Re: bad sectors on disk

2016-02-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > > > From the report, it says that there are 0 bad blocks. So is this a > > > bug in e2fsprogs ? David Wright wrote: > Does one I/O error mean that you have a bad block necessarily? I personally do not believe in a bad spot here, but in a bad bus. Throwing o

Re: I need help

2016-02-11 Thread Tim McDonough
On 2/10/2016 6:01 PM, Ghaith Etaiwi wrote: Hello, I'm starting in linux I used Ubuntu and didn't like it and I have read that many people that used Debian had a better experience, I have a MacBook Pro 4GB ram/ 500HDD/Intel HD 3000/ i5 2nd generation, can it run Debian?. Also, I want to know wha

Re: Does git store machine specific information

2016-02-11 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 1:02 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > In short, no. > > In longer, there's data in there that could be used for steganographic > purposes. If you don't setup your GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL properly, perhaps > your machine(s) hostname(s) will be in the commit message. Whatever > timez

Re: disk space disappeared

2016-02-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/02/16 12:44 PM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Did you check if something is hidden under the mount points? mount --bind / /mnt du /mnt -hx --max-depth=1 If you're done cleaning up don't forget to umount /mnt Regards, jvp. That was it. I figured it out last night. For some reason

Re: [computers] bad sectors on disk

2016-02-11 Thread David Wright
On Wed 10 Feb 2016 at 20:05:39 (-0800), Joseph Loo wrote: > > On 9 February 2016 at 19:57, Ritesh Raj Sarraf > On my RPi2, I saw the following reported by my kernel. > > > > [156278.815976] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] UNKNOWN(0x2003) Result: > > hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x00 > > [156278.82

Re: replacement for old /etc/mtab that lists only real filesystems like ext4 or fat

2016-02-11 Thread David Wright
On Thu 11 Feb 2016 at 23:45:45 (+0100), jdd wrote: > Le 11/02/2016 22:47, Martin Read a écrit : > > >mount -t ext4,fat,btrfs Notwithstanding the Subject line, I'd have thought vfat might be more useful than fat. fat might work with grep, but I haven't mounted a real fat for a decade or more. > >

Re: GNOME Shell can't unmount my USB key

2016-02-11 Thread David Wright
On Thu 11 Feb 2016 at 22:57:02 (+), Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Thursday 11 February 2016 22:27:30 Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 11:13:27AM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > A point of order here: All this applies to Wheezy; I don't know now > > > that Debian has adopted syste

Advice re package to file bug against

2016-02-11 Thread Con Kolivas
Hi I'm having trouble deciding which package to file a bug report against. I'm having keyboard trouble with kde in debian stable. The keymap spontaneously starts conflicting with the evdev driver as though the old keybd driver is being loaded 5 minutes in. It's unique to kde as other DEs don't

Re: GNOME Shell can't unmount my USB key

2016-02-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 11 February 2016 22:27:30 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 11:13:27AM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > A point of order here: All this applies to Wheezy; I don't know now > > that Debian has adopted systemd and udev has it as a dependency that > > all this will work the

Re: Amarok using 5% CPU when idle

2016-02-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 11 February 2016 20:23:36 Martin Read wrote: > Is there a good reason why Amarok consumes 5% CPU even when it isn't > doing anything useful? (2.2GHz amd64 processor) > > The interactive UI is not open, I'm not writing new files into my music > library directory, and it isn't playing any

Re: replacement for old /etc/mtab that lists only real filesystems like ext4 or fat

2016-02-11 Thread jdd
Le 11/02/2016 22:47, Martin Read a écrit : mount -t ext4,fat,btrfs (no spaces in the list, and no paths or anything) works nicely. but list all the btrfs subvolumes :-( jdd

Re: GNOME Shell can't unmount my USB key

2016-02-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 11:13:27AM -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > A point of order here: All this applies to Wheezy; I don't know now > that Debian has adopted systemd and udev has it as a dependency that > all this will work the same. Oh, so Wheezy will work without udev? -- "If you're not car

Re: Welcome to emergency mode!

2016-02-11 Thread David Wright
On Thu 11 Feb 2016 at 10:28:34 (-0800), Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Feb 10, 2016, at 12:42 PM, David Wright wrote: > > > I hope you eventually get to study the journal even if you don't have > > /var/log/journal. You might post the output from: > > The systemd journal is, by default, kept in the

Re: replacement for old /etc/mtab that lists only real filesystems like ext4 or fat

2016-02-11 Thread Martin Read
On 11/02/16 21:25, Jan Gregor wrote: Hello, I used /etc/mtab to list mounted filesystems with their mount options. Unfortunatelly /etc/mtab no longer exists in debian jessie, it is just symlink to /proc/mounts that lists 31 filesystems and I want to see just 2 :-) classic filesystems like ex

