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

2014-10-22 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
Thanks it worked. On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 6:20 PM, Reco wrote: > 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 re

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-22 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Please stop top-posting. You've been asked by more than one person, on more than one list, to do this. -- 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/20141023064134.

Re: How To Prove Systemd Can|Cannot Be Jessie Default

2014-10-22 Thread Leonardo
Dne Čt 23. října 2014 06:04:11 Charles Kroeger napsal(a): > Is that your idea of letting the code speak for itself? Yes, it's possible one from possibilities of code speaking. I have the systemd and have one problem with it, starting kdm, if I need not kdm (this is my case), so I have been start

Re: How To Prove Systemd Can|Cannot Be Jessie Default

2014-10-22 Thread Josef Leo Bureš
Dne Čt 23. října 2014 06:04:11 Charles Kroeger napsal(a): > Is that your idea of letting the code speak for itself? Yes, it's possible one from possibilities of code speaking. I have the systemd and have one problem with it, starting kdm, if I need not kdm (this is my case), so I have been start

Re: Error code 1...........

2014-10-22 Thread Joel Rees
2014/10/23 12:57 "Charles Kroeger" : > > On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 11:30:02 +0200 > Charlie wrote: > > > > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > > > > > When I encountered this error (which was mentioned on this list a few > > > days ago) I purged the linjpeg-turbo-progs package

Re: Installing/updating packages are very slow

2014-10-22 Thread Bob Proulx
Igor Sverkos wrote: > As you can see, it is always the "Unpacking" step which is taking all the > time. dpkg has added fsync() calls after all file actions. This significantly slows down file operations. Basically it disables the file system buffer cache causing it to operate at disk drive spee

Re: How To Prove Systemd Can|Cannot Be Jessie Default

2014-10-22 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 02:10:01 +0200 "David L. Craig" wrote: > Let's use our > keyboards to launch test cases in preference to soapbox > rhetoric that likely proves nothing. > > Let's let the code speak for itself for a while. I've not had many problems with systemd excepting my firewall, Shorewa

Re: Error code 1...........

2014-10-22 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 11:30:02 +0200 Charlie wrote: > > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > > > When I encountered this error (which was mentioned on this list a few > > days ago) I purged the linjpeg-turbo-progs package (on which > > apparently nothing depended because i

Re: Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-22 Thread Rusi Mody
On Thursday, October 23, 2014 3:20:05 AM UTC+5:30, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 22 oct 14, 23:26:15, Christian Seiler wrote: > > [snip excelent explanations] > > As penitence for being mean to Steve I've just written > https://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#systemd Thanks Andrei for that.

Re: download files from iceweasel using kdialog

2014-10-22 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Scott Ferguson < scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com> wrote: > > You don't say what DE libraries you use. If you have KDE you might be > able to find an alternative way (x/y again) of achieving the same > outcome (I have little knowledge of GNOME). > Is there a lo

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

2014-10-22 Thread Devrin Talen
Emanuel Berg writes: > 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. To block on accesses to a file until it actually has data for you try reading up on the `select` call: %

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-22 Thread Miles Fidelman
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 22 oct 14, 17:50:52, Miles Fidelman wrote: How can I prevent a specific package from ever being installed? ... That doesn't work at install time - when the init package is installed by Thanks for the feedback, I just did a slight rewording to fix this s/from

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

2014-10-22 Thread Stephen Allen
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:55:57AM +0100, Tony van der Hoff wrote: > On 22/10/14 09:13, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Ma, 21 oct 14, 18:41:53, Steve Litt wrote: > >> Does Debian still have a systemd-must-die metapackage, and does it > >> still work in Jessie? > > > > Steve, > > > > I would have e

How To Prove Systemd Can|Cannot Be Jessie Default

2014-10-22 Thread David L. Craig
There is only one way the default init for Jessie can be changed at this point in time--the Release Team must conclude systemd will have turned out to be a release critical nightmare likely well into the feature freeze. There is only one way for that to happen--lots of open RC bugs having systemd

Re: Debian Jessie on Lemote Yeeloong?

