Re: What happened to use control-alt-backspace to terminate X server?

On Mar 10, 2014, at 2:45 PM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Lu, 10 mar 14, 17:15:50, Darac Marjal wrote: Probably your debconf priority is set too high for the questions to be asked. Try dpkg-reconfigure -plow keyboard-configuration. From dpkg-reconfigure(8):

Re: What happened to use control-alt-backspace to terminate X server?

On Mar 10, 2014, at 5:26 PM, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Mon 10 Mar 2014 at 13:49:34 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: This sent me scurrying to the man pages. I couldn't find any indication of where the already seen flag is kept. Anybody know this? Is there a document I've overlooked

Need a printer driver that's in Jessie, but must run Wheezy.

Hi! I've got a MacPro G5 that refuses to run Jessie (crashes on shutdowns, and sometimes crashes randomly without explicit shutdown). So I have to use Wheezy on it. I have a snazzy new HP OfficeJet 4630 all-in-one printer. Jessie has a cups driver for it, but Wheezy doesn't. I've looked in

Re: Copying complete SET of installation DVDs to a USB stick

As per debian list etiquette my reply is at the bottom... On Apr 12, 2014, at 7:01 AM, Richard Owlett rowl...@cloud85.net wrote: I will be installing Debian at locations which DO NOT have internet. Instead of juggling a stack of DVDs, I want everything on a USB stick. I am using Debian 6.0.5

Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...

On Apr 13, 2014, at 3:21 AM, Martin Steigerwald mar...@lichtvoll.de wrote: Hello! Am Samstag, 12. April 2014, 21:03:36 schrieb Ralf Mardorf: On Sat, 2014-04-12 at 20:48 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I experience issues with Debian lists :(. _With Debian lists only_ :(. :( I'm still

How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

With more and more disks being manufactured with Advanced format (4096-byte physical sectors) I'm wondering how I can tell the Debian-installer partitioner to align all partitions on 4096-byte (or 1 MiB for FLASH) boundaries? Is there some parameter I can pre-seed -- or set at runtime?

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

On Apr 27, 2014, at 2:54 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Sb, 26 apr 14, 20:24:12, Rick Thomas wrote: With more and more disks being manufactured with Advanced format (4096-byte physical-sectors) I'm wondering how I can tell the Debian-installer partitioner to align

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

On May 4, 2014, at 1:24 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 5:14 PM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: [...] So I ask again: Aside from doing the partitioning manually, myself, is there any way to get the installer's partitioner to respect the new

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

On May 4, 2014, at 1:28 PM, Elimar Riesebieter riese...@lxtec.de wrote: * Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com [2014-05-04 01:14 -0700]: [...] root@bigal:~# mac-fdisk -l /dev/sda /dev/sda #type name length base ( size ) system /dev/sda1

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

On May 4, 2014, at 1:14 AM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: On Apr 27, 2014, at 2:54 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Sb, 26 apr 14, 20:24:12, Rick Thomas wrote: With more and more disks being manufactured with Advanced format (4096-byte physical-sectors

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

On May 5, 2014, at 12:15 AM, Elimar Riesebieter riese...@lxtec.de wrote: I don't run a 4k hd in my powerbook. But in one of my amd64 machines there is one (Seagate ST1000DM003) running with an gpt partition table partitioned exactly by the 1MiB steps. I'v done this with gdisk but should also

What happened to palimpsest disk utility in Jessie?

In Wheezy there is a program called palimpsest that gives a nice wide-ranging overview of all things related to disks: partitions, LVM configuration, MD/raid configs, SMART data for individual drives, and so on. It was part of the package gnome-disk-utility, I think. It seems to have

Re: What happened to palimpsest disk utility in Jessie?

