Re: System craches when browsing a web site

2015-10-26 Thread Glenn English
On Oct 26, 2015, at 7:43 PM, Mario Castelán Castro wrote: >> I hear that Google's Chromium works or Opera, to name a couple biggies. > > Both of them are non-free Good point, well taken. But OP doesn't like Mozilla for some reason. Chromium is at least free as in beer; and last I heard, so w

Re: bootloader customization (was: System Dorked -- Help...)

2015-10-26 Thread moxalt
On Sun, 25 Oct 2015 13:52:06 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > David Baron composed on 2015-10-25 14:53 (UTC+0200): > > > I started with wheezy 64 bit install and grub2. Did not have any clue how > > it worked but it did. When upgraded to Sid, added a kernel and wanted to > > keep the older on around

Re: System craches when browsing a web site

2015-10-26 Thread moxalt
On Mon, 26 Oct 2015 16:40:10 +0100, Abou Al Montacir wrote: > Dear All, > > I tried to browse the following site multiple times using epiphany browser, > and each time it makes my hole system crash. Only poweroff/poweron can > recover. https://www.blinq.com/ > > While I can understand that epip

Re: switch back to gnome 3.16

2015-10-26 Thread moxalt
On Mon, 26 Oct 2015 17:39:06 +0100, Floris wrote: > Op Mon, 26 Oct 2015 17:20:11 +0100 schreef Floris : > > > What is the easiest way to switch back to gnome 3.16, now both testing > > and unstable have 3.18? > > > > Thanks, > > > > floris > > > > Steps so far: > > add: > deb http://snapsh

Re: conflicts in stretch

2015-10-26 Thread moxalt
On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 02:28:23 +0100, Jens Tobiska wrote: > I am running sid/stretch and noticed that for some time now, around 200 > packages have been "kept back" when doing "apt-get upgrade". Try an apt-get dist-upgrade. Apt-get upgrade only updates packages with new versions available, while d

Re: How to Resize Partition on LVM

2015-10-26 Thread ray
I would like to thank everyone to helping. Looks like it is working. Here is the action: With Live GParted, reduce sda5 to minimum ~ 60GB. Create new partition, sda6 ~420GB. Booted back to Debian. pvcreate /dev/sda6 vgcreate xenvg /dev/sda6 lvcreate -l +100%FREE xenvg -n xenlv mkfs.ext4 -m 0 /de

Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume

2015-10-26 Thread David Christensen
On 10/26/2015 10:14 AM, Anton Bizzarri wrote: So just to confirm, there is no way to recover the logical volume. I don't know -- a sufficiently skilled person (or group) might be able to do it. I'm not such a person, and don't know of any. Try STFW for an LVM project or community. David

Re: System craches when browsing a web site

2015-10-26 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
I hear that Google's Chromium works or Opera, to name a couple biggies. Both of them are non-free (Chromium has at least unclearly licensed code). We have many free as in freedom browsers. I have used Iceweasel since I use Debian and I have never had any problems with it but only very occasio

Re: any mirror/site where I can download Emacs snapshots?

2015-10-26 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Mon, Oct 26 2015,Teemu Likonen wrote: > Sivaram Neelakantan [2015-10-27 00:04:44+05:30] wrote: > >> I don't want to clone the whole repository, would a shallow clone also >> work? > > You can use "git clone --depth 1" to get just the latest revision. Most > of the space is taken by the files, t

Re: System craches when browsing a web site

2015-10-26 Thread Glenn English
On Oct 26, 2015, at 4:30 PM, Abou Al Montacir wrote: > What fellow users think? Toss the sucker and get one that works. There are billions and billions of browsers around. Even some that aren't Microsoft or Mozilla :-) And, no, Debian shouldn't do more than complain mildly when the browser ha

conflicts in stretch

2015-10-26 Thread Jens Tobiska
I am running sid/stretch and noticed that for some time now, around 200 packages have been "kept back" when doing "apt-get upgrade". Also installing some other packages (e.g. sqlitebrowser) does not work unless I uninstall some 64 other packages. Is this due to some library conflict? Will it be s

Re: System craches when browsing a web site

2015-10-26 Thread Lisi Reisz
Forwarded to OP. Lisi On Monday 26 October 2015 17:20:10 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Mon, 2015-10-26 at 16:40 +0100, Abou Al Montacir wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > I tried to browse the following site multiple times using epiphany > > browser, and > > each time it makes my hole system crash. Only po

