libera/#devuan/ Monday, 2020-08-31

systemdleteThere's been a change in postfix from ascii to beowulf.  The same configuration no longer works in beowulf.  I'd prefer not to have to completely reconfigure what was working fine before.  A web poster stated that it was due to (changes in?) cyrus sasl.  Istr there was a similar issue in another distro, but I don't recall what I had to change to get it working again.00:44
systemdleteBTW, for some reason, I had to disable ipv6 in postfix on beowulf.  That might just be due to my not having a completely deployed ipv6 network here.  But even after that, I am getting error when I send mail in the postfix mail log  "SASL authentication failed; cannot authenticate to server smtp.gmail.com[173.194.205.109]: invalid parameter supplied"00:48
systemdleteAgain, this still works fine with postfix on Ascii.00:48
golinuxProblems like this are why I'm still on jessie00:50
gnarfacesystemdlete: vaguely i recall an issue with the key format change, maybe you just need to regenerate your keys with the new tool version or something00:50
gnarfacesystemdlete: although my google searches suggest this error could also be caused by your ISP blocking port 2500:51
gnarfacesystemdlete: (blocking port 25 *outbound*)00:51
systemdleteI'm talking to port 46500:53
gnarfacesystemdlete: yikes.  another search suggests the same error could be caused by your password being changed at the remote end too.  this issue might be generic or it might be gmail specific.00:53
systemdleteI can send mail from ascii to the same mail server at gmail.00:53
systemdleteNow, the key format change... I'll look at that, thanks.00:53
gnarfacesystemdlete: digging into the search results like grabbing for a raffle ticket i also have this one simple possible fix for you:  try adding "smtp_sasl_mechanism_filter = login" to the main.cf00:54
gnarfacesystemdlete: (sorry, never actually used postfix myself)00:54
systemdletenp,00:54
gnarfacesystemdlete: (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1575424)00:55
gnarfacesystemdlete: i'm not sure if that's related either, this looks like an unfortunately common type of failure, so the search results are just bombed with it00:55
systemdleteI can use plain password from ascii, so I'd think that would still work on beowulf.00:55
systemdlete(yes, I noticed that also)00:56
systemdlete(amazing how it has NOT been CLEARLY addressed anywhere.)00:56
systemdlete(somewhere, an email consultant is making a fortune)00:56
systemdleteBrilliant!   That worked.  thanks gnarface.01:00
systemdleteI guess if I had kept on poking through the zillions of search hits, I would have eventually found it.  I appreciate your much sharper eyes.01:00
systemdleteI did see hits where someone reported that their mail log said "no mechanism found" or something like that.  But that is not the same as the error I was having, so I dismissed it.01:01
* Xenguy loves it when a plan comes together ...01:02
* systemdlete hates it when he just didn't observe carefully enough01:02
* systemdlete goes back to what he was doing01:02
* systemdlete thinks, what was he doing before that... 01:03
systemdleteoh, right.01:03
gnarfacesystemdlete: no problem.  the key for me was recognizing that the suffix of the error "invalid parameter supplied" was the more relevant clue01:09
gnarfacesystemdlete: (since it appears that cyrus-sasl has a long history of choking on everything)01:10
gnarfacesystemdlete: (i can't even guess who to blame this on)01:10
systemdletecyrus-systemd ?01:10
gnarfacehehe, no idea01:10
systemdletethanks many times over, gnarface.  I am trying harder and harder to figure stuff out on my own and doing more thorough research01:11
systemdleteBut I still fail it seems.  I guess I'll get better.01:11
gnarfaceeveryone needs a second pair of eyes from time to time, the human visual cortex uses a lossy compression mechanism01:15
gnarfaceyou have some control over it, but it's mostly subconscious so it can be slippery01:18
gnarfacebut you definitely don't want to encourage it :)01:18
danuanhaving random slow speed problems with apt-get update upgrade dist-upgrade03:51
XenguyUse 'deb', not 'pkgmaster' ?03:51
danuancan go from 3meg a sec to 80kb 20 kb a sec mid upgrade03:51
danuani can cancel that upgrade go and install just a few pacages and it goes back up to 3 meg a sec03:52
danuanyes deb03:52
XenguyBad deb, bad03:52
XenguyI think I had a bad deb today as well03:53
