Re: Wheezy->Jessie upgrade: udev (pre)install issue

2014-12-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-12-27 13:36 +0100, Matthijs wrote: > After some time during the upgrade process I get the following error > and upgrade stops: > > Unpacking replacement systemd ... > dpkg: considering deconfiguration of udev, which would be broken by > installation of consolekit ... >

Re: init script can't find /bin/dirname

2014-12-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-12-22 19:23 +0100, Rob Owens wrote: > $ ls -l /bin/dirname > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13880 Jan 30 2007 /bin/dirname > > $ file /bin/dirname > dirname: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), > dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.4.1, stripped > > Simila

Re: init script can't find /bin/dirname

2014-12-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-12-22 04:10 +0100, Rob Owens wrote: > I rebooted and found that the path is fine: > > /sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin A notable difference to the default PATH of a logged in user (with the standard /etc/profile, anyway) is that init places /bin before /usr/bin. > So I'm still not sure why

Re: init script can't find /bin/dirname

2014-12-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-12-21 21:58 +0100, Rob Owens wrote: > The /etc/init.d/mysql script on one of my systems is complaning that it > can't find /bin/dirname and /bin/basename. Line 24 of the script is > this: > > SELF=$(cd $(dirname $0); pwd -P)/$(basename $0) > > Both dirname and basename live in /usr/bin, n

Re: anacron does not run cron.daily reliably

2014-12-05 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-12-05 23:24 +0100, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > I have one machine here on which cron.daily is not run reliably with anacron. > > I see in > > rd@blackbox:~/Managed/LinuxInst$ grep cron.daily /var/log/syslog > Dec 1 22:55:11 blackbox anacron[14161]: Job `cron.daily' terminated (mailing > outp

Re: Systemd debugging

2014-11-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-11-27 14:59 +0100, Haines Brown wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 12:06:20AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> You can use this instead >> >> journalctl -alb > > Andrei, I did as you suggested, but I'm not sure if the result really > adds anything substantive. It is actually quite use

Re: What provides /dev/disk/by-uuid?

2014-11-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-11-19 20:45 +0100, Matt Ventura wrote: > What module/script/thing actually provides /dev/disk/by-uuid and > by-label? Those are created by udev, the rules are in the file /lib/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules. > I'm asking because I disabled some things in my kernel > config and

Re: Shared libraries not found during build

2014-11-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-11-12 22:03 +0100, Joel Roth wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 09:35:34PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2014-11-12 21:08 +0100, Joel Roth wrote: >> >> > I'm running sid. For the first time in many months, I'm >> > trying to build a package fr

Re: Shared libraries not found during build

2014-11-12 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-11-12 21:08 +0100, Joel Roth wrote: > I'm running sid. For the first time in many months, I'm > trying to build a package from source. After compiling I'm > getting library-not-found errors, for example: > > apt-get source ntfs-3g > > debuild -b -uc -us > > Which eventually triggers a lib

cross toolchains (was: emdebian.org off-line?)

2014-11-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-11-11 18:18 +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 11/11/14 17:04, Frank wrote: >> >> On 11/11/2014 11:54 AM, Tony van der Hoff wrote: >>> Can anyone confirm that http://www.emdebian.org/ is currently not >>> responding? >>> >> >> Yes it's apparently down. Accessing a cached copy of the

Re: grub-pc update causes mount hang

2014-11-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-11-09 22:46 +0100, Joel Roth wrote: > I've been upgrading my sid system. When grub goes > to regenerate /boot/grub/grub.cfg, mount uses 100% CPU > and causes these processes to hang: > > 10064 pts/1S 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/os-probes/50mounted-tests > /dev/sda4 > 10075 pts/1R

Re: umask has no man page?

2014-11-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-11-02 04:06 +0100, The Wanderer wrote: > On 11/01/2014 at 10:18 PM, Carl Fink wrote: > >> Surely a symbolic link could be set up for umask as well as the >> others (bg, eval, fg, read, etc.)? > > One could, but I don't think I'd say it would be a good idea, and > although the Debian bash m

Re: Question re: updating debain stable kernels...

