Re: Re: Problem upgrading libc6 on sid

2016-02-02 Thread Brad Alexander
> If you are working from remote machine, the problem might be restarting > services which kills your connection. The problem is that it did not behave this way on any of the other containers on either of my hosts. These are all via ssh connections, the same as I have been doing since 2002. --b >

Problem upgrading libc6 on sid

2016-02-01 Thread Brad Alexander
I have an openvz container that I am having a hard time upgrading libc6. Whether I use dpkg -i, apt-get, or aptitude, I get the same result. (Reading database ... 56136 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../archives/libc6_2.21-7_i386.deb ... Checking for services that

Re: search engines (hijacked from rapidly proliferating sess files )

2014-05-24 Thread Brad Alexander
On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > +1 for StartPage. I'm a StartPage user, I don't use Google anymore, but > to be fair, Google shows suggestions while you're typing, so assumed you > misspell or you don't remember some terms, Google is easier to use than > StartPage, IOW becau

Re: Accelerated driver for Intel video driver?

2014-05-22 Thread Brad Alexander
Hi...OP here... Does anyone have any suggestions on the original problem with video on the Intel drivers on this Dell laptop? Thanks, --b On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 6:22 AM, Brian wrote: > On Thu 22 May 2014 at 12:49:43 +0300, Pertti Kosunen wrote: > > > On 22.5.2014 11:15, Tom H wrote: > > >You

Re: Accelerated driver for Intel video driver?

2014-05-20 Thread Brad Alexander
Thanks Filip, On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:08 AM, Filip wrote: > On Mon, 19 May 2014 19:18:38 -0400 > > Intel video is normally working out of the box, but for newer > hardware you also need up to date software. > > So if you are on 7.5, try upgrading Jessie. > I apologize, I thought I had specifi

Accelerated driver for Intel video driver?

2014-05-19 Thread Brad Alexander
I hope I don't run afoul of the self-imposed list monitors or otherwise fan a flame war...:) I have been using nvidia cards in my computers for so long that I haven't really kept up with the state of Intel... My problem is that when I try to play a video on this machine, either with mplayer or vl

Why is aptitude so uninstall-happy?

2014-05-14 Thread Brad Alexander
I have seen this before, but I saw it the other day, and was just curious. Why is aptitude so eager to uninstall packages instead of simply opting to install a supporting package rather than upgrade it? I was upgrading libssl1.0.0 the other day as a result of a security finding, and did the whack-a

snmpd upgrade failure

2014-04-22 Thread Brad Alexander
I just upgraded a sid box on my network. It is a container running on openvz. during the upgrade, snmpd fails to upgrade, and I wanted to check here before I file a bug. I was running 5.7.2~dfsg-8.1+b1 i386, which was working, however, when I upgraded to 5.7.2.1~dfsg-3_i386, it broke. Apparently t

Re: Heartbleed

2014-04-18 Thread Brad Alexander
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: > > Or Apple, sacrifices your > > security by wordsmithing. According to them, they don't get malware, > their > > computers just have "unwanted programs." > > Not ever being an Apple user, I hadn't heard that before. When I read > your pos

Re: Heartbleed (was ... Re: My fellow (Debian) Linux users ...)

2014-04-17 Thread Brad Alexander
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 3:36 AM, ken wrote: > Steve brings up a very good point, one often overlooked in our zeal for > getting so much FOSS for absolutely no cost. Since we're all given the > source code, we're all in part responsible for it and for improving it. > This ethic should be visited

Re: Heartbleed

2014-04-16 Thread Brad Alexander
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Slavko wrote: > Ahoj, > > I am talking about encryption and the F/OSS in general and i have my > privacy in the mind. Here exists a lot of people int today world, which > tell, that they have nothing to hide. *Everybody* has something to hide. Everyone. Don't be

Re: Can't patch Heartbleed bug?

2014-04-10 Thread Brad Alexander
On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Florian Ernst wrote: > > This is not accurate, OpenSSL 1.0.1 through 1.0.1f (inclusive) are > vulnerable. Please see > https://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2896 > as well as > http://heartbleed.com/ > Thanks Flo, That's one of the problems with stories like t

Re: Can't patch Heartbleed bug?

