Re: Handhelds that conviently run Debian

2017-11-08 Thread Frank Weißer
Stefan Monnier: - Install LineageOS. It works fine on my wileyfox swift, still with playground (I was unsecure at the first try), but the next device is already waiting for pure version of> https://lineageos.org/ without that google stuff. I use fdroid > f-droid.org instead or raccoon > ht

Re: Talking about RAID - disks with same id

2017-11-08 Thread deloptes
David Christensen wrote: > My file server had a 1.5 TB desktop drive with LUKS and btrfs, created > with Debian 7.  When I rebuilt my SOHO network with Debian 8, all was > well.  But, when I rebuilt my SOHO network with Debian 9, I noted > weirdness.  I don't know if it was Debian, GNU, Linux, LUK

Re: Sync two disks and hot swap

2017-11-08 Thread David Christensen
On 11/08/17 17:44, Bob Weber wrote: On 11/8/17 5:59 PM, David Christensen wrote: I have read articles about building a RAID 1 with three drives, migrating in data, pulling one drive and placing it off-site, operating in degraded mode on two drives, and then periodically re-installing the third d

Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close

2017-11-08 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On 08/11/17 12:15 PM, davidson wrote: On Wed, 8 Nov 2017, davidson wrote: Myself, I search for web browser packages like so: $ apt-cache search web browser | grep -i 'web.*browser' On stretch, main repo only, this returns about 60-odd results with lots of false positives. I neglected to me

Re: How to compile color database?

2017-11-08 Thread Richard Hector
On 09/11/17 11:41, Fred wrote: > Hello, > > After editing /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt what program needs to run to > recompile the color database? > > According to google it should be rgb < rgb.txt but the rgb program is > nowhere to be found. Is it necessary? An old manpage for xorg.conf: ftp://www

Re: standards for post-installation scripts

2017-11-08 Thread Dan Hitt
On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 7:12 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 06:22:37PM -0800, Dan Hitt wrote: >> Does debian have guidelines or rules for post-installation scripts? >> >> I had trouble installing a package, and i would sort of like to file a >> bug describing the behavior.

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Re: standards for post-installation scripts

2017-11-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 06:22:37PM -0800, Dan Hitt wrote: > Does debian have guidelines or rules for post-installation scripts? > > I had trouble installing a package, and i would sort of like to file a > bug describing the behavior. But i'd only want to do this if there > were rules, and these r

standards for post-installation scripts

2017-11-08 Thread Dan Hitt
Does debian have guidelines or rules for post-installation scripts? I had trouble installing a package, and i would sort of like to file a bug describing the behavior. But i'd only want to do this if there were rules, and these rules were definite enough to make it very clear something in the pac

Re: Sync two disks and hot swap

2017-11-08 Thread Bob Weber
On 11/8/17 5:59 PM, David Christensen wrote: > On 11/08/17 02:49, Dominik George wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have the following scenario: >> >>   * A server with two hard drives in removable cases >>   * A backup process writes data to both disks, making up a live backup >> server >>   * A third disk is

Re: Handhelds that conviently run Debian

2017-11-08 Thread Stefan Monnier
> If you want a smartphone but don't want a smartphone, it sounds to me > as if you want a smartphone with no SIM card. It's possible that this Indeed. I was looking for a "modern walkman" and the best and cheapest option nowadays is to get a smartphone for that (and simply not use the phone part

Re: Re: Iceweasel woes

2017-11-08 Thread Mike Mcclain
I went to the message you linked and then the site mentioned and downloaded a large /etc/hosts file that seems to send most of what was eating up cpu & memory to the bit bucket. Huge difference in FF response time, no hard drive grinding. Top now shows around 10% cpu usage and 80% memory. Thank

Re: Re: Iceweasel woes

2017-11-08 Thread Mike McClain

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2017 #1201

2017-11-08 Thread Josh W.
Thanks a million guys!! It is up and going now. Joshua On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 3:41 PM, wrote: > Content-Type: text/plain > > debian-user-digest Digest Volume 2017 : > Issue 1201 > > Today's Topics: > Gnome desktop almost totally unrespo [ "James H. H. Lampert"

