Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-04-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
> This looks strange for me, as I would think, the AP on the computer > would also need some processing time for recognition, correction and > routing to the host. Try it! If you notice an important performance penalty, *then* come back with the numbers and the details of your setup, so someone c

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-04-05 Thread John Hasler
Hans writes: > This looks strange for me, as I would think, the AP on the computer > would also need some processing time for recognition, correction and > routing to the host. Every packet is routed by the kernel. There is no seperate "AP". How much delay matters? Ping should be under a millis

Re: reprepro dies with "duplicate sort specified but not supported in database"

2025-04-05 Thread Alexandre Rossi
Hi, > > Where does this come from? reprepro is version 5.4.6+really5.3.2-1. Did > > somebody tried to turn back the clock? How can I recover from this? > > > PS: Seems this came up with the reprepro "upgrade" 2 days ago: > > reprepro:amd64 (5.4.6-3, 5.4.6+really5.3.2-1) Please see https://

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-04-05 Thread Joe
On Sun, 30 Mar 2025 15:40:07 +0200 Hans wrote: > > Then use NGINX with RTMP-module listening on its standard port and > streaming with RTMP from Computer A to Computer B to the standard > port. > > Everything without any AP or router between. > > The stream can then be made visible with VLC

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-04-05 Thread Henrik Ahlgren
Hans writes: > yes, I already am aware of this, but this I wanted to avoid. It will be then > again a new hop, which causes delay (and I suppose, a software router is > sklower than a hardware device). I haven't tried this, but take a look at: https://wiki.debian.org/Wi

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-04-04 Thread Greg
On 2025-03-30, John Hasler wrote: > Hans writes: >> This looks strange for me, as I would think, the AP on the computer >> would also need some processing time for recognition, correction and >> routing to the host. > > Every packet is routed by the kernel. There is no seperate "AP". > > How much

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-04-04 Thread Hans
Am Sonntag, 30. März 2025, 21:41:30 CEST schrieb debian-u...@howorth.org.uk: > Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > [snip] > > > If you make the storage server the access point > > What storage server? > I thought this was about live video display from a drone? Oh sorry, maybe I did the wrong expr

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-04-04 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 9:29 AM Hans wrote: > Am Samstag, 29. März 2025, 19:21:39 CEST schrieb Stefan Monnier: > > >> You need to make one PC an access point. I think most guides are > > > > > > yes, I already am aware of this, but this I wanted to avoid. It w

Different HTTP download speeds over Wi-Fi (but not cable)

2025-03-31 Thread Paul Menzel
. Later I also noticed this in other Wi-Fi networks (Versatel), though I couldn’t verify with a cable there. This also happens with non-mirror HTTP servers, but I have no idea, who to ask, so I am writing to you. Download speed over Wi-Fi for most mirrors [1] was limited to 30 MB/s – for example

Re: Different HTTP download speeds over Wi-Fi (but not cable)

2025-03-31 Thread Dan Purgert
le full adapter speed is achieved, so it’s not some > bottleneck in the peering. Later I also noticed this in other Wi-Fi > networks (Versatel), though I couldn’t verify with a cable there. This > also happens with non-mirror HTTP servers, but I have no idea, who to > ask, so I am writing to y

[SOLVED] Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-31 Thread Hans
Hi folks, thank you very much for all your respose! It was so hepfull amnd I have again again a lot. You showed me different ways using software AP, ad-hoc and gave me many informations. I will test all these things now, what will take me some time. All my questions are fully answered and so

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-30 Thread debian-user
Timothy M Butterworth wrote: [snip] > If you make the storage server the access point What storage server? I thought this was about live video display from a drone?

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-30 Thread David Wright
ly guessing that hostB might be the drone.) So you configure hostB to find and connect to a fixed AP, just as most hosts do in a home network: in this case, it's hostA rather than a router. And hostA just waits for hostB to connect to it. > I intend to build a full preconfigurated livefile system based on debian, so > that people with Windows-computers can boot it in the fields and can use it. > > But - this will be a long way. Cheers, David.

