Re: wheezy to squeeze

2015-07-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
's where things stand now. > >The number of held-back entries is about the size of the whole >distribution so something is seriously wrong. What command are you using to upgrade? This looks like you're using "apt-get upgrade" when you need "apt-g

Re: RAID b/w GPT and NON GPT partition.

2015-06-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
on the ESP you'll be screwed. The official recommended minimum size for the ESP is 512 MiB, and that's what we use by default in d-i. >Also, there is no strict requirement that the EFI system partition must >be at the beginning of the disk. This is just a precaution against >pos

Re: UEFI works with USB but not with HDD

2015-06-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 08:59:42PM +0200, Dan wrote: >On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 7:23 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> Hope that helps! > >Thanks a lot for the great explanation! > >I think it would be helpful for other users to put all this in the >Debian Wiki. Maybe

Re: UEFI works with USB but not with HDD

2015-06-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 06:16:13PM +0200, Dan wrote: >On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Dan wrote: >> >>>I just bought a desktop (Dell T5810). I tried to install Jessie with >>>UEFI. The USB installation (netinst) works perfectly. I instal

Re: UEFI works with USB but not with HDD

2015-06-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
Rescue mode to get there. With Jessie, I also added an option in Rescue mode to add a "removable media" boot entry on your hard disk so that even really brain-dead UEFI setups should still boot... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Furt

Re: Fwd: Transferring files from Debian computer to android phone

2015-06-19 Thread Steve Greig
F ALL OTHER TERMS'. Taken literally that is so absurd as to make me not want to depend on their software.. why should I read their terms before even visiting their website? Not trying to rant but trying to explain why I want to stick with Free Software despite technical challenges. Steve

Fwd: Transferring files from Debian computer to android phone

2015-06-19 Thread Steve Greig
-- Forwarded message -- From: Steve Greig Date: Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 9:18 AM Subject: Re: Transferring files from Debian computer to android phone To: Stefan Pietsch Unfortunately I do not know how to install things. The approach I took was to add https://packages.debian.org

Transferring files from Debian computer to android phone

2015-06-18 Thread Steve Greig
uld be happy to use the command line but when I googled that it looked very complicated. Thanks, Steve

Re: Fwd: updating debian warnings

2015-06-18 Thread Steve Greig
ch as possible before posting a thread, Steve root@debian:/home/steve# apt-key list /etc/apt/trusted.gpg pub 2048R/94558F59 2012-06-25 [expires: 2015-06-25] uid Spotify Public Repository Signing Key < operati...@spotify.com> /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d//deb

Re: Fwd: updating debian warnings

2015-06-18 Thread Steve Greig
an/ wheezy-updates main deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main #deb http://repository.spotify.com stable non-free On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 7:23 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 17 June 2015 00:27:05 Steve Greig wrote: > > -- Forwarded message ------ &g

Fwd: updating debian warnings

2015-06-16 Thread Steve Greig
-- Forwarded message -- From: Steve Greig Date: Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 8:43 AM Subject: Re: updating debian warnings To: Brian Thanks for you responses. I have posted contents of etc/apt/sources.list followed by output from dpkg -l debian-archive-keyring below: # deb cdrom

updating debian warnings

2015-06-15 Thread Steve Greig
ing window requiring me to reenter my password. At this point I bottled out and cancelled the update. I would have thought that only trusted software would be put into the updates so was surprised by this and would like to ask for a bit of explanation and also advice on how to proceed. Steve

Re: Why Debian 8.1 has no torrents beyond first 3 DVD ISO images

2015-06-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
4 like they do for >high-rises). *grin* We have no plans to cater for the superstitious in our CD and DVD numbering schemese... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Further comment on how I feel about IBM will appear once I've worked ou

Re: Laptops, UEFI, Secure Boot and Debian

2015-05-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
rmal installation workflow, no need for Expert mode. Jessie is better in terms of a number of bug fixes and better support in the underlying tools like grub-efi, that's all. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Further comment on how I feel abou

making thumbnails

2015-04-28 Thread Steve Greig
quite out of my depth there. Any ideas would be very much appreciated, Steve

Re: After installing Debian Jessie it boot me in tty1 only...

