linux kernel versions in stable

2023-04-22 Thread Ross Boylan
There are many signs of a new kernel version in the latest updates: linux-libc-dev, linux-source, linux-kbuild all show an upgrade available from 5.10.162-1 to 5.10.178-2. Conspicuously absent are any of the linux-image packages; the most recent ones are 5.10.162-1. I figured they might just be d

Re: Trying to use a KDE lib but stymied by CMake [solved]

2022-12-04 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, Nov 26, 2022 at 11:55 AM Ross Boylan wrote: > > I am trying to compile a program that calls libkpmcore; it is not > graphical. My main interest is in tracing through what scandevices() > does. > Since KDE uses CMake, I figured I should too. But I'm having trouble &

Trying to use a KDE lib but stymied by CMake

2022-11-26 Thread Ross Boylan
p-module into a mode where it will consider Config files. But even if that worked, I'd need to update the relevant paths. I think I have the relevant development files installed. Running on bullseye. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks. Ross Boylan My cu

Re: networking.service: start operation timed out [SOLVED]

2022-08-29 Thread Ross Boylan
The bind9 script I created in /etc/resolvconf/update.d executed systemctl reload named near the end (if systemd is active, which it is for me). Adding set -x to the script showed that this was where the process of bringing up the interfaces hung up. named is obviously not active when the ne

Re: networking.service: start operation timed out

2022-08-28 Thread Ross Boylan
Thanks Andrew, Felix, Jeremy, Anssi, Curt, Tomas and Greg for your suggestions and comments. I followed several of them by trimming my network/interfaces file to nothing and then slowly adding stuff back. The blank file and the one with only the loopback worked: networking.services reported succe

networking.service: start operation timed out

2022-08-26 Thread Ross Boylan
In Debian 11/bullseye my system keeps reporting timeouts while trying to bring up the first non-loopback interface. According to ip, the interface actually is up, but ifup/down do not know that. My 2nd interface is down, and there is no mention of attempting to bring it up in the logs. I can bri

Re: apt key handling needs to be properly documented--what to do?

2022-06-13 Thread Ross Boylan
Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote: > > Quoting Ross Boylan (2022-06-11 09:07:14) > > The apt-secure man page in Debian 11 notes that repository signing is > > a key part of the Debian security infrastructure. But key parts of it > > are not documented. In my

apt key handling needs to be properly documented--what to do?

2022-06-11 Thread Ross Boylan
Which is not me, because it's not documented. Ross Boylan

Firefox trouble restoring sessions: diagnosis and workaround

2021-04-25 Thread Ross Boylan
I got sick of FF forgetting where windows were between sessions and investigated. (Well, really I got sick of having to locate the windows and move them back to the right place on restart). I believe the source of at least some problems is that the FF code treats Virtual Desktop (WorkSpace in its

Re: nftables not user friendly

2020-10-28 Thread Ross Boylan
Correction: I wrote 6. And apparently the flag interval only works with a table inet family, > not the ip family, unless there is something else going on (e.g., maybe I > need to delete the set explicitly before changing the flag). > > The flag interval works for sets in the ip family. It was n

nftables not user friendly

2020-10-25 Thread Ross Boylan
(ban has a bit over 11K lines). I dislike writing documentation, and I'd guess so do the people working on nftables. Further, since they spend their time immersed in the network stack they have a lot of background information that it may be difficult for them to recognize is unknown by their potential users. But the result IMO is a mess. Ross Boylan

Re: diskless system's limited dhcp support

2020-09-06 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 3:37 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > Ross Boylan wrote: > > I have a buster system with no disk, started by PXE boot and using NFS > root. > > It appears (details below) that dhcp setup is via ipconfig in one of the > > initrd scripts (configure_networ

diskless system's limited dhcp support

2020-09-06 Thread Ross Boylan
I have a buster system with no disk, started by PXE boot and using NFS root. It appears (details below) that dhcp setup is via ipconfig in one of the initrd scripts (configure_networking() in the "functions" script), with ipconfig coming from klibc. So fiddling with the settings in dhclient.conf o

