Re: backup of backup or alternating backups?

On Mon, Oct 07, 2024 at 08:44:44PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Mon Oct 7, 2024 at 9:37 AM BST, Michel Verdier wrote: > > Do you mean inodes expensive ? Which filesystem do you used ? > > It was 18 years ago so I can't remember that clearly, but I think it was > a mixture of inodes expense

Re: Uninterruptible sleep apache process while aceessing nfs on debian 12 bookworm

Carlos Llamas wrote: > I made a PHP script which locks a specific file in a NFS directory, measuring > every step involved. Then exported the results to CSV and graphed it on ELK > because I am more familiar with it. Thanks for the additional details. It sounds like you have a reproducible test

Re: Debian 12: User calls synaptic: Unable to authenticate root

On 06/10/2024 16:47, Joe wrote: My graphical menu calls synaptic-pkexec, and it definitely wants the root password, and it says so explicitly. My impression is that polkit dialog appearance depends on desktop environment. In KDE it is more confusing since it contains no hint if user or root p

Re: Firefox pausing network activity during vt-switch / screenlock

On 07/10/2024 08:35, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: On Sun, Oct 6, 2024 at 8:32 AM Max Nikulin wrote: Firefox generates events in response to connection changes in NetworkManager: In this case, the network state is not changing. Oth

Re: backup of backup or alternating backups?

On Mon, 07 Oct 2024 20:44:44 +0100 "Jonathan Dowland" wrote: > It was 18 years ago so I can't remember that clearly, but I think it > was a mixture of inodes expense and an enlarged amount of CPU time > with the file churn (mails moved from new to cur, and later to a > separate archive Maildir, t

Re: Debian 12: need nvidia-settings to join 2 2560x1440 into a 2880x2560

On Mon, 7 Oct 2024 22:52:51 +0200 (CEST) Roger Price wrote: > In Debian 11 I have two 2560x1440 displays side by side in portrait > mode. With the package nvidia-settings I created an xorg.conf which > set these two displays to work as a single 2880x2560 display, Very > nice. I would now like t

Re: Debian 12: User calls synaptic: Unable to authenticate root

On 07/10/2024 15:07, Bruno Schneider wrote: On Sun, Oct 6, 2024 at 10:51 AM Roger Price wrote: I logged out and back in. Command "sudo /usr/sbin/synaptic" called for my own password, and now works correctly. It is unclear if the Synaptic desktop icon is now working for you. I'm using a rec

Re: Reading an old HDD

On Sun 06 Oct 2024 at 03:02:13 (-0700), Will Mengarini wrote: > * Henrik Ahlgren [24-10/06=Sun 11:20 +0300]: > > On Sat, 2024-10-05 at 08:40 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > >> However, head movement isn't always audible. 3½" and 5¼" drives aren't > >> usually audible, although I've had a few very n

Re: Uninterruptible sleep apache process while aceessing nfs on debian 12 bookworm

Carlos Llamas wrote: > When this happens, apache2 processes on a backend VM (NFS client > machine) wait in state D for a long time (I was only able to trace a > file, and lasted 90s until file unlocked). It sounds like the process is trying to unlock a file, and the system call hangs for 90 secon

Re: Debian 12: need nvidia-settings to join 2 2560x1440 into a 2880x2560

On 2024-10-07 21:52, Roger Price wrote: In Debian 11 I have two 2560x1440 displays side by side in portrait mode. With the package nvidia-settings I created an xorg.conf which set these two displays to work as a single 2880x2560 display, Very nice. I would now like to do the same thing in Debia

Re: Debian 12: need nvidia-settings to join 2 2560x1440 into a 2880x2560

Roger Price writes: > In Debian 11 I have two 2560x1440 displays side by side in portrait mode. > With > the package nvidia-settings I created an xorg.conf which set these two > displays > to work as a single 2880x2560 display, Very nice. I would now like to do the > same thing in Debian 1

Debian 12: need nvidia-settings to join 2 2560x1440 into a 2880x2560

In Debian 11 I have two 2560x1440 displays side by side in portrait mode. With the package nvidia-settings I created an xorg.conf which set these two displays to work as a single 2880x2560 display, Very nice. I would now like to do the same thing in Debian 12, but with Debian 12 I cannot find

Re: backup of backup or alternating backups?

On 10/7/24 16:06, Dan Ritter wrote: e...@gmx.us wrote: I use rdiff to do the backups on the "server" ... and ran into that problem, so what I did was write a series of scripts that relinked identical files. Possibly of interest: Debian package rdfind: Description: find duplicate files utilit

Re: Unresponding maintainer on out-of-date package

Hi, > > I have been trying to get in contact with the maintainer of a package, but > > they have not answered at all since my last mail a month ago. What should I > > do about that? > > I'd probably wait another month and then contact the MIA team pointing > them to the bug(s) I filed in the Debia

Re: backup of backup or alternating backups?

e...@gmx.us wrote: > > I use rdiff to do the backups on the "server" (its job is serving video > content to the TV box over NFS) and ran into that problem, so what I did was > write a series of scripts that relinked identical files. It's not perfect, > I suspect there are still bugs. It tries t

Re: backup of backup or alternating backups?

On Sun Oct 6, 2024 at 9:24 PM BST, eben wrote: > I use rdiff to do the backups on the "server" (its job is serving video > content to the TV box over NFS) and ran into that problem, so what I did was > write a series of scripts that relinked identical files. It's not perfect, > I suspect there are

Re: backup of backup or alternating backups?

