against dist-upgrade: you need to change and adapt the configuration fo

Re: Question: Why do you dist-upgrade?

2015-04-29 Thread Sven Hartge
Bob Proulx wrote: > Tim Kelley wrote: >> I'm a server admin for a living, for the last 25 years, I mean data >> centers and lately, cloud. There a very few conditions that would >> make me dist-upgrade a server, that is absolutely primitive. Servers >> are created from scratch in minutes at will

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-29 Thread Sven Hartge
Bob Proulx wrote: > Gary Roach wrote: >> I bow to your experience but, for the life of me, I can't see how >> this could happen with the physics that is involved. I suppose that >> the liquid crystal material could deteriorate with time but I thought >> that the stuff was pretty indestructible.

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-29 Thread Sven Hartge
Gary Roach wrote: > On 04/29/2015 10:30 AM, Frederic Marchal wrote: >> Not quite right. I have seen LCD screens where the login screen was >> burned in the screen leaving a clearly visible and annoying shadow at >> all time. >> So, it isn't a good idea to leave the same display on the screen for

Re: testing or stable

2015-04-27 Thread Sven Hartge
Joris Bolsens wrote: > I've been using Debian Jessie for ~ a year now, now that it is stable > should I update to sid? or stick with jessie? > I enjoy tinkering with everything, so I'm OK with things breaking or > needing some special configuration, hell I'll even patch a thing and > recompile f

Re: Installing open-vm-tools in Debian Wheezy

2015-04-22 Thread Sven Hartge
Eric Gamess wrote: >> If you install this for a VM running on ESX then you can ignore this >> error, since HGFS (Host-Guest-Filsystem) does not work with ESX and >> vmsync is for the experimental VSS-like snapshot feature for Linux which >> I never saw used in any production environment. > I am

Re: Installing open-vm-tools in Debian Wheezy

2015-04-22 Thread Sven Hartge
Eric Gamess wrote: > And I got an error message: > Error! Build of vmhgfs.ko failed for: 3.2.0-4-686-pae (i686) > Consult the make.log in the build directory > /var/lib/dkms/open-vm-tools/2012.05.21/build/ for more information. > Setting up open-vm-tools (2:8.8.0+2012.05.21-724730-1+nmu2) ... >

Re: VLANs won't persist

2015-04-11 Thread Sven Hartge
M7 wrote: > I'm running Debian 7.8 x64 and I'm unable to have my vlan network persist. > I've installed the package 'vlan'. You don't need this package. Please remove and purge it. ifupdown is able to configure VLANs without this package. > I then ran 'modprobe 8021q' to load the kernel and sa

Re: ssh hangs for 5 seconds for a particular machine

2015-04-08 Thread Sven Hartge
Vincent Lefevre wrote: > When connecting by SSH to a particular machine, ssh hangs for > 5 seconds. The client machine doesn't matter (except for the > machine itself). 5 seconds smells like some DNS problem. Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debi

Re: Installing Debian Wheezy using the latest Kernel from Jessie

2015-04-01 Thread Sven Hartge
Ivanov, Konstantin wrote: > I need to install Debian Wheezy on an HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9 server with > a HP Smart Array P840 Controller. I had the same problem some months ago. I uses a GRML USB key and uses grml-bootstrap (a nice wrapper around cdebootstrap) to install Wheezy with the kernel 3

Re: [solved securely now??] What is the correct way to set encrypted swap with systemd?

2015-03-29 Thread Sven Hartge
~Stack~ wrote: > One more question if you don't mind: I understand why the encrypted > partition UUID is going to change every time, but the physical > partition UUID for my /dev/sda3 shouldn't change though. If they are > the same systemd.fsck shouldn't have a problem with the physical > partiti

Re: [solved securely now??] What is the correct way to set encrypted swap with systemd?

2015-03-28 Thread Sven Hartge
~Stack~ wrote: > In another post on this thread you asked where I got that UUID from. > That question fits in well here so I am just going to dump it all > here. :-) > I just checked a number of my systems with blkid and the UUID's I am > using are indeed the physical /dev/sdx# UUID's.. All of t

Re: [solved securely now??] What is the correct way to set encrypted swap with systemd?

