bullseye: systemd-networkd-wait-online timeouts

2021-08-18 Thread Jochen Spieker
Hi, I upgraded my virtual server to bullseye already and I found one issue in the logs: Aug 18 10:59:20 h2907737 systemd-networkd-wait-online[936688]: Event loop failed: Connection timed out Aug 18 10:59:20 h2907737 apt-helper[936686]: E: Sub-process /lib/systemd/systemd-networkd-wait-online re

Re: nvme SSD and poor performance

2021-08-18 Thread Jochen Spieker
Pierre Willaime: > > Using fstrim seems to restore speed. There are always many GiB which are > reduced : > > # fstrim -v / > / : 236,7 GiB (254122389504 octets) réduits This is probably the total amount of unused space on that SSD. The first fstrim run after a reboot always trims a

Re: bullseye: systemd-networkd-wait-online timeouts

2021-08-19 Thread Jochen Spieker
Charles Curley: > On Wed, 18 Aug 2021 21:36:30 +0200 > Jochen Spieker wrote: > >> Is there anything I can do about this without changing >> /etc/network/interfaces? As far as I understand, I cannot switch to >> systemd network configuration as long as the interfaces fi

Re: bullseye: systemd-networkd-wait-online timeouts

2021-08-20 Thread Jochen Spieker
Andy Smith: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 09:36:30PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: > >> Aug 18 10:59:20 h2907737 systemd-networkd-wait-online[936688]: Event loop >> failed: Connection timed out >> Aug 18 10:59:20 h2907737 apt-helper[936686]: E: Sub-process >> /lib/system

Re: bullseye: systemd-networkd-wait-online timeouts

2021-08-25 Thread Jochen Spieker
Jochen Spieker: > > Aug 18 10:59:20 h2907737 systemd-networkd-wait-online[936688]: Event loop > failed: Connection timed out > Aug 18 10:59:20 h2907737 apt-helper[936686]: E: Sub-process > /lib/systemd/systemd-networkd-wait-online returned an error code (1) I was able to at le

Re: LUKS encryption help

2021-08-27 Thread Jochen Spieker
detr...@tuta.io: > > Around May I installed Debian 10 on my (external) hard drive in BIOS > (not UEFI) mode for backup purposes. In the end of June I took the > drive out of the drawer and tried to boot into it but to my surprise > my LUKS encryption password does not work anymore. I'm very sure

Re: fsck error on boot: /dev/sda1: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY and Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary

2021-03-19 Thread Jochen Spieker
Robbi Nespu: > > I worried I might missing some package for hdd and sdd maintainance (coz I > doing minimal install previously) There is no maintenance that needs to be done for hard disks or solid state disks to increase longevity. It often makes sense to setup smartmontools which can monitor th

Re: fsck error on boot: /dev/sda1: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY and Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary

2021-03-19 Thread Jochen Spieker
Alexander V. Makartsev: > On 19.03.2021 21:23, Jochen Spieker wrote: >>> Note : Linux installed on sdb (ext4) and sda is a NTFS file system and >>> >>> I don't want my SSD or HDD died suddenly >> But I am afraid that is exactly what is happening. >

Re: Access to PPA's

2021-04-07 Thread Jochen Spieker
Gary L. Roach: > > Some of my most useful software is only available through Ubuntu PPA's . I > can no longer access PPA's since Debian changed their security policies. > When trying to access a PPA I get the following: > >  The repository > 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/elmer-csc-ubuntu/elmer-csc-pp

systemd failed to create user.slice

2021-04-22 Thread Jochen Spieker
Hi, the short version of my problem is this, happening on a fairly fresh stable system: # systemctl start user@1000.service Job for user@1000.service failed because the service did not take the steps required by its unit configuration. See "systemctl status user@1000.service" and "journalctl -xe

Re: Whole Disk Encryption + SSD

2021-06-28 Thread Jochen Spieker
piorunz: > > I have question regarding whole disk encryption. What technology should > I use, to have encryption of everything, or at least /home, but preserve > free blocks and have TRIM? The canonical answer is "LUKS". You can configure it during installation if you want to. I always use LVM as

Re: Archivemail

2021-01-23 Thread Jochen Spieker
Mark Fletcher: > > OK deciphering the above for anyone who might follow after me: > archivemail is dependent on Python2 which, it appears, is getting > removed from bullseye (although as of right now it's not gone yet, it's > installed on my system and I didn't ask for it, so something is clear

Re: Archivemail

2021-01-24 Thread Jochen Spieker
Mark Fletcher: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 12:17:55AM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: >> >> The main problem is that one has to replace a few modules/functions, >> mostly the long-obsolete rfc822. I think I can get away with throwing >> away the get_filename function com

Re: Archivemail

2021-01-25 Thread Jochen Spieker
Keith Bainbridge: > > To answer the question about MH, yes. It is the default for Sylpheed & > Claws. Thanks! J. -- I eat meat and am concerned about bugs which are resistant to antibiotics. [Agree] [Disagree] sign

Re: Can any setting be changed after an "install Buster from scratch"-procedure?

