Re: Query about .xsession-errors file

2014-09-15 Thread Bret Busby
On 15/09/2014, Chen Wei wrote: > On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 03:29:04PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: >> .xsession-errors, which is currently sitting at about 740MB, and has >> been growing in the last hour. >> >> entries from before the current boot session) entries, so as to reduce >> the file size to co

Re: Issues upgrading Wheezy --> Jessie (was ... Re: brasero requires gvfs)

2014-09-15 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 14 September 2014 19:42:40 Steve Litt wrote: > Every time you tell one of us to keep silent, three more of us speak > up. I don't know whether we're a minority, but if you and your cohorts > keep shushing us, we just might be the majority pretty soon. I wasn't telling anyone to keep sile

Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community

2014-09-15 Thread saint
Bartosz Olender writes: > Therefore I want to poke my three cents into this discussion reminding > that "GNU is *Not* Unix" May I recall that most of the systemd-haters knows the recursive expansion of GNU? > and because of that we should have the freedom > to create better solutions, rather

Re: server backup

2014-09-15 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 11:56:35AM -0600, Glenn English wrote: > What do you server admins use for backup? Personally (not professionally), I only back up user data, and use a puppet recipe to configure my servers, so that if I need to restore them I can do so by running the puppet script on a pri

Re: server backup

2014-09-15 Thread Tim Meusel
On 15.09.2014 09:44, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 11:56:35AM -0600, Glenn English wrote: >> What do you server admins use for backup? I use duply for data backups. Pros: - push backups via ssh - encrypted with gpg key1 - signed with gpg key2 - built in file checksumming my s

Re: brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-15 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Sat, 13 Sep 2014 21:46:43 +0200 lee napísal: > Slavko writes: > > > BTW, if someone is interested in, while this investigation i > > generated graphs of dependencies on some systemd packages on my > > system, they will be accessible for some time here: > > > > http://anfo.slavino.sk/

Re: systemd vs debian soc (was ... Re: brasero requires gvfs)

2014-09-15 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Sat, 13 Sep 2014 13:46:51 -0300 Andre N Batista napísal: > The way I see it, there is a large amount of doubt on who's > insterested in systemd and there is no doubt that many users are > being forced into using it and, according to your recent post on the > subject, those users have c

Re: Issues upgrading Wheezy --> Jessie (was ... Re: brasero requires gvfs)

2014-09-15 Thread Ric Moore
On 09/15/2014 03:27 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 14 September 2014 19:42:40 Steve Litt wrote: Every time you tell one of us to keep silent, three more of us speak up. I don't know whether we're a minority, but if you and your cohorts keep shushing us, we just might be the majority pretty soon

Re: Mails & mails

2014-09-15 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 01:38:53AM -0400, Björn Djisktra wrote: >Is this gonna work? Please, help. debian-user is not an arbitrary language parser. Try writing your code to a file and then applying the compiler/interpreter appropriate to the language you're writing in to that file. If there ar

disabled login prompt problem

2014-09-15 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debian folks, I am running Debian Testing on an AMD64 box. I was trying to update it with new packages and got dependency problems. I got as far as choosing this PAM option from a list but could not find the list at the terminal and eventually had to shutdown and reboot. When I did this I

Re: Re: "no soundcards found" after Debian upgrade

2014-09-15 Thread Menashè Eliezer
Thanks Raffaele, You are right, once I'm loading manually the snd-usb-audio, all is fine. So, my work-around right now is running after each restart: $ sudo modprobe snd-hda-intel snd-usb-audio I'm very pleased to have back sound at my computer, thanks to this mailing list! As for .asound file

Re: "no soundcards found" after Debian upgrade

2014-09-15 Thread Raffaele Morelli
On 15/09/14 at 12:43pm, Menashè Eliezer wrote: > Thanks Raffaele, > You are right, once I'm loading manually the snd-usb-audio, all is fine. > So, my work-around right now is running after each restart: > $ sudo modprobe snd-hda-intel snd-usb-audio You don't have to do it manually, just add those

Re: Re: "no soundcards found" after Debian upgrade

2014-09-15 Thread Menashè Eliezer
Both of them are already in /etc/modules and /etc/modules-load.d/modules.conf No effect... -- With kind regards, Menashè -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debi

Re: disabled login prompt problem

2014-09-15 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debian folks, > > I am running Debian Testing on an AMD64 box. > > I was trying to update it with new packages and got dependency problems. > > I got as far as choosing this PAM option from a list but could not find the > list at th

