Re: [DNG] Chimaera CPU stuck

2022-09-14 Thread Andreas Messer
Hi Luciano, Am Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 07:24:07AM +0200 schrieb Luciano Mannucci: > hello all! > > I have a virtual machine running under kvm who started hanging giving > this message just before it dies: > > kernel:[ 296.013011] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! > [swapper/0:0]

Re: [DNG] fdisk SD card partitioning question

2022-06-13 Thread Andreas Messer
Hi Fred, Am Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 12:35:06PM -0700 schrieb Fred: > I tried fdisk again with the same result. > > root@aragog:# /sbin/fdisk /dev/sdb > Command (m for help): n > Partition type >p primary (0 primary, 0 extended, 4 free) >e extended (container for logical partitions) >

Re: [DNG] [OT] Nasty Linux systemd security bug revealed

2021-07-29 Thread Andreas Messer
On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 03:58:02PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: >     With all respect due to your work, I tend to think that with such > expensive and dangerous machines, more investment should be put into > hardware so as to get controllers with a decent ram. And maybe the > firmware could take

Re: [DNG] Nasty Linux systemd security bug revealed

2021-07-26 Thread Andreas Messer
On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 07:51:50PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > g4sra via Dng said on Sun, 25 Jul 2021 10:26:46 + > > > >And this is why ever sice I entered the profession I have maintained > >that programmers should be vetted and certified in a similar manner to > >other professions such as

Re: [DNG] Nasty Linux systemd security bug revealed

2021-07-25 Thread Andreas Messer
On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 05:35:10PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: >     However the manual of alloca() states that "There is no error > indication if the stack  frame  cannot  be  extended." If the same would > happen with automatic variables, I would expect a crash; otherwise it > would be a serious

Re: [DNG] desktop-live chimaera isos

2021-07-24 Thread Andreas Messer
On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 03:56:24PM -0300, Gastón via Dng wrote: > > 2. Desktop PC, CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+, GPU: NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440, > > RAM: 3GB. > >· > > In this PC the problem did not disappear deactivating AppArmor. > >· > > Possibilities: My personal experience with Geforce MX series

Re: [DNG] Nasty Linux systemd security bug revealed

2021-07-22 Thread Andreas Messer
Hi, On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 07:53:58AM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: >     There's a choice of options in GCC to deal with stack protection. > Eg:  -fstack-check > >     Plus a bunch of macros. > >     They all deal with allocation of automatic variables. For alloca(), > instead, there's

Re: [DNG] Nasty Linux systemd security bug revealed

2021-07-21 Thread Andreas Messer
On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 02:36:16PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote: > added (by gcc ?) to work around a missing feature of the C language: > dynamic allocation on the stack. This lack has disapeared many years ago > ( don't know with which version of the C standard) , with the following > form of

Re: [DNG] EFI Installation of Beowulf?

2021-02-23 Thread Andreas Messer
Hi Jonathan, On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 11:25:14PM +0100, Jonathan Moebius wrote: > I have switched to a new computer and tried to install Beowulf 3.1.0 in a > pure-EFI setting. > I have tried installing on a SATA SSD as well as a a m.2 PCIe SSD. > Originally, I can confirm, that I'm running

Re: [DNG] NFS+Kerberos on Beowulf

2021-02-14 Thread Andreas Messer
On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 12:23:05AM -0700, Jackman via Dng wrote: > Has anyone successfully gotten NFS and Kerberos working together on > Beowulf? I was able to get a working setup going in a fresh Debian Buster > VM in about 10 minutes. On the other hand, I've been working on trying to > get it

Re: [DNG] Can this drive be saved?

2020-09-04 Thread Andreas Messer
Hi golinux, On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 01:50:07AM -0500, goli...@devuan.org wrote: > On 2020-09-01 00:07, goli...@devuan.org wrote: > [...] > I have no idea how reliable the repaired drive is after this radical > surgery. Can it be written to or files deleted? Should I even try? > [...] I wouldn't

Re: [DNG] kernel instabilities

2020-05-28 Thread Andreas Messer
Hi Ricardo, On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 09:24:59AM +0200, Riccardo Mottola via Dng wrote: > I just tried adding "contrib" to my repositories and I see intel microcode > is available, I hope it helps. > > Do you know how this "update" works? will it be applied also when running > older kernels?