2014-10-26 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-10-26 13:46 +0100, Joe wrote: > On Sun, 26 Oct 2014 13:13:24 +0100 > Håkon Alstadheim wrote: >> >> The point is that loading kernel modules after a kernel update will >> not always work, so a reboot is in my experience advisable before >> you do any configuration changes involving modul

Re: linux-image-3.16-3-amd64

2014-10-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-10-19 20:46 +0200, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > No 'linux-headers-amd64' or 'linux-image-amd64' packages are available > for the new kernel(linux-image-3.16-3-amd64). You had better report this on the debian-kernel mailinglist, or file a bug report (reportbug --source linux-latest). Cheers,

Re: libjpeg mess in testing

2014-10-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-10-19 17:39 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > I hve dependencies which grap libjpeg-turbo-progs and libjpeg-progs > which claim ownership of the same file. > > There are already bugs about this (764318, 764322,765667,765790) but I > do not understand what I should do about this Probably install

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-10-18 10:13 +0200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 10:20:20PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> The list will likely be empty, I'm afraid. The whole point of the GR is >> that its proponents can make any required work SEP if it succeeds. >

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-10-17 21:42 +0200, Ric Moore wrote: > On 10/17/2014 01:32 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: >> On 10/17/2014 1:29 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: >>> I finished the thread right before I posted, and there were only 4 seconds. >> >> Guess I missed some sub threads or something... >> >> Oh well, glad to see it wil

Re: preseeding question (yes, re. systemd / sysvinit-core)

2014-10-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-10-16 19:12 +0200, Joey Hess wrote: > Brian wrote: >> >> The init package is Priority: required. It pre-depends on >> >>systemd-sysv | sysvinit-core | upstart >> >> The first alternative is systemd-sysv, which pre-depends on systemd. >> >> There is no preseed command which can alte

Re: Who is systemd-gpt-auto-generator, and why does s/he not like my partition table?

2014-10-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-10-15 17:53 +0200, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Jape Person wrote: > >> I'm also having the drive checked by smartmontools at boot time and >> have received no warnings. > > You're basically not supposed to get I/O errors on drives like that. I'd > try running smartctl -a /d

Re: Who is systemd-gpt-auto-generator, and why does s/he not like my partition table?

2014-10-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-10-15 16:14 +0200, Jape Person wrote: > I am seeing this during the boot sequence on a Debian testing > installation. Sometimes it is actually left showing on TTY1 after the > DM (lightdm in this case) comes up, and sometimes not. > > From TTY1 > ... > systemd-gpt-auto-generator[152]: Fail

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-10-09 19:48 +0200, Reco wrote: > On Thu, 09 Oct 2014 19:17:46 +0200 > Erwan David wrote: > > That's one of the reasons I'm thinking to postpone that-pid1-process > migration to jessie+1. I can understand the need of killing a useful > tool for the greater cause (being upstream), but the t

Re: Lots of LSB related mesages at boot

2014-10-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-10-08 18:13 +0200, Hans wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 8. Oktober 2014, 17:49:47 schrieb Sven Joachim: > Hi Sven, > >> journalctl -u systemd-remount-fs.service > > Please look here: > > protheus2:~# journalctl -u systemd-remount-fs.service > -- Logs begin at Mi 2014-

Re: Lots of LSB related mesages at boot

2014-10-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-10-08 17:14 +0200, Hans wrote: > Tha last error I could associate to the drive, but I am stuck, how to fix > this. > > I get: > > protheus2:~# systemctl --failed list-units > UNIT LOAD ACTIVE SUBDESCRIPTION > ● systemd-remount-fs.service loaded failed failed

Re: Lots of LSB related mesages at boot

2014-10-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-10-07 18:15 +0200, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > after the last update (debian/jessie), I get a lot of LSB related messages > and > other stufff at boot. I presume you are using systemd? There is a new behavior in version 215, as soon as a unit fails to start systemd enters verbose mode

Re: systemd-shim to be removed?

