Re: how to obtain pkg not available for my version (jessie)

2014-07-09 Thread Harry Putnam
The Wanderer writes: > On 07/08/2014 09:45 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> How does one obtain pkgs (encfs in this case) that are not available >> to an `aptitude' search of pkgs for jessie? >> >> It appears that the pkg in question (encfs) is available for wheezy. >> >> https://packages.debian.or

Re: SSD optimization on Debian (2014)

2014-07-09 Thread Bob Proulx
KS wrote: > I have read some stuff on pros and cons for /tmp on tmpfs. One case case > be a powerloss (just a desktop without UPS) or kernel panic and I loose > files that I might have on /tmp temporarily. Isn't the default to purge /tmp on reboot normally anyway? man rcS TMPTIME

Re: SSD optimization on Debian (2014)

2014-07-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Jochen Spieker wrote: > Bob Proulx: > > The referenced thread has much good information concerning trim (aka > > the discard option) and I recommend reading through the entire thread. > > You are fine with trim enabled. In some cases using trim may help. > > In some cases using trim may hurt. I h

Re: Can't install Debian - USB keyboard doesn't turn on until Windows loads

2014-07-09 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, July 10, 2014 7:30:02 AM UTC+5:30, Kitty Cat wrote: > I have two questions: > 1. Would anyone be willing to give me a link to a simple USB keyboard that you > think would work with this machine at boot time? Perhaps on Amazon.com or > Newegg.com, etc.? > 2. Do you know of a Debian CD o

Re: Can't install Debian - USB keyboard doesn't turn on until Windows loads

2014-07-09 Thread Joseph Loo
On 07/09/2014 06:50 PM, Kitty Cat wrote: I have two questions: 1. Would anyone be willing to give me a link to a simple USB keyboard that you think would work with this machine at boot time? Perhaps on Amazon.com or Newegg.com, etc.? 2. Do you know of a Debian CD of some type that will load a

Using xfce4-power-manager with dwm

2014-07-09 Thread Daniel LaFlamme
The laptop can suspend and resume without issue when I run a plain vanilla Xfce session (started with "Xfce session" from the lightdm login screen). However, I don't want to run an entire Xfce desktop environment; I want to use dwm but use xfce4-power-manager to manage suspend and resume. I am u

Re: Can't install Debian - USB keyboard doesn't turn on until Windows loads

2014-07-09 Thread Kitty Cat
I have two questions: 1. Would anyone be willing to give me a link to a simple USB keyboard that you think would work with this machine at boot time? Perhaps on Amazon.com or Newegg.com, etc.? 2. Do you know of a Debian CD of some type that will load a kernel without the need of a key press befor

Re: error on sid laptop: ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/493.....085 does not exist.

2014-07-09 Thread Jochen Spieker
Nick Lidakis: > > I've recently been unable to boot into my thinkpad x200s because > of this error: ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/493085b does not exist. Dropping > to a shell! > > Most of the Google results are of users changin out disks or partitions and > the UUID get messed up. I haven't switch

Re: SSD optimization on Debian (2014)

2014-07-09 Thread Jochen Spieker
Jörg-Volker Peetz: > > The first call of fstrim after a reboot indeed normally seems to discard all > free space of a filesystem. It should discard all blocks that were not previously discarded. From the manpage: | fstrim will report the same potential discard bytes each time, | but only sector

Re: SSD optimization on Debian (2014)

2014-07-09 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 09 Jul 2014, Jochen Spieker wrote: > > * The "discard" options is not needed if your SSD has enough > > overprovisioning (spare space) or you leave (unpartitioned) free > > space on the SSD. > > See http://www.spinics.net/lists/raid/msg40866.html > > AFAIU, this discussion on

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 22:46:32 +0100 Martin Read wrote: > Well, my instances of icedove, kvirc, iceweasel, the steam client, > sgt-loopy (launched from shells in now-closed lxterminal instances) > are all running just fine (I habitually close terminals I've launched > GUI applications from, becau

Re: UEFI

2014-07-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 9 Jul 2014 22:13:21 +0200 Thierry de Coulon wrote: > So this for me sums up the question: if your computer is to run linux > only (as was the OP's), there is no reason to use UEFI/GPT but for > the need for partitions over 2 TB. And, for eighty bucks more you can get a small (256GB) SSD