2014-10-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 22 oct 14, 23:50:32, Albert Yiamakis wrote: > Hello, > > I hope this is a good place to ask about the prospects of running Debian > Jessie on a Lemote Yeeloong? If you don't get answers here try debian-mips. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic disc

Re: dpkg "no space left on device" errors (lots of room left)

2014-10-22 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 22.10.2014 um 21:53 schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > On Mi, 22 oct 14, 15:45:58, John Bleichert wrote: >> >> This is the second time this has happened, so something is eating up inodes >> on /. I am going to run some aptitude tests and see what happens. >> >> Any idea what the OS is doing during boot t

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 22 oct 14, 17:50:52, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > How can I prevent a specific package from ever being installed? ... > That doesn't work at install time - when the init package is installed by Thanks for the feedback, I just did a slight rewording to fix this s/from ever being installe

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/10/14 21:23, Rusi Mody wrote: > On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 3:20:05 PM UTC+5:30, Miles Fidelman wrote: >> Scott Ferguson wrote: >>> On 21/10/14 15:10, Miles Fidelman wrote: Scott Ferguson wrote: > > Are you guys just having fun talking past each other? I can only speak for myself -

Debian Jessie on Lemote Yeeloong?

2014-10-22 Thread Albert Yiamakis
Hello, I hope this is a good place to ask about the prospects of running Debian Jessie on a Lemote Yeeloong? In my searches I have got the impression that while Lemote was well supported on Wheezy - ie X patch, custom kernel - this community seems to have died out before their efforts were extende

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/10/14 20:51, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 05:27:45AM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: >> Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> - when's the last time you saw a desktop or laptop with an IPMI BMC >> (or for that matter, had a BMC infected by a virus - not pretty) >> (note: if you don't kn

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/10/14 20:27, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Scott Ferguson wrote: >> 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 t

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/10/14 19:05, Joe wrote: > On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 13:04:26 +1100 > Scott Ferguson wrote: > > >> >> P.S. I have been told that one major distro does (or is attempting to >> do) just that - separate into a 'server' and a 'desktop' distribution. >> >> > > What, like Windows? No. A Linux distro

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-22 Thread Martinx - ジェームズ
That's cool... I realized that, I was using sysvinit-core and then, libsystemd0 appeared, but it did not forced me to install systemd-sysv. I'm seeing that systemd is spreading itself everywhere, kind of creepy but, well, I think that it is better to learn about it now, instead of fighting it. If

Re: Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-22 Thread Martinx - ジェームズ
WOW! Thank you again! :-D On 22 October 2014 19:26, Christian Seiler wrote: > > OMFG! Just did an upgrade and guess what?! A "new" packaged appeared, > > called: "libsystemd0"... > > [...] > > I can not believe my eyes... BSD stuff depending on systemd! > > The bsdutils package is actually not

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-22 Thread Martinx - ジェームズ
Hey Christian, Thank you for your clarification, I really appreciate it... My mistake. I understand it better now. My confusion started when I read that on uselessd webpage: "What version of systemd is uselessd based on? systemd-208-stable. We chose this, because it predates kdbus integration i

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-22 Thread Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis
On 23/10/2014 12:38 πμ, Christian Seiler wrote: Am 22.10.2014 23:03, schrieb Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis: On 22/10/2014 11:29 μμ, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: I meant, it is possible to have sysvinit-core, of course, but, from now on, at least libsystemd0 is required, you cannot remove it without doing

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-22 Thread Miles Fidelman
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 22 oct 14, 23:26:15, Christian Seiler wrote: [snip excelent explanations] As penitence for being mean to Steve I've just written https://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#systemd Kind regards, Andrei Thanks for the FAQ, but note that this is wrong: - "How c

Re: just a thought (re. systemd nonsense)

2014-10-22 Thread Miles Fidelman
tor...@riseup.net wrote: Doug wrote: 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. May