On May 5, 2014, at 3:24 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: In Wheezy there is a program called palimpsest that gives a nice wide-ranging overview of all things related to disks: partitions, LVM configuration, MD/raid

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

On May 8, 2014, at 8:01 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org wrote: On Mon, 05 May 2014, Rick Thomas wrote: Bottom line: It doesn't align to 1MiB boundaries. It doesn't even align to 4KiB boundaries. I think we can do better than that! AFAIK, we do for i686 and amd64, unless

Re: How can I benchmark my brand new usb 3.0 WD My Passport hdd

Another measurement you might like to make would be random reads and/or writes. Take a look at the debian package called bonnie++ Provides: bonnie, zcav Description: Hard drive benchmark suite. It is called Bonnie++ because it was based on the Bonnie program. This program also tests

Re: Jessie PowerPC installer doesn't see USB keyboard on PowerPC Mac machines

Hmmm... I originally reported this back in November. After a while, it went away for me. Downloading the latest (about January time-frame) netinst image worked fine -- both Jessie and Wheezy. I haven't tried it recently, though. Possibly a regression? Rick PS: Jessie on a powerpc64 (Apple

Re: ntp and multiple OSes

On Jun 9, 2014, at 11:01 AM, Chris Davies wrote: Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: ntpdate is obsolete, please remove (purge) it and install ntp. For day-to-day usage I would agree with your recommendation of ntp to ntpdate. However, I have yet to find a useful alternative to

Re: ntp and multiple OSes -- Where the UTC goes

On Jun 9, 2014, at 7:19 PM, Rusi Mody wrote: Ubuntu does not seem to have the 3 line structure of adjtime -- just 1 line. In particular it does not have the UTC/LOCAL 3rd line: # mount LABEL=Ubuntu64 /mnt/ # cat /mnt/etc/adjtime 0.0 0 0.0 # Any ideas where to make the UTC/LOCAL

Re: Weird hw/system time issue..

On Jun 12, 2014, at 3:25 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Just to make it clear what we are talking about: - hardware clock: the time of your computer's internal clock, should be UTC, but local time is also possible - system time: the system's internal reference, is always UTC, is usually

Re: Weird hw/system time issue..

On Jun 12, 2014, at 2:17 PM, LVDave wrote: I'm running Debian Jessie with KDE on a laptop, and the install has developed a very annoying problem.. I have the bios/hw clock set on localtime (American/Pacific time). Every time I start the machine up, the system clock changes to UTC. I have

Re: ntp and multiple OSes

On Jun 12, 2014, at 11:11 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: Have you tried rdate -np ? It does the same thing (pretty much) as your ntpdate -qu The big problem with ntpdate and rdate is that they step the clock

Re: ntp and multiple OSes

On Jun 12, 2014, at 11:03 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Why do you need to step the clock? It is better to install ntp and adjust the rate of the clock so that every tick is seen but adjusted to be in time with the rest of the world. NTP, as configured by the default Debian package, also steps the

Re: ntp and multiple OSes

On Jun 13, 2014, at 12:18 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 4:47 PM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: If you want to compare the local clock with a remote system's clock (often called skew), the best way I know is with ntpdate -qu. The offset it mentions

Re: Weird hw/system time issue..

also shows America/Los_Angeles.. Also thanks for the reading list.. I hope to learn something more about Linux timekeeping.. On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: Hi Dave, Actually, the $TZ shell variable being unset is normal for Debian. If $TZ

Re: Resizing LVM issue

On Jun 15, 2014, at 12:34 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: In my case I had read the documentation. I had resized smaller partitions successfully. I had no idea it would take more than a week of 24x7 runtime before completing. If I had I would have done it differently. Which is why

Re: ntp problem

Hi Pierre, Please post the contents of these files: /etc/adjtime /etc/default/adjtimex /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift Thanks! Rick On Jun 26, 2014, at 8:08 AM, Pierre Frenkiel pierre.frenk...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 26 Jun 2014, Rob Owens wrote: On Wed, 25 Jun 2014, Bob Proulx wrote: Utilities

Re: SSD optimization on Debian (2014)

On Jul 7, 2014, at 2:05 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Using today's Debian you do not normally need to bother with alignment as all partitions will be automatically aligned at 1 MiB boundaries by most of the tools anyway. Agreed. No need to worry about it with a default Wheezy or

Re: SSD optimization on Debian (2014)

On Jul 8, 2014, at 6:50 AM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, 08 Jul 2014, Rick Thomas wrote: On Jul 7, 2014, at 2:05 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Using today's Debian you do not normally need to bother with alignment as all partitions will be automatically