danuanand at same time when it gets slow i can  edit apt/sources.lit and switch to tor and it still goes slow03:53
XenguyPackages not found, or something03:53
danuanswitching to pkgmaster  , same thing03:55
danuan80 to 20 kb a sec03:55
danuanmust be my isp throttling , but why so randomly back and forth , and how in a heck they know to throttle tor at same time when i never used it.03:56
danuanand going anywhere else like youtube or speedtests it back as normal 3-5 meg a sec03:57
XenguyHuh, that's weird04:03
XenguyIf you use 'mtr', maybe worth a check?04:04
danuanmtr ?04:04
XenguyIt's a great networking utility that uses traceroute and pings to, er, do a tracetroute : -)04:04
danuantraceroute to deb.devuan.org ?04:05
XenguyOr wherever things are slow04:06
XenguyMight give additional info, or not04:06
danuanyea last 10 ips do not resolve , just ***04:06
XenguyHuh, interesting04:06
danuanbut hops before that are all fast sub 100ms04:07
XenguySo some kind of undetermined routing issue perhaps04:07
danuanand pings to deb.devuan.org are also sub 100ms04:07
XenguySounds like deb is the better option at the moment04:08
danuani am also still on ipv4 , disabled ipv6 on all internal routers as up to now i had no need for it04:09
danuanmight need to start  ipv604:09
XenguyI don't speak IPv6 yet either04:09
danuanany other sources beside deb and pkgmaster or tor i can try when things slowdown ? besides out of the country , but thats also an option to test04:11
yanmaanidanuan: the internet has been having problems today, you may want to try again tomorrow04:23
danuanthis is ongoing for a while , for me atleast04:23
gnarfacedanuan: the international cross-connects seem to be the issue last i checked04:28
gnarfacedanuan: specifically the ones between the US and the UK04:28
gnarfacedanuan: dunno what's up, but it varies wildly04:28
gnarfacedanuan: though, you're also using comcast04:29
gnarfacedanuan: traceroute hops don't have to resolve to work, but they do have to work.  try with reverse-lookups disabled and tcp mode enabled04:30
gnarfacedanuan: (then note any hops with abnormally high latency)04:31
gnarfacedanuan: the only official mirrors are the ones in the deb.devuan.org round-robin.  we could use a US one badly...04:32
danuanwait , if one comp ping resolves deb.devuan.org to mirrors.dotsrc.org and another to megnum.packet-dain.de04:41
danuancan that cause weird things midstream if an upgrade and just jump around different hosts ?04:42
danuanand .de would imply i am going overseas ?04:44
gnarfacedanuan: first question: no - second question: yes04:47
gnarfacedanuan: well, as to the first question, the mirrors should be all identical in theory.  in practice, they may fall out of sync sometimes, but when that happens just retry04:47
danuanbut drastic speed changes during dist-upgrade  start with 3 4 meg a sec and all of a sudden go to 80 - 20 kb a sec04:48
gnarfaceyea, it's brutal.  if you have to do multiple machines, use a caching proxy04:49
gnarfaceat first it was bad for me, then it was doing alright for a while, now recently it's gotten bad again04:50
gnarfacefor the most part it's particular to people in the US04:50
danuanbut why would tor do the same thing , should it not avoid same paths or protocols atleast ? i am puzzled04:51
gnarfacewell, i don't recall tor being known for speed04:52
gnarfacehowever that part you can as likely blame on comcast04:52
gnarfacethey have a history of throttling04:52
gnarfacethey have a history of lying about it too04:52
danuanbut so selectevely , only affecting my devuan upgrades while keeping everything else up to speed , dang04:53
gnarfacewell something like youtube, they can readily access through clusters likely local to the data centers their own servers are in04:54
gnarfaceyoutube can afford to put local servers all over the place04:54
gnarfaceand comcast can afford to look good by giving preference to that bandwidth04:54
gnarfacecheaper for them, faster for you04:55
danuani see04:55
gnarfacetargets the broadest demographic04:56
danuanfast porn but slow devuan04:56
gnarfaceonly power users notice they're cheapskates04:56
gnarfacebut we don't know for sure whether at this moment the issue is comcast or the international peering04:57
gnarfaceboth, unfortunately for you, have a history of bottlenecks04:57
gnarfacesome traceroutes and educated guessing can pretty easily narrow down the actual appropriate entity to focus blame on, but i don't know what else that will profit you04:58
