Re: [DNG] How to firewall on Devuan?

2021-02-24 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2021-02-24 13:01, schrieb Steve Litt: Hi all, I'm now at the stage where I need a firewall on my Devuan VM guest, and I don't know how to do it. I have the iptables package installed, and /usr/sbin/iptables is a command, but I have no idea where to go from there. Is there a file that

Re: [DNG] no shutdown by pressing power button

2020-06-20 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-17 23:49, schrieb ippaket via Dng: after the upgrade from ascii to beowulf I can't shutdown my machine (64bit intel atom) by pressing the power button anymore. Any ideas what to do ? That depends on the DE you are using. Most DE's have a configuration option for this. Maybe this

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-14 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-14 22:54, schrieb g4sra via Dng: How do you know the mount is failing ? It's not mounted after mount command. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-14 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-15 05:11, schrieb spiralofhope: I wonder if there's anything S.M.A.R.T. information can tell you. There is a spinup time test, and I wonder if perhaps there is SMART logging within the drive that could reveal a problem with the drive not spinning up as quickly as it should, and maybe

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-14 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-14 21:25, schrieb richard lucassen via Dng: Ok, I missed that, sorry. Maybe 5 is too low, try 10 or 15 I'd say. I don't see why this parameter is so important. When I read the description, this is the delay for scanning usb devices after power up. But as you can see in the logs,

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-14 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-14 20:48, schrieb richard lucassen: What happens if you change the content of that script: #!/bin/dash echo 5 > /sys/module/usb_storage/parameters/delay_use For what reason? I had it in /boot/boot.ini and that worked. I looked up /sys/module/usb_storage/parameters/delay_use and it

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-14 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-14 20:07, schrieb d...@d404.nl: It is a kernel parameter not a module parameter. You have to add it to your kernel boot line. Ok, I found out how to do that. It's in /boot/boot.ini But that made no difference to my problem. This is my current setup: /etc/fstab has the mount option

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-14 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-14 19:51, schrieb Tomasz Torcz: Try files in /sys/module/usb_storage/parameters Or you can put in kernel command line: usb_storage.parameter=… as described at https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.html Something is wrong her: root@Odroid2:~#

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-14 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-14 19:39, schrieb d...@d404.nl: Most likely the usb_storage module is compiled in the kernel. How can I set its parameters in this case? sysctl -a lists nothing about storage or usb. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-14 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-14 19:30, schrieb richard lucassen: What tells "modinfo g_mass_storage"? $ sudo modinfo g_mass_storage filename: /lib/modules/3.16.82+/kernel/drivers/usb/gadget/g_mass_storage.ko license:GPL author: Michal Nazarewicz description:Mass Storage Gadget

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-14 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-14 19:07, schrieb J. Fahrner via Dng: modinfo: ERROR: Module usb_storage not found. Maybe they have their own drivers for usb? # find /lib/modules/3.16.82+/kernel/drivers -name '*storage*' /lib/modules/3.16.82+/kernel/drivers/usb/gadget/g_mass_storage.ko /lib/modules/3.16.82

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-14 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-14 19:05, schrieb richard lucassen: That's rather strange. From "modinfo usb_storage": parm: delay_use:seconds to delay before using a new device (uint) And what happens if you load the module in advance?: echo "usb_storage" >> /etc/modules modinfo: ERROR: Module usb_storage not

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-14 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-14 17:25, schrieb richard lucassen via Dng: echo "options usb_storage delay_use=5" > /etc/modprobe.d/usb_storage.conf seems not to work. After boot: cat /sys/module/usb_storage/parameters/delay_use 1 ___ Dng mailing list

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-14 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-14 15:09, schrieb Dr. Nikolaus Klepp: Anno domini 2020 Sun, 14 Jun 14:12:21 +0200 J. Fahrner via Dng scripsit: [   22.579214] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk [ 1145.246051] EXT4-fs (sda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data I see this on RPi, too, just the delay is smaller

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-14 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-14 13:32, schrieb richard lucassen via Dng: It's weird. What does "dmesg" tell? dmesg > /tmp/dmesg and look if there are any messages there [0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset [0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu [0.00] Initializing cgroup subsys

