Re: new Debian FAQs

2002-02-03 Thread Don Armstrong
, and via e-mail (and answer them in the same way.) [And possibly through other means that I haven't thought off...] > Let me know and i'll work it into the design. I would be glad to assist you in helping to develop/design the debian FAQ system if there are people who are intereste

Re: Mozilla/Firefox "PostScript/default" security problems

2004-07-10 Thread Don Armstrong
ng that there's an issue and not defining it, or attempting to figure out where the issue is. Don Armstrong -- Personally, I think my choice in the mostest-superlative-computer wars has to be the HP-48 series of calculators. They'll run almost anything. And if they can't, while

Re: Expired GPG keys of older release

2018-06-19 Thread Don Armstrong
7;t even check for expired keys.] -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Where I sleep at night, is this important compared to what I read during the day? What do you think defines me? Where I slept or what I did all day? -- Thomas Van Orden of Van Orden v. Perry

Re: Expired GPG keys of older release

2018-06-20 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 19 Jun 2018, Adam Cecile wrote: > On 06/19/2018 10:48 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Jun 2018, Adam Cecile wrote: > > > That's a pity, don't you think so ? I think Debian should renew the > > > archive key, so we can still verify packages sign

Re: Expired GPG keys of older release

2018-06-20 Thread Don Armstrong
features don't already support it, though. Releases as old as squeeze are known to have multiple security exploits, and shouldn't be used at all for new installations. Therefore I can't argue for someone else to spend their development time implementing such a feature. -- Don Armstro

Re: ferm systemd rasbian

2018-06-21 Thread Don Armstrong
t. Without knowing more details, this sure sounds like you have some sort of issues with your firewall rules not properly allowing DHCP. You might have better luck including your ferm.conf and possibly the output of iptables -L -n; when things work and iptables -L -n; when they do

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Don Armstrong
at all, pick from the multitude of fora where it would be on topic. Don Armstrong -- Miracles had become relative common-places since the advent of entheogens; it now took very unusual circumstances to attract public attention to sightings of supernatural entities. The latest miracle had raised t

Re: when i want install yahoo mes. ,,that is mesage bug,,

2006-10-11 Thread Don Armstrong
You need to run apt-get -f install; or similar to install libssl0.9.6 and libgdk-pixbuf2. Don Armstrong -- Junkies were all knitted together in a loose global macrame, the intercontinental freemasonry of narcotics. -- Bruce Sterling, _Holy Fire_ p257 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzl

Re: Problem in Debain ftp

2009-05-31 Thread Don Armstrong
ll cups or similar. > Err http://security.debian.org sarge/updates/main Packages >     404 Not Found [IP: 128.101.240.212 80] > Ign http://security.debian.org sarge/updtes/main Release [...] Don Armstrong 1: If you take this option, you will need to make arrangements to handle the security ramific

Re: What to do with "bugs forever" ?

2009-06-06 Thread Don Armstrong
no one who is actively watching its set of bugs. Don Armstrong -- Junkies were all knitted together in a loose global macrame, the intercontinental freemasonry of narcotics. -- Bruce Sterling, _Holy Fire_ p257 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Unsure which package to report this problem with

2009-06-16 Thread Don Armstrong
ably just fix it by unloading and reloading the module on suspend/resusume. Regardless, in the future these sorts of questions are best asked at debian-user@lists.debian.org, as ow...@bugs.debian.org is only for questions regarding the BTS itself. I've forwarded this response there, and p

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-21 Thread Don Armstrong
rg/MailingLists/#codeofconduct is linked from the introduction, which is on the page where you learn what lists we have and how to subscribe to them. Someone who doesn't bother to read that won't bother to read the links posted at the bottom of a mail. Don Armstrong -- My spell

SCALE 8x Debian Booth 2/20-21/2010 (Los Angeles, at Westin LAX)

2010-02-01 Thread Don Armstrong
, so don't pay for your ticket.] Don Armstrong 1: Anyone is welcome to help, but the exhibitor passes I have will go preferentially to those who are DDs or otherwise contribute to Debian and can dedicate the most time to helping in the booth. -- G: If we do happen to step on a mine, Sir,

Re: Fwd: Re: cron in UTC?

