Re: init script can't find /bin/dirname

2014-12-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-12-21 21:58 +0100, Rob Owens wrote: The /etc/init.d/mysql script on one of my systems is complaning that it can't find /bin/dirname and /bin/basename. Line 24 of the script is this: SELF=$(cd $(dirname $0); pwd -P)/$(basename $0) Both dirname and basename live in /usr/bin, not

Re: anacron does not run cron.daily reliably

2014-12-05 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-12-05 23:24 +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: I have one machine here on which cron.daily is not run reliably with anacron. I see in rd@blackbox:~/Managed/LinuxInst$ grep cron.daily /var/log/syslog Dec 1 22:55:11 blackbox anacron[14161]: Job `cron.daily' terminated (mailing output)

Re: Systemd debugging

2014-11-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-11-27 14:59 +0100, Haines Brown wrote: On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 12:06:20AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: You can use this instead journalctl -alb Andrei, I did as you suggested, but I'm not sure if the result really adds anything substantive. It is actually quite useful.

Re: What provides /dev/disk/by-uuid?

2014-11-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-11-19 20:45 +0100, Matt Ventura wrote: What module/script/thing actually provides /dev/disk/by-uuid and by-label? Those are created by udev, the rules are in the file /lib/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules. I'm asking because I disabled some things in my kernel config and now

Re: Shared libraries not found during build

2014-11-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-11-12 21:08 +0100, Joel Roth wrote: I'm running sid. For the first time in many months, I'm trying to build a package from source. After compiling I'm getting library-not-found errors, for example: apt-get source ntfs-3g debuild -b -uc -us Which eventually triggers a library not

Re: Shared libraries not found during build

2014-11-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-11-12 22:03 +0100, Joel Roth wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 09:35:34PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2014-11-12 21:08 +0100, Joel Roth wrote: I'm running sid. For the first time in many months, I'm trying to build a package from source. After compiling I'm getting library

cross toolchains (was: emdebian.org off-line?)

2014-11-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-11-11 18:18 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 11/11/14 17:04, Frank wrote: On 11/11/2014 11:54 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: Can anyone confirm that http://www.emdebian.org/ is currently not responding? Yes it's apparently down. Accessing a cached copy of the site reveals the

Re: grub-pc update causes mount hang

2014-11-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-11-09 22:46 +0100, Joel Roth wrote: I've been upgrading my sid system. When grub goes to regenerate /boot/grub/grub.cfg, mount uses 100% CPU and causes these processes to hang: 10064 pts/1S 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/os-probes/50mounted-tests /dev/sda4 10075 pts/1R

Re: umask has no man page?

2014-11-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-11-02 04:06 +0100, The Wanderer wrote: On 11/01/2014 at 10:18 PM, Carl Fink wrote: Surely a symbolic link could be set up for umask as well as the others (bg, eval, fg, read, etc.)? One could, but I don't think I'd say it would be a good idea, and although the Debian bash

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

2014-10-26 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-10-26 13:46 +0100, Joe wrote: On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 13:13:24 +0100 Håkon Alstadheim ha...@alstadheim.priv.no wrote: The point is that loading kernel modules after a kernel update will not always work, so a reboot is in my experience advisable before you do any configuration changes

Re: libjpeg mess in testing

2014-10-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-10-19 17:39 +0200, Erwan David wrote: I hve dependencies which grap libjpeg-turbo-progs and libjpeg-progs which claim ownership of the same file. There are already bugs about this (764318, 764322,765667,765790) but I do not understand what I should do about this Probably install

Re: linux-image-3.16-3-amd64

2014-10-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-10-19 20:46 +0200, Jimmy Johnson wrote: No 'linux-headers-amd64' or 'linux-image-amd64' packages are available for the new kernel(linux-image-3.16-3-amd64). You had better report this on the debian-kernel mailinglist, or file a bug report (reportbug --source linux-latest). Cheers,

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-10-18 10:13 +0200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:20:20PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: The list will likely be empty, I'm afraid. The whole point of the GR is that its proponents can make any required work SEP if it succeeds. SEP? Google is no help. I meant

