Re: systemd for administrators, printable version.

2014-11-17 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Mon, 17 Nov 2014 15:29:21 +0100 schrieb Erwan David: > Is there a printable/epub/pdf version of systemd for administrators ? http://www.bandwidthco.com/whitepapers/os/linux/systemd/systemd%20for% 20Administrators.pdf Google leads me to this link... ;-) I don't know the state of this document

Re: How do package wallpapers for GNOME in Wheezy?

2014-06-29 Thread Joerg Desch
some new infos (but still no solution): I've installed the package on Linux MINT 15 (or 16) and here it works as expected. After the installation of the package the wallpapers are visible inside the settings dialog. Is there a difference to the GNOME 3.4 in Wheezy? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Different behaviour handling NFS mounts after login

2014-07-02 Thread Joerg Desch
I've recently replaced Linux MINT on 3 machines with Debian Wheezy and GNOME3.4. All of my "shares" are mounted with NFS. For this purpose I use the following options (on all installations): rw,_netdev,hard,intr,user,nosuid,exec,async,auto Two of the machines opens Nautilus after each login. Ne

Re: Different behaviour handling NFS mounts after login

2014-07-03 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Thu, 03 Jul 2014 00:12:15 -0700 schrieb Joseph Loo: >> rw,_netdev,hard,intr,user,nosuid,exec,async,auto >> > You might want to try soft instead of hard. Thanks for your tip. I will try it this evening. I'm no NFS expert and I've "created" the mount entries a long time ago. The option "hard"

Re: Different behaviour handling NFS mounts after login

2014-07-03 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Thu, 03 Jul 2014 02:42:05 -0600 schrieb Bob Proulx: > Joerg Desch wrote: > Warning. Using "soft" can cause silent data corruption. That's the reason I'm using "hard". > Same with _netdev. Personally I am > only using "async" and not

How to mount a LUKS partition from within GNOME?

2014-08-07 Thread Joerg Desch
I have successfully prepared a partition for the usage with LUKS. After that, I've added some entries to /etc/fstab and /etc/crypttab. Using "cryptdisks_start/stop" with "mount/umount" works fine. Now I want to be able to mount the partition manually from within GNOME. I want to have the GUI re

Re: How to mount a LUKS partition from within GNOME?

2014-08-13 Thread Joerg Desch
Does nobody have a solution for this? Am Thu, 07 Aug 2014 18:21:51 + schrieb Joerg Desch: > My configuration entries are: > > # /etc/crypttab private_luks /dev/sdb7 none luks,noauto > > # /etc/fstab /dev/mapper/private_luks /media/privates ext4 > user,nofail,noauto,noa

How to mount a LUKS partiotion with Nautilus with option discard?

2014-08-31 Thread Joerg Desch
I'm using a separate LUKS encrypted partition on my SSD, which I only mount after login. Since there is now way to to this with crypttab/fstab, I have to use Nautilus to do this. I'm running a regular Debian Wheezy. After clicking on the (unmounted) LUKS partition, the system asks for the LUKS p

Re: How to mount a LUKS partiotion with Nautilus with option discard?

2014-09-01 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Mon, 01 Sep 2014 09:48:30 +0200 schrieb Jochen Spieker: > Joerg Desch: >> >> I'm using a separate LUKS encrypted partition on my SSD, which I only >> mount after login. Since there is now way to to this with >> crypttab/fstab, I have to use Nautilus to do this.

Re: How to mount a LUKS partiotion with Nautilus with option discard?

2014-09-01 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Mon, 01 Sep 2014 08:18:09 +0200 schrieb Hans: > cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda4 home2 > mount /dev/mapper/home2 /mnt > Thanks. The manual way on the shell is working, but I has some hopes that the GUI would be working too! An mentioned in my other followup, LUKS encrypted USB sticks are handl

Re: How to mount a LUKS partiotion with Nautilus with option discard?

