openvswith installation in ubuntu 12.04

2014-05-05 Thread Neelaya Dhatchayani
Hi, I get the following error after installing openvswitch in ubuntu 12.04 service openvswitch-switch restart * ovs-brcompatd is not running * Killing ovs-vswitchd (1802) * Killing ovsdb-server (1793) /usr/share/openvswitch/scripts/ovs-ctl: 75: /usr/share/openvswitch/scripts/ovs-ctl: -e: not foun

Re: Problems with mdraid on initrd

2014-05-05 Thread Fredrik Tolf
On Mon, 5 May 2014, Tom H wrote: boot_delay and rootdelay are possible kernel cmdline parameters. Thanks, that would probably help, for sure. Isn't "udevadm settle" normally supposed to work, though? Even if rootdelay can work around the problem, I'd like to find the root cause. -- Fredrik

Re: Is zeitgeist safe?

2014-05-05 Thread A Debian User
On Monday, 05 May, 2014 09:18 AM, Theodore Alcapotaxis wrote: Is this thing safe? How does uninstalling it break functionality? P.S. This package is also recommended by software-center. Safe from what? from whom? Unintentional data leakage? Script kiddies, marketers, spammers, ad networks?

Re: Re: Is zeitgeist safe?

2014-05-05 Thread A Debian User
On Monday, 05 May, 2014 02:08 PM, filip wrote: On Sun, 04 May 2014 21:18:14 -0400 "Theodore Alcapotaxis" wrote: Safe from what? from whom? It's not safe from spying eyes. If you run a tool like bleachbit, you may think that you have deleted all your history, but at first sight the version

Re: Re: boot in console mode from grub2

2014-05-05 Thread A Debian User
On Monday, 05 May, 2014 06:05 PM, Tom H wrote: On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 5:38 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 05 mai 14, 04:58:14, Tom H wrote: On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:29 AM, François Patte wrote: I would like to boot in console mode from the grub screen (ie not in graphic mode), but I don't

Re: Is zeitgeist safe?

2014-05-05 Thread John Hasler
Theodore Alcapotaxis writes: > It seems that some folks at Debian have introduced NSA-friendly > software to spy on users. Produce specifics. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: OpenVPN client configuration for simultaneous connections to external servers

2014-05-05 Thread Marko Randjelovic
On Mon, 5 May 2014 14:35:18 -0300 Daniel Bareiro wrote: > On Saturday, 19 April 2014 11:47:37 -0300, > Daniel Bareiro wrote: > > > I'm doing tests to simultaneously maintain two VPN links against PureVPN > > servers. As this is an external provider, I have no way to make changes > > in the confi

Re: Is zeitgeist safe?

2014-05-05 Thread Theodore Alcapotaxis
> - Original Message - > From: filip > Sent: 05/05/14 02:08 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Is zeitgeist safe? > > It's not safe from spying eyes. If you run a tool like bleachbit, you may > think that you have deleted all your history, but at first sight the version

Re: Mailman-issue *mailinglist loops back to myself

2014-05-05 Thread filip
On Tue, 6 May 2014 00:21:28 +0200 "Anton Mueller" wrote: The server returns " *mailinglist* loops back to me" > > > > I think that misconfigured something. > > When an MTA gives an error message like that, it usually means that it doesn't recognize that the e-mail should processed for

Re: hdparm -t yields incorrect timings when Intel hyperthreading is enabled

2014-05-05 Thread Paul Ausbeck
I've attached the contents of /proc/cpuinfo below, two copies, one with hyperthreading disabled and one enabled. I've also investigated things a bit further and now I'm thinking that the hyperthreading state affects the system as a whole, not just hdparm. First, I've attached hdparm output fr

Mailman-issue *mailinglist loops back to myself

2014-05-05 Thread Anton Mueller
Hello friends of the red circled OS ;) I recently installed and configured mailman on my debian based v-server Sending mails to outer space (diffenrent mailadresses/mailhosts than localhost) is no problem, but if I try to post/write to any mailinglist at the server mentioned at mailman he is

Re: Best list for server only traffic?

