Document and LBC (Was: Debian *not very good)

2016-12-05 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Greg Wooledge: Neither of those links talks about jessie's specific default script that waits for network interfaces to start. They do, however, explain what LSB has to do with things, which was what you wondered about. Greg Wooledge: Neither do they mention this "van Smoorenburg". Miguel

Re: Document and LBC (Was: Debian *not very good)

2016-12-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Dec 03, 2016 at 05:34:13PM +, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > Anonymous: > >The error message:"A start job is running for LSB: Raise > >network interface (xx sec/no limit)". Where xx is a count up in > >seconds that never ends. > > Greg Wooledge: > >"LSB" stands for Linux Standard

Jessie upgrade without systemd [was: Debian *not very good]

2016-12-03 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Joe: A fair number of wheezy systems will be servers, upgraded many times. Mine started out as sarge. What are the odds of such a system making the change to systemd without problems? It depends. But my own experience is that *if they were already using systemd* on Debian 7, it was a cert

Document and LBC (Was: Debian *not very good)

2016-12-03 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Anonymous: The error message:"A start job is running for LSB: Raise network interface (xx sec/no limit)". Where xx is a count up in seconds that never ends. Greg Wooledge: "LSB" stands for Linux Standard Base [...] I don't know what LSB has to do with Debian's boot process waiting for the

Re: Jessie upgrade without systemd [was: Debian *not very good]

2016-11-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/26/2016 01:02 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Note that many things (Gnome, I'm looking at you) *require* systemd these days: it'll be much more difficult to avoid systemd if you want a "modern" desktop environment. That is the exact reason that I am using Mate. Based on Gnome 2 with no syste

Re: Document and LBC (Was: Debian *not very good)

2016-11-28 Thread rhkramer
On Monday, November 28, 2016 10:35:55 AM Nicolas George wrote: > L'octidi 8 frimaire, an CCXXV, rhkra...@gmail.com a écrit : > > I'm not the OP, but I don't know how to do that. Are you referring to > > things like bank accounts or things like accounts on online services > > (e.g., for logon to go

Re: Document and LBC (Was: Debian *not very good)

2016-11-28 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 04:35:55PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > I am referring to things like bank accounts, everyday errands, etc. I would find it rather difficult to access my bank's web-based account management system without a network connection. I think the only other choice would be to wa

Re: Document and LBC (Was: Debian *not very good)

2016-11-28 Thread Nicolas George
L'octidi 8 frimaire, an CCXXV, rhkra...@gmail.com a écrit : > I'm not the OP, but I don't know how to do that. Are you referring to things > like bank accounts or things like accounts on online services (e.g., for > logon > to google or such). I am referring to things like bank accounts, every

Re: Document and LBC (Was: Debian *not very good)

2016-11-28 Thread rhkramer
On Monday, November 28, 2016 10:12:58 AM Nicolas George wrote: > Do you not know how to manage your accounts without an Internet > connection? I'm not the OP, but I don't know how to do that. Are you referring to things like bank accounts or things like accounts on online services (e.g., for log

Re: Document and LBC (Was: Debian *not very good)

2016-11-28 Thread Nicolas George
L'octidi 8 frimaire, an CCXXV, Greg Wooledge a écrit : > A Linux system in 2016 without a working network is basically a brick, Do you not know how to type and print a text without an Internet connection? Do you not know how to make computations without an Internet connection? Do you not know ho

Re: Document and LBC (Was: Debian *not very good)

2016-11-28 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/28/2016 7:41 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: A Linux system in 2016 without a working network is basically a brick, so there should be no shock when the boot process patiently waits for your network to be configured before bringing up all of the network services. You *ERR* Neither of the Linux

Re: Document and LBC (Was: Debian *not very good)

2016-11-28 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 02:02:37PM -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > On 11/25/16, oldbluebear wrote: > > What is LBC ? I am getting screens of stuff that no longer makes sense. > > Never heard of it so I tried a quick search of the Net. Landed the > potential phrase, "Linux Binary Compatibility".

