Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-28 Thread Leslie Rhorer
Not necessarily, and in particular not given his needs, if I recall them correctly. LVM is fine for many purposes, but it is not required, nor is a network file system. My servers at home have no partitions and no LVM, and I have the RAID system for the data volume formatted as XFS. I use s

Re: [?]Last Mile problem enabling Bluetooth Device on Lenovo Laptop

2020-06-28 Thread Susmita/Rajib
[Solved in Debian] [Solved in Knoppix] Thank you, dear illustrious List leaders and members, who allowed my post to the User List at the link: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/06/msg01207.html, raed(read) it, raed the post on the Debian forum at the link given there: http://forums.debian.

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-28 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-06-28 19:19, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-06-28 11:24, Miles Fidelman wrote: RAID is easy - Debian supports a number of software RAID options, and most motherboards support some form of hardware RAID (as to many external drive enclosures). Yes.  I avoid them. Correction -- I

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-28 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-06-28 11:24, Miles Fidelman wrote: On 6/28/20 3:16 AM, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-06-26 11:34, echo test wrote: I view Debian as the dominant enthusiast Linux distribution in the USA. Also pretty dominant in enterprise settings - particularly universities.  Still built pri

Re: Some services cannot start at boot time because /run or /var is not mounted

2020-06-28 Thread Dmitry Katsubo
Dear Debian community, I hit the similar problem but this time with /run folder. Few services have failed to start: # systemctl status php7.0-fpm.service Jun 24 23:09:48 debian php-fpm7.0[893]: [24-Jun-2020 23:09:48] ERROR: unable to bind listening socket for address '/run/php/php7.0-fpm.sock':

Re: I would like some assistance filing two xen related bugs

2020-06-28 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Jun 28, 2020 at 01:42:02PM +0200, Daniel Widenfalk wrote: > I would very much appreciate some quick pointers on how to properly report > this so that I don't have to dig up my posts to the xen users mailing list > to figure out something I already should know. Xen is a pretty fring

Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment

2020-06-28 Thread songbird
Richard Owlett wrote: ... > What is the forgotten command to automatically launch the desktop at boot? i use lightdm and edit the config file to have the auto login happen. it just works (most of the time as i'm running testing here or there sometimes a glitch does happen and i have to either

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 6/28/20 3:58 PM, D. R. Evans wrote: Dan Ritter wrote on 6/26/20 1:41 PM: echo test wrote: Note: I will need some RAID solution hard or soft. We are firmly of the opinion that mdadm or ZFS are the best solutions here. Absolutely. Actually I'd go further and differentiate the two by sugg

Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment

2020-06-28 Thread Jude DaShiell
If I run a gui, I prefer to be logged in before that gui starts up. Probably systemctl disable lightdm as root then editing startx such that the last line runs mate gets something like this done. On Sun, 28 Jun 2020, Brian wrote: > Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2020 15:53:59 > From: Brian > To: debian-user@

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-28 Thread D. R. Evans
Dan Ritter wrote on 6/26/20 1:41 PM: > echo test wrote: > >> Note: I will need some RAID solution hard or soft. > > We are firmly of the opinion that mdadm or ZFS are the best > solutions here. > Absolutely. Actually I'd go further and differentiate the two by suggesting that if you use ECC me

Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment

2020-06-28 Thread Brian
On Sun 28 Jun 2020 at 11:02:53 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 06/28/2020 10:15 AM, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 28 Jun 2020 at 08:21:29 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > > > The default install of the MATE desktop installs too much I don't want. > > > Unfortunately the Debian installer does no

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 6/28/20 6:37 AM, echo test wrote: Hello, Thank you for all your answers and sorry to be late for answering. > I prefer ZFS but I find that lots of corps prefer mdadm. I really think that's simply > because ZFS came from Sun and they lack Solaris backgrounds. Now, in a low-> RAM environmen

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-28 Thread Miles Fidelman
A few comments on the advice below On 6/28/20 3:16 AM, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-06-26 11:34, echo test wrote: I view Debian as the dominant enthusiast Linux distribution in the USA. I use it on my SOHO laptops and desktops because it mostly works on most x86/x86_64 computers made in

Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment

2020-06-28 Thread Brian
On Sun 28 Jun 2020 at 08:21:29 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > The default install of the MATE desktop installs too much I don't want. Mmm. > Unfortunately the Debian installer does not allow coerces the installation > of "recommended" packages. This is not correct. The installer allows a determ

