Re: Debian Releases

2019-06-25 Thread andreimpopescu
On Vi, 17 mai 19, 17:05:40, Francisco M Neto wrote: > As the first in a series of (maybe 2) posts about Debian's release cycle, > I'vecreated the following post. > > I would love to receive any feedback on it. > > http://fmneto.com.br/en/en/archives/2019/tracking-busters-release/ Disclaimer: b

Re: DVD Burning speed

2019-06-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, deloptes wrote: > What does determine the DVD burning speed? Is it the DVD or the burner or > both? The drive decides according to its assessment of the medium and the speed wish issued by the burn program. The drive announces a list of possible speeds, depending on the medium. E.g.: $ xo

Re: [Solved - sorta - part 2] Re: how to switch a Debian buster system from systemd to sys-v init

2019-06-25 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Rick Thomas (2019-06-25 03:32:41) > > On Jun 23, 2019, at 2:24 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 05:45:39PM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > >> > >> Purely out of curiosity, I'd like to see what's involved in > >> switching a Debian buster system from systemd to sysv

Re: DVD Burning speed

2019-06-25 Thread deloptes
Jude DaShiell wrote: > The speed in the burning command and the fs parameter.  Needs the right > amount of memory in it and that's a factor of machine resource > availability. but I do not have option 1x - it gives me minimum 3x. Why is this so

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

2019-06-25 Thread The Wanderer
On 2019-06-25 at 09:28, Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 08:46:28AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2019-06-25 at 08:11, Michael Stone wrote: >>> It isn't because: 1) the new names are predictable but not >>> constant, so you can't configure a single default across all >>> syste

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

2019-06-25 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 19:35:03 -0400 The Wanderer wrote: > On 2019-06-25 at 09:06, Celejar wrote: ... > > certainly greater than mine - but tab completion works in this context, > > so you can simply do 'ip addr show dev e', etc. > > Not in my environment, it doesn't. That's presumably because I

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

2019-06-25 Thread The Wanderer
On 2019-06-25 at 09:06, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 13:12:58 +0200 > wrote: > > ... > >> [1] Both are valid decisions, it's your machine, after all. I, for >>example, went the "old ways", because I do much manual config >>at the shell, and it's definitely more ergonomical to ty

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

2019-06-25 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 9:00 AM Dan Purgert wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > The "problem" with them was that they apparently weren't consistent > across boots if you had multiples of the same "type" -- although I can't > remember that ever happenening, even on crazy

Re: DVD Burning speed

2019-06-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
The speed in the burning command and the fs parameter. Needs the right amount of memory in it and that's a factor of machine resource availability. On Wed, 26 Jun 2019, deloptes wrote: > Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 18:02:29 > From: deloptes > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: DVD Burning s

DVD Burning speed

2019-06-25 Thread deloptes
What does determine the DVD burning speed? Is it the DVD or the burner or both? How can I write DL dvd at 1x speed? thanks and regards

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

2019-06-25 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 Jun 2019 13:12:58 +0200 wrote: ... > [1] Both are valid decisions, it's your machine, after all. I, for >example, went the "old ways", because I do much manual config >at the shell, and it's definitely more ergonomical to type > > ip addr show dev eth0 > >than > >

Re: Numeric keypad not working on Gnome lock screen

2019-06-25 Thread andreimpopescu
On Ma, 25 iun 19, 14:56:28, Steven Post wrote: > > Update, I noticed that it shows the same issue when entering a wi-fi > password, or root password. Such dialog boxes are kind of special, e.g. to prevent other programs from stealing the focus. This seems to suggest a bug/feature in Gnome/GTK l

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

2019-06-25 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 04:22:54PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: The one thing I can't understand is why we still don't have "network interface aliases" (equivalent to symlinks), so that systemd can name my interface enp2s0 *and* eth0 instead of having to choose between those two, just like it has

