LVM Merge

2016-05-11 Thread Tom Jay
Hello, I'm trying to merge an LVM snapshot into the original volume. If I look in the man page for lvconvert, under '--merge', it says: To check if your kernel supports the snapshot merge feature, look for 'snapshot-merge' in the output of 'dmsetup targets'. If I run 'dmsetup targets', I get t

Re: [partially solved]Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset

2016-05-11 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 06:55:31PM +0200, Michael Lange wrote: > On Wed, 11 May 2016 18:43:50 +0200 > Michael Lange wrote: > > > According to this (yet probably dated ) page: > >http://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/intl/chardet.html > > univer

Poweroff is not working on debian8.3

2016-05-11 Thread GU, Gladys
Hi, Debian, We have a system with debian8.3, the poweroff is not working and everytime it will be perform a restart instead. However when we use debian8.4, it works normally. Below is the log, do you have any advice? Stopping Permit User Sessions... Stopping Login Service...

Re: Chromium. Good Alternative for Chrome?

2016-05-11 Thread Rodary Jacques
> Le 12 mai 2016 à 03:57, Patrick Bartek a écrit : > > Now that Google Chrome support has ceased for Wheezy (and others), and > since I have no plans to upgrade the OS for another 2 years when it > reaches LTS EOL, would Chromium make a decent alternative? Is it stable > enough for regular use?

Chromium. Good Alternative for Chrome?

2016-05-11 Thread Patrick Bartek
Now that Google Chrome support has ceased for Wheezy (and others), and since I have no plans to upgrade the OS for another 2 years when it reaches LTS EOL, would Chromium make a decent alternative? Is it stable enough for regular use? I've never used it and opinions vary. Everything I've read says

Re: Setting up UEFI boot

2016-05-11 Thread ray
How about booting a Live stick1. Download the ISO you want to the stick1. Plug in another stick2 and dd the ISO to the other stick2. Boot stick2.

Re: Portable Debian?

2016-05-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 11 May 2016 23:30:52 emetib wrote: > I know this is a little off topic, yet I wrote this a while back because of > script kiddies messing with ssh on my server at the time. > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1voXlQpos4uI0qhndcIunBew1mmQbwTPl07xG5JF >8bNM/edit?usp=drive_web It checks

Re: Portable Debian?

2016-05-11 Thread emetib
I know this is a little off topic, yet I wrote this a while back because of script kiddies messing with ssh on my server at the time. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1voXlQpos4uI0qhndcIunBew1mmQbwTPl07xG5JF8bNM/edit?usp=drive_web It checks your auth.log for people trying to get in that don't b

Re: Installer crash at the end of installation

2016-05-11 Thread Albin Otterhäll
On 05/11/2016 07:41 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 07:20:16PM +, Albin Otterhäll wrote: I'm trying to install Debian on a Lenovo Thinkpad T430. This is not the first time I install Debian on this machine, no problems earlier. The problem is that the installer crash at the end

smtp problems on "confirmed working" smtp server

2016-05-11 Thread Demian Smith
Hi List, I hope I did read the documentation sufficiently and have come to the right place with this request - if not, please don't hesitate telling me off. Unfortunately, forums.debian.net seems dead for 2 years, otherwise I would have posted there. Since a couple of days I cannot send email wit

Re: mutt attachment error

2016-05-11 Thread David Wright
On Tue 10 May 2016 at 17:43:03 (+0200), Sven Hartge wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 10 May 2016 at 11:07:47 (-0400), Haines Brown wrote: > > >> I tried to use mutt to send someone a zip file of about 50 Mb and got > >> the error: "Error sending message, child exited 1 (). Could not send >

Re: wpa-supplicant spams into logfiles

2016-05-11 Thread Hans
> The log file has a hint: > > May 11 21:06:52 localhost wpa_supplicant[5871]: Failed to initialize > control interface '/run/wpa_supplicant'.#012You may have another > wpa_supplicant process already running or the file was#012left by an > unclean termination of wpa_supplicant in which case you w

