Re: SD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-28 Thread tomas
On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 03:44:13PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: [...] > The failure mode for these cards is typically that the whole thing goes > away, not that a single sector goes bad. As soon as one starts acting flaky, > just toss it. FWIW, I've an USB stick here (128GB) with an EXT4 file sys

USB sound device present but visible in ‘alsamixer’

2022-01-28 Thread Pankaj Jangid
I have setup a new system. Apart from the display related issue, that I had posted in another thread, I am facing an issue related to my external ‘Yeti Blue’ sound card. I use it as Mic and Monitor audio. --8<---cut here---start->8--- pankaj@anant:~$ lsb_release

Re: btfs disk compatibility between i386 and amd64

2022-01-28 Thread Joseph Brenner
> Careful, unlink in the *nix world typically means delete (a file), while you probably meant unmount / mount. Yes, precisely. > In general there shouldn't be a problem for newer kernels to read older versions of a particular file system[1], but the other way around can be a problem. That's int

Re: Debian 11: Tuning kernel parameters swappiness and watermark_boost_factor to stop SWAP Storm

2022-01-28 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Jan 28, 2022, 4:33 AM Steven J. West wrote: > Dear all, > > TL;DR/summary: > >- Tuning vm.watermark_boost_factor to 0 (disable) on Debian >significantly improves performance on memory-intensive tasks that utilise >SWAP space, by stopping preemptive kswapd freeing of memory, an

Re: KDE Icon query

2022-01-28 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 28/01/2022 21:38, Hans wrote: Am Freitag, 28. Januar 2022, 18:51:21 CET schrieb Peter Hillier-Brook: Hi Peter, the icons should be below /usr/share/icons/ and then within thwe required themefolder. If dolphin and the other apps are in the menus, but got no icon, try another icon theme in the

Re: Fwd: Debian 11: Tuning kernel parameters swappiness and watermark_boost_factor to stop SWAP Storm

2022-01-28 Thread Tixy
On Fri, 2022-01-28 at 17:31 +0100, Marco Möller wrote: > On 28.01.22 11:15, Steven J. West wrote: > > Comparing the Ubuntu and Debian kernel parameters using sudo sysctl > > -a > > showed two key differences in virtual memory (vm) management > > parameters. > > > >   * Ubuntu: > >   o vm.swap

Re: KDE Icon query

2022-01-28 Thread Hans
Am Freitag, 28. Januar 2022, 18:51:21 CET schrieb Peter Hillier-Brook: Hi Peter, the icons should be below /usr/share/icons/ and then within thwe required themefolder. If dolphin and the other apps are in the menus, but got no icon, try another icon theme in the settings menu. If then there is

Re: Chromium security updates

2022-01-28 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Jan 28, 2022, 12:57 PM Richmond wrote: > Richmond writes: > > > Now trying: > > > > gn gen out/Default "--args=is_debug=false symbol_level=0 > > blink_symbol_level=0 v8_symbol_level=0 is_official_build=true > > chrome_pgo_phase = 0" > > > > I've built this version and it is working well.

Re: SD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-28 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 12:42:35PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: My thanks to everybody who has responded here. I think the prudent thing to do is use a new SSD card and I have one that is supposed to be a full 32 gb. The card I was able to finally clear the partitions on is several years old

Re: SD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-28 Thread David Wright
On Fri 28 Jan 2022 at 18:22:37 (+), Gareth Evans wrote: > > On 28 Jan 2022, at 18:16, Gareth Evans wrote: > >>> On 28 Jan 2022, at 16:52, David Wright wrote: > >>> On Fri 28 Jan 2022 at 07:30:25 (-0600), Martin McCormick wrote: > >>> David Wright writes: > I've not heard of that proble

Re: Screen goes blank for 1-2 seconds

2022-01-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 05:05:56PM +0100, hdv@gmail wrote: > On 2022-01-28 16:53, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > Wherever possible, it's easier if you are using Debian stable: more people > > will hae experience / be running that at any one time. > > > > All the very best, as ever, > > > > Andy

Re: Chromium security updates

2022-01-28 Thread Richmond
Richmond writes: > Now trying: > > gn gen out/Default "--args=is_debug=false symbol_level=0 > blink_symbol_level=0 v8_symbol_level=0 is_official_build=true > chrome_pgo_phase = 0" > I've built this version and it is working well. As the problem with chromium is caused by the debian build tools,

