Disable/skip/ignore !! Configure the package manager dialog in preseed

2018-06-14 Thread Ravi Roy
Hi, I'm using PXE boot server to install debian 9 using preseed in headless way. I'm using my product DVD as local debian reposiotry (having main contrib and non-free) sections enabled. I've to install some tools from non-free sections so i'm putting local repo configuration: d-i mirror/protoco

Re: new install of amd64, 9-4 from iso #1

2018-06-14 Thread David Christensen
On 06/14/18 01:52, Gene Heskett wrote: I'm seeing, at newegg et all, what is said to be a 3d nand that seems to be the higher capacity drive, 240 GB etc, for prices in the $90 range. But you are mentioning PCIe. Is SATA about to be replaced, and I'll have to locate yet another motherboard to keep

Re: GCC 7

2018-06-14 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 08:35:29AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jun 2018, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > Took out mk-sbuild for a whirl. What I didn't like at all: when you > > invoke a command and it goes out and starts installing packages fo

Debmirror error - balks when "?" in URL

2018-06-14 Thread Zenaan Harkness
I recently changed ISP from Telstra to iiNet, and now debmirror balks as follows: The problem is the iiNet debian repo mirror URL is as follows: http://ftp.iinet.net.au/dir.php?debian http://ftp.iinet.net.au/dir.php?debian/dists/stretch (note that dodgy as question mark in the URL) and so debm

Re: netboot images for Debian 9 seems is broken?

2018-06-14 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 03:29:28PM -0400, mizuki wrote: > "No kernel modules were found. This probably is due to a mismatch between > the kernel used by this version of the installer and the kernel version in > the archive. In my experience, the above is correct. That is, I've experienced thi

Re: Sata health

2018-06-14 Thread Larry
On 06/14/2018 09:48 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 12:30:43PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 14 June 2018 11:58:40 Dan Ritter wrote: So thats progress, now if I could just get apt to refresh its repo listings. That too is a question asked somewhere above. And since I'm r

Re: Sata health

2018-06-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 14 June 2018 17:29:49 deloptes wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Now I have to see if I have the correct keys for trinity access, > > synaptic didn't seem to think so. I changed just the "wheezy" for > > "stretch" in the  deb line, and I didn't think that would change the > > key. But i

Re: Sata health

2018-06-14 Thread deloptes
Gene Heskett wrote: > Now I have to see if I have the correct keys for trinity access, synaptic > didn't seem to think so. I changed just the "wheezy" for "stretch" in > the  deb line, and I didn't think that would change the key. But it > appears it has. better you read the upgrade notes - there

Re: Sata health

2018-06-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 14 June 2018 14:28:19 Richard Hector wrote: > On 15/06/18 04:30, Gene Heskett wrote: > > So thats progress, now if I could just get apt to refresh its repo > > listings. That too is a question asked somewhere above. And since > > I'm running dd-wrt in my router, I am convinced its rel

Re: A newer kernel for my genesi smartbook

2018-06-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2018-06-13 21:25 +0200, Robert Pommrich wrote: > I am a still proud owner of a genesi smartbook. > > It is still running wheezy with a kernel in version 2.6.31 with Uboot as > boot loader. > > Someone told me, that the hardware should be supported by now by a > mainline kernel. Unfortunately,

netboot images for Debian 9 seems is broken?

2018-06-14 Thread mizuki
Hi, The netboot image found in http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian9.4/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/ for Debian 9 seems broken, we use that for unattended installation. The error msg returned says: "No kernel modules were found. This probably is due to a mismatch between the

Re: Sata health

2018-06-14 Thread Richard Hector
On 15/06/18 04:30, Gene Heskett wrote: > So thats progress, now if I could just get apt to refresh its repo > listings. That too is a question asked somewhere above. And since I'm > running dd-wrt in my router, I am convinced its related the the name > change, and dd-wrt doesn't have a clue wha

Re: NitroShare doesn't seem to work with Buster

2018-06-14 Thread Felmon Davis
On Thu, 14 Jun 2018, Celejar wrote: On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 00:19:07 -0400 (EDT) Felmon Davis wrote: ... I've used jmtpfs (requires) java; I've used one of the others but jmtpfs doesn't require java, at least not on my (Stretch) machine. ah, ok. my error. false memory. Celejar -- Felm

Re: rsnapshot is Throwing an Intermittent Error.