Re: System craches when browsing a web site

2015-10-26 Thread Abou Al Montacir
Hi Lisi, Thanks for answering! Yes I can browse that website using iceweasel without any issue. But It happens I use epiphany as primary browser and don't ask me why I use such a bad browser, I just don't like mozilla products! Now The issue is not that epiphany craches, this I can understand any a

Re: Mounting a DVD (busy message)

2015-10-26 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > ... [ata_id] [blkid] [cdrom_id] ... > I thought for a while, and then remembered that if you look at > /dev/disk/by-label you can see a CD before it's ever mounted. That's udev (or systemd having taken over the udev job). It is not supposed to hold the drive for more than a few seconds. >

Re: Mounting a DVD (busy message)

2015-10-26 Thread David Wright
Quoting Thomas Schmitt (scdbac...@gmx.net): > [I wrote:] > > $ mount /media/cdrom0 > > mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only > > mount: /dev/sr0 already mounted or /media/cdrom0 busy > > $ mount /media/cdrom0 > > mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mountin

Re: any mirror/site where I can download Emacs snapshots?

2015-10-26 Thread Teemu Likonen
Sivaram Neelakantan [2015-10-27 00:04:44+05:30] wrote: > I don't want to clone the whole repository, would a shallow clone also > work? You can use "git clone --depth 1" to get just the latest revision. Most of the space is taken by the files, though, not the history. Depth-1 clone takes 178 MB a

Re: External hard drive immediately remounts after trying to shut it down

2015-10-26 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > There wasn't any typo. Sorry. But i made one: -btrace /dev/sdd +btrace /dev/sdb Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Installer partitioning problem (was: System Dorked -- Help! (Interim solution!))

2015-10-26 Thread David Wright
Your threading appears to be broken, possibly because you reply to a digest article? I think this was in reply to Message-Id: <201510260331.37495.ghesk...@shentel.net> Quoting Martin Str|mberg (a...@ludd.luth.se): > In article Gene Heskett > wrote: > > On Monday 26 October 2015 02:29:04 Martin

Re: any mirror/site where I can download Emacs snapshots?

2015-10-26 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Sun, Oct 25 2015,Teemu Likonen wrote: > Sivaram Neelakantan [2015-10-25 20:00:35+05:30] wrote: > >> Else I'll have to build from scratch I guess. > > That's a good choice and nothing to be afraid of. In Debian 8 it would > go like this: > > > sudo apt-get install git build-essential libgtk2

Re: External hard drive immediately remounts after trying to shut it down

2015-10-26 Thread Safwat
On 10/26/2015 08:22 PM, Safwat wrote: > > > On 10/26/2015 02:07 PM, Safwat wrote: >> I have an external hard drive at `/dev/sdb`. I can successfully unmount >> it either via the Thunar GUI or via this command: >> `udisksctl unmount --block-device /dev/sdb`. >> >> However, the external hard driv

Re: External hard drive immediately remounts after trying to shut it down

2015-10-26 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > it powers up, gets > re-detected by the system, gets auto-mounted, and starts spinning once > again. Typically a device spins up when it gets a command from the computer which needs spinning. E.g. when some data reading is requested. Maybe you get an idea of the offending process by btr

Re: External hard drive immediately remounts after trying to shut it down

2015-10-26 Thread Safwat
On 10/26/2015 02:07 PM, Safwat wrote: > I have an external hard drive at `/dev/sdb`. I can successfully unmount > it either via the Thunar GUI or via this command: > `udisksctl unmount --block-device /dev/sdb`. > > However, the external hard drive keeps spinning after an unmount. To > completely

Re: PXE boot an iso image

2015-10-26 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Brian Platt wrote: > http://wellsie.net/p/286/ "Do not try to serve something like an Ubuntu ISO using this method! Most if not all Linux distributions have a separate PXE configuration that does not require this workaround." But for Debian i only find non-ISO stuff like https://wiki

Re: systemd gpsd does not start on boot

2015-10-26 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 26.10.2015 um 17:13 schrieb Philippe Clérié: > On 10/25/2015 01:52 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: >> Am 25.10.2015 um 12:59 schrieb Philippe Clérié: >>> On 10/23/2015 05:33 PM, Philippe Clérié wrote: I'm running raspbian jessy on a rpi2 with an Adafruit GPS board. Gpsd refuses to load on boo

Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume

2015-10-26 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 01:14:59PM -0400, Anton Bizzarri wrote: > Hi David. I see what you mean. > > So just to confirm, there is no way to recover the logical volume. > > FWIW.. I am trying the following > > I recreated the LV with lvcreate. > > Luckily the old LV spanned the 100% the old LVM.

