Re: Upgrading with a low data cap

[Curt]

On 2018-10-09, Gene Heskett  wrote:
>>
>> It's about time some invented a WiFi device which plugs into a USB
>> port.
>
> Not needed, you can buy such a dongle from netgear for at least half a 
> decade or longer. I was out of ports on the 4 port in the shop, so I  

I interpreted B's comment as pure snark of the variety inspired by
Richard's old-school and sometimes purely fictional and/or volitional
and/or self-imposed constraints. But maybe you're right, and the guy's
(B) been living in a closet for the last decade or so with the brooms
and the mops.

-- 
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was just that she always stood out against her attire, that her dress could
never be noticeable on her." Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 

Re: Upgrading with a low data cap

[Tixy]

On Mon, 2018-10-08 at 10:20 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> On Mon 08 Oct 2018 at 06:59:15 (+0100), Tixy wrote:
> > On Sun, 2018-10-07 at 20:08 -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > [...]
> > > If you're impatient and want to copy files to the stick during
> > > installation, note that (last time I looked) cp has no -n switch
> > > at this time.
> > 
> > $ man cp | grep -C1 '\-n,'
> > 
> >    -n, --no-clobber
> >   do not overwrite an existing file (overrides a
> > previous -i option)
> 
> You're on the wrong man page. You need to read   man busybox.
> (I haven't checked how much of stretch's busybox is in d-i's busybox;
> perhaps all, perhaps not.)

Ahh, I wasn't paying enough attention to realise we were talking about
the installer.

You could get the same effect of "cp -n" with "yes n | cp -i".

-- 
Tixy

Re: something wrong with audio

[Michael Lange]

Hi,

On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 12:33:11 + (UTC)
Curt  wrote:

(...)
> Actually that would be '/dev/snd*' not '/dev/dsp' (the latter being the
> old, obsolete oss sound device from way back when, which I doubt would
> exist on Stretch at all).

/dev/dsp surely exists in case the snd-pcm-oss driver module is loaded.

Regards

Michael


.-.. .. ...- .   .-.. --- -. --.   .- -. -..   .--. .-. --- ... .--. . .-.

I object to intellect without discipline;  I object to power without
constructive purpose.
-- Spock, "The Squire of Gothos", stardate 2124.5

DRBD sync speed

[Adam Weremczuk]

Hi all,

I'm trying out DRBD Pacemaker HA Cluster on Debian 9.5

I have 2 identical servers connected with 2 x 1 Gbps links in bond_mode 
balance-rr.


The bond is working fine; I get a transfer rate of 150 MB/s with scp.

Following this guide: 
https://www.theurbanpenguin.com/drbd-pacemaker-ha-cluster-ubuntu-16-04/ 
was going  smoothly up until:


drbdadm -- --overwrite-data-of-peer primary r0/0

cat /proc/drbd
version: 8.4.10 (api:1/proto:86-101)
srcversion: 17A0C3A0AF9492ED4B9A418
 0: cs:SyncSource ro:Primary/Secondary ds:UpToDate/Inconsistent C r-
    ns:10944 nr:0 dw:0 dr:10992 al:8 bm:0 lo:0 pe:0 ua:0 ap:0 ep:1 wo:f 
oos:3898301536

    [>] sync'ed:  0.1% (3806932/3806944)M
    finish: 483:25:13 speed: 2,188 (2,188) K/sec

The transfer rate is horribly slow and at this pace it's going to take 
20 days for two 4 TB volumes to sync!


That's almost 15 times slower comparing with the guide video (8:30): 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQGi8Nf0kVc


The volumes have been zeroed and contain no live data yet.

My sdb disks are logical drives (hardware RAID) set up as RAID50 with 
the defaults:


Strip size: 128 KB
Access policy: RW
Read policy: Normal
Write policy: Write Back with BBU
IO policy: Direct
Drive Cache: Disable
Disable BGI: No

Performance looks good when tested with hdparm:

hdparm -tT /dev/sdb1

/dev/sdb1:
 Timing cached reads:   15056 MB in  1.99 seconds = 7550.46 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads: 2100 MB in  3.00 seconds = 699.81 MB/sec

The volumes have been zeroed and contain no live data yet.

Any idea why the sync rate is so painfully slow and how to improve it?

Regards,
Adam

Re: something wrong with audio

[Curt]

On 2018-10-10, Michael Lange  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 12:33:11 + (UTC)
> Curt  wrote:
>
> (...)
>> Actually that would be '/dev/snd*' not '/dev/dsp' (the latter being the
>> old, obsolete oss sound device from way back when, which I doubt would
>> exist on Stretch at all).
>
> /dev/dsp surely exists in case the snd-pcm-oss driver module is loaded.

In this very case, in fact, according to the OP's lsmod list, so, right.

Of course, at the same time we are obliged to note gandering at his
module list that he's loading Alsa modules, too.

IOW he'd loading both oss and Alsa modules simultaneously (I think
I'm repeating myself).

https://wiki.debian.org/ALSA#ALSA_and_OSS

 If you don't unload all OSS modules then ALSA modules will not be able
 to initialise (or work properly) because the OSS driver will be futzing
 with the sound hardware that the ALSA driver needs to control. If you
 see a message about "sound card not detected" and you are sure you have
 the right ALSA driver, the presence of an OSS module could be the
 reason.

Maybe this, as they say in French, explains that. Or maybe not. I dunno.

But the OP has moved on to greener pastures, so I guess we won't ever know.

> Regards
>
> Michael
>
>
> .-.. .. ...- .   .-.. --- -. --.   .- -. -..   .--. .-. --- ... .--. . .-.
>
> I object to intellect without discipline;  I object to power without
> constructive purpose.
>   -- Spock, "The Squire of Gothos", stardate 2124.5
>
>


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was just that she always stood out against her attire, that her dress could
never be noticeable on her." Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 

Re: something wrong with audio

[Martin McCormick]

Michael Lange  writes:
> Hi,
> 

> > Actually that would be '/dev/snd*' not '/dev/dsp' (the latter being the
> > old, obsolete oss sound device from way back when, which I doubt would
> > exist on Stretch at all).
> 
> /dev/dsp surely exists in case the snd-pcm-oss driver module is loaded.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
> .-.. .. ...- .   .-.. --- -. --.   .- -. -..   .--. .-. --- ... .--. . .-.

