php5-odbc broken since 5.4.34-0+deb7u1

2014-11-04 Thread Frédéric Marchal
Hello, Since I upgraded php5 in Wheezy to version 5.4.34-0+deb7u1, I get an error when running odbc_exec() on a sybase ADS odbc driver. I get this error: PHP Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 524288) (tried to allocate 14615584999105259009 bytes) in SybaseClass.php on line 127 The same s

Re: WD Passport 2T hard drive formating question.

2014-11-10 Thread Frédéric Marchal
Le Monday 10 November 2014 19:32:39, Juan R. de Silva a écrit : > > $ man mkfs.ext4 > > > > Look for "-m" argument. > > "-m" option default value is 5% (!) = 50 GB space. No minimal reserved > space is specified/recommended in man pages. > > GParted allocated to file system 1.616% = 29.42GB (qu

Re: Fetchmail; continually losing authentication with gmx.net

2014-11-24 Thread Frédéric Marchal
Le Monday 24 November 2014 20:27:25, Ron Leach a écrit : > List, good evening, > > I've looked through the man fetchmail pages and I'd like to get some > extra logging but I can't seem to pass the -vv parameter to fetchmail. > Fetchmail starts as a daemon, and I can stop it and start it again, b

Re: Fetchmail (long); continually losing authentication with gmx.net

2014-11-25 Thread Frédéric Marchal
2014-11-25 21:34 GMT+01:00 Ron Leach : > Did the trick. Logs show that fetchmail is > 1. using opportunistic TLS on pop3, but > 2. Sometimes times out after receiving a certificate, and then > 3. Fetchmail declines to use TLS with the *next* user, but > 4. gmx complains about not using ssl, and fa

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-08 Thread Frédéric Marchal
Le Monday 08 December 2014 09:44:07, Curt a écrit : > On 2014-12-08, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Actually, it's *always* a surprise. These fsck happen at long enough > > intervals, that I can never know if it was "4 months ago" or "7 months > > ago", and neither can I remember which laptop/desktop

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-08 Thread Frédéric Marchal
2014-12-08 11:44 GMT+01:00 claude juif : > 2014-12-08 10:28 GMT+01:00 Frédéric Marchal > : >> >> Le Monday 08 December 2014 09:44:07, Curt a écrit : >> > On 2014-12-08, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> > > Actually, it's *always* a surprise. These fsck happen

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-09 Thread Frédéric Marchal
Le Monday 08 December 2014 15:40:03, The Wanderer a écrit : > This thread is about complaints about not being able to interrupt / > abort / cancel an already-started boot-time fsck. This thread is about using one's computer quickly after turning it on. An unexpected un-interruptible fsck is seen

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-09 Thread Frédéric Marchal
Le Tuesday 09 December 2014 16:36:53, The Wanderer a écrit : > On 12/09/2014 at 10:09 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 09:48:58AM +0100, Frédéric Marchal wrote: > >> Now, is it possible to run fsck during shutdown? Users have been > >> asking for

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-10 Thread Frédéric Marchal
Le Wednesday 10 December 2014 08:05:49, tv.deb...@googlemail.com a écrit : > On 10/12/2014 09:30, Frédéric Marchal wrote: > > Le Tuesday 09 December 2014 16:36:53, The Wanderer a écrit : > >> On 12/09/2014 at 10:09 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > >>> On Tue, Dec 09, 2014

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-10 Thread Frédéric Marchal
Le Wednesday 10 December 2014 09:49:51, Gian Uberto Lauri a écrit : > Frédéric Marchal writes: > > Le Wednesday 10 December 2014 08:05:49, tv.deb...@googlemail.com a écrit : > > > On 10/12/2014 09:30, Frédéric Marchal wrote: > > > > Le Tuesday 09 December 2014

Purpose of fsck at boot (was: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?)

2014-12-10 Thread Frédéric Marchal
Le Wednesday 10 December 2014 11:10:52, Frédéric Marchal a écrit : > Le Wednesday 10 December 2014 09:49:51, Gian Uberto Lauri a écrit : > > You run fsck on power up because the 'system does not remember' if it > > was shut-off cleanly or not. If the disks are clean and

Reuniting disks in a raid1 array

2016-08-29 Thread Frédéric Marchal
Hello, I had two disks in a mdadm software raid1 on an old computer. I moved sda to a new computer. It ran there in a degraded raid1 for months. The second disk, sdb, kept running as the lone survivor of the original raid1 on the old computer. Now, it's time for the old computer to retire and

Re: Reuniting disks in a raid1 array

2016-08-30 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Tuesday 30 August 2016 11:32:55 Lars Noodén wrote: > On 08/30/2016 08:33 AM, Frédéric Marchal wrote: > >... > > > > Now, it's time for the old computer to retire and sdb to join its partner > > in the new raid1 on the new computer. > > > > How can I