2019-06-09 Thread Jochen Spieker
Erik Josefsson: > > Can every setting made with an "install Buster from scratch"-procedure (like > the one for [Teres-I DIY laptop] available at box.redpill.dk) be changed > after the install procedure is completed? > > I mean, can some settings be "hard-coded" by an install procedure? > > Or in

Re: System on a chip - performance relative size and setup (how can the (Debian) setup make a difference?)

2019-06-18 Thread Jochen Spieker
Erik Josefsson: > > As far as I understand, it is quite recent that SD cards are fast and large > enough to be able to carry and run an entire Debian instance. The capacity is not a problem for quite some time, depending on your space requirements. You can still run a minimal Debian on way less t

Re: Upgrading to Buster but keeping Postgresql-9.6

2019-07-08 Thread Jochen Spieker
Phil Endecott: > > Does anyone have any advice about the possibility of upgrading > systems from Stretch to Buster, but keeping Postgresql-9.6 for > the time being? With previous Debian releases you always had to migrate your cluster to the new Postgres version manually. The new packages are inst

Re: Debian 10 (Buster) and Swappiness

2019-08-23 Thread Jochen Spieker
Reco: > On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 03:53:55PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Jo, 22 aug 19, 09:21:31, Gustavo - Emar wrote: >>> >>> After upgrading from Debian Stretch to Buster (10), we realize that it is >>> not managing memory as before. >>> First, even with Swappiness = 0 and having 32 Ram, (1

Re: Snort IDS

2019-09-18 Thread Jochen Spieker
Mattia: > > I have some problems with snort on debian that are already been reported but > the current maintainer seems not active. > For what I found online it seems that snort is the most used IDS, so I find > it quite odd that it's not maintained in Debian. Looking at popcon data[1] it appears

Re: unsubscibe from mailing list

2019-09-25 Thread Jochen Spieker
[Posted & mailed] Robert: > > Is it posible to unsubscibe me fromthe mailind list? Yes, send an e-mail to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with the subject "unsubscribe". Make sure to use the same e-mail address that you used for subscribing. J. -- When I am at nightclubs I enjoy looking at

Re: Buster and apt wanting to remove tons of packages...

2018-07-10 Thread Jochen Spieker
sgarrulo: > > I had an installation of debian stable (stretch) which was fully upgraded > something > like a couple of months ago. Then I passed it to testing (buster). There should not be that many changes, but I generally would only upgrade to a newer release when the current system is up-to-da

Re: Buster and apt wanting to remove tons of packages...

2018-07-12 Thread Jochen Spieker
Nicholas Geovanis: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 3:01 PM Jochen Spieker wrote: >> >> There should not be that many changes, but I generally would only >> upgrade to a newer release when the current system is up-to-date with >> regards to its current version. > &

Re: An introduction to Debian's topology/structure/???

2018-07-19 Thread Jochen Spieker
Richard Owlett: > > That leads to asking two related questions: > 1. How can I get a list of packages tagged as required? Aptitude is great for answering questions like this: $ aptitude search '?priority(required) ?archive(stable)' https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/aptitude/ch02s04s05.en.html

Re: Getting packages from stable again instead of unstable

2018-07-19 Thread Jochen Spieker
Rick Macdonald: > > Now that I have removed unstable form sources.list and preferences > (pinning), won't my packages from unstable eventually be upgraded from > stable as the stable versions become newer than the unstable packages that I > currently have installed? Yes, "eventually". At some unk

Re: I may volunteer to be a package maintainer

2018-11-08 Thread Jochen Spieker
Robert Arkiletian: > > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pyfltk > > I noticed that Debian and hence Ubuntu have dropped the "python-fltk" package. > > If I volunteer to be the maintainer of the package is there > documentation I can read to learn how to become a package maintainer? You already rece

