Re: Comments on Lenovo desktops

2015-07-13 Thread Joris Bolsens
On 07/13/2015 04:09 AM, Andrew Wood wrote: > I had a Lenovo ThinkPad i could not get its broadcom wifi to work with debian > i think because it had a tranistor based power switch which was off by > default and needed windows only drivers to turn it on and then the screen > failed when it wasnt

Re: Upgrade kernel to 3.19+ OR Bumblebee cannot enable discrete graphics

2015-05-02 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/01/2015 11:29 PM, Jean-Marc wrote: > > Not in Sid yet but in experimental. If you use testing or sid, > adding experimental is not a problem. It is a non-automatic > release. > > Jean-Marc > latest kbuild in experimental is 3.18 :/ -B

Re: Upgrade kernel to 3.19+ OR Bumblebee cannot enable discrete graphics

2015-05-01 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/01/2015 12:58 AM, Jean-Marc wrote: > Fri, 01 May 2015 00:06:57 -0700 No need to do it yourself, it is > already done here: > https://packages.debian.org/experimental/linux-image-4.0.0-trunk-amd64 > > Jean-Marc > Just tried that: The foll

Re: Upgrade kernel to 3.19+ OR Bumblebee cannot enable discrete graphics

2015-05-01 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/01/2015 12:05 AM, humbert.olivie...@free.fr wrote: > Hi > >> I was wondering if anyone had instructions on how to update to >> kernel > 3.19 or above. >> I have spent ~an hour googling, but all I can find are tutorials >> for > ubuntu, most

Re: Jessie and Cairo Dock without pulseaudio...

2015-04-30 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 running cairo-dock in jessi currently and afaik it doesn't depend on pulse so, yes, it should be possible - -Joris -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJVQuahAAoJEORnMHMHY2FrkqAP/RplnldAVCLR01NpSQI5Rgu/ 4TNA7bX0fmSDEjosWiMj

Upgrade kernel to 3.19+ OR Bumblebee cannot enable discrete graphics

2015-04-30 Thread Joris Bolsens
Hi list, I was wondering if anyone had instructions on how to update to kernel 3.19 or above. I have spent ~an hour googling, but all I can find are tutorials for ubuntu, most of which do it through apt. I checked jessie-backports but 3.16 seems to be the latest available outside of unstable. Th

Re: testing or stable

2015-04-27 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 sorry, I was under the impression that it went wheezy -> Jessie -> Sid I meant stretch xD On 04/27/2015 09:48 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > So if you want to go on tinkering, update to Stretch! Otherwise > stick to Jessie. > > Or you could go to Sid

testing or stable

2015-04-27 Thread Joris Bolsens
I've been using Debian Jessie for ~ a year now, now that it is stable should I update to sid? or stick with jessie? I enjoy tinkering with everything, so I'm OK with things breaking or needing some special configuration, hell I'll even patch a thing and recompile from source if I have to (I know,

Re: free cloud

2015-04-08 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 04/08/2015 07:08 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 08 April 2015 01:02:17 Joris Bolsens wrote: >> only $56/month. > > I ove the "only"! ;-) > > Lisi > > Compared to many other hosts/servers it is pr

Re: free cloud

2015-04-08 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 04/08/2015 06:07 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > > What is a dedi? > Sorry, I assumed everyone used the same word as I do, a dedi is a bare metal server. ~Joris -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJVJVoFAAoJEORnMHMHY2F

Re: free cloud

2015-04-07 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 04/02/2015 03:58 PM, Bernd Naumann wrote: > But the downside on all these 'cheep vps provider' I'm aware off, > is that they don't offer any useful amount of storage space. So > maybe find a friend or too, and invest in a monthly rent of a > b

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-27 Thread Joris Bolsens
Do you have a tutorial or how to on setting up mailman with that setup? it seems a little non standard now that I'm looking at various mailman tutorials. ~Joris signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: trouble installing Debian testing/jessie

