Re: "Ethernet trouble" thread

2020-02-04 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 2:54 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Feb 01, 2020 at 05:45:26PM +0100, Tom H wrote: >> >> You state that it's no longer udev that renames NICs. The following's >> from a sid VM using svsinit+sysvrc. > [...] >> udev is renaming &q

AMD 10.2 netinstall

2020-01-18 Thread tom h
Hello, Recently I have installed stable on a few old optiplex workstations that have an AMD graphics card. On first boot I always get a black screen and have to: 1. Enable non-free 2. Install firmware-linux-nonfree. Even though the netinstall media is firmware-10.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso

package install: pinning and warnings

2020-01-07 Thread tom h
So I've got a test box that I have sid installed on and the following in my /etc/apt/preferences Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 1000 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 100 I also have these two packages installed: sapt-listbugs apt-listchanges I went to install li

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-20 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Tom H wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 3:54 AM, Tom H wrote: >> >> Have you looked at the logs? Especially Xorg.0.log and x

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-18 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 3:54 AM, Tom H wrote: >> Are you using a DM? > > A what? Xubuntu uses xfce4 if that answers the question. DM = display manager On Ubuntu, lightdm is the default DM. >> Are you usin

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-16 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > I have a tar backup of the entire system, excluding /sys, /proc and /dev. > I have a tar backup of a bind-mount of /dev. > These were taken while the system was running, but quiet. I did it this > way because I cannot get the system to bo

systemctl disable/mask

2014-10-08 Thread Tom H
On 28 Sep 2014 04:35:03 +0200, lee wrote: > > Anyway, it gives me to think that such a misunderstanding has come > up to begin with and that it hasn't been fixed long ago. Someone who > doesn't understand what "disabled" means is programming an init > system: What other misunderstandings might hav

Re: Choose your side on the Linux divide

2014-08-26 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 6:44 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/choose-your-side-the-linux-divide-248950?source=IFWNLE_nlt_daily_pm_2014-08-25 There's a OT list for this BS. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: Help: Ubuntu 12.04LTS/14.04LTS PXE/netboot/preseed - does not initiate installation

2014-08-25 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 3:10 AM, Snow Leopard wrote: > > I stumbled on a problem with Ubuntu installation PXE/netboot/preseed. > > OS: Ubuntu 12.04LTS/14.04LTS > > I have setup for DHCP/TFTP/NFS which allows me to boot over network "Live > Ubuntu" and everything works as it should. > > Next logica

Re: I hate network-manager (was /etc/rc.local and systemd)

2014-08-25 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sun, 24 Aug 2014 15:44:26 -0400 (EDT), David Baron wrote: >> On Sunday 24 August 2014 11:45:40 Stephen Powell wrote: > I have a static route command in my /etc/rc.local file to define > a route to another network. I won't go into the re

Re: /etc/rc.local and systemd

2014-08-25 Thread Tom H
Resending to the list On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Erwan David wrote: > Le 24/08/2014 19:31, Tom H a écrit : >> >> With v208, there's a generator, >> "/lib/systemd/system-generators/systemd-rc-local-generator", that >> creates a symlink a

Re: /etc/rc.local and systemd

2014-08-24 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Stephen Powell wrote: > > I just thought I'd pass along something that I recently discovered. > When using sysvinit as the init system, if the file /etc/rc.local > exists and is executable, it will be invoked at the tail end of the > boot process. But under system

Re: sysvinit->systemd transition details

2014-08-24 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Alexandre Ferrieux wrote: > On Saturday, August 23, 2014 3:00:02 PM UTC+2, Brian wrote: >> On Fri 22 Aug 2014 at 17:20:03 -0700, Alexandre Ferrieux wrote: >>> I have a Jessie-based system, which up to the last upgrade used >>> sysvinit of course, and where I had

Re: Got skype 4.2 to connect again

2014-08-20 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Tom H wrote: > > Edit build/DEBIAN/control and bump up "Version: " (or create > a "Version" line of it doesn't exist because dpkg-deb needs it but > dpkg-buildpackage doesn't so it might not be there). I felt that this

Re: Got skype 4.2 to connect again

2014-08-20 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 4:53 AM, Hans wrote: > > just another thing relating to this. I would like to repack the debian package > and would like to change these in the package: > > - changelog > - skype binary > > I tried dpkg-deb -x and also with -e, but I guess, this is wrong, as it did > not wo

Re: Busybox: compile statically?

