Re: why autoremove doesn't work

2021-11-12 Thread Long Wind
Thanks again!here is my /var/log/apt/history.log, many packages are not auto removeddo you think autoremove option work as promised in apt's manual? Start-Date: 2021-11-11  19:52:46 Commandline: apt install synaptic Install: libperl5.32:i386 (5.32.1-4+deb11u2, automatic), libxapian30:i386 (1.4.18

Re: why autoremove doesn't work

2021-11-12 Thread David Wright
On Sat 13 Nov 2021 at 04:01:20 (+), Long Wind wrote: > Thank David! > but i don't know those depended package names now > maybe they are upgraded or recommended, not depended Exactly, that's why you need to check. $ zgrep -A1 'install.*synaptic' /var/log/apt/history* should tell you which pa

Re: why autoremove doesn't work

2021-11-12 Thread Long Wind
Thank David!but i don't know those depended package names now maybe they are upgraded or recommended, not depended

Re: why autoremove doesn't work

2021-11-12 Thread David Wright
On Sat 13 Nov 2021 at 01:59:04 (+), Long Wind wrote: > i install synaptic, with many depended packages > then i remove synaptic and autoremove > but many depended packages are not removed $ aptitude why PACKAGENAME Try that command using, in turn, the names of packages that were installed alo

Re: Mutt can not delete mails

2021-11-12 Thread David Wright
On Fri 12 Nov 2021 at 15:03:24 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 08:58:18PM +0100, Hans wrote: > > Greg Wooledge: > > > chmod 1777 /var/tmp > > > > Yes, that works, of course! But I do not understand why the settings are > > wrong. > > You said you've got /var on a separate

set the number of inodes during FS creation via pressed

2021-11-12 Thread phoebus phoebus
Hello all, Do you know if it possible to set the number of inodes  to create in the filesystem during the installalation with the pressed file? If i start from this example for the filesystem /var/log, how to set numbers of inodes inside it ?     500 550 1024 ext4 \    lv_

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 November 2021 17:43:34 Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 13:41:22 -0500 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > And dd used to have a progress bar, but no mention in the man page, > > when did that go away? > > From man dd: > >status=LEVEL > The LEVEL of inform

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 November 2021 17:01:01 The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-11-12 at 16:52, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 12 November 2021 15:12:15 Dan Ritter wrote: > >> Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> That will be good, but getting rid of the first raid10 I built > >>> is needing tactical nukes. Its taking

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 14:20:30 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: > Is it [LVM] now dependable enough to use on a one box does it all > machine? I think so. I've been running it for more than a decade. I back its metadata up, but have never had to rebuild except in experiments. -- Does anybody read signa

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 14:12:58 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: > What do I use to create/write a new GPT partition table? I use fdisk. Parted and gparted will also do it. > > Despite nuking mdadm.conf, and zeroing the drive with dd, its still > locked and untouchable by gparted. And I cannot rmmod th

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 13:41:22 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: > And dd used to have a progress bar, but no mention in the man page, > when did that go away? From man dd: status=LEVEL The LEVEL of information to print to stderr; 'none' suppresses everything but error mess

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-11-12 at 16:52, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 12 November 2021 15:12:15 Dan Ritter wrote: > >> Gene Heskett wrote: >>> That will be good, but getting rid of the first raid10 I built >>> is needing tactical nukes. Its taking almost 40 minutes a drive >>> to zero them and start over. An

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 November 2021 15:12:15 Dan Ritter wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 12 November 2021 11:57:28 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > Use an expert install. > > > > > > set up the disks as RAID 10 first, then use the partition editor > > > to assign the RAID as /home > > > > > > At th

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 November 2021 08:49:21 Dan Ritter wrote: Ok, zeroed them, nuked mdadm.conf & rebooted. gparted each one, setting 2 partitions in GPT format on each of 90 MIB (sde1) with label MDV1 and 5000 MIB (sde2) labeled MDV2 and applied that to each of the 4 drives. Double check as /dev/sd

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Dan Ritter
Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 12 November 2021 11:57:28 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > > > Use an expert install. > > > > set up the disks as RAID 10 first, then use the partition editor to > > assign the RAID as /home > > > > At that point, you're done :) > > That will be good, but getting ri