Re: System craches when browsing a web site

2015-10-26 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2015-10-26 at 16:40 +0100, Abou Al Montacir wrote: > Dear All, > > I tried to browse the following site multiple times using epiphany > browser, and > each time it makes my hole system crash. Only poweroff/poweron can > recover. > https://www.blinq.com/ I get an error "Problem displaying

Re: Lost LVM data - lost logical volume

2015-10-26 Thread Anton Bizzarri
Hi David. I see what you mean. So just to confirm, there is no way to recover the logical volume. FWIW.. I am trying the following I recreated the LV with lvcreate. Luckily the old LV spanned the 100% the old LVM. I can now see the LV. I then ran ext3.fsck to repair /dev/mapper/data latest

Re: Debian 8, KDE Lockup

2015-10-26 Thread Udyant Wig
Is there an alternative to KDE Connect elsewhere? Is there a non-KDE substitute that makes it easy to create a WiFi hotspot/access point connection? (NetworkManager cannot do this in non-KDE environments in Debian. It can under GNOME in Fedora.) -- Udyant Wig

Re: switch back to gnome 3.16

2015-10-26 Thread Floris
Op Mon, 26 Oct 2015 17:20:11 +0100 schreef Floris : What is the easiest way to switch back to gnome 3.16, now both testing and unstable have 3.18? Thanks, floris Steps so far: add: deb http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20150601T041739Z/ unstable main non-free contrib to /etc/a

Re: systemd gpsd does not start on boot

2015-10-26 Thread Philippe Clérié
On 10/25/2015 01:52 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 25.10.2015 um 12:59 schrieb Philippe Clérié: On 10/23/2015 05:33 PM, Philippe Clérié wrote: I'm running raspbian jessy on a rpi2 with an Adafruit GPS board. Gpsd refuses to load on boot, but works just fine on manual start. I am not yet familiar

Re: System craches when browsing a web site

2015-10-26 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 26 October 2015 15:40:10 Abou Al Montacir wrote: > Dear All, > > I tried to browse the following site multiple times using epiphany browser, > and each time it makes my hole system crash. Only poweroff/poweron can > recover. https://www.blinq.com/ > > While I can understand that epiphany

switch back to gnome 3.16

2015-10-26 Thread Floris
What is the easiest way to switch back to gnome 3.16, now both testing and unstable have 3.18? Thanks, floris

PXE boot an iso image

2015-10-26 Thread Brian Platt
I have a custom debian iso image which i'd like to be able to boot from using pxe. I've setup a pxe server on a debian machine using this guide http://wellsie.net/p/286/ and now end up with 'dnsmasq-tftp[2397]: sent /srv/tftp/pxelinux.cfg/default to 192.168.15.119' but the client then hangs. I'v

Re: How to Resize Partition on LVM

2015-10-26 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
Then you must reduce /dev/sda5 with whatever partitioning tool, to a size of at least the PV size, 55 GiB (*not* 55 GB which is only 51.2 GiB, beware if using parted). In the free space on the disk you can create a new partition. That is why I recommended using complete sizes in bytes.

System craches when browsing a web site

2015-10-26 Thread Abou Al Montacir
Dear All, I tried to browse the following site multiple times using epiphany browser, and each time it makes my hole system crash. Only poweroff/poweron can recover. https://www.blinq.com/ While I can understand that epiphany does not support some features and craches, I don't understand that the

Re: Maintaining package modifications in a systemic way

2015-10-26 Thread Teemu Likonen
Ondřej Grover [2015-10-26 07:48:35+01] wrote: > this is very close to what I wanted. And if I'm not mistaken, the dpkg > log will inform me about packages installing diversions, so I will > notice when some new package wants to install a new version and > compare them. However, I will have to reme

Re: Rsnapshot /var/run PID

2015-10-26 Thread Simon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 04:27:10PM +, Simon wrote: Hi All, Using Debian 8 and I'd like to run rsnapshot as a regular (non-root) user but it doesn't have permissions to drop the pid file in /var/run. I created a directory called rsnapshot in /

External hard drive immediately remounts after trying to shut it down

2015-10-26 Thread Safwat
I have an external hard drive at `/dev/sdb`. I can successfully unmount it either via the Thunar GUI or via this command: `udisksctl unmount --block-device /dev/sdb`. However, the external hard drive keeps spinning after an unmount. To completely shut it down, I either use the Thunar "Eject" butto

Re: Installer partitioning problem (was: System Dorked -- Help! (Interim solution!))

