Re: xHCI Host Controller page faults

2020-04-22 Thread deloptes
Jiangsu Kumquat wrote: > That says to add iommu=soft to the kernel commandline... > > I don't know how to do that... I used to know how a long time ago, but > forgot. Can you please point me to some info about that? /etc/default/grub Add to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX and run update-grub

Re: The simpliest way to automatically rebuild few Debian packages ?

2020-04-22 Thread deloptes
Vincent Lefevre wrote: > I was wondering whether apt-build could automate things even more > than my current solution, but it seems that my current solution can > do more, at least for the goal of just patching source packages and > rebuilding. I did not miss this in the beginning. I did not unde

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-22 Thread deloptes
David Wright wrote: > 1. Going from thinking to knowing. Even assuming they're well-informed, > it may be worth checking with other people running different systems > about what's wrong, and what the new text should say. > > 2. Pages often need more than just piecemeal corrections: they may > nee

Re: Persistent sshfs mount from inside a Buster virtual machine?

2020-04-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 22 apr 20, 18:42:05, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > This started after I attempted to use systemd to create the mount first > as a system service and then I scrapped that and chose to create the > mount as a user service. That is when I ran into the five minute > timeout. Even after disabling a

Re: aptitude doesn't remove unused packages

2020-04-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 22 apr 20, 22:13:36, Urs Thuermann wrote: > Debian's package management should remove packages that were installed > automatically, if they are no longer needed. Unfortunately, that > often seems to not work correctly. See this example on my Raspberry > Pi running Raspbian jessie: [...]

Re: Buster System hangs, requires hard reboot

2020-04-22 Thread Ralph Katz
On 4/22/20 7:24 PM, Tom Dial wrote: > > > On 4/20/20 19:44, Ralph Katz wrote: >> Hi -- Please help me diagnose and fix this problem. >> >> My five month old Dell laptop with updated firmware and new up-to-date >> Buster completely hangs and requires a hard reboot after 7-40 days >> uptime. While

Re: aptitude doesn't remove unused packages

2020-04-22 Thread David Wright
On Wed 22 Apr 2020 at 22:13:36 (+0200), Urs Thuermann wrote: > Debian's package management should remove packages that were installed > automatically, if they are no longer needed. Unfortunately, that > often seems to not work correctly. See this example on my Raspberry > Pi running Raspbian jess

Re: Buster System hangs, requires hard reboot

2020-04-22 Thread Tom Dial
On 4/20/20 19:44, Ralph Katz wrote: > Hi -- Please help me diagnose and fix this problem. > > My five month old Dell laptop with updated firmware and new up-to-date > Buster completely hangs and requires a hard reboot after 7-40 days > uptime. While reading something onscreen or away from the

Re: aptitude doesn't remove unused packages

2020-04-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2020-04-22 16:39:00 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > I don't find 'aptitude why' very reliable in a lot of cases. Ditto. > One thing I habitually do nowadays, to minimize this type of problem, is > to also run > > # apt-get remove $(deborphan) > > and interleave that back and forth with 'apt-get

Re: xHCI Host Controller page faults

2020-04-22 Thread Jiangsu Kumquat
On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 9:04 AM Dominique Dumont wrote: > On mercredi 22 avril 2020 08:05:49 CEST Jiangsu Kumquat wrote: > > When I boot my computer, I get these messages: > > > > https://pastebin.com/6m4fa65W > > > > Is it a hardware issue or do I need to configure something? > > Looks like a kn

Re: HTML mail + PDF attachments

2020-04-22 Thread David Wright
On Tue 14 Apr 2020 at 20:50:01 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 03:19:57PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > Have you examined the timestamps in the email header of such emails in > > order to see where the holdup is occurring. It may or may not be in > > the last hop. > >

Re: Kind reminder: please don't reply to and/or quote spam, ever

2020-04-22 Thread David Wright
On Tue 21 Apr 2020 at 09:01:35 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 04:15:00PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > [...] > > > > If I receive spam and wish to report it to my ISP, I BOUNCE the > > > message, so as not to disturb the "evidence" or "scene of the crime". > > > > I

Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages due to rename

2020-04-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2020-04-22 16:07:28 -0500, David Wright wrote: > For trivial renames, which yours looks like, as do those I've done, > it would be pretty easy to script. I've never made the effort, > because it's not something I do frequently enough, usually just once, > soon after I start running a new release

Re: The simpliest way to automatically rebuild few Debian packages ?