--. --- --- -.. .- -.. ...- .. -.-. . .-.-.-

Sometimes I am amazed at what I miss and it's right under
my nose.  I am running Debian stretch with mostly no problems so
I looked for /dev/snd and there it is and it is a directory.

I also have /dev/dsp on this system because 
snd-pcm-oss driver module is also loaded.  The reason is a long
story but the old and new systems seem to coexist without
trouble.

Some years ago, I wrote some sound applications in gcc
that use /dev/dsp or /dev/dspx depending on the number of your
sound device and I made the mistake of using ancient examples of
how to code access to /dev/dsp devices such as the ioctl commands
to set whether one wants stereo, mono and what sampling rate to
use.

I off-handedly wondered where the sound stuff went but
figured it was in /dev somewhere but wasn't forced to look yet.

I don't know how I missed /dev/snd but I kept looking for
anything with pcm or dsp so, of course, never found it that way.

Thanks!  Yes, I am my version of awake.

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ

Re: Upgrading with a low data cap

[Alexandre Rossi]

Hi,

> Something just brought to mind apt-offline. The introductory paragraph
> in the man page states:
>
> apt-offline brings offline package management functionality to Debian
> based system. It can be used to download packages and its dependencies
> to be installed later on (or required to update) a disconnected machine.
> Packages can be downloaded from a different connected machine.
>
> Don't know how suitable it would be FOR ME. However studying its use may
> prompt questions &/or answers I haven't thought about.

>From looking at the source[1], apt-offline seems to be looking in the
local cache first before fetching files from the Web.

[1] 
https://github.com/rickysarraf/apt-offline/blob/master/apt_offline_core/AptOfflineCoreLib.py#L1231

Alex

первый запуск Debian 9, не вводится пароль. ("Please unlock disk sda5_crypt:" )

[Павел Иванович]

1)клавиатура - genius K641. (ps/2)
2)твёрдотельник -  256 Gb Apacer SATA 3.
3)с помощью "Win32 disk imager" создал загрузочную флэшку.
4)устанавливался "Debian 9" долго.
5)после запуска Debian 9 пишет "Please unlock disk sda5_crypt:"
6)ввёл три пароля которые просил при установке, ни на один не откликнулся
7)и при вводе символов с клавиатуры они не видны, думал так и нужно, где-то 
встречал подобный ввод пароля. 
8)Debian 9 устанавливал с LVM.
9)десяток форумов облазил, не нашёл что с клавоиаутрой делать.
10)клавиатура работала во время установки

вопрос - может есть какое сочетание клавиш для возможности ввода пароля? или 
другое решение проблемы?

--- 
С уважением.

Re: первый запуск Debian 9, не вводится пароль. ("Please unlock disk sda5_crypt:" )

[tomas]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 09:46:51PM +0900, Павел Иванович wrote:

Sorry. I guess very few people speak Russian here. You might want
to try:

  debian-russ...@lists.debian.org
  https://lists.debian.org/debian-russian/

Cheers
-- tomás


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Re: Upgrading with a low data cap

[rhkramer]

On Tuesday, October 09, 2018 04:01:49 PM Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 October 2018 12:20:25 Brian wrote:
> > It's about time some invented a WiFi device which plugs into a USB
> > port.
> 
> Not needed, you can buy such a dongle from netgear for at least half a
> decade or longer. I was out of ports on the 4 port in the shop, so I
> bought one, moved an old router (running dd-wrt) out there and turned
> its radio on, and rigged a teeny desk for my lappy so I could ssh into
> the machines and write gcode in the comfort of a folding chair, then
> exercise it while being able to see the machine move. But I had to turn
> the radio off because it was also bridged to the main router, and thence
> to the backbone.  One of my neighbors got by the simple ssid, and used
> 80 gigs of my bandwidth one month so the radio got turned off and I now
> have it hardwired when its out there. So now the radios stay off unless
> one of my boys brings in a smartphone and needs a connection.

And that reminds me that there are also somewhat similar devices that plug 
into a USB port and provide (in my case) 4 more USB ports and one RJ-45 
Ethernet port.  I bought a couple of those on eBay (surely from the far east) 
for less than $10 each a few years ago.

I use them to connect tablets without Ethernet ports to my LAN.

I suppose you could then plug the Ethernet into a WiFi adapter, but I've never 
tried that, and I'd begin to worry that some timing issue or similar might 
prevent it from working.

Re: having issue installing any package. i get 403 forbidden messsage.

[Muhammad Yousuf Khan]

Thank you for your response it probably something else i am not using *
moreover as a temporary workaroud i create a proxy on cloud where i allow
only my static IP to access the proxy. then i routed everything through
that proxy. no things are work.
however i am very very confuse that why things are not working through my
internet.
Actually i have two different internet. one in USA and one in my home
country. both servers from both datacenters are doing exactly same
could it be virus ? or something else.

On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 10:04 PM bw  wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, 3 Oct 2018, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
>
> > Dear All,
> >
> > When i try to install any package. in this case nfs-kernel-server i get
> > this error. i am using Proxmox on top of Debian 9.x. kindly advice.
> >
> >
> > *root@king:/zok/k-backup# apt install nfs-kernel-server*
> > *Reading package lists... Done*
> > *Building dependency tree   *
> > *Reading state information... Done*
>
> Here's what I get from similar command, why are you installing pkg with a
> wildcard on the end?  Are you using bash, or some other shell?
>
> # apt -s install nfs-kernel-server*
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Note, selecting 'nfs-kernel-server' for glob 'nfs-kernel-server*'
>
>

"passwd username" asks for current password of user even tho I'm root

[Mariusz Gronczewski]

Hi,

On previous releases, and on our CentOS systems I could change password of user 
by just sudo-ing to root and typing "passwd testuser"

In current Debian release, doing that asks me to specify that user password, 
which is pointless because:

* I can access /etc/shadow anyway
* I'm changing it because user forgot it

Is there any way to set passwd (or PAM) to not ask root for current password on 
passwd-ing non-root accounts ?