Re: [DNG] Update successful but video card issue

2020-02-05 Thread Andreas Messer
Hi Tim, On Sat, Feb 01, 2020 at 04:44:07PM +, Tim Wallace via Dng wrote: > Hi Andreas-- > lspci shows this:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro > Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cape Verde GL [FirePro W4100]which shows the > Cape Verde but not the Southern Island.  I think all Cape

Re: [DNG] Update successful but video card issue

2020-02-01 Thread Andreas Messer
On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 11:03:24AM +, R. G. Sidler wrote: > > Hi Tim, Ludovic and Andreas. > > I installed only the amdgpu-driver. Since I always start with a naked > base install, I never care about blacklisting any drivers, because I > just don't install them  Well, the drm

Re: [DNG] Update successful but video card issue

2020-01-30 Thread Andreas Messer
Hello Tim, On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 10:05:54PM +, Tim Wallace via Dng wrote: > I have been happily running ascii but upgraded from my Intel built-in > graphics to an AMD FirePro W4100 because I do a lot of 4K video editing, > but no game-playing, and thought this 50W card would save energy and

Re: [DNG] systemd breaking linuxcnc ...

2020-01-28 Thread Andreas Messer
On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 04:17:20PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting Dr. Nikolaus Klepp (dr.kl...@gmx.at): > > > Just for your amusement: systemd breaks linuxcnc on RPi4 - who's not > > into machining will most likely not see the fun part of it, but anyway > > :) > > > >

Re: [DNG] Tried Debian Stretch with systemd out of constrainsts

2020-01-10 Thread Andreas Messer
On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 10:04:28PM +0100, Edward Bartolo via Dng wrote: > [...] > > I still have yet not figured out how to avoid having to use snapd and > install the firmware for the oscilloscope, Hantek 6000B (USB). I have > successfully extracted .hex files from the MS Windows drivers but

Re: [DNG] Alternatives to synaptic?

2020-01-10 Thread Andreas Messer
On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 07:16:38PM +0100, Alessandro Vesely via Dng wrote: > > # apt install libelogind0 libpam-elogind synaptic > > > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > The following additional packages will be installed: > elogind

Re: [DNG] elogind and libelogind0

2020-01-06 Thread Andreas Messer
On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 04:10:56PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..chking elogind history, I found > https://git.devuan.org/amesser/elogind is 404, what happened, > and who is in control of https://github.com/elogind/elogind/ ? elogind packaging for Devuan has been moved a while ago to official

Re: [DNG] We need upgrade reports

2020-01-02 Thread Andreas Messer
On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 02:58:10PM -0500, fsmithred via Dng wrote: > Please upgrade your highly customized and configured ascii production system > to beowulf and tell us if it works. Okay, DO THIS ON A COPY, not the real > thing. Well, already did on my production systems, not many test machines

Re: [DNG] disable elogind messages?

2019-11-24 Thread Andreas Messer
On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 07:14:48AM -0600, hal wrote: > > [...] > I've commented out all of these lines. Presumably elogind-user is > absolutely pointless on a Devuan system anyway? Hmm, I wouldn't edit /etc/pam.d/common-* directly. Contents in these files are managed and may/might change during

Re: [DNG] disable elogind messages?

2019-11-24 Thread Andreas Messer
On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 05:38:54AM -0600, hal wrote: > This still leaves the question however, is there a way to disable the > elogind messages in syslog? It seems like a lot of useless chatter in the > syslogs. Sorry, did not read your E-Mail before. Did you check /etc/pam.d/cron for elogind

Re: [DNG] audacity 2.2. in Ascii?

