Trixie, mdadm, and systemd

2024-11-20 Thread Ian Molton
Hi all, Does anyone know if the defaults for mdadm make sense anymore? In particular, the three options for: AUTOCHECK, AUTOSCAN, and START_DAEMON It would *appear* that systemd has timers for these things now. I'm confused as to whether systemd, mdadm, or both need configuring here. Does sy

Problem WiFi

2024-07-28 Thread Ian Molton
I have had some luck with problem WiFi on laptops by setting the acpi_osi type to one of various windows types on the kernel command line. You can add it in /etc/default/grub Remember to run update-grub after editing it.

Re: [SOLVED] potential bug? - was Re: Problem with cryptsetup-initramfs

2024-07-28 Thread Ian Molton
Hi, Thanks for your reply, I'm afraid I've always found the bug tracker a very inaccessible thing. Despite having a decent amount of technical knowledge,  I find it daunting, and a jarring thing to cope with mentally. This is why i come to the mailing lists to seek help, but as you note, de

Re: Strange behavior of ifupdown package

2024-07-28 Thread Ian Molton
Which web forum has the commuity moved to then? I should like to join it...

Re: Strange behavior of ifupdown package

2024-07-28 Thread Ian Molton
Hi, As I said - the mailing list stats. Public record. Heres a picture. https://lists.debian.org/stats/debian-user.png An alarming decline, with a multitude of reasons. But lack of community will be the one that ends that graph. Be in no doubt.

Re: Strange behavior of ifupdown package

2024-07-26 Thread Ian Molton
Michael, that was not a personal attack. I am in no doubt that you personally try to help. The statistics for this list, however, are public record. And they are indeed of concern. Like so many open source projects, Debian is clearly showing a loss of community, and whilst it continues to be

Re: [SOLVED] potential bug? - was Re: Problem with cryptsetup-initramfs

2024-07-26 Thread Ian Molton
Really helpful. Thanks for that. Really makes one feel part of the community.

[SOLVED] potential bug? - was Re: Problem with cryptsetup-initramfs

2024-07-26 Thread Ian Molton
Now what? Should this be reported somewhere else? Any devs reading this?

Strange behavior of ifupdown package

2024-07-26 Thread Ian Molton
Hi. Sorry, i cant help with your specific problem. Just didn't want you to feel alone... I don't know whats becoming of Debian these days. Users need to stick together,  but the traffic stats for these lists paint a bleak picture. The attitude these days seems to be that 'if its not in bugz

[SOLVED] potential bug? - was Re: Problem with cryptsetup-initramfs

2024-07-24 Thread Ian Molton
ndard configuration. Is there a simple way to have errors logged to the console AND to the ssh session? Have I been thick? Thanks, -Ian On 24/07/2024 00:14, Ian Molton wrote: Hi all, I'm having problems with one of my machines. it's a Pine RockPro64. Debian bookworm has been running very s

Problem with cryptsetup-initramfs

2024-07-23 Thread Ian Molton
Hi all, I'm having problems with one of my machines. it's a Pine RockPro64. Debian bookworm has been running very stably on it for some time. I rebooted it a couple of weeks ago for maintainance, having applied updates, after 108 days up. I have an encrypted LVM volume, containing root, swap,