Re: grub update and reinstallation

2020-07-31 Thread Ross Boylan
Thanks for the information. Your questions are probably rhetorical, but I've responded anyway, below :) On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 11:38 AM Brian wrote: > On Fri 31 Jul 2020 at 11:21:06 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > When I did the upgrade th

grub update and reinstallation

2020-07-31 Thread Ross Boylan
cript, so that it seems likely to have come from the invocation of grub-install. Thanks. Ross Boylan

Re: Disappearing DDNS entries

2020-07-19 Thread Ross Boylan
nging unexpectedly. Check for duplicate sources for address resolution, > say duplicate entries in /etc/hosts. Check the resolution order in > resolv.conf to make sure it's what you expect. Make sure that dhcpd.conf > measures up to them. Also check if your IP interface names are chan

Disappearing DDNS entries

2020-07-18 Thread Ross Boylan
Running isc-dhcp-server, bind9, and tftpd-hpa I netboot a diskless system, and entries for it go into DNS. But 30 minutes later they are withdrawn, presumably by dhcpd. I've enabled a lot of logging, but am having trouble getting a fix on what the problem is. Any suggestions? 30 minutes is my dh

Re: Network services fail on startup

2020-07-15 Thread Ross Boylan
I had to restart my system, after having set the interfaces to auto, and everything worked fine. Generalizing freely, my problem is solved. It's a great relief: checking that everything was OK after every reboot was a drag. Ross On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 2:57 PM Ross Boylan wrote: > T

Re: Network services fail on startup

2020-07-14 Thread Ross Boylan
Thanks to everyone for their help. Since I am using allow-hotplug, I'll change that and see if it's enough to cure the problem. Then I can look into the new filter tools. Ross On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 4:32 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 06:41:39PM -0700, Ross

Network services fail on startup

2020-07-13 Thread Ross Boylan
md/NetworkTarget Any suggestions? Ideally I would not be tied to the interface name, so that if I plug the network cable into another port things will still work. Thanks. Ross Boylan

blank screen after NFS boot

2020-02-21 Thread Ross Boylan
I have a computer I have been network booting into a buster system without incident. A few days ago I powered it off, and later in the day turned it on. It went through the early phases of the boot OK, but never showed the graphical login screen. I tried a couple of times, but it never started. A

Re: New Hardware + old disks not recognized

2019-06-26 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 12:31 PM Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > Le 24/06/2019 à 01:40, Ross Boylan a écrit : > > > > # update-initramfs -u -k 4.19.0-5-amd64 > > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-5-amd64 > > /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/cryptroot

Re: New Hardware + old disks not recognized [SOLVED + lessons learned]

2019-06-24 Thread Ross Boylan
ORIGINAL PROBLEM Move disks into a new system (hardware) and found I couldn't boot into the old system (OS on the disk). The initrd couldn't even see the drives. CAUSE New hardware required drivers missing from the initrd, which had been created with MODULES=dep. Also, fstab referenced a drive

Re: New Hardware + old disks not recognized

2019-06-23 Thread Ross Boylan
I think you're right about the missing drivers, but fixing it has proven challenging. First, my original initrd was created with MODULES=dep. This was somewhat hidden by the fact that in initramfs.conf, MODULES=most. :) Apparently it was overriden by the setting in conf.d/driver-policy, which I h

New Hardware + old disks not recognized

2019-06-22 Thread Ross Boylan
In brief: moved all the 3.5" disks from an old system to a new one, and now I can't boot into buster. In the initrd environment no disks appear in /dev; the disks are all connected through an LSI Host Bus Adapter card (only on the new system). I can boot into Ubuntu on the new system, and from th

Re: df shows wrong disk size [SOLVED]

2019-06-03 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 10:36 AM I wrote: > > I just noticed the reported journal size is exactly 1G, which would > account for the difference: > Journal size: 1024M > That's assuming the units are bytes; if they are blocks, it's just a > crazy value. > > I'll see what the extN experts h

