Re: Disk failure, XFS shutting down, trying to recover as much as possible

2015-06-12 Thread Peter Viskup
cause more damages. Have fun! ;-) [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ -- Peter On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 1:20 AM, David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com wrote: On 06/11/2015 12:32 AM, Alejandro Exojo wrote: Yesterday I found out that my extra disk shut down. I don't know what steps

Re (2): VoIP in jessie

2015-06-03 Thread peter
Segmentation fault peter@dalton:~$ Might help to set the CTL default to 1. Will try baresip before more of this. Thanks for the suggestion, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +13606390202 http://easthope.ca/peter.html Bcc

Re (2): VoIP in jessie

2015-06-03 Thread peter
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Re: VoIP in jessie

2015-06-02 Thread peter
a dev package is built. libre-dev for example. There is no -dev option for dpkg-buildpackage. Thanks,... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +13606390202 http://easthope.ca/peter.html Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

Re: VoIP in jessie

2015-05-26 Thread peter
* From: Juha Heinanen xr-xr-x 1 root staff 1052876 May 25 22:47 /usr/local/lib/libre.so peter@armada:~$ Where do you keep librem.so and etc.? Thanks again, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +13606390202

Re: VoIP in jessie

2015-05-26 Thread peter
* From: Erwan David e...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/E1YxExv-Sj-N9@armada

Re: VoIP in jessie

2015-05-26 Thread peter
* From: Juha Heinanen le. root@armada:/home/peter# gdebi baresip-0.4.12/debian/control Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Building data structures... Done Install Build-Dependencies for source package '' that builds Do you want

VoIP in jessie

2015-05-24 Thread peter
://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487719 Thanks,... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +13606390202 http://easthope.ca/peter.html Bcc: peter at easthope. ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: How to type in Chinese?

2015-05-19 Thread Peter van Summeren
Everything works fine now. Thanks to 张启德(Zhang Qide)I hope this mail will attach at the right place in the discussion.with friendly greetings,Peter

How to type in Chinese?

2015-05-18 Thread Peter van Summeren
Hello,I would like to type Chinese in Debian Jessie, Cinnamon, for LibreOffice, TexShop, for my lessons Chinese.In windows, MacOS, I can point to an icon, a window pops up, I can choose pinyin.After that: when I type shi, a window pops up with all the possibilities to choose from. How can I

Laptop automatically sleeps on lid close in Jessie

2015-04-26 Thread Peter Ley
Hi all, I recently upgraded to Jessie to fix another problem I posted about on the list, and it went swimmingly (much to my relief as I'd never performed a dist-upgrade before). Now when I close my laptop lid, it automatically goes to sleep, which would be fine except it has never been able to

Re: Unable to install owncloud-client in wheezy

2015-04-23 Thread Peter Ley
What command were you using? Please say what command you were trying to run when you were trying to install owncloud. Sorry, I thought it could be safely assumed I was using apt-get install owncloud-client Of course none of those install owncloud. Yes, thank you. Those were various

Unable to install owncloud-client in wheezy

2015-04-23 Thread Peter Ley
Hi all, I'm trying to install owncloud-client-cmd in wheezy and I get the following: -- Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are

Re: bash, dash and sh

2015-04-23 Thread Peter Viskup
Hi Jeremy, not sure whether you are aware of checkbashisms tool (part of devscripts package). That could help you to learn how to write POSIX compliant scripts. Others helped you much more. :-) On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 5:02 AM, jeremy bentham d...@eskimo.com wrote: I am finally abandonning my

Re: Unable to install owncloud-client in wheezy

2015-04-23 Thread Peter Ley
Ah, I didn't realize that it had to be from backports only. I guess I'll upgrade to Jessie then. Thanks for the help! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: apt-offline usage

2015-04-18 Thread peter
. For apt-offline set ... and apt-offline get ... sources.list should refer to a networked source. For apt-offline install ... sources.list should refer to the local files in isolated:/var/cache/apt/archives/. No mention of this in the manual. Regards, ... Peter E

Re: starting mgetty

2015-04-02 Thread peter
initialization? Yes, the crossover connection is data only. Both connections worked a few years back. From: Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 22:27:02 -0600 I assume Peter is having ppp on one end login to the other end at the login: prompt as the ppp user which starts up

