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

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

2018-11-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
s Priority: standard so tasksel decided it should be installed. But the dependencies are not on security.debian.org and not on the CD --> problem. That's how this becomes a problem. For now, if you have security updates installed then you'll need to enable a mirror or start with a larger insta

Re: i386 version for chrome

2018-10-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
David wrote: >On Sun, 28 Oct 2018 at 05:21, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >There seems to be an ongoing theme here with lines that look like > *search hosts dns >popping up in other places in Gene's system. > >See: >https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/10/msg00857.h

Re: make check nested variables

2018-10-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
Are there any particular configure scripts that show this? What shell are you using? In terms of debugging it, I'd try using "bash -x ./configure" and see what that says. Maybe "strace -f -o logfile ./configure" to see what it's doing. Both will produce a lot of ou

Re: i386 version for chrome

2018-10-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
Gene Heskett wrote: >On Saturday 27 October 2018 11:09:48 Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> You keep on asserting this, but it's patently not true. That's a >> standard feature of Debian on all architectures. I understand you've >> seen problems, but it j

Re: i386 version for chrome

2018-10-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
it's patently not true. That's a standard feature of Debian on all architectures. I understand you've seen problems, but it just needs debugging to see how things were broken in your case. :-( -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Furthe

Re: System user names, uids, and gids

2018-10-23 Thread Steve Keller
Then the package management system would need to be changed to give matching IDs if a package wants a user and a group (probably of the same name). Steve

System user names, uids, and gids

2018-10-23 Thread Steve Keller
y of these don't have the same numeric uid and gid. Are these IDs fixed in Debian or may I renumber them to my liking? Steve

Re: apache2: Could not open configuration file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Permission denied

2018-10-17 Thread steve
Le 18-10-2018, à 07:07:34 +0100, mick crane a écrit : On 2018-10-18 05:11, steve wrote: Still reading on this new thing for me. Thanks Steve I never came across this apparmor. did you try stopping it with systemctl then see if apache works as expected ? Yes I did and apache failed to

Re: apache2: Could not open configuration file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Permission denied

2018-10-17 Thread steve
q (1444) /usr/sbin/nmbd (2436) /usr/sbin/smbd (2457) /usr/sbin/smbd (2458) /usr/sbin/smbd (2459) /usr/sbin/smbd (2479) /usr/sbin/smbd (32743) This is rather confusing. What should I do with this? Invoke 'aa-enforce /usr/sbin/apache2', and you're set. Profile for /usr/sbin/apache2 not found, skipping I guess this is normal since I didn't finish the aa-logprof step. Still reading on this new thing for me. Thanks Steve

Re: apache2: Could not open configuration file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Permission denied

2018-10-17 Thread steve
Thanks Reco for your input. I'll have to go trough it, but don't have time right now. Steve

Re: apache2: Could not open configuration file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Permission denied

2018-10-17 Thread steve
Le 17-10-2018, à 05:38:11 +, Steve Kemp a écrit : To recap you reported the original error: apache2: Could not open configuration file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Permission denied Now you've provided more details, from your audit-log: type=AVC msg=audit(1539750555.3

Re: apache2: Could not open configuration file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Permission denied

2018-10-16 Thread Steve Kemp
You've now just installed apache. * This will have given you new apparmor rules. * But they won't be loaded because apparmor wasn't reloaded. * So apache failed. I'm not 100% sure if that is the case, but it seems likely. If not you'll need to do some reading. Perhaps start here: https://wiki.debian.org/AppArmor Steve --

Re: apache2: Could not open configuration file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Permission denied

2018-10-16 Thread steve
Le 16-10-2018, à 06:39:01 +, Steve Kemp a écrit : ls -l /etc/apache2/apache2.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7224 jun 2 10:01 /etc/apache2/apache2.conf Getting nuts. Probably the permissions on /etc/apache2, or /etc are broken for the user www-data. ls -l /etc drwxr-xr-x 213 root root

Re: apache2: Could not open configuration file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Permission denied