2014-04-10 Thread Brad Alexander
I don't believe that Wheezy was vulnerable to Heartbleed. It was only the 1.0.1f (committed 31 Dec 2011) that incorporated the vulnerable heartbeat feature. My wheezy box has 1.0.1e: ii libssl1.0.0:i386 1.0.1e-2+deb7u6 i386 SSL shared libraries ii openssl

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-08 Thread Brad Alexander
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Brad Alexander wrote: > > Over lo these many years, I have run ez-ipupdate on my perimeter to keep > my dynamic hostname in sync. So I pulled up the description, which says: > > " Currently supported are: ez-ip (http://www.EZ-IP.Net/), Pen

Re: DynDNS no longer free.

2014-04-08 Thread Brad Alexander
s On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Tom Furie wrote: > On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 03:51:01PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > DynDNS just announced that their free hostname program in 30 days > > will no longer be gratis. > > I use that with ddclient to update the IP address for my blog. > > Are

Re: Whole System Encryption, LVM & Extended Partition

2014-03-29 Thread Brad Alexander
On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Did a couple of trial installs of Wheezy in VirtualBox in anticipation of > the real thing on an as yet to be purchased notebook, and noticed something > puzzling with the Guided-Encrypted-LVM partitioning option. (I've never > done encry

Re: dirvish still a good choice?

2014-03-28 Thread Brad Alexander
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Peter Michaux wrote: > Hi, > > I see in The Debian Administrator's Handbook [1] that Dirvish is > recommended for backups. > > Looking at the Dirvish website [2] it seems that the project has been > inactive since 2008. Perhaps Dirvish is such a simple layer over t

Re: Security question concerning jail or virtualization

2014-03-13 Thread Brad Alexander
On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 11:39 PM, shawn wilson wrote: > Well Linux has LXC which is supposed to be equivalent to jails (also see > docker). But use whatever suits you. > As are the older-school OpenVZ and Linux VServer technologies. > Idk what's current for breaking out of VMs is. It might be go

rubygems

2014-03-13 Thread Brad Alexander
I have kind of a weird one. I have rubygems installed on a sid server, but it is at version 1.3.7 from squeeze. I don't have squeeze in my sources.list, so it should be upgrading to 1.8.x...But it tells me that 1.3.7 is the latest version. I only have wheezy, squeeze, and sid in my sources.list.

gcc and associated pkgs

2014-02-09 Thread Brad Alexander
What versions of gcc is it safe to remove? I have gcc 4.{1..8} installed on a box, and I'm fairly sure I can get rid of at least 4.1 - 4.6. Also, what associated packages should be removed with it? Should I get rid of equivalent versions of gcc, gcc-base, cpp? Anything else? Thanks, --b

Re: Handbrake crashing

2014-02-05 Thread Brad Alexander
Thanks On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 7:42 AM, wrote: > You said that you had no message, even when started in a terminal? Not > even "segmentation fault"? That's strange and nobody but the author could > help you at this point I guess. > That is correct. Not so much as a "by your leave." :) Nothing in

Handbrake crashing

2014-02-05 Thread Brad Alexander
Has anyone seen this behavior in handbrake? I fired it up on both my sid workstation and my sid laptop, and as soon as I click the source and select the cdrom (or sr0 or dvd), it begins scanning the DVD, then the entire app crashes. No errors in the logs, and even when I started from the command li

todo list software

2014-02-03 Thread Brad Alexander
At the risk of offending someone's tender sensibilities, can anyone recommend a good todo list software? I run KDE on sid, and kmail/kontact/etc seem to be in a bit of a mess. I did a search for todo list on Debian this morning, and a lot of what I came up with hasn't been developed since 2003 or

Re: How can I secure a Debian installation?