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-10-17 21:42 +0200, Ric Moore wrote: On 10/17/2014 01:32 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 10/17/2014 1:29 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: I finished the thread right before I posted, and there were only 4 seconds. Guess I missed some sub threads or something... Oh well, glad

Re: preseeding question (yes, re. systemd / sysvinit-core)

2014-10-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-10-16 19:12 +0200, Joey Hess wrote: Brian wrote: The init package is Priority: required. It pre-depends on systemd-sysv | sysvinit-core | upstart The first alternative is systemd-sysv, which pre-depends on systemd. There is no preseed command which can alter this. It may

Re: Who is systemd-gpt-auto-generator, and why does s/he not like my partition table?

2014-10-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-10-15 16:14 +0200, Jape Person wrote: I am seeing this during the boot sequence on a Debian testing installation. Sometimes it is actually left showing on TTY1 after the DM (lightdm in this case) comes up, and sometimes not. From TTY1 ... systemd-gpt-auto-generator[152]: Failed to

Re: Who is systemd-gpt-auto-generator, and why does s/he not like my partition table?

2014-10-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-10-15 17:53 +0200, Don Armstrong wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Jape Person wrote: I'm also having the drive checked by smartmontools at boot time and have received no warnings. You're basically not supposed to get I/O errors on drives like that. I'd try running smartctl -a /dev/sda;

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-10-09 19:48 +0200, Reco wrote: On Thu, 09 Oct 2014 19:17:46 +0200 Erwan David er...@rail.eu.org wrote: That's one of the reasons I'm thinking to postpone that-pid1-process migration to jessie+1. I can understand the need of killing a useful tool for the greater cause (being

Re: Lots of LSB related mesages at boot

2014-10-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-10-08 17:14 +0200, Hans wrote: Tha last error I could associate to the drive, but I am stuck, how to fix this. I get: protheus2:~# systemctl --failed list-units UNIT LOAD ACTIVE SUBDESCRIPTION ● systemd-remount-fs.service loaded failed failed Remount

Re: Lots of LSB related mesages at boot

2014-10-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-10-08 18:13 +0200, Hans wrote: Am Mittwoch, 8. Oktober 2014, 17:49:47 schrieb Sven Joachim: Hi Sven, journalctl -u systemd-remount-fs.service Please look here: protheus2:~# journalctl -u systemd-remount-fs.service -- Logs begin at Mi 2014-10-08 16:57:15 CEST, end at Mi 2014-10-08

Re: Lots of LSB related mesages at boot

2014-10-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-10-07 18:15 +0200, Hans wrote: Hi folks, after the last update (debian/jessie), I get a lot of LSB related messages and other stufff at boot. I presume you are using systemd? There is a new behavior in version 215, as soon as a unit fails to start systemd enters verbose mode.

Re: Enabling a second graphic card

2014-10-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-10-01 16:39 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: I have recently acquired 2 (identical, 4/3 shaped) screens, so I combined them with my current favorite screen on a computer which have 2 graphic cards, but it seems that Debian did not enabled the second card. I have tried it

Re: systemd-shim to be removed?

2014-10-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-10-01 04:07 +0200, Rusi Mody wrote: Yeah one more systemd thread [Not a rant!] I am getting that systemd-shim is to be removed. Is this expected? This is on testing running aptitude dist-upgrade. Unfortunately, testing does not currently have compatible versions of systemd-shim and

Re: Problem loading firmware in Debian Installer

2014-09-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-09-28 02:52 +0200, Rob Werfelmann wrote: I'm not sure where to submit this bug as I am unsure if this is caused by the installer or the linux kernel. Please look at [1] for known issues with the Jessie installer. I'm using a daily net install (uses linux-image-3.16.2-amd64) and when

Re: Messages from starting services while booting

2014-09-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-09-25 13:04 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: I am using Wheezy, and on some machines I see messages from starting services while booting, and on some machines I don't see them. Can somebody explain me how this works? I have the idea that I don't see messages on fast machines. Are you