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-14 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-14 13:23, schrieb Dr. Nikolaus Klepp: Are you 100% absolutely sure your board is not stuck at the bootloader stage before the kernel is started? Yes. It responds to ping, so network is running. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-14 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-14 10:11, schrieb richard lucassen: Did you format the disk with a newer system than the system you run it on? So, I wonder what happens if you remove the huge_file option I don't remember on which system I formatted that drive. After playing around the problem is very strange. It's

[DNG] Error in repositories

2020-06-14 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
On an "apt-get update" I get the following errors: Err:10 http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged beowulf/main armhf Contents (deb) Hash Sum mismatch Hashes of expected file: - Filesize:31681725 [weak] - SHA256:04dda4a3166f89d6cd274bd662e29997a9c59c0015e3a29537c5918ff35edd01 Hashes of

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-14 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-13 22:10, schrieb richard lucassen via Dng: I have no idea. But mountall is in runlevel S, not 2. What if you mount it explicitely in a temporary script called /etc/rcS.d/99mount.sh ? That is before runlevel 2 starts. Looks like it has something to do with huge_file support:

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-13 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-13 21:05, schrieb richard lucassen: No, but I asked you why not create the root filesystem on that disk. If "mount -a" does not work in runlevel 2, why should it work in boot stage 1? ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-13 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-13 20:18, schrieb richard lucassen via Dng: That was the "rootwait" parameter as I said somewhere. Used for USB and MMC disks. "The rootwait kernel parameter only affects the first stage of boot, while the kernel is waiting for its initial root device"

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-13 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-13 14:19, schrieb Tito via Dng: maybe rather than trying to mount the disk earlier, you could try to spin it up so that it mounts when mountall is run. AFTER boot a "mount -a" waits until the disk is ready and mounts it without any failure. I don't see why this should not be the

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-13 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-13 10:31, schrieb richard lucassen: The nofail means that it wil mount automatically, but if the disk is absent it won't give errors. But it does not wait for the device! The disk has itś own power supply and is always connected. I think there is something missing at the boot stage

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-13 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-13 10:05, schrieb richard lucassen via Dng: That is why there is a rootwait option: rootwait[KNL] Wait (indefinitely) for root device to show up. Useful for devices that are detected asynchronously (e.g. USB and MMC devices). Thats exactly what I'm expecting, waiting

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-13 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-13 09:49, schrieb richard lucassen: What is on that disk? Why not make that disk the root filesystem and pass "rootwait" to the kernel? I'm afraid that won't work either. If there are problems mounting the disk at this early stage, even the root filesystem will not mount.

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-13 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-13 09:24, schrieb Didier Kryn:     AFAIU defaults is a placeholder for when there's no option to pass. Therefore, if you specify nofail or noauto, defaults isn't needed. According to the man page of mount: defaults Use the default options: rw, suid, dev, exec, auto,

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-13 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-13 08:25, schrieb J. Fahrner via Dng: nofail was a good hint. Now the system boots, but the usb disk is still not mounted. "mount -a" mounts it without errors after boot. What is the best way to run "mount -a" before any initscripts in runlevel 2? There is

Re: [DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-13 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-06-12 20:25, schrieb richard lucassen: Try to add "nofail" or "noauto": nofail was a good hint. Now the system boots, but the usb disk is still not mounted. "mount -a" mounts it without errors after boot. I see no errors in /var/log/boot and dmesg. The only messages concerning this

[DNG] Boot hangs with usb disk active in fstab

2020-06-12 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Hi, I'm running Devuan Beowulf on an Odroid C2 mini computer. Since it's internal flash disk is limited, I run it with an external usb drive attached. When this disk is active in /etc/fstab the boot process hangs forever. I can ping it, so networking is started, but I cannot login, because

Re: [DNG] darkpurpy-grub theme on Beowulf

2020-03-22 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-03-22 18:16, schrieb goli...@devuan.org: I'm feeling the darkpurpy love! :) You are right :-) But if all else fails you can just replace the cinnabar elements with darkpurpy in /usr/share/desktop-base. That's how I got cinnabar grub working on my jessie. I tried to integrate

Re: [DNG] Chromium on Beowulf

2020-03-22 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-03-22 13:00, schrieb Mark Hindley: chromium recommends chromium-sandbox. Do you have no-install-recommends configured in apt? Yes, I don't install recommends. When chromium does not run without sandbox, then it should be a must, not a recommend. Jochen

[DNG] darkpurpy-grub theme on Beowulf

2020-03-22 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
After upgrade to beowulf I'm missing the darkpurpy-grub theme. The files are yet there, but update-alternatives does not know about them, it only lets me choose cinnabar-grub. Jochen ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

