Re: Comments on Lenovo desktops

2015-07-13 Thread Joris Bolsens
On 07/13/2015 04:09 AM, Andrew Wood wrote: I had a Lenovo ThinkPad i could not get its broadcom wifi to work with debian i think because it had a tranistor based power switch which was off by default and needed windows only drivers to turn it on and then the screen failed when it wasnt

Re: Upgrade kernel to 3.19+ OR Bumblebee cannot enable discrete graphics

2015-05-02 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/01/2015 11:29 PM, Jean-Marc wrote: Not in Sid yet but in experimental. If you use testing or sid, adding experimental is not a problem. It is a non-automatic release. Jean-Marc jean-m...@6jf.be latest kbuild in experimental is 3.18

Re: Upgrade kernel to 3.19+ OR Bumblebee cannot enable discrete graphics

2015-05-01 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/01/2015 12:58 AM, Jean-Marc wrote: Fri, 01 May 2015 00:06:57 -0700 No need to do it yourself, it is already done here: https://packages.debian.org/experimental/linux-image-4.0.0-trunk-amd64 Jean-Marc jean-m...@6jf.be Just tried

Re: Upgrade kernel to 3.19+ OR Bumblebee cannot enable discrete graphics

2015-05-01 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/01/2015 12:05 AM, humbert.olivie...@free.fr wrote: Hi I was wondering if anyone had instructions on how to update to kernel 3.19 or above. I have spent ~an hour googling, but all I can find are tutorials for ubuntu, most of which do

Upgrade kernel to 3.19+ OR Bumblebee cannot enable discrete graphics

2015-04-30 Thread Joris Bolsens
Hi list, I was wondering if anyone had instructions on how to update to kernel 3.19 or above. I have spent ~an hour googling, but all I can find are tutorials for ubuntu, most of which do it through apt. I checked jessie-backports but 3.16 seems to be the latest available outside of unstable.

Re: Jessie and Cairo Dock without pulseaudio...

2015-04-30 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 running cairo-dock in jessi currently and afaik it doesn't depend on pulse so, yes, it should be possible - -Joris -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJVQuahAAoJEORnMHMHY2FrkqAP/RplnldAVCLR01NpSQI5Rgu/

testing or stable

2015-04-27 Thread Joris Bolsens
I've been using Debian Jessie for ~ a year now, now that it is stable should I update to sid? or stick with jessie? I enjoy tinkering with everything, so I'm OK with things breaking or needing some special configuration, hell I'll even patch a thing and recompile from source if I have to (I know,

Re: testing or stable

2015-04-27 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 sorry, I was under the impression that it went wheezy - Jessie - Sid I meant stretch xD On 04/27/2015 09:48 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: So if you want to go on tinkering, update to Stretch! Otherwise stick to Jessie. Or you could go to Sid, but

Re: free cloud

2015-04-08 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 04/08/2015 07:08 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Wednesday 08 April 2015 01:02:17 Joris Bolsens wrote: only $56/month. I ove the only! ;-) Lisi Compared to many other hosts/servers it is pretty damn cheap xD ~Joris -BEGIN PGP

Re: free cloud

2015-04-08 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 04/08/2015 06:07 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: What is a dedi? Sorry, I assumed everyone used the same word as I do, a dedi is a bare metal server. ~Joris -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2

Re: free cloud

2015-04-07 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 04/02/2015 03:58 PM, Bernd Naumann wrote: But the downside on all these 'cheep vps provider' I'm aware off, is that they don't offer any useful amount of storage space. So maybe find a friend or too, and invest in a monthly rent of a

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-27 Thread Joris Bolsens
Do you have a tutorial or how to on setting up mailman with that setup? it seems a little non standard now that I'm looking at various mailman tutorials. ~Joris signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: trouble installing Debian testing/jessie