2020-04-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2020-04-22 22:18:19 +0200, deloptes wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > On 2020-04-22 08:29:09 +0200, deloptes wrote: > >> OK I understand now. I did not have a problem to add a new section in the > >> changelog with > >> dch -v "4:$BUILDISTRO_NAME" -D "$DISTRO_NAME" -c $debian/changelog \

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-22 Thread Nate Bargmann
This topic has been on LWN.net for the past several days and should be free to view in the next day or two: https://lwn.net/Articles/817668/ - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects

Persistent sshfs mount from inside a Buster virtual machine?

2020-04-22 Thread Nate Bargmann
I've on-again/off-again approached a project to move away from VirtualBox for some daily software builds to a VM run from Qemu. The issue I am having is maintaining a persistent sshfs mount from inside of the guest. This particular VM will mount the shared directories via sshfs at system start bu

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-22 Thread David Wright
On Tue 21 Apr 2020 at 20:07:55 (+0100), Brian wrote: > On Tue 21 Apr 2020 at 11:18:14 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:35:00PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > I don't know what the writer of those two sentences meant by > > > structure, but I specifically mentioned

Re: aptitude doesn't remove unused packages

2020-04-22 Thread Urs Thuermann
The Wanderer writes: > if you > want to know "what's the dependency chain which is keeping this from > being safe to remove?", you're probably better off running 'apt-get > --dry-run remove [packagename]', and seeing whether the result wants to > remove anything that you care about. Well, I usua

Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages due to rename

2020-04-22 Thread David Wright
On Wed 22 Apr 2020 at 12:22:24 (+0200), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2020-04-22 12:39:35 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > You might want to file a wishlist bug against 'apt' to request such a > > feature (if not requested already). A reliable implementation probably > > requires a new package fiel

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2020-04-22 Thread Default User
Hey, A recent thread got me to thinking. So I checked my primary (only installed) ssd: sudo smartctl --test=long /dev/sda which promised to run the tests, but returned to a command prompt, with no further messages. So after the promised test end time I did: sudo smartctl --all /dev/sda which g

Re: aptitude doesn't remove unused packages

2020-04-22 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-04-22 at 16:13, Urs Thuermann wrote: > Debian's package management should remove packages that were > installed automatically, if they are no longer needed. > Unfortunately, that often seems to not work correctly. See this > example on my Raspberry Pi running Raspbian jessie: > > Some ti

Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages due to rename

2020-04-22 Thread deloptes
Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> This is true, but it I do not remember when the last time I had something >> like this. You should be reading what it says before pressing "y" on the >> command line. > > Could you please read what I've said earlier in the original post? Yeah, read as well ;-)

aptitude doesn't remove unused packages

2020-04-22 Thread Urs Thuermann
Debian's package management should remove packages that were installed automatically, if they are no longer needed. Unfortunately, that often seems to not work correctly. See this example on my Raspberry Pi running Raspbian jessie: Some time in the past there were probably packages that needed g

Re: The simpliest way to automatically rebuild few Debian packages ?