Re: Installer crash at the end of installation

2016-05-11 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 07:20:16PM +, Albin Otterhäll wrote: > I'm trying to install Debian on a Lenovo Thinkpad T430. This is not the > first time I install Debian on this machine, no problems earlier. The > problem is that the installer crash at the end of the "[s]elect and install > packages

Re: Installer crash at the end of installation

2016-05-11 Thread Brian
On Wed 11 May 2016 at 19:17:26 +, Albin Otterhäll wrote: > I'm trying to install Debian on a Lenovo Thinkpad T430. This is not the > first time I install Debian on this machine, no problems earlier. The > problem is that the installer crash at the end of the "[s]elect and install > packages" s

Installer crash at the end of installation

2016-05-11 Thread Albin Otterhäll
I'm trying to install Debian on a Lenovo Thinkpad T430. This is not the first time I install Debian on this machine, no problems earlier. The problem is that the installer crash at the end of the "[s]elect and install packages" step. All the packages have been downloaded and most of them are instal

Re: wpa-supplicant spams into logfiles

2016-05-11 Thread Brian
On Wed 11 May 2016 at 21:11:41 +0200, Hans wrote: > Hi all, > > since some time I discovered, that wpa-supplicant is spamming into syslog and > daemon.log. This means, both logs are bloating to gigantic filesize. > > This is what it spams: > > May 11 21:06:52 localhost wpa_supplicant[5871]: ct

Installer crash at the end of installation

2016-05-11 Thread Albin Otterhäll
I'm trying to install Debian on a Lenovo Thinkpad T430. This is not the first time I install Debian on this machine, no problems earlier. The problem is that the installer crash at the end of the "[s]elect and install packages" step. All the packages have been downloaded and most of them are in

wpa-supplicant spams into logfiles

2016-05-11 Thread Hans
Hi all, since some time I discovered, that wpa-supplicant is spamming into syslog and daemon.log. This means, both logs are bloating to gigantic filesize. This is what it spams: May 11 21:06:52 localhost wpa_supplicant[5871]: ctrl_iface exists and seems to be in use - cannot override it May 11

Re: Creating a home network

2016-05-11 Thread Richard Owlett
On 5/11/2016 12:09 PM, Peter Ludikovsky wrote: Not really broke. Eg. the BananaPi Router board comes in at about €75, with 5 Gb interfaces (4 switched) and a 2.5" SATA connector, and runs a minimally adapted Debian called Bananian. Add to that a small powered USB hub, starting at about €10, and s

Re: mutt attachment error

2016-05-11 Thread Brian
On Wed 11 May 2016 at 18:28:59 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > just a little note: "exim -bP" dumps all configuration items Exim > thinks it's seeing (after all Debian magic happened) So perhaps > for debugging you might try: > > sudo exim -bP | grep size > > which, on my box gives: > > bo

Re: Creating a home network

2016-05-11 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 09:32:40AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Underlying question: What should I be reading? > > I wish a blackbox which: > > 1. Connects 4 local machines via Ethernet [WiFi shall *NOT* be considered] > A. A desktop with WinXP and multiple versions of Debian > B. A lap

Re: Creating a home network

2016-05-11 Thread Peter Ludikovsky
Not really broke. Eg. the BananaPi Router board comes in at about €75, with 5 Gb interfaces (4 switched) and a 2.5" SATA connector, and runs a minimally adapted Debian called Bananian. Add to that a small powered USB hub, starting at about €10, and some cables, and your total should be at around €1

[partially solved]Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset

2016-05-11 Thread Michael Lange
On Wed, 11 May 2016 18:43:50 +0200 Michael Lange wrote: > According to this (yet probably dated ) page: >http://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/intl/chardet.html > universal_charset_detector might help if it were enabled by default. Just looked at the above page again, and noticed that the

