Re: grub update and reinstallation

On 2020-08-01 12:23 +0100, Graham Seaman wrote: > On 01/08/2020 07:50, Tom Dial wrote: >> I have a laptop that became unbootable because >> the initial loader failed to find a symbol (grub_calloc) and balked. >> Like the one mentioned here, it uses legacy boot. One explanation has it >> that this

Re: apt update; apt upgrade, from local mirror not working

On 2020-08-01 17:35 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > So I have a local sid+testing mirror I've been using for years, and just > updated it: > > nice /usr/bin/debmirror --nocleanup --verbose --progress > --allow-dist-rename--arch=amd64 > --section=main,main/debian-installe

Re: aptitude: a way to reinstall a package and all its dependents?

On 2020-07-31 15:10 +0200, local10 wrote: > Am looking for a way to reinstall a package and all "subpackages" the > package depends on. Normally I use aptitude to install packages. Something like this should do the trick: # aptitude reinstall mypackage '~i~Rmypackage' See the "Search term refer

Re: Is experimental part of Debian?

On 2020-07-26 20:08 +0100, Brian wrote: > A package enters experimental. It fixes bug X. Can the bug now be > recorded as closed in Debian? Yes. However, the bug will not be archived before the fix arrives in unstable, unless it only affected experimental in the first place. Cheers, Sven

Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

On 2020-07-25 16:25 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2020-07-25 at 16:02, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 07:47:01PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> >>> Hi all... >>> >>> Please what do those occurrences of `' mean in /var/log/dpgk.log just >>> on >>> the right next to some (a

Re: Bullseye: Linker Can't Find libgps Library

On 2020-07-12 15:44 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jul 2020 22:04:54 +0200 > Sven Joachim wrote: > >> I am rather surprised that it does, for I have learned that you always >> need to put libraries to link with at the end of the gcc commandline, >> i.

Re: Bullseye: Linker Can't Find libgps Library

On 2020-07-12 13:16 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > I am trying to compile a gpsd client on a i686 bullseye machine. It > appears the compiler can find the include file for libgps, gps.h. > However, the linker cannot find the library. > > gcc -Wall -ggdb -lm -lgps -o gpsclient gpsclient.c > gpsclie

Re: X starting but nothing shows on the screen

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Re: Update errors

On 2020-07-08 10:20 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > Apt flagged a couple of errors during this morning upate. Warnings, not errors, and they are coming from dpkg. > dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory > '/usr/share/fonts/woff/font-awesome': Directory not empty dpkg: > warning: unable t

Re: X starting but nothing shows on the screen

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Re: Sid: /sbin/ifenslave missing??

On 2020-05-17 11:27 +0200, Grzesiek Sójka wrote: > After upgrading ifenslave from 2.9 to 2.10 i found that there if no > /sbin/ifenslave binary. To restore network connectivity I had to > manually downgrade to 2.9. Is it on purpose? If so, then how to > properly configure link aggregation? I don

Re: Slow performance due to llvmpipe being used despite Radeon kernel and X modules being loaded

On 2020-05-07 09:50 +0200, didier gaumet wrote: > Le 06/05/2020 à 22:15, EoflaOE ViceCity a écrit : >> Hello. Sorry for the length of this problem, but I am trying to get the >> X server to use my graphics card, AMD Radeon 9200 SE (RV280), instead of >> my CPU to render things on the desktop. I ac

Re: su does not work anymore

On 2020-05-02 10:57 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Am Samstag, 2. Mai 2020, 06:32:02 CEST schrieb Andrei POPESCU: >> On Vi, 01 mai 20, 22:32:58, Rainer Dorsch wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I had an accidential / in a >> > >> > # chown -R install-user /xyz/dfak / >> > >> > command. Changing the owner

Re: APT had planned for dpkg to do more than it reported back

On 2020-04-29 13:25 +0200, Andrea Borgia wrote: > Hi. > > testing/unstable system here, just did an upgrade and I got the > following message: > > W: APT had planned for dpkg to do more than it reported back (372 vs 389). >Affected packages: texlive-latex-base:amd64 >texlive-latex-extra:am

Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages due to rename

On 2020-04-21 17:07 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Sometimes packages get renamed. A renamed package becomes a > "transitional package", which can be tracked by deborphan and > can safely removed if it no longer has any reverse dependencies. > > The issue is that if this was a manually installed

Re: apt-mark hold issue (apt Installed: 1.8.2 armhf)

On 2020-04-19 19:11 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > The Wanderer wrote: > >> Does holding a package to not-installed even work? I thought I'd tried >> that in the past, and had the result be ignored. > > No, it does work. Or at least it should, since you are holding the > package state, which is "uni

Re: Issue with package kept back

On 2020-04-01 15:17 -0500, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > I'm having a problem on an x86_64 install running sid. Specifically, > the package phonon-backend-gstreamer-common will not upgrade from v. > 4.9.1-1 to what is currently (since 2019-11-06) in sid, v. 4.10.0-1. > > When I do my normal apt-get upd

Re: Buster without systemd?

On 2020-03-24 17:22 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > In buster many things are indeed disabled by default, however this will > likely change for bullseye. > > I believe the persistent journal is already enabled by default now Indeed, but this is easy to change and does not do much harm, except taki

Re: Buster without systemd?

On 2020-03-22 21:57 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2020-03-22 at 21:21, Marc Shapiro wrote: > >> Supposedly, one can install/upgrade to Buster while maintaining sysv >> as init. Or has this changed. Over the past several months I have >> been attempting to upgrade to Buster, but I have been com

Re: no upgrade of libkpmcore8 to libkpmcore9

On 2020-03-19 09:50 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > On 3/19/2020 8:03 AM, Marco Möller wrote: >> The dependency libkpmcore9 cannot be upgraded from libkpmcore8, >> therefore the package partitionmanager is hold back from upgrades. >> What exactly causes "apt upgrade" to not be able to upgrade to >> l

Re: 3200G Ryzen 3 / Vega 8 for Buster?

On 2020-02-05 02:55 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > Is it enough to upgrade to buster-backports kernel and AMD firmware to run > Xorg on > the 3200G CPU/APU? That should be enough, at least to get a picture on the screen and run X. I am not sure about 3D acceleration, this might need a newer Mesa v

Re: AMD 10.2 netinstall

On 2020-01-18 19:12 -0500, tom h wrote: > Recently I have installed stable on a few old optiplex workstations that > have an AMD graphics card. On first boot I always get a black screen and > have to: > >1. Enable non-free >2. Install firmware-linux-nonfree. Even though the netinstall med

Re: errors installing new kernal

On 2020-01-06 16:28 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > Updating Debian Sid today.. a new kernel was part of the > installation..apt spit out a couple of pages of this error: > > > > depmod: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:515 lookup_builtin_file() could > not open builtin file > '/var/tmp/mkinitramfs_q

Re: uefi boot install and disk partitions

On 2020-01-04 13:38 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 04/01/2020 à 11:25, Bonno Bloksma a écrit : > >> If I had not created that /boot partition would those files be in >> /boot folder on the / (root) partition or would /boot then be on the >> EFI partition? > > On the root partition. Some new bo

Re: Searching for a package containing ch-releases.en.html and similar history about Debian

On 2019-12-27 12:20 -0700, Keith Christian wrote: > It seems at one point there was a debian documentation package that > contained either text or HTML versions of the project's history as > seen on this page: > > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ch-releases.en.html That

Re: Reporting Spam in Debian Bugs (and geogebra 4.2+ is non-free btw)?