Cheers

Mariusz

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Re: "passwd username" asks for current password of user even tho I'm root

[Roberto C . Sánchez]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 03:17:11PM +0200, Mariusz Gronczewski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On previous releases, and on our CentOS systems I could change password of 
> user by just sudo-ing to root and typing "passwd testuser"
> 
> In current Debian release, doing that asks me to specify that user password, 
> which is pointless because:
> 
> * I can access /etc/shadow anyway
> * I'm changing it because user forgot it
> 
> Is there any way to set passwd (or PAM) to not ask root for current password 
> on passwd-ing non-root accounts ?
> 
Is your system configured to authenticate against LDAP, Kerberos, NIS,
or Active Directory.  Those are all instances where "root is not really
root."

Regards,

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sánchez

Re: Upgrading with a low data cap

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 10 October 2018 09:58:22 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:

> On Tuesday, October 09, 2018 04:01:49 PM Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Tuesday 09 October 2018 12:20:25 Brian wrote:
> > > It's about time some invented a WiFi device which plugs into a USB
> > > port.
> >
> > Not needed, you can buy such a dongle from netgear for at least half
> > a decade or longer. I was out of ports on the 4 port in the shop, so
> > I bought one, moved an old router (running dd-wrt) out there and
> > turned its radio on, and rigged a teeny desk for my lappy so I could
> > ssh into the machines and write gcode in the comfort of a folding
> > chair, then exercise it while being able to see the machine move.
> > But I had to turn the radio off because it was also bridged to the
> > main router, and thence to the backbone.  One of my neighbors got by
> > the simple ssid, and used 80 gigs of my bandwidth one month so the
> > radio got turned off and I now have it hardwired when its out there.
> > So now the radios stay off unless one of my boys brings in a
> > smartphone and needs a connection.
>
> And that reminds me that there are also somewhat similar devices that
> plug into a USB port and provide (in my case) 4 more USB ports and one
> RJ-45 Ethernet port.  I bought a couple of those on eBay (surely from
> the far east) for less than $10 each a few years ago.
>
> I use them to connect tablets without Ethernet ports to my LAN.
>
> I suppose you could then plug the Ethernet into a WiFi adapter, but
> I've never tried that, and I'd begin to worry that some timing issue
> or similar might prevent it from working.

Thats something that one of the wifi gear makers (linksys?) has also had 
for 16 years or so. When I was playing visiting fireman at a tv station 
in the UP, (I'm a retired broadcast engineer) the motels internet was a 
router with a radio. My lappy's bcm4318 radio could not connect more 
than 15-30 seconds at a time. So the motel had little 3" square boxes 
you could ask for, plug it into the rj45 net port on my old lappy, and 
it just worked most of the time. The router needed a powerdown about 2x 
a day but mostly worked. I'd stopped this machines predecessor's suckage 
of email with fetchmail, so I could then get my email via t-bird from my 
motel room 950 miles away.  Eventually the outfit that had set the 
motel's internet up replaced the flaky router, and the last time I went 
up it just worked if I borrowed that little box.  The bcm4318 was on a 
PCMCIA card but I never found one to replace it as everybody seemed to 
think it was a $150 card. And would not let me test it in my machine. No 
sale, obviously. Now I've got some little gismo from netgear that IIRC 
cost a bit over 30 USD that plugs into the usb port adjacent to the 
rj45. No longer in use as I had to turn that routers radio off for lack 
of access security. A neighbor was using 2.5x my own net bandwidth/month 
thru it. And they might not have realized they were. I've no neighbors 
smart enough to know, or care. Probably a smartphone, which will grab 
any signal it can get. Shrug.

-- 
Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page 

Re: "passwd username" asks for current password of user even tho I'm root

[Hans]

Am Mittwoch, 10. Oktober 2018, 15:17:11 CEST schrieb Mariusz Gronczewski:
Hi,

as a normal user you should be able to change your password using "passwd 
testuser".

When you want to change an alien password,. obviously you should be root. 
Otherwise any user wopuld bve able to change anybodies password.

If you need another authoritive user for special things, add this user 
to /etc/sudoers and define the rules.

Hope I understood your problem correctly.

Best

Hans
> Hi,
> 
> On previous releases, and on our CentOS systems I could change password of
> user by just sudo-ing to root and typing "passwd testuser"
> 
> In current Debian release, doing that asks me to specify that user password,
> which is pointless because:
> 
> * I can access /etc/shadow anyway
> * I'm changing it because user forgot it
> 
> Is there any way to set passwd (or PAM) to not ask root for current password
> on passwd-ing non-root accounts ?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Mariusz
> 
> --
> Mariusz Gronczewski, Administrator
> 
> Efigence S. A.
> ul. Wołoska 9a, 02-583 Warszawa
> T: [+48] 22 380 13 13
> F: [+48] 22 380 13 14
> E: mariusz.gronczew...@efigence.com
> 

Re: первый запуск Debian 9, не вводится пароль. ("Please unlock disk sda5_crypt:" )

[Curt]

On 2018-10-10, Павел Иванович  wrote:
> 1)клавиатура - genius K641. (ps/2)
> 2)твёрдотельник -  256 Gb Apacer SATA 3.
> 3)с помощью "Win32 disk imager" создал загрузочную флэшку.
> 4)устанавливался "Debian 9" долго.
> 5)после запуска Debian 9 пишет "Please unlock disk sda5_crypt:"
> 6)ввёл три пароля которые просил при установке, ни на один не откликнулся
> 7)и при вводе символов с клавиатуры они не видны, думал так и нужно, где-то 
> встречал подобный ввод пароля. 
> 8)Debian 9 устанавливал с LVM.
> 9)десяток форумов облазил, не нашёл что с клавоиаутрой делать.
> 10)клавиатура работала во время установки
>
> вопрос - может есть какое сочетание клавиш для возможности ввода пароля? или 
> другое решение проблемы?

Дикая догадка: может быть проблема с раскладкой клавиатуры.


> --- 
> С уважением.
>
>


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was just that she always stood out against her attire, that her dress could
never be noticeable on her." Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 

Re: Upgrading with a low data cap

[David Wright]

On Wed 10 Oct 2018 at 10:52:10 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 October 2018 09:58:22 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Tuesday, October 09, 2018 04:01:49 PM Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 09 October 2018 12:20:25 Brian wrote:
> > > > It's about time some invented a WiFi device which plugs into a USB port.
> > >
> > > Not needed,

I think the remark was a sarcastic aside.

