Re: Run script after package install, update

2025-06-15 Thread Boyan Penkov
On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 1:15 PM David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 15 Jun 2025 at 11:33:09 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 11:07:41 -0400, Boyan Penkov wrote: > > > So ultimately, my problem is addressed; however, the larger question > > > is

Re: Run script after package install, update?

2025-06-15 Thread Boyan Penkov
Thanks for looking, Greg! I learned a few things following your note though, line, by line... On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 11:33 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 11:07:41 -0400, Boyan Penkov wrote: > > So ultimately, my problem is addressed; however, the larger que

Re: Run script after package install, update?

2025-06-15 Thread Boyan Penkov
t; "if you touched etckeeper, re-commit the /etc files" and so on ... Either way, thanks kindly, folks! On Sat, Jun 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM Boyan Penkov wrote: > > Hello folks, > > I'm wiring to ask how to get apt to run a script after a particular > package is installe

Run script after package install, update?

2025-06-14 Thread Boyan Penkov
indly, and cheers! -- Boyan Penkov

Re: array suggestions

2025-03-22 Thread Boyan Penkov
ce the smaller drives later on to get > higher usable capacity. > > Here is a capacity calculator: > > > https://carfax.org.uk/btrfs-usage/?c=2&slo=1&shi=1&p=0&dg=1&d=8000&d=8000&d=1000&d=1000 > > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 05:11:19PM -040

Re: array suggestions

2025-03-21 Thread Boyan Penkov
If someone who has a firm grasp of the current state of btrfs vs bcachefs for "power users who still need to get stuff other than 'administrativia' done" would speak up, I'd be glad for some perspective as well... Cheers! On Fri, Mar 21, 2025, 15:33 Eben King wrote: > I have a 2x1TB RAID-1 arra

Re: gnome-shell segfault?

2025-02-25 Thread Boyan Penkov
ced the same. > > BR, > Roland > > pe 7.2.2025 klo 11.07 Boyan Penkov (boyan.pen...@gmail.com) kirjoitti: >> >> Hello folks, >> >> Occasionally, gnome-shell will drop one of these: >> >> [ 6446.052700] gnome-shell[26399]: segfault at 39966 ip &g

Re: iwlwifi bug in 6.12?

2025-02-12 Thread Boyan Penkov
! On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM Boyan Penkov wrote: > > Hey Jeff -- yes, good point; I just looked at the manufacturer's page > and saw a bunch of BIOS updates; I'll try this next here (well, at the > next crash...). > > Cheers! > > On Tue, Feb 11, 202

Re: iwlwifi bug in 6.12?

2025-02-11 Thread Boyan Penkov
Hey Jeff -- yes, good point; I just looked at the manufacturer's page and saw a bunch of BIOS updates; I'll try this next here (well, at the next crash...). Cheers! On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 1:33 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 4:47 AM Boyan Penkov wrote: >

Re: iwlwifi bug in 6.12?

2025-02-10 Thread Boyan Penkov
4 ``` Is this a btrfs software issue? My hard drives all pass smartctl with no errors. Cheers! On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM Boyan Penkov wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM Max Nikulin wrote: > > > > On 07/02/2025 22:55, Boyan Penkov wrote: > > > I uninstalled fi

Re: iwlwifi bug in 6.12?

2025-02-10 Thread Boyan Penkov
On Sun, Feb 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 07/02/2025 22:55, Boyan Penkov wrote: > > I uninstalled firmware-iwlwifi (this machine is wired either way...), > > and the problem has not reared its head in a few hours -- not sure if > > that means its solve

Re: iwlwifi bug in 6.12?

2025-02-07 Thread Boyan Penkov
I uninstalled firmware-iwlwifi (this machine is wired either way...), and the problem has not reared its head in a few hours -- not sure if that means its solved... Cheers! On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 10:27 AM Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 07/02/2025 13:57, Boyan Penkov wrote: > > >

Re: Synaptic and updated apt sources?

