Re: Black screen.

2024-11-15 Thread milton César Disegna de Souza Leite
> On 15 Nov 2024, at 02:44, Timothy M Butterworth > wrote: > > > > On Thu, Nov 14, 2024 at 11:52 PM milton César Disegna de Souza Leite > mailto:milton...@yahoo.com>> wrote: >> >> >> Hello, >> >> I recently installed Debian 12.8

Black screen.

2024-11-14 Thread milton César Disegna de Souza Leite
 Hello, I recently installed Debian 12.8 on a laptop with an ONKYO motherboard with an i5 M450 processor. With Debian and any GNU/Linux that I had previously installed (Fedora and Kubuntu), there was a problem with the suspend resource. The laptop turns off by itself and only it starts workin

Re: Bookworm boot stacks with black screen after NVIDIA driver installed.

2023-08-20 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Wed, 16 Aug 2023 15:31:52 +0300, Махно wrote: > Hello. Just stick with open source video driver nouveau. This is what I'm doing right now. However it performes, as I already said, "good enough". Meaning there are some problems. It freezes the system from time to time. Well, for now I do not h

With bookworm's kernel, QEMU-KVM EFI cannot see virtio partitions

2022-11-18 Thread Jorge P. de Morais Neto
Windows-10-Jorge.xml Description: XML document Hi! After I upgraded to bookworm, my QEMU-KVM VM fails to boot the guest OS; instead it drops to the EFI shell. If I boot the physical host into bullseye's kernel (Linux 5.10) then the VM boots normally. This VM has two virtual disks, each backed

Disabling the automatic resizing

2022-10-24 Thread Johnny de Villiers
much appreciated! -- Thank you Kind Regards Johnny de Villiers

Re: any good books about the (art?, economics and) science of optimizing IO performance? ...

2022-05-23 Thread Datakanja de Bruyn
... somewhat surprised ... methinks, if such a guide would be published, it is likely outdated. Things are moving too fast. I myself do use ZFS, NVMe, SATA and RAID on my SOHO machine, and the complaints about licensing seem to be outdated by now. But there are people busy with performance on the

Re: What is z3fold and do I need it? (error: /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 12: /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/local.conf: z3fold: not found)

2022-04-22 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 04 Mar 2022, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > ~$ sudo find /lib/modules/ -iname "*z3fold*" > /lib/modules/4.19.0-17-amd64/kernel/mm/z3fold.ko > /lib/modules/4.19.0-14-amd64/kernel/mm/z3fold.ko > /lib/modules/4.19.0-8-amd64/kernel/mm/z3fold.ko > > > Then why doesn't it load up? update-initramfs -u

"Failed unmounting /var/cache" error message when shutting down

2022-04-03 Thread Jorge P. de Morais Neto
Hi. This problem is some months old, and I have sent a similar message on 20 Jan 2022 11:57:35 (UTC). Since then I have slightly simplified my Btrfs subvolume layout but the problem remains. When I shutdown or halt my laptop, I get error messages like: [FAILED] Failed unmounting /var/cache.

Re: Dangerous installation of bullseye: What shall i do next?

2022-03-26 Thread Datakanja de Bruyn
Hi songbird, Am 27.03.2022 um 03:46 schrieb songbird: > also have both grub and refind > installed. Excellent to know! I was certain, that refind was the debian way to multi-booting on UEFI and not broken in any way. Thanks for confirming that. And when it comes to your suggestions, appreciated,

Dangerous installation of bullseye: What shall i do next?

2022-03-26 Thread Datakanja de Bruyn
Just a bit of context: I am old + handicapped + pretty much isolated, thus certainly not an expert. But i am happily using debian stable (oldstable by now) since several years. But since more and more software got outdated, i was interested to move to bullseye. In order to have 2 bootable instances

Re: OpenSSH: cause of random kex_exchange_identification errors?

