Re: unable to install nginx-full package

2018-09-18 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 1:34 AM, Steve Kemp wrote: > > You should be able to see why it fails to start by looking at the > nginx error-log, explore beneath /var/log/nginx. > Thanks Steve. Very helpful. BTW thank you very much for creating https://debian-administration.org/ . I found it invalua

Re: Decrypting LUKS from initramfs; was: Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-18 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 08:00:50PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 16/09/2018 à 00:39, Andy Smith a écrit : > > > >The obvious problem there is an attacker who gets hold of the > >initramfs in order to be able to use the credentials to request the > >passphrase themselves. […] > >

Re: stretch update of thunderbird wants to remove enigmail

2018-09-18 Thread Benjamin Rochefort
Le 18-09-17 à 17 h 10, ernst doubt a écrit : > Greetings, > > I run debian stretch: > > ni@quark:/etc$ cat debian_version > 9.5 > > and I use a number of email clients. I see there is currently an update > (presumably security related?) for thunderbird. But as this upgrade would > remove enigm

RE: where does fvwm get its xterm icon?

2018-09-18 Thread Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)
On Mon Sep 10 08:47:39 EDT 2018, I wrote: >> No matter what I list in config, the xterm icon that comes up matches >> /usr/share/pixmaps/mini.xterm_48x48.xpm (an icon with a blue `T' over a red >> `X'). If I copy some other xpm on top of that and do startx again, I still >> get the original mini.

Re: OT high-power radio broadcasting (was Re: red SATA cable corruption)

2018-09-18 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
Well it should be obvious to all that the "Upper Class Twit Of The Year" is not confined to the British Isles. True, it's a different variety than here, look at Trumpf. And here they have ocean liners rather than Aston-Martins. Yet there is no genetic diversity among them across borders. By the way

Re: OT high-power radio broadcasting (was Re: red SATA cable corruption)

2018-09-18 Thread Dominic Knight
On Tue, 2018-09-18 at 16:13 -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > Brian - > Are you British? > Reading your reply was like reading a Monty Python script. If such > existed. > That's just normal for us Brits. In the late sixties we were somewhat miffed to discover that our excellent, serious, documenta

Re: OT high-power radio broadcasting (was Re: red SATA cable corruption)

2018-09-18 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
Brian - Are you British? Reading your reply was like reading a Monty Python script. If such existed. This is almost too embarrassing to explain to you Brian, but the contact point would be the DIY ethic, wouldn't it be, My Main Man Brian? Homemade Linux, homemade radios, homemade beer: 3 peas in a

Re: OT high-power radio broadcasting (was Re: red SATA cable corruption)

2018-09-18 Thread Brian
On Tue 18 Sep 2018 at 15:50:45 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 18 September 2018 15:12:52 Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > Go In Peace. > > Real radio engineering, despite everything, is a dying art/science. [...] > Now you know why my posts occasionally end with a sigh... As do my read

Re: OT high-power radio broadcasting (was Re: red SATA cable corruption)

2018-09-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 18 September 2018 15:12:52 Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > Go In Peace. > Real radio engineering, despite everything, is a dying art/science. Yes, its got so bad the ma & pa small town broadcaster has to call in a factory engineer to keep them on the air. The days of the likes of Chester

Re: OT high-power radio broadcasting (was Re: red SATA cable corruption)

2018-09-18 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
Go In Peace. Real radio engineering, despite everything, is a dying art/science. Check out the Crystal Set Society, my man. Real Men, Real Women, Real Radios. https://www.midnightscience.net/ On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 2:57 PM Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 14 September 2018 13:58:40 Marty wrote:

Re: The big, the bloated and the hungry

2018-09-18 Thread Étienne Mollier
On 9/18/18 6:56 PM, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > Used Twm in those days :-) still available I believe. Still available, still fast, and still in use if I trust windows decorations illustrating that work on window scaling: https://keithp.com/blogs/window-scaling/ I haven't used it a lot but

Re: Xorg log file filling up with error

2018-09-18 Thread Frank McCormick
On 9/18/18 3:58 AM, Jude DaShiell wrote: On Mon, 17 Sep 2018, Frank McCormick wrote: Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 15:44:16 From: Frank McCormick To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Xorg log file filling up with error Resent-Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 19:59:39 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-use

Re: Decrypting LUKS from initramfs; was: Re: ext2 for /boot ???