Re: df shows wrong disk size

2019-06-03 Thread Ross Boylan
I just noticed the reported journal size is exactly 1G, which would account for the difference: Journal size: 1024M That's assuming the units are bytes; if they are blocks, it's just a crazy value. I'll see what the extN experts have to say. Ross

Re: df shows wrong disk size

2019-06-03 Thread Ross Boylan
# ls -l /dev/mapper/vgbarley-cache /dev/vgbarley/cache lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jun 1 17:26 /dev/mapper/vgbarley-cache -> ../dm-19 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jun 1 17:26 /dev/vgbarley/cache -> ../dm-19 On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 2:32 AM Henning Follmann wrote: > > You cheat ;) > please show that > >

Re: df shows wrong disk size

2019-06-01 Thread Ross Boylan
# e2fsck -v -f /dev/vgbarley/cache e2fsck 1.44.5 (15-Dec-2018) Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 4: Checking reference counts Pass 5: Checking group summary information 8410 inodes used (6.42%, out o

Re: df shows wrong disk size

2019-06-01 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sat, Jun 1, 2019 at 3:49 PM Gary Dale wrote: > > I suggest trying gparted to read the partition table on your drive. > There may be a problem and gparted is usually pretty good at finding > partition table errors. > Since the file system is sitting on an LVM logical volume, I don't think the pa

Re: df shows wrong disk size

2019-06-01 Thread Ross Boylan
# df -B4096 /var/local/cache/ Filesystem 4K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vgbarley-cache778160 191713529923 27% /var/local/cache # e2fsck -v /dev/vgbarley/cache e2fsck 1.44.5 (15-Dec-2018) /dev/vgbarley/cache: clean, 8361/131072 files, 462129/1048576

df shows wrong disk size

2019-06-01 Thread Ross Boylan
df says my volume is 3G, but everything else says it's 4G. What's going on and how can I correct it? This question concerns the total reported space, not the free space. The volume is an LVM logical volume on buster with an ext4 file system. I originally mistakenly created it as 4TB in size. Th

Re: Debian Stretch, no password prompt for luks-encrypted home partition during boot

2019-05-27 Thread Ross Boylan
For at least the last couple of weeks I've had the screen go completely blank during bootup, after displaying initial messages (I changed from "quiet" to "debug" for kernel startup). This is with a luks encrypted root. I saw it under jessie and buster. I blamed failing hardware (I can't get into

Re: bind9 startup problems: /var/cache /bind

2019-05-25 Thread Ross Boylan
I tested my suspicion that bind9-resolvconf was somehow implicated in the bind9 start problems by returning bind9-resolvconf to its original, disabled, state and restarting the system. Unfortunately, it didn't help: May 25 19:05:34 barley named[804]: /etc/bind/named.conf.options:2: change director

Re: bind9 startup problems: /var/cache /bind

2019-05-22 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 2:47 PM Richard Hector wrote: > > RequiresMountsFor=/absolute/path/of/mount > > .. to go in the unit file - or IIRC running: > > sudo systemctl edit bind9.service > > ... and putting in: > > ---8< > [Unit] > RequiresMountsFor=/var > ---8< > > ... fol

Re: bind9 startup problems: /var/cache /bind

2019-05-22 Thread Ross Boylan
/var is a separate file system, and like / it's encrypted, so it might take a bit of time to activate it. Whether it's available when needed, I don't know, though the error suggests it might not be. Could systemd be launching services while some of the mounts (and the required decryption) are stil

bind9 startup problems: /var/cache /bind

2019-05-22 Thread Ross Boylan
restarts would have failed too, and they didn't. Some kind of race condition? The bind9 daemon is running as the bind user. Ideas? Thanks. Ross Boylan

Re: bind gets permission errors in buster--systemd-related?