2014-08-20 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 12:25 PM, antispammbox-debian wrote: > > How to compile busybox in static mode, adding some utility different from > the usual, -dd, cat, other,... -, example, partimage, with all the > dependencies, compress it, and install on a usb stick? You can get the Debian source, m

Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working

2014-08-17 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 01.08.2014 10:45, schrieb Tom H: > >> Either "/etc/modprobe.d/.conf" or in "/etc/modules" if the >> former isn't early enough. > > You are mixing two things up here: > > /etc/modp

Re: Jessie won't install

2014-08-17 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Francesco Ariis wrote: > On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 02:24:53PM +0200, Diogene Laerce wrote: >> >> Jessie (last testing version) does not want to install in a VM. It just >> get stucked > > If it regards Jessie, probably debian-testing [1] is a better place where > to

Re: systemd fails to poweroff - "A stop job is running for Session 2 of user $USER"

2014-08-17 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:35:11AM -0400, Tom H wrote: >> >> "Stop" in "stop job" isn't an adjective, it's a noun (or an >> attributive noun) just like "office" in "o

Re: Irony

2014-08-17 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:10 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > > In my view SQL is a query language that can do much more than look up > records in a single table. To claim that some init system is superior > to some other init system because it has 'SQL logging' is, as Andrew > said, silly. Almost none

Re: networking fails with temporary systemd (was auto starting of ppp has stopped working)

2014-08-17 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Rusi Mody wrote: > On Thursday, August 14, 2014 9:10:02 PM UTC+5:30, Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Rusi Mody wrote: >>> >>> To add to my earlier report: >>> I managed to remove graphviz and its associated

Re: networking fails with temporary systemd (was auto starting of ppp has stopped working)

2014-08-14 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Rusi Mody wrote: > > To add to my earlier report: > > I managed to remove graphviz and its associated libraries. > > So that now aptitude dist-upgrade gives me only 1 'issue' : > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > systemd-sysv : Conflicts: sysvin

Re: systemd fails to poweroff - "A stop job is running for Session 2 of user $USER"

2014-08-14 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 1:04 AM, Paul E Condon wrote: > > In English, both 'stop job' and 'stopped job' are an adjective > modifying a noun. The noun in both cases is 'job'. 'stop job' is a > noun phrase expressing a type of job, and must be some kind of geeky > usage. OTOH, the noun phrase 'stopp

Re: Irony

2014-08-13 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Charles Kroeger wrote: > On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 11:50:02 +0200 > Tom H wrote: > >> Debian isn't as special as you think, at least not from this perspective. > > Everybody earns money and needs money in this development. Organizations l

Re: systemd fails to poweroff - "A stop job is running for Session 2 of user $USER"

2014-08-13 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: > > I interpret the quoted string in the Subject: header as being flawed > use of English language. 'stop' should be 'stopped'. And, there is a > bug in the script that fails to evaluate the variable USER and > therefore fails to print the name

Re: systemd fails to poweroff - "A stop job is running for Session 2 of user $USER"

2014-08-12 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > Debian sid > > systemd currently fails to poweroff for me > > XFCE (appears to) exit, the mouse point shows > for a while, then the kernel/ shutdown log appears. > > The last message is: > "A stop job is running for Session 2 of user me"

Re: IP Forwarding to Windows machine

2014-08-12 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 5:19 AM, Joe wrote: > On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 04:53:51 -0400 > Tom H wrote: >> >> And you've proven my point... > > Agreed, I just can't see why there is any controversy. You misunderstand. The fact that you can't accept that t

Re: Irony

2014-08-12 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Charles Kroeger wrote: > On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 21:50:01 +0200 > Lisi Reisz wrote: >> >> I had understood that Debian is in this, as in many things, different from >> most Linux distros. > > Yes you're right, that's what makes Debian special, passion always trumps >

