Of course, maybe I misspoke but my point wasn't about the configuration files
remaining as expected just removing the package and not purging it. It is about
the broken symlink to its service file which is for sure no more present
whatever a removal or a purge. Or is such a symlink considered as
Hi,
I do not know if this is something already addressed (elsewhere or in
Trixie), a package issue or something more general.
On a bookworm system, removing systemd-timesyncd is leaving a broken
symlink (/etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.timesync1.service).
On this system, systemd-timesyn
> That's why I ended up with the suffix and letting the sysadmin
> (often me, with a different hat on ;-) making that preference
> explicit in the APT machinery.
But could it be the a nice feature for apt to have a list apart on the upgrading
(I would say then 'replacing') of such cases?
User ca
Hi,
On Sid, building and installing locally modified packages for testing
at the same version as in the archive, I am surprised that apt upgrade
will reinstall any of those installed by the one from the archive. I
did not remember such a "feature" in the past, unless my memory plays
tricks on me:-
Hi,
For instance, libfontconfig-dev depends on pkgconf.
It makes me hesitate to add a(n explicit) dependency on pkgconf in the
control file of a packaging that depends libfontconfig-dev. but not on
pkgconf. It seems to require the pkg-config command regarding the
folllowing extract of its .build f
Hi,
The first concern is not that annoying and about a wireless mouse that
has systematically two different behaviours:
1. one if the receiver is already plugged at boot,
2. one if it is plugged while linux has boot.
For 1. the mouse is like going quickly into sleep mode each time I do
not move it
as Schmitt a écrit :
>
> Hi,
>
> Patrice Duroux wrote:
> > On the other hand, after modifying /etc/xattr.conf to replace:
> > system.nfs4_aclpermissions
> > by:
> > system.nfs4_aclskip
> > then test.sh works nicely:
>
> So we no
;
> /etc/xattr.conf
>
> and try what happens if you change
>
> system.nfs4_acl permissions
>
> to
>
> system.nfs4_acl skip
>
> or if you newly insert thie "skip" line if no "system.nfs4_acl" is to see.
>
> -
> Looks like the error happens while trying to set the extended attributes
> on the destination file. I don't really know how xattr works, but
> it looks like it's trying to set an attribute named "system.nfs4_acl"
> on a file that's in the /tmp directory.
That is more clear to me now. And so I c
> If we can't figure it out from her replies to our *many* requests for
> additional information, then my next request would be to strace it,
> and see exactly which system call is failing.
$ LANG=C strace cp -p test.sh /tmp
execve("/usr/bin/cp", ["cp", "-p", "test.sh", "/tmp"], 0x7ffe58e09538 /*
Sorry for my direct answer.
-- Forwarded message -
De : Patrice Duroux
Date: mar. 9 juil. 2024 à 14:07
Subject: Re: question related to cp (-p) and /tmp
To: Thomas Schmitt
Hi Thomas,
Thanks!
Here is for the source file of the copy:
$ getfacl test.sh
# file: test.sh
# owner
Hi,
On Sid (amd64), I am facing the following:
$ ./test.sh
-rwxr-x--- 1 patrice patrice 300 Jul 9 10:46 ./test.sh
option: -p
cp: preserving permissions for '/tmp/test.sh': Operation not supported
exitcode: 1
-rwxr-x--- 1 patrice patrice 300 Jul 9 10:46 /tmp/test.sh
option: --preserve=mode
cp: p
Hi,
1. Using CodeSearch, it is not clear to me when to use one or the other.
2. Would it be nice if the EnvironmentVariables page were linked to a
new page named EnvironmentVariablesList (the same way as DotFiles and
DotFilesList)?
Best,
Patrice
Hi,
Release: sid
Arch: amd64
Trying to upgrade the qemu related packages, I got the following:
# apt install qemu-utils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an
Hi,
Out of curiosity, I started this transition on some packages from
experimental and I observed that deborphan is not without
«disruption». Indeed, the added suffix t64 to their name means that
the updated libraries are listed by deborphan even if they are
required by other packages.
I suspect t
Hi,
I am using a Debian Sid system with the GNOME desktop related packages from
experimental (GNOME 44). And:
$ id
uid=1001(patrice) gid=1001(patrice)
groupes=1001(patrice),4(adm),24(cdrom),25(floppy),27(sudo),29(audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),109(netdev),113(bluetooth),117(scanner),135(
Dear Debian people,
Already possible or not, I would like to have a Debian system for
which packages can be installed either by a specific user
(root/sysadmin as usual) only or by any other (or a group of) users.
But this would also depend on the class of the requested packages:
1. packages provid
Hi,
I have done a little change to its content but then I realized that
it is written that the list is generated from:
https://salsa.debian.org/nodiscc2-guest/awesome-linuxaudio
I think that it should be:
https://salsa.debian.org/nodiscc/awesome-linuxaudio
But the page shows currently a certain
Hi,
My machine is a Dell Precision 7540 with a Debian Sid and the
following hardware setup:
$ inxi -G
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: AMD Lexa XT [Radeon PRO WX 3200] driver: amdgpu v: kernel
Device-3: Sunplus Innovation Integrat
Hi,
My purpose is multiple here.