2014-01-28 Thread Brad Alexander
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 12:41 AM, Scott Ferguson < scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Keep updated, subscribe to the security list, read and follow the fine > manual:- > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ > > Another suggestion I would make would be to regula

Re: Confused about dist-upgrade

2014-01-24 Thread Brad Alexander
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Robin wrote: > Were those users using Debian stable? I use Sid so I usually > dist-upgrade as long it isn't going obviously affect my system, i.e > removing applications I want to keep. > My process on sid is apt-get update && apt-get upgrade && apt-get dist-up

Preserving LVM across builds

2014-01-17 Thread Brad Alexander
Hey, Have a question that I thought I would post here because I have never done it before. I have a buddy that has a system that is in desperate need of a rebuild. It is truly a Franken-box, with 4 hard drives (2*80GB, 1*160GB, and 1*250GB), and has an Ubuntu build on it and a Mint build. He want

Adding an SSD

2013-12-26 Thread Brad Alexander
What is the best approach for adding an SSD to an existing system? This is on my desktop, with a 750GB spinning HD, and I am adding a 120GB Kingston ssdNow 300. Is the backup/nuke'n'pave the best or most reliable approach from a Debian perspective, or is there a way to partition the SSD and transfe

Re: How to install memoizable?

2013-12-26 Thread Brad Alexander
Thanks Pierre. I was looking through bug reports, I just hadn't gotten to ruby-locale. :) --b On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Pierre Etchemaïté < pe-gm...@concept-micro.com> wrote: > Hi Brad, > > Brad Alexander gmail.com> writes: > > > I tried to dist-upgrade

How to install memoizable?

2013-12-25 Thread Brad Alexander
I tried to dist-upgrade my workstation tonight, and apt-listbugs failed for me: After this operation, 167 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': cannot load such file -- locale/util/memoizable (LoadEr

Re: Deadline for jessie init system choice

2013-12-17 Thread Brad Alexander
On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Brian wrote: > On Sun 15 Dec 2013 at 14:03:36 +, Tom H wrote: > > The goal to have native systemd support in every package with sysv > scripts (if accepted) and a decision on a new init system may be > related, but only the first is linked to the time of the f

Re: Shutting down lessens computer life............

2013-12-10 Thread Brad Alexander
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 8:21 PM, Steven Rosenberg wrote: > I don't see well-used laptops lasting longer than 5 years. Something's > bound to go wrong. > I still have an old PII Toshiba that still works. Now I haven't booted it up in a couple of years, but everything was still functional.

Re: Shutting down lessens computer life............

2013-12-09 Thread Brad Alexander
On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Charlie wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 15:27:15 +0100 Gian Uberto Lauri sent: > > > I know that shutting down the machine saves electricity, but heating > > and cooling is the mechanical stress that hits the non-moving > > components of your computer, computer that

Re: "Best Mail Client" - Was: [closed] A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-04 Thread Brad Alexander
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 6:05 PM, AP wrote: > On Tuesday, December 03, 2013 12:46:05 PM Brad Alexander wrote: > > > I like kmail's interfaces. It's just the backend encryption that has a > > > problem. For whatever reason, it won't let me decrypt and a

Re: Squeeze dpkg --get-selections usable in any way in Wheezy?

2013-12-03 Thread Brad Alexander
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Neal Murphy wrote: > On Tuesday, December 03, 2013 05:26:37 PM Lisi Reisz wrote: > > I have had another failed upgrade. Before I tried to upgrade, I ran > > dpkg --get-selections and saved the result in a file. > > > > I am obviously going to have to install Wheezy

Re: "Best Mail Client" - Was: [closed] A rookie's query: Want to about Debian and the related

2013-12-03 Thread Brad Alexander
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 8:42 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2013-12-03 at 18:19 +0530, AP wrote: > > close this thread now > > Then it's time for me to post this link: > > http://dot.kde.org/2004/11/02/kontactkmail-awarded-best-mail-client > > KMail was an award winner, for being the best GUI MU

Re: MIT discovered issue with gcc

2013-11-23 Thread Brad Alexander
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Michael Tautschnig wrote: > > > > > This looks very serious indeed, but a quick search of Debian mailing > > lists didn't show anything being acknowledged for this issue should > > Debian users be concerned? > > > > Probably not more than before, but as much a

Re: top posting

2013-11-20 Thread Brad Alexander
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 6:59 PM, David Guntner wrote: > Brad Alexander grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > I'm just curious why so many people get so upset about top posting. To my > > mind, as threads get longer, those keeping up with the thread would not > > want to sc