2022-02-05 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 02 Feb 2022, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > When I want to connect with SSH (ssh/scp) to some machine, I sometimes > get errors, either > > kex_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host > > or > > kex_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer That's a very early

Re: Btrfs best practices

2022-01-29 Thread Jorge P . de Morais Neto
Hello! I think I should inform this list about my choices so far: Em [2021-12-16 qui 14:13:05-0300], Jorge P. de Morais Neto escreveu: > Should I use a backported kernel as Btrfs [wiki][] recommends? I worry > that bullseye-backports comes from Debian testing with poor security. I&

"Failed unmounting "/{root,var/cache} error messages when shutting down

2022-01-20 Thread Jorge P. de Morais Neto
Hi. When I shutdown or halt my laptop, I see error messages like: [FAILED] Failed unmounting /root. [⋮] [FAILED] Failed unmounting /var/cache. [⋮] [ OK ] Reached target Unmount All Filesystems. [ OK ] Reached target Final Step. Starting halt... My Nextclo

Debian Btrfs: subvolume layout best practice

2022-01-16 Thread Jorge P. de Morais Neto
Hi! I use Btrfs on Dell Inspiron 5570 laptop with 16 GiB RAM, a 1 TB SATA HDD and an M.2 NVMe 250 GB SSD---a Western Digital WD Blue SN550 rated for 150 TBW. I have read a lot on subvolume layout and, inspired partly by [1], laid out subvolumes according to this fstab excerpt: 1: https://en.o

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

2022-01-03 Thread Jorge P . de Morais Neto
Hi! Em [2022-01-03 seg 10:03:08-0500], Michael Stone escreveu: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 08:42:29AM -0300, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote: >>Indeed I use such high compression to prolong SSD lifetime. > > This is probably misguided and useless at best, at worst you're causing

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

2022-01-03 Thread Jorge P . de Morais Neto
Em [2022-01-02 dom 23:38:48+], piorunz escreveu: > On 02/01/2022 16:33, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote: >> I am currently using compress-force=zstd:12 for the SSD and >> compress=zstd:12 for both HDD (internal SATA and external USB3)¹. >> Despite the strong compression

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

2022-01-02 Thread Jorge P . de Morais Neto
Hi Piotr! Happy 2022! Em [2021-12-08 qua 22:54:29+], piorunz escreveu: > On 08/12/2021 19:35, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote: >> - Why `compress-force' instead of simply `compress'? > > I've read very extensive discussion about that and came to conclusion &

Re: Btrfs best practices

2021-12-16 Thread Jorge P . de Morais Neto
Hi. Em [2021-12-16 qui 14:55:23-0300], Eduardo M KALINOWSKI escreveu: > On 16/12/2021 14:13, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote: >> I'll put system and /home on the SSD but all XDG user dirs² on the >> HDD [snip] > > I don't have that manpage installed, but if you'

Re: Btrfs best practices

2021-12-16 Thread Jorge P . de Morais Neto
Hi. I must add the information that I use zswap: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet zswap.enabled=1 zswap.zpool=z3fold zswap.compressor=lzo-rle" Em [2021-12-16 qui 14:13:05-0300], Jorge P. de Morais Neto escreveu: > Hi! I own a Dell Inspiron 5570 laptop with 1 TB SATA HDD, a new

Btrfs best practices

2021-12-16 Thread Jorge P. de Morais Neto
Hi! I own a Dell Inspiron 5570 laptop with 1 TB SATA HDD, a new 250 GB NVMe SSD¹ and 16 GiB RAM. I seek reliability, durability, performance and power efficiency. I do weekly duplicity backups to external 1.5 TB USB3 HDD. I'll start also daily rsyncing some of the SSD data to the SATA HDD. The

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

2021-12-15 Thread Jorge P . de Morais Neto
Hello, Em [2021-12-09 qui 15:00:43+0100], hdv@gmail escreveu: > Regarding the swap space: I wouldn't make it so big. That really isn't > necessary. I have a 64GB RAM system here, on which I have 2GB of swap. I > doubt I have ever seen conky show me more than 35% use. And I am quite a > hea

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

2021-12-15 Thread Jorge P . de Morais Neto
Hello, Em [2021-12-09 qui 01:02:17+], Andy Smith escreveu: > If you are still worried you could partition just half of it and use > it as a physical volume for LVM, which you might want to do anyway to > encrypt it (LUKS), Then over time you can see how much you have > written, how much life

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

2021-12-15 Thread Jorge P . de Morais Neto
Hi. Em [2021-12-09 qui 05:14:09+0500], Alexander V. Makartsev escreveu: > So, if you plan to use NVMe SSD as a system drive, I suggest you also > keep /swap partition I am considering swapping to the SSD, yes. > Also, I suggest you to make backups of /home on daily schedule to HDD, > because d

