Re: Random

2014-09-21 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 21 September 2014 22:26:16 Martin Read wrote: > On 21/09/14 20:41, David Baron wrote: > > On Sunday 21 September 2014 20:24:08 Martin Read wrote: > >> Application software usually initializes its internal pseudorandom > >> number generator using inputs like the current system time. Since

Re: The way of becoming a DM/DD?

2014-09-21 Thread lumin
> You gave up just a bit too soon. :) > > http://www.debian.org/devel/join/index.en.html Thank you for providing this link. :) > Try and pick a package which you are familiar with and intend on > maintaining for a while, it is a bad idea and frowned upon to pick *any* > package just to get your

Re: Is geda-gaf in debian?

2014-09-21 Thread Frank Miles
On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 13:20:02 +0200, Tixy wrote: > On Sat, 2014-09-20 at 05:09 +, Frank Miles wrote: >> [...] It's simply odd that the packages derived from geda-gaf do not >> contain the gaf utility {none of the derived binary packages seem to >> have it, not even geda-utils}. > > Is 'gaf' me

Cannot boot when /sbin/init is linked to /lib/systemd/systemd, but works with ../lib/systemd/systemd

2014-09-21 Thread Steve M. Robbins
Hi, Not interested in a debate over systemd. But I have a boot issue and since there isn't a bug that matches the symptoms, I suspect my setup may be peculiar and I'm hoping someone may have some insight. The package systemd-sysv installs a symlink ./sbin/init -> /lib/systemd/systemd. The sy

a systemd alternative

2014-09-21 Thread green
I had not seen any references on this list to the following yet (perhaps I missed it), so here it is in case someone else is interested: http://uselessd.darknedgy.net/ A rather interesting bug report about binary log corruption that is linked there: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6

Re: Effectively criticizing decisions you disagree with in Debian

2014-09-21 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 09:12:38 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: > I will acknowledge that there are some things that we could do to > improve the current (sysv) init in debian. > > * Get rid of run levels. And the reason for this change is? Runlevels are good where they are, even if you don't use the

Re: Power Mac G4 stuck "Loading second stage bootstrap"

2014-09-21 Thread Rick Thomas
Hi Bruno Hi Steve Did you ever get this working for you? I’m a happy user of Debian Wheezy Gnu/Linux on some Apple G4 and G5 Macintosh machines, so I may be able to help. Bruno: If you haven’t succeeded yet, and you are willing to try again, I’ll try to walk you through the steps… First, wh

Re: systemd/cgroups changing permissions (was: Re: Effectively criticizing decisions you disagree with in Debian)

2014-09-21 Thread Joel Rees
2014/09/22 5:21 "Ansgar Burchardt" : > > Hi Joel, > > Joel Rees writes: > > (6) systemd and cgroups (at minimum) end up overriding the permissions > > system. It's bad enough having SELinux and ACLs brought in to knock > > holes in the permissions system, but when arbitrary non-kernel system > > f

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread lee
"Andrew M.A. Cater" writes: > Jessie freezes no later than November 5th 2014. Allow folk who are trying to > work on the distribution to work on it and not to have to intervene in this > sort of discussion, please. Nobody prevents them from doing either or forces them to do anything. Once they

Re: MDADM RAID1 of external USB 3.0 Drives

2014-09-21 Thread lee
Linux-Fan writes: > On 09/21/2014 08:41 PM, lee wrote: >> Linux-Fan writes: On 09/20/2014 04:55 PM, lee wrote: Other than that, in my experience Seagate disks my have an unusually high failure rate. >>> >>> Mine all work here. SMART reports >> >> They'll work until they fail. I

Re: SDD I/O very low < 10% normal

2014-09-21 Thread KS
On 21/09/14 07:41 PM, KS wrote: > > The hdparm shows much normal buffered disk reads (although only 75% of > the Intel) but would this setting stick during reboots? > Update: moved the SATA cable from SATA5 to SATA2. and now hdparm shows udma6 as active mode and buffered disk reads are around 37

Re: Creating a forum for systemd debate

2014-09-21 Thread John Hasler
lee wrote: > Mike McGinn writes: > As in any sane system of governance for this type of organization, the > ones doing the work get to make the decisions. lee wrote: > Then please modify Debians' social contract where it says that the users > are the priority. It says users are the priority. It

Re: Effectively criticizing decisions you disagree with in Debian

2014-09-21 Thread Joel Rees
Let's say, for the sake of argument, that one of the developers replied to me off-list something like the following, as if to help me unpack some of what I wrote: > > On Mon, 22 Sep 2014, Joel Rees wrote: > > What problem were you trying to solve when you decided there had to be a > > switch? > >

Re: systemd bug closed - next steps?