2015-03-28 Thread Sven Hartge
~Stack~ wrote: > On 03/28/2015 02:15 PM, David Wright wrote: Quoting ~Stack~ > (i.am.st...@gmail.com): >>> $ grep swap /etc/crypttab >>> # causes systemd to fsck swap >>> #sda3_crypt UUID=ef2496cd-ca4d-43aa-8c90-dba084029f6e /dev/urandom >>> cipher=aes-xts-plain64,size=256,swap >>> # systemd doe

Re: [solved] What is the correct way to set encrypted swap with systemd?

2015-03-28 Thread Sven Hartge
~Stack~ wrote: > # causes systemd to fsck swap > #sda3_crypt UUID=ef2496cd-ca4d-43aa-8c90-dba084029f6e /dev/urandom > cipher=aes-xts-plain64,size=256,swap > # systemd doesn't fsck swap > sda3_crypt /dev/sda3 /dev/urandom cipher=aes-xts-plain64,size=256,swap Where did you get that UUID from in th

Re: [solved, unsafely?] What is the correct way to set encrypted swap with systemd?

2015-03-28 Thread Sven Hartge
David Wright wrote: > That cure looks retrograde to me because it throws away the uniqueness > of UUIDs. What if /dev/sda3 changes, for whatever reason. This is why you use /dev/disk/by-* and not the raw device name, just like I did. > Could you not try using a /dev/disk/by-foo/... entry instea

Re: What is the correct way to set encrypted swap with systemd?

2015-03-28 Thread Sven Hartge
~Stack~ wrote: > Remember back a few months ago when systemd wouldn't stop fsck'ing my > swap partition? Why would systemd fsck the swap? swap does not need fscking. > I know it has to do with encrypted swap partitions. I proved that last > time and I can prove it this time too. The method I ha

Re: Redirect HTTPS with Squid3+Squidguard

2015-03-26 Thread Sven Hartge
Reco wrote: > On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 18:18:24 +0100 "Michael I." > wrote: >> for private usage I am think a filter isn't good, children need trust >> and a filter is the opposite of trust. >> >> But in usage for a school I think a filter is better, a teacher can't >> look on all computers. The ki

Re: Redirect HTTPS with Squid3+Squidguard

2015-03-26 Thread Sven Hartge
Michael I. wrote: > This are not my children, the filter is used for a school. Aha, important information. Do not proceed any further with breaking encrypted connections or, for the matter, transparently proxiing _any_ connections until you had a talk with a) the Justitiar and b) the Datenschut

Re: Redirect HTTPS with Squid3+Squidguard

2015-03-26 Thread Sven Hartge
Peter Viskup wrote: > It's the way you look at. For me it's about prevention...your child > can click on some link somewhere and see some pictures/videos which > will remain in his/her mind (let's say) forever and can harm even if > it was only seconds they were seen...I am speaking about childr

Re: Redirect HTTPS with Squid3+Squidguard

2015-03-26 Thread Sven Hartge
Michael I. wrote: > Sven Hartge wrote: >> Michael I. wrote: >>> But I have a new problem, I want to have a transparent proxy for >>> http this works fine but when I add the iptables rule for https the >>> loading won't work. >> >> Of course

Re: Redirect HTTPS with Squid3+Squidguard

2015-03-26 Thread Sven Hartge
Michael I. wrote: > But I have a new problem, I want to have a transparent proxy for http > this works fine but when I add the iptables rule for https the loading > won't work. Of course not. That this is not working is the _whole point_ of any end-to-end encrypted connection. What you are ef

Re: starting mgetty

2015-03-25 Thread Sven Hartge
pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Traditionally, mgetty was started with a line such as this in /etc/inittab. > T0:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyS1 > Not working in wheezy and this seems relevant. > From: Don Armstrong > Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 11:15:32 -0800 > Message-id: <20150222191532.gm6.

