On Sun 27 Dec 2020 at 07:02:53 (-0500), The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2020-12-26 at 23:01, David Wright wrote:
> > On Sat 26 Dec 2020 at 17:19:32 (-0500), The Wanderer wrote:
> >
> >> I have for some years been running Debian with an older model of
> >> AMD GPU (Radeon HD 6870) for graphics.
> >>
> >>
On Sun 27 Dec 2020 at 22:10:53 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 08:33:26AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
> > On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 11:01:22 + "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Bug??: DI incorrectly detected this machine as having EFI.
> > > >
> > > At the be
I'm having problems with pppd and an intermittent phone line connection.
My external line occasionally drops out, usually briefly (I'm trying to
get this fixed but need a workaround in the meantime). When the line
goes down, I get this sequence:
Dec 27 01:35:03 snoopy pppd[22798]: No response
On 2020-12-27 at 17:23, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 05:08:27PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> I have the impression that things have by now developed to the
>> point where a physical serial-port cable (of the classic type of
>> serial port and cable, whose connec
On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 05:08:27PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
[...]
> I have the impression that things have by now developed to the point
> where a physical serial-port cable (of the classic type of serial port
> and cable, whose connectors can be visually confused with a VGA port in
> some case
On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 08:33:26AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 11:01:22 +
> "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote:
>
> > >
> > > Bug??: DI incorrectly detected this machine as having EFI.
> > >
> >
> > At the beginning? Did you get presented with the UEFI install and did
> > i
On 2020-12-27 at 16:36, Anssi Saari wrote:
> The Wanderer writes:
>
>> I need to get that live-boot medium ready and do those tests.
>
> That seems like a good thing to do.
I have it ready now, but haven't shut down for another swap, in part
because I've been napping. I may do it tonight, or m
The Wanderer writes:
> I need to get that live-boot medium ready and do those tests.
That seems like a good thing to do. Another thing you could do is post
your grub.cfg. It seems a little odd you haven't. Also from previous
discussion I think it's worth mentioning that Grub doesn't actually rea
Celejar wrote:
> Some recent update to unstable seems to have broken Xfce4 for me:
The Xfce team is uploading Xfce 4.16 at the moment. Because not all
components can be uploaded in one go, this may cause some temporary
problems or instability.
I'd advise you to wait some days until all uploads
On 28-12-2020 05:58, Celejar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Some recent update to unstable seems to have broken Xfce4 for me: I
> can't suspend the the machine anymore. When I try the keyboard shortcut
> I've configured (that has worked for years), I get an error popup
> window:
>
> Received error while trying
Hi,
Some recent update to unstable seems to have broken Xfce4 for me: I
can't suspend the the machine anymore. When I try the keyboard shortcut
I've configured (that has worked for years), I get an error popup
window:
Received error while trying to log out
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.I
On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 11:01:22 +
"Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote:
> > Bug!!: I tried loading the firmware for the wifi if. DI asked all
> > the right questions, and I gave it all the right answers. But it
> > never connected. The dhcp server never got a request, and on the
> > target hardware, ethtoo
the mismatch of the version of distutils prevented it from
working so the solution was to upgrade distutils from unstable
and it works now.
songbird
On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 11:01:22 +
"Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote:
> >
> > Bug??: DI incorrectly detected this machine as having EFI.
> >
>
> At the beginning? Did you get presented with the UEFI install and did
> it try to install grub-efi at the end (or did it just ask whether you
> wanted to i
George Shuklin's comment may have intended this question too: Are backups
running somewhere when the VMs "randomly" hang? Not necessarily on the VM
that hangs, but somewhere touching a related filesystem, disk or network
device?
On Sun, Dec 27, 2020, 4:33 AM wrote:
> From: Dan Ritter
>
> > You
On 2020-12-27 at 07:10, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2020-12-27 at 02:51, Sven Joachim wrote:
>
>> On 2020-12-26 18:44 -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
>>> That's a good suggestion, except I don't see any way to do that
>>> in the /etc/default/grub I have.
>>>
>>> The closest thing I see is
>>>
>>> # Un
On 2020-12-27 at 02:51, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2020-12-26 18:44 -0500, The Wanderer wrote:
>
>> On 2020-12-26 at 18:28, Felix Miata wrote:
>>
>>> I suggest a good place to start would be to goto
>>> /etc/default/grub and switch from whichever mode is employed to
>>> the other, either plain tex
On 2020-12-27 at 02:31, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Sb, 26 dec 20, 17:19:32, The Wanderer wrote:
>
>> With the new GPU in place, I get video output during POST and in
>> the BIOS (yes, this machine is old enough that it doesn't have a
>> UEFI) without problems. That demonstrates that the GPU isn't
On 2020-12-26 at 23:01, David Wright wrote:
> On Sat 26 Dec 2020 at 17:19:32 (-0500), The Wanderer wrote:
>
>> I have for some years been running Debian with an older model of
>> AMD GPU (Radeon HD 6870) for graphics.
>>
>> I recently purchased a relatively recent model of GPU (Radeon RX
>> 5700
On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 03:18:40PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 15:45:37 +
> "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote:
>
> > >
> > Well, that's a good start :) The test suite we used to test for
> > stable release CDs is here:
> > https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianCD/ReleaseTestin
From: Dan Ritter
> You probably want to change that to 1 minute or so.
Btw. could you please tell me how to do that?
I know how to modify (=> override) systemd unit files but I have no idea how to
change default timeout for mounted block devices that I didn't manually create
in /etc/systemd/s
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