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-30 Thread Joe
ow, if that is possible with wlan at all. However, it > looks like I am always have to use an AP on one of the computers (as > other users told). Looks like this is the only solution. However, if > it is so, then it will be ok for me. > > I intend to build a full preconfigurated livefile system based on > debian, so that people with Windows-computers can boot it in the > fields and can use it. > > But - this will be a long way. > > Best regards > > Hans > > >

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-30 Thread Hans
at all. However, it looks like I am always have to use an AP on one of the computers (as other users told). Looks like this is the only solution. However, if it is so, then it will be ok for me. I intend to build a full preconfigurated livefile system based on debian, so that people with Windows-computers can boot it in the fields and can use it. But - this will be a long way. Best regards Hans

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-30 Thread Hans
Am Samstag, 29. März 2025, 19:21:39 CEST schrieb Stefan Monnier: > >> You need to make one PC an access point. I think most guides are > > > > yes, I already am aware of this, but this I wanted to avoid. It will > > be then again a new hop, which causes delay (an

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread Joe
On Sat, 29 Mar 2025 16:37:39 +0100 Hans wrote: > > You need to make one PC an access point. I think most guides are > > designed to then connect that AP to the rest of the network, so > > that the AP is useful to wifi-only devices, but you can just > > ignore t

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> You need to make one PC an access point. I think most guides are > yes, I already am aware of this, but this I wanted to avoid. It will > be then again a new hop, which causes delay (and I suppose, > a software router is sklower than a hardware device). No, if one of the PCs

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread David Wright
On Sat 29 Mar 2025 at 16:37:39 (+0100), Hans wrote: > > You need to make one PC an access point. I think most guides are > > designed to then connect that AP to the rest of the network, so > > that the AP is useful to wifi-only devices, but you can just > > ignore t

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread Hans
> You need to make one PC an access point. I think most guides are > designed to then connect that AP to the rest of the network, so > that the AP is useful to wifi-only devices, but you can just > ignore that. > > Example at: > > http://souktha.github.io/misc/create

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread jeremy ardley
On 29/3/25 23:41, Hans wrote: It is not important, if a router is givng the devices an IP-address. So I do not need any dhcp. The IP-addresses can of course be set manually by me. The more problem I see, will be the encryption and passkey-exchange, if needed. However, I do not need encryption,

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread Hans
To clarify the access point will typically assign a subset of a class-C > range for DHCP. It will usually be O.K. to assign static addresses in > the same class C but out of the DHCP range > > An alternative depending on the router is to configure the router to > have fixed DHCP

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread jeremy ardley
On 29/3/25 23:01, jeremy ardley wrote: On 29/3/25 22:53, Hans wrote: But is this possible with wifi, too? My idea was working with fixed IP`s and give computer A the IP-address from computer B as gateway, and the other way round. Of course I my thinking was wrong (otherwise it would have

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread jeremy ardley
On 29/3/25 22:53, Hans wrote: But is this possible with wifi, too? My idea was working with fixed IP`s and give computer A the IP-address from computer B as gateway, and the other way round. Of course I my thinking was wrong (otherwise it would have been worked). The WiFi router usually

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread David Wright
On Sat 29 Mar 2025 at 15:53:01 (+0100), Hans wrote: > > just a question: Is it possible, to connect two computers with linux via wlan > without any router? > > I know, it is working with ethernet cable and crossover-cable. > > But is this possible with wifi, too? My

OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread Hans
Dear list, just a question: Is it possible, to connect two computers with linux via wlan without any router? I know, it is working with ethernet cable and crossover-cable. But is this possible with wifi, too? My idea was working with fixed IP`s and give computer A the IP-address from

Re: reprepro dies with "duplicate sort specified but not supported in database"

2025-03-22 Thread Alexandre Rossi
Hi, > > Please see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1100640 > > > > Summary is: use reprepro from experimental. > > > > This report is from me. The "duplicate sort" message is gone, but reprepro > version 5.4.7-1 is still buggy. Sorr

Re: reprepro dies with "duplicate sort specified but not supported in database"

2025-03-22 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi Alex, Alexandre Rossi wrote: Please see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1100640 Summary is: use reprepro from experimental. This report is from me. The "duplicate sort" message is gone, but reprepro version 5.4.7-1 is still buggy. Regards Harri

Re: reprepro dies with "duplicate sort specified but not supported in database"

2025-03-16 Thread Harald Dunkel
Harald Dunkel wrote: Where does this come from? reprepro is version 5.4.6+really5.3.2-1. Did somebody tried to turn back the clock? How can I recover from this? PS: Seems this came up with the reprepro "upgrade" 2 days ago: reprepro:amd64 (5.4.6-3, 5.4.6+really5.3.2-1) Regards Harri

reprepro dies with "duplicate sort specified but not supported in database"