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

2021-12-14 Thread Jorge P . de Morais Neto
Hello! Em [2021-12-08 qua 22:05:50-0800], David Christensen escreveu: > I would remove the 1 TB HDD, install the 250 GB NVMe SSD, and do a fresh > install of Debian 11 with MBR partitioning, 1E+9 byte boot partition > (ext4) Why MBR partitioning and why a separate boot partition? > I would pu

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

2021-12-08 Thread Jorge P . de Morais Neto
e mount manpage, noatime implies nodiratime. - ssd: Does btrfs not autodetect SSD? Why provide ssd option? - Why `compress-force' instead of simply `compress'? For more context, my DE is Gnome and some of my most often used applications are: - GNU Emacs - notmuch and offlineimap (I am con

Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

2021-12-08 Thread Jorge P. de Morais Neto
Hi everyone! I have a Dell Inspiron 5570 laptop with 1TB HDD and 16 GiB RAM (it supports 32 GiB). I am about to buy an M.2 NVMe 250GB SSD---a Western Digital WD Blue SN550. I would like to set the system for reliability, SSD durability¹ and performance. I have looked at [Multi HDD/SSD Partition

Re: WARNING: debian11 + bind-9.16.15 + dnssec-policy in options{} = crashes

2021-08-17 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 16 Aug 2021, raf wrote: > If like me, you've been eagerly awaiting debian11 to > get bind-9.16.15, which finally lets you implement > DNSSEC extremely easily on debian stable, I have a > warning. And I have another: make sure your system clock is correct. DNSSEC will fail if system time i

Re: Moving dual boot Win10 & Debian 10 system from Legacy to UEFI

2021-07-06 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Tue, 06 Jul 2021 22:17:22 +0300, Anssi Saari wrote: > "Juan R. de Silva" writes: > >> Do you guys think it is actually feasible? Anybody can suggest >> something easier, smarter? It's a lot of work to do... :-( > > Why do you think this would

Re: Moving dual boot Win10 & Debian 10 system from Legacy to UEFI

2021-07-04 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Sun, 04 Jul 2021 17:23:33 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 7/4/21 4:22 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I dual boot Debian 10 with Windows 10 from MBR in Legacy mode on my 6 >> years old Dell M4800 workstation. The BIOS supports both Legacy and &

Moving dual boot Win10 & Debian 10 system from Legacy to UEFI

2021-07-04 Thread Juan R. de Silva
Hi folks, I dual boot Debian 10 with Windows 10 from MBR in Legacy mode on my 6 years old Dell M4800 workstation. The BIOS supports both Legacy and UEFI modes. With upcoming Windows 11 I am compelled to switch to UEFI mode. I know how to switch stand alone Windows 10 or stand alone Linux from

Re: Weird WiFi problem

2021-05-24 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Sun, 23 May 2021 21:53:45 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 5/23/21 4:55 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> Help needed from somebody with the better networking knowledge than >> mine. >> >> Debian Buster on Dell M4800 Mobile Workstation, Intel Corporation >

Weird WiFi problem

2021-05-23 Thread Juan R. de Silva
Help needed from somebody with the better networking knowledge than mine. Debian Buster on Dell M4800 Mobile Workstation, Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev bb) WiFi adapter. The ISP modem offers 2 WiFi bands: 2.4G & 5G. The system connects automatically to 5G. 2.4G is reserved for my printer

Re: Ghost cronjob

2021-05-04 Thread Mart van de Wege
David Wright writes: > On Tue 04 May 2021 at 17:06:50 (+0200), Mart van de Wege wrote: >> Sven Hartge writes: >> > Mart van de Wege wrote: >> > >> >> Nope, not ephemeral at all, it's PID 1. Since I don't have timers >> >> ru

Re: Ghost cronjob

2021-05-04 Thread Mart van de Wege
Sven Hartge writes: > Mart van de Wege wrote: > >> Nope, not ephemeral at all, it's PID 1. Since I don't have timers >> running this job, apparently there's a zombie process somewhere? > > PID 1 hints at a systemd.timer, even if you have dismissed this &g

Re: Ghost cronjob

2021-05-03 Thread Mart van de Wege
Mart van de Wege writes: > Stefan Monnier writes: > >> Mart van de Wege [2021-05-03 20:11:25] wrote: >>> Stefan Monnier writes: >>>>> root@galahad:~# grep btrbk /etc/ -rl >>>> >>>> Have you `grep`d in `/var/` as well? >>>>

