Re: Aptitude package manager "package"

2018-01-23 Thread john doe
On 1/23/2018 8:44 PM, OECT T wrote: What other command line packages are recommended instead of Aptitude? https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-pkgtools.en.html -- John Doe

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Aptitude package manager "package"

2018-01-23 Thread OECT T
Hi all: I just installed Debian Stretch 9.3.0 and noticed that the Aptitude package was not installed by default. I searched into Synaptics package manager and noticed that the package is not marked with the Debian icon indicating that the package is not supported. I would appreciate any comm

Re: Re: Re: (resend) trouble installing Debian 8.10 via netboot

2018-01-23 Thread Karasawa, Mizuki
Further research, seems to related to bug #883938 identified in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=883938 The temporary workaround is to turn NUMA off when booting… Mizuki

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-23 Thread Richard Hector
On 24/01/18 12:11, Michael Stone wrote: > Unless you took specific steps to disable kpti on a kernel that supports > it, it will be on. Only if the CPU needs it, I think. It's enabled on my i5, but not on my AMD or my atom. Richard (I'm on the list; please don't cc me) signature.asc Descriptio

Debmirror - 3rd Party Repo Error (Kali)

2018-01-23 Thread Derek Murphy
Package: debmirror Version: 1:2.16+deb8u1 When I run debmirror to sync the Kali repo, I get several errors regarding uninitialized value $size. I've included a copy of the script that I run to sync below. You will also notice a blank -r, this is due to Kali not using the exact folder structure the

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-23 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 05:02:39PM -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: So my question becomes: Is it just my server, or others too? And why me? dmesg reads a ring buffer; there are a limited number of entries, after which the oldest lines are dropped to make room for newer lines. Relying on dmesg

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-23 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
Sorry, should have added that the string "Linux version" also does not appear in the dmesg results after a reboot. So despite the check script's advice, a reboot doesn't change the results here. On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 5:02 PM, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > There was a newer version of the script (a

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-23 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
There was a newer version of the script (about 4 hours newer), but the new version yields the same result. So I have a debian 8.6 machine for which this test in the script is failing: if ! dmesg | grep -qE '(^|\] )Linux version [0-9]'; then # dmesg truncated

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-23 Thread Richard Hector
On 24/01/18 11:27, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > > > > ​Hi there,  I am running kernel 4.14.14 under gentoo testing on an > AMD kaveri box. > > The version of GCC I am using is 7.2.  Whether that means the > reptoline patch is working for me I am not quite sure but it could

Re: Update warning.

2018-01-23 Thread Frank M
On 01/23/2018 05:31 PM, Richard Hector wrote: On 24/01/18 11:08, Frank M wrote: Just a warning for Debian Sid users - this one caught me today and now a bunch of necessary things ( mostly systemd related ) won't run and things like apt . aptitude, dpkg, etc are useless. I don't know at thi

Re: Update warning.

2018-01-23 Thread Richard Hector
On 24/01/18 11:35, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2018-01-24 11:31 +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > >> On 24/01/18 11:08, Frank M wrote: >>> Just a warning for Debian Sid users - this one caught me today and >>> >>> now a bunch of necessary things ( mostly systemd related ) won't run and >>> >>> things li

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-23 Thread Michael Fothergill
>> > ​Hi there, I am running kernel 4.14.14 under gentoo testing on an AMD > kaveri box. > > The version of GCC I am using is 7.2. Whether that means the reptoline > patch is working for me I am not quite sure but it could be I guess. > > Someone who is smarter than the average bear has writt

Re: Update warning.

2018-01-23 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2018-01-24 11:31 +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > On 24/01/18 11:08, Frank M wrote: >> Just a warning for Debian Sid users - this one caught me today and >> >> now a bunch of necessary things ( mostly systemd related ) won't run and >> >> things like apt . aptitude, dpkg, etc are useless. >> >

Re: Update warning.

2018-01-23 Thread Richard Hector
On 24/01/18 11:08, Frank M wrote: > Just a warning for Debian Sid users - this one caught me today and > > now a bunch of necessary things ( mostly systemd related ) won't run and > > things like apt . aptitude, dpkg, etc are useless. > > > I don't know at this point how I am going to repair th

Update warning.

2018-01-23 Thread Frank M
Just a warning for Debian Sid users - this one caught me today and now a bunch of necessary things ( mostly systemd related ) won't run and things like apt . aptitude, dpkg, etc are useless. I don't know at this point how I am going to repair this system. Had to boot Mint Mate to send this.