2014-09-29 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 29 Sep 2014, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:54:57 +0100 > On 24/09/14 16:01, Don Armstrong wrote: > > My #1 suggestion is to have system time be GMT, and every shell/user set > > TZ appropriately. That's basically the only sane setting, as

Re: Fwd: Re: cron in UTC?

2014-09-29 Thread Don Armstrong
nacrontab seems to work well enough for most people that it hasn't happened. fcron used to be in Debian, but got removed because it was unmaintained in Debian (and upstream at the time).] -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com I would like to be the air that inhabi

Re: Trying to upgrade bash on squeeze, running into errors

2014-09-29 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 29 Sep 2014, Russell Jones wrote: > On 9/26/2014 6:43 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: > >On Fri, 26 Sep 2014, Russell Jones wrote: > >>I've seen several posts about this Bash upgrade issue, but no real > >>answers on how to get past it. Any assistance would be app

Re: Challenge to you: Voice your concerns regarding systemd upstream

2014-09-29 Thread Don Armstrong
upower is installed for any architecture, it works, then upower might need to be made Multi-Arch: foreign. But this is a recommends anyway, so it can be safely ignored. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com "Because," Fee-5 explained patiently, "I was

Re: systemd-shim to be removed?

2014-09-30 Thread Don Armstrong
lear. What's the complete output of the command that you're trying to run and the output of apt-cache policy foopkg; for the affected packages? -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com I finally developed a computer with feelings. It just doesn't have fee

Re: Expletives Deleted

2014-10-04 Thread Don Armstrong
ing to obvious violations. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Our days are precious, but we gladly see them going If in their place we find a thing more precious growing A rare, exotic plant, our gardener's heart delighting A child whom we are teaching, a boo

Re: lvm: creating a snapshot

2014-10-04 Thread Don Armstrong
network, and then use lvm on top of that. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. -- Justice Ro

Re: [exim4] mixed up about terminology

2014-10-05 Thread Don Armstrong
this over-broad, or your host will be an open relay. > That is, they are the same question in different words. No, they're different questions. The first is for local addresses to listen on, the second is for remote addresses to relay mail for. -- Don Armstrong h

Re: lvm: creating a snapshot

2014-10-05 Thread Don Armstrong
nother with no downtime by using vgextend/pvmove/vgreduce. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com We must realize that today's Establishment is the New George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, hon

Re: Installer with LVM - allocate only a percentage of space

2014-10-06 Thread Don Armstrong
e extra question. > > Is there any chance this feature could be ported into Debian? If someone steps up to do the work, sure. > Has this been discussed before, and if so, what was the outcome? I don't believe so; it sounds like a reasonable option to expose (though the default sho

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-06 Thread Don Armstrong
ich is expressed in them. Moderation on a post-by-post basis is currently not being done. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com "I'm a rational being--of a sort--rational enough, at least, to see the symptoms of insanity around me. And I'm human, the

Re: lvm: creating a snapshot

2014-10-06 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 07 Oct 2014, lee wrote: > Don Armstrong writes: > > Doesn't matter. It just has to be a block device that you can add as > > a physical volume to the volume group. > > Isn't a logical volume of a volume group "just" a block device? The > V

Re: Jessie: suddenly unable to make any changes with apt-get or aptitude:

2014-10-06 Thread Don Armstrong
b_shm_group': Invalid argument /proc/sys/vm/hugetlb_shm_group takes a group id, not a group name. You want to replace vm.hugetlb_shm_grop dba_group_gid in /etc/sysctl.conf or /etc/sysctl.d/* with whatever id -g dba_group_gid; writes out, and then rerun dpkg --configure -a. -- Don

