Re: /var/log/journal/ size question

2022-04-20 Thread Teemu Likonen
* 2022-04-21 10:08:04+0800, Henrik S. wrote: > The dir /var/log/journal/ on my debian host increases quite quickly. > why this happens? Do you know how to suppress it? User can control log sizes with /etc/systemd/journald.conf file but systemd manages them automatically quite intelligently. Logs

Re: /var/log/journal/ size question

2022-04-20 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Thu, Apr 21 2022 at 10:08:04 AM, Henrik S wrote: > The dir /var/log/journal/ on my debian host increases quite quickly. > why this happens? Do you know how to suppress it? > That's the storage for the logs maintained by journald. You can manage these logs by editing /etc/systemd/journald.conf

/var/log/journal/ size question

2022-04-20 Thread Henrik S
The dir /var/log/journal/ on my debian host increases quite quickly. why this happens? Do you know how to suppress it? Thanks.

Re: Grub question

2022-04-20 Thread David Wright
On Wed 20 Apr 2022 at 20:09:54 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 02:31:30PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I have a machine set aside to test several configurations of Debian 11. > > > > Is there away to have the Grub Menu _automatically_ display the assigned > > partit

Re: Debian 9 Xfce intermittent keyboard and mouse erratic behavior or lockup

2022-04-20 Thread David Christensen
On 4/20/22 14:40, Felix Miata wrote: David Christensen composed on 2022-04-20 14:14 (UTC-0700): Can you suggestion and commands to run that might provide clues? Other than switching between use of DDX display drivers (intel, nouveau) and DIX driver (modesetting, which supports: AMD, Intel, N

Re: Debian 9 Xfce intermittent keyboard and mouse erratic behavior or lockup

2022-04-20 Thread Felix Miata
David Christensen composed on 2022-04-20 14:14 (UTC-0700): > Felix Miata wrote: >> There are two different technologies for X display drivers. >> xserver-xorg-video-intel uses the older, DDX. It hasn't had an official >> release in >> nearly a decade. Unofficially it's in maintenance mode. The n

Re: Debian 9 Xfce intermittent keyboard and mouse erratic behavior or lockup

2022-04-20 Thread David Christensen
On 4/20/22 11:23, Felix Miata wrote: David Christensen composed on 2022-04-20 10:31 (UTC-0700): 1. Dell Inspiron E1505, Intel Core 2 Duo T7400 processor, Intel GM 945 chipset (IntelĀ® 82945GM Graphics and Memory Controller). I believe Debian uses the xserver-xorg-video-intel driver. 3. Des

Re: system freeze

2022-04-20 Thread Felix Miata
mick crane composed on 2022-04-20 20:58 (UTC+0100): > $ inxi -SGayz > Graphics: >Device-1: AMD Pitcairn LE GL [FirePro W5000] vendor: Dell driver: radeon > v: kernel alternate: amdgpu pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: > active: DP-1 empty: DP-2,DVI-I-1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-

Re: system freeze

2022-04-20 Thread Linux-Fan
mick crane writes: hello, I frequently have the system freeze on me and I have to unplug it. It seems to only happen in a browser and *appears* to be triggered by using the mouse. If watching streamed youtube movie or reading blogs sometimes the screen goes black and everything is unresponsi

Re: Grub question

2022-04-20 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 02:31:30PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I have a machine set aside to test several configurations of Debian 11. > > Is there away to have the Grub Menu _automatically_ display the assigned > partition name rather than than /dev/sdaN ? > I wonder whether this changes if y

Re: system freeze

2022-04-20 Thread mick crane
On 2022-04-20 19:35, Felix Miata wrote: Section "Device" Identifier "DefaultDevice" Driver "amdgpu" EndSection I've changed /etc/default/grub #GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet" GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="radeon.si_support=0 amdgpu.si_support=1" typed grub-mkconfig making file /

Grub question

2022-04-20 Thread Richard Owlett
I have a machine set aside to test several configurations of Debian 11. Is there away to have the Grub Menu _automatically_ display the assigned partition name rather than than /dev/sdaN ?

Re: system freeze

2022-04-20 Thread Felix Miata
mick crane composed on 2022-04-20 19:14 (UTC+0100): >> radeon.si_support=0 amdgpu.si_support=1 > I added that to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in /etc/default/grub but I > can't see what to put in /boot/grub/grub.cfg because I'm not supposed to > edit it and grub-mkconfig is automagical. /b

Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured?