2025-03-16 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, Trying to add or remove a source package in my local sid repository reprepro returns % reprepro removesrc sid iproute2 BDB1015 references: duplicate sort specified but not supported in database db_open(/var/www/debian/db/references.db:references)[22]: Invalid argument There have been

Re: CUPS test page prints but nothing else can print

2025-02-11 Thread Chris Green
Chris Green wrote: > I have just [re]installed an HP Laserjet Pro M15w printer on my T470 > laptop which runs Debian 12. > > The CUPS test page prints succesfully but nothing else seems able to > print. The CUPS Print Status window shows the job for a few seconds > but then

Running containers with systemd-nspawn works, but machinectl fails

2025-02-11 Thread Yassine Chaouche
before debian 12) and I've been advised to look into machineclt and systemd-nspawn. I have absolutely no experience in running containers, systemd or otherwise, and I'm not sure how this all works with nspawn, but I created a symlink to the location of the cloned server inside of /var/li

CUPS test page prints but nothing else can print

2025-02-11 Thread Chris Green
I have just [re]installed an HP Laserjet Pro M15w printer on my T470 laptop which runs Debian 12. The CUPS test page prints succesfully but nothing else seems able to print. The CUPS Print Status window shows the job for a few seconds but then it flashes the red cross indicating an error and the

Re: DokuWiki but in Markdown

2025-01-23 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu Jan 23, 2025 at 12:43 PM GMT, Nicolas George wrote: https://ikiwiki.info/ Very interesting. It seems it only fails for the last point. But maybe it can be added easily, after all buttons like that run on client-side. That would be nice. Somebody once spent a lot of time integrating

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-23 Thread Marco Möller
On 1/23/25 00:14, didier gaumet wrote: Le 22/01/2025 à 23:41, Marco Möller a écrit : On 1/22/25 23:23, didier gaumet wrote: Debian provides realtime kernels in its repositories. For an AMD64 PC and Debian 12 Bookworm (without backports), the last LTS realtime kernel package is: linux-image-6.

Re: DokuWiki but in Markdown

2025-01-23 Thread Greg
On 2025-01-22, Dan Ritter wrote: > Chris Green wrote: >> Does this help any? RestructuredText is more like MarkDown than >> Dokuwiki markup is, I think. >> >> It was a very simple plugin to write, you might find it easy to copy >> and change to work with MarkDown. Is there a simple single exe

Re: DokuWiki but in Markdown

2025-01-23 Thread Nicolas George
Jonathan Dowland (12025-01-23): > It might be helpful to others for you to spell out the facets of DokuWiki > you find most important. Good point. I might be forgetting something, but as is: - No need for database server. - Passive: the web server runs the site when it is accessed. I c

Re: DokuWiki but in Markdown

2025-01-23 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed Jan 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM GMT, Nicolas George wrote: Do you know if there is a wiki similar to DokuWiki but that uses Markdown as a syntax, not a custom one nobody else uses, packaged in Debian? Bonus points if it can use Git to manage its texts. It might be helpful to others for you to

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-22 Thread didier gaumet
Le 22/01/2025 à 23:41, Marco Möller a écrit : On 1/22/25 23:23, didier gaumet wrote: Debian provides realtime kernels in its repositories. For an AMD64 PC and Debian 12 Bookworm (without backports), the last LTS realtime kernel package is: linux-image-6.1.0-29-rt-amd64 Do I understand correc

Re: DokuWiki but in Markdown

2025-01-22 Thread Nicolas George
3. Extensible - There are extensions to add Markdown syntax - >https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Markdown With all the same drawbacks as the extensions that bring Markdown to DokuWiki. > If markdown is not a hard requirement If Markdown were not a hard requirement in “DokuWiki but in Ma

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-22 Thread Marco Möller
On 1/22/25 23:12, Michael Stone wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 11:07:57PM +0100, Marco Möller wrote: You mean, linux-image-amd64 in bookworm-backports, which currently draws in  linux-image-6.12.9+bpo-amd64 (= 6.12.9-1~bpo12+1), can be expected to NOT draw in some 6.13 like 6.13~rc7+1~exp1 curr

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-22 Thread Marco Möller
On 1/22/25 23:23, didier gaumet wrote: Debian provides realtime kernels in its repositories. For an AMD64 PC and Debian 12 Bookworm (without backports), the last LTS realtime kernel package is: linux-image-6.1.0-29-rt-amd64 Do I understand correctly, that the rt-kernels like the one you ment

