Re: A warning about rsync in stable: it became broken 3 days ago, is now fixed

2025-01-17 Thread Kevin Chadwick
17 Jan 2025 14:33:05 Roberto C. Sánchez : > Others, for various reasons, choose a stable distribution to which > security patches are backported. In particular Debian testing shouldn't be recommended to users as it is the least likely to have security patches!

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-18 Thread Kevin Chadwick
18 Dec 2024 05:03:12 to...@tuxteam.de: > I'm all for concise code, but I usually revert some things in a second > pass when they seem to hurt clarity. After all, you write your code for > other people to read it. As you wrote the code then uness that second pass is weeks or months later then cla

Checksums not updated in SHA512SUMS file in amd64

2024-11-10 Thread kevin
Hi all, first of all, i am not sure if this is the right place - sorry if not. I recognized that at https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/ the SHA512SUMS file still has the checksums for debian-12.7. thanks and best regards, kevin

I am an idiot: Checksums not updated in SHA512SUMS file in amd64

2024-11-10 Thread kevin
I am stupid. Sorry for bothering you... Firefox somehow cached it and clicking it opened the file for 12.7. Sorry again and best regards, kevin - Hi all, first of all, i am not sure if this is the right place - sorry if not. I recognized that at https

Re: X server blocked by SecureBoot

2024-10-30 Thread Kevin Chadwick
30 Oct 2024 16:25:58 Christian : > I choosed Nvidia again deliberately because I want to play with Tesorflow, > Scikit-Learn and GPT. Or perhaps game. People seem to forget that 20 years ago Nvidia was the only supporter of full featured gpu drivers on Linux. Have you tried disabling secure bo

Re: X server blocked by SecureBoot

2024-10-29 Thread Kevin Chadwick
29 Oct 2024 17:38:39 Timothy M Butterworth : > NVIDIA is a major pain in the ass with Linux. Which is why I do not > use them. Actually this is more Linux being a major pain in the ass to Nvidia. When secure boot is enabled lockdown is automatically enabled. Really debian should provide an Nvid

Hibernate works with secure boot on OpenSUSE

2024-09-24 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Apparently hibernate works on OpenSuse with secure boot enabled when swap is within an encrypted drive or encrypted itself. Is that true? If it is then why hasn't Debian followed suit?

Lockdown and hibernate

2024-09-24 Thread Kevin Chadwick
It seems it isn't possible to enable secure boot and disable lockdown any more more with sysrq alt x. In any case. Can anyone save me the time (having already done it?) to come up with a grub cmdline to restore as much of the kernel lockdown as possible e.g. debugfs=off, signed modules, disable

Re: Authenticator apps

2024-08-05 Thread Kevin Price
w on my own behalf, thanks to anyone for reading this far and for trying to understand my point. I'd love to see any flaws in my argument being challenged. Your security decisions are inherently yours. I'm not a lawyer. Keep your security up, and take care. Despite that I'm German: Keep smiling. :) I'll smile back (: Even we do cheer sometimes, if necessary ;) Have a nice day -- Kevin Price

Re: debian-cd baking process

2024-02-13 Thread Kevin Price
Dear Steve: Am 18.01.24 um 00:37 schrieb Steve McIntyre: > Kevin Price wrote: >> I'm not quite sure where to address this to, > Argh, that's my code in the debian-cd package. "reportbug debian-cd" > should do the right thing... Thank you for your help, I s

debian-cd baking process

2024-01-17 Thread Kevin Price
generated README files say, in the case of former example: "this disc is number 2 of a set of 1 discs" Which is obviously false. Could anyone please help me find where to file this bug to? Any ideas much appreciated. Maybe there's a bug already that I didn't find. -- Kevin Price

Re: Debian 12.4.0

2023-12-16 Thread Kevin Price
Am 14.12.23 um 23:01 schrieb David Sawyer: > I use the password that I wrote down it is not accepted. Keyboard layout? We've seen that with the kernel that comes with 12.4.0. -- Kevin Price

Re: The bug

2023-12-15 Thread Kevin Price
s are not evaluated in the amount of noise the preceding one made. -- Kevin Price

Re: The bug

2023-12-14 Thread Kevin Price
for too little of a win, IMHO. > I also salute the courage of those who've tested > these recent changes. Thank you all. Appreciation for my small part (in pointing the problem out in the first place) accepted, but please send your muchos kudos to Salvatore Bonaccorso , who deserves credits for solving it. -- Kevin Price

Re: Is it safe to install Bookworm on a new machine now?