2025-02-07 Thread Boyan Penkov
at Clug wrote: > > > > On Saturday, 08-02-2025 at 00:39 Boyan Penkov wrote: > > After upgrading apt this week on testing (trixie), it defaults to the > > apt822 sources > > (https://repolib.readthedocs.io/en/latest/deb822-format.html#deb822-format), > > which ca

Re: Synaptic and updated apt sources?

2025-02-07 Thread Boyan Penkov
ank list, presumably reading from the old format (it used to edit /etc/apt/sources.list directly). Cheers! On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 8:05 AM George at Clug wrote: > > > > On Friday, 07-02-2025 at 19:23 Boyan Penkov wrote: > > Hello, > > > > After updating my apt so

Re: iwlwifi bug in 6.12?

2025-02-07 Thread Boyan Penkov
themachine kernel: #PF: error_code(0x) - not-present page ``` The machine then locks up and requires a reboot. Cheers! On Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 3:57 AM gene heskett wrote: > > And wht is it we are looking for? Contect please. > > On 2/7/25 01:58, Boyan Penkov wrote: > > Hell

Synaptic and updated apt sources?

2025-02-07 Thread Boyan Penkov
Hello, After updating my apt sources to the modernized ones, the synaptic settings ard preferences are blank (and don't show the usual sources). Updates and selection though the program still works fine, so I imagine this is a small oversight somewhere... Cheers! -- Boyan Penkov

gnome-shell segfault?

2025-02-07 Thread Boyan Penkov
48 8d 3d 6d 35 06 00 e8 da f5 02 00 e8 15 40 fc ff 0f 1f 44 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 48 83 ec 08 48 85 ff 74 43 <8b> 47 18 85 c0 78 14 f0 83 47 18 01 48 89 f8 48 83 c4 08 c3 0f 1f ...then blank the screen and put me back into gdm3. This is on 47.3-1, which is currently on testing... Cheers! --

iwlwifi bug in 6.12?

2025-02-06 Thread Boyan Penkov
Hello, Anybody else seeing this in the current testing kernel? Cheers! -- Boyan Penkov Feb 07 01:12:33 themachine kernel: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: Feb 07 01:12:33 themachine kernel: #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode Feb 07 01:12:33 themachine

Re: Chromium on Trixie -- not coming up?

2025-01-28 Thread Boyan Penkov
Might be a Wayland thing then... I'll keep an eye on it and keep folks posted... Cheers! On Tue, Jan 28, 2025, 12:22 Detlef Vollmann wrote: > On 1/27/25 23:32, Boyan Penkov wrote: > > > Is anybody else seeing today's Chromium (on Trixie...) not showing the > >

Chromium on Trixie -- not coming up?

2025-01-27 Thread Boyan Penkov
Hey folks, Is anybody else seeing today's Chromium (on Trixie...) not showing the GUI after it's run? If you're on Gnome and pull up the desktop view, it holds space for a window there and indicates it running, but no window shows up... Cheers! -- Boyan Penkov

Re: Page fault on Trixie kernel?

2025-01-16 Thread Boyan Penkov
t; > You just gotta love nVidia and their secret API. After an experience > similar to what you describe, back in 2020, I'm a Radeon man now. > > Boyan Penkov said on Thu, 16 Jan 2025 12:45:46 -0500 > > >This seems to have been it -- no crashes since the morning... >

Re: Page fault on Trixie kernel?

2025-01-16 Thread Boyan Penkov
ng" mailing list: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-testing/2025/01/msg1.html > > Nvidia drivers have problem with kernel 6.12.* (which is now current > kernel version in Trixie) > > Downgrade to the last available 6.11.* and it works fine. > > Regards, > R

Re: Page fault on Trixie kernel?

2025-01-16 Thread Boyan Penkov
> Cheers! > > On 16/01/2025 13:32, Boyan Penkov wrote: > > Confirming that downgrading to 6.1.0-29 from Bookworm makes this go away... > > > > Cheers! > > > > On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 7:19 AM Boyan Penkov wrote: > >> > >> Hello, > >

Re: Page fault on Trixie kernel?

