[DNG] strange characters when using 'examine' in aptitude

2015-08-28 Thread Dave Turner
I run devuan unstable 'ceres' on my Toshiba laptop and my iMac. It all works with just a bit of weirdness. I use apt-get update apt-get upgrade and then use aptitude to fix those upgrades that get held back for various reasons. Whenever I highlight one of the held back packages and press 'e' to

Re: [DNG] Where to find the latest Devuan that runs under Qemu?

2015-08-28 Thread fsmithred
Here's a synopsis of changes I made in devuan to create the live iso. In the installation that was used to create the iso, I changed the debian grub boot splash to the red vulcan devuan boot spash, but I forgot to do that in the iso. fsr --- Added live-boot live-config live-config-sysvinit

Re: [DNG] netman GIT project

2015-08-28 Thread Edward Bartolo
Found a call to calloc() without a matching call to free() in core_functions.c i) eth0, wlan0 can be upped and downed from GUI ii) eth0 configuration cannot be edited from GUI iii) wifi configuration can be edited from GUI iv) wifi hotspot scanning works v) listing of configured wifis and eth0

Re: [DNG] Where to find the latest Devuan that runs under Qemu?

2015-08-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 21:51:32 -0400 fsmithred fsmith...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/27/2015 08:47 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 19:23:43 -0400 fsmithred fsmith...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/27/2015 09:38 AM, Steve Litt wrote: Where can I find and download the latest Devuan capable

[DNG] NVidia driver howto?

2015-08-28 Thread hal
Hi all, I have an Nvidia GTX 750ti card in the box I'm testing x86_64 Alpha2 on. After install, both Slim and X run an 800x600 resolution which is not good for me. I am used to installing either nvidia-xxx from apt (on Ubuntuish distros) or downloading the Linux NVidia binary install driver from

Re: [DNG] Where to find the latest Devuan that runs under Qemu?

2015-08-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 17:59:09 -0700 Go Linux goli...@yahoo.com wrote: On Thu, 8/27/15, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Subject: Re: [DNG] Where to find the latest Devuan that runs under Qemu? To: dng@lists.dyne.org Date: Thursday, August 27, 2015, 7:47 PM Another

[DNG] strange characters when using 'examine' in aptitude

2015-08-28 Thread aitor_czr
Try with: # dpkg-reconfigure console-data Aitor. On 28/08/15 13:21, Dave Turner dave_t_tur...@barradas.free-online.co.uk wrote: I run devuan unstable 'ceres' on my Toshiba laptop and my iMac. It all works with just a bit of weirdness. I use apt-get update apt-get upgrade and then use

Re: [DNG] strange characters when using 'examine' in aptitude

2015-08-28 Thread Dave Turner
console-data was not installed so I installed it. Configured it. No difference. Rebooted. No difference. Rummaged around the interweb found assorted files to look at, reconfigured locale, had another go at configuring the keyboard. Rebooted. No difference! Anyway, thanks for the suggestion

Re: [DNG] The show goes on: “su” command replacement merged into systemd on Fedora Rawhide

2015-08-28 Thread Teodoro Santoni
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 05:00:56PM +0200, Michael Bütow wrote: Article here: https://tlhp.cf/lennart-poettering-su/ I for one look forward to not having any of this madness one day when I transition completely to Devuan! Motivations are legit (see sup, doas). Having a privilege

Re: [DNG] The show goes on: “su” command replacement merged into systemd on Fedora Rawhide

2015-08-28 Thread Laurent Bercot
On 28/08/2015 17:00, Michael Bütow wrote: https://tlhp.cf/lennart-poettering-su/ The thing is, he's not entirely wrong: su *is*, really, a broken concept. What he conveniently forgets, of course, is that having a real root session with a separated environment, which is what the new feature

Re: [DNG] The show goes on: “su” command replacement merged into systemd on Fedora Rawhide

2015-08-28 Thread Dave Turner
I always thought su was the wrong way to go about things. Give me sudo every time. (there are assorted long discussions about su vs sudo out there on the interweb, let's not repeat them here!) Just be glad we still have a choice! DaveT On 28/08/15 16:32, Laurent Bercot wrote: On 28/08/2015

[DNG] The show goes on: “su” command replacement merged into systemd on Fedora Rawhide

2015-08-28 Thread Michael Bütow
Article here: https://tlhp.cf/lennart-poettering-su/ I for one look forward to not having any of this madness one day when I transition completely to Devuan! ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org

Re: [DNG] does systemd set runlevel 0 in utmp on shutdown?