Latest Jessie doesn't respond to /etc/default/tmpfs RAMTMP=yes

I’m trying to get /tmp on tmpfs, so I put “RAMTMP=yes” in /dev/default/tmpfs . But I don’t get /tmp/mounted on tmpfs. I’ve got plenty of ram and swap: rbthomas@jessie:~$ cat /proc/meminfo | egrep '^(Mem|Swap)Total:' MemTotal:1017648 kB SwapTotal: 2928636 kB Here’s my

Re: Latest Jessie doesn't respond to /etc/default/tmpfs RAMTMP=yes

On Jul 24, 2014, at 10:49 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Mi, 23 iul 14, 00:12:25, Rick Thomas wrote: I’m trying to get /tmp on tmpfs, so I put “RAMTMP=yes” in /dev/default/tmpfs . But I don’t get /tmp/mounted on tmpfs. What's wrong with fstab? Kind regards

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

On Jul 25, 2014, at 12:33 PM, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: So a future update of systemd will slightly change this behaviour: whenever there is a service that failed or takes longer then a certain threshold (iirc it's something like 5 secs), systemd will automatically switch into

Re: Latest Jessie doesn't respond to /etc/default/tmpfs RAMTMP=yes

On Jul 23, 2014, at 2:50 AM, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: Hi Rick Am 23.07.2014 um 09:12 schrieb Rick Thomas: I’m trying to get /tmp on tmpfs, so I put “RAMTMP=yes” in /etc/default/tmpfs. But I don’t get /tmp/mounted on tmpfs. /etc/default/tmpfs is a sysvinit specific

90-second timeout during boot -- interaction between systemd and encrypted disk with LVM root/swap/home

In my continuing quest for enough understanding of systemd to be able to actually use it in real-life situations, I’ve set up a VM running the latest Jessie release. In the spirit of experimentation, I set it up with root, swap and home as LVs on an encrypted PV. In a real-world situation,

Re: Latest Jessie doesn't respond to /etc/default/tmpfs RAMTMP=yes

On Jul 28, 2014, at 1:00 PM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: As a side note, I'd also be interested in the reasons for the default options set by the systemd tmp.mount unit (mode=1777,strictatime), a superficial web search did not find anything. Just a guess… mode=1777 sets

Re: Latest Jessie doesn't respond to /etc/default/tmpfs RAMTMP=yes

On Jul 28, 2014, at 3:16 PM, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: In this particular case that would mean creating a directory /etc/systemd/system/tmp.mount.d/, then placing a .conf file in there setting your custom options. That all said, using /etc/fstab is perfectly fine if you need

Re: 90-second timeout during boot -- interaction between systemd and encrypted disk with LVM root/swap/home

On Jul 28, 2014, at 3:32 AM, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: Am 28.07.2014 10:54, schrieb Rick Thomas: In my continuing quest for enough understanding of systemd to be able to actually use it in real-life situations, I’ve set up a VM running the latest Jessie release. In the spirit

Re: Latest Jessie doesn't respond to /etc/default/tmpfs RAMTMP=yes

On Jul 28, 2014, at 4:59 PM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: On Jul 28, 2014, at 3:16 PM, Michael Biebl bi...@debian.org wrote: In this particular case that would mean creating a directory /etc/systemd/system/tmp.mount.d/, then placing a .conf file in there setting your custom

Re: [OT] Latest Jessie doesn't respond to /etc/default/tmpfs RAMTMP=yes

On Jul 29, 2014, at 2:05 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Sure, it's a tmpfs, and the penalty for updating atime is probably much lower than any other conventional storage (though /tmp contents might end up being swapped), but is there any software that actually relies on atime for files in

terminal doesn't come up in Jessie Beta-1?

Last night I installed Debian Jessie Beta-1 (Gnome) on an old Dell Dimension e310 I had received from a friend. All seems well, except that the “terminal” application (the “root terminal”, also) do not start when I click on the icon. Any thoughts on how to debug this? Thanks! Rick -- To

Re: terminal doesn't come up in Jessie Beta-1?

