Re: FW: knockd package long-standing bug

2019-05-14 Thread tomas
On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 10:56:18PM +, Riccardo Paolo Bestetti wrote: > >>Hello, > >> > >>Bug #868015 has been open since Jul 2017 [...] > >Hi Riccardo, I'll take a chance at answering your question [...] [good points] > Your input is much appreciated and you made some valid and interesting p

Re: Problem: Slow Boot -- Hibernation?

2019-05-14 Thread David Wright
On Tue 14 May 2019 at 16:12:29 (-0500), Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > First off, I am running Debian Buster/Sid (that's what it says!) and > the kernel is 4.19.0-4-686-pae. 32 bit system, > 4 Gig of memory (3.xx usable!), IDE disks. > > My boots are getting slower and slower. I'll start fr

bind gets permission errors in buster--systemd-related?

2019-05-14 Thread Ross Boylan
I have a new buster system with a bind setup based on (much) older* systems, on which it worked fine. On buster, it doesn't. In two different places in my configuration I referred to files or directories that were outside of bind proper, and in both cases this failed with permission problems. I'm

Re: pmount could perhaps be of greater utility?

2019-05-14 Thread David Wright
On Sun 12 May 2019 at 23:35:11 (+1000), Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 12.05.19 13:45, Eric S Fraga wrote: > > On Sunday, 12 May 2019 at 17:52, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > > On 11.05.19 14:38, Eric S Fraga wrote: > > >> This is nice; is there an equivalent for FAT file systems? Most of the > > >>

FW: knockd package long-standing bug

2019-05-14 Thread Riccardo Paolo Bestetti
>>Hello, >> >>Bug #868015 has been open since Jul 2017 and the fix consists in 3 >>lines added to the system unit file. I.e. knockd.service lacks the >>[Install] section and thus the service can't be made to auto-start after a >>reboot. >>Since the maintainer doesn't seem interested in fixing it

Problem: Slow boot -- Mounts fail.

2019-05-14 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; During the boot process there are several mount "jobs" started, and they all finish/fail with two messages; Dependency failed for ... Timeout waiting for ... that is except for root. I removed all the mounts for user partitions from fstab and just left the mounts

Problem: Slow Boot -- Hibernation?

2019-05-14 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; First off, I am running Debian Buster/Sid (that's what it says!) and the kernel is 4.19.0-4-686-pae. 32 bit system, 4 Gig of memory (3.xx usable!), IDE disks. My boots are getting slower and slower. I'll start from the top. The first thing that happens is I get a message R

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-14 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 12:11:17PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: On 5/14/19 4:23 AM, Michael Stone wrote: On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 10:48:31PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: 2019-05-09 22:00:27 root@po /mnt/scratch # time dd if=/dev/urandom of=foo bs=1M count=1K conv=fsync don't bother doing

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-14 Thread David Christensen
On 5/14/19 4:23 AM, Michael Stone wrote: On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 10:48:31PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: 2019-05-09 22:00:27 root@po /mnt/scratch # time dd if=/dev/urandom of=foo bs=1M count=1K conv=fsync don't bother doing this, urandom will be the bottleneck and it will just confuse thin

Re: No sound

2019-05-14 Thread arne
On Tue, 14 May 2019 16:57:34 +0200 Kaj Persson <70147pers...@telia.com> wrote: > Den 2019-05-12 kl. 13:59, skrev arne: > > On Sun, 12 May 2019 13:08:33 +0200 (CEST) > > "70147pers...@telia.com" <70147pers...@telia.com> wrote: > > > >> I have no sound at all. By starting e.g. VLC or Audacity with

Re: virtual device both is and isn't a valid file system [complete]

2019-05-14 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 10:20:47AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > Noticing the "write on read-only" error, and remembering it should be > read-only, I added that to the mount options. Which still failed, but > differently: > root@barley:~/tempserver-check# date; strace -f mount -r > /dev

Re: virtual device both is and isn't a valid file system [solved]