Re: IPv6 duplicate address detection (DAD)

2015-03-25 Thread Sven Hartge
Darac Marjal wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 01:49:31AM +, Michael Graham wrote: >>I've been trying to understand what I should do about my current IPv6 >>wows. >> >>I have an IPv6 enabled network but when on a clean boot I don't get an >>IPv6 address (in Jessie BTW), I've t

Re: Redirect HTTPS with Squid3+Squidguard

2015-03-24 Thread Sven Hartge
Michael I. wrote: > I tested around a bit with squid3+squidguard and I found out that the > redirect works with the Internet Explorer (IE 11). > Then I tested some other browser (firefox, chrome, ..) and with all > the other browser the redirect didn't work. > Is there a bug in the Internet Exp

Re: Redirect HTTPS with Squid3+Squidguard

2015-03-23 Thread Sven Hartge
Liam O'Toole wrote: > On 2015-03-23, linux-michae...@abwesend.de > wrote: >> I thought there is a simple and secure way to redirect to an 'This >> Site has been blocked' Page for HTTP and HTTPS. But when I must >> destroy the safety from HTTPS this isn't an option. > [SNIP} > You could simply

Re: Redirect HTTPS with Squid3+Squidguard

2015-03-22 Thread Sven Hartge
Bob Proulx wrote: > Sven Hartge wrote: >> Michael I. wrote: >>> Is there really no way to redirect https request to an errorpage >>> with squid3+squidguard? >> Long answer: The only way is to setup a transparent proxy, >> intercepting any outbound connecti

Re: Redirect HTTPS with Squid3+Squidguard

2015-03-22 Thread Sven Hartge
Michael I. wrote: > I have a problem with my squid3 + squidguard. I can't redirect https > requests to an errorpage. When I request a blocked https page it > always says the site isn't available. > I searched on the internet an there it says, it is an problem with the > https protocol because ht

Re: Problem forward/postroute http/https thru vlan-ed interface.

2015-03-22 Thread Sven Hartge
Mimiko wrote: > I did some test today to with tcpdump. It's realy strange. First I > uninstalled vlan. Configured all again. using tcpdump I saw it was > sending packets. But at first it didn't want to work. > I added 8021q to /etc/modules, rebooted server and as I wrote: ping > works, ftp works

Re: Problem forward/postroute http/https thru vlan-ed interface.

2015-03-21 Thread Sven Hartge
Bob Proulx wrote: > Mimiko wrote: >> I set up in interfaces: >> auto eth0 >> iface eth0 inet static >> address local_lan_ip >> netmask mask >> auto eth1.2 >> iface eth1.2 inet static >> address isp1 >> netmask mask >> auto eth1.4 >> iface eth2.4 inet static >> addres

Re: how to debug this fuse problem

2015-03-19 Thread Sven Hartge
Gene Heskett wrote: > The ckt patches are from Con Kovilas, Wrong. The -ck patches were from him. But they have nothing to do with the kernel used in Debian Jessie. CKT in this case here stands for "Canonical Kernel Team" who maintain the long-term stable branche 3.16 for use in Ubuntu and De

Re: USB disk is sdf instead of sde

2015-03-09 Thread Sven Hartge
basti wrote: > I use a USB disk for weekly backups. > Today the disk is always named sdf instead of sde. > fdisk show's no sde > udevadm info --query=all --attribute-walk --name=/dev/sde found no node > cat /dev/sd > sda sda2 sdb sdb2 sdc sdd sdf sdf2 > sda1 sda3 sdb1 sdb3 sdc1

Re: In menuconfig when Load an Alternate Configuration File, can't enter the file name

2015-03-01 Thread Sven Hartge
csanyi...@gmail.com wrote: > Sven Hartge writes: >> You don't need to be and you should not be logged in as root to >> configure or compile a kernel. > Exactly. I know that. Still, the problem exist, regardless of what > user ( none root or root ) start the menuc

Re: In menuconfig when Load an Alternate Configuration File, can't enter the file name

2015-03-01 Thread Sven Hartge
Ric Moore wrote: > On 03/01/2015 12:55 AM, Csányi Pál wrote: >> I'm compiling a custom kernel for my Debian Wheezy operating system. >> >> In menuconfig when Load an Alternate Configuration File, can't enter >> the file name. The cursor blinking in the field but can't enter any >> letter. >> >>

Useful hint: limits.conf and root

2015-02-17 Thread Sven Hartge
Hi! Just a little public service announcement, because I just lost 2 hours if my life figuring out how to apply new limits to processes started by the root user without using a manual call to "ulimit" every time: If you edit /etc/security/limits.conf to, for example, increase the maximum number o

Re: Glibc 2.15 not found?