Re: Package name to report bug with KDE file open dialog

2022-01-28 Thread Patrick Dunford
Ok I will take this matter up with the application developers thanks for your assistance to date. On 29/01/22 06:10, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On 2022-01-28 11:36, Patrick Dunford wrote: It is not relevant whether the issue occurs in other applications because they all use the file open dialogs

Re: SD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-28 Thread Martin McCormick
My thanks to everybody who has responded here. I think the prudent thing to do is use a new SSD card and I have one that is supposed to be a full 32 gb. The card I was able to finally clear the partitions on is several years old but I think it is still good but the suggestion to use it in a less

Re: SD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-28 Thread Gareth Evans
> On 28 Jan 2022, at 18:16, Gareth Evans wrote: > >  > >>> On 28 Jan 2022, at 16:52, David Wright wrote: >>> >>> On Fri 28 Jan 2022 at 07:30:25 (-0600), Martin McCormick wrote: >>> David Wright writes: I've not heard of that problem. You were prevented from zeroing the entire d

Re: SD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-28 Thread Gareth Evans
> On 28 Jan 2022, at 16:52, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 28 Jan 2022 at 07:30:25 (-0600), Martin McCormick wrote: >> David Wright writes: >>> I've not heard of that problem. You were prevented from zeroing the >>> entire device, which would have wiped the partition table anyway. >>> >>> W

Re: Security

2022-01-28 Thread Dan Ritter
Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2022, 6:57 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 26, 2022, 12:39 PM Andrei POPESCU > > > wrote: > > > > > > > On Ma, 25 ian 22, 16:13:23, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > > And please don't bother to reply with "there are no o

KDE Icon query

2022-01-28 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
Hello All, can anyone identify the file that holds the following KDE icons: Application Launcher, Dolphin and Konsole? I recently re-booted an already up-to-date bullseye system and they have visually disappeared from the Panel, although the launchers themselves are still present and functio

Re: Re: Re: GNOME Evolution cannot lock /var/spool/mail/

2022-01-28 Thread Patrice Duroux
Hmm! Ok before saying there is a possible bug, I will try to remove evolution-data- server, install it again, and check! Currently with Sid I have: patrice@kos-moceratops ~> LANG=C apt --installed list "evolution*" Listing... Done evolution-common/unstable,unstable,now 3.42.3-1 all [installed] e

Re: Package name to report bug with KDE file open dialog

2022-01-28 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-28 11:36, Patrick Dunford wrote: It is not relevant whether the issue occurs in other applications because they all use the file open dialogs in ways that are specific to their application which the end user has no control over and therefore it cannot be tested for If it doesn't oc

Re: Package name to report bug with KDE file open dialog

2022-01-28 Thread David Wright
On Sat 29 Jan 2022 at 05:36:25 (+1300), Patrick Dunford wrote: > On 29/01/22 05:16, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > On 2022-01-28 11:10, Patrick Dunford wrote: > > > Which is the name of the package relating to the file open > > > dialog to use in a bug report? > > > > I think it depends on the applica

Re: SD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-28 Thread David Wright
On Fri 28 Jan 2022 at 07:30:25 (-0600), Martin McCormick wrote: > David Wright writes: > > I've not heard of that problem. You were prevented from zeroing the > > entire device, which would have wiped the partition table anyway. > > > > What I would want to check is that the OS isn't doing someth

Re: "mount -t ntfs" vs "mount.ntfs" ?

2022-01-28 Thread David Wright
On Fri 28 Jan 2022 at 11:34:44 (+0100), Yvan Masson wrote: > > I had to recover a NTFS partition from a broken drive (I used GNU > ddrescue with a domain log file generated by partclone), so I now have > a file "recovered_partition.img": > > $ file recovered_partition.img > recovered_partition.im

Re: "mount -t ntfs" vs "mount.ntfs" ?