Re: tv watching apps

2013-11-20 Thread Brad Alexander
o blame it as a knee-jerk reaction. I'm hoping for some reasoned troubleshooting advice wrt pulse. :) thanks, --b On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 5:34 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 09:14:32PM -0500, Brad Alexander wrote: > >I have a hauppague (bt878) card in

top posting

2013-11-20 Thread Brad Alexander
I'm just curious why so many people get so upset about top posting. To my mind, as threads get longer, those keeping up with the thread would not want to scroll through messages that they have already read. I know that I don't. If they are commenting inline, that is fine, but I think that scrolling

Re: testing wants to install systemd

2013-11-19 Thread Brad Alexander
That's interesting. I am on a sid system, and I haven't noticed systemd on my system. I have the support libraries: $ dpkg -l | grep systemd ii libsystemd-daemon0:amd64 204-5 amd64systemd utility library ii libsystemd-login0:amd64 204-5 amd64systemd log

Re: Automatic installs

2013-11-19 Thread Brad Alexander
Excellent. Thanks, Andrei, On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 19 nov 13, 17:28:27, Brad Alexander wrote: > > Sorry. Replied privately instead of to the list... > > And I'll elaborate on my short reply as promised. > > > Way back in the m

Re: Automatic installs

2013-11-19 Thread Brad Alexander
Sorry. Replied privately instead of to the list... Way back in the mists of time, around the time of the squeeze release, I asked here and it was recommended to use apt rather than aptitude... I'm guessing the best practice has changed...? On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 3:50 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:

Audio from TV capture card

2013-11-17 Thread Brad Alexander
All right, I'm out of ideas. In my wife's sid machine, she has a Hauppague BT878-class TV capture card connected to a cable box. She uses tvtime to watch television when she is on the computer. About a week ago, she suddenly had no audio from the card. She turned off one evening before going to bed

Re: Automatic installs

2013-11-15 Thread Brad Alexander
aving issues with back into the fold. Thanks for pushing me in the right direction. --b On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Brad Alexander wrote: > > Calculating upgrade... The following packages were automatically > installed > > and are no longer require

Automatic installs

2013-11-15 Thread Brad Alexander
Have a question about automatic dependencies. I just updated my sid machine, as more and more of KDE 4.11 was uploaded this week. Well, when I did, I got the following during the dist-upgrade: Calculating upgrade... The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:

tv watching apps

2013-11-07 Thread Brad Alexander
I have a hauppague (bt878) card in my wife's machine. It is connected to cable, and she uses tvtime to watch tv in a window on her computer while she works. Unfortunately, every now and again, she will lose audio on it, and I have the damnedest time getting it to work again. I don't know if it is t

Re: free-software phone: neo900

2013-11-07 Thread Brad Alexander
I agree. I hope they succeed As a long time N900 owner, I would love to upgrade my existing unit with a new motherboard and new, more powerful processor. On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 1:05 AM, Pete Ley wrote: > green writes: > > > Something that might be of interest to Debian users: the neo900, at >

[OT] Ping mystery

2013-11-02 Thread Brad Alexander
I have sort of a weird one here. On my network, I have my firewall, which has 3 interfaces. eth0 to the internal network, eth1 to the DMZ with a wireless access point hanging off of it, and eth2 out to the interwebs. My workstation is on the internal network, and i have a Nokia N900 on the wifi. I

Re: sluggish iceweasel

2013-10-23 Thread Brad Alexander
I have seen my iceweasel on my workstation continually grab up more and more memory and/or CPU. I suspect it is either a or more like a combination of ad-ons that are causing a memory leak. I have reduced it to the minimum I need to feel comfortable (adblock plus, request policy, tab mix plus, etc

Kleopatra fails to decrypt certificate on import

2013-10-23 Thread Brad Alexander
I am running a sid KDE desktop on my machine, and recently received an Entrust certificate. I was able to decrypt the certificate in Iceweasel, however, I use kmail as my mail client. When attempting to import the certificate to kmail, I open the identity, and search for external certificates, whic

Re: JSON::XS error

2013-10-09 Thread Brad Alexander
Okay. So how do you rebuild the module? On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 6:22 AM, Florian Ernst wrote: > Hello all, > > On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 05:16:27AM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > > [...] > > This is on an i386 sid container (openvz) running on proxmox-ve (wheezy). > >