2015-01-29 Thread Sven Hartge
Stephen wrote: > On 01/29/2015 11:08 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: >> If you are a novice user, the glibc is the _last_ thing you want to >> mess with. > Hmm, that is scary. I don't want to break anything. I am quite > adventurous but I can handle not playing VV until Je

Re: Glibc 2.15 not found?

2015-01-29 Thread Sven Hartge
Stephen wrote: > On 01/29/2015 10:46 AM, Florent Peterschmitt wrote: >> Or a custom glibc installed in an isolated prefix, then playing with >> LD_LIBRARY_PATH to load the new glibc. >> Or if you don't want to build it by hand, you may do something >> tricky: extracting the Jessie package by han

Re: Glibc 2.15 not found?

2015-01-29 Thread Sven Hartge
Stephen wrote: > I'm trying to run the game VV on my system but whenever I try and > launch it I get the following error: "./x86/vv.x86: > /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.15' not > found (required by ./x86/libSDL2-2.0.so.0)" > I tried looking for glibc 2.15 in t

Re: Use Debian as a usb mass storage device

2015-01-29 Thread Sven Hartge
Floris wrote: > I have a Sumsung TV which can record to an usb mass storage device. Is > it possible to connect an usb-cable between the TV and the Debian > Box, so that the TV can use (a part of) the harddisk as usb device? Short answer: no. Longer answer: maybe, with special hardware and so

Re: GHOST, Am I ok?

2015-01-29 Thread Sven Hartge
Darac Marjal wrote: > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 05:52:49PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: >> shawn wilson writes: >>> You'll need a reboot since most everything links against libc.so.6 >>> it'll never be unloaded. >> >> Just restart the services you are concerned about. They will link to >> the new li

Re: SIOCDELRT, or: proper syntax to delete default route for an interface?

2015-01-23 Thread Sven Hartge
Matt Ventura wrote: > On 01/23/2015 04:05 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Matt Ventura wrote: > Well, that confirms my original suspicion. The F5 VPN is throwing its > default route over the original one, and that's causing traffic to the > OpenVPN server to try to route ove

Re: SIOCDELRT, or: proper syntax to delete default route for an interface?

2015-01-23 Thread Sven Hartge
Matt Ventura wrote: >> me@client:~$ date ; sudo route -n >> Thu Jan 22 11:48:48 EST 2015 >> Kernel IP routing table >> Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface >> 0.0.0.0 10.144.15.100 128.0.0.0 UG1 00 ppp0 >> 0.0.0.0

Re: Is this a hacking attempt?

2015-01-22 Thread Sven Hartge
Bonno Bloksma wrote: > Van: paul.is.w...@gmail.com [mailto:paul.is.w...@gmail.com] Namens Paul Wise >>> Fortunately, this works, but there are sites where doesn't. >> >> Do you have any examples of sites that still need Flash? Obviously >> flash game sites still need it but surely almost all of t

Re: debian/testing philosophie?

2015-01-10 Thread Sven Hartge
Hans wrote: > I understand, that during freeze packages might disappear (due to > bugs). This can be an exception, when there is no time to fix a bug to > the release date, > But I watched this behaviour not only at the freeze period, this > happens unregularly. > Sometimes I found no reason, w

Re: debian/testing philosophie?

2015-01-10 Thread Sven Hartge
Hans wrote: > over the years i noticed, that from time to time packages disappearing > from the testing repo, but that packages are then still in stable and > in unstable. > That is weired for me, as I would suppose, that a package disappearing > in testin would also not to be found in unstable

Re: How can g++ (stable) be incompatible with a fresh stable install?

2015-01-09 Thread Sven Hartge
Kynn Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Kynn Jones wrote: >>> libc6-dev: >>> Installed: (none) >>> Candidate: 2.13-38+deb7u4 >>> Version table: >>> 2.19-13 0 >>>

Re: How can g++ (stable) be incompatible with a fresh stable install?