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

2019-06-25 Thread Stefan Monnier
>>The one thing I can't understand is why we still don't have "network >>interface aliases" (equivalent to symlinks), so that systemd can name my >>interface enp2s0 *and* eth0 instead of having to choose between those >>two, just like it has no problem naming my SSD /dev/sda and >>/dev/disk/by-id/a

Re: cannot install from backports

2019-06-25 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 04:04:55PM -0400, Brian Cary wrote: >Greetings! >As the title says, I can't seem to install anything from backports. >Example, lets say I need to upgrade Gimp from 2.8 (in stable) to 2.10 (in >Testing).If I go to [1]https://backports.debian.org/Packages/ I ca

Re: cannot install from backports

2019-06-25 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 04:04:55PM -0400, Brian Cary wrote: > I run this: > *apt -t stretch-backports install gimp* > And my newly installed Debian 9.9 replies: > > *gimp is already the newest version (2.8.18-1+deb9u1).0 upgraded, 0 newly > installed, 0 to remove and 153 not upgraded.* > Which is

cannot install from backports

2019-06-25 Thread Brian Cary
Greetings! As the title says, I can't seem to install *any*thing from backports. *Example*, lets say I need to upgrade *Gimp* from 2.8 (in stable) to 2.10 (in Testing).If I go to https://backports.debian.org/Packages/ I can *verify* that 2.10 is indeed in testing. I run this: *apt -t stretch-back

Re: New Hardware + old disks not recognized

2019-06-25 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 24/06/2019 à 01:40, Ross Boylan a écrit : # update-initramfs -u -k 4.19.0-5-amd64 update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-5-amd64 /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/cryptroot: 64: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/cryptroot: cannot open /proc/mounts: No such file cryptsetup: WARNING

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

2019-06-25 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 08:23:31PM +0200, Martin S. Weber wrote: This is not true. I use USB OTGs of embedded devices behind an USB hub, and the interface names vary between various power cycles of the embedded devices. Current default for USB ethernet (AFAIK) is to use enx where t

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

2019-06-25 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 01:05:56PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > However, if you upgraded to stretch, I think you'd have to show that > you'd allowed the system to preserve the old names, rather than trying > to circumvent Debian's methods for doing so. Isn't that what you've done? Upgrades to stre

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

2019-06-25 Thread Martin S. Weber
Hi! To derail this discussion a bit more ... On 2019-06-25 08:46:28, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2019-06-25 at 08:11, Michael Stone wrote: > > (...) > > 1) the new names are predictable but not constant, so you can't > > configure a single default across all systems > (...) > On a single computer wi

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

2019-06-25 Thread David Wright
On Tue 25 Jun 2019 at 11:09:12 (+0200), Hans wrote: > Hi Tomas, > > > The moniker for that is "predictable interface names". And you > > seem to assume that there hasn't been a discussion. > > > > This being Debian, there sure has been one, you just didn't > > notice :-) > > > Might be, but this

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

2019-06-25 Thread David Wright
On Tue 25 Jun 2019 at 12:01:31 (-0400), Stefan Monnier wrote: > > For good description of the problem (unpredictable names) and the logic > > behind the chosen solution: > >> https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/ > > The one thing I can't understand is

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

2019-06-25 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 12:01:31PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: For good description of the problem (unpredictable names) and the logic behind the chosen solution: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/ The one thing I can't understand is why we sti

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

2019-06-25 Thread Stefan Monnier
> For good description of the problem (unpredictable names) and the logic > behind the chosen solution: >> https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/ The one thing I can't understand is why we still don't have "network interface aliases" (equivalent to syml

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

2019-06-25 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2019 25 Jun 09:00 -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: > The "problem" with them was that they apparently weren't consistent > across boots if you had multiples of the same "type" -- although I can't > remember that ever happenening, even on crazy frankenboxes that had 3 > and 4 PCI NICs in them (barring

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

2019-06-25 Thread Nate Bargmann
Thanks for explaining the limitation of the udev assignment mechanism and why the present system was adopted. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us GPG key: D55A8819 GitHub: N0NB signa