Re: chromium = 37.0.2062.117 on i386

2014-09-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-09-25 21:10 +0200, Alex Andreotti wrote: Hello, is there a way to get a .deb of chromium = 37.0.2062.117 on arch i386? (unstable/sid) (if need to be built it is ok if there's a debian/rules) Since the package FTBFS on the buildd, your only chance is to build from source. Which is

Re: Cannot boot when /sbin/init is linked to /lib/systemd/systemd, but works with ../lib/systemd/systemd

2014-09-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-09-22 05:45 +0200, Steve M. Robbins wrote: The package systemd-sysv installs a symlink ./sbin/init - /lib/systemd/systemd. The system fails to boot, complaining that /sbin/init can't be found. In bug #750360, I found a workaround that I have been using for several months:

Re: apt broken in latest update

2014-09-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-09-23 21:39 +0200, Paul Zimmerman wrote: The recent security fixes to apt have broken its behavior with the DVD install. It doesn't seem possible to have the DVD lines in sources.list along with the repository entries anymore, which means you are now stuck downloading anything and

Re: docker - cgroupfs -mountall - plymouth ?

2014-09-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-09-16 10:51 +0200, Erwan David wrote: Why should installing cgroupfs-mount on a server (as recommended by docker) require a graphical boot ? (and if following the the recommends, install desktop-base, on a server... ? SHould I report a bug against mountall ? Rather against

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-09-16 02:00 +0200, lee wrote: Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com writes: On Saturday 13 September 2014 21:46:31 lee wrote: You users, and the community members, whoever they are, need to speak as well. Perhaps, just perhaps, many of them don't agree. Well, I've now seen two people

Re: Query about existence of way to free up unnecessary RAM usage

2014-09-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-09-09 20:13 +0200, Bret Busby wrote: :~$ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 16333856 16242704 91152 0 867841384384 -/+ buffers/cache: 147715361562320 Swap: 428603401764372 41095968 That's

Re: brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-09-07 02:30 +0200, lee wrote: Slavko li...@slavino.sk writes: Ahoj, Dňa Sat, 06 Sep 2014 02:08:47 +0200 lee l...@yun.yagibdah.de napísal: Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net writes: It didn't need systemd before, so why should it need it now? Debian has decided to feature several

Re: git: how to figure out with a script what the last commit on remote repo is without fetching it

2014-09-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-09-07 02:01 +0200, lee wrote: Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de writes: On 2014-09-06 16:42 +0200, lee wrote: When I run 'git diff', I don't get any output unless I have made local changes which aren't committed yet. I'm not sure about 'git status': [~/inst/emacs/emacs-git/emacs] git

Re: git: how to figure out with a script what the last commit on remote repo is without fetching it

2014-09-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-09-06 16:42 +0200, lee wrote: When I run 'git diff', I don't get any output unless I have made local changes which aren't committed yet. I'm not sure about 'git status': [~/inst/emacs/emacs-git/emacs] git status On branch master Your branch and 'origin/master' have diverged, and

Re: Where's the log

2014-09-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-09-02 17:13 +0200, The Wanderer wrote: On 09/02/2014 at 10:05 AM, B wrote: On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 09:44:36 -0400 The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: Did you already check dmesg? That's where I usually find the messages which appear during a(n attempt at) suspend/resume.

Re: Patch wheezy's glibc to run on ancient kernel (2.6.16)?

2014-09-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-09-01 10:28 +0200, Clemens Eisserer wrote: I would like to run debian wheezy on my nokia-770 (Linux-2.6.16.27) in a chroot environment, unfourtunately chroot telling me the kernel is too old. The latest version that worked this way is Debian Lenny, which is unsupported since mid 2012.

Re: Errors at login : in which log can I get the message ?

