Re: RANT: Virtual filesystems are getting out of control

2016-05-17 Thread David Wright
On Tue 17 May 2016 at 17:18:03 (-0700), J Mo wrote: > The output from these commands are on a freshly installed system. > > -->df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > udev 16441312 0 16441312 0% /dev > tmpfs 3290364

Re: Need Urgently solution or advice - start to give up on Debian

2016-05-17 Thread Logan Erbst
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-  Hash: SHA256    What kind of hardware is in the machine. CPU make and Model: Video Chipset: Motherboard: etc: It could be that your video chipset REQUIRES non-free firmware to function properly. You can pull a sources.list for Jessie from https://iccamnetworking

Re: Grub won't install

2016-05-17 Thread J Mo
lilo is ultra-ancient. I don't even know if it works with modern kernels. Grub is definitely a huge pain in the ass. It gets an F on usability from me. I was struggling with it just yesterday while doing a bcache setup. You didn't say what you were dual booting with. The other OS makes a dif

Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

2016-05-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 17 May 2016 19:30:06 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 17 May 2016 23:43:08 Gene Heskett wrote: > [snip] > > If it ain't broke, hit it with a hammer? ;-) > > Lisi Yup, have you got a bigger one my lady? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soa

Grub won't install

2016-05-17 Thread Ralph Sanchez
I'm setting up a dual boot, and installing deb Jessie first. I installed it before, no problem. Now, grub won't install :( it just tells me it's a fatal error and refuses to install. Will lilo work for a dual boot? I've got no idea why it wouldn't work this time

Re: Plug and Pray; My Life with Linux Sound

2016-05-17 Thread Martin McCormick
deloptes writes: > /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf > > ## ALSA portion > alias char-major-116 snd > alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel > alias snd-card-1 snd-usb-audio Thank you. While researching what these lines do, I ran across what is most likely the true nature of this problem although I

RANT: Virtual filesystems are getting out of control

2016-05-17 Thread J Mo
Pardon my rant. Feel free to disregard this thread. The output from these commands are on a freshly installed system. -->df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on udev 16441312 0 16441312 0% /dev tmpfs 3290364

grub freezing on Gigabyte GA-H170N-WIFI (and probably Gigabyte GA-Z170N-WIFI) solved with BIOS update

2016-05-17 Thread J Mo
This is an FYI post in case anyone googles for it in the future. No need to reply. I recently built a new PC for my Linux desktop and was having strange issues with grub2 not working right. Sometimes the keyboard would freeze up, and if I tried to edit a boot entry, the cursor and screen out

Re: Need Urgently solution or advice - start to give up on Debian

2016-05-17 Thread Ralph Sanchez
His problem is that he gets a garbled or corrupted screen instead of any kind of startup unless he boots into some kind of safe mode or opens the grub command prompt, that's what I've surmised. I had that happen my first install, and it just happened to be bad luck and poor connection quality, alon

Re: Need Urgently solution or advice - start to give up on Debian

2016-05-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 17 May 2016 23:01:35 YIM Programming Izhar Mashkif wrote: > Hello all. > > I have a problem with installing Debian as described at that discussion. > The problem is that my time is over I have a other computer that I must > install there OS or I will stay without Computer. > > I really w

Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

2016-05-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 17 May 2016 23:43:08 Gene Heskett wrote: [snip] If it ain't broke, hit it with a hammer? ;-) Lisi

Re: Libreoffice mail merge not working

2016-05-17 Thread David Wright
On Tue 17 May 2016 at 07:10:09 (+0200), Paolo Cavallini wrote: > Il 17/05/2016 02:54, Rodary Jacques ha scritto: > > > Sorry, I can't help you. But I suppose you know what you are doing, > > using an instable distribution to work on a db. > > of course, I'm ready to deal with bugs. what I asked t

Re: Exim and hostname --fqdn, was Re: mutt attachment error

2016-05-17 Thread Brian
On Tue 17 May 2016 at 12:32:33 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 12 May 2016 at 20:38:41 (+0100), Brian wrote: > > > For Exim and minimaldns the question is > > > > Does the hostname resolve to a fqdn (something with a dot in it)? > > > > 127.0.1.1 alum.anything_you_want

Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

2016-05-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 17 May 2016 15:25:47 Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Gene, > > On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 03:12:45PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Configuring interface eth1=eth1 (inet) > > run-parts --verbose /etc/network/if-pre-up.d > > run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tools > > run-parts:

Need Urgently solution or advice - start to give up on Debian

2016-05-17 Thread YIM Programming Izhar Mashkif
Hello all. I have a problem with installing Debian as described at that discussion. The problem is that my time is over I have a other computer that I must install there OS or I will stay without Computer. I really wanted to use Debian because I was disappoint of Ubuntu but it's seem to me more c

Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

2016-05-17 Thread David Wright
On Tue 17 May 2016 at 14:51:57 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > Interesting is that in a man 5 interfaces, it says the gateway address is > colon delimited. I don't recall ever seeing that since my first install > in early 1998. Does anyone ever actually read these man pages but me? Yes, but I h

Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

2016-05-17 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Gene, On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 03:12:45PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Configuring interface eth1=eth1 (inet) > run-parts --verbose /etc/network/if-pre-up.d > run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tools > run-parts: executing /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wpasupplicant > ip addr add

Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

2016-05-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 17 May 2016 13:26:35 Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * Gene Heskett [2016-05-17 11:26 -0400]: > > [...] > > > Because of some rare condition, you make > > all the other users with a less rare condition suffer? > > I was just talking about facts, nothing else. If you open > /etc/init.d/netw

Re: update-rc.d creates unexpected sequence numbers

2016-05-17 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, CN writes: > On Sun, May 15, 2016, at 10:05 PM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> That doesn't look correct: unless you defined a "$postgresql" system >> facility (in /etc/insserv.conf), you should require "postgresql" and >> not "$postgresql". >> > > Many thanks for the correction, which seems to ha

Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

2016-05-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 17 May 2016 13:09:33 Gilles Mocellin wrote: > Le 17/05/2016 à 14:34, Mimiko a écrit : > > On 17.05.2016 15:16, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > >> Ask your search engine: "init.d/networking restart is deprecated" > > > > This was the only tool to fully restart all networking even the > > int

Re: How to change the link to the browser in kmail?

2016-05-17 Thread Teemu Likonen
Hans [2016-05-17 19:55:26+02] wrote: > is there a way to change the browser, which is called, when a html > link is clicked within a mail? > Please note: The configurations of the systemsettings in KDE are on > both computers identical! Maybe: update-alternatives --config x-www-browser Or

Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

2016-05-17 Thread David Wright
On Tue 17 May 2016 at 16:38:52 (+0200), Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * Gene Heskett [2016-05-17 09:56 -0400]: > > On Tuesday 17 May 2016 09:08:55 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > [...] > > > In my opinion, a warning is in order ("this might not be doing > > > what you think it does"), but deprecated seems

Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

2016-05-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 17 May 2016 12:22:29 David Wright wrote: > On Tue 17 May 2016 at 11:26:28 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Tuesday 17 May 2016 10:38:52 Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > * Gene Heskett [2016-05-17 09:56 -0400]: > > > > On Tuesday 17 May 2016 09:08:55 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > >

Re: Wlan0 problems

2016-05-17 Thread Ralph Sanchez
Sorry it took so long to respond. I didn't find the source problem, but stopping all network services, checking config files, downing my wlan0 interface and then manually starting everything and if config wlan0 up solved whatever happened. On Monday, May 9, 2016, Henning Follmann wrote: > On Mon

How to change the link to the browser in kmail?

2016-05-17 Thread Hans
Hello all, is there a way to change the browser, which is called, when a html link is clicked within a mail? I have to computers with identical software versions, but when I click on a link they behave different. One of them is opening the link with konqueror, the second wants to start Icewe

Re: swap on second hard drive

2016-05-17 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 17/05/2016 17:41, Peter Hillier-Brook a écrit : I recently re-formatted and re-partitioned a second disk that I use for experimenting with various distributions. A consequence is that previous UUIDs have disappeared into the bit bucket but, during booting of my main system a script somewhere i

Re: Exim and hostname --fqdn, was Re: mutt attachment error

2016-05-17 Thread David Wright
On Thu 12 May 2016 at 20:38:41 (+0100), Brian wrote: > On Thu 12 May 2016 at 10:08:49 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 12 May 2016 at 11:33:10 (+0100), Brian wrote: > > > On Wed 11 May 2016 at 14:51:31 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > BTW when will dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config either st

Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

2016-05-17 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Gilles Mocellin [2016-05-17 19:09 +0200]: > Le 17/05/2016 à 14:34, Mimiko a écrit : > > On 17.05.2016 15:16, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > Ask your search engine: "init.d/networking restart is deprecated" > > > > This was the only tool to fully restart all networking even the > > interface t

Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

2016-05-17 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Gene Heskett [2016-05-17 11:26 -0400]: [...] > Because of some rare condition, you make > all the other users with a less rare condition suffer? I was just talking about facts, nothing else. If you open /etc/init.d/networking (ifupdown_0.7.8) in an editor and scroll down to a line containing

Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

2016-05-17 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le 17/05/2016 à 14:34, Mimiko a écrit : On 17.05.2016 15:16, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: Ask your search engine: "init.d/networking restart is deprecated" This was the only tool to fully restart all networking even the interface thru which connection is made. Are the `ifdown eth & ifup eth` th

Re: swap on second hard drive

2016-05-17 Thread Felix Miata
Peter Hillier-Brook composed on 2016-05-17 16:41 (UTC+0100): I recently re-formatted and re-partitioned a second disk that I use for experimenting with various distributions. A consequence is that previous UUIDs have disappeared into the bit bucket but, during booting of my main system a script

Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

2016-05-17 Thread David Wright
On Tue 17 May 2016 at 11:26:28 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 17 May 2016 10:38:52 Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > * Gene Heskett [2016-05-17 09:56 -0400]: > > > On Tuesday 17 May 2016 09:08:55 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > > > In my opinion, a warning is in order ("this might not

swap on second hard drive

2016-05-17 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
I recently re-formatted and re-partitioned a second disk that I use for experimenting with various distributions. A consequence is that previous UUIDs have disappeared into the bit bucket but, during booting of my main system a script somewhere is trying to use the swap partition that used to exist

Re: need to make an eth0:1 net interface

2016-05-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 17 May 2016 10:39:26 Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Gene, > > On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 09:09:15PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 16 May 2016 15:55:33 Brian wrote: > > > On Mon 16 May 2016 at 14:45:12 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > Thanks for the interest Andy, but I got it working

Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

2016-05-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 17 May 2016 10:38:52 Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * Gene Heskett [2016-05-17 09:56 -0400]: > > On Tuesday 17 May 2016 09:08:55 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > > > In my opinion, a warning is in order ("this might not be doing > > > what you think it does"), but deprecated seems ex

Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

2016-05-17 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 17 May 2016 15:38:52 Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * Gene Heskett [2016-05-17 09:56 -0400]: > > On Tuesday 17 May 2016 09:08:55 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > > > In my opinion, a warning is in order ("this might not be doing > > > what you think it does"), but deprecated seems exa

RE: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

2016-05-17 Thread Bonno Bloksma
Hi Elimar, >> On Tuesday 17 May 2016 09:08:55 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> >[...] >> > In my opinion, a warning is in order ("this might not be doing what >> > you think it does"), but deprecated seems exaggerated to me. >> > >> > regards >> > >> > [1] Schocking Truth! Not everything seen on the I

Re: need to make an eth0:1 net interface

2016-05-17 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Gene, On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 09:09:15PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 16 May 2016 15:55:33 Brian wrote: > > On Mon 16 May 2016 at 14:45:12 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Thanks for the interest Andy, but I got it working and its been > > > re-installed in place of the router that wa

Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

2016-05-17 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Gene Heskett [2016-05-17 09:56 -0400]: > On Tuesday 17 May 2016 09:08:55 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > [...] > > In my opinion, a warning is in order ("this might not be doing > > what you think it does"), but deprecated seems exaggerated to me. > > > > regards > > > > [1] Schocking Truth! Not eve

Re: Network manager (again) Re:

2016-05-17 Thread David Wright
On Tue 17 May 2016 at 03:07:48 (+0200), Rodary Jacques wrote: > Le samedi 14 mai 2016, 06:47:11 Hans a écrit : > > Am Samstag, 14. Mai 2016, 05:27:06 schrieb Bhasker C V: > > try wicd (vicd-ncurses, wicd-gtk, wicd-cli). It may fit your needs. And you w ^ > > can have entries in /etc/ne

Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

2016-05-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 17 May 2016 09:08:55 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 02:16:32PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > [...] > > > Ask your search engine: "init.d/networking restart is deprecated" > > I don't know about yours, but *my* /etc/init.d/networking is alive > and healthy! More

Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

2016-05-17 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 03:36:58PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: [...] > I don't understand why "init.d/networking restart is deprecated" is > scaring off people? It is a matter of fact! Reading the results will > give all answers a user want. N

Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

2016-05-17 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* to...@tuxteam.de [2016-05-17 15:08 +0200]: > On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 02:16:32PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > [...] > > > Ask your search engine: "init.d/networking restart is deprecated" > > I don't know about yours, but *my* /etc/init.d/networking is alive > and healthy! More to the