2015-04-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
w did you install? From CD/USB or similar? There's a problem where not all the needed packages fit on CD#1 (for example), so you'll need a second CD or a network connection to get the rest of the packages. That *might* be the problem you're seeing... -- Steve McIntyre, Cam

Re: Is gnome-core *really* the gnome minimal install?

2015-04-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
That's up to the whole community of developers and users to maintain. If you believe there are real bugs in the content of pages on wiki.d.o, feel free to create an account and fix them. -- Steve McIntyre93...@debian.org Debian wiki admin - wiki.debian.or

Re: How to change installer image?

2015-01-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
a commands needed to add isohybrid options. I guess that wiki page is out of date. If you look in the file .disk/mkisofs on the original CD, you'll see the exact command that was used to make the original image, for reference in exactly this type of situation. You'll also need to u

Re: Are these Jessie installer images hybrid images?

2015-01-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
Lisi wrote: >On Friday 09 January 2015 14:19:52 Steve McIntyre wrote: >> In article <201501091406.08420.lisi.re...@gmail.com> you write: >> >Are these Jessie installer images hybrid images? It appears not, but I >> >thought all Debian installer images were now

Re: Are these Jessie installer images hybrid images?

2015-01-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
hybrid, yes. (i.e. disc 1 in each set and the netinst). What makes you think they're not, OOI? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user' as meaning someone who'

Re: is sshd really restarting?

2014-12-18 Thread Steve Kemp
systemctl status ssh.service Obviously that is post-restart. Steve -- -- 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/20141218135937.ga23...@steve.org.uk

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
Brian wrote: >On Fri, 05 Dec 2014 14:51:11 +0000 >Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> Hi Brian, >> >> You might be in luck - I'm looking into installer stuff right now and >> I've literally just got an Intel Mac Mini like yours last night to >> play with.

Re: Installing Linux on a Mac Mini without OSX

2014-12-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
ct. To confirm that, could you try the wheezy installer CD again for me please? If it has booted in BIOS mode, it should look like http://www.einval.com/~steve/images/installer-bios.png If it has booted in UEFI mode, it should look like http://www.einval.com/~steve/images/installer-efi.png (

Re: Debian fork: 'Devuan', Debian without Systemd

2014-12-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
rified in http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/on_leaving/ : "I left Debian. I don't really have a lot to say about why, but I do want to clear one thing up right away. It's not about systemd." -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "

Re: Installing Android development software

2014-11-13 Thread Steve Greig
stion and got the following (ie. I did not find it): steve@debian:~$ find -name adt-bundle-linux* steve@debian:~$ su Password: root@debian:/home/steve# find -name adt-bundle-linux* root@debian:/home/steve# cd root@debian:~# find -name adt-bundle-linux* root@debian:~# Thanks for your help! On Thu

Re: Installing Android development software

2014-11-12 Thread Steve Greig
I have tried your suggestions and found quite a lot of files with the word android or eclipse in them but I can not find the file called eclipse which previously I had which when I clicked on it opened up the eclipse program. Thanks for your help, Steve On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Andrei

Re: Installing Android development software

2014-11-11 Thread Steve Greig
dle. I definitely had it on my system but now I can't find it. I was wondering if it could have uninstalled itself. The other possibility is I am not searching in the right places and am not using the find files procedure correctly. Best wishes Steve On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Chris Bannister

Re: Installing Android development software

2014-11-09 Thread Steve Greig
is already based on >gradle or you don't like eclipse. I think I will go for the stable version first but probably should try both at some time. Steve On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 6:38 PM, Marty wrote: > On 11/09/2014 12:50 PM, Steve Greig wrote: >> >> I thought I would try and