Re: apt-offline usage

2015-04-02 Thread peter
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Re: Is this an April Fool joke running early ? (Systemd to fork the kernel)

2015-03-31 Thread Peter Viskup
Instead we will soon have GNU/systemd, [a] much simpler, unified platform. GNU/systemd will be a better target for third-party developers and easier to support. What? Foolish guys... Reading behind the words - no cooperation, discussion and respect, we will take over! Completely wrong... Would

Re: Is this an April Fool joke running early ? (Systemd to fork the kernel)

2015-03-31 Thread Peter Viskup
argh :-) this will definitely be one of the best for long time :-D On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 31 March 2015 08:21:12 Peter Viskup wrote: Instead we will soon have GNU/systemd, [a] much simpler, unified platform. GNU/systemd

Re: (ssh) Connection closed by

2015-03-30 Thread Peter Viskup
Could be your ssh client proposing ciphers the SSH server doesn't understand. This was known issue with communication of ssh client 5+ to ssh server 4.x and older. Give it a try and let us know. http://www.held.org.il/blog/2011/05/the-myterious-case-of-broken-ssh-client-connection-reset-by-peer/

Re: OT: bashfråga

2015-03-30 Thread Peter Krefting
och echo), då kanske Perl kan vara snabbare: perl -e 'use POSIX;print strftime(%Y%m%d_%H%M%S,localtime)' -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-swedish-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: Redirect HTTPS with Squid3+Squidguard

2015-03-27 Thread Peter Viskup
Unfortunately we are living in real (not ideal) world and there are cases where the SSL split is definitely needed or should be considered at least. For example Squid 3.5 coming with new design of SSLBump allowing to do some inspection of the connection prior the real SSLSplit. That gives you

Re: cronproblem

2015-03-27 Thread Peter Krefting
misstänker inte fungerar så bra. Formatet med användar-id används i /etc/cron.d Dagens tips: Lägg till raden MAILTO=din@adress överst i crontab-filen, så att status-meddelandet skickas till rätt epostadress. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Redirect HTTPS with Squid3+Squidguard

2015-03-26 Thread Peter Viskup
Without the SSL splitting the only option is to install some software on the client side. Some endpoint security software doing the inspection of the web data transfers on the fly before they pass the TLS tunnel. It's the same like SSL split on Squid, but let's say more transparent. Unfortunately

Re: Redirect HTTPS with Squid3+Squidguard

2015-03-26 Thread Peter Viskup
] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 26. März 2015 13:52 An: debian-user@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re: Redirect HTTPS with Squid3+Squidguard Hi. On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 13:21:57 +0100 Peter Viskup skupko...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, just jumped into SSLBump/Split features some months ago. I don't find

Re: Redirect HTTPS with Squid3+Squidguard

2015-03-26 Thread Peter Viskup
the inspection not possible. The Squid's SSLBump/Split (whose name in latest version SslPeekAndSplice) is the only feature which will make the inspection happen. This means there are still some cases where this feature is very helpful and the only one freely available. -- Peter Viskup On Thu, Mar 26, 2015

Re: Redirect HTTPS with Squid3+Squidguard

2015-03-26 Thread Peter Viskup
Hello Reco, On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Reco recovery...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. And just as well child can see a naughty picture on TV. Or a phone ad. Or a magazine/newspaper. Anywhere, once you start thinking about it. And that's just sad, disturbingly and one of the main reasons of so

starting mgetty

2015-03-25 Thread peter
/systemd ls: cannot access /bin/systemd: No such file or directory The mgetty documents don't help. How should mgetty be started automatically these days? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789

Re: starting mgetty

2015-03-25 Thread peter
. Thanks, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +1 360 639 0202 http://carnot.yi.org/ Bcc: peter at easthope. ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: X11/Thinkpad T430: partially drops input from USB devices after resume

2015-03-21 Thread Peter Palfrader
. I have no clue what could be going on... Probably a USB autosuspend issue. Do you have laptop-mode-tools installed? If yes, can you get rid of it and re-test? -- | .''`. ** Debian ** Peter Palfrader | : :' : The universal http