Re: mount MTP phone

2016-09-06 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Tuesday 06 September 2016 09:19:07 Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > Most commonly when I've seen a device fail to enumerate, the problem has > been the cable (I know, you've already said you've tried multiple cables). I second that opinion. MTP only works with a 24/28 gauge USB cable on my daughter's And

Re: odd load patterns

2016-09-13 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Tuesday 13 September 2016 20:09:26 Miles Fidelman wrote: > Hi, > > Lately, our server has been showing high loading, but top shows that the > CPU is mostly in wait mode, and iotop shows low disk i/o traffic. How do you know the load is high? Where is the indication coming from? > Usually, t

Re: Script vs command line behaviour

2016-10-12 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Wednesday 12 October 2016 08:40:12 Greg Wooledge wrote: > And stop using -9 (SIGKILL). Forever. Pretend it never existed. That's a bit harsh. The tool exists for a good reason :-) "Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever

Re: alt F2 in kde does not work

2016-10-20 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Thursday 20 October 2016 00:07:25 kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > When I press alt F2 and enter konsole in the window, nothing happens. > The expected behaviour is to start a konsole window. Does anyone know > which command/package is responsible for the alt+F2 functionality in > KDE? Have you che

Re: mdadm - two questions

2016-11-23 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Tuesday 22 November 2016 18:10:53 Kamil Jońca wrote: > 2. there is md0 (raid1) with two disk in it. It is PV for lvm. > I want to extend space by adding another two disks. Is it possible somehow > extent md0? Or the only way is to create second md device, and assign it > to volume group? I can

Re: bpo kernel 4.7 broken? Re: Some function keys not working on a ThinkPad W550s

2016-11-28 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Tuesday 29 November 2016 02:22:40 Richard Hector wrote: > On 26/11/16 14:27, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Nov 2016, Celejar wrote: > >> > applications and a few things from backports. I'm currently running > >> > kernel 4.7.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 from backports. > > > > Don't. Th

Re: MTP device mount gnome 3

2017-01-22 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Saturday 21 January 2017 07:47:25 Vadim Kolchev wrote: > Hello, > Just noticed an interesting thing > Have an MTP Xiaomi smartphone device, all relevant packages installed. > Also have M-Audio M-track HUB external soundcard with 3 USB ports. > > When connecting MTP device to HUB, have message i

Re: Is Me-TV killing mainboards?

2017-02-17 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Friday 17 February 2017 08:22:01 Hans wrote: > Hello all, > > there is a weired thing happening. Maybe it is by chance, but maybe it is a > bug. > > As my TV is dead, since 4 weeks I am looking television with my notebook. > The application for dvb-t I am using is me-tv. > > Now it happens, t

Re: Kmail2 stores drafts in wrong folder

2017-03-14 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Tuesday 14 March 2017 11:39:12 Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > I discovered a weired issue in kmail2.When I want to store a draft mail, it > should be stored in the folder draft. But in real it stores in a folder, I > creted new (a personal folder). > > Is there a configuration file, where I can c

Re: What pulls in the tray of my /dev/sr1 ?

2015-07-28 Thread Frédéric Marchal
2015-07-28 10:20 GMT+02:00 Thomas Schmitt : > Hi, > > Mike Castle wrote: >> Has the drive displayed this behavior since you turned on the machine, >> or just you just start to notice it after a while? > > I noticed it on the day when i got the machine. > > >> Ok, really maybe it only starts to happ

Re: Anyone else having password failures at pop.gmail.com?

2015-08-20 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Thursday 20 August 2015 07:53:33 Joel Rees wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 7:22 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > They apparently did something just before 15:00 local time (GMT-4=EDT > > today, as both mailfilter and fetchmail are now reporting a password > > authorization failure. > > > > Thats t

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-21 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Friday 21 August 2015 11:28:43 Diogene Laerce wrote: > Could anyone here, honest, as we all are I know, guarantee at 100% that > the OP won't ever have any virus issue on his Debian system ? > > No. > > Should he fear viruses as much as on a Windows system ? > > Certainly not. > > Security r

Re: Antivirus for Debian

2015-08-21 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Friday 21 August 2015 09:25:24 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 21 August 2015 08:53:46 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 01:55:54PM +0200, Frédéric Marchal wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > My understanding of ClamAV is that it is not suit

Re: Anyone else having password failures at pop.gmail.com?