Re: Ethernet card locking up when acting as virtual bridge

2017-11-08 Thread David Christensen
On 11/08/17 02:54, Andrew Wood wrote: 3Com Etherlink Model 3C905C That card is *old* -- it brings back memories. :-) And, 3Com is gone. Is there any FOSS support for 3Com stuff? Intel supports FOSS on their products, which means their products are much more likely to work correctly on Deb

Re: sudo

2017-11-08 Thread David Christensen
On 11/08/17 12:56, Josh W. wrote: Hello, I am trying to figure out how to add a user to sudo... Not sure of the process.. Could somebody point me in the right direction. Thanks! https://www.michaelwlucas.com/tools/sudo David

Re: Sync two disks and hot swap

2017-11-08 Thread David Christensen
On 11/08/17 02:49, Dominik George wrote: Hi, I have the following scenario: * A server with two hard drives in removable cases * A backup process writes data to both disks, making up a live backup server * A third disk is to be kept off-site * On a ergular basis, I want to hot-swap one

How to compile color database?

2017-11-08 Thread Fred
Hello, After editing /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt what program needs to run to recompile the color database? According to google it should be rgb < rgb.txt but the rgb program is nowhere to be found. Best regards, Fred Boatwright

Re: Talking about RAID - disks with same id

2017-11-08 Thread David Christensen
On 11/08/17 13:40, deloptes wrote: Hi, I noticed recently by accident that when I read/write from the oldest raid disks I have - only one of the tray leds blinks. Of course the led could be damaged, but rather not, so looking into it I found that both disks in question return same UUID. So I am c

Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close

2017-11-08 Thread RRRoy BBBean
On Wed, 2017-11-08 at 19:59 +, davidson wrote: > > chromium (duh. included for completeness) > dillo > edbrowse > firefox-esr (OP wants something else; included for completeness) > iceweasel (duh. included for completeness) > links > links2 > luakit > midori > netsurf, netsurf-fb, netsurf-gtk

Re: Gnome desktop almost totally unresponsive in Jessie

2017-11-08 Thread James H. H. Lampert
On 11/8/17, 10:55 AM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: The output of 'ps aux', 'iostat', and 'free -m' would help identify the problem. Also, 'cat /proc/mdstat' if you have a RAID setup. . . . After a mostly-off-List discussion with Mr. Sanchez, I gave up and did a "shutdown -r" on the system. Af

Re: Anyone using stretch/buster/sid on ARMv4t ?

2017-11-08 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 9:18 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 12:52:05AM +0200, Aaro Koskinen wrote: >> >>... OMAP15xx is frequently tested and used >> by OMAP1 hackers (thanks to Amstrad Delta). > > But is anyone still using Debian on OMAP15xx? > > Looking at the amount of RAM in t

Talking about RAID - disks with same id

2017-11-08 Thread deloptes
Hi, I noticed recently by accident that when I read/write from the oldest raid disks I have - only one of the tray leds blinks. Of course the led could be damaged, but rather not, so looking into it I found that both disks in question return same UUID. So I am concerned now that I don't have any tr

Re: sudo

2017-11-08 Thread Joe
On Wed, 8 Nov 2017 14:56:36 -0600 "Josh W." wrote: > Hello, I am trying to figure out how to add a user to sudo... Not > sure of the process.. Could somebody point me in the right direction. > Thanks! Try Google with sudo tutorial debian In Debian, you can do this the quick and (very) dirty w

Re: sudo

2017-11-08 Thread Tom Furie
On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 02:56:36PM -0600, Josh W. wrote: > Hello, I am trying to figure out how to add a user to sudo... Not sure of > the process.. Could somebody point me in the right direction. Thanks! If you just want to allow a user to use sudo in the default Debian configuration, it's as si

Re: sudo

2017-11-08 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 02:56:36PM -0600, Josh W. wrote: > Hello, I am trying to figure out how to add a user to sudo... Not sure of > the process.. Could somebody point me in the right direction. Thanks! In Debian, typically there's a group called 's

Re: sudo

2017-11-08 Thread Will Mengarini
* Josh W. [17-11/08=We 14:56 -0600]: > I am trying to figure out how to add a user to sudo. Not sure of the > process. Could somebody point me in the right direction. Thanks! sudo adduser beeblebrox sudo # man adduser

