Keep using Debian without GNOME and SystemD

2014-10-21 Thread Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis
Hi, after spending two days trying unsuccesfuly to have a usable Jessie with one of the defaults DE and with no systemd utilities, i decided the following. In the companie's pc's i support, i'll continue with Wheezy and if there is no a clear path to Jessie without a trace of systemd until

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 18:41:21 -0700 Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2014, Steve Litt wrote: > > > On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 12:45:11 -0700 > > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > After much vitriolic gnashing of teeth from those opposed to > > > systemd, I wonder... What is a better alternative?

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 19:09:39 -0400 Miles Fidelman wrote: > Brian wrote: > > On Tue 21 Oct 2014 at 15:01:18 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:19:08 +0200 > >> Liam Proven wrote: > >> > >>> A blog post explaining why it isn't mandatory, the utter futility > >>> of the fork a

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread Raffaele Morelli
On 21/10/14 at 03:01pm, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:19:08 +0200 > Liam Proven wrote: > > > A blog post explaining why it isn't mandatory, the utter futility of > > the fork and more besides, clearly and simply. > > > > http://www.vitavonni.de/blog/201410/2014102101-avoiding-system

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

2014-10-21 Thread Rusi Mody
On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 1:20:03 AM UTC+5:30, Lee Winter wrote: > As a corollary question, are the debian installer isos bootable as is, or is > it mandatory that they be burned to media (CD/DVD/USB) and the media booted? Here is a grub menu entry that can boot ubuntu from an iso image men

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-21 Thread Martinx - ジェームズ
Okay, I surrender. I'll use this systemd thing and shut up. Nice talk these days guys! I'll not bother anyone else any longer... :-) Best, Thiago On 22 October 2014 00:51, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: > OMFG! Just did an upgrade and guess what?! A "new" packaged appeared, > called: "libsystemd0

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 21/10/14 15:10, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Scott Ferguson wrote: >> Good question Patrick - top posted as I'm referring to the Subject. >> >> On 21/10/14 06:45, Patrick Bartek wrote: >>> After much vitriolic gnashing of teeth from those opposed to systemd, >>> I wonder... What is a better alternat

Re: LSB headers and other junk, how do you hack a quick init script in debian these days?

2014-10-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 21/10/14 17:41, Michael Ole Olsen wrote: > Who needs to document their own pc they hack on daily? Most humans? No one knows what they've forgotten. The more important a customisation is - the longer you'll use it, the more likely you'll forget it (or the details of it), and the more critical

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread Martinx - ジェームズ
I agree that a fork is too radical, hard to maintain without money and blah blah blah... We just need "uselessd + new udev" to kick systemd entirely. Then, if a problem appear, lets fix it. And if a new software appearing depending on systemd as PID1, I'll not use it, simple as that. Again, I do

Re: just a thought (re. systemd nonsense)

2014-10-21 Thread Doug
On 10/21/2014 08:12 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > It occurs to me that the whole notion of packaging and distros may be > becoming less and less relevant. Well if everybody is forced to use systemd you'll be right. All the distros will _have_ to be the same. Maybe the packaging will remain unique.

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-21 Thread Martinx - ジェームズ
OMFG! Just did an upgrade and guess what?! A "new" packaged appeared, called: "libsystemd0"... root@jessie-1:~# apt-get purge libsystemd0:amd64 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: bsdmainutils* bsdutils*

Re: Replace Systemd on Jessie

2014-10-21 Thread Martinx - ジェームズ
Just do: apt-get install sysvinit-core That's it. On 21 October 2014 11:41, basti wrote: > Hello, > weeks ago someone write an Howto, "Replace Systemd on Jessie with Sysinit". > Perhaps it was Dan Ritter? > I cant find this mail anymore, can somebody help please? > > Regards, > Basti > > > -- >

Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-21 Thread Martinx - ジェームズ
root@jessie-1:~# lsb_release -ra No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description: Debian GNU/Linux testing (jessie) Release: testing Codename: jessie root@jessie-1:~# dpkg -l | grep dbus root@jessie-1:~# dpkg -l | grep systemd See? No systemd, no dbus. Still perfect! Hey, remem

Re: Does Debian still have a systemd-must-die metapackage?