2014-09-21 Thread John Hasler
Martin Read writes: > consolekit is indeed the thing that systemd-logind replaces (and > systemd-logind was the reason the maintainers of consolekit stopped > maintaining it). So who is going to step forward and start maintaining it? -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UN

Re: Creating a forum for systemd debate

2014-09-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2014 21 Sep 15:10 -0500, lee wrote: > Mike McGinn writes: > > > As in any sane system of governance for this type of organization, the > > ones doing the work get to make the decisions. > > Then please modify Debians' social contract where it says that the users > are the priority. I fear

Re: SDD I/O very low < 10% normal

2014-09-21 Thread KS
On 21/09/14 07:08 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > Hi KS, > > Over time, SSD's get, for want of a better word, fragmented. Especially > if they endure a lot of writes. > > Many times, this "fragmentation" can be corrected. See this: > > https://sites.google.com/site/lightrush/random-1/howtoconfigureex

Re: systemd bug closed - next steps?

2014-09-21 Thread Martin Read
On 21/09/14 23:47, The Wanderer wrote: I did mean policykit, but that's because I was talking about my understanding, which does have policykit in that slot. My understanding may well be wrong, and if so, consolekit may very well be what *should* go in that slot instead. consolekit is indeed th

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread John Hasler
Steve Litt writes: > Wow, how things have changed. Whatever happened to "it's ready when > it's ready?" It *freezes* Nov. 5. It's *ready* when it's ready. This is not a new development. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.d

Re: SDD I/O very low < 10% normal

2014-09-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 18:23:36 -0400 KS wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently reinstalled my system on two SDD that I got (Intel 530 > 240GB -f/w updated and a Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 240GB - f/w > 520ABFF0 (latest 525ABFF0)). I have the main system running on the > Intel SSD (LVM) and a partition o

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 21 Sep 2014, Steve Litt wrote: > Wow, how things have changed. Whatever happened to "it's ready when > it's ready?" That quote referring to the release, which is distinct from when testing freezes. Testing is rarely ready, which is why we have to freeze it in the first place. Once all of

Re: systemd bug closed - next steps?

2014-09-21 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/21/2014 at 06:05 PM, Brian wrote: > On Sun 21 Sep 2014 at 14:40:13 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 09/21/2014 at 01:37 PM, John Hasler wrote: >>> >>> What did those packages do for that functionality before >>> systemd existed? >> >> Acc

Re: excessive CPU usage

2014-09-21 Thread Steve Litt
I wouldn't want to speculate before using htop and iotop, but for many of the years I used Kmail (and therefore the KDE libraries), I regularly had dbus-daemon instances go rogue and eat up 98% of the processor. It got so bad that I made a daemon to go out every 5 seconds, find any dbus-daemon inst

Re: excessive CPU usage

2014-09-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 22:58:38 +0400 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 11:54:01 -0700 > Gary Roach wrote: > > > Has anyone else had a similar problem or have any idea what is > > going on. > > apt-get install iotop. > Run iotop as root once you experience a slowdown. > The process on t

Re: SDD I/O very low < 10% normal

2014-09-21 Thread KS
On 21/09/14 06:23 PM, KS wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently reinstalled my system on two SDD that I got (Intel 530 240GB > -f/w updated and a Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 240GB - f/w 520ABFF0 > (latest 525ABFF0)). I have the main system running on the Intel SSD > (LVM) and a partition on the Kingston

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 18:42:18 + "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > Jessie freezes no later than November 5th 2014. Allow folk who are > trying to work on the distribution to work on it and not to have to > intervene in this sort of discussion, please. Wow, how things have changed. Whatever happene

