Re: exim4 stopped delivering local mail after upgrade (sid)

2020-06-04 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* m s [2020-06-02 15:28 -0400]: > I'm running sid and after upgrading packages today, exim stopped > working. It's keeping all my local mail in /var/spool/exim4/msglog and > not delivering it, and even when I type "runq" it won't deliver the > mail. > > # exim4 -qff -v > LOG: MAIN > Warning: N

Re: Check your signing key expiration dates!

2019-07-10 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Andrei POPESCU [2019-07-07 20:31 +0300]: > On Du, 07 iul 19, 20:17:41, Teemu Likonen wrote: > > > > You need to update your copy of the keys. Those developers have very > > likely updated the expiration day and moved it again to some point in > > the future. Debian developers' keys can be upda

Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file

2019-06-14 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Richard Owlett [2019-06-14 06:10 -0500]: > I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the association > between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical partition it is on. The > file I'm looking for also identifies which partition is used for swap. There is a fantastic tool to

Re: apt-get upgrade problem on Jessie

2018-12-26 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* rhkra...@gmail.com [2018-12-25 09:21 -0500]: [...] > But now I'm at this point: > > root@s31:~# apt-get upgrade > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Calculating upgrade... Done > The following packages have been kept back: > firmwa

Re: apt-get upgrade problem on Jessie

2018-12-24 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* rh kramer [2018-12-24 18:10 -0500]: > On my Jessie system, for something like the last 2 to 3 months, I've been > getting an error like the following whenever I do an apt-get update / > apt-get upgrade cycle. [...] > Ok, it looks like I have the r8169 as I see this: > > r8169

Re: Sound suddenly not working.

2018-11-03 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Default User [2018-11-03 13:09 -0400]: > Hi. > > Running Debian, 64-bit Unstable, Cinnamon DE, on laptop. > > Not very knowledgeable about sound stuff. > > Sound okay last night. > > Today did updates, no sound at all. (When in doubt, blame updates.) https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo

Re: Sid: NFS after upgrade

2018-11-02 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Grzesiek Sójka [2018-10-28 11:27 +]: > Hi there, > > I just upgraded Sid and now I get the following during boot: > > [] Configuring network interfaces.../etc/init.d/rpcbind: 42: > /etc/init.d/rpcbind: stat: not found > /run/rpcbind not owned by root failed! > Starting NFS common util

Re: Future of systemd-shim?

2018-07-12 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Stephan Seitz [2018-07-12 12:59 +0200]: > Hi! > > I noticed that systemd-shim isn’t compatible anymore to the last systemd > version in testing, so systemd-sysv will be installed. > > This is mentioned in bug > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=903295. > > Is anyone working o

Re: renaming network devices with udev & systemd

2018-04-06 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Andrew Wood [2018-04-06 20:21 +0100]: > How does one go about renaming an ethernet device from say enps1 to eth0 > under Stretch, the old udev rules I used to use pre systemd under > /etc/udev/rules.d no longer seem to have any effect. Set 'GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="net.ifnames=0"' in /etc/default/g

Re: Kernel for Spectre and Meltdown

2018-01-30 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* rhkra...@gmail.com [2018-01-29 10:47 -0500]: [...] > On the other hand, if I download kernel source, I would need GCC, and a > version that is sufficient for the code. One can check the compiler version the running kernel is built with by: $ cat /proc/version Linux version 4.14.15-toy-lxtec

Re: EDA software.

2017-12-06 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Joe [2017-12-06 18:31 +]: [...] > I'm not sure what kind of connection with LibreCAD there could be: DXF > is a much more complex file structure, and I think the most that could > be done would be to transfer PCB outlines and mounting points. There is > some provision for component height i

Re: EDA software.

2017-12-06 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* pe...@easthope.ca [2017-12-06 08:57 -0800]: > Hi, > > At https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTinker/Desktop#EDA is a list of > packages for electronics design automation. According to various > documents, Electric, Fritzing and gEDA, at least, can help to create > schematics. I use librecad but

Re: How to change the console font?

