Re: USB keyboard unreliable since dist-upgrade on 1st of June

2015-06-12 Thread James Ensor
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 6:08 AM, Nicos Gollan wrote: > Hi all, > > Since I did a dist-upgrade (running unstable) on 2015-06-01, I'm having a > rather annoying issue that the system will seemingly randomly drop keystrokes > from my USB keyboard I tried disabling power management for that device, bu

Re: All roads to suspend/hibernate lead through systemd?

2014-10-20 Thread James Ensor
On Oct 18, 2014 2:00 PM, "Nate Bargmann" wrote: > > No, this is not a troll (seems like that is necessary to state up > front). I have been experimenting with dropping systemd from my laptop > running Sid but find that even with xfce4-power-manager suspend nor > hibernate are available any more u

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-11 Thread James Ensor
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 7:38 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > On 10/10/2014 at 07:53 PM, James Ensor wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 7:31 PM, John Hasler >> wrote: >> >>> James Ensor writes: >>> >>>> My impression is that the idea of &

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-10 Thread James Ensor
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 7:31 PM, John Hasler wrote: > James Ensor writes: >> My impression is that the idea of "systemd's entanglement" has been >> blown way out of proportion. > > The entanglement discussed here earlier had to do with the design of the &g

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-10 Thread James Ensor
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Bob Holtzman wrote: > > What about systemd's entanglement? From what I read here, once it's > installed there are certain programs that depend on it. Not true? > Some programs depend on systemd, but I'm not using any of them anymore, since they did not impact the

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-10 Thread James Ensor
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Brian wrote: - snip - > > Anyway, that's enough of this advocacy lark, we will look at the > technical points you posted about. They are worth a look or two/ > > > looking to wade into any arguments about systemd. I certainly do not > > claim to have solved any

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-10 Thread James Ensor
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Keith Peter wrote: > > Hello James and all > > I found (when I tried a light system with sysvinit) that cups and > wpasupplicant needed a few systemd libraries. > > See > > http://sohcahtoa.org.uk/osd.html > > Are you printing from your machine? Does WICD need wpas

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-10 Thread James Ensor
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Bob Holtzman wrote: > > All well and good but what happens when sysv* get purged from the repos? > When is this going to happen? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-10 Thread James Ensor
> > It seems to be simple, but have you tried it? > Yes, and it succeeded for me >> aptitude install sysv-rc sysvinit sysvinit-core sysvinit-utils > > LANG=C dpkg -l sysv-rc sysvinit sysvinit-core sysvinit-utils > Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold > | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/h

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-10 Thread James Ensor
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Slavko wrote: > Ahoj, > > Dňa Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:16:23 -0400 James Ensor > napísal: > >> I made no assumptions, as I had absolutely nothing to do with the >> decision of making systemd the default init system. I merely point >

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-10 Thread James Ensor
ed on your system, well then that's another discussion that does not belong in this thread. > > On Friday, October 10, 2014 11:01 AM, James Ensor > wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 9:57 AM, PETER ZOELLER > wrote: > >> This is really ticking me off. We are becoming

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-10 Thread James Ensor
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 9:57 AM, PETER ZOELLER wrote: > This is really ticking me off. We are becoming just like Microsoft that one > size fits all. Linux has always been about choice and modularity and > reconfigurability where a user or admin can choose that what suits him/her > and the type o

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-09 Thread James Ensor
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2014 09 Oct 17:51 -0500, James Ensor wrote: >> Just for kicks, I also purged cgmanager. I guess I like to live >> dangerously. Nothing bad seems to have happened. > > I am very curious how you dealt with policykit?

Re: question about systemd

2014-10-09 Thread James Ensor
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 10:36 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Oct 2014 19:58:13 -0400 > James Ensor wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I don't have a strong opinion about systemd one way or the other, but > > even after all of the debate and discussion that has

question about systemd

2014-10-08 Thread James Ensor
xfce no longer works so I installed acpi-support to enable suspend. But everything else seems to be working just fine. System is Debian Jessie amd64, and I'm using Xfce4. So I guess my question is what's all the hubbub? James Ensor