Re: apt-offline usage

2015-03-17 Thread peter
apt-offline to mean that apt-offline install will install the package. The example should include the apt-get install. Thanks again, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +1 360 639 0202 http://carnot.yi.org/ Bcc: peter

Re: apt-offline usage

2015-03-17 Thread peter
man apt-offline to mean that apt-offline install will install the package. The example could include apt-get install. Thanks again, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +1 360 639 0202 http://carnot.yi.org/ Bcc: peter

Subject: Re: svn, subversion, repos

2015-03-11 Thread peter
. If you want to let users administer the svn repositories, ... The repos here are only for personal use. Thanks again, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +1 360 639 0202 http://carnot.yi.org/ Bcc: peter at easthope. ca

svn, subversion, repos

2015-03-09 Thread peter
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.reposadmin.create.html has $ # Create a repository $ svnadmin create /var/svn/repos $ In wheezy this fails of course. Is /var writeable by users in any widely used Linux? peter@dalton:/var$ svnadmin create svn/repos svnadmin: Repository creation failed

Re: apt-offline usage

2015-03-06 Thread peter
, --install is efficacious. Also, apt-offline claims to solve dependancies automatically. peter@armada:~$ man apt-offline | grep depend based system. It can be used to download packages and its dependencies The tip I can offer is follow the directions. See above. Regards

upgrade versus update.

2015-03-06 Thread peter
://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades Running unattended-upgrades: Its[sic] purpose is to keep the computer current with the latest security (and other) updates automatically. Regards, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +1

apt-offline usage

2015-03-05 Thread peter
On isolated machine, joule. peter@joule:~$ apt-offline set aptoffline.joule.sig --verbose --update \ --install-packages rsync On networked machine, armada. peter@armada:~$ apt-offline get aptoffline.joule.sig --verbose \ --bundle aptoffline.joule.bundle On joule again. peter@joule

user mounting a filesystem; was Re: ld.so.nohwcap and ld.so.preload; was Re: mounting a labeled filesystem.

2015-02-26 Thread peter
From: Reco recovery...@gmail.com Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 09:31:14 +0300 In that case a correct way of doing this is: mount -v LABEL=GRNSDHC41 Output is independent of the -v option. peter@dalton:~$ mount -v -t ext2 LABEL=GRNSDHC41 mount: only root can do that peter@dalton:~$ mount

ld.so.nohwcap and ld.so.preload; was Re: mounting a labeled filesystem.

2015-02-25 Thread peter
in /lib or in /usr/lib. Does anyone recognize this problem? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +1 360 639 0202 http://carnot.yi.org/ Bcc: peter at easthope. ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: ld.so.nohwcap and ld.so.preload; was Re: mounting a labeled filesystem.

2015-02-25 Thread peter
, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +1 360 639 0202 http://carnot.yi.org/ Bcc: peter at easthope. ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas

Re: fakeroot to build a package?

2015-02-17 Thread Peter Viskup
tools and ways to do the same thing. Still don't know all the details. -- Peter On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Eugene Zhukov jevgeni...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I came across this building tutorial [1]. It advertises using fakeroot debian/rules binary command to build a package. Needless

NFS server write issues using netgroup

2015-02-01 Thread Peter Viskup
@media:~# grep netgroup /etc/nsswitch.conf netgroup: files I don't have rw access to mounted folder. Once migrated to configuration without netgroup the permissions allow rw access as expected. Name resolution is ok, mounting works. Am I missing or overlooked something? -- Peter

Re: Linux based cellphones?

2015-01-30 Thread Peter Viskup
closed sourced components AFAIK, but check with them. -- Peter Viskup On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Karen Lewellen klewel...@shellworld.net wrote: Now that seems nifty. Thanks for it. Kare On Fri, 30 Jan 2015, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote: Karen Lewellen writes: I did not mean destros

Re: glibc bug - time to patch

2015-01-28 Thread Peter Viskup
before considering downtimes and patching activities on production servers read these: https://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/283 especially the second link mention network-facing software which is not vulnerable due to proper sanitization out of glibc.

Re: XBMC/Kodi? Anybody actually using this on Debian?

