Re: Strange permissions issue with virt-install + UEFI

2022-05-13 Thread Matt Ventura
On 5/13/2022 6:53 PM, David wrote: On Sat, 14 May 2022 at 10:57, Matt Ventura wrote: On one box (Debian 11.3), my virt-install script works fine: virt-install [...] However, on another box, the same command (minus the final --network option) gives me this: [...] Could not open '/va

Strange permissions issue with virt-install + UEFI

2022-05-13 Thread Matt Ventura
is/ created: -rw---  1 libvirt-qemu libvirt-qemu 540672 May 13 16:39 openwisp_VARS.fd So, I'm really not sure why it thinks it's failing, but it aborts the installation regardless. Any ideas? Matt Ventura

Correct way to build in-tree module?

2021-10-28 Thread Matt Ventura
Hi, I'd like to build a module that is in-tree, but not enabled by the Debian kernel by default (module 'pmbus', selected by CONFIG_PMBUS). I would rather not build an entire custom kernel just for one module. Most of the resources out there are for building *out of tree* modules, but this i

Re: Thin Mate window edges

2016-03-02 Thread Matt Ventura
make this easier, such as choosing a window style with thicker borders? Not a solution to the border problem, but alt-rightclick drag allows you to resize windows (in some window managers) without having to grad the border. Matt Ventura

Re: sexist content in the package openclipart2-png

2016-01-06 Thread Matt Ventura
On 01/05/2016 04:24 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Tue, 5 Jan 2016 10:21:02 +0900 Joel Rees wrote: Hello Joel, of the clipart out into a separate package so that a child looking for a general image of a woman won't bump into a male sexual fantasy Not aimed at any person, just observation. B

Re: How to make "headless" system?

2015-11-09 Thread Matt Ventura
On 11/07/2015 12:36 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I have a number of older PCs that I use for testing/local webservers, fileservers, backup machines and other stuff. A couple of these have "glass ttys", ie. no graphics at all, and others have old low-res monitors of 800x600 at best. Also

Re: Regarding Hotspot configuration

2015-10-27 Thread Matt Ventura
On 10/24/2015 01:26 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 14:38 -0700, Matt Ventura wrote: I'm not sure about that, I just told n-m to create a new network, and it did ad-hoc even though my card supports AP mode. Can you check in iwconfig to confirm it's actually an AP? iwc

Re: Regarding Hotspot configuration

2015-10-27 Thread Matt Ventura
't mention that my hardware has bluetooth and wireless combined, and bluetooth doesn't work. It would be great if anyone could suggest the proper drivers. Thanks for help! Regards, Himanshu Shekhar Looking at that, it doesn't look like it supports AP mode. If it does, it would say "AP" and/or "AP/VLAN" under "Supported interface modes". Matt Ventura

Re: Regarding Hotspot configuration

2015-10-23 Thread Matt Ventura
On 10/23/2015 01:39 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 19:13 +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: I have spent couple of hours about using hotspot on my Debian laptop. The hotspotd method didn't work. So, I tried ap-hotspot after knowing that the hotspot which the GNOME network manager st

Re: Regarding Hotspot configuration

2015-10-23 Thread Matt Ventura
ort AP mode while the ones in Debian do not. It also might not have AP support on all bands. Matt Ventura

Re: Adapter Names on Stretch

2015-08-29 Thread Matt Ventura
a command to rc.local to delete all udev rules at boot. (Idea is that I can swap out boards if they fail and keep the same disk image - which is on SD card). You can also just delete the udev rule that generates the persistent interface names to begin with. Matt Ventura

Re: VLAN config on Jessie

2015-08-01 Thread Matt Ventura
best practices. You either want to have a port be an untagged member of a single vlan, or a tagged member of one or more vlans. It's hard to tell at this point if that's what's actually causing the problem or if that's unrelated. Matt Ventura -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: VLAN config on Jessie

2015-07-30 Thread Matt Ventura
anks Andrew Could you post the DHCPD config? Matt Ventura -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/55ba985a.1070...@mattventura.net

Re: Free GNU/Linux intro class for teens advice? Purchase box? Squeak/Smalltalk programming

2015-07-07 Thread Matt Ventura
experience would be most helpful, I think, but I would appreciate any insights. Thanks for your thoughts, Marc May I ask why you decided against virtualization? It might be something that can be worked around. Matt Ventura -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: Colorized Prompts Problem

2015-05-04 Thread Matt Ventura
On 5/4/2015 7:57 AM, Thomas H. George wrote: On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 06:54:40AM +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: Hi, I entered the following in .bashrc PS1='\033[01;33m\h:\w\$ \033[00m' to colorize the prompt (very handy to find the prompt when a command fills the console screen with lines of

Re: Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it

2015-03-10 Thread Matt Ventura
k. If that fails, then it might come down to some BIOS settings. Matt Ventura -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54ff6d33.4010...@mattventura.net

Re: Installing Jessie on a computer that current has Windows 7 on it

2015-03-10 Thread Matt Ventura
g enter on the disk itself (not the partition). You can also hop over to a TTY and manually use fdisk to do it (fdisk /dev/, o, w, then sort out partitioning in the installer). Matt Ventura -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: Strange entry in my routing table.