Re: Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 22 oct 14, 23:26:15, Christian Seiler wrote: [snip excelent explanations] As penitence for being mean to Steve I've just written https://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#systemd Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users an

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

2014-10-22 Thread Brian
On Wed 22 Oct 2014 at 22:51:39 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 22 oct 14, 20:47:47, Brian wrote: > > > > Would you please explain the boot "recovery" option. > > Boot the Debian installer in recovery mode, e.g. to rescue a broken > system. Amazing what one forgets. The mini.iso downloads

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-22 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 22.10.2014 23:03, schrieb Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis: > On 22/10/2014 11:29 μμ, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: >> I meant, it is possible to have sysvinit-core, of course, but, from >> now on, at least libsystemd0 is required, you cannot remove it without >> doing some harm. > > And this is precisely w

Re: Re: just a thought (re. systemd nonsense)

2014-10-22 Thread tor...@riseup.net
Doug wrote: >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 wi

Re: Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-22 Thread Christian Seiler
> OMFG! Just did an upgrade and guess what?! A "new" packaged appeared, > called: "libsystemd0"... > [...] > I can not believe my eyes... BSD stuff depending on systemd! The bsdutils package is actually not directly from BSD, it's built as part of util-linux, and provides utilities not specified i

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-22 Thread Christian Seiler
> Hey, remember that kdbus thing?! That did not entered into Linux 3.15 > as expected?! > > Guess what?! It is now in PID1!! Can you guys see it?! All kinds of > trash are being pushed into PID1. That is very, very misleading at best. First of all: kdbus is currently an out-of-tree kernel module

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-22 Thread Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis
On 22/10/2014 11:29 μμ, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: I meant, it is possible to have sysvinit-core, of course, but, from now on, at least libsystemd0 is required, you cannot remove it without doing some harm. And this is precisely why the currently GR is so important to pass . Quoting "... It will

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 22 oct 14, 18:25:48, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: > apt-get purge `dpkg -l | grep systemd | awk '{print $2}' | xargs` apt-get understands regular expressions for the package name, see apt-get(8) (the section on 'install' command) for more information. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Martin Steigerwald wrote: Jimmy, I wrote to you off list, and you put my personal reply on the list. Please don�t do that. I mean personal replies as personal replies. I think I am not interested into digging into this topic further anyway. No problem and sorry as I did not realize you wher

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-22 Thread Martinx - ジェームズ
I meant, it is possible to have sysvinit-core, of course, but, from now on, at least libsystemd0 is required, you cannot remove it without doing some harm. And a missing line: apt-get purge dbus # (never used this on servers). Best! Thiago On 22 October 2014 18:25, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: > BT

Re: Perfect Jessie is something like this...

2014-10-22 Thread Martinx - ジェームズ
BTW, how I installed this Jessie without systemd last week ? Simple: apt-get install sysvinit-core reboot apt-get purge `dpkg -l | grep systemd | awk '{print $2}' | xargs` But, this isn't possible anymore, since some "bsd*" packages are depending on a new package called "libsystemd0". Cheers! T

Re: Is there a way to send SystemD to Devil?

2014-10-22 Thread Ric Moore
On 10/22/2014 09:45 AM, Marcelo wrote: Is there a way to use Debian without systemD? I use Debian since Potato and I never have a lot of problem than I still having in the past tow weeks! SystemD, Cups with a lot of Symlinks, Please, raise the potato version! Puleeeze, this issue has been

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-22 Thread Jape Person
On 10/22/2014 02:42 PM, Doug wrote: On 10/22/2014 07:04 AM, Jape Person wrote: /snip/ I haven't paid a lot of attention to threads concerning systemd because of the (unfortunate, though occasionally entertaining) hyperbole and innuendo employed by so many. . . .