2014-09-01 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Mon, 01 Sep 2014 12:19:39 +0200 schrieb Hans: > As far as I remember (and someone may correct me, if I am wrong) if > there is an entry in fstab, the devices are not mounted by the GUI (I > guess you mean dolphin). I'm using Nautilus in GNOME. Dolphin is KDE. IMO fstab entries without the opt

Re: How to mount a LUKS partiotion with Nautilus with option discard?

2014-09-02 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Tue, 02 Sep 2014 23:59:38 +0200 schrieb Jochen Spieker: > This is missing the discard flag from your crypttab entry. It appears > that Gnome ignores your settings. Is it ignored by Gnome or by udisk? > Either ask upstream (i.e. Gnome people) or open a bug report for > nautilus. Are you sure

Re: How to mount a LUKS partiotion with Nautilus with option discard?

2014-09-04 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Wed, 03 Sep 2014 14:41:03 +0200 schrieb Jochen Spieker: > I have no idea. I've got two tips by G+. (1) a mount point below ~ and (2) the option x- gvfs-show as fstab option. Both doesn't change anything. > I suggested to file the bug against Nautilus because it > is the interface you are usi

Whats your way of sharing data between PCs?

2014-09-21 Thread Joerg Desch
Hi. I'm using Debian Wheezy on two Notebooks and one Desktop. All systems are using NFS to access a NAS. While the notebooks have all data on there local SSDs, the Desktop is working directly on the NFS share. I currently use Unison to sync the data between the notebooks and the NAS. This is v

Re: Whats your way of sharing data between PCs?

2014-09-21 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Sun, 21 Sep 2014 09:48:14 +0100 schrieb Joe: > I wouldn't have thought so, to any great extent. You can use rsync over > ssh if you're worried about the data being intercepted on your network, > but I doubt that it will be much quicker as Unison is just a front-end > to rsync. Unison doesn't u

Re: Whats your way of sharing data between PCs?

2014-09-22 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Sun, 21 Sep 2014 11:45:23 +0200 schrieb Hans: >> Unison doesn't use rsync. As far as I know, Unison uses a rsync alike >> algorithm which is bidirectional, while rsync is only unidirectional. > > Nope, rsync is bidirectional, too. Are you shure? I'm only aware of the unidirectional sync. The

Re: Whats your way of sharing data between PCs?

2014-09-22 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Sun, 21 Sep 2014 19:52:51 +0200 schrieb lee: > Joerg Desch writes: > >> I currently use Unison to sync the data between the notebooks and the >> NAS. > > NFS over VPN? Nope. Currently not. My first step is a solution which works in the local network. Later I would

Re: Whats your way of sharing data between PCs?

2014-09-23 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Mon, 22 Sep 2014 19:01:36 -0400 schrieb PaulNM: > Questions for the OP: > Is the Desktop always on? If so, it could be the master server. No the Desktop is only used if the screens of the notebooks are to small. ;-) > Do you want to sync even if the laptops are not home, not just have > co

How do package wallpapers for GNOME in Wheezy?

2014-06-25 Thread Joerg Desch
Hi. I've build a package with some of my favorite wallpapers. The package installs fine and I've created a XML file too. But the GNOME settings dialog of Wheezy doesn't show me my wallpapers. I've installed all files below /usr/share/backgrounds/joede-collection/1650x1050/ and installed the XML

How to use Garmin Connect with Debian 7?

2017-07-12 Thread Joerg Desch
I'm using a Garmin Edge 520 for my bycicle and a (new) Forerunner for running. How can I access Garmin Connect without installing the Windows tools? The Garmin Edge 520 is already registered to my Garmin Connect account. I've used an old Windows 7 notebook with isn't functional anymore. Now I'

Re: How to use Garmin Connect with Debian 7?

2017-07-12 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Wed, 12 Jul 2017 13:28:11 +0200 schrieb solitone: > I have a Garmin Edge 520, and I use the Garmin Connect app on my > smartphone to sync it, not the Windows tool. I just needed the Windows > tool during initial configuration, but once it's registered you no > longer need it (except for some ra

Re: How to use Garmin Connect with Debian 7?