2023-12-14 Thread Kevin Price
1/6.1.0-16 is available. Presumably some of the folks in this list/thread might come up with even more possible remedies/workarounds. Again: no guarantees. Some of the above is not confirmed or tested. All you do is at your own risk. But I hope I could help you understand "the bug" and how to possibly avoid it, giving you more confidence in what you're attempting to do. Please feel free to ask any further questions to this list, and any reports I'd welcome here. -- Kevin Price

Re: From which kernel should I upgrade my installed Debian to linux-image-6.1.0-15-amd64?

2023-12-11 Thread Kevin Price
.4, and who still are, for the folks who need to solve that -15 wifi bug. What are they doing it for? For the good, expecting nothing in return. Just enjoy! (Since you'd explicitly asked for advice, I hope there was not too much mansplaining.) [1] (installed. or in other cases, not installed, or in a specific version, etc.) [2] https://www.debian.org/social_contract -- Kevin Price

Re: From which kernel should I upgrade my installed Debian to linux-image-6.1.0-15-amd64?

2023-12-11 Thread Kevin Price
oot that as it might then toast your ext4. > (2) linux-image-6.1.0-13-amd64 (which precedes the buggy one) Yes. > (3) doesn't matter which kernel to upgrade from Yes, it largely doesn't matter, apart from the exception above. HTH -- Kevin Price

Re: Debian 12.3 image release delayed

2023-12-11 Thread Kevin Price
Am 11.12.23 um 04:36 schrieb Stella Ashburne: > As for me, I won't be upgrading to the latest kernel just yet because a user, > Kevin Price, reported problems with the latest kernel version (cf. > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/12/msg00570.html) That _might_ be a good i

Re: 6.1.0-15/6.1.66-1 broken too?

2023-12-11 Thread Kevin Price
Please see https://bugs.debian.org/1057967 for follow-up. Am 11.12.23 um 06:21 schrieb Stephan Verbücheln: [...] > My hardware is a 2014 Macbook Pro (Intel CPU and graphics). Stephan and all, would you please post your information there? TIA -- Kevin Price

Re: 6.1.0-15/6.1.66-1 broken too?

2023-12-10 Thread Kevin Price
I confirm that 6.1.66-1 (6.1.0-15) severely breaks my amd64/bookworm/gnome physical machine, which runs fine with 6.1.52-1 and 6.1.55-1. Am 10.12.23 um 20:24 schrieb Andrew M.A. Cater: > On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 08:02:03PM +0100, Kevin Price wrote: >> Am 09.12.23 um 19:09 schrieb D

6.1.0-15/6.1.66-1 broken too?

2023-12-10 Thread Kevin Price
ged the broken ones, and put the working ones on hold with dpkg. Any ideas? -- Kevin Price

Refund on Marketplace Charge

2023-12-04 Thread Kevin Truong
provide me with a refund? This is my account email: ktruo...@gmail.com Thank you, Kevin Truong

Report Bug

2023-10-26 Thread Kevin Freeman
itive icon and a toggle button, similar to what Ubuntu offers. I hope the community experts can provide support or a viable solution as soon as possible. Wishing you a wonderful day. Kevin

Re: Download links do not work

2022-09-11 Thread Kevin Price
cts Internet access? Your IPv4 address 17.58.6.50 is allocated to Apple Inc. -- Kevin

Re: net.ipv6.conf.intf.disable_ipv6 behavior changes

2022-09-03 Thread Kevin Price
Am 03.09.22 um 06:32 schrieb Casey Deccio: >> On Sep 2, 2022, at 8:14 PM, Kevin Price wrote >> We got him. :) Casey, you file the bug report, Okay? > Done! https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1018999 > Thanks for all the help! You are very welcome. Tha

Re: net.ipv6.conf.intf.disable_ipv6 behavior changes

2022-09-02 Thread Kevin Price
Am 03.09.22 um 02:15 schrieb Kevin Price: > Let's double check whether our connman is in fact the culprit, and then > make arrest. (file bug report) We got him. :) Casey, you file the bug report, Okay? Blank debian, apt --no-install-recommends install connman will break "disa