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-22 Thread didier gaumet
Le 22/01/2025 à 23:23, didier gaumet a écrit : [...) DAW usage and I don not think he was not using backports) [...) I did not take time to read myself before posting, sorry: "I do not think he was using backports" is more correct ;-)

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-22 Thread didier gaumet
od results. What seems to be efficient if you work with more than a few instruments/tracks, is, yes, a realtime kernel Debian standard (by default) kernel is not realtime, but Debian provides realtime kernels in its repositories. For an AMD64 PC and Debian 12 Bookworm (without backports), th

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-22 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 11:07:57PM +0100, Marco Möller wrote: You mean, linux-image-amd64 in bookworm-backports, which currently draws in linux-image-6.12.9+bpo-amd64 (= 6.12.9-1~bpo12+1), can be expected to NOT draw in some 6.13 like 6.13~rc7+1~exp1 currently already having appeared in the ex

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-22 Thread Marco Möller
On 1/22/25 22:32, Michael Stone wrote: I think the problem here is a misunderstanding of how backports work: they're not "the latest kernel", they're "the latest kernel from debian testing". You're not going to see a kernel in backports that's not going to be in trixie until after the trixie re

Re: DokuWiki but in Markdown

2025-01-22 Thread Darac Marjal
On 22/01/2025 16:43, Nicolas George wrote: Hi. Do you know if there is a wiki similar to DokuWiki but that uses Markdown as a syntax, not a custom one nobody else uses, packaged in Debian? Bonus points if it can use Git to manage its texts. I found gitit, that looks interesting, but I have not

Re: DokuWiki but in Markdown

2025-01-22 Thread Nicolas George
yntax.". Yes, that is the issue. > I don't think you're going to find what you want somehow! :-) As a DokuWiki plugin, probably, almost certainly, not. As a Debian package, probably not. If it existed, odds are I would have found it without having to ask here. But as a non-pac

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-22 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 09:48:24PM +0100, Marco Möller wrote: Well, I thought that some easy receipt would pop up as an answer to my question on how to achieve such automatic upgrades. As this did not happen I conclude that the wished procedure is not so common and not readily worked out by now

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-22 Thread Marco Möller
uld foresee that KDE in Trixie stabilizes and would not undergo major changes no more, than I would consider to maybe right away install Trixie now, which to my knowledge is expected to become delivered with kernel 6.12, and also coming with up-to-date pipewire etc. . But my observations do not point to

Re: DokuWiki but in Markdown

2025-01-22 Thread Chris Green
will recognise it and treat the whole file as RestructuredText, no > > need for any Dokuwiki markup at all within the text. > > > > The plugin is available from the Dokuwiki site:- > > > > https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:rst > > > > It says it

Re: DokuWiki but in Markdown (preferable with git backend)

2025-01-22 Thread Nicolas George
ki, I had not really thought about it in depth and I did not really want a wiki. I cannot really blame you, so many people posting here come asking for X when it is really Z they need. But in the future, I suggest you keep this kind of assumption for cases where you have strong clues that it is the case or for when some time has passed and no satisfactory answer was given. Regards, -- Nicolas George

Re: DokuWiki but in Markdown (preferable with git backend)

2025-01-22 Thread Geert Stappers
SSG, Static Site Generators. Example given: Zola ( https://getzola.org ). > > > > For the more wiki experience `zola serve` > > ( https://www.getzola.org/documentation/getting-started/cli-usage/ ) > > So webbrowser in one window and your favorite text editor in another wi

Re: DokuWiki but in Markdown

2025-01-22 Thread Nicolas George
hole file as RestructuredText, no > need for any Dokuwiki markup at all within the text. > > The plugin is available from the Dokuwiki site:- > > https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:rst > > It says it's not been updated in more than 2 years which is true but I > think it still works

Re: DokuWiki but in Markdown (preferable with git backend)

2025-01-22 Thread Nicolas George
itor in another window. I might be wrong, but it does not look remotely like a wiki. Would you explain? -- Nicolas George

Re: DokuWiki but in Markdown

2025-01-22 Thread Nicolas George
Dan Ritter (12025-01-22): > Would the dokuwiki plugin to accept Markdown work for you? Sorry, I wanted to say it in my first mail but forgot before hitting the :wq keys. Tried one, does not work. Read the docs, the other are worse. The plugins slap Markdown on top of the DokuWiki syntax,

