Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-23 Thread steve
Le 22-01-2021, à 14:59:27 +0200, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : On Vi, 22 ian 21, 08:08:57, steve wrote: Le 21-01-2021, à 09:45:18 +0200, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : > On Jo, 21 ian 21, 08:34:34, steve wrote: > > I have rebooted with udev_log=debug in /etc/udev/udev.conf. I see > > >

Can I remove i386 packages?

2021-01-23 Thread steve
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Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-21 Thread steve
Le 21-01-2021, à 09:45:18 +0200, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : On Jo, 21 ian 21, 08:34:34, steve wrote: I have rebooted with udev_log=debug in /etc/udev/udev.conf. I see Jan 21 08:15:28 box systemd-udevd[607]: sdc6: Failed to update device symlinks: Too many levels of symbolic links Jan 21 08:15

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-21 Thread steve
Hi, Le 21-01-2021, à 20:41:05 -0600, David Wright a écrit : On Thu 21 Jan 2021 at 08:34:34 (+0100), steve wrote: I have rebooted with udev_log=debug in /etc/udev/udev.conf. I see Jan 21 08:15:28 box systemd-udevd[607]: sdc6: Failed to update device symlinks: Too many levels of symbolic

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-20 Thread steve
ing symlink '/dev/disk/by-path/pci-:00:17.0-ata-2-part6' to '../../sdc6' And the same for other partitions which are all part of a Raid1 array. Other partitions are not impacted. So I guess this is related. But I'm blocked now. Help please. Thanks Steve

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-20 Thread steve
Le 20-01-2021, à 16:06:53 -0500, Stefan Monnier a écrit : Le 20-01-2021, à 10:15:47 -0500, Stefan Monnier a écrit : # find /dev -follow -printf "" You want `-mount` in there so you don't enter things like `/dev/fd` or `/dev/shm`. I tried that on / Not a good idea: the `-mount` will then pre

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-20 Thread steve
Le 20-01-2021, à 10:15:47 -0500, Stefan Monnier a écrit : # find /dev -follow -printf "" You want `-mount` in there so you don't enter things like `/dev/fd` or `/dev/shm`. I tried that on / and got no output at all. But still have the same messages in syslog at boot time. Thanks.

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-20 Thread steve
Le 20-01-2021, à 11:30:50 +0100, Erwan David a écrit : What is strange is that it is always /dev/fd/4 that is missing, even after a reboot. it is not missing : it disapears. And /dev/fd/4 is a link to a file opend by find itself, it is sufficient that find closes it and the name does not e

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-20 Thread steve
Le 20-01-2021, à 11:20:25 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : The /proc file system is pretty interesting indeed. But I don't think that is at the root of your strange problem. ... My current is to find out why my system is spitting out these 'too many symnolic links' messages and then fix it

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-20 Thread steve
n enough patience :-) I' guess so. My current is to find out why my system is spitting out these 'too many symnolic links' messages and then fix it. Thanks a lot for all your explanation ! Steve

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-20 Thread steve
Thanks Mike and Thomas for the answers. Le 20-01-2021, à 10:15:09 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 09:40:46AM +0100, steve wrote: Question. What does the following mean? # find /dev -follow -printf "" find: '/dev/fd/4': No such file or directory

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-20 Thread steve
Question. What does the following mean? # find /dev -follow -printf "" find: '/dev/fd/4': No such file or directory

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-19 Thread steve
Oups, spoke too quickly. I decreased udev log level, rebooted and the messages came back in syslog.