First, I am trying to build a tool[1] to check a given package file (ie a
.deb, whatever its origin) for the compatibility with Debian distribution
versions, including if it may be required to have more sections (contrib,
non-free) or a backports pool.
I am able t
ps: sorry, on a Debian Sid system for sure.
Le lun. 14 mars 2022 à 19:41, Patrice Duroux a
écrit :
>
> Hi,
>
> Since some versions ago, apt/dpkg(?) is stopping its process (upgrade
> here) whatever the packaging trouble it is facing. But in some cases, it
> may leave the syste
Hi,
Since some versions ago, apt/dpkg(?) is stopping its process (upgrade here)
whatever the packaging trouble it is facing. But in some cases, it may
leave the system more broken than it would become just by 'skipping' the
troubling package.
For instance, in the upgrading transaction list were so
Hi,
After upgrading the openssh-server to 8.8p1 has broken a client instance of
Rundeck (3.4.4) that runs some SSH commands. Downgrading to 8.7p1 using
Debian Snapshots solved this.
Don't know if there is a «better» way to notify users about this.
Thanks!
Patrice
Hmm!
Ok before saying there is a possible bug, I will try to remove evolution-data-
server, install it again, and check!
Currently with Sid I have:
patrice@kos-moceratops ~> LANG=C apt --installed list "evolution*"
Listing... Done
evolution-common/unstable,unstable,now 3.42.3-1 all [installed]
e
Hello,
That more or less exactly the same on my side.
I should have wrote /var/mail/ in fact.
(The old bug affected me too much! :-D)
And it is just to read all the emails (root) aliased to my user.
Just in case that that a package version as introduce some change to the
following:
patrice@kos-m
Hi,
I use Sid but this problem came back to me a while ago now.
Searching the internet for a solution, I dug around and ended up in the
following:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution-data-server/+bug/640705
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=107881
https://bugs.d
Then I have just submitted a reportbug to the pseudopackage ftp.debian.org in
case.
Thanks!
Patrice
Hi,
I am curious about the reason to see cockpit listed here:
https://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html
whereas cockpit currently is 257 in Sid:
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/cockpit
Is this a bug? Are there other cases like this?
Not sure where to report if there is something to do about this.
Th
I have finally found the source of this trouble.
The absence of /var/lib/cdebconf directory after a bad manipulation.
And then even trying to reinstall the debconf package did not (re)create this
folder, so any package that rdepends to debconf is falling and also debconf it-
self.
Which package
Hi,
Thank you, David, for all the information.
Scanning all these DOT files and checking what sort of documentation user/admin
can easily get for them are steps in my process.
I already started checking about the .SEQ file you cited for instance.
Debian Code Search is very helpful.
On the other si
Hi,
Recently on my Sid system, I am having the following trouble (note
that I tried since then to reinstall debconf that is also affected by
the trouble now):
patrice@kos-moceratops ~> sudo LANG=C apt -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state informat
Hi,
1. I was wondering about the presence of the /etc/.pwd.lock file on my
system.
For sure 'apt-file search /etc/.pwd.lock' is no help, but 'man -K
.pwd.lock' do.
I also searched the Debian user mailing list and found some relevant
discussion on this file.
Querying the Debian Code Search was also
I should have stacked the changelog to reads: wiki, manpages, README!
Now I will think about a wish report to sbuild package.
Thanks
Hi,
I am trying to quit pbuilder/cowbuilder to work on packaging and so use
sbuild directly. Currently it is the version 0.81.2 on a Sid system. So
after looking at sbuild-createchroot(8) manpage, I used the command:
$ sbuild-createchroot --chroot-mode=unshare --make-sbuild-tarball ~/.cache/
sbui
Hi,
Sorry if I polluted the debian-python mailing list about my following
investigations:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2021/03/msg00053.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2021/03/msg00054.html
I was not convinced to start by opening an issue starting at snakemake, so
I posted t
Hi,
Finally got it after simply applying the commands:
umount /srv/scratch
mount /srv/scratch
without having changed anything regarding NFS or whatever,
pure (systemd?) magic!
Patrice
Hi,
Before turning mad, any help would be welcome!
On a Buster system, I have created a
/etc/systemd/system/tomcat9.service.d/override.conf file to set a
value for ReadWritePaths.
Using a value such as /home or /src/backup/shared, tomcat9 is starting
fine and using /src/scratch/shared it does not
Sorry, I should have reply to the list.
-- Message transféré --
De : *Patrice Duroux*
Date : dimanche 23 août 2020
Objet : troubles with mpt3sas module on a very recent Dell server
À : Dan Ritter
Sorry, I do not have an access to it neither, just its «free» part.
Here are
Hi Reco,
Thanks for your advice, I will test this as soon as possible.
Patrice
Hi,
I am trying to install a Debian system on a recently purchased Dell
PowerEdge R840.