Re: IP Forwarding to Windows machine

2014-08-12 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Joe wrote: > On Sun, 10 Aug 2014 16:07:01 -0400 > Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Nemeth Gyorgy >> wrote: >>> 2014-08-10 11:33 keltezéssel, Pascal Hambourg írta: >>>> >>>> sysctl -w n

Re: IP Forwarding to Windows machine

2014-08-10 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 2:24 PM, Nemeth Gyorgy wrote: > 2014-08-10 11:33 keltezéssel, Pascal Hambourg írta: >> >> Nemeth Gyorgy's ruleset is too complicated. Use the bare minimum : >> >> sysctl -w net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 >> iptables -t nat -P ACCEPT >> iptables -t filter -P ACCEPT > > This is really

Re: Debian Jessie Release

2014-08-10 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Erwan David wrote: > > PS: and I am still waiting for the replacement of policy-rc.d We know; you've complained here more than once. Have you filed a bug report? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-10 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 10:26 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > On 08/10/2014 10:15 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 9:29 AM, The Wanderer >> wrote: >>> On 08/10/2014 09:26 AM, Tom H wrote: >>>> >>>> halt/poweroff/reboot have called shutdown at

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-10 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 9:29 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > On 08/10/2014 09:26 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 8:46 AM, The Wanderer >> wrote: >>> On 08/10/2014 02:45 AM, Bonno Bloksma wrote: >>>> >>>> If halt or reboot is called wh

Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

2014-08-10 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 8:46 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > On 08/10/2014 02:45 AM, Bonno Bloksma wrote: >> >> Charlie: According to the man pages all 3, halt, poweroff and reboot, >> use the shutdown command to perform the necessary steps when not >> starting in runlevel 0 or 6, which is pretty much a

Re: Question about dch

2014-08-10 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 5:26 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 2:18 PM, George Shuklin > wrote: >> On 08/09/2014 07:16 PM, Tom H wrote: >>> >>> From the man page: >>> >>> --increment, -i >>> Increment either the final com

Re: Quiet Bootups

2014-08-10 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 6:36 AM, David Baron wrote: > > With Grub, I did not see that endless stream of text pouring on the screen to > rapidly to read. > > Because I (presumably) know how to configure it, I have gone back to lilo. Now > have all that text back. Is there an append= or lilo.conf en

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-10 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 1:15 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> Bob Proulx wrote: >>> >>> I believe the point was that it should be "make before break". They >>> should have allowed people to use systemd without preventing people >>> f

Re: Irony

2014-08-10 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 4:47 PM, AW wrote: > On Sat, 9 Aug 2014 16:26:40 -0400 > Steve Litt wrote: >> >> Some of the reasons I switched my desktop from Ubuntu to Debian were: >> >> 1) To do more config by editor and less by magical binary program. >> >> 2) To get rid of gratuitous boot gunge (in t

Re: Netflix in chrome-unstable on Debian Sid

2014-08-10 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > And what is that "google-chrome-unstable deb"? Does that have a version > number? $ apt-cache show google-chrome-unstable | grep Ver Version: 38.0.2114.2-1 $ apt-cache show google-chrome-beta | grep Ver Version: 37.0.2062.68-1 $ apt-cache

Re: NFS and iptables during bootup

2014-08-10 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Martin T wrote: > On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Martin T wrote: >>> >>> I moved the script from /etc/init.d to /etc/network directory and >>> changed the shebang line from

Re: Question about dch

2014-08-10 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 2:18 PM, George Shuklin wrote: > On 08/09/2014 07:16 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 10:52 AM, George Shuklin >> wrote: >>> >>> dch -i tool allows to add new version to debian/changelog file. >>> >>> When I

Re: Question about dch

2014-08-09 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 10:52 AM, George Shuklin wrote: > > dch -i tool allows to add new version to debian/changelog file. > > When I add new version I make this: > > package (1.0.2-1myname1-ubuntu0) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium > > * > -- signature and date > > package (1.0.2-1myname1) unstable;

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-09 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> Joel Rees wrote: >>> >>> This is precisely why systemd should have been brought up to speed in >>> a separate, parallel, volunteer-only distro. >>> >>> (If you don't understand what I mean by a separate, parallel, >>> vo