2018-10-16 Thread steve
Le 16-10-2018, à 09:51:22 +0300, Reco a écrit : Hi. On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 07:31:17AM +0200, steve wrote: Hi there, Purged and then reinstalled apache2 and when I want to start apache2, here's what I get: # systemctl status apache2.service ● apache2.service - The Apache HTTP S

Re: apache2: Could not open configuration file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Permission denied

2018-10-15 Thread Steve Kemp
a", and test: sudo su - www-data -s /bin/sh cd /etc/ cd apache2 cat apache2.conf Steve --

apache2: Could not open configuration file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Permission denied

2018-10-15 Thread steve
Hi there, Purged and then reinstalled apache2 and when I want to start apache2, here's what I get: # systemctl status apache2.service ● apache2.service - The Apache HTTP Server Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/apache2.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit

Re: something wrong with audio

2018-10-08 Thread steve
Hi, You did verify that your sound is NOT muted in some gui or alsamixer, didn't you ? Steve

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
Jon Dowland wrote: >On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 10:00:42PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >>wodim is factually abandoned by its cloners Joerg Jaspert, Steve McIntyre, >>and Eduard Bloch. Its home page is gone, its change history is gone. > >That would be reason enough to avoid wodim

Re: How to react on a factually wrong Debian wiki change ?

2018-09-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
a particular Debian wiki user ? Not directly, I'm afraid. >- Does the wiki have means to discuss facts or to leave messages > to other editors why a particular change was undone ? Moin doesn't directly have the "talk" feature that some other wikis do, sorry. >If Steve M

Re: bless hex editor - unexpectedly ends

2018-09-26 Thread Steve Kemp
ill be helpful: https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting (It's great you wanted to report it, and it's even better you included all the details. But chances are high your report would be lost in this list.) Steve -- https://steve.fi/

ath10k_pci failed to synchronize thermal read

2018-09-24 Thread steve
duced in a patch. Thanks, Steve [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/5490421/

Re: ACPI BIOS ERROR

2018-09-24 Thread steve
Le 24-09-2018, à 09:36:48 +0200, deloptes a écrit : steve wrote: I disable some ACPI settings in the BIOS and it reduced the waiting time. don't know someone has to debug it - might be something is reported on ACPI that exists, but service can not be started. I would look forward to e

Re: ACPI BIOS ERROR

2018-09-23 Thread steve
Le 24-09-2018, à 08:12:37 +0200, deloptes a écrit : steve wrote: Machine stop 15 seconds during boot, then goes on. This does not mean that it stops for that reason. I disable some ACPI settings in the BIOS and it reduced the waiting time. Are you using systemd? Yes. I recall

Re: ACPI BIOS ERROR

2018-09-23 Thread steve
Le 23-09-2018, à 15:20:40 +0200, deloptes a écrit : steve wrote: Yes I have. in such a case you can try to track it via bug request, although some of those are bois/firmware related and mostly not harmful. Or the harm is very subtle and I don't see it. do you have error descri

Re: ACPI BIOS ERROR

2018-09-22 Thread steve
Le 22-09-2018, à 20:23:28 +0200, deloptes a écrit : steve wrote: Should I open a ticket in the BTS? you have latest BIOS installed? Yes I have.

ACPI BIOS ERROR

2018-09-22 Thread steve
ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed \SHAD._STA, AE_NOT_FOUND (20180531/psparse-516) (Not sure the first line is linked). Should I open a ticket in the BTS? Best Steve

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question

2018-09-22 Thread steve
Le 22-09-2018, à 10:07:36 +0200, Pascal Hambourg a écrit : Le 22/09/2018 à 06:58, steve a écrit : Because what I finally did is install a fresh Debian on another device (using GPT) and the ACPI errors still were there. In legacy mode (with a BIOS boot partition) or EFI mode (with an EFI

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question

2018-09-21 Thread steve
Le 21-09-2018, à 20:21:06 +0200, Pascal Hambourg a écrit : Le 21/09/2018 à 08:34, steve a écrit : Le 20-09-2018, à 20:25:26 +0200, Pascal Hambourg a écrit : You don't need to convert anything. UEFI can use DOS partition tables. I know since that's what I'm currently doin