2022-01-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 28 ian 22, 11:34:44, Yvan Masson wrote: > > Could it be because `mount` uses kernel driver and `mount.ntfs` uses > ntfs-3g, and that the latter has better "quality" even for read-only? (Note > that this sentence is a complete guess) Try 'ls -l /sbin/mount.ntfs' ;) Kind regards, Andrei --

Re: btfs disk compatibility between i386 and amd64

2022-01-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 26 ian 22, 17:33:04, Joseph Brenner wrote: > I was wondering if the on-disk data format for btrfs is > compatible between the i386 and amd64 code bases-- > e.g. would you expect to be able to swap data drives > between machines running either? In general yes. > I've got an old i386 instal

Re: Package name to report bug with KDE file open dialog

2022-01-28 Thread Patrick Dunford
Hi It is not relevant whether the issue occurs in other applications because they all use the file open dialogs in ways that are specific to their application which the end user has no control over and therefore it cannot be tested for The application has been tested on various operating sys

Re: Fwd: Debian 11: Tuning kernel parameters swappiness and watermark_boost_factor to stop SWAP Storm

2022-01-28 Thread Marco Möller
On 28.01.22 11:15, Steven J. West wrote: Comparing the Ubuntu and Debian kernel parameters using sudo sysctl -a showed two key differences in virtual memory (vm) management parameters. * Ubuntu: o vm.swappiness=60 o vm.watermark_boost_factor=0 * Debian: o vm.swappiness=10

Re: Security

2022-01-28 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Jan 28, 2022, 9:17 AM Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2022-01-27 21:44:07 -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 26, 2022, 12:39 PM Andrei POPESCU > > wrote: > > > > > I'll use the opportunity to draw attention to DSA-5059-1, see e.g. this > > > article for details: > > > > > > > >

Re: Security

2022-01-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 27 ian 22, 21:44:07, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2022, 12:39 PM Andrei POPESCU > > > > And please don't bother to reply with "there are no other users on this > > system I should worry about", the bad guys could still find ways to get > > in, e.g. via a compromised browser, r

Re: Package name to report bug with KDE file open dialog

2022-01-28 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-28 11:10, Patrick Dunford wrote: Which is the name of the package relating to the file open dialog to use in a bug report? I think it depends on the application :) Do you see it in other applications? If so, you can figure out what GUI toolkit/environment it is gtk, qt, gnome, kde

Re: Security

2022-01-28 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Fri, Jan 28, 2022, 6:57 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 26, 2022, 12:39 PM Andrei POPESCU > > wrote: > > > > > On Ma, 25 ian 22, 16:13:23, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > And please don't bother to reply with "there are no other users on this > > > system I should w

Package name to report bug with KDE file open dialog

2022-01-28 Thread Patrick Dunford
Hello I am using debian bookworm with kde and have noticed a bug in an application which is using a file open dialog. The problem only occurs in bookworm and is not present when using the same combination of kde and software on a system running bullseye. Which is the name of the package rela

Re: Screen goes blank for 1-2 seconds

2022-01-28 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2022-01-28 16:53, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Wherever possible, it's easier if you are using Debian stable: more people will hae experience / be running that at any one time. All the very best, as ever, Andy Cater I know. But testing is more convenient for me. I need to test current softwa

Re: Screen goes blank for 1-2 seconds

2022-01-28 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2022-01-28 16:48, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On 2022-01-28 10:16, hdv@gmail wrote: About the fan: I seem to remember I had to install amdgpu-fan (needed to look that up, forgot the name) when I got this setup. Not sure if it still is needed or that the driver can control the fan reliably nowada

Re: Screen goes blank for 1-2 seconds

2022-01-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 04:16:19PM +0100, hdv@gmail wrote: > On 2022-01-28 15:31, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > On 2022-01-28 08:40, hdv@gmail wrote: > > > I am reasonably sure the problem lies in some form or combination of > > > software. Sadly, my expertise in that area is insufficient to find > >

Re: Screen goes blank for 1-2 seconds

2022-01-28 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-28 10:16, hdv@gmail wrote: About the fan: I seem to remember I had to install amdgpu-fan (needed to look that up, forgot the name) when I got this setup. Not sure if it still is needed or that the driver can control the fan reliably nowadays. I need to check that out too when I get h

Re: Security

2022-01-28 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2022-01-27 21:44:07 -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2022, 12:39 PM Andrei POPESCU > wrote: > > > I'll use the opportunity to draw attention to DSA-5059-1, see e.g. this > > article for details: > > > > > > https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/01/a-bug-lurking-f

Re: Screen goes blank for 1-2 seconds

2022-01-28 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2022-01-28 15:31, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On 2022-01-28 08:40, hdv@gmail wrote: I am reasonably sure the problem lies in some form or combination of software. Sadly, my expertise in that area is insufficient to find out what it is exactly. What kernel/OS/driver are you using if it is softwa

Re: Screen goes blank for 1-2 seconds

2022-01-28 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-01-28 08:40, hdv@gmail wrote: I am reasonably sure the problem lies in some form or combination of software. Sadly, my expertise in that area is insufficient to find out what it is exactly. What kernel/OS/driver are you using if it is software I can try to reproduce since I have a pre

