Re: Debugging mysterious freeze / crash

2018-09-25 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 24 Sep 2018 17:17:28 +0300 Selim T. Erdoğan wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 10:51:27PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > > I've been experiencing a great deal of frustration recently with > > intermittent freezes / crashes on my Debian Sid system (a Lenovo > > W550s). The symptoms are that th

Re: question about ls

2018-09-25 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 26/09/2018 10:55, Long Wind wrote: sorry! you're right. after checking ls manual, i find ls has option -1 Note also that ls will behave like it has the "-1" option if its output is piped to another command, even without this option. I like to use the "-1" option even in this case because i

Re: Decrypting LUKS from initramfs; was: Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-25 Thread Igor Cicimov
On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 12:58 pm Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 08:00:50PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > Le 16/09/2018 à 00:39, Andy Smith a écrit : > > > > > >The obvious problem there is an attacker who gets hold of the > > >initramfs in order to be able to use the crede

Re: btrfs and deduplication

2018-09-25 Thread Anders Andersson
On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 9:56 AM, Markus Raps wrote: > Hi there, > > currently iam trying to get deduplication working in debian/btrfs > > #so i created a btrfs filesystem > > mkfs.btrfs /dev/vdb1 > mkdir /mnt/btrfs > mount /dev/vdb1 /mnt/btrfs > > # create some random file > dd if=/dev/urandom of=

Re: question about ls

2018-09-25 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 26/09/2018 10:27, Long Wind wrote: can ls show number of items in a folder?Thanks! I use: ls -1 | wc -l To include items whose names start with ".", add the "a" or "A" argument to ls ("man ls" for details). For more advanced searches (recursive or filtering on file type), I use find.

question about ls

2018-09-25 Thread Long Wind
can ls show number of items in a folder?Thanks! On Wednesday, September 26, 2018 4:51 AM, Gary Dale wrote: For the last few days, some Scribus documents I work with have stopped accepting PDF files within image frames. Prior to this, they would display a preview. Now new image frames

Scribus has stopped importing PDF files

2018-09-25 Thread Gary Dale
For the last few days, some Scribus documents I work with have stopped accepting PDF files within image frames. Prior to this, they would display a preview. Now new image frames that I create show just the file name, but some older frames within the document still show the preview. When I expo

Re: A Very Bad umount

2018-09-25 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 11, 2018, at 12:28 PM, Martin McCormick wrote: > /bin/rm: cannot remove > '/var/cache/rsnapshot/halfday.1/wb5agz/home/usr/lib/i386 > -linux-gnu': Transport endpoint is not connected In your rsnapshot.conf file, is “use_lazy_deletes” set to 1? If so, the final delete part of “rsnapsho

Re: calibre ebook project?

2018-09-25 Thread Brian
On Tue 25 Sep 2018 at 14:08:23 -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > Brian wrote: Note to non-English speakersnatural English politeness > will get you a nod of the head but there will be incomprehension > in the mind > > That also works with Americans who are native English speakers, that same

Re: calibre ebook project?

2018-09-25 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
Brian wrote: Note to non-English speakersnatural English politeness will get you a nod of the head but there will be incomprehension in the mind That also works with Americans who are native English speakers, that same mute incomprehension. I think that works with Australians too.. :-) O

Re: calibre ebook project?

2018-09-25 Thread Brian
On Tue 25 Sep 2018 at 20:27:42 +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote: > Brad Rogers, on 2018-09-24: > > Even worse, google's recaptcha relies on US-centric > > terminology. Sadly, many of the images they consider to be of > > a bus are more like coaches to some Europeans. Cars are a > > minefield; > > T

Re: odvr for Olympus WN-960PC : problem installing multimedia repository on Stretch

2018-09-25 Thread deloptes
Bernard wrote: > True enough, the package odvr is not in any Debian repository. Reading > more carefully the same doc from Ray Woodcocks, I found a Google storage > place where said package could be downloaded > > https://code.google.com/archive/p/odvr/downloads > > But... trying to install > >

Re: calibre ebook project?