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2014, 12:34:16 schrieb Jimmy Johnson: > Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2014, 11:37:51 schrieben Sie: > >>> Its Jessie/Sid that are under some circumstances difficult to use > >>> without > >>> systemd. As to my current knowledge one of the circumstan

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Ric Moore
On 10/22/2014 12:17 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: 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 unl

Re: dpkg "no space left on device" errors (lots of room left)

2014-10-22 Thread John Bleichert
On 10/22/2014 03:55 PM, Peter Palfrader wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2014, John Bleichert wrote: Try a df -i You may have run out of inodes Iain: Bingo - I was down to a single-digit number of inodes on / ... The box became unusable and had to be reset. Upon booting the OS "cleaned up temporary f

Re: dpkg "no space left on device" errors (lots of room left)

2014-10-22 Thread John Bleichert
On 10/22/2014 03:53 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: There is some buggy software (cups?) creating a lot of symlinks in /tmp or so. Kind regards, Andrei Interesting that you mention that - cups did kick the bucket this morning and become unusable. I will watch out for it in the future - thanks!

Re: dpkg "no space left on device" errors (lots of room left)

2014-10-22 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Wed, 22 Oct 2014, John Bleichert wrote: > >Try a df -i You may have run out of inodes > > Iain: Bingo - I was down to a single-digit number of inodes on / ... > > The box became unusable and had to be reset. Upon booting the OS > "cleaned up temporary files" and now I'm back to an IUse% of 4%

Re: dpkg "no space left on device" errors (lots of room left)

2014-10-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 22 oct 14, 15:45:58, John Bleichert wrote: > > This is the second time this has happened, so something is eating up inodes > on /. I am going to run some aptitude tests and see what happens. > > Any idea what the OS is doing during boot to clean up temporary space? Is it > something I can

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

2014-10-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 22 oct 14, 20:47:47, Brian wrote: > > Would you please explain the boot "recovery" option. Boot the Debian installer in recovery mode, e.g. to rescue a broken system. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2014, 11:37:51 schrieben Sie: Its Jessie/Sid that are under some circumstances difficult to use without systemd. As to my current knowledge one of the circumstances is an installed GNOME desktop. I install using the Debian-Live-KDE-iso(another

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

2014-10-22 Thread Brian
On Wed 22 Oct 2014 at 22:16:16 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 22 oct 14, 15:55:03, Brian wrote: > > > > This is a different method from using grub's loopback. However, it will > > still fail at the 'Detect and mount CD-ROM' stage and for the same > > reason: the netinst image does not cont

Re: dpkg "no space left on device" errors (lots of room left)

2014-10-22 Thread John Bleichert
On 10/22/2014 03:00 PM, Iain M Conochie wrote: Try a df -i You may have run out of inodes Cheers Iain Iain: Bingo - I was down to a single-digit number of inodes on / ... The box became unusable and had to be reset. Upon booting the OS "cleaned up temporary files" and now I'm back to

Re: dpkg "no space left on device" errors (lots of room left)

2014-10-22 Thread Sven Hartge
Doug wrote: > On 10/22/2014 03:01 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: >> John Bleichert wrote: >> >>> As of a few days ago I keep getting errors similar to the following when >>> running aptitude upgrade: >> >>> >>> dpkg: error processing archive >>> /var/cache/apt/archives/cups-server-common_1.7.5-5_all

Installing/updating packages are very slow

2014-10-22 Thread Igor Sverkos
" step which is taking all the time. Link to the created strace debug file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wjvlqcke9epn2wl/dpkg-debug.log-20141022.gz?dl=1 > ... > 43274 1414001632.364669 open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 12 > 43274 1414001632.364763 open("/etc/

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 22 oct 14, 08:44:02, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 10/21/2014 4:21 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Upstart was the only real contender to systemd at the time of the > > evaluation by the Technical Committee, but it has or is being replaced > > by systemd everywhere. > > And why was OPenRC not a co

systemd as fence

2014-10-22 Thread Ric Moore
I am supposed to be using a "fence" to restart Debian based Proxmox cluster nodes when they fail and to trigger another mirrored node to become active to replace the failed one. Systemd claims it can restart/reboot if it detects failure. Anyone tried this yet? Could it be used as primary fence?