2018-06-14 Thread Martin McCormick
Greg Wooledge writes: > My immediate thought is to stop throwing away the output of these > commands, so that if one of them is failing or giving warnings, you can > actually see what's wrong. > > At least get rid of the 2>&1 on all 3 lines, so you get the stderr output. > Or log the stdout and s

Re: [Solved, largely] Re: Latest version of X not starting in buster

2018-06-14 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Cindy-Sue Causey wrote on 06/14/18 17:44: > On 6/14/18, Siard wrote: >> On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 12:40 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >>> Siard wrote on 06/13/18 17:28: I took a try and upgraded the xserver-*** packages in testing to version 2:1.20.0 taken from unstable. It did wo

Re: Sata health

2018-06-14 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 12:30:43PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 14 June 2018 11:58:40 Dan Ritter wrote: > > So thats progress, now if I could just get apt to refresh its repo > listings. That too is a question asked somewhere above. And since I'm > running dd-wrt in my router, I am

Re: Sata health

2018-06-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 14 June 2018 11:58:40 Dan Ritter wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 11:20:29AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > Does wheezy have a utility that can scan the sata bus, reporting on > > the health of the hardware, doing it in such a way as to not trigger > > an endless

Re: Sata health

2018-06-14 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 11:20:29AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > Does wheezy have a utility that can scan the sata bus, reporting on the > health of the hardware, doing it in such a way as to not trigger an > endless loop of resets for a device that may not have a good > inter

Re: [Solved, largely] Re: Latest version of X not starting in buster

2018-06-14 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 6/14/18, Siard wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 12:40 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >> Siard wrote on 06/13/18 17:28: >> > >> > I took a try and upgraded the xserver-*** packages in testing to >> > version 2:1.20.0 taken from unstable. >> > It did work; X (started with 'startx') is back, despite

Re: rsnapshot is Throwing an Intermittent Error.

2018-06-14 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 10:36:01AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > /bin/rm: cannot remove > '/var/cache/rsnapshot/halfday.1/wb5agz/home/usr/lib/grub > #Mount backup media first since this next is just a rotation. > mount /rsnapshot1 >/dev/null 2>&1 ||exit 1 > mount /rsnapshot2 >/dev/null 2>&1 ||

rsnapshot is Throwing an Intermittent Error.

2018-06-14 Thread Martin McCormick
On most days or nights, this runs perfectly and then there is the following: From:root@wb5agz (Cron Daemon) Subject: Cron /usr/local/etc/daily_backup /bin/rm: cannot remove '/var/cache/rsnapshot/halfday.1/wb5agz/home/usr/lib/grub /i386-pc': Transport endpoint is not connected /bin/rm: canno

Re: GCC 7

2018-06-14 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 14 Jun 2018, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Took out mk-sbuild for a whirl. What I didn't like at all: when you > invoke a command and it goes out and starts installing packages for > you (and doing other assorted sysadmin tasks). You can do everything that mk-sbuild does for you manually, but

Sata health

2018-06-14 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; Does wheezy have a utility that can scan the sata bus, reporting on the health of the hardware, doing it in such a way as to not trigger an endless loop of resets for a device that may not have a good interconnecting cable? I have a hot swap cage, 3 drive model, and the central

Re: Gtk-ERROR **: GTK+ 2.x symbols detected. Using GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process is not supported

2018-06-14 Thread Ulf Volmer
On 14.06.2018 14:22, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 09:59:01AM +0200, Ulf Volmer wrote: >> On 14.06.2018 09:41, Piotr wrote: >> >>> How can I check if I still have some old packages from Jessie? >> >> 'aptitude purge ~o' should purge obsolete packages. This is mentioned in >> the de

Re: USB Host-Host cables

2018-06-14 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 02:50:51PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > and now you can access the other side via ssh and scp and > > whatever. > > > > I've never used either "ssh" or "scp". *THEREFORE* I believe I have a > reading assignment . After all, that was essentially what I was asking > f

Re: [Solved, largely] Re: Latest version of X not starting in buster

2018-06-14 Thread Siard
On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 12:40 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Siard wrote on 06/13/18 17:28: > > > > I took a try and upgraded the xserver-*** packages in testing to > > version 2:1.20.0 taken from unstable. > > It did work; X (started with 'startx') is back, despite the systemd > > packages having

Re: Gtk-ERROR **: GTK+ 2.x symbols detected. Using GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process is not supported

2018-06-14 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 09:59:01AM +0200, Ulf Volmer wrote: > On 14.06.2018 09:41, Piotr wrote: > > > How can I check if I still have some old packages from Jessie? > > 'aptitude purge ~o' should purge obsolete packages. This is mentioned in > the debian release notes. Another strategy is simply

Re: GCC 7

2018-06-14 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 01:06:27PM +0200, Irek Szcześniak wrote: > I tried schroot in a different way, as described here: > > https://wiki.debian.org/Schroot > > As part of the process, you install a complete, fresh Buster with: > > debootstrap bust

Re: NitroShare doesn't seem to work with Buster

2018-06-14 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 00:19:07 -0400 (EDT) Felmon Davis wrote: ... > I've used jmtpfs (requires) java; I've used one of the others but jmtpfs doesn't require java, at least not on my (Stretch) machine. Celejar

Re: GCC 7

2018-06-14 Thread Irek Szcześniak
I tried schroot in a different way, as described here: https://wiki.debian.org/Schroot As part of the process, you install a complete, fresh Buster with: debootstrap buster /srv/chroot/buster So this solution is like a container. Best, Irek On 14.06.2018 12:47, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:

Re: GCC 7

2018-06-14 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 08:37:57AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jun 2018, Irek Szcześniak wrote: > > Thanks for pointing out pbuilder, I think I'll give it a try. I also might > > want to try virtual containers, but it seems like an overki