Re: heads up: timidity causes pulseaudio to not find sound cards

2018-11-12 Thread Jochen Spieker
Eric S Fraga: > > I recently did an 'apt update; apt upgrade' on my desktop which is > running testing (aka buster). Doing so led to my losing sound through > any application that relies on pulseaudio, e.g. firefox. I could still > use console based tools (e.g. mocp) to listen to music but pulse

Re: solution to / full

2023-03-01 Thread Jochen Spieker
lina: > > My / is almost full. > > # df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > udev126G 0 126G 0% /dev > tmpfs26G 2.3M 26G 1% /run > /dev/nvme0n1p2 23G 21G 966M 96% / > tmpfs 126G 15M 126G 1% /dev/shm > tmpfs 5.0M

Re: taming lsblk command

2019-01-09 Thread Jochen Spieker
Jude DaShiell: > what works over here: > lsblk -n < /usr/bin/sort This command feeds the content of the file /usr/bin/sort into stdin of lsblk. That does not make sense and I guess lsblk is just ignoring this input. J. -- I enjoy shopping, eating, sex and doing jigsaw puzzles of idealised landsc

Status of PHP support in stretch

2019-02-06 Thread Jochen Spieker
Hi, I noticed that PHP 7.0 is unsupported by upstream since the beginning of 2019: https://secure.php.net/supported-versions.php The most recent PHP version in stretch is, as of now, 7.0.33-0+deb9u1. As far as I can tell, this is (roughly) the same as upstream 7.0.33 and not a relabeled later up

Re: mutt imap_headers [solved]

2019-03-31 Thread Jochen Spieker
Nick: > On 2019-03-31 17:07 BST, Nick wrote: >> >> The not so good: no marker appears until I open messages. I >> had expected that my imap_headers setting would cause the marker to >> appear on all the qualifying messages in the index. How can I make >> that happen? > > Solved: close mutt, del

Re: scp overwriting precaution?

2020-02-27 Thread Jochen Spieker
Greg Marks: > > When using scp to copy files from my server to my laptop (both running > Debian 10 and both with the same directory tree), I like to back up > the files in case I discover that I've overwritten a newer version of > a file with an older version. Fully in the spirit of not actually a

Encrypted swap fails in initramfs

2020-03-21 Thread Jochen Spieker
Hi, this week I installed Debiana bullseye using the current debian installer and then upgraded to sid. Now I get a lot of warnings in the beginning of the boot process which are ugly and delay the boot process. When booting has finished, the encrypted swap is available as intended. The problem is

Re: A notification tray?

2013-08-29 Thread Jochen Spieker
Sharon Kimble: > Cinnamon and Gnome 3 both have a tray that holds all notification > messages until their read and deleted. These messages are ones like > saying that your backup has just started, or you’ve got 3 new emails, > nice simple easily forgotten ones. But, what is this 'tray'? Can it be >

Re: tri-boot debian, debian-without-dm, and windows with newer debian using partitions from older debian?

2013-09-05 Thread Jochen Spieker
Anubhav Yadav: > > Can I install debian again on my machine (without any desktop manager) > on a separate partition for / and use the /home, /usr, /var and /temp > from my current debian installation? You shoud never share /usr unless your two installations have the exact same set of packages ins

Re: Apache2 neds to ne reset

2013-09-10 Thread Jochen Spieker
John W. Foster: > > […] I want to know first of all if there is a way, > Command line perhaps, to have apt completely reinstall all of Apache2 > with the dist basic files so that it works upon startup, then I can try > to reconfigure it manually. apt-get purge apache2 apt-get install apache2 Bew

Re: Subversion disappeared from apache after upgrade in testing?

2013-09-11 Thread Jochen Spieker
hubert depesz lubaczewski: > > Anyway - the questions are: > 1. will libapache2-svn be back in some time? > 2. if not, how can I get to my repo data now? You can start svnserve for your repository and switch --relocate your working copies to the new (svn://) URL. J. -- I am not scared of death

Re: Apache2 neds to ne reset

2013-09-12 Thread Jochen Spieker
Balamurugan: > > Please download apache as a tar.gz and try installing in a local > path rather installing as a system(/usr/bin or /usr/local/bin). This is bad advice. This installation will not receive any automatic upgrades and any problems the OP has with the Debian package can occur here as w

Re: DWWW & its requirements

2013-09-18 Thread Jochen Spieker
John W. Foster: > > I want to use DWWW as my onboard help system. I have done so for years. > Now I want to use nginx as my web server and DWWW will not install > without apache. I dont want to install 2 webservers so how do I get > around this. The package dwww depends on apache2 | httpd-cgi. Tha

Re: mutt in gnome-terminal goes gray!