Re: NFS and iptables during bootup

2014-08-08 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Martin T wrote: > > I moved the script from /etc/init.d to /etc/network directory and > changed the shebang line from /bin/bash to /bin/sh. /bin/sh on my > system points to /bin/dash. Thanks for those tips! > > Content of firewall rule-files can be seen here: > > #

Re: Systemd: follow-up

2014-08-08 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 4:04 AM, Brian wrote: >> On Thu 07 Aug 2014 at 20:25:22 +0200, Johann Spies wrote: >> >>> After rescuing two laptops which were unbootable after the installation of >>> systemd-sysfs I had problems with stuff as bluetooth a

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-08 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 3:12 AM, Slavko wrote: > Dňa Wed, 6 Aug 2014 16:25:21 -0400 Tom H napísal: >> >> I've saved one or two relevant URLs from debian-devel@ pre-CTTE bug >> thread. I can dig them up and post them if you're interested. > > Please, give the

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-07 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 11:49 AM, AW wrote: > On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 16:19:03 +0100 > Darac Marjal wrote: > > > Consider it to be another database format. You wouldn't necessarily try > > to cat a MySQL or PostgreSQL datastore; you'd use the appropriate tools > > to select all from it. > > Yes. Bu

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-06 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 4:27 PM, AW wrote: > On Wed, 6 Aug 2014 16:25:21 -0400 > Tom H wrote: >> >> So, yeah, /var/log/messages sucks, and journalctl is better at >> generating a compatible output that that file ever was in itself. > > I definitely agree.

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-06 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 5:54 AM, Slavko wrote: > Dňa Tue, 5 Aug 2014 16:33:23 -0400 Tom H napísal: >> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Slavko wrote: >>> Dňa Tue, 5 Aug 2014 08:58:47 -0400 Tom H >>> napísal: >>>> If tomh-init is faster than htom-init, w

Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason

2014-08-06 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 2:53 AM, Erwan David wrote: > On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 01:01:57AM CEST, AW > said: >> On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 17:57:02 -0400 >> Tom H wrote: >>> >>> journalctl SYSLOG_FACILITY=4 >> >> Thanks! >> But why '4'? Why n

Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason

2014-08-06 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 7:01 PM, AW wrote: > On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 17:57:02 -0400 > Tom H wrote: >> >> journalctl SYSLOG_FACILITY=4 > > Thanks! > But why '4'? Why not '42'? Or even better... > journalctl show auth > journalctl show apache

Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason

2014-08-05 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 4:12 PM, AW wrote: > > cat /var/log/auth.log > or > journalctl 'something unknown by me' journalctl SYSLOG_FACILITY=4 There's tab completion, so on my laptop where I've aliased systemctl and journalctl to sc and jc (and duplicated the systemctl and journalctl bash completi

Re: End of hypocrisy, beginning of reason

2014-08-05 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > LOL, perhaps I'll boot to bin/bash, and then run a script to do > everything else. Oh wait, I can't do that: I hear PAM now depends on > systemd, for what reason I haven't a clue. Maybe you should look into adapting the Android Init Language :

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-05 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Slavko wrote: > Dňa Tue, 5 Aug 2014 08:58:47 -0400 Tom H napísal: >> >> If tomh-init is faster than htom-init, whether there's just ssh >> running or 100 daemons running, I want to use tomh-init. >> >> I can understand that th

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-05 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 2:45 AM, Erwan David wrote: > On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 11:17:02PM CEST, Tom H said: >> On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: >>> Andrew McGlashan wrote: >>>> >>>> Yes, that's what I meant, sysvinit is not broken.