2014-10-21 Thread Joel Rees
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > Does Debian still have a systemd-must-die metapackage, and does it > still work in Jessie? >From Thorsten: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/06/msg00521.html And Andrei noted: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/06/msg00587.h

Re: Replace Systemd on Jessie

2014-10-21 Thread debian
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 03:41:56PM +0200, basti wrote: > Hello, > weeks ago someone write an Howto, "Replace Systemd on Jessie with Sysinit". > Perhaps it was Dan Ritter? > I cant find this mail anymore, can somebody help please? > > Regards, > Basti Hi Basti, maybe this one can help you - http

Re: Cinnamon Desktop environment

2014-10-21 Thread John Foster
A good place to start would be with Linux Mint LMDE http://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php On 10/18/2014 11:54 AM, Nilesh Kumar wrote: Sir, can you tell whether Cinnamon desktop environment is available in jessie release or not. -- Nilesh Kumar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Mon, 20 Oct 2014, Steve Litt wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 12:45:11 -0700 > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > After much vitriolic gnashing of teeth from those opposed to > > systemd, I wonder... What is a better alternative? > > * Nosh > * Runit > * Upstart > * S6 > * Probably more I don't know

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: which is immediately followed by completely inaccurate information, including: -- "With jessie, it will become /easier/ to choose the init system, because *neither init system is essential now*. Instead, there is an essential m

Re: just a thought (re. systemd nonsense)

2014-10-21 Thread Martinx - ジェームズ
I'll try uselessd before anything else more radical... But, Paul from debian.org told me (us) that systemd will NOT replace dpkg/apt. Again, lets try uselessd. It already seems much better than upstart (just a guess)...;-P Also, apparently, we're getting off-topic with this subject around he

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 21/10/14 06:45, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > [snip] > > > > So, what would you all propose? For a server? Or for a user > > desktop? Or something that fulfills both scenarios? And why? > > > One of the difficulties is that there is no clear distin

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just a thought (re. systemd nonsense)

2014-10-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
It occurs to me that the whole notion of packaging and distros may be becoming less and less relevant. I'm serious considering moving to a continuous integration toolchain (Chef or Puppet + Jenkins, or some such) and just building/maintaining our servers directly from upstream source. Though

setup the PMU to generate an interrupt on x number of LLC misses

2014-10-21 Thread Emanuel Berg
I have heard this is possible but not seen any examples. It doesn't matter if I have to change the kernel to get it. I have written a program [1] in C++ that uses polling, but I was told that wasn't good enough so now I search for a "preemptive" or interrupt-based solution. Any help very much ap

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
Brian wrote: On Tue 21 Oct 2014 at 15:01:18 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:19:08 +0200 Liam Proven wrote: A blog post explaining why it isn't mandatory, the utter futility of the fork and more besides, clearly and simply. http://www.vitavonni.de/blog/201410/2014102101-avoid

Re: Does Debian still have a systemd-must-die metapackage?

2014-10-21 Thread Brian
On Tue 21 Oct 2014 at 18:41:53 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Does Debian still have a systemd-must-die metapackage, and does it > still work in Jessie? It has never had one in the first place. The answer to your question follows from that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.deb

Does Debian still have a systemd-must-die metapackage?

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
Does Debian still have a systemd-must-die metapackage, and does it still work in Jessie? SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: [exim4] Testing and making sense of smtp output

2014-10-21 Thread Brian
On Tue 21 Oct 2014 at 22:54:19 +0200, lee wrote: > Brian writes: > > >> On Sun 19 Oct 2014 at 01:19:51 +0200, lee wrote: > >> > >> At least they are supporting others in breaking RFCs, and I wonder how > >> that could not be against their own interests. In any case, it > >> classifies them as (

Re: [exim4] Testing and making sense of smtp output

2014-10-21 Thread Brian
On Mon 20 Oct 2014 at 21:19:05 +0200, lee wrote: > Brian writes: > > > [I may be misunderstanding how your mail system works but your Date: > > header doesn't look right] > > > > > > On Sun 19 Oct 2014 at 00:53:44 +0200, lee wrote: > > > >> Brian writes: > >> > >> > On Fri 17 Oct 2014 at 03:15