Re: net.ipv6.conf.intf.disable_ipv6 behavior changes

2022-09-02 Thread Kevin Price
an, either ignoring the recommendation, or having an alternative installed. Let's double check whether our connman is in fact the culprit, and then make arrest. (file bug report) Thank you Casey for this little quiz. :D Still please let us know in this list how it goes. :D -- Kevin

Re: net.ipv6.conf.intf.disable_ipv6 behavior changes

2022-09-02 Thread Kevin Price
Am 02.09.22 um 15:46 schrieb Casey Deccio: >> On Sep 2, 2022, at 2:51 AM, Kevin Price wrote: > Thanks for the idea. I took your advice and booted my 5.10.0-17 system > (problem system) with 5.10.0-13. The problem persisted! Then I updated my > "old" (non-problem) s

Re: net.ipv6.conf.intf.disable_ipv6 behavior changes

2022-09-02 Thread Kevin Price
or next steps. FWIW, confirm by booting your 5.10.0-17 system with 5.10.0-13. Figure out what other difference might be causing this. -- Kevin

Re: Can I install Debian operating systems for money?

2022-08-10 Thread Kevin Price
ophy/free-sw.html * 1. https://opensource.org/osd -- Kevin

Linux Kernel 5.16 from Backports Warnings

2022-03-18 Thread Kevin Exton
stall firmware-misc-nonfree but I guess that hasn't been backported yet? Am I going to have to put up with these warnings for a while? Or have I missed something? - Kevin

Chromium GPU sandbox error

2022-03-12 Thread Kevin Exton
e And I'm still getting the same error. Anything else I can try? - Kevin

Re: Simple and secure blogging software for nginx

2022-03-10 Thread Kevin Exton
little patience right in the beginning. - Kevin On Fri, Mar 11, 2022, 8:39 AM Christian Britz wrote: > > > On 2022-03-10 22:16 UTC+0100, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > nginx is just a web server, apache is just a web server. Nearly > > any blog can be set up with either one

Wayland vs X

2022-03-08 Thread Kevin Exton
aking the change? - Kevin

Hardware Acceleration on Chromium 99

2022-03-07 Thread Kevin Exton
decoding is working by viewing this video in 1080p HD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmZKgaHa3Fg and looking at the output of intel_gpu_top, where the row for Video/0 stays at 0%. Anyone got any ideas? - Kevin <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmZKgaHa3Fg>

Re: Offensive variable names [was: Cool down ...]

2021-07-12 Thread Kevin N.
Right, and I myself have lodged a ticket to ban bar after foo because it might lead to blithe attitudes concerning alcohol in our vulnerable youth. Don't get me wrong: like many other things, offensive languages is a serious one. But, instead of helping, I think that you are in fact minimizing i

Re: Offensive variable names [was: Cool down ...]

2021-07-12 Thread Kevin N.
Right, and I myself have lodged a ticket to ban bar after foo because it might lead to blithe attitudes concerning alcohol in our vulnerable youth. Don't get me wrong: like many other things, offensive languages is a serious one. But, instead of helping, I think that you are in fact minimizing

Re: MTA (DMARC)

2021-07-09 Thread Kevin N.
Not sure if that is the case here, but sometimes mailing list software alters the original message headers which then can lead to failed DKIM signature checks. Cheers, K. Hi, I've wrote a message regarding my MTA. I was thinking it's corrected but... Here what I got from the Debian maili

Re: Help: explanation of secure flash?

2021-07-06 Thread Kevin N.
Can somebody provide either a little more explanation and / or a link to a (reasonably simple) reference? https://www.embeddedcomputing.com/technology/security/network-security/secure-flash-the-cure-for-insecurity-in-connected-automotive-and-industrial-applications-part-1 https://www.embeddedco

Re: Conflicting alternatives

2021-02-22 Thread Kevin Shell
On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 01:39:18PM +, Curt wrote: > On 2021-02-22, Kevin Shell wrote: > >> > >> Maybe it's some problem specific to news.free.fr. > >> > > > > How the two sites news.bofh.it/erode.bofh.it news.free.fr are connected? >

Re: How to view a troff formatted file?