gnarfaceif it's comcast throttling, sometimes it's dumb and you can just change ports04:58
danuanam i looking for slow response en route  or dropped packets ?04:59
gnarfaceeither, both04:59
danuanthanx05:00
gnarfacetraceroute -n -T05:00
gnarface(try it with and without -T)05:01
gnarface(some hops may only respond to one or the other)05:01
danuani will during next upgrades , as to catch the right mirror i am being sent to at the time05:01
gnarfacealso, if the middle hops of the route change a lot when you run it repeatedly, that could be a sign something is wrong out there05:02
danuangnarface  , it seems that whenever i am sent to germany things get slow05:29
danuan-n without -T  for traceroute does not show last 10 hops, * * *05:29
danuanwith -T a few drops but otherwise fast response05:30
danuanwould it be wise to hardcode the fast mirrors that i get sent to when doing apt-get to sources.list ?05:35
danuanlike infinitegrid.org seems closer then germany and fast05:36
danuanyea it switches to mirror.checkdomain.de and speed drops05:46
danuanmidupgrade05:46
gnarfacedanuan: i dunno really but i know that other people have chosen that approach08:01
gnarfacedanuan: you wouldn't be the first08:02
CAPTCHA_REQUIREDhow do I install devuan on ppc64be or ppc64le?11:07
r3bootdownload the iso for ppc64le and do the install11:17
crashoverridehey guys15:07
crashoverrideis openrc mature in beowulf?15:08
crashoverrideor is it still only partial?15:08
fsmithredit uses sysvinit scripts15:08
crashoverrideok15:08
crashoverridegracefully?15:08
fsmithredcheck discussions at the forum15:08
fsmithredyeah, it works15:08
crashoverrideok, hopefully it won't have regressions15:09
crashoverridethanks!15:09
crashoverride:)15:09
xrogaannetbase 6.1 is supposed to be in the backports, but I can't find it through devuan's apt. It's a blocker to the upgrade of iptables.17:18
xrogaanAnybody has the same issue?17:18
fsmithredyeah, I see that it's not in devuan backports17:26
fsmithredbut is in buster-backports17:26
fsmithredI meant beowulf-backports17:26
xinomiloit was added in debian buster-backports in 28/817:26
fsmithredfor devuan17:26
xrogaanmaybe restate whatever you meant? ^^17:51
fsmithredwho restate? We are looking into the problem.17:55
fsmithredamprolla needs a kick17:55
fsmithredxrogaan, all better:      6.1~bpo10+1 10018:43
fsmithred        100 http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged beowulf-backports/main amd64 Package18:43
fsmithredmight take up to a couple hours to propagate to mirrors18:44
xrogaanthanks18:44
fsmithredthanks for letting us know18:45
boardchess123hello19:42
systemdleteIs there a simple way to find out what changed in one or more packages before upgrading?  Does aptitude do this?20:58
gnarfaceother than consulting the changelog i don't know of anything that doesn21:01
gnarfacethat doesn't require manually downloading the package21:01
systemdleteI wonder if I can script it, calling apt-file, or some way like that21:02
gnarfaceit would be doable21:02
systemdleteI may embark on such an endeavor.21:02
gnarfaceapt-file wouldn't be enough to detect all changes though i don't think21:02
gnarfaceyou also have to examine the bundling/unbundling scripts21:03
gnarface(some files aren't actually in the archive, but are rather created on the fly by the package's preinst/postinst scripts)21:03
systemdleteThanks again for the postfix help.  I actually started reading the millions of options available in postfix.  I think one could easily make a living as a postfix SME.21:03
gnarfacelikely21:04
gnarfaceanyway, no problem21:04
systemdletegnarface:  Really, all I want to know is what, generally, the intention of the package upgrade was intended.21:04
gnarfaceoh, well the changelog is probably sufficient then21:04
systemdleteright.21:04
gnarfacepackages.debian.org should be plumb-able for all the info you need21:05
user282069update-alternatives for gcc won't let me change to gcc-21:05
gnarfaceat least for most the packages21:05
user282069gcc-8; pardon21:05
gnarfacei dunno about that but there might be some conflicts between gcc8 and later versions that is sabotaging things21:05
systemdleteThe reason is that I might not want to go through the trouble of, say, rebooting for a new kernel if the change is not urgent.  OTOH, if I see a bugfix for something I've been waiting for, I might not want to waste one more minute.21:05