[SOLVED] Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-19 Thread steve
ue 19 Jan 2021 at 11:15:05 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 04:03:14PM +0100, steve wrote: > > It'd be interesting to know which one your startup is choking on. > > What does it mean more precisely? The lines come from syslog and only > mention partitions

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-19 Thread steve
Le 19-01-2021, à 17:11:58 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : >It'd be interesting to know which one your startup is choking on. What does it mean more precisely? The lines come from syslog and only mention partitions: Jan 19 09:09:33 box systemd-udevd[607]: sdg6: Failed to update device symlink

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-19 Thread steve
Le 19-01-2021, à 15:53:00 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : find /usr -follow -printf "" find: Boucle détectée dans le système de fichiers ; « ‘/usr/bin/X11’ » est dans la même boucle que ‘/usr/bin’. ls -l /usr/bin/X11 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 6 mai 2013 /usr/bin/X11 -> . find /sys -follow

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-19 Thread steve
Le 19-01-2021, à 14:49:36 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 07:41:13AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 10:03:12AM +0100, steve wrote: > Jan 19 09:47:52 box systemd-udevd[611]: sdg5: Failed to update device symlinks: Too many levels of symbolic li

Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-19 Thread steve
with different kernel versions. I have spent a lot of time trying to troubleshoot this but without any success yet. Help would be very much appreciated. Thanks Steve

Re: SanDisk USB stick problem

2020-12-08 Thread steve
Hi, Le 08-12-2020, à 08:29:47 -0700, Fred a écrit : Hello, I bought a SanDisk Cruzer Glide USB stick. The fine print on the package says it has SecureAccess software. It is so secure it prevents me from writing to it without running the included Bill Gates cancerous, virus infested, scour

Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

2020-12-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
Darac wrote: >On 04/12/2020 11:25, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> We finally have a cross-grading option in Debian that takes away a lot >> of the pain: >> >> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/debian-crossgrader >> >> but it's definitely not something I

Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

2020-12-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
ng them as the number of i386 >installs that are worth cross-grading is probably quite low and >decreasing daily. We finally have a cross-grading option in Debian that takes away a lot of the pain: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/debian-crossgrader but it's definitely not somethin

Re: Redundancy for EFI System Partition: what do people do in 2020?

2020-11-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
re feeling keen/brave would be to write an EFI driver for Linux SW RAID. I'd expect the EDK2 folks would be very happy if somebody wanted to do that... I had a conversation a few years back with some guys at one large PC vendor who were apparently considering adding firmware support like this. Then things went quiet and I can only assume it's not coming from them... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "You can't barbecue lettuce!" -- Ellie Crane

Re: Question: SSD speed

2020-10-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
k to older modes as needed for compatibility with the controllers in your computers. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "You can't barbecue lettuce!" -- Ellie Crane

Re: Mounting /dev/shm noexec

2020-10-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
bit of using /dev/shm for writing temporary trampolines for cross-language calls, and they need to be executable. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "You can't barbecue lettuce!" -- Ellie Crane

Re: grub broke boot of debian stable: error: symbol 'grub_calloc' not found

2020-07-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
grub already, >2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u2. Upgrade again, and you trouble should go away. No, the only change there was a fix for EFI chainloading. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "You can't barbecue lettuce!" -- Ellie Crane

Re: Slic3r --gui won't run

2020-07-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
7;s scope to get involved or to convince existing developers to work on different stuff. On the Pi 4, it looks like there's finally (IMHO) a good option - using an EDK2 build in flash allows you to have a properly Free OS on top of that, using UEFI to boot. If I had an interest in the Pi,

Re: [OT] Regular DKIM issues on this ML (was: Re: why !oh why Debian and application list)

2020-06-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
inserted it. Nod. Smartlist is based on procmail, and that is keen on adding ">" to the beginning of lines starting with "From", even when it's *not* working on mbox-style folders. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Armed w

Re: SimpleBackportCreation attempt says: The value 'unstable' is invalid for APT::Default-Release

2020-06-12 Thread steve
Calm down Greg and after that have a look at https://packages.debian.org/sid/approx Thanks. Steve Le 12-06-2020, à 12:33:02 -0400, Greg Wooledge a écrit : On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 07:15:20PM +0300, Reco wrote: > unicorn:~$ host approx > Host approx not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) LOL. So

Re: Buster install with UEFI boot not working

2020-06-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
problem here when we added SB support until I fixed it. >2. Do I have to change default grub.conf file in >debian-installer/amd64/grub/grub.cfg. There are suggestions to use >linuxefi and initrdefi instead of linux and initrd in grub.cfg . Not at all, no. The default grub config shoul

Re: Dual Prolific PL2303 Serial Port USB devices have iSerial of 0?