Installing Android development software

2014-11-09 Thread Steve Greig
very grateful for any insight into this. Basically I don't really know how to see what software is available to me via apt. I am running Wheezy. Best wishes from Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
at all. Instead, it seems there are people who won't, or don't want to, understand explanations when given. For people who claim to have technical backgrounds, that's a surprising (and very frustrating) problem. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@

Re: Can't assemble 7.7 DVDs with jigdo

2014-11-01 Thread Steve McIntyre
Serge wrote: >Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> As far as I know it *should* be working. What mirror are you using? > >Yes, always Just Worked™ for me. > >First, jigdo tries my local one, recently updated from >ftp.fi.debian.org, then snapshot.debian.org, then >us.cdimag

Re: Can not play CDs

2014-10-30 Thread Steve Greig
Hi Scott. Thanks very much. I read it with interest and will keep it for future reference but might not do anything now as the main problem for me is solved and also I have got very busy suddenly with my business and other commitments. Hope to get back to it, Steve On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 11:55

Re: Can't assemble 7.7 DVDs with jigdo

2014-10-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
Serge wrote: >Hey, folks, > >Has anybody else get a bunch of 404 File Not Found trying to put >together 7.7's install DVDs for amd64 and i386? And if so, have >you found a workaround? Hi Serge, As far as I know it *should* be working. What mirror are you using? -- Steve McI

Re: Can not play CDs

2014-10-28 Thread Steve Greig
looking like I can do most of what I would like to which is great. I did try to do the install that Scott suggested as it would be nice to have the audio tracks listed from within Dolphin although not essential. It seems not to have worked. The following is the response I got: steve@debian:~$ su

Can not play CDs

2014-10-28 Thread Steve Greig
io. In the past I have accessed CDs without problems on this same computer. It may be relevant that I often get an error message something like 'apt update cant access CD drive' (I cant remember the exact wording). Any help would be very much appreciated. Steve

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 18:41:21 -0700 Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2014, Steve Litt wrote: > > > On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 12:45:11 -0700 > > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > After much vitriolic gnashing of teeth from those opposed to > > > systemd,

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 19:09:39 -0400 Miles Fidelman wrote: > Brian wrote: > > On Tue 21 Oct 2014 at 15:01:18 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:19:08 +0200 > >> Liam Proven wrote: > >> > >>> A blog post explaining why it

Does Debian still have a systemd-must-die metapackage?

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
Does Debian still have a systemd-must-die metapackage, and does it still work in Jessie? SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
KISS distro. That's why a lot of us migrated to it. Wheezy *is* a KISS distro. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &quo

Re: What actual program does the kernel run at boot in the default Jessie?

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 23:11:46 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 21 oct 14, 15:17:58, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > In default new-installed Jessie, does the kernel still hand off to > > the program called /sbin/init during boot, or does it do something > > else? &

Re: msg from tornow....

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
e, doesn't mean one > > doesn't care and won't make the according choice. And calling > > people who are worried about systemd trolls (and/or haters), > > worried because they *do* care about Debian, sure won't convince > > them to stay. LOL, they *

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
'd need to go to Lua or Luajit to get a faster "interpreter". One of the first things I do when writing software is figure what the bottleneck is. If the bottleneck is the user's molassas slow 140 word per minute typing, I'll use an interpreter every time so I'm not

What actual program does the kernel run at boot in the default Jessie?

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
s the kernel still hand off to the program called /sbin/init during boot, or does it do something else? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
I thank Ian Jackson for doing the right thing, in spite of the difficulties it created for him, personally. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
; > Using systemd since 2014-08-09 with no issues. Good for you. Let's see if you have no issues 2016-08-09, if Red Hat wins its war against Linux. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Refracta systemd-free progress

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
I were you, I'd rephrase it thusly... === Check out the outstanding progress that fsmithred and dzz are making with a systemd-free Refracta. I think that similar construction can greatly benefit Debian: === S

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
t to another repository (hopefully a trusted one), so that people could add that repository and thus install uselessd on Jessie? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to deb

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 08:12:17 +0200 Ludovic Meyer wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 09:34:48PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 12:45:11 -0700 > > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > After much vitriolic gnashing of teeth from those opposed to > &g

Re: LSB headers and other junk, how do you hack a quick init script in debian these days?