2015-08-27 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Thursday 27 August 2015 22:14:43 Joel Rees wrote: > I lost track of this thread somehow. Sorry. > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 11:39 PM, Frédéric Marchal > wrote: > > On Thursday 20 August 2015 07:53:33 Joel Rees wrote: > >> Any chance it's the old problem

Re: URGENTLY need help on using VPN

2015-09-10 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Thursday 10 September 2015 15:05:36 Li Wei wrote: > I have got info of remote IP, account name and password > I have installed debian/linux and openvpn > but how to start VPN?? I have no openvpn any more to test it but if I remember well, it would connect by simply running the following comman

Re: VPN IPSec (Cisco vpnc)

2014-12-11 Thread Frédéric Marchal
2014-12-11 8:04 GMT+01:00 Hajder Rabiee : > Hi > > Trying to connect to VPN at work but keep getting: "vpnc: no response from > target". > > I have created my vpn.conf in /etc/vpnc/myconf.conf and also added Local > Port 1 as I've read some posts that the particular error message might > have t

Re: VPN IPSec (Cisco vpnc)

2014-12-12 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Thursday 11 December 2014 19:38:52, Hajder Rabiee wrote : > Ok thank you for your reply. > > I'll have a second round with the IT admins. The question remains if the > pre shared key is the same as the group password? If not, how is it > specified in vpnc? My answer was unclear. The group nam

Re: broken apt " -f install" wont fix what to do ?

2014-12-18 Thread Frédéric Marchal
2014-12-18 17:47 GMT+01:00 laurent debian : > Hi all, > when you have an error of apt-get >> >> Préparation du dépaquetage de .../systemd-sysv_215-8_amd64.deb ... >> Dépaquetage de systemd-sysv (215-8) sur (215-7) ... >> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > > which recomme

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-19 Thread Frédéric Marchal
2014-12-19 11:28 GMT+01:00 Renaud OLGIATI : > On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 10:15:32 + > Brian wrote: > >> > I plug in a USB pen drive, and launch dd to copy an iso image. >> > # dd bs=4M if=debian-live-7.6.0-amd64-rescue.iso of=/dev/sdi && sync >> > dd: opening `/dev/sdi': Read-only file system > >>

Re: USB drive mounted Read-only; what to do ?

2014-12-19 Thread Frédéric Marchal
2014-12-19 11:55 GMT+01:00 Renaud OLGIATI : > On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 11:42:44 +0100 > Stephan Seitz wrote: > >> The output of dmesg may give more information. > > # dmesg > [916394.028162] sd 30:0:0:0: [sdi] Write Protect is on > > The drive does not have a HW write-protection switch. Where does thi

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-09 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Thursday 08 January 2015 21:53:45, Danny wrote : > Hi guys, > > So what I did was do disable all startup scripts/servers/services and then > enable only one at a time ... then I would reboot and wait and keep an eye > on "/boot" (I deleted all randomly generated files, so I could see if a > fil

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-15 Thread Frédéric Marchal
2015-01-13 18:13 GMT+01:00 Danny : > Am I right in saying that there is actually nothing new when it comes to > networking ... hear me out ... the internet (and most networks out there) > still > works on TCP/IP which is 40 odd years old (70's) ... a car mechanic only needs > to know how an engine

Re: Can't get sound to work

2015-01-16 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Thursday 15 January 2015 21:28:30, Robert Latest wrote : > Hi all, > > this is my umptieth Debian installation I've done on various PCs over > the years, but this time the sound setup really has me stumped. I can't > hear anything unless I use aplay with -D hw:0,0 but setting that in the > conf

Re: Can't get sound to work

2015-01-16 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Friday 16 January 2015 10:33:23, Lisi Reisz wrote : > On Friday 16 January 2015 08:41:29 Frédéric Marchal wrote: > > But sound started to work fine after I edited $HOME/.asoundrc like this: > > > > pcm.!default { > > type plug > > slave { > > pcm

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-16 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Friday 16 January 2015 14:38:09, Joel Rees wrote : > > I can remember "TwasBrilligAndTheSlithyToves" and associate it with an > > account. > > > > Before signing up I do > > > > echo TwasBrilligAndTheSlithyToves | sha1sum | base64 | cut -c -30 > > > > The output is what I give to a site a

Re: Can't get sound to work

2015-01-17 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Friday 16 January 2015 21:49:37, Ric Moore wrote : > On 01/16/2015 05:53 AM, Frédéric Marchal wrote: > > On Friday 16 January 2015 10:33:23, Lisi Reisz wrote : > >> On Friday 16 January 2015 08:41:29 Frédéric Marchal wrote: > >>> BTW, I have pulseaudi

Re: Can't get sound to work

2015-01-19 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Saturday 17 January 2015 21:41:38, Ric Moore wrote : > On 01/17/2015 07:29 AM, Frédéric Marchal wrote: > > My problem is now solved. I unfortunately can't provide a full scientific > > analysis of what happened. I list every clue that might help anybody else > &g

Re: svn, subversion, repos

2015-03-10 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Monday 09 March 2015 19:14:21, pe...@easthope.ca wrote : > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.reposadmin.create.html has > > $ # Create a repository > $ svnadmin create /var/svn/repos > $ > > In wheezy this fails of course. Is /var writeable by users in > any widely used Linux? > > peter