Re: Debian *not very good

2016-11-27 Thread Latincom
On Sat, 26 Nov 2016 18:38:58 +0100, Rob van der Putten wrote: > Hi there > > > On 25/11/16 22:26, Latincom wrote: > >> Is there a step by step guide or How to on line? >> I have 1 Wheezy without Systemd, and i would like to upgrade it. >> Thanks. > > You can do both an upgrade and an install f

Re: Jessie upgrade without systemd [was: Debian *not very good]

2016-11-27 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 26 Nov 2016 10:02:50 +0100 wrote: > On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 03:57:53PM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Nov 2016 21:26:06 + (UTC) Latincom > > wrote: > [snip] > > > Is there a step by step guide or How to on line? > > > I have 1 Wheezy without Systemd, and i would like to

Re: Debian *not very good

2016-11-26 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there On 26/11/16 18:38, Rob van der Putten wrote: I run XFCE on my desktop. I had to add myself to sudo to make things work properly. And admin. admin is needed to get xconsole syslog to work. sudo to keep xdm logout from complaining. I use lightdm now though. I edited the cups config

Re: Debian *not very good

2016-11-26 Thread Rob van der Putten
Hi there On 25/11/16 22:26, Latincom wrote: Is there a step by step guide or How to on line? I have 1 Wheezy without Systemd, and i would like to upgrade it. Thanks. You can do both an upgrade and an install from scratch without systemd; http://without-systemd.org/ http://without-systemd.org

Re: Jessie upgrade without systemd [was: Debian *not very good]

2016-11-26 Thread Mart van de Wege
Joe writes: > Sorry, I may not have been clear, I was saying that reinstalling to > jump the 32/64 bit barrier has been the only significant upheaval in > the progress of my server since sarge, and that reinstallation was like > for like and therefore quite simple. > > If I have to reinstall the

Re: Jessie upgrade without systemd [was: Debian *not very good]

2016-11-26 Thread Joe
On Sat, 26 Nov 2016 09:01:33 -0500 Henning Follmann wrote: > On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 10:27:07AM +, Joe wrote: > > On Sat, 26 Nov 2016 10:02:50 +0100 > > wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 03:57:53PM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > > > > > > If you do a normal dist-upgra

Re: Jessie upgrade without systemd [was: Debian *not very good]

2016-11-26 Thread Henning Follmann
On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 10:27:07AM +, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 26 Nov 2016 10:02:50 +0100 > wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 03:57:53PM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > > > If you do a normal dist-upgrade Wheezy to Jessie, sysvinit will be > > > replaced with systemd. > > > > Not f

Re: Jessie upgrade without systemd [was: Debian *not very good]

2016-11-26 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 10:27:07AM +, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 26 Nov 2016 10:02:50 +0100 > wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 03:57:53PM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > > > If you do a normal dist-upgrade Wheezy to Jessie, sysvinit will b

Re: Jessie upgrade without systemd [was: Debian *not very good]

2016-11-26 Thread Joe
On Sat, 26 Nov 2016 10:02:50 +0100 wrote: > On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 03:57:53PM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > If you do a normal dist-upgrade Wheezy to Jessie, sysvinit will be > > replaced with systemd. > > Not forcefully. > > > And probably screw everything up.. > > Now this is a

Jessie upgrade without systemd [was: Debian *not very good]

2016-11-26 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 03:57:53PM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Fri, 25 Nov 2016 21:26:06 + (UTC) Latincom > wrote: > > > On Fri, 25 Nov 2016 16:31:54 +, Brian wrote: > > > > > On Fri 25 Nov 2016 at 15:21:23 +, oldbluebear wrote: >

Re: Debian *not very good

2016-11-25 Thread Felix Miata
oldbluebear composed on 2016-11-25 15:21 (UTC): I am at the point where I am now seriously going to look at what other Linux versions are available or maybe pull one of the earlier Debian Distro CDs I still have in my store and load that simply to get back an environment in which I can work. ..

