Re: Installing/updating packages are very slow

2014-10-24 Thread Bret Busby
On 23/10/2014, Bob Proulx wrote: > 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 ca

Re: Problem with systemd-sleep in Jessie

2014-10-24 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 24.10.2014 um 17:23 schrieb Michael Biebl: > What do you get if your that program when your lid is closed/opened? The output of $ cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state when lid is closed / open would be helpful as well. If you don't have an external monitor, you can run sleep 30 && cat /proc/ac

Re: Problem with systemd-sleep in Jessie

2014-10-24 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 24.10.2014 um 14:46 schrieb ~Stack~: > On 10/23/2014 11:06 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: >> That looks all fine. >> Can you remove the settings again from logind.conf and restart >> systemd-logind while monitoring what evtest logs and and also what >> systemd-logind logs. >> For the latter, you can e

Re: installing systemd on Debian 7

2014-10-24 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Ric Moore: You have to make a concerted effort to enable systemd to Wheezy. I > mean, you really have to try hard. :) It isn't that hard. But one does have to regularly type in a barefaced lie. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

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

2014-10-24 Thread Thorsten Glaser
On Fri, 24 Oct 2014, Thomas Goirand wrote: > > OpenBSD’s libc.so major number is 50 or something like that right now, > > because they – correctly – increment it on every incompatible change. > > The correct thing to do is to not do incompatible change. No, in the interest of software hygiene it

Re: Problem with systemd-sleep in Jessie

2014-10-24 Thread ~Stack~
On 10/23/2014 09:36 PM, ~Stack~ wrote: > On 10/23/2014 08:29 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: >> You can also change /etc/systemd/logind.conf, and change the >> HandlePowerKey=, HandleSuspendKey=, HandleHibernateKey=, >> HandleLidSwitch= all to ignore temporarily. > > Done. That seems to work! The laptop

Re: Problem with systemd-sleep in Jessie

2014-10-24 Thread ~Stack~
On 10/23/2014 11:06 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: > That looks all fine. > Can you remove the settings again from logind.conf and restart > systemd-logind while monitoring what evtest logs and and also what > systemd-logind logs. > For the latter, you can either run systemd-logind in the foreground (as

Re: Problem with systemd-sleep in Jessie

2014-10-24 Thread ~Stack~
On 10/23/2014 11:19 PM, Ric Moore wrote: > > To the OP: Stack. THANK YOU for starting an intelligent systemd Q&A. I have voiced my systemd concerns before. At this time, I am simply tying to figure out what is wrong with my laptop. Should systemd be the default/only init system when Jessie releas

Re: Problem with systemd-sleep in Jessie

2014-10-24 Thread ~Stack~
On 10/23/2014 10:25 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 24.10.2014 um 04:58 schrieb Michael Biebl: >> Am 24.10.2014 um 04:19 schrieb Michael Biebl: >> >>> For some reason, you seem to be getting acpi events which trigger the >>> suspend request in logind. This might be a buggy ACPI implementation >>> lik

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

2014-10-24 Thread Peter Nieman
On 23/10/14 22:10, David L. Craig wrote: On 14Oct23:2035+0300, Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis wrote: That's not the point. From the technical point of view, IMO, you are correct but that's not the only view that exists in Debian Project, me thinks. [snip] My choices reg. my use of technology isn'

Re: Good news on claws-mail

2014-10-24 Thread berenger . morel
Le 23.10.2014 20:40, lee a écrit : berenger.mo...@neutralite.org writes: The only problem is bash, here: it is unable to handle multi-instances, so the histories are lost more or less randomly when I close/spawn terminals and sessions. # append history rather than overwriting it shopt -s

Re: Have never seen this previously...........

2014-10-24 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:44:25 +0100 Darac Marjal sent: > I'm not quite sure what your setup here is so: > * If you're booting in BIOS mode with an MBR disk, then raise a bug > against grub > * If you're booting in BIOS mode with a GPT disk, then create the BIOS > Boot Partition that grub is a

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

2014-10-24 Thread Martin Read
On 24/10/14 10:12, Thomas Goirand wrote: On 10/21/2014 05:12 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: OpenBSD’s libc.so major number is 50 or something like that right now, because they – correctly – increment it on every incompatible change. The correct thing to do is to not do incompatible change. A won

Re: Searching uninstalled packages by directory name

2014-10-24 Thread Malte Forkel
Am 24.10.2014 um 13:08 schrieb Darac Marjal: > Actually, apt-file will search the whole path (try 'apt-file search > bin'). If you like, try the -x option to apt-file to specify a > perl-compatible regex. You're right! Thanks for pointing that out. I was mislead by the man page auf apt-file 2.5.1

