able
>
> One HUGE problem with that page. Its not printable!
One can obtain a plain text copy of the source of a Stack Exchange
answer by clicking on the date of the answer and then clicking on
the "source" link.
https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/revisions/f5dc1641-0ca8-4
nyway, Stephen, you need to focus on finding useless things in / and
either removing them or moving them elsewhere. If it's just data
then it looks like somewhere under /home would be a good choice as
it has 292G available.
Ask before deleting anything you don't fully understand.
% familiar with, in
case you break your system. But, you could do:
$ dpkg -l | less
to get a list of all packages installed through the package manager,
to see if there is anything that stands out to you.
My hunch though is that you will have a lot of downloaded files in
/root or some big apps from outside the package manager installed in
/opt.
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On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 10:27:30PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
> > > Then ask your sysadmin.
>
> > I have no sysadmin.
>
> Then you are not "only a user", you are a sysadmin, and you are trying
> to be one without acquiring the required knowledge.
I Have No Sysadmin And I Must Sudo
uess. Why make us guess? Just say "check for equality" or
something if that is what you mean. :)
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;t enough. All you'll be doing is the
equivalent of a very minimal Debian install. Of course it depends
how much space the actual application that you want to run needs.
schroot will make things a bit simpler for you:
https://wiki.debian.org/Schroot
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stable, oldstable
etc. without any of these concerns.
Or, your developer should deliver only portable source to you, and
you compile that yourself.
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n putting /home on a different disk (actually an
LVM LV), from the installer, for at least 10 years now, I think you
might be mistaken here.
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arn more about your abilities as
a sysadmin than just seeing an LPI certification on your resume. Or
an RHCE for that matter.
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having the provider relay inbound email to your
servers? I'm not aware that Fastmail does that.
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onfigure the services again, possibly referring to (but not
simply bulk-overwriting existing directory trees with) my backups
- Copy my data back into place from the backups
It's not as quick as "press a button, there, it's re-imaged", but it
avoids introducing new problems
content)?
You can manually set the mirror in the installer, or preseed it.
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tuck with it?
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Hello,
On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 06:18:17AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 11/04/2018 07:34 AM, Andy Smith wrote:
> >I don't think the login shell setting has anything to do with it.
>
> You obviously could not be bothered trying it!
I don't run any of the same softwar
Hello,
On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 02:31:14PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 04/11/2018 à 13:53, Andy Smith a écrit :
> >
> >On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 10:19:59AM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> >>Le 04/11/2018 à 05:45, Andy Smith a écrit :
> >>Why don't you in
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Hello,
On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 10:19:59AM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 04/11/2018 à 05:45, Andy Smith a écrit :
> Why don't you include the swap in LVM ?
I don't see the point as it will never change in size.
But in the case where encryption is used, it would have
hen all of this may seem like
unwanted complexity, but it's a small set of self-contained concepts
that are very well supported by the Debian installer so to me it's
well worth getting to grips with. It will provide you with a lot of
flexibility throughout the life of the system.
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ouble working out how,
I would suggest posting your specific requirement and I'm sure
someone can supply a correct invocation.
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roke
here, perhaps you could build your own kernel packages and "git
bisect" until you find the culprit?
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel/GitBisect
When doing this I also find that using ccache avoids having to
recompile absolutely everything all the time.
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duplicate finders that can make use of FIDEDUPERANGE ioctl:
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2.html
I know rmlint and duperemove can do this:
https://github.com/markfasheh/duperemove
Maybe others.
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mation... Done*
>
> Here's what I get from similar command, why are you installing pkg with a
> wildcard on the end?
It just looks like an artefact of their mailer's attempt to generate
a text/plain version of their HTML email. Note the asterisks around
every line.
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imilar, if you are looking for a command line
partition editor.
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Hello,
On Sun, Sep 23, 2018 at 09:11:44AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I had thought I had created a partition table with Gparted.
Nowhere in your previously posted session did you show yourself
calling gparted or any other partitioning tool.