Re: Shellshock Fix for Debian 5 and 7

2014-10-07 Thread Don Armstrong
(Debian 5) has been without security support for over three years now, so will not receive an update for shellshock or any other vulnerability. Wheezy (Debian 7) had shellshock fixed in bash 4.2+dfsg-0.1+deb7u3, which is in the wheezy-security repository (available from security.debian.org). --

Re: cleaning after apt-mirror

2014-10-07 Thread Don Armstrong
it to have one in collaboration with apt-mirror upstream. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com It's brief and bright, dear children; bright and brief. Delight's the lightning; the long thunder's grief. -- John Frederick Nims "Poetry i

Re: Jessie: suddenly unable to make any changes with apt-get or aptitude:

2014-10-07 Thread Don Armstrong
ons. Sorry, id was the wrong command.[1] You want something like: getent group dba_group_gid; instead. If there's no match at all, then that group doesn't exist, and you can just delete that line completely. 1: id only works for user names, not group names, and I keep forgetting tha

Re: cleaning after apt-mirror

2014-10-07 Thread Don Armstrong
'3.12.2-2+b1' && \ echo "Yes, -2+b1 is greater than -2." for example. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not

Re: Newbie friendly security and firewall docs (cookbook?)

2014-10-08 Thread Don Armstrong
tion is almost certainly good enough. It will require modification from someone who wants to run services or do complicated things, however. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. --

Re: Fwd: Re: cron in UTC?

2014-10-08 Thread Don Armstrong
y in experimental only. See #511780 for the bug to switch to it or ISC cron from Vixie cron.] -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com What I can't stand is the feeling that my brain is leaving me for someone more interesting. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: How to network-install Jessie?

2014-10-09 Thread Don Armstrong
ading? 1) You use the jessie installer: https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ 2) you change the target release on the wheezy installer using advanced options->expert install, and choosing testing as your version. See https://wiki.debian.org/InstallFAQ for details. -- Don Armstrong

Re: lvm: creating a snapshot

2014-10-10 Thread Don Armstrong
hen make snapshots. > > Volume groups don't reside on partitions or devices. They encompass > > physical volumes which do. > > Physical volumes do not reside on partitions or devices. They provide > them. This is incorrect. A physical volume (LVM) sits

Re: segfaults and error 4 in ld-2.13.so with soffice.bin and kate

2014-10-11 Thread Don Armstrong
-dbg packages you can for the libraries referenced in the backtrace.] -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com One day I put instant coffee in my microwave oven and almost went back in time. -- Steven Wright -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.de

Re: segfaults and error 4 in ld-2.13.so with soffice.bin and kate

2014-10-12 Thread Don Armstrong
on:amd64, probably a dependency cycle. aptitude reinstall '?reverse-Depends(libreoffice)~i~not(~name(dpkg))' You might have to repeat the ~not() bit if there are other packages involved in a dependency cycle. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Those who

Re: Bash usage: was implicit linkage

2014-10-12 Thread Don Armstrong
o be looking for find -print0; \0 is one of the few characters which is not valid to have in a file name. It's not like it's that hard to do this properly in a policy compliant POSIX shell, either. Use IFS and reset it as appropriate, or properly quote things. -- Don Armstrong

Re: Conflict of interest in Debian

2014-10-14 Thread Don Armstrong
pen to be paid to work on Debian isn't healthy or sustainable. That said, if despite my counter-arguments, this is something you feel strongly about, find a DD who agrees with you, write up a constitutional amendment, and get it proposed on -vote or discussed -project. It's not on topic he

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

2014-10-15 Thread Don Armstrong
icate that I'm about to get bit in the butt. I'd make sure that I had my backups in order, but that's really just out an abundance of caution. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com I stared at the mountain rising over me. Empty. It was a pointless thing to

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

2014-10-15 Thread Don Armstrong
auto-generator, but upstream (and the maintainer) would know much more than I. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com We want 6. 6 is the 1. -- "The Prisoner (2009 Miniseries)" _Checkmate_ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Moderated posts?

2014-10-15 Thread Don Armstrong
too, and in the IRC logs where we were drafting the options. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com nothing except the impossible shall occur -- e.e. cummings "XLII" _1 x 1_ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: how to identify reverse dependencies?

