what you are
# looking for (data bus can be different than address bus)...
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "address sizes" | head -1
address sizes : 39 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
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file back in 2018 and have forgotten about
it but it works fine for MATE.
> the directories are not created, since ~/ already exists.
>
> On prior machines I had been copying the .config directory in its
> entirety, something I did not want to do again because cruft builds
> up.
>
> Many thanks, Mr. Heller, hopefully this will help some folks who find
> themselves having to create empty files to stop the directories being
> created.
>
> Curt-
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Felix Miata wrote:
> songbird composed on 2025-09-01 11:40 (UTC-0400):
>
>> Felix Miata wrote:
>> ...
>>> How should or could I have fixed this using the package management system?
>
>> download via snapshot a copy of that package file and then use
>> r
Felix Miata wrote:
...
> How should or could I have fixed this using the package management system?
download via snapshot a copy of that package file and then use
reinstall.
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age, bad eyesight,", etc. i
certainly understand those.
i would not do any destructive automatic scripts until there
was a way to check that the device and partition number are
verified to be what you want and also do not contain something
else as a failsafe just in case.
on my current system device names can change.
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nged where
recently and may have read past it in any release notes...
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the
> information to a straight text document.
>
> What is the recommended procedure?
>
> I plead the 5th on what I tried.
>
> TIA
remember that things can change between boots so any
mentions of specific devices may be out of date the next
boot.
as an example my /dev/sda can change to /dev/sd[bcd] ...
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show libgphoto2-6 | grep udev/rules
> libgphoto2-6: /lib/udev/rules.d/60-libgphoto2-6.rules
>
> Try to hide that file from the system, reload the rules and
> unplug/replug both devices and see if it changes something.
on my testing system the following exists:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7584 Oct 31 2024 60-libgphoto2-6t64.rules
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erhaps something there has changed
somehow.
does your camera have any Bluetooth or Wifi options?
these are things i think of, hope something helps. :)
songbird
as already zeroed. but
thank you for the effort as maybe someone else will see
your post. :)
at the moment i'm waiting for some new cables as several
of mine are bent at the end and i can't plug in all that i
need.
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00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>||
that one showed all zeroes for the entire SSD.
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ghe2001 wrote:
>
> A few suggestions on getting rid of garbage (yours, some hacker's, or
> Microsoft's):
>
> https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/secure-erase-ssd-or-hard-drive
all good to know thanks.
songbird
n use dd on
the entire device (and /dev/zero and/or /dev/random or
similar).
out of habit i normally use sync to make sure buffers
are written and not waiting via the io cache before i do
anything that might affect the file systems or backups.
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rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday, July 10, 2025 10:41:18 PM David Christensen wrote:
>> On 7/10/25 04:07, songbird wrote:
>> >I was able to get some SSD replacements and want to add them
>> >
>> > to my existing setup,
>>
>> Be sure to
Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 07:07:03AM -0400, songbird wrote:
...
>> When trying to see what current recommendations are for setting
>> up SSDs I see no mentions of this at all? Has this changed?
...
> Just don't worry about it unless you
Dan Purgert wrote:
> On Jul 10, 2025, songbird wrote:
>> hello all, some questions at last... it's been a while. :)
>>
>> I was able to get some SSD replacements and want to add them
>> to my existing setup, but in previous years I recall that there
>>
not running too much that is demanding for performance.
I do like having multiple backups on the different SSDs just
in case one of them decides to fail on me. No signs of any
troubles so far.
songbird
for pyspread version 2.1.1-2
in stable (aka bookworm) as testing aka currently as trixie is
at a different version 2.3.1-3(and may be fixed already).
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> that we have configuration directories, admins are expected to make
> their changes in them so:
Redhat is not Debian...
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system. See the system calls below for
more details.
AUTHOR
Written by Jim Meyering and Giuseppe Scrivano.
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>
SEE ALSO
fdatasync(2), fsync(2), sync(2), syncfs(2)
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sync>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) sync invocation'
"
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and no end for that
one seems to be coming at all other than continually kicking
the can down the road.
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g to happen in the future will be a difference even
if the children and grandchildren will curse us it will be
that bit less horrid for them.
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and we are billed for
the newer machine does make enough of a difference that i'm
quite happy with it.
the old machine was broken and incapable of doing the kinds
of graphics or even able to run a desktop like MATE without
having issues and delays and i certainly don't miss the
noise.
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achine had a power supply
with two fans in it that were very loud and also
the CPU heat sink had fan on it.
i like quiet and not using a lot of power for
most of the day.