On 09/08/14 17:26, B wrote: On Mon, 8 Sep 2014 17:12:11 -0700 Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: All seems well, except that the “terminal” application (the “root terminal”, also) do not start when I click on the icon. Any thoughts on how to debug this? Install another terminal app

Re: terminal doesn't come up in Jessie Beta-1?

On Sep 8, 2014, at 7:22 PM, B lazyvi...@gmx.com wrote: On Mon, 08 Sep 2014 18:42:27 -0700 Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: rbthomas@debian:/usr/bin$ gnome-terminal Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Error calling

Re: terminal doesn't come up in Jessie Beta-1?

On Sep 9, 2014, at 12:53 AM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: Enjoy! Rick PS: Now, one remaining question — how do I tell Gnome to use a different terminal program, since gnome-terminal is broken in my environment? Is there a dpkg-reconfig option I can use

Is there any documentation on how to configure the Gnome Desktop environment?

In particular, I’m interested in getting Gnome under Jessie to use a terminal program that isn’t gnome-terminal. Anybody know how to do that? TLDNR: Gnome terminal, apparently, is broken if you use the “C” locale. It wants to see a UTF8 locale, and refuses to work with anything less! See

Re: Is there any documentation on how to configure the Gnome Desktop environment?

On 09/11/14 05:10, Jape Person wrote: On 09/11/2014 02:35 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: In particular, I’m interested in getting Gnome under Jessie to use a terminal program that isn’t gnome-terminal. Anybody know how to do that? TLDNR: Gnome terminal, apparently, is broken if you use the “C

Re: Is there any documentation on how to configure the Gnome Desktop environment?

On 09/11/14 06:14, Brian wrote: On Wed 10 Sep 2014 at 23:35:53 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: In particular, I’m interested in getting Gnome under Jessie to use a terminal program that isn’t gnome-terminal. Activities - Show Applications - Settings - Keyboard - Shortcuts Custom Shortcuts - Name

Re: terminal doesn't come up in Jessie Beta-1?

On Sep 13, 2014, at 11:14 AM, Cindy-Sue Causey butterflyby...@gmail.com wrote: On 9/8/14, B lazyvi...@gmx.com wrote: From what I read (I'm not an expert, so I may be wrong), gnome-terminal called gdbus that called dbus, asking it to spawn a child of itself but this child (?) exited

Re: Power Mac G4 stuck Loading second stage bootstrap

Hi Bruno Hi Steve Did you ever get this working for you? I’m a happy user of Debian Wheezy Gnu/Linux on some Apple G4 and G5 Macintosh machines, so I may be able to help. Bruno: If you haven’t succeeded yet, and you are willing to try again, I’ll try to walk you through the steps… First,

Re: Power Mac G4 stuck Loading second stage bootstrap

Hi Bruno, Based on what you describe, the Jessie installer did not properly install the second level bootstrap routine. For the PowerPC Macs, that program is called “yaboot”. On the x86 hardware that program is called Grub2, which is what Steve was talking about. As he said, he does not

Re: Power Mac G4 stuck Loading second stage bootstrap

Hi Bruno, I haven’t been called “Ricky” by anyone since the last of my aunt’s died 10 years ago! It feels kinda sweet. But let’s stick with plain old “Rick”. OK, so you’ve got a Wheezy netinst CD. and it’s really a G5 (they are kind of rare, so I wanted to be sure — one of my machines is

Re: Power Mac G4 stuck Loading second stage bootstrap

On Sep 23, 2014, at 6:27 AM, Joel Rees joel.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:09 PM, Lisi Reisz lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 23 September 2014 11:32:59 Lisi Reisz wrote: On Tuesday 23 September 2014 09:55:36 Rick Thomas wrote: Without a working OS, you will need

Re: Time for compassion and the Init GR

On Nov 7, 2014, at 6:37 AM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: On 11/7/2014 2:40 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Jo, 06 nov 14, 22:11:59, Jerry Stuckle wrote: sniped I thought he took special care to not make any assumptions about the results. Kind regards, Andrei I’m with

Re: ntpd confusion

On Nov 27, 2014, at 11:00 AM, mad m...@sharktooth.de wrote: I found it. It was DHCP. The NTP init scripts checks if there is a file /var/lib/ntp/ntp.conf.dhcp in which the local router is configured as only ntp source. The DHCP client package in Debian tries to get as much information as

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

On Dec 13, 2014, at 4:40 PM, Patrick Bartek nemomm...@gmail.com wrote: 15 seconds extra, a couple times a year isn't all THAT bad. FWIW, I think I found out why ext4 fsck's faster than ext3 (or the other exts). Seems ext4 only checks the part of the filesystem that's been

How to make sure local udev rule gets into the initramfs ?