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread Brian
On Tue 21 Oct 2014 at 15:01:18 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:19:08 +0200 > Liam Proven wrote: > > > A blog post explaining why it isn't mandatory, the utter futility of > > the fork and more besides, clearly and simply. > > > > http://www.vitavonni.de/blog/201410/2014102101-

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 23:17:56 +0200 "tor...@riseup.net" wrote: > If one doesn't want systemd/libsystemd0, then Debian is not a good > choice (having to tinker all the time one can just as well run one of > the KISS distros). > > imho, of course. Debian *was* a KISS distro. That's why a lot of

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

2014-10-21 Thread Brian
On Tue 21 Oct 2014 at 23:14:18 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 21 oct 14, 15:46:44, Lee Winter wrote: > > > As a corollary question, are the debian installer isos bootable as is, or > > is it mandatory that they be burned to media (CD/DVD/USB) and the media > > booted? For example, severa

Re: What actual program does the kernel run at boot in the default Jessie?

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 23:11:46 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 21 oct 14, 15:17:58, Steve Litt wrote: > > > > In default new-installed Jessie, does the kernel still hand off to > > the program called /sbin/init during boot, or does it do something > > else? > > Yes it does, unless you overri

Re: msg from tornow....

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 10:14:00 +1100 Andrew McGlashan wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Hi, > > Thanks for the cc in this case, your message never made it to the > list, it was /probably/ silently dropped changing the subject > line to see if it helps *this* mess

setup the PMU to generate an interrupt on x number of LLC misses

2014-10-21 Thread Emanuel Berg
I have heard this is possible but not seen any examples. It doesn't matter if I have to change the kernel to get it. I have written a program [1] in C++ that uses polling, but I was told that wasn't good enough so now I search for a "preemptive" or interrupt-based solution. Any help very much ap

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 00:58:27 +0200 lee wrote: > berenger.mo...@neutralite.org writes: > > > But my opinion is that, it's the accumulation of tools using > > different slow languages, which will kill the computer's resources > > (shell, python2, python3, php, perl, basic, whatever). > > Perl isn

Re: Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Rob Owens: I'm not sure what is meant by "nobody has taken ownership of the > 'request for package' bug". If that's something that needs to be > done, tell me what is required and I'll see if I can do it. It is Debian bug #763499, for reference. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread tor...@riseup.net
Liam Proven: > A blog post explaining why it isn't mandatory, the utter > futility of the fork and more besides, clearly and simply. > http://www.vitavonni.de/blog/201410/2014102101-avoiding-systemd.html At least in Sid libsystemd0 is a dependency of the essential package bsdutils https://package

Re: [exim4] Testing and making sense of smtp output

2014-10-21 Thread lee
Brian writes: >> On Sun 19 Oct 2014 at 01:19:51 +0200, lee wrote: >> >> At least they are supporting others in breaking RFCs, and I wonder how >> that could not be against their own interests. In any case, it >> classifies them as (at least potentially very) unreliable. > > This is first time I'

Re: unattended-upgrades

2014-10-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 21 oct 14, 22:45:20, Chris wrote: > > $ls -lah |grep apt > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15K Sep 23 08:20 apt The script is not executable ;) Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.

Re: unattended-upgrades

2014-10-21 Thread Chris
On Monday 20 October 2014 20:58:48 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 20 oct 14, 20:39:59, Chris wrote: > > Yes, I do have anacron installed because I thought that might be the > > problem. > > If you have anacron installed the jobs will be run by anacron, but you > already have proven that daily cron

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 21 oct 14, 15:38:46, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Ludovic Meyer wrote: > > >For example, spotify decided to switch to Ubuntu rather than keeping Debian, > >and > >if you look around, they are not the only ones. > > And you're attributing that to Debian dragging its feet on systemd? > > As I r

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

2014-10-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 21 oct 14, 15:46:44, Lee Winter wrote: > It appears to me that it should be possible to run the Debian Installer > just as a program and a set of package files rather than as a bootable > image containing both. So, given a bootable image in .ISO or .img format, > how can the image be transf

Re: What actual program does the kernel run at boot in the default Jessie?