> > And that reminds me that there are also somewhat similar devices that
> > plug into a USB port and provide (in my case) 4 more USB ports and one
> > RJ-45 Ethernet port.  I bought a couple of those on eBay (surely from
> > the far east) for less than $10 each a few years ago.
> >
> > I use them to connect tablets without Ethernet ports to my LAN.

The OP has indicated awareness of such devices and has eschewed them.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/06/msg00418.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/06/msg00435.html

I have no idea how to interpret "*DOES NOT* have a _physically_
accesible Ethernet port" in

https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/10/msg00302.html

> Now I've got some little gismo from netgear that IIRC 
> cost a bit over 30 USD that plugs into the usb port adjacent to the 
> rj45. No longer in use as I had to turn that routers radio off for lack 
> of access security. A neighbor was using 2.5x my own net bandwidth/month 
> thru it. And they might not have realized they were. I've no neighbors 
> smart enough to know, or care. Probably a smartphone, which will grab 
> any signal it can get. Shrug.

Do you mean that smartphones can crack WPA2 without its owner even
being aware of the fact? (You've posted abut this incident several times.)

Cheers,
David.

Re: Upgrading with a low data cap

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 10 October 2018 11:18:46 David Wright wrote:

> On Wed 10 Oct 2018 at 10:52:10 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Wednesday 10 October 2018 09:58:22 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > On Tuesday, October 09, 2018 04:01:49 PM Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 09 October 2018 12:20:25 Brian wrote:
> > > > > It's about time some invented a WiFi device which plugs into a
> > > > > USB port.
> > > >
> > > > Not needed,
>
> I think the remark was a sarcastic aside.
>
> > > And that reminds me that there are also somewhat similar devices
> > > that plug into a USB port and provide (in my case) 4 more USB
> > > ports and one RJ-45 Ethernet port.  I bought a couple of those on
> > > eBay (surely from the far east) for less than $10 each a few years
> > > ago.
> > >
> > > I use them to connect tablets without Ethernet ports to my LAN.
>
> The OP has indicated awareness of such devices and has eschewed them.
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/06/msg00418.html
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/06/msg00435.html
>
> I have no idea how to interpret "*DOES NOT* have a _physically_
> accesible Ethernet port" in
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/10/msg00302.html
>
> > Now I've got some little gismo from netgear that IIRC
> > cost a bit over 30 USD that plugs into the usb port adjacent to the
> > rj45. No longer in use as I had to turn that routers radio off for
> > lack of access security. A neighbor was using 2.5x my own net
> > bandwidth/month thru it. And they might not have realized they were.
> > I've no neighbors smart enough to know, or care. Probably a
> > smartphone, which will grab any signal it can get. Shrug.
>
> Do you mean that smartphones can crack WPA2 without its owner even
> being aware of the fact? (You've posted abut this incident several
> times.)
>
Maybe David, I could cancel that lease, and it was back by the time it 
could refresh the screen but I'll not lay my hand on the good book. That 
old router may not even have been aware of wpa2. Very little security if 
any. Old old netgear, made long before there was wifi in every neighbors 
house. Currently holding down a walmart plastic sack (from the inside) 
in the garage. Ought to have a 4 lb hammer massage before I toss it in 
the trash trailer for recycling.  Not enough memory to be reflashed with 
dd-wrt. Cannot turn the radio off, it comes back up with the next power 
bump. Worthless to me. Good only for someone a mile or more to the next 
farmhouse. This isn't that place although I can toss a clod of clay out 
of the city limits from my front yard. I think, my arm is getting tired, 
its 84 yo like the rest of me. :-[>
> Cheers,
> David.



-- 
Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
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 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
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Genes Web page 

Re: "passwd username" asks for current password of user even tho I'm root

[Andrew McGlashan]

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Hi,

On 11/10/18 00:17, Mariusz Gronczewski wrote:
> On previous releases, and on our CentOS systems I could change
> password of user by just sudo-ing to root and typing "passwd
> testuser"
> 
> In current Debian release, doing that asks me to specify that user
> password, which is pointless because:

Are you sure it is asking for the "user's" password and not just your
own to authorize sudo?

Cheers
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Re: DRBD sync speed

[Dan Ritter]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 12:38:57PM +0100, Adam Weremczuk wrote:
> I have 2 identical servers connected with 2 x 1 Gbps links in bond_mode
> balance-rr.
> 
> The bond is working fine; I get a transfer rate of 150 MB/s with scp.
> 
> cat /proc/drbd
> version: 8.4.10 (api:1/proto:86-101)
> srcversion: 17A0C3A0AF9492ED4B9A418
>  0: cs:SyncSource ro:Primary/Secondary ds:UpToDate/Inconsistent C r-
>     ns:10944 nr:0 dw:0 dr:10992 al:8 bm:0 lo:0 pe:0 ua:0 ap:0 ep:1 wo:f
> oos:3898301536
>     [>] sync'ed:  0.1% (3806932/3806944)M
>     finish: 483:25:13 speed: 2,188 (2,188) K/sec
> 
> The transfer rate is horribly slow and at this pace it's going to take 20
> days for two 4 TB volumes to sync!
> 
> The volumes have been zeroed and contain no live data yet.
> 
> My sdb disks are logical drives (hardware RAID) set up as RAID50 with the
> defaults:
> 
> Strip size: 128 KB
> Access policy: RW
> Read policy: Normal
> Write policy: Write Back with BBU
> IO policy: Direct
> Drive Cache: Disable
> Disable BGI: No
> 
> Performance looks good when tested with hdparm:
> 
> hdparm -tT /dev/sdb1
> 
> /dev/sdb1:
>  Timing cached reads:   15056 MB in  1.99 seconds = 7550.46 MB/sec
>  Timing buffered disk reads: 2100 MB in  3.00 seconds = 699.81 MB/sec
> 
> The volumes have been zeroed and contain no live data yet.
> 
> Any idea why the sync rate is so painfully slow and how to improve it?

Have you read
https://serverfault.com/questions/740311/drbd-terrible-sync-performance-on-10gige

and edited your drbd.conf to suit?

Unrelated: how is it that you decided on RAID50 for 4TB of disk space?
If it's valuable, you should be looking at RAID10. If it's not
valuable, why 50 over 6 or RAIDZ2 or 3?

-dsr-

Chromium adress bar Ctrl+Left/Right

[Andreas Ronnquist]

Hi!