[SOLVED] Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question

2018-09-20 Thread steve
e the same manipulations to convert them to GPT also. But since they work fine, I might leave it as it is. I used http://www.linuxtopic.com/2017/08/convert-mbr-to-gpt.html to help me, might be useful to others. Thanks for time taken to answer. Best, Steve

Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question

2018-09-19 Thread steve
Hi Pascal, Thank you for your answer Le 19-09-2018, à 23:30:40 +0200, Pascal Hambourg a écrit : Le 19/09/2018 à 16:50, steve a écrit : Googling around, I suspect that these errors come from the fact that the BIOS is configured to but in Legacy mode (aka Bios mode) rather than in the more

Re: Yet another UEFI/BIOS question

2018-09-19 Thread steve
Hi Darac, Thanks answering me. Le 19-09-2018, à 16:28:51 +0100, Darac Marjal a écrit : On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 04:50:14PM +0200, steve wrote: Hi there, Just bought a new Mother Board and transfered all of my sdd's from my old box to the new one. New box boots almost normally (I'll

Yet another UEFI/BIOS question

2018-09-19 Thread steve
tition table without reformatting/reinstalling the whole disks? Or maybe only sda (which contains /, /usr, /boot and /tmp) so I can switch my BIOS to UEFI? Am I stuck with those msdos partition tables? Sorry for the long message, I hope there is enough info. Thanks for any help. Steve PS: debian stretch

Re: unable to install nginx-full package

2018-09-17 Thread Steve Kemp
Failed to start. > dpkg: error processing package nginx-full (--configure): So the configuration-process failed, which marked the installation as failed. Steve -- https://www.steve.org.uk/

Re: USB media install has wrong partition

2018-09-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
n the UEFI spec for an EFI System Partition to be a partition with type 0xEF in an msdos-style partition table, particularly for removable media. Are you having problems booting on a particular machines? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Fu

Re: Kernel hang in Xen (4.9)

2018-08-20 Thread Steve Kemp
at not all guests fail .. Steve -- https://steve.fi/

Re: Regarding Installation over Windows 10

2018-07-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
the Debian mirrors on the Internet instead of by using these extra images. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Further comment on how I feel about IBM will appear once I've worked out whether they're being malicious

Re: Installing Gimp 2.10.2

2018-06-05 Thread steve
Le mardi 05 juin 2018, HP Garcia a écrit : On Wed, 6 Jun 2018 06:51:36 +0200 steve wrote: Le 05-06-2018, à 21:45:24 -0700, HP Garcia a écrit : >I'm trying to install Gimp 2.10.2. I tried adding the flatpack >repository but it message "sudo: add-apt-repository: command not &

Re: Installing Gimp 2.10.2

2018-06-05 Thread steve
Le mardi 05 juin 2018, HP Garcia a écrit : >I'm trying to install Gimp 2.10.2. I tried adding the flatpack >repository but it message "sudo: add-apt-repository: command not >found" Have you the software-properties-common package installed? If not install it then relaunch your command. No, I

Re: Installing Gimp 2.10.2

2018-06-05 Thread steve
Le 05-06-2018, à 21:45:24 -0700, HP Garcia a écrit : I'm trying to install Gimp 2.10.2. I tried adding the flatpack repository but it message "sudo: add-apt-repository: command not found" Have you the software-properties-common package installed? If not install it then relaunch your command.

Prevent Linux kernel from logging segfaults of user processes

2018-05-29 Thread Steve Keller
hese messages in dmesg. So my question is can these messages been turned off, either completely or for certain (effective or real) user ids, e.g. uid above 1000? Steve

Re: Correct: System Thinks Hardware Clock is UTC

2018-05-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
-i -e 's:^UTC$:LOCAL:' /target/etc/adjtime fi OPT="--localtime" fi --- If you're using systemd, then /etc/default/rcS is not likely to do much. However, you may want to check in /etc/adjtime. My machine has the following: 0.