2015-01-27 Thread Peter Viskup
for more information. Decide what's needed by yourself. Once you will have the setup complete you could face issues with VDPAU and/or VAAPI (accelerated video playback on graphic chip). Search on XBMC forum will help you. -- Peter [1] http://www.deb-multimedia.org/ [2] https://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo

Re: DEBIAN on PANASONIC CF-19 laptop

2015-01-18 Thread Peter Schumann
://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZM7Qb7SHtk Best regards. Alex PADOLY Hi! There are several versions of the CF-19, MK1 to MK5. Special function keys are mostly not working. Beside of they are pretty generic x86 Intel machine. So it should just work. Best regards, Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

mounting a labeled filesystem

2015-01-12 Thread peter
peter@dalton:~$ grep GRN /etc/fstab LABEL=GRNSDHC41 /home/peter/GR auto defaults,noauto,user,users 0 0 peter@dalton:~$ mount LABEL=GRNSDHC41 mount: must be superuser to use mount peter@dalton:~$ sudo mount LABEL=GRNSDHC41 [sudo] password for peter: peter@dalton:~$ mount | grep GR /dev/sda1

mounting a labeled filesystem

2015-01-12 Thread peter
peter@dalton:~$ grep GRN /etc/fstab LABEL=GRNSDHC41 /home/peter/GR auto defaults,noauto,user,users 0 0 peter@dalton:~$ mount LABEL=GRNSDHC41 mount: must be superuser to use mount peter@dalton:~$ sudo mount LABEL=GRNSDHC41 [sudo] password for peter: peter@dalton:~$ mount | grep GR /dev/sda1

Re: A capability in the IMAP protocol.

2015-01-12 Thread peter
clients also provide sufficiently capable message-filtering or other scripting functionality. No direct support for this by IMAP itself should be necessary. Thanks. After some exporation and trial error with the client it work nicely, Thanks again, ... Peter E

Re: A capability in the IMAP protocol.

2015-01-12 Thread peter
. Then POP3 suffices to retrieve messages to the mbox. If a client system has only IMAP, the question of simulating POP3 arises. Regards,... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +1 360 639 0202 http://carnot.yi.org

Re: What happens when a bad package is in Debian stable?

2015-01-04 Thread Peter Michaux
On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 10:58 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Peter Michaux wrote: Suppose there a nice package has been in Debian stable for years. If a new version is added to Debian stable and problems are discovered after it is added, what happens to fix the problem? If problems

What happens when a bad package is in Debian stable?

2015-01-03 Thread Peter Michaux
version cannot be fixed? Is the new version of the package simply removed? Is an even newer version added that actually matches the previous working version until bad one can be fixed and added again? Thanks. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

A capability in the IMAP protocol.

2015-01-02 Thread Peter Easthope
,... Peter E. -- Telephone 1 360 639 0202. Bcc: peter at easthope.ca http://carnot.yi.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org

Re: Eclipse?

2014-12-30 Thread Peter Krefting
eget repository som jag checkar ut som en underkatalog och får upp alla filer där. -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-swedish-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https

stopping a problematic process.

2014-12-29 Thread peter
excessive waste? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +1 360 639 0202 http://carnot.yi.org/ Bcc: peter at easthope. ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: bind mount

2014-12-24 Thread peter
this as a solution? Oops; sorry. An ext filesystem allows a link. A FAT f.s. doesn't but a directory where the target is bind mounted is a useable substitute. Inconvenient that the bind mount requires root. Regards, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789

Re: bind mount

2014-12-24 Thread peter
this as a solution? Oops; sorry. An ext filesystem allows a link. A FAT f.s. doesn't but a directory where the target is bind mounted is a useable substitute. Inconvenient that the bind mount requires root. Regards, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789

Re: bind mount

2014-12-23 Thread peter
for root. Thanks, ... P. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +1 360 639 0202 http://carnot.yi.org/ Bcc: peter at easthope. ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

shell script removing log files.