2014-10-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-10-01 04:07 +0200, Rusi Mody wrote: > Yeah one more systemd thread [Not a rant!] > > I am getting that systemd-shim is to be removed. > Is this expected? > > This is on testing running aptitude dist-upgrade. Unfortunately, testing does not currently have compatible versions of systemd-shi

Re: Enabling a second graphic card

2014-10-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-10-01 16:39 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > I have recently acquired 2 (identical, 4/3 shaped) screens, so I > combined them with my current favorite screen on a computer which have > 2 graphic cards, but it seems that Debian did not enabled the second > card. > > I have trie

Re: Problem loading firmware in Debian Installer

2014-09-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-09-28 02:52 +0200, Rob Werfelmann wrote: > I'm not sure where to submit this bug as I am unsure if this is caused > by the installer or the linux kernel. Please look at [1] for known issues with the Jessie installer. > I'm using a daily net install (uses linux-image-3.16.2-amd64) and whe

Re: chromium >= 37.0.2062.117 on i386

2014-09-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-09-25 21:10 +0200, Alex Andreotti wrote: > Hello, > > is there a way to get a .deb of chromium >= 37.0.2062.117 on arch > i386? (unstable/sid) > (if need to be built it is ok if there's a debian/rules) Since the package FTBFS on the buildd, your only chance is to build from source. Whic

Re: Messages from starting services while booting

2014-09-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-09-25 13:04 +0200, Paul van der Vlis wrote: > I am using Wheezy, and on some machines I see messages from starting > services while booting, and on some machines I don't see them. > > Can somebody explain me how this works? I have the idea that I don't see > messages on fast machines. Are

Re: apt broken in latest update

2014-09-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-09-23 21:39 +0200, Paul Zimmerman wrote: > The recent security fixes to apt have broken its behavior with the DVD > install. It doesn't seem possible to have the DVD lines in > sources.list along with the repository entries anymore, which means > you are now stuck downloading anything and

Re: Cannot boot when /sbin/init is linked to /lib/systemd/systemd, but works with ../lib/systemd/systemd

2014-09-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-09-22 05:45 +0200, Steve M. Robbins wrote: > The package systemd-sysv installs a symlink ./sbin/init -> > /lib/systemd/systemd. The system fails to boot, complaining that > "/sbin/init" > can't be found. In bug #750360, I found a workaround that I have been using > for several months

Re: docker -> cgroupfs ->mountall -> plymouth ?

2014-09-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-09-16 10:51 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Why should installing cgroupfs-mount on a server (as recommended by > docker) require a graphical boot ? > (and if following the the recommends, install desktop-base, on a server... ? > > SHould I report a bug against mountall ? Rather agains

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-09-16 02:00 +0200, lee wrote: > Lisi Reisz writes: > >> On Saturday 13 September 2014 21:46:31 lee wrote: >>> You users, and the community members, >>> whoever they are, need to speak as well. >> >> Perhaps, just perhaps, many of them don't agree. > > Well, I've now seen two people speak

Re: Query about existence of way to free up unnecessary RAM usage

2014-09-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-09-09 20:13 +0200, Bret Busby wrote: > :~$ free > total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem: 16333856 16242704 91152 0 867841384384 > -/+ buffers/cache: 147715361562320 > Swap: 428603401764372 41095968 Tha

Re: git: how to figure out with a script what the last commit on remote repo is without fetching it

2014-09-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-09-07 02:01 +0200, lee wrote: > Sven Joachim writes: > >> On 2014-09-06 16:42 +0200, lee wrote: >> >>> When I run 'git diff', I don't get any output unless I have made local >>> changes which aren't committed yet. I'm not

Re: brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-09-07 02:30 +0200, lee wrote: > Slavko writes: > >> Ahoj, >> >> Dňa Sat, 06 Sep 2014 02:08:47 +0200 lee napísal: >> >>> Doug writes: >>> >>> > It didn't need systemd before, so why should it need it now? >>> >>> Debian has decided to feature several init systems, so any dependency >>>

Re: git: how to figure out with a script what the last commit on remote repo is without fetching it

2014-09-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-09-06 16:42 +0200, lee wrote: > When I run 'git diff', I don't get any output unless I have made local > changes which aren't committed yet. I'm not sure about 'git status': > > > [~/inst/emacs/emacs-git/emacs] git status > On branch master > Your branch and 'origin/master' have diverged,

Re: Where's the log

2014-09-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-09-02 17:13 +0200, The Wanderer wrote: > On 09/02/2014 at 10:05 AM, B wrote: > >> On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 09:44:36 -0400 The Wanderer >> wrote: >> >>> Did you already check dmesg? That's where I usually find the >>> messages which appear during a(n attempt at) suspend/resume. >> >> Of

Re: Patch wheezy's glibc to run on ancient kernel (2.6.16)?