2014-05-05 Thread John Hasler
Francesco Ariis writes: > Not a solution but a workaround: ever thought of using procmail (or a > Bayesian filter) to sever the interesting/not-interesting (for you, of > course) in this ML? Or a decent MUA with the ability to "filter"/"kill"/"hide"/"score down" threads, posters, and/or subjects.

Re: Best list for server only traffic?

2014-05-05 Thread Francesco Ariis
On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 02:04:33PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > This list is waay too high volume for my needs. I don't need > to see the 98+% of the traffic all related to desktop issues. I > don't run any DE at all, and don't intend to. Not a solution but a workaround: ever thought of using

Re: Best list for server only traffic?

2014-05-05 Thread Joe
On Mon, 05 May 2014 14:04:33 -0400 Tanstaafl wrote: > On 5/5/2014 8:56 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 06:59:55AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > >> I was perusing the available choices for the debian email lists and > >> there are so many... > >> > >> What I'm looking for is the bes

Re: How do I mount under /run from /etc/fstab in 7.0/wheezy?

2014-05-05 Thread filip
On Mon, 5 May 2014 12:58:34 -0600 Jacob Anawalt wrote: >> Is it a bug that fstab mounts under /run fail? Is there a hook in some > other config to make them work? Is it always a bad idea to mount under > /run? > > I would like to understand that. Then I will have more options when I > pop the st

Re: What happened to "palimpsest" disk utility in Jessie?

2014-05-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 5, 2014, at 3:24 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: >> >> In Wheezy there is a program called "palimpsest" that gives a nice >> wide-ranging >> overview of all things related to disks: partitions, LVM configuration, >> MD/raid >> configs, SMART data

Re: Best list for server only traffic?

2014-05-05 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 10:23:56PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 05 mai 14, 14:04:33, Tanstaafl wrote: > > > > Sorry, I should have been more clear. > > > > This list is waay too high volume for my needs. I don't need to see > > the 98+% of the traffic all related to desktop issue

Re: How do I mount under /run from /etc/fstab in 7.0/wheezy?

2014-05-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 05 mai 14, 12:58:34, Jacob Anawalt wrote: > On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 3:53 AM, Andrei POPESCU > wrote: > > > > What are you actually trying to achieve? This feels a lot like the XY > > problem. > > At the moment I am trying to understand how mounts under /run are > suppose to work on a Debia

Re: Best list for server only traffic?

2014-05-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 05 mai 14, 14:04:33, Tanstaafl wrote: > > Sorry, I should have been more clear. > > This list is waay too high volume for my needs. I don't need to see > the 98+% of the traffic all related to desktop issues. I don't run any DE at > all, and don't intend to. > > I'm looking for a

Re: boot in console mode from grub2

2014-05-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 05 mai 14, 13:43:54, Steve Litt wrote: > > I'm confused. Wasn't what the OP wanted a boot in regular text mode, no > GUI, no framebuffer, just ascii codes straight to the monitor? That > happens *a long time* before the display manager runs. The OP said no GUI, but nothing about framebuff

Re: How do I mount under /run from /etc/fstab in 7.0/wheezy?

2014-05-05 Thread Jacob Anawalt
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 3:53 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 02 mai 14, 12:33:12, Jacob Anawalt wrote: >> What is the best way to get my fstab mounts under /run to >> automatically mount on boot again? > > What are you actually trying to achieve? This feels a lot like the XY > problem. At the m

Re: Best list for server only traffic?

2014-05-05 Thread Robert Crawford
You might want look at the complete list at list.debian.org Robert On May 5, 2014 1:05 PM, "Tanstaafl" wrote: > On 5/5/2014 8:56 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > >> On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 06:59:55AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: >> >>> I was perusing the available choices for the debian email lists and >>> t

Re: Best list for server only traffic?

