Re: Migrate Stretch to New UEFI Build?

2019-01-11 Thread deloptes
Patrick Bartek wrote: > Actually, if I've understood what I've read over the past two weeks, > that's not correct.  You need a dedicated partition formatted in FAT32, > marked ef00 partition-type with the "boot" flag enabled on it. Mounting > that partition on /boot/efi (or somewhere else, depends

Re: Looking for advice on tools (or libraries) for unsupervised, bulk symmetric encryption/decryption of files

2019-01-11 Thread Stefan Pietsch
On 11.01.19 22:45, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > EncFS should not be used for any new file encryption project, IMHO. > There was the following report in 2014: > https://defuse.ca/audits/encfs.htm > This is referenced in the NEWS file in the EncFS package > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/encfs/blob/de

Re: Slow boot

2019-01-11 Thread Richard Hector
On 12/01/19 4:47 PM, Richard Hector wrote: > On 12/01/19 1:28 AM, David wrote: >> Hi, I have no expertise in this, except to suggest that if I was >> seeing your symptoms then I would investigate if the discussion >> here might be relevant: >> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/12/msg00184.

Re: Slow boot

2019-01-11 Thread Richard Hector
On 12/01/19 1:28 AM, David wrote: > Hi, I have no expertise in this, except to suggest that if I was > seeing your symptoms then I would investigate if the discussion > here might be relevant: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/12/msg00184.html Interesting, thanks - I'm going to try 4.19

Re: Slow boot

2019-01-11 Thread Richard Hector
On 12/01/19 3:41 AM, Michael Stone wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 02:03:44PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: >> According to dmesg, this is where it appears to hang: >> >> [    2.717311] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3 >> [    2.717398] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.35.0-ioctl (2016-06-23) >> initial

Re: Migrate Stretch to New UEFI Build?

2019-01-11 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 04:56:07PM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 07:13:30 -0500 Michael Stone wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 03:53:11PM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: >Plus, I >want to have a common-shared /boot partition for possible future >upgrades or expansions. This is a

Re: Migrate Stretch to New UEFI Build?

2019-01-11 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 08:38:52 +0100 deloptes wrote: > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > Building a new UEFI system to supplant my "showing its age" 12 year old > > non-UEFI, MBR-only system, and don't want to do a clean install of > > Stretch. Cloning drive and converting to GPT is out. I want on

Re: Migrate Stretch to New UEFI Build?

2019-01-11 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 07:13:30 -0500 Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 03:53:11PM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >Plus, I > >want to have a common-shared /boot partition for possible future > >upgrades or expansions. > > This is a really bad idea, and will cause far more trouble th

Re: dumb question about SSL

2019-01-11 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 10:17:05PM +, mick crane wrote: > I'm having a bit of bother with my home server thingy. > does apache, roundcube, dovecot, cups. > is buster. > Is problem with roundcube communicating with dovecot or something. sending > mail times out and the settings webpage isn't wor

dumb question about SSL

2019-01-11 Thread mick crane
I'm having a bit of bother with my home server thingy. does apache, roundcube, dovecot, cups. is buster. Is problem with roundcube communicating with dovecot or something. sending mail times out and the settings webpage isn't working whereas it was fine a week ago. It occurs to me I don't rea

Re: Setting a USB for multi usages

2019-01-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: > My purpose is having a USB stick splitted in 2 parts: > 1. MBR + partitions: a Debian installer from an ISO > 2. A blank partition to install data or whatver > > While I know to "burn" an iso on a key via dd, how can I do to have a clean > installer but using key

Re: Setting a USB for multi usages

2019-01-11 Thread Joel Wirāmu Pauling
If using Uefi installs you only need to have a vfat formated first partition with a folder called efi and the appropriate efi binary/substructure. You can use the rest of the disk as you like. BIOS installers on the same can be achieved with syslinux in addition to uefi. However I find that just h

Re: Slow boot

2019-01-11 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 1/11/19, Dan Ritter wrote: > Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: >> On 1/11/19, Dan Ritter wrote: >> > >> > As an experiment -- try this: >> > >> > echo udev_log=\"err\" >> /etc/udev/udev.conf >> > >> > (Or, alternatively, edit /etc/udef/udev.conf and insert/change >> > that as necessary.) >> >> >> Manual

Re: Looking for advice on tools (or libraries) for unsupervised, bulk symmetric encryption/decryption of files

2019-01-11 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 10:18:47PM -0500, Celejar wrote: The standard encryption technology for linux is LUKS. It works on the block device level, not the file level. LUKS would be no good if the user wants to move/copy/share the encrypted files, encrypted, elsewhere: they didn't say so explici

Setting a USB for multi usages

2019-01-11 Thread MENGUAL Jean-Philippe
Hi, My purpose is having a USB stick splitted in 2 parts: 1. MBR + partitions: a Debian installer from an ISO 2. A blank partition to install data or whatver While I know to "burn" an iso on a key via dd, how can I do to have a clean installer but using key for other usages? Thanks very much