2017-09-28 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Hugo Vanwoerkom [2017-09-27 21:14 -0500]: > I used to be able to change the console font with a GUI program. > But I have forgotten how to do that. Console setup doesn't do it, I don't > know what that does. dpkg-reconfigure console-setup Elimar -- Obviously the human brain works like a co

Re: Stretch vim doesnt cut and paste

2017-08-24 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Reco [2017-08-24 18:16 +0300]: [...] > vim(1) does not mention defaults.vim, so it must be a case of obsolete > documentation. > That, and I'm too lazy to view vim source. Read file:///usr/share/doc/vim-common/NEWS.Debian.gz Elimar -- Never make anything simple and efficient when a way c

Re: Intel Skylake/Kaby Lake Hyper-threading bug update

2017-07-24 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi Henrique, * Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [2017-07-23 14:56 -0300]: > TL;DR: Intel has issued public microcode updates in 2017-07-07, fixing > the hyper-threading errata on every affected processor. These updates > have been included in the stable and oldstable point releases from > 2017-07-22

Re: Some help with dd backing up into an iso

2017-03-07 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* GiaThnYgeia [2017-03-07 00:11 +]: > I am not very confident I am doing this right and it seems wrong, I > can't locate any documentation that results into proper options. > I tried backing up an 8gb USB that has 2 partitions in it, one had 1.7gb > of data on it. > I used dd if=/dev/sdb of=

Re: `No candidate version found for alsa-base'

2017-02-28 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Rodolfo Medina [2017-02-28 13:24 +]: > Hi. > > I want to install alsa-base but get: > > No candidate version found for alsa-base alsa-base has been removed from distribution [0]. It's only purpose was to clean old conffiles. [0] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=852455

Re: The same environment variables everywhere

2017-02-27 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* GiaThnYgeia [2017-02-27 11:38 +]: [...] > For a while I've been trying to set the locale but everytime I install a > package it returns locale not set returning to default C > I used /etc/environment, and no change. > I suspect this may be due to some skipped step on the original > installa

Re: Not sure where to report this issue...

2017-01-31 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Robin Cook [2017-01-31 08:12 -0600]: [...] > Error messages from Xorg.0.log > > [ 877.670] (EE) RADEON(0): drmmode_do_crtc_dpms cannot get last vblank > counter Feed your search engine with "drmmode_do_crtc_dpms cannot get last vblank counter" Elimar -- You cannot propel yourself for

Re: change password prompt

2016-09-20 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Reco [2016-09-19 18:21 +0300]: [...] > This line in /etc/sudoers works for me: > > Defaults passprompt_override,passprompt="ENTER NUCLEAR LAUNCH CODE:" Try this: Defaults passprompt_override,passprompt="^[[41;33;01mENTER NUCLEAR LAUNCH CODE: ^[[00m" Elimar -- "Talking much about onese

Re: no sound

2016-07-15 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Jesse Stephen [2016-07-15 00:31 -0400]: > I don't seem to have sound on mazzila. It works playing a dvd but not on > you tube If you're running pulseaudio use pavucontrol to choose an appropriate device. Otherwise run alsamixer and press to select your device. Elimar -- Numeric stability

Re: Browser Flakiness under Jessie -- Why?

2016-07-06 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Lisi Reisz [2016-07-06 16:12 +0100]: [...] > Or, if you don't care about your configuration files, purge firefox-esr in > the > first place. That won't purge $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/.default. Debian's package installation never touches $HOME! Elimar -- From The Collaborative International

Re: Request for feedback: systemd backport for jessie

2016-07-05 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi Mika, * Michael Prokop [2016-07-05 17:34 +0200]: > Hi, > > here at DebConf I've been working on a backport of systemd for jessie. > > If you're interested in all the new features, bugfixes and changes > that systemd received since its version 215-17+deb8u4 (the one > available from jessie)

Re: samba4 stopped working [resolved]

2016-07-04 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Gary Dale [2016-07-04 12:36 -0400]: > On 04/07/16 12:29 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > * Gary Dale [2016-07-04 11:36 -0400]: > > > > > I've been using Samba4 on Debian/Jessie since it became "stable". After > > > the >

Re: samba4 stopped working

2016-07-04 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Gary Dale [2016-07-04 11:36 -0400]: > I've been using Samba4 on Debian/Jessie since it became "stable". After the > last upgrade however, I got a massive failure. [...] > [2016/07/04 11:29:48.460701, 0] > ../lib/util/util_runcmd.c:324(samba_runcmd_io_handler) > /usr/sbin/winbindd: Failed to

Re: Neomutt packages available

2016-06-24 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Stephen Allen [2016-06-24 11:28 -0400]: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 09:37:35PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I am pleased to announce the availability of neomutt [0] packages for > > Debian. Hints for installation you'll find at [1]. [...