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-09 Thread Martin Read
On 09/07/14 22:00, Steve Litt wrote: On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 15:21:55 +0100 Martin Read wrote: Running a program in the background from a shell in an xterm (and even closing the xterm afterwards) works fine; indeed, that's how I launched the instance of Icedove I'm typing this e-mail in. Yeah, bu

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-09 Thread Mark Carroll
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org writes: > Le 09.07.2014 15:40, Mark Carroll a écrit : >> Martin Read writes: >> >>> On 09/07/14 05:07, Steve Litt wrote: >>> [regarding double fork] In other words, it's going to bust my program, right? >>> >>> Maybe. Do the programs you launch need to outlive y

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 16:22:55 +0200 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > Le 09.07.2014 15:40, Mark Carroll a écrit : > > Martin Read writes: > > > >> On 09/07/14 05:07, Steve Litt wrote: > >> [regarding double fork] > >>> In other words, it's going to bust my program, right? > >> > >> Mayb

bonding

2014-07-09 Thread Pol Hallen
Hi all :-) using two switches without 802.3ad support I can configure bonding mode 4? ie: server linux with 2nics: put nic1 cable on switch1, nic2 cable on switch2 and put another cable from switch1 to pc1 and another cable from switch2 to pc1? Obviously with bonding active on both pc. tha

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 15:21:55 +0100 Martin Read wrote: > On 09/07/14 14:40, Mark Carroll wrote: > > Hang on, that sounds scary. I'll still be able to launch something > > from the shell (maybe in an xterm) with a trailing & to put it in > > the background, and then log out and it will keep on goin

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 11:41:37 +0100 Martin Read wrote: > On 09/07/14 05:07, Steve Litt wrote: > [regarding double fork] > > In other words, it's going to bust my program, right? > > Maybe. Do the programs you launch need to outlive your session? If > so, your launcher program's design will run in

Re: Samsung C410 KVM USB pass-through [not quite resolved]

2014-07-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 09/07/14 03:44 PM, Floris wrote: Op Wed, 09 Jul 2014 11:06:24 +0200 schreef Gary Dale : I'm running a Windows XP/Pro VM (KVM) on a Debian/Wheezy server and am trying to get a USB printer (Samsung C410) attached to the server to work. The manufacturer suggested trying the USB pass-through b

Why UEFI?: Was UEFI

2014-07-09 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 9 Jul 2014 15:53:22 +0200 B wrote: > On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 16:26:16 +0300 > Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > > > You have to enable (U)EFI on your computer and Debian 7.x/8 should > > install just fine. > > Yup, the 7.5 (amd64) netinstall has the EFI partition. > > BTW, sorry to hijack a

Re: Sid - grubpc-bin isc-dhcp-client bugs

2014-07-09 Thread Joe
On Wed, 9 Jul 2014 15:41:31 -0400 Stephen Allen wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 06:41:08PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2014-07-09 08:59 +0200, Tom H wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Stephen Allen > > > wrote: > > >> > > >> For some time these bugs have existed in SID: > >

Re: UEFI

2014-07-09 Thread Joe
On Wed, 9 Jul 2014 16:49:51 +0200 Thierry de Coulon wrote: > On Wednesday 09 July 2014 15.53:22 B wrote: > > > BTW, sorry to hijack a bit this thread, but what could > > be the advantages to use UEFI (I just have Debian on my > > laptop and disabled it from ancient posts I read). > > > AFA

VLC limitations (was: Re: watching films full screen)

2014-07-09 Thread Joel Roth
B wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 10:22:53 -1000 > Joel Roth wrote: > > > That's interesting to me to hear you say this. Dealing > > with a variety of video formats, I find mpv (based on > > mplayer) to be much more tolerant of video formats. > > > > Most recently, I observed the VLC won't handl

Re: UEFI

2014-07-09 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Wednesday 09 July 2014 19.49:12 Bret Busby wrote: > It is my understanding (and, once again, I am no expert), that two > distinct advantages of a UEFI/GPT system ofer what it replaced, are > that no differentiation exists, between primary and other partitions, > and, a UEFI/GPT system, can have

Re: Samsung C410 KVM USB pass-through

2014-07-09 Thread Floris
Op Wed, 09 Jul 2014 11:06:24 +0200 schreef Gary Dale : I'm running a Windows XP/Pro VM (KVM) on a Debian/Wheezy server and am trying to get a USB printer (Samsung C410) attached to the server to work. The manufacturer suggested trying the USB pass-through but the port just shows "unknown