SDD I/O very low < 10% normal

2014-09-21 Thread KS
Hi all, I recently reinstalled my system on two SDD that I got (Intel 530 240GB -f/w updated and a Kingston SSDNow V300 Series 240GB - f/w 520ABFF0 (latest 525ABFF0)). I have the main system running on the Intel SSD (LVM) and a partition on the Kingston for my VMs. Off lately, I have noticed that

fvwm: was i3 sticky/floating windows (brasero requires gvfs)

2014-09-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 17:48:13 +0200 lee wrote: > So i3 doesn't have any advantages for me --- fvwm is much more > flexible and without the utter confusion that arises when you try to > arrange a number of windows in a particular manner with i3. It even > wastes less screen space than i3 because I

Re: i3 sticky/floating windows (brasero requires gvfs)

2014-09-21 Thread green
lee wrote at 2014-09-21 10:48 -0500: > With fvwm, I can have sticky floating windows that stay on top. This > allows me to watch the movie, no matter to which desktop I switch, and > no other window will come up above the movie, so I can always watch it. > > Moreover, fvwm is somewhat capable of

Re: systemd bug closed - next steps?

2014-09-21 Thread Brian
On Sun 21 Sep 2014 at 14:40:13 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 09/21/2014 at 01:37 PM, John Hasler wrote: > > > > What did those packages do for that functionality before systemd > > existed? > > According to my understanding, either they depended on policykit (which > used to provide such, or

Re: systemd bug closed - next steps?

2014-09-21 Thread Brian
On Sun 21 Sep 2014 at 18:08:58 +0100, Martin Read wrote: > As far as the Debian-related aspects of the matter are concerned, it > seems to me that it would not be unreasonable to file bugs against > sysvinit-core and upstart suggesting that they should have a > Recommends: reference to systemd-shi

Re: Systemd, systemd, and more systemd ...

2014-09-21 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Sep21:2227+0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 21 Sep 2014 at 16:29:53 -0400, David L. Craig wrote: > > > On 14Sep21:1827+0100, Brian wrote: > > > > > Apart from using a Beta 1 D-I i386 netinst and installing to a real > > > machine I did the same as you a couple of days ago. No problems > > > upgra

Re: starting exim4 takes ages

2014-09-21 Thread Brian
On Sun 21 Sep 2014 at 21:01:17 +0200, lee wrote: > Brian writes: > > > On Sun 21 Sep 2014 at 14:40:31 +0200, lee wrote: > > > >> what might be the reason for exim4 taking ages (i. e. minutes) to start > >> when booting? The boot process keeps waiting until exim has started. > >> > >> Exim has

Re: Upgrading to Jessie

2014-09-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Joel Rees wrote: > Ric Moore wrote: > > There ya go, install the good stuff directories to /opt// (on an > > /opt partition) and after create links to them in your new /home// > > directory. Just don't blow up /opt by re-formating it. :) Ric > > Hasn't /opt been traditionally used for installing (

Re: Systemd, systemd, and more systemd ...

2014-09-21 Thread Brian
On Sun 21 Sep 2014 at 16:29:53 -0400, David L. Craig wrote: > On 14Sep21:1827+0100, Brian wrote: > > > Apart from using a Beta 1 D-I i386 netinst and installing to a real > > machine I did the same as you a couple of days ago. No problems > > upgrading to unstable. Far be it for me to suggest any

Re: Jessie and Systemd integration

2014-09-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrei POPESCU wrote: > T.J. Duchene wrote: > > Why is it not possible to create a completely generic shell script - > > basically ala SysV that can parse systemd config files for those use cases > > where Systemd is undesirable? > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/02/msg00106.html No

Re: starting exim4 takes ages

2014-09-21 Thread Sven Hartge
Jonathan Dowland wrote: > What init system are you using? If systemd, you might be able to find > out by inspecting the log for the exim4 service unit, once it has > finally started. 'systemd status -l exim4.service' is probably one way FTR: systemctl status -l exim4.service Grüße, Sven. --

