Re: USB3 Monitors

2017-02-25 Thread David Christensen
On 02/25/2017 07:33 PM, Brian Sammon wrote: On Sat, 25 Feb 2017 20:56:39 -0500 Carl Fink wrote: (I want to do this at least largely to get a super-low-power-consumption system. USB3 monitors use as little as 5 watts when in active use and even less in standby.) You may want to consider USB-po

Re: USB3 Monitors

2017-02-25 Thread Carl Fink
On 02/25/2017 10:33 PM, Brian Sammon wrote: As far as I am aware, video-over-USB is "displaylink". Including "displaylink" in your web search may provide results Thank you, that was exactly the missing piece. You may want to consider USB-powered monitors that use a more traditional video conn

Re: USB3 Monitors

2017-02-25 Thread Brian Sammon
On Sat, 25 Feb 2017 20:56:39 -0500 Carl Fink wrote: > Does anyone know whether Debian (or the kernel in general, I guess) > supports USB3 monitors? A quick web search finds no mention of it, if As far as I am aware, video-over-USB is "displaylink". Including "displaylink" in your web search ma

USB3 Monitors

2017-02-25 Thread Carl Fink
Does anyone know whether Debian (or the kernel in general, I guess) supports USB3 monitors? A quick web search finds no mention of it, if so. If this support does exist, does that knowledgeable person know whether a boot console is supported, or the USB monitor can only be secondary, with a more

Re: Swift lang in Debian?

2017-02-25 Thread Dale Harris
On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Brian Sammon wrote: > > lack of volunteers? > > The google password is "ITP" (stands for Intent-to-Package): > https://bugs.debian.org/788327 > > P.S. Not _this_(http://swift-lang.org/) swift. > Ah okay, well, there is some intent, at least. -- Dale Harris rod

Re: good LDAP resources

2017-02-25 Thread Joshua Schaeffer
LDAP can be very difficult to learn if you are just starting out with it, but also very powerful. There may be other faster solutions then a manual setup, but I found that I learned the most by doing all of it manually. On Red Hat based systems, I believe their IPA solution is quite good. It us

Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch

2017-02-25 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi. On 16/02/17 11:05, Daniel Bareiro wrote: >> I think I fixed the random Icedove crashes I was experiencing on Jessie >> by setting layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled to false in Icedove's >> config editor. > Thanks for the tip. I applied this change. Let's see if it makes any > differenc

Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch

2017-02-25 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi again. On 15/02/17 19:52, Daniel Bareiro wrote: >> Isn't there a plan to migrate back to Thunderbird anyway, just as >> Iceweasel has been replaced with firefox? >> >> I wonder if stretch has thunderbird packages? (no time to check right >> now) > It looks like it's currently in Sid. Has an

Re: [solved?] Re: Secure Boot won't let boot into Debian

2017-02-25 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 26/02/17 02:04, Rodolfo Medina wrote: How do I check if my machine is `64 or 32 bit' I use "cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'model name'", to find the model name and look it up on Wikipedia or Google for the manufacturer data sheet. 64-bit support is often called "AMD64", or "x86-64" by non-AMD

good LDAP resources

2017-02-25 Thread briand
I need to set-up some sort of password server for a small network so that i don't have to set-up accounts on every machine. It looks like LDAP is the best way to do that. Is it ? I've been looking at the LDAP how-to's and even tried to turn things on using one of them, but I can't quite get th

Re: Swift lang in Debian?

2017-02-25 Thread Brian Sammon
On Sat, 25 Feb 2017 13:34:46 -0500 Dale Harris wrote: > I imagine this is being discussed somewhere in the larger Debian > community, but I'm having problems finding anything online, off hand. > Does anyone know if there is there any plans to package Swift language > into Debian? It has been ope

Swift lang in Debian?

2017-02-25 Thread Dale Harris
I imagine this is being discussed somewhere in the larger Debian community, but I'm having problems finding anything online, off hand. Does anyone know if there is there any plans to package Swift language into Debian? It has been open sourced for a while now, I think it has a compatible license f

Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch

2017-02-25 Thread GiaThnYgeia
And you have not updated icedove/thunderchicken in the past 10 days I assume. If you have, how can you tell that this was the fix and was not in the update? Mattia Oss: > On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 04:40:44PM +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >> Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote on 02/18/17 10:32: >>> Daniel Ba

Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch

2017-02-25 Thread Mattia Oss
On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 04:40:44PM +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote on 02/18/17 10:32: > > Daniel Bareiro wrote on 02/16/17 15:14: > > > >> Thanks for sharing your experience. It would be good to know if it > >> remains stable after several days. I just applied the change

Re: Mixing firewall tools

2017-02-25 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 03:40:53AM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > On 26/02/17 03:19, Dan Ritter wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 07:54:32PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > >> I have a machine with a hand-rolled firewall script, which just runs > >> iptables commands - all well and good. > >> > >>

Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch

2017-02-25 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote on 02/18/17 10:32: > Daniel Bareiro wrote on 02/16/17 15:14: > >> Thanks for sharing your experience. It would be good to know if it >> remains stable after several days. I just applied the change suggested >> by Benjamin in another message in this thread. >> >> Kind regard