JSON::XS error

2013-10-09 Thread Brad Alexander
Hi all, I'm trying to install and experiment with Thruk on my nagios server, but am running into a perl error, which is why I am posting here. I asked on the thruk irc channel, but that went nowhere. In any case, this is beyond my pitiful perl-foo, so i figured I'd ask. This is on an i386 sid con

Re: difference Debian, solaris, freebsd

2013-08-30 Thread Brad Alexander
Solaris is not open source, it was created by Sun Microsystems, and it is now owned by Oracle...And all the implied baggage that entails. Oracle is not terribly friendly to open source or free software, hence their stance on OpenOffice.org, and mysql. They allowed OOO to languish to the point of dr

Re: 32-bit problems with nvidia packages

2013-08-13 Thread Brad Alexander
Hi Hans, Is it possible that you have some version creep? I had this on my multiarch sid system. There was a bug which made all of the VTs disappear. The quick fix was to upgrade a few of the packages (including nvidia-glx, iirc) to the version from experimental. Well, a few weeks ago, I upgraded

Re: certificates error with FF23

2013-08-11 Thread Brad Alexander
I am seeing the same issue on my internal domain. since these certificates are not directly exposed to the internet, I can't point the ssltest site to my certificate. Is there some way to get firefox to divulge what is giving it heartburn, or else an openssl incantation that can be made to do so?

Re: roundcube-plugins

2013-08-08 Thread Brad Alexander
Okay, so any idea why dpkg is doing the half-installed/unpacked/configured issue every 30 minutes? On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 09:36:43AM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > >That is the usual behavior, but in my case, installing one u

Re: roundcube-plugins

2013-08-08 Thread Brad Alexander
nstall whichever one is installed. On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 09:16:46AM -0400, Brad Alexander wrote: > >Is anyone running roundcube? I upgraded this past weekend (08/04), and > >ever since then, I have been getting these m

roundcube-plugins

2013-08-08 Thread Brad Alexander
Is anyone running roundcube? I upgraded this past weekend (08/04), and ever since then, I have been getting these messages to /var/log/dpkg.log every 30 minutes: 2013-08-08 07:32:33 startup packages remove 2013-08-08 07:32:33 status installed roundcube-plugins-extra:all 0.7-20120110 2013-08-08 07:

Re: tntnet

2013-07-30 Thread Brad Alexander
It could be tntnet: # apt-cache search tntnet tntnet - modular, multithreaded web application server for C++ Having said that, while I am not a developer, I have never run tntnet on any of my boxes. --b On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Wayne Topa wrote: > On 07/30/2013 04:55 PM, ChadDavis wr

libGL.so.1 and nvidia drivers

2013-07-16 Thread Brad Alexander
I'm using the nvidia drivers from the repos on a sid machine. They were just upgraded to the long-term 319.32-1 from the repos. However, I have cisco's anyconnect, and when I launch it, I get $ /opt/cisco/anyconnect/bin/vpnui /opt/cisco/anyconnect/bin/vpnui: error while loading shared libraries: l

Re: Backup/Restore software?

2013-07-13 Thread Brad Alexander
I back up 20 or so hosts and have about the same story as Gary. As with any backup solution, I do spot-check backups on occasion, just to make sure that in your moment of need, the files are really there. :) I use the default location of /var/lib/backuppc as my default location for my file store a

Encrypted drive

2013-06-25 Thread Brad Alexander
I'm going to be adding a 3TB drive to my fileserver, but I want to use LUKS encryption. The fileserver is kinda long in the tooth, a 2.8GHz P4 with 2GB of RAM. The machine has two drive slots, currently with an 80GB and a 1.5TB drive. What I was considering am using a 16GB thumb drive for the OS,

Re: Debian/Linux tutorials.