Re: A long rant on Debian 9

2018-05-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
AAArgh. I forgot that Dan is using a selfish bullshit spam-multiplying system. EOD. On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 02:53:56PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >Dan wrote: >>On Mon, 7 May 2018 15:30:54 + (UTC) >>Curt wrote: ... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: A long rant on Debian 9

2018-05-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
need to >pass the above parms to the installer at boot time. Selecting "Install" >and typing "E" we see the following: > >setparams 'Install' > set background_color=black > linux /install.amd/vmlinuz vga=788 --- quiet > initrd /install.amd/initrd.

Re: Lite SMTP server/daemon

2018-05-08 Thread Steve Kemp
. The "smtp-forward" plugin doesn't seem to support TLS either, for what that's worth. Generally I'd assume: internet -> qpsmtpd -> [exim|postfix|whatever on the local host] So the lack of TLS on the final hop hasn't been a concern to me personally. I can appreciate others might disagree. Steve --

Re: A long rant on Debian 9

2018-05-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
ce,kde,lxde,cinnamon,mate) desktop task packages will satisfy its recommendation. If you select it alongside any of those desktop task packages it will therefore have very little effect. However, if you select it alone *with no specific desktop chosen* then it will default to the first in that

Re: mkisofs (was: Installer image for installation via ssh)

2018-04-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
sofs, or you can also use xorriso with the same arguments so long as you use "-as mkisofs" as an argument first. (That's what we do for debian-cd.) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Further comment on how I feel about IBM wi

Q: RAID1 and chunk size

2018-03-07 Thread Steve Keller
mance problem? Steve

Q: Host protected area (HPA), hdparm, and 4 KB sectors

2018-03-07 Thread Steve Keller
end of the accessible disk, i.e beginning of HPA. Nevertheless, I can dd up to the end of the disk without any problem. So what is wrong with this disk? Steve

Re: Let's Encrypt and certbot-auto problem

2018-03-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
ds a single alias or similar in each vhost to deal with the ACME challenges. Very much recommended, and easy to work with. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Every time you use Tcl, God kills a kitten." -- Malcolm Ray

Re: An *operator's" guide to fvwm?

2018-02-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
onfig. Depending on the changes you might have made in the config, it can behave massively differently to how it works for somebody else. The default config as-shipped is basically just a bare-bones example of what you might do with fvwm; it's a framework for you to build your own desktop. --

Re: SSH session audit

2018-02-19 Thread Steve Kemp
> Do you know about that solution? Or could you suggest something similar? You could install "snoopy", which will log all command-executed to syslog. Then configure your syslog to forward logs to a remote host. It is not fool-proof, but requires no setup for a user.. St

Re: Suggest contacting w...@debian.org - was [Re: wiki]

2018-02-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
stence of this mail address >there is no sign that the OP has taken advantage of it. If blocking >is the cause (using a VPN can be a reason), only the wiki admins can >sort it out. Nod. Please let us know via wiki@ and we'll at least have a chance of

Re: Packages for debian-8.8.0-amd64-netinst.jigdo are missing on fallback mirrors

2018-02-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
e/snapshot/Debian/ --try-last It looks like there's been two failures causing files not to be archived on *both* snapshot.d.o and us.cdimage.d.o. I've just copied across the missing files onto us.cdimage.d.o now and tested again successfully with jigdo. I'll file a bug on snapshot.d.o too, to get things fixed up there. Thanks for the report! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Who needs computer imagery when you've got Brian Blessed?

Re: mismatch 9.0-live & 9.3

2018-01-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
Thomas Schmitt wrote: >Hi, > >this thread is not the only one which reports bad PGP results. >Two days ago there was from sejobu...@bitmessage.de > https://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2018/01/msg00024.html >with a reply from Steve McIntyre > https://lists.debian.org/debia

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
gned to fit various optical media. I *have* pondered about doing slightly-undersized "DL-DVD" sized media again to fit on 8GB media, but not sure tbh... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "I suspect most samba developers are already technically

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
Steve McIntyre wrote: >David Wright wrote: >>On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 11:34:57 (+0000), Steve McIntyre wrote: >>> >>> * if you've used a bigger (set of) image(s), then you most likely >>>will want to use this again in the future. This is to support

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
David Wright wrote: >On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 11:34:57 (+), Steve McIntyre wrote: ... >> This is a long-standing design decision that probably merits >> re-examination, yes. The current logic assumes: >> >> * if you've used a "netinst" to install,

Re: Debian iso installation incorrectly sets sources.list

2018-01-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
ould be replaced by reference to the >"installation medium", unless "CD" is actually necessary. Etc. Agreed, yes. The way we use USB media in the installer at the moment is to make them appear just like CDs. That works, but leads to odd messages. We should fix up those messages, at the very least. It's on my list... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com We don't need no education. We don't need no thought control.