Re: mutt attachment error

2016-05-11 Thread Joe
On Wed, 11 May 2016 11:12:26 -0400 Haines Brown wrote: > > I took a look at /usr/share/doc/exim4/README.Debian.gz and found that > to use a macro to change a default configuration value I need to > define the new value in a local configuration file. I have a non-split > configuration, and so it

Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset

2016-05-11 Thread Michael Lange
On Wed, 11 May 2016 16:28:03 +0200 wrote: > There's some hope. Have a look at the intl subcategory in about:config > [1] (especially at intl.locale.matchOS and/or general.useragent.locale), > but also intl.accept.charsets (it is a list, might be prioritized). > I never tested this before, but a

Re: archivemail screwed up (some of) my backups

2016-05-11 Thread steve
Hi Sven, I have been using archivemail since March 2003, always with compression. My configuration generates a new gzipped archive for every month for every IMAP folder. To give you some peace of mind, I just did a simple decompression test of all archives [~5000 right now] (gunzip $file > /de

Re: Creating a home network

2016-05-11 Thread heqami...@runbox.com
Which hardware do you want to use? On 05/11/2016 04:32 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > Underlying question: What should I be reading? > > I wish a blackbox which: > > 1. Connects 4 local machines via Ethernet [WiFi shall *NOT* be considered] > A. A desktop with WinXP and multiple versions of Deb

Re: mutt attachment error

2016-05-11 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi just a little note: "exim -bP" dumps all configuration items Exim thinks it's seeing (after all Debian magic happened) So perhaps for debugging you might try: sudo exim -bP | grep size which, on my box gives: bounce_return_size_limit = 100K

Re: mutt attachment error

2016-05-11 Thread Sven Hartge
Haines Brown wrote: > I took a look at /usr/share/doc/exim4/README.Debian.gz and found that to > use a macro to change a default configuration value I need to define the > new value in a local configuration file. I have a non-split > configuration, and so it seems I must create a > /etc/exim4/exi

Re: mutt attachment error

2016-05-11 Thread Haines Brown
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 07:58:36PM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > Brian wrote: > > On Tue 10 May 2016 at 17:43:03 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > >> David Wright wrote: > >> > On Tue 10 May 2016 at 11:07:47 (-0400), Haines Brown wrote: > > I tried to use mutt to send someone a zip file of about 50

Creating a home network

2016-05-11 Thread Richard Owlett
Underlying question: What should I be reading? I wish a blackbox which: 1. Connects 4 local machines via Ethernet [WiFi shall *NOT* be considered] A. A desktop with WinXP and multiple versions of Debian B. A laptop with WinXP Pro SP3 whose reason for existence is running SeaMonkey.

Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset

2016-05-11 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 03:14:39PM +0200, Rob van der Putten wrote: > Hi there > > > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > >On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 12:34:29PM +0200, Rob van der Putten wrote: [...] > >That's because it has been enshrined by the Unicode Cons

Re: archivemail screwed up (some of) my backups

2016-05-11 Thread Sven Hartge
steve wrote: > I understand, but since I have more or less 2/3 of the *.gz that are ok, > I thought archivemail was the responsible. But after gunzipping some > other files, it seems that the problem only arises on ISO-8850 text file, > not on UTF-8. But not tech savvy enough to know why. > The

Re: Portable Debian?

2016-05-11 Thread Steve Matzura
On Wed, 27 Apr 2016 23:00:53 +0100, Lisi wrote: >Did you discover the Adriane version? Now available as an alternative boot on >the mainstream disk. It is specifically for the blind and partially sighted, >and has things like Daisy Player there, as well as screen readers and speech. >Adriane

Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset

2016-05-11 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 12:34:29PM +0200, Rob van der Putten wrote: I actually thought about this. But it just seems crude; vim some.txt ^vufeff :wq It does work though. But I want UTF-8 without a BOM. It is, after all, the default locale. Everyone wan

Re: archivemail screwed up (some of) my backups

2016-05-11 Thread steve
Hi Thomas, Thanks for your answer! Le 11-05-2016, à 12:22:18 +0200, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : steve wrote: gzip: mail_archive.gz: invalid compressed data--crc error It seems that gunzip You're right, with gunzip < file.gz > file, I can recuperate almost the whole file: ls -l -rw-r--r-- 1

Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset

2016-05-11 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 12:34:29PM +0200, Rob van der Putten wrote: > Hi there > > > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [BOM BOM hurrah!] > I actually thought about this. But it just seems crude; > > vim some.txt > ^vufeff > :wq > > It does work though. > B

Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset

2016-05-11 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there to...@tuxteam.de wrote: This is happening only on local files? Perhaps FF is expecting that brain damaged byte order mark to recognize the file as UTF-8? When the data come over HTTP there are other out-of-band hints to communicate the encoding. Try editing the file with some Micros

Re: archivemail screwed up (some of) my backups

2016-05-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i have to correct a copy+paste error in my last mail. The mangling step should have been dd if=/dev/zero bs=1 count=1 of=xx.gz seek=1000 conv=notrunc rather than dd if=/dev/zero bs=1 count=1 of=/u/x.gz seek=1000 conv=notrunc Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset

2016-05-11 Thread Richard Owlett
On 5/11/2016 4:58 AM, Rob van der Putten wrote: Hi there Michael Lange wrote: you can try the following: type "about:config" into iceweasel's address bar (without the quotes of course), then type "charset" into the config's search bar. Several options should appear. Look for the key "intl.ch

Re: archivemail screwed up (some of) my backups

2016-05-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, steve wrote: > gzip: mail_archive.gz: invalid compressed data--crc error It seems that gunzip xx.gz which yields more than 1000 bytes. Then i damaged it: dd if=/dev/zero bs=1 count=1 of=/u/x.gz seek=1000 conv=notrunc and tried to uncompress gunzip xx.gz which yields gzip: xx.gz:

Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset

2016-05-11 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 11:58:31AM +0200, Rob van der Putten wrote: > Hi there > > > Michael Lange wrote: > > >you can try the following: > > > >type "about:config" into iceweasel's address bar (without the quotes of > >course), then type "charset"

Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset

2016-05-11 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there Michael Lange wrote: you can try the following: type "about:config" into iceweasel's address bar (without the quotes of course), then type "charset" into the config's search bar. Several options should appear. Look for the key "intl.charset.default". Is the value already set to "UTF-

Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset

2016-05-11 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Wednesday 11 May 2016 11:23:56 err...@free.fr wrote: > Why unicode like utf-8 is not default value in iceweasel ? > > (it's time, we are in 2016 now) Unicode is the default in firefox/iceweasel. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/Localizations_and_character_encodings

Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset

2016-05-11 Thread err404
Why unicode like utf-8 is not default value in iceweasel ? (it's time, we are in 2016 now) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset

2016-05-11 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Wed, 11 May 2016 10:55:54 +0200 Rob van der Putten wrote: > Hi there > > > UTF-8 is my default locale. So obviously text files are UTF-8 as well. > So why does iceweasel insist that these are windows-1252? How do I fix > this? you can try the following: type "about:config" into icewea

archivemail screwed up (some of) my backups

2016-05-11 Thread steve
Hi there, This is my first post on this mailinglist, so I hope to find the right tone pretty quickly. If not, please correct me gently  ;-) I'm using archivemail to archive my messages on a Jessie box up to date. Recently I needed to find an old message so I tried to gunzip the mail_archive.gz f

Re: Iceweasel uses wrong charset

2016-05-11 Thread Frédéric Marchal
On Wednesday 11 May 2016 10:55:54 Rob van der Putten wrote: > Hi there > > > UTF-8 is my default locale. So obviously text files are UTF-8 as well. > So why does iceweasel insist that these are windows-1252? How do I fix this? In about:config, have you changed any of intl.charset.detector or in

Iceweasel uses wrong charset

2016-05-11 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there UTF-8 is my default locale. So obviously text files are UTF-8 as well. So why does iceweasel insist that these are windows-1252? How do I fix this? Regards, Rob