2013-06-07 Thread Brad Alexander
If you are looking for some more targeted but generic tutorials: The Geek Stuff: http://www.thegeekstuff.com nixcraft: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/ HowtoGeek: http://www.howtogeek.com Howto Forge: http://www.howtoforge.com There is a wealth of information on those sites about Linux, other *nixes

[Solved] Installing libgtk2.0-0:i386 on amd64 system

2013-06-06 Thread Brad Alexander
Was able to get this going by pulling the package from experimental... Thanks all, --b On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Brad Alexander wrote: > Hello, > > As the subject says, I'm having problems installing libgtk2.0-0:i386 on my > amd64 sid system. The problem is that I a

Installing libgtk2.0-0:i386 on amd64 system

2013-06-06 Thread Brad Alexander
Hello, As the subject says, I'm having problems installing libgtk2.0-0:i386 on my amd64 sid system. The problem is that I am using the cisco anyconnect client, which requires the i386 version, but when I attempt to install at one (the amd64 version is installed), I get a bunch of dependency issues

Re: roundcube blank screen after apache upgrade

2013-06-01 Thread Brad Alexander
On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Brad Alexander: > > > > I am having a problem with my roundcube installation since I upgraded my > > sid box 2 days ago. It's probably a simple fix, but I'm hoping some web > > guru can help me find i

roundcube blank screen after apache upgrade

2013-06-01 Thread Brad Alexander
Hi all, I am having a problem with my roundcube installation since I upgraded my sid box 2 days ago. It's probably a simple fix, but I'm hoping some web guru can help me find it. Apache2 was upgraded from 2.2.3 to 2.4.4, and apparently there were a goodly number of changes. I suspect this is anoth

Re: Kernel 3.8 + nvidia?

2013-05-18 Thread Brad Alexander
I was beaten to the punch. Before I could roll back to 304.88, 319.17 came out. I upgraded to it, and am now running with nvidia on 3.8.12. --b On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Brad Alexander wrote: > Had a chance to look in to this this evening. Apparently the nvidia-smi > nvidia-se

Re: Kernel 3.8 + nvidia?

2013-05-16 Thread Brad Alexander
Had a chance to look in to this this evening. Apparently the nvidia-smi nvidia-settings nvidia-kernel-source libnvidia-ml1:amd64 packages are still at 304.88 rather than 313.30. I guess I'm going to try rolling everything back to 304.88... On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 4:54 AM, Brad Alexander

Re: Kernel 3.8 + nvidia?

2013-05-16 Thread Brad Alexander
Any ideas? --b On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Brad Alexander wrote: > In my case, possibly my upgrades from experimental. I think I have seen a > couple of other threads where pulling previous updates from experimental > has lead to problems once the freeze ended. > > I'

Re: Kernel 3.8 + nvidia?

2013-05-15 Thread Brad Alexander
In my case, possibly my upgrades from experimental. I think I have seen a couple of other threads where pulling previous updates from experimental has lead to problems once the freeze ended. I'm going to downgrade to the nvidia drivers in sid and try 3.8 again. On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 2:46 AM, M

Re: audit security

2013-05-14 Thread Brad Alexander
It depends on what you are looking for. You could set up Nessus (or nmap or something similar) to run active scans. Nessus has a (free) home feed, as well as a scheduling option. Another front end for it would be Seccubus ( http://seccubus.com/). Something lighter would be tiger, which emails you

Re: Kernel 3.8 + nvidia?

2013-05-10 Thread Brad Alexander
Thanks, Mark, I'm glad it wasn't just me. I was lucky. I managed to boot back into 3.2.0, which is where I am now. Had to reinstall the nvidia driver, but all is good for now. --b On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:36 PM, Mark Allums wrote: > I upgraded yesterday, and also installed 3.8. I was wonder

Sid: Kernel 3.8 + nvidia?

2013-05-09 Thread Brad Alexander
I upgraded yesterday, and also installed 3.8. I was wondering, has anyone else run into issues with the nvidia drivers with this kernel? I realize I have a kind of franken-driver situation: ii glx-alternative-nvidia 0.3.0 amd64allows the selection of NVIDIA as

Re: network problems

2013-05-08 Thread Brad Alexander
Not a solution, but might I also suggest installing/running apt-listbugs? It will go through the BTS during an upgrade. From the man page: apt-listbugs is a tool which retrieves bug reports from the Debian Bug Tracking System and lists them. In particular, it is intended to be

Re: Debian in the sunshine?

