Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-04-03 Thread Max Nikulin
On 31/03/2024 22:35, David Wright wrote: On Sun 31 Mar 2024 at 09:42:37 (+0300), Antti-Pekka Känsälä wrote: But I'm worried my Gmail in Firefox is capable of stealing files off my USB stick. I've no answer for that, particularly in view of Max's reply to my previous post. I've always copied f

Re: readonly installer, (SOLVED)

2024-04-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I have a 128 MB USB flash drive from back in the day that includes a write > protect switch. There are few products today that offer that feature. Side note: AFAIK this "write protect switch" doesn't prevent writing. It just tells your card reader that you'd like to avoid writing to it. Whether

Re: Debian ISOs on USB stick

2024-04-03 Thread David Christensen
On 4/3/24 05:56, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, i read from bytes 2085412 to 2085479: "Info rrmation Syste rm VolumeSYSTEM~" which is similar to the alterations of one of the USB sticks shown in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1056998#35 The web knows about a Microsoft folder

Re: readonly installer, (SOLVED)

2024-04-03 Thread David Christensen
On 4/3/24 08:16, David Wright wrote: On Tue 02 Apr 2024 at 05:54:06 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: On 4/1/24 11:35, DdB wrote: Am 01.04.2024 um 18:52 schrieb David Christensen: A bad USB flash drive would explain why you cannot boot the Debian installer.  Please buy a good quality USB 3.0+

Re: [Sid] Nouveau: only one monitor after 6.6.15 to 6.7.9 upgrade

2024-04-03 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2024-04-03 21:39 +0200, Greg wrote: > I have two HP Z30i connected to Nvidia GeForce GTX 670. After last > upgrade I'm able to use only one monitor. > > When running linux-image-6.7.9: > > # dmesg | grep nouveau | cut -b 16- > nouveau :01:00.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga console > nouveau :

[Sid] Nouveau: only one monitor after 6.6.15 to 6.7.9 upgrade

2024-04-03 Thread Greg
Hi there, I have two HP Z30i connected to Nvidia GeForce GTX 670. After last upgrade I'm able to use only one monitor. When running linux-image-6.7.9: # dmesg | grep nouveau | cut -b 16- nouveau :01:00.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga console nouveau :01:00.0: NVIDIA GK104 (0e4090a2) nouveau

Re: readonly installer, (SOLVED)

2024-04-03 Thread David Wright
On Tue 02 Apr 2024 at 05:54:06 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > On 4/1/24 11:35, DdB wrote: > > Am 01.04.2024 um 18:52 schrieb David Christensen: > > > A bad USB flash drive would explain why you cannot boot the Debian > > > installer.  Please buy a good quality USB 3.0+ flash drive and try agai

Re: Debian ISOs on USB stick

2024-04-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i read from bytes 2085412 to 2085479: "Info rrmation Syste rm VolumeSYSTEM~" which is similar to the alterations of one of the USB sticks shown in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1056998#35 The web knows about a Microsoft folder named "System Volume Information". http

Re: Debian ISOs on USB stick

2024-04-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, David Christensen wrote: > # cmp --verbose debian-11.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso /dev/sdb I got my copy from https://get.debian.org/images/archive/11.3.0/amd64/iso-cd/debian-11.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso SHA256 matches: 7892981e1da216e79fb3a1536ce5ebab157afdd20048fe458f2ae34fbc26c19b In a further

Re: HDD long-term data storage with ensured integrity

2024-04-03 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue Apr 2, 2024 at 10:57 PM BST, David Christensen wrote: > AIUI neither LVM nor ext4 have data and metadata checksum and correction > features. But, it should be possible to achieve such by including > dm-integrity (for checksumming) and some form of RAID (for correction) > in the storage s

Re: HDD long-term data storage with ensured integrity

2024-04-03 Thread David Christensen
On 4/2/24 14:57, David Christensen wrote: AIUI neither LVM nor ext4 have data and metadata checksum and correction features.  But, it should be possible to achieve such by including dm-integrity (for checksumming) and some form of RAID (for correction) in the storage stack.  I need to explore t

Re: Debian ISOs on USB stick, was: SOLVED

2024-04-03 Thread David Christensen
On 4/3/24 03:36, David Christensen wrote: On 4/3/24 00:30, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, David Christensen wrote: It's a relatively simple experiment to confirm that a USB flash drive with d-i changes after the first boot. This could still be    https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug

Re: Debian ISOs on USB stick, was: SOLVED

2024-04-03 Thread David Christensen
On 4/3/24 00:30, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, David Christensen wrote: It's a relatively simple experiment to confirm that a USB flash drive with d-i changes after the first boot. This could still be https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1056998 where Lenovo BIOS and/or MS-Windows

Re: Debian 12.5: pigz 2.6-1 fails with error message (Upstream issue 111)

2024-04-03 Thread Jonathan Chung
Hi, I think that the core problem which led to this also was on GRPCs side. They should not tell users to compile their library but rather point them to install it from their distros' packet manager (https://grpc.io/docs/languages/cpp/quickstart/#install-grpc) if possible. I will try to do the sw

Debian ISOs on USB stick, was: SOLVED

2024-04-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, David Christensen wrote: > It's a relatively simple experiment to confirm that a USB flash drive with > d-i changes after the first boot. This could still be https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1056998 where Lenovo BIOS and/or MS-Windows altered the USB stick. > Same for fin