Re: sudo

2017-11-08 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 02:56:36PM -0600, Josh W. wrote: > Hello, I am trying to figure out how to add a user to sudo... Not sure of > the process.. Could somebody point me in the right direction. Thanks! Add the user to the "sudo" group. Either by editing /etc/group directly, or by using "adduse

sudo

2017-11-08 Thread Josh W.
Hello, I am trying to figure out how to add a user to sudo... Not sure of the process.. Could somebody point me in the right direction. Thanks! Joshua

Re: Handhelds that conviently run Debian

2017-11-08 Thread deloptes
Richard Owlett wrote: > On a regional mailing list I had described what I'm looking for as a > tablet. That seems to include things that fold.  Although I *DON'T* want > a "smartphone", that physical form factor is desirable. It must be > available as "new" from a U.S. retailer. > > I have a pref

Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close

2017-11-08 Thread Will Mengarini
* Stephen P Molnar [17-11/08=We 07:25 -0500]: > I downloaded and compiled the src from The Seamonkey Project. > [...] The browser still crashed when loading www,distrowatch.com!!! When I try to access distrowatch.com with a very old Firefox, using NoScript, I always get 403 Forbidden with no othe

Re: RAID 5 array with journal device does not automatically assemble at boot

2017-11-08 Thread deloptes
Tobx wrote: > RAID assembling at boot only works when no journal device is involved. > I can't help much here, nothing to compare. I forgot to mention that md driver is compiled in the kernel in my case. > VERBOSE=false perhaps set to true and see what it says. > > Options in /etc/mdadm/mdad

Re: Anyone using stretch/buster/sid on ARMv4t ?

2017-11-08 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 12:52:05AM +0200, Aaro Koskinen wrote: > >... OMAP15xx is frequently tested and used > by OMAP1 hackers (thanks to Amstrad Delta). But is anyone still using Debian on OMAP15xx? Looking at the amount of RAM in the Amstrad Delta, I'd be surprised if anyone is actually using

Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close

2017-11-08 Thread davidson
On Wed, 8 Nov 2017, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 07:59:00PM +, davidson wrote: It is my understanding that fancy package management tools that I don't use myself (like aptitude, synaptic, etc) can search for packages that Provide 'www-browser', or for packages with Tag 'web:

Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close

2017-11-08 Thread davidson
On Wed, 8 Nov 2017, davidson wrote: Myself, I search for web browser packages like so: $ apt-cache search web browser | grep -i 'web.*browser' On stretch, main repo only, this returns about 60-odd results with lots of false positives. I neglected to mention that this kludge fails to return s

Re: Reproducible bug

2017-11-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 08:19:11PM +0100, Laurent Lyaudet wrote: >Hello, > >I found a reproducible bug in latest stable Debian on my laptop. >My install is up-to-date with latest security updates (that's the first >thing I do anytime I start my laptop). >I'm using Gnome. >S

Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close

2017-11-08 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 07:59:00PM +, davidson wrote: > It is my understanding that fancy package management tools that I > don't use myself (like aptitude, synaptic, etc) can search for > packages that Provide 'www-browser', or for packages with Tag > 'web::browser'. Maybe somebody familiar w

Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close

2017-11-08 Thread davidson
On Tue, 7 Nov 2017, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 11/07/2017 01:50 PM, Will Mengarini wrote: * Stephen P Molnar [17-11/07=Tu 07:20 -0500]: I am running Firefox ESR 52.4.0 (64 bit) on my [up-to-date Stretch platform. When] I attempt opening Intellicast, either with Speeddial or tying the URL, F

Re: Ethernet card locking up when acting as virtual bridge

2017-11-08 Thread Andrew W
On 08/11/2017 14:59, Christian Seiler wrote: Is is possible for you to try a static IP on this interface and see if that solves your problem? Ive cleared the dhcp on br1 (and not assigned a static, left it with no IP) and so far its working OK I will leave it a couple of days and see if it

Reproducible bug

2017-11-08 Thread Laurent Lyaudet
Hello, I found a reproducible bug in latest stable Debian on my laptop. My install is up-to-date with latest security updates (that's the first thing I do anytime I start my laptop). I'm using Gnome. Steps to reproduce on my laptop: - activate the wifi with upper right screen controls - repeate

Re: Sync two disks and hot swap

2017-11-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 07:55:24PM +0100, Dominik George wrote: Hi, Instead, if you just want a disk that has a readable copy of the files, you may find that rsync is more straightforward and can be a lot faster after the first time if the volume of changes is a small percentage of the total.