Tool to examine/modify .avi and .mov files

2018-01-03 Thread Steve Keller
don't know enough about the file formats to be sure not to corrupt the file, e.g. because of checksums or other items in the file that need to be changed too. Steve

Re: LVM: how to avoid scanning all devices

2018-01-03 Thread Steve Keller
ms, which are active all time. Steve

Re: update-grub: how to avoid scanning all devices

2018-01-03 Thread Steve Keller
On 15 Dec 2017 at 13:42, Brian wrote: > Purge os-prober. Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for. Steve

Linux Startup Process

2017-12-24 Thread steve
Linux Startup Process You can use the following incantation to list enabled boot services: $ systemctl list-unit-files --type=service | grep enabled How do i know what i need, and what i can safely disable ? i know that accounts-daemon.service is a potential security risk. It is part o

foss usb charger

2017-12-15 Thread steve
i had an app (free utility) for charging my usb device though i did not often use it. It worked with windows/microsoft on usb 3. * i do not know if it were included/implemented in my motherboard and the soft managed it or if the soft did its job as standalone app. ..

LVM: how to avoid scanning all devices

2017-12-15 Thread Steve Keller
n for and update all LVM information. Steve  

update-grub: how to avoid scanning all devices

2017-12-15 Thread Steve Keller
or virtual machines, backup images of old machines, etc. I haven't found anything on this topic in the documentation. Steve

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

2017-11-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
or armel are Marvell Armada XP GP dev boards, commissioned in early 2014. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Because heaters aren't purple!" -- Catherine Pitt

Re: sources.list

2017-10-19 Thread Steve Kemp
Something like this: deb-src http://cdn-aws.deb.debian.org/debian stretch main deb-src http://security.debian.org stretch/updates main .. (Just add those, leave the binary-lines in-place.) Steve --

Re: Help with install of debian stretch

2017-09-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
m curious how you've managed to get to that message - if you're installing from debian-9.1.0-i386-netinst, that's exactly the disc the system is asking for. How have you done your installation, please? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.co

Re: Make CapsLock an additional Escape key - Problem: https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard advice does not work

2017-09-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
his/her time by reading and >following that wrong documentation. Do you know how to file a bug for >that Wiki page? The wiki is meant to be updated by users too - register for an account and fix the text yourself. :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einv

getting mail from Exchange/Outlook

2017-09-13 Thread Steve Kleene
My employer is forcing me to shut down my long-time Linux mail server. I have no choice in the matter. My employer uses Microsoft Exchange/Outlook for mail. They have an Outlook Web App (OWA) that I can access from Firefox, but as far as I can tell you cannot save a file to the local disk with O

Re: Can't find ip addresses of devices on LAN

2017-09-01 Thread Steve Witt
On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 12:28:05PM -0400, Thomas George wrote: > I have tried ping 192.168.1.225 followed by arp -a > > and I have tried netstat -r > > Neither report ip addresses of attached devices. > > I know there are two devices besides this pc and I know the address of one > of these devic

Re: debootstrap error with dvdrom install

2017-07-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
're using a 9.0.x live image? The 9.1.0 images should work better... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Google-bait: http://www.debian.org/CD/free-linux-cd Debian does NOT ship free CDs. Please do NOT contact the mailing lists asking us to send them to you.

how to automatically reload a firefox page

2017-07-26 Thread Steve Kleene
On Mon, 24 Jul 2017 08:55:42 -0400, I wrote: >> I'm looking for an automated way to have firefox-esr reload its window at >> regular intervals. There's a site to which I like to stay connected that >> logs me off if the window is inactive for long. On Tue Jul 25 05:54:22 2017, Fungi4All replied