On 2019-11-17 20:48 +, Brian wrote: > On Sun 17 Nov 2019 at 21:36:11 +0100, Linux-Fan wrote: > >> Brian writes: >> >> > On Sun 17 Nov 2019 at 21:01:16 +0100, Linux-Fan wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> > > Verify report for bug 692728 >> > > Yes, report that bug 692728 has spam >> > > >> > > Now I am

Re: armhf version of bzip2 is broken

On 2019-11-11 22:22 +0300, Reco wrote: > Confirming, real debian armhf is affected. The problematic place is: > > $ strace -eopenat bzip2 -z 4038000640 > ... > openat(AT_FDCWD, "4038000640", O_RDONLY) = -1 EOVERFLOW (Value too large for > defined data type) > > > And EOVERFLOW in openat(2) is: >

Re: armhf version of bzip2 is broken

On 2019-11-11 20:00 +0100, Michael wrote: > On Monday, November 11, 2019 7:24:50 PM CET, Gene Heskett wrote: >> pi@rpi4:/media/pi/slash $ bzip2 -V >> bzip2, a block-sorting file compressor. Version 1.0.6, 6-Sept-2010. > > strange enough, i use the same bzip2 version on an rpi3 with raspbian > and

Re: Library versions, SONAMEs,and symbol versions

On 2019-11-08 13:04 +0100, Steve Keller wrote: > Could someone please explain how library version numbers, shared object > names (SONAME), and symbol version are used in Debian? > > I have a problem with libcurl.so.4 and a binary linked against it. In > Debian stretch I have the package libcurl3

Re: to install libpng12.so.0

On 2019-10-05 11:20 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > Étienne Mollier wrote: > >> Now, if the software is closed source, then you will have to >> get a libpng12 targeting your system. > > In Debians case, the best way to do this, is to install the version from > Jessie. It should not conflict with any

noexec mount option (was: Email based attack on University)

On 2019-10-04 16:22 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 07:03:59PM +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote: >> I wonder if having /home on a 'noexec' partition would stop this >> attack, please? > > I don't know specifically about this attack, but noexec is trivial to > circumvent. Is

Re: kernel unsigned

On 2019-10-03 12:05 +0200, Gerard ROBIN wrote: > Hello, > In my BULLSEYE box, when i make "apt upgrade" if a new kernel is installed > it is a signed kernel that is installed, but on my machine it is an unsigned > kernel that I chose to install. Why did you do that in the first place? > How can

Re: What keystroke do you use to select tty[1234] in d-i in KVM virt-install console?

On 2019-10-01 21:32 +1000, David wrote: > On buster, if I run 'virt-install' with debian-installer with > preseed arguments including > --graphics none > --extra-args "auto=true priority=critical console=ttyS0 ..." > > to specify a text console KVM install then it all works nicely. > > The

Re: strange error compiling kernel 4.19.0-6-amd64

On 2019-09-30 15:46 -0400, John Covici wrote: > Hi. I am getting an error while compiling the kernel 4.19-0-6-amd64. > > CC kernel/rseq.o > AR kernel/built-in.a > make[1]: *** No rule to make target > 'debian/certs/debian-uefi-certs.pem', needed by > 'certs/x509_certif

Re: Stretch to Buster with sysvinit

On 2019-09-17 09:13 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 11:11:33PM +0100, Brian wrote: >> What causes systemd-sysv to be installed? > > wooledg:~$ aptitude why systemd-sysv > i udev Depends dpkg (>= 1.19.3) | systemd-sysv > > OK... I'll admit, I do not quite understand that dep

Re: Stretch to Buster with sysvinit

On 2019-09-17 11:10 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > Well, the only link *needed* is init, hence its dependency on package > init, whose sole function is to keep the number of init configurations > more than zero and less than two. > > The rest of those links just mean that I can read, say, a 60 lin

Re: Buster installer sets fs_passno 1 for /boot/efi in /etc/fstab

On 2019-09-14 04:32 +, Nicholas A Fleisher wrote: > In the /etc/fstab written by the installer, the sixth field of the > /boot/efi line has the value "1". My understanding is that only the > root partition should have this value (and it does in this case; the > installer wrote two lines in /et

