Re: Worry about entropy?

2014-12-03 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 04:48:36PM -0400, francis picabia wrote: Hi, > Has anyone experience with seeing significant > performance boost, or at least avoiding timeouts > when under load, related to keeping entropy fed > some how? I've already read the articles discussing > use of /dev/random etc

Re: boot fails on jessie on Acer Travelmate

2014-12-03 Thread Curt
On 2014-12-02, Pierre Couderc wrote: > Hello > > I have a problem with jessie : my Acer Travelmate (P253) refuses to boot. > A Secure Boot and Fast Boot in the UEFI problem, perhaps? Did you say whether you were dual booting? Anything here that helps? http://superuser.com/questions/714856/tryi

Re: Debian fork: 'Devuan', Debian without Systemd

2014-12-03 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 3. Dezember 2014, 08:35:00 schrieb Erwan David: > Le 02/12/2014 23:15, Martin Steigerwald a écrit : > > Am Dienstag, 2. Dezember 2014, 18:47:38 schrieb Renaud OLGIATI: > >> On Tue, 2 Dec 2014 14:22:13 -0700 > >> > >> Aaron Toponce wrote: > It's a waste. They shouldn't have left.

Re: boot fails on jessie on Acer Travelmate

2014-12-03 Thread Pierre Couderc
One big difference is that after jessie installation boot flag has disappeared : gpt : wheezy : Model: ATA Crucial_CT480M50 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 480GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition Table: gpt Number Start EndSizeFile system Name Flags 1 1049kB 512

Installing Debian on a SuperMicro server

2014-12-03 Thread Johann Spies
I am trying to install Debian on a SuperMicro server on two ssd's configured in the bios as a RAID1 (I think it is called a fake-raid). Debian Stable does not recognize the disks at all. Debian Testing's installation disk picks it up as a RAID1 device (even when I configure it in the bios as non-r

Re: boot fails on jessie on Acer Travelmate

2014-12-03 Thread Pierre Couderc
Le 03/12/2014 10:07, Curt a écrit : On 2014-12-02, Pierre Couderc wrote: A Secure Boot and Fast Boot in the UEFI problem, perhaps? Did you say whether you were dual booting? Anything here that helps? I said "No alternate OS..." ;) It is smallest installation possible. Thank you PC -- To UNS

Re: Debian fork: 'Devuan', Debian without Systemd

2014-12-03 Thread Laurent Bigonville
Le Wed, 03 Dec 2014 10:18:36 +0100, Martin Steigerwald a écrit : > Am Mittwoch, 3. Dezember 2014, 08:35:00 schrieb Erwan David: > > Le 02/12/2014 23:15, Martin Steigerwald a écrit : > > > Am Dienstag, 2. Dezember 2014, 18:47:38 schrieb Renaud OLGIATI: > > >> On Tue, 2 Dec 2014 14:22:13 -0700 > >

Re: Installing Debian on a SuperMicro server

2014-12-03 Thread Miles Fidelman
Johann Spies wrote: I am trying to install Debian on a SuperMicro server on two ssd's configured in the bios as a RAID1 (I think it is called a fake-raid). Debian Stable does not recognize the disks at all. Debian Testing's installation disk picks it up as a RAID1 device (even when I configure

Re: Stale file in Debian after change of equivs package

2014-12-03 Thread mad
Perfect! That what I was searching for. The configuration is marked as obsolete! Thank you! Am 02.12.2014 um 23:29 schrieb Bob Proulx: > Don Armstrong wrote: >> mad wrote: >>> I am using equivs to create simple packages with dependencies >>> and a few files. >>> >>> Now I removed one file from th

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 05:15:36PM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Sun, 30 Nov 2014, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > [I've somehow deleted the other messages, so this one will have to do] > > > > On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 01:59:02PM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: > > > Patrick Bartek: > > > > On Thu,

Re: Debian fork: 'Devuan', Debian without Systemd

2014-12-03 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 3. Dezember 2014, 12:39:26 schrieb Laurent Bigonville: > Le Wed, 03 Dec 2014 10:18:36 +0100, > > Martin Steigerwald a écrit : > > Am Mittwoch, 3. Dezember 2014, 08:35:00 schrieb Erwan David: > > > Le 02/12/2014 23:15, Martin Steigerwald a écrit : > > > > Am Dienstag, 2. Dezember 2014

freenas bootable USB in debian.

