Re: [DNG] New Chimaera torrent file needs seeders.

2022-09-12 Thread fraser kendall
On Sun, 11 Sep 2022 11:43:12 -0400 fsmithred via Dng wrote: > Please seed. Thanks. Hi to all. I have a headless backup machine (with about 2T spare capacity) that I'd be willing to use as a long-term seeding host, but I have no knowledge about how to do this securely, and it'd have to be

[DNG] chimaera to daedalus upgrade

2022-07-12 Thread fraser kendall
Hello, In the middle of a dist-upgrade and got this error: Preparing to unpack .../nodejs_16.15.1+dfsg-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking nodejs (16.15.1+dfsg-1) over (12.22.12~dfsg-1~deb11u1) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/nodejs_16.15.1+dfsg-1_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to

[DNG] Delete default xfce4 shortcuts

2022-07-10 Thread fraser kendall
Hello, Is there anyway to completely delete the influence of the xfce4 environment. I am continually frustrated in my attempts to install four keyboard shortcut in libreoffice. I'd like these four: ctrl+alt+up promote point ctrl+alt+right promote point and subpoints ctrl+alt+down demote

[DNG] Installation problems on Dell T7810 + PERC H310

2022-03-08 Thread fraser kendall
Hello, I am trying to install Devuan {Beowulf server (CD), Chimaera minimal (USB)} on the above machine. It has a 100M EFI partition 1, W10 (partition 2, 116G, shrunk from 370G), [vacated free space for linux after shrinking, ~250G], and a Windows recovery partition 5 (~520M). The machine boots

Re: [DNG] nvidia-persistenced can't be installed

2021-12-31 Thread fraser kendall
On Thu, 30 Dec 2021 15:26:51 -0500 Haines Brown wrote: > When I try to do an upgrade, I'm told nvidia-persistenced is not > configured. When I reinstall it I get: > > ... > Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 0 B will be used. > Setting up nvidia-persistenced (460.32.03-1) ... >

Re: [DNG] Simple-netaid 1-0 released

2021-11-30 Thread fraser kendall
On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 12:47:24 +0100 aitor wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just uploaded the packages of simple-netaid (libnetaid + snetaid > + simple-netaid-cdk) to the repository of gnuinos chimaera. If you > want to install them in devuan, Very nice tool. So far doing everything I expected it to

[DNG] Remote power management

2021-07-22 Thread fraser kendall
Hi, This feels like a damnfool question, but I don't seem able to find an appropriate solution. The situation: careless staff leaving desktops logged on, open tabs in browsers, monitors left on etc.etc. First solution: cron job: '/sbin/shutdown -r now' run daily at 7pm But this reboots to a

[DNG] Failure of dpkg postinst/prerm scripts was Re: cups in ceres: Correction

2021-01-22 Thread fraser kendall
On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 13:56:15 + fraser kendall wrote: > On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 13:35:48 + > fraser kendall wrote: > > Correction: [...] > #mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/printer-driver-cups-pdf.postinst > /var/lib/dpkg/info/printer-driver-cups-pdf.postinst.bad > #mv /var/lib/dpk

Re: [DNG] cups in ceres: Correction

2020-12-01 Thread fraser kendall
On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 13:35:48 + fraser kendall wrote: Correction: > Workaround from > https://askubuntu.com/questions/1069702/dpkg-error-processing-package-install-info > > #mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/install-info.postinst > /var/lib/dpkg/info/install-info.postinst.bad > #mv

Re: [DNG] cups in ceres

2020-12-01 Thread fraser kendall
On Tue, 1 Dec 2020 03:23:11 +0100 Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 11:39:37 +, Le wrote in message > <20201130113937.6da5d2fa@cruncher>: > > > Hello, > > > > I'm getting a circular problem upgrading cups in ceres. I've been > > tackling this for a week or so. I need two root

Re: [DNG] wicd in ceres; was Re: Danger: Debian POSIX hostility

2020-11-05 Thread fraser kendall
On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 10:04:37 -0500 Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 01:38:26PM +0000, fraser kendall wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 21:07:11 +0200 > > Florian Zieboll wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 12:44:21 +0100 > > > Le

[DNG] wicd in ceres; was Re: Danger: Debian POSIX hostility

2020-11-04 Thread fraser kendall
On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 21:07:11 +0200 Florian Zieboll wrote: > On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 12:44:21 +0100 > Le Loft wrote: > > > wicd just > > doesn't work > > > Did you check the WiFi adapter's device name in the Wicd config? I > remember that it took some time to figure out that it in fact works >

Re: [DNG] Clarification please

2020-11-03 Thread fraser kendall
On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 02:50:37 -0500 Steve Litt wrote: > On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 16:53:43 + > g4sra via Dng wrote: > > > On 29/10/2020 13:44, Michael Neuffer wrote: > > > On 10/29/20 2:27 PM, d...@d404.nl wrote: > > --snip-- > > >> To ease the maintenance of those servers i intend to

