How to relocate LVM pv to make room for grub install

2017-12-31 Thread Tom Dial
Upgrading a workstation from Jessie to Stretch I found that the original disk partitioning left insufficient space for grub (re)install. The system has two identical ~233 GiB disks, sda and sdb, partitioned identically: Disk /dev/sda: 232.9 GiB, 250059350016 bytes, 488397168 sectors Units: sectors

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

2017-12-31 Thread Sven Hartge
David Christensen wrote: > On 12/31/17 09:44, Sven Hartge wrote: >> David Christensen wrote: >>> On 12/30/17 14:38, Matthew Crews wrote: The main issue I see with using BTRFS with MDADM is that you lose the benefit of bit-rot repair. MDADM can't correct bit rot, but BTRFS-Raid (an

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

2017-12-31 Thread Joel Wirāmu Pauling
The reason Redhat dropped btrfs support is because it currently has no native cryptographic function. And from the various threads I've read on the topic there is no easy answer to the problem. On 1 January 2018 at 06:44, Sven Hartge wrote: > David Christensen wrote: > > On 12/30/17 14:38, Matt

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

2017-12-31 Thread David Christensen
On 12/31/17 09:44, Sven Hartge wrote: David Christensen wrote: On 12/30/17 14:38, Matthew Crews wrote: The main issue I see with using BTRFS with MDADM is that you lose the benefit of bit-rot repair. MDADM can't correct bit rot, but BTRFS-Raid (and ZFS raid arrays) can, but only with native

Re: Debian 9.3 GUI installation failure

2017-12-31 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun 31 Dec 2017 at 20:37:06 +, Brian Potkin wrote: > On Sun 31 Dec 2017 at 10:10:31 +, w f wrote: > > > I tried installing Debian 9.3 today. I used the netinst CD amd64 version.All > > was going well until about 4/5ths of the way through ...I suddenly got an > > error message about "is

Re: Debian 9.3 GUI installation failure

2017-12-31 Thread Brian Potkin
On Sun 31 Dec 2017 at 10:10:31 +, w f wrote: > I tried installing Debian 9.3 today. I used the netinst CD amd64 version.All > was going well until about 4/5ths of the way through ...I suddenly got an > error message about "ispell" and that something "british" couldn't be > installed.(I chose "

Re: installing ufraw on buster

2017-12-31 Thread Brian
On Sun 31 Dec 2017 at 16:26:48 +, Eric S Fraga wrote: > On Sunday, 31 Dec 2017 at 16:07, Brian wrote: > > On Sun 31 Dec 2017 at 15:53:14 +, Eric S Fraga wrote: > >> But apt-get does not? I've only started using apt instead of apt-cache > >> and apt-get recently so I'm not up to speed on t

Re: Experiences with BTRFS -- is it mature enough for enterprise use?

2017-12-31 Thread Sven Hartge
David Christensen wrote: > On 12/30/17 14:38, Matthew Crews wrote: >> The main issue I see with using BTRFS with MDADM is that you lose the >> benefit of bit-rot repair. MDADM can't correct bit rot, but >> BTRFS-Raid (and ZFS raid arrays) can, but only with native raid >> configurations. > AFAIK

Re: Debian 9.3 GUI installation failure

2017-12-31 Thread David Wright
On Sun 31 Dec 2017 at 10:10:31 (+), w f wrote: > I tried installing Debian 9.3 today. I used the netinst CD amd64 > version.All was going well until about 4/5ths of the way through ...I > suddenly got an error message about "ispell" and that something > "british" couldn't be installed.(I chose

Re: installing ufraw on buster

2017-12-31 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Sunday, 31 Dec 2017 at 16:07, Brian wrote: > On Sun 31 Dec 2017 at 15:53:14 +, Eric S Fraga wrote: >> But apt-get does not? I've only started using apt instead of apt-cache >> and apt-get recently so I'm not up to speed on the differences. > > /usr/share/doc/apt/NEWS.Debian.gz. Thanks. Co