2021-02-22 Thread Kevin Shell
o/man-page-file > > There are probably other ways, but since this is specifically a man > page, that'd be my first attempt. > nroff -man /path/to/nrofffile [...] | less -R -- kevin

Re: Conflicting alternatives

2021-02-22 Thread Kevin Shell
he site news.bofh.it/erode.bofh.it 's gateway scripts rewrite the "In-Reply-To" and "References" header values(x...@gated-at.bofh.it), breaking mail reader's threading. > -- kevin

Re: Conflicting alternatives

2021-02-17 Thread Kevin Shell
← Ok, if we enter the loop again let's end the discussion thread here. Good to talk to everyone participated. :-) -- kevin

Re: Conflicting alternatives

2021-02-17 Thread Kevin Shell
t. I want to just keep both, not run them at the same time. -- kevin

Re: Conflicting alternatives

2021-02-17 Thread Kevin Shell
x27;s perspective, the package manager should give the user the choise not to uninstall a wanted package, if the user don't give a choise, the package manager can perform the default action to remove the package. I think this method is a better default behavior for the package manager for some similar packages. -- kevin

Re: Debian switchable MTA mechanism

2021-02-16 Thread Kevin Shell
On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 07:47:51AM +0800, Kevin Shell wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 07:39:15AM +0800, Kevin Shell wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 04:38:06PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > > On Tue 16 Feb 2021 at 17:48:25 (+0800), Kevin Shell wrote: > > > >

Re: Debian switchable MTA mechanism

2021-02-16 Thread Kevin Shell
On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 07:39:15AM +0800, Kevin Shell wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 04:38:06PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 16 Feb 2021 at 17:48:25 (+0800), Kevin Shell wrote: > > > [...] > > > Isn't Debian already has a /etc/alternatives/ mechanism?

Re: Debian switchable MTA mechanism

2021-02-16 Thread Kevin Shell
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 04:38:06PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 16 Feb 2021 at 17:48:25 (+0800), Kevin Shell wrote: > [...] > > Isn't Debian already has a /etc/alternatives/ mechanism? > > AIUI all the targets of /etc/alternatives are all installed at the

Re: Debian switchable MTA mechanism

2021-02-16 Thread Kevin Shell
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 08:33:50AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > Kevin Shell wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 06:39:03AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > > [...] > > > Don't purge them. Just install each of them in turn. Then the > > > command to move to the next on

Re: Debian switchable MTA mechanism

2021-02-16 Thread Kevin Shell
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 08:33:50AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > Kevin Shell wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 06:39:03AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > > [...] > > > Don't purge them. Just install each of them in turn. Then the > > > command to move to the next on

Re: Debian switchable MTA mechanism

2021-02-16 Thread Kevin Shell
has a /etc/alternatives/ mechanism? > > You may be the first person to ever ask for such a thing. That > doesn't make it difficult, it just makes it not currently a > feature. > Yeah, I need a weird setting. 😎 > > -- kevin

Re: Debian switchable MTA mechanism

2021-02-16 Thread Kevin Shell
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 11:13:36AM +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > Hi Kevin. > > What is the use-case for multiple MTAs, port 25 is only one. > I run a VPS, for study purpose to switch between MTAs not having to remove one to get the other, I want to keep them installed at the sa

Re: Debian switchable MTA mechanism

2021-02-16 Thread Kevin Shell
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 11:29:54AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 16 feb 21, 16:37:20, Kevin Shell wrote: > > Hello Debian Users. > > > > Why Debian does't have a switchable MTA mechanism > > to allow install multiple MTAs at the same time? > > Why

Debian switchable MTA mechanism

2021-02-16 Thread Kevin Shell
Hello Debian Users. Why Debian does't have a switchable MTA mechanism to allow install multiple MTAs at the same time? Fedora, Centos etc. allow users to install multiple MTAs at the same time. There's a "alternatives --config mta" command to allow to choose between alternative MTA. -- kevin

Re: Stream m3u8 not supported by network music player

2019-08-01 Thread Kevin DAGNEAUX
Le 01/08/2019 à 09:41, john doe a écrit : On 7/31/2019 1:04 PM, john doe wrote: Answering from this e-mail to all of the answers. On 7/30/2019 1:50 PM, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 30 Jul 2019 13:04:10 +0200 john doe wrote: stream from the above (VLC does it, so I should be able to do the same).