Re: Sid - grubpc-bin isc-dhcp-client bugs

2014-07-09 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 06:41:08PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2014-07-09 08:59 +0200, Tom H wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Stephen Allen > > wrote: > >> > >> For some time these bugs have existed in SID: > >> > >> critical bugs of grub-pc-bin (2.00-22 → 2.02~beta2-10) > >> #7

Re: Samsung C410 KVM USB pass-through [RESOLVED]

2014-07-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 09/07/14 05:06 AM, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running a Windows XP/Pro VM (KVM) on a Debian/Wheezy server and am trying to get a USB printer (Samsung C410) attached to the server to work. The manufacturer suggested trying the USB pass-through but the port just shows "unknown device" in the Windows

Re: UEFI

2014-07-09 Thread Bzzzz
On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 20:32:43 +0200 Hans wrote: > So you cannot change BIOS and disable UEFI? Or is it protected by > password? No no, what I said is (from (very) old posts) I choosed to stay in regular BIOS mode; and as my systems have no special needs, the laptop will stay in this mode until a

Re: UEFI

2014-07-09 Thread Neal Murphy
On Wednesday, July 09, 2014 02:08:41 PM Slavko wrote: > Ahoj, > > Dňa Thu, 10 Jul 2014 01:49:12 +0800 Bret Busby > > napísal: > > On 09/07/2014, B wrote: > > > BTW, sorry to hijack a bit this thread, but what could > > > be the advantages to use UEFI (I just have Debian on my > > > laptop a

Re: UEFI

2014-07-09 Thread Hans
Am Mittwoch, 9. Juli 2014, 20:23:48 schrieb B: > On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 17:04:48 +0200 > > Hans wrote: > > Just disable UEFI, then install debian as needed. Debian is > > Too late! > > Regular BIOS will do. This laptop is for work only, so I only > have a swap, a main system and an SOS sytem.

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-09 Thread Brian
On Tue 08 Jul 2014 at 16:22:51 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 12:39:02 +0100 > Darac Marjal wrote: > > > > Why should desktops and end-user applications have to depend on > > > systemd's parts? For mpd, for example. Ok, it's started as daemon > > > by default, but users can run in

Re: UEFI

2014-07-09 Thread Bzzzz
On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 17:04:48 +0200 Hans wrote: > Just disable UEFI, then install debian as needed. Debian is Too late! Regular BIOS will do. This laptop is for work only, so I only have a swap, a main system and an SOS sytem. -- "I'd love to go out with you, but I'm attending the opening of m

Re: UEFI

2014-07-09 Thread Bzzzz
On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 01:49:12 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > It is my understanding (and, once again, I am an expert), that two I see that, thanks for the details! ;) -- Witch! Witch! They'll burn ya! -- Hag, "Tomorrow is Yesterday", stardate unknown signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: UEFI

2014-07-09 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Thu, 10 Jul 2014 01:49:12 +0800 Bret Busby napísal: > On 09/07/2014, B wrote: > > > BTW, sorry to hijack a bit this thread, but what could > > be the advantages to use UEFI (I just have Debian on my > > laptop and disabled it from ancient posts I read). > > > > It is my understa

Re: Help on using Debian

2014-07-09 Thread Bret Busby
On 09/07/2014, Chris Bannister wrote: > > Your question needs to go to the list address. Replies only go to the list. This has previously been discussed. Replies can go to either the poster of a message, or to the list, if only the Reply option is chosen, depending on the particular email appli

Re: Sid - grubpc-bin isc-dhcp-client bugs

2014-07-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-09 19:43 +0200, Tom H wrote: > On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2014-07-09 08:59 +0200, Tom H wrote: >>> This one was against 2.02~beta2-7 in experimental. >> >> In unstable, not in experimental. > > I was just looking at the changelog: > > grub2 (2.02~beta2-8

Re: UEFI

2014-07-09 Thread Bret Busby
On 09/07/2014, B wrote: > > BTW, sorry to hijack a bit this thread, but what could > be the advantages to use UEFI (I just have Debian on my > laptop and disabled it from ancient posts I read). > Hello. It is my understanding (and, once again, I am no expert), that two distinct advantages