Re: Default date output format changed after an upgrade to buster

On 2019-09-10 22:06 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Hi, > > after an upgrade from stretch to buster, the date default output changed on my > system > > As an example: > > Tue Sep 10 19:50:26 CEST 2019 (stretch) > Tue 10 Sep 2019 09:26:33 PM CEST (buster) > > I am just wondering if this is a k

Re: Lost sound after update to 9:9.10

On 2019-09-08 18:13 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > One of my computers lost sound (both speakers and headphones) after > update to 9:9.10. User is in "audio" group. No sound neither for the user > nor for root. Hardware tested with Live Ubuntu 16.04 is alive and > functioning. > > Any suggestion

Re: When Debian 10.1 release?

On 2019-09-07 17:10 +0530, bapidey...@gmail.com wrote: > Debian says today they release debian 10.1. I am waiting for it. It is work in progress. The repository has already been updated, and you can upgrade to 10.1 if your mirror is up to date. However, producing and uploading installation medi

Re: error while doing apt-get update

On 2019-09-07 15:50 +0530, Tapas Mishra wrote: > On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 12:22 AM Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> >> This sources.list file looks good to me. >> >> > What should I check? >> >> There should be a file >> /var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debi

Re: error while doing apt-get update

On 2019-09-06 21:59 +0530, Tapas Mishra wrote: > I am getting some error while doing > debian@debian:~$ sudo apt-get update > [sudo] password for debian: > Get:1 http://security-cdn.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates > InRelease [39.1 kB] > Hit:2 http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian bust

Re: AMD Vega 6 on Debian 10

On 2019-09-03 21:49 +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote: > Alessandro Vesely, on 2019-09-03 : >> That laptop features a radeon "Vega 6" graphic card, which >> doesn't seem to be recognised (lspci -k reports no drivers for >> VGA and Non-VGA entries). I'm wandering if I should try and >> install the pack

Re: nano copy/paste dead

On 2019-09-02 02:03 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > I've enabled a bunch of options that make nano a better editor, like line > numbers and smooth scrolling so you can better track where you are in a > file. But it appears I have also killed the ability to MMB paste from > adjacent terminals into a

Re: Segfault in different packages after recent automatic ffmpeg update

On 2019-08-20 16:38 +0700, Nikolay Turpitko wrote: > Sorry to bother you. But is seems something is wrong after recent > automatic update of ffmpeg package on Debian Buster on my laptop. > > I tried to fill the bug with reportbug, but it seems it haven't sent > the mail. > > Packages that were upg

Re: gzip and old files

On 2019-08-19 12:39 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > I am trying to unzip rc.custom.gz from tomsrtbt so I can > give it a serial console. All you need do is modify /etc/inittab > and add a line defining one of the serial ports as a console > login. > > Normally, this is trivial and one

Re: Does Debian crontab support the @NumberOfSeconds scheduling syntax?

On 2019-08-18 08:10 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > Judah Richardson wrote: > >> In FreeBSD and derived OSes, you can use @n, where n is a number, to >> indicate that a task should be started n seconds after its previous >> invocation completed. > >> I couldn't find anything like that in the Debian c

Re: Error with logrotate.

On 2019-08-13 00:38 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: [rant skipped] > So just where in tunket _are_ we supposed to be able to keep our logs > then? A place that Just Works would sure be appreciated. Putting them under /home is fine, see this comment in /lib/systemd/system/logrotate.service: , | #

Re: Error with logrotate.