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Hello,
On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 08:00:50PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Le 16/09/2018 à 00:39, Andy Smith a écrit :
> >
> >The obvious problem there is an attacker who gets hold of the
> >initramfs in order to be able to use the credentials to request the
>
key, and the password is then used to
unlock the root file system, whereupon the computers can
continue booting normally."
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Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail.
— John Levine
7;s documented and our use case is what it's meant
to serve, so if it's not behaving that way for you then I think it
is a bug and should be reported upstream in the kernel bugzilla.
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Hi Martin,
On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 03:58:36PM +0300, Martin T wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 7:55 AM Andy Smith wrote:
> > Back in 2011 this was a hard-won battle:
> >
> >
> > http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2011/09/04/linux-ipv6-router-advertisements-and-for
Changing the values of either forwarding or accept_ra does not alter
the values of the other. Only the behaviour of the system.
Back in 2011 this was a hard-won battle:
http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2011/09/04/linux-ipv6-router-advertisements-and-forwarding/
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of
convenience for me, so my btrfs experiment won't be going beyond my
home any time soon.
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2017-08-08/linux-load-averages.html>
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navigate"
> into the "Advanced options for Debian GNU/Linux" sub menu?
I've never actually tried setting the menu entry name alone, instead
have always specified the full path, like:
# grub-set-default 'Advanced options for Debian GNU/Linux>Debian GNU/Linux,
with Linux 4.9.0-7-amd64'
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Hi,
In article <9e5cd72f3a49245a58b3263d5976f96e.squir...@swampthing.dk>,
Torben Schou Jensen wrote:
> Yep, I had same problem last night, lucky me I started by upgrading a test
> server before production server.
>
> I just see a workaround have been posted.
> This workaround work here
.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=903767>
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; if AIDE does not allow this then I would
consider that a wishlist bug.
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quot;ls", you will probably find that there is a better way to
be doing what you're trying to do. There are a lot of issues with
parsing "ls" output:
<http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs>
<https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/128985/why-not-parse-ls>
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lf.
Perhaps one day the process will become so simple that volunteers
in a project like Debian could do it for free, nearly as fast as the
regular binary package updates come out. We're not there yet and
information on how to do it seems quite scarce, which is why people
are currently paying
On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 11:08:44AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> What is your actual question, here?
Welcome to an Owlett performance art "happening". Pull up a
comfortable seat; this show is going to last a while.
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use the problem isn't that the keys are missing,
it's that the keys are expired. All the above will do is get another
copy of the key, which is still expired.
If you need to use an EOL release, all you can do is ignore the
warnings about expired keys.
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Hello,
On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 02:26:20PM +0100, Mike wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 01:43:50AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 03:29:28PM -0400, mizuki wrote:
> > > "No kernel modules were found. This probably is due to a mismatch between
> &
thout kernel modules"
It's a bit odd that it says Ubuntu when you used a Debian netboot.
Use daily netboot image, pick a different mirror?
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dem cable in between, then use
a serial terminal emulator like minicom or screen on the end you
want to be the client. There are configuration details involved for
the server end to get it to send console output to this USB-serial,
and put a login prompt on it.
Ask which parts you need more info on. Please be specific. Please
don't make this harder than it needs to be!
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however:
To be honest I'd probably be comfortable letting it remove it by
ignoring dependencies. As long as it's installable again right
after, nothing is going to break.
# dpkg --force-depends -r initramfs-tools
# apt install initramfs-tools
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t;, however, it also freezes before
> finishing configuration.
What happens if you use dpkg -r to remove initramfs-tools and try
installing it again with apt?
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eable bit of learning that pays dividends for the
whole rest of your time.
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after the fact?) so if there is a way to avoid the issue in the
first place then to me that is preferable.
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little bit less hassle. VPN is the best
solution for this but may be overkill for one developer and one
host. Once your setup becomes more complicated, a proper VPN is the
way to go.
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# swapoff -a
# lvresize -L2g /dev/myvg/my-only-swap
# mkswap /dev/myvg/my-only-swap
# swapon -a
Yet in the overwhelmingly common case for me, I never adjust the
size of swap so having it outside of LVM means it works even if I
somehow break LVM.