Re: [solved?] Re: Secure Boot won't let boot into Debian

2017-02-25 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 25 Feb 2017 08:36:04 + Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rodolfo Medina writes: > > > I frehly installed Debian Sid in dual boot with Windows 10 on my > > brand new Lenovo desktop pc but it won't boot into Debian system I > > suspect because of the new Secure Boot policy. I want to disable >

Re: Mixing firewall tools

2017-02-25 Thread Richard Hector
On 26/02/17 03:19, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 07:54:32PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: >> I have a machine with a hand-rolled firewall script, which just runs >> iptables commands - all well and good. >> >> The trickiest bits are for my LXC containers; I need to forward ports >> etc

Re: Mixing firewall tools

2017-02-25 Thread Dan Ritter
On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 07:54:32PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > I have a machine with a hand-rolled firewall script, which just runs > iptables commands - all well and good. > > The trickiest bits are for my LXC containers; I need to forward ports > etc - but that's ok. > > The complications st

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Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration

2017-02-25 Thread deloptes
Thomas Schmitt wrote: > It's easy to guess that /boot is the main suspect in this list. > But still no idea why a blockwise disk copy should not work when it comes > to identifying a program file as ELF format. Somehow GRUB must get to the > wrong file content. +1

Re: [solved?] Re: Secure Boot won't let boot into Debian

2017-02-25 Thread deloptes
Rodolfo Medina wrote: > So, generally speaking, how do I know what to choose?  How do I check if > my machine is `64 or 32 bit', and what of all those different Debian .isos > to install? In general you would install 64bit amd64 to modern 64bit architecture/machine - it might be intel or amd. If

Re: [solved?] Re: Secure Boot won't let boot into Debian

2017-02-25 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Pascal Hambourg writes: > Le 25/02/2017 à 13:26, GiaThnYgeia a écrit : >> AMD64 is for 64bit Amd and Intel processors, > > 64-bit Intel *x86* processors. There was once another 64-bit architecture > called ia64 used by Intel "Itanium" processors, not compatible with amd64. > >> i386 is a 32bit sy

Re: [solved?] Re: Secure Boot won't let boot into Debian

2017-02-25 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 25/02/2017 à 13:26, GiaThnYgeia a écrit : AMD64 is for 64bit Amd and Intel processors, 64-bit Intel *x86* processors. There was once another 64-bit architecture called ia64 used by Intel "Itanium" processors, not compatible with amd64. i386 is a 32bit system for old pre64 architectures.

Re: [solved?] Re: Secure Boot won't let boot into Debian

2017-02-25 Thread GiaThnYgeia
AMD64 is for 64bit Amd and Intel processors, i386 is a 32bit system for old pre64 architectures. So even though a 32bit will work on a 64bit system I have yet to find a good reason for doing so. The other way around wouldn't work. kat Rodolfo Medina: > ...Just curiosity: I installed debian-8.7.

Re: [solved?] Re: Secure Boot won't let boot into Debian

2017-02-25 Thread Rodolfo Medina
...Just curiosity: I installed debian-8.7.1-i386-netinst.iso, but my machine is an AMD, and everything went fine. So what's that difference for? Rodolfo

Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration

2017-02-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Lucio Crusca wrote: > I lack the skills to understand how grub (or the BIOS firmware if grub hands > the task to it) could access SSD any different than HDD, given that, as far > as I know, the SATA protocol is just the same. Even more, all disk-like storage devices are operated via SCSI comm

Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration

2017-02-25 Thread Lucio Crusca
Felix Miata wrote: Did you look for any significant differences between the working and non-working grub.cfgs? Does Grub see your SSD as an NVMe device and need to embed a different binary or load a different module for it? I think you've caught it! Here is what seems to me the most interesti

Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration

2017-02-25 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 04:28:33AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > Lucio Crusca composed on 2017-02-25 10:16 (UTC+0100): > ... > >I hate to workaround problems without understanding them, this is a loss. > > >Thanks everyone for your support anyway. > >

Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration

2017-02-25 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 10:16:18AM +0100, Lucio Crusca wrote: [...] > I hate to workaround problems without understanding them, this is a loss. I know that feeling. Makes for an interesting life ;-P regards - -- t -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Vers

Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration

2017-02-25 Thread Felix Miata
Lucio Crusca composed on 2017-02-25 10:16 (UTC+0100): ... I hate to workaround problems without understanding them, this is a loss. Thanks everyone for your support anyway. Did you look for any significant differences between the working and non-working grub.cfgs? Does Grub see your SSD as

Re: "Invalid arch-independent ELF magic" in grub after SSD migration

2017-02-25 Thread Lucio Crusca
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: In the OP's context this doesn't make much sense. From the OP's mail dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb [other params elided] That would copy boot sector, partition table and everything. If (a) the one (or the other) disk isn't broken (b) no one else is concurrently wri

Re: [solved?] Re: Secure Boot won't let boot into Debian

2017-02-25 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > Rodolfo Medina writes: > >> I frehly installed Debian Sid in dual boot with Windows 10 on my brand new >> Lenovo desktop pc but it won't boot into Debian system I suspect because of >> the new Secure Boot policy. I want to disable it but the problem is that >> there's n

[solved?] Re: Secure Boot won't let boot into Debian

2017-02-25 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > I frehly installed Debian Sid in dual boot with Windows 10 on my brand new > Lenovo desktop pc but it won't boot into Debian system I suspect because of > the new Secure Boot policy. I want to disable it but the problem is that > there's no Secure Boot option anywhere in