Re: Monitor process who is eat my entropy

2019-01-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 10:33:39PM +0300, Reco wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 08:28:18PM +0100, basti wrote: > > is there a way to monitor processes that access /dev/urandom > > auditctl -w /dev/urandom -r > > remove it with > > auditctl -D Note also that one should not really be conc

Re: Monitor process who is eat my entropy

2019-01-11 Thread Reco
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 08:28:18PM +0100, basti wrote: > Hello, > > is there a way to monitor processes that access /dev/urandom auditctl -w /dev/urandom -r remove it with auditctl -D > and show how may entropy the get? You'll probably need some advanced kernel-level tracing facility (such as

Monitor process who is eat my entropy

2019-01-11 Thread basti
Hello, is there a way to monitor processes that access /dev/urandom and show how may entropy the get? I have try lsof /dev/urandom without luck. Best regards,

Can't disable touchpad while typing (Wayland)

2019-01-11 Thread Hank Barta
Hi all, I'm inclined to file a bug for this but before I do the reportbug GUI suggests I contact the list. I'm running Debian Buster on a Dell XPS 13 9370 and using Gnome on Wayland. I've checked 'Disable While Typing' in Tweaks -> Keyboard & Mouse -> Touchpad and also confirmed with hbarta@rocinan

Re: Slow boot

2019-01-11 Thread deloptes
David wrote: > Hi, I have no expertise in this, except to suggest that if I was > seeing your symptoms then I would investigate if the discussion > here might be relevant: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/12/msg00184.html Good story - thanks and no comments!

Re: Why choose Debian on server

2019-01-11 Thread francis picabia
Both Debian and CentOS are good choices for a server OS. We use both in my workplace. We don't install a desktop. It is not required and it is a waste of resources. Debian is a good fit for developers, as there is a great breadth of packages, and often more recent. CentOS is easier to manage as

Re: kernel "unsigned" in sid

2019-01-11 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 09:55:45AM +0100, dot...@gmail.com wrote: I recently came across an inconsistency in sid that it seems difficult (to me) to overcome. A kernel package named linux-image-4.19.0-1-amd64-unsigned provides the running kernel but, since few days ago, it creates conflicts with

Re: Slow boot

2019-01-11 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 02:03:44PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: According to dmesg, this is where it appears to hang: [2.717311] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3 [2.717398] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.35.0-ioctl (2016-06-23) initialised: dm-d e...@redhat.com [2.978281] clocksource: S

Re: Failure to boot - LVM problems?

2019-01-11 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 03:16:37PM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: It turns out the later failures to boot probably weren't; it's just that I had 'quiet' enabled in the kernel commandline. Disabling that enabled me to see where it was hanging Yeah, I hate that "quiet" is the default--in the best

Re: Slow boot

2019-01-11 Thread Dan Ritter
Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 1/11/19, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Richard Hector wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> This machine is taking ages to boot. > >> > >> It's a fresh install. > >> > >> According to dmesg, this is where it appears to hang: > >> > >> [2.717311] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0

Re: Slow boot

2019-01-11 Thread David
On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 at 12:04, Richard Hector wrote: > > This machine is taking ages to boot. You could also try the 'systemd-analyze blame' tool.

Re: Slow boot

2019-01-11 Thread David
On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 at 12:04, Richard Hector wrote: > > Hi all, > > This machine is taking ages to boot. > > It's a fresh install. > > According to dmesg, this is where it appears to hang: > > [2.717311] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3 > [2.717398] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.35.0-ioctl (

Re: Migrate Stretch to New UEFI Build?

2019-01-11 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 03:53:11PM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: Plus, I want to have a common-shared /boot partition for possible future upgrades or expansions. This is a really bad idea, and will cause far more trouble than it can possibly save in the future. You do need one EFI partition pe

Re: Slow boot

2019-01-11 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 1/11/19, Dan Ritter wrote: > Richard Hector wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> This machine is taking ages to boot. >> >> It's a fresh install. >> >> According to dmesg, this is where it appears to hang: >> >> [2.717311] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3 >> [2.717398] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.35

Re: Slow boot

2019-01-11 Thread Dan Ritter
Richard Hector wrote: > Hi all, > > This machine is taking ages to boot. > > It's a fresh install. > > According to dmesg, this is where it appears to hang: > > [2.717311] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3 > [2.717398] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.35.0-ioctl (2016-06-23) > initialised: d

kernel "unsigned" in sid

2019-01-11 Thread dotdeb
I recently came across an inconsistency in sid that it seems difficult (to me) to overcome. A kernel package named linux-image-4.19.0-1-amd64-unsigned provides the running kernel but, since few days ago, it creates conflicts with the metapackage linux-image-amd64 (bercause it depends on linux-imag

Re: Slow boot

2019-01-11 Thread Curt
On 2019-01-11, Richard Hector wrote: > > Hints on where to look for the boot sequence in the kernel source, perhap= > s? > If you're using systemd the output of systemd-analyze blame systemd-analyze critical-chain might be informative.