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pulating JSON data
>
> Says it's installed but where? Running "whereis" turns up nothing.
$ apt-file search libjansson.so.4
libjansson4: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjansson.so.4
libjansson4: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libjansson.so.4.9.0
Also, for installed packages, "dp
find you do
require more swap it can always be added later as devices or
swapfile.
As you can see I greatly value simplicity, which for me is a
hard-won lesson in the sysadmin trenches. Other people like a more
exciting life, so each to their own. :)
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at would be a bug.
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e, but
depending on whether they are easy or hard to find would seem like
an easy first step in working out if this is a serious problem or
not.
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r an indefinite period.
Between this and more complications I'd be surprised if there are
many packages which directly depend upon systemd-as-pid1 for no good
reason. But do report bugs for those that do!
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decade, someone comes along and invents a new
init system, or finds out that all CPUs made in the last 20 years
are insecure, or something.
So, get used to it, I guess? ;)
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kage gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly:amd64 1:1.12.3-dmo1
I suspect that the "dmo" suffix indicates that this package was
installed from "debian multimedia" which is not part of Debian. If
so, you're on your own there. Maybe remove such packages and try
again.
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r block special
devices on the file system.
While a filesystem is mounted "nodev", it can't have device special
files created on it.
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hrc
fi
Does yours (still)?
Maybe you could compare your ,bash_profile now to one from your
recent backups.
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es what you want, but given the size and
complexity of the firefox packages that is perhaps a bit ambitious.
Then, there is always the option of creating your own firefox
executable which is a script that checks your environment, fixes it
up if necessary, and then calls the real firefox binary.
Ch
ut each time I hit a bump I eventually get past
it, and the result is just simpler, so I am optimistic. I think/hope
that having only one environment to manage (the place that Ansible
runs from) will really help.
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debian.org goes all the way back to woody in
2005, I don't see why it wouldn't be possible to put that in your
/etc/apt/sources.list and take a potato system up through woody,
sarge, etch, lenny, squeeze, to wheezy then switch to the normal
mirrors to go to jessie and beyond. Althou
me how to recreate the necessary files in /dev so I can
mount these volumes and boot the server?
Thanks,
-Andy.
emory for some time).
You might find it more convenient to use the device aliases in the
/dev/disk/by-* directories as these can be based on some persistent
property of your removable device such as its label, serial number,
or which port it is plugged into etc.
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someone who does it,
it's not something I'd recommend without fully appreciating the
dangers. I've had it break badly!
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Hi Stephen,
On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 10:09:52AM +0100, Stephan Seitz wrote:
> On Di, Feb 20, 2018 at 05:09:12 +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> >CVE-2017-5753 is Spectre v1. There is no fix for Spectre v1 anywhere
> >yet, not even in Linux upstream.
>
> Are you sure?
[…]
>
e kernel package in
sid. Read it again:
<https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-5715>
That's the retpoline stuff you're talking about.
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bout that.
On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 01:23:25PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> Checkout the debian backports suite (kindly resourcefully suggested by
> Andy Smith)
Please note that I provided these details to Michael Fothergill as
part of Michael's general query about how a user coul
such things to w...@debian.org.
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possibility of this being
the culprit, though the lack of resolution here does suggest the OP
may have a long road ahead if that is the case.
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very different browser in every release of Debian against
every wiki on the Internet to try to replicate or understand your
problem is too simple for us.
Can you please try again at a later date with a query that contains
less information about your issue, in order to make it more suitabl
okaiser"
> boot option...
This sounds like a better option because each kernel update will fix
a lot of other things, not only Meltdown.
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Hi Michael,
On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at 11:44:39PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> On 3 February 2018 at 23:14, Andy Smith wrote:
> > If you want to make genuine constructive suggestions for how things
> > could be improved, I think you should start by identifying what
a combination of you misunderstanding
what Debian is, and you wishing Debian was something that it's not.