2014-10-16 Thread Don Armstrong
version which is installed and the same version depends on libsystemd0, which is what the search I gave does. > BTW, the usage (and liking) of the systemd is bad measurement of the > wisdom/stupidity, in both direction. This statement is inflammatory, and has no place on Debian mailing lists whatso

Re: virtual package question

2014-10-16 Thread Don Armstrong
point when installing Postfix - but I > can't for the life of me remember how this all worked out, an can't > find documentation anywhere. postfix Provides: mail-transport-agent. Things that need an MTA depend on exim4 | mail-transport-agent; this is how the default is defined

Re: virtual package question

2014-10-16 Thread Don Armstrong
nt or an updgrade)? If the dependency is already satisfied, nothing new would be installed. The main case you'd have to be aware of is when the dependency wasn't actually satisfied. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Religion is religion, however you wrap it, and

Re: debian-installer: detection of Mobile Broadband even before installation?

2014-10-19 Thread Don Armstrong
hering instead of actually having a local HSDPA or LTE device. > And: Should this posting be crossposted to debian-testing mailing list? No; that mailing list has nothing to do with the installer. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com A citizen of America will cros

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

2014-10-20 Thread Don Armstrong
ng reportbug if one hasn't already been filed. If you want to discuss this further, please use http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic. Further responses to this thread may be discarded. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com If god i

Re: Debian fork

2014-10-21 Thread Don Armstrong
l the systemd-sysv package. If something requires systemd-sysv and doesn't have an alternative dependency on systemd-shim, please file a bug using reportbug if one hasn't already been filed. If you wish to discuss forking Debian, please do so using non-project resources. --

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread Don Armstrong
ystemd libpam-systemd systemd-sysv This is the wrong command to run. You want: aptitude install sysvinit-core systemd-sysv-; Removing libpam-systemd and systemd something depends on them isn't useful; they don't determine what the init system is, after all. -- Don Armstrong

Re: choose the date for the Release

2014-10-22 Thread Don Armstrong
get -o Acquire::Check-Valid-Until=false update; alternatively, you can set it with a fragment like: Acquire { Check-Valid-Until "false"; }; in an appropriate named file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ man apt.conf; for details. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-22 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Don Armstrong wrote: > > Furthermore, the effect of this patch is trivially obtained by using > > a late_command to remove systemd-sysv and install sysvinit-core. > > except for the various reported issues with all the things aptit

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-23 Thread Don Armstrong
age you asked it to install. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com It can sometimes happen that a scholar, his task completed, discovers that he has no one to thank. Never mind. He will invent some debts. Research without indebtedness is suspect, and somebody must always

Re: Wireless connection problems after testing upgrade

2014-10-23 Thread Don Armstrong
you have installed? Also, if you haven't gotten this to work without network-manager, please file a bug against wpasupplicant. You might also find the output of wpa_cli reconfigure; wpa_cli reassociate; informative when network-manager is not installed. -- Don Armstrong

Re: X Server not available after Sid update on 21 Oct.

2014-10-23 Thread Don Armstrong
issue may be a bug in gdm3, not the X server. (If the X server wasn't starting, you generally wouldn't see any output at all.) Someone else may be able to give you more information on how you can debug this problem in gdm3. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstro

Re: X Server not available after Sid update on 21 Oct.

2014-10-23 Thread Don Armstrong
put to ~/.xsession-errors for your user? Do you have anything in ~/.config/autostart/? If so, try deleting it first. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Maybe I did steal your heart and I am such a perfect criminal that you never noticed -- a softer world #481

Re: Problem with systemd-sleep in Jessie

2014-10-23 Thread Don Armstrong
c/systemd/logind.conf, and change the HandlePowerKey=, HandleSuspendKey=, HandleHibernateKey=, HandleLidSwitch= all to ignore temporarily. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. -- Steven W