2013-09-19 Thread Jochen Spieker
Eric d'Halibut: > > I have a gnome-terminal profile configured with a black background. > However, running mutt in it changes the background to gray, a much > lower contrast situation. My guess is that the terminal's background color is independent of the named colors that it provides to programs

Re: Don't want a desktop environment

2013-09-23 Thread Jochen Spieker
Josef Bailey: > > Also since your going to be booting to the cli you will possibly need > to change your runlevl in /etc/inittab > > http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-changing-run-levels.html (Run > level) Debian always boots into runlevel 2 by default. If a login manager (gdm/kdm/lightdm) is

Re: sid dist-upgrade will remove Xorg and hold back replacement

2013-10-06 Thread Jochen Spieker
Joel Roth: > > As often happens, I'd fallen behind on upgrading lately, and > had some catching up to do. My experience is that sid is much smoother when upgrades are performed very often, at least once a week. In your situation I would have checked whether the video driver that I actually use w

Re: What does 'apt' in /etc/cron.daily do?

2013-10-09 Thread Jochen Spieker
Harry Putnam: > > Ok, maybe a bit of a lamer here but: > > What is the /etc/cron.daily/apt script supposed to do? I agree that this is underdocumented. But you can deduce some bits of that it does by the apt settings it honours. Part of my /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/local: APT { // see: /etc/cron.da

Re: which MTA to choose for a simple client?

2013-10-09 Thread Jochen Spieker
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org: > > I finally decided myself to install a software to manage my mails. Good luck! My impression is that this is one of the few things that have not become considerably easier on Linux in the last ten years. Mutt is still a good choice today if you can live with the

Re: which MTA to choose for a simple client?

2013-10-09 Thread Jochen Spieker
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org: > Le 09.10.2013 04:57, Celejar a écrit : >> >> Assuming you're using a smarthost (relay host), you >> can use a relay server such as ssmpt, msmtp or nullmailer which I >> believe all meet these two conditions. > > By relay host, you mean the server from which I am s

Re: which MTA to choose for a simple client?

2013-10-09 Thread Jochen Spieker
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org: > Le 09.10.2013 11:08, Jochen Spieker a écrit : >> berenger.mo...@neutralite.org: >> >> - How do I plan to access mails using mutt (IMAP or local storage?) > > IMAP. Then the rest is really easy. Just point mutt to that IMAP server and i

Re: which MTA to choose for a simple client?

2013-10-09 Thread Jochen Spieker
Curt: > On 2013-10-09, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org > wrote: >>> >>> - How do I plan to access mails using mutt (IMAP or local storage?) >> >> IMAP. Local storage is probably nice for some uses, but I'll be honest: >> I can not see the interest of reading all my mails without Internet >> acc

Re: which MTA to choose for a simple client?

2013-10-09 Thread Jochen Spieker
Curt: > On 2013-10-09, Jochen Spieker wrote: >> >> SMTP is still the most common way to send e-mails (even if the user >> doesn't see it). Some IMAP servers can send e-mails on their users' >> behalf when mails are save into a special folder, but not all serv

Re: apt-get update fails after wheezy update

2013-10-10 Thread Jochen Spieker
Steven G. Johnson: > > I am not behind a firewall. The only uncommented line in my > /etc/apt/sources.list is: > > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free > > Running "apt-get update" yields the "Connection failed" errors > listed below. I've also run "apt-get upd

Re: which MTA to choose for a simple client?

2013-10-10 Thread Jochen Spieker
Celejar: > On Wed, 9 Oct 2013 11:08:41 +0200 > Jochen Spieker wrote: > >> (BTW, I had assumed fetchmail was dead while getmail is alive. It is >> actually the other way round!) > > Not exactly sure what you mean here, but getmail looks alive to me - the > latest

Re: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-11 Thread Jochen Spieker
MUH Jeeshan: > > I want to know how can I install latest Cinnamon build, Cinnamon 2.0 > in Debian? Wait for it to be uploaded to the archive and have it trickle down to the Debian flavour you are using. If you are using stable with no backports, that might take a few months or even more than a ye