2025-01-16 Thread Boyan Penkov
Confirming that downgrading to 6.1.0-29 from Bookworm makes this go away... Cheers! On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 7:19 AM Boyan Penkov wrote: > > Hello, > > Anybody seeing the attached page fault in dmesg on the Trixie kernel? > > Cheers! > > -- > Boyan Penkov -- Boyan Penkov

Page fault on Trixie kernel?

2025-01-16 Thread Boyan Penkov
Hello, Anybody seeing the attached page fault in dmesg on the Trixie kernel? Cheers! -- Boyan Penkov [ 2059.005772] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: e5a98000 [ 2059.005779] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode [ 2059.005782] #PF: error_code(0x) - not-present page

Re: Best practice for fresh install on UEFI with multiple disks?

2024-10-31 Thread Boyan Penkov
RAID /boot and do that directly on the btrfs. Either way, thanks to all the wiki contributors over the years, and cheers! On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 10:14 AM Boyan Penkov wrote: > > Hello folks, > > Thanks kindly -- and my apologies for picking this up after a while; > fell sick here...

Re: beeps and other sounds

2024-10-18 Thread Boyan Penkov
ostgreSQL, HTML and Jakarta EE is in > progress [ í ] -- Boyan Penkov

Re: Best practice for fresh install on UEFI with multiple disks?

2024-09-30 Thread Boyan Penkov
et=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro) > > # > > > > Every invocation adds a new, duplicate entry in the output of 'mount'. > > > > This is Debian sid amd64; /usr/bin/mount is from 'mount' package version > > 2.40.2-8. > > > > That's very interesting and looks like it's probably a kernel change. > > Tim. -- Boyan Penkov

Best practice for fresh install on UEFI with multiple disks?

2024-09-18 Thread Boyan Penkov
ebian cant quite yet without manually rsync'ing directories. Anybody have a firm solution here? Cheers! -- Boyan Penkov

Re: singularity-container in bookworm?

2023-08-04 Thread Boyan Penkov
does seem to work well. I have not tested any specific features here, but so far so good.! Cheers! > > Best, > Nilesh -- Boyan Penkov

Re: singularity-container in bookworm?

2023-08-01 Thread Boyan Penkov
Absolutely. I pushed singularity to bookworm fasttrack a few days back. > Please feel free to use it. > > [1]: https://groups.google.com/g/linux.debian.user/c/Smma75Z5qIw > [2]: https://micronews.debian.org/2023/1686751737.html > > Best, > Nilesh -- Boyan Penkov

singularity-container in bookworm?

2023-03-31 Thread Boyan Penkov
more structural issues that come up when upsteam's maintenance policy does not match Debian's more stable development cycle. Is this a viable candidate for inclusion in https://fasttrack.debian.net/ for Bookworm? Thanks, and cheers! -- Boyan Penkov

Re: FastTrack?

2022-11-16 Thread Boyan Penkov
Yep, confirming I see it again -- thanks, folks! On 11/16/22 13:25, gene heskett wrote: On 11/16/22 11:57, Luna Jernberg wrote: It's not just you! fasttrack.debian.net is down. https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/fasttrack.debian.net?proto=https On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 5:56 PM Boyan P

FastTrack?

2022-11-16 Thread Boyan Penkov
Hello folks, Is https://fasttrack.debian.net/ down? Cheers! -- Boyan Penkov

ledger, libboost and python3.10 in testing?

2022-08-30 Thread Boyan Penkov
Hello folks, In testing, ledger returns: ``` ledger: error while loading shared libraries: libboost_python310.so.1.74.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory ``` Do other folks see this? Cheers! -- Boyan Penkov

Re: VMD in Debian?

2022-08-15 Thread Boyan Penkov
On 8/13/22 05:49, Paul Wise wrote: Boyan Penkov asked: Is https://salsa.debian.org/debichem-team/vmd maintained? Is there a recommended way to get [vmd] installed in Debian? Looks like that hasn't been touched since 2013. It seems that vmd cannot be included in Debian due to li

VMD in Debian?