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-26 Thread Don Armstrong
of problems. > To sum it up: No matter whether you use systemd or not, Debian depends > on it. Debian has packages which have dependencies on some of the libraries that systemd provides. That's orthogonal to whether Debian requires systemd to be PID 1 or not. -- Don Armstrong

Re: Exim 4 configuration/package problems

2014-10-27 Thread Don Armstrong
. Just use: UCF_FORCE_CONFFMISS=true apt-get -o DPkg::Options::='--force-confmiss' reinstall foopkg; -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-29 Thread Don Armstrong
g to support for such a trivial set of libraries. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Identical parts aren't. -- Beach's Law -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-29 Thread Don Armstrong
t installed. Except that it the software does depend on the shared library being installed. Binaries which link against shared libraries must have the shared library present to run. Otherwise they have a linker failure, and never start running in the first place. -- Don Armstrong

Re: Preventing the computer from shutting down.

2014-10-30 Thread Don Armstrong
s in rc6 and rc0, and blocks until the backup is done. That's kind of hacky, but should work. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com I cannot find rest Because I am powerless To amend a broken world. -- Guy Gavriel Kay _Under Heaven_ p295 -- To

Re: Preventing the computer from shutting down.

2014-10-30 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 30 Oct 2014, Joey Hess wrote: > Don Armstrong wrote: > > systemd-inhibit --who='backup script' --why='backup is running currently' \ > > --mode=block yourbackupscript; > > This doesn't currently prevent either /sbin/shutdown or eg, the >

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-31 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 31 Oct 2014, lee wrote: > Don Armstrong writes: > > Except that it the software does depend on the shared library being > > installed. Binaries which link against shared libraries must have ^^ > &g

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-05 Thread Don Armstrong
coordinate with the nice people in #debian-boot to see what type of testing they would want to see before they are willing to vet the patch. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com "People selling drug paraphernalia ... are as much a part of drug trafficking as sil

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-05 Thread Don Armstrong
ling to do the work, then the work won't get done. > Such a major change without classifying a bug like this as a > SHOWSTOPPER speaks volumes. It's not an RC bug because it's easy to overcome with a late command. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.co

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-11-05 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 05 Nov 2014, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 11/5/2014 1:35 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: > > It's not an RC bug because it's easy to overcome with a late command. > > Not understanding this reference - so, you're saying you *can* perform > a clean install of Jessie u

Re: debian update + systemd + broken

2014-11-05 Thread Don Armstrong
e into mode 2 with all LVM mounted properly. > > And I don't have any idea what is going wrong :-( > anyone please ? This sounds like you have a fsck which is failing, or something else along those lines. You should see output on the screen related to that. -- Don

Re: Rescue mode: cannot fix boot after raid1 repair

2014-11-06 Thread Don Armstrong
nc.) 12) unmount things, exit the chroot, and unmount more. 13) Reboot. You should *at least* get a grub prompt. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com We cast this message into the cosmos. [...] We are trying to survive our time so we may live into yours. We hope

Re: Rescue mode: cannot fix boot after raid1 repair

2014-11-06 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 06 Nov 2014, Ron Leach wrote: > I wanted to skip the part where the new disk was re-synced because > that's going to take some 8 hours or so Start it now; you don't have to wait for it to finish. > On 06/11/2014 16:30, Don Armstrong wrote: > >2) Start the raid fo

Re: Rescue mode: cannot fix boot after raid1 repair

2014-11-07 Thread Don Armstrong
t squeeze, and hopefully wheezy. Lenny has been EOLed for quite some time, and has known security exploits. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com "You have many years to live--do things you will be proud to remember when you are old." -- Shinka proverb.