Dutch myspell/hunspell .aff file giving errors when loaded in PostgreSQL

2014-10-24 Thread Willem van de Sande
On the Debian bug reporting page it said that I should ask here if I wasn't sure where to report a bug. The problem is that the file /usr/share/hunspell/nl.aff (part of the myspell-nl package) gives errors if you construct a ispell Dictionary with it in PostgreSQL as follow: CREATE TEXT SEARCH DIC

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-24 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/24/2014 4:49 AM, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > Tanstaafl: >> And why was OPenRC not a contender? > Your question takes a falsehood as its premise. It actually was, > contrary to what M. Popescu dismissively stated. Several members of the > technical committee took it and tried to

Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-24 Thread Tanstaafl
On 10/23/2014 4:10 PM, koanhead wrote: > I propose OpenRC, having recently tried it. So far I'm liking how it > works, and it solves most of the problems I had with sysvinit. It's not > a replacement for PID1, and is supposed to be compatible with arbitrary > PID1 programs (sysvinit, sytemd, runit

Re: Searching uninstalled packages by directory name

2014-10-24 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 12:36:01PM +0200, Malte Forkel wrote: > Hi, > > how can I find all packages that will install files in a specific directory? > > dpkg-query (dpkg -S) only searches installed packages. apt-file will > only search filenames, not directory names. Actually, apt-file will sear

Searching uninstalled packages by directory name

2014-10-24 Thread Malte Forkel
Hi, how can I find all packages that will install files in a specific directory? dpkg-query (dpkg -S) only searches installed packages. apt-file will only search filenames, not directory names. Thanks Malte -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "u

Re: Legacy PTY`s in Debian 7.7

2014-10-24 Thread Igor Sverkos
Hi, the default Debian 7.7 kernel seems to lack LEGACY_PTY support: > grep LEGACY_PTY /boot/config-$(uname -r) > # CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS is not set -- Regards, Igor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

Re: Have never seen this previously...........

2014-10-24 Thread Darac Marjal
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 08:15:03PM +1100, Charlie wrote: > On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 14:20:33 +0100 Darac Marjal sent: > > > > On a GPT disk using BIOS, though, GRUB will still install Stage 1 into > > the first sector, but then there's no suitable place for it to put > > Stage 1.5. So you're expected

Re: Have never seen this previously...........

2014-10-24 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 14:20:33 +0100 Darac Marjal sent: > On a GPT disk using BIOS, though, GRUB will still install Stage 1 into > the first sector, but then there's no suitable place for it to put > Stage 1.5. So you're expected to create the Bios Boot Partition, into > which Grub will install Sta

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

2014-10-24 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 10/21/2014 05:12 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Tue, 21 Oct 2014, Thomas Goirand wrote: > >> So, dear fellow DDs, I'm asking you: each time you see that an upstream >> author is breaking an ABI on a package you maintain, write an email to >> him/her, and explain how much this is bad and should

Re: Re: If Not Systemd, then What?

2014-10-24 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Andrei Popescu: 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. Tanstaafl: And why was OPenRC not a contender? Your question takes a falsehood as its premise. It actually wa

Legacy PTY`s in Debian 7.7

2014-10-24 Thread Peter Mallett
Hello, I am new to this list and I am looking for help with Debian 7.7, I have this test setup on my laptop using the xfce desktop. With my applications I run on Ubuntu 10.04.4, I create some pty links for running software on the same linux box. Usually I just need to add the state

Re: X Server not available after Sid update on 21 Oct.

2014-10-24 Thread Jürgen Kleber
Am Donnerstag, den 23.10.2014, 14:06 -0700 schrieb Don Armstrong: > On Thu, 23 Oct 2014, Jürgen Kleber wrote: > > I did not mention yet that I tried lightdm/xfce4 - and it failed, too. > > You should assign the bug additionally to lightdm. > > What was output to syslog when you did this? > > Wh

Re: lightdm's "Default Xsession"?

2014-10-24 Thread Raffaele Morelli
On 24/10/14 at 10:17am, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 23 oct 14, 19:38:15, John Conover wrote: > > > > I use two WM, (xfce and fvwm.) Lightdm's "Default Xsession" is fvwm2. > > > > How do I change lightdm's "Default Xsession" to xfce? > > I prefer to do this at system level (i.e. will work for

Re: lightdm's "Default Xsession"?

2014-10-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 23 oct 14, 19:38:15, John Conover wrote: > > I use two WM, (xfce and fvwm.) Lightdm's "Default Xsession" is fvwm2. > > How do I change lightdm's "Default Xsession" to xfce? I prefer to do this at system level (i.e. will work for any DM): update-alternatives --config x-session-manager

Re: quilt & debian-jenkis-glue

2014-10-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 23 oct 14, 15:37:04, George Shuklin wrote: > Hello. > > I can't get normal workflow with quilt & debian-jenkins-glue. You might have more success on -mentors. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://