2015-03-26 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/25/2015 12:30 PM, mizuki wrote: The attempt to mount a file system with type ext4 in SCSI1(0,0,0), partition #1 (sda) at / failed. You may resume partitioning from the partitioning menu. I've never had this problem and honestly have

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-21 Thread Joris Bolsens
On 03/17/2015 11:37 AM, Tazman DeVille wrote: Run a RedMatrix hub on it. See https://redmatrix.me What is that? looked at the site but don't really understand what it does. -Joris signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-17 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So I had two issues in case anyone is wondering, 1: I had to use STARTTLS and not SSL/TLS 2: I had `error` set as my transports for some reason, works fine and dandy now. On to setting up horde :p ~Joris -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-17 Thread Joris Bolsens
On 03/17/2015 06:05 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: Set your t-bird to use STARTTLS for the outgoing server. Fixed it for me when I ran into that problem. There's probably a fix in either postfix or dovecot, but from what I can see, there's no real security concerns over explicitly starting a

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-17 Thread Joris Bolsens
On 03/17/2015 06:05 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: Set your t-bird to use STARTTLS for the outgoing server. Fixed it for me when I ran into that problem. There's probably a fix in either postfix or dovecot, but from what I can see, there's no real security concerns over explicitly starting a TLS

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-17 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/2015 11:42 AM, Tazman DeVille wrote: Linode (expensive host, I no longer use, but with lotso great docu), has a great howto for setting up mail with postfix, dovecot, mysql on squeeze:

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-16 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/16/2015 02:59 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 12:23:43 -0700, Joris Bolsens wrote: [snip...] I'm assuming they moved it to here: https://www.linode.com/docs/email/postfix/email-with-postfix-dovecot- and-mysql Yup

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-16 Thread Joris Bolsens
On 03/16/2015 09:14 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: --lots of snippage-- Thanks a ton, I will definitely look into all those things xD I've got a few days to kill and an entire week off next week. ~Joris signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-16 Thread Joris Bolsens
On 03/16/2015 03:44 AM, Bonno Bloksma wrote: Ik have a server that I use for testing. Whem I am not using it for testing I run folding@home on it. https://folding.stanford.edu/home/guide/linux-install-guide/ Really looking for something that I'll get utility out of, interesting idea

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-16 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/16/2015 10:27 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: Good deal :) I found this one too. It's specific to dovecot + mysql on linode boxes, but it should be relatively easy to sort through and work out for you (or at least easier than the postfix and

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-16 Thread Joris Bolsens
On 03/16/2015 02:59 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: [snip] Well you were definitely correct in that this will keep me busy for awhile, can't get thunderbird to connect properly. I have verified that the SSL cert is good (got one from comodo) followed instruction to the letter and checked to make

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-16 Thread Joris Bolsens
On 03/16/2015 10:24 PM, Joris Bolsens wrote: [snip] Been googling for hours and I cannot for the life of me find what the problem is. ~Joris I can connect just fine to IMAP, it's SMTP that gives me issues. the response when i EHLO the smtps delio i get; joris@debian:~$ telnet

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-16 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/16/2015 12:14 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: Joris Bolsens wrote: On 03/16/2015 10:27 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: Good deal :) I found this one too. It's specific to dovecot + mysql on linode boxes, but it should be relatively easy to sort

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-15 Thread Joris Bolsens
You could give Proxmox a whirl!! Then install Turnkey Linux containers to it. I'm a perfect idiot and had containers like Wordpress and Owncloud running in no time. Since proxmox is headless, you need a machine on the same localnet to ssh in to admin Proxmox. Then you admin it through your

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-15 Thread Joris Bolsens
Confirming mail server will keep you busy - especially the initial configuration (there will be a lot of WTF, now what'd I do!? moments, if you're like me). But yeah, postfix + dovecot (or other sasl agent) is pretty 'secure' in terms of not getting blindly turned into a mail relay.