Re: Mails & mails

2014-09-15 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 01:38:53AM -0400, Björn Djisktra wrote: >>Is this gonna work? Please, help. > > debian-user is not an arbitrary language parser. Try writing your code > to a file and then applying the compiler/interpreter appropria

Re: preseeding: disable systemd

2014-09-15 Thread Martin Read
On 15/09/14 01:46, Marty wrote: (not OP but) I require the exclusion all packages by their dev teams from my computer. Is that clear enough? Linus doesn't trust them. Why should I? Just to be sure you're aware of what you're asking for: that includes udev, which: (a) in Debian is a hard depe

Re: Issues upgrading Wheezy --> Jessie (was ... Re: brasero requires gvfs)

2014-09-15 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 9/15/2014 3:27 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 14 September 2014 19:42:40 Steve Litt wrote: >> Every time you tell one of us to keep silent, three more of us speak >> up. I don't know whether we're a minority, but if you and your cohorts >> keep shushing us, we just might be the majority prett

Re: Re: "no soundcards found" after Debian upgrade

2014-09-15 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2014-09-15 14:15 GMT+02:00 Menashè Eliezer : > Both of them are already in /etc/modules and /etc/modules-load.d/modules. > conf > > No effect... ​well, I am not a kernel doctor but something is clearly wrong with it

Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community

2014-09-15 Thread Doug
On 09/15/2014 03:31 AM, sa...@eng.it wrote: Bartosz Olender writes: > Therefore I want to poke my three cents into this discussion reminding > that "GNU is *Not* Unix" May I recall that most of the systemd-haters knows the recursive expansion of GNU? Most of us are no interested in what S

Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community

2014-09-15 Thread Bzzzz
On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 11:07:35 -0400 Doug wrote: > Most of us are no interested in what Stallman or whoever created back > in 1995. We don't think of Linux as GNU. Ahhh, so you are the declared and _democratically elected_ spokesman of, let's say 80% of the Linux community (shit, I should read mor

Re: preseeding: disable systemd

2014-09-15 Thread Reco
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 01:55:01PM +0100, Martin Read wrote: > On 15/09/14 01:46, Marty wrote: > >(not OP but) I require the exclusion all packages by their dev teams > >from my computer. Is that clear enough? Linus doesn't trust them. Why > >should I? > > Just to be sure you're aware of what you'

Re: disabled login prompt problem

2014-09-15 Thread Michael Fothergill
> > I got as far as choosing this PAM option from a list but could not find the > list at the terminal and eventually had to shutdown and reboot. Woops. Many thanks for taking the time to respond to my query on this > When I did this I got a login prompt that doesn't ask for a password. In

Re: disabled login prompt problem

2014-09-15 Thread Michael Fothergill
Booting the DVD, dropping to rescue mode, and mounting the hard disk would allow you a look at the logs to see what it was trying to do and how far it got when you couldn't move ahead. I did look at the logs as you suggested but maybe not all of the ones that would be helpful here. By the way, the

Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community

2014-09-15 Thread Joe
On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 11:07:35 -0400 Doug wrote: > On 09/15/2014 03:31 AM, sa...@eng.it wrote: > > Bartosz Olender writes: > > > Therefore I want to poke my three cents into this discussion > > > reminding that "GNU is *Not* Unix" > > > > May I recall that most of the systemd-haters knows the r

[ANNOUNCE] apt-offline 1.5

2014-09-15 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
I am very pleased to announce the release of apt-offline, version 1.5. In version 1.4, the offline bug report functionality had to be dropped. In version 1.5, it is back again. apt-offline now uses the new Debian native BTS library. Thanks to its developers, this library is much more slim and

Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community

2014-09-15 Thread Bartosz Olender
W dniu 15.09.2014 19:39, Joe pisze: > On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 11:07:35 -0400 > Doug wrote: > >> On 09/15/2014 03:31 AM, sa...@eng.it wrote: >>> Bartosz Olender writes: >>> > Therefore I want to poke my three cents into this discussion >>> > reminding that "GNU is *Not* Unix" >>> >>> May I recall

Re: Issues upgrading Wheezy --> Jessie (was ... Re: brasero requires gvfs)