2020-05-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
I abandoned them. FTDI cost more, but are massively more reliable in my experience. This is definitely a case of "you get what you pay for". -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents qua

Re: Changing timestamps in video files

2020-05-19 Thread Steve Keller
en more than 3 timestamps in them. I could change the strings in the files using an editor that supports binary files or write a small program to do it. But I don't know if that would corrupt the files, e.g. because of CRC for some header, or if there are further non-ASCII timestamps that strings(1) wouldn't find. Therefore my question if there's a tool to do it. Steve

Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition?

2020-05-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
rmware updates later. It's likely to be difficult to resize after the fact. You can choose a smaller size *at your own risk*, but d-i will complain a lot if you try to go very small, below ~32MiB. HTH! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com

Remote terminal: xterm -e ssh vs. ssh xterm

2020-04-28 Thread Steve Keller
: The latter will produce more overhead as it runs the X11 protocol through the ssh tunnel. Steve

Changing timestamps in video files

2020-04-28 Thread Steve Keller
Is there any tool in Debian that is able to change the timestamp in video files, e.g. .mov, .avi, .mp4, etc.? For image files I use jhead -ta but I haven't found anything for video. Steve

Re: For all specimens of Homo sapiens - about COVID19

2020-04-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
the ability to opt out of >this chipping nonsense? Stay tuned. This is very much off-topic for debian-user, please take it elsewhere? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents quality

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
an (and will) moderate or block those people where necessary. We value free speech, but that does *not* extend to giving contributors a free pass to harass or abuse others. I hope you understand that. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Armed

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
been a Debian developer for over a decade, and was DPL for a year. He understands the project, and is suggesting ways to help engage with more people too. *I'm* not such a fan of discourse myself, but equally mailing lists are also not popular with a lot of people. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge

Re: failure to install debian

2020-03-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
eft on device. OK. Your system has run out of space to store a boot variable. These are normally stored in NVRAM (flash) by the firmware. The most common cause I've seen for this is error logs stored in /sys/fs/pstore/ taking up lots of space. Could you check and see if you have any files ther

Re: Connection closed by [IP] port [port] [preauth]

2020-02-25 Thread steve
Le 24-02-2020, à 15:51:53 -0500, Dan Ritter a écrit : steve wrote: Hi there, Since February 11th at 00:25:09, I am getting the following every 12 secondes: Feb 11 00:25:09 box sshd[17733]: Connection closed by 118.126.105.120 port 54422 [preauth] And when I say every 12 seconds, it is

Re: Encrypted /boot password has to be entered twice

2020-02-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
/boot, and then Linux needs it separately. Unfortunately there isn't a way for Grub to pass the passphrase to Linux so it has to ask you again. People are looking at ways to make this work better... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents quality of Discipline, Honor, Integrity and Loyalty. Now you don't have to be a Caesar to concord the digital world while feeling safe and proud.

Connection closed by [IP] port [port] [preauth]

2020-02-24 Thread steve
Hi there, Since February 11th at 00:25:09, I am getting the following every 12 secondes: Feb 11 00:25:09 box sshd[17733]: Connection closed by 118.126.105.120 port 54422 [preauth] And when I say every 12 seconds, it is really every 12 seconds, and this is now going on for more than 13 days, wi

Re: jigdo error

2020-02-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
ady pointed you at other options, but if you're happy to help then I'd like to try and work out what's gone wrong here with jigdo. I'm the maintainer. after all... :-) Which version of jigdo are you using, please? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports

2020-02-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
erfectly well for all those years 24/7. That particular model is limited on supported disk sizes, to 2T IIRC - I bought one from ebay and it was no use at all. My own choice for more SATA/SAS ports is a Highpoint RocketRAID 2720 - 8 ports on a PCIe 2.0 x8 connector. S

Re: Looking for Debian unofficial install for mac with firmware...