In order to fix some device naming problems, I’ve made a local rule in /etc/udev/rules.d. The new rule needs to be included in the initramfs, but I can’t figure out the magic to make that happen. For kernel modules, there’s /etc/initramfs-tools/modules, but I can’t find anything similar for

Re: How to make sure local udev rule gets into the initramfs ?

On May 18, 2015, at 1:29 PM, Sven Joachim svenj...@gmx.de wrote: On 2015-05-18 03:59 +0200, Rick Thomas wrote: In order to fix some device naming problems, I’ve made a local rule in /etc/udev/rules.d. The new rule needs to be included in the initramfs, but I can’t figure out the magic

Re: ext4 filesystem on lvm on raid causes boot to enter emergency shell

Bug report Bug#782793 has all the details… Any help will be appreciated… On Apr 17, 2015, at 3:14 PM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: When /etc/fstab has an ext4 filesystem on a logical volume which is itself on a software raid, the system times out waiting for (I think!) fsck

ext4 filesystem on lvm on raid causes boot to enter emergency shell

When /etc/fstab has an ext4 filesystem on a logical volume which is itself on a software raid, the system times out waiting for (I think!) fsck on that filesystem. This causes the boot to drop into the emergency shell. If I just type “^D and allow the boot to continue, the filesystem is mounted

Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

On May 16, 2015, at 10:33 AM, Rodrigo Valiña Gutiérrez rodr...@gmail.com wrote: I had the same problem installing Debian 8 'Jessie' on a SheevaPlug. I solved it temporarily by doing the following: - In u-boot: setenv machid 0692 saveenv - Then install normally. The 'make the

Re: Old Computers

On Jun 1, 2015, at 5:56 PM, Jose Martinez jomartinez...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys, I'm about to be blessed with several old PC computers. By old I mean that some of them will not even have CDROM drives on them. I will probably tear them all down, mix-and-match parts and make the best

Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

On Jun 8, 2015, at 7:01 AM, Martin Michlmayr t...@cyrius.com wrote: * Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com [2015-06-07 19:39]: I’ve attached a screenlog file from “screen -L /dev/ttyUSB0 115200” if that’s any help. The VT100-style curses stuff makes it a bit hard to interpret… From the log

Re: jessie installation problem on arm sheevaplug

On Jun 7, 2015, at 7:39 PM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote: On Jun 6, 2015, at 10:55 AM, Martin Michlmayr t...@cyrius.com wrote: * Rodrigo Valiña Gutiérrez rodr...@gmail.com [2015-05-18 13:42]: The relevant part of /var/log/installer/syslog seems to be this: ... May 17 15:19:13

Re: Instructions for upgrading U-boot on Marvell OpenRD Base computer?

On Jun 2, 2015, at 9:15 AM, Martin Michlmayr t...@cyrius.com wrote: * Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com [2015-05-31 19:11]: I’ve got an old Marvell OpenRD Base computer that I’d like to install Debian Jessie on. I believe that I’ll need to up-grade the u-boot on it to handle new features

Re: Instructions for upgrading U-boot on Marvell OpenRD Base computer?

On 06/02/15 13:41, Martin Michlmayr wrote: Can you tell me what the most recent U-Boot version is that actually does support the OpenRD Base? If there is such a thing, do you have a suggested procedure for doing the upgrade? Get u-boot from unstable, add the target (see the patch I quoted in

Re: Instructions for upgrading U-boot on Marvell OpenRD Base computer?