2014-10-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 21 oct 14, 15:17:58, Steve Litt wrote: > > In default new-installed Jessie, does the kernel still hand off to the > program called /sbin/init during boot, or does it do something else? Yes it does, unless you override it on the command line with an init= parameter. Kind regards, Andrei -

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
Ludovic Meyer wrote: For example, spotify decided to switch to Ubuntu rather than keeping Debian, and if you look around, they are not the only ones. And you're attributing that to Debian dragging its feet on systemd? As I recall, the explicit reason Ubuntu finally decided to adopt systemd w

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-21 Thread lee
Steve Litt writes: > On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 14:20:25 +0200 > lee wrote: > > >> Since you're re-inventing the wheel: >> >> // sxnotify.c > [...] >> >> # aptitude install libsx-dev > > Very, very nice! I'm glad you like it :) There's also 'xmessage', and it requires you to click on a button, whi

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-21 Thread lee
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org writes: > But my opinion is that, it's the accumulation of tools using different > slow languages, which will kill the computer's resources (shell, > python2, python3, php, perl, basic, whatever). Perl isn't exactly slow, considering what it does. In any case, pick

Re: Problem with quotatool

2014-10-21 Thread lee
Peter Buzanits writes: > Am 2014-10-19 um 13:47 schrieb lee: > >>> I have a problem on 2 Wheezy installations in Vmware, if I want to set >>> quota for a user: >>> >>> bastelecke:~# quotatool -u tutor -bq 2000M -l 2500M / >>> quotatool: Error while detecting kernel quota version: No such file or

Re: [exim4] Testing and making sense of smtp output

2014-10-21 Thread lee
Brian writes: > [I may be misunderstanding how your mail system works but your Date: > header doesn't look right] > > > On Sun 19 Oct 2014 at 00:53:44 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Brian writes: >> >> > On Fri 17 Oct 2014 at 03:15:49 +0200, lee wrote: >> > >> >> There is no mentioning of /etc/mailname

Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

2014-10-21 Thread Lee Winter
It appears to me that it should be possible to run the Debian Installer just as a program and a set of package files rather than as a bootable image containing both. So, given a bootable image in .ISO or .img format, how can the image be transformed into an executable program and associated packag

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
Steve Litt wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 10:18:49 +0200 Raffaele Morelli wrote: Here are some interesting things one should be aware of before http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-biggest-myths.html We've all read that. My favorite Poettering manifesto is the one where he talks of systemd subsum

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Jonathan Dowland" > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 10:00:21AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > > I'm not sure what is meant by "nobody has taken ownership of the 'request > > for > > package' bug". If that's something that needs to be done, tell me what is > > required

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Ludovic Meyer
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 12:02:38AM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > There are other choices to > - do nothing as weve done for 20 years > - do it now > > In particular, one can take a holistic view: not just Stable -> Jessie, > but rather Stable -> Jessie -> Jessie+1 > > and work out the least disrupt

What actual program does the kernel run at boot in the default Jessie?

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, In the past, I've been taught that the very last thing the kernel does during boot is run whatever program is called /sbin/init. And therefore, I can replace /sbin/init with the PID1 of my choice, always assuming I can connect the myriad of dots. In default new-installed Jessie, does the

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:19:08 +0200 Liam Proven wrote: > A blog post explaining why it isn't mandatory, the utter futility of > the fork and more besides, clearly and simply. > > http://www.vitavonni.de/blog/201410/2014102101-avoiding-systemd.html What I really like about the blog is that, almos

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread John Hasler
Steve Litt writes: > Let's say that, in six months from now, Debian's uselessd package is > ready for prime time. Would there be any reason some enterprising > person couldn't simply copy it to another repository (hopefully a > trusted one), so that people could add that repository and thus > insta

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Ludovic Meyer
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 02:46:46AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 08:12:17 +0200 > Ludovic Meyer wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 09:34:48PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 12:45:11 -0700 > > > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > > > After much vitriolic gnash

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: > which is immediately followed by completely inaccurate information, > including: > > -- > "With jessie, it will become /easier/ to choose the init system, because > *neither init system is essential now*. Instead, there is an essential > meta-packag

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 10:18:49 +0200 Raffaele Morelli wrote: > Here are some interesting things one should be aware of before > http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-biggest-myths.html We've all read that. My favorite Poettering manifesto is the one where he talks of systemd subsuming packaging sy

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Martinx - ジェームズ
You guys can count on me to help testing uselessd in Debian/Ubuntu! I would like to participate. On 21 October 2014 16:02, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 09:11:32 +0100 > Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Please do not top-post. > > > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 05:27:34AM -0200,