2022-08-07 Thread Boyan Penkov
Hello folks, Is https://salsa.debian.org/debichem-team/vmd maintained? Is there a recommended way to get https://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/ installed in Debian? Thanks kindly, and cheers! -- Boyan Penkov

Re: Status of Virtualbox in debian

2022-06-21 Thread Boyan Penkov
On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 7:32 PM Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > > On 21/06/2022 12:48, Boyan Penkov wrote: > > > > > > On 6/21/22 07:35, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > >> On 21/06/2022 11:53, Siard wrote: > >>> On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 00:05 +0100, Peter Hi

Re: Status of Virtualbox in debian

2022-06-21 Thread Boyan Penkov
On Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 13:26 Siard wrote: > On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 07:48 -0400, Boyan Penkov wrote: > > ... ensuring linux-kernel-headers for 5.18 were installed, and then > > reinstalling virtualbox and virtualbox-dkms resolved the issue for me. > > I can confirm this is work

Re: Status of Virtualbox in debian

2022-06-21 Thread Boyan Penkov
On 6/21/22 07:35, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: On 21/06/2022 11:53, Siard wrote: On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 00:05 +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: On 20/06/2022 14:55, Siard wrote: On Mon, 20 Jun 2022 14:21 +0200, Anders Andersson wrote: : www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html#additions-linux I sho

Re: virtualbox kernel modules?

2022-06-17 Thread Boyan Penkov
On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 12:45 AM Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > > On 17/6/22 00:08, Boyan Penkov wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 12:09 AM Keith Bainbridge > > wrote: > >>> Cheers! > >> > >> Good afternoon Boyan > >> > >>

virtualbox kernel modules?

2022-06-15 Thread Boyan Penkov
. You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed. ``` Modprobing for vboxdrv returns no modules. Has anybody seen this with more recent virtualbox installs? Cheers! -- Boyan Penkov

Re: Thunderbird problems

2021-06-15 Thread Boyan Penkov
On 6/15/21 8:05 AM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 15.06.2021 06:46, Robbi Nespu wrote: On 6/15/21 6:24 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: ... I didn't had any issues with Thunderbird before and after update. It works normally as usual. I think, the root cause for this issue could be elsewhere.

Paraview crashes?

2021-04-08 Thread Boyan Penkov
e1 gsignal + 321 0 0x7fb4c3d55d60 /usr/bin/../lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x3bd60) [0x7fb4c3d55d60] (2674.926s) [paraview] :0 FATL| Signal: SIGABRT [2] + abort paraview ``` Should I file a bug? Cheers! -- Boyan Penkov

pdf-tools, doc-view and emacs 27.1 in bullseye is very slow

2021-03-26 Thread Boyan Penkov
longer reliable over restarts. Anybody else seeing stuff like this? Cheers! -- Boyan Penkov

linux-image-amd64 OK?

2020-05-07 Thread Boyan Penkov
/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free deb https://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster-proposed-updates main contrib non-free deb https://code.liw.fi/debian/ unstable main deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib non-free% Cheers! -- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com

Re: What every programmer should know about memory, in 2019?

2019-10-27 Thread Boyan Penkov
Thanks, Tomas — any pointers to where I might find such an revised, amended version? Cheers! -- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com > On Oct 25, 2019, at 03:22, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 02:11:58AM +0200, deloptes wrote: >> Boyan Penkov wrote: >>

What every programmer should know about memory, in 2019?

2019-10-24 Thread Boyan Penkov
ender parts of this out of date or misleading on 2019 hardware. Cheers! -- Boyan Penkov

Re: buster irqbalance on 4.19.0-5 kernel?

2019-07-10 Thread Boyan Penkov
-- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com > On Jul 10, 2019, at 15:30, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > On 7/10/19, Boyan Penkov wrote: >> Hello, >> >> After the upgrade to 4.19.0-5, the irqbalance package is marked for >> autoremoval. While I am not familiar with exac

Re: buster irqbalance on 4.19.0-5 kernel?

