Ubuntu installer is broken. It cannot partition a 10TB Ironwolf Red

2018-06-10 Thread Dale Amon
the question. There is no way out. There is something rotten deep in the bowels of the partitioning tools used in everyone's installers. Suggestions on a work around until someone figures out how to fix the problem? -- +---+ | Dale

gpt and mkfs.ext4 seem to be at odds...

2018-05-31 Thread Dale Amon
I 2) have an 80 MB /, a swap and the remainder of the 10TB in /lib0. 3) Have Ubuntu install, gpt, mkswap and mkfs.ext4 all happy. -- +---+ | Dale Amon Immortal Data| | CEO Midland Inte

Libreoffice issue on Ubuntu Xenial

2017-04-03 Thread amon
showed you the document in question, I'd have to shred you. ;-) I this should be replicable by others. Mint is 17.1; Xenial is current with all security updates as of an hour ago. -- +---+ | Dale Amon

Re: Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

2016-10-14 Thread amon
my duty. Done. -- +---+ | Dale Amon Immortal Data| | CEO Midland International Air and Space Port| | a...@vnl.com "Data Systems for Deep Space and Time" | +---+

Re: Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

2016-10-12 Thread amon
Amon Immortal Data| | CEO Midland International Air and Space Port| | a...@vnl.com "Data Systems for Deep Space and Time" | +---+ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing l

Re: Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

2016-10-11 Thread amon
Ralf replies: On Tue, 11 Oct 2016 21:37:45 -0500, amon wrote: So my question is, how do you make that userland automounter recognize that the disk is just not up for grabs? It does not seem to even look at cryptab or fstab for a hint. The appropriate mailing list for a user question, is the

Re: Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

2016-10-11 Thread amon
--+ | Dale Amon Immortal Data| | CEO Midland International Air and Space Port| | a...@vnl.com "Data Systems for Deep Space and Time" | +---+ -- Ubuntu-dev

Re: Future and impact of ongoing projects in Linux world

2016-10-10 Thread amon
e old automounters were fine with such. defaults, auto won't do it because it will hang you up waiting at boot time (well, you can set other options to prevent the hang, but its not really what I'd like to see. -- +---

Re: Ubuntu 16.04 Secure Boot Policy

2016-07-14 Thread Dale Amon
p the bad guys'n'gals or at least make life very difficult for them. To every season, there is a purpose. -- +---+ | Dale Amon Immortal Data a...@vnl.com| | CEO Data Systems for Deep

Fwd: Re: Ubuntu 16.04 Secure Boot Policy

2016-07-04 Thread Dale Amon
Just a dumb question, since I have not been happy with UEFI let alone secure boot with keys. If you roll your own kernels, do the build scripts let you generate your own keys? Dale Amon -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at

Re: Installation Media and supportability of i386 in 18.04 LTS Re: Ubuntu Desktop on i386

2016-06-29 Thread Dale Amon
Let's also factor in flavors like Lubuntu that aim to use very minimal resources and that have the ability to run with ~ 300 MB of RAM on an i386 machine. While I understand modern applications are removing i386 support, we have a nice application base for Lubuntu for both LXDE and LXQt that provi

Re: Better keyboard shortcuts

2016-06-26 Thread Dale Amon
to think that a particular key on the recently/mostly standardized laptop keyboards and 'Microsoft Compatible' keyboards is what MetaKey means. Nope. It just happens to be assigned to that particular use on those particular keyboards/systems. Dale Amon -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing lis

Re: Kernel issues since -22

2016-06-22 Thread Dale Amon
login" not met by user "amon" Jun 20 12:21:33 otv3 lightdm: pam_unix(lightdm-greeter:session): session closed for user lightdm On the working -21 I see this during boots; I am wondering if this is the place where -22,23 and 24 fail: [ 20.990720] systemd[1]: friendly-recover

Re: Kernel issues since -22

2016-06-22 Thread Dale Amon
On 2016-06-22 12:43, Dale Amon wrote: Has anyone else reported similar show-stopper issues in recent kernels? If anyone is interested in this issue, I'd be happy to share what little info I can extract via pen and paper of the early boot sequence leading up to the hangs. -- Ubuntu-

Kernel issues since -22

2016-06-22 Thread Dale Amon
I have not got a whole lot of information because this happens so early in the boot. Basically, no kernel since -22 works on my Lenovo W520. If I were to hazard a guess, I would say it has to do with some race condition in the systemctl set up. Even in -22 I often must boot several times before it