Neomutt packages available

2016-06-23 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi all, I am pleased to announce the availability of neomutt [0] packages for Debian. Hints for installation you'll find at [1]. I've packaged neomutt for Debian. A Debian ITP [2] is filed. The binaries are build in a sid environment. The sources are fetched from [3]. The neomutt branch is used.

Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

2016-05-18 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Lisi Reisz [2016-05-18 12:31 +0100]: > On Tuesday 17 May 2016 18:29:36 Elimar Riesebieter wrote: [...] > > /etc/init.d/networking stop does ifdown -a > > /etc/init.d/networking start does ifup -a > > But > # ifdown -a; ifup -a > is much more elegant!! I would u

Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

2016-05-17 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Gilles Mocellin [2016-05-17 19:09 +0200]: > Le 17/05/2016 à 14:34, Mimiko a écrit : > > On 17.05.2016 15:16, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > Ask your search engine: "init.d/networking restart is deprecated" > > > > This was the only tool to fully resta

Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

2016-05-17 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Gene Heskett [2016-05-17 11:26 -0400]: [...] > Because of some rare condition, you make > all the other users with a less rare condition suffer? I was just talking about facts, nothing else. If you open /etc/init.d/networking (ifupdown_0.7.8) in an editor and scroll down to a line containing

Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

2016-05-17 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Gene Heskett [2016-05-17 09:56 -0400]: > On Tuesday 17 May 2016 09:08:55 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > [...] > > In my opinion, a warning is in order ("this might not be doing > > what you think it does"), but deprecated seems exaggerated to me. > > > > regards > > > > [1] Schocking Truth! Not eve

Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

2016-05-17 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* to...@tuxteam.de [2016-05-17 15:08 +0200]: > On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 02:16:32PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > [...] > > > Ask your search engine: "init.d/networking restart is deprecated" > > I don't know about yours, but *my* /etc/init.d/net

Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces

2016-05-17 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Gene Heskett [2016-05-17 08:05 -0400]: > Greetings all; > > 32 bit Debian wheezy, updated at least daily. > > This fact was brought to my attention because I needed a path to a router > I needed to do a hard reset on, and reconfigure to do my stuff, but my > normal home network isn't on the

Re: Installing jessie on laptop from usb live iso

2016-05-05 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Ralph Sanchez [2016-05-05 03:17 -0400]: > Update: like i said, i am running from the install from within the Live > boot from usb. I configured network, partitioning, etc and got to > installing system. Bar is about 95 percent full and says retreiving file 1 > of 2 when it switches to a windows

Re: apt cache full, mandb update failed

2016-04-20 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Bonno Bloksma [2016-04-20 06:52 +]: > Hi, > [...] > > My /var partition had filled up, it seems out of the 3GB there was about > 2.5GB in /var/cache/apt/archives. > The solution was simple, just an apt-get autoclean, I now have 2.2GB free on > my /var partition. ;-) > > But. What w

Re: exim4 - tls errors

2016-04-11 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Kamil Jońca [2016-04-11 06:43 +0200]: > tls_advertise_host = !* I've tls_advertise_hosts = * and it works. Elimar -- On the keyboard of life you have always to keep a finger at the escape key;-)

Re: Jessie unable to start lvm2 on boot (raspbian)

2016-03-27 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Jari Fredriksson [2016-03-27 14:02 +0300]: > arian kirjoitti 17.3.2016 17:50: > >raspbian is not mainline debian. Maybe ask on raspbian support channels? > > > >>vgchange -a y > >>service lvm2 start > >>mount -a > > > >why the service lvm2 start? is lvm service disabled? > > > >please provide o

Re: No links?