2019-09-08 Thread Andreas Messer
Hi Raúl, On Fri, Sep 06, 2019 at 02:53:41PM +0200, Raul Claro wrote: > Dear Dev1ers, > >     I am using Ascii very satisfactorily and do not want, for the time being > anyway, to migrate to a newer system. But I would need to use a higher > version of Audacity, not 2.1 any longer but rather 2.2

Re: [DNG] Booting devuan on a rasberry pi

2019-07-30 Thread Andreas Messer
On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 07:37:26PM -0500, hal wrote: > On 7/28/19 3:57 PM, hal wrote: > > > > > Some searching says to add "core_freq=250" or "enable_uart=1" but > > so far still nothing. Any suggestions are appreciated. > > I got the serial port working. It's a bit of a task. Apparently the >

Re: [DNG] usb automount

2019-07-18 Thread Andreas Messer
On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 08:16:31PM +0200, al3xu5 / dotcommon wrote: > Please I need your help. > > I have installed a fresh ASCII on a small barebone pc to be used as audio > server. Using MATE and lightdm. > > I have also installed some multimedia stuff and apt updated & upgraded > packages. >

Re: [DNG] Booting devuan on a rasberry pi

2019-07-17 Thread Andreas Messer
On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 08:02:43PM -0500, hal wrote: > Hello, > Thank you. Here is the boot output from > devuan_ascii_2.0.0_armel_raspi1.img.xz and setting emmc clock to 50Mhz in > config.txt > > The same sdcard will boot my Raspi A+ fine so maybe it's hardware? > >

Re: [DNG] Install failure: cannot boot netinst

2019-05-27 Thread Andreas Messer
Forgot to cc mailing list... - Forwarded message from Andreas Messer - Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 08:07:16 +0200 From: Andreas Messer To: "Blair, Charles E III" Subject: Re: [DNG] Install failure: cannot boot netinst User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) On Mon, May 27, 2019 at

Re: [DNG] Devuan on a Purism

2018-11-04 Thread Andreas Messer
On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 12:11:44AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > It's a _touchscreen_ phone, not a "real" computer. For that you want Gemini > or GPD Pocket. The input device is not fit for any real hacking. You at > most connect to it from the outside. Well, according to their information it

Re: [DNG] Devuan on a Purism

2018-11-03 Thread Andreas Messer
On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 08:02:26PM +, Daniel Abrecht wrote: > [...] > I hope they ship the devkit soon, I want to install devuan on it too. > Getting a Desktop Environment and Apps to work so it is usable could then > become a bit tricky though. good to know. I'm also looking forward to

Re: [DNG] With ELoginD all users are logged out when one logs out.

2018-10-07 Thread Andreas Messer
Hi Andrey, On Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 07:36:59PM +0700, Андрей wrote: > [...] > В Mon, 1 Oct 2018 07:20:18 +0200, ты писал(а): > > > Can you please provide more information how to reproduce the issue? > > Especially: Window manager / Desktop environment used and installed > > versions of all

Re: [DNG] With ELoginD all users are logged out when one logs out.

2018-09-30 Thread Andreas Messer
Hi, On Mon, Oct 01, 2018 at 11:27:23AM +0700, Андрей wrote: > Приветствую. > > On Ascii, using ELoginD, when several users are logged in, and latter > one logs out, then all other users are logged out too by the system. > How to fix this (on logout of one user, others remain logged in)? I made

Re: [DNG] [ASCII][PATCH] startx to a new tty

2018-09-17 Thread Andreas Messer
Hi Dario, On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 09:35:52PM +0200, Dario Niedermann wrote: > Il 16/09/2018 alle 18:43, Andreas Messer ha scritto: ddd> > I see. Anyway I strongly doubt that any DE relies on startx internally: > it's a shell script that's intended to provide a convenient user

Re: [DNG] [ASCII][PATCH] startx to a new tty

2018-09-16 Thread Andreas Messer
Hi Dario, On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 10:59:52AM +0200, Dario Niedermann wrote: > Il 16/09/2018 alle 10:01, Andreas Messer ha scritto: > > [...] > In short: their addition was a kludge, 100% due to systemd: the only > thing that was causing problems for them, with the X ses

Re: [DNG] Xorg, choosing setuid vs. libpam-elogind and rant about security (was: Re: Jessie -> Ascii upgrade breaks X)

2018-06-13 Thread Andreas Messer
On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 10:49:35AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > And thanks for the explanations! > > Andreas Messer wrote: > > Hi Joel, > > dd> > On Sat, Jun 09, 2018 at 01:52:06PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > > [...] > > > I h