2015-03-26 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/25/2015 12:30 PM, mizuki wrote: > The attempt to mount a file system with type ext4 in SCSI1(0,0,0), > partition #1 (sda) at / failed. You may resume partitioning from > the partitioning menu. > I've never had this problem and honestly ha

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-21 Thread Joris Bolsens
On 03/17/2015 11:37 AM, Tazman DeVille wrote: > Run a RedMatrix hub on it. See https://redmatrix.me > What is that? looked at the site but don't really understand what it does. -Joris signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-17 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 So I had two issues in case anyone is wondering, 1: I had to use STARTTLS and not SSL/TLS 2: I had `error` set as my transports for some reason, works fine and dandy now. On to setting up horde :p ~Joris -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-17 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/2015 11:42 AM, Tazman DeVille wrote: > > Linode (expensive host, I no longer use, but with lotso great > docu), has a great howto for setting up mail with postfix, dovecot, > mysql on squeeze: > https://www.linode.com/docs/email/postfix/em

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-17 Thread Joris Bolsens
On 03/17/2015 06:05 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: > > Set your t-bird to use "STARTTLS" for the outgoing server. Fixed it for > me when I ran into that problem. > > There's probably a fix in either postfix or dovecot, but from what I can > see, there's no real security concerns over explicitly starting

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-17 Thread Joris Bolsens
On 03/17/2015 06:05 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: > > Set your t-bird to use "STARTTLS" for the outgoing server. Fixed it for > me when I ran into that problem. > > There's probably a fix in either postfix or dovecot, but from what I can > see, there's no real security concerns over explicitly star

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-16 Thread Joris Bolsens
On 03/16/2015 10:24 PM, Joris Bolsens wrote: > > [snip] > > Been googling for hours and I cannot for the life of me find what the > problem is. > ~Joris > I can connect just fine to IMAP, it's SMTP that gives me issues. the response when i EHLO the smtps delio i g

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-16 Thread Joris Bolsens
On 03/16/2015 02:59 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: > > [snip] > Well you were definitely correct in that this will keep me busy for awhile, can't get thunderbird to connect properly. I have verified that the SSL cert is good (got one from comodo) followed instruction to the letter and checked to make

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-16 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/16/2015 02:59 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: > On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 12:23:43 -0700, Joris Bolsens wrote: > >> [snip...] I'm assuming they moved it to here: >> https://www.linode.com/docs/email/postfix/email-with-postfix-d

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-16 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/16/2015 12:14 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > Joris Bolsens wrote: > >> On 03/16/2015 10:27 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: >> >>> Good deal :) >>> >>> I found this one too. It's specific to dov

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-16 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/16/2015 10:27 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: > Good deal :) > > I found this one too. It's specific to dovecot + mysql on linode > boxes, but it should be relatively easy to sort through and work > out for you (or at least easier than the postfix an

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-16 Thread Joris Bolsens
On 03/16/2015 03:44 AM, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > > Ik have a server that I use for testing. Whem I am not using it for testing I > run folding@home on it. > https://folding.stanford.edu/home/guide/linux-install-guide/ > > Really looking for something that I'll get utility out of, interesting id

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-16 Thread Joris Bolsens
On 03/16/2015 09:14 AM, Dan Purgert wrote: > > --lots of snippage-- > Thanks a ton, I will definitely look into all those things xD I've got a few days to kill and an entire week off next week. ~Joris signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-15 Thread Joris Bolsens
> > Confirming "mail server" will keep you busy - especially the initial > configuration (there will be a lot of "WTF, now what'd I do!?" moments, > if you're like me). > > But yeah, postfix + dovecot (or other sasl agent) is pretty 'secure' in > terms of not getting blindly turned into a ma

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-15 Thread Joris Bolsens
> You could give Proxmox a whirl!! Then install Turnkey Linux containers > to it. I'm a perfect idiot and had containers like Wordpress and > Owncloud running in no time. Since proxmox is headless, you need a > machine on the same localnet to ssh in to admin Proxmox. Then you admin > it through yo