Re: Sid - grubpc-bin isc-dhcp-client bugs

2014-07-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2014-07-09 08:59 +0200, Tom H wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Stephen Allen >> wrote: >>> >>> For some time these bugs have existed in SID: >>> >>> critical bugs of grub-pc-bin (2.00-22 → 2.02~beta2-10) >>> #741464 - grub-pc-bi

Re: Sid - grubpc-bin isc-dhcp-client bugs

2014-07-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-07-09 08:59 +0200, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Stephen Allen > wrote: >> >> For some time these bugs have existed in SID: >> >> critical bugs of grub-pc-bin (2.00-22 → 2.02~beta2-10) >> #741464 - grub-pc-bin: hangs after displaying boot menu > > This one was against 2

Re: Re (2): HTML5 => png or HTML5 => jpg.

2014-07-09 Thread Neal Murphy
On Wednesday, July 09, 2014 08:54:53 AM pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: "Weaver" > Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 22:28:35 -0700 > > > ... what's wrong with just getting a screengrab, > > then trimming it through the 'tolls' menu in GIMP. Then save it in your > > preferred format. > > For one or two pix

Re: Re (2): HTML5 => png or HTML5 => jpg.

2014-07-09 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 7/9/2014 8:54 AM, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: "Weaver" > Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 22:28:35 -0700 >> ... what's wrong with just getting a screengrab, >> then trimming it through the 'tolls' menu in GIMP. Then save it in your >> preferred format. > > For one or two pixel maps, yes. In fact "g

Re: Netbooting jessie installer gives kernel mismatch

2014-07-09 Thread Brian
On Wed 09 Jul 2014 at 16:49:01 +0100, Iain M Conochie wrote: > I am trying to install jessie into a vm, using a netboot. The > installer complains about not being able to find modules for the > running kernel. I downloaded the vmlinuz and initrd from the > following directory from the mirror I a

Netbooting jessie installer gives kernel mismatch

2014-07-09 Thread Iain M Conochie
Hello debian people I am trying to install jessie into a vm, using a netboot. The installer complains about not being able to find modules for the running kernel. I downloaded the vmlinuz and initrd from the following directory from the mirror I am trying to install from: debian/dists/jess

Re: UEFI

2014-07-09 Thread Bzzzz
On Wed, 9 Jul 2014 16:49:51 +0200 Thierry de Coulon wrote: > AFAIK it could be usefull for *very* big disks (but I can't see > their use on a laptop). Yep, I remember reading about partitions > 2TB, thanks. > Other than that, I can see only multiboot systems (Hackintoshes > need it). I don't r

Re: UEFI

2014-07-09 Thread Bzzzz
On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 16:55:37 +0200 Alex JOST wrote: > It's easier to install and manage multiple Operating Systems > because you don't have to mess around with Grub. ? I'm under sid, grub detects any installed os automatically. -- Life is the urge to ecstasy. signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: SSD optimization on Debian (2014)

2014-07-09 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
The first call of fstrim after a reboot indeed normally seems to discard all free space of a filesystem. -- Regards, jvp. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debia

Re: UEFI

2014-07-09 Thread Hans
Am Mittwoch, 9. Juli 2014, 14:56:55 schrieb Curt: > On 2014-07-09, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > >> I bought a new laptop and the debian does not install on it because the > >> uefi. Does anyone here known how to install the Debian using a UEFI > >> instalation like Ubuntu does? > > > > You have to

Re: UEFI

2014-07-09 Thread Alex JOST
Am 09.07.2014 15:53, schrieb B: BTW, sorry to hijack a bit this thread, but what could be the advantages to use UEFI (I just have Debian on my laptop and disabled it from ancient posts I read). It's easier to install and manage multiple Operating Systems because you don't have to mess arou

Re: UEFI

2014-07-09 Thread Thierry de Coulon
On Wednesday 09 July 2014 15.53:22 B wrote: > BTW, sorry to hijack a bit this thread, but what could > be the advantages to use UEFI (I just have Debian on my > laptop and disabled it from ancient posts I read). AFAIK it could be usefull for *very* big disks (but I can't see their use on a

Re: UEFI

2014-07-09 Thread Curt
On 2014-07-09, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: >> >> I bought a new laptop and the debian does not install on it because the >> uefi. Does anyone here known how to install the Debian using a UEFI >> instalation like Ubuntu does? > > You have to enable (U)EFI on your computer and Debian 7.x/8 should > i