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

2014-10-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 22 oct 14, 15:55:03, Brian wrote: > > This is a different method from using grub's loopback. However, it will > still fail at the 'Detect and mount CD-ROM' stage and for the same > reason: the netinst image does not contain loop.ko. It should work with the mini.iso (the netboot image), bec

Re: dpkg "no space left on device" errors (lots of room left)

2014-10-22 Thread Doug
On 10/22/2014 03:01 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: John Bleichert wrote: As of a few days ago I keep getting errors similar to the following when running aptitude upgrade: dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/cups-server-common_1.7.5-5_all.deb (--unpack): unable to create `

Re: dpkg "no space left on device" errors (lots of room left)

2014-10-22 Thread Iain M Conochie
On 22/10/14 19:49, John Bleichert wrote: Hello All, As of a few days ago I keep getting errors similar to the following when running aptitude upgrade: dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/cups-server-common_1.7.5-5_all.deb (--unpack): unable to create `/usr/share/cu

Re: dpkg "no space left on device" errors (lots of room left)

2014-10-22 Thread Sven Hartge
John Bleichert wrote: > As of a few days ago I keep getting errors similar to the following when > running aptitude upgrade: > > dpkg: error processing archive > /var/cache/apt/archives/cups-server-common_1.7.5-5_all.deb (--unpack): > unable to create > `/usr/share/cups/templates/ru/set

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-22 Thread Doug
On 10/22/2014 07:04 AM, Jape Person wrote: /snip/ I haven't paid a lot of attention to threads concerning systemd because of the (unfortunate, though occasionally entertaining) hyperbole and innuendo employed by so many. . . .

dpkg "no space left on device" errors (lots of room left)

2014-10-22 Thread John Bleichert
Hello All, As of a few days ago I keep getting errors similar to the following when running aptitude upgrade: dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/cups-server-common_1.7.5-5_all.deb (--unpack): unable to create `/usr/share/cups/templates/ru/set-printer-options-header.

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Martin Steigerwald wrote: Hi Jimmy, Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2014, 09:17:16 schrieb Jimmy Johnson: 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 sc

[OT - maybe] systemd conspiracy theories

2014-10-22 Thread Miles Fidelman
Given all the talk about conspiracy theories, it occurs to be to point out this statement by none other than Lennart Poettering (http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html on 9/1/2014) in a blog post titled "Revisiting How We Put Together Linux Systems" About a

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Hi Jimmy, Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2014, 09:17:16 schrieb Jimmy Johnson: > 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 w

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

2014-10-22 Thread Brian
On Wed 22 Oct 2014 at 09:56:35 -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 8:30:05 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: > > > This is a different method from using grub's loopback. However, it will > > still fail at the 'Detect and mount CD-ROM' stage and for the same > > reason: the netinst im

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

2014-10-22 Thread Brian
On Wed 22 Oct 2014 at 15:47:57 +, Curt wrote: > On 2014-10-22, Rusi Mody wrote: > > > > Here is a grub menu entry that can boot ubuntu from an iso image > > Booting the debian installer from the hard disk: > > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s04.html.en That is quite a nift

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

2014-10-22 Thread Rusi Mody
On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 8:30:05 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: > On Wed 22 Oct 2014 at 07:00:29 -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > > On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 6:50:06 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: > > > menuentry "jessie-DI-b2-i386-netinst" { > > > loopback loop > > > (hd1,msdos1)/boot/isos/debian-

Re: Keep using Debian without GNOME and SystemD

2014-10-22 Thread Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis
On 22/10/2014 7:06 μμ, Martin Read wrote: On 22/10/14 08:37, Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis wrote: What details do you think are neccecary ? Just grab a DI-b2 img, install xfce or lxde ( with the menu or with desktop= doesn't matter ) and then try to remove *all* the systemd utilities / libr

Re: Is there a way to send SystemD to Devil?