2016-03-14 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi Hans, * Hans [2016-03-14 09:30 +0100]: > Hi list, > > when I am updating my system I get the following messages: > > /sbin/ldconfig.real: /usr/lib/libbrscandec2.so.1 is not a symbolic link > > /sbin/ldconfig.real: /usr/lib/libbrcolm2.so.1 is not a symbolic link Those files are not found i

Re: Still Can't Mount Windows Share

2016-01-11 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Steve Matzura [2016-01-10 11:19 -0500]: > On Sun, 10 Jan 2016 14:48:55 +0100, Sven wrote: > > >You might want to check /var/log/messages for more verbose error > >message.  > > In three days, this is all messages has in it: [...] Well, that sould be /var/log/syslog. > >And perhaps also run

Re: dig works, but domain name still cannot be resolved

2016-01-08 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Yang Yu [2016-01-07 23:46 -0600]: > dig can get A records of the domain name in question. But it looks > like the response got rejected by the OS. Is it related to the > wildcard? > > > $ dig mint.lc.intuit.com > > ; <<>> DiG 9.9.5-9+deb8u4-Debian <<>> mint.lc.intuit.com > ;; global options:

Re: how execute a script

2015-11-17 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* shawn wilson [2015-11-17 13:08 -0500]: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Chris Bannister > wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 09:31:53AM -0500, shawn wilson wrote: [...] > >> communicated (via its extension). If you create a pdf, it is bad to not > >> have the pdf extension - you've lost da

Re: alsa troubles

2015-10-19 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* to...@tuxteam.de [2015-10-19 18:12 +0200]: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 10:32:38AM -0600, Glenn English wrote: [...] > > > root@sbox:~# alsamixer > > > ALSA lib dlmisc.c:254:(snd1_dlobj_cache_get) Cannot open shared library > > > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/alsa-lib/libasound_module_ctl_pulse.so >

Re: jessie-backport bug

2015-09-12 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Chris Bannister [2015-09-13 06:11 +1200]: > On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 06:18:09PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > * Hans [2015-09-12 18:03 +0200]: > > > > > > > > > Could you please post the output of commands in English, this can be > > > &

Re: jessie-backport bug

2015-09-12 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Hans [2015-09-12 18:03 +0200]: > > > Could you please post the output of commands in English, this can be > > achieved by using 'LANG=C' before the actual command on the command > > line. > > LANG=C does not work. But try instead LANG=LC_ALL, this will work. :) $ LC_ALL=C sudo apt-get dist-u

Re: /var/lib/apt/lists/partial fills entire partition

2015-09-01 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Tony van der Hoff [2015-09-01 17:47 +0200]: [...] [...] > Running apt-get update manually showed an error: > Err http://ftp.uk.debian.org jessie-backports/non-free amd64 Packages > and the directory started filling. deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian jessie-backports non-free works flawlesl

Re: /var/lib/apt/lists/partial fills entire partition

2015-09-01 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Tony van der Hoff [2015-09-01 14:17 +0200]: > On this jessie box I have started to see /var/lib/apt/lists/partial > gradually filling the entire 2.7 GiB /var partition with hundreds of > smallish files. Google show some results for a similar, but not > identical problem for Ubuntu but I can't f

Re: what is the static ip address I assigned to eth0?

2015-08-27 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* David Wright [2015-08-27 13:29 -0500]: > Quoting Elimar Riesebieter (riese...@lxtec.de): > > * rlhar...@oplink.net [2015-08-27 02:09 -0500]: > > > > [...] > > > > > > How can I determine the address without reinstalling? > > > > $ host $(

Re: new laptop: DVD or Blu-ray

2015-08-27 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* ken [2015-08-20 06:53 -0400]: > One of the build options for a laptop I'm looking at buying is DVD vs > Blu-Ray. I've never used Blue-ray before, so is there some compelling > reason, as a Linux guy, to want to get Blu-ray? Isn't a second hd in the CD-tray a better option? You have the choice

Re: what is the static ip address I assigned to eth0?

2015-08-27 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* rlhar...@oplink.net [2015-08-27 02:09 -0500]: [...] > > How can I determine the address without reinstalling? $ host $(hostname) Elimar -- .~. /V\ L I N U X /( )\ >Phear the Penguin< ^^-^^

Re: unable to upgrade kde-full on sid

2015-08-09 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Peter Baranyi [2015-08-09 10:46 -0400]: [...] > Following your link I did not find any information for users, only > developers. Do I have to wait until all packages are updated or is there > another way? Іf you want to stay with sid: No. Elimar -- Do you smell something burning or is it m

Re: unable to upgrade kde-full on sid

2015-08-09 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Peter Baranyi [2015-08-09 08:51 -0400]: > hi, > > I have a unstable debian installed and I cannot upgrade kde-full > It seems to be a matter of the gcc-5 transition [0]. [0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/08/msg0.html Elimar -- Do you smell something burning or is