2019-07-10 Thread Boyan Penkov
On 7/10/19 2:28 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2019-07-10 14:15 -0400, Boyan Penkov wrote: After the upgrade to 4.19.0-5, the irqbalance package is marked for autoremoval. That is correct. While I am not familiar with exactly what it does, reading here -- https://packages.debian.org/buster

buster irqbalance on 4.19.0-5 kernel?

2019-07-10 Thread Boyan Penkov
...) Did I miss something? Cheers! -- Boyan Penkov

Re: Buster emacs crashes with doc-view-mode

2019-05-22 Thread Boyan Penkov
On 5/21/19 4:08 AM, Curt wrote: Your backtrace looks quite similar to this: http://codepad.org/juUbz33Q https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/9xrjto/emacs_latex_docview_bug_crashes_emacs/ The OP believes his issue is related to the 'doc-view-resolution' parameter (when reverting from 300

Buster emacs crashes with doc-view-mode

2019-05-20 Thread Boyan Penkov
[0x4244ba] emacs[0x50319b] emacs[0x504900] emacs[0x505fd4] ... [1] + bus error emacs This is intensely annoying, since I usually have ~100 PDFs open. Any ideas? Cheers! -- Boyan Penkov

Re: No Books in print on Systemd?

2019-05-19 Thread Boyan Penkov
-- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com > On May 18, 2019, at 17:19, Kenneth Parker wrote: > > I know there are controversies on Systemd (including in Debian -- for > example, Devuan), but I want to learn enough about it to (Horrors!) become > an expert. > > And yes,

Re: How to get a clean situation for nvidia drivers

2019-03-13 Thread Boyan Penkov
-- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com > On Mar 13, 2019, at 07:55, Andrea Borgia wrote: > > Yup, my bad: I assumed that the package still had a reason to be installed. > It might have been a mistake or a requirement of an earlier video card, the > system is more than 10 yrs o

Re: How to get a clean situation for nvidia drivers

2019-03-12 Thread Boyan Penkov
On 3/12/19 2:03 PM, Erwan David wrote: When upgrading my lenovo T530 I was warned that nvidia-driver does not support anymore my graphic card. Thus I chose to not upgrade in the dialog. Now I have partially installed packages for nvidia driver, so what should I do with this ? And what should

Re: Stretch to buster

2019-02-09 Thread Boyan Penkov
OP, are you on x86? amd64? Cheers! -- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com > On Feb 9, 2019, at 16:29, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Sat, 9 Feb 2019 07:48:00 + > Paul Sutton wrote: > >> On 09/02/2019 02:22, Peter Ehlert wrote: >>> >>> On 2/8/19 11:09

Disable left-ctrl?

2019-01-28 Thread Boyan Penkov
. Better yet, I’d like the screen to flash or something then I inadvertently hit left-ctrl. Any thoughts? Cheers! -- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com

Re: The Dark Mod on Stretch?

2019-01-12 Thread Boyan Penkov
all the stuff that tdm_updater uses. Any thoughts here? Cheers! On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 8:36 AM Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 07:57:32AM -0500, Boyan Penkov wrote: > > Thanks for your patience -- trying this now... > > > > Did you get th

Re: The Dark Mod on Stretch?

2019-01-12 Thread Boyan Penkov
Cheers! On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 3:08 PM Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 08:22:53AM -0500, Boyan Penkov wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Anybody here play http://www.thedarkmod.com/main/ > > <http://www.thedarkmod.com/main/> ? > >

The Dark Mod on Stretch?

2019-01-08 Thread Boyan Penkov
Hello, Anybody here play http://www.thedarkmod.com/main/ <http://www.thedarkmod.com/main/> ? have folks been able to get 2.07 to compile on Stretch, under only 64-bit? Cheers! -- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com

Mirror release file expired

2018-11-09 Thread Boyan Penkov
that particular mirror -- the Columbia one? Cheers! -- Boyan Penkov

Re: SyncTeX?

