> So, to add to the list of things that you can check:
>
> * Broken permissions (added or missing setuid or setgid) on any of
>the CUPS binaries.
>
> * Invalid UID or GID of a named system account under which any of these
>programs is executed, or a missing system account entry.
A comp
Hello,
I have a strange problem with CUPS and hope that someone can help me
with the solution.
"Strange", in this case, means that I have two machines, both running
Debian 12 and the corresponding versions of cups and cups-browsed.
On one of these machines, I can print as any user, while on the o
Hello,
I installed a computer with Debian 12, initially with only one active
Ethernet interface. I also activated a netfilter configuration for the
interface. After this all worked successfully, I put the second
Ethernet interface into operation, not in normal operation as a single
interface, but
Hello,
I would like to install many computers with largely the same package
list. To do this, I can use
dpkg --get-selections > packages.lst
to create a list of the installed packages from a computer on which I
have previously installed the standard packages I want, which I can
then implement on
Hello,
> > The same result for me after directly installing bookworm with virt-
> > manager. Obviously, there is a significant difference between a VM in
> > OpenNebula and a VM with the same software in virt-manager ...
>
> Are you able to try Virt-Manager with your original VM that you are havi
Hello,
> What video device does your VM use? Maybe it uses real hardware, or does it
> use a virtual device like QLX or Virtio? I have been using virtio. I also
> tried QLX and it works.
It is the qemu vga driver. I already tried qemu virtio and qemu vmware
drivers, they have the same problem
Hello,
> To get to the bottom of the problem, I upgraded a bullseye VM
> to a bookworm VM step by step: first libc, then the Xorg-
> packages, then the kernel, then sddm, lightdm and gdm3, and finally
the
> rest. Unfortunately, it was only after the rest that the GUI login no
> longer appeared; the
Hello George,
> Not sure if this is relevant or not, sadly probably not useful.
It is helpful, though probably not in the matter from the email
subject. But I installed qemu-guest-agent package in a VM without
knowing that the virtual machine template should be made fit for it.
Regards
Christo
Hello,
> My first thoughts were firewall issues.
It is not a connection problem. When I open a browser window to vnc
connect to the VM, I can even see the mouse pointer, what shows that
the VM Xorg server is still running, and sshing to the VM and doing a
ps confirms that.
> >
> > However, afte
Hello,
I use the cloud solution OpenNebula to manage VMs in a cloud. There I
have several VMs with Debian 11 running successfully,
sddm, lightdm and gdm3 are installed as display managers. When I choose
one of them, the corresponding GUI login is displayed in the VNC
display of the VM.
However, a
Hello,
Am Mittwoch, dem 07.02.2024 um 12:27 +0100 schrieb Michael Biebl:
> Am 07.02.24 um 11:32 schrieb Christoph Pleger:
> > Hello,
> >
> > >
> > > systemd-time-wait-sync.service is running but has not completed.
> > > I wonder if that is
> > >
Hello,
> - what is the hardware?
Qemu VM
> - what release of what operating system is in use?
Debian bullseye
> - what happened just before things 'suddenly' stopped working? Did
you
> upgrade the machine, or install some new software, or just reboot
it
> or what?
I rebooted the machine, m
Hello,
>
> systemd-time-wait-sync.service is running but has not completed.
> I wonder if that is
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=940840
> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/14061
>
> Which NTP service do you use?
I am using chrony, because the server is offering time
Hello,
> > Does anyone have an idea what is possibly wrong?
>
> Look for more information.
This is the output of systemctl list-jobs :
JOB UNIT TYPE STATE
102 autofs.service start waiting
82 mlocate.timerstart waiti
Hello,
Am Montag, dem 05.02.2024 um 07:18 -0500 schrieb Greg Wooledge:
> On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 12:53:33PM +0100, Christoph Pleger wrote:
> > on one of my server machines, suddenly many systemd units (e.g. cron,
> > autofs)
> > do not start any more, neither at boot nor
Hello,
on one of my server machines, suddenly many systemd units (e.g. cron, autofs)
do not start any more, neither at boot nor when trying to start manually
with "systemctl start ", this hangs till I abort with Ctrl-C -
though the commands defined in ExecStart work when I type them in directly.
F
Hello,
I have the following udev rule in /lib/udev/rules.d/99-local.rules:
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTRS{removable}=="1",
PROGRAM="/lib/udev/foreground-user", RESULT!="root", MODE="0600",
OWNER="$result"
This is to ensure that, if someone is logged in on the graphical
console at the t
>
Hello,
> I have had just the same problem. I think it is caused by the last
> security upgrade by unattended-upgrades of these packages:
> gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0
> gir1.2-webkit2-4.0
> libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18
> libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37
Ah, thank you very much for that information. In th
Hello,
suddenly, I have the problem in Evolution Email, that email bodies are not
shown anymore, but only the headers.