Re: Encrypting an External HDD

2015-04-15 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Wednesday 15 April 2015 13:53:20, Stephen R Guglielmo wrote : > Hi list, > > I have a USB external HDD that I would like to encrypt with a > passphrase. After looking into filesystems, I decided to go with Ext4. > What's the recommended way of encrypting a drive? Do I partition it > first, then

Re: Can't isntall Debian on UEFI system

2015-04-15 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Wednesday 15 April 2015 11:22:49, German wrote : > Hi all, I am trying to install live image from USB stick, but my comp's > BIOS doesn't see the drive. I tried to dd .iso to stick, I tried to copy > it, still, BIOS doesn't see it. I also don't see any efi folders on the > stick when I look at i

Re: Encrypting an External HDD

2015-04-16 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Wednesday 15 April 2015 18:33:56, David Christensen wrote : > On 04/15/2015 08:01 AM, ken wrote: > > What options or features does one get by putting the LUKS container in a > > partition rather than putting it on a raw drive? > > I am not aware of any technical advantages or disadvantages of L

Re: How to bypass login screen in Jessie?

2015-04-22 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Tuesday 21 April 2015 16:35:18, German wrote : > hi. I'd like to bypass the login screen and boot straight to LXDE desktop. > How do I accomplish this? I am the only user on this system. Thanks It depends on the Display Manager started during boot. Some of the biggest players support autologin

Re: Help with TestDisk

2015-04-30 Thread Frédéric Marchal
2015-04-30 5:02 GMT+02:00 Seeker : > > On 4/29/2015 5:41 AM, German wrote: >> >> Thank you for the effort explaining all that to me. Have a great day. >> > Good luck, if photorec doesn't do it for you either, I have used the Windows > version of R-Studio with some success. "Foremost" can recogniz

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-30 Thread Frédéric Marchal
2015-04-30 3:26 GMT+02:00 Gary Roach : > On 04/29/2015 10:30 AM, Frederic Marchal wrote: >> >> On Wednesday 29 April 2015 09:08:41 Gary Roach wrote: >>> >>> On 04/28/2015 05:27 AM, Francesco Ariis wrote: Hello, >>> This doesn't answer you question exactly but I would like to point ou

Re: Free GNU/Linux intro class for teens advice? Purchase box? Squeak/Smalltalk programming

2015-07-07 Thread Frédéric Marchal
2015-07-07 6:08 GMT+02:00 Glenn English : > > On Jul 6, 2015, at 6:12 PM, Marc D Ronell wrote: > >> Has anyone tried running a GNU/Linux intro class for teens? Can >> anyone share their experiences, thoughts or suggestions? Feedback >> based on actual experience would be most helpful,

Re: File check at boot

2015-07-21 Thread Frédéric Marchal
2015-07-21 18:28 GMT+02:00 Martin Skjöldebrand : > > Quoting Erick Ocrospoma : > > And the only half helpful suggestion from the hosting was running in single > mode from grub, but the disk is mounted at that time. Else to rollback a > snapshot of the server which would mean hours of reconfiguratio

Re: which files took the space

2016-03-03 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Friday 04 March 2016 07:18:59 Adam Wilson wrote: > On Fri, 4 Mar 2016 04:03:01 +1100 Andrew McGlashan > > wrote: > > On 4/03/2016 3:07 AM, Adam Wilson wrote: > > > On Fri, 4 Mar 2016 03:03:53 +1100 Andrew McGlashan > > > > > > wrote: > > >> It also may have been files in the file system, but

Re: mplayer: --alang option

2016-05-09 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Sunday 08 May 2016 07:57:59 Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > hi, > I tried to rip a DVD with "mplayer --alang=fr", but got > the english audio track. Did anybody used this option, and if yes > with what result? I haven't done this for ages but, if my memory serves me well, when the language name is no

Re: Shell - escapes

2016-05-10 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Tuesday 10 May 2016 11:18:06 Die Optimisten wrote: > Hi, > > How can I escape a ' inside '...' > e.g. perl -e 'print '$ and a' '# I don't want to use " This seems to work: perl -e 'print '\''$ and a'\' It must be understood as the concatenation of these strings: * literal string: 'p

Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset

2016-05-11 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Wednesday 11 May 2016 10:55:54 Rob van der Putten wrote: > Hi there > > > UTF-8 is my default locale. So obviously text files are UTF-8 as well. > So why does iceweasel insist that these are windows-1252? How do I fix this? In about:config, have you changed any of intl.charset.detector or in

Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset

2016-05-11 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Wednesday 11 May 2016 11:23:56 err...@free.fr wrote: > Why unicode like utf-8 is not default value in iceweasel ? > > (it's time, we are in 2016 now) Unicode is the default in firefox/iceweasel. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/Localizations_and_character_encodings