2018-09-17 Thread Boyan Penkov
; > > > Anybody know of a civilized, bug-free pdf viewer? (will display full > > screen with no or thin borders, allows for manipulating size and > > position) > > > > -- > > Glenn English > > > > > > > -- > “An oak is a tree. A rose is a flower. A deer is an animal. A sparrow is a > bird. Russia is our fatherland. Death is inevitable.” Russian school book. > -- Boyan Penkov

Re: SyncTeX?

2018-09-15 Thread Boyan Penkov
-- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com > On Sep 15, 2018, at 05:58, Curt wrote: > > On 2018-09-14, Glenn English wrote: >> >> I've looked in Aptitude for something installed -- there's a >> libsynctex installed, and I started to delete it. But Aptitude sai

Re: SyncTeX?

2018-09-14 Thread Boyan Penkov
On 9/14/18 12:01 PM, Glenn English wrote: Buster, Supermicro Xeon box. Several times an hour, something is writing on my screen: "! SyncTeX Error : No file?". Hmmm, +1 -- I had ignored this, as the terminal I had been staring at for the last few days is running latex/emacs and some makefil

Stretch backport for libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18

2018-08-31 Thread Boyan Penkov
Hello, At the latest sudo apt-get dist-upgrade, libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 is held back. Changing sources.list from stretch to buster enables it to update cleanly, and pulls in libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 (from 2.20.3-1 to 2.20.5-1). Is this expected behavior? Cheers! -- Boyan Penkov

linux 4.19 scsi-mq default?

2018-08-26 Thread Boyan Penkov
Hello folks, Likely not the exact right list to ask, but likely someone here knows — did scsi-mq by default make it into linux 4.19? http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1807.0/02224.html <http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1807.0/02224.html> Cheers! -- Boyan

Re: Calculator with "tapes"

2018-07-16 Thread Boyan Penkov
iPython too much overhead? On Mon, Jul 16, 2018, 12:58 Ken Heard wrote: > Does Debian have a calculator package which has the equivalent of the > tape produced by mechanical machines to show the entire calculation. I > find such "tapes" essential when for example I am adding a long list of > nu

Re: Nvidia drivers

2018-07-09 Thread Boyan Penkov
Thanks for being a good guy and following up; I was looking into this and this report was keeping me from apt-get dist-upgrade this evening, so I know I'm OK now... Silent thanks to all that have faffed with getting this sorted in the last week -- cheers! On 07/09/2018 02:17 PM, Matthew Crew

Re: Jessie: No logrotate since October 2016?

2018-05-06 Thread Boyan Penkov
-- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com > On May 6, 2018, at 05:10, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard > wrote: > > John Cunningham: > >> I hate to wade into the pool of systemd hate, but is this systemd's fault? I >> noticed anacron doesn't exist on this system.

Re: backports on kernel 4.15 and nvidia-driver 390 crashes x

2018-05-06 Thread Boyan Penkov
-- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com > On May 4, 2018, at 17:19, Francisco M Neto wrote: > > Hello, > > I had a similar problem when I upgraded from Stretch (4.9) to > Buster (4.15). The nvidia driver stopped working but after reinstalling > it started to work agai

backports on kernel 4.15 and nvidia-driver 390 crashes x

2018-05-03 Thread Boyan Penkov
Anything I can do to help debug? What’s annoying is that the fails on 390 print a blank screen with no X cursor and a prompt to log out, so I don’t know where to look for logs or traces…. Cheers! -- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com

Re: Jessie: No logrotate since October 2016?

2018-05-03 Thread Boyan Penkov
Really late response here, but thanks — some reading of /etc/anacrontab and run-parts does make clear that edits of the crontab will then be run by anacron Thanks kindly! -- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com > On Apr 24, 2018, at 14:27, Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 14:09

Re: Jessie: No logrotate since October 2016?

2018-04-24 Thread Boyan Penkov
In this vein, is there a way to intelligently indicate to the system that this is the case, and automatically read the crontab, then write an intelligent anacrontab with sane defaults? Cheers! On 04/24/2018 02:04 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: If your system is not running 24/7, then anacron is very

Re: RAID1 on boot?