2014-10-22 Thread Brian
On Wed 22 Oct 2014 at 13:45:21 +, Marcelo wrote: > Is there a way to use Debian without systemD? I use Debian since Potato and > I never have a lot of problem than I still having in the past tow weeks! > SystemD, Cups with a lot of Symlinks, Please, raise the potato version! I think you

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Patrick Bartek wrote: After much vitriolic gnashing of teeth from those opposed to systemd, I wonder... What is a better alternative? And it can't be sysvinit. Yes. Syvinit still works, but it is after all 20 years old. It's been patched and bolted onto and jury-rigged to get it to do things

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Jimmy Johnson
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 developer you may want

Re: Keep using Debian without GNOME and SystemD

2014-10-22 Thread Martin Read
On 22/10/14 08:37, Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis wrote: What details do you think are neccecary ? Just grab a DI-b2 img, install xfce or lxde ( with the menu or with desktop= doesn't matter ) and then try to remove *all* the systemd utilities / libraries etc. dbus-daemon is linked against l

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

2014-10-22 Thread Curt
On 2014-10-22, Rusi Mody wrote: > > Here is a grub menu entry that can boot ubuntu from an iso image > > Booting the debian installer from the hard disk: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s04.html.en -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subjec

Re: unattended-upgrades

2014-10-22 Thread Chris
On Wednesday 22 October 2014 10:46:13 Paul van der Vlis wrote: > op 19-10-14 14:46, Chris schreef: > > Hi, > > > > I'm having no luck getting unattended-upgrads working on a Wheezy > > server. The image for Wheezy is from my vServer provider and has not > > been a problem until now. I'm not a prog

Re: unattended-upgrades

2014-10-22 Thread Chris
On Tuesday 21 October 2014 22:59:05 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > 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 oh... I guess that was the problem. Is this a common pract

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-22 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Don Armstrong wrote: > > Furthermore, the effect of this patch is trivially obtained by using > > a late_command to remove systemd-sysv and install sysvinit-core. > > except for the various reported issues with all the things aptitude > wants to remove

Re: choose the date for the Release

2014-10-22 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 22 Oct 2014, Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: > I want to use my mirror for more long time, > for example the release contains the lines > > Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 02:49:54 UTC > Valid-Until: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 02:49:54 UTC > > and then I can't update the system after Tue, 14 Oct 2014 > > to

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

2014-10-22 Thread Brian
On Wed 22 Oct 2014 at 07:00:29 -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 6:50:06 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: > > > menuentry "jessie-DI-b2-i386-netinst" { > > loopback loop (hd1,msdos1)/boot/isos/debian-jessie-DI-b2-i386-netinst.iso > > linux (loop)/install.386/vmlinuz > > in

Re: Is there a way to send SystemD to Devil?

2014-10-22 Thread John Hasler
Marcelo writes: > Is there a way to use Debian without systemD? Yes. Don't use Gnome. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: ht

Re: Is there a way to send SystemD to Devil?

2014-10-22 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 01:45:21PM +, Marcelo wrote: > Is there a way to use Debian without systemD? I use Debian since Potato and Certainly. The 'essential' package "init" depends on systemd-sysv (systemd) OR sysvinit-core (SysV) OR upstart. Any of these should be capable of booting the syste

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-22 Thread Brian
On Wed 22 Oct 2014 at 02:00:34 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > 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 p

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

2014-10-22 Thread Rusi Mody
On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 6:50:06 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: > On Wed 22 Oct 2014 at 04:19:35 -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > > On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 3:50:05 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: > > > No amount of modification will allow an installation from a netinst > > > image or CD-1 to complete s

Re: Keep using Debian without GNOME and SystemD

2014-10-22 Thread Miles Fidelman
Rusi Mody wrote: On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 5:30:06 PM UTC+5:30, Jochen Spieker wrote: Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis: 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

Is there a way to send SystemD to Devil?