Re: Ubuntu Tablet

2016-05-11 Thread Dale Amon
they suggested this was needed: root@ubuntu-phablet:/var/log# initctl --session start libertine-lxc-manager initctl: Unable to connect to session bus: Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11 but that implies I am still missing something. Dale Amon Sr. Engineer XCOR Aerospace

Re: Ubuntu Tablet

2016-05-11 Thread Dale Amon
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 05:54:01PM -0500, Dale Amon wrote: > Sounds like some more complications... but it looks like I > have things worked out. I just have to pick up a spare USB > hub after work to get the 1TB disk attached to the Aquarius M10. > > As for getting packages pro

Re: Ubuntu Tablet

2016-05-10 Thread Dale Amon
disk attached. Dale Amon Sr. Engineer XCOR Aerospace -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

New Xeniel kernal causes boot failure on Lenovo W520

2016-05-10 Thread Dale Amon
I've had to back off to using the old kernel. The latest update brings in a kernal that causes the boot to repeatedly complain that /run/lvm/lvmetad.socket has failed, and after sometime it dumps into the initrd shell. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Mo

Re: Ubuntu Tablet

2016-05-10 Thread Dale Amon
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 02:14:05PM -0500, Dale Amon wrote: > However, the contents of /var/lib/dpkg/info show armhf packages > as you suggest. Ah, a bit more research. It looks like armhf is armv7 and that is the aarch64. Please correct me if that is wrong. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss m

Re: Ubuntu Tablet

2016-05-10 Thread Dale Amon
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 01:35:33PM -0500, Dale Amon wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 08:46:07AM -0700, Oliver Grawert wrote: > > the tablet uses an armhf userspace, not aarch64 > > The /proc/cpuinfo claims it is aarch64. However, the contents of /var/lib/dpkg/info show armhf

Re: Ubuntu Tablet

2016-05-10 Thread Dale Amon
root@ubuntu-phablet:/etc/apt# cat /proc/cpuinfo Processor : AArch64 Processor rev 3 (aarch64) processor : 0 BogoMIPS: 26.00 Features: fp asimd aes pmull sha1 sha2 crc32 wp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp neon vfpv3 tlsi vfpv4 idiva idivt CPU implementer : 0x41 CPU archit

Re: Ubuntu Tablet

2016-05-10 Thread Dale Amon
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 08:46:07AM -0700, Oliver Grawert wrote: > the tablet uses an armhf userspace, not aarch64 The /proc/cpuinfo claims it is aarch64. > in a former mail i posted: > http://askubuntu.com/questions/620740/recommended-way-to-install-regularcli-deb-packages-on-ubuntu-phone/6233

Re: Ubuntu Notepad

2016-05-10 Thread Dale Amon
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 11:04:30AM +0100, Robie Basak wrote: > On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 05:16:55PM -0500, Dale Amon wrote: > > So I am presuming those folks working on it are building everything > > with a cross compiler. So instead of the one day task I was hoping > > for,

Re: Ubuntu Notepad

2016-05-09 Thread Dale Amon
to set up their cross-platform development environments? Dale Amon -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Ubuntu Notepad

2016-05-06 Thread Dale Amon
as one would like with software. Perhaps that is why AI's will never take over the world. They'll need to keep us humans around to reboot them. Dale Amon Sr. Engineer XCOR Aerospace -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or

Re: Ubuntu Notepad

2016-05-06 Thread Dale Amon
Thank you for that extra tidbit. I had contacted the list owner to find out if they covered tablets as well. So the answer is yes. And so I will, as I will probably need advice on other things. Now I must get back to work. I've got subversion installed and I am about to suck in a working set o

Re: Ubuntu Notepad

2016-05-05 Thread Dale Amon
On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 04:35:11PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote: > On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 10:30:52AM -0500, Dale Amon wrote: > > And just a question... you are saying phone. This is the new > > Ubuntu Notepad, not a phone. > > Sorry, I didn't notice that. I believe it s

Re: Ubuntu Notepad

2016-05-04 Thread Dale Amon
On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 04:35:11PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote: > On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 10:30:52AM -0500, Dale Amon wrote: > > And just a question... you are saying phone. This is the new > > Ubuntu Notepad, not a phone. > > Sorry, I didn't notice that. I believe it s