This affects my private email account as well as my email account for work.
Maybe I have changed some setting,
but I cannot remember to have done that.
Any idea?
Regards
Chr
Hello,
> I suppose it might be worth mentioning how your users reboot or
> shutdown the system, and whether this applies only when seated at
> a console or even to all users (for those of us who reboot with
> CtrlAltDel and shutdown by touching the physical power button).
When a user has started
> Hallo,
> But I just realized that this does not work anymore in Debian 11. That
> is, hibernating and suspending still require the user to enter the root
> password, but rebooting and powering off work without authentication.
> Why is this the case and what do I have to do to get again what I wa
Hello,
I have been using this for quite a while to prevent normal users from
suspending, hibernating, shutting down or rebooting the computer from
their desktop session:
/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/custom-menu
[Disable suspend]
Identity=unix-user:*
Action=org.freedesktop.login1.sus
Hello,
> Most likely you need to install u-boot on the SD-card.
>
> How to do so is chip manufacturer specific. If support for the wandboard
> has been upstreamed there should be a u-boot binary in Debian and maybe
> even the magic incantation to install that to the SD-card.
I found an image htt
Hello,
I have here an armhf variant called wandboard (www.wandboard.org), installed
with Debian 9, the boot device is an internal MicroSD-Card, and if I
understood correctly, that is the only possible way to boot. I now have the
problem that reading or writing from/to the card give I/O errors,
Hello,
On 2020-02-14 13:25, Christoph Pleger wrote:
auth[success=2 default=ignore] pam_p11.so
/usr/local/lib/libcvP11.so
# here are the per-package modules (the "Primary" block)
auth[success=1 default=ignore] pam_unix.so nullok_secure
# here's the fallba
Hello,
auth[success=2 default=ignore] pam_p11.so
/usr/local/lib/libcvP11.so
[...]
This works nearly exactly as desired, "nearly" because though the
login with unix password works, the application shows "Login failed"
for a short time. Is there something I can change in the above fil
Hello,
I created a PAM configuration with the goal to make it possible that a
user can either login by inserting a smartcard into a card reader and
entering the correct PIN, or by entering the traditional UNIX password.
This is what my /etc/pam.d/common-auth looks like:
#
# /etc/pam.d/common
Hello,
On 2020-02-06 19:47, David Wright wrote:
On Thu 06 Feb 2020 at 17:56:00 (+0100), Christoph Pleger wrote:
I am using a program for automatic creation of a harddisk partitioning
from a configuration file. That file contains device names like
/dev/sda1 etc. for naming the partitions
Hello,
I am using a program for automatic creation of a harddisk partitioning
from a configuration file. That file contains device names like
/dev/sda1 etc. for naming the partitions. After the partitioning has
been completed, I want to create an appropriate fstab from the
configuration file
Hello,
I am using a program for automatic creation of a harddisk partitioning
from a configuration file. That file contains device names like
/dev/sda1 etc. for naming the partitions. After the partitioning has
been completed, I want to create an appropriate fstab from the
configuration file
Hello,
On 2020-01-28 09:28, Christoph Pleger wrote:
on my notebook computer, I have a WLAN interface that is managed with
NetworkManager and a cable-bound network interface that gets its
static IP address by a systemd-networkd configuration file. But as of
course on a portable notebook the
Hello,
on my notebook computer, I have a WLAN interface that is managed with
NetworkManager and a cable-bound network interface that gets its
static IP address by a systemd-networkd configuration file. But as of
course on a portable notebook the cable-bound network interface is not
always connec
Hello,
on my notebook computer, I have a WLAN interface that is managed with
NetworkManager and a cable-bound network interface that gets its static
IP address by a systemd-networkd configuration file. But as of course on
a portable notebook the cable-bound network interface is not always
con
Hi,
On 2020-01-09 18:23, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 05:56:53PM +0100, Christoph Pleger wrote:
Does anybody know what happened in newer kernels that makes
OWNER="$result"
fail for NIS accounts?
At a guess, it's bug #878625 again.