2014-08-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-08-31 15:28 +0200, Erwan David wrote: At login I get the following errors : [ 21.563380] systemd-logind[2908]: Failed to start unit user@1000.service: Unknown unit: user@1000.service [ 21.563408] systemd-logind[2908]: Failed to start user service: Unknown unit: user@1000.service

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-08-10 14:46 +0200, The Wanderer wrote: On 08/10/2014 02:45 AM, Bonno Bloksma wrote: quote- If halt or reboot is called when the system is not in runlevel 0 or 6, in other words when it's running normally, shutdown will be invoked instead (with the -h or -r flag). For more

Re: fsck progress not shown on boot with systemd as pid 1

2014-08-03 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-08-03 09:16 +0200, Tom H wrote: On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 8:53 PM, The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm wrote: On 08/02/2014 03:15 PM, Brian wrote: On Sat 02 Aug 2014 at 12:24:46 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Brian wrote: With sysvinit the default at booting is for the screen messages to fly

Re: aptitude / apt-get status output

2014-08-03 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-08-03 18:04 +0200, John Bleichert wrote: After running update/upgrade, I always get the usual status messages: root@boogie:~# aptitude update ... Current status: 33 updates [+24], 25530 new [+24]. It means there are 33 upgradable packages, 24 more than before you ran aptitude

Re: systemd waisted 5 hours of my work time today

2014-07-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-25 22:33 +0200, Bob Holtzman wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 02:45:28PM +0100, Brian wrote: ...snip.. Be resolute! Be bold! Plan ahead with November in mind. Read https://lists.debian.org/87mwc9gfsw@xoog.err.no very, very carefully. If it is important

Re: systemd waisted 5 hours of my work time today

2014-07-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-24 16:18 +0200, Sharon Kimble wrote: Johann Spies johann.sp...@gmail.com writes: This morning my work laptop would not boot.  I could not even get to single user mode initially and when I got  as far as that I could not type anything on the terminal.  I suspect some upgrade

Re: [SOLVED] Re: inserting kernel modules on startup

2014-07-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-24 19:49 +0200, Gary Dale wrote: OK, that did it. Removing /etc/modprobe.d/fglrx.conf allowed the radeon kernel module to load. You don't need to list it in /etc/modules anymore then, since udev will load it automatically for you. I have no idea why this just started happening. I

Re: [SOLVED] Re: inserting kernel modules on startup

2014-07-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-24 20:42 +0200, Gary Dale wrote: I think you missed the point. The blacklist was in fglrx.conf where it makes sense to not load the radeon module if I'm loading the fglrx proprietary one. Again, this was necessary back when I was playing around with the fglrx driver. I would have

Re: Sid Systemd upgrade

2014-07-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-22 00:46 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: I assume this partition on the removable drive is not marked noauto or nofail Since systemd can't know which mount points are essential for your system to come up properly, the default is to drop you into a rescue shell if the devices do not

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-21 10:18 +0200, Erwan David wrote: I switched today, and for me booting is slow, much slowzer than before. Run systemd-analyze time to see how long the boot actually took and systemd-analyze blame to see which units took the most time. And booting is silent : almost no information

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-19 19:14 +0200, Slavko wrote: policykit-1 depends on libpam-systemd and libsystemd-login0. But here https://packages.debian.org/jessie/policykit-1 can see: [not kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386] Then it seems, that there is way to have policykit without systemd. The alternative

Re: Lenny - Squeeze - Wheezy; no eth0 on Squeeze reboot

2014-07-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-20 19:53 +0200, Ron Leach wrote: During an upgrade attempt of a Lenny server to Wheezy (the Debian docs say do this via Squeeze) I can't restart the Squeeze system after executing # apt-get upgrade # apt-get dist-upgrade The machine is awkward to see, or get at, so I'm fairly

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-19 00:22 +0200, Steve Litt wrote: And finally, note that the guy's email doesn't specifically recommend systemd, and as a matter of fact seems to gravitate toward upstart, This is quite easily explained by the fact that his mail predates the first systemd release by seven months.