Re: Gnome desktop almost totally unresponsive in Jessie

2017-11-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 10:40:22AM -0800, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > I've got a small problem. On our local Jessie box, the Tomcat and Apache web > servers both seem responsive enough, and I likewise have no trouble getting > and using an SSH session remotely (except that the "find" command is >

Re: Sync two disks and hot swap

2017-11-08 Thread Dominik George
Hi, > Instead, if you just want a disk that has a readable copy of the files, you > may find that rsync is more straightforward and can be a lot faster after > the first time if the volume of changes is a small percentage of the total. Yes, of course. But that would not lead to an identical copy

Gnome desktop almost totally unresponsive in Jessie

2017-11-08 Thread James H. H. Lampert
I've got a small problem. On our local Jessie box, the Tomcat and Apache web servers both seem responsive enough, and I likewise have no trouble getting and using an SSH session remotely (except that the "find" command is extremely slow). But the Gnome desktop has become almost totally unrespo

Re: Handhelds that conviently run Debian

2017-11-08 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/08/2017 09:34 AM, David Wright wrote: On Wed 08 Nov 2017 at 07:50:21 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: On a regional mailing list I had described what I'm looking for as a tablet. That seems to include things that fold. Although I *DON'T* want a "smartphone", that physical form factor is des

Re: Nagios in Stretch?

2017-11-08 Thread Sven Hartge
Charlie Grosvenor wrote: > Can somebody explain why packages for Nagios existed in Jessie but have gone > from Stretch? The package nagios3 was removed from Debian completely, because it was buggy and unmaintained. https://tracker.debian.org/news/818362 --- Reason

Nagios in Stretch?

2017-11-08 Thread Charlie Grosvenor
Hello, Can somebody explain why packages for Nagios existed in Jessie but have gone from Stretch? Is weird as there are support packages just not Nagios itself. Thanks Bell & Clements Limite

Re: Sync two disks and hot swap

2017-11-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 11:49:33AM +0100, Dominik George wrote: * A server with two hard drives in removable cases * A backup process writes data to both disks, making up a live backup server * A third disk is to be kept off-site * On a ergular basis, I want to hot-swap one of the disks, as in, r

Re: Debian Live USB fails; bricks the USB stick

2017-11-08 Thread The Wanderer
On 2017-11-08 at 11:00, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Kent West wrote: > >> The Yosemite Mac's Disk Utility gives me more info >> "This disk is not writable and can't be partitioned" >> that the Write Status is Read Only, > > It really looks like this info comes from the stick's firmware and i

Re: Handhelds that conviently run Debian

2017-11-08 Thread David Wright
On Wed 08 Nov 2017 at 07:50:21 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > On a regional mailing list I had described what I'm looking for as a > tablet. That seems to include things that fold. Although I *DON'T* > want a "smartphone", that physical form factor is desirable. It must > be available as "new" f

Re: Debian Live USB fails; bricks the USB stick

2017-11-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Kent West wrote: > The Yosemite Mac's Disk Utility gives me more info > "This disk is not writable and can't be partitioned" > that the Write Status is Read Only, It really looks like this info comes from the stick's firmware and is not fabricated by a software layer of the operating system.

Re: ~ Handhelds that conviently run Debian

2017-11-08 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/08/2017 09:12 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 07:50:21AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: I have a preference for x86 processors, that is not a requirement. I would like to use with a USB keyboard. It will be used for simple data collection and data will be transferred to h

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Re: ~ Handhelds that conviently run Debian

2017-11-08 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 07:50:21AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: I have a preference for x86 processors, that is not a requirement. I would like to use with a USB keyboard. It will be used for simple data collection and data will be transferred to home system primarily via a USB flash drive. A

Re: Debian Live USB fails; bricks the USB stick

2017-11-08 Thread Kent West
On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 8:49 AM, Kent West wrote: > > The somewhat-still-working stick, when inserted into the iMac, brings up a > pop-up window that says "The disk you inserted was not readable by this > computer. Ignore/Eject". Disk Utility sees it as an "Unknown" disk2s2 426KB > external drive.