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-14 Thread Joris Bolsens
I have a guide on my website[1] for setting up Postfix that is secure. If you google, you'll find many more for different configurations[2]. Use them as guides and review the documentation on the proper Postfix/Exim/etc websites and man pages. I'll give it a look then, awesome :D Anything

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-14 Thread Joris Bolsens
Mail server, I thought about this, but from what i understand, mail servers are notoriously difficult to secure properly. sound server with USB output connected to my hi-fi system, RADIUS server for the wireless access point, an assortment of PHP pages to run the music, get Internet radio,

Cool things to do with server

2015-03-14 Thread Joris Bolsens
Hey all, I've got a smallish Debian server that I'm currently not really using for anything. At the moment I have it as my own imagehost, general fileserver, vpn, and a pastebin like thing. What are some cool/fun/weird things you use your servers for? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-10 Thread Joris Bolsens
On 03/04/2015 09:33 PM, Ken Heard wrote: In the next month or so I will have to do a clean OS installation in two desktops. Jessie is now frozen (Debian's contribution to retarding global warming?); and there are apparently fewer RC bugs at this point after the freeze than there were at the

Re: Unable to join the Debian User Forum; appears that all IPs are being black-listed.

2015-01-09 Thread Joris Bolsens
On 01/09/2015 07:20 AM, Wayne Hartell wrote: [snip] Yes, you're right I am using Outlook since I've signed up to this list on a virtual machine that is configured for taking on the road for my work. I haven't yet taken a look at Evolution and others e-mail clients, but I fear that I'll be

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-08 Thread Joris Bolsens
On 01/08/2015 12:53 PM, Danny wrote: ### As you can see ... I am already DROPping some of these IP's ... I just need something to block an ENTIRE country ... Thank you ... and thanks to

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Joris Bolsens
On 12/22/2014 10:31 PM, Go Linux wrote: Recent discussion (on the Devuan list) mentioned dbus requires a reboot to restart. Perhaps startx also needs a reboot? Welcome to the world of systemd - determined to complicate your computing life. Note that Gnome is terminally infected with

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Joris Bolsens
On 12/23/2014 10:07 AM, Floris wrote: Op Tue, 23 Dec 2014 18:58:48 +0100 schreef Joris Bolsens jo...@linux.com: Is it Gnome that fails to start or gdm? Not sure what the difference is (sorry). When the system starts I get multiple messages along the lines of Gnome Display Manager [FAILED

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/23/2014 10:32 AM, Floris wrote: just to be sure: apt-get update apt-get purge kdm $ sudo apt-get purge kdm Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package 'kdm' is not installed, so not

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/23/2014 10:37 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: dpkg-reconfigure gdm $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm dpkg-query: package 'gdm' is not installed and no information is available Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, and dpkg --contents

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/23/2014 11:40 AM, Floris wrote: maybe you can manually set the display manager to gdm3 edit /etc/X11/default-display-manager to: /usr/sbin/gdm3 That did the trick, it was set to /usr/bin/gdm3 Any idea why dpkg and apt couldn't

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/23/2014 12:49 PM, Hans wrote: Did you try to dpkg-reconfigure gdm? I did, but it failed as there is nothing installed as gdm no longer exists in jessie apparently, just gdm3 You might try to force the configuration by reconfiguring

gnome wont start

2014-12-22 Thread Joris Bolsens
Hello all, I recently ran into a problem with Gnome. It fails to start at all. I am able to get a working ui by using the startx command, and it seems like it is a gnomish environment (windows key brings up the Activities selected or what have you) Gnome used to work fine, however I installed KDE

Re: Screen rotation question

2014-12-20 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Could be there's no difference, but try the --rotate flag and specify your vga connection xrandr --output VGA1 --rotate right On 12/05/2014 02:32 PM, Jacek Dudek wrote: X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) -BEGIN