2017-07-12 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Wed, 12 Jul 2017 07:43:31 -0400 schrieb Fungi4All: > I think you need to read up to the NMEA183 protocol, which for a while > it was the standard of i/o data ever since the first gps had wired > connections on it. Both devices are visible as filesystem. So I can easily copy and convert the re

Re: How to use Garmin Connect with Debian 7?

2017-07-12 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Wed, 12 Jul 2017 14:08:22 +0200 schrieb solitone: > Yes, I used to have a VirtualBox instance on my previous laptop, and it > did work. Then I migrated that VirtualBox image to KVM when I prepared > my new laptop, and it continued to work. Just because you mentioned it You have build a Vir

Re: How to use Garmin Connect with Debian 7?

2017-07-12 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Wed, 12 Jul 2017 14:14:20 +0200 schrieb tomas: > I'm downright appalled to see that a little piece of hardware comes tied > to TahCloud and doesn't give the user any choices in that. I'd be raging > at Garmin, were I their customer, for being (mis)treated like that. My mistake... The Forerunne

Re: How to use Garmin Connect with Debian 7?

2017-07-13 Thread Joerg Desch
Am 13.07.17 12:13 nachm., schrieb Jörg-Volker Peetz: there's this nice blog in German: https://blog.dafb-o.de/neue-firmware-fuer-garmin-devices-unter-linux/ where the firmware update procedure from Linux is detailed and a link to the firmware files for your device is given http://gawisp.com/perry

Debian8 is not playing with Synology using NFS/CIFS

2017-08-08 Thread Joerg Desch
It drives me crazy. Really. The company I'm working for is switching from a Dell server running Ubuntu to a Synology HA solution. On my desktop, I'm using Debian 8 and only Debian (Yes I know, I can be lucky ;-)). My first try was to mount the new shares using NFS4 and taraa... imapd. This

Re: Debian8 is not playing with Synology using NFS/CIFS

2017-08-08 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Tue, 08 Aug 2017 11:01:12 +0100 schrieb Darac Marjal: > I'll assume that the Synology is a black box, and so we can't work out > how it's configured. Yes, more or less. > > Try "mount -v -t nfs name.or.ip.of.synology:/ /some/mountpoint" and see > what errors result. Mounting isn't the probl

Re: Debian8 is not playing with Synology using NFS/CIFS

2017-08-08 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Tue, 08 Aug 2017 11:34:58 +0100 schrieb Darac Marjal: > On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 10:09:42AM +0000, Joerg Desch wrote: >>Am Tue, 08 Aug 2017 11:01:12 +0100 schrieb Darac Marjal: >> >>> I'll assume that the Synology is a black box, and so we can't work out >&

Re: Debian8 is not playing with Synology using NFS/CIFS

2017-08-08 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Tue, 08 Aug 2017 14:31:33 + schrieb Curt: > Did you look on the innertubes? This seems to be quite a popular > question. No help here, for instance? > > https://superuser.com/questions/860553/user-id-mapping-with-nfs-on- synology-nas > > If not I'm sorry for wasting your time. Thanks for

Difference between LUKS drives with cryptsetup and Disks?

2016-11-04 Thread Joerg Desch
I've created a LUKS partition which I mount on demand. This partition was created using cryptsetup. While mounting the partition, GNOME asks me first for the passphrase and than for the "admin" password. A while ago, I've created a LUKS partition on an USB thumb drive using GNOME Disks. In this

Re: shutdown fails to power off host

2017-01-17 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Wed, 04 Jan 2017 22:59:46 -0800 schrieb Bob McGowan: > When I shutdown my desktop system, the screen displays messages from > systemd (I presume), the last of which is "Reached target Shutdown". Just a thought... I'm running Debian Jessie and I see the same behavior with my Thinkpad T500. I

problems with moving the toolsbars of Inkscape

2015-09-10 Thread Joerg Desch
I'm using Inkscape from Jessie and have some trouble with the arrangement of the toolbars. I've written a bug report (#797148) two weeks ago, but without reactions for now. The positioning of the toolbars is only in some (rare) cases possible. It is very hard to find a place where the moved too

Wie restauriert man alte NetworkManager Konfigurationen?