Re: Openstack images default password

2015-08-07 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Valerio Pachera [2015-08-07 14:57 +0200]: > Hi all, I downloaded debian image from > > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/openstack/current/ > > What is the root default password? Valerio -- >what IMHO then? IMHO - Inhalation of a Multi-leafed Herbal Opiate ;) --posting fro

Re: IP address

2015-07-17 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* John J. Boyer [2015-07-17 08:32 -0500]: > I have Jessie set up for CLI only. The machine is on a local network > using dhcp. What command will tell me what ip address it is using? $ dig +short `hostname -f` Elimar -- The path to source is always uphill! -un

Re: System freeze with multiple ttys in Debian Jessie

2015-07-01 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* August Karlstrom [2015-07-01 08:30 +0200]: > I run Debian 8.1. With X-Windows running in tty1, if I login on tty2 > (without X) and then logout, instead of seeing the tty2 login prompt the > system switches to tty1 and X freezes; I cannot move the mouse, not even > switch to a different tty. Th

Re: nfs problems

2015-05-08 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Petter Adsen [2015-05-08 13:03 +0200]: > On Fri, 8 May 2015 06:51:43 -0400 > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Friday 08 May 2015 02:55:53 Petter Adsen wrote: > > > That _is_ what you want, isn't it? > > > > root does not need write perms, but I do. If it takes root to do > > something, that is

Re: Debian 8 no network...

2015-05-07 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Gábor Hársfalvi [2015-05-07 21:15 +0200]: > Hello, > > I've got the problem yet - and I don't know why. > > Everything uses my Internet connection - browsers, online games etc. - but > the system update manager always gives me an error about no network > connection. So you have to check your

Re: Architecture independent package

2015-04-09 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* sppmg [2015-04-09 19:57 +0800]: > Hi all > I want type Chinese in skype in Debian (testing) amd64, so I need this > package : > > "hime" > (skype need "hime-qt4-immodule:i386" , I google to get this .) > > It's will depend "hime-data:i386". But hime-data is architecture > independent pac

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-04 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Gene Heskett [2015-04-01 22:54 -0400]: > Greetings all; [...] > > So I just dl'd firefox-37 tarball for 64 bit linux and unpacked it into > my home dirs bin subdir. But thats likely not going to be great as it > probably looks someplace else for its libraries & such. > > So where is the st

Re: firefox-37, where to put

2015-04-02 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Gene Heskett [2015-04-01 22:54 -0400]: [...] > So I just dl'd firefox-37 tarball for 64 bit linux and unpacked it into > my home dirs bin subdir. But thats likely not going to be great as it > probably looks someplace else for its libraries & such. Iceweasel 37.0 is available in experimenta

Re: fbdev driver on Wheezy

2015-03-17 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Andrew Wood [2015-03-17 12:18 +]: [...] > It just lists one > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller Silicon Motion SM712 > > I suspect what may be happening is its defaulting to video out on the LVDS > and turning the VGA port off. Is there a way to configure it to mirror the > output on bo

Re: How can I force a full fsck on a remote system at next reboot?

2015-03-13 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Elimar Riesebieter [2015-03-13 19:33 +0100]: > * Jape Person [2015-03-13 14:12 -0400]: [...] > > However, I can't get grub-set-default to redesignate that new menu entry as > > the default. > > Here is how I use it: > > The first menu entry is 0 which poin

Re: How can I force a full fsck on a remote system at next reboot?

2015-03-13 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Jape Person [2015-03-13 14:12 -0400]: > > > On 03/12/2015 05:48 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: [...] > >For remote systems, where you don't have a sideband channel like iLO, > >you could use "grub-set-default", to choose the boot entry for the next > >boot. See man 8 grub-set-default. > > > > Hi

Re: How can I force a full fsck on a remote system at next reboot?

2015-03-12 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Liam O'Toole [2015-03-12 19:41 +]: > On 2015-03-12, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: [...] > > I am running sid / sysvinit here. > > > > $ dpkg -l | grep systemd > > ii libsystemd0:amd64 > > > > Elimar > > Running jessie here, with system

Re: How can I force a full fsck on a remote system at next reboot?