Random X crash

2014-12-04 Thread Joris Bolsens
I am getting seemingly random crashes of X. I have 3 monitors (2 external, 1 laptop), and occasionally they will flash black, and orientation gets reset to default. I have not been able to find any action that specifically triggers this, although when i look at dmesg, it seems to somehow be

Re: useradd segmentation fault

2014-11-11 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry about late reply, got a bit busy with other things. On 11/07/2014 11:43 PM, Reco wrote: Hi. I'd try adding some memory (or swapspace) to this VM to satisfy mremap's wish to remap to exactly 8G virtual memory. Reco Tried this, set the

Re: useradd segmentation fault

2014-11-09 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/08/2014 03:43 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: No, just don't send the whole core dump itself (the file called core) to the BTS (or this mailing list). It almost certainly has your machine ldap password in it. that makes sense, wont do that,

Re: useradd segmentation fault

2014-11-09 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/09/2014 12:55 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Sun, 09 Nov 2014, Joris Bolsens wrote: Where do i find the object file for libnss-ldap? I tried running nm -a on pretty much every file I could find with libnss-ldap in the name and it said

Re: useradd segmentation fault

2014-11-08 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/07/2014 11:43 PM, Reco wrote: So, chances are - you've found a bug. Awesome, where/how should I report it? and memory info on top: KiB Mem: 2061128 total, 263680 used, 1797448 free,75180 buffers KiB Swap: 2094076

Re: useradd segmentation fault

2014-11-08 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry, pretty new to linux still. put a few questions in-line. On 11/08/2014 09:39 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: Before filing a bug, please 1) Enable coredumps Did some googling, I have to recompile the kernel for this? the one thing i did find on

Re: useradd segmentation fault

2014-11-08 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/08/2014 11:16 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: ulimit -c unlimited; useradd foo; gdb /usr/sbin/useradd core; bt full; or similar. You'll also want to install libc6-dbg gdb; and similar. This will give you an idea of where the code is

Re: useradd segmentation fault

2014-11-08 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I can't be 100% certain because I'm not sure what any of this means, but it would seem I messed up somewhere as it shows `No Symbol Table info available` for libnss_ldap. This bit also seems possibly problematic `warning: Can't read pathname for load

Re: useradd segmentation fault

2014-11-08 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/08/2014 12:16 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: Please double check the bt full; output for any obvious password strings too before posting to this mailing list. [I should have told you to do that too, but I don't see any below, so you should be

Re: useradd segmentation fault

2014-11-08 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/08/2014 12:16 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: apt-get build-dep libnss-ldap; DEB_BUILD_OPTS=nostrip,noopt apt-get source -b libnss-ldap; will give you those symbols. Then you can rerun /usr/sbin/useradd foo; and re-analyze the coredump. The

useradd segmentation fault

2014-11-07 Thread Joris Bolsens
Ran into a bit of a strange error with useradd today, whenever i run useradd I get a Segmentation fault. I tried running fsck as i read it might be due to corrupt filesystem, but that didn't report any problems. I reinstalled the passwd package, also to no avail. I ran an strace and it seems

Re: useradd segmentation fault

2014-11-07 Thread Joris Bolsens
it seems that using the adduser works fine, not sure why i didn't think to try that before. However I am still curious why this occurred. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: INTEL HD Graphics

2014-11-07 Thread Joris Bolsens
From my experience yes, it works on jessie without any problems. On 11/07/2014 07:03 PM, Man_Without_Clue wrote: On 11/08/2014 11:57 AM, Joris Bolsens wrote: I have this one and had no issues with it, runs fine and I had to do no extra config/setup on my end. I currently have Jessie, so IDK

Re: useradd segmentation fault

2014-11-07 Thread Joris Bolsens
and such), do you think that could have something to do with it? On 11/07/2014 08:26 PM, Marty wrote: On 11/07/2014 09:04 PM, Joris Bolsens wrote: Ran into a bit of a strange error with useradd today, whenever i run useradd I get a Segmentation fault. I tried running fsck as i read it might be due