[DNG] Chromium on Beowulf

2020-03-22 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
On Beowulf Chromium does not start because of missing sandbox. ERROR:zygote_host_impl_linux.cc(116)] No usable sandbox! If this is a Debian system, please install the chromium-sandbox package to solve this problem. If you want to live dangerously and need an immediate workaround, you can try

[DNG] network-manager on Beowulf

2020-03-22 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Hi, after upgrading from Ascii to Beowulf network-manager ist broken. The following packages have unmet dependencies: network-manager : Depends: libpam-systemd Regards Jochen ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

Re: [DNG] Which DE?

2020-03-01 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2020-03-01 23:07, schrieb aitor: My vote is for tint2. I also vote for openbox with tint2. if you don't want to tediously configure it yourself, install Bunsenlabs https://www.bunsenlabs.org/ and then migrate it to Devuan. Bunsenlabs has a nice theme and helper scripts for the openbox

[DNG] Method https has died unexpectedly!

2019-11-24 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Hi, the emmc card of my Odroid U3 (armhf) has died, so I had to reinstall the whole OS on a spare sd card. I installed the latest Debian Jessie image for that U3, then migrated it to Devuan Ascii. Now there is a problem with the apt https transport. On apt-get update I get the following

Re: [DNG] Insane defaults on Raspberry Pi images - How to fix corruption/dataloss

2019-11-08 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2019-11-08 20:28, schrieb Adam Borowski: I've had an eMMC card that survived 4 years of a constant I/O-bound load with more writes than reads, before starting to fail. On the other hand, you can kill a SD card within a day. A nice example what you should NOT do with flash memory ;-)

Re: [DNG] Security problem

2019-10-13 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2019-10-14 01:01, schrieb tom: Why in gods name does a centralized instant messenger require root privileges on your machine? Signal uses the electron framework for running in a sandbox. Electron uses the Linux user namespaces feature for building the sandbox, but this seems to be

[DNG] Security problem

2019-09-30 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
I just came across a security problem. The application signal-desktop could not be started anymore because a file from the electron framework did not set a setuid bit (https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/3536). For the sandbox feature this obviously needs root privileges. It

Re: [DNG] Systemd depends on random numbers in order to work properly

2019-07-09 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2019-07-09 21:07, schrieb Tomasz Torcz: So why do they need new UUID's at every boot? Not every boot. Every service start: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/4b58153dd22172d817055d2a09a0cdf3f4bd9db3 Are they crazy? ___ Dng mailing list

Re: [DNG] ASCII on rpi1 & resize root partition?

2019-06-26 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2019-06-26 07:58, schrieb Thomas Besser via Dng: what's the easiest way to resize the root partition to the full size of the sdcard? On raspbian it is done with 'raspi-config' which is not available in devuan. You cannot resize a mounted partition. raspi-config installs a boot script to

[DNG] systemd Clocks In At More Than 1.2 Million Lines

2019-05-24 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
https://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=Systemd-1.2-Million I will write you a whole operating system with such a number of code lines! ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

[DNG] Make Linux Fast Again!

2019-05-16 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
https://make-linux-fast-again.com/ :-D ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] upgrade to ascii dkim stopped working

2019-02-27 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2019-02-27 22:30, schrieb info at smallinnovations dot nl: Apparently opendkim 2.11 has been polluted/infected by systemd. Lots of systemd bugreports, notes about being a native systemd daemon but simply not working from postfix. I downgraded opendkim from 2.11 to 2.9 and everythings is

Re: [DNG] WAIT_ONLINE_METHOD=none

2019-02-18 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2019-02-18 18:45, schrieb Didier Kryn:     If you reject the software because you distrust the author, try netplug intead, or write your own. The function is the same: react to plugging/unplugging the Ethernet cable. I dunno how these daemons get notified, but they do, and

Re: [DNG] WAIT_ONLINE_METHOD=none

2019-02-18 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2019-02-18 18:20, schrieb Didier Kryn:     We all know who made it (-: . But it just does one thing and seems do it well, at least for me - never looked at the source. I had some boot delay because of dhcpdiscover, so I tried ifplugd as it was mentioned in this thread. Boot delay was gone,

Re: [DNG] WAIT_ONLINE_METHOD=none

2019-02-18 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2019-02-18 14:07, schrieb Dr. Nikolaus Klepp: Comming back to the original issue: I tested ifplugd - which turned out to be not very reliable, Guess who made it! L.P. :-D ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

Re: [DNG] Is NetworkManager supposed to work?