Re: Ghost cronjob

2021-05-03 Thread Mart van de Wege
Stefan Monnier writes: > Mart van de Wege [2021-05-03 20:11:25] wrote: >> Stefan Monnier writes: >>>> root@galahad:~# grep btrbk /etc/ -rl >>> >>> Have you `grep`d in `/var/` as well? >>> [ E.g. `/var/spool/crontabs` ] >>> >> Yep,

Re: Ghost cronjob

2021-05-03 Thread Mart van de Wege
Stefan Monnier writes: >> root@galahad:~# grep btrbk /etc/ -rl > > Have you `grep`d in `/var/` as well? > [ E.g. `/var/spool/crontabs` ] > Yep, nothing there, aside from the usual suspects (apt & dpkg files). >> And yet I find this in /var/log/btrbk.log: >> >> 2017-03-12T20:16:28+0100 startup v0

Re: Ghost cronjob

2021-05-03 Thread Mart van de Wege
David Wright writes: > > Just guessing. You set the cron job to initiate a backup at 04:00. > Perhaps there's something configured in your /etc/btrbk/btrbk.conf > that says check for retention by day/week/month/year rather than > 04:00/day/week/month/year. The former check has to made at midnight

Re: Ghost cronjob

2021-05-03 Thread Mart van de Wege
writes: > Now I do :) > > Well, no clue. But it's a script, so you could just insert some > debugging stuff (like, for example, reporting its parent PID > when it's started again)? So you might catch the ghosts parent? > > Cheers > - t > Neat idea. btrbk is pure Perl, in which I happened to be f

Re: Ghost cronjob

2021-05-03 Thread Mart van de Wege
writes: > On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 09:07:26AM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: >> I have the following configured to back up my laptop to my file server: >> >> root@galahad:~# cat /etc/cron.d/backup >> MAILTO=m...@vdwege.eu >> #00 04 * * * root /usr/sbin/

Re: Ghost cronjob

2021-05-03 Thread Mart van de Wege
Mart van de Wege writes: > And yet I find this in /var/log/btrbk.log: > > 2017-03-12T20:16:28+0100 startup v0.24.0 - - - - # btrbk command line client, > version 0.24.0 > Wrong logline copy/pasted, it should be this one: 2021-05-03T00:00:03+0200 startup v0.27.1 - - - # btr

Ghost cronjob

2021-05-03 Thread Mart van de Wege
I have the following configured to back up my laptop to my file server: root@galahad:~# cat /etc/cron.d/backup MAILTO=m...@vdwege.eu #00 04 * * * root /usr/sbin/btrbk --verbose --format=long run Note: it is currently disabled. The only other places I have anything mentioning btrbk in /etc is in

Re: ping gateway ok, ping any other local network address fails

2021-04-10 Thread Mart van de Wege
rudu writes: > > To configure the printer, I first have to be able to ping it on the > local network, which every over computer can do. So all other peers on the LAN can get to the printer. > And they can print all right, so this desktop must have some network > misconfiguration of some sort, I

Re: missing memory and the mystery of MTRRs

2021-02-16 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 15 Feb 2021, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 14 feb 21, 12:22:25, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > > We had a power outage the other day, and when I tried to restart the > > machine it would get past the Grub screen, then sit there forever with > > a screen that was blank except for a blinking cursor.

Re: Missing memory and the mystery of MTRRs

2021-02-16 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 13 Feb 2021, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > [This would probably be an FAQ if I knew the proper incantation...] Well, sorta > I realized recently that a box I've been running for a while isn't seeing > all of its installed memory. The BIOS screens indicate that 8GB is > installed, but Debian

Re: FileZilla / ftp / GnuTLS error connecting to sites with Testing/Bullseye

2021-02-12 Thread Frank de Bruijn
Op 12-02-2021 om 20:15 schreef Paul Scott: On 2/12/21 12:12 PM, Frank wrote: Op 12-02-2021 om 18:19 schreef Gary Dale: I appreciate the people doing this, but this is a serious issue. I have to resort to firing up a VM or resorting to the command line on my local server to update my web sites b

Executing 'systemctl poweroff' from script run by cron.

2020-11-23 Thread Juan R. de Silva
I am running Buster after fairly deafult installation. One of my scripts executes '/usr/bin/systemctl poweroff' command. And I am having trouble executing this script from cron. 1. If run from user's CLI, the script succeeds. 2. If run from root crontab the script succeeds. 3. If run from user's

Re: How to manage audio volume unattended.