Re: [DNG] Xorg, choosing setuid vs. libpam-elogind and rant about security (was: Re: Jessie -> Ascii upgrade breaks X)

2018-06-11 Thread Andreas Messer
Hi Joel, On Sat, Jun 09, 2018 at 01:52:06PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > [...] > I have and use dbus apps on my system, However, as far as > I'm aware, none of these programs has root privileges. > > As the pam/dbus/elogind/polkit mechanism is capable of > handing out root authority, and as all

Re: [DNG] wicd interferes with regular network admin tools

2018-05-28 Thread Andreas Messer
On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 06:42:57PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 05:21:50PM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > > On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 06:05:09AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > > I was recently suprised to observe network interfaces > > > (wlan0 and eth0) going up without my issuing

Re: [DNG] warning: Devuan jessie i386 doesn't boot on i586

2018-02-14 Thread Andreas Messer
On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 10:27:32PM +0100, Alexander Bochmann wrote: > ...on Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 10:09:17PM +0100, Irrwahn wrote: > > > Alexander Bochmann wrote on 14.02.2018 21:56: > > > System resets before even loading Devuan-built grub. > > Now that is particularly odd, as grub is not

Re: [DNG] [devuan-dev] RFC: Draft call to action for interested users to test elogind/policykit1 with various desktop environments

2018-01-20 Thread Andreas Messer
Hey Irrwahn, On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 10:33:09AM +0100, Irrwahn wrote: > Dear Devuan Devs, > [...] > Please comment about any issues you see with this approach in general, > or the draft document in particular. Furthermore, please let me know > your thoughts on where such a call to action should

Re: [DNG] elogind testing for experimental and ascii-proposed

2018-01-20 Thread Andreas Messer
Hello all, sorry for beeing mute for so long, but i was busy with other things, and still have not much time at the moment On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 11:48:43AM +0100, Irrwahn wrote: > Andreas Messer wrote on 19.01.2018 07:16: > > That seems strange. loginctl is a elogind command and whe

Re: [DNG] elogind testing for experimental and ascii-proposed

2018-01-18 Thread Andreas Messer
On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 09:26:59PM +0100, Irrwahn wrote: > Hleb Valoshka wrote on 17.01.2018 20:54: > > [...] > > Can you repeat the same but with a local login? > > Outcome is the same when logged in via a VT console, while elogind > is fully enabled (and ck2 and pk installed). With elogind

Re: [DNG] elogind available in experimental and ascii-proposed

2018-01-18 Thread Andreas Messer
On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 01:22:13PM +0300, Hleb Valoshka wrote: > On 1/17/18, Andreas Messer <a...@bastelmap.de> wrote: > > > Btw, "ck-list-sessions" crashes for me: > ... > > Have you rebooted your pc after upgrading CK to CK2? > I believe this crash exi

Re: [DNG] elogind available in experimental and ascii-proposed

2018-01-16 Thread Andreas Messer
On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 04:09:58PM +0300, Hleb Valoshka wrote: > On 1/16/18, Hleb Valoshka <375...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Not yet, devuan ci has issues with repos containing pristine-tar. I'll > > build it locally and put it somewhere and then write its location > > here. > >

[DNG] elogind testing for experimental and ascii-proposed

2018-01-16 Thread Andreas Messer
Dear folks, since we have to test elogind now with various setups, KatolaZ asked me to write a short guide what needs to be tested. So here we go: Lets start with a short overview about what logind is: It is about session, user and seat management. Its main use is to track who is logged in by

Re: [DNG] elogind available in experimental and ascii-proposed

2018-01-16 Thread Andreas Messer
On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 01:00:30PM +0300, Hleb Valoshka wrote: > On 1/16/18, Andreas Messer <a...@bastelmap.de> wrote: > ... > > When elogind pam module is enabled, the session is correctly registered > > with elogind. This can be done by following steps: > > Afa

Re: [DNG] elogind available in experimental and ascii-proposed

2018-01-15 Thread Andreas Messer
On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 10:30:12AM +, KatolaZ wrote: > The package is now available in Devuan in "ascii-proposed" and > "experimental". Please test it extensively and report any issue on > bugs.devuan.org. > > @Andreas: please indicate if there are specific things/combintions to > be tested.