Re: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-11 Thread Jochen Spieker
Jonathan Dowland: > On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 09:24:36PM +0800, 陶治江 wrote: >> Why cinnamon? >> Try MATE, I think it is better. >> I have test cinnamon before, too much slower than MATE. > > Cinnamon is in Debian officially, MATE is not. Yet, at least. And it will most probably never be. Mate needs

Re: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-11 Thread Jochen Spieker
Mark Allums: > > Upthread, another poster commented that it wouldn't ever be accepted > into Debian. This may be true, but not for the reasons given. The > MATE dev team are eliminating code duplication. They have gotten rid > of Bonobo. They are porting it to GTK 3. The dev tools for it are

Re: TLS negotiation in mutt

2013-10-11 Thread Jochen Spieker
Veljko: > > Hello, > > I'm using mutt with all my accounts and most of them work fine. My work email > account is hosted on exchange server and I'm using mutt's built in SMTP > functionality. I have set ssl_starttls=yes and when I'm trying to send email > I'm getting error: > > "gnutls handshake

Re: mediatomb install fails on wheezy

2013-10-14 Thread Jochen Spieker
Pierre Frenkiel: > > At last, mediatomb 0.12-5 is now provided by Jessie (don't know since how > long) > I suppose it means that it will arrive in Wheezy some day.. No. Packages don't get moved from testing to stable. Ever. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_debian

Re: mediatomb install fails on wheezy

2013-10-14 Thread Jochen Spieker
Pierre Frenkiel: > > Trying to install mediatomb on wheezy, I got: > >serious bugs of mediatomb (-> 0.12.1-4) >#677959 - mediatomb: fails to build against current version of >libavformat (Fixed: mediatomb/0.12.1-5) > > I have several question about this error: By the way: the above

Re: mediatomb install fails on wheezy

2013-10-14 Thread Jochen Spieker
Pierre Frenkiel: > On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Jochen Spieker wrote: > >>> >>> serious bugs of mediatomb (-> 0.12.1-4) >>> #677959 - mediatomb: fails to build against current version of >>> libavformat (Fixed: mediatomb/0.12.1-5) >>> >&

Re: Question for you network/DNS/Apache gurus;

2013-10-16 Thread Jochen Spieker
John W. Foster: > > I simply use the "/sites-enabled/default" in apache2 to send web queries > to the VPS site. You probably need to set up "name based virtual hosting". I guess all you need to do is add an appropriate ServerName or ServerAlias to the default site. > Here is the issue. > When I t

Re: Question for you network/DNS/Apache gurus;

2013-10-16 Thread Jochen Spieker
Hi John, please don't Cc people on the list unless they explicitly ask for it. Thanks. John W. Foster: > On Wed, 2013-10-16 at 10:02 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > >> the site under construction is www.physicswiki.net >> the numerical address is 192.65.240.181 >> the default 'sites-available fil

Re: mediatomb install fails on wheezy

2013-10-17 Thread Jochen Spieker
Pierre Frenkiel: > On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Jochen Spieker wrote: > >> I cannot reproduce the above error message: >> . . . >>| Are you sure you want to install/upgrade the above packages? [Y/n/?/...] >> . . . >> I cannot figure out what's different on your sy

Re: Installing Debian 7

2013-10-21 Thread Jochen Spieker
Barry White: > > I installed debian 7 successfully right to the end when it > came up with a message that it flashes on the screen, something > about gnome and video. It is not there long enough to read. > I suspect that gnome does not like my video hardware, possibly > because it an olde

Re: Installing Debian 7

2013-10-21 Thread Jochen Spieker
Paul Cartwright: > On 10/21/2013 04:53 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: >> In order to help you we need to know what kind of hardware you have. Run >> 'apt-get install pciutils' und send us the output of the command >> 'lcpsi'. In the meantime, you can install ano

Re: Installing Debian 7

2013-10-21 Thread Jochen Spieker
Please don't top-post. Barry White: > > Due to other problems I had to scrub the Deb 7 installation. > It wiped out XP windows in the first partition and I had several > errors occur during install. I finally managed to get to completion > but grub did not know about windows. Please try to separ

Re: upgrade to wheezy

2013-10-22 Thread Jochen Spieker
mess-mate: > Hi, it's time to do an upgrade from my sqeeze to wheezy. > Is there any particularity i have to observe ? Yes, it's all in the Release Notes: http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/releasenotes J. -- Television advertisements are the apothesis of twentieth century culture. [Agree]