2020-02-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
image as if it *should* be there, but it's not in the >list of files. Is that an oversight, or was there a conscious >decision to drop "mac" support with 10.3 ? Oops, no. I think that's a bug in the code that generates that web page. I'll fix that now. -- Stev

Re: Fresh install UEFI debian-10.2.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1 will not boot

2020-02-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
;"debian". Exit. > >Boots into Debian GNU/Linux. >Thanks! :-) \o/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents quality of Discipline, Honor, Integrity and Loyalty. Now yo

Re: Fresh install UEFI debian-10.2.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1 will not boot

2020-02-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
David wrote: >On 2020-02-07 16:47, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> If you *do* want to install to the removable media path too, then we >> also support that but you have to ask for it. See >> >> >> https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI#Force_grub-efi_installation_to

Re: Fresh install UEFI debian-10.2.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1 will not boot

2020-02-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
Apologies for the slow response - I've had 3 back-to-back conferences and I'm just catching up on mail... :-/ David wrote: >On 2020-01-30 16:47, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> OK. How exactly have you partitioned the target USB drive? What >> files are on the EFI System Part

Re: Fresh install UEFI debian-10.2.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1 will not boot

2020-01-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
s for users. We explicitly disrecommend it for that exact reason. This is even more important with new features like UEFI and Secure Boot. Rufus is a different matter - it has a "DD mode" which *is* useful for writing an image to a USB stick unmolested. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, U

Re: Fresh install UEFI debian-10.2.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1 will not boot

2020-01-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
grub/x86_64-efi/modinfo.sh > > >It seems /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi/modinfo.sh is missing. You don't need to tell grub-install to use x86_64-efi-signed as a target - it should work things out automatically and install shim etc. as needed. There is *not* a modinfo.sh

Re: MUA CLI IMAP and SMTP without ncurses interface

2020-01-04 Thread Steve Kemp
ut I just exec "/usr/sbin/sendmail .." for outgoing mail, and that's a pretty common approach. <https://github.com/lumail/lumail/> Steve -- https://steve.fi/

Re: help with installation?

2019-12-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
ng the core packages that are marked as "standard" in the Debian archive. It's a small system that you might use for a server or in a VM where you don't want all the extra packages that the GUI desktops use. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Replacement for lineakd?

2019-12-04 Thread Steve Kemp
imedia keys. Steve --

Library versions, SONAMEs,and symbol versions

2019-11-08 Thread Steve Keller
curl_easy_init@CURL_OPENSSL_4 will work with my-binary, can I run it using that new symbol instead of the old one, i.e. don't care about the symbol version? Steve

Re: Default Debian install harassed me

2019-10-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 12:00:11AM +0300, goleo . wrote: >On Sun, Oct 6, 2019 at 10:49 PM Steve McIntyre <93...@debian.org> wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 06, 2019 at 09:50:54PM +0300, goleo . wrote: >> >Hi. >> > >> >After installing Debian 10 on my laptop

Re: Default Debian install harassed me

2019-10-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
t;xarchiver" and choose "Mark for Removal" or >"Mark for Complete Removal" it says it'll install Ark, >KDE 5 Frameworks and GNUSTEP. > >Here is the video proof: >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1IoGQP1omE I don't see any harassment h

Re: kernel unsigned

2019-10-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
think of where it >would be needed. It's only *needed* if you're doing SB, but even if you have SB disabled there is basically no downside to having the signed packages installed. Things will work just fine, just taking a *tiny* bit more disk space. Hence we've defaulted to doi

Re: Debian Buster update error

2019-09-26 Thread steve
Le 26-09-2019, à 11:36:33 +, c...@riseup.net a écrit : After applying your solution, it still does not work and gives me the following error apt-get autoremove Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remov