2014-09-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-09-01 10:28 +0200, Clemens Eisserer wrote: > I would like to run debian wheezy on my nokia-770 (Linux-2.6.16.27) in a > chroot environment, unfourtunately chroot telling me the kernel is too old. > The latest version that worked this way is Debian Lenny, which is > unsupported since mid 20

Re: Errors at login : in which log can I get the message ?

2014-08-31 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-08-31 15:28 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > At login I get the following errors : > [ 21.563380] systemd-logind[2908]: Failed to start unit > user@1000.service: Unknown unit: user@1000.service > [ 21.563408] systemd-logind[2908]: Failed to start user service: > Unknown unit: user@1000.serv

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-08-10 14:46 +0200, The Wanderer wrote: > On 08/10/2014 02:45 AM, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > >> - >> If halt or reboot is called when the system is not in runlevel 0 >> or 6, in other words when it's running normally, shutdown will be >> invoked instead (with the -h or -r flag). For

Re: aptitude / apt-get status output

2014-08-03 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-08-03 18:04 +0200, John Bleichert wrote: > After running update/upgrade, I always get the usual status messages: > > root@boogie:~# aptitude update > <...> > Current status: 33 updates [+24], 25530 new [+24]. It means there are 33 upgradable packages, 24 more than before you ran "aptitude

Re: fsck progress not shown on boot with systemd as pid 1

2014-08-03 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-08-03 09:16 +0200, Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 8:53 PM, The Wanderer wrote: >> On 08/02/2014 03:15 PM, Brian wrote: >>> On Sat 02 Aug 2014 at 12:24:46 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Brian wrote: > > With sysvinit the default at booting is for the screen messages > to

Re: systemd waisted 5 hours of my work time today

2014-07-25 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-25 22:33 +0200, Bob Holtzman wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 02:45:28PM +0100, Brian wrote: > >...snip.. >> >> Be resolute! Be bold! Plan ahead with November in mind. Read >> >>https://lists.debian.org/87mwc9gfsw@xoog.err.no >> >> very, very carefully. If it

Re: [SOLVED] Re: inserting kernel modules on startup

2014-07-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-24 20:42 +0200, Gary Dale wrote: > I think you missed the point. The blacklist was in fglrx.conf where it > makes sense to not load the radeon module if I'm loading the fglrx > proprietary one. Again, this was necessary back when I was playing > around with the fglrx driver. I would hav

Re: [SOLVED] Re: inserting kernel modules on startup

2014-07-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-24 19:49 +0200, Gary Dale wrote: > OK, that did it. Removing /etc/modprobe.d/fglrx.conf allowed the > radeon kernel module to load. You don't need to list it in /etc/modules anymore then, since udev will load it automatically for you. > I have no idea why this just started > happening

Re: systemd waisted 5 hours of my work time today

2014-07-24 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-24 16:18 +0200, Sharon Kimble wrote: > Johann Spies writes: > >> This morning my work laptop would not boot.  I could not even get to >> single user mode initially and when I got  as far as that I could >> not >> type anything on the terminal.  I suspect some upgrade yesterday caused i

Re: Sid Systemd upgrade

2014-07-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-22 00:46 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > I assume this partition on the removable drive is not marked "noauto" or > "nofail" > > Since systemd can't know which mount points are essential for your > system to come up properly, the default is to drop you into a rescue > shell if the devices

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-21 10:18 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > I switched today, and for me booting is slow, much slowzer than before. Run "systemd-analyze time" to see how long the boot actually took and "systemd-analyze blame" to see which units took the most time. > And booting is silent : almost no informa