2014-05-05 Thread Tanstaafl
On 5/5/2014 8:56 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 06:59:55AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: I was perusing the available choices for the debian email lists and there are so many... What I'm looking for is the best choice for server only related stuff. I don't use debian for my desktop (y

Re: boot in console mode from grub2

2014-05-05 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 5 May 2014 12:38:57 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 05 mai 14, 04:58:14, Tom H wrote: > > On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:29 AM, François Patte > > wrote: > > > > > > I would like to boot in console mode from the grub screen (ie not > > > in graphic mode), but I don't want to be in single

Re: OpenVPN client configuration for simultaneous connections to external servers

2014-05-05 Thread Daniel Bareiro
On Saturday, 19 April 2014 11:47:37 -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > I'm doing tests to simultaneously maintain two VPN links against PureVPN > servers. As this is an external provider, I have no way to make changes > in the configuration of VPN servers. > > The settings I'm using to set up each li

Re: systemd-udevd: failed to execute /lib/udev/kmod

2014-05-05 Thread alex . andreotti
On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 06:06:58PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 05.05.2014 17:03, schrieb Alex Andreotti: > > > systemd-udevd[253]: failed to execute '/lib/udev/kmod' 'kmod sg': No > > such file or directory > > Fixed in systemd.git: > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-systemd/systemd.g

Re: What happened to "palimpsest" disk utility in Jessie?

2014-05-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 10:40:06AM +, Артур Истомин wrote: > > AFAIUI it's been renamed "Disks" and the executable is > > "/usr/bin/gnome-disks". > > WTF AFAIUI? ) WTF WTF? GIYF -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving th

Re: systemd-udevd: failed to execute /lib/udev/kmod

2014-05-05 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 05.05.2014 17:03, schrieb Alex Andreotti: > systemd-udevd[253]: failed to execute '/lib/udev/kmod' 'kmod sg': No > such file or directory Fixed in systemd.git: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-systemd/systemd.git;a=commitdiff;h=f11a2ddeb6a43f99179f2f9d322ee08cb41db5b0 Will be part of t

Re: What happened to "palimpsest" disk utility in Jessie?

2014-05-05 Thread Артур Истомин
On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 03:37:19PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 05 May 2014 11:40:06 Артур Истомин wrote: > > WTF AFAIUI? ) > > As Far As I Understand It. > My mom does not like such things =) > Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: Fuse module won't install in stable (Wheezy) - Solved

2014-05-05 Thread Carl Johnson
Carl Johnson writes: > I was just trying to load the fuse module to run sshfs, but the module > wouldn't load. The 'modprobe fuse' command gives the error: > > ERROR: could not insert 'fuse': Unknown symbol in module, or unknown > parameter > > The log files show the message: > > fuse:

Re: How to remove Google from the "Start screen"?

2014-05-05 Thread Patrick Chkoreff
Stephen Allen wrote, On 05/05/2014 10:24 AM: > On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 08:21:46AM +0800, A Debian User wrote: >> First of all, sorry for using the term "Start screen" :P >> >> But when you do a search for applications in a GNOME 3 desktop, two buttons >> appear below the screen: "Wikipedia" and "G

systemd-udevd: failed to execute /lib/udev/kmod

2014-05-05 Thread Alex Andreotti
Hello, I'm running a jessie/sid in [ReadonlyRoot](https://wiki.debian.org/ReadonlyRoot) over an ssd. Recently it just dist-upgraded to systemd, apart a little dependency on debian-fixup.service (var.mount) almost everything seem to work fine. But there's this following error I can't find nothing

Re: What happened to "palimpsest" disk utility in Jessie?

2014-05-05 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 5/5/2014 6:40 AM, Артур Истомин wrote: On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 06:24:06AM -0400, Tom H wrote: On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: In Wheezy there is a program called "palimpsest" that gives a nice wide-ranging overview of all things related to disks: partitions, LVM configur

Re: What happened to "palimpsest" disk utility in Jessie?