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-18 17:21 +0200, Steve Litt wrote: The other thing is, a lot of people thought the current init system was working just fine. They should read the mail[1] by one of its maintainers which states that it was (and is) _not_ working just fine, and that a replacement has long been

Re: set boot parameter vga=ask before debian wheezy 7.6 dvd install

2014-07-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-17 07:57 +0200, Dennis Luehring wrote: Am 17.07.2014 07:36, schrieb Sven Joachim: I don't think there's a linux16 command on sparc, for lack of x86 real mode. does that mean vga=ask is an x86 only feature? According to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt, vga=… is x86 only

Re: set boot parameter vga=ask before debian wheezy 7.6 dvd install

2014-07-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-17 01:22 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote: On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 03:41:26 -0400 (EDT), Dennis Luehring wrote: i try to install an qemu-sparc version of debian wheezy 7.6 (dvd-iso) the qemu graphics emulation is not full ready yet (freezing very early, textmode works) so i want to try

Re: nvidia-driver disappeared from testing

2014-07-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-17 01:53 +0200, Jonas Lippuner wrote: It looks like the nvidia-driver package disappeared from testing/jessie. When I try to install it from sid, it complains about broken dependencies. Anybody else seeing this? Anybody know how to fix it? The Nvidia drivers have been removed from

Re: Sid - grubpc-bin isc-dhcp-client bugs

2014-07-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-09 08:59 +0200, Tom H wrote: On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Stephen Allen marathon.duran...@gmail.com wrote: For some time these bugs have existed in SID: critical bugs of grub-pc-bin (2.00-22 → 2.02~beta2-10) Outstanding #741464 - grub-pc-bin: hangs after displaying boot menu

Re: Sid - grubpc-bin isc-dhcp-client bugs

2014-07-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-09 19:43 +0200, Tom H wrote: On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2014-07-09 08:59 +0200, Tom H wrote: This one was against 2.02~beta2-7 in experimental. In unstable, not in experimental. I was just looking at the changelog: grub2 (2.02~beta2

Re: behavior of sudo -E

2014-07-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-08 16:53 +0200, Linux-Fan wrote: On 07/08/2014 04:42 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: However, in that case I do not understand this behavior below: sudo -E which enw {no output} sudo -E enw sudo: enw: command not found I do not understand it either. I just tried it and

Re: building .debs with +b1 on the end

2014-07-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-07 20:51 +0200, Brian Sammon wrote: On Mon, 7 Jul 2014 15:55:22 +0100 Jonathan Dowland j...@debian.org wrote: Packages in the archive with a +bN version suffix, such as +b1, have be 'binNMUd': essentially rebuilt without any source changes because the environment has changed

Re: New 64bit install. More problems.

2014-07-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-06 20:54 +0200, d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: 2. No user can access KDE any more. Upgraded something that showed no error (used reportbug-ng to check since apt-llistbugs is broken) and now, no kdm login can access the dbus. Screen just blinks and returns to login. kdm.log cites the

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-05 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-05 20:25 +0200, Steve Litt wrote: Anyway, I don't think a dislike of systemd is, by necessity, offtopic. Systemd is a substantial change, not only in the operating system, but in philosophy. Unix was built as a sort of Erector Set emphasizing a bunch of small parts that could be

Re: Chown Foibles

2014-07-05 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-05 22:56 +0200, David Baron wrote: Any attempt to chown -R thisuser:thisuser /home/thisuser/.* For example,to reset permissions of hidden items, will change ALL users' home folders, everything. Actually, on the surface, this might seem correct behavior because of the '.' This

Re: overcoming apt's resistance to broken packages

2014-06-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-06-27 21:58 +0200, The Wanderer wrote: On 06/27/2014 03:31 PM, Mike McClain wrote: I don't need xserver-xorg-video-mach64 or xserver-xorg-video-r128 to run X on my machine but xserver-xorg-video-radeon comes bundled with them and xserver-xorg-video-ati. What do you mean by comes

Re: Question: update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults

2014-06-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-06-22 11:36 +0200, Hans wrote: Hello list, after changing to systemd some packages give me the following message: warning: update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults This message is harmless, the start and stop options were only