Re: Lenny -> Squeeze -> Wheezy; no eth0 on Squeeze reboot

2014-07-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-20 19:53 +0200, Ron Leach wrote: > During an upgrade attempt of a Lenny server to Wheezy (the Debian docs > say do this via Squeeze) I can't restart the Squeeze system after > executing > # apt-get upgrade > # apt-get dist-upgrade > The machine is awkward to see, or get at, so I'm fairl

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-19 19:14 +0200, Slavko wrote: > policykit-1 depends on libpam-systemd and libsystemd-login0. > > But here https://packages.debian.org/jessie/policykit-1 can see: > > [not kfreebsd-amd64, kfreebsd-i386] > > Then it seems, that there is way to have policykit without systemd. The alternat

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-19 00:22 +0200, Steve Litt wrote: > And finally, note that the guy's email doesn't specifically recommend > systemd, and as a matter of fact seems to gravitate toward upstart, This is quite easily explained by the fact that his mail predates the first systemd release by seven months.

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-18 17:21 +0200, Steve Litt wrote: > The other thing is, a lot of people thought the current init system was > working just fine. They should read the mail[1] by one of its maintainers which states that it was (and is) _not_ "working just fine", and that a replacement has long been over

Re: set boot parameter vga=ask before debian wheezy 7.6 dvd install

2014-07-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-17 07:57 +0200, Dennis Luehring wrote: > Am 17.07.2014 07:36, schrieb Sven Joachim: >> I don't think there's a linux16 command on sparc, for lack of x86 real >> mode. > > does that mean vga=ask is an x86 only feature? According to Documentation/kernel-pa

Re: nvidia-driver disappeared from testing

2014-07-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-17 01:53 +0200, Jonas Lippuner wrote: > It looks like the nvidia-driver package disappeared from > testing/jessie. When I try to install it from sid, it complains about > broken dependencies. Anybody else seeing this? Anybody know how to fix it? The Nvidia drivers have been removed fro

Re: set boot parameter vga=ask before debian wheezy 7.6 dvd install

2014-07-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-17 01:22 +0200, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 03:41:26 -0400 (EDT), Dennis Luehring wrote: >> >> i try to install an qemu-sparc version of debian wheezy 7.6 (dvd-iso) >> the qemu graphics emulation is not full ready yet (freezing very early, >> textmode works) so i want

Re: Sid - grubpc-bin isc-dhcp-client bugs

2014-07-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-09 19:43 +0200, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2014-07-09 08:59 +0200, Tom H wrote: >>> This one was against 2.02~beta2-7 in experimental. >> >> In unstable, not in experimental. > > I was just looking at

Re: Sid - grubpc-bin isc-dhcp-client bugs

2014-07-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-09 08:59 +0200, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Stephen Allen > wrote: >> >> For some time these bugs have existed in SID: >> >> critical bugs of grub-pc-bin (2.00-22 → 2.02~beta2-10) >> #741464 - grub-pc-bin: hangs after displaying boot menu > > This one was against 2

Re: behavior of sudo -E

2014-07-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-08 16:53 +0200, Linux-Fan wrote: > On 07/08/2014 04:42 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> However, in that case I do not understand this behavior below: >> >> sudo -E which enw >> >> {no output} >> >> sudo -E enw >> >> sudo: enw: command not found > > I do not understand it either.

Re: building .debs with "+b1" on the end

2014-07-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-07 20:51 +0200, Brian Sammon wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jul 2014 15:55:22 +0100 > Jonathan Dowland wrote: > >> Packages in the archive with a "+bN" version suffix, such as "+b1", have be >> 'binNMUd': essentially rebuilt without any source changes because the >> environment has changed (such a

Re: New 64bit install. More problems.