Using Chromium on Debian stable (if that matters) - is there any way to
customise on what characters a Ctrl-Left and Ctrl-Right in the
adress bar stops at? As it is now, it stops on forward slash (/), but It
doesn't stop on dot (.) - which I would like it to do.

-- Andreas Rönnquist
mailingli...@gusnan.se
andr...@ronnquist.net

[Please don't CC me, if I mail to a mailinglist, I am subscribed to it.]

Re: Chromium adress bar Ctrl+Left/Right

[Sven Joachim]

On 2018-10-10 18:36 +0200, Andreas Ronnquist wrote:

> Using Chromium on Debian stable (if that matters) - is there any way to
> customise on what characters a Ctrl-Left and Ctrl-Right in the
> adress bar stops at?

I am not aware of any, but I am not a Chromium expert.

> As it is now, it stops on forward slash (/), but It
> doesn't stop on dot (.) - which I would like it to do.

At least you are not the first one to complain, see
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=384672.

Cheers,
   Sven

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

[Pétùr]

Le 08/10/2018 à 23:31, Ben Caradoc-Davies a écrit :
I have slow startup and a brief hang during initial UI layout, but only 
with Adblock Plus enabled.


Thanks for the report. I have the same behavior (and lag when creating 
new tab) but even with all the modules (including ublock) disabled.

Re: Chromium adress bar Ctrl+Left/Right

[Andreas Ronnquist]

On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 19:29:03 +0200,
Sven Joachim wrote:

>On 2018-10-10 18:36 +0200, Andreas Ronnquist wrote:
>
>> Using Chromium on Debian stable (if that matters) - is there any way
>> to customise on what characters a Ctrl-Left and Ctrl-Right in the
>> adress bar stops at?  
>
>I am not aware of any, but I am not a Chromium expert.
>
>> As it is now, it stops on forward slash (/), but It
>> doesn't stop on dot (.) - which I would like it to do.  
>
>At least you are not the first one to complain, see
>https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=384672.
>

Thanks - I have posted a comment in the upstream bug tracker - Chromium
packagers for some reason want bugs that doesn't directly is about
packaging to be reported to upstream at once.

(Posted my comment here:)
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=565022

-- Andreas Rönnquist
mailingli...@gusnan.se
andr...@ronnquist.net

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

[Sven Joachim]

On 2018-10-08 22:06 +0200, Pétùr wrote:

> Top shows several threads with high cpu usage such as :
>
>  PID USER  PR  NIVIRTRESSHR S  %CPU  %MEM TIME+
> COMMAND
>
> 12452 petur20   0 4030664   1,9g  67248 R  72,4  50,1   2:54.34
> firefox
> 12937 petur20   0 1830092 381016 156676 R  82,7   9,7   0:12.11
> Web Content
> 12503 petur20   0 1715976 216820  87436 R  81,3   5,5   0:55.60
> Web Content
> 13078 petur20   0 1454508  95080  65480 R  81,3   2,4   0:05.02
> Web Content
>
> I am using Xfce.

Try killing xfsettingsd, that helps according to
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=909818#15.

Cheers,
   Sven

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

[Pétùr]

Le 09/10/2018 à 02:04, Patrick Bartek a écrit :

First, Firefox is using 50% of your RAM.  That's way too much unless
you have very little RAM to begin with.  How much total RAM do you have?
My system has 8GB. Firefox Quantum only shows on average 3 to 4% RAM
usage even when streaming a video.



I have 8GB of RAM.


Also, check what those three "web contents" are.  I'm think THEY are the
cause of Firefox's slowness.  As I don't know what they are, I can't
hazard a guess as to what's causing the high CPU usage.  The only time
I've seen something like this is when an app has crashed into an
infinite loop of some sort.  "Kill" those one at a time and see what
happens to Firefox's CPU usage. Also, clear you cache.  Check to see if
files are being written continuously to your hard drive.


I think also these "web content" threads are the causes of my problem. 
But they appears even if I disable all modules.



FWIW, I'd purge Firefox and reinstall.  You're running Sid after all,
and all kinds of things can go wrong at any time.  Why ARE you running
Sid anyway?


I did purge and refresh (ie new profile) firefox. I don't complain for 
this bug. I use sid because I need last versions of some packages for my 
work.


Pétùr

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

[songbird]

Pétùr wrote:
...
> Are other users of sid experiencing the same behavior ?

  not that i've noticed but i only use testing most of
the time and sid/experimental only for selected items...


  songbird

Re: all files moved to lost+found

[songbird]

Pascal Hambourg wrote:
...
> The most common reason is that the swap was reformatted by another 
> installation and its UUID changed. This cannot cause filesystem corruption.

  unless the user mistakenly reversed the partitions...
swap is always reformatted if used during an installation.


  songbird

Re: Upgrading with a low data cap

[songbird]

mick crane wrote:
>songbird wrote:
... 
>>   i used to take the USB stick to the library to download
>> big packages when needing updates.  glad i haven't had to
>> do that in a while, but i still have a relatively slow
>> connection (about 10M/minute) compared to many, but it's
>> much better than dialup.
>
> think I did that once to build Scribus, tracking down the dependencies 
> was a nightmare.

  i would generate a list of files via apt-get and
then take that with me so all i had to do was edit a
file and copy and past the paths to download each file.

  wasn't pleasant, but it did work.


  songbird

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

[Dan Ritter]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 09:59:00PM +0200, Pétùr wrote:
> Le 09/10/2018 à 02:04, Patrick Bartek a écrit :
> > First, Firefox is using 50% of your RAM.  That's way too much unless
> > you have very little RAM to begin with.  How much total RAM do you have?
> > My system has 8GB. Firefox Quantum only shows on average 3 to 4% RAM
> > usage even when streaming a video.
> 
> 
> I have 8GB of RAM.
> 
> > Also, check what those three "web contents" are.  I'm think THEY are the
> > cause of Firefox's slowness.  As I don't know what they are, I can't
> > hazard a guess as to what's causing the high CPU usage.  The only time
> > I've seen something like this is when an app has crashed into an
> > infinite loop of some sort.  "Kill" those one at a time and see what
> > happens to Firefox's CPU usage. Also, clear you cache.  Check to see if
> > files are being written continuously to your hard drive.
> 
> I think also these "web content" threads are the causes of my problem. But
> they appears even if I disable all modules.
 
