Re: Reply To settings - was - Re: Debian 7.5 amd64 xfce GUI shutdown and restart do not work

2014-06-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Bret Busby wrote: > Tom H wrote: > > Bret Busby wrote: > >> Bob Proulx wrote: > >>> This is one of those religious wars that has been fought and won and > >>> lost many times across the Internet. Please don't start it up again > >>> here. If you do really want to do so please use the off-topic mail

Re: Early access to a console (during runlevel 1)

2014-06-22 Thread Bob Proulx
B wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Erasing error output just doesn't erase the cause, > > > and the cause might be very dangerous to the system's > > > health... > > > > Erasing the error output? Why are you erasing error output? I > > never suggested any such thing. > > So you're following

Re: apt-get update: unnecessary use of disk space

2014-06-22 Thread Bob Proulx
B wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > completely out of disk space. For that the reasonable amount of > > disk space reserved is an absolute value that a system might need > > on that partitions. That part really shouldn't be a percentage of > > the disk but should be a finite reserved amount. >

Re: Reply To settings - was - Re: Debian 7.5 amd64 xfce GUI shutdown and restart do not work

2014-06-22 Thread Bret Busby
On 23/06/2014, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Bret Busby wrote: >> On Fri, 20 Jun 2014, Bob Proulx wrote: >>> >>> This is one of those religious wars that has been fought and won and >>> lost many times across the Internet. Please don't start it up again >>> here. If you do real

Re: Getting rights right

2014-06-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Diogene Laerce wrote: > I have a strange behavior lately on my Deby. After a run of : > chown user:user -R /home/user/Documents > and : > chmod 700 -R /home/user/Documents Unfortunately that command was a mistake. That will set rwx for owner on all files unconditionally. For directories

Re: Article on swift, responsive computers

2014-06-22 Thread Jeff Bauer
On 06/15/2014 02:58 PM, Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, Here's my latest Linux Productivity Magazine, themed "The Swift, Responsive Machine": http://www.troubleshooters.com/lpm/201406/201406.htm Hope you enjoy it. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Trouble

No Evolution reminders show up in advance as desired.

2014-06-22 Thread Juan R. de Silva
After using Evolution for last 7 years for about last 3-4 months I started experiencing the described bellow problem. Appointment and reminder set up and desired behaviour: -- - Set up an appointment for a particular date. - Open Reminder, sele

Re: apt-get update & upgrade => zfsonlinux broken

2014-06-22 Thread dpchrist
debian-user: I filed an issue report on GitHub: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/pkg-zfs/issues/116 David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/49269

Re: Does LXDE really require lightdm?

2014-06-22 Thread davidson
On Sun, 22 Jun 2014, David Dušanić wrote: 22.06.2014, 02:31, "Steve Litt" : Hi all, I installed LXDE on a no-X, no-desktop virgin network Wheezy 64bit install with non-free software allowed, and on the next boot it went into lightdm. The only thing I could find that installed and required light

Re: dhclient changes IP address

2014-06-22 Thread Bzzzz
On Sun, 22 Jun 2014 23:16:32 +0200 Rainer Dorsch wrote: > I think I will try first to get support from AVM on that topic. If > that is not successful, I will look in more detail into the > tcpdumps (although since I have to take that on the client side, > that might be difficult during the startu

Re: Getting rights right

2014-06-22 Thread Diogene Laerce
On 06/22/2014 10:18 PM, Linux-Fan wrote: > On 06/22/2014 04:58 PM, Diogene Laerce wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have a strange behavior lately on my Deby. After a run of : >> >> chown user:user -R /home/user/Documents >> >> and : >> >> chmod 700 -R /home/user/Documents >> >> I run : >> >> fin

Re: dhclient changes IP address

2014-06-22 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hi Bob, my fritz.box is a DSL router from AVM, which unfortunately does not give me access to syslog. What I noticed is that 192.168.178.87 shows up without MAC address in the list of network devices of the fritz.box I think I will try first to get support from AVM on that topic. If that is n

Re: Does LXDE really require lightdm?

2014-06-22 Thread David Dušanić
22.06.2014, 02:31, "Steve Litt" : > Hi all, > > I installed LXDE on a no-X, no-desktop virgin network Wheezy 64bit > install with non-free software allowed, and on the next boot it went > into lightdm. The only thing I could find that installed and required > lightdm was LXDE. I uninstalled LXDE,

Re: Getting rights right

2014-06-22 Thread Linux-Fan
On 06/22/2014 04:58 PM, Diogene Laerce wrote: > Hi, > > I have a strange behavior lately on my Deby. After a run of : > > chown user:user -R /home/user/Documents > > and : > > chmod 700 -R /home/user/Documents > > I run : > > find /home/user/Documents ! -perm 0700 > > But I still

apt-get update & upgrade => zfsonlinux broken

2014-06-22 Thread dpchrist
debian-user: This morning, I did: # apt-get update # apt-get upgrade After rebooting, my ZFS on Linux pool and file systems no longer work: # zpool list no pools available # zfs list no datasets available I believe the ZFS kernel module is loaded: # dmesg | grep