Re: how to automatically reload a firefox page

2017-07-25 Thread Steve Kleene
On Mon, 24 Jul 2017 08:55:42 -0400, I wrote: >> I'm looking for an automated way to have firefox-esr reload its window at >> regular intervals. There's a site to which I like to stay connected that >> logs me off if the window is inactive for long. On Tue Jul 25 05:54:22 2017, Fungi4All replied

Re: how to automatically reload a firefox page

2017-07-25 Thread Steve Kleene
On Mon, 24 Jul 2017 08:55:42 -0400, I wrote: >> I'm looking for an automated way to have firefox-esr reload its window at >> regular intervals. There's a site to which I like to stay connected that >> logs me off if the window is inactive for long. On Mon, 24 Jul 2017 17:20:00 +0200, Jan replie

how to automatically reload a firefox page

2017-07-24 Thread Steve Kleene
I'm looking for an automated way to have firefox-esr reload its window at regular intervals. There's a site to which I like to stay connected that logs me off if the window is inactive for long. For the past few years I've been using the ReloadEvery plugin for this. With the upgrade to firefox-e

Re: Installation of debian/stretch 32-bit error

2017-07-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
I was only using scsi and sata drives, so this >issue never appeared. The hdX naming scheme went away a long time ago - all normal disks should be showing us as sdX whether they're connected via IDE (PATA), SATA, SCSI or whatever. Did the installer actually fail to install the boot

Re: [Solved] Re: Problem with colors in terminal

2017-07-12 Thread steve
Le 12-07-2017, à 16:27:16 +0200, Sven Joachim a écrit : No, not really (all of this is far from being crystal clear to me). But changing to TERM=xterm-256color doesn't show colors. I wonder if you have an old version of dircolors somewhere which does not support xterm-256color. What do the fo

Re: [Solved] Re: Problem with colors in terminal

2017-07-12 Thread steve
Le 12-07-2017, à 13:00:22 +0200, Sven Joachim a écrit : I also had to change my TERM variable to xterm-color in order to work. That's something you definitely don't want to do, xterm-color is for _very_ ancient terminals. Be prepared for misbehavior in curses programs. Is there a reason why

[Solved] Re: Problem with colors in terminal

2017-07-12 Thread steve
Le 12-07-2017, à 11:05:22 +0200, deloptes a écrit : steve wrote: We see that LS_COLORS is set in xterm but not in xfce4-terminal. I don't understand why since both should read ~/.bashrc when executed. Any ideas? I think .bashrc is read only if you use bash as login shell. You can try

Problem with colors in terminal

2017-07-12 Thread steve
env | grep -i term XTERM_SHELL=/bin/bash XTERM_VERSION=XTerm(327) TERM=gnome-256color XTERM_LOCALE=fr_CH.utf8 We see that LS_COLORS is set in xterm but not in xfce4-terminal. I don't understand why since both should read ~/.bashrc when executed. Any ideas? Thanks, Steve

Re: Please help with #865382

2017-07-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
Phil wrote: >-=-=-=-=-=- > >On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 00:04 +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> Hey folks, >> >> We have a big problem with our Stretch KDE live images, and the >> problem seems to be KDE-specific. None of the other desktops show >> the same problem.

Re: metamail now misbehaving

2017-07-10 Thread Steve Kleene
On, Sun, 9 Jul 2017 14:12:07 -0400, I wrote: >> I run Wheezy with fvwm (window manager). I prefer to use the command line >> when possible, and for mail I have bsd-mailx with sendmail. To read e-mails >> sent as HTML or base64, I use metamail (which was last distributed with Etch, >> I think), a

metamail now misbehaving

2017-07-09 Thread Steve Kleene
I run Wheezy with fvwm (window manager). I prefer to use the command line when possible, and for mail I have bsd-mailx with sendmail. To read e-mails sent as HTML or base64, I use metamail (which was last distributed with Etch, I think), as follows: 1. I save the e-mail to a file "mailfile".