2015-03-12 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* David Wright [2015-03-12 11:04 -0500]: > Quoting Jape Person (jap...@comcast.net): [...] > > Hi, Elimar. > > > > So, are you suggesting that this shutdown function (-F, for forcing > > fsck at boot) is available with the shutdown command if I switch > > from systemd-sysv to sysvinit, or that

Re: How can I force a full fsck on a remote system at next reboot?

2015-03-12 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Liam O'Toole [2015-03-11 20:44 +]: > On 2015-03-11, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: [...] > > According to shutdown(8) > > > > ... > >-f Skip fsck on reboot. > > > >-F Force fsck on reboot. > > ... > > > > Eli

Re: How can I force a full fsck on a remote system at next reboot?

2015-03-11 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Jape Person [2015-03-11 14:04 -0400]: [...] > I maintain some remote systems that I don't want running a full file system > check at inopportune times, but I do make certain that I force a check and > examine the results on a regular basis. Anyway, that's why I don't simply > modify grub behavi

Re: How to boot with the "irqpoll" option?

2015-03-09 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Kynn Jones [2015-03-09 10:41 -0400]: [...] > I would be thankful for pointers to the relevant docs, or for a recipe > aimed to a grub-noob. Check /etc/default/grub. Run: $ info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration' Elimar -- Alles was viel bedacht wird ist bedenklich!;-) Friedrich Ni

Re: recommended ftp clients for Debian

2015-02-25 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Liam O'Toole [2015-02-25 01:05 +]: > On 2015-02-24, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Tuesday 24 February 2015 14:11:13 Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> I want a simple ftp client, for putting not getting, that is easy and > >> pleasant to use. GUI based. For the use of non-geeks as well as myself. > > > >

Re: wifi driver problem

2015-02-16 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Ashish Kumar [2015-02-16 20:16 +0530]: > sir i have a prob in instaling my wifi driver > > i have bcm 43142 > my laptop is hp pav p 027 > kali linux 1.1.0 amd 64 [...] > plz plz plz plz help sir as it is being very fruatating to use > kali without wifi Go ahead on https://www.kali.org/comm

Re: FLAC playback in Iceweasel

2015-02-07 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* August Karlstrom [2015-02-07 10:43 +0100]: > Does anyone know if there is a package in Debian Wheezy that provides > playback of FLAC files in Iceweasel? On the page > http://hpr.dogphilosophy.net/test/ all clips work for me except the last > one. $ apt-cache show moc $ apt-cache show vorbis-t

Re: Help me run an old Windows game. PlayOnLinux? Wine?

2014-12-30 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Kevin O'Gorman [2014-12-29 14:58 -0800]: > I have an image of the old Windows 98 Entertainment Pack floppy. I'd like > to run one of the games that's on it, TIC.EXE. It's not in PlayOnLinux's > list of applications or games, and I'm completely new to trying this. > > I could use help, advice

Re: unstable system

2014-12-16 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* jesus_...@posteo.de [2014-12-16 11:35 +0100]: > Hello everyone! > > I don't no which package really cause the errors, so I write to the > mailing list. When I'm using my wifi-stick "USRobotics - USR8005423" > my syslog file don't stop growing till my root partition is > overflowing. This erro

Re: Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?

2014-12-13 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Patrick Bartek [2014-12-12 20:07 -0800]: [...]> I prefer to manually fsck. Easier. I just do this as root before > shutdown -r now: > > touch /forcefsck > > On booting, fsck is run on all partitions, then the empty file > forcefsck is deleted. So, this only works for that particular boot.

Re: How is typical home computer used today?

2014-12-13 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Ric Moore [2014-12-12 18:07 -0500]: [...] > I kept a Unisys 5000/90 that required 220V at 80 amps 17600 Watts! Unbelievable! Where are thus circuits fused? Elimar -- Obviously the human brain works like a computer. Since there are no stupid computers humans can't be stupid. There are ju

Re: New user question

2014-12-12 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Lisi Reisz [2014-12-12 10:00 +]: > On Friday 12 December 2014 09:21:31 Jeffrey Needle wrote: > > Hi. I'm pretty new to Debian. I just downloaded the 64-bit .iso and > > have just installed it. I have a question about the date display on the > > top panel. > > > > My understanding is that

Re: Shared libraries not found during build

2014-11-12 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Joel Roth [2014-11-12 10:08 -1000]: > > Hi list, > > > > I'm running sid. For the first time in many months, I'm > trying to build

Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition

2014-11-02 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* David Baron [2014-11-02 00:28 +0200]: > On Saturday 01 November 2014 22:58:05 Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > * David Baron [2014-11-01 19:13 +0200]: > > > On Friday 31 October 2014 13:08:27 Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > [...] > > > > > > It&#x

Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition

2014-11-01 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* David Baron [2014-11-01 19:13 +0200]: > On Friday 31 October 2014 13:08:27 Elimar Riesebieter wrote: [...] > > It's your decision. MODULES=most should be okay. BUSYBOX=y is > > essential. > > This is what the install gave me. I have not touched it. > Where do

Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition

2014-10-31 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* David Baron [2014-10-31 10:22 +0200]: > On Thursday 30 October 2014 19:46:26 Elimar Riesebieter wrote: [...] > > To mount /usr at boottime you need to boot with an initramfs. > > > > Therefor you need at least > > > > ii initramfs-tools 0.118

Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition

2014-10-30 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Hans [2014-10-30 10:27 +0100]: > Dear maintainers, > > completely without starting any flamewars: > > I am using systemd and I have /usr mounted on a separate partition as well as > /var, /home, /boot and /. > > Additionally /usr, /var and /home are luks encrypted. > > Due to this profil

Re: "no soundcards found" after Debian upgrade

2014-09-11 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Menashè Eliezer [2014-09-11 10:41 +0200]: > Thanks Elimar. > > $ dpkg -l | grep "alsa\|asound" : > > > ii alsa-base 1.0.27+1 > ii alsa-oss 1.0.28-1 > ii alsa-tools 1.0.28-1 > ii alsa-tools-gui 1.0.28-1 > ii alsa-utils 1.0.28-1 > ii alsamixergui 0.9.0rc2-1-9.1 > ii libalsaplayer0 0.99.

Re: "no soundcards found" after Debian upgrade

2014-09-10 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Menashè Eliezer [2014-09-10 17:33 +0200]: > Thank you Raffaele and Elimar, but lsmod | grep snd produces no results. I > should have mentioned it before. > > Thanks Floris, I'm in the audio group. It happens even with a Root user. $ dpkg -l | grep "alsa\|asound" ? Elimar -- Experience is

Re: "no soundcards found" after Debian upgrade

2014-09-10 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Menashè Eliezer [2014-09-10 11:34 +0200]: > Hello, I have /Debian testing/ in which the sound was fine. Few days ago, > after an update, I have "no soundcards found" with "aplay -l". lspci: > "00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family > High Definition Audio Co

Re: exail missing plugin

2014-09-07 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Matthias Bodenbinder [2014-09-07 09:50 +0200]: > I got it. > > exaile needs "gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3" which isn't listed in "Suggests:". Thats worth for a bug report. Elimar -- Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful ;-) -- T

Re: exail missing plugin

2014-09-06 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Chris Bannister [2014-09-06 23:48 +1200]: > On Sat, Sep 06, 2014 at 12:33:37PM +0200, Matthias Bodenbinder wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I just installed exaile 3.3.2-1 for debian testing. But when I try to > > play my mp3 files it says: "no suitable plugins found". What is > > missing? > > root@ta

Re: Using a second monitor

2014-08-14 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Bret Busby [2014-08-14 17:42 +0800]: [...] > After reading the thread, and the above response, it occurred to me, > that this could be worthwhile to add to the debian.org web site, as a > "HowTo", for whoever has the privileges. > > Or, if such a thing exists, a Debian "HowTo" wiki? https://wi

Re: no longer sound on amd64 sid systems

2014-05-31 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Paul Pignon [2014-05-30 11:59 +]: > Andrei POPESCU gmail.com> writes: > > > > > > > > > > No, please do > > > > > > > > # echo "options snd-hda-intel model=dell" >> /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf > I did this, but modprobe snd-hda-intel still says "invalid argument" and I > have no idea w

Re: no longer sound on amd64 sid systems

2014-05-28 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Paul Pignon [2014-05-28 14:53 +0300]: [...] > > please post the output of: > > > > root@debianHP: find /lib/modules -name 'snd-hda*' What gives this for an output? [...] > I still don't know what to put instead of dell. Nothing! [...] > Yes, I can see that in future this would matter, but