2022-04-20 Thread David Wright
On Wed 20 Apr 2022 at 18:45:47 (+0100), piorunz wrote: > On 20/04/2022 17:11, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 04:23:38PM +0100, piorunz wrote: > > > Sorry but this happened to me a few times, each tome with the same Wine > > > program. it just loves to eat all available memory w

Re: Debian 9 Xfce intermittent keyboard and mouse erratic behavior or lockup

2022-04-20 Thread Felix Miata
David Christensen composed on 2022-04-20 10:31 (UTC-0700): > 1. Dell Inspiron E1505, Intel Core 2 Duo T7400 processor, Intel GM 945 > chipset (IntelĀ® 82945GM Graphics and Memory Controller). I believe > Debian uses the xserver-xorg-video-intel driver. > 3. Desktop with Intel DQ67SW motherboa

Re: system freeze

2022-04-20 Thread mick crane
On 2022-04-20 17:34, Felix Miata wrote: mick crane composed on 2022-04-20 11:47 (UTC+0100): Graphics: Device-1: AMD Pitcairn LE GL [FirePro W5000] vendor: Dell driver: radeon v: kernel alternate: amdgpu pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-1 empty: DP-2,DVI-I-1 bu

Re: Debian 9 Xfce intermittent keyboard and mouse erratic behavior or lockup

2022-04-20 Thread David Christensen
On 4/20/22 4:51 AM, songbird wrote: Dieter Rohlfing wrote: Am Wed, 20 Apr 2022 00:43:35 -0700 schrieb David Christensen : I have been experiencing intermittent storms of random keyboard and mouse GUI events over the past year or more: Same for me. System is Debian 9.13 (kernel 4.19.0-0.bpo.

Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured?

2022-04-20 Thread piorunz
On 20/04/2022 17:11, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 04:23:38PM +0100, piorunz wrote: Sorry but this happened to me a few times, each tome with the same Wine program. it just loves to eat all available memory when its doing heavy computations. When I am not careful and I start to

Re: Debian 9 Xfce intermittent keyboard and mouse erratic behavior or lockup

2022-04-20 Thread David Christensen
On 4/20/22 3:43 AM, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: On 4/20/22, Dieter Rohlfing wrote: Am Wed, 20 Apr 2022 00:43:35 -0700 schrieb David Christensen : I have been experiencing intermittent storms of random keyboard and mouse GUI events over the past year or more: Same for me. System is Debian 9.13

Re: Debian 9 Xfce intermittent keyboard and mouse erratic behavior or lockup

2022-04-20 Thread David Christensen
On 4/20/22 2:23 AM, Dieter Rohlfing wrote: Am Wed, 20 Apr 2022 00:43:35 -0700 schrieb David Christensen : I have been experiencing intermittent storms of random keyboard and mouse GUI events over the past year or more: Same for me. System is Debian 9.13 (kernel 4.19.0-0.bpo.19-amd64, XFCE de

Re: system freeze

2022-04-20 Thread Felix Miata
mick crane composed on 2022-04-20 11:47 (UTC+0100): > Graphics: >Device-1: AMD Pitcairn LE GL [FirePro W5000] vendor: Dell driver: > radeon > v: kernel alternate: amdgpu pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 > ports: > active: DP-1 empty: DP-2,DVI-I-1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:6

Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured?

2022-04-20 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 04:23:38PM +0100, piorunz wrote: Sorry but this happened to me a few times, each tome with the same Wine program. it just loves to eat all available memory when its doing heavy computations. When I am not careful and I start too many threads, is eats all memory. My system

Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured?

2022-04-20 Thread piorunz
On 20/04/2022 11:28, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 05:53:20PM +0100, piorunz wrote: Well, nowadays oom killer is not so picky. It just kills (almost) EVERYTHING and then offending memory hungry process as a last, destroying entire work session. You are extrapolating from your

Re: what program sets up /run/user/1000/ ?