Re: No live CD ISOs without GUI desktops?

2017-06-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
t;the" current >version of Debian stable; is it 9.0.0 or 9.0.1? Considering that >building a livecd without a graphic desktop is easier than building >one with a desktop, perhaps the nongraphic versions should also >be created, and all the links in official documenta

New live images released (9.0.1)

2017-06-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
oot directory of the live images has very restrictive permissions = Status: Fixed in 9.0.1 The root directory is mode 0700 (i.e. drwx--) See #865386. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@e

Re: Debian 9.0.0 iso

2017-06-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
i, > >I believe the user means the 9 live images that have a known issue and >will not install at this time. The issue is being worked on and >hopefully new/fixed live images will be released very soon. In fact, I've just published them now. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Choose between amd64 and i386

2017-06-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
vices (e.g. Bay Trail) ever since the first Jessie release. If you grab a multi-arch netinst or DVD image, it will boot via 32-bit but let you start a 64-bit installation and *also* will detect the 32-bit platform and install the correct version of grub. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: UEFI + Raid

2017-05-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
ind some time to work on adding this during the Buster cycle, and the Grub developers are apparently interested too. For now, you'll need to do this by hand I'm afraid. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "I can't ever sleep on p

O/T question, but not completely

2017-05-02 Thread Steve Matzura
Please reply privately, unless you really think it's on-topic. Me, I'm not sure. I trying to build a package using automake (aclocal). I have all the tools installed that I need--autotools, autotools-dev, libtool, etc After patching the package's configure script, I attempted to regenerate the bu

Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation

2017-04-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
copy of GRUB's core image in the default EFI path. > >It does the same as "grub-install --force-extra-removable" That, and it sets a debconf flag so that on future upgrades grub will remember you need this and re-install there every time it installs in th

Re: libreboot? Doc to follow? -- Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation

2017-04-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
plementations out there. Just like there are lots of crappy BIOSes. :-( For more information about UEFI and Debian, I wrote a long wiki page at https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI Please check that out, and please ask if anything's not clear. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Is there anybody out there?

Re: Copying file has unexpected side effect

2017-04-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
o be whatever it had >been set to on the source side. >I wanted all users to have rw permission - that was apparently accomplished. The bits are rwxrwxrwx. Setting them all maps to (octal) 777. The umask determines which bits you *don't* want to see set from mount, so umask=111 will strip th

Re: installer defaults for desktops (was Re: Suggested edit)

2017-03-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
t that point in the installer! The installer runs through multiple steps directly in order: ... Partition disks Install the base system Configure the package manager Select and install software ... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < liw> everything I know about UK hotels I learned from "Fawlty Towers"

Re: installer defaults for desktops (was Re: Suggested edit)

2017-03-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
Catherine Gramze wrote:> >> On Mar 23, 2017, at 9:22 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> Catherine, I'm curious - when was the last time you installed Debian >> using d-i? I've now seen you several times write (like above) about >> "backing out of

Re: installer defaults for desktops (was Re: Suggested edit)

2017-03-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
s, and we've been making those for a while. I'm tempted to add a version of DVD#1 including the firmware too, starting with stretch. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < liw> everything I know about UK hotels I learned from "Fawlty Towers"

Re: installer defaults for desktops (was Re: Suggested edit)

2017-03-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
te (like above) about "backing out of the installer after the reboot". Are you talking about a second stage of d-i after it's installed the base system? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < liw> everything I know about UK hotels I learned from "Fawlty Towers"

Re: installer defaults for desktops (was Re: Suggested edit)

2017-03-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
local. It depends on where you are, and what's convenient. Hell, I've written CDs to DVD-R media more than once in recent years as it's been easiest. Blank DVD media can often be cheaper these days, too. >Just occasionally, Catherine, try to admit that you may not know everyt

Re: installer defaults for desktops (was Re: Suggested edit)

2017-03-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
Catherine Gramze wrote: >> On Mar 23, 2017, at 12:38 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> Sorry, what? There's no such animal as a netinst dvd... The netinst is >> a minimal-ish (small) CD-sized image that just contains the installer >> and the (very limited) bas

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