2018-04-16 Thread Boyan Penkov
h?v=j_42xUFxcfU> Anyway, more or less set — thanks! -- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com > On Apr 14, 2018, at 15:37, deloptes wrote: > > Boyan Penkov wrote: > >> This is a wonderful page — >> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SoftwareRaidRoot — is it still >&

RAID1 on boot?

2018-04-14 Thread Boyan Penkov
Hey folks, This is a wonderful page — https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/SoftwareRaidRoot — is it still current for Stretch? I am looking to ensure that the RAID1 on boot install that I will try this weekend goes well, and am looking for updated pointers. Cheers! -- Boyan Penkov

Re: Debian 9 rocks, really

2018-03-24 Thread Boyan Penkov
Hahahaha -- +1, for me, for what's turning out to be a very entertaining weekend... Introduced to Debian in 2003, stayed on it though 2008, then Ubuntu for a while but defaulting to Debian full time for the past few years A particular moment to send thanks to the community and to these li

Re: Add kernel parameter to specific kernel using grub?

2018-03-08 Thread Boyan Penkov
On 03/07/2018 08:11 PM, Marc Auslander wrote: what i know works is to put a custom menu definition in /etc/grub.d which then gets including in grub.cfg. You can copy one from grub.cfg and modify it. it goes in 01-vmlinuz or 40_custom depending on where you want them in grub.cfg. Well, missi

Add kernel parameter to specific kernel using grub?

2018-03-07 Thread Boyan Penkov
Hello folks, Let's say I have two kernels -- the default that's maintained by the distro, and one that I'm playing with that I compile from source to get dpkgs.  Call the distro one linux4.4 and "mine" -- linux4.16 (for reference, all this is playing out on an ubuntu system...not sure if that

Re: Duplicati?

2018-02-14 Thread Boyan Penkov
d As for Duplicati, too bad -- seems like a nice tool, but there are many other options around to suit the same ends... Cheers! On 02/14/2018 02:27 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 02:03:01PM -0500, Boyan Penkov wrote: Hey folks, Anybody know of any conversations u

Duplicati?

2018-02-14 Thread Boyan Penkov
Hey folks, Anybody know of any conversations underway to add https://www.duplicati.com/ to debian?  They do ship .debs they compile themselves, so this may not be a steep hill to climb... Cheers!

Re: Debian buster & gnucash

2018-02-08 Thread Boyan Penkov
On Feb 8, 2018 1:01 PM, "Jimmy Johnson" wrote: On 02/08/2018 09:25 AM, Donald F. Emery wrote: > I am new to debian and was hoping someone could tell me why GNUCASH was > not in debian testing. > It's not the only package missing from Buster, you can probably install it from Sid without to much

Re: comment and new question--when do upgrades take effect

2018-01-29 Thread Boyan Penkov
On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 6:18 PM, Richard Hector wrote: > On 30/01/18 03:35, Boyan Penkov wrote: >> Does checkrestart (apt-get install checkrestart) prompt for application >> restarts on library updates, or only for daemons? > > apt-get install debian-goodies, actually. Yes

Re: comment and new question--when do upgrades take effect (was: Re: Kernel for Spectre and Meltdown)

2018-01-29 Thread Boyan Penkov
Does checkrestart (apt-get install checkrestart) prompt for application restarts on library updates, or only for daemons? On Jan 29, 2018 08:43, "Joe" wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 08:18:35 -0500 > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > > > > I regularly download "security" upgrades for Wheezy. I assum

Re: kernel nvidia dkms rebuild after upgrade?

2018-01-07 Thread Boyan Penkov
ity-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-5754> makes no mention of bpo kernels in backports. Is this by design? Cheers! -- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com > On Jan 7, 2018, at 18:44, Daniel Reichelt wrote: > > On 01/07/2018 07:47 PM, Boyan Penkov wrote: >> and a backport (4.14.0-bpo2) --

Re: kernel nvidia dkms rebuild after upgrade?

