Re: Planning a new Debian box!

2015-03-27 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 04:40:47PM -0400, ja...@jamestechnotes.com wrote: > I acquired a Dell Dimension E510 a few months ago. 2G ram 250G > sata drive. I installed wheezy without any issues. It is > running fine as an XBMC media box. Ah. All is not dark and gloomy! Thank you for that positive

Re: Planning a new Debian box!

2015-03-27 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 02:30:47PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I was playing with the role of paranoid, sorry. Paranoid always works for me. But never apologize. The Canadians take it as a sign of weakness. > The fact is that Microsoft does not make it easy to convert > old Dells to benefici

Re: What is the correct way to set encrypted swap with systemd?

2015-03-27 Thread ~Stack~
On 03/27/2015 07:35 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 27.03.2015 um 23:44 schrieb ~Stack~: >> Yup. Systemd is ignoring me again and fscks on every boot. I have done >> everything I can think of and I am back to not being able to stop >> systemd from fsck'ing *every* time. I have done everything in that

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-27 Thread Joris Bolsens
Do you have a tutorial or how to on setting up mailman with that setup? it seems a little non standard now that I'm looking at various mailman tutorials. ~Joris signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: What is the correct way to set encrypted swap with systemd?

2015-03-27 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 27.03.2015 um 23:44 schrieb ~Stack~: > Yup. Systemd is ignoring me again and fscks on every boot. I have done > everything I can think of and I am back to not being able to stop > systemd from fsck'ing *every* time. I have done everything in that > thread plus all of the notes I took and didn't

What is the correct way to set encrypted swap with systemd?

2015-03-27 Thread ~Stack~
Greetings, TL;DR - See Subject. :-) I have been testing Debian Jessie on my spare test laptop and with it being a test box and all, I tested something that didn't go the way I wanted it to and broke a lot of stuff. :-) I wiped my test laptop and reinstalled. Now I have the exact same problem as b

Re: Planning a new Debian box!

2015-03-27 Thread james
On Friday, March 27, 2015 4:30pm, "Paul E Condon" said: > On 20150326_2355-0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 09:09:28PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: >> >> >> > ...some BIOS code that blocks copying a backup copy of Win7 in >> > a hidden partition on HD... >> >> Now, see? Tha

Re: Planning a new Debian box!

2015-03-27 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20150326_2355-0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 09:09:28PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > ...some BIOS code that blocks copying a backup copy of Win7 in > > a hidden partition on HD... > > Now, see? That's some hardcore M$ crap right there! Thas what > I'm talkin 'bou

Re: Planning a new Debian box!

2015-03-27 Thread Jordan Langelier
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 5:54 PM, David Christensen < dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote: > On 03/26/2015 04:38 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >> Shortly I will become the owner of a refurbished Dell >>> with Win7 already on its 160g sata hard drive. >>> I have no need or use for a multi-OS multi-boot >

question about peculiar svn error

2015-03-27 Thread Comer Duncan
I am trying to extract a public svn software source and have run against an immediate error returned. Here are the particulars: svn checkout http::/xx/yy/codename codename --username=anomymous and give a password of anonymous (the approved pw). the response is: Cannot mix incompatible Qt libr

Re: LSB Raise network interface taking too long

2015-03-27 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 27.03.2015 um 18:50 schrieb Paulo Roberto: > And you were right, removing the /etc/network/if-up.d/openntpd the problem > was gone. > > I assume that this file that comes in the openntpd package should not exist. > Am I correct? It's a but in the openntpd package, I'd say. In general, such ho

Re: LSB Raise network interface taking too long

2015-03-27 Thread Paulo Roberto
Michael, Yes, I mean Jessie. Sorry. And you were right, removing the /etc/network/if-up.d/openntpd the problem was gone. I assume that this file that comes in the openntpd package should not exist. Am I correct? Thanks a lot for your help. Kind Regards. On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Mich

Re: LSB Raise network interface taking too long

2015-03-27 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 27.03.2015 um 17:07 schrieb Paulo Roberto: > Hello, > > During the boot, when it's time to bring the interfaces up, this process > takes more than 5 minutes. > The below message is displayed on the screen: > > A start job is running for LSB: Raise network interface [5:16] > > After the timeou

Re: trouble installing Debian testing/jessie

2015-03-27 Thread mizuki
Apparently someone updated the netboot.tar.gz yesterday and new kernel worked out well, and once again I'm able to install Jessie. I think what probably happened was a lot of packages being updated on Mar 9th for the base-system install, the kernel in netboot perhaps wasn't up-to-date? Thank for r