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-14 Thread Joris Bolsens
> I have a guide on my website[1] for setting up Postfix that is secure. > If you google, you'll find many more for different configurations[2]. > Use them as guides and review the documentation on the proper > Postfix/Exim/etc websites and man pages. > I'll give it a look then, awesome :D Anyth

Re: Cool things to do with server

2015-03-14 Thread Joris Bolsens
> Mail server, I thought about this, but from what i understand, mail servers are notoriously difficult to secure properly. > sound server with USB output connected to my hi-fi system, > RADIUS server for the wireless access point, an assortment of PHP pages > to run the music, get Internet radio,

Cool things to do with server

2015-03-14 Thread Joris Bolsens
Hey all, I've got a smallish Debian server that I'm currently not really using for anything. At the moment I have it as my own imagehost, general fileserver, vpn, and a pastebin like thing. What are some cool/fun/weird things you use your servers for? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

2015-03-10 Thread Joris Bolsens
On 03/04/2015 09:33 PM, Ken Heard wrote: > In the next month or so I will have to do a clean OS installation in > two desktops. Jessie is now frozen (Debian's contribution to retarding > global warming?); and there are apparently fewer RC bugs at this point > after the freeze than there were at the

Re: Unable to join the Debian User Forum; appears that all IPs are being black-listed.

2015-01-09 Thread Joris Bolsens
On 01/09/2015 07:20 AM, Wayne Hartell wrote: > [snip] > Yes, you're right I am using Outlook since I've signed up to this list on a > virtual machine that is configured for taking on the road for my work. I > haven't yet taken a look at Evolution and others e-mail clients, but I fear > that I'll

Re: Have I been hacked?

2015-01-08 Thread Joris Bolsens
On 01/08/2015 12:53 PM, Danny wrote: ### > > As you can see ... I am already DROPping some of these IP's ... I just need > something to block an ENTIRE country ... > > Thank you ... and thanks to eve

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/23/2014 12:49 PM, Hans wrote: > > Did you try to dpkg-reconfigure gdm? I did, but it failed as there is nothing installed as gdm no longer exists in jessie apparently, just gdm3 > > You might try to force the configuration by reconfiguring an

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/23/2014 11:40 AM, Floris wrote: > > maybe you can manually set the display manager to gdm3 > > edit "/etc/X11/default-display-manager" to: > > /usr/sbin/gdm3 > That did the trick, it was set to /usr/bin/gdm3 Any idea why dpkg and apt could

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/23/2014 10:37 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > dpkg-reconfigure gdm $ sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm dpkg-query: package 'gdm' is not installed and no information is available Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, and dpkg --contents

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/23/2014 10:32 AM, Floris wrote: > just to be sure: > > apt-get update apt-get purge kdm $ sudo apt-get purge kdm Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package 'kdm' is not installed, so not re

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Joris Bolsens
On 12/23/2014 10:07 AM, Floris wrote: > Op Tue, 23 Dec 2014 18:58:48 +0100 schreef Joris Bolsens : > > Is it Gnome that fails to start or gdm? > Not sure what the difference is (sorry). When the system starts I get multiple messages along the lines of "Gnome Display Manager

Re: gnome wont start

2014-12-23 Thread Joris Bolsens
On 12/22/2014 10:31 PM, Go Linux wrote: > > Recent discussion (on the Devuan list) mentioned dbus requires a reboot to > restart. Perhaps startx also needs a reboot? Welcome to the world of systemd > - determined to complicate your computing life. Note that Gnome is > terminally infected w

gnome wont start

2014-12-22 Thread Joris Bolsens
Hello all, I recently ran into a problem with Gnome. It fails to start at all. I am able to get a working ui by using the startx command, and it seems like it is a gnomish environment (windows key brings up the Activities selected or what have you) Gnome used to work fine, however I installed KDE

Re: Screen rotation question

2014-12-20 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Could be there's no difference, but try the --rotate flag and specify your vga connection xrandr --output VGA1 --rotate right On 12/05/2014 02:32 PM, Jacek Dudek wrote: > X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) -BEGIN P