2014-10-22 Thread Marcelo
Is there a way to use Debian without systemD? I use Debian since Potato and I never have a lot of problem than I still having in the past tow weeks! SystemD, Cups with a lot of Symlinks, Please, raise the potato version! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Keep using Debian without GNOME and SystemD

2014-10-22 Thread Miles Fidelman
Jochen Spieker wrote: Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis: 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 cle

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Miles Fidelman
Peter Nieman wrote: On 21/10/14 21:08, Miles Fidelman wrote: Steve Litt wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 10:18:49 +0200 Raffaele Morelli wrote: Using systemd since 2014-08-09 with no issues. Good for you. Let's see if you have no issues 2016-08-09, if Red Hat wins its war against Linux. Not qui

Re: Keep using Debian without GNOME and SystemD

2014-10-22 Thread Rusi Mody
On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 5:30:06 PM UTC+5:30, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis: > > 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 su

Re: Running Debian Installer without rebooting.

2014-10-22 Thread Brian
On Wed 22 Oct 2014 at 04:19:35 -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: > On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 3:50:05 PM UTC+5:30, Brian wrote: > > > No amount of modification will allow an installation from a netinst > > image or CD-1 to complete successfully. > > If you say so :-) I do say so. > I find it hard t

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/21/2014 4:21 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Upstart was the only real contender to systemd at the time of the > evaluation by the Technical Committee, but it has or is being replaced > by systemd everywhere. And why was OPenRC not a contender? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-22 Thread Peter Nieman
On 21/10/14 21:08, Miles Fidelman wrote: Steve Litt wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 10:18:49 +0200 Raffaele Morelli wrote: Using systemd since 2014-08-09 with no issues. Good for you. Let's see if you have no issues 2016-08-09, if Red Hat wins its war against Linux. Not quite sure I'd go that f

Re: Keep using Debian without GNOME and SystemD

2014-10-22 Thread Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis
Στις 22-10-2014, ημέρα Τετ, και ώρα 13:40 +0200, ο/η Jochen Spieker έγραψε: > Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis: > > > > 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

Debian and upstream choices (was: Re: Keep using Debian without GNOME and SystemD)

2014-10-22 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2014, 13:40:49 schrieb Jochen Spieker: > Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis: > > 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'l

[solved]Re: gftp bug #763314 workaround

2014-10-22 Thread rudu
Le 22/10/2014 13:08, Martin Read a écrit : On 22/10/14 11:28, rudu wrote: But here on my jessie box, I can't find any GTK+2.0 package to upgrade. So, what am I missing here ? The relevant package is "libgtk2.0-0". Note that the version number appears to have been mis-stated in message #37, an

Re: Keep using Debian without GNOME and SystemD

2014-10-22 Thread Anders Wegge Keller
On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 13:40:49 +0200 Jochen Spieker wrote: > I really don't get why Debian receives so much hate in this discussion. > Upstream software depending on systemd is not Debian's choice. Because of the abysmal lack of communication of the reasons behind the descision. I tried to bring

Debian and upstream choices

2014-10-22 Thread Martin Steigerwald
I understand people creating new threads partly now, as any thread with the magic word list admins seem to put into the thread filter easily Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2014, 13:40:49 schrieb Jochen Spieker: > Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis: > > after spending two days trying unsuccesfuly to have a usab

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-22 Thread Jape Person
On 10/22/2014 07:41 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2014, 07:04:12 schrieb Jape Person: On 10/21/2014 09:22 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: which is immediately followed by completely inaccurate information, incl

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-22 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 22. Oktober 2014, 07:04:12 schrieb Jape Person: > On 10/21/2014 09:22 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Don Armstrong wrote: > >> On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: > >>> which is immediately followed by completely inaccurate information, > >>> including: > >>> > >>> -- > >>>

Re: Keep using Debian without GNOME and SystemD

2014-10-22 Thread Jochen Spieker
Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis: > > 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

Re: Pacemaker/Corosync on testing

2014-10-22 Thread Denis Witt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 10:56:07 +0100 Martin Read wrote: > Run apt-get update and look again. If it still isn't there, perhaps > the Debian mirror you're using is out of date. Hi, thanks a lot. Now the package is available. The machine was set up on

Re: Avoiding SystemD isn't hard

2014-10-22 Thread Jape Person
On 10/21/2014 09:22 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: 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 e

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