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread golinux
On Tue, 10/21/14, Steve Litt wrote: Subject: Re: If Not Systemd, then What? To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2014, 1:02 PM On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 09:11:32 +0100 Jonathan Dowland wrote: Hi, On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 05:27:34AM -0200, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: > If usel

Re: Debian fork

2014-10-21 Thread Don Armstrong
This thread is off topic for -user. If you want to discuss this further, please use http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic. If you want more information about systemd, see https://wiki.debian.org/systemd. If you want to avoid using systemd, simply don't install the

Re: Refracta systemd-free progress

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 09:16:50 +0100 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 07:39:06PM -0500, goli...@riseup.net wrote: > > Check out the outstanding progress that fsmithred and dzz are making > > with a systemd-free Refracta: > > This is off-topic for the Debian User mailing list. Plea

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
Liam Proven wrote: On 21 October 2014 17:40, Miles Fidelman wrote: Liam Proven wrote: A blog post explaining why it isn't mandatory, the utter futility of the fork and more besides, clearly and simply. http://www.vitavonni.de/blog/201410/2014102101-avoiding-systemd.html Would be nicer if it

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 09:11:32 +0100 Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Hi, > > Please do not top-post. > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 05:27:34AM -0200, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: > > If uselessd provides ONLY a new init, based on CGroups and lots of > > cool ideas from systemd itself, then, it worth trying it!

Re: Debian fork

2014-10-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
Florent Peterschmitt wrote: Le 21/10/2014 18:46, Peter Nieman a écrit : On 21/10/14 17:53, Doug wrote: What do you suggest instead of cups? Or do you not print? I'm using good old lpr with a self-made GUI. I consider cups an obese replacement of something I never had a problem with. But even t

Re: Debian fork

2014-10-21 Thread Gavin
On 21 October 2014 19:18, Florent Peterschmitt wrote: > Le 21/10/2014 18:46, Peter Nieman a écrit : >> On 21/10/14 17:53, Doug wrote: >>> What do you suggest instead of cups? Or do you not print? >> >> I'm using good old lpr with a self-made GUI. I consider cups an obese >> replacement of somethin

Re: Replace Systemd on Jessie

2014-10-21 Thread Brian
On Tue 21 Oct 2014 at 15:41:56 +0200, basti wrote: > weeks ago someone write an Howto, "Replace Systemd on Jessie with Sysinit". > Perhaps it was Dan Ritter? > I cant find this mail anymore, can somebody help please? https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/09/msg00969.html The first step of in

Re: Debian fork

2014-10-21 Thread Florent Peterschmitt
Le 21/10/2014 18:46, Peter Nieman a écrit : > On 21/10/14 17:53, Doug wrote: >> What do you suggest instead of cups? Or do you not print? > > I'm using good old lpr with a self-made GUI. I consider cups an obese > replacement of something I never had a problem with. > But even though I don't have

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/21/2014 11:19 AM, Liam Proven wrote: > A blog post explaining why it isn't mandatory, the utter futility of > the fork and more besides, clearly and simply. > > http://www.vitavonni.de/blog/201410/2014102101-avoiding-systemd.html Doesn't address - and nothing can satisfactorily address (im

Re: Debian fork

2014-10-21 Thread Peter Nieman
On 21/10/14 17:53, Doug wrote: What do you suggest instead of cups? Or do you not print? I'm using good old lpr with a self-made GUI. I consider cups an obese replacement of something I never had a problem with. But even though I don't have cups, I can't get rid of libcups2. If I try to remov

Re: how to identify reverse dependencies?

