LVM Boot fail

2020-02-15 Thread Tom Dial
I have a virtual system that recently started requiring manual intervention to complete boot. It is a qemu-kvm virtual machine with an iSCSI pseudo-disk formatted as an LVM physical volume. The PV contains a single volume group with 8 logical volumes, named for their mount points on /: LV Name

Re: jigdo error

2020-02-15 Thread John Kaufmann
Hi Steve, On 2020-02-15 16:37, Steve McIntyre wrote: ... ... running jidgo-lite on Windows is a minor pain (because Windows no longer provides a context menu option to open-command-window-in-this-folder), but even after going through the rigamarole to run it, jigdo bails out with error message

Re: *nix

2020-02-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 15 Feb 2020 14:03:02 -0700 ghe wrote: > Until recently, the *nix communities have stuck pretty well to these > recommendations -- they're just descriptions of competent programming, > after all. There may be some discussion over the definitions of "one > thing" and "well" but there is sof

Re: *nix

2020-02-15 Thread Charlie Gibbs
> On 2020-02-15 16:16, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >> On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 02:03:02PM -0700, ghe wrote: >> >>> FYI, fogies, in the Jul-Aug, 1978 Bellsystem Technical Journal, >>> announcing Unix, in the Style section of the Foreward is a list of >>> "maxims...gained currency among the builders an

Re: *nix

2020-02-15 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 15 February 2020 16:03:02 ghe wrote: > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Friday, February 14, 2020 10:56 PM, Gene Heskett > > wrote: > > On Friday 14 February 2020 22:56:11 Richard Owlett wrote: > > > On 02/14/2020 12:52 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > FYI, fogies, in the Jul-Aug, 197

Re: *nix

2020-02-15 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2020-02-15 16:16, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 02:03:02PM -0700, ghe wrote: ... FYI, fogies, in the Jul-Aug, 1978 Bellsystem Technical Journal, announcing Unix, in the Style section of the Foreward is a list of "maxims...gained currency among the builders and users..." The

Re: jigdo error

2020-02-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi John, kaufm...@nb.net wrote: >When my last Thinkpad died, I lost my Mint/Xfce. My new Thinkpad, of course, >comes with >Windows 10, and I want to move on to Debian. As a Debian newbie, I'm also new >to jigdo, >but want to use it because it seems the preferred way to download (and anyway >I w

Re: No display power management: Intel i915 display

2020-02-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 21:22:32 -0700 Charles Curley wrote: > However, running "xset dpms force off" works quite well. Not quite. On the second machine, hawk, it works quite well. On the Lenovo, it works for a few minutes, and then the backlight turns back on again. Gn. -- Does anybody read

Re: *nix

2020-02-15 Thread tomas
On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 02:03:02PM -0700, ghe wrote: > > > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Friday, February 14, 2020 10:56 PM, Gene Heskett > wrote: > > > On Friday 14 February 2020 22:56:11 Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > On 02/14/2020 12:52 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > FYI, fogies, in t

*nix

2020-02-15 Thread ghe
‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, February 14, 2020 10:56 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 14 February 2020 22:56:11 Richard Owlett wrote: > > > On 02/14/2020 12:52 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: FYI, fogies, in the Jul-Aug, 1978 Bellsystem Technical Journal, announcing Unix, in the Sty

Re: Revised description of a FOSS friendly PDA

2020-02-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/15/2020 08:44 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: On Feb 13, 2020, Richard Owlett wrote: On 02/11/2020 10:09 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I wish to enter/store data while away from home. The data will then be transferred to my laptop via a USB cable. [Think the capability of one of the old Palm Pilots in

Re: jigdo error

2020-02-15 Thread John Kaufmann
On 2020-02-15 07:07, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 15 feb 20, 05:04:43, John Kaufmann wrote: What a GREAT reply, with context on the proper rationale for Jigdo and choice of alternatives to work around the problem! So I immediately downloaded this: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/a

Re: Revised description of a FOSS friendly PDA

2020-02-15 Thread Dan Purgert
On Feb 13, 2020, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 02/11/2020 10:09 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: >> I wish to enter/store data while away from home. The data will then be >> transferred to my laptop via a USB cable. [Think the capability of one >> of the old Palm Pilots in a smartphone(sic) form factor] >>

[solved] ufw and iptables not playing nice in testing with recent upgrade

2020-02-15 Thread songbird
iptables 1.8.4-3 landed in unstable and iptables/ufw now works. thanks! :) songbird

Re: jigdo error

2020-02-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 15 feb 20, 05:04:43, John Kaufmann wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > What a GREAT reply, with context on the proper rationale for Jigdo and > choice of alternatives to work around the problem! So I immediately > downloaded this: > > https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-1

Re: jigdo error

2020-02-15 Thread John Kaufmann
Hi Thomas, What a GREAT reply, with context on the proper rationale for Jigdo and choice of alternatives to work around the problem! So I immediately downloaded this: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-10.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso and can get started. Thank you! John

Re: jigdo error

2020-02-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > Could someone help me interpret and fix that? Not me, i fear. > - or should I just drop jigdo > and look for a regular download of a live CD? There is the opportunity to use a Live Debian to download a Jigdo ISO: https://wiki.debian.org/JigdoOnLive (I would be interested in learning ho

Re: jigdo error

2020-02-15 Thread john doe
On 2/15/2020 9:32 AM, John Kaufmann wrote: > When my last Thinkpad died, I lost my Mint/Xfce. My new Thinkpad, of > course, comes with Windows 10, and I want to move on to Debian. As a > Debian newbie, I'm also new to jigdo, but want to use it because it > seems the preferred way to download (and a

jigdo error

2020-02-15 Thread John Kaufmann
When my last Thinkpad died, I lost my Mint/Xfce. My new Thinkpad, of course, comes with Windows 10, and I want to move on to Debian. As a Debian newbie, I'm also new to jigdo, but want to use it because it seems the preferred way to download (and anyway I want the full Debian experience). Unfo

Re: There is no mk_MK locale in KDE Plasma

2020-02-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 15 feb 20, 06:11:30, Barney G wrote: > In plasma KDE in system configuration->Personalization->Regional > Settings->Formats->Detailed Settings you cannot chose mk_MK. This is a bug > or it is feature? Try running 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' and enabling mk_MK.UTF-8. Kind regards, Andrei --