[DNG] d1h with LANG=de_DE@UTF-8 fails

2018-01-10 Thread Andreas Messer
Hi, just came accross the following: xxx@xxx:~/Devuan/elogind$ d1h prepare unstable Auf Branch suites/experimental Ihr Branch ist auf dem selben Stand wie 'origin/suites/experimental'. nichts zu committen, Arbeitsverzeichnis unverändert There are uncommitted changes or untracked files present.

Re: [DNG] initial elogind package ready / RFC

2018-01-07 Thread Andreas Messer
On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 07:18:26PM +0300, Hleb Valoshka wrote: > On 1/7/18, Andreas Messer <a...@bastelmap.de> wrote: > [...] > As a temporary solution you can add lintian overrides, at least for > udev warnings. I dont see lintian udev warnings. Do i need special settings? I

Re: [DNG] initial elogind package ready / RFC

2018-01-07 Thread Andreas Messer
On Sun, Jan 07, 2018 at 04:47:41PM +0300, Hleb Valoshka wrote: > [...] > I've also made package buildable and fixed some lintian errors. I've > added --with-udevrulesdir=/lib/udev/rules.d \ to CONFFLAGS because > configure.ac invokes pkg-config to get some values from udev.pc which > is installed

Re: [DNG] initial elogind package ready / RFC

2018-01-07 Thread Andreas Messer
On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 09:55:44PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 04:41:57PM +0300, Hleb Valoshka wrote: > > On 2018-01-05 20:08, Andreas Messer wrote: > > > If anyone like to try it out, checkout branch suites/experimental > > > from htt

Re: [DNG] consolekit2

2018-01-06 Thread Andreas Messer
On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 08:46:03PM +0300, Hleb Valoshka wrote: > Do we need consolekit2 packaged? I think yes. consolekit (without 2) seems to have issues with ck-lauch-session in combination with displaymanagers like sddm. This was actually the reason for me to package elogind in the hope it

Re: [DNG] initial elogind package ready / RFC

2018-01-06 Thread Andreas Messer
On Sat, Jan 06, 2018 at 04:41:57PM +0300, Hleb Valoshka wrote: > On 2018-01-05 20:08, Andreas Messer wrote: > > If anyone like to try it out, checkout branch suites/experimental > > from https://git.devuan.org/amesser/elogind.git and build with > > debbuild. This is my fi

[DNG] initial elogind package ready / RFC

2018-01-05 Thread Andreas Messer
Hi there, I finally managed to prepare inital devuan packages for elogind. I have split up the stuff in multiple packages, sysv init script for elogind is prepared. Also a libpam-elogind package is build which sets field "Provides: libpam-systemd". Thus I was able to install (and run) Gnome 3

Re: [DNG] request: please evaluate/provide elogind-or-other ASAP

2018-01-05 Thread Andreas Messer
On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 11:54:09AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote: > On Fri, 2018-01-05 at 07:55 +0100, Andreas Messer wrote: > > Hi Adam, > > > > On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 11:44:25PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > > > [...] > > > Thus: could you guys pl

Re: [DNG] request: please evaluate/provide elogind-or-other ASAP

2018-01-05 Thread Andreas Messer
On Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 08:32:10AM +0100, Irrwahn wrote: > [...] > Having that out of the way: First off, I appreciate any effort > made in that direction! However, I have one question I deem > important, namely: Will elogind display the same behavior as > systemd-logind regarding killing long

Re: [DNG] request: please evaluate/provide elogind-or-other ASAP

2018-01-04 Thread Andreas Messer
Hi Adam, On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 11:44:25PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > [...] > Thus: could you guys please prioritize work on elogind or some alternative? Just started yesterday: https://git.devuan.org/amesser/elogind. There was already some work by shwsh but that seem to be stalled. (All the

[DNG] Hello & Offer to help

2018-01-01 Thread Andreas Messer
Hello everybody, first of all, I wish you a happy new year! Yesterday I finished to migrate my system from Debian stretch to Devuan ascii. I had a little struggle with KDE5 shutdown/reboot buttons and USB mounting but finally solved this by using lightdm display manager. Anyway, being a long