2014-09-15 Thread Peter Nieman
On 13/09/14 22:46, lee wrote: I'd be happy to see some support. I cannot speak for "the users" or for "the free software community". You users, and the community members, whoever they are, need to speak as well. OK, so I'll "speak as well". :-) But first of all I'd like to thank you and some

Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community

2014-09-15 Thread Bzzzz
On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 20:32:45 +0200 Bartosz Olender wrote: > I am not defending systemd programmers but, could you clarify what do > you exactly mean by bad programming practices? Creating weird situations about things that used to work well for _years_ (eg: the kernel debug switch), then put the

jessie installation

2014-09-15 Thread Adrián Orellana
Hi, I'm trying to install jessie amd64 and with the installer I got two important issues: 1st: when it asked me about non free drivers, I told him that there were in an external device (usb), but it never saw after several attemps. 2nd. I need to manually partition my disk as it have another distri

Creating a forum for systemd debate (was Re: Issues upgrading Wheezy --> Jessie (was ... Re: brasero requires

2014-09-15 Thread Joel Roth
gvfs)) Reply-To: Joel Roth In-Reply-To: <5416e94a.8070...@attglobal.net> Jerry Stuckle wrote: > On 9/15/2014 3:27 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Sunday 14 September 2014 19:42:40 Steve Litt wrote: > >> Every time you tell one of us to keep silent, three more of us speak > >> up. I don't know whethe

Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community

2014-09-15 Thread Joe
On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 20:32:45 +0200 Bartosz Olender wrote: > W dniu 15.09.2014 19:39, Joe pisze: > > On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 11:07:35 -0400 > > Doug wrote: > > > >> On 09/15/2014 03:31 AM, sa...@eng.it wrote: > >>> Bartosz Olender writes: > >>> > Therefore I want to poke my three cents into this d

Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community

2014-09-15 Thread Ric Moore
On 09/15/2014 11:33 AM, B wrote: On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 11:07:35 -0400 Doug wrote: Most of us are no interested in what Stallman or whoever created back in 1995. We don't think of Linux as GNU. Ahhh, so you are the declared and _democratically elected_ spokesman of, let's say 80% of the Lin

Re: Creating a forum for systemd debate

2014-09-15 Thread Don Armstrong
On Mon, 15 Sep 2014, Joel Roth wrote: > I think it should be possible to find or create a forum for those who > are concerned about this issue. I know that I would subscribe. Please create one and subscribe. It's trivial to create mailing lists on lists.alioth.debian.org, or you can use non-Debian

Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community

2014-09-15 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Montag, 15. September 2014, 21:55:29 schrieb Joe: > On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 20:32:45 +0200 > > Bartosz Olender wrote: > > W dniu 15.09.2014 19:39, Joe pisze: > > > On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 11:07:35 -0400 > > > > > > Doug wrote: > > > > > > > > >> On 09/15/2014 03:31 AM, sa...@eng.it wrote: > > >>> Ba

Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community

2014-09-15 Thread Bzzzz
On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 17:16:32 -0400 Ric Moore wrote: > Sorry, I see only that he represented his views, which also happens to > coincide with my own. Please, if you have to label someone, you've > lost your argument's points from the get-go. :) Ric I don't wanna stigmatize anybody; what I'd like

Re: Error with Latest Google Chrome Stable

2014-09-15 Thread Kenneth Jacker
sven> Downgrade to the latest working version. Luckily, I was able to find a couple of earlier Chrome versions in /var/cache/apt/archives/ in order to downgrade. What if I'd removed all the archived 'apt' files to save space? This leads to the following question ... Is there a known Google si

Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community

2014-09-15 Thread Charlie
On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 23:48:02 +0200 Martin Steigerwald sent: > I have mixed thoughts and feelings about systemd… but on the other > hand I think discussing this further here… is… a waste of time – as > it won´t change anything. I'm uncertain if that's correct. It certainly highlights some features

Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community

2014-09-15 Thread John Hasler
Charlie writes: > Though I'm not a programmer and really know very little about Debian > [as someone once said - the lifetime learning experience] imagine the > installer could present a choice of systemd or sys** whatever? The > wiki could point out advantages and disadvantages of both? That is b

Re: brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-15 Thread lee
Steve Litt writes: > On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 21:54:56 +0200 > lee wrote: >> >> Can you have, say, KDE on Gentoo without systemd? "Without systemd" >> means *all* of systemd, like systemd-login0 etc.. > > But in answer to your question, my official answer is "I don't know." > Now I'll give you a gu