2019-05-14 Thread Ross Boylan
On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 10:20 AM Ross Boylan wrote: > > Noticing the "write on read-only" error, and remembering it should be > read-only, I added that to the mount options. Which still failed, but > differently: Well, it failed differently in the sense that it succeeded :) Yay! I was fooled by t

Re: virtual device both is and isn't a valid file system [complete]

2019-05-14 Thread Ross Boylan
Noticing the "write on read-only" error, and remembering it should be read-only, I added that to the mount options. Which still failed, but differently: root@barley:~/tempserver-check# date; strace -f mount -r /dev/stretch-vg/boot stretch_boot Tue 14 May 2019 10:07:05 AM PDT execve("/usr/bin/mount

Re: virtual device both is and isn't a valid file system [complete]

2019-05-14 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 09:52:10AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > Here's the info: Nothing interesting in the strace output, short of: : ... mount("/dev/mapper/stretch--vg-boot", "/root/tempserver-check/stretch_boot", "ext4", 0, NULL) = -1 EIO (Input/output error) ... The reason being

Re: virtual device both is and isn't a valid file system [complete]

2019-05-14 Thread Ross Boylan
Here's the info: root@barley:~/tempserver-check# date; strace -f mount /dev/stretch-vg/boot stretch_boot Tue 14 May 2019 09:33:01 AM PDT execve("/usr/bin/mount", ["mount", "/dev/stretch-vg/boot", "stretch_boot"], 0x7ffed2c87238 /* 26 vars */) = 0 brk(NULL) = 0x5575487e

Re: No sound

2019-05-14 Thread David Wright
On Tue 14 May 2019 at 16:09:23 (-), Curt wrote: > On 2019-05-12, 70147pers...@telia.com <70147pers...@telia.com> wrote: > > > > I have no sound at all. By starting e.g. VLC or Audacity with a > > *.wav file I can see this executed, in Audacity also the wave form, but > > nothing from the loud

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-14 Thread David Christensen
On 5/14/19 12:34 AM, Lothar Schilling wrote: Thanks for your help, David. But to boot the machine from a live CD I will have to pay a visit to the computing centre in Frankfurt anyway. So instead of running a diagnostic tool I am going to install the system from scratch, this time using a 64bit v

Re: No sound

2019-05-14 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-12, 70147pers...@telia.com <70147pers...@telia.com> wrote: > > I have no sound at all. By starting e.g. VLC or Audacity with a > *.wav file I can see this executed, in Audacity also the wave form, but > nothing from the loudspeaker. Since July, 2018? https://lists.debian.org/debian-u

Re: No sound

2019-05-14 Thread Kaj Persson
Den 2019-05-12 kl. 19:30, skrev David Wright: On Sun 12 May 2019 at 13:08:33 (+0200), 70147pers...@telia.com wrote: Inxi is telling that the sound card, Device-1, is Intel 82801I HD Audio, and the driver: snd_hda_intel. This raises the question of what device 0 is, and whether the sound is

Re: No sound

2019-05-14 Thread Kaj Persson
Den 2019-05-12 kl. 17:28, skrev Jonas Smedegaard: Quoting Hans (2019-05-12 17:12:13) Got in the same problem half a year ago. Some program was blocking the sounddevice. I remeber, there was a command. which shows, which application is just accessing the sound device (dev/snd). Maybe someone

Re: No sound

2019-05-14 Thread Kaj Persson
Den 2019-05-12 kl. 13:59, skrev arne: On Sun, 12 May 2019 13:08:33 +0200 (CEST) "70147pers...@telia.com" <70147pers...@telia.com> wrote: I have no sound at all. By starting e.g. VLC or Audacity with a *.wav file I can see this executed, in Audacity also the wave form, but nothing from the louds

Re: replicating an installation baseline only (as if it had been a cummulative, virgin installation) ...