Re: I support the founder of FreeSoftware

2019-09-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
or spreading lies dis >and mis-information about our duly elected and beloved President, Donald >John Trump. > >Donald Trump will go down in history as the greatest President in the >last 100 years, maybe more. This has no place at all on the Debian mail

Re: Linux Journal epub files

2019-09-09 Thread steve
Le 09-09-2019, à 08:00:49 -0700, Marc Shapiro a écrit : I tried to get the items from the archives suggested by other posters, but did not find epubs.  The no login required link from LJ was dead by the time I got to it.  It died fast.  That is why I have this issue.  I suppose filling in thos

Re: A followup on github discussion

2019-07-26 Thread Steve Kemp
te for affected users, it is hard to spin this as the company being anti-anything. Steve -- https://www.steve.org.uk/

Re: Question on vgconvert

2019-06-25 Thread Steve Keller
nt (it's only metadata rewrite). > > AFAIK no PE should be influenced. We have done the conversion and it worked like a charm. Also the following massive reorganization using pvmove worked fine. Steve

Perl does not support utime with nanosecond resolution

2019-05-17 Thread Steve Keller
.26, supports this: $ cat /etc/debian_version buster/sid $ perl -e "use Time::HiRes qw(stat);" $ perl -e "use Time::HiRes qw(utime);" $ What's the reason for this and can I enable utime() with nanosecond support in Debian stretch? Steve

Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked? - Bradley M. Kuhn is not an attorney (he should go get his JD and get licensed).

2019-05-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
ock.li. Easily blocked/ignored. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com There's no sensation to compare with this Suspended animation, A state of bliss

Re: buster VM does not always start sshd

2019-05-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
is lack of randomness at boot. Check your boot messages for "crng init done". This is biting lots of people. If you're running a VM, look into how to share a random device from the host. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Armed w

Re: Basic concepts and proper useage of UEFI

2019-05-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
sing/updating boot variables via UEFI Runtime Services. You can only set those variables up when your system is already running in UEFI mode. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents quality of

Re: Verifying authenticity of Debian CDs

2019-04-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
in 'SHA512SUMS' > >So you know that the checksumers really detect nearly all damages of >debian-9.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso. > >-- > >@ Steve McIntyre (maintainer of debian-cd): > >Do you agree with the instructions above ? Yes, th

Re: stretch install for amd64-9.8.0 problems.

2019-03-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
Gene Heskett wrote: >On Wednesday 27 March 2019 13:31:35 Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> In article <201903271310.25490.ghesk...@shentel.net> you write: >> >I pulled and burnt the netinstall, bad burn or bad checksum, but >> > can't find the checksums for the

Sequential boot with systemd?

2019-03-27 Thread Steve Keller
Is it possible to configure systemd to *not* start services in parallel? I'd prefer deterministic boot with readable boot messages. With parallel start, messages of different services get intermingled and it's much more difficult to identify possible problems. Steve

Re: stretch install for amd64-9.8.0 problems.

2019-03-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
nload. jigdo-lite should fall back (eventually) to snapshot.debian.org and find all its files there. Although for 9.8 (the current release!) all the files should be on the normal mirrors already. Which files is it not finding? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st.

Re: Choosing an image for my cloud server,

2019-03-19 Thread Steve Kemp
milar if you screwep your kernel, or firewall all traffic out.) Steve -- https://steve.fi/

Re: roundcube installer web helper problem

2019-03-02 Thread Steve Kemp
te to the *parent* directory. Writing the file itself isn't sufficient. Steve -- https://steve.fi/

Re: Bug with soft raid?

2019-02-20 Thread steve
more than 120 seconds. On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 09:35:27AM +0100, steve wrote: >for i in /dev/sd{b..f}; do echo "DISK: ${i}"; smartctl -l scterc "${i}"; sleep 3; done I get this for sdb and sdc SCT Error Recovery Control: Read: Disabled Write: Disabled

Re: puzzled: debian 9.8 already?