2015-03-04 Thread Matt Ventura
On 03/04/2015 03:18 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: Here is my routing table: 0.0.0.0 192.168.25.68 0.0.0.0 UG0 00 eth0 192.168.24.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.252.0 U 1 00 eth0 The first entry IS my default gateway as I expected. The second line,

Re: Anti-spam recommendations

2015-02-04 Thread Matt Ventura
: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward-confirmed_reverse_DNS Matt Ventura -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54d264de.5010...@mattventura.net

Problem with recent updates+sleep+screen locking

2015-02-04 Thread Matt Ventura
ing. Is there any way to get gnome screensaver to not lock on suspend/resume? Thanks, Matt Ventura -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54d1d7fd.7030...@mattventura.net

Re: network newbie seeks help combining routesets for VPN tunnel

2015-01-25 Thread Matt Ventura
ot; route#=1? 2: default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0 proto static 3: 10.144.0.1 dev ppp0 proto kernel scope link src ${F5_VPN_ENDPT_IPN} 4: 128.0.0.0/1 via ${F5_VPN_ENDPT_IPN} dev ppp0 proto none metric 1 5: ${F5_VPN_PUBLIC_IPN} via ${OPEN_VPN_ENDPT_IPN} dev tun0 proto none metric 1 Matt Ven

Re: network newbie seeks help combining routesets for VPN tunnel

2015-01-24 Thread Matt Ventura
Actually, ignore that. Come to think of it, the set of routes that the F5 VPN puts in place should work, needing only the addition of "${OPEN_VPN_PUBLIC_IPN} via 192.168.1.1 dev eth0". What I wrote above is the cleanest possible set of routes that would still work, but just adding t

Re: network newbie seeks help combining routesets for VPN tunnel

2015-01-24 Thread Matt Ventura
ms to be adamant about having route #4 in place, so we don't need to worry about that. As mentioned above, you should remove the default routing to the OpenVPN server and just have 134.x.x.x route through the 10.8.0.5, rather than 0/1 and 128/1. #2 is something you'll probably need to

Re: SIOCDELRT, or: proper syntax to delete default route for an interface?

2015-01-23 Thread Matt Ventura
On 01/23/2015 04:05 AM, Sven Hartge wrote: Matt Ventura wrote: me@client:~$ date ; sudo route -n Thu Jan 22 11:48:48 EST 2015 Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 0.0.0.0 10.144.15.100 128.0.0.0 UG1 0

Re: SIOCDELRT, or: proper syntax to delete default route for an interface?

2015-01-22 Thread Matt Ventura
On 1/22/2015 3:55 PM, Tom Roche wrote: summary: me@client:~$ sudo route del default ppp0 SIOCDELRT: No such process me@client:~$ sudo route del default dev ppp0 SIOCDELRT: No such process me@client:~$ sudo route del -net default dev ppp0 SIOCDELRT: No such process me@client:~$ sudo route del -ne

Re: network newbie seeks assistance debugging iptables for VPN tunnel

2015-01-22 Thread Matt Ventura
warranted? If so, how to fix the server firewall? details: Matt Ventura Wed, 21 Jan 2015 09:58:38 -0800 [1] First thing to check would be the routing table while the VPN is active. Tom Roche Wed, 21 Jan 2015 16:33:43 -0500 [2] The `route -n` for while the OpenVPN connection is active is here[3]

Re: network newbie seeks assistance debugging iptables for VPN tunnel

2015-01-21 Thread Matt Ventura
de(s) | | OpenVPN | | server + | | F5VPN server | | | | | client | | security | | | | | | +--+ +---+ +-------+ | +-+ Matt Ventura Wed, 21 Jan 2015 09:58:38 -0800 [2] First thing to check would be the rou

Re: network newbie seeks assistance debugging iptables for VPN tunnel

2015-01-21 Thread Matt Ventura
se it's trying to send all traffic through the VPN, including the traffic to the actual VPN server. Post your 'route' table and I'll have a look. Matt Ventura -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe&qu

Re: wifi connection tool?