Re: new camera

2020-06-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 28 June 2020 11:30:55 David Wright wrote: > On Sat 27 Jun 2020 at 18:44:18 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 27 June 2020 14:50:09 Reco wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 04:20:03PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > [598962.015764] uvcvideo 1-12.4.4.4:1.0: Entity type for e

Re: [off-list] Re: new camera

2020-06-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 28 June 2020 11:36:00 David Wright wrote: > On Sat 27 Jun 2020 at 18:44:18 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > And I've rx'd a message from one of my sons who will arrive with his > > main squeeze tomorrow, so I may be busy tomorrow too. No clue how > > long they will stay, but I know he's

Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment

2020-06-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/28/2020 10:15 AM, David Wright wrote: On Sun 28 Jun 2020 at 08:21:29 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: The default install of the MATE desktop installs too much I don't want. Unfortunately the Debian installer does not allow coerces the installation of "recommended" packages. Therefore I did

Re: new camera

2020-06-28 Thread David Wright
On Sat 27 Jun 2020 at 18:44:18 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 27 June 2020 14:50:09 Reco wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 04:20:03PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > [598962.015764] uvcvideo 1-12.4.4.4:1.0: Entity type for entity > > > Camera 1 was not initialized! > > > > This, combi

Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment

2020-06-28 Thread David Wright
On Sun 28 Jun 2020 at 08:21:29 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > The default install of the MATE desktop installs too much I don't want. > Unfortunately the Debian installer does not allow coerces the > installation of "recommended" packages. > > Therefore I did an install without *ANY* desktop env

Re: new camera

2020-06-28 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 28 June 2020 06:42:23 songbird wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > ... > > > But, I'm still here... Pace yourself. > > thanks! yes! as long as i can! :) > > i'm not being paid for anything so i can do what i > want as much as possible these days. i just chose at > the time almost 25y

Re: new camera

2020-06-28 Thread songbird
Gene Heskett wrote: ... > But, I'm still here... Pace yourself. thanks! yes! as long as i can! :) i'm not being paid for anything so i can do what i want as much as possible these days. i just chose at the time almost 25yrs ago to get away from doing nothing but computer stuff for large

Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment

2020-06-28 Thread echo test
Hello, If you want the desktop environment to be started automatically check that systemd is configured to run in graphical environment $> systemctl set-default graphical.target If this is already setup, and you can launch your DE with startx, check also that mate is the default DE with update-

Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment

2020-06-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/28/2020 08:39 AM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Sun, 28 Jun 2020 08:21:29 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: The default install of the MATE desktop installs too much I don't want. Unfortunately the Debian installer does not allow coerces the installation of "recommended" packages. Therefore I did

Re: Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment

2020-06-28 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 28 Jun 2020 08:21:29 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: > The default install of the MATE desktop installs too much I don't want. > Unfortunately the Debian installer does not allow coerces the > installation of "recommended" packages. > > Therefore I did an install without *ANY* desktop envir

Installing/launching MATE in a command line environment

2020-06-28 Thread Richard Owlett
The default install of the MATE desktop installs too much I don't want. Unfortunately the Debian installer does not allow coerces the installation of "recommended" packages. Therefore I did an install without *ANY* desktop environment. [Used DVD1 of Debian 8.6, latest for which I had a physical

I would like some assistance filing two xen related bugs

2020-06-28 Thread Daniel Widenfalk
Hi, Four years ago I ran into two issues with the xen support in Debian - at that time I forgot to report these issues back to Debian. Now, when setting up a new machine I ran into the second of these issues (and it turned out that the first one was still there). Scenario: An Amd 3700X CPU o

Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-28 Thread echo test
Hello, Thank you for all your answers and sorry to be late for answering. > I prefer ZFS but I find that lots of corps prefer mdadm. I really think that's simply > because ZFS came from Sun and they lack Solaris backgrounds. Now, in a low-> RAM environment with simpler disc needs, I would probabl

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-28 Thread deloptes
David Christensen wrote: > There have been 16 responses to your post in the past 36+ hours.  You > should reply to at least some of them. > > > David Excellent reading (at least for me) even if OP does not reply, it is not wasted. regards

Re: new camera

2020-06-28 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 06:44:18PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 27 June 2020 14:50:09 Reco wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 04:20:03PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > [598962.015764] uvcvideo 1-12.4.4.4:1.0: Entity type for entity > > > Camera 1 was not initialized! >

Re: Advice on hardware server to use for small a dedicated data center

2020-06-28 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-06-26 11:34, echo test wrote: Hello, Hello. :-) First of all, please don't ask me why I simply don't want to use aws or gcp. Even if you do not use their services, you might find it useful to emulate them and implement a private cloud. Then, I want to build a small data center