2019-01-08 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2019-01-08 12:45, schrieb Simon Walter: Did it work on a fresh install? Or did you have to configure anything? Yes. The only thing you have to note: the interfaces it should manage must not be listed in /etc/network/interfaces Jochen ___ Dng

Re: [DNG] Is NetworkManager supposed to work?

2019-01-08 Thread J. Fahrner via Dng
Am 2019-01-08 12:12, schrieb Simon Walter: I have a simple question: Is NetworkManager supposed to work? Yes, it works. It has not worked in Jessie and it does not work in Ascii. I have read the manuals and I think I have everything installed that is needed. What problem do you have? What

[DNG] Fwd: [Bug 225361] Re: .gvfs can't be stat'd by root causing backup tools to fail

2018-11-08 Thread J. Fahrner
Originalnachricht Betreff: [Bug 225361] Re: .gvfs can't be stat'd by root causing backup tools to fail Datum: 2018-11-08 14:36 Von: Ralph Corderoy An: j...@fahrner.name Antwort an: Bug 225361 <225...@bugs.launchpad.net> It doesn't matter where you move the directory to, if

Re: [DNG] Fwd: [Bug 225361] Re: .gvfs can't be stat'd by root causing backup tools to fail

2018-11-07 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-11-07 22:17, schrieb Rick Moen: You seem to be missing the point. The prohibition of access by any user (even root) other than the owning user is imposed by the kernel FUSE layer that GVFS uses, not by GVFS. The point is that all FUSE filesystems (e.g., sshfs) would do the same. I

Re: [DNG] Fwd: [Bug 225361] Re: .gvfs can't be stat'd by root causing backup tools to fail

2018-11-07 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-11-07 21:12, schrieb Rick Moen: Isn't this an eyebrow-raising FUSE developer policy, rather than an eyebrow-raising GNOME developer policy? GVFS stands for GNOME Virtual File System ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

[DNG] Fwd: [Bug 225361] Re: .gvfs can't be stat'd by root causing backup tools to fail

2018-11-07 Thread J. Fahrner
This is why I hate Gnome! I'm wondering how they made something that root cannot access. This is not Unix! Originalnachricht Betreff: [Bug 225361] Re: .gvfs can't be stat'd by root causing backup tools to fail Datum: 2018-11-07 20:31 Von: Bug Watch Updater

[DNG] Red Hat ends KDE support

2018-11-06 Thread J. Fahrner
Next step after systemd: Red Hat ends KDE support. Gnome will be the only supported dekstop environment. https://hub.packtpub.com/soon-rhel-red-hat-enterprise-linux-wont-support-kde/ Jochen ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

Re: [DNG] Debian (and therefore Devuan) runit package needs a little help

2018-11-06 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-10-26 23:05, schrieb Steve Litt: Install the runit package like any other package. Then put the following in /etc/inittab, probably at or near the bottom: sv:123456:respawn:/usr/bin/runsvdir /etc/service "___" Except the string of underscores contains 85 underscores: I

Re: [DNG] Speak now, or forever hold your peace

2018-10-23 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-10-24 00:58, schrieb Steve Litt: I'm about to start adapting runscripts to Devuan ASCII. Many/most daemons do log messages themselves, but for the ones that don't, I'll be using logger to capture stdout and stderr and put them in the logs. If anybody has an objection to this, speak now

Re: [DNG] Command to permanently prevent sysvinit from starting daemon

2018-10-21 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-10-21 08:10, schrieb Steve Litt: In Devuan, what's the command to permanently prevent sysvinit from starting a daemon. man update-rc.d You can remove or disable a service. Jochen ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

Re: [DNG] Stop the madness!

2018-10-20 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-10-21 03:41, schrieb Jimmy Johnson: Pottering only selling point was the systemd is faster, my testings on many systems says that's a lie. I'm not saying it can't be faster, while using systemd if I push and hold the on/off switch my computer shuts down fast. If I understand you, you're

Re: [DNG] Weird network issue - slow to resolve IPs

2018-10-14 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-10-14 14:23, schrieb Hendrik Boom: And OT do I even need avahi installed at all? What is it needed for? try "aptitude why avahi-daemon" to see why it was installed. Your normally don't need it. Maybe it was installed as a recommend. Avahi is a zeroconf tool like Apples Bonjour to

Re: [DNG] GoldenDict's empty window.