Re: Ubuntu Notepad

2016-05-04 Thread Dale Amon
On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 09:14:42AM +0100, Robie Basak wrote: > On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 05:58:26PM -0500, Dale Amon wrote: > > Could someone direct me to the information that is necessary to > > access a root shell on the Aquarius? > > See http://askubuntu.com/a/601972/7808

Ubuntu Notepad

2016-05-03 Thread Dale Amon
Could someone direct me to the information that is necessary to access a root shell on the Aquarius? I need to install packages and compile my own GNUstep application to run on it and display data transmitted to it via a UDP stream via a GORM or ncurses5 defined data display. Ad Astra, Dale Amon

Re: suggest policy: all GUI apps that display files/folders right-click copies full path

2016-03-28 Thread Dale Amon
I like the way NeXTstep did it. If you drag an icon from the Workspace Manager to a shell or into Emacs, it 'drops' as the full path name of the item you dragged. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.c

Xeniel Xerus installer issue

2016-03-23 Thread Dale Amon
Yesterday when I was doing some system testing, I did a fresh install of Beta 1 over top of the previous disk partititions, told it to wipe and reuse, and it came up with a panel saying it could not create partition 5 swap space. The panel could not be dismissed and I could not continue or go back

Re: Account Management / Shared Secret Generator

2015-06-14 Thread Dale Amon
Biggest problem you have is the vulnerability to substitution and various forms of phishing attacks. Picking good passwords using pseudo-random number generators is not easy. The target user population will not have a clue about these issues. As the adage goes, a false perception of security is

Issues with recent security updates?

2015-06-03 Thread Dale Amon
On Sunday I did a dselect update to pull in the current security updates for trusty LTS. I rebooted Monday morning and found that my desktop had been massively modified with no warning. * My bottom bar disappeared * Places disappeared from the top bar * Buttons on windows

Re: Window Controls on the Right Side

2015-05-15 Thread Dale Amon
On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 01:14:45PM +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > Ah yes, the days when much design was done by engineers and managers > who shrugged and communicated in their settings dialogs, "We don't > know how to design software. Why don't you have a go?" And when, as a > result, people w

Re: Window Controls on the Right Side

2015-04-29 Thread Dale Amon
All of which is why I am migrating to Mint, step by step. Even on Ubuntu I use Mate and make the changes to make the OS and GUI do my bidding. A OS is a slave. It does what its master tells it to do, whether that be to put buttons on the right or the left. Different people have different tastes. T

Re: Fwd: future development idea: presentation mode

2015-04-29 Thread Dale Amon
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 10:00:48AM +0200, Marek Sterzik wrote: > solution for working. But not so good for presenting. One problem I have run into (at night when I am kicking back for leisure after a long day of engineering) are some annoying effects that are the sort of thing you may be speaking

Re: Fwd: future development idea: presentation mode

2015-04-28 Thread Dale Amon
Actually you will find the use of 2, 3 and 4 screens very common. Walk through an accounting office. True they are in the windows world, but multi-screens are basic to their work flow. Similarly (also windows), you will find that in the case of many engineering applications, two screens are essent

Re: Ubuntu phone feedback

2015-04-06 Thread Dale Amon
Just out of curiousity, does any one know when it will be available in the US? -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Windows type shortcuts to files and folders

2015-03-04 Thread Dale Amon
On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 04:25:40PM -0500, Rodney Dawes wrote: > This is possible with .desktop files: > > [Desktop Entry] > Name=Foo > Type=Link > URL=file:///path/to/foo I just cd /home/username/Desktop ln -s target linkname and the folder appears on the desktop just fine. --

Re: Updater can't update kernel due to disk space

2015-01-20 Thread Dale Amon
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 09:27:20AM +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 08:37:38AM -0500, Saqman2060 wrote: > > What does it mean to clear out and old kernel version? > > It means remove the packages that contain old kernel versions by running Personally I just use dselect and

Re: Ubuntu Software Center future

2014-09-28 Thread Dale Amon
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 11:39:26AM -0700, I.E.G. wrote: > I don't often respond . Personally I ignore the entire GUI update package. I use dselect or apt-get at command line, and if issues arrive I use dpkg --force-whatever's to fix them. The command line is far faster and more powerful for many

Re: What's the plan for PHP support in LTS releases?