Re: Mutt can not delete mails

2021-11-12 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 08:58:18PM +0100, Hans wrote: > Greg Wooledge: > > chmod 1777 /var/tmp > > Yes, that works, of course! But I do not understand why the settings are > wrong. You said you've got /var on a separate partition. Was it always that way (i.e. you created a /var partition during

Re: Mutt can not delete mails

2021-11-12 Thread Hans
Greg Wooledge: chmod 1777 /var/tmp Yes, that works, of course! But I do not understand why the settings are wrong. I never changed these, so this could only be happened at some upgrade, but the this should be discovered by other people, too. However, maybe other applications do never use /va

Re: Problem with Synaptic

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 November 2021 13:38:48 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 08:19:15AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 12 November 2021 07:36:01 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > > On 12/11/2021 09:30, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > > This is the immediate problem that I need to fix:

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 November 2021 12:26:02 Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 12:03:25 -0500 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Thanks Charles. Sounds like a good idea. I'll see if I can get > > gparted to see them now. It see's it, but its locked, in use by the > > system even if unmounted. Now what

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 November 2021 12:07:54 Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 11:53:45 -0500 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Condensing this down bare bones it sounds like I should un-mount it, > > format each to ext4 and re-create it just in case. And should nuke > > mdadm.conf before re-creating

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 November 2021 11:57:28 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 09:48:01AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 12 November 2021 08:49:21 Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > The man page we have goes on and on for megabytes without ever > > > > giving an

Re: Problem with Synaptic

2021-11-12 Thread Brian
On Fri 12 Nov 2021 at 07:30:36 -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > On 11/11/2021 03:11 PM, Brian wrote: > > On Thu 11 Nov 2021 at 14:34:20 -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > > > > > > On 11/11/2021 02:06 PM, Brian wrote: > > > > On Thu 11 Nov 2021 at 12:38:33 -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrot

Re: Mutt can not delete mails

2021-11-12 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 07:06:26PM +0100, Hans wrote: > No, it is not /tmp, but /var/tmp. See here from the output: > [2021-11-11 22:08:39] ../../mbox.c:895: mutt_mktemp returns "/var/tmp/mutt- > protheus2-1000-47311-14301765248385272183". > [2021-11-11 22:08:39] Temporärdatei konnte nicht erzeugt

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 November 2021 11:56:48 Dan Ritter wrote: > Andy Smith wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 09:22:12AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > mdadm --create --verbose /dem/md0 --level=10 --raid-devices=4 > > > /dev/sde /dev/sdf /dev/sdg /dev/sdh > > > > > > should work. > > > > You may want to

Re: Problem with Synaptic

2021-11-12 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 08:19:15AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 12 November 2021 07:36:01 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > > On 12/11/2021 09:30, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > > This is the immediate problem that I need to fix: > > > > > > comp@AbNormal:~$ sudo apt upgrade > > > Reading pa

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 11:53:45 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: > Condensing this down bare bones it sounds like I should un-mount it, > format each to ext4 and re-create it just in case. And should nuke > mdadm.conf before re-creating it. Correct? Umount it, move mdadm.conf aside, create a new parti

Re: Mutt can not delete mails

2021-11-12 Thread Hans
Am Donnerstag, 11. November 2021, 21:53:53 CET schrieb Greg Wooledge: No, it is not /tmp, but /var/tmp. See here from the output: [2021-11-11 22:08:33] mutt_addr_is_user: no, all failed. [2021-11-11 22:08:33] mutt_addr_is_user: no, all failed. [2021-11-11 22:08:36] mutt_index_menu[807]: Got op

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 09:38:42 -0700 Charles Curley wrote: > My experience reinstalling Bullseye is that the name of the array > didn't change. Once more, with clarity. I created my array as a RAID1 under Buster. I then installed Bullseye. The name of the array did not change. -- Does anybody r

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 12:03:25 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: > Thanks Charles. Sounds like a good idea. I'll see if I can get > gparted to see them now. It see's it, but its locked, in use by the > system even if unmounted. Now what? Well, if you are talking Any Smith's (and my) advice, I'd do the fo

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Dan Ritter
Andy Smith wrote: > On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 09:22:12AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > mdadm --create --verbose /dem/md0 --level=10 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sde > > /dev/sdf /dev/sdg /dev/sdh > > > > should work. > > You may want to create identical partitions on each of the devices > first, and us

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 November 2021 11:49:29 The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-11-12 at 11:42, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 12 November 2021 10:18:07 Dan Ritter wrote: > >> Gene Heskett wrote: > >> > Not in the stretch man page. And its sounding as if I should do > >> > that during the bullseye install t

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 09:48:01 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: > And its sounding as if I should do that > during the bullseye install to get the more capable mdadm, but will > the devices have the same names? My experience reinstalling Bullseye is that the name of the array didn't change. -- Does an

Re: How to secure access to SD cards a la USBGuard?