2018-09-18 Thread Andrew McGlashan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 18/09/18 04:15, deloptes wrote: > I wanted to have a look at this link, that someone mentioned: > https://hamy.io/post/0009/how-to-install-luks-encrypted-ubuntu-18.04.x - -server-and-enable-remote-unlocking/ > > It seems to address the ques

Re: The big, the bloated and the hungry

2018-09-18 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
Just bragging. First booted linux on a 40MHz PS/2 Model 50 with 8MB RAM. It took X Windows about 10 minutes to start, but it was fully responsive once it was up. Used Twm in those days :-) still available I believe. I rebuilt the kernel once to add a driver. It took 2.5 days, but succeeded and boot

Re: Installing from live

2018-09-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, David Wright wrote: > I mount all the "foreign" partitions readonly (both NTFS and FAT) That's a wise move in general, of course. But if you are downloading a BD sized ISO of 20+ GiB, then RAM based "disk" storage might be too small. As soon as the ISO is composed from template file and Debi

Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete

2018-09-18 Thread David Wright
On Tue 18 Sep 2018 at 16:11:09 (+0200), Pétùr wrote: > Le 18/09/2018 à 15:46, David Wright a écrit : > >> How can I delete these files without formating ? > > To what end? I think you've now got an indication of a problem > > somewhat more serious than some software dreaming up crazy > > file permi

Re: Installing from live

2018-09-18 Thread David Wright
On Tue 18 Sep 2018 at 13:21:31 (+0200), Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Rick Thomas wrote: > > For example, if your home has limited Internet bandwidth, but you can drive > > to a library (or your place of work) where the bandwidth is better, it might > > be better to use the DVD or BD (blue-ray)

Re: Trying to use SP Flash Tool (Mediatek), latest version requires libpng12-0, which is not available

2018-09-18 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 02:08:59PM +, Curt wrote: > I read Greg W's theory regarding this error, but then saw this > thread > > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/331803/cannot-install-libpng12-0-on-debian/331975 > > in which an unfortunate user fails to install the Jessie version of th

Re: Trying to use SP Flash Tool (Mediatek), latest version requires libpng12-0, which is not available

2018-09-18 Thread Curt
On 2018-09-18, Carl Fink wrote: > On 09/17/2018 10:43 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > >> There is no package in buster that provides libpng12.so.0 . The >> libpng12-dev is also not available in testing. It was there in Jessie >> (oldstable). > > Yes. > > That is why I said that in my original mes

Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete

2018-09-18 Thread Pétùr
Le 18/09/2018 à 15:46, David Wright a écrit : >> How can I delete these files without formating ? > To what end? I think you've now got an indication of a problem > somewhat more serious than some software dreaming up crazy > file permissions and timestamps. > > I would now be looking at rescuing

Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete

2018-09-18 Thread David Wright
On Tue 18 Sep 2018 at 14:56:53 (+0200), Pétùr wrote: > Le 11/09/2018 à 13:52, Pétùr a écrit : > > I have some files, with weird permissions: > > > > # ls -la > > d-wS--S--T 2 1061270772 2605320832 4096 oct. 7 2412 index.html > > > > Cannot delete, cannot change owner or group (what is this us

Re: File with weird permissions, impossible to delete

2018-09-18 Thread Pétùr
Le 11/09/2018 à 13:52, Pétùr a écrit : > I have some files, with weird permissions: > > # ls -la > d-wS--S--T 2 1061270772 2605320832 4096 oct. 7 2412 index.html > > Cannot delete, cannot change owner or group (what is this user > 1061270772 and group 2605320832 by the way?) even for root. >

Re: Trying to use SP Flash Tool (Mediatek), latest version requires libpng12-0, which is not available

2018-09-18 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 06:49:39AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On 09/17/2018 10:43 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > There is no package in buster that provides libpng12.so.0 . The > > libpng12-dev is also not available in testing. It was there in Jessie > > (oldstable). >     dpkg: error processin

Bingo! Apache HTP-Server won't fork more than 3000 processes.

2018-09-18 Thread Martin
Am 18.09.2018 um 13:57 schrieb Martin: > Am 18.09.2018 um 13:40 schrieb Mirko Parthey: >> On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 12:37:48PM +0200, Martin wrote: # cd /sys/fs/cgroup/pids/... # cat pids.max >>> >>> There is no pids.max >>> But I have a /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max = 32768 >>> I guess like sys

Re: Apache HTP-Server won't fork more than 3000 processes.