2014-10-21 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Thu, 16 Oct 2014 08:34:34 -0700 Don Armstrong napísal: > On Thu, 16 Oct 2014, Slavko wrote: > > aptitude search -w 60 -F "%c%a %p %v" '~i?depends(libsystemd0)' > [...] > > LANG=C dpkg -l libsystemd0 > > dpkg-query: no packages found matching libsystemd0 > [...] > > aptitude search -w

Re: OpenVPN on Xen DomU

2014-10-21 Thread Denis Witt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 10:40:24 -0400 Henning Follmann wrote: > Why do you want to do nat on the DomU interface? > You should do nat on the vpn interface. Hi Henning, it was a desperate try. ;) Anyway I got it working now, after copying the original

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread Liam Proven
On 21 October 2014 17:40, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Liam Proven wrote: >> >> A blog post explaining why it isn't mandatory, the utter futility of >> the fork and more besides, clearly and simply. >> >> http://www.vitavonni.de/blog/201410/2014102101-avoiding-systemd.html >> > > Would be nicer if it w

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/21/2014 01:03 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Montag, 20. Oktober 2014, 19:49:43 schrieb Jimmy Johnson: So, what would you all propose? For a server? Or for a user desktop? Or something that fulfills both scenarios? And why? Just wondering. See above and unless you are a tester or d

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 10:00:21AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: > I'm not sure what is meant by "nobody has taken ownership of the 'request for > package' bug". If that's something that needs to be done, tell me what is > required and I'll see if I can do it. There is a bug, it's currently a "request

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
Liam Proven wrote: A blog post explaining why it isn't mandatory, the utter futility of the fork and more besides, clearly and simply. http://www.vitavonni.de/blog/201410/2014102101-avoiding-systemd.html Would be nicer if it was accurate. For example, it talks about version pinning as a way

Re: Debian fork

2014-10-21 Thread Doug
On 10/21/2014 07:06 AM, Peter Nieman wrote: > On 21/10/14 00:48, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: >> If this Debian Fork doesn't make use of: >> >> systemd >> dbus >> pam >> gnome >> >> And uses EFL + E19, then, I'm in! > > As far as I am concerned, you can add cups and a few other things to this > list, t

Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-21 Thread Liam Proven
A blog post explaining why it isn't mandatory, the utter futility of the fork and more besides, clearly and simply. http://www.vitavonni.de/blog/201410/2014102101-avoiding-systemd.html -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Fl

Re: How do I restore my desktop (solved)

2014-10-21 Thread john
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 14:59:07 +0100 Martin Read wrote: > On 21/10/14 13:31, j...@ageinggracefully.ca wrote: > > I run xfce on jessie/sid. I zapped my desktop when trying to stop a process > > using the task manager. > > > > This happened to me a few years ago and I've forgotten how I fixed it. >

Re: Replace Systemd on Jessie

2014-10-21 Thread Dan Ritter
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 03:41:56PM +0200, basti wrote: > Hello, > weeks ago someone write an Howto, "Replace Systemd on Jessie with Sysinit". > Perhaps it was Dan Ritter? > I cant find this mail anymore, can somebody help please? > https://randomstring.org/blog/blog/2014/10/14/removing-systemd-fr

Re: OpenVPN on Xen DomU

2014-10-21 Thread Henning Follmann
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 02:51:41PM +0200, Denis Witt wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > Hi list, > > yay, some non systemd related traffic. ;) > > I try to migrate an OpenVPN-Server/Gateway to a Xen DomU (old config is > working fine). Connection to the VPN works fine

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Curt
On 2014-10-20, Patrick Bartek wrote: > After much vitriolic gnashing of teeth from those opposed to systemd, Oh shit. -- 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.or

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Rob Owens
- Original Message - > From: "Jonathan Dowland" > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 05:27:34AM -0200, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: > > If uselessd provides ONLY a new init, based on CGroups and lots of > > cool ideas from systemd itself, then, it worth trying it! Just for > > fun... > > I think it's an i

systemd - comic relief

2014-10-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
Came across this yesterday - good for a morning laugh: http://www.muylinux.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/funny-systemd.gif -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: Stuck in update

2014-10-21 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2014-10-20, Alan Greenberger wrote: > On 2014-10-20, Alan Greenberger wrote: >> Thank you for responding. >> >> On 2014-10-20, Darac Marjal wrote: >>> >>> --uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 >>> Content-Disposition: inline >>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-print

Re: Refracta systemd-free progress

2014-10-21 Thread Patrick Ouellette
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 11:33:23PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > If it makes you happy. Freedom of choice is one benefit of Linux. > Personally, I like systemd and the fast boots it provides, plus the ease of > administration. Glad you like systemd for

Replace Systemd on Jessie

2014-10-21 Thread basti
Hello, weeks ago someone write an Howto, "Replace Systemd on Jessie with Sysinit". Perhaps it was Dan Ritter? I cant find this mail anymore, can somebody help please? Regards, Basti -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: How do I restore my desktop