2014-05-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 05 May 2014 11:40:06 Артур Истомин wrote: > WTF AFAIUI? ) As Far As I Understand It. Lisi

Re: How to remove Google from the "Start screen"?

2014-05-05 Thread Stephen Allen
On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 08:21:46AM +0800, A Debian User wrote: > First of all, sorry for using the term "Start screen" :P > > But when you do a search for applications in a GNOME 3 desktop, two buttons > appear below the screen: "Wikipedia" and "Google". > > Apparently, clicking on either of them

Re: Best list for server only traffic?

2014-05-05 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 06:59:55AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > Hi all, > > I was perusing the available choices for the debian email lists and > there are so many... > > What I'm looking for is the best choice for server only related > stuff. I don't use debian for my desktop (yet), but have two se

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-05 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Rick Thomas [2014-05-05 01:04 -0700]: > > On May 5, 2014, at 12:15 AM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > I don't run a 4k hd in my powerbook. But in one of my amd64 machines there > > is > > one (Seagate ST1000DM003) running with an gpt partition table partitioned > > exactly by the 1MiB step

Re: SOLVED: [multiarch] easy fix for interarchitectural package conflict?

2014-05-05 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Tom Roche wrote: > > summary: > > 1. Repo=debian-testing was the fix. > 2. Where to put bug on package=icedtea-netx ? > 3. Pointers to recommended docs on setting up a VM for running a VPN are > appreciated. > > details: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/20

Best list for server only traffic?

2014-05-05 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi all, I was perusing the available choices for the debian email lists and there are so many... What I'm looking for is the best choice for server only related stuff. I don't use debian for my desktop (yet), but have two servers that I now manage, and the overwhelming traffic on this list s

Re: What happened to "palimpsest" disk utility in Jessie?

2014-05-05 Thread Артур Истомин
On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 06:24:06AM -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > > In Wheezy there is a program called "palimpsest" that gives a nice > > wide-ranging > > overview of all things related to disks: partitions, LVM configuration, > > MD/raid > > conf

Re: What happened to "palimpsest" disk utility in Jessie?

2014-05-05 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 6:15 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > In Wheezy there is a program called "palimpsest" that gives a nice > wide-ranging > overview of all things related to disks: partitions, LVM configuration, > MD/raid > configs, SMART data for individual drives, and so on. It was part of the

Re: boot in console mode from grub2

2014-05-05 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 5:57 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 05 mai 14, 10:30:43, Dom wrote: >> On 05/05/14 09:58, Tom H wrote: >>> >>> Add "text" to the kernel cmdline. >> >> Which you can do by editing the /etc/default/grub file and changing >> >> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="" >> >> to >> >> GRUB_CMDL

What happened to "palimpsest" disk utility in Jessie?

2014-05-05 Thread Rick Thomas
In Wheezy there is a program called "palimpsest" that gives a nice wide-ranging overview of all things related to disks: partitions, LVM configuration, MD/raid configs, SMART data for individual drives, and so on. It was part of the package "gnome-disk-utility", I think. It seems to have disa

Re: boot in console mode from grub2

2014-05-05 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 5:38 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 05 mai 14, 04:58:14, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:29 AM, François Patte >> wrote: >>> >>> I would like to boot in console mode from the grub screen (ie not in >>> graphic mode), but I don't want to be in single user mode,

Re: boot in console mode from grub2

2014-05-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 05 mai 14, 10:30:43, Dom wrote: > On 05/05/14 09:58, Tom H wrote: > > > >Add "text" to the kernel cmdline. > > Which you can do by editing the /etc/default/grub file and changing > > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="" > > to > > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="text" > > and running update-grub Considering the

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

2014-05-05 Thread Kushal Kumaran
Andrei POPESCU writes: > > On my stable install where new packages haven't been cleared in a while > (179 in total) I have only 2 new packages that do *not* come from > backports (icedove-l10n-hr and icedove-l10n-hy-am). > > Actually I'm quite surprised about these two even showing up, given tha