2014-10-20 Thread Steve Litt
under perfect control, and controlling them is zombie-simple. If you want, I can even tell you how to control which order daemontools starts its stuff up in, although that would be a kludge and it would start looking a little like sysvinit scripts. SteveT Steve Litt* http://w

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-20 Thread Steve Litt
have missed the memo : > http://www.vitavonni.de/blog/201410/2014101801-beware-of-trolls---do-not-feed.html > The subject of the preceding article link hasn't posted in several days. I know that because, no matter what name he uses, his posts are immediately recognizeable. So wh

Re: Refracta systemd-free progress

2014-10-20 Thread Steve Litt
ppen to believe that in the long run the entanglement isn't worth the benefits you mention, but that's just a difference of opinion between us, rather than the "your opinion doesn't count" type of thing. Jonathan de Boyne Pollard, what's your impression of the relative b

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-20 Thread Steve Litt
27;s systemd juggernaut came along, and then all of a sudden we just couldn't wait? SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: Remember when men were men and wrote their own init scripts? =)

2014-10-20 Thread Steve Litt
nute, Debian has the last clear chance to avoid the "Poettering Vision", which is really the Red Hat strategy for Linux monopolization, which means destruction of the operating system we currently use. At this point, the technical issues are a minor thing. The big news is how huma

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-20 Thread Steve Litt
e can do it on the offtopic list is an insult to our intelligence. You know it, and we know it. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of &

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-20 Thread Steve Litt
's my DE. :D An afficienado would argue with you that it's a DE only if the apps can all interact. Me, I'd prefer all my apps mind their own business, but hey, that's just me. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training *

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-19 Thread Steve Litt
at and convert to a simple C program, call gcc to make it into an executable. Rapid Application Development, Army Surplus style, which of course makes me a pariah in the eyes of "real" programmers. Life's tough. Thanks so much for cluing me into this! SteveT Steve Litt

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-19 Thread Steve Litt
d > of being controlled by my computer. Quoted For Truth!!! Steve Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: All roads to suspend/hibernate lead through systemd?

2014-10-18 Thread Steve Litt
> [Oh and BTW about 6 months or so back gdm stopped working and Ive > switched to startx > ] There's a certain irony. First, IMHO startx is better than booting directly to GUI. Secondly, now that stopping X gets you to the command prompt, you can type whatever

Re: Openbox systemd-free

2014-10-18 Thread Steve Litt
e that wpa_supplicant is a daemon that's begging to be managed by daemontools instead of the unfathomable shellscripts it's now managed by. I spoze one could also make a point for managing it with systemd, but I can't afford the price of that ticket. SteveT Steve Litt* h

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Steve Litt
s might need to write to. They need a predefined standard to write to, and I guess dbus is the standard being used. If I were in charge of standards, I might have used something simpler (like a fifo with a very simple data definition) exclusively for notifications (the official visual and audio hi

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Steve Litt
== Reading the preceding, it looks to me like it's used for some fairly arcane enhancements to the basics of Claws-Mail. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-18 Thread Steve Litt
er it actually got emailed to Debian. The process, the questions it asked, and the automatic collection of my computer's configuration made submitting the bug trivial. *Every* project should have one of these. Thanks so much for telling me about this. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www

Re: alternative file systems

2014-10-18 Thread Steve Litt
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 12:06:17 +0400 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 18:24:16 -0400 > Steve Litt wrote: > > > On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 03:00:26 +0200 > > lee wrote: > > > > > > > But when it eats files and is 10 years behind, why are pe