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-09 Thread berenger . morel
Le 09.07.2014 15:40, Mark Carroll a écrit : Martin Read writes: On 09/07/14 05:07, Steve Litt wrote: [regarding double fork] In other words, it's going to bust my program, right? Maybe. Do the programs you launch need to outlive your session? If so, your launcher program's design will ru

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-09 Thread Martin Read
On 09/07/14 14:40, Mark Carroll wrote: Hang on, that sounds scary. I'll still be able to launch something from the shell (maybe in an xterm) with a trailing & to put it in the background, and then log out and it will keep on going, right? Running a program in the background from a shell in an x

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-09 Thread Mark Carroll
Martin Read writes: > On 09/07/14 05:07, Steve Litt wrote: > [regarding double fork] >> In other words, it's going to bust my program, right? > > Maybe. Do the programs you launch need to outlive your session? If so, > your launcher program's design will run into problems in a systemd world. > >

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Re: UEFI

2014-07-09 Thread Bzzzz
On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 16:26:16 +0300 Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > You have to enable (U)EFI on your computer and Debian 7.x/8 should > install just fine. Yup, the 7.5 (amd64) netinstall has the EFI partition. BTW, sorry to hijack a bit this thread, but what could be the advantages to use UEFI (I ju

Re: UEFI

2014-07-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
benedi...@gmail.com wrote: > >I bought a new laptop and the debian does not install on it because the >uefi. Does anyone here known how to install the Debian using a UEFI >instalation like Ubuntu does? Current stable (7.5, aka Wheezy) and testing (Jessie) versions of Debian should install fine usi

Re: UEFI

2014-07-09 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 07/09/2014 03:12 PM, Benedito Junior wrote: > Hello, > > I bought a new laptop and the debian does not install on it because the > uefi. Does anyone here known how to install the Debian using a UEFI > instalation like Ubuntu does? You have to enable (U)EFI on your computer and Debian 7.x/8 sh

Re (2): HTML5 => png or HTML5 => jpg.

2014-07-09 Thread peter
From: "Weaver" Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 22:28:35 -0700 > ... what's wrong with just getting a screengrab, > then trimming it through the 'tolls' menu in GIMP. Then save it in your > preferred format. For one or two pixel maps, yes. In fact "gimp > File > Create > From Webpage" opens the docume

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-09 Thread berenger . morel
Le 08.07.2014 22:46, Steve Litt a écrit : On Tue, 08 Jul 2014 13:12:26 +0200 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: I can't, but I want to ask some questions about that problem you describe. Are remote desktop the majority of linux uses? Do you really need remote capabilities when you use your

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-09 Thread berenger . morel
Le 08.07.2014 18:17, Slavko a écrit : Ahoj, Dňa Tue, 08 Jul 2014 13:00:24 +0200 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org napísal: Le 08.07.2014 08:58, Kushal Kumaran a écrit : > Neal Murphy writes: > >> On Monday, July 07, 2014 03:49:52 PM Michael Biebl wrote: >>> Am 07.07.2014 21:29, schrieb Andrei

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-09 Thread berenger . morel
Le 08.07.2014 16:47, Martin Read a écrit : On 08/07/14 12:00, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 08.07.2014 08:58, Kushal Kumaran a écrit : Neal Murphy writes: On Monday, July 07, 2014 03:49:52 PM Michael Biebl wrote: Am 07.07.2014 21:29, schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > To prove my point

UEFI

2014-07-09 Thread Benedito Junior
Hello, I bought a new laptop and the debian does not install on it because the uefi. Does anyone here known how to install the Debian using a UEFI instalation like Ubuntu does?