2015-01-08 Thread Sven Hartge
Kynn Jones wrote: > libc6-dev: > Installed: (none) > Candidate: 2.13-38+deb7u4 > Version table: > 2.19-13 0 > 750 http://debian.csail.mit.edu/debian/ testing/main amd64 > Packages > 750 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing/main amd64 Pac

Re: How can g++ (stable) be incompatible with a fresh stable install?

2015-01-08 Thread Sven Hartge
Kynn Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 5:51 PM, Kynn Jones wrote: >> I can think of the following possible solutions: >> >> 1. change the priorities so that stable trumps security; >> 2. (somehow) force the installation of libc6-dev v. 2.13-38+deb7u6; >> 3. (somehow) downgrade my libc6

Re: Script to email details not working in cron

2015-01-03 Thread Sven Hartge
Manikandan M wrote: > I couldn't find why the script is not working in cron. Just replaced the > crontab entry with the following and it worked > * 9 * * * /bin/bash /user/bin/email-script This will run the script _every minute_ on the ninth hour. I don't think this is what you really want. It

Re: SFTP question

2014-12-26 Thread Sven Hartge
Danny wrote: >> I've seen attacks start within hours of putting a new system on the >> internet. I see multiple attacks on my servers every day. > Makes me wonder how these guys get hold of IP's so quickly ... With a decent enought connection (about 10GBits) you can scan the entire reachable I

Re: Kernel failure

2014-12-16 Thread Sven Hartge
Burhan Hanoglu wrote: >> [] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x5e/0x8a >> [] ? warn_slowpath_null+0xa/0xc >> [] ? rcu_exit_nohz+0x43/0x5d >> [] ? tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick+0x6d/0x12d >> [] ? cpu_idle+0x9b/0xa3 > Hmmm; "Read-Copy Update Mechanism" Looks like a disk drive is > having troubl

Re: Unable to install bootloader on software raid

2014-12-15 Thread Sven Hartge
Darac Marjal wrote: > I think the problem is that, depending on the RAID level, the BIOS won't > be able to read the disks in order to load GRUB. If you're running > RAID0, then you're in luck; both drives appear as normal disks and all > that RAID does is ensure they are kept identical. If you'r

Re: Two monitors on a Matrox G450.

2014-12-11 Thread Sven Hartge
Ric Moore wrote: > Didja try here?: > http://www.matrox.com/graphics/en/support/drivers/download/?id=143 > (this is from 2006) This contains the HAL I was talking about. >From the README: , | A working installation of XFree86 4.3.0, and X.org versions 6.7.0, | 6.8.0, 6.8.1, 6.8.2, 6.9.0, 7

Re: Bridging and VLANs?

2014-12-11 Thread Sven Hartge
Tim Nelson wrote: > The use case is that I need to bridge eth0 with eth0.2, allowing layer > two traffic to pass seamlessly between interfaces, yet still leave > eth0.3 in a usable state. The switch this system is connected to is > for all intents and purposes outside of my control, which is the

Re: Two monitors on a Matrox G450.

2014-12-11 Thread Sven Hartge
pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > A CRT monitor and an IBM flat monitor are connected to a Matrox G450 > adapter. Both monitors display the command line interface. With X > running, the monitor on output 1 is active; the monitor on output 2 > indicates absence of signal. If the monitors are swapped ac

Re: Query: Deprecated libsystemd0 items, initramfs-1.18 bugs

2014-12-07 Thread Sven Hartge
David Baron wrote: > On Sunday 07 December 2014 13:30:35 Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Du, 07 dec 14, 12:52:06, David Baron wrote: >>> 2. 1.18 has been the current intramf-tools version for quite a while >>> and several serious or worse bugs are open. >> >> And the question is? > Is 1.18 safe to

Re: Problem with a RAID partitions

2014-11-30 Thread Sven Hartge
Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: > On Sun, 30 Nov 2014 11:11:14 +0100 Pascal Hambourg > wrote: >>> I have the following line in /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf : >>> ARRAY /dev/md/7 metadata=1.2 UUID=3a668d80:bac84358:bd22fc1c:9636ae87 >>> name=ron:7 >>> But the corresponding line given by # mdadm --detail

Re: Systemd debugging

2014-11-26 Thread Sven Hartge
Haines Brown wrote: > I intalled Jessie and ran into troubles. One of them was an error > mesage during boot: Failed to Start Load Kernel Modules. Neverthess, I > could boot successfully. I do have /lib/modules/3.16.0-4-686-pae. > In pursuing this issue, the first thing I found out was that boo

Re: Joey Hess is out?