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-23 Thread Michael Fothergill
On 23 January 2018 at 21:16, Sven Hartge wrote: > Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > I've installed the patch for CVE-2017-5754 as well as the microcode > update: > > Well, Intel majorly fscked up their microcodes and strongly recommends > to revert to an earlier BIOS/UEFI firmware (if possible) and

Re: Debian mate wifi

2018-01-23 Thread Jude DaShiell
Best to run the report-bug program if on your system and have an internet connection open. On Tue, 23 Jan 2018, michael caron couturier wrote: Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 14:34:21 From: michael caron couturier To: debian-user Subject: Debian mate wifi Resent-Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 19:51:09 +

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-23 Thread Sven Hartge
Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 3:16 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: >> Nicholas Geovanis wrote: >>> I've installed the patch for CVE-2017-5754 as well as the microcode update: >> So, right now, unless you have the latest bleeding edge kernel, compiled >> with a repoline-aware pre-re

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-23 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 3:16 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: > Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > >> I've installed the patch for CVE-2017-5754 as well as the microcode update: > > So, right now, unless you have the latest bleeding edge kernel, compiled > with a repoline-aware pre-release GCC, you will be vulnera

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-23 Thread Sven Hartge
Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > I've installed the patch for CVE-2017-5754 as well as the microcode update: Well, Intel majorly fscked up their microcodes and strongly recommends to revert to an earlier BIOS/UEFI firmware (if possible) and also advised all vendors shipping microcode as a separate pac

Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

2018-01-23 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
I've installed the patch for CVE-2017-5754 as well as the microcode update: # uname -a Linux ftp51 3.16.0-5-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.51-3+deb8u1 (2018-01-08) x86_64 GNU/Linux # dmesg | grep isolation [0.00] Kernel/User page tables isolation: enabled And yet, the widely-recommended test sc

Re: Debian mate wifi

2018-01-23 Thread john doe
On 1/23/2018 8:34 PM, michael caron couturier wrote: How I file a bug ? https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting -- John Doe

Re: stretch and DNS name resolution service for other devices on a LAN

2018-01-23 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 23/01/2018 à 18:08, David Wright a écrit : [My Laptop] --- wireless connection IPv4 --- [Router] --- Internet Modem | / | | CAT5 cable IPv6/ | | / | wireless/wired [My De

Debian mate wifi

2018-01-23 Thread michael caron couturier
How I file a bug ? -- Michaël Caron Couturier

Re: policykit rule example.

2018-01-23 Thread Kamil Jońca
Brian writes: > Is > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/10/msg00641.html > > more suitable for your task? It is possible, although: 1. openvpn has to be run as root (routing and network interfaces) I do not know if I can define proper systemd unit. 2. I want to learn something about po

Re: Re: (resend) trouble installing Debian 8.10 via netboot

2018-01-23 Thread Karasawa, Mizuki
I’m using the latest netboot kernel for installation (dated in Dec 5th 2017, http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-amd64/current/images/ ) One machine had kernel crash at the very beginning, other machines I had better luck but ran into ‘partitioning trouble’, I backed out

Re: stretch and DNS name resolution service for other devices on a LAN

2018-01-23 Thread David Wright
On Tue 23 Jan 2018 at 16:06:01 (-), Andy Hawkins wrote: > Hi, > > In article <20180123144327.GA6815@alum>, >David Wright wrote: > > This would all be a step in the wrong direction here. Point (2) was > > that using IPv6 over CAT5 avoids swamping the router. (Of course, > > that's a

Re: policykit rule example.

2018-01-23 Thread Brian
On Tue 23 Jan 2018 at 16:28:57 +0100, Kamil Jońca wrote: > Brian writes: > > > On Tue 23 Jan 2018 at 13:29:35 +0100, Kamil Jońca wrote: > > > >> > [...] > > >> > >> Any hints/examples? > > > > https://lists.debian.org/search.html > > > > Search debian-user with "pkla". > > Thread "Embarrassi

Re: stretch and DNS name resolution service for other devices on a LAN

2018-01-23 Thread Andy Hawkins
Hi, In article <20180123144327.GA6815@alum>, David Wright wrote: > This would all be a step in the wrong direction here. Point (2) was > that using IPv6 over CAT5 avoids swamping the router. (Of course, > that's already been snipped out of the thread.) If the DHCP server > is down, then

Re: policykit rule example.