2013-05-06 Thread Brad Alexander
I have had pretty good luck using my Nokia N900 in the sunshine. I have been known to read using FBreader on it, as well as using other apps. Now my preference is white text on a black background, but that seems to work out pretty well... --b On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 12:07 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:

Re: Debian full disk encryption

2013-05-06 Thread Brad Alexander
Concur with Bob. I have been using encrypted drives for many years now. The only differences for me are that I have a separate swap partition, but then you end up having to encrypt that separately, and cannot take advantage of putting swap inside of the LVM. My next encrypted build will remedy this

upgrading mysql -> mariadb...A cleaner way?

2013-04-30 Thread Brad Alexander
Hi, Over the past couple of weeks, I have converted a couple of boxes from mysql to mariadb, citing concerns with oracle's irresponsible handling of mysql. (There was another no-authentication exploit fixed in the massive patch cluster last week.) I have come up with a method of upgrading from my

Re: what's your Debian uptime?

2013-04-26 Thread Brad Alexander
I have a box at work that has an uptime of: 12:32:00 up 1971 days, 18:32, 1 user, load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00 On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:10 PM, David Parker wrote: > I have a box running Etch that hasn't been rebooted in 1,589 days: > > irp:~# uptime > 12:09:06 up 1589 days, 18:23, 1

Re: Don't do that!

2013-04-23 Thread Brad Alexander
That's really odd. I know that there used to be warnings about ext4 years ago, but I don't recall seeing them as far back as the squeeze release. On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Am Dienstag, 23. April 2013 schrieb Brad Alexander: > > That is in

Re: Don't do that!

2013-04-23 Thread Brad Alexander
That is interesting. I have a similar setup on my workstation: /dev/sda2 ext4964532 59380856156 7% /boot With the rest of the filesystems in an encrypted LVM container. I built (rebuilt) this machine a couple of years ago, and have never had an issue...To include

Re: what's your Debian uptime?

2013-04-17 Thread Brad Alexander
I agree with Hans. For instance, I had a sid box back in the day which was my dhcp server (an old laptop). It was behind a firewall, and not accessible from the internet. (I know, no security is 100%, but i have defense in depth.) Plus, I too had built a minimal kernel. In any case, my record is s

Re: What's Up With Debian.org?

2013-04-02 Thread Brad Alexander
On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 3:03 PM, David Guntner wrote: > Bret Busby grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > > > The problem is that the Debian web site appears to have been breached > > and thence compromised. > > And what evidence do you have that the website has been > breached/compromised by anyone ot

Laptop display smaller when not connected to external monitor

2013-03-28 Thread Brad Alexander
I'm having a bit of a strange problem. I'm running sid with KDE 4.8.4, and just received a new laptop at work. I've noticed something kind of odd that hopefully, someone can help with. The laptop in question is a Dell Latitude E6520, with a resolution of 1920x1080. When I have it at work, hooked u

Fwd: newer kernels from experimental?

2013-03-13 Thread Brad Alexander
Sorry. Didn't check the reply field. -- Forwarded message -- From: Brad Alexander Date: Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:22 PM Subject: Re: newer kernels from experimental? To: g...@dalefamily.org On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > I wouldn't use any

newer kernels from experimental?

2013-03-13 Thread Brad Alexander
While it isn't quite getting long in the tooth, sid is still sporting the 3.2.x kernel. Now as I recall, Greg KH said that this would be the next long term support kernel, but I would like to play with some of the newer features from the later 3.x kernels from experimental, like f2fs and btrfs. I w

Re: 10 top myths of debian

2013-03-03 Thread Brad Alexander
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Good point. And when you start talking security to the point of serious > testing and configuration control, I believe there are very few > distributions that are on the DoD approved product list. I've tried to stay out of this thread, but

Failed deb build

2013-02-13 Thread Brad Alexander
Hi all, Hopefully someone here can help me. I haven't rolled a deb in years (a testimonial to Debian's repos), but now I need to. A user needs a newer version of torque. The repos have 2.4.16, and he needs 4.0.2. So, having not built one in forever, I did a ./configure; make and it compiled cleanl