Re: GNOME-Terminal is blank or inactive in Awesome WM on Debian 7

2014-05-25 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Muntasim Ul Haque [2014-05-25 15:56 +0600]: > Hi, > GNOME-Terminal is blank in Awesome WM. It just opens but doesn't show > anything. Not even by username and hostname. Absolutely nothing. But Xfce > terminal was working great. Even Terminator is working properly. So what's > wrong with GNOME-T

Re: no longer sound on amd64 sid systems

2014-05-23 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Paul [2014-05-23 13:09 +0200]: [...] > /That just gets me > root@debianHP:/usr/lib/pd-extended/extra# modprobe -v snd-hda-intel > insmod /lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/sound/pci/hda/snd-hda-codec.ko > ERROR: could not insert 'snd_hda_intel': Invalid argument please post the output o

Re: no longer sound on amd64 sid systems

2014-05-15 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Scott Ferguson [2014-05-16 03:21 +1000]: > On 16/05/14 01:39, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > * Scott Ferguson [2014-05-16 00:49 > > +1000]: > > > >> On 16/05/14 00:15, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: [...] > >>> That is useless with the modules lis

Re: no longer sound on amd64 sid systems

2014-05-15 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Scott Ferguson [2014-05-16 00:49 +1000]: > On 16/05/14 00:15, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > * Paul Pignon [2014-05-15 12:09 +0100]: > > > > [...]> > ... lsmod | grep snd > > > >>> snd_pcm 76785 0 > >>> snd_hwdep 13189 0 &

Re: no longer sound on amd64 sid systems

2014-05-15 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Paul Pignon [2014-05-15 12:09 +0100]: [...]> > ... lsmod | grep snd > > snd_pcm 76785 0 > > snd_hwdep 13189 0 > > snd_page_alloc 13052 1 snd_pcm > > snd_seq 53391 0 > > snd_seq_device 13132 1 snd_seq > > snd_timer 22767 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm > > snd 61901 5 snd_timer,snd_seq_device,snd_seq,snd_hwd

Re: no longer sound on amd64 sid systems

2014-05-14 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Paul Pignon [2014-05-14 16:08 +0100]: [...] > Hi, > > > First, apologies if I'm not posting this request the way one should, I > don't think I ever tried to ask a question on this forum before, so if I > should have done it differently please advise me. > > > I'm having exactly the same gri

Re: no longer sound on amd64 sid systems

2014-05-13 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* sp113438 [2014-05-13 16:27 +0200]: > On Tue, 13 May 2014 11:27:50 +0200 > Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > Hello, > > > hello, > > > > > > I did the latest update on 2 systems amd64 Sid, and now sound does > > > not work any longer on both syste

Re: no longer sound on amd64 sid systems

2014-05-13 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* sp113438 [2014-05-12 22:05 +0200]: > hello, > > I did the latest update on 2 systems amd64 Sid, and now sound does not > work any longer on both systems. > The program /usr/sbin/alsa dissapeared after installing the latest > alsa-base. /usr/sbin/alsa was a relict from the obsolete alsa-driver

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-05 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Rick Thomas [2014-05-05 01:04 -0700]: > > On May 5, 2014, at 12:15 AM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > I don't run a 4k hd in my powerbook. But in one of my amd64 machines there > > is > > one (Seagate ST1000DM003) running with an gpt partition table par

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-05 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Rick Thomas [2014-05-04 15:46 -0700]: > > On May 4, 2014, at 1:28 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > * Rick Thomas [2014-05-04 01:14 -0700]: > > > > [...] > >> root@bigal:~# mac-fdisk -l /dev/sda > >> /dev/sda > >>#

Re: How to get installer to align partitions on 4096 byte boundaries?

2014-05-04 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Rick Thomas [2014-05-04 01:14 -0700]: [...] > root@bigal:~# mac-fdisk -l /dev/sda > /dev/sda > #type name length base > ( size ) system > /dev/sda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 > ( 31.5k) Partition m

Re: USB Webcam Grabs ALSA Card Index 0

2014-04-06 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Rainer Dorsch [2014-04-06 21:58 +0200]: [...] > > Sounds somewhat different than in your bugreport. > > I decided to try without pulseaudio. Pulseaudio did not really > solve issues (flashplayer was still playing through card 0) and it > did not allow to play sound on two cards concurrently..

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