Re: Stretch Installation

2016-10-04 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 1:06 AM, Michael Milliman wrote: > > The first of the problems with the Stretch installation rendered it > unbootable, though I had a fair idea as to what that problem was and was > able to get the system to the point where it will boot and allow logins. > What I would like

Re: Recommendation: Backup system

2016-10-04 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi, Richard. On 04/10/16 23:06, Richard Hector wrote: > My current challenge is to back up windows boxes - if I can get rsync to > work (maybe DeltaCopy? Not sure if that will work how I want), I guess > I'll be stuck doing a local rsync of a smbfs mount ... unless someone > has a better suggesti

Re: Recommendation: Backup system

2016-10-04 Thread Richard Hector
On 04/10/16 01:45, Markus Grunwald wrote: > Hello Teemu, > >>> rsync, whilst an awesome piece of software, is not, on its own, a >>> backup system. >> >> Yes. With some scripting I think "rsync" with "--link-dest" is quite >> ideal for incremental backups. Unchanged files are created as hard >> lin

virt-clone changes the file format from qcow to raw

2016-10-04 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi all! I wonder if someone is experiencing the following behavior that I think is a bug in virt-clone. When I clone a virtual machine with a qcow disk, the cloned machine changes its disk to raw format. However, the XML configuration file for the cloned machine indicates a qcow type. Due to thi

Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

2016-10-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 04 October 2016 10:48:01 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tuesday, October 04, 2016 03:03:45 AM Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > It's poorly designed because bugs[*] are not fixable. > > > > [*] behavior that doesn't match the documentation. > > If the program has behavior that doesn't match the

Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

2016-10-04 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 04 October 2016 08:25:46 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > my position remains the same: > aptitude is poorly designed. Fine. So don't use it. But moaning won't help anyone, not even you. You don't like Aptitude. We get the message. So don't use Aptitude. Lisi

Re: no opengl with intel HD2000 on jessie

2016-10-04 Thread baldyeti
I have noticed quite a few symlinks under /etc/alternatives pointing to some nvidia files and directories Ideally I'd like to fix this without purging the system from working nvidia drivers (i may transfer my graphics card later) How would one make the links under alternatives point to intel (or m

no opengl with intel HD2000 on jessie

2016-10-04 Thread baldyeti
hello, as i often do, i have cloned a working partition onto a new system the source system has an nvidia adapter with its proprietary driver the target system has sandy-bridge HD2000, and apparently no opengl (glxinfo reports "extension GLX missing") can someone help diagnose and fix ? tx!

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-04 Thread Brian
On Tue 04 Oct 2016 at 14:41:11 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Hans Kraus composed on 2016-10-04 20:01 (UTC+0200): > > >The VGA output: > > > >01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. > >[AMD/ATI] Turks XT

Re: Problem getting NAS box NFS/CIFS to work with Jessie

2016-10-04 Thread Fred
Hi Dan, On 10/04/2016 06:46 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: Fred wrote: [...] When I try to mount the -321 to access it: root@ragnok:/home/fred# mount.nfs 192.168.0.32:Volume_1 /mnt/dns321 -v [...] mount.nfs: mount(2): Permission denied mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting 192.168.0.32:Vol

Re: Recommendation: Backup system

2016-10-04 Thread Jarle Aase
I have moved from simple scripts to simple scripts with zbackup in them :) Then I rsync the zbackup directories from different machines to my central backup disks (and distribute from there to cloud storage and off-site disks). zbackup supports deduplication and encryption, and is really a n

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-04 Thread Felix Miata
Hans Kraus composed on 2016-10-04 20:01 (UTC+0200): The VGA output: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Turks XT [Radeon HD 6670/7670] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) ... As far as I kn

Re: Problems with upgrade from Wheezy to Jessie

2016-10-04 Thread Hans Kraus
Hi, The VGA output: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Turks XT [Radeon HD 6670/7670] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 03e0 Flags:

Re: seg fault on many applets

2016-10-04 Thread Frank McCormick
On 04/10/16 11:15 AM, Bhasker C V wrote: Hi all, About mate again. As per this https://sunweavers.net/blog/node/45 is says that ebnd of Sept the packages must get fixed. I however still find it difficult to run caja which is primary file/folder manager. and many other applets too are crashing. I

Re: seg fault on many applets

2016-10-04 Thread Bhasker C V
Hi all, About mate again. As per this https://sunweavers.net/blog/node/45 is says that ebnd of Sept the packages must get fixed. I however still find it difficult to run caja which is primary file/folder manager. and many other applets too are crashing. Is there any schedule update which I can loo

Re: Stretch Installation

2016-10-04 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 02:01:30AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Michael Milliman composed on 2016-10-04 00:06 (UTC-0500): > > >...who do I need to be in touch with and in what forum to participate > >in the development process as outlined above? > > Debian is mainly about packaging, not "developin

Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

2016-10-04 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 09:25:46AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2016-09-30 14:32:49 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > For goodness sake!!! This is Debian. Open Source. Choice. Your call. > > Either rewrite Aptitude and publish a fork; use it; or don't use it. I > > like > > it. Many like

Re: Problem getting NAS box NFS/CIFS to work with Jessie

2016-10-04 Thread Dan Purgert
Fred wrote: > [...] > When I try to mount the -321 to access it: > > root@ragnok:/home/fred# mount.nfs 192.168.0.32:Volume_1 /mnt/dns321 -v > [...] > mount.nfs: mount(2): Permission denied > mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting 192.168.0.32:Volume_1 > > [...] > > root@ragnok:/home/fred

Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

2016-10-04 Thread rhkramer
On Tuesday, October 04, 2016 03:03:45 AM Vincent Lefevre wrote: > It's poorly designed because bugs[*] are not fixable. > > [*] behavior that doesn't match the documentation. If the program has behavior that doesn't match the documentation, that sounds more like poor implementation than poor des

Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

2016-10-04 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2016-10-01 14:58:05 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On that note, I wonder if it would be easier to give aptitude some > "resolver profiles" that are selectable on the UI and behave more like > dist-upgrade, safe-upgrade, and the "should work for everything, but > might offer rather

Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

2016-10-04 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2016-09-30 14:32:49 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > For goodness sake!!! This is Debian. Open Source. Choice. Your call. > Either rewrite Aptitude and publish a fork; use it; or don't use it. I like > it. Many like it. No-one is making you use it. Use your package manager of > choice, or

Re: Replaygain, alternatives to Easymp3gain-gtk/-qt.

2016-10-04 Thread Seeker
On 9/18/2016 12:34 PM, Seeker wrote: Initially looked into the replaygain stuff in 2008. Don't remember what all was available at the time. Remember that I looked into Sounkoverter and easymp3gain-gtk. More recently have preferred easymp3gain-qt. I'm running unstable, investigating why esaymp3ga

Re: WARNING! New Perl/Perl-base upgrade removes 141 Sid/Unstable packages

2016-10-04 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2016-09-30 09:31:39 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> > It's a pity that Aptitude is so poorly designed. > >> Just because it doesn't always work the way you want it doesn't mean it > >> should labeled "poorly designed". > > I'm not the only one to complain. > > My point is that saying it's "po