Re: w, who, finger, last, and netstat and ipv6

2016-07-22 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 01:53:07AM +, Andy Smith wrote: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 11:57:32PM +0100, Michael Grant wrote: > > netstat does a little better still but not much: > > > > tcp6 0 2640 2600:3c00:::9:22 2a00:23c4:6d10:4d:36663 > > ESTABLISHED 12345/sshd: mgrant > > "--wide

Re: w, who, finger, last, and netstat and ipv6

2016-07-22 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Michael, On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 11:57:32PM +0100, Michael Grant wrote: > Why is it w, who, and finger truncate an ipv6 address just after the first > 4 characters of the address (the first :)? It isn't a great answer but I'm guessing the honest one is that it's because they come from a time b

Re: [Gimp-user] Next gotcha

2016-07-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 22 July 2016 18:54:28 Joel Rees wrote: > On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 5:32 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all > > > > I did, after 20 minutes of screwing around, finally get it to use a > > selected foreground color for the text. > > > > But when I hit the help menu, up pops the help

Jessie does not boot (GRUB2 complains with "mduuid not found"

2016-07-22 Thread Daniel Guillermo Bareiro
Hi all! Currently I have an old machine without hardware virtualization support, which I was using for testing using Jessie i686 and LXC. I tried to migrate that installation to amd64 architecture but things did not went as well as I would have liked and I had to reinstalling the operating syst

Re: Near clones of a Debian install

2016-07-22 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 11:04:23AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I have a laptop set aside for experimenting with Debian installs. > I've not yet defined my personal "optimal" install. > My nominally base install will be a reasonably standard CLI plus a > personally preferred default set of utilit

Re: Clarification on AMD FM2+ CPUs and motherboards

2016-07-22 Thread Dan Ritter
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 02:04:43PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I'm considering buying a new motherboard and CPU, and I'm thinking about the > AMD FM2+ combo. It seems they have a pretty good price / performance ratio, > and slightly better than the AM3+ line. (BTW, I rarely buy Intel--I

w, who, finger, last, and netstat and ipv6

2016-07-22 Thread Michael Grant
Why is it w, who, and finger truncate an ipv6 address just after the first 4 characters of the address (the first :)? % who mgrant pts/12016-07-18 06:15 (2a00:S.1) % w 18:37:31 up 4 days, 12:26, 4 users, load average: 0.05, 0.07, 0.05 USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE

Re: [Gimp-user] Next gotcha

2016-07-22 Thread Joel Rees
On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 5:32 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all > > I did, after 20 minutes of screwing around, finally get it to use a > selected foreground color for the text. > > But when I hit the help menu, up pops the help for 2.6! So I fire up > synaptic and check to see if I am out o

re: re: Lynx yellowwhite [broken thread]

2016-07-22 Thread Oskar Skog
> The color-style code (always has) computes a hash code for the tags > and matches on the hash code. Since the hash table is only a few thousand > items, collisions will happen. (The program doesn't followup with a > string-comparison after matching the hash -- I seem to recall some limitation >

Re: Near clones of a Debian install

2016-07-22 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 22/07/2016 à 23:21, Pascal Hambourg a écrit : Can you write into a snapshot ? I assumed that a snapshot was just an immutable image of the original volume taken at a given moment. Never mind, I just found out that LVM2 snapshots are read/write. Thanks for the tip.

Re: Near clones of a Debian install

2016-07-22 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 22/07/2016 à 22:22, Stefan Monnier a écrit : Use LVM, of course (and you can use LVM snapshots to speed up the cloning). Sounds like a nice idea, but how do you use snapshots to clone a logical volume and then use the clone as a regular volume ? Not sure what you mean by "regular volume".

Re: KDE - some icons missing after update (debian/testing)

2016-07-22 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 22:35:15 +0200 Hans wrote: Hello Hans, >However, it is still a bug and should be fixed. KDE/Plasma is in transition; Some packages are v5.22 and some are at v5.23. Mixing can produce strange results - I've had some issues here. Wait for the transition to complete, or get r

Re: KDE - some icons missing after update (debian/testing)

2016-07-22 Thread Hans
Ok, I found out more. Thwe problem appears to be some compability with the nuvola-icon-design. Although the nuvola package was not changed, several icons disappered. However, they appeared before! At the moment I changed to the oxygen icon theme, were all icons appear (also the ones of the yah

Next gotcha

2016-07-22 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all I did, after 20 minutes of screwing around, finally get it to use a selected foreground color for the text. But when I hit the help menu, up pops the help for 2.6! So I fire up synaptic and check to see if I am out of date, because the "context help" doesn't work at all. Yup, I

Re: Near clones of a Debian install

2016-07-22 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> Use LVM, of course (and you can use LVM snapshots to speed up the >> cloning). > Sounds like a nice idea, but how do you use snapshots to clone a logical > volume and then use the clone as a regular volume ? Not sure what you mean by "regular volume". All my "partitions" are logical volumes an

Re: Near clones of a Debian install

2016-07-22 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 22/07/2016 à 20:29, Stefan Monnier a écrit : Use LVM, of course (and you can use LVM snapshots to speed up the cloning). Sounds like a nice idea, but how do you use snapshots to clone a logical volume and then use the clone as a regular volume ?