Re: Debian *not very good

2016-11-25 Thread David Wright
On Fri 25 Nov 2016 at 15:34:01 (-0500), The Wanderer wrote: > On 2016-11-25 at 14:02, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: > > > Seriously tho; If you had RTFM you would have known systemd and > > friends were going to be the default on upgrade and taken steps to > > migrate your init.d scripts beforehand.

Re: Debian *not very good

2016-11-25 Thread Brian
On Fri 25 Nov 2016 at 21:26:06 +, Latincom wrote: > On Fri, 25 Nov 2016 16:31:54 +, Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 25 Nov 2016 at 15:21:23 +, oldbluebear wrote: > > > > [...Lots of disgruntlement snipped...] > > > >> How can I at this stage bring this machine back nearer to SySV? > > >

Re: Debian *not very good

2016-11-25 Thread Felix Miata
oldbluebear composed on 2016-11-25 15:21 (UTC): I am at the point where I am now seriously going to look at what other Linux versions are available or maybe pull one of the earlier Debian Distro CDs I still have in my store and load that simply to get back an environment in which I can work. ..

Re: Debian *not very good

2016-11-25 Thread Latincom
On Fri, 25 Nov 2016 16:31:54 +, Brian wrote: > On Fri 25 Nov 2016 at 15:21:23 +, oldbluebear wrote: > > [...Lots of disgruntlement snipped...] > >> How can I at this stage bring this machine back nearer to SySV? > > You can bring it back in all its glory with > > apt-get install sysv

Re: Debian *not very good

2016-11-25 Thread The Wanderer
On 2016-11-25 at 14:02, Joel Wirāmu Pauling wrote: > Seriously tho; If you had RTFM you would have known systemd and > friends were going to be the default on upgrade and taken steps to > migrate your init.d scripts beforehand. To be fair, it's entirely reasonable to expect that a change in what

Re: Debian *not very good

2016-11-25 Thread David Christensen
On 11/25/2016 07:21 AM, oldbluebear wrote: > Hi, I am one disgruntled punter. ... I've been doing console/ server Debian since 1.5 and daily graphical desktop since 5. cdrtools was a problem. systemd is worse. I'm currently on 7 and considering replacing Debian when Wheezy is retired. You mig

Re: Debian *not very good

2016-11-25 Thread Joel Wirāmu Pauling
Sorry I can't resist; Seriously tho; If you had RTFM you would have known systemd and friends were going to be the default on upgrade and taken steps to migrate your init.d scripts beforehand. Also you heavily modified base (which by your own admission, you had - "stripped down") and you expect

Document and LBC (Was: Debian *not very good)

2016-11-25 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 11/25/16, oldbluebear wrote: > > This time I find the current Debian as part of the install process has > created a "Document" where it wants to save any .doc file. I do not > want this, I want them on my Desktop from which I move them manually. > How do I get rid of this action which I do n

Network connection fails during boot [Was: Debian *not very good]

2016-11-25 Thread Henning Follmann
On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 03:21:23PM +, oldbluebear wrote: > Hi, I am one disgruntled punter. > > I have been using Debian since early 1990s. I use it to do useful work so > any problem with the o/s is a pain in the butt. meaning I have to spend > scarce time resolving bugs that should have been

Re: Debian *not very good

2016-11-25 Thread Brian
On Fri 25 Nov 2016 at 15:21:23 +, oldbluebear wrote: [...Lots of disgruntlement snipped...] > How can I at this stage bring this machine back nearer to SySV? You can bring it back in all its glory with apt-get install sysvinit-core -- Brian.

Debian *not very good

2016-11-25 Thread oldbluebear
Hi, I am one disgruntled punter. I have been using Debian since early 1990s. I use it to do useful work so any problem with the o/s is a pain in the butt. meaning I have to spend scarce time resolving bugs that should have been removed before it was released. -classic garage software I suppose