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debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:
> songbird wrote:
>> Timothy M Butterworth wrote:
>> ...keyboard sometimes stops working...
>> > I have that problem occasionally. I just unplug the USB connector
>> > then plug it back in and the keyboard works again.
>>
sing a firm contact. which was too
bad since i liked those keyboards otherwise (i still have
them but have never figured out how to repair them and
they're not worth sending back to be repaired).
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designed to say anything about what it is doing other
than reporting home to E.T., ... never know unless you
can dig into the source code itself and maybe they have
released it? do they have a github site for development
and reportin issues, etc... etc...
good luck :)
songbird
gt; [...]
>
>> curl -s
>> "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ispysoftware/agent-install-scripts/main
>>
>> v3/install.sh
>> <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ispysoftware/agent-install-scripts/main>"
>> | bash
>
> *GAH* :-@
>
> That means that you trust blindly those people. You know this can do
> anything to your computer, right?
>
> Cheers
same! :)
songbird
purge the problem installation of cups and reinstall.
i suspect you may have done some kind of update or removal
of a suggested component or something like that.
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things.
this was a long time ago though and now perhaps it isn't
so bad. doesn't matter now as i have no old bup anyplace.
ultimately i really need a way to do backups that will
deduplicate and must be 100% bulletproof and stable.
songbird
i don't use sudo, i just start a root shell in a particular
terminal when i start up each day and then i only do root
stuff there.
songbird
y to use Debian stable. But as this
> backported kernel will soon run stable Trixie, I think it wouldn't harm
> to anyway provide a bug report.
FYI - testing aka trixie is currently at:
6.12.19-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.12.19-1 (2025-03-16) x86_64
GNU/Linux
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Felix Miata wrote:
> songbird composed on 2025-03-22 08:16 (UTC-0400):
...
>> i'm not able to dig into this further (way behind on this list)
>> but rmadison works ok for something like that:
...
> Looks perfect, but for 43 things:
> # rmadison linux-image
> Comm
ays leave my machine on, but that too is also ok
as there's a good chance i'll just create a script that i
can run manually on my own as i shutdown at night.
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Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> songbird wrote:
...
>>ultimately i really need a way to do backups that will
>> deduplicate
>
> I do not see what you mean.
my old backups are not incremental so they will contain a
lot of files that would be identical copies to other backups.
r, ownership may not be a problem but permissions might be.
> IIRC, for example, ssh (and sshd) will not work properly if the
> permissions on ~/.ssh are wrong.
>
> git will also not backup (or even see) extended attributes.
not without patching somehow. :(
songbird
i
would consider normal archive data kept as a core feature i can't
use git how i'd like.
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amd64
linux-image-amd64 | 6.13.7-1~exp1 | experimental | amd64
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i currently use firefox and have mostly been ok with it.
would like to try something else.
currently running testing.
any that have any filtering capabilities? yt and a few
other sites are intolerable without a decent blocker.
songbird
is
a project for another winter and this one is almost over.
songbird
so far all of the replies have been helpful and useful.
please keep 'em coming if something hasn't been mentioned yet
i'd like to hear about it.
songbird
27;ve noticed, but i'm also not doing very complicated
things with it.
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Chris Green wrote:
> songbird wrote:
>> Chris Green wrote:
>> ...
>> > It would be much easier if I could simply tell epiphany (or another
>> > browser) **not** to try and become the default for everything, rather
>> > than having to try and unset all th
t; Janet
i wonder if some power management is putting it to sleep
or some timer is timing out. maybe check bios settings for
power management, screen savers, etc.
they can all not play very well together. :( (you know
the old saying about too many chefs in the kitchen...)
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ther user.
songbird
t I haven't poked too deeply, so corrections are
> welcome :-)
>
> Cheers
>
> [1] https://www.eternal-september.org/groups.php?hierarchy=linux
gmane is the hierarchy i see this group for reading and
replying.
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Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 01:51:49AM -0500, songbird wrote:
>> when doing the upgrade you do have the option of doing
>> a test run to see what changes are made or not making the
>> changes at that time.
>>
>> when goi
sted.gpg.d directory.
=
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Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Wed Jan 29, 2025 at 10:52 AM GMT, songbird wrote:
>> Setting up openjdk-17-jre-headless:amd64 (17.0.14+7-1) ...