Re: MDADM RAID1 of external USB 3.0 Drives

2014-09-21 Thread Linux-Fan
On 09/21/2014 08:41 PM, lee wrote: > Linux-Fan writes: >>> On 09/20/2014 04:55 PM, lee wrote: >>> Other than that, in my experience Seagate disks my have an unusually >>> high failure rate. >> >> Mine all work here. SMART reports > > They'll work until they fail. I don't believe in the smart-inf

Re: Random

2014-09-21 Thread Martin Read
On 21/09/14 20:41, David Baron wrote: On Sunday 21 September 2014 20:24:08 Martin Read wrote: Application software usually initializes its internal pseudorandom number generator using inputs like the current system time. Since you haven't mentioned any of the affected programs by name, it's diff

Re: Effectively criticizing decisions you disagree with in Debian

2014-09-21 Thread Marty
On 09/21/2014 01:12 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, Jerry Stuckle wrote: Then please explain to us why, with all of the negative technical aspects surrounding systemd, it looks to be the default init in Jessie. You can start by reading why I voted for systemd: https://bugs.debian

Re: The way of becoming a DM/DD?

2014-09-21 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 03:42:11AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > Try and pick a package which you are familiar with and intend on > maintaining for a while, it is a bad idea and frowned upon to pick *any* > package just to get your foot in the door. Asides from picking a new package, I'd recomm

Re: starting exim4 takes ages

2014-09-21 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 02:40:31PM +0200, lee wrote: > what might be the reason for exim4 taking ages (i. e. minutes) to start > when booting? The boot process keeps waiting until exim has started. What init system are you using? If systemd, you might be able to find out by inspecting the log fo

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread Martin Read
On 21/09/14 16:15, lee wrote: Martin Read writes: Nothing about the process of providing a Debian package looks ridiculously difficult to me. I started to read the huge documentation about how to do it and didn't get anywhere with it. I had that experience. Then I found these convenient pag

Re: Systemd, systemd, and more systemd ...

2014-09-21 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Sep21:1827+0100, Brian wrote: > Apart from using a Beta 1 D-I i386 netinst and installing to a real > machine I did the same as you a couple of days ago. No problems > upgrading to unstable. Far be it for me to suggest any bugs in qemu > or kvm, but we do have quite a difference in our experi

Re: Creating a forum for systemd debate (was Re: Issues upgrading Wheezy --> Jessie (was ... Re: brasero requires

2014-09-21 Thread Joel Roth
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 06:11:53PM +0200, lee wrote: > Joel Roth writes: > > > I think it should be possible to find or create a forum for > > those who are concerned about this issue. I know that > > I would subscribe. > > That would make it easier to ignore them. Wouldn't it make more sense

Re: starting exim4 takes ages

2014-09-21 Thread Sven Hartge
lee wrote: > Sven Hartge writes: >> lee wrote: >>> what might be the reason for exim4 taking ages (i. e. minutes) to >>> start when booting? The boot process keeps waiting until exim has >>> started. >> >> Maybe the network is not up or the nameserver is not responding. >> exim4 does quite som

systemd/cgroups changing permissions (was: Re: Effectively criticizing decisions you disagree with in Debian)

2014-09-21 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi Joel, Joel Rees writes: > (6) systemd and cgroups (at minimum) end up overriding the permissions > system. It's bad enough having SELinux and ACLs brought in to knock > holes in the permissions system, but when arbitrary non-kernel system > functions start getting their hands into the equation

Re: excessive CPU usage

2014-09-21 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
On 21. sep. 2014 20:54, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all For the last few months I have been plagued by very slow response from my system. ... at least one of the processors goes to 100% and stays there for long periods ... no noticeable activity in the process tables. ... hard drive indicator c

Re: Debian/Linux equivalent of RDP session / remote X11 session

2014-09-21 Thread Paul van der Vlis
op 21-09-14 14:33, lee schreef: > Hi, > > what's the Debian or Linux equivalent to MS Windows terminal server > sessions through the remote desktop thing they have? > > I would like to be able to let a user work remotely in an X11 session > (preferably with fvwm, if I have to xfce, if it can't be

Re: Systemd, systemd, and more systemd ...