2014-12-03 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
I am using Debian as my desktop and GUI. i want to install/write freenas usb boot image *.img file to Empty USB. for windows we have windows32diskimager but i am looking for an alternative of this software in debian. can you guyz please help. Thanks alot in advance. Thanks, MYK.

Re: freenas bootable USB in debian.

2014-12-03 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Dec 03, 2014 at 06:19:28PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > I am using Debian as my desktop and GUI. i want to install/write freenas usb > boot image *.img file to Empty USB.  > > for windows we have windows32diskimager but i am looking for an alternative > of this software in

Re: Installing Debian on a SuperMicro server

2014-12-03 Thread Johann Spies
Thanks Miles. > Did a little googling and found this: https://wiki.debian.org/ > DebianInstaller/SataRaid - which recommends adding dmraid=true to the > kernel boot line (see page for detailed instructions). > > I have tried the procedure in this website, but my results are different. I never go

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-03 Thread The Wanderer
On 12/03/2014 at 07:43 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 05:15:36PM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >> On Sun, 30 Nov 2014, Chris Bannister wrote: >>> Nothing is final yet, jessie is still a moving target IOW not >>> yet stable, so not just semantics. >> >> Yes. Semantics. J

Re: Debian fork: 'Devuan', Debian without Systemd

2014-12-03 Thread Erwan David
> > As explained several times on this ML, depending against libsystemd0 > package doesn't mean anything about requiring systemd to be used as > PID1 or not. Even Ian's GR was not taking the "I don't want any systemd > package on my machine" use case into account you know. Why focus on PID1 ? As

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-03 Thread Jerry Stuckle
On 12/3/2014 9:38 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > On 12/03/2014 at 07:43 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 05:15:36PM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 30 Nov 2014, Chris Bannister wrote: > Nothing is final yet, jessie is still a moving target IOW not yet stabl

My name is Gatan Magsino..

2014-12-03 Thread Gatan Magsino
My name is Gatan Magsino, I work with Mediterranean Bank in Malta. Can i trust you with a deal worth $8.3M USD? Please reply to my email: mga...@rogers.com for more information --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Justice For Zemir (cello song)

2014-12-03 Thread heringklaussma...@t-online.de
#JusticeForZemir http://youtu.be/5eHmraL3wvE Zemir Begic was subject to a revenge killing by 2 coloured young men for the death of Michael Brown. The killers reportedly shouted "Kill all the white people" before beating Zemir to death with two hammers. It has been reported that previously the ki

S-D is like a cold vastness. (Song included here)

2014-12-03 Thread heringklaussma...@t-online.de
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRvf9LauZIM&list=UUpfKI2v7BTPBrx6HWvEx1Lw [ Instruments: Analogue Synth: MicroBRUTE & Software Synth Organ: ZynAddSubFX ] Synth and organ in the cold infinite vastness. As if abandoned. Seeing bright lights, but feeling no warmth. Kind of like what old-guard Free/Op

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-03 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Tue, 02 Dec 2014, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 02 December 2014 07:05:09 Patrick Bartek wrote: > > User's do contrain.  They even dictate.  Always have.  Developers > > should, if they are samrt, be developing what customers want or > > need. Not the other way around. That's the formula for g

squeeze-lts dist-upgrade to wheezy failed @ apt

2014-12-03 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski
Hello debian users, I am having trouble dist-upgrading from squeeze-lts to wheezy. I have been following these instructions to upgrade from pre-lts squeeze (didn't find any specific ones for lts): https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.html The problem happens whe

Re: Worry about entropy?