2014-07-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-06 20:54 +0200, d_ba...@012.net.il wrote: > 2. No user can access KDE any more. Upgraded something that showed no > error (used reportbug-ng to check since apt-llistbugs is broken) and > now, no kdm login can access the dbus. Screen just blinks and returns > to login. kdm.log cites the

Re: Chown Foibles

2014-07-05 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-05 22:56 +0200, David Baron wrote: > Any attempt to chown -R thisuser:thisuser /home/thisuser/.* > > For example,to reset permissions of hidden items, will change ALL users' home > folders, everything. Actually, on the surface, this might seem correct > behavior because of the '.' Thi

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-05 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-05 20:25 +0200, Steve Litt wrote: > Anyway, I don't think a dislike of systemd is, by necessity, offtopic. > Systemd is a substantial change, not only in the operating system, but > in philosophy. Unix was built as a sort of Erector Set emphasizing a > bunch of small parts that could be

Re: overcoming apt's resistance to broken packages

2014-06-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-06-27 21:58 +0200, The Wanderer wrote: > On 06/27/2014 03:31 PM, Mike McClain wrote: > >> I don't need xserver-xorg-video-mach64 or xserver-xorg-video-r128 to >> run X on my machine but xserver-xorg-video-radeon comes bundled with >> them and xserver-xorg-video-ati. > > What do you mean by

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: meaning of an error message

2014-06-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-06-21 11:02 +0200, François Patte wrote: > Le 21/06/2014 10:54, Sven Joachim a écrit : >> On 2014-06-21 10:32 +0200, François Patte wrote: >> >>> When I try to user acroread on debian wheezy, I get this error >>> message: >>> >>>

Re: meaning of an error message

2014-06-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-06-21 10:32 +0200, François Patte wrote: > When I try to user acroread on debian wheezy, I get this error message: > > /opt/Adobe/Reader9/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: relocation error: > /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: symbol _dl_find_dso_for_object, > version GLIBC_PRIVATE not

Re: experimenting with dpkg: installing on a different system

2014-06-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-06-20 17:42 +0200, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > First, a warning: I am basically trying to reinvent a wheel, only for > my pleasure and knowledge. Good luck. As you had already noticed, this wheel is going to have some rough corners, and just using debootstrap is much easier.

Re: systemd man pages

2014-06-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-06-19 20:56 +0200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 09:21:11PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2014-06-18 20:43 +0200, Chris Bannister wrote: >> >> >> > Does anyone know where the manpages for systemd are. >> >> In the usual

Re: systemd man pages

2014-06-18 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-06-18 20:43 +0200, Chris Bannister wrote: > Does anyone know where the manpages for systemd are. In the usual places, "dpkg -L systemd | grep /usr/share/man". > e.g. there is no vconsole.conf man(5) That's because systemd-vconsole-setup.service is disabled in Debian, it clashes with co

Re: Chromium cannot access pages.

2014-06-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-06-17 14:39 +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 12:10:21PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> [...] >> For every page I request, even the default Google-search page it normally >> displays in a new tab, chromium tells me >> >> : Aw, Snap! >> [...] >> Even the 'about chromiu

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

2014-06-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-06-15 19:59 +0200, Chris Bannister wrote: > Does this seem necessary? > > root@tal:~# apt-get clean > root@tal:~# df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda536G 34G 266M 100% / > root@tal:~# apt-get update > [...] > root@tal:~# df -h > Filesystem Si

Re: Listing packages installed from experimental

2014-06-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-06-10 02:25 +0200, David Glover-Aoki wrote: > I'm running wheezy but have some packages installed from experimental. > > How can I list all the packages currently installed from experimental? $ aptitude search "~S ~i ~Aexperimental" HTH, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-use

Re: Sid Foibles

2014-06-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-06-09 09:23 +0200, David Baron wrote: > A lot of "held" packages: > > libxfont, libxfont-dev --> remove xfs. Is xfs gone/deprecated? It has been removed from unstable five months ago[1], I dare say that it had been deprecated for many years already. > network-manger, ppp,etc --> remove s

Re: chromium doesn't launch

2014-06-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-06-06 14:49 +0200, Joel Rees wrote: > Anybody have any ideas why? > > grep of Xorg.0.log or whatever that was produced this error message, I > have no idea whether it's relevant: > > AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/unichrome_dri.so > failed (/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/u

Re: Error message: Possible missing firmware during linux-image upgrade

2014-05-26 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-26 17:03 +0200, Reco wrote: > On Mon, 26 May 2014 04:53:03 -0700 (PDT) > Horatio Leragon wrote: > >> Is this a bug? > > A fixed one (see below). > > >> What should I have done under the above circumstances? > > Install firmware-realtek from the backports. This would get rid of the mes