Re: useradd segmentation fault

2014-11-08 Thread Don Armstrong
ls for the bits which are segfaulting If you are still missing the appropriate symbols for useradd, please rebuild it with DEB_BUILD_OPTS="nostrip", and try again. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com With one simple pill we cured unhappiness and art -- a s

Re: Changes in the way tar(1) constructs directory permissions

2014-11-08 Thread Don Armstrong
e. % fakeroot bash -c 'touch foo; chown 9 foo; ls -l foo; tar -zcf bar.tar.gz foo; rm foo; tar -zxf bar.tar.gz; ls -l foo; rm foo'; -rw-r--r-- 1 news root 0 Nov 8 09:43 foo -rw-r--r-- 1 news root 0 Nov 8 09:43 foo works just fine here with tar 1.27.1-2. -- Don Armstrong

Re: Changes in the way tar(1) constructs directory permissions

2014-11-08 Thread Don Armstrong
drwxr-xr-x 2 uucp uucp 4096 Nov 8 11:07 bar It would be helpful if you provided a self-contained example like this which showed the behavior you are seeing. It would also be useful to see the output of env|grep -i TAR; the output of tar --version; and the output of dpkg -l tar;. -- Don Armstron

Re: useradd segmentation fault

2014-11-08 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 08 Nov 2014, Joris Bolsens wrote: > Sorry, pretty new to linux still. put a few questions in-line. No worries. > On 11/08/2014 09:39 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: > > > Before filing a bug, please > > > > 1) Enable coredumps > Did some googling, I have to

Re: Changes in the way tar(1) constructs directory permissions

2014-11-08 Thread Don Armstrong
ast versions of Linux". The output of dpkg -l tar; or tar --version; will tell us what version(s) of tar you're using. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com "It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or victory, it is abou

Re: useradd segmentation fault

2014-11-08 Thread Don Armstrong
e coredump. Please double check the bt full; output for any obvious password strings too before posting to this mailing list. [I should have told you to do that too, but I don't see any below, so you should be OK.] And also don't send the core file to the BTS either, unless you

Re: useradd segmentation fault

2014-11-08 Thread Don Armstrong
it. On Sat, 08 Nov 2014, Joris Bolsens wrote: > The coredump looks identical to before i built/installed the new > libnss-ldap You should at least have the symbols for libnss-ldap... can you check the output of nm -a for that library to make sure it actually has the debugging symbol

Re: useradd segmentation fault

2014-11-09 Thread Don Armstrong
p.so.2 or /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ and nm -Da or similar should do it. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com There is no such thing as "social gambling." Either you are there to cut the other bloke's heart out and eat it--or you're a sucker. If you do

Re: Joey Hess is out?

2014-11-10 Thread Don Armstrong
ior on Debian mailing lists, you can report it to listmas...@lists.debian.org. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Personally, I think my choice in the mostest-superlative-computer wars has to be the HP-48 series of calculators. They'll run almost anything.

Re: systemd - so much energy wasted in quarreling

2014-11-10 Thread Don Armstrong
ting others, please report them to listmas...@lists.debian.org. While I personally am subscribed to this list, I can't possibly read every single word of every single message. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com "There's nothing remarkable about it. All o

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-10 Thread Don Armstrong
with it. If you think there are problems, please test this. If there are problems with the late command, they are bugs, and they can be filed and fixed early in the jessie freeze. From the testing I've done, this works just fine, and switches init systems correctly.

Re: Installing an Alternative Init?

2014-11-10 Thread Don Armstrong
ing it with sysvinit-core. If you find actual problems, please file the bugs. If you're really that concerned about this issue, it's also not that difficult to roll your own version of d-i which contains the fix for #668001, and use the --include/exclude options to deboot

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

2014-11-11 Thread Don Armstrong
ently isn't important enough for me to do it." -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. -- Robert Heinlein -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: Joey Hess is out?

2014-11-11 Thread Don Armstrong
; over the head with a hockey stick (Hockeymoms), or putting the boot in > (soccer moms). > > Mailing lists have list administrators, but, someone on thi list, > appears to think the list is run by a bunch of women Sexism like this is inappropriate in Debian. Please stop. -- Don A

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

2014-11-11 Thread Don Armstrong
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 needs to do this work, and it > > currently isn't imp

Re: moving LVM logical volumes to new disks

2014-11-12 Thread Don Armstrong
n start with three drives in raid-5, and then grow the array out to the additional three drives, once you've done the migration, or have two different raid-5 arrays in the same vg. Alternatively, you can use an external enclosure to house the RAID1 or RAID5 temporarily. USB is slow,

Re: what's the difference btw. libelf1 and libelfg0?