2014-12-30 Thread Matt Ventura
On 12/30/2014 07:26 AM, Mart van de Wege wrote: Andrei POPESCU writes: On Lu, 29 dec 14, 15:58:06, Vincent Lefevre wrote: This is for Network Manager (which I'm not using since it handles the full network configuration, but I already have my own for Ethernet, and I don't want it to be broken)

Re: Image cloning software

2014-12-16 Thread Matt Ventura
On 12/15/2014 03:26 PM, Miroslav Skoric wrote: On 12/09/2014 11:11 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: You should probably provide more details about the installation to be cloned and hardware where the clone will be used. Kind regards, Andrei Here it is: 'Source 1' hardware: Desktop CPU Celeron 40

Re: Headless server just got suspended by updating systemd

2014-11-23 Thread Matt Ventura
On 11/23/2014 8:31 PM, John Hasler wrote: Joel Rees writes: So, what should Patrick file the bug against? I'd file against udev. That may not be correct but if not the maintainers will sort it out. Just explain that you are not certain of the exact package and why. I think the bug here IMO is

Re: Headless server just got suspended by updating systemd

2014-11-23 Thread Matt Ventura
On 11/23/2014 2:36 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: I am NOT starting another flamewar about systemd, but I was just upgrading a headless system (an old T61p laptop which has no functioning screen any more but which otherwise runs well and which I use as an internal webserver) by running aptitude in an

Re: What provides /dev/disk/by-uuid?

2014-11-19 Thread Matt Ventura
On 11/19/2014 12:10 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2014-11-19 20:45 +0100, Matt Ventura wrote: What module/script/thing actually provides /dev/disk/by-uuid and by-label? Those are created by udev, the rules are in the file /lib/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules. I'm asking beca

Re: What provides /dev/disk/by-uuid?

2014-11-19 Thread Matt Ventura
On 11/19/2014 12:02 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 19 nov 14, 11:45:40, Matt Ventura wrote: What module/script/thing actually provides /dev/disk/by-uuid and by-label? I'm asking because I disabled some things in my kernel config and now I no longer have those (neither before mounting roo

What provides /dev/disk/by-uuid?

2014-11-19 Thread Matt Ventura
What module/script/thing actually provides /dev/disk/by-uuid and by-label? I'm asking because I disabled some things in my kernel config and now I no longer have those (neither before mounting root nor when fully booted). If I go back to my old kernel config, it works fine. What do I need to pu

Re: running two CPU's in parallel with e.g. Beowulf in the same box.....

2014-11-18 Thread Matt Ventura
On 11/18/2014 10:29 AM, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Folks, Out of interest, if I installed two Kaveri motherboads side by side in the same box (if there would be enough room e.g. in a HAF-x box, could I use something like Beowulf to run them in tandem? Could I not set it up so that I coul

Re: "Lennart Poettering Linux" -- some real eye openers here ... don't be blindsided!

2014-11-10 Thread Matt Ventura
On 11/9/2014 11:01 PM, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Hi, Andrew McGlashan: Forwarding a message "as is" from another mailing list ... very relevant to Linux and the systemd dilemma. No, it is not. Sorry, but requiring an up-to-date kernel (or any other infrastructure you rely on) instead of mainta

Re: Best way to "pin" a kernel

2014-09-12 Thread Matt Ventura
cript to only choose from kernel version numbers that have my custom suffix to be the highest kernel. On 09/12/2014 05:57 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 08:27:46AM -0700, Matt Ventura wrote: Quick question: I want Debian to not switch Grub2 to a new kernel when I update it, s

Best way to "pin" a kernel

2014-09-11 Thread Matt Ventura
Quick question: I want Debian to not switch Grub2 to a new kernel when I update it, since I have a custom kernel on a particular machine. When I install a new kernel from apt, I don't want to immediately use it. What's the cleanest way of doing this? Matt Ventura -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Make n-m not touch WWAN

2014-09-05 Thread Matt Ventura
On 9/5/2014 7:24 PM, B wrote: On Fri, 05 Sep 2014 19:12:32 -0700 Matt Ventura wrote: I'll probably file a bug report somewhere about this, but in the meantime, is there a way to just get it to ignore the card? Or does enabling mobile broadband in the menu activate the card without r

Re: Make n-m not touch WWAN

2014-09-05 Thread Matt Ventura
On 9/5/2014 2:10 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 05.09.2014 21:14, schrieb Matt Ventura: I don't recall this happening until recent updates, but on my laptop with testing installed, any time network-manager starts/restarts, it will rfkill my WWAN card. I use the card exclusively as a GPS,

Make n-m not touch WWAN

2014-09-05 Thread Matt Ventura
es but for WWAN cards? Matt Ventura -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/540a0baf.8050...@mattventura.net

Re: IP Forwarding to Windows machine

2014-08-08 Thread Matt Ventura
but am at a loss. Suggestions? Thanks, Mike Can you post the exact output of the nslookup attempt from the win2k box? Thanks, Matt Ventura -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Ar

xfwm troubles and systemd questions

2014-07-11 Thread Matt Ventura
1. My xfwm4 seems to remember what workspaces I have windows on for the next time I open them. The problem is, I don't want it to do this because it will do things like open a window on another workspace minimized so I can't even see where it is without flipping through every workspace. I want all

Re: Clone GPT partition table - with Lenny ?