>> update-binfmts: warning: current package is openjdk-21, but binary format
>> already installed by openjdk-9
>
> What do you
o
have links to the current and previous version that get
updated when the new kernel is installed. it all just
works as it should as long as someone doesn't break it...
songbird
during this morning's update run:
Setting up openjdk-17-jre-headless:amd64 (17.0.14+7-1) ...
update-binfmts: warning: current package is openjdk-21, but binary format
already installed by openjdk-9
? what does this mean to you?
songbird
ed by
the installer or the older kernels may not have the best
drivers.
i see you mention running a pretty light desktop
management system so that also indicates someone who's
more into command line things.
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f having to set everything up all
over again for no real gain.
songbird
r C language questions?
comp.lang.c which is not a mailing list but instead a
usenet group (which is much better than a mailing list
for such types of conversations).
songbird
Marcelo Laia wrote:
...
> If any additional information or logs are needed, please let me know. Thank
> you for your assistance!
do you have the microcode packages installed for your
architecture?
songbird
gt; Thanks, and Happy Thanksgiving!
if you mean that you are removing all other drives from
the machine where the SSD is going to be plugged in then
you may still have some issues, but i'd say it would be
worth a try.
you may need to change your bios or efi settings.
songbird
hon2 and Python3"
>
> That makes me think it should be possible to achieve what you need.
>
> See
>
> https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv
>
> and
>
> https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv-installer
>
> Grx HdV
thank you, yes that was where i was going with my questions,
but you got there first. :)
songbird
lised'.
>
> Also, Ubuntu 18.04 is supported until 2029 so I have a few years when
> it should continue to 'just work'. :-)
ah, ok! :)
songbird
re might also be something about this written in
the installation guide or release notes.
songbird
Chris Green wrote:
> songbird wrote:
>> Chris Green wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> i haven't needed them and also haven't gotten into
>> them.
>>
>>
>> > I'm particularly interested in a way to run (say) Debian Bullseye
>&
thing else so far
but then i'm also not doing many complicated things.
songbird
art and the
> date/hour is disconfigured.
>
> My system admit the following Coin-Cell battery:
>
>1. CR-2032
>
> I install the following Coin-Cell battery in my machine:
>
> Panasonic CR2032 3V
did you put it in correctly? check that first.
songbird
tantly turns off beeps
in any desktop i normally use, i've sometimes had to go
in and remove speakers or put switches on wires if i
could not get the speaker out.
working very often through the night and having
roommates already PO'd because the keyboard could not
be silent. the best i could do was type with my hands
under blankets.
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Anssi Saari wrote:
> songbird writes:
>
>> hmm, well i actually use Refind for my normal booting up
>> and install GRUB as a backup. so far i've never needed the
>> backup but i do test it out from time to time.
>
> Um, so how do you choose which boot manage
x27;s bootloader to depend on.
> Install
> no others.
hmm, well i actually use Refind for my normal booting up
and install GRUB as a backup. so far i've never needed the
backup but i do test it out from time to time.
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;t have aliases or
other things in there i'm not using any longer.
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of the motherboard may have the bios set to do certain things
upon the first power on.
to help in the future it would have gotten a few more
eyeballs and braincells engaged had you specified which live
image and details about the motherboard.
i hope things remain stable. :)
songbird
d when pipewire and wireplumber are working.
>
> Hmm... let's see.
> Hmm... no, didn't make a difference: after installing `apulse` the same
> `firefox -P` still behaves identically (with the same error messages),
> and so does `apulse firefox -P`.
hmmm...
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mation in history files of any kind so those get
cleaned up upon normal shutdowns or start ups.
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hat wiki page you would expect to find
> suggestions to inspect ~/.xsession-errors file and journalctl output?
is there a general problem solving and debugging page?
> However I anyway do not have a link better that
> https://0pointer.de/blog/projects/journalctl.html for journalctl
> introduction.
...
songbird
st a tidbit for those who wander once in
a while into strange realms... :)
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n the keys unless i turn on the LED lights which shine
through the keys to light them up. it helps that there are
the bumps on the home row keys and the number 5 on the
number pad.
> In an office environment, the guy using Dvorak with a keyboard labeled
> QWERTY has no worries about others messing with his computer.
:)
songbird
time since i've run that so i can't give details (those brain
cells have been recycled :) )...
songbird
does not have some packages like Arch, why? They
> have rolling releases? I mean packages, for example, hyprland.
i don't know anything about Arch linux, sorry.
songbird
Max Nikulin wrote:
> On 19/07/2024 04:11, songbird wrote:
>>so far, agreed, i poked at it a bit the other day to see
>> if MATE would work with the roughly (user-@1000,etc) systemd
>> unit approach but that didn't accomplish anything i could tell.