2019-02-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
ginally going to be called 9.7. But then due to the major security fix needed for apt [1] and the new installation media etc. also needed, we decided to publish a minimal 9.7 release out of sequence with just that change. What was going to be 9.7 became 9.8 instead.

Re: Bug with soft raid?

2019-02-15 Thread steve
Hi all, Thank you for your answers. Was busy so couldn't answer before. My system disk (with /, /usr, /boot and /boot/efi) is on a separate (non-RAID) disk sda. Maybe this works for you, too? You can try: cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5]

Re: firefox does not redirect to login page

2019-02-13 Thread Steve Kemp
ttps, so that > the router can hijack it to redirect to the login hotspot. http://neverssl.com/ Is one site I have bookmarked. To be honest any "big" site you've not visitted before is probably OK. (i.e. So you don't have a cached HST setting, which would make a redirect to the TLS-version.) Steve -- https://steve.fi/

Bug with soft raid?

2019-02-12 Thread steve
e system blocks for about 3 minutes and then I get back a hand on it. I'm no specialist so I don't know what to do. Any help would appreciated. Best, Steve

Re: Fwd: error 500 when clicking bug link

2019-02-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
n and >that can happen if you're not already logged into an account with enough >access privileges on it. No, that's the 4xx error codes - in particular 403. Error 500 on the bugs page for src:linux is unfortunately common. In this case, it's a timeout on the backend retriev

Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked?

2019-01-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
us reasons, often to further their own or their >client's interests, and then are willing to fight the legal battle that may >ensue. A lawyer expressing an opinion does not make that opinion correct / >legal. Correct. Lawyers' opinions are typically estimates of what *might* happen, i

Re: E: Unable to locate package zimlib . . .

2019-01-15 Thread Steve Kemp
vailable for sid / Debian unstable. Steve --

Re: Debian 9 /boot && /boot/efi partition

2019-01-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
Do you know >whether Debian has plans to follow this spec? No plans that I've seen, no. Strikes me very much like https://xkcd.com/927/ , to be honest. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Who needs computer imagery when you've got Brian Blessed?

Re: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-04 Thread steve
Le vendredi 04 janvier 2019, Stephen P. Molnar a écrit : where useful in that they convinced me that reinstalling the OS is the simplest remedy for the problems. You're welcome. But this last sentence is pretty sad because normally, issues like yours do not require windows-style operation. Fo

Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem

2019-01-03 Thread steve
ut too lazy for that. Hope it helps. Best, Steve

Re: Python issue?

2019-01-02 Thread Steve Kemp
iner. Not to mention others who hit the same problem. Regardless it seems your problem is with the pslinux python library which I guess is the Debian package `python-psutil`: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=python-psutil Steve -- https://steve.fi/

Re: HURD and Linux on same partition

2018-12-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
ing to send this message is arm64 natively, but it's also set up with a small i386 installation on the same rootfs using multi-arch so I can also still run some i386 binaries using qemu when needed. It used to be an x86 machine, but I've recently migrated to new hardware. For cros

Re: Re: ACPI BIOS ERROR

2018-12-08 Thread steve
Le 07-12-2018, à 17:34:20 -0500, Tyler McLean a écrit : Having this same exact series of error messages on boot and the first time i press a key after boot. fresh debian install, latest BIOS. super annoying. did you ever resolve this? No, I guess it's a firmware bug, so only chance is th

Re: Package install history - logs etc ?

2018-12-03 Thread Steve Kemp
ar/log/dpkg.log* too. Steve -- https://steve.fi/

Re: openvpn over ipv6 /65

2018-11-23 Thread Steve Kemp
> Hi. > > > This will need to be repeated at every reboot, > > No, it won't. OP has two stanzas regarding eth0 in e/n/i already - one > for inet and another one for inet6. You're right; I'm clearly not having a good day! Thank-you

Re: openvpn over ipv6 /65

2018-11-23 Thread Steve Kemp
ommand after the interface is brought up, as per "man 5 interfaces". Steve --

Re: SSH & X11 forwarding

2018-11-23 Thread steve
Le 23-11-2018, à 14:48:09 +0100, Martin a écrit : Hi list members, I have not used X11 over ssh for years now. But today is the day! And it does not work The remote console tells me 'Xt error: Can't open display: :0'. X11Forwarding is enabled on client and server, 'xhost +' on the client,

Re: Unable to boot BIOS/GPT system.