Does it start working again
Hello,
I wrote the following udev rule:
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="block", ATTRS{removable}=="1",
PROGRAM="/lib/udev/foreground-user", RESULT!="root",MODE="0600",
OWNER="$result"
The goal of this rule is to give a user who attaches a USB storage
device while being logged on in the graph
Hello,
when I start a child process with fork(), it seems that the new process
runs in the same session as the parent process, due to what loginctl
thinks, even after a call of setsid. Especially, running '/bin/login -f
cpleger' results in the following message in /var/log/auth.log:
pam_syst
Hello,
I am just playing around with openat a little (to open a new virtual
terminal and execute a command in it) and found the following problem:
Though the command 'openvt -s -w -- dbus-run-session
startplasmacompositor' starts KDE Plasma with Wayland, not the new
terminal is used for the
Hello,
I want to ask for possible reasons why a program with setuid-root file
permission (or a program with special Linux capabilities), when it is
called by an unprivileged user from PAM module pam_exec, behaves very
different from when it is called by an unprivileged user from the
command l
Hello,
(sorry, forgot to translate the subject in my last message)
the last few days, when I execute the command
debmirror /ftproot/debian --host=ftp.us.debian.org --method=rsync
--root=:debian --nosource --dist=wheezy-proposed-updates
--section=main,contrib,non-free --arch=amd64,i386 --getco
Hello,
the last few days, when I execute the command
debmirror /ftproot/debian --host=ftp.us.debian.org --method=rsync
--root=:debian --nosource --dist=wheezy-proposed-updates
--section=main,contrib,non-free --arch=amd64,i386 --getcontents
--diff=none --postcleanup --i18n --progress
I get t
Hallo,
> Das kann man so nicht stehen lassen. Dir wurde geholfen, z.B. habe ich
> dir unter [1] Hinweise gegeben, wass zu tun ist. Das umzusetzen oder
> kurz man pages lesen oder Google bedienen ist wirklich nicht schwer.
Das alles habe ich gemacht und deine Lösungsvorschläge in verschiedenen
Ver
Hello,
>>
>> Isn't it possible to use mdadm for mirroring disks as a whole, instead
>> of
>> single partitions?
>
> Yes, but if it's going to be your main boot and root, don't do
> that.
How is that done if it is not the boot disc? And why can it not be the
boot disc, though it could with dmraid?
Hello,
> Isn't it possible to use mdadm for mirroring disks as a whole, instead of
> single partitions?
If mdadm cannot create such RAIDs, is it possible to disable mdadm and use
dmraid instead? On the web, I have found information about a kernel
command line option 'nomdmonddf', but almost all o
Hello,
> Configure the LSI to present individual disks and then use mdadm
> the normal way: partition the disks into two sets, a small /boot
> partition and a large /. (Or three partitions per disk: /boot, /
> and /home.)
>
> Create mdadm pairs for each of sda1,sdb1 sda2,sdb2 sda3,sdb3
> ... and
Hello,
I am trying to use an "LSI Megaraid Software RAID" with mdadm, but I have
not been successful so far. When I configure a RAID 1 in the BIOS
Setup-Utility and boot from network with an NFSROOT, a ddf container
device is detected as /dev/md127 and a raid device as /dev/md126, but when
I reboo
Hello,
two days ago, I replaced an armel architecture device with an armhf
architecture device (both of them running Debian 8) and connected the same
external USB disk as before to the armhf device, because some of the
disk's logical volumes contain only architecture-independent data and
therefore
Hello,
Some days ago, I installed some machines with Debian jessie. Now I want to
achieve that, from the different desktop environments (KDE, GNOME, etc.),
the computers can only be shutdown, rebooted, suspended or hibernated,
after entering the root password.
In Debian 7, I achieved that by crea
Hello,
I want to enable apparmor on my SheevaPlug device. This requires the
kernel command line parameters "apparmor=1 security=apparmor" to be set.
But I do not know how to set kernel command line parameters for the uboot
boot loader, which is required for the SheevaPlug. Apparently, the way how
Hello,
> On my NFS diskless client the 70-persistent-net.rules *is* created and
> updated when booting. Therefore your strategy would work in my
> environment. In my diskless boot environment my
> 70-persistent-net.rules file would grow and grow and grow as I booted
> different hardware if I did
Hello,
I want to boot a computer from network by PXE, with an NFS filesystem as
root fs, install a basic system on the local disk and then boot the
computer from the disk. After booting from disk, the names of the network
interfaces should be the same as before with the NFS root. So, I thought
tha
Hello,
> What you probably want, is hook into basic.target or sysinit.target, use
> DefaultDependencies=no, and specify the dependencies/orderings
> explicitly.
a post from debian-user-ger...@lists.debian.org helped me further: I do
not have to change anything, just calling update-rc.d for my ini
Hello,
> According to
> http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.unit.html you
> can specify "After=" and "Before=" in order to force your unit to start
> in a specified position. The documentation suggests that you typically
> list your "After=" units also in "Requires=" so that st
Hello,
for many years and up to Debian 7, I am using update-rc.d to define a
specific location in the boot order, where a script is executed which
automatically performs some administrative tasks. The script is executed
after only very basic tasks have been performed, and before all other
tasks. T
Hello,
I want to use debmirror ro create a Debian mirror of distributions
sarge,sarge-proposed-updates,etch,etch-proposed-updates and sid.
Though I installed the package debian-archive-keyring and imported the
keys using "gpg --import", debmirror stops with an error message that
Release.gpg of di
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