That's because Firefox is now multiprocess.

The main Firefox process handles the user interface, fetching
web pages, decoding them, and some of the rendering work. 

The Web Content process(es) are fired off to run things that the
web pages demand be run: JavaScript, CSS animations, weird media
things. Mostly JavaScript.

Killing them off won't help. You need to solve the underlying
problem.

I don't know what that is, exactly, but advertising and trackers
now take up 90% of most web processing time and space. Running a
good ad blocker like uBlock Origin will help a lot.

-dsr-

Re: "passwd username" asks for current password of user even tho I'm root

[Dennis Wicks]

Mariusz Gronczewski wrote on 10/10/18 8:17 AM:
> Hi,
> 
> On previous releases, and on our CentOS systems I could change password of 
> user by just sudo-ing to root and typing "passwd testuser"
> 
> In current Debian release, doing that asks me to specify that user password, 
> which is pointless because:
> 
> * I can access /etc/shadow anyway
> * I'm changing it because user forgot it
> 
> Is there any way to set passwd (or PAM) to not ask root for current password 
> on passwd-ing non-root accounts ?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Mariusz
> 
> --
> Mariusz Gronczewski, Administrator
> 
> Efigence S. A.
> ul. Wołoska 9a, 02-583 Warszawa
> T: [+48] 22 380 13 13
> F: [+48] 22 380 13 14
> E: mariusz.gronczew...@efigence.com 
> 

When I enter  sudo passwd testuser
I get a prompt   Enter new UNIX password:

Perhaps your sudoers file is not set up correctly?

I have mine:

(myid) ALL = NOPASSWD: ALL

Good Luck!
Dennis

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

[Ben Caradoc-Davies]

On 11/10/2018 11:15, bw wrote:

How exactly do you think stretch users should run an adblocker when all
the xul-ext-* extensions are now broken?


Install an extension built for webextensions such as Adblock Plus 3.0 or 
later using Firefox Add-ons Manager?:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/

I see that there is a webext-ublock-origin for sid but I have never used it:
https://packages.debian.org/sid/web/webext-ublock-origin

Kind regards,

--
Ben Caradoc-Davies 
Director
Transient Software Limited 
New Zealand

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

[Dan Ritter]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 06:15:06PM -0400, bw wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2018, Dan Ritter wrote:
> 
> > That's because Firefox is now multiprocess.
> > 
> > The main Firefox process handles the user interface, fetching
> > web pages, decoding them, and some of the rendering work. 
> > 
> > The Web Content process(es) are fired off to run things that the
> > web pages demand be run: JavaScript, CSS animations, weird media
> > things. Mostly JavaScript.
> > 
> > Killing them off won't help. You need to solve the underlying
> > problem.
> > 
> > I don't know what that is, exactly, but advertising and trackers
> > now take up 90% of most web processing time and space. Running a
> > good ad blocker like uBlock Origin will help a lot.
> > 
> > -dsr-
> > 
> > 
> 
> How exactly do you think stretch users should run an adblocker when all 
> the xul-ext-* extensions are now broken?

Ah, that's easy. Turns out that stretch is perfectly capable of
running software that the Debian Project does not package, and I
would argue that trying to keep a firefox-esr running is not the
right thing to do. Firefox just isn't ready for the Debian
definition of stable.

The Debian volunteers working on Firefox would be better serving
the community if they were only spending a few minutes packaging
up each major-number release from Mozilla, and putting the rest
of the time towards looking for security problems in it. 

There may well be a use for a "stable" web browser, but Firefox
can't be that one.

-dsr-

Re: something wrong with audio

[Michael Lange]

On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 12:00:20 + (UTC)
Curt  wrote:

(...)
> > /dev/dsp surely exists in case the snd-pcm-oss driver module is
> > loaded.
> 
> In this very case, in fact, according to the OP's lsmod list, so, right.
> 
> Of course, at the same time we are obliged to note gandering at his
> module list that he's loading Alsa modules, too.
> 
> IOW he'd loading both oss and Alsa modules simultaneously (I think
> I'm repeating myself).

snd-pcm-oss *is* an alsa module, you won't get anywhere with that without
loading the proper alsa drivers for your sound card too.

> 
> https://wiki.debian.org/ALSA#ALSA_and_OSS
> 
>  If you don't unload all OSS modules then ALSA modules will not be able
>  to initialise (or work properly) because the OSS driver will be futzing
>  with the sound hardware that the ALSA driver needs to control. If you
>  see a message about "sound card not detected" and you are sure you have
>  the right ALSA driver, the presence of an OSS module could be the
>  reason.
> 
> Maybe this, as they say in French, explains that. Or maybe not. I dunno.

No, this refers to the old OSS sound drivers which I think today are no
longer available in the linux kernel. With snd-pcm-oss you can use
applications which only support the OSS /dev/dsp interface without
breaking support for regular ALSA apps.

Regards

Michael

.-.. .. ...- .   .-.. --- -. --.   .- -. -..   .--. .-. --- ... .--. . .-.

Sometimes a feeling is all we humans have to go on.
-- Kirk, "A Taste of Armageddon", stardate 3193.9

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

[Ben Caradoc-Davies]

On 11/10/2018 11:36, bw wrote:

On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:

On 11/10/2018 11:15, bw wrote:

How exactly do you think stretch users should run an adblocker when all
the xul-ext-* extensions are now broken?

I see that there is a webext-ublock-origin for sid but I have never used it:
https://packages.debian.org/sid/web/webext-ublock-origin

p.s. and I use stable, because it is stable, not sid, which is unstable.
thanks anyway but I think your advice is a little dubious.


My point is not that you should use unstable, but that the evidence on 
sid suggests that webext-* packages are coming to stable ... when stable 
is called buster. I did not see any webext-* packages in 
stretch-backports. The workaround is to install them directly from 
upstream via Firefox.


I agree that it is sad that Firefox on stretch has been upgraded to 
break the xul-ext-* packages before webext-* packages are available. 
Unfortunately Debian is wedged between upstream dropping support for 
xul-ext-* extensions in ESR 60 and the end of life of ESR 52. You do 
want security patches, don't you? I think that ESR 60 with unpackaged 
extensions is the lesser evil. Normal service will likely be resumed in 
buster.


