On Sat, Dec 07, 2024 at 03:44:43PM -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
> Package: zfs-dkms
> Version: 2.2.6-2
> Severity: important
> Tags: upstream
>
> [...] I suspect an upstream fix is required.
Yes, this is quite common with zfs (and other out-of-tree kernel
modules, e.g. the proprietary nvidia dr
Package: bash
Version: 5.2.21-2.1+b1
I have no idea if this is a problem with bash or with readline but for the
last week or so, sometimes (fairly often) when I use Ctrl-R to do a history
search and recall, it prevents Ctrl-C from working - Ctrl-C is completely
ignored, i.e. it doesn't do anything
Package: linux-headers-6.8.9-amd64
Version: 6.8.9-1
When installing a new kernel (images & headers) packages, dkms modules for
that kernel version are compiled twice - once for the linux image package, and
again (almost immediately afterwards) for the linux headers package.
I'm not entirely su
Package: cron
Version: 3.0pl1-182
Please don't force colourised tty output by default. It makes the output
unreadable.
Forcing one person's colour preferences on everyone is a vision impairment /
accessibility problem for everyone who doesn't have the same visual capability
as that one individual
On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 01:17:52PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote:
> I think that was well beyond what could be acceptable for a Debian member to
> behave like. Have you considering finding other venues?
Have you considered minding your own fucking business? You've all been
fucking dog-piling me sin
On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 06:27:51PM +1000, Stuart Prescott wrote:
> Nope. If it were that easy to reproduce and the package were that buggy, it
> would never have been uploaded. (Please offer a tiny bit of respect to your
> fellow developers!)
The bug is closed, you lot have dog-piled enough, and r
On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 03:27:04PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Unfortunately it is not possible to address the issue you are seeing without
> further information or having a way to reproduce the issue.
Finally, a response that isn't just 1. smug dismissal by quibbling about what
"mandatory" mean
reopen 1020290
severity 1020290 critical
stop
There's no need to repeat (again!) what i've already said.
fix the bug before closing this report.
's not my responsibility to figure out what broken interactions your broken
package has with usrmerge, usr-is-merged, and apt itself. IT'S YOUR PACKAGE,
YOUR RESPONSIBILTY.
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On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 08:32:53AM +0200, Helmut Grohne wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 10:41:18AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > Stop closing this bug without fixing it.
>
> The change you are objecting to was planned and presented to various
> teams in Debian including the t
reopen 1020290
severity 1020290 critical
stop
> Given you have made usrmerge uninstallable in your system as you
> admitted (probably running one of dpkg's unsupported scripts that
> installs a local blocking package, I'd imagine) then it is entirely on
> you to fix that, it cannot be done remotel
reopen 1020290
severity 1020290 critical
stop
In case you didn't notice, there's a real bug here.
Your broken init-system-helpers package breaks apt upgrade and dist-upgrade,
and since this is an Essential package, that makes it a critical bug.
It doesn't matter at all whether you like my tone
reopen 1020290
stop
> > This effectively makes these packages Essential by stealth. Debian's
> usrmerge
> > FAQ says:
> >
> > * Is it mandatory to install this package?
> > No.
>
> That is correct - new installations are already merged-usr so there's no
> need for that package, hence the
Package: init-system-helpers
Version: 1.65.2
dist-upgrade was broken on four systems tonight due to:
Depends: usrmerge | usr-is-merged
This effectively makes these packages Essential by stealth. Debian's usrmerge
FAQ says:
* Is it mandatory to install this package?
No.
All four syste
On Sun, Jul 17, 2022 at 04:01:38AM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Jul 2022, Craig Sanders wrote:
>
> > and, of course:
> >
> > apt-mark hold sysvinit-core
> >
> > To prevent systemd from being auto-installed in some future upgrade.
>
> You
On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 02:35:33PM +0100, Mark Hindley wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 11:07:47PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > A little more investigation reveals that it's udev.
> >
> > udev 2.51.3-1 (Wed, 13 Jul 2022 23:05:40 +0200) now depends on 'systemd |
&
; On Sat, Jul 16, 2022 at 06:34:35PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
>
> I can't immediately see the package that might be causing the conflict here.
