Re: Problems with Opera browser

2020-10-11 Thread Sven Hartge
Mick Ab wrote: > In the last few days, a couple of problems have arisen with using the > Opera browser on a Debian Jessie system. > Firstly, black rectangles appear on many webpages. > Secondly, it is no longer possible to attach files to an email - > nothing happens when the Browse button is c

Re: Error mounting LVM volume as root (SOLVED)

2020-10-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
>     '/dev/vgname/lvname' instead of '/dev/mapper/vgname-lvname'. Indeed, I have found that `/dev//` doesn't work as argument to `root=` on the kernel command line, whereas `/dev/mapper/-` works fine. Maybe it merits a bug report. Maybe it'll be hard/inconvenient to make the kernel accept the `

Re: Error mounting LVM volume as root (SOLVED)

2020-10-11 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 10/11/20 2:04 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 10/11/20 6:34 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: That did it.  I am assuming that the system was just in the process of changing from the initrc to the actual running system?  But how do I get the boot sequence to activate the LVs automatically each time bef

Re: Ownerships in /var/log/.

2020-10-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 02:41:37PM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > All of the files and most of the directories in /var/log/ are owned > by root. These are the exceptions. > > root@joule:/var/log# ls -ld {c*,ex*,s*}/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 _chrony _chrony 4096 Jul 22 2017 chrony/ > drw

Ownerships in /var/log/.

2020-10-11 Thread peter
All of the files and most of the directories in /var/log/ are owned by root. These are the exceptions. root@joule:/var/log# ls -ld {c*,ex*,s*}/ drwxr-xr-x 2 _chrony _chrony 4096 Jul 22 2017 chrony/ drwxr-s--- 2 Debian-exim adm 4096 Oct 11 00:00 exim4/ drwxr-xr-x 2 stunnel4stunne

Re: Error mounting LVM volume as root

2020-10-11 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 10/11/20 6:34 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: That did it.  I am assuming that the system was just in the process of changing from the initrc to the actual running system? But how do I get the boot sequence to activate the LVs automatically each time before attempting to mount the / filesystem? AF

Re: SSD and HDD

2020-10-11 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-11 09:45, mick crane wrote: Bearing in mind I rarely do installs and when I do usually let the installer do its thing. Got a PC that has SSD and a HDD. I see that you are supposed to avoid writes to SSD for longevity. Is it a matter of putting entries in fstab for /swap /var /home to

Re: SSD and HDD

2020-10-11 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Sun, 2020-10-11 at 20:25 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2020-10-11 13:48 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote: > > > On Sun, 2020-10-11 at 19:47 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > "Percentage Used Endurance Indicator" > > > > Where do you see that? > > For a SATA SSD: > > # smartctl -l devstat $SSD >

Re: SSD and HDD

2020-10-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2020-10-11 13:48 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote: > On Sun, 2020-10-11 at 19:47 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> "Percentage Used Endurance Indicator" > > Where do you see that? For a SATA SSD: # smartctl -l devstat $SSD Cheers, Sven

Re: SSD and HDD

2020-10-11 Thread Darac Marjal
On 11/10/2020 18:48, Jim Popovitch wrote: > On Sun, 2020-10-11 at 19:47 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> "Percentage Used Endurance Indicator" > Where do you see that? If you have an NVMe device, you can run "nvme smart-log /dev/nvme" (or "nvme smart-log /dev/nvmen" if you have multiple namespaces o

Re: SSD and HDD

2020-10-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 01:48:48PM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote: > On Sun, 2020-10-11 at 19:47 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > > "Percentage Used Endurance Indicator" > > Where do you see that? Usually a SMART attribute like "233 Media Wearout Indicator" or if that isn't available devices ofte

Problems with Opera browser

2020-10-11 Thread Mick Ab
In the last few days, a couple of problems have arisen with using the Opera browser on a Debian Jessie system. Firstly, black rectangles appear on many webpages. Secondly, it is no longer possible to attach files to an email - nothing happens when the Browse button is clicked to find the file tha

Re: SSD and HDD

2020-10-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Mick, On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 05:45:45PM +0100, mick crane wrote: > Got a PC that has SSD and a HDD. I see that you are supposed to avoid writes > to SSD for longevity. Flash write endurance has come on leaps and bounds over the last decade to the point where most people don't have to worry ab

Re: SSD and HDD

2020-10-11 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Sun, 2020-10-11 at 19:47 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > "Percentage Used Endurance Indicator" Where do you see that? -Jim P.

Re: SSD and HDD

2020-10-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2020-10-11 17:45 +0100, mick crane wrote: > Bearing in mind I rarely do installs and when I do usually let the > installer do its thing. > Got a PC that has SSD and a HDD. I see that you are supposed to avoid > writes to SSD for longevity. No, you are not. I put an SSD into my desktop compute

Re: SSD and HDD

2020-10-11 Thread Peter Ehlert
I don't use the automatic install, I don't like what it chooses. I use the manual method to set things up exactly as desired. to answer your question you can install on any available drive, SSD or HDD... use or create some or all of your partitions wherever you like. your new fstab will point t

Re: SSD and HDD

2020-10-11 Thread Linux-Fan
mick crane writes: Bearing in mind I rarely do installs and when I do usually let the installer do its thing. Got a PC that has SSD and a HDD. I see that you are supposed to avoid writes to SSD for longevity. Is it a matter of putting entries in fstab for /swap /var /home to suitably format

SSD and HDD

2020-10-11 Thread mick crane
Bearing in mind I rarely do installs and when I do usually let the installer do its thing. Got a PC that has SSD and a HDD. I see that you are supposed to avoid writes to SSD for longevity. Is it a matter of putting entries in fstab for /swap /var /home to suitably formatted partitions on HDD ?

Re: Error mounting LVM volume as root

2020-10-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
> That did it.  I am assuming that the system was just in the process of > changing from the initrc to the actual running system? But how do I get the > boot sequence to activate the LVs automatically each time before attempting > to mount the / filesystem? AFAIK you don't need to do anything spe

PulseAudio is not working properly

2020-10-11 Thread BaBa
Hello, I installed it with just sudo apt install pulseaudio and without configuration. In Firefox it uses Alsa instead of PulseAudio and in media players it does not work. If I do killall pulseaudio pulseaudio --start Works in Firefox and media players. My user and pulse user are in the "audio"