Mouse movement in 3D games running in KVM VMs is not correct or usable

Hi, First thought, if someone using Debian Testing, please check to see if "alien-arena" is available for installing. In my Debian Testing environments, only "alien-arena-data" was available but not "alien-arena", which seems strange??? Reason for this email: Mouse movement in 3D games running

Re: SID KDE Plasma 6.2

On Saturday, 07-12-2024 at 05:35 Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Monday, 2 December 2024 04:56:09 CET Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > Were you using a Wayland session or an X11 session? > > > > Wayland > > On my side, kde6 with wayland does not work in a VirtualBox VM. > > I had to switch to X1

Re: Squid on Debian 12 not staring via systemd

On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 9:37 PM Timothy M Butterworth < timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 5:20 PM Timothy M Butterworth < > timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 4:19 PM Timothy M Butterworth < >> timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com

Debian Trixie Dolphin Issue

The current Dolphin version is too old for Konsole and says it is not installed, providing no working terminal panel . To work around this I did ; adrian@debian:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i --force-all dolphin_24.08.0-5_amd64.deb (Reading database ... 628554 files and directories currently insta

Re: Squid on Debian 12 not staring via systemd

On Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 21:37:35 -0500, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > 2024/12/06 21:35:05| *FATAL: Ipc::Mem::Segment::create failed to > shm_open(/squid-cf__metadata.shm): (17) File exists * A quick google search gives me

Re: Squid on Debian 12 not staring via systemd

Hi, On Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 09:37:35PM -0500, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > 2024/12/06 21:35:05| *FATAL: Ipc::Mem::Segment::create failed to > shm_open(/squid-cf__metadata.shm): (17) File exists * Are there files in /dev/shm left from a previous run that are owned by a different user? Thanks, A

Re: Squid on Debian 12 not staring via systemd

On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 5:20 PM Timothy M Butterworth < timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 4:19 PM Timothy M Butterworth < > timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 11:29 AM Timothy M Butterworth < >> timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.co

Re: restart crontab

On 2024-12-07 07:47, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Dec 07, 2024 at 07:20:12 +0800, Bitfox wrote: How can I restart crontab daemon? I tried "service crontab restart" and "dpkg --list |grep crontab", they have no help. crontab(1) is the name of the command that you use, as a user, to display or

Re: Shell function & variable usage.

On 12/6/24 18:46, e...@gmx.us wrote: > overengineered Greg's solution is better.

Re: Shell function & variable usage.

On Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 18:46:06 -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: > You could do something > overengineered like defining an array "excludepatterns" for patterns, and > then doing something like > > rsync \ > $(for pattern in ${excludepatterns[@]} ; do > echo -- "--exclude '$pattern'" > done) > > Mo

Re: restart crontab

On Sat, Dec 07, 2024 at 07:20:12 +0800, Bitfox wrote: > How can I restart crontab daemon? > I tried "service crontab restart" and "dpkg --list |grep crontab", they have > no help. crontab(1) is the name of the command that you use, as a user, to display or alter your personal crontab. The daemon

Re: Shell function & variable usage.

On 12/6/24 17:11, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: These > rsync \ > --exclude '*.mp3' \ >--exclude '*.mp4' \ > rsync \ > --exclude=$exclusions are not the same. In the first one you have "--exclude" for each pattern, and in the second you have it once. I suspect the first one is correct,

Re: Shell function & variable usage.

On Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 15:11:51 -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > (2) > exclusions='*.mp3' > exclusions+='*.mp4' > Restore() { \ > source=somewhere/Backup/ ; > echo "source is $source." ; > destination=elsewhere/workingDirectory ; > echo "destination is $destination." ; > rsync \ > -an

Shell function & variable usage.

Hypothetical shell usages (1) & (2). (1) Restore() { \ source=somewhere/Backup/ ; echo "source is $source." ; destination=elsewhere/workingDirectory ; echo "destination is $destination." ; rsync \ --exclude '*.mp3' \ --exclude '*.mp4' \ -anuv $source $destination ; } (2) exclusio

restart crontab

How can I restart crontab daemon? I tried "service crontab restart" and "dpkg --list |grep crontab", they have no help. Please help. thanks.

Re: Squid on Debian 12 not staring via systemd

On Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 05:20:02PM -0500, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 4:19 PM Timothy M Butterworth < > timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> > > > > According to squid upstream version 5.7 is no longer supported. Version > > 6.7 has a workaround fix for the prob

Re: Squid on Debian 12 not staring via systemd

On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 4:19 PM Timothy M Butterworth < timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 11:29 AM Timothy M Butterworth < > timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 11:08 AM Jeffrey Walton >> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at

Re: Squid on Debian 12 not staring via systemd

On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 11:29 AM Timothy M Butterworth < timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 11:08 AM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > >> On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 8:27 AM Timothy M Butterworth >> wrote: >> > [...] >> > After troubleshooting a bit I found that squid is not bi

Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting

On Fri 06 Dec 2024 at 19:14:51 (+), Chris Green wrote: > nsrxnst wrote: > > [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: utf-8, 70 lines --] > > > > The machine was gifted, and I was just so happy I could get Debian to boot > > That doesn't mean what you intended! (at least not to m

Re: SID KDE Plasma 6.2

On Monday, 2 December 2024 04:56:09 CET Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > Were you using a Wayland session or an X11 session? > > Wayland On my side, kde6 with wayland does not work in a VirtualBox VM. I had to switch to X11 HTH

Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting

nsrxnst wrote: > [-- text/plain, encoding quoted-printable, charset: utf-8, 70 lines --] > > The machine was gifted, and I was just so happy I could get Debian to boot That doesn't mean what you intended! (at least not to me it didn't) It means the machine was clever (in itself). What you mea

Re: Squid on Debian 12 not staring via systemd

On Fri, 6 Dec 2024 13:01:37 -0500 Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > Squid has a service account: "proxy" and group "proxy". > > That may be an issue. Years ago I had MySQL failures because MySQL > startup scripts checked UID and GID were mysql. Trying to start the > server as root led to failures.

