Re: Replace systemd

On 06/07/17 13:10, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 07:34:04AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: But that is not the scenario I am discussing. I am discussing the experience which an ordinary user, who simply selects from the options which the installer lists, will have. (My use of the term

Re: Replace systemd

It would be nice to have an install-time option for selecting the desired init. Exactly what I think too, I have been wanting to start a thread about 'Is multi-init at install dead?' but keep getting distracted because it's actually very interesting in terms of social sciences too.

Re: fail2ban with nftables

On 29/06/17 00:13, Denis Polom wrote: On Debian 9 with latest updates, fail2ban not creating rules when used with nftables: 2017-06-29 01:06:14,217 fail2ban.action [2593]: ERROR nft add set inet filter f2b-sshd \{ type ipv4_addr\; \} nft insert rule inet filter INPUT tcp dport \{ ssh

Re: Can a US Robotics USB Softmodem be made to work on Linux?

On 15/06/17 21:46, Jason wrote: I have a U.S. Robotics USR5639 USB modem. I am wondering how hard it is to get it to work with Linux. Using Mint 18.1. The modem does not show up at all in /dev when plugged in but here is what 'lsusb' says: Bus 001 Device 006: ID 047e:2892 Agere Systems, Inc. (Lu

Re: When two bugs may have underlying problem(s) in common

On 23/06/17 14:46, Richard Owlett wrote: I had cause to re-read bug titled "arandr: doesn't detect when I unplug an external screen" Depending on how the phrasing of the problem is read it cause could be a hardware related issue or ha

Re: One problem identified - was [Re: ARandR problems: Bug or opderator?]

On 20/06/17 21:21, Richard Owlett wrote: On 06/20/2017 02:06 PM, JPlews wrote: On 20/06/17 13:14, Richard Owlett wrote: I had understood ARandR would use it automatically. It evidently doesn't. This is my experience too, including some of the randomness, after reboots the DE is se

Re: 3G-Internet-band width - load balancing not working proper in Stretch

On 17/06/17 16:12, Zei Ha gmx.net wrote: Hello, I'm using Stretch for a long time now on an amd64-PC together with a 3G-Internet-Modem-Stick. The behaviour how Stretch handles the band width and does load balancing between different applications is simply disastrous! For example: if I download l

Re: One problem identified - was [Re: ARandR problems: Bug or opderator?]

On 20/06/17 13:14, Richard Owlett wrote: I had understood ARandR would use it automatically. It evidently doesn't. This is my experience too, including some of the randomness, after reboots the DE is setting things, I find Gnome really weak in this area. The window oddness you describe remin

Re: Trying to understand man page for dd

On 28/05/17 12:58, Richard Owlett wrote: It says in part: Sending a USR1 signal to a running 'dd' process makes it print I/O statistics to standard error and then resume copying. $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null& pid=$! $ kill -USR1 $pid; sleep 1; kill $pid I think it is trying to tell

Re: unable to repartition SD card from Android phone

On 27/05/17 18:18, Fungi4All wrote: > But while it gives you a long error message in another system it notifies > google of what that system is and which android user is attempting it. How? Please provide citation(s). That's my shot on science fiction, but you wouldn't think they are that e

Re: unable to repartition SD card from Android phone

On 26/05/17 20:52, Mark Copper wrote: Maybe I should just toss it, but I'm curious why none of my tools can recover an SD card previously used for Android internal storage. I have returned 2 cards from this state, dd has never failed me but needs extra steps to remove both places GTP is stori