Re: [OT] computer security (online) training

2013-02-08 Thread Brad Alexander
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Sorry for taking advantage of the list a bit but as happens pretty > often, this list is more likely to provide useful info on the subject. > > I want to begin some training in computer security... training I can > do online... and hopefully a

Re: Update hanged, now stuck in loop

2013-02-08 Thread Brad Alexander
Did you try apt-get -f install ? I've used that as well, making careful note of what it is about to do (so I could reinstall things it may uninstall to get itself sorted out). You could also try it with the --dry-run option. --b On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Hi folks,

Re: [Possibly OT] Hauppague WinTV card lost sound

2013-02-03 Thread Brad Alexander
I know it is bad form to respond to one's own post, but I have swapped the Hauppague card, and have exactly the same symptoms. I suspect it is something with either pulse. Suggestions? On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Brad Alexander wrote: > I have a Hauppauge 44801 WinTV-GO in m

[Possibly OT] Hauppague WinTV card lost sound

2013-02-03 Thread Brad Alexander
I have a Hauppauge 44801 WinTV-GO in my wife's computer, plugged in to cable, so she can watch TV through tvtime on her sid machine. This past week, sound stopped in the tvtime app. Sound works in everything else, but not through the card. I tried plugging the speakers directly in to the line out o

Re: Backing up system customization: Is Debian packaging better than Remastersys?

2013-02-01 Thread Brad Alexander
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Linux-Fan wrote: > On 01/30/2013 11:29 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Ma, 29 ian 13, 11:20:42, Linux-Fan wrote: >>> On 01/28/2013 11:02 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 27 ian 13, 19:12:40, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > > Well, for only 4 systems puppet

multi-arch and wine?

2013-01-30 Thread Brad Alexander
Keeping on the gaming theme, I have a question Many months ago, I installed playonlinux, and the wine64-unstable libs in order to play Starcraft II. Well I haven't played it in a longish while, apparently since before multiarch. So I fired up playonlinux, tried to run Starcraft, and got the followi

Re: sshfp records

2013-01-22 Thread Brad Alexander
:b8:3f:4e:ff:51:1f:58:5a:14:3a. Matching host key fingerprint found in DNS. Not sure how I'm going to work around this. I may just dispense with sshfp records for the time being, unless something jumps out at me. --b On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Brad Alexander wrote: &

sshfp records

2013-01-21 Thread Brad Alexander
Has anyone worked with sshfp records for openssh? I generated sshfp records: IN SSHFP 1 1 5490056a2208c8ad2cf869f5c06470450c8a017a IN SSHFP 2 1 18aef47bc01264709f25ac9daebed236b45b6b45 but when I ssh into the host (after deleting the records from .ssh/known_hosts), I get: $ ssh -o VerifyHostKe

Re: What are some common problems when using Debian GNU / LINUX?

2013-01-21 Thread Brad Alexander
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 4:27 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 20 Jan 2013, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > [snip] >> >> If you uncheck them all, as I usually do, you start with a system >> with almost nothing. Even "less" is not present in such an >> installation :D >> > I keep a list of al

Fwd: Re (2): Running vlc from another machine.

2013-01-01 Thread Brad Alexander
Forwarding back to the list... -- Forwarded message -- From: Date: Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 11:54 PM Subject: Re (2): Running vlc from another machine. To: stor...@gmail.com Cc: peasth...@shaw.ca From: Brad Alexander Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 22:14:01 -0500 > Telnet? Aside f

Fwd: Re (2): Running vlc from another machine.

2013-01-01 Thread Brad Alexander
Forwarding back to list... -- Forwarded message -- From: Date: Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 11:50 PM Subject: Re (2): Running vlc from another machine. To: stor...@gmail.com Cc: peasth...@shaw.ca From: Chris Davies Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 02:11:14 + > I'm going to assume (dang

Re: Tools to retrieve images from dead hard drive and/or deleted partitions

2012-12-29 Thread Brad Alexander
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 4:17 PM, wrote: > 1) > I have a hard disk (1Tb, the bigger) which gave me many errors when I am > trying to read it. It makes it very slow to even read, but I've been able to > determine that it contains jpg images with a classic file browser. I did not > managed to copy

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