2015-10-26 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 26 October 2015 11:34:48 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 26 October 2015 05:55:10 Martin Str|mberg wrote: > > In article Gene Heskett > > wrote: > > > On Monday 26 October 2015 02:29:04 Martin Str|mberg wrote: > > > > I don't understand why you can't. I can create (and did) > > > > part

Re: Installer partitioning problem (was: System Dorked -- Help! (Interim solution!))

2015-10-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 26 October 2015 05:55:10 Martin Str|mberg wrote: > In article Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 26 October 2015 02:29:04 Martin Str|mberg wrote: > > > I don't understand why you can't. I can create (and did) > > > partitions of 200 MB size. I use the text based installer and > > > man

System Dorked, Redux

2015-10-26 Thread d_baron
How I got it back up: 1. mounted partition on older disk 2. mounted --bind the live's /dev with the partition's 3. chroot to partition folder 4. mount fstab entries, i.e. var, tmp, etc. 5 run update-initramfs -u, which ran without complaint, runs lilo as well, without complaint The question is: A

Re: Installer partitioning problem

2015-10-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 26 October 2015 03:57:53 Felix Miata wrote: > Gene Heskett composed on 2015-10-26 03:31 (UTC-0400): > > Martin Str|mberg wrote: > >> Supposing your variant of installer can't, then why don't you boot > >> a live CD/stick and partition the hard drive before any booting the > >> installer

Re: Windoze ibernato e Jessie non si avvia

2015-10-26 Thread Pol Hallen
(come ho scritto in lista) permettere l'accesso d'emergenza. Che io sappia è così da sempre, da ben prima che fosse inventato systemd. i sistemi non-systemd non hanno questo problema e si: è un meccanismo di systemd Pol

Re: Installer partitioning problem (was: System Dorked -- Help! (Interim solution!))

2015-10-26 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Monday 26 October 2015 09:55:10 Martin Str|mberg wrote: > In article Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 26 October 2015 02:29:04 Martin Str|mberg wrote: > > > I don't understand why you can't. I can create (and did) partitions of > > > 200 MB size. I use the text based installer and manual par

Re: Installer partitioning problem (was: System Dorked -- Help! (Interim solution!))

2015-10-26 Thread Martin Str|mberg
In article Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 26 October 2015 02:29:04 Martin Str|mberg wrote: > > I don't understand why you can't. I can create (and did) partitions of > > 200 MB size. I use the text based installer and manual partitioning. > > > On a 4k/sector, 2 terabyte disk? I tried from 500

Re: installing/using grub-legacy

2015-10-26 Thread Curt
On 2015-10-26, Martin Str|mberg wrote: > In article Curt wrote: >> https://wiki.debian.org/Grub > > It seems that page is somewhat outdated/broken: > Well, it's a wiki, so wiki it.

Re: How to Resize Partition on LVM

2015-10-26 Thread Pascal Hambourg
ray wrote : > > Displaying the resize pv: > # pvdisplay -v -m > DEGRADED MODE. Incomplete RAID LVs will be processed. Hmm. Not sure wha that means. Was there anothed disk in the VG ? > Scanning for physical volume names > --- Physical volume --- > PV Name /dev/sda5 >

Re: Rsnapshot /var/run PID

2015-10-26 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 04:27:10PM +, Simon wrote: > Hi All, > > Using Debian 8 and I'd like to run rsnapshot as a regular (non-root) > user but it doesn't have permissions to drop the pid file in > /var/run. > > I created a directory called rsna

Re: Installer partitioning problem

2015-10-26 Thread Felix Miata
Gene Heskett composed on 2015-10-26 03:31 (UTC-0400): > Martin Str|mberg wrote: >> Supposing your variant of installer can't, then why don't you boot a >> live CD/stick and partition the hard drive before any booting the >> installer and then you should be able to tell the installer to just >> us

Re: Installer partitioning problem (was: System Dorked -- Help! (Interim solution!))

2015-10-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 26 October 2015 02:29:04 Martin Str|mberg wrote: > In article Gene Heskett wrote: > > The worst part of that is that the partitioner will not accept a 1 > > gigabyte partition, which is a great plenty, so I was forced to use > > 5% of the disk as a boot partition. > > I don't understa