Re: can't find pae kernel after a new install

2013-10-25 Thread Jochen Spieker
Pierre Frenkiel: > > I had on my laptop the kernel 3.10-3-686-pae. After re-installing wheezy, > all pae kernels became invisible, i.e I only get, with >aptitude search linux-image. > > p linux-image-2.6-amd64 p linux-image-3.10-0.bpo.2-amd64 p > linux-image-3.10-0.bpo.2-amd64-dbg p > linu

Re: Problem with upgrade from wheezy to jessie

2013-10-31 Thread Jochen Spieker
André Büsgen: > > I've got an problem with upgrading my debian wheezy to jessie. > While the upgrade was running the system got a problem with the graphics > drivers. > Since this upgrade I get an error by excecuting 'startx'. > Even starting other applications (for example firefox) fails. > Every

Re: What to do when not understanding man pages?

2013-11-04 Thread Jochen Spieker
Richard Owlett: > > When using gunzip I got an unexpected result. The result of "gunzip > myfile.gz" was a single file named "myfile". What I expected/desired > was to have two files on the disk - "myfile.gz" and "myfile". There > was only one - "myfile". Reading the man page seemed to indicate >

Re: What to do when not understanding man pages?

2013-11-04 Thread Jochen Spieker
Curt: > On 2013-11-04, Richard Owlett wrote: >>> >>> gunzip -c myfile.gz > myfile >> >> It's been too long since I used CP/M-80. Piping and >> redirection was routine. > > Seems like he got it bassakwards to me: > > gunzip -c myfile > myfile.gz I think /you/ got it backwards. :) It's gunzip

Re: can't find pae kernel after a new install

2013-11-06 Thread Jochen Spieker
Pierre Frenkiel: > On Fri, 25 Oct 2013, Jochen Spieker wrote: > > What remains unexplained is that I had the 3.10-3-686-pae kernel > on my old install, and I never enabled multiarch (At that time, I even ignored > this possibility).Is there an other explanation than Alzheimer?

Re: How to deal with Xresources

2013-11-06 Thread Jochen Spieker
Frank McCormick wrote: >I have been fooling around with xclock (under Icewm) but >now have a question- is it possible to prevent the window manager from >applying its' decorations to xclock? I had a look at editres but >was unable to find anything corresponding to a resource that might >prevent

Re: SSD as Cache?

2013-11-08 Thread Jochen Spieker
Paul Johnson: > On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:12 AM, basti wrote: > >> Can this cache moved to SSD? >> Months ago I read articles about SSD and Flash Memory like: >> - "Disable logging on SSD" >> - "Disable cache on SSD" >> - "Don't swap on SSD" ... >> >> And today? >> How long will the SSD work with

Re: Wich port should I use for Xeon E3-1230v2 processor ?

2013-11-15 Thread Jochen Spieker
John Ostrowski: > > I recently bought Dell PowerEdge T110 II with Intel Xeon E3-1230v2 > Processor (3.3GHz, 4C/8T, 8M Cache). > I don't know which port I should use. If you used the wrong port your system wouldn't boot. AMD64 is fine for any non-Itanium CPU from Intel. > At the moment I am using

Re: CPU frequency and custom kernel

2013-11-22 Thread Jochen Spieker
Sean Alexandre: > > I can't figure out why it's faster. Everything I've checked is the same > between > the two kernels. If I boot to the Debian provided kernel the CPU runs at 800 > MHz, but if I boot to my custom kernel it runs at 1.8 GHz. (These are baseline > speeds, after boot without runnin

Re: How to make more space available for /

2014-09-28 Thread Jochen Spieker
Rob Hurle: > > […] Any ideas on how I can copy my existing / partition and boot > information to a new disc? Would dd be a good idea? How can I > prepare the new disc to be the boot disc and have / on it without > disturbing my current system? There are many ways to skin this cat, but generally

Re: Keep using Debian without GNOME and SystemD

2014-10-22 Thread Jochen Spieker
Dimitrios Chr. Ioannidis: > > after spending two days trying unsuccesfuly to have a usable Jessie > with one of the defaults DE and with no systemd utilities, i decided > the following. In the companie's pc's i support, i'll continue with > Wheezy and if there is no a clear path to Jessie

Re: Version Debian. Help!

2014-10-23 Thread Jochen Spieker
Светлана Пендик: > Please, help! > I have netbook samsung NP-N150-JA01UA. > What version Linux Debian need I? You should use Debian wheezy (stable), either amd64 (works for 64 Bit Intel CPUs as well) or i386 from here: https://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/#stable If your internet connection is not

Re: Jessie: Weekly or Beta?