Random X crash

2014-12-04 Thread Joris Bolsens
I am getting seemingly random crashes of X. I have 3 monitors (2 external, 1 laptop), and occasionally they will flash black, and orientation gets reset to default. I have not been able to find any action that specifically triggers this, although when i look at dmesg, it seems to somehow be relate

Re: useradd segmentation fault

2014-11-11 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry about late reply, got a bit busy with other things. On 11/07/2014 11:43 PM, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > I'd try adding some memory (or swapspace) to this VM to satisfy > mremap's wish to remap to exactly 8G virtual memory. > > Reco Tried this, set

Re: useradd segmentation fault

2014-11-09 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/09/2014 12:55 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Sun, 09 Nov 2014, Joris Bolsens wrote: >> Where do i find the object file for libnss-ldap? I tried running >> nm -a on pretty much every file I could find with libnss-ldap in >

Re: useradd segmentation fault

2014-11-09 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/08/2014 03:43 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: > No, just don't send the whole core dump itself (the file called > core) to the BTS (or this mailing list). It almost certainly has > your machine ldap password in it. that makes sense, wont do that, tha

Re: useradd segmentation fault

2014-11-08 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/08/2014 12:16 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: > apt-get build-dep libnss-ldap; DEB_BUILD_OPTS="nostrip,noopt" > apt-get source -b libnss-ldap; > > will give you those symbols. > > Then you can rerun /usr/sbin/useradd foo; and re-analyze the > cored

Re: useradd segmentation fault

2014-11-08 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/08/2014 12:16 PM, Don Armstrong wrote: > Please double check the bt full; output for any obvious password > strings too before posting to this mailing list. [I should have > told you to do that too, but I don't see any below, so you should > b

Re: useradd segmentation fault

2014-11-08 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I can't be 100% certain because I'm not sure what any of this means, but it would seem I messed up somewhere as it shows `No Symbol Table info available` for libnss_ldap. This bit also seems possibly problematic `warning: Can't read pathname for load

Re: useradd segmentation fault

2014-11-08 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/08/2014 11:16 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: > ulimit -c unlimited; useradd foo; gdb /usr/sbin/useradd core; bt > full; or similar. > > You'll also want to install libc6-dbg gdb; and similar. > > This will give you an idea of where the code is seg

Re: useradd segmentation fault

2014-11-08 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry, pretty new to linux still. put a few questions in-line. On 11/08/2014 09:39 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: > Before filing a bug, please > > 1) Enable coredumps Did some googling, I have to recompile the kernel for this? the one thing i did find

Re: useradd segmentation fault

2014-11-08 Thread Joris Bolsens
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/07/2014 11:43 PM, Reco wrote: > > So, chances are - you've found a bug. > Awesome, where/how should I report it? > >> and memory info on top: >> >> KiB Mem: 2061128 total, 263680 used, 1797448 free,75180 >> buffers KiB Swap: 20

Re: useradd segmentation fault

2014-11-07 Thread Joris Bolsens
rnames and such), do you think that could have something to do with it? On 11/07/2014 08:26 PM, Marty wrote: > On 11/07/2014 09:04 PM, Joris Bolsens wrote: >> Ran into a bit of a strange error with useradd today, whenever i >> run useradd I get a Segmentation fault. >> >&g

Re: INTEL HD Graphics

2014-11-07 Thread Joris Bolsens
>From my experience yes, it works on jessie without any problems. On 11/07/2014 07:03 PM, Man_Without_Clue wrote: > > On 11/08/2014 11:57 AM, Joris Bolsens wrote: >> I have this one and had no issues with it, runs fine and I had to do no >> extra config/setup on my end. >&

Re: useradd segmentation fault

2014-11-07 Thread Joris Bolsens
it seems that using the adduser works fine, not sure why i didn't think to try that before. However I am still curious why this occurred. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

useradd segmentation fault

2014-11-07 Thread Joris Bolsens
Ran into a bit of a strange error with useradd today, whenever i run useradd I get a Segmentation fault. I tried running fsck as i read it might be due to corrupt filesystem, but that didn't report any problems. I reinstalled the passwd package, also to no avail. I ran an strace and it seems it