2018-09-25 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-09-25 13:29, schrieb Андрей: I use ascii. Running just installed GoldenDict gives me an empty window: no menu, buttons, etc. Is it usable in ascii, if so, what do i miss in my installation? Thank you for any advance. Start it in a terminal window. Do you see any errors there? Jochen

Re: [DNG] Better late than never

2018-09-19 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-09-19 20:34, schrieb aitor_czr: > Try to connect to a concrete wifi without the conviction about its existence? > Mmm..., sorry but it makes little sense... When it's non existent, scanning is ok. But if it is, scanning is obsolete.___ Dng

Re: [DNG] Better late than never

2018-09-19 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-09-19 14:18, schrieb aitor_czr: > From my point of view a suspend/resume should automatically connect to a > known network when it wakes up, just as a reboot does. Antony. > This will be easy to do; automatically connect to an available installed wifi > after suspend/reboot. > The only

Re: [DNG] Better late than never

2018-09-19 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-09-19 14:07, schrieb Antony Stone: From my point of view a suspend/resume should automatically connect to a known network when it wakes up, just as a reboot does. Exactyly my needs also. This is why I prefer wicd. But wicd has one disadvantage: it takes a long time to reconnect.

Re: [DNG] Better late than never

2018-09-19 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-09-19 13:19, schrieb Hendrik Boom: Do we even want to automatically reconnect after a suspend/resume? We might be resuming in a vastly different environment from where we suspended. I use my notebooks mainly at home. When I finished reading mails and news I close the lid until I

Re: [DNG] Better late than never

2018-09-18 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-09-18 11:37, schrieb aitor_czr: > Thanks for your interest on simple-netaid :) Does simple-netaid not automatically reconnect after suspend/resume? Jochen___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

Re: [DNG] Better late than never

2018-09-18 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-09-18 11:23, schrieb aitor_czr: > Thanks for your interest on simple-netaid :) I thank you! I installed simple-netaid in parallel with wicd. Now I'm wondering how simple-netaid finds the active connection. It reports "connected to vmnet8". That's some virtual interface of Vmware

Re: [DNG] Better late than never

2018-09-17 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-09-18 01:11, schrieb aitor_czr: > I uploaded the new packeges after fixing most of the bugs: > > http://gnuinos.org/simple-netaid/ > > I also added the .desktop menu entry. Is there some README about simple-netaid? What is it? Is it a replacement for wicd? Can they live together, or

Re: [DNG] Devuan on Raspberry Pi 2

2018-09-16 Thread J. Fahrner
installed by accident. Another way to update bootloader and kernel is through rpi-update. At the moment all is working ok. Am 2018-09-16 15:52, schrieb J. Fahrner: Hi, I dd'ed devuan_ascii_2.0.0_armhf_raspi2.img on sd card for my Raspberry Pi 2 model B, but it does not boot. No action, black screen. Ar

[DNG] Devuan on Raspberry Pi 2

2018-09-16 Thread J. Fahrner
Hi, I dd'ed devuan_ascii_2.0.0_armhf_raspi2.img on sd card for my Raspberry Pi 2 model B, but it does not boot. No action, black screen. Are here any experiences with that model? In the past I installed Raspbian Jessie and migrated that to Devuan, but this no longer works because they

Re: [DNG] Reply-To in this list

2018-09-02 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-09-02 09:45, schrieb Rick Moen: It is in my view an extremely unwise course of action to reject spam after MTA acceptance, because you are very, very likely to then commit backscatter spam, thereby worsening the problem. Your are right, but also wrong. ;-) I'm rejecting in postfix

Re: [DNG] Reply-To in this list

2018-09-01 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-09-02 02:27, schrieb Hendrik Boom: If I'm away from home and post using my mobile, I still often want the reply to go to my home site, which is *not* in the cloud. But then, I assume, it is not a freemail address. Nowadays lots of spam is sent through freemailers using a disposable

Re: [DNG] Reply-To in this list

2018-09-01 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-09-01 15:35, schrieb Antony Stone: I also regard it as very unfriendly for people posting to a list to set a reply-to header of anything other than the list address (which is redundant but acceptable IMO). Right. And it also makes no sense to set a reply-to if it's the same as the

[DNG] Reply-To in this list

2018-09-01 Thread J. Fahrner
Hi, my spam blocking rules don't allow a reply-to address to freemail addresses. Today I received a message from this list with a gmail.com replyto address (which was rejected). I'm wondering why this list allows replyto addresses which contain other addresses than this list. That makes no

Re: [DNG] Which is the destiny of "Gksu" ?