gnarfacei do recall having to recently purge parts of gcc8 to make room for gcc-9 or gcc-10 on ceres21:06
gnarfacebut yea the changelogs are for that21:07
gnarfaceit's not very useful when they just put "new upstream release" as the reason for the change but when it's a CVE they usually include the number21:07
user282069any idea why with gcc8 installed;;;; i read ::::   There is only one alternative in link group gcc (providing /usr/bin/gcc): /usr/bin/gcc-721:07
user282069Nothing to configure21:07
gnarfaceuser282069: just the vague notion it might be a conflict between two adjacent gcc versions like i was just describing above21:08
user282069thank you very much gnarface // sorry to have been repetitive there. yes it's a neat coincidence21:09
gnarfaceuser282069: but gcc is spread out across dozens of packages so maybe you're just missing some or have mismatched versions (like half of one version and half of the other installed)21:09
user282069ah anything is helpful. thank you very much for the clues.21:09
user282069i think i tried to build it intoxicated one night o_021:09
gnarfacedpkg -S /usr/bin/gcc*21:10
gnarfacewhat does this tell you?21:10
user282069http://ix.io/2vOr21:11
gnarfacesorry, if you want me to actually look at the paste use paste.debian.net21:11
gnarfacei was more asking in general form though21:11
user282069yes of course no problem. thank you21:11
gnarfacedoes it only show you gcc-7 or do you see dozens of versions?21:12
user282069it lists gcc 5 6 7 8 and -ar and -nm -ranlib21:12
gnarfaceok, expected21:12
gnarfacedpkg -S '/usr/bin/gcc-?'21:12
gnarfacehow about this one?21:12
gnarfaceit should be more specific21:12
gnarfaceis it only showing /usr/bin/gcc-7?21:13
user2820694 versions where they should be21:13
gnarfacehmmm, but update-alternatives doesn't see em?21:13
user282069order is 6 7 5 821:13
gnarfacethat's weird, i wonder if it's an issue with your alternatives21:13
gnarfaceis this beowulf?21:13
user282069yes21:13
gnarfaceare you fully upgraded?21:13
user282069this afternoon anyway ye21:13
gnarfacehmmm.21:13
gnarfacewhat does your sources.list look like, maybe i should sanity check it21:14
gnarface?21:14
gnarfacethe hostnames should be deb.devuan.org now, people have had problems using the old hostnames and getting outdated responses21:14
gnarfacebeowulf should be pretty stable so this issue suggests an incomplete upgrade or a dependency corruption or something like that21:15
user282069pkgmaster beowulf only;; main non-free contrib21:16
gnarfacehmm21:16
gnarfacewhat about beowulf-security and beowulf-updates?21:16
user282069yes i think i screwed it trying to build myself up a c++17 while on ascii21:16
user282069yes but no backports21:16
gnarfacehmm, if you have custom-built packages from ascii they could be the culprit21:16
gnarfacecan you uninstall them to try to see if they're blocking legitimate beowulf packages?21:17
gnarfaceyour custom package may need a rebuild for beowulf21:17
user282069that's right;; is there any apt or dpkg magic to help me out here21:18
user282069im not sure what it would be;; i had ascii a long time21:18
gnarfacehmm.  well when you try to upgrade with "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" i would expect it to complain right away21:18
gnarfacei would expect it to tell you which packages were in conflict21:19
user282069and thank you again for showing me around devuan tonight o/ it's a pleasure21:19
gnarfaceusually it's just a dumb version check issue21:19
user282069yes i have my upgrade notes still i think. it took 3-5 attempts but did finish cleanly21:19
gnarfaceif something went wrong with the pre/post install/uninstall package scripts the damage may be easier to repair with a reinstall, it kinda just depends how far off the rails you went21:24
gnarfacethere's a wide range of possibilities but very little direct evidence so far21:24
gnarfaceif the upgrade really completed correctly it could be as simple as something got automatically removed without being automatically replaced, that you need to manually reinstall the beowulf version of21:28
gnarfaceit's easier to catch that in advance than after the fact, it'll tell you ahead of time what it's going to remove21:29
gnarfacei do see gcc7 stuff in beowulf still, but it may be picky about it being the right version21:33
gnarfacespecifically 7.4.021:33
user282069http://paste.debian.net/hidden/a3cabb21/ my dist-upgrade notes; newest at top i think21:35