2014-12-22 Thread peter
there is no match. Does anyone have a tidy solution for this task? Thanks, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +1 360 639 0202 http://carnot.yi.org/ Bcc: peter at easthope. ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

bind mount

2014-12-22 Thread peter
This line in /etc/fstab allows bind mounting, except that the user option has no effect. /usr/bin/aos /home/usr/.aoshome none bind,user There is no simple way to allow a user? Thanks,... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12

Changing permission in user's home directory

2014-12-20 Thread Peter Gerber
I want to change permission of a directory, recursively. The directory is a subdirectory of a user's home directory. Is there a way to do this in a secure and easy way with the user having full write access to the home directory? Let's assume I would change the permissions as follows $ chgrp

Re: Changing permission in user's home directory

2014-12-20 Thread Peter Gerber
for an easy work-around for the old installations. At least until the long overdue revision of the update and installation procedure has been done. On Sunday 21 December 2014 02.21:39 David Christensen wrote: On 12/20/2014 04:11 PM, Peter Gerber wrote: I want to change permission of a directory

Re: Two monitors on a Matrox G450.

2014-12-12 Thread peter
fellows, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +1 360 639 0202 http://carnot.yi.org/ Bcc: peter at easthope. ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe

Two monitors on a Matrox G450.

2014-12-11 Thread peter
,... Peter E. = peter@joule:~$ lspci -v -s 01:00.0 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. MGA G400/G450 (rev 85) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Matrox Electronics Systems Ltd. Millennium G450 32Mb SDRAM

Re: automation of xrandr.

2014-12-10 Thread peter
From: Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 18:55:59 + I'd be thinking in terms of putting the command in a ~/.xsessionrc. In one system that works with no problems. peter@dalton:~$ cat .xsessionrc xrandr --output VGA-0 --mode 1280x960 --rate 85.0 xrandr --output DVI

-cpu option of qemu

2014-12-04 Thread peter
man qenu has, -cpu ? for list and additional feature selection. Here, peter@armada:~$ qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu ? Unable to find x86 CPU definition How should CPU definitions be provided? Is there a package to install? Thanks,Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789

Re: -cpu option of qemu

2014-12-04 Thread peter
to /etc/qemu/target-x86_64.conf strings from https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=652281#17 ? After adding the cited lines to define Nehalem, this. peter@armada:~$ qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom /home/peter/MY/*.iso -boot d qemu-system-x86_64:/etc/qemu/target-x86_64.conf:4

Re: automation of xrandr

2014-11-30 Thread peter
From: Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 18:55:59 + I'd be thinking in terms of putting the command in a ~/.xsessionrc. OK; it needn't even be session specific really. One of these might work. peter@dalton:~$ grep -e -layout -e -config /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

automation of xrandr

2014-11-29 Thread peter
https://wiki.debian.org/XStrikeForce/HowToRandR12 helped to establish a usable multi-screen configuration. Now what is the recommendation to automate? Put the xrandr command in .profile? Odd that the wiki page has no mention of this question. Thanks, ... Peter E. -- 123456789

Fwd: Gnome/X/Display device issues since before Testing freeze

2014-11-24 Thread Peter Miller
I've had the Oh no! Something went wrong screen for a couple of weeks now, since just before Testing went into freeze. I've looked everywhere I can and tried all sorts of things, but nothing solves the problem. I recently upgraded to sid to see if that helped, but still no luck. In the included

Re: Qemu host drive basics.

2014-11-20 Thread peter
From: Nate Bargmann n...@n0nb.us Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 06:15:18 -0600 I'm curious if you can read the floppy directory contents using the 'mdir' command from the mtools package? If you can do that as peter, then that may point to a problem with qemu. Just a thought

Re: the developers have spoken

2014-11-19 Thread Peter Nieman
On 19/11/14 15:44, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 09:11:18 -0500 songbird songb...@anthive.com wrote: let us thank each one of them for their efforts to continue making Debian what it is: Really ? I thought they were making Debian something quite different from what it

Re: the developers have spoken

2014-11-19 Thread Peter Nieman
On 19/11/14 22:21, Miles Fidelman wrote: Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 12:41:45PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: Please DO report back. Some of us really do want to know the state of alternatives. If you insist then please use the d-community-offtopic list[1], which was set

Re: the developers have spoken

2014-11-19 Thread Peter Nieman
On 20/11/14 01:04, Brian wrote: You could create a free software progam which falsely shouts 'fire' over the public broadcasting system in a crowded theatre. From your point of view that would seem to be the best of all possible worlds. None of the people who were told to fuck off shouted fire

Re: Qemu host drive basics.