Re: Stream m3u8 not supported by network music player

2019-07-30 Thread Kevin DAGNEAUX
Le 30/07/2019 à 13:04, john doe a écrit : Hi, I listen to a webradio for which I have a direct URL but my network music players do not support the 'm3u8' format. I'm thinking to convert in realtime this m3u8 stream to a supported stream (mp3), is it the best way forward or is there a better appr

Re: web page problem

2019-06-14 Thread Kevin DAGNEAUX
Le 14/06/2019 à 15:04, Joe a écrit : On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 14:58:05 +0200 wrote: On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 08:46:51AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 06:11:03PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: looks good, but the problem is, only gene=user 1000 has any rights to follow that path,

Re: Speed Problem Copying Files

2019-05-09 Thread Kevin DAGNEAUX
o. Perhaps run atop to monitor bottlenecks live - Jonas It is most definitely not a memory or cpu problem. It's a HP Proliant with 32 GB RAM and a Intel Xeon CPU 2.40GHz with 4 cores. Also the problem stays the same if I just copy one large file. Check if it's related to the disk speed (hdparm and/or iotop). Kevin <>

Re: Remote Access

2019-04-17 Thread Kevin DAGNEAUX
ome of the have real IPs, and others are behind firewalls and NATs, which render a regular direct connection impossible. Thanks in advance, Francisco Hi, You can take a look at anydesk Kevin <>

Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types

2019-04-17 Thread Kevin DAGNEAUX
Le 17/04/2019 à 14:15, Celejar a écrit : On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 08:37:20 +0200 Kevin DAGNEAUX wrote: Hi, I've been bedeviled by this question for a while, but have been unable to figure out a clean, non-hackish solution. It may be an XY problem ... I have a system (laptop, running D

Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types

2019-04-16 Thread Kevin DAGNEAUX
its IP address and connection type? Celejar Hi, A possible solution is to use a bridged VPN, in this case, your laptop will always have the same IP. Kevin <>

Re: Debugging samba

2019-04-12 Thread Kevin DAGNEAUX
DAGNEAUX Kevin Service informatique 03 29 36 88 85 kevin.dagne...@fiitelcom.fr Le 12/04/2019 à 12:11, deloptes a écrit : Kevin DAGNEAUX wrote: [2019/04/12 10:31:57.105329,  0] ../source3/locking/posix.c:455(decrement_lock_ref_count) PANIC: assert failed at ../source3/locking/posix.c(455

Re: Debugging samba

2019-04-12 Thread Kevin DAGNEAUX
Kevin DAGNEAUX wrote: I'm using samba for lot of years too, i'm having trouble only with the last version from debian repo. Which debian version and which samba version - perhaps I missed this. When crashing, samba don't need to be restarted and windows client just see

Re: Debugging samba

2019-04-12 Thread Kevin DAGNEAUX
Le 11/04/2019 à 16:57, Roberto C. Sánchez a écrit : On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 04:45:53PM +0200, Kevin DAGNEAUX wrote: Le 11/04/2019 à 16:27, Roberto C. Sánchez a écrit : On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 03:46:11PM +0200, Kevin DAGNEAUX wrote: Hi, I'm having crash problem with samba 2:4.5.16+d

Re: Debugging samba

2019-04-12 Thread Kevin DAGNEAUX
Kevin DAGNEAUX wrote: But now, i've a dependency problem, version of samba in debian-security repo and samba-dbgsym in debian-debug repo are not the sames : may be a similar problem is the root cause for your crashes, because I am running samba for years and my wife uses it from windo

Re: Debugging samba

2019-04-11 Thread Kevin DAGNEAUX
Le 11/04/2019 à 16:27, Roberto C. Sánchez a écrit : On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 03:46:11PM +0200, Kevin DAGNEAUX wrote: Hi, I'm having crash problem with samba 2:4.5.16+dfsg-1+deb9u1 in debian 9.8, i'm trying to debug it so i can't find the package samba-dbg. Is there a way to debu

Debugging samba

2019-04-11 Thread Kevin DAGNEAUX
Hi, I'm having crash problem with samba 2:4.5.16+dfsg-1+deb9u1 in debian 9.8, i'm trying to debug it so i can't find the package samba-dbg. Is there a way to debug samba without samba-dbg? Kevin <>

Re: How to slow more copying of files ?