On 06/02/15 13:37, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: I'm able to get both openrd_base and openrd_ultimate to build (no idea if it boots) by disabling MMC support with u-boot 2015.04. But then, it sounds like you're actively looking for MMC support... Another option might be to move where the stored

Re: How to boot without GUI

On May 27, 2015, at 1:15 AM, Bret Busby bret.bu...@gmail.com wrote: How do I boot into a text only session, without the GUI being loaded, if that is possible, so that I can be able to perform this awkward installation? Two ways that I can think of… First way: # as root do the following:

Instructions for upgrading U-boot on Marvell OpenRD Base computer?

I’ve got an old Marvell OpenRD Base computer that I’d like to install Debian Jessie on. I believe that I’ll need to up-grade the u-boot on it to handle new features in the Jessie kernel. I need the following information… 1) Where to get a suitable u-boot image? (Will the one at

is jessie-backports for armel broken?

Why am I getting hash sum mismatches here? Thanks! Rick root@sheeva:~# aptitude update Hit http://debian.osuosl.org jessie InRelease Get: 1 http://debian.osuosl.org jessie-updates InRelease [124 kB] Get: 2 http://debian.osuosl.org jessie-backports InRelease

Anybody know why aptitude is not installed by default in Sid?

I notice that Sid is not including aptitude by default in the stock installation. I have to do “apt get install aptitude” manually after installation. Does anybody know why this is? Thanks! Rick

Re: Anybody know why aptitude is not installed by default in Sid?

On Nov 2, 2015, at 12:45 AM, Joe wrote: >> To be honest, I see no reason at all why two package managers needed >> to be included in standard install. If you aren't happy with apt-get, >> just apt-get install aptitude. It seems beyond question to me that >> having bare

Re: Anybody know why aptitude is not installed by default in Sid?

On Oct 31, 2015, at 12:41 PM, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 31 Oct 2015 18:49:59 + > Brian wrote: > >> On Sat 31 Oct 2015 at 10:01:36 -0600, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: >> >>> Will Debian 9 no longer install Aptitude by default?. >> >> Que Sera,

Re: Anybody know why aptitude is not installed by default in Sid?

As shown below, aptitude has been progressively downgraded from “important” in oldstable (Wheezy) to “standard” in stable (Jessie), “standard” in testing (Stretch) and finally to “optional” in unstable (Sid) rbthomas@cube:~$ aptitude -vv show aptitude | egrep '^(Priority|Version|Archive): ' |

Re: why jessie is quick at boot/shutdown

On Oct 8, 2015, at 6:54 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: >> If you want to see the boot messages, you can use journalctl to inspect >> them after you booted. If you want to see journal messages from shutdown, you need to make sure they are recorded in permanent storage. By default,

Why does Debian not recognize my USB3 disk drive?

I recently added a USB3 PCI card to my Dell Poweredge 1430 server box. I've tried plugging in various USB3 and USB2 devices (FLASH sticks, a WD MyBook 3TB external drive, etc) but they are not recognized by Debian as disks. When I plug these devices into a USB2 card also on the same server,

Re: Why does Debian not recognize my USB3 disk drive?

On 08/30/15 21:34, Rick Thomas wrote: I’ll plug in a disk and test it next chance I get, if you think it will help. Plugging the disk in after reboot shows nothing happening with the USB3 card. Plugging it into the USB2 card gets the expected [ 372.956020] usb 8-3: new high-speed USB

Re: Why does Debian not recognize my USB3 disk drive?

On Aug 30, 2015, at 8:35 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Sun, August 30, 2015 10:21 pm, Rick Thomas wrote: I recently added a USB3 PCI card to my Dell Poweredge 1430 server box. ... Am I missing a driver for the USB3 card? Are some USB3 chipsets not supported? Am I missing something

Re: Why does Debian not recognize my USB3 disk drive?

On Aug 30, 2015, at 9:12 PM, CaT c...@zip.com.au wrote: On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 08:21:26PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: Am I missing a driver for the USB3 card? Are some USB3 chipsets not supported? Am I missing something important? Does 'dmesg' show that the drive is seen and a /dev device

Re: Why does Debian not recognize my USB3 disk drive?

On 08/30/15 21:30, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Sun, August 30, 2015 11:08 pm, Rick Thomas wrote: On Aug 30, 2015, at 8:35 PM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: Have you installed gnome-disk-utility? Why do you ask? When working with external drives, I constantly use gnome-disk-utility to mount

What USB3 chipsets are supported by the Jessie kernels?