On Mon Oct 7, 2024 at 9:37 AM BST, Michel Verdier wrote: > Do you mean inodes expensive ? Which filesystem do you used ? It was 18 years ago so I can't remember that clearly, but I think it was a mixture of inodes expense and an enlarged amount of CPU time with the file churn (mails moved from new

Re: Firefox

On Mon, Oct 7, 2024 at 12:45 AM Maureen L Thomas wrote: > > There was an upgrade so I did it and it is now even worse as far as getting > pages to load. I keep getting error 404, and other messages. But if I copy > the addy and put it in Web it comes up right away. What the hell is going > on

Re: Firefox codecs

On Sat, Oct 5, 2024 at 11:46 PM Max Nikulin wrote: > > Do you have libfdk-aac2 or gstreamer1.0-fdkaac (non-free) installed? It > may depend on whether PipeWire or PulseAudio is used. > Now I'm writing from a computer where Firefox supports AAC that has neither of those packages installed, just to

Re: Firefox

On Sun, Oct 6, 2024 at 10:39 PM Maureen L Thomas wrote: > > There was an upgrade so I did it and it is now even worse as far as getting > pages to load. I keep getting error 404, and other messages. But if I copy > the addy and put it in Web it comes up right away. What the hell is going > on.

Re: Debian 12: User calls synaptic: Unable to authenticate root

On Sun, Oct 6, 2024 at 10:51 AM Roger Price wrote: > > I logged out and back in. Command "sudo /usr/sbin/synaptic" called for my own > password, and now works correctly. > It is unclear if the Synaptic desktop icon is now working for you. I'm using a recent install of Debian 13 (testing) and I r

Re: Firefox codecs

On Sat, Oct 5, 2024 at 11:46 PM Max Nikulin wrote: > > Do you have libfdk-aac2 or gstreamer1.0-fdkaac (non-free) installed? It > may depend on whether PipeWire or PulseAudio is used. I did not. I installed gstreamer1.0-fdkaac (libfdk-aac2 is a dependency of gstreamer1.0-fdkaac) and nothing changed

Re: Unresponding maintainer on out-of-date package

On Mon, 7 Oct 2024 14:55:24 +0200 emneo wrote: Hello emneo, >While I am thinking about it, is there some documentation to try and >help on Debian (packaging or anything else). https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debmake-doc/index.en.html You might also consider subscribing to the Debian Develo

Re: Unresponding maintainer on out-of-date package

On Mon, Oct 07, 2024 at 02:55:24PM +0200, emneo wrote: > While I am thinking about it, is there some documentation to try and help on > Debian (packaging or anything else). > > I definitely have some time to spare and would be glad to help where I can > :) Hm. I'm not the right person to explain,

Re: Unresponding maintainer on out-of-date package

While I am thinking about it, is there some documentation to try and help on Debian (packaging or anything else). I definitely have some time to spare and would be glad to help where I can :) On 07/10/2024 14:49, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Oct 07, 2024 at 02:48:51PM +0200, emneo wrote:

Re: Unresponding maintainer on out-of-date package

That is a single maintainer package, and they are not in the list that you just provided. So I would guess that this is fine. On 07/10/2024 14:44, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Oct 07, 2024 at 02:17:15PM +0200, emneo wrote: Hello, Thank you for the answer, it is definitely not a highly imp

Re: Unresponding maintainer on out-of-date package

On Mon, Oct 07, 2024 at 02:48:51PM +0200, emneo wrote: > That is a single maintainer package, and they are not in the list that you > just provided. I see. Anyway, thanks for making Debian better :) Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Unresponding maintainer on out-of-date package

On Mon, Oct 07, 2024 at 02:17:15PM +0200, emneo wrote: > Hello, > > Thank you for the answer, it is definitely not a highly important update > (Just a bump with some bug fixes, with some being crashes that are quite > annoying to work around) but it can be dealt without. > > I'll be waiting for a

Re: Unresponding maintainer on out-of-date package

Hello, Thank you for the answer, it is definitely not a highly important update (Just a bump with some bug fixes, with some being crashes that are quite annoying to work around) but it can be dealt without. I'll be waiting for another month or so and then contact the MIA team like you just w

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I'm using the latest stable version of Debian 12 on a lenovo D330 Celeron N4020 model, but the auto-rotate is inverted, it won't boot up from lock, it starts up with a black screen, and sleep is the same. I'm pretty sure the same thing happens when the screen is off. Other than that, I have no co

Re: Uninterruptible sleep apache process while aceessing nfs on debian 12 bookworm

Hello, We are facing this problem too with 3 backend VMs and a NFS VM. Both servers are Google Cloud Compute Engine instances with plenty of CPU and RAM. We don't see any correlation with high CPU or RAM usage whenever this happens on any machine. When this happens, apache2 processes on a backend

Re: Unresponding maintainer on out-of-date package

Hi, On Mon, Oct 07, 2024 at 10:24:54AM +0200, emneo wrote: > I have been trying to get in contact with the maintainer of a package, but > they have not answered at all since my last mail a month ago. What should I > do about that? I'd probably wait another month and then contact the MIA team poi

Unresponding maintainer on out-of-date package

Hello, I have been trying to get in contact with the maintainer of a package, but they have not answered at all since my last mail a month ago. What should I do about that? I can provide patches for a specific package if needed but I am not aware to whom I should contact regarding that matte

Re: backup of backup or alternating backups?

On 2024-10-06, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > At the time I was using rsnapshot, I was subscribed to some very high > traffic mailing lists (such as LKML), and storing the mail in Maildir > format (=1 file per email). rsnapshot's design of lots of hardlinks for > files that are present in more than on