2019-03-19 Thread Kevin DAGNEAUX
Le 19/03/2019 à 11:29, Pierre Couderc a écrit : Big copy operations (with cp) may be slow, but it is not my problem. But too,  they slow the full computer ! Is there a way to slow the copy which is not a priority task to let the computer breath ? I have tried to use "nice" but without ef

Re: Downgrade to Stable

2018-09-04 Thread Kevin DAGNEAUX
stall dpkg apt aptitude # aptitude full-upgrade But still, at log in in tty console, there is: Debian GNU/Linux buster/sid lennovo tty1 How come? Thanks, Rodolfo If i remember correctly, you can't do a downgrade. Kevin <>

Network issue

2018-08-29 Thread Kevin DAGNEAUX
al things. OVH have changed the motherboard and the ethernet cable but the problem still persist, the syslog show that it's probably a software problem. Do you have idea of what happen or a way to help me to debug this problem? Thank you in advance. Kevin -- DAGNEAUX Kevin Service informatique 03 29 36 88 85 kevin.dagne...@fiitelcom.fr <>

Looking for ratings of all-in-one printers for Linux (Ubuntu in particular)

2018-07-07 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I'm presuming the few machines that I dual-boot will be able to work with whatever printer I have. So, where to look? ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman #define QUESTION ((bb) || (!bb)) /* Shakespeare */ Please consider the environment before printing this email.

Re: Why does resolv.conf keep changing?

2017-10-27 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
onfigure each daemon that might try to modify the file, >to make it stop doing so. > > 3) Install the resolvconf package, because by doing so you also install >various hacks that modify the behavior of all known Debian daemons, >stopping them from writing to /etc/resolv.c

Re: Systemd services (was Re: If Linux Is About Choice, Why Then ...)

2017-04-03 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
et > > To see a list of your available targets (assuming no major local changes), > use this command: > > $ find /lib/systemd/ -name '*.target' > > Are you sure? On my system, this produces nothing at all. But the directory exists and is populated. -- Kevin O

Is bundled flash with chrome secure?

2016-01-04 Thread Kevin Chadwick
So I noticed the vivaldi thread said the latest flash version is 20.0.0.228 which is bundled with chrome and downloaded by the pepper downloader packages. I have had 267 appear in the home folder though but it cannot run. Since the time adobe dropped support, I only have had flash enabled on my my

Re: the State of Linux Audio

2015-07-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
y by the > hardware. With modern cards "-f S16_LE -c 2 -r 48000" does the trick; aplay > will give you hints. > > If you do not manage to get sound out of aplay, there is no point in trying > anything else. If you do get sound out of aplay, then sound works. > > If

Re: Regading an installation experiment

2015-06-14 Thread Kevin Ross
On 6/14/2015 10:06 PM, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: Hello, I would greatly acknowledge you for making me develop a greater understanding of the debian community. Recently, I received a laptop from.one of my friends for repair. Actually,.it doesn't boot properly. I have a copy of DVD 1 of Jessie i

Re: HELP! Cannot use mouse or keyboard any more

2015-06-06 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
creen, everything is frozen at that point, including the daemons that had been running. Ping even suddenly reports no route to that host. Still, this is information and progress of a sort. -- Kevin O'Gorman #define QUESTION ((bb) || (!bb)) /* Shakespeare */ Please consider the environment before printing this email.

Re: HELP! Cannot use mouse or keyboard any more

2015-06-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 8:51 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I'm running Xubuntu, and have done for quite a while. Right now it's at > 14.04. I just hosed it somehow, and when I reboot I cannot log in because > the keyboard and mouse are being ignored. > > It's

HELP! Cannot use mouse or keyboard any more

2015-06-05 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
y nVidia settings by deleting one of my monitors. That means X configuration, which also affects mouse and keyboard. But I cannot find an xorg.conf file anywhere. Probably I just need to find out where the config settings are kept, and I can reset them from a backup. Does anybody know? -- Ke

Re: Need SAS HBA for Debian Jessie

2015-05-29 Thread Kevin Ross
rience with drives larger than 2TB. All the drives in my RAID are WD Red 2TB drives. Hope this helps! -- Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5568eb79.2040...@familyross.net

Re: server monitor

2015-03-04 Thread Kevin LE HEN
Hi, I'm thinking of this http://nicolargo.github.io/glances/ but I don't know if you can generates reports. I'm pretty sure it can be done with some developments. Regards, 2015-03-04 15:18 GMT+01:00 Pol Hallen : > Hi all :-) > > I'm looking for a tool that generates a report (daily, weekly, etc