Re: Jessie Performance under GNOME

2016-05-17 Thread Tomas Kral
Thank you All, For your valuable feedbacks, I will test GNOME-3 again w/o animations as suggested, while I am on MATE for the time being. Using X with EXA acceleration for TRIDENT video chip has problems updating display occasionally, trailing some garbage on the screen, it looks as if it could n

Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

2016-05-17 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 02:16:32PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: [...] > Ask your search engine: "init.d/networking restart is deprecated" I don't know about yours, but *my* /etc/init.d/networking is alive and healthy! More to the point, it's so

Re: how to make systemd execute init.d script status statements?

2016-05-17 Thread Juha Heinanen
Looking a bit further up in debug output, I see this: + . /lib/lsb/init-functions +++ run-parts --lsbsysinit --list /lib/lsb/init-functions.d ++ for hook in '$(run-parts --lsbsysinit --list /lib/lsb/init-functions.d 2>/dev/null)' ++ '[' -r /lib/lsb/init-functions.d/20-left-info-blocks ']' ++ . /l

Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

2016-05-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 17 May 2016 08:16:32 Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * Gene Heskett [2016-05-17 08:05 -0400]: > > Greetings all; > > > > 32 bit Debian wheezy, updated at least daily. > > > > This fact was brought to my attention because I needed a path to a > > router I needed to do a hard reset on, and r

Re: how to make systemd execute init.d script status statements?

2016-05-17 Thread Juha Heinanen
Darac Marjal writes: > On the face of it, this *should* still work. When you invoke > "/etc/init.d/example status", you're running the shell script directly - > that is, without any reference to systemd. Now, I don't remember the > details, but I seem to recall there being a command (which a sk

Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

2016-05-17 Thread Mimiko
On 17.05.2016 15:16, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: Ask your search engine: "init.d/networking restart is deprecated" This was the only tool to fully restart all networking even the interface thru which connection is made. Are the `ifdown eth & ifup eth` the only option now? -- Mimiko desu.

Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

2016-05-17 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 17 May 2016 08:11:50 Peter Ludikovsky wrote: > In /etc/network/interfaces change > allow-hotplug eth1 > to > auto eth1 Blind as a bat, gonna have to get my cateracts fixed as I didn't see that. I don't have the allow-hotplug line, but the auto line didn't have eth1, added, wo

Re: update-rc.d creates unexpected sequence numbers

2016-05-17 Thread CN
Hi! Ansgar, On Sun, May 15, 2016, at 10:05 PM, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > > That doesn't look correct: unless you defined a "$postgresql" system > facility (in /etc/insserv.conf), you should require "postgresql" and > not "$postgresql". > Many thanks for the correction, which seems to have fixed

Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

2016-05-17 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Gene Heskett [2016-05-17 08:05 -0400]: > Greetings all; > > 32 bit Debian wheezy, updated at least daily. > > This fact was brought to my attention because I needed a path to a router > I needed to do a hard reset on, and reconfigure to do my stuff, but my > normal home network isn't on the

Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

2016-05-17 Thread Peter Ludikovsky
In /etc/network/interfaces change allow-hotplug eth1 to auto eth1 Regards, /peter Am 17.05.2016 um 14:05 schrieb Gene Heskett: > Greetings all; > > 32 bit Debian wheezy, updated at least daily. > > This fact was brought to my attention because I needed a path to a router > I needed to

/etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

2016-05-17 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; 32 bit Debian wheezy, updated at least daily. This fact was brought to my attention because I needed a path to a router I needed to do a hard reset on, and reconfigure to do my stuff, but my normal home network isn't on the usual 192.168.1.1 class C, and a hard reset puts the ro

Re: how to make systemd execute init.d script status statements?

2016-05-17 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 09:36:46PM +0300, Juha Heinanen wrote: When I upgraded one of my wheezy hosts to jessie, I noticed that /etc/init.d/ status command stopped working. Looks like systemd does not execute the statements in status) case of the init script at all, but just checks if the daem

Re: Hardening/RulesFile

2016-05-17 Thread Curt
On 2016-05-17, Tim Dengel wrote: > Am 17.05.2016 um 01:28 schrieb Ralph Sanchez: >> [...] >> I'm reading the hardening walkthrough, and other debian hardening >> docs, and I'm supposed to be making changes to my rules (also written >> in docs as debian/rules). >> [...] > > The hardening walkthrou