2014-09-21 Thread lee
David Baron writes: > Aside from that, systemd works great, is lightening-fast, had no problems > with > it! So why all the fuss. That an init system is being replaced is not even scratching the surface of the issue, partly because of issues the init system intended to replace the existing one

Re: Creating a forum for systemd debate

2014-09-21 Thread lee
Mike McGinn writes: > As in any sane system of governance for this type of organization, the > ones doing the work get to make the decisions. Then please modify Debians' social contract where it says that the users are the priority. Should I make a bug report for this? -- Knowledge is volati

Re: Creating a forum for systemd debate (was Re: Issues upgrading Wheezy --> Jessie (was ... Re: brasero requires

2014-09-21 Thread lee
Joel Roth writes: > I think it should be possible to find or create a forum for > those who are concerned about this issue. I know that > I would subscribe. That would make it easier to ignore them. Wouldn't it make more sense to create a list for people interested in alternatives to systemd?

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 9/21/2014 2:39 PM, Ста Деюс wrote: > Доброго времени суток, Miles. > > > Спасибо за ответ, Sun, 21 Sep 2014 13:23:57 -0400 вы писали: I haven't said much until now, but I have followed the subject in depth the whole time. And I, for one, am very happy this was brought to my att

Re: Debian/Linux equivalent of RDP session / remote X11 session

2014-09-21 Thread lee
John Hasler writes: > lee writes: >> what's the Debian or Linux equivalent to MS Windows terminal server >> sessions through the remote desktop thing they have? > >> I would like to be able to let a user work remotely in an X11 session >> (preferably with fvwm, if I have to xfce, if it can't be a

Re: starting exim4 takes ages

2014-09-21 Thread lee
Brian writes: > On Sun 21 Sep 2014 at 14:40:31 +0200, lee wrote: > >> what might be the reason for exim4 taking ages (i. e. minutes) to start >> when booting? The boot process keeps waiting until exim has started. >> >> Exim has been configured with 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'. > > What is

Re: MDADM RAID1 of external USB 3.0 Drives

2014-09-21 Thread lee
Linux-Fan writes: >> On 09/20/2014 04:55 PM, lee wrote: > >> Other than that, in my experience Seagate disks my have an unusually >> high failure rate. > > Mine all work here. SMART reports They'll work until they fail. I don't believe in the smart-info. > The "unreliability" has just happened

Re: brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-21 Thread lee
Reco writes: > Hi. > > On Sat, 20 Sep 2014 20:34:28 +0200 > lee wrote: > >> > My biggest problem is I can't yet get qemu to run Debian or Ubuntu VMs >> > on OpenBSD, for those few programs that don't run on OpenBSD. >> >> And you can't use xen? > > You're probably mistook NetBSD (which can ser

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread lee
Martin Read writes: > On 21/09/14 04:14, lee wrote: >> Try to provide a Debian package and you'll see that it is so >> ridiculously difficult that it is virtually impossible. > > Nothing about the process of providing a Debian package looks > ridiculously difficult to me. I started to read the h

Re: starting exim4 takes ages

2014-09-21 Thread lee
Sven Hartge writes: > lee wrote: > >> what might be the reason for exim4 taking ages (i. e. minutes) to >> start when booting? The boot process keeps waiting until exim has >> started. > > Maybe the network is not up or the nameserver is not responding. exim4 > does quite some DNS lookups durin

Re: Whats your way of sharing data between PCs?

2014-09-21 Thread lee
Joerg Desch writes: > Hi. > > I'm using Debian Wheezy on two Notebooks and one Desktop. All systems are > using NFS to access a NAS. While the notebooks have all data on there > local SSDs, the Desktop is working directly on the NFS share. > > I currently use Unison to sync the data between the

Re: nfs mounting

2014-09-21 Thread lee
"Andrew M.A. Cater" writes: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 02:48:59AM +0200, lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> any idea why an NFS volume is being unmounted when a VM runs out of >> memory and kills some processes? These processes use files on the NFS >> volume, but that's no reason to unmount it. >> > > The

Re: Replacement RAID hard drives - do they have to be "clean"?