2014-12-03 Thread Aaron Toponce
On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 04:48:36PM -0400, francis picabia wrote: > I'm looking at DNSSEC implementation. One guide > points out haveged as a way to speed up performance > of dnssec-keygen. It certainly did. I'm wondering if > anyone has noticed performance improvement by running > haveged on sys

Re: squeeze-lts dist-upgrade to wheezy failed @ apt

2014-12-03 Thread Kenneth Dombrowski
Hi again, I just wanted to follow up with more info. I think these packages that want to stay with squeeze are pinned, for example: root@gilgamesh:~/tmp# apt-cache policy perl-base perl-base: Installed: 5.10.1-17squeeze6 Candidate: 5.14.2-21+deb7u2 Version table: 5.14.2-21+deb7u2 0

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-03 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 3 Dec 2014 09:24:03 -0800 Patrick Bartek wrote: Hello Patrick, >use and no one else's, why distribute it at all? Simple: Ego. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" I'll be the paint on the side if you'll be

Re: boot fails on jessie on Acer Travelmate

2014-12-03 Thread Simon Hollenbach
Hi again, On 03/12/14 08:56, Pierre Couderc wrote: Le 03/12/2014 07:58, Simon Hollenbach a écrit : you might want to dig further into this, Mmm, what is my other choice ? W8 ? Ubuntu ? I was talking about reporting a bug when you don't know what's wrong. But indeed, there are other choices i

System hangs at boot after Squeeze to Wheezy update (saslauthd culprit?)

2014-12-03 Thread Sergi Pons Freixes
Hi everybody, I just upgraded my VPS at Linode from Squeeze to Wheezy, everything looked find (only some issues with Dovecot), but after the reboot the system hangs at: [] Starting the hotplug events dispatcher: udevdudevd[1452]: starting version 175 . ok [ ok ] Synthesizing the initial hotp

Re: Debian fork: 'Devuan', Debian without Systemd

2014-12-03 Thread Martinx - ジェームズ
On 2 December 2014 at 19:22, Aaron Toponce wrote: > On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 09:40:20PM +0100, Märk Owen wrote: >> It's a waste. They shouldn't have left. I'm pretty neutral about >> systemd as I'm only an end user but I disklike having it forced upon me >> this way. > > # apt-get install upstart >

Re: Worry about entropy?

2014-12-03 Thread francis picabia
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Aaron Toponce wrote: > On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 04:48:36PM -0400, francis picabia wrote: > > I'm looking at DNSSEC implementation. One guide > > points out haveged as a way to speed up performance > > of dnssec-keygen. It certainly did. I'm wondering if > > anyon

Re: Debian fork: 'Devuan', Debian without Systemd

2014-12-03 Thread Ron
On Wed, 3 Dec 2014 17:37:02 -0200 Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: > Sooner or later, there will be no more `sysvinit-core`, `upstart` or > whatever, because `systemd` guys engulfed `udev` and they are change > it to make sure it will only work with systemd = PID1, this sucks, Very likely, Jēmuzu, and the

Re: Debian fork: 'Devuan', Debian without Systemd

2014-12-03 Thread maderios
On 12/03/2014 08:37 PM, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: Jessie isn't Debian. Devuan IS (will be) what we know about Debian! Waiting to see Joel joining Devuan... lol I've no problem with systemd (Sid), it works fine). I dont understand why some people complain about systemd. Devuan is not Mint or Ubun

multi-monitor suspend inhibit from gnome-settings-daemon despite one being connected

2014-12-03 Thread Goetz Gaycken
Hello, I have a problem with systemd + gnome-settings-daemon + nvidia or gnome-session or ? It seems, that the gnome-settings-daemon forwards a suspend inhibit due to multiple monitors being connected, although only a single monito

gnome-shell background not restored on resume when using the proprietary nvidia driver

2014-12-03 Thread Goetz Gaycken
Hello, when using the proprietary nvidia driver, the gnome-shell background image is not restored after "resume". When using nouveau instead, the background image is correctly restored after a suspend/resume. Does somebody have any idea whether the problem is in the nvidia driver or in gnome-shel

Re: Debian fork: 'Devuan', Debian without Systemd

2014-12-03 Thread Martin Read
On 03/12/14 19:37, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: Debian/Devuan WILL NEED an `udev` alternative to keep `sysinit-core` working. Perhaps. On the other hand, they might only need an alternative implementation of the user-space glue that makes kdbus work. Devuan will need something like `eudev` to suc

Re: Debian fork: 'Devuan', Debian without Systemd

2014-12-03 Thread Märk Owen
On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 21:50:05 +0100 maderios wrote: > On 12/03/2014 08:37 PM, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: > > > Jessie isn't Debian. > > > > Devuan IS (will be) what we know about Debian! Waiting to see Joel > > joining Devuan... lol > > > I've no problem with systemd (Sid), it works fine). I dont und

Re: udev memory problem when trying to plug a disk with corrupted partition table