2018-09-01 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-09-01 14:10, schrieb fsmithred: Right. There is no gksu in sid/ceres or buster/beowulf. There is gksu in sid: https://packages.debian.org/en/sid/gksu Jochen ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

Re: [DNG] Mozilla and cloudflare to hijack all your DNS requests - for your own good of course

2018-08-08 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-08-08 02:42, schrieb Steve Litt: == #!/bin/sh exec 2>&1 exec unbound -p -dd == Can you explain this strange construct? An exec without a command but with i/o redirection? Normally a script ends at the first exec.

Re: [DNG] ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer

2018-07-28 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-07-27 17:39, schrieb marc: Either keep an ssh session open indefinitely and then do an "echo /proc/*" when the problem occurs Or stop cron and see if the problem goes away. A poorly written cronjob seems to be the most likely cause of an accidental fork bomb. An "ulimit -u 100" in a

[DNG] ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer

2018-07-27 Thread J. Fahrner
Hi all, I have a headless Odroid C2 running "Devuan GNU/Linux 2.0 (ascii) (3.8.13.30)", all packages are up to date. Often, when I try to connect through ssh I get the following error: ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer The only way to get access to it is removing

[DNG] Another angry systemd user

2018-07-10 Thread J. Fahrner
Nice to read (experience of a german computer scientist) English: https://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de=en=y=_t=de=UTF-8=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.danisch.de%2Fblog%2F2018%2F07%2F10%2Fsystemd-war-eine-massive-fehlentscheidung%2F==url Deutsch:

[DNG] service localfs

2018-07-06 Thread J. Fahrner
Hi, I have a problem with vmware startup scripts. The script /etc/init.d/vmware-USBArbitrator contains the follwing dependency: # Required-Start: localfs But there is no such service in Devuan. Seems to have something to do with systemd. I can remove this dependency from that script, but it

Re: [DNG] Which desktops are available in Devuan?

2018-06-20 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-06-21 02:40, schrieb Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI: On Mon, 28 Aug 2017 22:16:10 +0200 "J. Fahrner" wrote: Bunsenlab has also a GUI program for adjusting fonts for Gtk. Where can one find it ? It's lxappearance ___ Dng mailin

Re: [DNG] Can't disable touchpad under openbox

2018-06-17 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-06-17 15:18, schrieb karl schattschneider: But I would like to disable the touchpad *completely*. You can run this little script: - #!/bin/bash declare -i ID ID=`xinput list | grep -Eo 'TouchPad\s*id\=[0-9]{1,2}' | grep -Eo

Re: [DNG] what happened to usbmount?

2018-06-17 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-06-17 15:14, schrieb Haines Brown: Am I wrong, but does the restored usbmount depend on systemd? If so that may be why it does not show up on my ascii system. It's not in Ascii because it's not in Debian Stretch: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=usbmount Jochen

[DNG] German magazine reports about Devuan Ascii

2018-06-12 Thread J. Fahrner
https://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/25978/devuan-20-ascii-ver%C3%B6ffentlicht.html Jochen ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] Postgresql problem

2018-06-10 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-06-10 21:12, schrieb Steve Litt: If the error is being thrown by something Debian added, well, it's Holloween code, and we can take it out. Looks like it is some Debian script: # print a list of PostgreSQL versions that are supported for the platform this # script runs on. # Note:

Re: [DNG] Postgresql problem

2018-06-10 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-06-10 09:26, schrieb Ralph Ronnquist: The first google match suggests adding ID_LIKE=Debian to /etc/os-release Worth a try perhaps? Sounds good. Before: - supported-versions: WARNING! Unknown distribution: devuan

[DNG] Postgresql problem

2018-06-10 Thread J. Fahrner
Hi, when installing/upgrading postgresql packages, there is the following warning: supported-versions: WARNING! Unknown distribution: devuan /usr/share/postgresql-common/supported-versions: 66: /usr/share/postgresql-common/supported-versions: ID_LIKE: parameter not set