Kind regards,

--
Ben Caradoc-Davies 
Director
Transient Software Limited 
New Zealand

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

[bw]

On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:

> On 11/10/2018 11:36, bw wrote:
> > On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
> > > On 11/10/2018 11:15, bw wrote:
> > > > How exactly do you think stretch users should run an adblocker when all
> > > > the xul-ext-* extensions are now broken?
> > > I see that there is a webext-ublock-origin for sid but I have never used
> > > it:
> > > https://packages.debian.org/sid/web/webext-ublock-origin
> > p.s. and I use stable, because it is stable, not sid, which is unstable.
> > thanks anyway but I think your advice is a little dubious.
> 
> My point is not that you should use unstable, but that the evidence on sid
> suggests that webext-* packages are coming to stable ... when stable is called
> buster. I did not see any webext-* packages in stretch-backports. The
> workaround is to install them directly from upstream via Firefox.
> 
> I agree that it is sad that Firefox on stretch has been upgraded to break the
> xul-ext-* packages before webext-* packages are available. Unfortunately
> Debian is wedged between upstream dropping support for xul-ext-* extensions in
> ESR 60 and the end of life of ESR 52. You do want security patches, don't you?
> I think that ESR 60 with unpackaged extensions is the lesser evil. Normal
> service will likely be resumed in buster.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> -- 
> Ben Caradoc-Davies 
> Director
> Transient Software Limited 
> New Zealand
> 
> 

I agree with this opinion, and also what Dan Ritter replied.  Firefox is 
now unreliable on stretch and should be avoided.  Security updates to a 
browser that crashes with strange processes named "Web Content" aren't 
really all that secure are they?  

Why not just remove the package from stretch if it is insecure, or since 
it relies on pkgs from outside the repo, should it be moved to "contrib" 
until buster is released and we have working extensions?

Re: No KODI for buster?

[Man_without_clue]

On 2017/11/13 21:27, A_Man_Without_Clue wrote:

On 11/13/2017 07:38 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote:

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 01:17:23PM +0900, Man_without_clue wrote:

oh,  ok, thank you.

Hope it will be back soon.

THe root issue  that needs fixing is this one
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=853485

Which has apparently been fixed in a package upload to experimental. So
Kodi should be unblocked once the maintainer makes a normal upload to
unstable.



Great. I will wait.

Thanks for info.


Well, since then nearly one year has passed.

KODI is still not available for Buster

Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

[David Wright]

On Wed 10 Oct 2018 at 19:11:46 (-0400), bw wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
> 
> > On 11/10/2018 11:36, bw wrote:
> > > On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
> > > > On 11/10/2018 11:15, bw wrote:
> > > > > How exactly do you think stretch users should run an adblocker when 
> > > > > all
> > > > > the xul-ext-* extensions are now broken?
> > > > I see that there is a webext-ublock-origin for sid but I have never used
> > > > it:
> > > > https://packages.debian.org/sid/web/webext-ublock-origin
> > > p.s. and I use stable, because it is stable, not sid, which is unstable.
> > > thanks anyway but I think your advice is a little dubious.

I find a lot of adverts are blocked by my very long /etc/hosts file.
I download the bulk of it from http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
occasionally. (The rest of the file is static addresses for my LAN.)

I originally did this because the adverts would totally overload a
browser running on a 1.5GHz laptop with 500MB memory. But I've kept
using it because the side effects are so minor: occasional nagging by
sites that notice you're blocking ads, and the inability to click on
the paid-for links at the top of google searches.

> > My point is not that you should use unstable, but that the evidence on sid
> > suggests that webext-* packages are coming to stable ... when stable is 
> > called
> > buster. I did not see any webext-* packages in stretch-backports. The
> > workaround is to install them directly from upstream via Firefox.
> > 
> > I agree that it is sad that Firefox on stretch has been upgraded to break 
> > the
> > xul-ext-* packages before webext-* packages are available. Unfortunately
> > Debian is wedged between upstream dropping support for xul-ext-* extensions 
> > in
> > ESR 60 and the end of life of ESR 52. You do want security patches, don't 
> > you?
> > I think that ESR 60 with unpackaged extensions is the lesser evil. Normal
> > service will likely be resumed in buster.

I have noticed that the old xul…runner processes have gone, and that
plugin-container processes are pretty rare, presumably being replaced
by these Web Content processes.

But my experience is that FF on stretch is a lot more reliable than
the one on jessie ever was. The latter would crash about every couple
of weeks or so, and then there were all those scripts that "stopped
responding".

> I agree with this opinion, and also what Dan Ritter replied.  Firefox is 
> now unreliable on stretch and should be avoided.  Security updates to a 
> browser that crashes with strange processes named "Web Content" aren't 
> really all that secure are they?  

Well, I hope the Debian team ignore your opinions, take note of any
bug reports, and continue to support FF for all the happy Debian users
who are using it to do important work.

It's sensible to come here for help and advice with your problems, but
not to assume that everyone else is suffering in the same manner. If
you know of specific security problems, then report them. Meanwhile,
we'll carry on using FF as usual.

I routinely run two instances on this 4-core 1.6GHz laptop with 4GB
memory, one as myself for mainly financial and administrative sites,
and one as a different user for other sites. That's my nod to security.

> Why not just remove the package from stretch if it is insecure, or since 
> it relies on pkgs from outside the repo, should it be moved to "contrib" 
> until buster is released and we have working extensions?

Doesn't it have to Depend on packages, rather than just relying on
them, which would be more like a Recommend or Suggest. AIUI the main
difference between FF and more regular packages is that they take
upstream versions more frequently than normal, and that's in order
to increase security, recognising that applying all the security
patches to a static 2016/7 version is impractical.

Cheers,
David.

Re: No KODI for buster?

[The Wanderer]

On 2018-10-10 at 20:31, Man_without_clue wrote:

> On 2017/11/13 21:27, A_Man_Without_Clue wrote:
> 
>> On 11/13/2017 07:38 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote:

>>> THe root issue  that needs fixing is this one 
>>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=853485
>>> 
>>> Which has apparently been fixed in a package upload to
>>> experimental. So Kodi should be unblocked once the maintainer
>>> makes a normal upload to unstable.
>> 
>> Great. I will wait.
>> 
>> Thanks for info.
> 
> Well, since then nearly one year has passed.
> 
> KODI is still not available for Buster

As the same qa.debian.org "excuses" page as before now indicates, the
problem is now a different bug [1]; this time, it appears to be related
to the transition to a newer (incompatible) FFmpeg release. Whether the
package ever made it into testing in the meantime or not, I don't know.