2022-04-20 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 04 Jun 2021 14:35:47 +0200 "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > Hi, > > songbird wrote: > > some strange fs entry shows up: > > # ls -l /run/user/1000 > > d? ? ? ??? doc > > We had this topic a few day ago. > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/06/msg00020.html

Re: slrn broke after power failure

2022-04-20 Thread songbird
Charlie Gibbs wrote: > Thanks, everyone, for all your help. I think I might have found > the solution thanks to songbird: > > > then remove the zero length file and remove the .overview file > > for that group and see if you can then get that message again. > > i think a missing .overview file s

Re: Debian 9 Xfce intermittent keyboard and mouse erratic behavior or lockup

2022-04-20 Thread songbird
Dieter Rohlfing wrote: > Am Wed, 20 Apr 2022 00:43:35 -0700 > schrieb David Christensen : > >>I have been experiencing intermittent storms of random keyboard and >>mouse GUI events over the past year or more: > > Same for me. > > System is Debian 9.13 (kernel 4.19.0-0.bpo.19-amd64, XFCE desktop) ru

Re: After upgrade to bullseye, tty1-6 not working

2022-04-20 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 12:27:09PM +0200, Christian Britz wrote: > Wild-eyed speculation: The tweaks are probably still present in > /etc/default/grub. Remove them to see if the problems are related. (And run update-grub after editing the file.)

system freeze

2022-04-20 Thread mick crane
hello, I frequently have the system freeze on me and I have to unplug it. It seems to only happen in a browser and *appears* to be triggered by using the mouse. If watching streamed youtube movie or reading blogs sometimes the screen goes black and everything is unresponsive and sometimes the sc

Re: Debian 9 Xfce intermittent keyboard and mouse erratic behavior or lockup

2022-04-20 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 4/20/22, Dieter Rohlfing wrote: > Am Wed, 20 Apr 2022 00:43:35 -0700 > schrieb David Christensen : > >>I have been experiencing intermittent storms of random keyboard and >>mouse GUI events over the past year or more: > > Same for me. > > System is Debian 9.13 (kernel 4.19.0-0.bpo.19-amd64, XFC

Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured?

2022-04-20 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 05:53:20PM +0100, piorunz wrote: Well, nowadays oom killer is not so picky. It just kills (almost) EVERYTHING and then offending memory hungry process as a last, destroying entire work session. You are extrapolating from your single experience to make a generalisation th

Re: After upgrade to bullseye, tty1-6 not working

2022-04-20 Thread Christian Britz
Hello Hobie, On 2022-04-20 12:13 UTC+0200, hobie of RMN wrote: > Hi, Folks - > With buster, I had done some tweaking to the boot command line in order to > have a certain font size come up in the plain text console windows. > Should I suspect that's still present in grub and is for some reason >

Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured?

2022-04-20 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 10:34:19AM +0100, piorunz wrote: Instead of killing ONE 7.5 million-worth pagetable process, Linux is killing everything else! KDE activity manager killed. Then it goes on to kill EVERYTHING in the system: Perhaps your wine processes had their oom_adj (etc) values tweake

After upgrade to bullseye, tty1-6 not working

2022-04-20 Thread hobie of RMN
Hi, Folks - On reboot after upgrading from buster to bullseye, my AOC monitor, connected via DVI, is showing "Input Not Support" on non-GUI tty1-tty6 - but, tty7 is successfully running the GUI (xfce4 in my case) and it shows up fine on that same monitor. With buster, I had done some tweaking to

Re: Debian 9 Xfce intermittent keyboard and mouse erratic behavior or lockup

2022-04-20 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Am Wed, 20 Apr 2022 00:43:35 -0700 schrieb David Christensen : >I have been experiencing intermittent storms of random keyboard and >mouse GUI events over the past year or more: Same for me. System is Debian 9.13 (kernel 4.19.0-0.bpo.19-amd64, XFCE desktop) running on an ASRock DeskMini H110M.

Re: Debian 9 Xfce intermittent keyboard and mouse erratic behavior or lockup

2022-04-20 Thread David Christensen
On 4/20/22 12:43 AM, David Christensen wrote: debian-user: I have an SSD with Debian: 2022-04-19 23:24:11 dpchrist@tinkywinky ~ $ cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a 9.13 Linux tinkywinky 4.9.0-18-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.303-1 (2022-03-07) x86_64 GNU/Linux I have been experiencing intermitte

Debian 9 Xfce intermittent keyboard and mouse erratic behavior or lockup

2022-04-20 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: I have an SSD with Debian: 2022-04-19 23:24:11 dpchrist@tinkywinky ~ $ cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a 9.13 Linux tinkywinky 4.9.0-18-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.303-1 (2022-03-07) x86_64 GNU/Linux I have been experiencing intermittent storms of random keyboard and mouse GUI eve