2018-09-18 Thread Martin
Am 18.09.2018 um 13:40 schrieb Mirko Parthey: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 12:37:48PM +0200, Martin wrote: >>> # cd /sys/fs/cgroup/pids/... >>> # cat pids.max >> >> There is no pids.max >> But I have a /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max = 32768 >> I guess like systemd is limiting here? >> >>> How many tasks are

Re: Apache HTP-Server won't fork more than 3000 processes.

2018-09-18 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 12:37:48PM +0200, Martin wrote: > > # cd /sys/fs/cgroup/pids/... > > # cat pids.max > > There is no pids.max > But I have a /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max = 32768 > I guess like systemd is limiting here? > > > How many tasks are assigned to the cgroup? > > # wc -l tasks > > 103

Re: Trying to use SP Flash Tool (Mediatek), latest version requires libpng12-0, which is not available

2018-09-18 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 6:49 AM, Carl Fink wrote: > On 09/17/2018 10:43 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > >> There is no package in buster that provides libpng12.so.0 . The >> libpng12-dev is also not available in testing. It was there in Jessie >> (oldstable). > > > Yes. > > That is why I said tha

Re: Installing from live

2018-09-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Rick Thomas wrote: > For example, if your home has limited Internet bandwidth, but you can drive > to a library (or your place of work) where the bandwidth is better, it might > be better to use the DVD or BD (blue-ray) install image on a USB stick. Yeah. But will a public or workplace machin

Re: Trying to use SP Flash Tool (Mediatek), latest version requires libpng12-0, which is not available

2018-09-18 Thread Carl Fink
On 09/17/2018 10:43 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: There is no package in buster that provides libpng12.so.0 . The libpng12-dev is also not available in testing. It was there in Jessie (oldstable). Yes. That is why I said that in my original message. As for installing the Jessie version as s

Re: Apache HTP-Server won't fork more than 3000 processes.

2018-09-18 Thread Martin
Am 18.09.2018 um 11:51 schrieb Mirko Parthey: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 12:14:11AM +0200, Martin wrote: >> I have an issue with Apache's HTTP-Server 2.4. It says 'Resource temporarily >> unavailable: AH00159: fork: Unable to fork new process'. I know, there are >> some hits with Google, but there

Re: Apache HTP-Server won't fork more than 3000 processes.

2018-09-18 Thread Mirko Parthey
On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 12:14:11AM +0200, Martin wrote: > I have an issue with Apache's HTTP-Server 2.4. It says 'Resource temporarily > unavailable: AH00159: fork: Unable to fork new process'. I know, there are > some hits with Google, but there is no solution to me. > Systemd knows about a task

Re: Installing from live

2018-09-18 Thread Rick Thomas
On Sep 17, 2018, at 10:36 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > "netinst" is supposed to be used by more people for installing than > "live", and it is the much smaller download. Indeed, the fact that it is a smaller download is the main reason why netinst is preferred. It’s a good thing to minimize t

Re: SyncTeX?

2018-09-18 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Monday, 17 Sep 2018 at 01:52, Glenn English wrote: > I tried it earlier, but tossed it because it didn't do stuff I needed > it to do. But after getting two recommendations, I looked again, this > time with its man page. It looks like, with a little futzing, it'll do > a better job than Evince.

Re: Apache HTP-Server won't fork more than 3000 processes.

2018-09-18 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 12:14:11AM +0200, Martin wrote: > I have an issue with Apache's HTTP-Server 2.4. It says 'Resource temporarily > unavailable: AH00159: fork: Unable to fork new process'. I know, there are > some hits with Google, but there is no solution to me. > Systemd knows about a task

Re: Xorg log file filling up with error

2018-09-18 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Mon, 17 Sep 2018, Frank McCormick wrote: > Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 15:44:16 > From: Frank McCormick > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Xorg log file filling up with error > Resent-Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 19:59:39 + (UTC) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Just noticed

Re: unable to install nginx-full package

2018-09-18 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Di, Sep 18, 2018 at 05:34:43 +, Steve Kemp wrote: I would *guess* that you have an existing webserver, such as apache, running. If that is the case you'll want to stop it before you try Or he has IPv6 disabled (maybe company policy). In this case nginx will fail to start as well. Sh