Re: Correct: System Thinks Hardware Clock is UTC

2018-05-21 Thread Felix Miata
Michael Stone composed on 2018-05-21 10:05 (UTC-0400): > On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 09:55:42AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: >>OS/2 and DOS AFAICT never got that option. A LAN that is a mix of LOCAL and >>UTC >>isn't fun, especially with one or more that can't not, which is what I have >>with >>a Linu

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

2018-05-21 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 21/05/2018 à 22:09, Abdullah Ramazanoğlu a écrit : On Mon, 21 May 2018 21:48:33 +0200 Pascal Hambourg said: The purpose of RAID 1 is to provide redundancy and availability, not performance. What do you think happens to a running system when one half of the swap suddenly becomes unavailable a

Re: Laptop randomly reboots

2018-05-21 Thread David Wright
On Sat 19 May 2018 at 12:49:51 (-0500), Sam Smith wrote: > On 05/19/2018 01:56 AM, Hans wrote: > >Hi, > > > >looks like the laptop is going too hot. This is a problem at many laptops. > >because of the cooler is set with dust. > > > >Take a look at the cooling system, if there is any dust in the wa

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

2018-05-21 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 21/05/2018 à 21:03, Abdullah Ramazanoğlu a écrit : Forgot to add that in a raid-1 setup swap partition*s* should not be mirrored. Of course they should be mirrored in RAID 1 too. Otherwise it defeats the purpose of RAID 1. There should be 2 separate non-mirrored swap partitions, one on

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

2018-05-21 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 21/05/2018 à 18:52, Mark Copper a écrit : The release notes even give detailed instructions as to how you might mount bind (or is bind mount?) a usb key as a temporary /var/cache/apt/archives directory. That's an intriguing idea. I'll look. Thanks. There is plenty of free space in /home

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

2018-05-21 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 21/05/2018 à 18:14, Mark Copper a écrit : On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 3:19 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 18/05/2018 à 02:05, Mark Copper a écrit : You will have to move/delete and re-create the swap too. Gparted allows to resize and move an unused partition. Better have a backup though. yes,

Re: O/S upgrade - dpkg still shows old version for some packages

2018-05-21 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 11:29:53AM +, John Horne wrote: > dpkg -p nodejs > ... > Version: 0.10.37-1chl1~lucid1 > > nodejs -v > v4.8.2 You probably have nodejs installed locally, outside of the packaging system. What does "type -a nodejs" tell you (in bash)?

O/S upgrade - dpkg still shows old version for some packages

2018-05-21 Thread John Horne
Hello, We have a virtual Debian 7 (LTS) server, and I have been running through the upgrade process of going from 7 to 8 and then straight to Debian 9. Generally no problems with this. However, when using 'dpkg -p' I notice that some of the packages are showing their old (debian 7) version number

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

2018-05-21 Thread Mark Copper
> > The release notes even give detailed instructions as to how you might mount > bind (or is bind mount?) a usb key as a temporary /var/cache/apt/archives > directory. > That's an intriguing idea. I'll look. Thanks.

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

2018-05-21 Thread Curt
On 2018-05-21, Mark Copper wrote: > > No, I had not considered playing with any part of /var. With /var > taking less than 1 gb and /var/cache/apt/archives less than 1mb, /usr > had seemed the elephant in the room. Might that be a way to go? I just > need to get to Stretch for now. There's actual

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

2018-05-21 Thread Mark Copper
On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 3:19 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 18/05/2018 à 02:05, Mark Copper a écrit : >>> >>> There was a day when a 10 gb partition seemed like plenty of space to leave for the system but now it's not. An upgrade to Stretch appears to need more. > > > How do y

Re: Correct: System Thinks Hardware Clock is UTC

2018-05-21 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Mon, 21 May 2018 09:03:47 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 12:15:05PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > Haven't > > > > installed any other OS on this system since Wheezy 5 years ago. > > Oh, good, then you can simply set the hardware cl-- I did so. And everything is