Re: Need SATA controller for 4TB internal drives

2015-02-04 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 8:47 PM, David Christensen < dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote: > On 01/29/2015 06:23 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> There are lots of choices where the info in directed at Windows users, but >> precious info available if you want to be sure t

Need SATA controller for 4TB internal drives

2015-01-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
B SATA 3 with GPT partitions - I can set the mainboard to use AHCI or IDE compatibility - there is not trace of Windows, so it needs to be configurable with just Linux. Mainboard had 6 ports available, but it appears that my fooling with things broke a pair of them. That's why I need the replac

How to recover a damaged partition

2015-01-21 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
for me to learn -- lots of things have been going wrong, and I've been learning how to cope. So I wonder if there's a way to get that partition back, at least in part, without using my backups. Any hints, pointers, tutorials, or opinions welcome. -- Kevin O'Gorman #define QUESTION ((

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-20 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 5:51 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Kevin O'Gorman > wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Kevin O'Gorman > wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 3:54 AM, Tom H wrot

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-19 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Kevin O'Gorman > wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 3:54 AM, Tom H wrote: > > > [snipped. I have xfce4 and lightdm] > > >> Have you looked at the logs? Especially Xorg.0.

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Curt wrote: > On 2015-01-17, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> > >> startx > >> > >> > >> I did > > sudo startx > > I haven't been following your thread, but it is highly unrecommended > to

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 08:08:27AM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 2:06 AM, Curt wrote: > > > > > On 2015-01-17, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > > > > &

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Rob Owens wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 08:08:27AM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 2:06 AM, Curt wrote: > > > > > On 2015-01-17, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > > > > &

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 2:06 AM, Curt wrote: > On 2015-01-17, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > >> Can you launch X after logging in to the console? > >> > > > > I don't know how. > > > > startx > > > I did sudo startx Hmmm. This

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 8:14 AM, Rob Owens wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 08:47:01PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 8:41 PM, David Christensen < > > > There are two basic kinds of "backups": > > > > > > 1. File sy

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 3:54 AM, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:19 PM, Kevin O'Gorman > wrote: > > > > I have a tar backup of the entire system, excluding /sys, /proc and /dev. > > I have a tar backup of a bind-mount of /dev. > > These were take

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 9:03 PM, David Christensen < dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote: > On 01/15/2015 08:47 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> I was hoping for some details on why this won't work on system drives, or >> conditions under which it just might.

Re: An experiment in backup

2015-01-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 8:41 PM, David Christensen < dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote: > On 01/15/2015 07:19 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> I'm trying to develop a reliable backup method that does not use >> proprietary tools or formats, and is free as in beer.

An experiment in backup

2015-01-15 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
results in a black screen. I restored these, created /sys and /proc, and tried to boot the resulting partition. It boots, but X does not come up, or even seem to try. I can do a console login to my usual account, and stuff is there. I'm quite clueless as to why this is happening. I c

Best tools for hard drive recovery

2015-01-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
i can. I have another of the same size that's empty, and I could just copy the whole drive to it, but I need a tool that's robust in the presence of errors. I've never had to do this before. Any suggestions? -- Kevin O'Gorman #define QUESTION ((bb) || (!bb)) /* Shake

Re: Any advice for a user about to use LVM for the first time?

2015-01-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > There's one remaining question I have, which is fortunately not urgent. > > It's not clear what I'm going to have to do to bring the RAID online > after > > a reboot. It d

Re: Any advice for a user about to use LVM for the first time?

2015-01-02 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 10:42 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > I do want to insulate the one drive from any failures on the other three. > > That data is not at all temporary, but it is backed up regularly. I want > > to limit it's failure profile

Any advice for a user about to use LVM for the first time?

2014-12-31 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
do it _best_. I'm a bit daunted by the size of /etc/lvm/lvm.conf, and wonder if the defaults are going to work for me. I'm about to start a backup of the existing system. It will take a while. I wonder if anyone has wisdom they'd like to share. -- Kevin O'Gorman #defi

Re: Help me run an old Windows game. PlayOnLinux? Wine? (SOLVED)

2014-12-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 3:24 PM, Francesco Ariis wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 02:58:00PM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> > I have an image of the old Windows 98 Entertainment Pack floppy

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