Let's have a vote! (was: Re: Issues upgrading Wheezy --> Jessie (was ... Re: brasero requires gvfs))

2014-09-15 Thread lee
Lisi Reisz writes: > On Saturday 13 September 2014 21:46:31 lee wrote: >> You users, and the community members, >> whoever they are, need to speak as well. > > Perhaps, just perhaps, many of them don't agree. Well, I've now seen two people speaking up in response, and 0% of them spoke in favour

Re: brasero requires gvfs

2014-09-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 00:24:10 +0200 lee wrote: > Steve Litt writes: > > And who knows what kind of problems you run into when you switch to > some BSD. Are there NVIDIA drivers for some BSD? Is everything I'm > using now available for some BSD? My biggest problem is I can't yet get qemu to r

Re: Creating a forum for systemd debate

2014-09-15 Thread Steve Litt
On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 14:15:59 -0700 Don Armstrong wrote: > Yes, please. The pro/anti systemd discussion isn't on topic for this > mailing list. Precisely. Bugs and user difficulties produced by innumerable dependencies have nothing to do with Debian-Users, it's merely an interesting discussion f

Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community

2014-09-15 Thread Joel Roth
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 06:08:49PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Charlie writes: > > Though I'm not a programmer and really know very little about Debian > > [as someone once said - the lifetime learning experience] imagine the > > installer could present a choice of systemd or sys** whatever? The >

KVM Guest - Best Display Resolution

2014-09-15 Thread Chris
Dear All, what settings do you use in KVM for Linux guests? The resolution with VNC / VGA is 1024x768 only. If I choose Spice / QXL the resolution is better, but colors aren't displayed properly and some letters are missing! In the Debian guest I installed the packages xserver-xspice and spice-c

Re: View on UNIX purism in Linux Community

2014-09-15 Thread Charlie
On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 15:38:18 -1000 Joel Roth sent: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 06:08:49PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > Charlie writes: > > > Though I'm not a programmer and really know very little about > > > Debian [as someone once said - the lifetime learning experience] > > > imagine the install

Re: Query about .xsession-errors file

2014-09-15 Thread Paul Trevethan
On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 15:07:48 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > On 15/09/2014, Chen Wei wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 09, 2014 at 03:29:04PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > >> .xsession-errors, which is currently sitting at about 740MB, and > >> has been growing in the last hour. > >> > >> entries from before the cu

trying to remove wicd

2014-09-15 Thread tom arnall
I want to get wicd off my system, but am having a problem. All the installer utilities say that it's not installed, but 'which' and other things tell a different story: root@debian:~# which wicd /usr/sbin/wicd root@debian:~# Also, in spite of the installer messages, there are lots of wicd-related

Re: trying to remove wicd

2014-09-15 Thread Gary Dale
On 15/09/14 11:37 PM, tom arnall wrote: I want to get wicd off my system, but am having a problem. All the installer utilities say that it's not installed, but 'which' and other things tell a different story: root@debian:~# which wicd /usr/sbin/wicd root@debian:~# Also, in spite of the installe

Re: trying to remove wicd

2014-09-15 Thread Bzzzz
On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 20:37:02 -0700 tom arnall wrote: > How do I get rid of the stuff? apt-get install wicd apt-get purge wicd -- Men94 : You've got MSN? Aerendil : No, but I have a STD if you want. Men94 : cool send it. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Let's have a vote!

2014-09-15 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2014-09-16 02:00 +0200, lee wrote: > Lisi Reisz writes: > >> On Saturday 13 September 2014 21:46:31 lee wrote: >>> You users, and the community members, >>> whoever they are, need to speak as well. >> >> Perhaps, just perhaps, many of them don't agree. > > Well, I've now seen two people speak

Re: KVM Guest - Best Display Resolution

2014-09-15 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 03:41:32AM +0200, Chris wrote: > Dear All, > > what settings do you use in KVM for Linux guests? > > The resolution with VNC / VGA is 1024x768 only. If I choose Spice / QXL > the resolution is better, but colors aren't displayed properly and some > letters are missing

Re: Creating a forum for systemd debate

2014-09-15 Thread Raffaele Morelli
On 15/09/14 at 02:15pm, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Mon, 15 Sep 2014, Joel Roth wrote: > > I think it should be possible to find or create a forum for those who > > are concerned about this issue. I know that I would subscribe. > > Please create one and subscribe. It's trivial to create mailing list