2014-11-08 Thread Sven Hartge
Andrew McGlashan wrote: > I would rather it be done right [release...], than be done by an > otherwise /not/ necessary arbitrary date for a freeze. I'd like to remind you that not having a pre-set freeze date didn't go so well in the past. Getting Sarge out for example took ages, because there w

Re: Mount order after systemd update

2014-11-02 Thread Sven Hartge
Erwan David wrote: > Le 02/11/2014 18:32, Sven Hartge a écrit : >> Important note on plymouth: It is _not_ (only) for a graphical themed >> boot, contrary to popular belief. Only and only if you decide to >> install one of the plymouth-theme packages this feature will be >

Re: Mount order after systemd update

2014-11-02 Thread Sven Hartge
Laurent Bigonville wrote: > Le Sun, 2 Nov 2014 16:17:05 +0100, Martin Manns a écrit : >> 1) I am never sure which device requests password entry first. >> Therefore, password choice is a gamble. Furthermore, password entry >> on startup looks weird because some weird red moving stars are shown >

Re: Linux kernel version for Jessie

2014-10-26 Thread Sven Hartge
Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > what kernel version will Jessie have when it became stable ? 3.16.x > Is there any chance for newer version than 3.16.x (for example 3.17.x, > 3.18.x). Zero chance: https://bits.debian.org/2014/07/kernel-version-for-jessie.html Grüße, S° -- Sigmentation fault. Co

Re: Question re: updating debain stable kernels...

2014-10-25 Thread Sven Hartge
Tanstaafl wrote: > On 10/25/2014 11:35 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: >> You can install apt-listchanges to get an output of the most recent >> changelogs of a package and then decide for yourself if you need to >> reboot. >> >> Or you can install the needres

Re: Question re: updating debain stable kernels...

2014-10-25 Thread Sven Hartge
Tanstaafl wrote: > On 10/25/2014 10:41 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Sb, 25 oct 14, 09:07:56, Tanstaafl wrote: >>> I just updated my wheezy install from 7.5 to 7.7, but I'm surprised >>> that I wasn't prompted to reboot, as the kernel image was updated: >> >> As of Jessie there is 'needrestar

Re: dpkg "no space left on device" errors (lots of room left)

2014-10-22 Thread Sven Hartge
Doug wrote: > On 10/22/2014 03:01 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: >> John Bleichert wrote: >> >>> As of a few days ago I keep getting errors similar to the following when >>> running aptitude upgrade: >> >>> >>> dpkg: error processing arc

Re: dpkg "no space left on device" errors (lots of room left)

2014-10-22 Thread Sven Hartge
John Bleichert wrote: > As of a few days ago I keep getting errors similar to the following when > running aptitude upgrade: > > dpkg: error processing archive > /var/cache/apt/archives/cups-server-common_1.7.5-5_all.deb (--unpack): > unable to create > `/usr/share/cups/templates/ru/set

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Sven Hartge
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > I guess that claws uses (lib)dbus to notify dbus-compliant softwares > that there is a new mail. Also claws might get a signal from (for example) network-manager if there is a connection available to toggle its offline/online mode to avoid unnecessary trie

Re: What problem does this log indicate?