Does anybody know which USB3 interface chipsets are supported by the current Debian Jessie kernel? Can anyone recommend an inexpensive PCI or PCIe USB3 interface card that works with the current drivers? Thanks! Rick

Can someone recommend a working USB3 PCI or PCIe card? [Was Re: Why does Debian not recognize my USB3 disk drive?]

On Aug 30, 2015, at 10:17 PM, CaT wrote: > Three possibilities IMO: > > 1) cable too dodgy for USB3 but not dodgy enough for USB2 to fail :) > 2) card is dodgy (do you know that it actually does work?) > 3) drivers are dodgy (can happen - is there a newer kernel you can try?)

Re: Why does Debian not recognize my USB3 disk drive?

On Aug 30, 2015, at 10:42 PM, Glenn English wrote: > Yet another possible possibility: > > * Is the disk backward compatible with USB2? If so, does it work with a USB2 > card? Might get rid of some variables. Yes, that’s the first thing I tried. The disk (and all the USB2

Re: What USB3 chipsets are supported by the Jessie kernels?

On 08/31/15 02:19, Rick Thomas wrote: I came across this https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1242321 In note #46 there, James Ralston suggests turning off “auto suspend” on the relevant USB device by doing $ for F in /sys/bus/usb/devices/*/power/control; do echo on >”

Re: What USB3 chipsets are supported by the Jessie kernels?

On Aug 31, 2015, at 12:17 AM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Mon, August 31, 2015 1:58 am, Rick Thomas wrote: >> Does anybody know which USB3 interface chipsets are supported by the >> current Debian Jessie kernel? > > You may already have done this, but, if not, yo

Re: Why is my syslog filling up with 'wakeup int at ci_hdrc.1' 'ci_hdrc ci_hdrc.1: at ci_controller_resume' 'ci_hdrc ci_hdrc.1: at ci_runtime_suspend' ?

On Sep 6, 2015, at 7:48 PM, Rick Thomas <rbtho...@pobox.com> wrote: > Hey folks! > > Yesterday I rebooted my Cubox-i4Pro running Debian Sid, and ever afterwards > my /var/log/syslog file is filling up with endless repetitions of > >> Sep 6 06:25:30 cube kernel

Why is my syslog filling up with 'wakeup int at ci_hdrc.1' 'ci_hdrc ci_hdrc.1: at ci_controller_resume' 'ci_hdrc ci_hdrc.1: at ci_runtime_suspend' ?

Hey folks! Yesterday I rebooted my Cubox-i4Pro running Debian Sid, and ever afterwards my /var/log/syslog file is filling up with endless repetitions of > Sep 6 06:25:30 cube kernel: [26889.599129] wakeup int at ci_hdrc.1 > Sep 6 06:25:30 cube kernel: [26889.599147] ci_hdrc ci_hdrc.1: at >

Re: How to Boot with LVM

On Sep 5, 2015, at 7:24 PM, ray wrote: > I would like to configure LVMs for everything including boot. Is it “just for fun” or do you have a real-world reason for wanting everything, including boot, to be on LVM? I’ll describe my own typical setup (special purpose systems may

Re: How to Boot with LVM

Hi Ray, I’ll try to answer your questions… On Sep 7, 2015, at 4:36 PM, ray <r...@aarden.us> wrote: > Rick, > > Thank you for responding and providing all the info. > > On Monday, September 7, 2015 at 6:20:07 AM UTC-5, Rick Thomas wrote: >> On Sep 5, 2015, at 7:

Re: A stop job is running for...