2019-05-15 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 10:39 AM Sven Joachim wrote: > I am not really familiar with apparmor or resolvconf, but in > /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.named I found the following: > > , > | # support for resolvconf > | /{,var/}run/named/named.options r, > ` > > which suggests that the sta

Re: bind gets permission errors in buster--systemd-related?

2019-05-15 Thread Ross Boylan
Sven, thanks for the tip about AppArmor. Yet another presumably complicated system I've avoided learning about til now. I guess it's time. As to why bind is trying to open /run/named/named.resolvers: that is a customized integration with resolvconf. It is not the default, but it is something I

bind gets permission errors in buster--systemd-related?

2019-05-14 Thread Ross Boylan
I have a new buster system with a bind setup based on (much) older* systems, on which it worked fine. On buster, it doesn't. In two different places in my configuration I referred to files or directories that were outside of bind proper, and in both cases this failed with permission problems. I'm

Re: virtual device both is and isn't a valid file system [solved]

2019-05-14 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 10:20 AM Ross Boylan wrote: > > Noticing the "write on read-only" error, and remembering it should be > read-only, I added that to the mount options. Which still failed, but > differently: Well, it failed differently in the sense that it succeeded :

Re: virtual device both is and isn't a valid file system [complete]

2019-05-14 Thread Ross Boylan
Noticing the "write on read-only" error, and remembering it should be read-only, I added that to the mount options. Which still failed, but differently: root@barley:~/tempserver-check# date; strace -f mount -r /dev/stretch-vg/boot stretch_boot Tue 14 May 2019 10:07:05 AM PDT execve("/usr/bin/mount

Re: virtual device both is and isn't a valid file system [complete]

2019-05-14 Thread Ross Boylan
Here's the info: root@barley:~/tempserver-check# date; strace -f mount /dev/stretch-vg/boot stretch_boot Tue 14 May 2019 09:33:01 AM PDT execve("/usr/bin/mount", ["mount", "/dev/stretch-vg/boot", "stretch_boot"], 0x7ffed2c87238 /* 26 vars */) = 0 brk(NULL) = 0x5575487e

virtual device both is and isn't a valid file system [complete]

2019-05-14 Thread Ross Boylan
an encrypted one are slim. Thanks. Ross Boylan EVEN MORE DETAILED DETAILS Key commands and results, working from the bottom of the previous stack up. dumpe2fs just before the last command: mdadm -v --assemble --readonly /dev/md/media5 /dev/sdf2 Mon 13 May 2019 08:12:09 PM PDT mdadm: looking for dev

virtual device both is and isn't a valid file system

2019-05-14 Thread Ross Boylan
When I attempt to mount a block device, I get the error: - root@barley:~/tempserver-check# date; mount /dev/stretch-vg/boot stretch_boot Mon 13 May 2019 11:42:15 PM PDT mount: /root/tempserver-check/stretch_boot: can't read superblock on /dev/mapper/stretch--vg-boot.

Re: Can't install addons for firefox

2019-05-04 Thread Ross Boylan
Just wanted to draw people's attention to a couple of things: "There are a number of work-arounds being discussed in the community. These are not recommended as they may conflict with fixes we are deploying. We’ll let you know when further updates are available that we recommend, and appreciate yo

Re: Can't install addons for firefox

2019-05-04 Thread Ross Boylan
Thanks Cindy, Jonas, Curt, Trevor and Erwan for all the good info. I wish my internet searches were as effective as yours! I noticed a few days ago that I started having problems accessing a lot of sites through https* (might have been on Windows at the time, either FF or FF ESR). The errors alw

Can't install addons for firefox

2019-05-04 Thread Ross Boylan
Running firefox-esr on buster I don't seem to be able to install addons. I tried selenium IDE and katalon. Has Debian blocked the installation of addons? I don't see indications of that in the docs or the net. Likewise, I know selenium (and maybe katalon) have had compatibility issues with some