2018-09-25 Thread Étienne Mollier
Brad Rogers, on 2018-09-24: > Even worse, google's recaptcha relies on US-centric > terminology. Sadly, many of the images they consider to be of > a bus are more like coaches to some Europeans. Cars are a > minefield; To a subset of Europeans quite known to be not at ease with English, coaches

Re: odvr for Olympus WN-960PC : problem installing multimedia repository on Stretch

2018-09-25 Thread Bernard
True enough, the package odvr is not in any Debian repository. Reading more carefully the same doc from Ray Woodcocks, I found a Google storage place where said package could be downloaded https://code.google.com/archive/p/odvr/downloads But... trying to install #dpkg -i odvr_0.1.4.1_i386.deb

Re: screensaver and sundries questions

2018-09-25 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 9/24/18, o1bigtenor wrote: > Greetings > > I have been using xscreensaver for quite some time and found it to be > quite useful (on debian 10 using lxde). Present thinking seems to be > that a screen locker must be included. As I have my equipment in a > home office, with almost no access to ot

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Tuesday, 25 Sep 2018 at 15:01, Brian wrote: > Aren't standard utilities whatever you want them to be? Who could live > without netcat, midnight commander and oneko? emacs :-) -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50 & org 9.1.13 on Debian buster/sid

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread David Wright
On Tue 25 Sep 2018 at 15:56:11 (+0100), Brian wrote: > On Tue 25 Sep 2018 at 12:11:56 +, Matthew Crews wrote: > > On 9/25/18 2:08 AM, Thakur Mahashaya wrote: > > > Hi! > > > Please tell me what is the list of standard utilities in Debian?wget, > > > apt, curl, transport-https, sources.list

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Brian wrote: > You're after a fight, aren't you? :) Given the topic, it would be unnatural if no branches and twigs would appear in this thread. (My apologies to Thakur Mahashaya.) I wrote: > > (Hey. You smuggled the word "system" between "standard" and "utility.) > Does it count as going

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Brian
On Tue 25 Sep 2018 at 12:11:56 +, Matthew Crews wrote: > On 9/25/18 2:08 AM, Thakur Mahashaya wrote: > > Hi! > > Please tell me what is the list of standard utilities in Debian?wget, > > apt, curl, transport-https, sources.list, man, dd, sha256sum,..what > > else? > > > > I took a

Re: Build a custom CD image with simple-cdd

2018-09-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Markus Raps wrote: > and the script should rebuild the disk. > unfortunately UEFI only systems wont boot it. > ... > xorriso -as mkisofs \ Thank you for flying xorriso. As for the lack of EFI boot equipment in your script, see https://wiki.debian.org/RepackBootableISO "Repacking a Debi

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Brian
On Tue 25 Sep 2018 at 13:24:48 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Brian wrote: > > There can be no dispute over the meaning of "standard system > > utilities". These are the ones which have a "Priority: standard" > > field in the package description. > > There can always be a dispute. q.e.d. You're

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 9/25/18, Thakur Mahashaya wrote: > Hi! > Please tell me what is the list of standard utilities in Debian?wget, > apt, curl, transport-https, sources.list, man, dd, sha256sum,..what > else? I saw everyone else's great responses. Dissecting a debootstrap encounter comes to mind for me.

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > No command line CD/DVD/BD burning: Dave Sherohman wrote: > Sounds pretty far from "standard" to me. Bordering on "esoteric", even. Burn programs compensate for a shortcomming of the Linux kernel and the Unix device model. If a burner drive is built into the machine, then a driv

Re: Build a custom CD image with simple-cdd

2018-09-25 Thread Markus Raps
Hi, are you trying to preseed something? then just extract a debian standard install disc like netinstall to /opt/isobuild/debian/image/ do your changes and the script should rebuild the disk. unfortunately UEFI only systems wont boot it. #!/bin/bash IMAGE=/opt/isobuild/debian/debian-9.3-au

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 01:24:48PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > But i am not sure whether the official classification in > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-priorities > of the first three priorities really matches the idea of a set of > "standard [system] utilities": >

Re: Build a custom CD image with simple-cdd

2018-09-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, André Rodier wrote: > Hello Debian pros, No, no. We are just the users. Often quite confused. > I am trying to build an ISO image with the package debian-cdd, and I am > struggling with the following error: The package's news list on https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/simple-cdd looks like i

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 06:28:46AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 12:08:54PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, mick crane wrote: > have a look in /usr/bin ? Not to forget /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin : https://wiki.debian.org/FilesystemHierarchyStandard /bin is specified to hold

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Jack Dangler
On 09/25/2018 06:28 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 12:08:54PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, mick crane wrote: have a look in /usr/bin ? Not to forget /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin : https://wiki.debian.org/FilesystemHierarchyStandard /bin is specified to hold "essential" pr

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Curt
On 2018-09-25, Thakur Mahashaya wrote: > no trick to be honest > The expression "standard utilities" seems to have thrown people for a minor loop. Me being naturally loopy to begin with, I navigated the treacherous semantic waters of your inquiry with my usual aplomb. I would consider the packa

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Jack Dangler
On 09/25/2018 06:17 AM, Brian wrote: On Tue 25 Sep 2018 at 12:08:54 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, mick crane wrote: have a look in /usr/bin ? Not to forget /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin : https://wiki.debian.org/FilesystemHierarchyStandard /bin is specified to hold "essential" programs.