2015-08-28 Thread tilt!
Hello Tobias, thanks a lot for these hints! Please understand the following questions not directed specifically to you, it's just that I am not very much into systemd, and i appreciate every piece of clarification a lot. I post this here, because this is one forum I know that cares about

Re: [DNG] netman GIT project

2015-08-28 Thread Edward Bartolo
This is exasperating! Git is refusing my commits telling me everything is up to date! This is effectively locking me out of development notwithstanding that I spent hours upon hours developing. This puts me down. :((( Edward On 28/08/2015, Edward Bartolo edb...@gmail.com wrote: Found a call

Re: [DNG] netman GIT project

2015-08-28 Thread Edward Bartolo
Suppose I changed backend.c core_functions.c core_functions.h, what would the command be? Edward On 28/08/2015, Urban Wallasch urban.walla...@freenet.de wrote: On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 18:11:22 +0100, Edward Bartolo wrote: This is exasperating! Git is refusing my commits telling me everything

[DNG] NextBSD people trying to infect FreeBSD too: dragging Unix kicking and screaming into the 21st century by its hair, if necessary.

2015-08-28 Thread Marlon Nunes
Thank you god! yet there are sane people Like V.R, who wrote: I couldn’t help but laugh. They’re going to drag Unix kicking and screaming into the 21st century… by integrating a mid-80s first-generation research microkernel for its infamous IPC. Please people, read this article -

Re: [DNG] netman GIT project

2015-08-28 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 18:11:22 +0100 Edward Bartolo edb...@gmail.com wrote: This is exasperating! Git is refusing my commits telling me everything is up to date! This is effectively locking me out of development notwithstanding that I spent hours upon hours developing. This puts me down.

Re: [DNG] netman GIT project

2015-08-28 Thread Jaromil
many are the ways of the artisans and we shall respect them all lets put it white on black: Devuan will not lure upstream into its git but certainly we are honored to share that infrastructure with this fine campfire for me git has been a great thing. but then I was already using CVS and svn

Re: [DNG] netman GIT project

2015-08-28 Thread KatolaZ
On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 12:00:28AM +0200, Jaromil wrote: many are the ways of the artisans and we shall respect them all lets put it white on black: Devuan will not lure upstream into its git but certainly we are honored to share that infrastructure with this fine campfire for me

Re: [DNG] does systemd set runlevel 0 in utmp on shutdown?

2015-08-28 Thread Jaromil
On August 28, 2015 11:09:08 PM GMT+02:00, tilt! t...@linuxfoo.de wrote: Does systemd write RUN_LVL utmp entries in a compliant fashion; especially, when entering shutdown, does it generate an entry of ut_type RUN_LVL with ut_pid set to 0? very good question!! Kind regards,

[DNG] does systemd set runlevel 0 in utmp on shutdown?

2015-08-28 Thread tilt!
Hi, I use xfce-session with nodm, a (very) lightweight display manager. It essentially puts a user's x session into an endless loop. When shutting down the system via logout dialog (utilizing pm-utils), at least on my installation (utilizing sysvinit), nodm fails to recognize that the system is

Re: [DNG] netman GIT project

2015-08-28 Thread Irrwahn
Assuming you are in the backend_src directory of the project: # git add src/backend.c src/core_functions.c include/core_functions.h # git commit -m my fancy commit message (Hope I got the subdirectory names right, did this without actually checking.) -- Irrwahn On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 18:32:26

Re: [DNG] netman GIT project

2015-08-28 Thread Edward Bartolo
Quote: IMHO in the beginning every project should be one person, or at the most 3. Others can make suggestions, but the guys doing the dev should pick which suggestions go in. Later, when the project becomes stable, THEN put it in Git where everyone can have their way with it. In fact,

Re: [DNG] strange characters when using 'examine' in aptitude

2015-08-28 Thread info at smallinnovations.nl
I do not know a solution for this behavior but you do not need aptitude in this situation you can do apt-get dist-upgrade to fix those upgrades that get held back for various reasons. Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 08:45:51 +0100 From: Dave Turnerdave_t_tur...@barradas.free-online.co.uk

Re: [DNG] does systemd set runlevel 0 in utmp on shutdown?

2015-08-28 Thread Tobias Hunger
Hi tilt! The systemd 217 announcement contained something about utmp support being compile time optional to have legacy free systems. So I would not depend on that service. I do not think you would need it anyway as systemd will stop the display manager all by itself. Best Regards, Tobias

Re: [DNG] strange characters when using 'examine' in aptitude

2015-08-28 Thread Isaac Dunham
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 08:45:51AM +0100, Dave Turner wrote: I run devuan unstable 'ceres' on my Toshiba laptop and my iMac. It all works with just a bit of weirdness. I use apt-get update apt-get upgrade and then use aptitude to fix those upgrades that get held back for various reasons.