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

2014-05-05 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 05 mai 14, 04:05:28, Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Andrei POPESCU >> wrote: >>> If one is watching for new packages it also makes sense to clear the >>> list from time to time: >>> >>> aptitude --forget-new >> >>

Re: boot in console mode from grub2

2014-05-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 05 mai 14, 10:29:50, François Patte wrote: > Bonjour, > > I would like to boot in console mode from the grub screen (ie not in > graphic mode), but I don't want to be in single user mode, ie.: I want > to have a "normal boot" without X. Since you didn't mention I will assume you are runnin

Re: boot in console mode from grub2

2014-05-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 05 mai 14, 04:58:14, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:29 AM, François Patte > wrote: > > > > I would like to boot in console mode from the grub screen (ie not in > > graphic mode), but I don't want to be in single user mode, ie.: I want > > to have a "normal boot" without X. > > > >

Re: boot in console mode from grub2

2014-05-05 Thread Dom
On 05/05/14 09:58, Tom H wrote: On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:29 AM, François Patte wrote: I would like to boot in console mode from the grub screen (ie not in graphic mode), but I don't want to be in single user mode, ie.: I want to have a "normal boot" without X. I can't find any tuto for grub2

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

2014-05-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 05 mai 14, 04:05:28, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Andrei POPESCU > wrote: > > > > If one is watching for new packages it also makes sense to clear the > > list from time to time: > > > > aptitude --forget-new > > Thanks for the explanation. I stored "~N" in my memory but

Re: Problems with mdraid on initrd

2014-05-05 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 12:48 AM, Fredrik Tolf wrote: > > I recently upgraded to Wheezy a system that has its root filesystem on top > of LVM and mdraid, and it gained a problem in booting, in that the initrd > calls mdadm to scan for the mdraid devices before the kernel is done with > detecting th

Re: boot in console mode from grub2

2014-05-05 Thread Tom H
On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 4:29 AM, François Patte wrote: > > I would like to boot in console mode from the grub screen (ie not in > graphic mode), but I don't want to be in single user mode, ie.: I want > to have a "normal boot" without X. > > I can't find any tuto for grub2 installed on my system.

Re: sudo in X-environment -- polkit solution

2014-05-05 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sat, May 03, 2014 at 12:43:17PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Sat, 2014-05-03 at 06:29 -0400, Tom H wrote: > I am wondering why you even need to use wrapper explicitly? That's why I've said that I consider using a wrapper for gksu/gksud

boot in console mode from grub2

2014-05-05 Thread François Patte
Bonjour, I would like to boot in console mode from the grub screen (ie not in graphic mode), but I don't want to be in single user mode, ie.: I want to have a "normal boot" without X. I can't find any tuto for grub2 installed on my system. Thank you. -- François Patte UFR de mathématiques et in

Re: Question about wheezy-backports

2014-05-05 Thread Tom H
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 04 mai 14, 04:01:25, Tom H wrote: >> >> I've never used this search term but aptitude has a search for new >> packages. I assume that a package is somehow marked as new after >> "apt-get update" or "aptitude update". > > New means pack

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 5, 2014, at 12:15 AM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > I don't run a 4k hd in my powerbook. But in one of my amd64 machines there is > one (Seagate ST1000DM003) running with an gpt partition table partitioned > exactly by the 1MiB steps. I'v done this with gdisk but should also be done > with

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 4, 2014, at 1:14 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Apr 27, 2014, at 2:54 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> On Sb, 26 apr 14, 20:24:12, Rick Thomas wrote: >>> >>> With more and more disks being manufactured with "Advanced format" >>> (4096-byte physical-sectors) I'm wondering how I can tell

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-05 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Rick Thomas [2014-05-04 15:46 -0700]: > > On May 4, 2014, at 1:28 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > * Rick Thomas [2014-05-04 01:14 -0700]: > > > > [...] > >> root@bigal:~# mac-fdisk -l /dev/sda > >> /dev/sda > >>#type name length base