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

2019-06-25 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 01:59:27PM -, Dan Purgert wrote: Michael Stone wrote: weren't constant, but people didn't seem to care as much about the nuances because "that's the way it's always been". (Sometimes it was an eth, sometimes it was a wlan, etc.) Why were those differences ok but these

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

2019-06-25 Thread Dan Purgert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 08:46:28AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: >>On 2019-06-25 at 08:11, Michael Stone wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 11:09:12AM +0200, Hans wrote: >>> Might be, but this does not explain, why there a

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

2019-06-25 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 09:30:59AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 09:05:30AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Debian's defaults are a bit baffling sometimes. They assumed a mobile > > device when they decided to put "allow-hotplug" on your wired ethernet > > interfaces, which

Re: [Solved - sorta - part 2] Re: how to switch a Debian buster system from systemd to sys-v init

2019-06-25 Thread Dan Ritter
Rick Thomas wrote: > > In any case, the solution I came up with is > > apt-get --purge install -y sysvinit-core dbus- glib-networking- > libgtk-3-0- > apt-get --purge autoremove > > Note the trailing minus-signs on dbus- glib-networking- libgtk-3-0- These > packages need to be delete

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

2019-06-25 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 09:05:30AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: Debian's defaults are a bit baffling sometimes. They assumed a mobile device when they decided to put "allow-hotplug" on your wired ethernet interfaces, which breaks everything under the sun on traditional servers or workstations in

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

2019-06-25 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 08:46:28AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: On 2019-06-25 at 08:11, Michael Stone wrote: On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 11:09:12AM +0200, Hans wrote: Might be, but this does not explain, why there are still scripts and configurations, which are still using the old names. And THAT i

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

2019-06-25 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 08:46:28AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On a single computer with any number of interfaces of any type, the new > names are 100% predictable from one boot to the next. (At least assuming > you don't change which slot a given network device is connected to; IIRC > that can ch

Re: Numeric keypad not working on Gnome lock screen

2019-06-25 Thread Steven Post
On Mon, 2019-06-24 at 22:15 +0200, Steven Post wrote: > (Please keep me in CC, as I'm not subscribed to the mailing list) > > On Sun, 2019-06-23 at 19:16 +0300, andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Lu, 13 mai 19, 11:29:10, Steven Post wrote: > > > > > > Recently the numeric keypad stopped worki

Re: Question on vgconvert

2019-06-25 Thread Steve Keller
Zdenek Kabelac wrote: > Wow :) where you've been hiding for last ~15 years when format V2 exists ;) > V1 is considered obsolete for very looong time and it's been even dropped > from support from version 2.03. That server has indeed been set up rougly 15 years ago. And until now, we had no need

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-25 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 10:38:10AM +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > In this hypothetical scenario, the sudoers rule is applied to ALL systems, > including production ones, and sysadmins doesn't have proper backups. On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 08:45:13AM -, Curt wrote: > I'd just get a better hypothet

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

2019-06-25 Thread The Wanderer
On 2019-06-25 at 08:11, Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 11:09:12AM +0200, Hans wrote: > >> Might be, but this does not explain, why there are still scripts >> and configurations, which are still using the old names. And THAT >> is the problem. > > It isn't because: > 1) the new na

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

2019-06-25 Thread Curt
On 2019-06-25, Hans wrote: > > When it was decided to use new names, then ALL related packages should be > adapted to the new style. If it is not done, this is a bug. More over, IMO it > is a critical release bug. For a new release I expect those things fixed. It > is > a thing of quality. Ho

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

2019-06-25 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 11:09:12AM +0200, Hans wrote: Might be, but this does not explain, why there are still scripts and configurations, which are still using the old names. And THAT is the problem. It isn't because: 1) the new names are predictable but not constant, so you can't configure a

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

2019-06-25 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 01:36:23PM +0200, Hans wrote: > > You mean *your* old files or those coming with *new* Debian packages? > Here I mean *new* Debian packages. What I want to say is this: Upgrading to a > new package version should not destroy the system or force the admin to edit > many con