Re: meaning of an error message

2014-06-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-06-21 10:32 +0200, François Patte wrote: When I try to user acroread on debian wheezy, I get this error message: /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: relocation error: /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: symbol _dl_find_dso_for_object, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not

Re: meaning of an error message

2014-06-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-06-21 11:02 +0200, François Patte wrote: Le 21/06/2014 10:54, Sven Joachim a écrit : On 2014-06-21 10:32 +0200, François Patte wrote: When I try to user acroread on debian wheezy, I get this error message: /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: relocation error: /lib

Re: experimenting with dpkg: installing on a different system

2014-06-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-06-20 17:42 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: First, a warning: I am basically trying to reinvent a wheel, only for my pleasure and knowledge. Good luck. As you had already noticed, this wheel is going to have some rough corners, and just using debootstrap is much easier.

Re: systemd man pages

2014-06-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-06-19 20:56 +0200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 09:21:11PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2014-06-18 20:43 +0200, Chris Bannister wrote: Does anyone know where the manpages for systemd are. In the usual places, dpkg -L systemd | grep /usr/share/man. e.g

Re: systemd man pages

2014-06-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-06-18 20:43 +0200, Chris Bannister wrote: Does anyone know where the manpages for systemd are. In the usual places, dpkg -L systemd | grep /usr/share/man. e.g. there is no vconsole.conf man(5) That's because systemd-vconsole-setup.service is disabled in Debian, it clashes with

Re: Chromium cannot access pages.

2014-06-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-06-17 14:39 +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 12:10:21PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: [...] For every page I request, even the default Google-search page it normally displays in a new tab, chromium tells me : Aw, Snap! [...] Even the 'about chromium' page fails

Re: apt-get update: unnecessary use of disk space

2014-06-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-06-15 19:59 +0200, Chris Bannister wrote: Does this seem necessary? root@tal:~# apt-get clean root@tal:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda536G 34G 266M 100% / root@tal:~# apt-get update [...] root@tal:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used

Re: Sid Foibles

2014-06-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-06-09 09:23 +0200, David Baron wrote: A lot of held packages: libxfont, libxfont-dev -- remove xfs. Is xfs gone/deprecated? It has been removed from unstable five months ago[1], I dare say that it had been deprecated for many years already. network-manger, ppp,etc -- remove

Re: Listing packages installed from experimental

2014-06-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-06-10 02:25 +0200, David Glover-Aoki wrote: I'm running wheezy but have some packages installed from experimental. How can I list all the packages currently installed from experimental? $ aptitude search ~S ~i ~Aexperimental HTH, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: chromium doesn't launch

2014-06-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-06-06 14:49 +0200, Joel Rees wrote: Anybody have any ideas why? grep of Xorg.0.log or whatever that was produced this error message, I have no idea whether it's relevant: AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/unichrome_dri.so failed

Re: repeatable dpkg-buildpackage

2014-05-26 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-26 17:06 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 18:58 +0400, Reco wrote: fakeroot ... regarding to some claims on this list is a PITA, at least when building a kernel. *All* Debian packages are built using fakeroot, and this works just fine. I run my scripts to build

Re: Error message: Possible missing firmware during linux-image upgrade

2014-05-26 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-26 17:03 +0200, Reco wrote: On Mon, 26 May 2014 04:53:03 -0700 (PDT) Horatio Leragon hlera...@yahoo.com wrote: Is this a bug? A fixed one (see below). What should I have done under the above circumstances? Install firmware-realtek from the backports. This would get rid of

Re: Need advice about an error messange that worries me in Wheezy

2014-05-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-23 00:41 +0200, Paul E Condon wrote: Under Wheezy, every time I print a document I get and error message which reads verbatim: p11-kit: couldn't load module: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: cannot

Re: systemd - excessive session-creation time

2014-05-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-18 07:09 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 18 mai 14, 12:49:08, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Although initial tty session (from boot) is quicker than with sysvinit, additional tty sessions are very slow to start, in the order of 5 seconds (which seems like an eternity). ... Any