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:06:53 -0700 Jimmy Johnson wrote: > On 10/17/2014 10:12 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 21:59:44 -0700 > > Jimmy Johnson wrote: > > > >> On 10/17/2014 08:44 PM, Ric Moore wrote: > >>> On 10/17/2014 10:22 PM, Jimmy Joh

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
x "isn't a real operating system". But here's the thing, Doug. Even if it were nothing more than your first two points, it would be a travesty. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBS

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
olith and a danger to computing. The time might come when I need to do the same with Gnome. Don't assume that users just bend over and take this entangled junk. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
, the world goes on, and systemd is a nonissue. I think within three or four years we'll know which of the above is true. If it's A, we'll take Linux back from Red Hat, and with any luck cause the demise of Red Hat via competition of a superior OS. If it's B, we won't e

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
les. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: ht

Re: how to boot in les than 8 minutes

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
arting two of them, one by systemd and one elsewhere. Umm, err, blush, I recently had the exact same problem with daemontools! SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists

Re: how to shutdown in less than 8 minutes

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:51:34 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > I meant > > /etc/init.d/nmbd > /etc/init.d/smbd > > Kind regards, > Andrei LOL, same here (in my advice on troubleshooting to Pierre)_. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Tro

Re: how to shutdown in less than 8 minutes

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 22:44:41 +0200 (CEST) Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Fri, 17 Oct 2014, Steve Litt wrote: > > > are you all sure that the delay *does* happen during the shutdown of > > Samba? If it turns out not to be Samba, you've just needlessly > > chase

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
guard a > common good and he/she has her/himself interests in that good. Or, when his paycheck or bribe might cause him to vote a certain way. > > This thread is about the inability to accept a outcome of a democratic > process. Now they claim to own "the right debian"

Re: alternative file systems

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 03:00:26 +0200 lee wrote: > But when it eats files and is 10 years behind, why are people buying > it? > > So how can we safely store large amounts of data? I thought Postgres was supposed to be powerful, stable, reliable, and great for lots of data. SteveT

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
usness of this case clearly overrides the > need to hit deadlines I agree. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
nd should have prioritized dbus-free software years ago. And from now on, when people laugh at my ugly, no-dependency, home grown solutions as "kludges", I'll have exactly two words to say to them: *Thank you*. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ T

Re: A Systemd Second Chance (Sorta)

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
right thing to do. Thank you Ian, win or lose. You do good work! SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
(obviously rename the executables), and it works. Bang, another 0d program! SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 12:38:12 -0400 Tanstaafl wrote: > On 10/17/2014 12:21 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 07:54:06 -0700 (PDT) > > Rusi Mody wrote: > > > >> On Friday, October 17, 2014 8:00:02 PM UTC+5:30, Rob Owens wrote: > >>> - Or

Re: how to shutdown in less than 8 minutes

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
c/rcxx have been removed. How > is it done? This behavior is apparently consistent with a known Samba defect, but are you all sure that the delay *does* happen during the shutdown of Samba? If it turns out not to be Samba, you've just needlessly chased your tail for hours or days. Person

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Steve Litt
econders, and everyone who is speaking up for (what I call) sanity. SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&

Openbox systemd-free

2014-10-16 Thread Steve Litt
). By the way, could somebody do me a favor and, on an installed (not upgraded) Jessie do "aptitude show gnumeric" to see if it depends on any systemd stuff? I'm also starting to list functionalities provided by the welded on systemd "tools" so that I can provide them in a

Re: how to shtdown in less than 8 minutes

2014-10-16 Thread Steve Litt
ven be pretty easy to write a shellscript to start them in the order you desire. Because by default daemontools logs are all sortably timestamped, it would be trivial to cat then datesort all daemontools lots to see who's hogging the shutdown time. This is more than a diagnostic test

Re: Would discussion of improving sysv-init be on topic?