2014-10-21 Thread Martin Read
On 21/10/14 13:31, j...@ageinggracefully.ca wrote: I run xfce on jessie/sid. I zapped my desktop when trying to stop a process using the task manager. This happened to me a few years ago and I've forgotten how I fixed it. I believe the program you want to run is "xfdesktop". -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
Steve Litt wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 08:12:17 +0200 Ludovic Meyer wrote: * Upstart no longer developped, and suffer from several bugs, go read the tech-ctte debate. I read it, and if Upstart problems were the most distressing thing in that debate, I'd be a happy man. If Upstart is no long

How do I restore my desktop

2014-10-21 Thread john
I run xfce on jessie/sid. I zapped my desktop when trying to stop a process using the task manager. This happened to me a few years ago and I've forgotten how I fixed it. -- John Song - via Penguin Powered Desktop. Key fingerprint: 0x740F4A705AF2C0B6 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: GR proposed re: choice of init systems

2014-10-21 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 08:25:31AM +0200, Ludovic Meyer wrote: Even with the addition 10 to 20 people posting on systemd, it shouldn't be a issue. Andrei's point was not that the list /infrastructure/ was at risk, but that debian-user - this list - was essentially subjec

Re: Debian wheezy libvirt+virt-manager very slow performence.

2014-10-21 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 02:58:45PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > Hi,  > > I have a debian wheezy machine with 12GB RAM and 500GB 7200 RPM harddrive WD > black 32MB cache.  > > copying host node (local or remote) working fine. however when i create a KVM > guest on the top and try t

OpenVPN on Xen DomU

2014-10-21 Thread Denis Witt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi list, yay, some non systemd related traffic. ;) I try to migrate an OpenVPN-Server/Gateway to a Xen DomU (old config is working fine). Connection to the VPN works fine, routing doesn't. On the old machine (bare metal) I used: iptables -t nat -

Re: Debian fork

2014-10-21 Thread maderios
On 10/21/2014 12:39 PM, st wrote: goli...@riseup.net wrote: Just in case you haven't seen this elsewhere: http://debianfork.org/ Hi Fork comes from the same guy Original info (french, sorry) https://linuxfr.org/users/almin/journaux/un-fork-de-debian-a-cause-de-systemd Approximate translatio

Re: Refracta systemd-free progress

2014-10-21 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/21/2014 1:08 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > Jonathan de Boyne Pollard, what's your impression of the relative boot > time of nosh vs systemd? The *only* real world scenario that I can see where the boot speed difference is only really meaningful in the world of cloud based VM server farms, and I r

Re: To torpedo Debian and leave RHEL as the only stable option.

2014-10-21 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2014-10-20, John Garret wrote: > Debian backports security patches (etc) to its stable distribution, which can > be used for years and years. > RHEL does too, but this costs subscription money. > If debian becomes unstable (via systemd etc) and ever more subject to churn, > that's some compet

Re: Debian fork

2014-10-21 Thread Peter Nieman
On 21/10/14 00:48, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: If this Debian Fork doesn't make use of: systemd dbus pam gnome And uses EFL + E19, then, I'm in! As far as I am concerned, you can add cups and a few other things to this list, too. And the word "udev" doesn't have alltogether positive connotations

Re: version field when submit to BTS

2014-10-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, lumin wrote: > This is a question about debian bug tracking system. > In order to use the BTS properly, I have read this page: > https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting > but I wonder if I can fill in the "Version:" > field directly with git commit number such as > ""78a6aac25596

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-21 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/20/2014 10:36 PM, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: > 1- Fork udev (out from systemd's tree or before it got merged / engulfed); Maybe Gentoo's eudev would be a good place to start with that. I also don't see why OpenRC isn't on the list of obvious choices. It is the default in Gentoo and has been fo

Re: containers/chroot to allow ABI breakage is the wrong approach

2014-10-21 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Konstantin Khomoutov dixit: >Sometimes we have to run software which is neither Open Source nor Free >on our systems which are (luckily) Open Source and Free. Things like f-prot are shipped statically linked, when in their binary form for OpenBSD. And binary compatibility only goes so far either

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