RE: apt cache full, mandb update failed

2016-04-20 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi Brian, >> This morning I wanted to do an apt-get update / upgrade cycle on my >> system. The update went ok, but during the upgrade I got a " No space >> left on device" warning. >> [...] >> Preparing to replace ssh 1:6.0p1-4+deb7u3 (using >> .../ssh_1%3a6.0p1-4+deb7u4_all.deb) ... >> Unpac

Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup)

2016-04-20 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 20.04.2016 um 23:19 schrieb Ansgar Burchardt: > I'm not sure you can achieve this via systemd's .mount units, although > systemd itself also makes use of mount namespaces. For example, systemd > uses them to provide a per-service /tmp, make /home unaccessible or only > allowing read-only access

Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup)

2016-04-20 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:19:46PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > I think using mount namespaces is a bit nicer solution for the problem: ... > I'm not sure you can achieve this via systemd's .mount units, although > systemd itself also makes use of mount namespaces. For example, systemd > uses

Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup)

2016-04-20 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Jonathan Dowland writes: > I just wrote a blog post about how to use Systemd to configure mount-on-demand > filesystems, e.g. /backup (in my case). This was triggered by recent news in > the UK that a major hosting provider had deleted all their customer VMs by > accident by issuing something

Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup)

2016-04-20 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 09:40:40PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Did you edit your blog post afterwards or did I just skim over your own > rebuttal of the story? :) No I named it as a hoax from the off -- the tell for me was that one of the replies to the hoax post was a suggestion to use dd(1) f

Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup)

2016-04-20 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 01:44:07PM -0600, John L. Ries wrote: > >Thanks! I think we need to share more examples on how to use systemd > >properly. A lot of the criticism stems from the simple fact that people > >just need to learn what the new tools can do for them. > > That would be an indication

Re: Installing tt-rss

2016-04-20 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hi Sebastian, On Tuesday 19 April 2016 03:58:02 Sebastian Reichel wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 10:42:54PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > On Monday 18 April 2016 18:20:19 Sebastian Reichel wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 03:30:30PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > > > I tried to i

Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup)

2016-04-20 Thread John L. Ries
Thanks! I think we need to share more examples on how to use systemd properly. A lot of the criticism stems from the simple fact that people just need to learn what the new tools can do for them. That would be an indication that systemd is non-intuitive and poorly documented, which has been my

Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup)

2016-04-20 Thread Jochen Spieker
Jochen Spieker: > Jonathan Dowland: >> >> I just wrote a blog post about how to use Systemd to configure >> mount-on-demand >> filesystems, e.g. /backup (in my case). This was triggered by recent news in >> the UK that a major hosting provider had deleted all their customer VMs by >> accident by

Re: on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup)

2016-04-20 Thread Jochen Spieker
Jonathan Dowland: > > I just wrote a blog post about how to use Systemd to configure mount-on-demand > filesystems, e.g. /backup (in my case). This was triggered by recent news in > the UK that a major hosting provider had deleted all their customer VMs by > accident by issuing something like "rm

Stretch/Sid not resuming from suspend

2016-04-20 Thread Lucio Crusca
Hello *, I'm using Stretch/Sid amd64 and I update it every few days. Since about a month or so it fails to resume from suspend to RAM. It doesn't happen regularly, it fails about 50% of the times. When it doesn't resume, I get only a black screen in text mode with the blinking caret in the top

Re: apt cache full, mandb update failed

2016-04-20 Thread Brian
On Wed 20 Apr 2016 at 06:52:22 +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > This morning I wanted to do an apt-get update / upgrade cycle on my > system. The update went ok, but during the upgrade I got a " No space > left on device" warning. > [...] > Preparing to replace ssh 1:6.0p1-4+deb7u3 (using > .../ssh

on-demand mounting of filesystems via Systemd (e.g. /backup)

2016-04-20 Thread Jonathan Dowland
I just wrote a blog post about how to use Systemd to configure mount-on-demand filesystems, e.g. /backup (in my case). This was triggered by recent news in the UK that a major hosting provider had deleted all their customer VMs by accident by issuing something like "rm -rf" - but they *also* got al

Re: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!]

2016-04-20 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Tue, 19 Apr 2016, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > On 04/19/2016 12:49 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > > On 04/16/2016 03:27 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >> > >> Much to my regret (and others, too, I'm sure), yesterday, on 15 > >> April 2016, the beginning of the end began for Wheezy. Google, as > >> announced

Re: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!]

2016-04-20 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Tue, 19 Apr 2016, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > On 04/16/2016 03:27 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > Much to my regret (and others, too, I'm sure), yesterday, on 15 > > April 2016, the beginning of the end began for Wheezy. Google, as > > announced months ago, finally ceased support for its browser o

Re: Beginning of the End for Wheezy [sigh!]

2016-04-20 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 08:30:43AM -0400, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > You are missing that the change to systemd makes most of the knowledge > patiently acquired over the years running and caring for a Linux system has > suddenly become unusable. As a former sysadmin wrangling frankly horrid in-house

Re: apt cache full, mandb update failed

2016-04-20 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Bonno Bloksma [2016-04-20 06:52 +]: > Hi, > [...] > > My /var partition had filled up, it seems out of the 3GB there was about > 2.5GB in /var/cache/apt/archives. > The solution was simple, just an apt-get autoclean, I now have 2.2GB free on > my /var partition. ;-) > > But. What w

Re: apt cache full, mandb update failed

2016-04-20 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 06:52:22AM +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > Hi, > > This morning I wanted to do an apt-get update / upgrade cycle on my system. > The update went ok, but during the upgrade I got a " No space left on device" > warning. > [...] > Preparing to replace ssh 1:6.0p1-4+deb7u3 (usin

Jessie- iwl3945: could not read microcode: -12 (solved)

2016-04-20 Thread Vladimir D.
Hi All, I had exactly the same problem as described by Markos. Solution for me was to select in Grub "Advanced Options for Debian" and simply chose first option which in my case was "Debian .. with Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae" and by selecting this it notified about missing firmware but didn't get stu

Problems with vdpau

2016-04-20 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
I have no NVIDIA hardware, still there are packages that install packages containing vdpau in their name. Any such installation causes trouble as the CLI tty(s) (a.k.a. virtual consoles) are not available to use as long as any library related to vdpau are installed. Removal of any package having v

Nvidia and Intel cards on Thinkpad: observation

2016-04-20 Thread Johann Spies
On a Thinkpad T550 I observed that when using ' optirun glxgears -fullscreen' the framerate is much lower than otherwise. What would be the explanation? If you look at the following results the Intel-results are : $ optirun glxgears -fullscreen 109 frames in 5.0 seconds = 21.666 FPS 112 frame