Re: [DNG] Xorg stopped working after upgrade to Beowulf

2020-09-22 Thread fraser kendall
On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 07:43:42 -0700 Marc Shapiro via Dng wrote: > I do use startx from a terminal login Me too, and usually without problems. However, I have always had to add needs_root_rights=yes to /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config And lately I cannot startx on three beowulf/xfce4 desktops, I

Re: [DNG] Iceweasel-uxp from Hyperbola GNU/Linux

2020-09-10 Thread fraser kendall
On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 12:51:29 +0200 Antony Stone wrote: > On Thursday 10 September 2020 at 12:39:17, Haines Brown wrote: > > > This is wonderful news to a user of Palemoon/basilisk. However > > installing it failed because of my ignorance: > > > > $ sudo apt-get install ./iceweasel-uxp-dev > >

Re: [DNG] Restricting processes to X% of CPU and Y% of RAM.

2020-08-26 Thread fraser kendall
On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 18:33:10 +1000 onefang wrote: >cpulimit looks like it might work. cpulimit works well for me: I use it to stop an old but busy machine overheating when scanning a 45G rolling backup with clamav; although it takes 19 hours to do it at 25%, it's solid and stable. fraser

Re: [DNG] Upgrade to Beowulf: iptables

2020-07-23 Thread fraser kendall
On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 21:10:08 -0400 Hendrik Boom wrote: > And did iptables work after the whole upgrade was finished? Yes. My existing ruleset was replaced with the default (permissive) ruleset; thus by definition, iptables worked as intended by the developers. However, as a manual

Re: [DNG] Upgrade to Beowulf: iptables

2020-07-23 Thread fraser kendall
On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 19:46:16 +0200 Ludovic Bellière wrote: > Running processes aren't stopped (restarted) until the new binaries > are available, so your machine was still behind a firewall if rules > were applied before the upgrade. iptables, ip6tables, and other > alternatives serves as

[DNG] Upgrade to Beowulf: iptables

2020-07-20 Thread fraser kendall
I have upgraded several machines to Beowulf over the last few months. It has only once been problematic, but that was probably due to student error. However, there is an ongoing issue with the upgrade to iptables-nft so before starting the upgrade I opened a separate terminal and issued # watch

Re: [DNG] Deleted qemu image

2020-07-16 Thread fraser kendall
On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 11:35:20 +0100 fraser kendall wrote: Many, many thanks to everyone for their invaluable posts. The image has been restored and is now running on two identical machines. I'll post below for the record, but wanted to put my thanks at the top of the list. The file

[DNG] Deleted qemu image

2020-07-16 Thread fraser kendall
I have just done the stupidest thing. I was freeing up (rm -rf) space on what I thought was a storage directory (/srv), but I have now just discovered that it contained a critical qemu image. The image is a W7 VM and is still running; it appears unaffected. The /srv partition is the largest on

Re: [DNG] Hidden "Chrome Web Store Payments" menu entry...

2019-12-09 Thread fraser kendall
On Mon, 9 Dec 2019 15:24:05 +0900 Simon Walter wrote: > ...in at least KDE in Jessie. > > /usr/lib/chromium/chromium "--profile-directory=Profile 1" > --app-id=XXX > > I use Chromium for development testing. > # dpkg --get-selections | grep chromium > chromium

Re: [DNG] How stable Is beowulf? How to upgrade from ascii?

2019-11-07 Thread fraser kendall
On Thu, 7 Nov 2019 13:13:38 +0100 Bernard Rosset via Dng wrote: > - Even though I use scripts to automatically save/restore ip(6)tables > rules on up/down, I ended up having my rules cleared through initial > reboots. No precise idea on why. > I suggest you always keep a manual save of them

[DNG] DSA (Beowulf) Patch missing

2019-09-09 Thread fraser kendall
- Debian Security Advisory DSA-4519-1 secur...@debian.org https://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff September 08, 2019 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -

[DNG] ascii kernel

2017-08-19 Thread fraser kendall
Hi Devs, Got myself in a bit of a pickle. Upgraded two machines (#2 and #1) from jessie to ascii, got two different kernels (#2 got v3.16 and #1 got v4.9) from the (.gb.mirror and .auto.mirror respectively) sources, both machines ran into issues with boinc

[DNG] Cannot update chromium

2017-08-13 Thread fraser kendall
Hi, Sorry if this is the wrong list to post to. The security advisory from debian (Debian Security Advisory DSA-3926-1) refers to 23 issues. I cannot update chromium from apt-get. I cannot access the solution referred to in the bug report: https://bugs.devuan.org/db/24/24.html and the link