Re: [DNG] Keep it alive

2018-05-17 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-05-17 12:16, schrieb KatolaZ: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/16/contributing_to_keep_small_linux_alive/ Very interesting piece on the importance of contributing to keep alive your favourite distro. Well, Devuan is mentioned in the article among the "larger" distros, but the

Re: [DNG] machine locks up switching between console and X session

2018-04-26 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-04-26 19:34, schrieb KatolaZ: the drivers you get from Debian Stretch repos are exactly the same drivers (bit-by-bit) that you get through Devuan ASCII repos. And I mean it. Whatever it is, it's indeed the very same package, really, *the* *very* *same* *package*. Your problem looks like

Re: [DNG] EFISTUB

2018-04-24 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-04-24 19:46, schrieb Steve Litt: Hi all, Any opinions on EFISTUB: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EFISTUB Would this be a good thing? Does that mean, no grub needed? Sounds good. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

[DNG] Devuan on ARM Notebooks

2018-04-23 Thread J. Fahrner
Hi all, is there a list which ARM notebooks (Pinebook, Chromobook, ...) Devuan can run on? (and which image to use for installation) Jochen ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] New policykit-1 packages in ASCII

2018-04-18 Thread J. Fahrner
Upgrade worked fine on my system with consolekit backend. Am 2018-04-18 13:11, schrieb KatolaZ: Dear D1rs, just to let you know that, thanks to the work of Svante and several other devs, a new version of policykit (0.105-18+devuan2.9) will hit ascii repos soon. This version should solve most

Re: [DNG] Crash when using recent avconv (libav-tools)

2018-04-10 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-04-11 00:05, schrieb spiralofhope: What do you mean with "crashes"? Could it be that it aborts because of this error? [mp4 @ 0x88fe760] Codec for stream 1 does not use global headers but container format requires global headers Yes. Then that's not a bug, it's a feature. ;-) OGG

Re: [DNG] Crash when using recent avconv (libav-tools)

2018-04-10 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-04-10 04:25, schrieb spiralofhope: Problem: avconv crashes while building a video from an image and audio. It worked until a recent update. What do you mean with "crashes"? Could it be that it aborts because of this error? [mp4 @ 0x88fe760] Codec for stream 1 does not use global

Re: [DNG] Crash when using recent avconv (libav-tools)

2018-04-09 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-04-10 04:25, schrieb spiralofhope: Problem: avconv crashes while building a video from an image and audio. It worked until a recent update. Debian switched back to ffmpeg. Try using that. https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/libav-provider/ffmpeg Jochen

[DNG] Crypto libraries security

2018-03-27 Thread J. Fahrner
In 2017, the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) had various crypto libraries examined as part of a project. Three software projects were shortlisted and subjected to more in-depth analysis: the LibreSSL developed by OpenBSD, the NSS developed by Mozilla, and the library Botan.

Re: [DNG] printing in a D-Bus free system

2018-03-15 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-03-15 00:10, schrieb Ozi Traveller: > I have Virtualbox working on freebsd. With USB Support?___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng

Re: [DNG] printing in a D-Bus free system

2018-03-14 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-03-14 21:50, schrieb Arnt Gulbrandsen: chill...@protonmail.com writes: lol @ about the browser taking longer to compile.. I have no doubt you didn't exaggerate this. That'll have been Chrome. A giant. Firefox is not better! The giant is webkit.

Re: [DNG] printing in a D-Bus free system

2018-03-14 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-03-14 21:29, schrieb Chillfan: Just as a precursor to this.. I don't consider freebsd an alternative to Devuan partly because of freedom related issues since they're happy to accept binary only drivers there. I have no problem with binary drivers. I am not an ideologist. I like the

Re: [DNG] printing in a D-Bus free system

2018-03-14 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-03-14 20:50, schrieb Chillfan: This is one of the best tear downs of dbus I've seen. The thinking seems to be based purely on trends, e.g "You guys are going with dbus, right? OK let's do that." even if it makes no sense for the use case. I'm exactly with you! Last year I tried a

Re: [DNG] printing in a D-Bus free system

2018-03-14 Thread J. Fahrner
Am 2018-03-14 13:05, schrieb Simon Hobson: FWIW, while it generally costs more, I've always (both for work and home) tried to stick to Postscript [compatible] printers. That's also what I do. I have a Brother DCP-7045N connected as network printer with lpd protocol. I can install it with a

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