Re: DokuWiki but in Markdown

2025-01-22 Thread Dan Ritter
Chris Green wrote: > Does this help any? RestructuredText is more like MarkDown than > Dokuwiki markup is, I think. > > It was a very simple plugin to write, you might find it easy to copy > and change to work with MarkDown. Is there a simple single executable > program to convert MarkDown to

Re: DokuWiki but in Markdown

2025-01-22 Thread Chris Green
Nicolas George wrote: > Hi. > > Do you know if there is a wiki similar to DokuWiki but that uses > Markdown as a syntax, not a custom one nobody else uses, packaged in > Debian? Bonus points if it can use Git to manage its texts. > > I found gitit, that looks interesting, b

Re: DokuWiki but in Markdown

2025-01-22 Thread Dan Ritter
Nicolas George wrote: > Hi. > > Do you know if there is a wiki similar to DokuWiki but that uses > Markdown as a syntax, not a custom one nobody else uses, packaged in > Debian? Bonus points if it can use Git to manage its texts. Would the dokuwiki plugin to accept Markdown work for you? -dsr-

Re: DokuWiki but in Markdown (preferable with git backend)

2025-01-22 Thread Geert Stappers
On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 05:43:44PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Hi. > > Do you know if there is a wiki similar to DokuWiki but that uses > Markdown as a syntax, not a custom one nobody else uses, packaged in > Debian? Bonus points if it can use Git to manage its texts. > >

DokuWiki but in Markdown

2025-01-22 Thread Nicolas George
Hi. Do you know if there is a wiki similar to DokuWiki but that uses Markdown as a syntax, not a custom one nobody else uses, packaged in Debian? Bonus points if it can use Git to manage its texts. I found gitit, that looks interesting, but I have not found a public sandbox on the web to see the

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 01:00:49AM +0100, Marco Möller wrote: > On 1/22/25 00:10, George at Clug wrote: > > I apologise, but I do not understand what it is you want to achieve or what > > it is that you are asking. > > > > Can you please give more explanation?

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-21 Thread Max Nikulin
On 22/01/2025 03:17, Marco Möller wrote: Could you please share with me, or point me to, a howto or receipt for applying all upgrades to future kernel 6.12.x versions to appear in Bookworm Backports when doing "apt update && apt upgrade", but to not leave the 6.12 (upstream L

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-21 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 01:00:49 +0100, Marco Möller wrote: > On 1/22/25 00:10, George at Clug wrote: > > I apologise, but I do not understand what it is you want to achieve or what > > it is that you are asking. > > > > Can you please give more explanation? > >

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-21 Thread Marco Möller
On 1/22/25 00:10, George at Clug wrote: I apologise, but I do not understand what it is you want to achieve or what it is that you are asking. Can you please give more explanation? I want to install the currently highest version of kernel 6.12 from bookworm-backports to my Bookworm. Upon

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-21 Thread George at Clug
Marco, I apologise, but I do not understand what it is you want to achieve or what it is that you are asking. Can you please give more explanation? You said: "not leave the 6.12 (upstream LTS) branch and not upgrade to some higher kernel version like 6.13 when they would also become avai

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-21 Thread Marco Möller
t;apt update && apt upgrade", but to not leave the 6.12 (upstream LTS) branch and not upgrade to some higher kernel version like 6.13 when they would also become available in backports? Thanks a lot in advance! Talby. Hi It is very likely that Debian will stick with 6.12 thougho

Re: Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-21 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 09:17:52PM +0100, Marco Möller wrote: > Hello community! > Could you please share with me, or point me to, a howto or receipt for > applying all upgrades to future kernel 6.12.x versions to appear in Bookworm > Backports when doing "apt update &&

Backports (bookworm), upgrade to all x for kernel 6.12.x, but not upgrade to 6.13

2025-01-21 Thread Marco Möller
Hello community! Could you please share with me, or point me to, a howto or receipt for applying all upgrades to future kernel 6.12.x versions to appear in Bookworm Backports when doing "apt update && apt upgrade", but to not leave the 6.12 (upstream LTS) branch and not upgr

Re: gdm Bug: 61-gdm.rules sets Wayland to false, but X is not installed, then freezes

2024-12-20 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 20 Dec 2024 08:32 +, from soc...@teclab.at: > I filed a bug: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/issues/959 > > Not sure if you want/need me to file another bug in the Debian bug system. > > Asking for advice. Generally the recommended way to do it is to file a bug report with the distri

gdm Bug: 61-gdm.rules sets Wayland to false, but X is not installed, then freezes