2014-09-23 Thread Dale Amon
On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 05:30:16PM +0100, Oli Warner wrote: > We had a question on Ask Ubuntu that really got me thinking today: > http://askubuntu.com/questions/527533/ > > - PHP 5.3 from 12.04 has already ended its community security support > period > - PHP 5.5 from 14.04 will be dead by mid-

Re: Upgrade issues

2014-06-15 Thread Dale Amon
Just curious... did not see any response after I sent the screen shot. I've managed work arounds for most of my issues, some are awkward, some slow me down, but I am back to a mostly workable system... especially since I discovered Nemo, a file browser that knows who the boss is (ie *me* ;-) and

Re: Upgrade issues

2014-06-02 Thread Dale Amon
On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 01:59:23PM -0600, Neal McBurnett wrote: > The appropriate way to deal with clear bugs is to report them in launchpad, > along with the necessary details like steps to reproduce, kind of hardware, > etc. Do you have bug numbers for these? It is not clear these are bugs. I

Re: Upgrade issues

2014-06-02 Thread Dale Amon
On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 01:32:48PM -0600, Neal McBurnett wrote: > You would make this easier for yourself and all of us if you start with a few > basic bits of information: > > Which Ubuntu version did you use before the upgrade? Saucy. > What did you upgrade to? Trusty. >

Re: Upgrade issues

2014-06-02 Thread Dale Amon
Here's another on my list of issues. xemacs now gives this error on startup. (1) (xim-xlib/warning) Warning: XCreateIC failed. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubunt

Re: Upgrade issues

2014-06-02 Thread Dale Amon
On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 11:47:20AM +0100, Colin Law wrote: > In his last post, in a throw away line he asked " Is there some simple > change to make my gnome mate setup work properly again?". Why he did > not point this out at the start, given that most of his problems seem > to be UI related I ca

Re: Upgrade issues

2014-06-01 Thread Dale Amon
I've made enough progress to get work done but there are still things I don't like much as well as things that don't work. * I have not yet found which settings panel has the screensaver setup to make it run the slideshow over ~/Pictures. I would swear that this used to be part of the lock pan

Re: Upgrade issues

2014-05-30 Thread Dale Amon
Oh, and when I switch desktops, only one screen changes. These massively decreases the space I have available for windows. Even with the four desktops and two screens I typically have all of them completely filled and the lower tool bar half full and up to over filled. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mai

Upgrade issues

2014-05-30 Thread Dale Amon
Every time there is an update I steel myself for the inevitable. This time I am seriously considering getting a new disk and going to Mate. But I will give this one shot to see if there is something simple I can do to get my home login working properly again. I note the following problems:

Re: core unix command broken in latest updates

2014-05-13 Thread Dale Amon
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 02:23:40PM -0700, Robert Park wrote: > dh is debhelper, which is a tool that aids in building debian > packages. As far as I'm aware, it's not something that you'd just run > with no arguments (it has a lot of different subcommands and options > for them). The error message

Re: core unix command broken in latest updates

2014-05-13 Thread Dale Amon
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 02:45:30PM -0400, Marc Deslauriers wrote: > We haven't released any security updates for debhelper. > What exactly were you expecting as the result of the dh command? I used it in some old package scripts. In the interrum I've looked over this and I can live without it. I'l

core unix command broken in latest updates

2014-05-13 Thread Dale Amon
It just seems strange that something like this could slip past in a set of updates to a package... but the dh command is not working after the last security update I did via dselect. $ dh dh: No compatibility level specified in debian/compat dh: This package will soon FTBFS; time to fix it! dh: c

Re: Our Networking Story

2014-03-10 Thread Dale Amon
On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 09:49:02AM +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote: > network manager stores its system connection info in a text file in .ini > style format in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections Thanks for that pointer... but there is nothing in there about eth0, only the WiFi connections past an

Re: Ubuntu-devel-discuss Digest, Vol 88, Issue 7

2014-03-09 Thread Dale Amon
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 01:32:56PM +, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > I never use network manager but just in case it's of use, check > out /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services Oh my. I find buried in there: ~$ cat /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.nm_dispatcher.service

Re: Our Networking Story

2014-03-09 Thread Dale Amon
On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 09:57:04AM +0530, Soren Hansen wrote: > interfaces as it would have any other statically configured interface, > because that's what /etc/network/interfaces says it should do. > > When it's ifup'ed again, it gets the right address assigned, but the > dhcp client is still ru