> I am concerned about new users and what they would have to to
> install the current kernels (ie use a separate live sid
> distribution (correctly and helpfully referred to by And
he stable release that
new users are directed at.
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e are also likely to
be new mitigations developed that get around known problems in less
expensive ways. So expect a lot more kernel updates in our near
future.
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Pv4 will
probably fall back to 'link local' addresses if they receive no response
from a DHCP server (which they won't, as all they're connected to is some
other PC).
Both devices will allocate themselves an address in the 'link local' range,
and these addresses can then be used for communicating between the devices.
Andy
host that's expecting to receive its address via DHCP receives no response
from the
DHCP server, it should fall back automatically to a 'link local' address.
Andy
r.
I fixed these problems by downloading a new netboot.tar.gz as
described at <https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/ch04s05.html.en>
Hope that helps.
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s to do whatever you need to do.
Andy
never tried it but <https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/255955>
seems to suggest that you would set the stable_secret sysctl and
then it would work automatically after that.
You could set the sysctl from /etc/network/interfaces or from
/etc/sysctl.d/ or just by some other script.
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rvices provided to my network).
I'm an inveterate fiddler when it comes to computing, so am always on the look
out for the next 'best' thing to try!
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allow IPv6 access to every device
on my internal network without having to worry about NAT and port forwarding
to get connections through my firewall.
Thanks for the pointer to tinydns, I'll take a look.
Andy
Are there any other options, or should I just dive in and try to convert to
dnsmasq?
Thanks
Andy
and IPv6), NS and
CNAME records to that domain?
Thanks
Andy
rs familiar with btrfs.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14909843
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But like everything else, ZFS has its downsides too, so it is a
matter of requirements.
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ally, the parity RAID levels in btrfs are newer than RAID-1 and
-10 and have seen a lot more bugs. Including really bad data loss
bugs.
One look at https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RAID56 should be
enough.
> Would I be safer with ext4 over RAID5?
It's a bit of a frying pan / ground zer
d buggy packages might be helped by
https://codesearch.debian.net/
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ome up.
Can you avoid it by using global_filter to restrict LVM's operation
to certain devices?
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it seems you should be setting are_match() if you want lookfor() to
match anything.
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o
> forth.
initramfs should get re-created after kernel reinstall. Sysmap comes
with the kernel, and we already covered grub.
So, try the commands and see what happens. There might be some
additional forcing you need to do but it soul;d be relatively simple.
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ose of it was to have
something to link to when this controversy (which has been going on
for years) rears its head on social media. In that context its style
makes a lot of sense.
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var/lib/urandom/random-seed and very
early on is fed back in to seed the PRNG. It's only in the small
window between boot and feeding in that data where the PRNG might
not have enough entropy.
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e pool is initialised.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71211
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ckage
with the config management straight off. Depending on what system I
am working on I will sometimes "cheat" and install it manually with
apt, configure the files with an editor etc. But I do always at
least try to "go back" and recreate the working config with
config man
be best not to reply to it (unless you feel like replying
off-list to the person explaining that they are replying to spam),
as the sender won't see your reply and no one on this list can do
anything about it.
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> I'd b
i.xenproject.org/wiki/PvGrub2#Debian
Also the xen-user mailing list is a good place to ask support
questions, as there are probably more admins who use Xen there.
https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-users
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Hello,
On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 07:04:09AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 09:46:09PM -0400, David Niklas wrote:
> > On Sat, 29 Jul 2017 04:59:40 +
> > Andy Smith wrote:
> >
> > Also, my use case is at home where the power can and *does* fail. I
stable by replying to them. We know that spammers forge from
addresses, so just imagine the consequences of a spam run that had
debian-user as its from address, and you will conclude that it would
play out exactly as we see here.
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ough cause for concern to me.
The worst I've seen on the zfsonlinux list in the last couple of
years is people reporting abnormally low performance in their
configuration.
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Hi Joe,
On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 12:51:20PM -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> Andy Smith writes:
> > On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 05:18:54PM +0200, Sébastien Gautrin wrote:
> >> The proof of this is that they all have nearly the exact same content (some
> >> add the list mail,
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