On 2019-08-13 06:59 +0300, Teemu Likonen wrote: > phi...@treads.nz [2019-08-13T09:30:34+12] wrote: > >> I just updated from Debian 8 to 9 and I'm getting the following error.  >> I'm guessing it's something to do with permissions? >> >> Something to do with the create 640 root adm? >> >> /etc/cro

Re: Systemd start that won't stop

On 2019-08-09 21:48 +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote: > It seems to be pulled by "task-gnome-desktop", either by > dependency, or mere recommendation, I don't know. From the > quick test I did, it appeared in the list of packages to be > installed: > > $ sudo apt install task-gnome-desktop > >

Re: Systemd start that won't stop

On 2019-08-09 13:53 -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > On 8/9/19, Curt Howland wrote: >> Hi. New Buster install. >> [ ***] A start job is running for Hold until boot process finishes (2h >> 54m 38s / no limit) > > Those asterisks are also red, and moving left to right, the same as > seen during shutdow

Re: What drivers do I need for a Nvidia geforce GTX 1660 Ti to work?

On 2019-08-08 18:06 -0400, hobie of RMN wrote: > How about GeForce 210...? Will the nouveau kernel module work for that or > are non-free drivers needed, on Debian 10? The GeForce 210 has been around for many years, and nouveau should work fine with it, modulo bugs. Cheers, Sven

Re: Raspian ntp manual invocation?

On 2019-08-08 14:18 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 08 August 2019 13:46:00 John Conover wrote: > >> Raspbian sets its system clock on power up. >> >> Is it possible to manually make a 24/7 Raspbian set its clock >> periodically? >> >> Thanks, >> >> John > > It can run ntp just fi

Re: What drivers do I need for a Nvidia geforce GTX 1660 Ti to work?

On 2019-08-08 09:06 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: > Yesterday I installed my new graphics card but when I rebooted the > system stopped just before the lightdm login box, and just stayed with > a cursor blinking at the top left of the screen. I'm assuming that I > need new drivers for it, so my ques

Re: Buster's Strange Behaviour Purging Firefox-esr

On 2019-08-02 21:36 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > Installed Buster (netinstall CD, LXDE desktop ONLY, system-utils) in > Virtualbox 6.0 on Stretch (sysvinit as init) host to test and evaluate. > Firefox-esr, of course, installed by default, but after installing > Google Chrome didn't need it anym

Re: buster, ekiga.

On 2019-07-24 15:49 -0500, David Wright wrote: > Where is the definition of NUL as "ignore everything following this > character"? AFAICT the mutt manual says nothing about NUL at all. In the design of the C language, where NUL is the end of the string as we know it. Cheers, Sven

Re: Debian 10 logrotate

On 2019-07-21 02:42 +, Tan Shao Yi wrote: > I upgraded to Debian 10 recently and it looks like logrotate is not > working on files outside the /var directory: This is correct. > For example, > > Jul 21 00:00:01 server-name logrotate[8874]: error: error renaming > /usr/local/apache/logs/https

Re: amdgpu requires firmware installed

On 2019-07-14 01:13 +0200, Vuk Vasiljevic wrote: > Hello, > > I have a problem with AMDGPU driver after an update from stretch to buster. > On startup no X server is started (but can be later on by calling startx), > and following error appears in the log. > > [1.311354] [drm] amdgpu kernel mo

Re: buster irqbalance on 4.19.0-5 kernel?

On 2019-07-10 14:15 -0400, Boyan Penkov wrote: > After the upgrade to 4.19.0-5, the irqbalance package is marked for > autoremoval. That is correct. > While I am not familiar with exactly what it does, > reading here -- https://packages.debian.org/buster/irqbalance -- does > make it seem like a

Re: Problem Installing DiscoveryStudio2019 in Buster

On 2019-07-08 20:46 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Le 08/07/2019 à 20:40, Stephen P. Molnar a écrit : >> I have just installed Buster and have encountereda  a problem >> attempting the installation of biovia_2019_.ds2019client.bin: >> >> comp@AbNormal:~/Downloads/DiscoveryStudio$ ./biovia_2019.ds2019

Re: aptitude new packages list forgets old

On 2019-07-08 19:21 +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > I am trying to look which packages are new in buster that were not in > stretch. I am using aptitude since it't great tool for browsing packages. Beware that the list of new packages in buster is way too large to browse casually. In main

Re: Failed to fetch http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/buster/InRelease:

On 2019-07-08 17:49 +0200, local10 wrote: > Jul 8, 2019, 11:27 AM by mailingli...@mattcrews.com: > >> Use "apt update" instead of "aptitude update" or "apt-get update" >> >> Specifically you want to: >> >> # apt update && apt upgrade && apt full-upgrade >> > > I normally use aptitude instead of ap

Re: X server does not start after upgrading to Debian 10

On 2019-07-07 14:29 +0300, Teemu Likonen wrote: > Upgrade to Debian 10 didn't end up well although all packages upgraded > smoothly. > > The problem: X server doesn't start anymore with Debian 10's default > kernel version 4.19. The X server starts and works nicely with kernel > 4.9 which I have s

Re: Can't Upgrade to Buster

On 2019-07-07 06:41 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > Thank you.  I never heard of Apt as opposed to apt-get.  Is this new? It's been there since apt 1.0, released in April 2014. Cheers, Sven

Re: how to use systemd to delete old files and directories on stretch?

On 2019-06-28 17:33 -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: > My reading of the man page for tmpfiles.d suggests that if I edit the file > /etc/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf so that it contains the line: > > d /tmp 1777 root root 35d You probably want to use 'D' rather than 'd' to ensure that /tmp is completely emptied

Re: gtk-config problem

On 2019-06-27 17:08 +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > hi, > trying to compile xdialog, I get the following error when running ./configure: > > *** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found > *** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in > *** your path, or set

Re: Please consider unblocking Chromium and linux packages for Buster

On 2019-06-20 14:48 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 08:45:51PM +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote: >> There is an unconditional ten days delay for >> introduction of upgrades from Sid to Testing, hence the missing >> security upgrade into Debian Buster at t time. Hopefully it >> s

Re: Local mirror creation fails using aptly it says HTTP 404 (some packages not found) using mirror 'http://ftp.be.debian.org/debian'

On 2019-06-07 00:11 -0700, Jaikumar Sharma wrote: > I'm using 'aptly' to create a local mirror from > 'http://ftp.be.debian.org/debian' but it fails by throwing the below > error, does it mean that some mirrors are incomplete as it says > packages not found? > I've also tried two to three other de

Re: kernel symlinks, still needed?

On 2019-05-25 18:16 +0200, Andrea Borgia wrote: > AFAIK the following symlinks in "/" were required for LILO and are no > longer needed with GRUB2: > initrd.img > initrd.img.old > vmlinuz > vmlinuz.old > > Is there a reason for keeping them around nowadays? If you stick to grub, not really. You

Re: What happened to svn?

On 2019-05-19 13:08 +0100, John ff wrote: > I tried my usual update from an svn server and it said there was no > such command.  Apt and aptitude say it does not exist.  What have I > missed or done wrong? The svn command is shipped in the subversion package; this has been the case "forever" (at

Re: systemd WantedBy for X login

On 2019-05-19 15:58 +1200, Aidan Gauland wrote: > I have a bunch of systemd user services for headless daemons that I want > to run in both console and graphical logins, which all work fine, but I > have one that I only want to start for graphical logins, and that works > when I start it manually,

Re: Perl does not support utime with nanosecond resolution

On 2019-05-17 15:44 +0200, Steve Keller wrote: > The Perl module Time::HiRes in Debian stretch does support nanosecond > resolution for stat() but not for utime(), although Linux has the > utimensat() system call providing that function. > > $ cat /etc/debian_version > 9.9 > $ perl -e

Re: bind gets permission errors in buster--systemd-related?

On 2019-05-15 09:33 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > Sven, thanks for the tip about AppArmor. Yet another presumably > complicated system I've avoided learning about til now. I guess it's > time. > > As to why bind is trying to open /run/named/named.resolvers: that is a > customized integration with

Re: bind gets permission errors in buster--systemd-related?