2019-05-14 Thread David Wright
On Tue 14 May 2019 at 13:30:12 (+0200), Albretch Mueller wrote: > My question may not have been clear enough on my previous post about > reinstalling debian, but I think I have a better idea about how to > solve many of my problems. > > I have an installation based on: > > $ uname -a > Linux ni

Re: virtual device both is and isn't a valid file system [complete]

2019-05-14 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 01:28:47PM -, Curt wrote: > On 2019-05-14, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > >> I am trying to read some files off of a virtual disk without running > >> the entire virtual machine. > > > > Can you post the output of (in that order): > > > > strace -f mount /de

Re: virtual device both is and isn't a valid file system [complete]

2019-05-14 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-14, Reco wrote: > Hi. > >> I am trying to read some files off of a virtual disk without running >> the entire virtual machine. > > Can you post the output of (in that order): > > strace -f mount /dev/stretch-vg/boot stretch_boot > dmesg | trail I looked for trail (it's not in my

Re: replicating an installation baseline only (as if it had been a cummulative, virgin installation) ...

2019-05-14 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 01:30:12PM +0200, Albretch Mueller wrote: > As if I had installed Debian afresh. My suggestion for this, since you are in "paranoid mode", is to do exactly that, but without the "as if" part :-) I install Debian by using debian-installer and installing only the base syste

Re: replicating an installation baseline only (as if it had been a cummulative, virgin installation) ...

2019-05-14 Thread Curt
On 2019-05-14, Albretch Mueller wrote: > My question may not have been clear enough on my previous post about > reinstalling debian, but I think I have a better idea about how to > solve many of my problems. > > I have an installation based on: > > $ uname -a > Linux niggahme 4.9.0-6-amd64 #1 SM

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-14 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 10:58:45AM +0200, Lothar Schilling wrote: Am 13.05.2019 um 10:51 schrieb Tixy: On Mon, 2019-05-13 at 10:30 +0200, Lothar Schilling wrote: [...] # uname -a Linux [my.server.com] 4.9.0-9-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.9.168-1 (2019-04-12) i686 GNU/Linux So you're running a 32-bi

replicating an installation baseline only (as if it had been a cummulative, virgin installation) ...

2019-05-14 Thread Albretch Mueller
My question may not have been clear enough on my previous post about reinstalling debian, but I think I have a better idea about how to solve many of my problems. I have an installation based on: $ uname -a Linux niggahme 4.9.0-6-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.88-1+deb9u1 (2018-05-07) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-14 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 10:48:31PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: 2019-05-09 22:00:27 root@po /mnt/scratch # time dd if=/dev/urandom of=foo bs=1M count=1K conv=fsync don't bother doing this, urandom will be the bottleneck and it will just confuse things

Re: virtual device both is and isn't a valid file system [complete]

2019-05-14 Thread Reco
Hi. > I am trying to read some files off of a virtual disk without running > the entire virtual machine. Can you post the output of (in that order): strace -f mount /dev/stretch-vg/boot stretch_boot dmesg | trail e2fsck -fn /dev/stretch-vg/boot Reco

virtual device both is and isn't a valid file system [complete]

2019-05-14 Thread Ross Boylan
[Sorry: original sent before complete; ignore earlier message] I am trying to read some files off of a virtual disk without running the entire virtual machine. (Running a VM would involve at least using a later version of the VirtualBox, or a switch to KVM, and I already have enough complexity).

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-14 Thread Lothar Schilling
Thanks for your help, David. But to boot the machine from a live CD I will have to pay a visit to the computing centre in Frankfurt anyway. So instead of running a diagnostic tool I am going to install the system from scratch, this time using a 64bit version.

virtual device both is and isn't a valid file system

2019-05-14 Thread Ross Boylan
When I attempt to mount a block device, I get the error: - root@barley:~/tempserver-check# date; mount /dev/stretch-vg/boot stretch_boot Mon 13 May 2019 11:42:15 PM PDT mount: /root/tempserver-check/stretch_boot: can't read superblock on /dev/mapper/stretch--vg-boot.