On Fri 18 Feb 2022 at 09:15:50 (-0800), Gene Heskett wrote: > Two problems: > > terminals went funkity late tuesday, spent Wed-Thu trying to reboot, would > not go beyond the 15 second mark rebooting. Finally ran the net installer in > rescue mode, copied my 122gb /home dir, on a 1.9T raid10 to a different drive > and reinstalled, then copied it back, but kmail refuses to use the copied > back data so I'm using FF to post this.
No idea what funkity means, nor what is significant about 15 seconds when booting. I have systems that boot in <3.5 seconds and other that take nearly a minute. Nor am I sure what's special about /home with respect to booting — it should have no role. > I also need to get totally, absolutely rid of brltty, its driving me berzerk > with its incessant muttering in a voice as bandwidth limited, or worse, than > a cell phone. Understandable maybe 5% of the time. I purposely did NOT even > visit those pieces of the installer for fear it would be enabled, because > even though killed by removing brltty in the previous install, 90% of the > syslog was errors because it couldn't use brltty. But I got it anyway. So > how do it get rid of it without it tearing down the system with its copius > error screaming? Um, perhaps https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/05/msg01001.html Cheers, David.