A little more investigation reveals that it's udev.
udev 2.51.3-1 (Wed, 13 Jul 2022 23:05:40 +0200) now depends on 'systemd |
sys
Package: elogind
Version: 246.9.1-1+debian1
I don't know if a newer version of elogind would help here, but it
probably wouldn't hurt. elogind in debian hasn't been updated since
Dec 23.
# apt -u dist-upgade
[...]
The following packages will be REMOVED:
alsa-firmware-loaders bluez brasero fwupd
d
a useful summary but didn't find anything.
> ("Nvidia probably knows a reason for the existence of this library."
> wouldn't be helpful either.)
Maybe something like "Nvidia hasn't bothered documenting what this library is
for" might encourage them to volunteer some details :)
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Package: libnvidia-allocator1
Version: 510.73.08-2
This package has the following description:
Description-en: NVIDIA allocator runtime library
The NVIDIA binary driver provides optimized hardware acceleration of
OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES applications via a direct-rendering X Server
for graphics car
Package: dkms
Version: 3.0.3-2
Recently, dkms has started printing useless warning messages like the following:
# dkms status
nvidia-current/510.60.02, 5.16.0-6-amd64, x86_64: installed
nvidia-current/510.60.02, 5.17.0-1-amd64, x86_64: installedDeprecated feature:
REMAKE_INITRD
Deprecated featu
70 or anything
similar, or to anything even related to nvidia. Here's it's debian/control
file:
$ cat debian/control
Source: dlocate
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Craig Sanders
Standards-Version: 3.7.2.1
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 13)
Package: dlocate
Architecture: all
De
The commit message for
https://github.com/dell/dkms/commit/68b083eaa3f71c166adfece8e4f760e0cdf96185
says:
"Distributions know much better than us, what is the proper
way to package a DKMS module. Remove in-tree, semi-constantly
out-of-date code."
and a comment on https://github.com/
On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 03:33:21PM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Sep 2021 11:29:48 +1000 Craig Sanders wrote:
> > Package: chromium
> > Version: 90.0.4430.212-1
> Can you please tell me if you see this with chromium 97 or above? This
> sounds like a bug related
On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 09:45:31PM -0500, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> I am comfortable with Perl, and having taken another look at the code, was
> able to resolve the deadlock by arranging to feed xargs from a dedicated
> subprocess, per the attached patch.
>
> Could you please consider applying it?
TB
On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 06:06:45PM -0500, Aaron M. Ucko wrote:
> Long story short, update-dpkg-list's batched bidirectional pipe usage wound
> up deadlocking on a system with 20,000+ provided virtual packages, mostly
> from installed librust-*-dev packages.
what do you mean by "deadlocking"? some
Package: libreoffice
Version: 1:7.2.3-2
Seen in the "Tools > AutoCorrect Options..." dialog box in localc, and in
"Tools > AutoCorrect > AutoCorrect Options..." dialog box in lowriter.
When I use the scrollbar for the boxes in the Replace or Exceptions tabs, the
dialog window grows horizontally
I
realised it was chromium doing it and that just killing chromium would "fix"
it.
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Package: grc
Version: 1.12-1
The grc package has suddenly added aliases to colourify several commands.
Worse, it creates some truly awful (e.g. white on green) and completely
useless and unreadable colour combinations (e.g. blue on black for several
commands, and black on black for docker containe
Package: xfce4-settings
Version: 4.16.0-1
Most Xfce Settings windows (including Settings Manager, Accessibility,
Appearance, Desktop, Display, Keyboard, Window Manager, Power Manager, etc
etc) ignore my chosen theme and have retarded giant ~2.5x height title bars,
similar to the hideous Gnome 3 st
Package: okular
Version: 4:20.08.1-1
Bookmarks disappear from the Bookmarks menu for the current file whenever you
open another file or switch to another tab.
The bookmarks return if you reload the PDF, but disappear again as soon as you
switch to another tab.
How to reproduce/verify:
1. open a
s issue in the next packaging update. Thank you!
thanks.
The "foo() {true;}" version works for bash and dash.
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Package: munin
Version: 2.0.57-1
At the bottom of the /etc/init.d/munin script are two lines:
do_stop_cmd_override() true
do_start_cmd_override() true
This is **NOT** how you define a shell function. The function code needs to
be inside curly braces, and (because they're defined with a
github.com/chaos/pdsh
It would be nice to have a link to the old documentation pages that used to be
on the LLNL site, but I wasn't able to find a replacement for them.