Re: Wireless card unavailable in Debian, but works in Ubuntu

2014-08-05 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 2:18 AM, S4mmael wrote: > > I have a liittle problem with a wireless card of a cheap HP laptop. It works > perfectly well out of the box in Ubuntu 14.04, but not in Debian Jessie. > > Here is what a managed to find. > > In Ubuntu it looks like that: > > root@ubuntu:~# dmesg

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-05 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 7:21 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 6:20 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Andrew McGlashan >> wrote: >>> On 5/08/2014 5:44 AM, Erwan David wrote: >>>> Le 04/08/2014 21:34, Tom H a écrit : >>

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-05 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 6:44 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Mon, 4 Aug 2014 15:34:22 -0400 > Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Andrew McGlashan >> wrote: >>> On 4/08/2014 11:32 PM, Tom H wrote: > >>> Sure it counts, but if you have 1000s of

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-05 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 6:28 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Mon, 4 Aug 2014 14:03:35 +0200 > Raffaele Morelli wrote: >> >> I've seen tons of posts sent to this list about systemd... bla bla >> bla... and did not understand what's the matter with it. >> >> I wonder what are you all doing with your init

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-04 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Brian wrote: > On Mon 04 Aug 2014 at 17:17:02 -0400, Tom H wrote: > >> Didn't all DEs use consolekit and policykit? IIRC wasn't the CTTE bug >> filed because of a debian-devel@ thread about Gnome depending on >> systemd (becau

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-04 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 5/08/2014 5:44 AM, Erwan David wrote: >> Le 04/08/2014 21:34, Tom H a écrit : >>> >>> Suppose that you have a 16-node cluster, some patches were applied to >>> the systems overnight, a mistake was ma

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-04 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Andrew McGlashan wrote: >> >> Yes, that's what I meant, sysvinit is not broken. > > I rather agree. But the opponents cite corner cases where the > previous security model doesn't handle every possible access case. > > I always hate it when peopl

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-04 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Erwan David wrote: > > What takes most time when booting a server is what the server does > before booting the OS (before grub in case of linux). Optimising what > comes after is non-sense. And VMs? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: The Fine Art of Making a Bootable Drive

2014-08-04 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Martin G. McCormick wrote: > Tom H writes: >> >> Are you mounting "/mnt/{dev,proc,sys}" before chrooting? > > No. I did try the mount command after chrooting which successfully ran, but > didn't fix the missing /dev.

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-04 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Slavko wrote: > Dňa Tue, 05 Aug 2014 00:37:06 +1000 Andrew McGlashan > napísal: >> On 4/08/2014 11:32 PM, Tom H wrote: >>> On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 6:37 AM, Andrew McGlashan >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> systemd g

Re: NFS and iptables during bootup

2014-08-04 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Martin T wrote: > > I made a very simple bash script which loads the iptables > configuration from /etc/firewall.conf and /etc/firewall6.conf files: > > # cat /etc/init.d/firewall > #!/bin/bash > > iptables-restore < /etc/firewall.conf > ip6tables-restore < /etc/fi

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-04 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > On 4/08/2014 11:32 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 6:37 AM, Andrew McGlashan >> wrote: >>> My own view is "why systemd" fix sysinit instead, where it is >>> broken or rather

Re: The Fine Art of Making a Bootable Drive

2014-08-04 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 7:33 AM, Martin G. McCormick wrote: > > It turns out that the reason I never thought of using mkfs to > build a working boot sector is that mkfs doesn't do that. Grub, > however, does but I am still a bit confused as to how to get it > working. I mounted the new drive on /mn

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-08-04 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 6:37 AM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > My own view is "why systemd" fix sysinit instead, where it is > broken or rather the packages [whatever they are] that don't work properly. Who should fix sysvinit? The upstream sysvinit developers are DDs and they didn't do it (I'm

Re: fsck progress not shown on boot with systemd as pid 1

2014-08-03 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 2:12 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > > if [ -f /etc/inittab ]; then > if grep -q '^1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty' /etc/inittab; then > log "Fixing getty --noclear in /etc/inittab" > sed --in-place '/^1/s/getty 38400/getty --noclear 38400/' /etc/initt

Re: Bug#736258: acpid won't stop, won't upgrade (systemd) - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=736258

2014-08-03 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > > [snip] > > Is there a reason debian-user is subscribed to this bug report? Please don't top-post. Probably because it's a debian-user@ thread that resulted in the the bug report and we were added to the cc as a (thoughtful) courtesy. -

Re: fsck progress not shown on boot with systemd as pid 1

2014-08-03 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 8:53 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > On 08/02/2014 03:15 PM, Brian wrote: >> On Sat 02 Aug 2014 at 12:24:46 -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: >>> Brian wrote: With sysvinit the default at booting is for the screen messages to fly past at a bewildering speed and then for the

Re: /usr on own filesystem, not already mounted -- yeech!