2015-09-20 Thread Joerg Desch
Ich habe nach meinem Upgrade von Wheezy auf Jessie die VPN-Konfiguration aufgeschoben. Nun wollte ich das nachholen und habe (ganz blauäugig) die alte Datei unter /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections wieder einsortiert. Leider erkennt der NetworkManager die Datei nicht. Zumindest zeigt er die

Re: Wie restauriert man alte NetworkManager Konfigurationen?

2015-09-20 Thread Joerg Desch
Sorry, wrong group! Please, ignore the post it was to early in the morning and the coffee was not cooked. ;-)

Re: Brightness configuration issue

2015-09-23 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Thu, 24 Sep 2015 00:05:11 +0200 schrieb sp113438: > sudo redshift-gtk -b 0.5 > > dims 50% >From the homepage: Redshift has a brightness adjustment setting, but it does not work the way most people might expect. In fact it is a *fake brightness adjustment* obtained by manipulating the gamma

gnome-power-manager compatible with systemd?

2015-10-19 Thread Joerg Desch
I have installed a standard Debian Jessie (with systemd and GNOME3) on my older T500 (dual core). For some reasons, the *power statistics monitor* is not installed by default. Is there a reason for that? Is it save to install gnome-power-manager (only to get the monitor) or does it may cause an

VPN connection no longer available for me as user

2015-11-05 Thread Joerg Desch
I run into a bug where nm-connection-editor doesn't read the password out of the settings. And without password it doesn't save changes. I hadn't recognized this first, so that I tested editing the setup as root. The console outputs leads me to a solution. After saving my changes as root, I no

Re: Differences Between ThinkPad Models

2015-12-03 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Thu, 03 Dec 2015 13:35:35 -0800 schrieb GC: > Can someone help me compare the differences with each of these laptops? > - Lenovo ThinkPad X60/X60s - Lenovo ThinkPad X60 Tablet - Lenovo > ThinkPad T60 - Lenovo ThinkPad X200 - Lenovo ThinkPad R400 - Lenovo > ThinkPad R500 - Lenovo ThinkPad T400 -

Using github as repository for apt?

2016-01-12 Thread Joerg Desch
I've tried to find a way to use github or github-pages as host to provide a repository for apt. Does anyone knows such a solution?

System freezes after update to Jessie 8.4

2016-04-04 Thread Joerg Desch
I have an extremely hard problem after upgrading Debian Jessie from 8.3 to 8.4 today. The system is a Dell Vostro with an AMD/ATI Turks PRO [Radeon HD 7570]. The free radeon driver is used for X. Desktop is GNOME3. The resolution is 25560x1440. I've used this resolution for about 3-4 weeks now.

Re: System freezes after update to Jessie 8.4

2016-04-04 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Mon, 04 Apr 2016 13:17:53 +0200 schrieb Sven Arvidsson: > On Mon, 2016-04-04 at 11:11 +0000, Joerg Desch wrote: >> After the upgrade (and a restart), the system freezes from one second >> to the other. It seems to be independent from the used application. >> >> As

Re: System freezes after update to Jessie 8.4

2016-04-04 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Mon, 04 Apr 2016 13:17:53 +0200 schrieb Sven Arvidsson: > What kernel are you running? Looks like it might be this: > https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/6/257 The changlelog of the current kernel image pakcage lists these changes for "radeon": - radeon/cik: Fix GFX IB test on Big-Endian -

Re: System freezes after update to Jessie 8.4

2016-04-04 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Mon, 04 Apr 2016 15:21:09 +0200 schrieb Sven Arvidsson: > 3.16 was mentioned later in the thread: > https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/9/373 OK. If I find some time, I will have a look at this. > You might want to file a bug if there isn't one open already. For the kernel-image package? Is the "r

Re: System freezes after update to Jessie 8.4

2016-04-04 Thread Joerg Desch
Some additional information... After the X-Crash, neither CTRL-ALT_F1 nor CRTL-ALT-DEL works. Even CRTL- ALT-BACKSPACE doesn't work. But I've tried ALT-PRINT-REISUB and the system reboots.