2018-01-23 Thread Kamil Jońca
Brian writes: > On Tue 23 Jan 2018 at 13:29:35 +0100, Kamil Jońca wrote: > >> [...] >> >> Any hints/examples? > > https://lists.debian.org/search.html > > Search debian-user with "pkla". Thread "Embarrassing security bug in systemd" (https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/12/msg00172.html)

Re: stretch and DNS name resolution service for other devices on a LAN

2018-01-23 Thread David Wright
On Tue 23 Jan 2018 at 13:41:31 (+), Joe wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jan 2018 11:12:41 + (UTC) > Curt wrote: > > > On 2018-01-23, Andy Hawkins wrote: > > > Hi, > > > In article <20180122185135.GA12212@alum>, > > >David Wright wrote: > > >>> You should be able to do that with IPv4 to

Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

2018-01-23 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
On 23-01-2018, at 10h 11'43", Curt wrote about "Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software" > > Same problem here with bank statements (recent bank statements unviewable in > xpdf but viewable in evince). > > (Actually it appears the pdfs viewable in xpdf are 'PDF document, version 1.4' >

Re: stretch and DNS name resolution service for other devices on a LAN

2018-01-23 Thread Joe
On Tue, 23 Jan 2018 11:12:41 + (UTC) Curt wrote: > On 2018-01-23, Andy Hawkins wrote: > > Hi, > > In article <20180122185135.GA12212@alum>, > >David Wright wrote: > >>> You should be able to do that with IPv4 too. If DHCP address > >>> allocation fails, > >> > >> Elaborate on

Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

2018-01-23 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
On 23-01-2018, at 11h 18'26", Michael Lange wrote about "Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software" > Hi again, > > On Tue, 23 Jan 2018 11:03:24 +0100 > Michael Lange wrote: > > uh no, appears to be rather this bug in libpoppler: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=88

Re: policykit rule example.

2018-01-23 Thread Brian
On Tue 23 Jan 2018 at 13:29:35 +0100, Kamil Jońca wrote: > > I try to use policykit. > But (maybe I use wrong key words for googling) I cannot find any > non-trivial example for pkla files (onyl JS-like ones) > Can anybot help me with this? > Simple task: > want to user kjonca be able to start/st

policykit rule example.

2018-01-23 Thread Kamil Jońca
I try to use policykit. But (maybe I use wrong key words for googling) I cannot find any non-trivial example for pkla files (onyl JS-like ones) Can anybot help me with this? Simple task: want to user kjonca be able to start/stop openvpn without asking password. Any hints/examples? KJ -- http://

Re: stretch and DNS name resolution service for other devices on a LAN

2018-01-23 Thread Curt
On 2018-01-23, Andy Hawkins wrote: > Hi, > In article <20180122185135.GA12212@alum>, >David Wright wrote: >>> You should be able to do that with IPv4 too. If DHCP address allocation >>> fails, >> >> Elaborate on this please. What do you mean by "fails". >> What am I meant to want to fa

Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

2018-01-23 Thread Michael Lange
Hi again, On Tue, 23 Jan 2018 11:03:24 +0100 Michael Lange wrote: > just a shot in the dark: I think okular and qpdfview use qt, some of the > "working" viewers seem to use gtk. Not sure about the toolkit xpdf and > some of the other programs use, but maybe the problem has something to > do with

Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

2018-01-23 Thread Curt
On 2018-01-23, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: > On 22-01-2018, at 18h 28'13", Greg Marks wrote about "PDF displayed > incorrectly by certain software" >> I have encountered a peculiar situation where a PDF file displays as >> gibberish with certain PDF viewers but displays correctly with others. >>

Re: PDF displayed incorrectly by certain software

2018-01-23 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 18:28:13 -0600 Greg Marks wrote: > I have encountered a peculiar situation where a PDF file displays as > gibberish with certain PDF viewers but displays correctly with others. > The PDF file in question can be downloaded from the site: > >https://link.springer.com/a

Re: stretch and DNS name resolution service for other devices on a LAN

2018-01-23 Thread Andy Hawkins
Hi, In article <20180122185135.GA12212@alum>, David Wright wrote: >> You should be able to do that with IPv4 too. If DHCP address allocation >> fails, > > Elaborate on this please. What do you mean by "fails". > What am I meant to want to fail? If a host that's expecting to receive its