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 6:41 AM, Martin Read wrote: > > Do the programs you launch need to outlive your session? If so, your > launcher program's design will run into problems in a systemd world. loginctl has an "enable-linger" setting for this for a logged in and authenticated user. -- To UNSU

WAKACJE w Krainie Latających Czarownic

2014-07-09 Thread Agro-Michalscy
Ach, gdyby tak móc się wyrwać z biura na kilka dni! Zapomnieć o pracy i codziennych obowiązkach! Właściwie... Dlaczego by tego nie zrobić? Gospodarstwo agroturystyczne "Domek na Wzgórzu" położone jest bezpośrednio nad

Re: watching films full screen

2014-07-09 Thread Bzzzz
On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 10:33:06 +0200 François Patte wrote: > that this feature does not exist in kaffeine and, while it exists > in vlc, it does not work! Not totally true: it works on a desktop, not on a laptop. -- If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour. -- William Blake

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-09 Thread Martin Read
On 09/07/14 05:07, Steve Litt wrote: [regarding double fork] In other words, it's going to bust my program, right? Maybe. Do the programs you launch need to outlive your session? If so, your launcher program's design will run into problems in a systemd world. If not, you should be fine. --

Re: Help on using Debian

2014-07-09 Thread Chris Bannister
Your question needs to go to the list address. Replies only go to the list. There have been answers to your question. Please subscribe to the list. You can read previous responses at the list archives. On Wed, Jul 09, 2014 at 11:03:01AM +0100, Dreamon Dreamon wrote: > > > > Are you subscribed

Circular dependency.

2014-07-09 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, I have no use for Java on a headless file server, and for some reason every time I upgrade anything on one particular system (using apt) the tool whines about certain Java packages being 'kept back'. I have little idea why they were installed on the system in the first place, still les

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:07 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 17:57:51 -0400 > Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Steve Litt >> wrote: >>> On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 16:03:31 +0200 >>> berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: I forgot that systemd is able to "spy" processes

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-09 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:06 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jul 2014 17:55:15 -0400 > Tom H wrote: FTR, since you seem to have misunderstood, I copied and pasted someone else's comments on OpenRC. >> If we're going to the effort of >> replacing init systems and changing our startup scripts

Re: why do we use systemd?

2014-07-09 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 7/8/2014 5:42 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Jerry Stuckle wrote: >>> >>> What's wrong with that? I also have to use Windows, even when I'm >>> working on Linux device drivers (and have been for 20+ years). >>> >>> Som

Samsung C410 KVM USB pass-through

2014-07-09 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running a Windows XP/Pro VM (KVM) on a Debian/Wheezy server and am trying to get a USB printer (Samsung C410) attached to the server to work. The manufacturer suggested trying the USB pass-through but the port just shows "unknown device" in the Windows device manager. It doesn't seem to li

Re: SSD optimization on Debian (2014)

2014-07-09 Thread Jochen Spieker
Bob Proulx: > > The wiki does say this: > > * The "discard" options is not needed if your SSD has enough > overprovisioning (spare space) or you leave (unpartitioned) free > space on the SSD. > See http://www.spinics.net/lists/raid/msg40866.html AFAIU, this discussion only relates

Re: watching films full screen

2014-07-09 Thread François Patte
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 08/07/2014 20:02, Steve B a écrit : > On 07/07/2014 11:08 PM, François Patte wrote: >> >> 1- I would like to configure kaffeine for a "real full screen >> ie. without any visible xfce panels. There are only one option in >> the menu "configuration"

Re: apt-get update fails

2014-07-09 Thread Tony van der Hoff
On 08/07/14 21:31, Bob Proulx wrote: > Tony van der Hoff wrote: >> Err http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main amd64 Packages >> 403 Forbidden >> ... >> Any suggestions as to what's wrong here? > > Do you have any other apt config settings such as for a proxy server > that would get in t

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-09 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 7/9/14, Tom Furie wrote: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 07:16:43PM +0100, Brian wrote: >> [1] I am allowed to hate curl because I do not use it and do not >> understand what it does. > > Sounds more like fear. To hate something you must at least be familiar > with what it is and does, and preferrabl

Re: Sid - grubpc-bin isc-dhcp-client bugs

2014-07-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 09:07:44PM -0400, Stephen Allen wrote: > For some time these bugs have existed in SID: > > critical bugs of grub-pc-bin (2.00-22 → 2.02~beta2-10) > #741464 - grub-pc-bin: hangs after displaying boot menu > grave bugs of isc-dhcp-client (4.2.4-7 → 4.3.0+dfsg-1) > #74941

Re: Sid - grubpc-bin isc-dhcp-client bugs

2014-07-09 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Stephen Allen wrote: > > For some time these bugs have existed in SID: > > critical bugs of grub-pc-bin (2.00-22 → 2.02~beta2-10) > #741464 - grub-pc-bin: hangs after displaying boot menu This one was against 2.02~beta2-7 in experimental. You should let the deve