2014-10-16 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 11:28:50 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: POINT OF CLARIFICATION: Nothing written below is nosh specific. It could be used with nosh, or upstart, or sysvinit, or any other PID1 that's *only* a PID1. So how about it, who wants to join me in neutering systemd on Debian and pro

Re: Would discussion of improving sysv-init be on topic?

2014-10-16 Thread Steve Litt
7;t have a problem with monolithic entanglement and vendor lock-in, just as long as they didn't have to pay money for their OS. As a matter of fact, regardless of what the DDs do, it just might be true that making either a systemd-free or systemd-neutered Debian might be mainly a documentati

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-16 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 07:33:38 +0100 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 01:12:51AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > OK, I'll be the first to admit that after Red Hat caused the demise > > of ConsoleKit (and probably lots more important software), I am > > fre

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 08:10:47 +0200 Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Steve Litt writes: > > OK, I'll be the first to admit that after Red Hat caused the demise > > of ConsoleKit (and probably lots more important software), I am > > free to take significant time out of

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread Steve Litt
those helper daemons that are now welded to systemd, or would I have to drop all the way back to wpa-supplicant to get rid of the need for those daemons? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSU

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 06:06:00 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > 2014/10/16 5:46 "Ric Moore" : > > > > On 10/15/2014 12:39 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > > >> We've actually been in this place before. Wonderful Linux company > >> Caldera became SCO (oversim

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 19:27:20 +0100 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:42:58PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > They were using ConsoleKit, which was orphaned upstream some time > > > after systemd-logind came along. > > > > I rest my case. >

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-15 Thread Steve Litt
ed clever Rube Goldberg software creator Leonart Poettering to create something that works, but in the long term will be a house of cards only specialists (primarily Red Hat specialists, they hope) can work on. Well, that's certainly character assassination (and well deserved in my opinion), but

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 09:08:26 +0100 Martin Read wrote: > On 14/10/14 22:56, Steve Litt wrote: > > And how were they handling this task before systemd? > > They were using ConsoleKit, which was orphaned upstream some time > after systemd-logind came along. I rest my case.

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 08:11:10 +0100 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:51:07AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > Check out what single company has 30% of the gatekeepers. Surprise, > > surprise. > > Damned for their success. We want Linux to be successful,

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 10:02:03 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 14 oct 14, 17:56:58, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > Because you don't want to inextricably drag a giant monolith into > > your Desktop Environment just to do a few things. > > If you compare systemd wi

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 20:35:54 -0400 Marty wrote: > > http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/whos-writing-linux > > Say hello to our new bosses? Check out what single company has 30% of the gatekeepers. Surprise, surprise. SteveT Steve Litt

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014 00:15:40 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 14 oct 14, 16:31:04, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > Of course, then there's the matters of upstreams requiring > > systemd... > > As far as I understand none of the upstreams are actually requ

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
e change management books you'd recommend, especially in light of the fact that a lot of us want to change the PID1 software one way or another? I have a feeling such a book might make *me* more useful. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troublesho

Re: debian-advocacy?

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
s. That's true. > I have even publicly disagreed with him. > I continue to value his input. Same with me. > > > ... the whole project would be better off without you. > > *NO* Agreed. Andrei's OK. I know this impending systemd thing is bringing out the worst

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 18:35:34 +0100 Martin Read wrote: > On 14/10/14 16:48, Steve Litt wrote: > > So are you saying I could use sysvinit or nosh as my PID1, drop in > > libpam-systemd and no other systemd components, and have all PAM > > functionalities run properly? &

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:37:30 +0100 Martin Read wrote: > On 14/10/14 15:56, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 11:25:23 +0300 > > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> Have you actually looked into what depends on systemd? > > > > PAM is enough for me, consid

Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 15:51:09 +0100 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:40:59AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > The solution is trivial. If, as everyone claims, we're such a > > minority, he could filter us all out and never see our posts again. > > Prob

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