2014-11-19 Thread peter
From: Nate Bargmann n...@n0nb.us Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 06:20:48 -0600 ... should have been 'groups peter'. peter@armada:~$ groups peter peter : peter adm cdrom floppy sudo audio dip video plugdev Group membership is OK. If I am not permitted to read the floppy, the drive motor

Re: The systemd MacGuffin

2014-11-18 Thread Keith Peter
On 18/11/2014, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: Marty wrote: I started posting here when, after years of promoting Linux to friends and employers and finally seeing much progress, my company started phasing out Debian (systemd was not the only issue but more of a last straw).

Qemu host drive basics.

2014-11-18 Thread peter
. peter@armada:~$ sudo qemu-system-i386 -fda /dev/fd0 -vga std -boot a qemu-system-i386: -fda /dev/fd0: could not open disk image /dev/fd0: Input/output error I/o error? Certainly it is read/writable. peter@armada:~$ ls -l /dev/fd0 brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 2, 0 Nov 17 16:44 /dev/fd0 Can anyone make

Re: Qemu host drive basics.

2014-11-18 Thread peter
From: Nate Bargmann n...@n0nb.us Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 21:26:06 -0600 It is rw only for the root user and members of the floppy group. Is peter a member of the floppy group? Use the 'group' command to find out. No group command but peter is in the floppy group. root@armada:/home

Why focus on systemd?

2014-11-16 Thread Peter Nieman
Frankly, I don't understand why so many people are focussing on systemd so much. In my opinion, systemd ist just a *symptom* (although perhaps a very prominent one). It is not the *cause* of the disease or the disease itself. Has anyone ever wondered where all these funny directories like

Re: Why focus on systemd?

2014-11-16 Thread Keith Peter
On 16/11/2014, Peter Nieman gmane-a...@t-online.de wrote: [snip] It's the domination of the desktop environment ideology that's the problem. Many users came to Linux and Debian years ago because they were fed up with Microsoft. And now the same ideology infiltrates their Linux, whether

Re: Why focus on systemd?

2014-11-16 Thread Peter Nieman
On 16/11/14 18:33, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: You might very well be unhappy with this situation, the way the decision was taken, the way it wasn't challenged by the DDs, the fact that no conditions were posed to systemd maintainers, or anything else, that's totally fine. Please just be aware

Re: Why focus on systemd?

2014-11-16 Thread Peter Nieman
On 16/11/14 21:42, Keith Peter wrote: On 16/11/2014, Peter Nieman gmane-a...@t-online.de wrote: [snip] It's the domination of the desktop environment ideology that's the problem. Many users came to Linux and Debian years ago because they were fed up with Microsoft. And now the same ideology

Re: Valuing non-code contributions -- was Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-12 Thread Keith Peter
On 11 November 2014 19:43, Erwan David er...@rail.eu.org wrote: Le 11/11/2014 20:21, Don Armstrong a écrit : On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Erwan David wrote: Le 11/11/2014 18:59, Don Armstrong a écrit : When I (or someone else) asks people to show us the code, it's really just shorthand for someone

Re: forks, derivatives, other distros - what are you thinking/doing

2014-11-09 Thread Peter Nieman
On 09/11/14 14:57, Hendrik Boom wrote: I wish all desktops had systematic, transparent, naive-user-accessible ways of identifying what packages or programs are invoked by menu items. One of the key characteristics of desktop environments is to conceal this and make everything look the same.

Re: Joey Hess is out?

2014-11-08 Thread Keith Peter
Hello Bret and All Mr Hess was writing to the 1000+ Debian developers so the subject line *may* have made instant sense to them, but I take the wider point. We had better explain the 'so long and thanks for all the fish' quote as well (looking at your sig) for the benefit of others. In one of

Re: forks, derivatives, other distros - what are you thinking/doing

2014-11-08 Thread Keith Peter
On 5 November 2014 14:32, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net wrote: I'm a clueless end user with two laptops, one large boat-anchor Dell i5 that is my 'typing box' and another X60 that I actually carry round. Sid gives me a fully functional desktop that runs well on an 8 year old laptop

Re: Joey Hess is out?