2014-12-03 Thread berenger . morel
Le 02.12.2014 19:27, tv.deb...@googlemail.com a écrit : On 02/12/2014 20:48, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: [cut] Also, what is EBR (or EPBR, which seems to be some sort of enhanced whatever may be a EBR)? Extended Boot Record on DOS disks ? Where information about extended partition

Re: boot fails on jessie on Acer Travelmate

2014-12-03 Thread Pierre Couderc
Le 03/12/2014 20:45, Simon Hollenbach a écrit : In fact, it seems to me that the disk is not read, but it tries to net boot. Why do you think it tries to boot from a network? Because it is displayed. Again, I don't think filing a bug without any info but "it doesn't work" will get your prob

Re: Debian fork: 'Devuan', Debian without Systemd

2014-12-03 Thread Martinx - ジェームズ
Hi Madeiros! I'm also using `systemd`, I'm working to use Enlightenment with Wayland (to kick Xorg off) and, it depends on `systemd`. I just don't think that it is wise to put all of our eggs into the same basket. This `systemd` being pushed everywhere looks like a huge monoculture, which is ver

Re: gnome-shell background not restored on resume when using the proprietary nvidia driver

2014-12-03 Thread Eugen Wintersberger
Hi I can at least confirm the problem. There seems to be already a bug report for gnome-shell https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=765436 I submitted a bug-report myself which I most probably will close as it is a duplication of the above report. On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 22:04 +01

Re: Debian fork: 'Devuan', Debian without Systemd

2014-12-03 Thread Martinx - ジェームズ
On 3 December 2014 at 19:18, Märk Owen wrote: > On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 21:50:05 +0100 > maderios wrote: > >> On 12/03/2014 08:37 PM, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: >> >> > Jessie isn't Debian. >> > >> > Devuan IS (will be) what we know about Debian! Waiting to see Joel >> > joining Devuan... lol >> > >> I'v

Re: Haven't seen this ssh output before

2014-12-03 Thread berenger . morel
Le 27.11.2014 00:04, Harry Putnam a écrit : Harry Putnam writes: I'm not at all clear on how one would go about making an adjustment in sshd_config to allow the algs used by my REMOTE-sol to be recognized. REMOTE-sol does not appear to be using OpenSSH .. maybe a solaris version of SSH. In

Re: Debian fork: 'Devuan', Debian without Systemd

2014-12-03 Thread Martin Read
On 03/12/14 21:52, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: I'm using `GRSecurity` with Debian in prod and it doesn't work with `systemd`. I NEED `sysvinit-core` (or upstart) and there is no plans to deploy `systemd` at my company's public data center. Since it [systemd] doesn't work here. If `systemd` gets fixe

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-12-03 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Tue, 02 Dec 2014, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > > Le 02.12.2014 08:05, Patrick Bartek a écrit : > > >> >> > and more and more > >> >> > developers will start writing apps with systemd, or parts of > >> it, > >> >> > as a dependency for the "features" it offers. > >> > >> It's the

Re: Debian fork: 'Devuan', Debian without Systemd

2014-12-03 Thread Martinx - ジェームズ
On 3 December 2014 at 21:19, Martin Read wrote: > On 03/12/14 21:52, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: >> >> I'm using `GRSecurity` with Debian in prod and it doesn't work with >> `systemd`. >> >> I NEED `sysvinit-core` (or upstart) and there is no plans to deploy >> `systemd` at my company's public data cen

Re: Debian fork: 'Devuan', Debian without Systemd

2014-12-03 Thread Ric Moore
On 12/03/2014 04:18 PM, Märk Owen wrote: On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 21:50:05 +0100 maderios wrote: On 12/03/2014 08:37 PM, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: Jessie isn't Debian. Devuan IS (will be) what we know about Debian! Waiting to see Joel joining Devuan... lol I've no problem with systemd (Sid), it w

tgif thumbnailers not working

2014-12-03 Thread Tad Bak
Hi, I have been trying unsuccessfully to convince Nautilus to display thumbnails of tgif (*.obj) files. I repeated the steps given in Romano's blog: http://rlog.rgtti.com/2011/11/24/xfig-thumbnailers-with-gnome3nautilus3/ and created files: /usr/bin/tgif-thumbnail (with executing permission) a