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

2019-06-25 Thread Hans
> You mean *your* old files or those coming with *new* Debian packages? Here I mean *new* Debian packages. What I want to say is this: Upgrading to a new package version should not destroy the system or force the admin to edit many configurations manually. When it was decided to use new names,

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

2019-06-25 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 12:56:45PM +0200, Hans wrote: > Hi Richard and Tomas, > > maybe I was not clear enough. So I try to explain again: [...] > The point is: There are many OLD files from FORMER installations of times > ago, You mean *your* old files or those coming with *new* Debian packa

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

2019-06-25 Thread Hans
Hi Richard and Tomas, maybe I was not clear enough. So I try to explain again: When it is recommended to use the predictable names, then please explain me (and all the other people), why the heck are configuration files and scripts still using the old names. I do not want to know, WHY these a

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

2019-06-25 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 05:07:07AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/25/2019 03:49 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > >[1] > >https://wiki.debian.org/NewInStretch#If_you_install_fresh_instead_of_upgrading... > >You do read the release notes, don't you? ;-) > > That reference leads to two pa

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

2019-06-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/25/2019 03:49 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [1] https://wiki.debian.org/NewInStretch#If_you_install_fresh_instead_of_upgrading... You do read the release notes, don't you? ;-) That reference leads to two pages worth reading by fellow newbies. For good description of the problem (unpr

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

2019-06-25 Thread Hans
Hi Tomas, > The moniker for that is "predictable interface names". And you > seem to assume that there hasn't been a discussion. > > This being Debian, there sure has been one, you just didn't > notice :-) > Might be, but this does not explain, why there are still scripts and configurations, wh

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

2019-06-25 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 10:03:48AM +0200, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, [...] > The issue: > Since some time the ethernet devices like wlan0 or eth0 got new names, like > wlp2s0 or enp0s9 or similar. > > Whilst this is no problem to change these manually in > /etc/network/interfaces, > there are a

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-25 Thread Curt
On 2019-06-25, Aidan Gauland wrote: >> >> In this hypothetical scenario, the sudoers rule is applied to ALL >> systems, including production ones, and sysadmins doesn't have proper >> backups. > OK, not having a (good) backup system is definitely bad.  You should > always have that even if your se

New nomeclature of ethernet devices

2019-06-25 Thread Hans
Hi folks, there is a little thing, we should either discuss or I should be pointed to your solution. The issue: Since some time the ethernet devices like wlan0 or eth0 got new names, like wlp2s0 or enp0s9 or similar. Whilst this is no problem to change these manually in /etc/network/interfaces

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-25 Thread Aidan Gauland
On 25/06/19 3:38 PM, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > On 24/06/19 06.27, Aidan Gauland wrote: > >> I can't really offer an opinion on whether it is dangerous without a >> more detailed hypothetical scenario, but I would say that is >> overbroad, and this rule should be narrowed down to only allow >> running

Re: How can we check that a compressed file is rsyncable ?

2019-06-25 Thread Curt
On 2019-06-25, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 12:42:37PM -, Curt wrote: >> On 2019-06-22, Andy Smith wrote: >> > I am not aware of any other compression tool that offers to do what >> > gzip's --rsyncable option does, but I owuld be interested if there >> > are some that

Hddtemp vs smartctl

2019-06-25 Thread basti
Hello, I have a toshiba usb drive. With smartctl i can see some values, hddtemp show nothing: smartctl -i /dev/sdc; smartctl -a /dev/sdc | grep 194 smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [i686-linux-4.9.0-9-686-pae] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

Re: Giving remaja (teens) group full administrator privileges through sudo - dangerous?

2019-06-25 Thread mick crane
On 2019-06-25 04:38, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: On 24/06/19 06.27, Aidan Gauland wrote: I can't really offer an opinion on whether it is dangerous without a more detailed hypothetical scenario, but I would say that is overbroad, and this rule should be narrowed down to only allow running certain co