2014-11-12 Thread Don Armstrong
you will need to install the libelfg0-dev package as well. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie.&quo

Re: no C-h i m emacs ??

2014-11-17 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 17 Nov 2014, Harry Putnam wrote: > With emacs24-lucid installed, I can find no info files for emacs-24 They're in the emacs24-common-non-dfsg package, which is in non-free. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Maybe I did steal your heart and I a

Re: Asterisk security

2014-11-22 Thread Don Armstrong
e maintenance team behind the Debian asterisk packages would love additional help in preparing tested patches which fix these issues in squeeze, wheezy, jessie, and unstable. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n&

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-11-27 Thread Don Armstrong
iguration to run runit as /sbin/init. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com In all matters of government, the correct answer is usually: "Do nothing" -- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p428 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: Stale file in Debian after change of equivs package

2014-12-02 Thread Don Armstrong
what you want, see dpkg-maintscript-helper's rm_conffile for code which will enable you to safely remove the conffile. [Alternatively, if this is a private package, and you're sure that test1.conf will never be needed, you can unconditionally remove it in the new version's .pos

Re: dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)

2014-06-30 Thread Don Armstrong
:Options::="--force-overwrite" install libsope1 to enable libDOM.so.4.9.24 to be overwritten. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Where am I? THE VILLAGE. What do you want? INFORMATION. Which side are you on? THAT WOULD BE TELLING. WE WANT INFORMATION. INFORM

Re: Dictionary changes

2014-07-02 Thread Don Armstrong
ies-common doesn't recommend a wordlist, but that's a different problem.] -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com I'm wrong to criticize the valor of your brave men. It's important to die for one's country when it means being the subject of a kin

Re: System Temperature sensing

2014-07-14 Thread Don Armstrong
under load, it's hard do say anything useful. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Let the victors, when they come, When the forts of folly fall Find thy body by the wall! -- Matthew Arnold -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: init spawning multiple cf-execd processes at once

2014-07-22 Thread Don Armstrong
d respawn it. Eventually, init will decide that your process has died too much, and disable it until a timer runs out. You probably want cf-execd -F or something similar, and you can verify this by checking /var/log/syslog (or whatever is appropriate in your case.) -- Don Armstrong

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-22 Thread Don Armstrong
ove quiet from GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com "That is why I am still tyrant of [Ankh-Morpork]. The way to retain power, I have always thought, is to ensure the absolute unthinkability of oneself not being there." --

Re: Is there a list 'charter' somewhere? (was ... Re: FWIW: script vs. configurtion file)

2014-07-23 Thread Don Armstrong
o > be a listmaster see what they have to say. If you want to talk to the listmasters in the future, e-mailing listmast...@lists.debian.org is the way to do so. 1: https://lists.debian.org/debian-testing/ -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com This can't be happ

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-05 Thread Don Armstrong
Not impossible, but you basically end up replicating a dependency boot system in shell, and necessarily introduce brittleness and delays. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com "What, now?" "Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Th

Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason

2014-08-05 Thread Don Armstrong
nothing more than the first program > to be booted, and want to reduce as much as possible what other > programs need to know about systemd and what systemd needs to know > about the programs I run? I don't have any tips for this, since this isn't a goal of mine; someone else migh

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-05 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 05 Aug 2014, Slavko wrote: > Dňa Tue, 5 Aug 2014 09:17:15 -0700 Don Armstrong > napísal: > > These are just accessible reasons. The main reason that I personally > > voted for systemd over sysv is because systemd (and upstart) provide > > correct boot sequencing in

Re: example scripts used by R

2014-08-24 Thread Don Armstrong
ut of example(min,give.lines=TRUE); but the actual examples are in the help files, which are compressed in /usr/lib/R/library/base/help/base.rdb in the case of min, which is in the base library. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Let me bring you up to speed: We kno

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