BTW, the version of pdsh on github is 2.33
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Package: xfce4-panel
Version: 4.14.0-1
WindowButtoms aka tasklist is no longer able to group windows by title and
monitor.
I have a dual monitor setup, with a panel containing an instance of tasklist
on each monitor.
In all previous versions of tasklist, if I moved a window (say Firefox) from
on
Package: xfce4
Version: 4.14
I upgraded to this version just now and when the panel restarted, the Window
Buttons applet started displaying the number of windows for grouped windows in
a tiny white font in a tiny black circle overlaid on the bottom-right corner
of the button's icon.
This is just
virtio-VD-0006 ONLINE 0 0 0
errors: No known data errors
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On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 01:14:15AM +0100, Lars Kruse wrote:
> I applied this upstream:
>
> https://github.com/munin-monitoring/munin/commit/b892b14a2c2da9b32a380847ecbf16233019ad32
wow, thanks for the quick response.
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286070438000
cpu31.value 286219946000
thanks,
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On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 10:10:56PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On a few occasions, I've even Alt-Tabbed into qpdfview and had the window's
> Maximise/Minimise/Move/Resize/etc window pop up (I don't remember which
> keystrokes I typed to achieve this so I can't repr
cently, so it may be
related.
Maybe it would be better to get rid of the Synchronize option and use
PgUp/PgDn/etc to move the current document, and Shift-PgUp/Shift-PgDn/etc to
move both. or vice-versa.
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tently, and the standard
is that non-error output goes to stdout and errors go to stderr - users
shouldn't have to remember dozens or hundreds of "special case" exceptions
like "program X does this weird thing" and "program Y does that weird thing".
Predictable, consistent behaviour is one of the things that make using the
shell pleasant and efficient.
craig
PS: Fortunately, I still had dpkg 1.19.0.5+b1 installed in one of my VMs, so I
used dpkg-repack to repackage it and have installed that on all my systems,
and then used "apt-mark hold" to prevent it from being auto-upgraded. I'll
leave it like that until this problem is fixed.
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for viewing log files) and I sometimes want to restrict the
output to 80 columns for email, or 132 columns just so it's not so damn wide.
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tl;dr version: DON'T UPGRADE YOUR KERNEL until you know for sure that the
ZFS packages are compatible with the kernel you're about to install.
On Sat, Jun 02, 2018 at 10:38:09PM +0200, Michael Wyraz wrote:
> I do run zfs-dkms on several servers and on my desktop (currently on
> stretch-backports)
Package: zfsnap
Version: 1.11.1-5.1
The upstream github repo https://github.com/zfsnap/zfsnap/tree/legacy has a
man page for zfsnap, but it's missing from the package.
The markdown & html docs and examples are great to have, but a man page is
essential.
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nd creating that one symlink just worked for BOTH sessions -
I was expecting to have to create a second symlink for the second session.
Maybe the symlink only has to be created once per login session, not every
time firefox is restarted - I'd have to look at the ffox code to find out.
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.
thanks,
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On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 08:12:23AM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> If you want to try; uploaded to people.debian.org:
> deb http://people.debian.org/~rene/libreoffice/5.4 ./ in your
> sources.list.
thanks. i'll give that a go tomorrow.
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Package: libreoffice-calc
Version: 1:5.4.3-4+b1
LO Calc crashes when you click in the Input Line of a protected cell. It
pops up a dialog box saying "Protected cells can not be modified." and then
crasheѕ when you click OK.
Sometimes it pops up the dialog box a second time, and crashes after you
administration easier. they're not a substitute for it.
craig
ps: this bug is an example of why testing is actually worse than sid for
real-world (non-testing) usage. This bug report, while necessary, actually
delayed the migration of the updated zfs packages that would have resolved
it. That&#
t works and it's
easy to do - I've been doing exactly that on linux systems for over 35
years.
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On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 03:24:06PM +0200, Romain Francoise wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 10:57:26PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > prefix+w (or 'tmux choose-window') causes this version of tmux to
> > crash. It does show the window list first.
>
> Yes, sorry,
Package: tmux
Version: 2.6~rc2-1
prefix+w (or 'tmux choose-window') causes this version of tmux to crash. It
does show the window list first.
Reverting to 2.5-3+b1 fixes the problem.