2014-09-21 Thread lee
Ken Heard writes: > One of my boxes has a RAID1 using two Seagate SATA 3.0 1 tb hard drives. > I need to replace one of them, and I would like to use as a replacement > a Samsung SATA 2.0 1 tb drive which already has on it data which I do > not need to keep. > > My first question is: although bo

Re: nfs mounting

2014-09-21 Thread lee
marko...@eunet.rs writes: > Maybe you have "noauto" option? Nope. -- Knowledge is volatile and fluid. Software is power. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.de

Re: i3 sticky/floating windows (brasero requires gvfs)

2014-09-21 Thread lee
green writes: > lee wrote at 2014-09-20 13:34 -0500: >> There's also i3, if you can live with a tiling WM that doesn't support >> sticky floating windows yet. > > I enjoy using i3. What is this "sticky floating windows" feature that > I am missing? After searching, it seems to be almost the sam

Re: Effectively criticizing decisions you disagree with in Debian

2014-09-21 Thread lee
Don Armstrong writes: >> What I don't understand is that criticism and other forms of speaking >> up cannot be considered as a form of contribution. > > Constructive criticism is often a useful contribution. Destructive > criticism, much less so. > > Disagree all you want, but don't malign others

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread lee
Bret Busby writes: > Can we please have a list established, that is purely for providing > support for users, and, that is free of the perpetual bitching - > systemd this and systemd that? Nobody prevents you from establishing such a list ... -- Knowledge is volatile and fluid. Software is

Re: MDADM RAID1 of external USB 3.0 Drives

2014-09-21 Thread lee
"Andrew M.A. Cater" writes: > On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 03:51:54AM +0200, lee wrote: >> Andrew McGlashan writes: >> >> > Whilst it is usually quite easy to find older server class hardware at >> > bargain prices (compared to new), it is often the case that older >> > hardware is slower and much l

Re: excessive CPU usage

2014-09-21 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
Hi On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 11:54:01AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > Hi all > > For the last few months I have been plagued by very slow response > from my system. As an example, it takes 2 1/2 minutes to drag and > drop 80 files from my email inbox to the trash bin in icedove. It > has taken as high

Re: Random

2014-09-21 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 21 September 2014 20:24:08 Martin Read wrote: > On 21/09/14 20:14, David Baron wrote: > > On my 64 bit Sid box, seems that certain applications/games come up the > > same every execution. Would normally expect a random pattern. > > > > This is not all of them but many.. Which random gene

Re: OT: Pepper Flash Crashes Everywhere

2014-09-21 Thread Sven Hartge
Paul van der Vlis wrote: > op 21-09-14 13:40, Sven Hartge schreef: >> You cannot install it in a way t run it side by side. By installing >> the libc6 package from Jessie it will overwrite the one from Wheezy. >> This is how the package manager works. > Correct, but... >> This late in the relea

Re: Random

2014-09-21 Thread Martin Read
On 21/09/14 20:14, David Baron wrote: On my 64 bit Sid box, seems that certain applications/games come up the same every execution. Would normally expect a random pattern. This is not all of them but many.. Which random generators should be installed, now seeded/configures? Application softwar

Re: systemd bug closed - next steps?

2014-09-21 Thread Brian
On Sun 21 Sep 2014 at 10:48:51 -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > Looking for advice from people in the know... > > I submitted a general bug regarding packages which require changing your > init system to systemd. I pointed out that this runs counter to > Debian's goals of supporting multiple init syste

Re: Booting Debian GNU/kFreeBSD on MacBookPro 8.2

2014-09-21 Thread Lars Noodén
On 09/21/2014 09:05 PM, Andrew Winnenberg wrote: On Sunday, September 21, 2014 05:43:40 AM Lars Noodén wrote: I've installed Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7.6 (wheezy) from a mini.iso CD image on a MacBookPro 8.2. The installation seemed to go smoothly, including installing Grub, but when it is time to

Random

2014-09-21 Thread David Baron
On my 64 bit Sid box, seems that certain applications/games come up the same every execution. Would normally expect a random pattern. This is not all of them but many.. Which random generators should be installed, now seeded/configures? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.de

Re: OT: Pepper Flash Crashes Everywhere

2014-09-21 Thread Paul van der Vlis
op 21-09-14 13:40, Sven Hartge schreef: > Patrick Bartek wrote: >> On Sun, 21 Sep 2014, Sven Hartge wrote: >>> Patrick Bartek wrote: > For all the good it will do. Google isn't going to change it. If they were, they would have done so already. Solution? Downgrade or install GLI