2018-01-07 Thread Boyan Penkov
Thanks, Yao — in messing around with this, I did end up finding a thread that suggested installing libelf-dev — I did so, but I guess the order in which I did it make me recompile my dkms modules manually. Thanks for the note! -- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com > On Jan 7, 2018, at 18

kernel nvidia dkms rebuild after upgrade?

2018-01-07 Thread Boyan Penkov
miss something? Cheers! -- Boyan Penkov

emacs fails to launch from the gnome shortcut

2017-12-12 Thread Boyan Penkov
Any thoughts? Cheers! -- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com

Re: 4.12 won't wake from sleep

2017-09-01 Thread Boyan Penkov
p;id=765e40b675a9566459ddcb8358ad16f3b8344bbe 4.13 is in experimental, and I pulled it down -- so far, my problems have been solved, and the machine does wake up cleanly. Cheers! On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 7:11 AM, Boyan Penkov wrote: > If you’re referring to this — > https://bugs.debian.o

Re: 4.12 won't wake from sleep

2017-09-01 Thread Boyan Penkov
If you’re referring to this — https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=854672 — my situation is a little different, as it happens on sleep only (haven’t tried on hibernate.). Is this it? Cheers! -- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com > On Sep 1, 2017, at 05:46, Hans wrote: >

4.12 won't wake from sleep

2017-08-31 Thread Boyan Penkov
76136 When I do this and let the system sleep, it won't wake from sleep cleanly. How can I help debug? Is this "real" (worth filing a bug over), or am I messing something up? Cheers! -- Boyan Penkov

Thunderbird and OAuth

2017-07-16 Thread Boyan Penkov
K. Can someone suggest something to try? Cheers! -- Boyan Penkov

Re: madam scrubbing?

2017-07-14 Thread Boyan Penkov
address explicitly for this to work. However, /etc/aliases does have root’s mail sent to boyan which is then sent to me at gmail.com — and this does work…. Cheers! -- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com > On May 21, 2017, at 07:41, Dan Ritter wrote: > > On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 09:26:57PM -04

mdadm monthly check, anacron?

2017-07-11 Thread Boyan Penkov
/cron.d/mdadm into /etc/cron.monthly/mdadm ? Should I add anything to my ~/.anacrontab/etc (which exists and successfully runs other jobs)? Similarly: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mdadm/+bug/1700728 Cheers! -- Boyan Penkov

Re: How to migrate from sid to stable?

2017-06-13 Thread Boyan Penkov
Hello, Reading this, I have a question along these lines: back when we're unfrozen, and migration from sid to testing to stable was more linear, I encounter the same problem (I was on sid, and wanted to migrate to something more stable). I solved this for myself by pointing my sources to tes

madam scrubbing?

2017-05-20 Thread Boyan Penkov
anacreon. My other anacreon jobs do run; point is: how can I verify that the scrub job is successful (and view the output on potentially bad sectors)? Cheers! -- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com

package mendeleydesktop and libssl1.0-dev

2017-02-17 Thread Boyan Penkov
would solve this, it indeed did. Hopefully this is of some use to someone besides me. Cheers! -- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: User-oriented backup tools

2017-02-16 Thread Boyan Penkov
On 02/16/2017 08:33 AM, Francesco Porro wrote: > > If I'm not wrong, this one is based on "dup" and works the same way? > I don't think so; which "dup" are you referring to? -- the most I know is that DejaDup is a GTK front-end for it. -- Boyan Penko

Re: User-oriented backup tools

2017-02-16 Thread Boyan Penkov
lls on the remote (but the encryption is solid….), and so I am exploring borg, attic, bup as well. Cheers! -- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com > On Feb 15, 2017, at 5:37 PM, Francesco Porro wrote: > > Hi guys, It's the first time I'm posting here. I'm both a Fedora and &g

Re: Crashes in Icedove on Stretch

2017-02-15 Thread Boyan Penkov
the plugins, do you still have crashes? Unfortunately, I do, yes... Cheers! > > With regards, > Paul van der Vlis > > -- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

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