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and, just after I posted, I found the bug in the deluge tracker:
http://dev.deluge-torrent.org/ticket/3039
it seems that there's a patch and it is or will be fixed in 1.3.16
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plugin problem), but that makes no difference.
thanks,
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o create a
completely new, larger, zpool, use 'zfs send' to transfer the contents of the
old pool, and then retire the old one.
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aware that it's trivially easy to change that,
which is why all my machines have 'APT { Install-Recommends "False";};' in
/etc/apt/apt.conf - that allows convenience for novices without removing
choice from those who want it. Using Depends rather than Recommends
undermines that.
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ped in the .preinst and then start will
work in the postinst...but that's a lousy alternative if there are any
containers running (which there probably will be) because it maximises the
downtime for docker - down for the entire duration of the upgrade rather than
a few seconds when docker.io is being configured.
thanks,
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ged:
- DOCKERD=/usr/bin/dockerd
+ DOCKERD=/usr/sbin/dockerd
thanks,
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n-docutils into man
pages, html pages, pdf, epub, and several other formats.
This conversion should be done during the package build, in the
debian/rules makefile, with the output placed in the correct location.
This would require a build-depends on the tool used (pandoc, docutils,
etc).
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ere wasn't
any, but there is, in .rst format - it's just missing from the debian
packages. rst files can easily be converted to manpages, html, epub,
pdf, and other formats with, e.g., pandoc or python-docutils.
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> Good luck getting help.
it's not I that needs help.
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many years. any mysql -> mariadb transition should be handled at least
as well as that. it's not impossible, it's not even "too hard".
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ld just depend on the virtual package.
if mariadb's client can serve in place of mysql's then of course
it makes sense to use whichever one is available.
did you have anything actually useful - and preferably not completely
obvious - to add, or are you just mouthing off because you can?
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#x27;s
something listening on port 3306 (or whatever's defined in my.cnf)
#! /bin/bash
( exec 3<>/dev/tcp/localhost/3306 ) >& /dev/null
echo $?
wrapped in a subshell to avoid spamming stderr if nothing's listening.
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On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 01:09:23PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 10:00:32PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > it still seems very surprising to me that a package called
> > default-MYSQL-client would force the removal of mysql-client* and
> > mysql-server
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 10:54:56AM +0100, Robie Basak wrote:
> Hi Craig,
Hi
> On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 08:01:26PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > it's somewhat surprising that a package called default-mysql-client
> > should force the removal of both mysql-client and my
newly installed, 5 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 5,700 kB of archives.
After this operation, 69.5 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
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ckage. before that, i just got broken image іcons. a web site that obscures
important and useful links unless the viewer has some obscure icons package
installed is less than optimal.
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d then nothing happens - no gvim as expected.
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On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 07:12:49AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Craig Sanders]
> > good idea. at the least, we should include an example in the
> > package. e.g. I made the following file for my systems, which I copy
> > to various machines and modify to suit.
>
>
ld/should use if only I knew what they
did.
> Maybe it should also be registered as a conffile.
definitely.
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to see if it
had already been reported. it had. and was almost immediately closed by
someone other than the maintainer for no good reason.
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t it until Wednesday.
It's 12.30 am here, and i'm off to get some sleep.
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s-progs, debootstrap, docker-doc, rinse,
zfs-fuse | zfsutils
Description-en: Linux container runtime
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installed.
> I've pushed the changes to enable zfs pool support on kfreebsd.
Why not on linux? zfs is available in debian now.
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Tyler Fenby wrote:
> I can confirm that the ZFS backend works as expected on Debian after
> recompiling libvirt with only a couple lines added to debian/rules to
> enable the configure flag.
thanks for looking into this.
I cloned libvirt from git://anonscm.debian.org/pkg-libvirt/libvirt.git
when
Package: supercat
Version: 0.5.5-4
Severity: normal
Tags: patch pending
Dear maintainer,
I've prepared an NMU for supercat (versioned as 0.5.5-4.1). The diff
is attached to this message.
Regards.
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diff -Nru supercat-0.5.5/debian/changelog supercat-0.5.5/debian/chan
Package: supercat
Version: 0.5.5-4
Severity: normal
Tags: patch pending
Dear maintainer,
I've prepared an NMU for supercat (versioned as 0.5.5-4+nmu1). The diff
is attached to this message.
Regards.
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diff -Nru supercat-0.5.5/debian/changelog supercat-0.5.5/d
On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 12:14:47PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 04:03:54PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
> > upgrading kills the ssh session on systemd machines.