Hi JP On Dec 3, 2015, at 9:18 AM, Jape Person wrote: > On 12/03/2015 05:22 AM, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: >> The complete message is really important. Perhaps, I >> would investigate. > > Hello! > > I did give the complete messages. Both start with > > A stop job is running

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

Looking at http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/amd64/jigdo-dlbd/ it seems that the full set of software available from Debian for amd64 fits on two dual-layer Bluray disks. According to Wikipedia a dlbd disk holds 50GB, so you may need a couple of 64GB Flash drives before you’re

Bug#806858 Re: s-nail: mailx: Unable to (dot) lock mailbox, aborting operation: Permission denied

Hi Steffan, So what, exactly, are the correct permissions for s-nail-privsep? Should it be: -rwxr-sr-x 1 root mail 10104 Dec 4 14:52 /usr/lib/s-nail/s-nail-privsep or: -rwsr-xr-x 1 root mail 10104 Dec 4 14:52 /usr/lib/s-nail/s-nail-privsep or: -rwsr-sr-x 1 root mail 10104 Dec 4

Re: Bug#806858 Re: s-nail: mailx: Unable to (dot) lock mailbox, aborting operation: Permission denied

On Dec 30, 2015, at 3:36 AM, Steffen Nurpmeso <sdao...@yandex.com> wrote: > Hello! > > Rick Thomas <rbtho...@pobox.com> wrote: > |Hi Steffan, > > (My name is Steffen) Ooops! Sorry! > Well, just as already shown in this thread, on my local box it is > &g

Re: wget log from Jigdo

On Dec 30, 2015, at 11:34 AM, Steve Matzura wrote: > This is what > makes me crazy about anything Linux--secret knowledge that some people > just seem to have or know, that would never occur to anyone else. Yeah, it’s a problem; but fortunately there are mailing lists like

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

On Dec 30, 2015, at 11:39 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 30 December 2015 17:29:30 Brian wrote: >> On Wed 30 Dec 2015 at 10:37:53 -0500, Steve Matzura wrote: >>> Can the net install run with speech? I didn't think it could. >> >> "Install with speech systhesis" is

Re: Bug#806858 Re: s-nail: mailx: Unable to (dot) lock mailbox, aborting operation: Permission denied

On Dec 30, 2015, at 9:51 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpe...@web.de> wrote: > Steffen Nurpmeso wrote on 12/30/15 12:36: >> Hello! >> >> Rick Thomas <rbtho...@pobox.com> wrote: > > >> |-rwxr-sr-x 1 root mail 10104 Dec 4 14:52 /usr/lib/s-nail/s-nail

Re: Jigdo (was "Putting It All On a Stick")

It would be kinda cool if the installer could deal with multiple DVDs at once: Allow people with two or more optical drives to put DVD-1 in one of them and DVD-2 in the second (and so on, if necessary/possible) and have the installation “just work” with no swapping of disks in drives. Then

Re: Putting It All On a Stick

> On Dec 30, 2015, at 1:34 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Hi, > > Steve Matzura wrote: >> didn't do anything to the medium before using a ISO2USB to write to it. > > Do not use any repacker tool with the debian-cd ISOs. > Rather copy them plainly onto the base device of the

Re: RIP and Thank You.

https://bits.debian.org/2015/12/mourning-ian-murdock.html > His family has asked for privacy during this difficult time and we very much > wish to respect that. He will be missed… Rick

Re: Installation successful

> On Dec 30, 2015, at 1:13 PM, Steve Matzura wrote: > > I started from the very beginning and got it done. I only made one > mistake, which I will correct--I mistyped the domain name. I still > don't know what I did wrong the first time I tried installing, but > it's of no

Re: wget log from Jigdo

> On Dec 30, 2015, at 1:13 PM, Steve Matzura wrote: > > I still don't > understand why adding 'debian/' worked for the Pittsburgh URL but not, > say, for the Stevens Institute one. No matter, it's working now, I can’t say why any particular mirror does what it does, but

s-nail fails with "Unable to (dot) lock mailbox, aborting operation: Permission denied"

With recent Stretch installations the “mail” (or “mailx”) command is satisfied by the s-nail package. As it comes fresh out of the box, s-nail has a problem with dotlock files. For example: > rbthomas@half:~$ mail > Creating dotlock for "/var/mail/rbthomas" . > Unable to (dot) lock

Re: s-nail fails with "Unable to (dot) lock mailbox, aborting operation: Permission denied"

On Dec 28, 2015, at 2:31 AM, Rick Thomas <rbtho...@pobox.com> wrote: > With recent Stretch installations the “mail” (or “mailx”) command is > satisfied by the s-nail package. > As it comes fresh out of the box, s-nail has a problem with dotlock files. > For example: &

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