On 2019-05-14 21:50 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > I have a new buster system with a bind setup based on (much) older* > systems, on which it worked fine. On buster, it doesn't. > In two different places in my configuration I referred to files or > directories that were outside of bind proper, and i

Re: Usefulness of adding APT::Default-Release

On 2019-05-10 13:45 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 10 May 2019 at 20:14:20 (+0200), Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2019-05-08 13:14 -0500, David Wright wrote: >> >> > I'm trying to ascertain what APT::Default-Release can do for me, >> > and what it const

Re: Usefulness of adding APT::Default-Release

On 2019-05-08 13:14 -0500, David Wright wrote: > I'm trying to ascertain what APT::Default-Release can do for me, > and what it constrains. In the output that follows, why does > APT::Default-Release prevent firefox from being upgraded? Because stretch-updates ≢ stretch, see bug #173215[1] (with

Re: systemd: how to start a service (kea DHCP4) after all network interfaces are up?

On 2019-03-16 19:20 +0100, Markus Schönhaber wrote: > John Doe, 16.3.2019 14:18 +0100: > >> If your interface is configured by 'systemd', you could try: >> >> $ systemctl enable systemd-networkd-wait-online > > Thanks, but no, my network configuration is done through > /etc/network/interfaces. Th

Re: PKCS#7 signature not signed with a trusted key

On 2019-03-14 12:24 -0400, Default User wrote: > Hello . . . > > I am running Debian Unstable, x86, up to date. > > Last night, I did an update as usual. Several packages were updated, > including updating the kernel from linux-image-4.19.0-3-amd64 > to linux-image-4.19.0-4-amd64. > > Then I reboo

Re: X starting but nothing shows on the screen

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Re: X starting but nothing shows on the screen

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Re: Broken Debian's testing migration (grave bug in module-init-tools)

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Re: Running lighttpd as different user: /run/lighttpd still gets created with www-data user and group

On 2018-12-22 15:10 +0100, Manuel Wagesreither wrote: > I'm running an minbase installation of Debian Stretch and have > configured lighttpd to run as a different, non-www-data user. However, > when booting, lighttpd does not start successfully, as /run/lighttpd > is still owned by www-data. Only

Re: Asserting local repository is trusted (man page problem?)

On 2018-12-16 13:03 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > My sources.list has lines of the form > deb trusted=yes file:/media/richard/debian9/dvd1 stable main contrib > > When using Synaptic's "Edit->Reload Package Information" the error > message is: >> E: Malformed entry 3 in list file /etc/apt/sources

Re: Latest kernel gives blank screen when it boots

On 2018-12-01 14:12 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > I have spent the last several days setting up Fedora on > another partition. When it came to boot back into Debian Sid > this morning I discovered my screen goes blank after the first > few seconds. Quite likely that's bug #914495[1]. #914980 a

Re: Buster Apt-Get Upgrade removed Group "nobody".

On 2018-11-21 10:25 -0500, Kenneth Parker wrote: > I saw that message scroll by, during the processing of the Upgrade. > > I guess my question is, where did that come from, and why? Previous versions of systemd used to create it, a mistake that has just been corrected: , | systemd (239-12) u

Re: Verifying dependencins of DEB file(s)

On 2018-11-14 08:38 +0100, Tomáš Golembiovský wrote: > I need to safely install a DEB file (or set of DEB files) without > network connectivity and with tools normally present on small Debian > installation. More precisely I would either like to install the package > or leave the system in state b

Re: debian-9.5.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso missing files for install without mirror

On 2018-11-04 00:19 +, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Right. But if you compare the metdata for mutt in the relevant > Packages files, there is a mismatch. From current stable: > > Package: mutt > Version: 1.7.2-1 > Installed-Size: 6104 > Maintainer: Mutt maintainers > Architecture: amd64 > ... > Pr

Re: Sid: NFS after upgrade [solved] please fix /etc/init.d/rpcbind

On 2018-10-28 16:58 +, Grzesiek Sójka wrote: > On 10/28/18 2:10 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> Wouldn't it be better to fix the init system that sets such a bad >> default PATH? Whatever init system that may be - sysv-rc's >> /etc/init.d/rc script sets PATH=/sbin:/