LSB Raise network interface taking too long

2015-03-27 Thread Paulo Roberto
Hello, During the boot, when it's time to bring the interfaces up, this process takes more than 5 minutes. The below message is displayed on the screen: A start job is running for LSB: Raise network interface [5:16] After the timeout the systems works normally. I'm using Lenny on a 64bit machin

Re: Redirect HTTPS with Squid3+Squidguard

2015-03-27 Thread Dan Purgert
On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 15:53:04 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > rog...@queernet.org wrote: >> Michael Graham wrote: >> > As MITM proxies in school/business seem to be pretty common in the US >> > and the UK. >> >> I bet your proxy firewall does it too. > > I bet not! I think you are confusing https wit

unknown xclients from xrestop

2015-03-27 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
Hey Debian Users! After a few days, new windows will no longer open on my XFCE Jessie Desktop. After doing some research I found out that something is leaving around "unknown" xclient resources: tubaman@livingroom:~$ xrestop -b -m 1 | grep -A 10 '' | head 2 - ( PID: ? ): res_base

Re: xfce with gtk3 applications?

2015-03-27 Thread mad
Hmmm, doesn't seem to help. Am 27.03.2015 um 11:17 schrieb Alexis: > > mad writes: > >> More ideas? > > It might be that gnome-settings-daemon needs to be running, although > doing so might well mess with XFCE's settings setup > > > Alexis. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: xfce with gtk3 applications?

2015-03-27 Thread Alexis
mad writes: More ideas? It might be that gnome-settings-daemon needs to be running, although doing so might well mess with XFCE's settings setup Alexis. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: xfce with gtk3 applications?

2015-03-27 Thread mad
I already installed gtk2-engines-xfce and gtk3-engines-xfce and configure .gtkrc-2.0 and .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini with Xfce-winter. And when I strace the test applications from gtk-3-examples or gtk-2-examples I see the application loading the configuration and the gtk.css respectively gtkrc.

Re: Problem with accessing external USB HDD

2015-03-27 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 14:12:24 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 27/03/2015, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Bret Busby wrote: > >> I have an external USB HDD connected to a system running Debian 6 > >> LTS. > > > > I don't really have any great contribution. But since no one else > > seems to have any good res

Re: create /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

2015-03-27 Thread Christoph Pleger
Hello, > On my NFS diskless client the 70-persistent-net.rules *is* created and > updated when booting. Therefore your strategy would work in my > environment. In my diskless boot environment my > 70-persistent-net.rules file would grow and grow and grow as I booted > different hardware if I did

Re: xfce with gtk3 applications?

2015-03-27 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 03/27/2015 12:41 PM, mad wrote: Hi! I use XFCE and when using gtk3 applications (evince, meld, ...) the theme is broken and I can't seem to fix it. I installed gtk3-engines-xfce, made sure that the configuration is correct but nothing seems to work. Any ideas or suggestions? You need to

xfce with gtk3 applications?

2015-03-27 Thread mad
Hi! I use XFCE and when using gtk3 applications (evince, meld, ...) the theme is broken and I can't seem to fix it. I installed gtk3-engines-xfce, made sure that the configuration is correct but nothing seems to work. Any ideas or suggestions? TIA mad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: Planning a new Debian box!

2015-03-27 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:55:26PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 09:09:28PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > ...some BIOS code that blocks copying a backup copy of Win7 in > > a hidden partition on HD... > > Now, see? That's some hardcore M$ crap right there! Thas wha

Re: qemu with KVM support compared to "professional" virtualization products from VMware or Oracle

2015-03-27 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 10:04:16 +0200 Martin T wrote: > Hi, > > I need to virtualize few dozen virtual-machines for production > environment under Debian host-machine. I like the KISS principle > provided by qemu with KVM support where each utility has its own > specific purpose. For example I set

Re: Redirect HTTPS with Squid3+Squidguard

2015-03-27 Thread Peter Viskup
Unfortunately we are living in real (not ideal) world and there are cases where the SSL split is definitely needed or should be considered at least. For example Squid 3.5 coming with new design of SSLBump allowing to do some inspection of the connection prior the real SSLSplit. That gives you possi

qemu with KVM support compared to "professional" virtualization products from VMware or Oracle

2015-03-27 Thread Martin T
Hi, I need to virtualize few dozen virtual-machines for production environment under Debian host-machine. I like the KISS principle provided by qemu with KVM support where each utility has its own specific purpose. For example I set up the virtual switch with ip/brctl utility or use single qemu ex