2014-10-05 Thread Sven Hartge
Harry Putnam wrote: > Brian writes: >> On Sun 05 Oct 2014 at 13:19:01 -0400, Harry Putnam wrote: >>> System: 64bit jessie running as vbox vm guest >>> Running on HOST Solaris (x86) (openindiana) >>> >>> I'm getting lots of lines in logs like below. >>> >>> Can anyone tell me what kind of a pr

Re: kernel announcing ip address on wrong interface

2014-10-05 Thread Sven Hartge
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 03 Oct 2014, Sven Hartge wrote: >> In my experience this "problem" mostly happens to people trying to >> cheaply load-balance connections by using two or more ethernet >> interfaces with different IPs on the same networ

Re: apt update problems

2014-10-04 Thread Sven Hartge
Charlie wrote: > On Sat, 4 Oct 2014 23:13:51 +0100 Brian sent: >> On Sun 05 Oct 2014 at 08:46:12 +1100, Charlie wrote: >>> W: Failed to fetch >>> http://http.debian.net/jessie/dists/main/non-free/binary-amd64/Packages 404 >>> Not Found >> Knowing what was in your sources.list would save havin

Re: apt update problems

2014-10-04 Thread Sven Hartge
Ric Moore wrote: > On 10/04/2014 05:46 PM, Charlie wrote: >> Just tried it to see how it worked, but it doesn't work for me. >> >> W: Failed to fetch >> http://http.debian.net/jessie/dists/main/non-free/binary-amd64/Packages 404 >> Not Found >> >> W: Failed to fetch >> http://http.debian.net/

Re: kernel announcing ip address on wrong interface

2014-10-03 Thread Sven Hartge
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 03 Oct 2014, Sven Hartge wrote: >> It is, if all eth's are conneted to the same network. Google "weak >> host model". >> >> In Linux, the IPs don't "belong" to an interface but to the host at &

Re: kernel announcing ip address on wrong interface

2014-10-03 Thread Sven Hartge
Andreas Pflug wrote: >>> auto backbone >>> iface backbone inet static >>> address 192.168.0.1 >>> netmask 255.255.255.0 >>> bridge_ports bond0 >>> eth0 has a mac address of x.x.x.x.x.01, eth1/2 y.y.y.y.y.02 Now I >>> randomly observe on the firewall (freebsd based) the message >>> "kernel:arp:

Re: kernel announcing ip address on wrong interface

2014-10-03 Thread Sven Hartge
Andreas Pflug wrote: > Using the 3.2 kernel, I have the strange situation that an ip address > moves to an unconfigured interface. > network/interfaces looks like this: > auto eth0 > iface eth0 inet manual > up ifconfig eth0 promisc up > auto eth1 > iface eth1 inet manual > up ifconfig eth1

Re: [Firmware Warn]: MTRR: CPU 0: SYSCFG[MtrrFixDramModEn] not cleared by BIOS, clearing this bit

2014-09-26 Thread Sven Hartge
Dylan Bass wrote: > [ 102.138276] [Firmware Warn]: MTRR: CPU 0: SYSCFG[MtrrFixDramModEn] not > cleared by BIOS, clearing this bit > [ 102.138276] [Firmware Warn]: MTRR: CPU 0: SYSCFG[MtrrFixDramModEn] not > cleared by BIOS, clearing this bit > [ 102.151634] [Firmware Warn]: MTRR: CPU 1: SYSC

Re: starting exim4 takes ages

2014-09-21 Thread Sven Hartge
Jonathan Dowland wrote: > What init system are you using? If systemd, you might be able to find > out by inspecting the log for the exim4 service unit, once it has > finally started. 'systemd status -l exim4.service' is probably one way FTR: systemctl status -l exim4.service Grüße, Sven. --

Re: starting exim4 takes ages

2014-09-21 Thread Sven Hartge
lee wrote: > Sven Hartge writes: >> lee wrote: >>> what might be the reason for exim4 taking ages (i. e. minutes) to >>> start when booting? The boot process keeps waiting until exim has >>> started. >> >> Maybe the network is not up or the n

Re: OT: Pepper Flash Crashes Everywhere

2014-09-21 Thread Sven Hartge
Paul van der Vlis wrote: > op 21-09-14 13:40, Sven Hartge schreef: >> You cannot install it in a way t run it side by side. By installing >> the libc6 package from Jessie it will overwrite the one from Wheezy. >> This is how the package manager works. > Correct, but