Re: A Very Bad umount

2018-09-25 Thread Martin McCormick
=?UTF-8?Q?=c3=89tienne_Mollier?= writes: > > Good Day, > > Not sure if that is the kind of answer you would wish to > expect, but have you considered doing umounts sequentially? > (optionally after synchronizing file systems) > > sync > umount /var/cache/rsnapshot > umou

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Matthew Crews
On 9/25/18 2:08 AM, Thakur Mahashaya wrote: > Hi! > Please tell me what is the list of standard utilities in Debian?wget, > apt, curl, transport-https, sources.list, man, dd, sha256sum,..what else? > I took a peek at /usr/share/tasksel/descs/debian-tasks.desc, and this is what I see: Ta

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Brian wrote: > There can be no dispute over the meaning of "standard system > utilities". These are the ones which have a "Priority: standard" > field in the package description. There can always be a dispute. q.e.d. (Hey. You smuggled the word "system" between "standard" and "utility.) Hig

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Thakur Mahashaya
is that what ls -l /bin needs? 25.09.2018, 12:08, "Thakur Mahashaya" : > Hi! > Please tell me what is the list of standard utilities in Debian?wget, > apt, curl, transport-https, sources.list, man, dd, sha256sum,..what else?

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Brian
On Tue 25 Sep 2018 at 06:28:46 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 12:08:54PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > mick crane wrote: > > > have a look in /usr/bin ? > > > > Not to forget /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin : > > https://wiki.debian.org/FilesystemHierarchyStandard >

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 12:08:54PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > mick crane wrote: > > have a look in /usr/bin ? > > Not to forget /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin : > https://wiki.debian.org/FilesystemHierarchyStandard > > /bin is specified to hold "essential" programs. > /sbin is its add-on

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Brian
On Tue 25 Sep 2018 at 12:08:54 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > mick crane wrote: > > have a look in /usr/bin ? > > Not to forget /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin : > https://wiki.debian.org/FilesystemHierarchyStandard > > /bin is specified to hold "essential" programs. > /sbin is its add-on for

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, mick crane wrote: > have a look in /usr/bin ? Not to forget /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin : https://wiki.debian.org/FilesystemHierarchyStandard /bin is specified to hold "essential" programs. /sbin is its add-on for system administrators. /usr/bin + /usr/sbin together hold nearly 4000 files on m

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Thakur Mahashaya
are you sure this is the place? there's some programs that I listed for example and use. 25.09.2018, 12:48, "mick crane" : > On 2018-09-25 10:08, Thakur Mahashaya wrote: >>  Hi! >>  Please tell me what is the list of standard utilities in >>  Debian?wget, apt, curl, transport-https, sources.l

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Thakur Mahashaya
no trick to be honest 25.09.2018, 12:46, "Thomas Schmitt" : > Hi, > > Thakur Mahashaya wrote: >>  Please tell me what is the list of standard utilities in Debian? > > If this is a trick question: Good one. It makes me think. > > A standard utility is supposed to be installed often. The popularity

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread mick crane
On 2018-09-25 10:08, Thakur Mahashaya wrote: Hi! Please tell me what is the list of standard utilities in Debian?wget, apt, curl, transport-https, sources.list, man, dd, sha256sum,..what else? have a look in /usr/bin ? mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Thakur Mahashaya wrote: > Please tell me what is the list of standard utilities in Debian? If this is a trick question: Good one. It makes me think. A standard utility is supposed to be installed often. The popularity of Debian packages is ranked at https://popcon.debian.org/by_inst A pa

utilities

2018-09-25 Thread Thakur Mahashaya
Hi! Please tell me what is the list of standard utilities in Debian?wget, apt, curl, transport-https, sources.list, man, dd, sha256sum,..what else?

btrfs and deduplication

2018-09-25 Thread Markus Raps
Hi there, currently iam trying to get deduplication working in debian/btrfs #so i created a btrfs filesystem mkfs.btrfs /dev/vdb1 mkdir /mnt/btrfs mount /dev/vdb1 /mnt/btrfs # create some random file dd if=/dev/urandom of=/mnt/btrfs/img bs=1M count=1024 for i in {1..30}; do cp /mnt/btrfs/img /