2014-08-03 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 2:59 AM, David Baron wrote: > > Started to get this message several times in bootup or maybe was simply not > quick enough to catch it before. Everything seems to play. > > The Debian installer itself will place /usr on it own partition/filesystem. So > what gives? > > Is it

Re: systemd waisted 5 hours of my work time today

2014-08-03 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Joel Rees wrote: > On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Joel Rees wrote: >>> In this case, yeah, experimental is experimental, but there are >>> limits. And that was not the way to have

Re: Skype access cancelled for Debian versions before 7

2014-08-03 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Andrew McGlashan wrote: > > There must be an alternative to Skype. > > http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/fed-up-with-skype-here-are-6-of-the-best-free-alternatives/ In theory but not in practice - unless you want to use one of the above and talk to yourself. -- To UN

Re: Skype access cancelled for Debian versions before 7

2014-08-03 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Bret Busby wrote: > > I have found, in the last day, that Microsoft has apparently cancelled > Skype access for versions of Debian before 7.x. > > With the error message that I encountered, with my Skype 2.2 (beta) > running on Debian 6, I went to the Skype web site

Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working

2014-08-01 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 2:49 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 09:32:08PM -0700, Rusi Mody wrote: >> >> So now the question is: >> >> What is the 'modern' way of automatically doing 'modprobe pppoe' >> at boot/ifup time? >> >> Evidently something has changed that has made that st

Re: auto starting of ppp has stopped working

2014-08-01 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Rusi Mody wrote: > On Friday, August 1, 2014 12:10:02 AM UTC+5:30, Rusi Mody wrote: >> >> After some recent upgrades (this is on jessie) >> auto starting of ppp has stopped working. >> >> So every time after booting I now have to run pppoeconf. > > Some progress...

Re: systemd requires kernel to have CONFIG_CGROUPS enabled -> installer check!

2014-07-31 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 31 iul 14, 20:13:23, JPT wrote: >> >> my self built system is dead because systemd installer does not check if >> control groups are enabled BEFORE upgrading the package. >> >> Could someone take care so the installer checks current k

Re: systemd waisted 5 hours of my work time today

2014-07-31 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Tom H wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Slavko wrote: >>> Dňa Thu, 24 Jul 2014 13:00:24 +0100 Tom Furie >>> napísal: >>>> >>>> You are, of course,

Re: [Wheezy] [networking] post-up NOT executed

2014-07-31 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Tom H a écrit : >> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Mickael MONSIEUR >> wrote: >>> >>> post-up /sbin/route add 1.2.3.4 dev eth0 >> >> your "route ..." syntax looks wrong to me. > &

Re: 'strictatime' vs. 'relatime' for /tmp

2014-07-30 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 4:12 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > When mounting a tmpfs on /tmp systemd sets 'strictatime'. I was > wondering whether this is really needed. Does anybody know of software > that would break with 'relatime' (the default) or even 'noatime'? > > I'd be happy to RTFM if anybod

Re: systemd support for init level use case

2014-07-27 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Gregory Seidman wrote: > > I'm on stable, but I'm reading the threads about systemd and I want to be > prepared for the next stable release. I run a RAID1 with an encryption loop > and LVM on top of that for my home directories and a number of data volumes > (i.e.

Re: [Wheezy] [networking] post-up NOT executed

2014-07-27 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Mickael MONSIEUR wrote: > > I have a fresh installation of Debian Wheezy 7.6.0 amd64. > The post-up line does not execute when eth0 is mounted! > (by against my eth0 interface is mounted!) > > I have to mount routes, and are not: > > post-up /sbin/route add 1.2.3.4

Re: systemd waisted 5 hours of my work time today

2014-07-27 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Slavko wrote: > Dňa Thu, 24 Jul 2014 13:00:24 +0100 Tom Furie > napísal: >> >> You are, of course, aware that testing and unstable are test platforms >> where breakage is to be expected? They shouldn't be used for anything >> "mission critical", that's what stable