Re: excessive CPU usage

2014-09-21 Thread Gary Dale
Could be virtuoso or nepomuk. I had similar problems from time to time that were traced to one of those two programs. On 21/09/14 02:54 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi all For the last few months I have been plagued by very slow response from my system. As an example, it takes 2 1/2 minutes to drag

Re: crm_gui

2014-09-21 Thread Rahul Patil
Can anyone guide me how to make Pacemaker-mgmt gui work ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/loom.20140921t204442-...@post.gmane.org

Re: excessive CPU usage

2014-09-21 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 11:54:01 -0700 Gary Roach wrote: > Has anyone else had a similar problem or have any idea what is going on. apt-get install iotop. Run iotop as root once you experience a slowdown. The process on top of the list is the one which's causing all this mess on your PC (most

Unable to login with skype (was Re: Faking it with skype)

2014-09-21 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 09:51:25PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 09:04:41AM +0200, Hans wrote: > > > > > I had already tried one method of doing that - using the suggested > > > method which involved using sed - which was offered as an alternative > > > to using a hexeditor (w

Re: systemd bug closed - next steps?

2014-09-21 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/21/2014 at 01:37 PM, John Hasler wrote: > The Wanderer writes: > >> Filing bugs about that against the packages which depend on that >> functionality, as advised in the mail closing the bug which this >> thread is about, is not productive;

excessive CPU usage

2014-09-21 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all For the last few months I have been plagued by very slow response from my system. As an example, it takes 2 1/2 minutes to drag and drop 80 files from my email inbox to the trash bin in icedove. It has taken as high as 5 minutes for iceweasel to load. This problem is not just these pac

Re: Effectively criticizing decisions you disagree with in Debian

2014-09-21 Thread Joel Roth
On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 10:12:51PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > > Then please explain to us why, with all of the negative technical > > aspects surrounding systemd, it looks to be the default init in > > Jessie. > > You can start by reading why I voted

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 11:31:57AM -0400, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > > Obviously it is important enough to enough users that it continues here. > And shutting people up is not going to make the problem go away. It > will, however, make users go away. I, for one, am looking at other > systems now.

Re: Effectively criticizing decisions you disagree with in Debian

2014-09-21 Thread Joel Rees
2014/09/21 14:13 "Don Armstrong" : > > On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > > Then please explain to us why, with all of the negative technical > > aspects surrounding systemd, it looks to be the default init in > > Jessie. > > You can start by reading why I voted for systemd: >https://bugs.

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread Ста Деюс
Доброго времени суток, Miles. Спасибо за ответ, Sun, 21 Sep 2014 13:23:57 -0400 вы писали: > >> I haven't said much until now, but I have followed the subject in > >> depth the whole time. And I, for one, am very happy this was > >> brought to my attention. It has allowed me to make an intellig

Re: Booting Debian GNU/kFreeBSD on MacBookPro 8.2

2014-09-21 Thread Andrew Winnenberg
On Sunday, September 21, 2014 05:43:40 AM Lars Noodén wrote: > I've installed Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7.6 (wheezy) from a mini.iso CD image > on a MacBookPro 8.2. The installation seemed to go smoothly, including > installing Grub, but when it is time to boot, the machine only ever > shows a blinking

Any stats for quantifying Debian's maintenance magnitude?

2014-09-21 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
Disclaimer: I tried to jump back into the fray last night. Ended up with two epic long chapters now sitting in draft. It was just too much.. Up this morning and now seeing all kinds of "that topic" related activity again today. Mixed in among those threads was something that comes out about this t

Re: Effectively criticizing decisions you disagree with in Debian

2014-09-21 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 18:47:46 +0200 Slavko wrote: > > > Try to help by providing translations, and you'll find it's > > > impossible because there's nowhere and no one to offer such service. > > > > Debian's website, installer, and many parts of the software that > > Debian provides are all

Re: systemd bug closed - next steps?