>
> It would
raints i have. sometimes i can
be interrupted at any moment caring for a parent so that is
a first priority no matter what.
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could tell.
no more time this week for such journeys and
exploritations... but i'll continue reading along as i get
time as the topic is interesting and convoluted which are
the best sort of puzzles. :)
songbird
d still not looked into it
but i hope now that at least i've gotten that one nixed.
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at suits me. it also helps eliminate
some problems because i can also set my various PATH
environment variables to just what is needed and not
any thing more.
...
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forget and
i don't write all my stuff down. next time i do a clean
install i'll have to keep a better log of my local changes.
i have a lot of things masked out from systemd that i don't
use.
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self is bring up the network connection. sometimes i don't need
it so prefer to leave the connection off...
also, just out of a good idea i usually keep a stable booting
partition. this saves me at times.
songbird
due
> to "stty" default configuration:
that is a strange choice of termination and i would
actually consider it a bug in rtorrent, ESC or Ctrl-C
should work for that purpose.
...
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ny obscure packages that are out of the
ordinary.
the only question i have is will they update the wiki page
any time soon to reflect the progress or completion? it's
months out of date...
https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/64bit-time
songbird
David Wright wrote:
> On Tue 18 Jun 2024 at 19:29:31 (-0400), songbird wrote:
>
>> "df -x tmpfs" does the magic and gives me the better view that is
>> more useful.
>
> FWIW I define dfree as:
>
> df --output=source,ipcent,fstype,size,used,avail,pcent,targ
tials/systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
tmpfs 781M 64K 781M 1% /run/user/1000
tmpfs 1.0M 0 1.0M 0% /run/credentials/getty@tty1.service
=
"df -x tmpfs" does the magic and gives me the better view that is
more useful.
songbird
songbird wrote:
>
> as an FYI, last night this wasn't a good idea:
>
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>gir1.2-matepanelapplet-4.0 (1.27.1-2+b2 => 1.27.1-3)
>libmate-panel-applet-4-1 (1.27.1-2+b2 => 1.27.1-3)
>libmate-panel-applet-dev (1.
e...@gmx.us wrote:
> On 6/4/24 10:59, songbird wrote:
>> t...@tommiller.us wrote:
>>
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> last(1) seems to have disappeared following an upgrade from 12.5 to sid.
>> ...
>>
>>i've been using the "more" com
Ash Joubert wrote:
> On 2024-06-05 02:59, songbird wrote:
>> t...@tommiller.us wrote:
>>> last(1) seems to have disappeared following an upgrade from 12.5 to sid.
>>i've been using the "more" command provided by the util-linux
>> package.
>
>
t...@tommiller.us wrote:
> Hello!
>
> last(1) seems to have disappeared following an upgrade from 12.5 to sid.
...
i've been using the "more" command provided by the util-linux
package.
songbird
been needing more extreme things for a handicap
other than having fonts pretty large (which is a problem in
some websites or programs as some don't make it easy to
scroll a whole dialog until you find the key combination to
grab it and move it up or down).
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quiet enough that i'm not
at risk of removing a package i might need to
downgrade.
> Have a nice day :)
:)
> Thomas
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ransfer them a
> file.
if i'm taking that long to do something, i'll just find
an easier method.
for me sending an e-mail with the file attached
might also do it.
songbird
b2 => 1.27.1-3)
mate-panel-common (1.27.1-2 => 1.27.1-3)
this morning downgraded to previous version and all is
back to working.
held this update for now...
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is looking as it should.
my normal morning routing is to update and upgrade if
there is anything waiting, and today is the first time i'm
back to "normal" routine in some weeks so it is nice to
have a clear update list again. :)
songbird
songbird wrote:
...
> thanks to all in the Debian community who have gotten this
> done.
all looks ok. :)
songbird
songbird wrote:
...
> the on-going time_t transitions may be causing some packages
> to be removed for a while as dependencies get adjusted.
>
> i've currently not been doing full upgrades because there are
> many Mate packages that would be removed.
i decided to
ooking for a solution. Just reporting a spate of oddities I've
> encountered lately.
the on-going time_t transitions may be causing some packages
to be removed for a while as dependencies get adjusted.
i've currently not been doing full upgrades because there are
many Mate packages that would be removed.
songbird
how).
i guess if you wanted to be really sure you could mount it
read-only.
songbird
ew weeks before
things settle down.
that's what happens with unstable at times.
there are the release mailing lists and the debian-devel
mailing list which will give you some idea of how things
are going.
songbird
uched it.
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