Re: repeatable dpkg-buildpackage

2014-05-26 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-26 17:06 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2014-05-26 at 18:58 +0400, Reco wrote: >> fakeroot > > ... regarding to some claims on this list is a PITA, at least when > building a kernel. *All* Debian packages are built using fakeroot, and this works just fine. > I run my scripts to

Re: Need advice about an error messange that worries me in Wheezy

2014-05-22 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-23 00:41 +0200, Paul E Condon wrote: > Under Wheezy, every time I print a document I get and error message which > reads verbatim: > > p11-kit: couldn't load module: > /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: > /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/gnome-keyring-pkcs11.so: canno

Re: systemd - excessive session-creation time

2014-05-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-18 07:09 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 18 mai 14, 12:49:08, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> Although initial tty session (from boot) is quicker than with >> sysvinit, additional tty sessions are very slow to start, in the order >> of 5 seconds (which seems like an eternity). > ... >>

Re: systemd situation in Jesssie

2014-05-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-17 21:21 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Le 17/05/2014 20:57, Sven Joachim a écrit : >> On 2014-05-17 19:58 +0200, Martin Vegter wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I am wondering whether systemd will be mandatory in Jessie. >>> At the moment, I

Re: systemd situation in Jesssie

2014-05-17 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-17 19:58 +0200, Martin Vegter wrote: > Hello, > > I am wondering whether systemd will be mandatory in Jessie. > At the moment, I can install Jessie without systemd. Will this stay so, > or will this change somewhere before Jessie becomes stable? Depending on your needs, installing syst

Re: Scrolling issues with Icedove

2014-05-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-15 21:34 +0200, A Debian User wrote: > When you open an email in a tab, scroll down, then leave it (remove > focus from it), when you come back, you'll see that it's returned to > the top of the email (has scrolled back all the way up). > > What gives? Shouldn't you get to go back where

Re: Will Iceweasel stay open source?

2014-05-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-15 19:51 +0200, Eelis wrote: > I read[1] that Firefox will start shipping parts for which they won't > provide the source code (something to do with DRM..). You read incorrectly, here is the relevant part from [1]: , | As plugins today, the CDM itself will be distributed by Adobe

Re: Filespace exhaustion on '/' partition

2014-05-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-11 22:46 +0200, Carl Johnson wrote: > Ron Leach writes: > >> On 11/05/2014 17:11, Sven Joachim wrote: >>> # lsof | grep deleted | wc -l >> >> # lsof | grep deleted | wc -l >> 3 >> # >> >> But it took 3 or 4 seconds to count them

Re: Filespace exhaustion on '/' partition

2014-05-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-11 18:02 +0200, Ron Leach wrote: > server4:/# du / -hx --max-depth=1 > 0 /var > 0 /nfs > 1.0K/boot > 1.0K/boot2 > 0 /home > 4.0K/tmp > 0 /usr > 80M /etc > 0 /media > 64M /lib > 5.0M/sbin > 0 /selinux > 4.1M/bin > 0 /d

Re: minimal X.org xserver installation on Debian Wheezy

2014-05-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-11 11:43 +0200, Brian wrote: > On Sun 11 May 2014 at 00:29:55 +, Martin T wrote: > >> I installed Debian Wheezy with no desktop environment as I would like >> to use lightweight dwm window manager instead. However, as a first >> step, I need to install xserver. I would like to insta

Re: How to get a log of fsck on boot partition when using systemd-sysv

2014-05-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-10 23:49 +0200, Jape Person wrote: > In various logs on these systems I see an indication that "touch > /forcefsck" doesn't work with systemd running the show, and that > adding > > fsck.mode=force > > to the linux boot line in Grub is now the proper way to force fsck to > run at boot t

Re: Default & supported service manager in Wheezy

2014-05-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-10 22:40 +0200, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 2:19 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby > wrote: > > >> A long time ago, when I was young ;-), services used to be managed with >> "invoke-rc.d" & "update-rc.d" on Debian. > > I've never understood why, but "invoke-rc.d" and "update-rc.d"