Re: replacement for old /etc/mtab that lists only real filesystems like ext4 or fat

2016-02-11 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 11 February 2016 22:25:31 Jan Gregor wrote: > Hello, > > I used /etc/mtab to list mounted filesystems with their mount options. > Unfortunatelly /etc/mtab no longer exists in debian jessie, it is just > symlink to /proc/mounts that lists 31 filesystems and I want to see just 2 > > :

Re: replacement for old /etc/mtab that lists only real filesystems like ext4 or fat

2016-02-11 Thread Felix Miata
Jan Gregor composed on 2016-02-11 22:25 (UTC+0100): > I used /etc/mtab to list mounted filesystems with their mount options. > Unfortunatelly /etc/mtab no longer exists in debian jessie, it is just > symlink to /proc/mounts that lists 31 filesystems and I want to see just 2 > :-) classic filesy

Re: GNOME Shell can't unmount my USB key

2016-02-11 Thread David Wright
On Thu 11 Feb 2016 at 10:49:43 (-0800), Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Tue, 09 Feb 2016, David Wright wrote: > > > On Tue 09 Feb 2016 at 09:00:50 (-0800), Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > On Tue, 09 Feb 2016, Me wrote: > > > > > > > Le lundi 08 février 2016 à 13:50 -0800, Patrick Bartek a écrit : > > > >

replacement for old /etc/mtab that lists only real filesystems like ext4 or fat

2016-02-11 Thread Jan Gregor
Hello, I used /etc/mtab to list mounted filesystems with their mount options. Unfortunatelly /etc/mtab no longer exists in debian jessie, it is just symlink to /proc/mounts that lists 31 filesystems and I want to see just 2 :-) classic filesystems like ext4, fat, btrfs only. Thanks, Jan

Re: Good keyboard

2016-02-11 Thread Glenn English
> On Feb 11, 2016, at 11:21 AM, David Christensen > wrote: > > Thoughts? Comments? Have you looked into a Cherry? They use Cherry switches (surprise). And they're quiet until the key hits the bottom, then they make the sound of a key hitting the bottom. There were several models available

Re: GNOME Shell can't unmount my USB key

2016-02-11 Thread Me
Le jeudi 11 février 2016 à 11:57 -0800, Patrick Bartek a écrit : > All I can say is it works, caveats you mentioned aside. No > problems in 3 years of use. Your system probably doesn't use caching then, unlike the default Debian+GNOME install. Since you are careful not to unplug your drives when

Amarok using 5% CPU when idle

2016-02-11 Thread Martin Read
Is there a good reason why Amarok consumes 5% CPU even when it isn't doing anything useful? (2.2GHz amd64 processor) The interactive UI is not open, I'm not writing new files into my music library directory, and it isn't playing any music. -- Please try to use Reply To List when answering e-ma

Re: Good keyboard

2016-02-11 Thread Jonathan Levine
On 2/11/16, Martin Smith wrote: > On 11/02/2016 06:22, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: >> The essence of a keyboard is found in the keyswitch -- the plunger and >> the contacts. >> >> A good plunger is not lubricated and does not bind even if the key is >> struck at an angle. Any external lubricant e

Re: Good keyboard

2016-02-11 Thread Martin Read
On 11/02/16 18:21, David Christensen wrote: Does anybody have the CODE 104-Key MX Brown, or something similar? Thoughts? Comments? My Das Keyboard has Cherry MX Brown keyswitches. I find it quite pleasant to type on (I type pretty fast), and I can say that while it's not silent, it is certai

Re: GNOME Shell can't unmount my USB key

2016-02-11 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 10 Feb 2016, Stuart Longland wrote: > On 08/02/16 09:20, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > You shouldn't have to "eject" it all. Just plug it in and when > > done, pull it out. The system should mount and unmount it > > automatically. We're not talking Windows here. > > We're not talking DOS eit

Re: Problem chain loading Jessie's pxelinux via http using iPXE (failed to load ldlinux.c32)

2016-02-11 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi, > I have an iPXE setup that allows me to chain load the Debian installer > pxelinux setups over http so I don't need to mirror all the things > locally, but so I still get the nice installer boot menu > > The iPXE config is essentially this: > set 209:string cfg/pxelinux.cfg > set 210:string

Re: GNOME Shell can't unmount my USB key

2016-02-11 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Tue, 09 Feb 2016, Brian wrote: > On Tue 09 Feb 2016 at 09:00:50 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > On Tue, 09 Feb 2016, Me wrote: > > > > > Le lundi 08 février 2016 à 13:50 -0800, Patrick Bartek a écrit : > > > > Perhaps in days gone by: my OS prior to Wheezy -- Fedora 12 -- > > > > was like