Re: Our Networking Story

2014-03-07 Thread Dale Amon
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 09:39:40AM -0500, Bryan Quigley wrote: > > Lots of us only use a GUI as a place to let us keep 40 > > xterm's available... > > Could you detail what process you are exactly using to do this > reliably? Are you using bonds/vlans/bridging? On my current job, I am using a la

Re: Our Networking Story

2014-03-07 Thread Dale Amon
On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 01:02:33PM +, Robie Basak wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 10:44:07PM -0800, Dale Amon wrote: > > I often configure laptops that for security have wifi, bluetooth > > etc all turned off at BIOS level, and the only ethernet connection > > is not to

Re: Our Networking Story

2014-03-06 Thread Dale Amon
On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 11:32:41PM +0100, Stanisław Hodur wrote: > *Wifi + Ethernet on Desktop* Which reminds me of another common use of machines that a typical GUI user won't think of. I often configure laptops that for security have wifi, bluetooth etc all turned off at BIOS level, and the onl

Re: Our Networking Story

2014-03-06 Thread Dale Amon
The only feature I hold near and dear is that I be able to ssh into a server in a rack 8000 miles away, fiddle with /etc/network/interfaces if needed, and then reliably ifdown/ifup one of god knows how many connections (I often work with machines that have 8 or even more hardware ethers, not to me

Many, many serious problems with Ubuntu

2013-07-24 Thread Dale Amon
I have held back from putting in this report for a very long time as my experience reading this list has led me to believe that no one will much care because Granny Would Never Do That and she certainly Would Never Know How to Do That. I have a Thinkpad W520. I have identical second screens, Acer

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-05-22 Thread Dale Amon
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 01:56:08PM +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Commenting/Uncommenting deb-src lines in /etc/apt/sources.list seems > much simpler/easier. I can deal with that... I always have changes to make to sources.list anyway, so uncommenting a few more items is not an issue. -- Ubuntu-

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-05-22 Thread Dale Amon
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 02:20:51AM +0200, Florian Diesch wrote: > Am Mon, 20 May 2013 10:02:41 -0700 > schrieb Benjamin Kerensa : > > > I think in most parts of the world 4MB is trivial overhead for a user. > > Over here in German cheap mobile data tarrifs often get you something > like a few hun

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-05-21 Thread Dale Amon
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 03:22:50PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 03:04:20PM +0100, J Fernyhough wrote: > > On 21 May 2013 13:55, Robie Basak wrote: > > > What if we provided a reasonable message if no deb-src lines are > > > defined, with a single simple command to add them a

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-05-21 Thread Dale Amon
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 06:02:36PM +0800, Daniel J Blueman wrote: > I propose we either disable source downloading by default at release > time, but I conclude that developers generally don't care about this > extra overhead (as we have a good setup). > > If really we can't see this from a user Po

Re: Source packages appropriate by default?

2013-05-20 Thread Dale Amon
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:25:50AM -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote: > I'm more surprised that people are more upset about 4MB than the 5% > that is still claimed by the system for the system which adds up to a > lot more than 4MB on some systems which on a even a small 32GB SSD is > what, 1.5GB? In th

Re: Aptitude installed by default on 13.10?

2013-04-09 Thread Dale Amon
On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 05:13:48PM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Apr 09, 2013, at 10:40 AM, LD 'Gus' Landis wrote: > > >Personally, I look forward to the day of the return of the 24x80 > >CRT... but know I am in the minority.. for me the GUI is only > >something that gets in the way of me being

Re: Aptitude installed by default on 13.10?

2013-04-09 Thread Dale Amon
On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 08:49:41PM +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote: > and why does that limit your future ? do you expect us to rip out > firefox or xterm from the archive ? No, I don't expect you to do anything. I am just sad about all the functionality of X windows that has been left behind. Simple

Re: Aptitude installed by default on 13.10?

2013-04-09 Thread Dale Amon
On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 02:37:33PM +0200, Waclaw Kusnierczyk wrote: > Where does this conmviction come from? > > On 04/09/2013 02:21 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > >On Ubuntu Desktop we want to discourage usage of command line =) as > >there is no need for that for non-developers. > > > >Regards, >

Re: irqbalance and at daemons by default?