2014-11-08 Thread Keith Peter
On 8 November 2014 16:48, Mart van de Wege mvdw...@gmail.com wrote: David L. Craig dlc@gmail.com writes: On 14Nov08:1603+0100, Mart van de Wege wrote: Quite frankly, I'm disgusted. A developer with a lot of contributions is chased away by the noise made by a bunch of whiners who can't

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-04 Thread Peter Nieman
On 04/11/14 03:53, Jerry Stuckle wrote: On 11/3/2014 8:36 PM, Joel Rees wrote: snip I suppose it may be polemic to assert that forking debian and setting up a new community would be labor-intensive, fractious, divisive, and general not a wise use of precious free/libre/open community resources,

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-04 Thread Peter Nieman
On 04/11/14 19:04, Laurent Bigonville wrote: Using the threat of forking to make people change their mind I didn't threaten anybody. do not send 100 mails to ML's I didn't. I don't even know what ML's are. Now, my impression is that some people advocating things like Gnome and systemd

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-03 Thread Peter Nieman
On 03/11/14 01:18, Joel Rees wrote: On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 2:46 AM, Peter Nieman gmane-a...@t-online.de wrote: On 02/11/14 16:45, Marty wrote: http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/ProSystemdAntiSystemd/ It should be required reading for any participant in a systemd thread. Required reading

Re: Camera SD card mounting problems (defined by systemd)

2014-11-03 Thread Peter Nieman
On 03/11/14 07:13, Charles Kroeger wrote: On Sat, 01 Nov 2014 20:10:01 +0100 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard j.deboynepollard-newsgro...@ntlworld.com wrote: I see from other messages in this thread that I'm not the only person to think it equally ludicrous to have a workflow that involves rebooting

Re (2): /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules

2014-11-03 Thread peter
match for another device. On one machine I had KERNEL==mmcblk? rather than mmcblk?p1. On another machine the number for ATTR{size} was wrong. It works now. Thanks for the reply,... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +1 360 639

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-02 Thread Peter Nieman
On 02/11/14 16:45, Marty wrote: http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/ProSystemdAntiSystemd/ It should be required reading for any participant in a systemd thread. Required reading because of what? In order to learn what an arrogant and insulting pamphlet looks like? I doubt that using the word dumb

/etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules

2014-11-02 Thread peter
Until recently # The black Kingston SDHC card. KERNEL==mmcblk?p1, ATTR{size}==7626752, SYMLINK+=BlackSDHC1, \ OWNER=peter, GROUP=users in /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules produced /dev/BlackSDHC1. Now that doesn't work although, if the part is labeled, it is automounted at /media/label

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-01 Thread Peter Nieman
On 01/11/14 17:58, Laurent Bigonville wrote: Surprisingly 10th of different executables talking to each other using a common IPC mechanism (dbus here) seems to be really unixy to me... And what are these 10s of different executables talking about behind my back? ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition

2014-10-30 Thread Peter Nieman
On 30/10/14 11:35, David Baron wrote: I think this problem should be resolved. I know the newer desirable keeping of /usr on /. However, I would bet 99% of existing multi-partition Debian installations have usr on a separate partition. Historically and even recent installations (not that I like

Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition

2014-10-30 Thread Peter Nieman
On 30/10/14 17:48, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Hum... I think I always have seen the installer on all in one partition (beginners)? If you have selected this one, then, you should not have problems because of stuff not mounted. I guess you're right that there was an option to have

Re: How To Prove Systemd Can|Cannot Be Jessie Default

2014-10-25 Thread Peter Nieman
On 25/10/14 12:36, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 24 oct 14, 14:24:31, Peter Nieman wrote: And there should be ethical considerations, e. g. to not expose the users by default to software that due to its complexity and technical characteristics might facilitate intrusion and spying. Dam'it, we

Re: How To Prove Systemd Can|Cannot Be Jessie Default

2014-10-25 Thread Peter Nieman
On 25/10/14 17:38, Martin Read wrote: I would take the several alternatives as tending to indicate that perhaps sysvinit + sysvrc does not work perfectly well, but instead merely BALGE (By And Large Good Enough). I really doubt that it indicates anything like that. There are more reasons why

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