Re: Reply To settings - was - Re: Debian 7.5 amd64 xfce GUI shutdown and restart do not work

2014-06-22 Thread davidson
On Sun, 22 Jun 2014, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Bret Busby wrote: On Fri, 20 Jun 2014, Bob Proulx wrote: This is one of those religious wars that has been fought and won and lost many times across the Internet. Please don't start it up again here. If you do really want to

Re: Reply To settings - was - Re: Debian 7.5 amd64 xfce GUI shutdown and restart do not work

2014-06-22 Thread Bzzzz
On Sun, 22 Jun 2014 13:13:39 -0400 Tom H wrote: > Requesting that you take a religious-type discussion (like a list's > "Reply To" settings) to the OT list isn't trolling! Let's launch Troll-CD, a pure ubuntu distro on a USB key, multiple points of failure, etc. -- If we ping Santa, is there

Re: Reply To settings - was - Re: Debian 7.5 amd64 xfce GUI shutdown and restart do not work

2014-06-22 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 11:31 AM, Bret Busby wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jun 2014, Bob Proulx wrote: >> >> This is one of those religious wars that has been fought and won and >> lost many times across the Internet. Please don't start it up again >> here. If you do really want to do so please use the off-

Re: Question: debian way to create debian live-dvd

2014-06-22 Thread Bzzzz
On Sun, 22 Jun 2014 16:57:30 +0200 Hans wrote: > What is the best debian way? live-build can not be used, as there > are some manually copied files on my system, I want to preserve > (i.e. my own wordlists) and some applications, which are not > available as debian packages. As a huge lazy perso

Re: Question: debian way to create debian live-dvd

2014-06-22 Thread Go Linux
On Sun, 6/22/14, Hans wrote: Subject: Question: debian way to create debian live-dvd To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sunday, June 22, 2014, 9:57 AM Hello list, I want to create a debian live-cd from an installed debian system. What is the best debian way? live-build can not b

Getting rights right

2014-06-22 Thread Diogene Laerce
Hi, I have a strange behavior lately on my Deby. After a run of : chown user:user -R /home/user/Documents and : chmod 700 -R /home/user/Documents I run : find /home/user/Documents ! -perm 0700 But I still get a list of files like : . . . /home/user/Documents/administrat

Question: debian way to create debian live-dvd

2014-06-22 Thread Hans
Hello list, I want to create a debian live-cd from an installed debian system. What is the best debian way? live-build can not be used, as there are some manually copied files on my system, I want to preserve (i.e. my own wordlists) and some applications, which are not available as debian packa

Re: Installation disc creator (Was: Resizing LVM issue)

2014-06-22 Thread Linux-Fan
On 06/22/2014 01:41 PM, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > On 06/15/2014 10:52 PM, Reco wrote: > Btw, what app is good for making an image of the system, sort > of full backup, and is it possible to use such an image to clone more > than one comp later, i.e. to avoid installations from scratch? (I have > two

Re: Question: update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults

2014-06-22 Thread Hans
> > But after next boot, it does not work any more - I have to to > > dpkg-reconfigure again. > > Do you have a symlink /etc/rcS.d/S??eeepc-acpi-scripts pointing to > ../init.d/eeepc-acpi-scripts (the exact value of ?? varies from system > to system)? > > Also, which init system do you use? > >

Re: Resizing LVM issue

2014-06-22 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Bob Proulx a écrit : > > There are many stories of this from people doing the same thing on the > net. It seems that the code for expanding the file system is used > often and optimized to run fast but that the code for shrinking it is > not used very often and therefore has severe inefficiencies

Re: Resizing LVM issue

2014-06-22 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Miroslav Skoric a écrit : > > 1. What would you do if you need more space in /tmp and you know you > have some spare space in /home or else, but do not want to reinstall? If you are in such a situation, then you missed one of the goals of LVM. You should not have allocated all the space in the V

Installation disc creator (Was: Resizing LVM issue)

2014-06-22 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 06/15/2014 10:52 PM, Reco wrote: No, it seems to belong to main archive. $ apt-cache search apt on cd | grep ^apt apt - commandline package manager aptdaemon - transaction based package management service aptoncd - Installation disc creator for packages downloaded via APT Yep, aptoncd wa

Re: Question: update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults

2014-06-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-06-22 11:36 +0200, Hans wrote: > Hello list, > after changing to systemd some packages give me the following message: > > warning: update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer > supported; > falling back to defaults This message is harmless, the start and stop options were

Re: Does LXDE really require lightdm?

2014-06-22 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 22 June 2014 01:31:50 Steve Litt wrote: > The whole reason I'm switching from Xubuntu to Debian is to get away > from both Plymouth and *dm. I hadn't heard of Plymouth. I just googled it and blanched. Thanks for the heads up, Steve! One more reason why I shall avoid *buntu. :-( Lisi

Question: update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults

2014-06-22 Thread Hans
Hello list, after changing to systemd some packages give me the following message: warning: update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling back to defaults It also looks like, these demons are no more started at boot. For example, eeepc-acpi-scripts gives such a m