2020-11-15 Thread Juan R. de Silva
> Normalize the volume of the mp3 files beforehand rather than adjusting > the volume of the player in real time for each individual file (e.g. > with an app like python-rgain)? > > Or does this not speak to the reason for the volume changes? Unfortunately, it does not in this particular case.

Re: How to manage audio volume unattended.

2020-11-15 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 14:46:01 +, Brian wrote: > On Sun 15 Nov 2020 at 02:35:39 -, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > >> I use cron job to run VLC several times a day at predefined times. Each >> time a different mp3 file is played and I need to set different audio >> volu

Re: How to manage audio volume unattended.

2020-11-15 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 02:35:39 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: Thanks to all replied and a lot of helpful suggestion. I'm working on it. :-)

How to manage audio volume unattended.

2020-11-14 Thread Juan R. de Silva
I use cron job to run VLC several times a day at predefined times. Each time a different mp3 file is played and I need to set different audio volume for each file. I also need to make it working unattended. I can set the volume by executing 'pactl set-sink-input-volume X Y%' but to do it I need

Re: No updates in Debian 10 for last 5 days

2020-10-05 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Mon, 05 Oct 2020 13:59:11 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On 10/5/20 1:48 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I'm not having any updates for my Debian Buster for last 5 days. Looks >> suspicious to me... Anybody has same experience? >> >> >

Re: No updates in Debian 10 for last 5 days

2020-10-05 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Mon, 05 Oct 2020 20:10:00 +0200, john doe wrote: > On 10/5/2020 7:48 PM, Juan R. de Silva wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I'm not having any updates for my Debian Buster for last 5 days. Looks >> suspicious to me... Anybody has same experience? >> >>

No updates in Debian 10 for last 5 days

2020-10-05 Thread Juan R. de Silva
Hi folks, I'm not having any updates for my Debian Buster for last 5 days. Looks suspicious to me... Anybody has same experience? Thanks

Cannot post with Pan

2020-08-17 Thread Juan R. de Silva
test

Re: Systemd leaves uninterruptible processes

2020-08-02 Thread Mart van de Wege
On Sun, 2 Aug 2020 11:27:47 -0400 Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 2 Aug 2020 17:06:22 +0200 > wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 02, 2020 at 04:27:25PM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: > > > Andrei POPESCU writes: > > > > > > > > What else besides XFCE and &qu

Re: Systemd leaves uninterruptible processes

2020-08-02 Thread Mart van de Wege
Andrei POPESCU writes: >> (Oh, and ODD 9 is the 'news' user on this system, which is used by >> leafnode's nightly 'texpire' run) > > So you are running leafnode on it, not necessarily the most common > software to run on a desktop. > > What else besides XFCE and "common" desktop software (e.g.

Re: Systemd leaves uninterruptible processes

2020-08-02 Thread Mart van de Wege
Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Sb, 01 aug 20, 21:38:50, Mart van de Wege wrote: >> Andrei POPESCU writes: >> >> >> I tried googling, but unfortunately the terms I can come up with only >> >> give generic information. How can I find out why these proces

Re: Systemd leaves uninterruptible processes

2020-08-01 Thread Mart van de Wege
Andrei POPESCU writes: >> I tried googling, but unfortunately the terms I can come up with only >> give generic information. How can I find out why these processes keep >> hanging? > > Which processes would that be? Ah, those would be '/lib/systemd/systemd-user-runtime-dir stop ' Regards, Mart

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

2020-08-01 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 31 Jul 2020, riveravaldez wrote: > Hi, to clarify: I would like to connect to a remote home-machine > (dynamic IP) through SSH session but without using a third-party > server (free or paid), just with software running in both machines. I am not sure if you'd consider a DDNS (dynamic DNS)

Re: Systemd leaves uninterruptible processes

2020-07-29 Thread Mart van de Wege
On Wed, 2020-07-29 at 13:53 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 28 iul 20, 17:32:55, Mart van de Wege wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Since the past month or so, systemd leaves systemd-user-runtime-dir > > processes in an uninterruptible state, apparently after cleaning u

Systemd leaves uninterruptible processes

2020-07-28 Thread Mart van de Wege
Hi, Since the past month or so, systemd leaves systemd-user-runtime-dir processes in an uninterruptible state, apparently after cleaning up after a user sessions exits; I'm running XFCE4 with Lightdm, and thus I get at least a hanging process trying to stop user-runtime-dir@117.service, but they a