Re: policykit and systemd

2014-05-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-10 13:02 +0200, Slavko wrote: > Dňa Sat, 10 May 2014 12:15:32 +0200 Sven Joachim > napísal: > >> On 2014-05-10 11:16 +0200, Slavko wrote: >> >> > Please, is the (in)direct dependency of the policykit on the >> > systemd bug or it is really neede

Re: policykit and systemd

2014-05-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-10 11:16 +0200, Slavko wrote: > Hi, > > there was a lot of discussions about systemd. I don't want to start > another one, but latest pilicykit update in testing gets policykit > depends on systemd (via libpam-systemd). What it really needs is a working logind, therefore the dependency

Re: [multiarch] easy fix for interarchitectural package conflict?

2014-05-04 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-04 22:04 +0200, Tom Roche wrote: > summary: jessie/sid:amd64 box must install an i386 package which depends on > libgif4:i386, but > > - libgif4:i386 conflicts with libgif4:amd64 It seems you are running some derivative which ships an older version of libgif4 than the one in jessie/si

Re: Chromium not installable on Testing

2014-05-04 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-04 16:17 +0200, Carl Fink wrote: > So a few weeks ago Chromium came uninstalled and couldn't be reinstalled. > > When I tried to install it I got this: > > > > root@rocket:/data/vids# apt-get install chromium > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading st

Re: `ls` shows file, `bash` says "No such file" ???

2014-05-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-05-03 06:25 +0200, Tom Roche wrote: > Tom Roche Fri, 02 May 2014 22:25:34 -0400 >>> For background on my problem (and why I very much need to solve it), see >>> http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=190&t=166506&p=855700#p855700 > >>> But the essence of the problem appears to be > >

Re: help to find package for libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2

2014-04-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-04-21 07:30 +0200, patel rajendra wrote: > I am using Ubuntu 10.04 and one of my program needs libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2 > file. That must be a really antique program which predates any version of Ubuntu. > Can anyone point to right package from where I can install this file to my > sys

Re: Debian 7.4 -- Intel e1000e module too old ...

2014-04-20 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-04-20 18:47 +0200, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > Debian 7.4 -- Intel e1000e module too old ... > > > [SOLVED]Ethernet card intel I217-LM not recognized by Wheezy > > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=112327 > > Same onbaord NIC in HP 600 G1 machines, hope this helps some people. > >

Re: unpack error

2014-04-16 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-04-16 02:54 +0200, Frank McCormick wrote: > I installed youtube-dl on the Sid installation tonight > and noticed a dpkg error which didn't halt the process. > > This is what happened: > > > Selecting previously unselected package libavdevice53:i386. > (Reading database ... 147371 files an

Re: apt-get doesn't upgrade, but synaptic does

2014-04-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-04-13 05:59 +0200, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Sat, 12 Apr 2014, Brad Rogers wrote: > >> On Fri, 11 Apr 2014 18:28:04 -0700 >> Patrick Bartek wrote: >> >> Hello Patrick, >> >> >uninstall or purge libreoffice from the system. 'apt-get purge >> >libreoffice' won't do it. I've done tests,

Re: OpenSSH Packages No Longer Suggest openssh-blacklist

2014-04-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-04-10 23:30 +0200, Alex Robbins wrote: > I have been using Debian Testing (Jessie) and tried to upgrade today, and > aptitude tried to remove openssh-blacklist and openssh-blacklist-extra > as they > were no longer used. Upon further inspection, in... > > Debian Wheezy: > openssh-client a

Re: dpkg -i first.dep second.dep: installs but does not configure one?

2014-04-10 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-04-10 17:02 +0200, Steffen Dettmer wrote: > On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> > Le 03.04.2014 11:46, Steffen Dettmer a écrit : >> > > $ dpkg -i first.dep second.dep >> > > >> > > pre-dependency problem: >> >

Re: openssl 101-g not in packages.gz

2014-04-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-04-08 20:49 +0200, Hans wrote: >> It should happen with the next mirror push. For some reason neither >> jessie nor sid have seen updates this afternoon yet, at least not on >> ftp.de.debian.org. >> >> Cheers, >>Sven > Hi Sven. > > This was exactly the server I was looking at. I

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