Re: From SSD to NVME

On Fri, 6 Dec 2024 18:18:27 + "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > > > > OK, my curiosity is up. Why make a point of moving the Windows > > partition to the end of the drive? > > > > I seem to remember that it's significantly difficult to forecast the > likely size you'll want for a Windows syst

Re: From SSD to NVME

On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 03:32:10PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, 5 Dec 2024 22:03:52 + > "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > > > 2. Use gparted to move Windows (maybe apart from the EFI partition) > > to the end of the drive - move the blank space to the front of the > > drive after the EFI

Re: Squid on Debian 12 not staring via systemd

On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 11:56 AM Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 11:48 AM Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> >> On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 11:29 AM Timothy M Butterworth >> wrote: >> > >> > On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 11:08 AM Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> >> >> >> On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 8:27 AM

Re: Squid on Debian 12 not staring via systemd

On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 11:48 AM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 11:29 AM Timothy M Butterworth > wrote: > > > > On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 11:08 AM Jeffrey Walton > wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 8:27 AM Timothy M Butterworth > >> wrote: > >> > [...] > >> > After troublesho

Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting

The machine was gifted, and I was just so happy I could get Debian to boot then I never really investigated the hardware or thought much about it. it looks like there is a solution floating around this thread that I'm going to be trying. I have a Lenovo running Deb 12. The MacBook was also ru

Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting

having dug through all the functioning partitions, I have concluded it is my swap partition. I even had the intuition to reformat the swap partition. I'm going to try the no resume option and see if that does it. On December 6, 2024 11:31:51 AM EST, Felix Miata wrote: >tomas composed on 2024-12

Re: ext4 FS Crash

On Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 10:51:20PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: Michael, thank you for the long message. Actually I wonder what is "idle" that allows drive to perform self-maintenance. I expect that the device should not be in some deep power saving state (I am yet to discover available tunables t

Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting

tomas composed on 2024-12-06 10:47 (UTC+0100): > On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 09:39:55PM -0500, nsrxnst wrote: >> aha. >> booted a live USB. one of the partitions is now of type "swsuspend". my >> sleuthing has led me to decide it's a corrupted fs. > I've got a different hunch from the others expre

Re: Squid on Debian 12 not staring via systemd

On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 8:27 AM Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > [...] > After troubleshooting a bit I found that squid is not binding a socket to > 3128 when started manually. > > root@hp-debian:/home/tmb# squid -a 3128 > 2024/12/06 05:01:01| FATAL: vector::_M_range_check: __n (which is 1) >= > th

Re: Squid on Debian 12 not staring via systemd

> Is anyone running Squid on Debian 12? I installed it but I can not get it > to start via systemd. FWIW, I'm running Squid on Debian 12, yes. I don't know if I start it via systemd, but it's started at boot presumably by systemd and `systemctl status squid` gives mean sane output. [ and it does s

Re: ext4 FS Crash

On 06/12/2024 21:05, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: As a check if the defective sectors are all mapped out I did read all sectors of the partitions:   sudo dd if=/dev/sdaX of=/dev/null bs=8M status=progress I am curious if "nvme device-self-test" might be more effective. Michael, thank you for

Re: ext4 FS Crash

Hi, Michael Stone wrote on 06/12/2024 14:49: On Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 02:26:23PM +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Should have been more clear. The drive should be idle for a longer time. This is assured by not mounting any partition of the SSD. I was able to "repair" unreadable sectors on a built

Re: ext4 FS Crash

On Fri, Dec 06, 2024 at 02:26:23PM +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Should have been more clear. The drive should be idle for a longer time. This is assured by not mounting any partition of the SSD. I was able to "repair" unreadable sectors on a built-in SSD of an HP-Probook laptop. As far as I r

Re: ext4 FS Crash

Hi, Michael Stone wrote on 05/12/2024 18:41: On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 10:26:18PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: On 05/12/2024 16:19, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: 1. SSD's have some self healing capacities (discarding defect sectors) which are performed when the drive is not mounted. Therefore, enter the

Re: Squid on Debian 12 not staring via systemd

On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 4:42 AM Timothy M Butterworth < timothy.m.butterwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Is anyone running Squid on Debian 12? I installed it but I can not get it > to start via systemd. > > root@hp-debian:/home/tmb# systemctl status squid.service > × squid.service - Squid Web P

Squid on Debian 12 not staring via systemd

Hello, Is anyone running Squid on Debian 12? I installed it but I can not get it to start via systemd. root@hp-debian:/home/tmb# systemctl status squid.service × squid.service - Squid Web Proxy Server Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/squid.service; enabled; preset: enabled) Active: fai

Re: MacBook pro 2014 stopped booting

On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 09:39:55PM -0500, nsrxnst wrote: > aha. > > booted a live USB. one of the partitions is now of type "swsuspend". my > sleuthing has led me to decide it's a corrupted fs. I've got a different hunch from the others expressed in this thread: your computer is trying to resto