2020-04-22 Thread deloptes
Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2020-04-22 08:29:09 +0200, deloptes wrote: >> OK I understand now. I did not have a problem to add a new section in the >> changelog with >> dch -v "4:$BUILDISTRO_NAME" -D "$DISTRO_NAME" -c $debian/changelog \ >> "Autogenerated by building script" >> >> $BUILDISTRO

Re: Groovy 2.4.16 + Java 11 is broken in debian buster stable

2020-04-22 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 22 Apr, 2020 at 22:15:09 +0530, Jayant Tripathi wrote: >[1]https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=929460 >Is there a way to download patched groovy version in debian buster >through apt? >As default groovy version in Buster stable is: Groovy Version: 2.4.16 >J

Groovy 2.4.16 + Java 11 is broken in debian buster stable

2020-04-22 Thread Jayant Tripathi
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=929460 Is there a way to download patched groovy version in debian buster through apt? As default groovy version in Buster stable is: Groovy Version: 2.4.16 JVM: 11.0.6 Vendor: Debian OS: Linux Regards Jayant Tripathi

Re: xHCI Host Controller page faults

2020-04-22 Thread Dominique Dumont
On mercredi 22 avril 2020 08:05:49 CEST Jiangsu Kumquat wrote: > When I boot my computer, I get these messages: > > https://pastebin.com/6m4fa65W > > Is it a hardware issue or do I need to configure something? Looks like a known bug that can be worked around: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic

Re: Buster System hangs, requires hard reboot

2020-04-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 22 April 2020 03:36:22 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 05:58:41PM -0600, Tom Dial wrote: > > On 4/21/20 06:24, Ralph Katz wrote: > > > On 4/21/20 2:47 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > >> On Tuesday 21 April 2020 03:07:31 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > > The fact th

Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages due to rename

2020-04-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2020-04-22 12:39:35 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > You might want to file a wishlist bug against 'apt' to request such a > feature (if not requested already). A reliable implementation probably > requires a new package field, something like: > > Package: foo > Superseded-By: bar Inde

Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages due to rename

2020-04-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 21 apr 20, 17:07:52, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Is there a way to avoid this behavior automatically, i.e. by > forwarding the "manually installed" state automatically to the > new package? Shouldn't this be done by default? I'm not aware of apt/itude having the feature you are looking for,

Re: Can I install Debian on Raspberry Pi?

2020-04-22 Thread Joe
On Wed, 22 Apr 2020 15:05:48 +0800 Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > > The original 1988 ARM and many generations since did not have > > floating point hardware. It's only when multiple cores became > > popular that it became worth doing. Floating point hardware was > > always a separate

Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages due to rename

2020-04-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2020-04-22 08:33:23 +0200, deloptes wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > You did not understand. Doing this removes both the transitional > > package *and* the new (renamed) package... unless one marks the new > > package as manually installed (which is the thing that I wanted to > > be done a

Re: The simpliest way to automatically rebuild few Debian packages ?

2020-04-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2020-04-22 08:29:09 +0200, deloptes wrote: > OK I understand now. I did not have a problem to add a new section in the > changelog with > dch -v "4:$BUILDISTRO_NAME" -D "$DISTRO_NAME" -c $debian/changelog \ > "Autogenerated by building script" > > $BUILDISTRO_NAME is the release number (14.

Re: Buster System hangs, requires hard reboot

2020-04-22 Thread tomas
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 06:50:03PM -0600, Ralph Katz wrote: > On 4/21/20 1:05 PM, deloptes wrote: > > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > >> No, but a connector. And depending on the mechanical environment, > >> those sometimes loosen too. > > > > Yes noticed on few that if disk is not mounted properly

Re: Buster System hangs, requires hard reboot

2020-04-22 Thread tomas
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 05:58:41PM -0600, Tom Dial wrote: > > > On 4/21/20 06:24, Ralph Katz wrote: > > On 4/21/20 2:47 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> On Tuesday 21 April 2020 03:07:31 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > The fact that the inode numbers mentioned in the initial post all are > near eac

Re: Can I install Debian on Raspberry Pi?

2020-04-22 Thread Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
On 2020-04-17 15:55, Joe wrote: On Fri, 17 Apr 2020 13:44:23 +0800 Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: On 2020-04-16 23:04, deloptes wrote: > Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > >> Isn't it better to install Debian in a virtual machine rather than >> using >> debootstrap? > > these are