Re: Correct: System Thinks Hardware Clock is UTC

2018-05-21 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 09:55:42AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: OS/2 and DOS AFAICT never got that option. A LAN that is a mix of LOCAL and UTC isn't fun, especially with one or more that can't not, which is what I have with a Linux STB providing no LOCAL option and multiple OS/2's providing no UTC

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

2018-05-21 Thread David Wright
On Mon 21 May 2018 at 05:50:27 (+), Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 07:59:48PM -0400, songbird wrote: > > Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > Then LVM is your friend. You can create as many logical volumes as you > > > like with minimal sizes and easily extend them when needed

Re: Correct: System Thinks Hardware Clock is UTC

2018-05-21 Thread Felix Miata
Michael Stone composed on 2018-05-21 09:10 (UTC-0400): > On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 12:15:05PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: >>Unfortunately, I have other OSes on this system and they are configured >>for the hardware clock set to local time. I need to keep it that way. > For what it's worth, you'll

Re: Correct: System Thinks Hardware Clock is UTC

2018-05-21 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 12:15:05PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: Unfortunately, I have other OSes on this system and they are configured for the hardware clock set to local time. I need to keep it that way. For what it's worth, you'll have less long term pain if you also configure those to use

Re: Correct: System Thinks Hardware Clock is UTC

2018-05-21 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 12:15:05PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > Haven't > > > installed any other OS on this system since Wheezy 5 years ago. Oh, good, then you can simply set the hardware cl-- > Unfortunately, I have other OSes on this system and they are configured > for the hardware cloc

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

2018-05-21 Thread David Baron
Yep. I ended up buying a second disk and moving everything around. The installation is awful. On Mon, May 21, 2018, 3:13 PM Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 21/05/2018 à 10:26, Curt a écrit : > > > > Verily in the installer I chose automatic partitioning because of my > > partitioning phobia many moo

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

2018-05-21 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 21/05/2018 à 10:26, Curt a écrit : Verily in the installer I chose automatic partitioning because of my partitioning phobia many moons ago and was allotted a 9G '/' and a 1.4T 'home' (as well as swap the size of my ego) (...) (A recent thread seemed to imply that the installer's automagical

Cannot get crashdumps on iSCSI-booted system

2018-05-21 Thread Eugene M. Zheganin
Hello, I'm trying to get the crashdumps (to start getting them automatically later) on an iSCSI-booted buster/sid, but after issuing |"echo c > /proc/sysrq-trigger" all I'm getting is the system hangup - no dump, but the system seems to be locked - and no panic screen or whatever. Everything

Re: ~ CD Burning Software

2018-05-21 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 11:36:35AM -0700, Herb Garcia wrote: I'm running Mate on my laptop. I don't see a CD/DVD burning software that came with the build. Any suggestions? It's been a few years since I tried it, but I found Brasero to be incredibly unreliable. I switched to wodim from the comm

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

2018-05-21 Thread Joe
On Mon, 21 May 2018 08:26:01 + (UTC) Curt wrote: > On 2018-05-21, Andy Smith wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 07:59:48PM -0400, songbird wrote: > >> Pascal Hambourg wrote: > >> > Then LVM is your friend. You can create as many logical volumes > >> > as you like with mini

Re: Help with udev trigger

2018-05-21 Thread Bhasker C V
Thanks. I will try this On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 12:21 PM, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 09:26:47AM +0100, Bhasker C V wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Version: buster >> I do a manual cryptsetup to create my home directory after system boots up >> I want to run fsck every time the d

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

2018-05-21 Thread Curt
On 2018-05-21, Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, May 20, 2018 at 07:59:48PM -0400, songbird wrote: >> Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> > Then LVM is your friend. You can create as many logical volumes as you >> > like with minimal sizes and easily extend them when needed. This way you >> > don't w

Re: CD Burning Software

2018-05-21 Thread Joe
On Mon, 21 May 2018 00:49:41 +0300 Abdullah Ramazanoğlu wrote: > On Sun, 20 May 2018 12:31:28 +0100 Joe said: > > On Sat, 19 May 2018 22:10:04 +0300 > > Abdullah Ramazanoğlu wrote: > > > > But beware of k3b's KDE dependencies. > > > > I was going to mention that, though it varies according