Re: UID mismatch across systems

2017-03-28 Thread Ross Boylan
I made some discoveries on a test system: root@IDTest:/etc# date; usermod -u 204 Debian-exim Tue Mar 28 15:01:19 PDT 2017 usermod: user Debian-exim is currently used by process 664 and this left everything, including the running process and passwd untouched. So I don't have to worry about what h

Re: UID mismatch across systems

2017-03-26 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 2:47 PM, Joshua Schaeffer wrote: > > On 03/25/2017 03:03 PM, Boylan, Ross wrote: > > The problem is that I can't convert to using a shared directory when > different systems assign different uids to the same named user. In other > words, to get to the shared accounts solut

Re: UID mismatch across systems

2017-03-26 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 11:21 AM, deloptes wrote: > Ross Boylan wrote: > >> The problem is that none of those will work if the existing uids/gids >> on the systems are not already consistent, and they aren't. > > And the goal of your statement was what exactly? T

Re: UID mismatch across systems

2017-03-26 Thread Ross Boylan
The problem is that none of those will work if the existing uids/gids on the systems are not already consistent, and they aren't. Ross On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 1:57 AM, deloptes wrote: > Boylan, Ross wrote: > >> What can I do about this? > > I had samequestion at one point of time. > There are pe

Re: disk error -> reset entire USB connection

2017-02-03 Thread Ross Boylan
oblem with the replacement drive, and it (so far) went away when I moved it into the main computer case. Ross On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 6:59 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 06:00:59PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: >> I have multiple drives in a Vantec HX4 case connect

disk error -> reset entire USB connection

2017-02-02 Thread Ross Boylan
I have multiple drives in a Vantec HX4 case connect by USB 3.0 It seems a disk I/O error* causes the entire USB connection to reset, causing all the drives to be remapped and screwing up the connections to all the disks in the case. Is this expected behavior for the linux kernel? I'm running lin

getting high resolution with recent nvidia card

2015-12-31 Thread Ross Boylan
indows and expanded them to check. 5. I tried to install a fresh jessie system in some unused space, but I can't get into my BIOS to get it boot off USB. The BIOS setting for virtualization seems to have mysteriously turned off too. I realize I could run debootstrap, but since I'm not ready to migrate for real that seems a lot of work. Thanks. Ross Boylan

Re: Debian using USB stick on diskless machine

2015-12-29 Thread Ross Boylan
a bit sluggish; maybe ext4 on lvm wasn't the best choice for it. Ross On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 11:46 PM, David Christensen wrote: > On 12/28/2015 04:08 PM, Ross Boylan wrote: >> >> I have a diskless machine and figured it would be quicker to get it >> running off a USB thumb

Debian using USB stick on diskless machine

2015-12-28 Thread Ross Boylan
os. Which is maybe not so great for grub, which needs more room. The live image is about 1G and the thumb drive is 32G. Thanks for any help. Ross Boylan

One logical volume active, one not in initramfs

2015-11-25 Thread Ross Boylan
2 volumes, and afterwards ls /dev/markov02 shows both of them. Any ideas what's going on? Thanks. Ross Boylan P.S. Is there an official way to tell which logical volumes are active?

Re: Debian rescue CD oddities

2015-11-21 Thread Ross Boylan
, with password live. Use sudo to get to root. The system is running the ssh server, but it's not configured to accept passwords. Ross On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Ross Boylan wrote: > Yes; I ended up with the Debian Installer. I think I've found the > right place now.

Re: Debian rescue CD oddities

2015-11-21 Thread Ross Boylan
Bob Holtzman wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 12:10:38PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: >> > So the operations are simply setting up an environment for doing the >> > rescue, not overwriting the existing system? I'm happy to change my >> > expectation if that&#x

Re: Debian rescue CD oddities

2015-11-20 Thread Ross Boylan
first CD of the Debian live CD's. Ross On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Brian wrote: > On Fri 20 Nov 2015 at 11:18:41 -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > After booting the Debian 8.2 netinst iso I noticed a couple of oddities. > > > > First, I selected advanced and re