Re: Re: Modifying behavior of netcfg in debian-installer

2020-05-30 Thread Daniel De Lellis
Thanks, but that isn't really my question. Yes, we've looked at completely overhauling our existing imaging infrastructure to avoid a bug with DHCP autoconfiguration edge cases. That may be the route we go, but that is not a trivial amount of work. The debian-installer FAQ declares that it was de

Modifying behavior of netcfg in debian-installer

2020-05-29 Thread Daniel De Lellis
Hello, tl;dr: I want to add a script to be executed to the initrd used in pxeboot to execute either in the case of DHCP autoconfig failing, or to subvert and bypass the existing DHCP method entirely. I would like to do this by replacing or modifying installation steps pertaining to configuring net

How to enable reiserfs in buster

2020-02-12 Thread Bernard van de Koppel
uot; in /boot/config-5.4.14-sunxi64 (on an pine64). How can I enable this in the new config?? Is it possible to do this without rebuilding the kernel?? I would prefer an method that has an minimal impact on other updates. Hope anyone can help, Bernard van de Koppel

Re: Understanding the ThinkPad W550s keyboard

2019-12-01 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 01 Dec 2019, Celejar wrote: > 1) Most of the function keys don't seem to have scancodes / keycodes > (evtest doesn't react in any way to their press / release). Is this a > hardware thing - they just aren't designed as keyboard keys - or a > failure of the kernel? Some of the ones that have

Re: Install fest debian linux - Recife/Brazil - UPE/POLI - Oct, 05, 19

2019-09-20 Thread Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana
Olá Ruben, Sou Paulo, de Curitiba. Fico feliz em ver a movimentação da comunidade de Recife para organizar o Install Fest. Existe alguma página específica sobre o Install Fest no dia 4? Se tiver, me envie por gentileza o link para que eu possa publicar no https://micronews.debian.org/ Vocẽ

Re: Lost sound after update to 9:9.10

2019-09-08 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Sun, 08 Sep 2019 20:42:46 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2019-09-08 18:13 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > >> One of my computers lost sound (both speakers and headphones) after >> update to 9:9.10. User is in "audio" group. No sound neither for the >> user

Lost sound after update to 9:9.10

2019-09-08 Thread Juan R. de Silva
One of my computers lost sound (both speakers and headphones) after update to 9:9.10. User is in "audio" group. No sound neither for the user nor for root. Hardware tested with Live Ubuntu 16.04 is alive and functioning. Run bellow without any help: root@desktop:~#

Re: Package selection for bugreport (suspend, BIOS option, Interrupt remapping)

2019-08-22 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
. That said, please make sure you have the latest version of the thinkstation c20 firmware (BIOS, etc). It is a BIOS bug to even offer to enable interrupt remapping on a non-fixed version of the chipset in the first place. -- Henrique de Moraes Holschuh

Re: Systemd start that won't stop

2019-08-11 Thread Mart van de Wege
writes: > On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 07:11:19PM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: >> Felix Miata writes: >> >> > Curt Howland composed on 2019-08-09 13:53 (UTC-0400): >> > >> >> plymouth-quit-wait.service >> > ... >> >> I have no id

Re: Systemd start that won't stop

2019-08-11 Thread Mart van de Wege
Felix Miata writes: > Curt Howland composed on 2019-08-09 13:53 (UTC-0400): > >> plymouth-quit-wait.service > ... >> I have no idea what a "plymouth" is. > > Several things it brings to the table: > 1-avoids /dastardly/ "flicker" on mode switching during startup > 2-bling/eye candy during startu

Re: Debian Buster: Is it safe to use on autodefrag on a Btrfs filesystem that is used for (Restic) backup only with no Btrfs snapshots or subvolumes?