After trying many versions and distributions (including also Ubuntu Server
20.04 LTS) up to Debian Bullseye Alpha 2, the situations are always very
similar to this:
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/4954451
Hi,
I am facing a strange trouble with a Debian Sid laptop (Dell Precision
7540) both using gnome-software or fwupdmgr: a recent firmware update does
not apply.
So after reboots the update comes back again. Previously this worked many
times.
Is there a way to debug that?
Thanks,
Patrice
patrice@
> Deleting a configuration file is considered to be a choice of the
> administrator and will be preserved.
Not always! ;-) Moreover if this remove have been done by a maintainer script
without paying too much attention about any «brother» packages. Note that this
was consider as a bug also by t
Sorry it was not my intention that the discussion should slide in a
different direction than
that of my original question. I was just looking for an advice about
solving such situation without removing anything from my system because
applying 'apt --reinstall install force3' did not restore the rem
Yes exactly you can consider different «problems» there:
1. How to correctly package different source packages that have to share
conffiles? So even purging one of them should leave the conffiles for the other
installed ones.
Laurent is suggesting to not do any explicit 'rm' of any conffiles in
Hi,
I am facing the same situation as reported in the issue here:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=953223
So having no more /etc/fuse.conf on my system, what is the best to get it
back?
Why doing 'apt --reinstall install fuse3' do not restore this file?
Neither notify anything ab
Ok then I will submit a bug report with clear information that I hope
will be more helpful and not make anybody angry reading it! :-/
Many thanks,
Patrice
Hi,
The system on which it i occurring is a Debian Buster 10.3
The binaries that are involved are provided by the following packages:
ii ncbi-blast+ 2.8.1-1
amd64next generation suite of BLAST sequence search tools
ii ncbi-blast+-legacy
Hi,
Thanks for all the details.
It is probably an effect of GNOME/dbus as the DM is also GDM.
So then to do my test, I have used another way to finally get it.
Patrice
Hi,
Currently on a Debian Sid system, I am facing this inconsistent 'id' result:
patrice@hp-dark:~$ id
uid=1000(patrice) gid=1000(patrice)
groupes=1000(patrice),4(adm),24(cdrom),25(floppy),27(sudo),29(audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),50(staff),100(users),102(systemd-journal),108(netdev),113(
Dear all,
Recently my Debian sid (systemd) was not able to shutdown nor reboot.
After investigation, the guilty was the mariadb server (1:10.3.18-1) that was
somehow «blocking» the process.
Note: forcing multiple «ctrl+alt+del» then provoques a watchdog trap.
My first solution was to kill the pro
Hi,
Sure the reason is clearly there:
https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=vte2.91&suite=experimental
I don't know why I was so confused between the apt output (and also
using synaptic) regarding this? But probably be it was too late for me
at that time :-)
Thanks!
Hi,
Since the last upload of version 0.57.90-1 to experimental on the 21th August (
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/vte2.91), the packages are not in the scope of
apt (deb https://deb.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib non-free).
But regarding the https://packages.debian.org/experimenta
Hi,
I am using Sid on my laptop (HP ZBook 15) and since first
linux-image-5.2.0-1 and then linux-image-5.2.0-2
the wifi is not stable and goes down after few seconds.
But what is more strange is that with linux-image-5.2.0-1 there is a log
trace of the trouble but not with linux-image-5.2.0-2.
He
Hi,
abcm2ps package does not have any Debian VCS regarding:
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/abcm2ps
But there is since few years an active upstream on github.
Here are the steps that I tried:
gbp import-dsc apt:abcm2ps/sid
cd abcm2ps
git remote add origin https://github.com/leesavide/abcm2ps.git
r
Hi,
That is done under #915042.
I hope improving a bit the output by using 'coredumpctl debug' and adding some
other debugging symbol packages.
Many thanks!
Hi,
Not sure to got it exactly but here is finally the 'coredumpctl info' output.
Where to address it if needed?
Thanks,
Patrice
PID: 32028 (tracker-extract)
UID: 1000 (patrice)
GID: 1000 (patrice)
Signal: 11 (SEGV)
Timestamp: Wed 2018-11-28 22:54:42
Hi again,
Then here is my current situation (after a LZ4 decompression,
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=914934):
root@hp-dark:/var/lib/systemd/coredump# file
core.tracker-extract.1000.273d78802abc412f8e7a360fd7509e52.14743.154343689200
core.tracker-extract.1000.273d78802
Hi,
On the server :
1. impossible to remove the tracker package unless to remove other ones:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of tracker:
tracker-miner-fs depends on tracker (>= 2.1.0).
tracker-extract depends on tracker (>= 2.1.0).
rygel-tracker depends on tracker (>= 0.8).
nauti
Dear all,
Two points may be related somehow to the 'tracker' services.
1. On my local laptop system (Sid) I am getting the following message in
'dmesg':
[ 3773.552252] traps: multiqueue3:src[25397] general protection
ip:7f97590e5635 sp:7f972fffe570 error:0 in
libgstvideo-1.0.so.0.1404.0[7f97590a
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