Re: systemd situation in Jesssie

2014-05-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-17 19:58 +0200, Martin Vegter wrote: Hello, I am wondering whether systemd will be mandatory in Jessie. At the moment, I can install Jessie without systemd. Will this stay so, or will this change somewhere before Jessie becomes stable? Depending on your needs, installing systemd

Re: systemd situation in Jesssie

2014-05-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-17 21:21 +0200, Erwan David wrote: Le 17/05/2014 20:57, Sven Joachim a écrit : On 2014-05-17 19:58 +0200, Martin Vegter wrote: Hello, I am wondering whether systemd will be mandatory in Jessie. At the moment, I can install Jessie without systemd. Will this stay so

Re: Will Iceweasel stay open source?

2014-05-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-15 19:51 +0200, Eelis wrote: I read[1] that Firefox will start shipping parts for which they won't provide the source code (something to do with DRM..). You read incorrectly, here is the relevant part from [1]: , | As plugins today, the CDM itself will be distributed by Adobe

Re: Scrolling issues with Icedove

2014-05-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-15 21:34 +0200, A Debian User wrote: When you open an email in a tab, scroll down, then leave it (remove focus from it), when you come back, you'll see that it's returned to the top of the email (has scrolled back all the way up). What gives? Shouldn't you get to go back where you

Re: How to get a log of fsck on boot partition when using systemd-sysv

2014-05-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-10 23:49 +0200, Jape Person wrote: In various logs on these systems I see an indication that touch /forcefsck doesn't work with systemd running the show, and that adding fsck.mode=force to the linux boot line in Grub is now the proper way to force fsck to run at boot time. It

Re: minimal X.org xserver installation on Debian Wheezy

2014-05-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-11 11:43 +0200, Brian wrote: On Sun 11 May 2014 at 00:29:55 +, Martin T wrote: I installed Debian Wheezy with no desktop environment as I would like to use lightweight dwm window manager instead. However, as a first step, I need to install xserver. I would like to install

Re: Filespace exhaustion on '/' partition

2014-05-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-11 18:02 +0200, Ron Leach wrote: server4:/# du / -hx --max-depth=1 0 /var 0 /nfs 1.0K/boot 1.0K/boot2 0 /home 4.0K/tmp 0 /usr 80M /etc 0 /media 64M /lib 5.0M/sbin 0 /selinux 4.1M/bin 0 /dev 0

Re: Filespace exhaustion on '/' partition

2014-05-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-11 22:46 +0200, Carl Johnson wrote: Ron Leach ronle...@tesco.net writes: On 11/05/2014 17:11, Sven Joachim wrote: # lsof | grep deleted | wc -l # lsof | grep deleted | wc -l 3 # But it took 3 or 4 seconds to count them. :) I was beginning to think, gosh, there must really

Re: policykit and systemd

2014-05-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-10 11:16 +0200, Slavko wrote: Hi, there was a lot of discussions about systemd. I don't want to start another one, but latest pilicykit update in testing gets policykit depends on systemd (via libpam-systemd). What it really needs is a working logind, therefore the dependency.

Re: policykit and systemd

2014-05-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-10 13:02 +0200, Slavko wrote: Dňa Sat, 10 May 2014 12:15:32 +0200 Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de napísal: On 2014-05-10 11:16 +0200, Slavko wrote: Please, is the (in)direct dependency of the policykit on the systemd bug or it is really needed? The dependency is needed

Re: Default supported service manager in Wheezy

2014-05-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-10 22:40 +0200, Tom H wrote: On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 2:19 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby mihamina.rakotomandi...@rktmb.org wrote: A long time ago, when I was young ;-), services used to be managed with invoke-rc.d update-rc.d on Debian. I've never understood why, but invoke-rc.d

Re: Chromium not installable on Testing

2014-05-04 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-04 16:17 +0200, Carl Fink wrote: So a few weeks ago Chromium came uninstalled and couldn't be reinstalled. When I tried to install it I got this: root@rocket:/data/vids# apt-get install chromium Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state

Re: [multiarch] easy fix for interarchitectural package conflict?