Re: System freezes after update to Jessie 8.4 [workaround]

2016-04-04 Thread Joerg Desch
My personal workaround... yesterday, I had used GNOME3 Classic which reduced the freezes down to "every3 hours". ;-) Today morning, I've downgrades the kernel back to the previous version and I'm back to GNOME3 and Firefox for 2 hours now. No freeze so far... What I've done is: aptitude insta

Bug: updating Debian9 not "allowed".

2017-10-26 Thread Joerg Desch
I'm still running Debian 8 on all of my systems. Since it is time to switch to Debian 9, I've tried to have a first look at it. So I've installed the nonfree DVD-Image 9.2 within a VirtualBox container. All went fine, until I've tried to update the APT database. Both, apt and Synaptics updates

Re: Bug: updating Debian9 not "allowed".

2017-10-26 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Thu, 26 Oct 2017 13:13:57 +0100 schrieb Darac Marjal: > [Aside: The debian packaging tool is called "synaptic". "Synaptics" are > a company producing touchpads. The two are not related] I know, but I always make this mistake. ;-) > I believe this is a known bug in synaptic: #864640 [1]. It i

how to enable trim for an external encrypted SSD?

2017-11-06 Thread Joerg Desch
Normally I would enable TRIM support in the /etc/fstab or the /etc/ crypttab by add the discard option. Now I have bought a SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD. My goal is to add a LUKS encrypted partition without an explicit fstab entry. I've done this with some USB thumbdrives before, but not with TR

Re: how to enable trim for an external encrypted SSD?

2017-11-06 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:28:32 +0100 schrieb Christian Seiler: > But all that doesn't really help you if the underlying LUKS container > isn't opened with the discard option set. And as far as I know there is > no possibility of tagging a LUKS container with that option, you must > always supply tha

Re: how to enable trim for an external encrypted SSD?

2017-11-06 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Tue, 07 Nov 2017 01:00:54 +0500 schrieb Alexander V. Makartsev: > I don't use TRIM feature on my systems because of that, and hope for a > firmware of modern SSD will manage everything automatically. Am I wrong? I've used a ext4 formatted, unencrypted (!) 64GB SanDisk Extreme USB 3.0 thumbdri

Re: how to enable trim for an external encrypted SSD?

2017-11-11 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Mon, 06 Nov 2017 14:28:32 +0100 schrieb Christian Seiler: > I don't what you want is possible. When you plug in an external drive > (that is _not_ in /etc/fstab etc.) the process of how it gets mounted is > different: ... > tune2fs -o +discard /dev/external_disk_device My drive has arrived

Re: how to enable trim for an external encrypted SSD?

2017-11-11 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Sat, 11 Nov 2017 14:13:12 +0100 schrieb Christian Seiler: > Also, did you mount the device with -o discard or set that option with > tune2fs (_before_ mounting it)? No, not now. I want to use fstrim in favour to the discard option. But I've tested it with an Arch Linux installation with a mor

Re: how to enable trim for an external encrypted SSD?

2017-11-11 Thread Joerg Desch
Am 11.11.17 15:27, schrieb Christian Seiler: If it's the kernel driver there's a chance that'll be fixed in a future kernel version. Hmm... Arch Linux (that I tried) comes with a recent kernel and this still not work. Unfortunately I can't say much more about that, I've never had an externa

Re: how to enable trim for an external encrypted SSD?

2017-11-21 Thread Joerg Desch
Am Wed, 15 Nov 2017 22:00:54 -0500 schrieb Stefan Monnier: > I highly doubt that TRIM would help. IOW, it's just a gut feeling you > have, but I strongly doubt you have concrete data that can show it might > be related to the presence/absence of TRIM-support. May be you are right. I hope so... ;