Re: Ethernet card locking up when acting as virtual bridge

2017-11-08 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 2017-11-08 11:54, schrieb Andrew Wood: My configuration is below. Initially it worked fine, except that once in a while the card would seemingly 'lock up' i.e no VMs could get network access but unplugging and replugging the Cat 5 cable fixed it. Recently however the issue has been occuring m

Re: Debian Live USB fails; bricks the USB stick

2017-11-08 Thread Kent West
On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 2:41 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Felix Miata wrote: > > > > Also, why are this/these stick(s) getting flip-flopped between sdd and > sdc? > > That's because Kent plugged them in at the same time, i guess. > sdc is the clearly ill one, sdd is the one which is at leas

Re: Handhelds that conviently run Debian

2017-11-08 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/08/2017 08:15 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 07:50:21AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: On a regional mailing list I had described what I'm looking for as a tablet. That seems to include things that fold. Although I *DON'T* want a "smartphone", that physical form factor is des

Re: Handhelds that conviently run Debian

2017-11-08 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 07:50:21AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On a regional mailing list I had described what I'm looking for as a tablet. > That seems to include things that fold. Although I *DON'T* want a > "smartphone", that physical form factor is desirable. It must be available > as "new"

Handhelds that conviently run Debian

2017-11-08 Thread Richard Owlett
On a regional mailing list I had described what I'm looking for as a tablet. That seems to include things that fold. Although I *DON'T* want a "smartphone", that physical form factor is desirable. It must be available as "new" from a U.S. retailer. I have a preference for x86 processors, that

Re: Opening Intellicast Causes Firefox to close

2017-11-08 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 11/07/2017 07:40 PM, cgi...@surfnaked.ca wrote: Quoting "Stephen P. Molnar" : On 11/07/2017 01:50 PM, Will Mengarini wrote: * Stephen P Molnar [17-11/07=Tu 07:20 -0500]: I am running Firefox ESR 52.4.0 (64 bit) on my [up-to-date Stretch platform. When] I attempt opening Intellicast, e

Sync two disks and hot swap

2017-11-08 Thread Dominik George
Hi, I have the following scenario: * A server with two hard drives in removable cases * A backup process writes data to both disks, making up a live backup server * A third disk is to be kept off-site * On a ergular basis, I want to hot-swap one of the disks, as in, remove one of the two s

Ethernet card locking up when acting as virtual bridge

2017-11-08 Thread Andrew Wood
Im trying to use a 3Com Etherlink Model 3C905C to provide network access for some virtual machines running under QEMU. The machine has a Realtek Gigabit Ethernet controller on the motherboard which I use solely for the hosts network interface. I've added a 3Com PCI card to act as the interface s

Re: Debian Live USB fails; bricks the USB stick

2017-11-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Felix Miata wrote: > Don't we know it was a GPT disk to start with? If no iso ever got a chance to > finish writing all the way out to end of disk, the backup/reserve/secondary > partitioning at end of disk would still report a "filesystem" exists, The backup GPT of the old stick content coul

Re: Iceweasel woes

2017-11-08 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 04:31:32PM -0800, cgi...@surfnaked.ca wrote: [...] > The Internet is like a big city - there are lots of bright lights > and excitement, but also dark alleys down which the unwary get > mugged. with the difference that on the

Re: RAID 5 array with journal device does not automatically assemble at boot

2017-11-08 Thread Tobx
I was on 4.9.0-4 (Stretch), now tried with 4.13.0-0 but had no luck. I also tried it again on a clean Ubuntu-Server 17.10 with Kernel 4.13.0-16 and had exactly the same issue: RAID assembling at boot only works when no journal device is involved. > On 7. Nov 2017, at 20:04, deloptes wrote: >