Re: Re: GNOME Evolution cannot lock /var/spool/mail/

2022-01-28 Thread didier gaumet
Le vendredi 28 janvier 2022 à 14:32 +0100, Patrice Duroux a écrit : [...] > Just in case that that a package version as introduce some change to > the > following: > > patrice@kos-moceratops ~> ls -l /usr/libexec/camel-lock-helper-1.2 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 22784 14 janv. 13:15 /usr/libexec

Re: SSD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 07:30:25AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > David Wright writes: > > I've not heard of that problem. You were prevented from zeroing the > > entire device, which would have wiped the partition table anyway. > > > > What I would want to check is that the OS isn't doing some

Re: SSD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-28 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 07:30:25AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: I suspect this is the crux of the problem. the adapter I connected is a card reader. You put the SSD in a little plastic jacket that holds the SSD in such a way that the card reader can access the edge connector but the h

Re: Re: GNOME Evolution cannot lock /var/spool/mail/

2022-01-28 Thread Patrice Duroux
Hello, That more or less exactly the same on my side. I should have wrote /var/mail/ in fact. (The old bug affected me too much! :-D) And it is just to read all the emails (root) aliased to my user. Just in case that that a package version as introduce some change to the following: patrice@kos-m

Re: Screen goes blank for 1-2 seconds

2022-01-28 Thread hdv@gmail
On 2022-01-28 14:12, Pankaj Jangid wrote: Pankaj Jangid writes: UPDATE: I have changed the HDMI cable and since last 6hrs I have not faced that event again. Will update in the thread if it re-appears. Another thing happened when I was replacing the cable. I heard the sparking noise in the po

Re: SSD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-28 Thread Martin McCormick
David Wright writes: > I've not heard of that problem. You were prevented from zeroing the > entire device, which would have wiped the partition table anyway. > > What I would want to check is that the OS isn't doing something > stupid, like trying to automount it, failing, and consequently > set

Re: Screen goes blank for 1-2 seconds

2022-01-28 Thread Pankaj Jangid
Pankaj Jangid writes: > UPDATE: > > I have changed the HDMI cable and since last 6hrs I have not faced that > event again. Will update in the thread if it re-appears. > > Another thing happened when I was replacing the cable. I heard the > sparking noise in the power socket of monitor. So I tight

Re: Security

2022-01-28 Thread Dan Ritter
Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2022, 12:39 PM Andrei POPESCU > wrote: > > > On Ma, 25 ian 22, 16:13:23, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > And please don't bother to reply with "there are no other users on this > > system I should worry about", the bad guys could still find ways to get > > in,

Re: SSD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 07:39:12AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 09:07:31PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > > Command (m for help): p > > Disk /dev/sdh: 28.8 GiB, 30908350464 bytes, 60367872 sectors > > Disk model: USB HS-SD Card > > Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 byt

Re: Haskell Platform

2022-01-28 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 09:30:25PM +, Aaron Gray wrote: Is it possible to get the Haskell-Platform updated to a more recent version ? Debian has got the 2014 version on all releases. Can someone point me in the right direction as to how to do something about this please ? Are you sure you

"mount -t ntfs" vs "mount.ntfs" ?

2022-01-28 Thread Yvan Masson
Hi list, I had to recover a NTFS partition from a broken drive (I used GNU ddrescue with a domain log file generated by partclone), so I now have a file "recovered_partition.img": $ file recovered_partition.img recovered_partition.img: DOS/MBR boot sector, code offset 0x52+2, OEM-ID "NTFS

Fwd: Debian 11: Tuning kernel parameters swappiness and watermark_boost_factor to stop SWAP Storm

2022-01-28 Thread Steven J. West
Dear all, TL;DR/summary: - Tuning vm.watermark_boost_factor to 0 (disable) on Debian significantly improves performance on memory-intensive tasks that utilise SWAP space, by stopping preemptive kswapd freeing of memory, and subsequent page thrashing. - I suggest that Debian should

Re: GNOME Evolution cannot lock /var/spool/mail/

2022-01-28 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, Pretty old bugs you dug up: more than 10 and 20 years old ;-) Here (Bullseye, Evolution 3.38, Exim standard setup (local only)), with an Evolution dedicated local account set up to send (server type: sendmail) and receive (server type: local distribution in /var/mail/didier), I have no