Stretch is the code name of Debian 9.0 release expected in the mid of 2017
Questions tagged [debian-stretch]
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Postfix myhostname suggestion has trailing '.' Where is the bug? In dhclient, postfix or where?
After a minimal debian stretch installation using (debian-9.8.0-amd64-netinst.iso), where hostname is left at the default debian and domain was left empty, installing postfix fails because the detected fully qualified hostname contains a trailing .…

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Building a DRDB secondary - DM seems to keep grabbing the device?
I am trying to rebuild a DRDB secondary on a new Debian Stretch server that I could never successfully make primary. /proc/drbd always reports the secondary as Diskless after a reboot. The drbd devices actually contains a lvm vg called "dr" which…

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Lost connection to the server after adding new bridge to network configuration
In a Proxmox server (Debian), I changed my network config from this:
source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto enp0s31f6
iface enp0s31f6 inet static
address 88.99.69.241
netmask 255.255.255.192
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Certificate hasn't got a known issuer
The TLS (SSL) certificate on one of my site expired yesterday. I obtained a new one - and installed it on the site (running on Debian 9 under nginx). Now when I access the site from a windows or mac, the certificate is processed correctly and…

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How to investigate which docker container is causing swap to my system?
In a Debian 9 Stretch with docker 19.03.1
I'm using 6 containers and I observe swapping of 125Mo while memory usage never exceed 10% of total. ( usually around 500Mo / 16Go ).
for file in /proc/*/status ; do awk '/VmSwap|Name/{printf $2 " " $3}END{…

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After a Debian 9.9 upgrade my server doesn't boot because of the disks in fstab
After a Debian 9.9 upgrade I restarted the server to load the new kernel image, Debian 4.9.168-1+deb9u5 (2019-08-11) x86_64 GNU/Linux, and it didn't boot anymore.
The server has 4 ssd disks, the main one loads the operating system and mounts…

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Why is Debian 9 switching active nics on reboot?
I have been using Debian for years in a production environment. Installations changing from Jessy to Stretch I have noticed that now the NIC's take on non traditional names. They are no longer eth0, eth1, etc. I get that and can live with that.…

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How stable is the version number for packages in Debian backports?
I wish to use a newer version of a package than is available in the current stable Debian distribution.
An alternative to installing from source (or a package made from source) is to use Debian backports.
How often does the version of a package on…

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Apache can't find directories in symlinked '/var'
I have the following directories, where /data is the mount point for a data partition, and /var is a symlink:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Nov 20 13:25 /var -> /data/var
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Nov 20 23:41 /var/lock -> /run/lock
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root…

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When to uncomment server root in apache configuration?
I had a server upgraded from Debian 8 to Debian 9 and there are some odd or different behaviors relating to the hosted website and applications.
I'm going through and looking at various config files and the differences between them before and after…

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Upgrade from Wheezy to Stretch now reports itself as sid?
On one of our servers, I tried to install Python 3.7.1 from source. The compile failed because of dependency problems. So, I thought: "Oh, it's still Debian 8. I'll upgrade to 9, and try again."
I followed this guide, which I have used over and over…

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Cannot load phpmyadmin with apache2
Running Debian Stretch 9.5 with apache2. After upgrading from Debian 8, I can no longer access phpmyadmin from http://localhost/phpmyadmin. I get a page not found error. Everything looks good on the apache config side:
apache2.conf contains…

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`journalctl -f -m` does not interleave remote and local
I currently have a 2-server setup (3 servers in total, one still to be configured for this) with one server using systemd-journal-remote (.socket & .service) to collect all log entries from the other machine, which uploads with…

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Another app is currently holding the xtables lock
I've been using a bash shell script to set complex iptables rules for years. However, on Debian Stretch when I tried to use a script, it became sluggish and left iptables in a bad state.
When I tried to do an iptables -L -v it came back with an…

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Apt pinning returns error message about package headers
I have a server running Debian Stretch that I need to install PHP 7.1 on, which isn't available in the default repositories of Stretch, but in Testing aka Buster. I tried to use apt pinning to add the Buster repositories with a lower priority, so…

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