general protection fault on vif50.1-q1-guest (Debian 8/Xen)

2020-05-15 Thread John Naggets
Hello, I had recently a general protection fault on a Debian 8 server with Xen (debian pacakge: 4.4.4lts4-0+deb8u1) on the vif50.1-q1-guest kernel proces. I have copied the kernel log below in this mail for reference. After this GPF the system was still responding but one domU lost network connect

Spectre variants 3a and 4 on Debian 8

2018-08-13 Thread John Naggets
Hello, I would like to protect my SuperMicro SYS-5018R-MR server from the newest Spectre variants 3a and 4 and hence did the following: - updated SuperMicro BIOS to v3.1 from 06/06/2018 which explicitly addresses these 2 new variants based on their release notes - updated to the latest Debian 8.1

Re: ThinkSystem RAID 930-8i driver/module for Debian 9

2018-02-19 Thread John Naggets
ard should be supported. What do you think except for the fact that this is a testing release... On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 9:15 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 06:49:34PM +0100, John Naggets wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I just got a new Lenovo ThinkSystem SR630 serve

ThinkSystem RAID 930-8i driver/module for Debian 9

2018-01-30 Thread John Naggets
Hi, I just got a new Lenovo ThinkSystem SR630 server and I am trying to install Debian 9.3 onto it. Unfortunately at the disk partitioning step it does not find any disks. It looks like Debian 9 does not have the kernel driver/module for its RAID card. The RAID card is a Lenovo ThinkSystem RAID 9

Re: IPv6 SLAAC and RFC 7217

2018-01-22 Thread John Naggets
Thanks Andy for the tip about the stable_secret sysctl, I will try this out soon and see how it behaves. On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 2:06 AM, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi John, > > On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 07:29:23PM +0100, John Naggets wrote: >> I was wondering if there is a "stand

IPv6 SLAAC and RFC 7217

2018-01-21 Thread John Naggets
Hi, I was wondering if there is a "standard" way in Debian 9 through the /etc/network/interfaces file to enable/force using a stable private IPv6 address using SLAAC as specified in RFC 7217? Any one already managed to do that on a Debian 9 client? or know how to do that? Cheers, John

Re: Upgrading to stretch (jessie-backports question)

2017-12-07 Thread John Naggets
On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 8:29 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> Actually moving on the Debian stretch I would not need anymore the >> backports because the ZFS packages are included in stretch. So could I >> just get rid of my backports APT source by deleting my list file >> beforehand and then simply do

Re: Upgrading to stretch (jessie-backports question)

2017-12-07 Thread John Naggets
On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 6:39 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > No. Backports have to be specifically requested. Aha I get it. So by changing my APT sources.list for backports from jessie-backports to stretch-backports all my ZFS packages will simply get upgraded to the official/main Debian (non backpor

Re: Upgrading to stretch (jessie-backports question)

2017-12-07 Thread John Naggets
On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 6:11 PM, Tom Furie wrote: > Is there a reason not to switch to your backports source to stretch at > the same time as the others? If I understand correctly doing that I will end up with the ZFS packages for unstable (Debian 10) after running a dist-upgrade? Is my understan

Upgrading to stretch (jessie-backports question)

2017-12-07 Thread John Naggets
Hi, I am currently using Debian 8 and have enabled the jessie-backports repository with the following line in /etc/apt/sources.d/backports.list: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main contrib The only reason for this is that I am using ZFS on jessie for some data disks/partitions

PXE netboot to load OS from /dev/sda1

2017-10-26 Thread John Naggets
Hi, I have installed Debian 9 onto an old laptop with an SSD disk. Unfortunately the BIOS does not support booting from that SSD disk so I would like to "abuse" of PXE in order to boot my installed Linux from /dev/sda1. For that purpose I setup a PXE server on another machine on the same LAN usin

Re: OpenJDK 8 from jessie backports

2017-09-14 Thread John Naggets
Thanks Georgi you made my day! That worked like a charm. On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 3:10 PM, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > On 09/14/2017 03:45 PM, John Naggets wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I did the mistake of running an "apt-get dist-upgrade" on my Debian 8 >> machine w

OpenJDK 8 from jessie backports

2017-09-14 Thread John Naggets
Hi, I did the mistake of running an "apt-get dist-upgrade" on my Debian 8 machine which uses Debian backports in oder to have the OpenJDK 8 package. Now I am stuck by with the OpenJDK 7 from the Debian repo and if I try to install OpenJDK 8 again I get the following error: $ sudo apt-get install

Re: not possible to install apt-transport-https package on jessie

2017-01-01 Thread John Naggets
, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 30/12/2016 à 16:25, John Naggets a écrit : >> >> I have now additional source in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gluster.list >> which is the following: >> >> deb >> http://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/3.7/

Re: not possible to install apt-transport-https package on jessie

2016-12-30 Thread John Naggets
=main origin security.debian.org Pinned packages: On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 2:45 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 30/12/2016 à 14:19, John Naggets a écrit : >> >> Do you have an idea which line could be missing? Here is the content >> of my /etc/apt/sources.list

Re: not possible to install apt-transport-https package on jessie

2016-12-30 Thread John Naggets
/ jessie/updates main # jessie-updates, previously known as 'volatile' deb http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian jessie-updates main deb-src http://ftp.ch.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 12:26 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 29/12/2016 à 23:14, John Na

not possible to install apt-transport-https package on jessie

2016-12-29 Thread John Naggets
Hi, I am trying to install the apt-transport-https package in order to avoid the "E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be found." error message which recently appeared when I want to apt-get update/upgrade. Unfortunately something is wrong here but I have no idea what... Have

Re: probable broken tomcat6 package on wheezy

2016-12-17 Thread John Naggets
package will be quickly fixed. Best, H.N. On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 9:53 AM, Alex Mestiashvili wrote: > On 12/17/2016 07:40 AM, John Naggets wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Since today the tomcat6 package on Debian 7.11 seems to be broken as >> the tomcat6 service does not start an

probable broken tomcat6 package on wheezy

2016-12-16 Thread John Naggets
Hi, Since today the tomcat6 package on Debian 7.11 seems to be broken as the tomcat6 service does not start anymore. Here is the relevant output of catalina.out: Dec 17, 2016 6:35:15 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.ClassLoaderFactory validateFile WARNING: Problem with directory [/usr/share/tomcat6

unmount mount point when exiting gnome3 desktop

2015-08-12 Thread John Naggets
Hello, I would like to automatically unmount a DavFS mount point /media/webdav) when a users logs off the gnome3 desktop on jessie. For that purpose I have added the following command to /etc/gdm3/PostSession/Default: /bin/umount /media/webdav But it looks like this script never gets executed w

aufofs starting before networking at system boot

2015-08-10 Thread John Naggets
Hello, I noticed that on my Debian jessie installation by looking in /etc/rc5.d that autofs gets started before the networking script. Somehow I think this does not make sense and autofs should get started after the networking script. For example in my case autofs has to query my internal LDAP se