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2017-12-31 Thread sejobud33
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Re: installing ufraw on buster

2017-12-31 Thread Brian
On Sun 31 Dec 2017 at 15:53:14 +, Eric S Fraga wrote: > On Sunday, 31 Dec 2017 at 15:25, Brian wrote: > > > Note that, by default, apt deletes files in archives after downloading > > and installing them. > > But apt-get does not? I've only started using apt instead of apt-cache > and apt-ge

Re: installing ufraw on buster

2017-12-31 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Sunday, 31 Dec 2017 at 15:25, Brian wrote: [...] > Which is why the adice to delete only pkgcache.bin and srcpkgcache.bin > was given :). Yes but I had done 'apt-get clean' by then unfortunately! > As a matter of interest, how do the sizes of those files > compare with what you had previous

Re: installing ufraw on buster

2017-12-31 Thread Brian
On Sun 31 Dec 2017 at 14:57:56 +, Eric S Fraga wrote: > On Sunday, 31 Dec 2017 at 11:02, john doe wrote: > > Actually, your subject line was explicit enough! :) > > Indeed! ;-) > > > It looks like in your case your package index files were some how corrupted. > > That's why cleaning and upd

Re: installing ufraw on buster

2017-12-31 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Sunday, 31 Dec 2017 at 11:02, john doe wrote: > Actually, your subject line was explicit enough! :) Indeed! ;-) > It looks like in your case your package index files were some how corrupted. > That's why cleaning and updating did the trick! :) > As recommended by the below URL 'apt-get update

tigervnc and multiple users

2017-12-31 Thread Mark Fletcher
Happy New Year to the list! I use tigervnc on Stretch to provide remote access to my machine from a variety of devices. I'm running VNC over an OpenVPN VPN but I don't THINK that is relevant to the problem. If I start tigervnc as the same user I log into Gnome as, I have no problem. I find I c

Re: apt-cacher-ng / autoclean

2017-12-31 Thread Hans
Am Sonntag, 31. Dezember 2017, 11:54:12 CET schrieb Dominique Dumont: Hi Dominique, thanks for the information. The manual was not quite clear for me, what it wants. With your example below, I understood what to do. It was not clear for me, that I must use a browser, and thought, a commandline

Re: apt-cacher-ng / autoclean

2017-12-31 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Sunday, 31 December 2017 11:24:30 CET Hans wrote: > What must I do, if this is possible at all? apt-cacher-ng provides a web page to perform maintenance. Open with your favorite browser the page: http://replace-with-your-cache-host:3142/acng-report.html For more details, see https://ww

Re: apt-cacher-ng / autoclean

2017-12-31 Thread basti
Hello, first of all there is an management page (http://yourhost:3142) and there are also config options see https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~bloch/acng/html/maint.html#maint Best Regards, On 31.12.2017 11:24, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am a little bit stuck. > > I am regularly building a li

apt-cacher-ng / autoclean

2017-12-31 Thread Hans
Hi folks, I am a little bit stuck. I am regularly building a livefile system (kali-linux) and using apt-cacher- ng, so that I do not need to download all the packages over and over again. But the local repo is growing more and more, and as I want to get rid of all old packages, I wanted to use

Re: installing ufraw on buster

2017-12-31 Thread john doe
On 12/29/2017 3:02 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote: On Friday, 29 Dec 2017 at 06:30, john doe wrote: [...] I had rongly assumed that you were trying to install buster packages into stretch, so '-t buster' is clearly not needed. Sorry, should have made myself more clear. Yes, I'm already at buster.

Precarious status of Shutter in Debian

2017-12-31 Thread Dominique Dumont
Hello Debian is moving away from Gnome2::VFS [1] . This obsolete module will be removed from next release of Debian. Unfortunately, shutter, a very nice Gtk2 screenshot application, depends on Gnome::VFS, which means that shutter will be removed from Debian unless this dependency is removed f