Debian rescue CD oddities

2015-11-20 Thread Ross Boylan
, and ext4 utilities? If these are bugs, what package should I report them against? Thanks. Ross Boylan

Re: Can't start VM after latest kernel update: weird mount failure

2015-11-12 Thread Ross Boylan
2, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Ross Boylan wrote: > After the recent kernel updates one of my virtual machines won't start. > GRUB runs and messages indicate the kernel is loaded and the initial > ramdisk is loading. Then it says it can't find the root device (identified > by correc

Can't start VM after latest kernel update: weird mount failure

2015-11-12 Thread Ross Boylan
or what I can do to correct it. If my initrd got corrupted, is there a way to regenerate it? Thanks. Ross Boylan Details: The host and guest are running Debian 7.9 wheezy. I have another wheezy VM that is fine, and a jessie VM that I used to read the virtual disks. The virtual disks look l

Re: iceweasel download panel uses gimp for pdf [SOLVED]

2015-09-22 Thread Ross Boylan
19, 2015 at 1:21 AM, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 07:36:43 +0200 > wrote: > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 07:28:29PM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > > > On 09/18/2015 07:11 PM, Ross Boylan wrote:

Re: iceweasel download panel uses gimp for pdf

2015-09-18 Thread Ross Boylan
> On 09/18/2015 07:28 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > >> On 09/18/2015 07:11 PM, Ross Boylan wrote: >> >>> When I download a pdf in iceweasel and click on the download icon to >>> open the list of downloaded files, and click on a pdf file, gimp starts. >>>

iceweasel download panel uses gimp for pdf

2015-09-18 Thread Ross Boylan
doesn't turn up anything. In particular http://computers.findincity.net/view/635399295212048058250644/pdfs-open-in-gimp-on-linux-system says to edit ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.lst, but that directory is empty (though it exists). Running wheezy. Thanks. Ross Boylan

Re: libvirt, dnsmasq, and resolvconf

2015-06-19 Thread Ross Boylan
Laine Stump provided this useful info on the libvirt-users list: This commit (which was included in libvirt 1.2.12) may help you to a solution: commit 298fa4858ced29e2c42681635a5a8dcd6da0b231 Author: Josh Stone Date: Wed Dec 3 16:01:33 2014 -0800 network: Let domains be restricted to loc

libvirt, dnsmasq, and resolvconf

2015-06-18 Thread Ross Boylan
he result would be a loop. Failing that, exporting the entries as they are created is necessary. Any ideas? Ross Boylan -- 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/CAK3NTRAPND7UBLaTwiFus1AxR8dPXWr3C_8vQh1CEYX=gu7...@mail.gmail.com

Safety of upgrading packages while running KVM

2015-06-17 Thread Ross Boylan
er a kernel update a reboot as soon as practical is advised. Thanks. Ross Boylan -- 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/cak3ntrdm4meqrem6y

How to handle network problems

2015-03-21 Thread Ross Boylan
irt and virtio from inside the VM. Thanks. Ross Boylan -- 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/cak3ntrcy4toh0uq2116ismpwd_0bjxfigyfesmk7zbedsm3...@mail.gmail.com

Re: Can't get past authenticity of host popup with ssh

2015-02-27 Thread Ross Boylan
ently_drop_suid: 0 Host key verification failed. I think the popup happened after the last debug line above. Ross On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Ross Boylan wrote: > I can ssh from machine A to B as user ross on both, using key-based > login. ssh-agent is running under KDE on A. A i

Can't get past authenticity of host popup with ssh

2015-02-27 Thread Ross Boylan
are taken as "No" for continuing connecting. I have to run as root for sshuttle. Thanks. Ross Boylan -- 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/cak3ntrdgewsp6+zyvnx8pzhon+arm6gpjfw-1xx+duxkey7...@mail.gmail.com

disk (and other resource) management of virtual machines

2014-12-19 Thread Ross Boylan
ewise, if the physical machine has 8 cores, could I run several VM's with 8 cores each? My suspicion is that CPU's are shareable, but RAM is not, but I don't know. Thanks. Ross Boylan P.S. I don't need to be able to make the changes while the VM's are live, though th