2014-09-21 Thread John Hasler
The Wanderer writes: > Filing bugs about that against the packages which depend on that > functionality, as advised in the mail closing the bug which this > thread is about, is not productive; they don't control what provides > the functionality they need. What did those packages do for that funct

Re: Systemd, systemd, and more systemd ...

2014-09-21 Thread Brian
On Sun 21 Sep 2014 at 12:16:44 -0400, David L. Craig wrote: > On 14Sep21:1618+0100, Brian wrote: > > On Sun 21 Sep 2014 at 09:47:32 -0400, David L. Craig wrote: > > > > You didn't accept an upgrade to the new default init system. But you > > accepted the new sysvinit package. > > Yes, after syst

Re: OT: Pepper Flash Crashes Everywhere

2014-09-21 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 21 Sep 2014, Sven Hartge wrote: > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Sep 2014, Sven Hartge wrote: > >> Patrick Bartek wrote: > > >>> For all the good it will do. Google isn't going to change it. If > >>> they were, they would have done so already. Solution? Downgrade > >>> or insta

Re: sound recording

2014-09-21 Thread Ста Деюс
Доброго времени суток, Doug. Спасибо за ответ, Sun, 21 Sep 2014 11:32:38 -0400 вы писали: > > I use debian jessie and sound recording in audacity or skype does > > not work. > > > > Microphone as a device is operative. Audacity does not show > > fluctuacion when recording is enable. I use alsami

Re: systemd bug closed - next steps?

2014-09-21 Thread Martin Read
On 21/09/14 15:48, Rob Owens wrote: The bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=762116 I think I agree with John Hasler in: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/09/msg01430.html that much of this is a matter of Debian package dependencies reflecting dependencies of the up

Re: There is no choice

2014-09-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
Steve Litt wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2014 11:31:57 -0400 Jerry Stuckle wrote: I haven't said much until now, but I have followed the subject in depth the whole time. And I, for one, am very happy this was brought to my attention. It has allowed me to make an intelligent decision as to whether to

Re: SFTP chroot and FileZilla question

2014-09-21 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 10:33:16AM -0400, David Parker wrote: Hi, > However, if I connect using FileZilla, I see that I am in /home and I can > freely navigate the rest of the filesystem. What's up with that? I would > really like for this user account to be jailed regardless of the client, > a

Re: Effectively criticizing decisions you disagree with in Debian

2014-09-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 21 sep 14, 18:47:46, Slavko wrote: > Dňa Sat, 20 Sep 2014 22:12:51 -0700 Don Armstrong > napísal: > > > > Debian's website, installer, and many parts of the software that > > Debian provides are all translated. See > > https://www.debian.org/international/l10n/ for example. > > Are you ex

Re: systemd bug closed - next steps?

2014-09-21 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/21/2014 at 12:12 PM, John Hasler wrote: > Rob Owens writes: > >> I submitted a general bug regarding packages which require >> changing your init system to systemd. I pointed out that this >> runs counter to Debian's goals of supporting mul

Re: Effectively criticizing decisions you disagree with in Debian

2014-09-21 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Sat, 20 Sep 2014 22:12:51 -0700 Don Armstrong napísal: > On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > > Then please explain to us why, with all of the negative technical > > aspects surrounding systemd, it looks to be the default init in > > Jessie. > > You can start by reading why I v

Eclipse do not start in jessie

2014-09-21 Thread Niklas Seyfarth
Hi, since my last update eclipse hangs during startup with "Loading Workbench", but do not show the select workspace window. I already tried to purge and reinstall eclipse to exclude any config error. Has anyone an idea how to fix it? Thank you in advance, Niklas signature.asc Description: Ope

Re: Systemd, systemd, and more systemd ...

2014-09-21 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Sep21:1618+0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 21 Sep 2014 at 09:47:32 -0400, David L. Craig wrote: > > You didn't accept an upgrade to the new default init system. But you > accepted the new sysvinit package. Yes, after systemd broke the system as described in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrep

Re: systemd bug closed - next steps?

2014-09-21 Thread John Hasler
Rob Owens writes: > I submitted a general bug regarding packages which require changing > your init system to systemd. I pointed out that this runs counter to > Debian's goals of supporting multiple init systems. No, it doesn't. Any individual package can depend on any other package. Unfortunate

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