Re: starting exim4 takes ages

2014-09-21 Thread Sven Hartge
lee wrote: > what might be the reason for exim4 taking ages (i. e. minutes) to > start when booting? The boot process keeps waiting until exim has > started. Maybe the network is not up or the nameserver is not responding. exim4 does quite some DNS lookups during startup and if name resolution

Re: OT: Pepper Flash Crashes Everywhere

2014-09-21 Thread Sven Hartge
Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Sun, 21 Sep 2014, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Patrick Bartek wrote: >>> For all the good it will do. Google isn't going to change it. If >>> they were, they would have done so already. Solution? Downgrade or >>> install GL

Re: OT: Pepper Flash Crashes Everywhere

2014-09-20 Thread Sven Hartge
Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Patrick Bartek wrote: >>> On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, Paul van der Vlis wrote: >>>> The newest pepperflashplugin links against GLIBC_2.14. So don't use >>>> the lastest version, or you

Re: OT: Pepper Flash Crashes Everywhere

2014-09-20 Thread Sven Hartge
Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, Paul van der Vlis wrote: >> The newest pepperflashplugin links against GLIBC_2.14. So don't use >> the lastest version, or you need a newer glibc. > Yes, I discovered this. Wheezy uses 2.13. But why PepperFlash was > linked to the library used in Te

Re: MTRR: CPU 0: SYSCFG[MtrrFixDramModEn] not cleared by BIOS, clearing this bit

2014-09-19 Thread Sven Hartge
Dylan Bass wrote: > I bought a used Dell Latitude D531 laptop on eBay. I installed Debian > to it. I'm getting this error everytime on boot, and waking up out of > suspend mode. I would like to know how to fix or troubleshoot the > problem. Two possible solutions: a) Update the BIOS b) igno

Re: Upgrading to Jessie

2014-09-19 Thread Sven Hartge
softwatt wrote: > Perfect. Thanks :) > Assume this fails. What's the worst case scenario? I don't mind a > broken system, I *do* mind losing my /home/ folder. Worst case scenario? Depends on how you define such a thing and on your skills in asessing and fixing the situation. During an upgrade

Re: Upgrading to Jessie

2014-09-19 Thread Sven Hartge
softwatt wrote: > Also, does a clean install offer any advantage over an upgrade? It's > really a pain and I prefer to avoid it, but if there are good reasons > I'll do it. After an upgrade you have to do some manual housekeeping to remove old cruft like no longer existing packages, leftover con

Re: Upgrading to Jessie

2014-09-19 Thread Sven Hartge
softwatt wrote: > On 09/18/2014 08:50 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: >> On some systems it has been necessary (during the Squeeze to Wheezy >> upgrade) to first use only "apt-get upgrade" after upgrading apt and >> dpkg and then issuing the full dist-upgrade as final st

Re: Upgrading to Jessie

2014-09-18 Thread Sven Hartge
Haines Brown wrote: > On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 07:50:10PM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: >> softwatt wrote: >> This leads to a newish trend in systems administration, facilitated >> by widespread use of virtualisation or container techniques: never >> upgrade a system to a

Re: Upgrading to Jessie

2014-09-18 Thread Sven Hartge
softwatt wrote: > Hello. How does one upgrade the distro? I have searched the web but I > am getting some contradictions, and I am hesitant to mess things up. > All websites suggest updating the /etc/apt/sources.list file. This > makes a lot of sense. However, the consensus ends here. Beyond tha

Re: Error with Latest Google Chrome Stable

2014-09-14 Thread Sven Hartge
Kenneth Jacker wrote: > [ Debian stable ] > A few days ago, I updated Chrome from: >google-chrome-stable:amd64 37.0.2062.94-1 > to: >google-chrome-stable:amd64 37.0.2062.120-1 > That update caused pages with embedded Adobe Flash to malfunction (with > various nasty error windows appea

Re: I hate network-manager (was /etc/rc.local and systemd)

2014-08-24 Thread Sven Hartge
Stephen Powell wrote: > I hate network-manager! Is there anything I can do to make it leave > eth0 totally in the control of ifupdown and to not touch it at all, > and to not create a stupid extra connection, and to leave my static > routes, that it did not create, alone? Delete ist. XFCE does

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