Getting a custom package into a new system early in the install process

2014-12-02 Thread Ross Boylan
g extras the result is OK (i.e., not IDs allocated in a way that conflicts with my desired scheme). But it's not clear how I could install those packages later; the list of tasks under aptitude does not include a "base packages" task. Maybe it's all "essential" packages? Th

Re: libc6-i386 vs libc6:i386 (for vpn client)

2014-12-01 Thread Ross Boylan
Thanks Andrei, Scott and Curt for your help. I was only expecting help on the general 32/64 bit issues, but since you asked, here are some details about my particular goal. I am trying to install Juniper's client 8.0 software from an rpm; apparently they don't have a deb (there is a deb for the 7

libc6-i386 vs libc6:i386 (for vpn client)

2014-11-28 Thread Ross Boylan
need to to get 32 bit libs. Could anyone explain what is going on and what I need to do so I can run a 32 bit app? I'm trying to install Juniper Networks proprietary client, which includes a 32 bit library binary without the source. Thanks. Ross Boylan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Problems with grub2/initramfs-tools in chroot

2014-11-21 Thread Ross Boylan
I thought maybe "tick" would be followed by "tock". I think that's how Intel refers to its chip generations. Thank you for increasing my cross-cultural understanding; I'm from the US. Now, back to my understanding of grub and initramfs-tools... Ross -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: Problems with grub2/initramfs-tools in chroot

2014-11-21 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 21/11/14 15:13, Ross Boylan wrote: >> Over the last week I've repeatedly found my machine unbootable, in the >> sense I couldn't get to a working system without intervention. >> Sometimes I couldn't ev

Problems with grub2/initramfs-tools in chroot

2014-11-20 Thread Ross Boylan
he chroot. Not only did the system not boot off sda, when I told it to prefer booting off sdb I didn't get back what I had before; instead I got an older setup for sdb. Could changing the boot order in the BIOS change the drive mappings and screw up grub that way? Thanks for any wisdom. Ross

Lots of updates? OK?

2014-10-18 Thread Ross Boylan
pdate seems to include a point release (at least base-files changes) and a new linux kernel. I see some security advisories, including the version bump for iceweasel, but nothing about, for example, the kernel. And the debian web site says the last point release was in July. Ross Boylan -

Re: bash vulnerability jessie

2014-09-26 Thread Ross Boylan
IP > address. Is ssh vulnerable if the outsider can't login? Ross Boylan > > (Exactly which outside-accessible services do and don't expose the > vulnerability isn't very clear at the moment AFAIK, so it's better to > err on the safe side and assume they all d

Re: streaming over ssh and decrypting a file

2014-09-19 Thread Ross Boylan
but it just hung at that point. On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Ross Boylan wrote: > Thank you for the pointer. Unfortunately, markov is dying and it is > doubtful I can install anything new. The root file system is > read-only and /var is full (though I can probably make some room on &

Re: streaming over ssh and decrypting a file

2014-09-18 Thread Ross Boylan
p 2014 10:09:53 -0700 > Ross Boylan wrote: > >> You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for >> user: "Ross Boylan (work) " >> 2048-bit ELG-E key, ID xxx created 2014-09-17 (main key ID yyy) > > Try installing gpg-agent, launching it on markov, and stor

streaming over ssh and decrypting a file

2014-09-18 Thread Ross Boylan
00.gpg" | head -c 20 | hd #this doesn't-- gpg prompts ross@markov:~$ ssh kornak "cat markov/turtle.Lenny00.gpg" | gpg -d - | head -c 20 | hd You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for user: "Ross Boylan (work) " 2048-bit ELG-E key, ID xxx created 2014-09-17 (ma