2018-11-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
ading the disk all it can rely on are BIOS calls. Add yourself a small-ish /boot partition first and you may be OK. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Further comment on how I feel about IBM will appear once I've worked out whether the

Re: pdfjoin loses web links in the PDFs

2018-11-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
an >alternative PDF joiner. I believe pdftk can do it (pdftk *pdf cat output >out.pdf) qpdf also works well for me, although the command line can be a little baroque... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Further comment on how I feel abo

Re: fetchmail

2018-11-18 Thread Steve Kemp
> Anybody know: am I wrong somehow; why fetchmail went away; if Buster'd > be upset with the Stretch package? Yup - see this bug for details: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=768843 You might consider an alternative such as getmail, or isync. Steve -- https://steve.fi/

Re: debian-9.5.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso missing files for install without mirror

2018-11-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
Pascal Hambourg wrote: >Le 05/11/2018 à 22:23, Steve McIntyre a écrit : >> >> Sorry, netinsts are special - they only contain the installer and the >> base system and a *very* limited set of extra packages that are >> hand-configured. >> >> The base

Re: debian-9.5.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso missing files for install without mirror

2018-11-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
so we dropped them. People didn't understand that they were very tightly tied to the archive, and if anything changed (e.g. a point release) things would fail. The images were also already too big to fit on a business-card sized CD. Instead, we now see people struggling with netboot setups

Re: debian-9.5.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso missing files for install without mirror

2018-11-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
Pascal Hambourg wrote: >Le 04/11/2018 à 14:52, Steve McIntyre a écrit : >> Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> In article you write: >>> Le 04/11/2018 à 01:23, Steve McIntyre a écrit : >>>> >>>> As I just wrote elsewhere, it looks like a bug in &

Re: debian-9.5.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso missing files for install without mirror

2018-11-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
dpchr...@holgerdanske.com wrote: >On 11/4/18 5:45 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >>> >>> That is https://bugs.debian.org/867668. >> >> Yup. That's just been confirmed in #debian-ftp: >> >> 2018-11-04 13:41 GMT < waldi> found it. only new ove

Re: debian-9.5.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso missing files for install without mirror

2018-11-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
Pascal Hambourg wrote: In article you write: >Le 04/11/2018 à 01:23, Steve McIntyre a écrit : >> >> As I just wrote elsewhere, it looks like a bug in >> the security.d.o infrastructure. I'm chasing that now. > >Do you mean that all packages with Priority: stand

Re: debian-9.5.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso missing files for install without mirror

2018-11-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
Sven wrote: >On 2018-11-04 00:19 +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> which suggests there may be a problem with overrides in the security >> archive. The overrides file for security isn't available to look at >> directly to check... > >Is there even an overrid

Re: debian-9.5.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso missing files for install without mirror

2018-11-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
Brian wrote: >On Sat 03 Nov 2018 at 12:29:15 -0700, David Christensen wrote: >> On 11/3/18 8:35 AM, Brian wrote: >> > On Fri 02 Nov 2018 at 20:01:59 -0700, David Christensen wrote: >> > >> > > On 11/2/18 5:17 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> > >>

Re: debian-9.5.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso missing files for install without mirror

2018-11-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
MD5sum: aa2aa9266ed488bc57e486497dcde2b0 SHA1: 4dac8ed3ec8dd50de65ff3cb07eef1963d3e96c0 SHA256: 749a070599b56c923c514cd7b9fab6f94b01c662a9c5c93182366f81990f4d87 which suggests there may be a problem with overrides in the security archive. The overrides file for security isn't available to

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