2014-10-27 Thread Jochen Spieker
softwatt: > I am interesting in using Jessie. > The Debian page at https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ > presents me with 4 ISO's: Beta 1, Beta 2, Weekly, Daily. > > When it comes to stability, which one is the best? What do you mean exactly when you say "stability"? The latest beta

Re: Jessie: Weekly or Beta?

2014-10-28 Thread Jochen Spieker
softwatt: > On 10/27/2014 07:58 PM, Eric Sharkey wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Jochen Spieker >> wrote: >>>>| If you read only one document before installing, read our Installation >>>>| Howto, a quick walkthrough of the installation pro

Re: Jessie: Weekly or Beta?

2014-10-28 Thread Jochen Spieker
softwatt: > On 10/27/2014 07:53 PM, Jochen Spieker wrote: >> I'd just try the most current daily build. I expect it to work >> for most cases. > > On 10/27/2014 07:56 PM, Eric Sharkey wrote: >> If you want to try it out, the latest named >> beta release is

Re: What backport of gnuplot should I use in Jessie?

2014-11-17 Thread Jochen Spieker
Paul E Condon: > > I also track some daily stock prices using gnuplot. I > want to keep that going, generating a new plot every > time I download new data. Of the several backports, > I think one is intended to be the survivor when Jessie > is actually released. Which one is that? Or is there > a

Re: Haven't seen this ssh output before

2014-11-25 Thread Jochen Spieker
Harry Putnam: > > harry-on-REMOTE-sol > ssh REMOTE-deb > >no common kex alg: client >'diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group1-sha1', >server > > 'curve25519-sha...@libssh.org,ecdh-sha2-nistp256,ecdh-sha2-nistp384,ecdh-sha2-nistp521,diffie-hellman-group-exchange

Re: Haven't seen this ssh output before

2014-11-26 Thread Jochen Spieker
Harry Putnam: > Jochen Spieker writes: >> Harry Putnam: >>> >>> harry-on-REMOTE-sol > ssh REMOTE-deb >>> >>>no common kex alg: client >>>'diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group1-sha1', >>>

Re: Haven't seen this ssh output before

2014-11-27 Thread Jochen Spieker
Harry Putnam: > Harry Putnam writes: > > … >KexAlgorithms > curve25519-sha...@libssh.org,ecdh-sha2-nistp256,ecdh-sha2-nistp384,ecdh-sha2-nistp521,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha256,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1 > > That also works. Thanks for posting

Re: Replacing systemd in Jessie

2014-11-28 Thread Jochen Spieker
Patrick Bartek: > On Thu, 27 Nov 2014, John Hasler wrote: >> Patrick Bartek writes: >> >>> It seems systemd cannot not be installed in Jessie. >> You mean Testing. Jessie has not been released. > Semantics. Ah, my favorite movie quote: "I'm offering you my body and you're offering me semantics!"

Re: Haven't seen this ssh output before

2014-12-04 Thread Jochen Spieker
berenger.mo...@neutralite.org: > > debsecan. > > This is a tool which lists CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and > Exposures) that the packages you installed contains. > I think you might get some hints if you make a diff between the old > (you said you have un-upgraded systems) and the new (the system

Re: How to guess how to add the key of a repo (GPG, apt-key add,...)

2014-12-10 Thread Jochen Spieker
Mihamina Rakotomandimby: > On 12/10/2014 02:19 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >> https://wiki.debian.org/SecureApt#How_to_find_and_add_a_key … > - the page you told me has the "gpg" invocation, but how to guess > "--keyserver" and "--recv-keys" parameters value? The only real answer to your questio

Re: Kernel throwing exception once in a while

2012-09-14 Thread Jochen Spieker
krish: > > I wasn't really sure which package to report this bug against, so > writing it to the lists. -- snip > # uname -a > Linux 3.5.2-x86_64-linode26 #1 SMP Wed Aug 15 > 14:31:07 EDT 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux I cannot comment on whether this is actually a bug, but the problem appears to happen

Re: ls file exist, but can't access.