Re: mysteries with latest update

2013-10-13 Thread Ross Boylan
Thanks everyone for the feedback. Bob asked for more information about what is going on with my system. I have some dead or detached disks; since they might come back I don't want to eliminate them from LVM's knowledge yet. Here's the fuller story. It seems simplest to explain chronologically.

mysteries with latest update

2013-10-12 Thread Ross Boylan
7;t think that would have taken effect so early in the installation process and b) I don't see why it would make 7.1 unknown. Thanks. Ross Boylan

curiosity: quoting in /etc/default

2013-10-09 Thread Ross Boylan
TS I don't see -- mentioned in the man page for start-stop-daemon or rpc.mountd. Ross Boylan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1381355477.29971.39.camel@localhost

Re: trouble exporting NFS in wheezy

2013-10-09 Thread Ross Boylan
Thank you. I guess I didn't RTFM closely enough! Ross On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 12:00 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 10:17 PM, Ross Boylan > wrote: > > > > I have a fresh install of wheezy and am attempting to export some > > directories. It's n

trouble exporting NFS in wheezy

2013-10-08 Thread Ross Boylan
direct from the server machine or from a VM running inside. The only unusual thing I can think of is that I am using bridging; the local subnet is associated with the bridge. Any ideas? Thanks. Ross Boylan Current key files: /etc/default/nfs-server---

Re: network/bridging problems

2013-10-06 Thread Ross Boylan
I removed network manager and have this in /etc/network/interaces: # eth2 managed by bridge and not otherwise mentioned auto br0 iface br0 inet dhcp bridge_ports eth2 That seems to work with the kvm-ifup script provided by wheezy qemu-kvm. Note I have not rebooted since setting this up, and

Re: network/bridging problems

2013-10-03 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Greg has made some excellent explanation and answers. I wanted to > comment on a few other things. > > Ross Boylan wrote: > > > Arun made a suggestion that > > > Your 'physical' device eth0/e

Re: network/bridging problems

2013-10-02 Thread Ross Boylan
eeds to be added to the bridge. I believe that is done by the /etc/kvm/kvm-ifup script that is executed when I launch the virtual machine. It says, in part switch=$(ip route ls | \ awk '/^default / { for(i=0;i List the output of 'brctl -show' But that's empty (s

network/bridging problems

2013-10-02 Thread Ross Boylan
reviewing man pages and various other help. I'd appreciate any guidance. Thanks. Ross Boylan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1380697545.7443.17.camel@localhost

Re: lots of complaints with latest upgrade

2013-09-23 Thread Ross Boylan
given that some disks are missing. Obviously enough are present to run the system! Ross On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 12:39 PM, André Nunes Batista < andrenbati...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2013-08-29 at 09:38 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > Running wheezy amd64 the kernel/libc upgrade

Re: Printer brand recommendations

2013-09-11 Thread Ross Boylan
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Alan Greenberger wrote: > On 2013-09-10, Ross Boylan wrote: > > --001a11c2be66bf88eb04e60200cd > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > > > Short version: Brother doesn't support linux. I'm considering Lexmark

Re: Printer brand recommendations

2013-09-09 Thread Ross Boylan
Short version: Brother doesn't support linux. I'm considering Lexmark. I too am looking for a B+W laser printer. I just got a Brother HL 5450 to replace a 5150 I had. It fails to print some pages, and I'm sending it back because Brother says they do not provide phone support for Linux. They u

lots of complaints with latest upgrade

2013-08-29 Thread Ross Boylan
tec enclosure connected by USB. I'm using lvm and luks crypto. Thanks. Ross Boylan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1377794301.3875.32.camel@localhost

Re: scanner claimed by usbfs

2013-08-25 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 2:13 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 12:40:36PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > I was briefly able to use my scanner, but while the scanner application > > (Skanlite) was running it became inaccessible. About that time the logs > &g

scanner claimed by usbfs

2013-08-24 Thread Ross Boylan
have some disks connected via usb. Thanks. Ross Boylan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1377373236.1062.54.camel@localhost

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