The bug was reported back in January, and the maintainer said in late
July that he'd be switching to a new upstream version (presumably, one
compatible with the newer FFmpeg) to fix the bug.

The Kodi package in current stable appears to have upstream version
17.1; the one in sid (and apparently also the slightly earlier one
against which the bug was reported) appears to have upstream version 17.6.

There are several kodi-related repositories on salsa [2], and it's not
clear which one(s) would be the appropriate ones to look at for the
status of work on updating the package to a newer upstream version. The
one for 'kodiplatform' [3] was updated just this past week, but all the
other activity on any of them seems to be prior to that July statement.

It might be worth pinging the maintainer about this, at least to ask
what the status of that switch to a newer upstream version is.

That said, given that AFAIK we're nowhere near a release of buster to
stable yet (and even the freeze isn't scheduled until early next year),
I'm not sure this absence is anything to panic about.

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=888383
[2]
https://salsa.debian.org/public?utf8=%E2%9C%93&name=kodi&sort=latest_activity_desc
[3] https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/kodiplatform/commits/master

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw



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Re: Slow firefox and high cpu usage

[Celejar]

On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 18:34:32 -0400 (EDT)
bw  wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
> 
> > On 11/10/2018 11:15, bw wrote:
> > > How exactly do you think stretch users should run an adblocker when all
> > > the xul-ext-* extensions are now broken?
> > 
> > Install an extension built for webextensions such as Adblock Plus 3.0 or 
> > later
> > using Firefox Add-ons Manager?:
> > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/

...

> That might be against my religion.  I use debian because I prefer software 
> that complies with DFSG, and mozilla does not have the same guidelines for 
> the definition of
> "free"

You can use privoxy - not a plugin, but it does the trick.

Celejar

Re: all files moved to lost+found

[David Christensen]

On 10/9/18 9:18 PM, Beco wrote:
PS. Maybe I should start a new installation from scratch, 


+1


Do a fresh install of Debian Stable using only official Debian packages, 
make as few configuration changes as possible (e.g. /etc/*), run the 
laptop as your primary desktop for a week, and see what happens:


1.  If the laptop is stable, then the most likely root cause was 
scrambled software.


2.  If the laptop is unstable, then the most likely root cause is 
immature Linux support.  In this case, re-install Windows and run that 
as your primary desktop for a week:


a.  If the laptop is stable, your hardware is good and the problem was 
immature Linux support.  Install a hypervisor and build a Debian VM.


b.  If the laptop is unstable, then root causes include hardware and 
immature Windows support.  Return or repair the laptop.



David

KVM network weirdness

[Gary Dale]

I'm running an AMD64 server using Debian/Stretch.

I've just created a new Windows 7 VM using the Virtual Machine Manager 
GUI, starting with 2 IDE CD-ROMs so that I could install with virtio 
disk drivers for the qcow2 image.


The install went smoothly but when it finished, it didn't have network 
connectivity. I replaced the NIC with a virtio driver (it had been 
RealTek 8139) but that didn't help. The problem was that it wasn't 
getting a DHCP address from my router.


I logged into my router and noted that the router had a connection to it 
but showed it as self-assigned - one of the 169. addresses that Windows 
uses when it can't get one from DHCP. When I manually set the address, 
it also shows on the router but this time I get network access. I was 
able to activate windows and download almost 200 updates.


What I can't do is connect to the domain. I have Samba 4 running on the 
same server as the VMs. I have 3 other Windows VMs (XP, XP64 and Windows 
10) running on the same server and they have all joined the domain 
(years ago). but for some reason I can't get this one to join. Windows 
can't contact the domain.


In the network setup, I did add the WINS server's IP address in the 
advanced settings. That didn't help.


My other virtual machines use all use DHCP, but as I mentioned, it 
doesn't seem to want to work on this one.


I also recently set up a real Windows 7 machine and added it to a 
different Samb4 domain without any problems (once I got the network 
driver working). And I recently re-added to other machines (one virtual, 
one real) to the that same network. I did notice that Windows seems to 
prefer DHCP reservation over static addresses in that domain, so perhaps 
I'm missing a network setting.


Any ideas?

Re: all files moved to lost+found

[Pascal Hambourg]

Le 10/10/2018 à 23:17, songbird a écrit :

Pascal Hambourg wrote:
...

The most common reason is that the swap was reformatted by another
installation and its UUID changed. This cannot cause filesystem corruption.


   unless the user mistakenly reversed the partitions...


What do you mean ?


swap is always reformatted if used during an installation.


Are you sure all distributions do this ?

Kindly provide me complaint number

[PritRanjan Jha]

Reference: Communication over Facebook messenger.

Dear Epson, I am sick and suffering from cold and cough. So I cannot
communicate with you over Phone. Kindly provide me complaint number or
link to re-register my complain.
Regards,
Prit Ranjan Jha.

On 10/5/18, PritRanjan Jha  wrote:
> 1) Operating System detail: Linux boss 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian
> 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u3 (2016-01-17) x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 2) Printer detail: Epson L380, Serial No. X2Q5465167, EAN-13:
> 8906049012214, Product No.: C11CF43504, Purchased on 4th June 2018 at
> Rupee 10250 from Kundan Computer, Mahanth Sah Chowk, Sitamarhi.
> 3) Software downloaded and installed:1)
> epson-inkjet-printer-201601w_1.0.0-1lsb3.2_amd64.deb (2)
> epson-printer-utility_1.0.2-1lsb3.2_amd64.deb (3)
> imagescan-bundle-debian-8-1.3.35.x64.deb
> 4)Problem: Scanner and Copy-Print functions are working While the
> printing function is not working and print is coming blank
> 5) Support provided by Epson and Constraints: Visit made by Epson
> representative on 4th Oct 2018. He found Printer Ok and asked to use
> Window 7. I don't have money to buy window products. Links provided by
> customer care on Facebook messenger is not helping
>
> Kindly help me.
> Thanks and Regards,
> Prit Ranjan Jha-9525706202, 8434519346
>


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