Re: missing LSB tags and overrides

2014-07-27 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Darac Marjal wrote: > > All this, of course, assumes the OP doesn't want to use the previously > mentioned suggestion of "aptitude purge '~c'". And that's fair enough; > aptitude is not to everyone's taste. If you'd rather not use aptitude to purge packages, you

Re: systemd log messages during boot (Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd)

2014-07-24 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 2:02 AM, Erwan David wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 12:06:51AM CEST, Michael Biebl > said: >> Am 22.07.2014 19:22, schrieb Erwan David: >>> Le 22/07/2014 18:59, Michael Biebl a écrit : Am 22.07.2014 18:24, schrieb The Wanderer: > As far as I can see, there

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-22 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 11:01 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > On 07/22/2014 10:34 AM, Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Erwan David >> wrote: >>> >>> So it seems there is a quiet on the default command line, which >>> does not mean same thing w

Re: Sid Systemd upgrade

2014-07-22 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Miles Fidelman >> wrote: >>> >>> Damn right I don't use development or testing versions in production. >>> I'm >>> looking do

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-22 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Erwan David wrote: > Le 21/07/2014 18:23, Tom H a écrit : >> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 4:18 AM, Erwan David wrote: >>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 09:59:55AM CEST, Tom H said: >>>> On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 10:33 PM, sp113438

Re: testing-dedicated ML? ( was Re: End of hypocrisy ? )

2014-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:56 PM, David Guntner wrote: > Tom H grabbed a keyboard and wrote: >> >> There is one >> >> https://lists.debian.org/debian-testing/ >> >> but a quick look at the its archives shows that it isn't a heavily >> used li

Re: Sid Systemd upgrade

2014-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Damn right I don't use development or testing versions in production. I'm > looking down the road a year and planning what I will use in production when > my current system is ready for upgrade. It's looking less and less like > Debian,

Re: Skipping releases on dist-upgrades [was: Re: Is this safe?? Chrome in Debian 6]

2014-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Joe wrote: > On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 04:37:40 -0400 Tom H wrote: >> >> There's already been one thread about this on debian-devel@ and it was >> a typical thread where the pro and con make their points but no >> decision's reache

Re: testing-dedicated ML? ( was Re: End of hypocrisy ? )

2014-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 11:58 AM, wrote: > Le 21.07.2014 15:31, Slavko a écrit : >> >> it seems, that there can good idea to provide separate ML for testing >> users. > > I agree, since testing is not for normal users (well... theoretically at > least), so we could imagine that different MLs for

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 5:01 AM, Erwan David wrote: >>> 2) You have a specific syntax, and a specific semantics (what does >>> ExecStart, WantedBy, etc mean), that one must learn in order to simply >>> read this. The namles of the sections are also meaningfull. All this >>> defines a full fledge

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 5:35 AM, David Baron wrote: > On Monday 21 July 2014 08:45:12 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org > wrote: >> >> (Using "init=/sbin/init" on the kernel cmdline will boot systemd if >> you have systemd-sysv installed.) > > More and more complicated, huh? > Will this

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 4:28 AM, Erwan David wrote: > > libpam-systemd now refuses systemd-shim (with v208 in testing)... You must be skipping emails in this thread. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 4:18 AM, Erwan David wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 09:59:55AM CEST, Tom H said: >> On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 10:33 PM, sp113438 wrote: >>> >>> Booting is fast >> >> That's one of the development goals. > > I switched to

Re: I'm not a huge fan of systemd

2014-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Erwan David wrote: > Le 20/07/2014 16:11, Andrei POPESCU a écrit : >> On Du, 20 iul 14, 14:40:27, Erwan David wrote: >>> Add to this the fact it throws away years of habits with yet another >>> language (yes the systemd unit files are nit shellscripts but they u

Re: End of hypocrisy ?

2014-07-21 Thread Tom H
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 4:19 AM, Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Montag, 21. Juli 2014, 07:30:40 schrieb Erwan David: > > Still… also hibernate and suspend with KDE is currently broken with sysvinit- > core. And systemd 208 just doesn´t boot my workstation at work, while it works > nicely with my l

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