Re: debootstrap as an valuable instructioanal experience

2015-02-20 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 2/20/15, Richard Owlett wrote: > Several months ago, when I was having problems with a very > customized install, I was pointed to debootstrap as an > appropriate tool. I finding that it will evidently give me not > only the fine control and minimal footprint desired, but it leads > me to explo

curl cannot be used. Any workaround?

2015-02-20 Thread Dan Jacobson
$ curl curl: relocation error: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libcurl.so.4: symbol SSLv3_client_method, version OPENSSL_1.0.0 not defined in file libssl.so.1.0.0 with link time reference Yes I see lots about it in the bug tracker. What is the workaround? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Re: debootstrap as an valuable instructioanal experience

2015-02-20 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 2/20/15, Curt wrote: > On 2015-02-20, Richard Owlett wrote: >> >> My question -- Does anyone know of a detailed (newbie oriented) >> writeup on using debootstrap to install a bootable Debian to a >> second partition of a drive already containing a complete default >> install? All the writeups

Re: debootstrap as an valuable instructioanal experience

2015-02-20 Thread Curt
On 2015-02-20, Richard Owlett wrote: > > My question -- Does anyone know of a detailed (newbie oriented) > writeup on using debootstrap to install a bootable Debian to a > second partition of a drive already containing a complete default > install? All the writeups I've found assume various lev

debootstrap as an valuable instructioanal experience

2015-02-20 Thread Richard Owlett
Several months ago, when I was having problems with a very customized install, I was pointed to debootstrap as an appropriate tool. I finding that it will evidently give me not only the fine control and minimal footprint desired, but it leads me to explore areas of Debian that I know less about

architecture independent packages and reprepro

2015-02-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
Hi, Reading https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html, it says that an architecture of "all" specifies a platform independent package, of which I have one. But, if I put that into my apt conf/distributions, I get complaints. Error: Distribution wheezy contains an architecture

Re: Suspicious file found in /dev/shm with Rkhunter

2015-02-20 Thread Marko Randjelovic
On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 12:42:13 +0100 Petter Adsen wrote: > > Odd. > > Did you (manually) delete the file first? rkhunter probably won't > delete any files previous runs have created. Also, you could try to grab > the latest version (1.4.2) from http://rkhunter.sourceforge.net/ and > install that.

Re: dpkg error (I think)

2015-02-20 Thread Reco
Hi again. On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 12:38:54PM +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 02:47:58AM -0500, Brian Chrzanowski wrote: > > Hello debian heroes, > > > > I have a problem with installing packages with aptitude, and dpkg. I'm > > running debian 7.8, but the problem arose wh

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

2015-02-20 Thread Brian
On Fri 20 Feb 2015 at 16:26:03 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > I have searched and found > http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/776643-how-to-rescue-a-non-booting-grub-2-on-linux/ > > and have done ls, that shows 13 GPT partitions, of which, I know (or > believe) that 3 are operating system installat

Re: Suspicious file found in /dev/shm with Rkhunter

2015-02-20 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 12:24:34 +0100 Marko Randjelovic wrote: > On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 11:47:02 +0100 > Marko Randjelovic wrote: > > > On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 09:44:27 +0100 > > Petter Adsen wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 08:18:37 +0100 > > > Marko Randjelovic wrote: > > > > > > > While trying

Re: Suspicious file found in /dev/shm with Rkhunter

2015-02-20 Thread Marko Randjelovic
On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 11:47:02 +0100 Marko Randjelovic wrote: > On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 09:44:27 +0100 > Petter Adsen wrote: > > > On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 08:18:37 +0100 > > Marko Randjelovic wrote: > > > > > While trying to find out how to eliminate messages: > > > > > > Warning: Hidden directory fou

Re: Suspicious file found in /dev/shm with Rkhunter

2015-02-20 Thread Marko Randjelovic
On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 09:44:27 +0100 Petter Adsen wrote: > On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 08:18:37 +0100 > Marko Randjelovic wrote: > > > While trying to find out how to eliminate messages: > > > > Warning: Hidden directory found: /etc/.java > > Warning: Hidden directory found: /dev/.udev > > Warning: Hidd

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

2015-02-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 20 February 2015 09:06:32 Bret Busby wrote: > (as reworded version of the quote from Hamlet; "Tomorrow, and > tomorrow, and tomorrow..." Sorry to quibble, but it's Macbeth. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: How to change Login Session Manager background colour in debian wheezy gdm3

2015-02-20 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 12:02:32AM -0700, Sivabalan wrote: > I couldn't change background color in debian wheezy gdm3 at login session > manager. Pl help the above problem. Did you try https://wiki.debian.org/GDM#Customizing_the_GDM_appearance ? > > > > -- > View this message in context: > ht

Re: How to change Login Session Manager background colour in debian wheezy gdm3

2015-02-20 Thread Curt
On 2015-02-18, Sivabalan wrote: > I couldn't change background color in debian wheezy gdm3 at login session > manager. Pl help the above problem. > Can't you not let us guess what you've tried up to this point that didn't work (concatenation of negatives)? -- "The world is full of shipping cl

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

2015-02-20 Thread Bret Busby
On 20/02/2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > > Also, have you looked at this: > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/boot-repair-cd/ > > ? > > Maybe it would be a simple way to fix it? > > Petter > I will have to try that, next week. I need to shut down the failed system, and, then, next week, when I have

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

2015-02-20 Thread Bret Busby
On 20/02/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > On 20/02/2015, Bret Busby wrote: >> On 20/02/2015, Bob Proulx wrote: >>> Bret Busby wrote: The Debian 7.60 LXDE LiveCD does not have an option to boot into rescue mode. >>> >>> You could always download the standard debian-installer and use that >>> t

Re: Suspicious file found in /dev/shm with Rkhunter

2015-02-20 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 08:18:37 +0100 Marko Randjelovic wrote: > While trying to find out how to eliminate messages: > > Warning: Hidden directory found: /etc/.java > Warning: Hidden directory found: /dev/.udev > Warning: Hidden directory found: /dev/.initramfs > > which are made by rkhunter every

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

2015-02-20 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 16:26:03 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 20/02/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > > On 20/02/2015, Bob Proulx wrote: > >> Bret Busby wrote: > >>> The Debian 7.60 LXDE LiveCD does not have an option to boot into > >>> rescue mode. > >> > >> You could always download the standard debian-i

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

2015-02-20 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 16:07:56 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > So, now, this has evovled to the new question; what do I type in at > the GRUB prompt, to make it search for, and, offer as boot options, > the pre-existing, installed, Ubuntu and Debian installations? I found this: http://members.iinet.net/

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

2015-02-20 Thread Bret Busby
On 20/02/2015, Bret Busby wrote: > On 20/02/2015, Bob Proulx wrote: >> Bret Busby wrote: >>> The Debian 7.60 LXDE LiveCD does not have an option to boot into rescue >>> mode. >> >> You could always download the standard debian-installer and use that >> to boot rescue mode. It is a very good opti

Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD

2015-02-20 Thread Bret Busby
On 20/02/2015, Bob Proulx wrote: > Bret Busby wrote: >> The Debian 7.60 LXDE LiveCD does not have an option to boot into rescue >> mode. > > You could always download the standard debian-installer and use that > to boot rescue mode. It is a very good option. > > However if you have a livecd and y