2013-03-26 Thread Dale Amon
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 12:02:19AM +0800, Daniel J Blueman wrote: > If we have no solid technical reasoning for imposing these daemons by > default, I'll propose we don't. at is part of a standard unix setup and one just simply assumes it is there. It is particularly useful when doing remote admi

Re: Sleep mode on Thinkpad x201

2013-03-19 Thread Dale Amon
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:43:36AM -0400, Jeff Lane wrote: > On 03/15/2013 08:33 AM, Alexandre Strube wrote: > > From 12.10 to 13.04 updated daily, one bug appears and disappears again > >every couple of updates. The bug is related to the Lenovo X201 entering > >sleep mode. > > > >It's a kind of ru

Suggestions on controlling the automounter

2013-01-06 Thread Dale Amon
I have thus far not found the /etc/ config file that controls automounting. Tried greps and still no joy. What I want to accomplish is to either blacklist certain UUID's so that it does not interfere with my desires, or even better, if it dealt properly with luks USB devices named in crypttab and

Re: Problem with Quantal and a KVM

2013-01-04 Thread Dale Amon
On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 08:51:32AM +, Dale Amon wrote: > > Most people probably want to add this line as well: > > > > GRUB_RECORDFAIL_TIMEOUT=5 I did so. I finally got it to work with 'nomodeset' in conjunction with some of the others. Now if I can get my li

Re: Problem with Quantal and a KVM

2013-01-04 Thread Dale Amon
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 04:14:44PM -0800, Mark - Syminet wrote: > > On Jan 3, 2013, at 3:35 PM, Dale Amon wrote: > > […] > > > I had tried the GFX line earlier but had not joy... but I have > > fiddled many things since then, so perhaps I will try it again. > >

Re: Problem with Quantal and a KVM

2013-01-03 Thread Dale Amon
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 06:18:21PM -0500, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 6:39 AM, Dale Amon wrote: > > > > # DMA20121218. This is new, suggested to me by Tom H on the ubuntudev list > > #GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text > > If you don't set it "text"

Re: Problem with Quantal and a KVM

2013-01-03 Thread Dale Amon
A few typo corrections to avoid confusion: On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 03:13:09PM +, Dale Amon wrote: > that is less trouble free. Time is money. ^ more > Them's the hard facts of life in a fast

Re: Problem with Quantal and a KVM

2013-01-03 Thread Dale Amon
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 01:33:16PM +0100, Soren Hansen wrote: > We'd be happy to explore possible ways Ubuntu Server could stand out. I > can just say that historically the Ubuntu Server community has by far > preferred that Ubuntu Server remain a minimal install. It's been a > while since this dis

Re: Problem with Quantal and a KVM

2013-01-03 Thread Dale Amon
Like in medicine, the first rule in Enterprise systems is 'do no harm'. If an upgrade to a working system causes it to come up in a crippled or unusable state without assorted arcane incantations (and btw I used even more arcane ones than you mentioned and they did not work), then something is br

Re: Problem with Quantal and a KVM

2013-01-02 Thread Dale Amon
Just fyi, this is the grub default set up I am using right now. I did try a number of different settings but they did not seem to make any difference. Perhaps this is because of the stuff being compiled that you noted. This is the grub default settings I typically use: GRUB_DEFAULT=0 #GRUB_HIDDE

Re: Problem with Quantal and a KVM

2013-01-02 Thread Dale Amon
On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 03:31:47AM -0600, Jordon Bedwell wrote: > Your statement is full of fail and horseshit. So you have worked in data centres on racks belonging to Fortune 500 companies and their contract service providers? Good to hear there are experienced people on board. Which also mean

Re: Problem with Quantal and a KVM

2013-01-02 Thread Dale Amon
For those who do not understand what I mean... if you have a release named 'server' and it is to work in a typical industrial rack, then you must assume: * your console is via a KVM that is probably 5-10 years old. * the rack has anywhere up to 10 other servers

Re: Problem with Quantal and a KVM

2013-01-02 Thread Dale Amon
On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 09:11:06AM +0100, Sander Smeenk wrote: > This sounds like one of my major annoyances with Ubuntu (server): the > framebuffered consoles & splashscreens that are TERRIBLY incompatible > with "virtual monitors" other than a physical connected VESA-VGA capable > video display.

Problem with Quantal and a KVM

2012-12-29 Thread Dale Amon
I just installed a new server and put quantal on it to check it out. With the old CRT it came up with the login prompt, but it blinked on and off with a duty cycle of about 4 seconds, and eventually blanked and never came back. All was working though because I could ssh in and do any work I neede

Re: The cloud directory name "Ubuntu One" has a space in it....