Re: [Solved, largely] Re: Latest version of X not starting in buster

2018-06-14 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Siard wrote on 06/13/18 17:28: > I took a try and upgraded the xserver-*** packages in testing to version > 2:1.20.0 taken from unstable. > It did work; X (started with 'startx') is back, despite the systemd > packages having version 238. > It looks like things will be back to normal after the nex

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2018 #578

2018-06-14 Thread Frank Weißer
Hi George, You're obviously trying to install part of the debian-edu/skolelinux distribution. The debian-edu/skolelinux ltsp-server package needs - a debian-edu/skolelinux main-server. - 2NICs For Documentation have a look at jenkins.debian.net/userContent/debian-edu-doc/ or contact > debi

Re: Hibernation does not work after upgrade to Stretch

2018-06-14 Thread davidson
On Wed, 13 Jun 2018, Piotr wrote: On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 04:04:54 + (UTC) davidson wrote: at a search engine eventually led me to this 2007 document, which looks interesting: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt I have not yet read it in full, (and so,

Re: GCC 7

2018-06-14 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 10:44:59AM +0200, Irek Szcześniak wrote: > Tomás, thank you again for your email. > > I didn't finally try pbuilder, because compiling GCC solved my > problem. If something goes wrong, I'll use schroot. Thanks for > pointing o

Re: new install of amd64, 9-4 from iso #1

2018-06-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 14 June 2018 05:00:34 Jimmy Johnson wrote: > On 06/11/2018 04:42 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 11 June 2018 06:40:41 Mirko Parthey wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 04:44:16PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> and 3: to treat the grub install as if there are no other drives >

Re: new install of amd64, 9-4 from iso #1

2018-06-14 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 06/11/2018 04:42 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 11 June 2018 06:40:41 Mirko Parthey wrote: On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 04:44:16PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: and 3: to treat the grub install as if there are no other drives hooked up. I don't need grub to fill half the boot screen with data f

Re: NitroShare doesn't seem to work with Buster

2018-06-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 13 June 2018 23:40:11 Gary Dale wrote: > I note that there aren't any Buster packages available for NitroShare. > The Sid packages don't work with Buster - I get the message > "QSystemTrayIcon::setVisible: No Icon set" when I try to launch it > (from the command line - the Plasma menu

Re: new install of amd64, 9-4 from iso #1

2018-06-14 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 14 June 2018 01:03:12 David Christensen wrote: > On 06/10/18 21:35, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Monday 11 June 2018 00:16:39 David Christensen wrote: > >> On 06/10/18 13:44, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> Greetings all; > >>> > >>> I have the dvd written, and a new 2T drive currently occupyi

Re: GCC 7

2018-06-14 Thread Irek Szcześniak
Tomás, thank you again for your email. I didn't finally try pbuilder, because compiling GCC solved my problem. If something goes wrong, I'll use schroot. Thanks for pointing out pbuilder, it may come handy one day! Best, Irek On 13.06.2018 12:20, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIG

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2018 #578

2018-06-14 Thread george kazungu
DEBIAN LTSP INSTALLATION. SKOLELINUX EDU. I have tried to install it but does not go beyond select and install option during installation. Please how can i install it? and what are other sources of downloading the skolelinux edu if im wrong? I have one server computer with one NIC and 30 hp thin

Re: GCC 7

2018-06-14 Thread Irek Szcześniak
Thank you, Don, for your advice! I tried schroot, and it's awesome! I followed the steps on: https://wiki.debian.org/Schroot I was able to build my code just as on Buster. The difference between schroot and chroot is that with schroot you have assess to the files outside the root directory

Re: Gtk-ERROR **: GTK+ 2.x symbols detected. Using GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process is not supported

2018-06-14 Thread Ulf Volmer
On 14.06.2018 09:41, Piotr wrote: > How can I check if I still have some old packages from Jessie? 'aptitude purge ~o' should purge obsolete packages. This is mentioned in the debian release notes. best regards Ulf

Re: GCC 7

2018-06-14 Thread Irek Szcześniak
Georgi, thank you for you email. I gave it a try. On Stretch, GCC 8.1 compiled and installed cleanly. I put the path to the gcc binary (/usr/local/gcc-8.1.0/bin) in my PATH, and I compiled and ran my code without any other configuration. I expected some linking problems, but the binary dyna

Re: Gtk-ERROR **: GTK+ 2.x symbols detected. Using GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process is not supported

2018-06-14 Thread Piotr
On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 19:18:25 +0200 Ulf Volmer wrote: > AFAIK mate-users-admin is not available in stretch. > only in jessie (in package mate-system-tools). > Are you sure that you have an uptodate stretch system without > old packages from jessie? How can I check if I still have some old pack

Re: A newer kernel for my genesi smartbook

2018-06-14 Thread didier gaumet
Le 13/06/2018 à 21:25, Robert Pommrich a écrit : > Hi, > > I am a still proud owner of a genesi smartbook. > > It is still running wheezy with a kernel in version 2.6.31 with Uboot as > boot loader. > > Someone told me, that the hardware should be supported by now by a > mainline kernel. > > I