2014-07-06 Thread Matt Ventura
On 7/6/2014 1:56 PM, B wrote: On Sun, 06 Jul 2014 13:41:15 -0700 Matt Ventura wrote: You don't need to know, you just use dd over the entire disk (i.e. sda instead of sda1). Yup. Just to be clear, you're trying to copy the entire disk with all its partitions, right? I thin

Re: Clone GPT partition table - with Lenny ?

2014-07-06 Thread Matt Ventura
On 7/6/2014 1:37 PM, Steve Litt wrote: On Sun, 6 Jul 2014 22:20:55 +0200 B wrote: On Sun, 06 Jul 2014 20:54:10 +0100 Ron Leach wrote: Is there, in Lenny, a command or tool for cloning a GPT? Use dd, it'll take a looong time but you'll have a bit copy. But... How do you know how much

Re: wifi & bluetooth deactivation problem

2014-07-04 Thread Matt Ventura
On 7/4/2014 2:16 PM, B wrote: On Fri, 4 Jul 2014 22:36:43 +0200 B wrote: Ze ozer problem iz: I'd like to independently turn on/off wifi& bt. I answer myself: rfkill block wifi||bluetooth but LEDs stays on, which isn't very useful :(( Check if the LEDs in question are accessible thro

Re: flakey wifi access

2014-06-30 Thread Matt Ventura
On 6/30/2014 5:20 PM, Brian Flaherty wrote: On 06/29/2014 07:50 PM, tom arnall wrote: my wicd agent is unable to connect to wifi at mcDonald's, both in mexico and the states. it's fine with my home wifi and the coffee shop i go to. it also fails on the network at the campus where i teach in mexi

Re: GTK crashing X?

2014-06-30 Thread Matt Ventura
On 6/30/2014 4:29 PM, Brian wrote: On Mon 30 Jun 2014 at 15:41:48 -0700, Matt Ventura wrote: The card shows up as: 01:09.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Rage XL PCI (rev 27) I'm hesitant to apt-get --purge autoremove since it wants to remove systemd.

Re: GTK crashing X?

2014-06-30 Thread Matt Ventura
On 6/30/2014 2:54 PM, Brian wrote: On Mon 30 Jun 2014 at 13:12:01 -0700, Matt Ventura wrote: On 6/30/2014 10:43 AM, Brian wrote: 6. Hopefully report success. :) ... Could be hardware, I suppose. Switch to a tty with CTL-ALT-F1. Login as a user and get the video card data from the command

Re: GTK crashing X?

2014-06-30 Thread Matt Ventura
On 6/30/2014 10:43 AM, Brian wrote: On Mon 30 Jun 2014 at 10:23:38 -0700, Matt Ventura wrote: Well, all I did was netinstall stable with xfce, log in once, add testing repos, and dist-upgrade. I could just try directly netinstalling testing, and if it's broken out of the box then it

Re: GTK crashing X?

2014-06-30 Thread Matt Ventura
On 6/30/2014 11:53 AM, rob wrote: On 29/06/14 19:16, Matt Ventura wrote: I've got a pretty old machine (Celeron 2.8 GHz, ATI rage XL). It's been running Debian fine for years, but I reinstalled recently. Installed stable (chose XFCE as desktop environment), everything worked fin

Re: GTK crashing X?

2014-06-30 Thread Matt Ventura
On 6/30/2014 10:13 AM, Brian wrote: On Mon 30 Jun 2014 at 09:11:01 -0700, Matt Ventura wrote: The system otherwise works completely fine. Packages operations work fine, so I don't think that's where the problem lies. There was no downgrading, just upgraded to testing and it d

Re: GTK crashing X?

2014-06-30 Thread Matt Ventura
On 6/30/2014 4:12 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 11:16:58AM -0700, Matt Ventura wrote: I've got a pretty old machine (Celeron 2.8 GHz, ATI rage XL). It's been running Debian fine for years, but I reinstalled recently. Installed stable (chose XFCE as desktop e

Re: flakey wifi access

2014-06-29 Thread Matt Ventura
I've had something similar happen, but it turned out that the problem wasn't wicd but rather the driver for the card itself. Can you check if the problem occurs with something other than wicd? Also, what wifi card? On 6/29/2014 7:50 PM, tom arnall wrote: my wicd agent is unable to connect to w

GTK crashing X?

2014-06-29 Thread Matt Ventura
I've got a pretty old machine (Celeron 2.8 GHz, ATI rage XL). It's been running Debian fine for years, but I reinstalled recently. Installed stable (chose XFCE as desktop environment), everything worked fine (lightdm worked, xfce worked). Did a dist-upgrade to testing (also tried unstable), and