2012-09-26 Thread Jochen Spieker
lina: > > $ ls -lrt > total 8 > -rw-r--r-- 1 lina lina 367 Sep 27 00:15 RET > drwx-- 2 lina lina 4096 Sep 27 00:16 auto-save-list It looks like the file is not named "RET" bus " RET" instead. Quote the whitespace and you should be able to read/delete it. J. -- I wish I had been aware enou

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-27 Thread Jochen Spieker
Tony Baldwin: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 09:33:45AM +0200, Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote: >> >> I also had to find the answer for 'IA64 or AMD64?'. AFAIR I used >> google and then I grepped /proc/cpuinfo for 'lm'. > > Isn't this just a question of whether you have a Pentium/Intel 64bit > processor,

Re: IA64 or AMD64?

2012-09-27 Thread Jochen Spieker
Stan Hoeppner: > > I think most people know when I swing the cluebat that I'm not trying to > belittle the person on the receiving end, but simply forcefully driving > home a point. If I actually intended to hurt someone's feelings I'd > reply off list. That makes it personal. And this is exact

Re: ssh connection

2012-10-02 Thread Jochen Spieker
Kelly Clowers: > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: >> >> Anyone got any suggestions what I could try? Could I supply more helpful >> data? I have done a ssh -v and the result is below. > > What does your sshd config file look like on A? Are you using RSA > certs for authenticat

Re: How to address hosts in dual ethernet networks?

2012-10-02 Thread Jochen Spieker
Robert Latest: > > What I can't figure out is how to separate the IP address spaces in > this PC itself. There are plenty of 192.168 addresses in use in our > intranet, and it is quite possible that addresses will be used both in > the Intranet and in the Modbus space. That is a broken network de

Re: ssh connection

2012-10-02 Thread Jochen Spieker
Lisi Reisz: > On 2 October 2012 21:24, Jochen Spieker wrote: >> >> And additionally, what's on the server's log for the aborted log in? > > I couldn't find one. Not, I fear, the same thing as "there isn't one". :-( > Googling suggest

Re: Is Wheezy going to be more stable than Squeeze?

2012-10-28 Thread Jochen Spieker
Russell Gadd: > > I can't remember many details, but one issue stands out in my memory. > When printing a second document to my HP Laserjet it would wait up to > 4 seconds before the GUI panel to initiate the print would complete. > This was reported as a bug but not solved at least for many weeks

Re: plugin-containe high CPU

2012-10-29 Thread Jochen Spieker
Mark Panen: > > What is the story with plugin-containe? Every distro i have ever > used it eventually eats your CPU usuage? including: It's a Firefox/Iceweasel process that runs browser plugins like Adobe Flash. J. -- Atrocities committed in Rwanda pervade my mind when I am discussing mundaniti

Re: plugin-containe high CPU

2012-10-30 Thread Jochen Spieker
Mark Panen: > On 30/10/2012 08:33, Jochen Spieker wrote: >> Mark Panen: >> >>> What is the story with plugin-containe? Every distro i have ever >>> used it eventually eats your CPU usuage? including: >> >> It's a Firefox/Iceweasel process that

Re: compiling a Debian package

2012-10-31 Thread Jochen Spieker
lee: > Andrei POPESCU writes: > >> Firstly, you could have specified that instead of broad statements like >> "32 bit support has been removed from Debian". Debian is much more than >> the amd64 architecture. > > That is what 32bit support is about. No. First and foremost, 32 Bit support is a

Re: Advice on system purchase

2012-10-31 Thread Jochen Spieker
Stan Hoeppner: > > So again, ARM will never reach the desktop, nor succeed, without full > ISV support. Which, as I stated previously, is why ARM will only have a > chance on the desktop if the consumer conditions are right to launch an > Android based "PC appliance". This will provide the same

Re: usernames installed by packages

2012-10-31 Thread Jochen Spieker
Nick: > > How can I get a list of all the possible usernames that might be > required by packages on a server? I remember a previous discussion about this question and IIRC the conclusion was that there is no such list. Some packages use prefixed usernames (like debian-tor), but most don't. > Or

Re: Mailbox, Mysql or Folder.

2012-11-01 Thread Jochen Spieker
[Disclaimer: I only run a mail server for mainly personal use. I have less than ten users on that system but the configuration is comparable to that of the ISPMail howto]. Muhammad Yousuf Khan: > > i am working in a small company 30 to 50 users, so which one is more > suitable for me a mailbox st

Re: Mailbox, Mysql or Folder.

2012-11-01 Thread Jochen Spieker
Jochen Spieker: > > For 50 users, I recommend to use Maildirs and make sure Dovecot's LDS is ^^^ Whoops. What I meant to write was "LDA". Not LSD and most definitely not LDS. :) J. -- I feel yawning holl

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