2014-05-04 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-04 22:04 +0200, Tom Roche wrote: summary: jessie/sid:amd64 box must install an i386 package which depends on libgif4:i386, but - libgif4:i386 conflicts with libgif4:amd64 It seems you are running some derivative which ships an older version of libgif4 than the one in jessie/sid.

Re: `ls` shows file, `bash` says No such file ???

2014-05-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-03 06:25 +0200, Tom Roche wrote: Tom Roche Fri, 02 May 2014 22:25:34 -0400 For background on my problem (and why I very much need to solve it), see http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=190t=166506p=855700#p855700 But the essence of the problem appears to be me@it ~ $

Re: help to find package for libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2

2014-04-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-04-21 07:30 +0200, patel rajendra wrote: I am using Ubuntu 10.04 and one of my program needs libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 file. That must be a really antique program which predates any version of Ubuntu. Can anyone point to right package from where I can install this file to my

Re: Debian 7.4 -- Intel e1000e module too old ...

2014-04-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-04-20 18:47 +0200, Andrew McGlashan wrote: Debian 7.4 -- Intel e1000e module too old ... [SOLVED]Ethernet card intel I217-LM not recognized by Wheezy http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=7t=112327 Same onbaord NIC in HP 600 G1 machines, hope this helps some people. Kali

Re: unpack error

2014-04-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-04-16 02:54 +0200, Frank McCormick wrote: I installed youtube-dl on the Sid installation tonight and noticed a dpkg error which didn't halt the process. This is what happened: Selecting previously unselected package libavdevice53:i386. (Reading database ... 147371 files and

Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does

2014-04-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-04-13 05:59 +0200, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Sat, 12 Apr 2014, Brad Rogers wrote: On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 18:28:04 -0700 Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello Patrick, uninstall or purge libreoffice from the system. 'apt-get purge libreoffice' won't do it. I've done

Re: dpkg -i first.dep second.dep: installs but does not configure one?

2014-04-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-04-10 17:02 +0200, Steffen Dettmer wrote: On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: Le 03.04.2014 11:46, Steffen Dettmer a écrit : $ dpkg -i first.dep second.dep pre-dependency problem: nd-second pre-depends on nd-first nd-first is unpacked

Re: OpenSSH Packages No Longer Suggest openssh-blacklist

2014-04-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-04-10 23:30 +0200, Alex Robbins wrote: I have been using Debian Testing (Jessie) and tried to upgrade today, and aptitude tried to remove openssh-blacklist and openssh-blacklist-extra as they were no longer used. Upon further inspection, in... Debian Wheezy: openssh-client and

Re: openssl 101-g not in packages.gz

2014-04-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-04-08 20:25 +0200, Hans wrote: Maybe I am wrong, but it looks like the fixed openssl 101-g is in the repo, but not in the packages.gz of debian/jessie. So (if I see this correct), debian/jessie will not see and update the newest version. It should happen with the next mirror

Re: openssl 101-g not in packages.gz

2014-04-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-04-08 20:49 +0200, Hans wrote: It should happen with the next mirror push. For some reason neither jessie nor sid have seen updates this afternoon yet, at least not on ftp.de.debian.org. Cheers, Sven Hi Sven. This was exactly the server I was looking at. I just wondered,

Re: Question about firmware in Debian packaging system

2014-04-03 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-04-02 15:54 +0200, Klaus wrote: On 02/04/14 14:30, Paul E Condon wrote: Some time during March I made a fresh install of Wheezy on old HP hardware using netinst v. 7.4 (the most recent version, I think). During the install, I remember reading a warning message to the effect that I

Re: dpkg -i first.dep second.dep: installs but does not configure one?

2014-04-03 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-04-03 14:09 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 03.04.2014 11:46, Steffen Dettmer a écrit : Hi, I have two packages, first and second. Package second depend on package first. I have to use dpkg (I don't use apt, because there is no package server / no online link etc).

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