>
> Yes, sorry. I have no way to fix this properly because it happens
> in "prerm u
n to surya closed.
ganesh:~#
I had to ssh back in and `pkill dpkg apt-get` before I could
even run `dpkg --configure --pending`.
This happened on my only systemd machine. Did not happen on any of
my sysvinit machines.
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se of them.
Please find attached colour rules for:
spcrc-dpkg-l - package listings (e.g. from dpkg -l or dlocate -l)
spcrc-package - package details (e.g. from apt-cache show or dlocate -s or
grep-dctrl)
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# HTML COLOR NAME COL A N T STRING or REGULAR EXPRE
least document the issue, even if it can't be fixed.
For a more detailed analysis/example of the problem, see:
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/296636/100-cpu-utilisation-and-hang-after-virsh-migrate
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dkms packages.
craig
PS: one current work-around is to use the 'equivs' package to build a
dummy package which has, for example:
Depends: zfs-dkms-bin
Provides: zfs-modules, zfs-dkms
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nfigure.ac2016-07-09 14:27:47.477298030 +1000
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
)
AM_CONDITIONAL(ENABLE_ALL, test "$enable_all" = yes)
if test "$enable_all" = "yes"; then
-#enable_xfs="yes"
+enable_xfs="yes"
enable_extfs="yes"
#enable_reiserfs="yes"
enable_reiser4="yes"
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d support is tested and used in production by
> myself on Jessie systems without problem, though. If there is people
> willing to give a hand on maintaining LSB support I'm happy to carry
> it.
I guess that means "patches welcome".
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possible to run dpkg-query in a postinst, it's a read-only
operation so isn't affected by the lock.
BTW, the space in " installed$" is essential, as "not-installed" is also
valid there.
Also, the '\n' in the format string isn't strictly necessary, but some
tools (not grep) ignore the last line of input if it isn't terminated by
a newline.
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Package: pptpd
Version: 1.4.0-8
pptpd.postint uses the following to identify whether a system
is using systemd as init:
if [ -x "$(which systemctl || true)" ] ; then
this doesn't work. the systemd package is an almost mandatory install
on debian due to dependencies these days, almost imp
y creating ZVOLs and accessing them in libvirt VMs
(with a 'dir' storage pool pointing to /dev/zvol/export/volumes) for
years, but it would be useful to be able to manage them directly with
virsh or virt-manager.
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input delimiter
or there should be extra options (perhaps -T and -D) to set it
(similar to the way awk's FS and OFS variables work)
Thanks,
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Package: libprojectm2v5
Version: 2.1.0+dfsg-3+b1
ttf-dejavu-core is now a transitional dummy package, depending on
fonts-dejavu-core
Because of this obsolete dependency, it's impossible to remove
the ttf-dejavu-core without also removing libprojectm2v5 and
everything that depends on it (including
ke some minimal effort to document the changes.
thanks,
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quot;xf86EnableIOPorts: failed to set IOPL for
I/O (Operation not permitted)" error message in startx.log - and
so far google has been absolutely useless in revealing what that's
about...several people have complained about it but no-one has come up
with a definitive reason for it.
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x27;s a good and
clearly defined reason for it.
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Package: xinit
Version: 1.3.4-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
sometime in the last ~70 days (since I last started X or rebooted),
something has changed in X that prevents startx from working as an
ordinary user.
startx *was* working perfectly. Now when I run startx, I c
not
installable
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it is unlikely that this will ever be fixed.
you are collateral damage in the commercial war between RedHat and
Canonical.
Redhat's weapons are Gnome and systemd.
Ubuntu's weapons are Unity and upstart.
RH is using gnome to force adoption of systemd as a strategy to sideline
ubuntu.
BTW, system
en moved to the
far right of the window instead of on the left where it belongs.
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if [ $(a2query -M) != 'prefork' ] ; then
with:
if [ $(a2query -M) != 'prefork' ] && [ $(a2query -M) != 'itk' ] ; then
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Package: seabios
Version: 1.7.3-1
my zfs test VM boots without a problem if it has seven disks (1x5GB
boot/OS zvol, 6 x 200M files) or less.
It still works if I boot with 7 disks and then use 'virsh attach-disk'
to add another virtio disk (or five. or ten). the added drives appear in
the system
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