2012-12-27 Thread Dale Amon
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 10:45:17AM -0500, Rodney Dawes wrote: > And you really shouldn't compile things within a synchronized directory. > If > you have two different machines of different architectures, the compiled > binaries > being synchronized could cause problems. As Dmitrijs suggested, you >

Re: Promote puppet to main?

2012-12-25 Thread Dale Amon
I used to use cfengine extensively, back around 2000-2001. It was useful then and I imagine it is worlds better 13 years on. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discu

Re: Misc problems with quantal

2012-12-18 Thread Dale Amon
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 09:05:22PM +, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > On 18 December 2012 20:18, Dale Amon wrote: > > How and where do I disable multi-arch? > > Depending on which release you are on, use either first or second answer: > > http://askubuntu.com/questions

Re: Misc problems with quantal

2012-12-18 Thread Dale Amon
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:53:46AM +, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > On 18 December 2012 00:37, Dale Amon wrote: > > A couple broken items in quantal... > > > > First off, I also have been bit by the dselect > > problem discussed in > > > > https:/

Misc problems with quantal

2012-12-17 Thread Dale Amon
A couple broken items in quantal... First off, I also have been bit by the dselect problem discussed in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/1066847 I always use dselect unless I am only installing one or two packages. I just do not particularly like aptitude, etc. Seco

Whole disk encryption

2012-12-03 Thread Dale Amon
Just did a test drive on Quantal, tried several different types of build. However the one thing I could not figure out was how to get multiple partitions on the encrypted disk. It does not seem to want to allow me to specify the size of the / partition either to allow me to build a separately keyed

Re: Update manager mandating rebooting

2012-10-31 Thread Dale Amon
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 12:09:09PM -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote: > That's a subjective point of view, if libssl is vulnerable or the > kernel is vulnerable you need to restart too, not because you can't > restart services or use a rolling Kernel (read KSplice) but because > there are multiple ways t

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2012-10-16 Thread Dale Amon
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Re: Prevent deletion of file when it is being copied

2012-09-27 Thread Dale Amon
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 09:51:58PM +0900, Emmet Hikory wrote: > Yes, this is contrived, etc. On the other hand, I suspect many > of us have managed to be both Alice and Bob in a scenario much like > that above when interrupted in the middle by some significant > distraction, or just a sufficie

Re: Network Manager dependencies

2012-08-22 Thread Dale Amon
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 07:40:58PM -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote: > prefer to stay away from it, preference perhaps? But with preference > comes the problem that NM relies on wpasupplicant and a couple of > other wireless tools that we would absolutely never need on a server, > unless we are crazy or

Re: Network Manager dependencies

2012-08-22 Thread Dale Amon
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 04:56:40PM -0400, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 3:24 AM, Tom H wrote: > > IMO, we'll end up sooner or later using NM on X-less boxes by default > > It might be the case eventually, but we're not there yet. I usually de-install it on servers. A s

Re: Why are there dependencies that aren't actually dependencies on some packages?

2012-08-21 Thread Dale Amon
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:07:37AM -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > That particular bug is fixed in Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal. > launchpad-integration is obsolete and is one package away from being > removed from the archives. http://pad.lv/999413 Curious... does that mean no top tool bar launchers or not

Re: Print Dialog / Improving "Print to file" option

2012-08-15 Thread Dale Amon
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:38:15PM +0200, Lanoxx wrote: > On 15/08/12 20:27, Javier Jardón wrote: > >On 15 August 2012 23:08, Lanoxx wrote: > >>Hi, > >Hello, > > > >>Then the filename says output.pdf which any sane person will probably want > >>to change. So I have to type the file name and then a

Re: Are UI developers all left handed? (Dale Amon)

2012-08-12 Thread Dale Amon
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 12:26:36PM -0600, Vernon Cole wrote: > Then someone in Palo Alto hooked a mouse to a glass teletype, and the world > changed again. > > But the cursor still runs left to right, top to bottom. The Parc group came along long after the days of the Infoton's and Beehives that

Re: Are UI developers all left handed?

2012-08-11 Thread Dale Amon
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 07:01:47AM +0200, David Klasinc wrote: > >I can tell you the historical reasons. All windowing systems > >began with their coordinate systems with 0,0 in the upper left > >because that is where the scan lines begin. Lines are written > >from left to right, top to bottom. >

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