2019-07-31 Thread Mart van de Wege
Stefan Monnier writes: >> Is it safe to use autodefrag for my use case? > > It sounds like it might be "safe" (the text doesn't actually say it's > unsafe, but just that it has downsides). > > I do wonder why you'd want to do that, tho. Fragmentation is typically > something that clueless Window

Re: fix for no ssh

2019-07-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 08 Jul 2019, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > In my understanding what sysv-init does (crediting entropy over reboots) > is not secure for various reasons. Writes to /dev/urandom using dd *DOES NOT* and *NEVER HAS* credited any entropy to the pool. Which is what sysvinit (actually, initscripts) d

Re: lightweight wifi UI

2019-05-27 Thread Mart van de Wege
bw writes: > In-Reply-To: <20190527090258.213ecf5a@debian9> > >>From: Patrick Bartek >>My post WAS initially a report of anamolous behavior during >>an install. I had read of other systemd quirks. (If no one knows, how >>can it be fixed?) The last paragraph asking for network manager >>recomm

Re: Debian Programming languages

2019-05-26 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 25 May 2019, Kenneth Parker wrote: > As one who has been involved in "low level plumbing", since the 1970's > (including on IBM Mainframe Computers), I'm not afraid of Assembler > Language. I'm surprised, that I didn't know about Rust (package rustc). > Thanks for alerting me! Rust, the l

Re: No Books in print on Systemd?

2019-05-23 Thread Mart van de Wege
Nicholas Geovanis writes: > > That webpage is unfortunately the best doc I have found on > SystemD. Its not unfortunate because it's bad doc, it's good but some > is a little out of date. It's that there is nothing better from the > makers of SystemD. In the ideal world only "us" system administra

Re: [OT] ext4 corruption (was: Re: Just had to reset/reboot again, total loss of keyboard & mouse)

2019-05-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 18 May 2019, Curt wrote: > On 2019-05-18, Reco wrote: > > On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 09:16:34AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > >> Just don't use any kernel 5.1.x where x < 4: it can corrupt ext4 > >> filesystems. > > > > Can you s

Re: [OT] ext4 corruption (was: Re: Just had to reset/reboot again, total loss of keyboard & mouse)

2019-05-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 18 May 2019, Reco wrote: > On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 09:16:34AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Just don't use any kernel 5.1.x where x < 4: it can corrupt ext4 > > filesystems. > > Can you share a bug number please? On LKML. Just look at the ext

Re: Just had to reset/reboot again, total loss of keyboard & mouse

2019-05-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 17 May 2019, Gene Heskett wrote: > The first thing I saw as it rebooted was some msgs about hid-common > This was before recovering the journal on the boot drive. That's a core component of the Linux *kernel* HID (human interface device) subsystem. You need, for a bug report: 1. the *exa

Re: Discussion? New names of betwork devices

2019-03-23 Thread Mart van de Wege
Hans writes: > Am Freitag, 22. März 2019, 17:15:29 CET schrieb Reco: >> Or, for instance, en0p2gibberish. They call them Unpredictable Device >> Named for a reason. >> > > Yes, thsis is another thing, which I am thinking of: The names could change > (in case, when there are more than one networ

nosh version 1.40

2019-03-20 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
The nosh package is now up to version 1.40 . * http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/ * http://jdebp.info./Softwares/nosh/ * https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-quarterly/blob/master/2018q4/nosh.md This version sees changes to the doco, improvements to network configuration, and a cha

djbwares version 9

2019-03-20 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
The djbwares package is now up to version 9 . * http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/djbwares/ * http://jdebp.info./Softwares/djbwares/ This version sees changes to the doco and to the DNS and HTTP servers. FreeBSD binaries I plan for this to be the last release with binarie

Regles d'utilisation de la mailing-list FRnOG / FRnOG mailing-list rules of usage

2019-03-13 Thread Gestionnaire de Liste FRnOG
Bonjour, Afin d'aider à la catégorisation des e-mails, il est nécessaire de modifier le "Sujet/Objet/Subject" de celui-ci avec un Tag en fonction du contenu. Voici la règle à respecter pour poster sur cet

Re: Mart -- [Solved] [Well, not solved,. but sickened by] Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools

2019-03-12 Thread Mart van de Wege
Stefan Monnier writes: >> OP has a point though. The real world happens to have a huge amount of >> heterogeneous networks, and asking for tools to keep those systems safe >> is legitimate. > > I did not perceive the OP's request to be about the case where you > administer lots of machines and yo

Re: Mart -- [Solved] [Well, not solved,. but sickened by] Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools

2019-03-11 Thread Mart van de Wege
Stefan Monnier writes: >> re: apt solving all? I understand it recently had a long-time vulnerability >> itself... >> Linux will get hit more as it gets more popular. > > My point is not that APT and/or Debian is bullet-proof (I live under no > delusion in this respect). Just that instead of kee

Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools

2019-03-10 Thread Mart van de Wege
deb writes: > Starting assumption: I do want to run A/V. > >  * I get that it may actually INCREASE attack surface. > >  * But I have Windows & Mac stuff going back and forth to Debian 9.8 > and just want to check. When you say going back and forth, do you mean over the network? On Linux the be

Re: get my ip address

2019-02-28 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
tony; I am aware that I can call ip a and parse the result. [...] Is there any other way to obtain this data, maybe from /sys? just call libc.getifaddrs() directly. * http://programmaticallyspeaking.com./getting-network-interfaces-in-python.html

Re: Why /usr/sbin is not in my root $PATH ?