2021-11-12 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2021-11-12 17:13, Stefan Monnier wrote: I'd like to limit access to (micro) SD cards on our systems to only those cards that have been vetted up front. IIUC the way SD card are interfaced with the system, you can't use an approach like USBGuard for that indeed. I was getting afraid of that

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 November 2021 11:34:24 Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 09:22:12 -0500 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > So > > > > mdadm --create --verbose /dem/md0 --level=10 --raid-devices=4 > > /dev/sde /dev/sdf /dev/sdg /dev/sdh > > > > should work. > > It should. But there are good reason

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 09:48:01AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 12 November 2021 08:49:21 Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > The man page we have goes on and on for megabytes without ever > > > giving an example. > > > > > > I thought maybe it could scan for devices so tha

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 November 2021 10:37:22 Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 09:22:12AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > > mdadm --create --verbose /dem/md0 --level=10 --raid-devices=4 > > /dev/sde /dev/sdf /dev/sdg /dev/sdh > > > > should work. > > You may want to create identical parti

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-11-12 at 11:42, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 12 November 2021 10:18:07 Dan Ritter wrote: > >> Gene Heskett wrote: >> > Not in the stretch man page. And its sounding as if I should do >> > that during the bullseye install to get the more capable mdadm, but >> > will the devices have t

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 November 2021 10:18:07 Dan Ritter wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 12 November 2021 08:49:21 Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > > The man page we have goes on and on for megabytes without ever > > > > giving an example. > > > > > > > > I thought maybe it could

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 09:22:12 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: > So > > mdadm --create --verbose /dem/md0 --level=10 --raid-devices=4 > /dev/sde /dev/sdf /dev/sdg /dev/sdh > > should work. It should. But there are good reasons to put partitions on the drives first and use the partitions.. > > but on

Re: [semi-OT] create playlist for android

2021-11-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 14:56:45 +0100 Pol Hallen wrote: > the problem is that jetaudio not always "see" the playlist, using vlc > on my pc works > > I don't understand the problem Possibly jetaudio does not see the Android path it needs in the playlist -- Does anybody read signatures any mor

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 09:22:12AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > mdadm --create --verbose /dem/md0 --level=10 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sde > /dev/sdf /dev/sdg /dev/sdh > > should work. You may want to create identical partitions on each of the devices first, and use those instead of the raw

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Dan Ritter
Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 12 November 2021 08:49:21 Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > The man page we have goes on and on for megabytes without ever > > > giving an example. > > > > > > I thought maybe it could scan for devices so that I could build an > > > mdadm.conf but i

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 November 2021 09:29:06 David Wright wrote: > On Fri 12 Nov 2021 at 08:05:53 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > > I have installed 4 1T samsung EVo 870's on their own non-raid sata > > controller, but with 11 days uptime and the logrotate manager > > having a 10k is too big attitude, all

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 November 2021 08:49:21 Dan Ritter wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > The man page we have goes on and on for megabytes without ever > > giving an example. > > > > I thought maybe it could scan for devices so that I could build an > > mdadm.conf but it wont do a --scan by itself. > > You

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread David Wright
On Fri 12 Nov 2021 at 08:05:53 (-0500), Gene Heskett wrote: > I have installed 4 1T samsung EVo 870's on their own non-raid sata > controller, but with 11 days uptime and the logrotate manager having a > 10k is too big attitude, all data from the last reboot has scrolled off > the end of /var/

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 November 2021 08:49:21 Dan Ritter wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > > The man page we have goes on and on for megabytes without ever > > giving an example. > > > > I thought maybe it could scan for devices so that I could build an > > mdadm.conf but it wont do a --scan by itself. > > You

Re: [semi-OT] create playlist for android

2021-11-12 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Friday, 12 Nov 2021 at 14:56, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi folks and sorry for this semi-OT > > Normally I use this command line to create a playlist for my android > phone (more specific I use jetaudio app) > > ls -1 > playlist_name.mp3 I do something similar. I don't use jetaudio (rocketplayer ins