Re: Sid: NFS after upgrade [solved] please fix /etc/init.d/rpcbind

On 2018-10-28 14:47 +, Grzesiek Sójka wrote: > On 10/28/18 11:27 AM, Grzesiek Sójka wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> I just upgraded Sid and now I get the following during boot: >> >> [] Configuring network interfaces.../etc/init.d/rpcbind: 42: >> /etc/init.d/rpcbind: stat: not found >> /run/rpcb

Re: posh-0.13.1 'unset -f' broken

On 2018-10-17 14:30 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 10:47:30AM -0700, or...@fredslev.dk wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am testing 'posh-0.13.1' on a non-debian linux distribution so I do >> not have 'reportbug' available and can not report this issue normally. > > https://www.debian.

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

On 2018-10-08 22:06 +0200, Pétùr wrote: > Top shows several threads with high cpu usage such as : > > PID USER PR NIVIRTRESSHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ > COMMAND > > 12452 petur20 0 4030664 1,9g 67248 R 72,4 50,1 2:54.34 > firefox > 12937 petur20 0 1830092 3810

Re: Chromium adress bar Ctrl+Left/Right

On 2018-10-10 18:36 +0200, Andreas Ronnquist wrote: > Using Chromium on Debian stable (if that matters) - is there any way to > customise on what characters a Ctrl-Left and Ctrl-Right in the > adress bar stops at? I am not aware of any, but I am not a Chromium expert. > As it is now, it stops on

Re: Firefox no longer able to play videos on Facebook

On 2018-10-02 08:37 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 2 Oct 2018 09:17:52 +0200 > Per Dalgas Jakobsen wrote: > > Hello Per, > >>Until a few days ago, Firefox played videos on Facebook without issues, > > v52 is too old. IDK whether it's being blocked, or sites are using > features not availab

Re: ncurses problem

On 2018-09-29 11:02 +, Grzesiek Sójka wrote: > On 9/28/18 9:44 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> Actually it is exactly the other way around. If LINES and COLUMNS are >> set in the environment, then the ncurses library will _not_ update the >> screen size upon receivin

Re: ncurses problem

On 2018-09-27 08:51 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 10:38:53PM +, Grzesiek Sójka wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> I compiled following test program: >> == >> #include >> #include > [snip] > >> It's supposed to show current window dimens

Re: stretch update of thunderbird wants to remove enigmail

On 2018-09-17 16:46 -0400, ernst doubt wrote: > I run debian stretch: > > ni@quark:/etc$ cat debian_version > 9.5 > > and I use a number of email clients. I see there is currently an update > (presumably security related?) for thunderbird. But as this upgrade would > remove enigmail I chose (at

Re: How to instal wine on Debian/Sid

On 2018-09-14 09:43 +0200, Martin wrote: > On new computer I am installing Debian/Sid (after using intallation dvd > in sources.list I commented out line containing dvd and inserted this > line: > deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free > then used apt update and apt ugra

Re: udev (without systemd) fails to find devices

On 2018-09-11 19:05 -0700, Bill Brelsford wrote: > I recently upgraded the sid installation on an i386 machine. With > udev upgraded to 239-8, many devices are no longer detected during > boot, e.g. usb, network card, video, audio. I also have a > not-upgraded buster partition on the same machin

Re: ext2 for /boot ???

On 2018-09-12 13:50 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 12 Sep 2018 at 11:36:22 (+0200), Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2018-09-12 10:11 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: >> > On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 11:32:56PM -0400, Lee wrote: >> >>Just out of curiosity - why would

Re: ext2 for /boot ???

On 2018-09-12 10:11 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 11:32:56PM -0400, Lee wrote: >>Just out of curiosity - why would journaling be undesirable on a >>partition that is almost never written to? > > …I'm not sure what the answer to your question is, but with regards > /boot

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