Re: Good keyboard

2016-02-11 Thread Martin Smith
On 11/02/2016 06:22, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: On Wed, February 10, 2016 11:00 pm, David Niklas wrote: If I'm remembering rightly, a while back (months), there was a discussion about keyboards. I noticed this one and wanted to know if it https://www.crowdsupply.com/ugl/ultimate-hacking-keyboar

Re: GNOME Shell can't unmount my USB key

2016-02-11 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Tue, 09 Feb 2016, Me wrote: > Le mardi 09 février 2016 à 09:00 -0800, Patrick Bartek a écrit : > > Yes, I know about caching, but on my system read/writes to removable > > devices are almost instantaneous. > > Maybe it's just luck ? As I said, I frequently get a message from > GNOME saying the

Re: GNOME Shell can't unmount my USB key

2016-02-11 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Tue, 09 Feb 2016, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 09 Feb 2016 at 09:00:50 (-0800), Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Tue, 09 Feb 2016, Me wrote: > > > > > Le lundi 08 février 2016 à 13:50 -0800, Patrick Bartek a écrit : > > > > Perhaps in days gone by: my OS prior to Wheezy -- Fedora 12 -- > > > > was

Re: Welcome to emergency mode!

2016-02-11 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 10, 2016, at 12:42 PM, David Wright wrote: > I hope you eventually get to study the journal even if you don't have > /var/log/journal. You might post the output from: The systemd journal is, by default, kept in the directory, /run/log/journal. Because it is in the "/run" filesystem, it

Re: Good keyboard

2016-02-11 Thread David Christensen
On 02/10/2016 09:00 PM, David Niklas wrote: If I'm remembering rightly, a while back (months), there was a discussion about keyboards. I noticed this one and wanted to know if it looks good and is worth $220 (the average BK goes for $100, so you can imagine my surprise), I'm uncertain. I'm I know

Re: Does git store machine specific information

2016-02-11 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 08:02:05AM -0500, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Given a git repository, is it possible to extract a list of unique IP > addresses from which commits were performed in the master branch? It > does not have a to be an IP address but something that uniquely > identifies a machin

Re: disk space disappeared

2016-02-11 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Did you check if something is hidden under the mount points? mount --bind / /mnt du /mnt -hx --max-depth=1 If you're done cleaning up don't forget to umount /mnt Regards, jvp.

Re: disk space disappeared

2016-02-11 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Did you check if something is hidden under the mount points? mount --bind / /mnt du /mnt -hx --max-depth=1 If you're done cleaning up don't forget to umount /mnt Regards, jvp.

Re: disk space disappeared

2016-02-11 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 11 February 2016 09:11:03 jdd wrote: > Le 11/02/2016 00:17, Gary Dale a écrit : > > I have a Jessie/64 server that seems to have lost a lot of disk space. > > It boots from a 55G SSD (mounted as /) > > what file system? ext4, BTRFS? > > with a RAID6 array for /home. > > on a differet

Phantom Media Devices Created On The Fly (Was: disk space disappeared)

2016-02-11 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
PS This experience is specifically why I unhumbly advocate using UUIDs wherever possible, but that's fodder for another thread. :) Good morning! Am reposting my response to Gary Dale's thread and am including a followup to help others duplicate the effect. The more I think on it, the same con

Re: disk space disappeared

2016-02-11 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 2/10/16, Gary Dale wrote: > I have a Jessie/64 server that seems to have lost a lot of disk space. > It boots from a 55G SSD (mounted as /) with a RAID6 array for /home. df > shows that the SSD is full but I can't find out where the space has > gone. When I add up all the space in the various d

Does git store machine specific information

2016-02-11 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Given a git repository, is it possible to extract a list of unique IP addresses from which commits were performed in the master branch? It does not have a to be an IP address but something that uniquely identifies a machine used in the commit. For example, if I am using the same account but committ

Re: permanent disabling of Wireless-N for Thinkpad

2016-02-11 Thread Haines Brown
On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 12:09:40AM +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 13:09:12 -0500 > Haines Brown wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 05:39:54PM +0100, arian wrote: > > > > > > > I want to make this permanent, which I gather can be done by placing the > > > > line 11n_dis

Re: I need help

2016-02-11 Thread Me
Le jeudi 11 février 2016 à 02:01 +0200, Ghaith Etaiwi a écrit : > I have a MacBook Pro 4GB ram/ 500HDD/Intel HD 3000/ i5 2nd generation, > can it run Debian? Yes, probably. > Also, I want to know what version of Debian to download, I saw > something about DVD1, DVD2...etc which one should I get

Re: disk space disappeared

2016-02-11 Thread jdd
Le 11/02/2016 00:17, Gary Dale a écrit : I have a Jessie/64 server that seems to have lost a lot of disk space. It boots from a 55G SSD (mounted as /) what file system? ext4, BTRFS? with a RAID6 array for /home. on a differet disk, I guess df shows that the SSD is full but I can't find out