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 November 2021 08:39:31 Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 08:05:53 -0500 > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > The man page we have goes on and on for megabytes without ever > > giving an example. > > > > I thought maybe it could scan for devices so that I could build an > > mdadm.con

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Dan Ritter
Gene Heskett wrote: > The man page we have goes on and on for megabytes without ever giving an > example. > > I thought maybe it could scan for devices so that I could build an > mdadm.conf but it wont do a --scan by itself. You are looking for mdadm --detail --scan It is in that man page,

[semi-OT] create playlist for android

2021-11-12 Thread Pol Hallen
Hi folks and sorry for this semi-OT Normally I use this command line to create a playlist for my android phone (more specific I use jetaudio app) ls -1 > playlist_name.mp3 and put whole contents to mobile the problem is that jetaudio not always "see" the playlist, using vlc on my pc works

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 08:05:53 -0500 Gene Heskett wrote: > The man page we have goes on and on for megabytes without ever giving > an example. > > I thought maybe it could scan for devices so that I could build an > mdadm.conf but it wont do a --scan by itself. Nope, near as I can figure --scan

Re: Mouse locator

2021-11-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 07:56:42 -0500 Dan Ritter wrote: > The first thing that comes to mind is always using a larger > pointer -- the size and shape are configurable in most systems. > > big-cursor provides even larger cursors. A red cursor also helps. Install xcursor-themes and select the redgla

Re: Problem with Synaptic

2021-11-12 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 12/11/2021 10:02, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: Try downloading it again (since it's not part of the archives, it must be downloaded manually) and running 'apt install ./brscan4-..deb' (substituting the actual file name, naturally). The './' is necessary to tell apt it's a file name. I ap

Re: Problem with Synaptic

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 November 2021 07:36:01 Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On 12/11/2021 09:30, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > This is the immediate problem that I need to fix: > > > > comp@AbNormal:~$ sudo apt upgrade > > Reading package lists... Done > > Building dependency tree > > Reading state informati

Re: Problem with Synaptic

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 12 November 2021 07:30:36 Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > On 11/11/2021 03:11 PM, Brian wrote: > > On Thu 11 Nov 2021 at 14:34:20 -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > >> On 11/11/2021 02:06 PM, Brian wrote: > >>> On Thu 11 Nov 2021 at 12:38:33 -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I am running

Re: Mouse locator

2021-11-12 Thread Dan Ritter
Richard Forst wrote: > In Debian I want to locate my mouse pointer. And after searching there are > some suggestion using The first thing that comes to mind is always using a larger pointer -- the size and shape are configurable in most systems. big-cursor provides even larger cursors. Otherw

Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings raid experts; The man page we have goes on and on for megabytes without ever giving an example. I thought maybe it could scan for devices so that I could build an mdadm.conf but it wont do a --scan by itself. I have installed 4 1T samsung EVo 870's on their own non-raid sata control

Re: Problem with Synaptic

2021-11-12 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 11/12/2021 07:36 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: On 12/11/2021 09:30, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: This is the immediate problem that I need to fix: comp@AbNormal:~$ sudo apt upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: The package brscan

Re: Problem with Synaptic

2021-11-12 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 12/11/2021 09:30, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: This is the immediate problem that I need to fix: comp@AbNormal:~$ sudo apt upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: The package brscan4 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive

Re: Problem with Synaptic

2021-11-12 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 11/11/2021 03:11 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 11 Nov 2021 at 14:34:20 -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: On 11/11/2021 02:06 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 11 Nov 2021 at 12:38:33 -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I am running buster on my Linux platform. I have installed a new Brother Laser print us

Mouse locator

2021-11-12 Thread Richard Forst
In Debian I want to locate my mouse pointer. And after searching there are some suggestion using     gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.mouse locate-pointer false However following that command, it returns No such key “locate-pointer” I install Debian 11 with Gnome initially,

Re: Service stuck at shutdown

2021-11-12 Thread Erwan David
Le 11/11/2021 à 17:55, Erwan David a écrit : Le 11/11/2021 à 06:16, David Wright a écrit : A workaround that might shorten the wait, but only if you're confident that there aren't processes that need that long to complete, is to edit the line   DefaultTimeoutStopSec=90s   in /etc/systemd/system.