Re: Near clones of a Debian install

2016-07-22 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 22/07/2016 à 20:07, Richard Owlett a écrit : The partition will be marked "read only" *AFTER* install. May I ask how you intend to do this ? AFAIK, there is no persistent way to mark a partition or filesystem read-only. GPT partition table entries have a read-only flag but it seems to be

KDE - some icons missing after update (debian/testing)

2016-07-22 Thread Hans
Hi folks, aftter my last update there are some icons missing in plasma5 (for example the icon for ksysguard or some icons in the systemsettings menu). Is this bug already known? I tried to clear the icon cache, but with no success. A new created user got all the icons, so I suspect, that the

Re: Near clones of a Debian install

2016-07-22 Thread Stefan Monnier
> The above "almost" refers to whatever is required to run Debian as installed > to that *explicit* partition. Maybe systemd is a bit more picky, but at least in the past, the root partition did not need to be present in /etc/fstab, so in many cases there was no need to do anything at all when mov

Re: Near clones of a Debian install

2016-07-22 Thread Richard Owlett
First I wish to say "Thank you!". Second I wish to say *ROFL* ;/ I have a suitably large hard disk. I have a suitable preseed.cfg file. I have used said preseed.cfg to produce required installs. Each ~"clone" takes too long ;/ For _idiosyncratic_ reasons I will *NOT* accept a VM. My default

Re: Near clones of a Debian install

2016-07-22 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, July 22, 2016 01:41:01 PM Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 22/07/2016 à 18:04, Richard Owlett a écrit : > > That base install *SHALL BE* on a read-only partition (e.g. sda5). > > I wish to "almost clone" it to sda5, (e.g. sda6, sda7, sda8). > > (...) > > > Does that make sense? > > Not r

Re: Near clones of a Debian install

2016-07-22 Thread Richard Owlett
On 7/22/2016 12:41 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 22/07/2016 à 18:04, Richard Owlett a écrit : That base install *SHALL BE* on a read-only partition (e.g. sda5). I wish to "almost clone" it to sda5, (e.g. sda6, sda7, sda8). (...) Does that make sense? Not really. 1) You cannot install on a

Clarification on AMD FM2+ CPUs and motherboards

2016-07-22 Thread rhkramer
I know this is probably not the ideal list to ask this question, but I subscribe to this list, read it (sometimes ;-), and plan to install Debian on the motherboard / CPU that I buy. If someone can refer me to a better list, that could be helpful. I'm considering buying a new motherboard and C

Re: Near clones of a Debian install

2016-07-22 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 22/07/2016 à 18:04, Richard Owlett a écrit : That base install *SHALL BE* on a read-only partition (e.g. sda5). I wish to "almost clone" it to sda5, (e.g. sda6, sda7, sda8). (...) Does that make sense? Not really. 1) You cannot install on a read-only partition. 2) It does not make sense

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Re: Near clones of a Debian install

2016-07-22 Thread rhkramer
What is your goal? What are you trying to achieve--just experimenting? On Friday, July 22, 2016 12:04:23 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > I have a laptop set aside for experimenting with Debian installs. > I've not yet defined my personal "optimal" install. > My nominally base install will be a reasona

Near clones of a Debian install

2016-07-22 Thread Richard Owlett
I have a laptop set aside for experimenting with Debian installs. I've not yet defined my personal "optimal" install. My nominally base install will be a reasonably standard CLI plus a personally preferred default set of utilities. That base install *SHALL BE* on a read-only partition (e.g. sda

Re: Blocking 445 IP port

2016-07-22 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 11:36:03AM +1000, Justin Steven wrote: > I'm a bit fuzzy on enabling/disabling services in light of the move to > systemd. > I don't think smbd is handled by systemd yet so you can't use systemctl to > disable it (hopefully someone will correct me if I'm wrong). You can. I

lost sound upgrading to Jessie

2016-07-22 Thread Mark Copper
Hi all, After distribution upgrade to jessie sound no longer works. If user kills pulseaudio process, these warnings appear in "messages" log when pulseaudio respawns: gnome-session: (gnome-settings-daemon:1466): media-keys-plugin-WARNING **: Unable to get default sink and gnome-session: (gnom

wireless drivers

2016-07-22 Thread sebast...@reuter.pw
Hello Debian Support team, I'm a new convert to Debian/Tails/open source, I'm learning fast! Unfortunately I don't have easy access to a land line for Internet access anymore. I have just purchased the latest wireless dongle from CoredyTech.. This is Coredy's web page for drivers, including Lin

Re: [Gimp-user] Gimp 2.8.2, wheezy install

2016-07-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 22 July 2016 04:30:42 Liam R. E. Quin wrote: And I put back on the list. > To draw text... > > 1. make a new image, RGB, 1000x1000 pixels (for example) > 2. press t or choose the A in the toolbox > 3. click on the canvas > 4. You'll see a group of four boxes appear, and some controls. > 5

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