2019-02-24 Thread Mart van de Wege
John Hasler writes: >> But it's not Joe Random User, it's Joe Sysadmin > > Worse. Who is most likely to have put weird stuff in his environment? And it's not as if sysadmins never log in as other users. Oh no. Really, not using a clean, known environment as root is plain good practice, and has

Re: Why /usr/sbin is not in my root $PATH ?

2019-02-23 Thread Mart van de Wege
Greg Wooledge writes: > > The problem with "su -" is that it strips out *all* of your environment, That's a feature, not a bug. You *don't* want to import Joe Random User's environment into root's. Mart -- "We will need a longer wall when the revolution comes." --- AJS, quoting an uncertain s

Re: stracing login process with systemd?

2019-02-22 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Eduard Bloch: that was the best guess I could extract from the documentation Try some StackExchange answers. * https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/477049/5132 * https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/427917/5132 * https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/423648/5132 * https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/44183

Re: Why /usr/sbin is not in my root $PATH ?

2019-02-21 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Greg Wooledge: At some point I'm going to need to write a wiki page to explain the change, and list some known workarounds, so that users can pick which one they want to implement. You could point them to StackExchange in the meantime. (-: * https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/460769/5132

Re: Looking for advise to replacy Pan newsreader

2019-02-17 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 16:07:11 + Tixy wrote: > On Sun, 2019-02-17 at 15:56 +, Tixy wrote: > > On Sun, 2019-02-17 at 14:47 +, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > [...] > > > And may I ask you what do you use to follow this very maillist? > > > > Erm, he proba

Re: Looking for advise to replacy Pan newsreader

2019-02-17 Thread Juan R. de Silva
On Sat, 16 Feb 2019 22:51:04 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote: > On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 04:05:47 - (UTC) > "Juan R. de Silva" wrote: > >> Pan newsreader,which I used happily for several years, lately get buggy >> as hell and cannot be used any longer at all. >>

Looking for advise to replacy Pan newsreader

2019-02-16 Thread Juan R. de Silva
Pan newsreader,which I used happily for several years, lately get buggy as hell and cannot be used any longer at all. I tried Thunderbird from Debian repo and found that the pure thing is not capable to keep a uniform font size through all posts. That is, the font size changes as soon as I try

Re: kmail - just a little problem

2019-02-15 Thread Freek de Kruijf
em some time ago. The only solution I found, was to remove the configuration of kmail/kontact and start a new configuration. I renamed the user and generated a new user with the same name and the same userid and groupid. Copied most of the configurations from the previous user, obviously except those for kontact/kmail. -- fr.gr. Freek de Kruijf

Re: No ifconfig

2019-02-13 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
* https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/08/msg01613.html * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17152738 * https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=274269 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17151922 Since I needed an |ifconfig| with a more BSD-like interface /a

Let's play "Where is X?" (was: logout kills X)

2019-02-02 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Felix Miata: Indeed. It's what I had in mind when I responded. I'll give one guess where it came from. Time's up. Yes, systemd. Who couldn't have guessed. It imposed a notion that I first noticed (wish to guess where?) Yup, on Fedora, home of Leonard P, under the aegis of RedHat, and

Re: logout kills X

2019-02-02 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Greg Wooledge: The man page for |clear_console|(1) is a little unclear to me, and a little bit disturbing. I cannot figure out what "changes the foreground virtual terminal to another terminal" is supposed to mean, but between that and the reference to |chvt|(1) under SEE ALSO, it seems like

Re: Bug#132542: sysvinit: please make /etc/init.d/rcS a conffile

2019-02-02 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Thorsten Glaser: > Just accept that this idea, originating from the systemd people at Fedora/Freedesktop, is NOT welcome to classical Unix people. Ahem! We classical Unix people experienced this idea in the late 1980s, from where it *really* originated, Sun and AT&T. * https://groups.googl

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