user282069nothing stands out :: seemed to finish fine. hrm. maybe i find info on the bad GCC build attempt21:37
gnarfaceuser282069: the dkms failure seems kinda bad actaully, i'm surprised it still booted21:38
gnarfaceuser282069: did you ever circle back to make it rebuild the initrd.img correctly?21:39
gnarfaceuser282069: i don't see how that could be causing the gcc issue, but it also seems like it would have definitely left something broken21:40
gnarfaceuser282069: also, packages refusing to disappear after being purged seems like a problem too21:41
gnarfaceuser282069: (usually that doesn't happen with orphaned packages unless something very bad happened during the install)21:41
gnarfaceuser282069: do you have a live image handy you can boot from for repairs?21:42
gnarfaceuser282069: or wait, has this not actually even been rebooted since the upgrade?21:48
tom_Has anyone here successfully installed mariadb 10.5 on beowulf?22:28
tom_i get this error22:28
tom_dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/mariadb-server-10.5_1%3a10.5.5+maria~buster_amd64.deb (--unpack):22:28
tom_ new mariadb-server-10.5 package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 122:28
tom_not sure what's going on22:28
tom_oh22:29
tom_nervermind22:29
onefangsystemdlete: There's already a package that will list the changelogs before asking you if you want to go ahead with the update, then will email them to you.  apt-lishchanges.  apt-listbugs might be useful for you a well.22:32
onefangWarning kernel changelogs tend to be huge.22:33
systemdleteapt-lishchanges, or apt-listchanges?  :D22:33
mason"apt changelog" too22:33
masonfor a manual approach22:33
onefangThe second one, I just woke up.  lol22:33
masonapt-lishchanges is after you've been drinking for a while - it disables root for a few hours proactively22:34
onefanglol22:34
systemdleteputs your system into a sort-of "promiscuous" state?22:35
systemdleteapt-listchanges: APT_HOOK_INFO_FD environment variable is not defined22:36
systemdlete(is Dpkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges::InfoFD set to 20?)22:36
xinomiloalso, `apt changelog package`22:36
masonThat's not supposed to happen. Does "apt changelog" work for you?22:37
systemdlete# apt changelog22:37
systemdleteE: Handler silently failed22:37
systemdlete:(22:37
systemdletesorry guys22:37
masongot to give it a package name22:37
systemdlete(be nice if it indicated that... ok, let me try)22:37
xinomiloapt changelog linux-image-amd6422:37
xinomiloeg22:37
systemdleteI tried apt changelog host (which is one of the pkgs it says is upgradeable)22:38
systemdleteE: Failed to fetch changelog:/bind9.changelog  Changelog unavailable for bind9=1:9.10.3.dfsg.P4-12.3+deb9u722:38
systemdlete:( again22:38
masontry "apt changelog bash" so you can see what it ought to look like22:39
systemdleteDo I need apt-changelog-systemd?22:39
masonNah, it works here, you just need something with a changelog published.22:39
systemdleteAll I want is the change for the update/upgrade.  I don't want the entire history (though that may be useful in other contexts)22:40
systemdleteSo if a pkg doesn't publish a changelog, it breaks the tool?  What am I missing here?22:41
systemdletebtw, mason, xinomilo, onefang: I am on ascii where I have this issue.  Haven't tried it on beowulf yet.22:42
systemdlete(one calamity at a time)22:42
onefangI've not tried apt changelog, but apt-listchanges has always worked for me, even if there is- missing changelogs  I'm also an ASCII..22:43
onefangAnd I still need to finish waking up and learn to type.  lol22:43
masonsystemdlete: Ah, only tried it on Beowulf here. I don't have any ASCII lingering.22:44
user282069gnarface: i've rebooted yes. that's a handy idea re: the live image.22:44
systemdlete onefang:  "apt-listchanges --apt host" gives me  the error22:47
systemdlete"apt-listchanges host" tells me that the pkg doesn't have a .deb extension22:48
systemdleteI wonder if I need a perl module that somehow did not get installed?22:48
onefangIt works when you do an apt update.22:48
systemdleteI've done the update, but I can do it again...22:48
systemdletesame22:49
onefangIf there's nothing to update, there's no changelogs to show.22:49
systemdleteapt list --upgradeable shows me a list of a dozen or more updates22:51
systemdleteI'm upgrading anyway.22:53
systemdleteforget it.  I'll try this on beowulf when I have a chance22:54

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