Some tasks very slow after upgrade from Jessie to Stretch

2018-02-28 Thread Schrey
Greetings. Recently I cloned & upgraded a (virtual) build system, from Jessie to Stretch, and some tasks have become so slow that it hurts. Look at 'git archive' for example, the tar part: bob@build-stretch:/stuff/git/linux-stable$ time git archive v3.18.95 | perf stat tar xC /usr/src/tes

Custom libvirt (was: Jessie: upgrading libvirt-daemon-system now installs systemd, removes sysvinit-core?)

2014-11-20 Thread Schrey
Me wrote: > [libvirt 1.2.9-3 dependencies] Well, I ended up compiling my own libvirt package(s) for Jessie. Posting here, maybe this is of use to someone. 1. Grab your favourite build environment (I used pbuilder / dpkg-buildpackage) 2. Install build dependencies (those below are matched to t

Jessie: upgrading libvirt-daemon-system now installs systemd, removes sysvinit-core?

2014-10-25 Thread Schrey
Hi, looks as if sysvinit is going to be replaced by systemd, if I choose to let the 'dist-upgrade' do its work? (see below) Install systemd-shim? (see further below) Would install systemd (and even more packages not needed before), but at least doesn't want to remove sysvinit-core. (Trying to

Re: Problems with Testing Install - More Info

2014-02-27 Thread Schrey
erosenb...@hygeiabiomedical.com wrote: In the installation, at the end of the screen that loads the executables, the last statement is "cleaning up". At that point I get a blank [blue] screen. [...] When the system asks" do I want to scan any more disks", and I then insert a new disk, th

Re: fancontrol wheezy Dell T7610

2014-02-25 Thread Schrey
Dan wrote: I recently bought a workstation to do calculations. It has two Xeon processors with 16 cores and 32 threads in total. I realized that the temperature gets very high on high load typically 80C. That is way too much. Then I changed the fan speed in the bios from auto to high. Now tempera

Re: Fonts not rendering at all

2013-01-27 Thread Schrey
Julio Merino wrote: ... Debian testing ... fonts are not rendered at all in X.org ... Not sure if related, but I have a similar problem when using NoMachine's NX. Downgrading libcairo2 and libcairo-gobject2 from 1.12.2-2 to version 1.10.2-2 fixed it for me. (XFCE4 desktop) Regards Ingmar --