2024-12-20 Thread soc...@teclab.at
Dear Debian Users, I filed a bug: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/issues/959 Not sure if you want/need me to file another bug in the Debian bug system. Asking for advice. Regards Thomas

Re: PC monitor is freezing, but I can ssh into it and operate okay

2024-12-12 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 18:42 wrote: ..l If you think something is actually running and the monitor's in some > power-saving state, you can use "ddccontrol" to change the power-saving > state. Here's how I turn each monitor off and on in turn (in sh): ... Looks pretty hairy ;-D Thanks, ebe, I

Re: PC monitor is freezing, but I can ssh into it and operate okay

2024-12-11 Thread eben
to print random web pages (I don't do it > intentionally but I'm sometimes "forced" to as a "honey do" task). If you think something is actually running and the monitor's in some power-saving state, you can use "ddccontrol" to change the power-saving s

Re: PC monitor is freezing, but I can ssh into it and operate okay

2024-12-11 Thread Jeffrey Walton
metimes hangs when attempting to print random web pages (I don't do it > intentionally but I'm sometimes "forced" to as a "honey do" task). You might consider starting with hardware tests. Run the diagnostics provided by BIOS or UEFI. Then run a memory stress test. If th

Re: PC monitor is freezing, but I can ssh into it and operate okay

2024-12-11 Thread Dan Ritter
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 04:14:58PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > DISPLAY=:0 > > (of course, this will only work if there /is/ an X server running > in the first place :) (of course, if there is no X server running, only the console setting has any meaning.

Re: PC monitor is freezing, but I can ssh into it and operate okay

2024-12-11 Thread tomas
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 09:01:19AM -0600, Tom Browder wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 08:21 Tom Browder wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 07:14 Dan Ritter wrote: > > > >> Tom Browder wrote: > > > > ... > > > >> > I can ssh in, reboot, and all is well. Is there any way to completely > >> turn

Re: PC monitor is freezing, but I can ssh into it and operate okay

2024-12-11 Thread tomas
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 04:14:58PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 09:01:19AM -0600, Tom Browder wrote: [...] > > unable to open display "" > > This one is because they have to "talk" to the right X server, so they > need the DISPLAY env variable set, to know which

Re: PC monitor is freezing, but I can ssh into it and operate okay

2024-12-11 Thread Tom Browder
lay 0 Interestingly, all the other commands before AND AFTER the reboot responded: unable to open display "" But I do have my monitor back and working. I'll report back if I get another freeze. I should have reported some of my sys info: Debian 11, running the MATE version. -Tom

Re: PC monitor is freezing, but I can ssh into it and operate okay

2024-12-11 Thread Tom Browder
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 07:14 Dan Ritter wrote: > Tom Browder wrote: ... > > I can ssh in, reboot, and all is well. Is there any way to completely > turn > > off the screen saver and its timer via system settings? > > There are three things that could be called screen saver ... Thanks, Dan, I

Re: PC monitor is freezing, but I can ssh into it and operate okay

2024-12-11 Thread Dan Ritter
Tom Browder wrote: > I can ssh in, reboot, and all is well. Is there any way to completely turn > off the screen saver and its timer via system settings? There are three things that could be called screen saver settings: - the console blanker is controlled via setterm -blank 0 (t

PC monitor is freezing, but I can ssh into it and operate okay

2024-12-11 Thread Tom Browder
I can ssh in, reboot, and all is well. Is there any way to completely turn off the screen saver and its timer via system settings? There may be related problems with my newly installed HP printer which sometimes hangs when attempting to print random web pages (I don't do it intentionally bu

Re: If one sets 'Defaults rootpw' in sudoers but no root password is it disaster?

2024-10-16 Thread Chris Green
Chris Green wrote: > Dan Ritter wrote: > > Chris Green wrote: > > > I'd like to force a different password from my own password when I do > > > 'sudo -i' to get root privilege. However I'm a bit frightened about > > > what might h

Re: If one sets 'Defaults rootpw' in sudoers but no root password is it disaster?

2024-10-16 Thread Chris Green
Dan Ritter wrote: > Chris Green wrote: > > I'd like to force a different password from my own password when I do > > 'sudo -i' to get root privilege. However I'm a bit frightened about > > what might happen if I set 'Defaults rootpw' in the su

Re: If one sets 'Defaults rootpw' in sudoers but no root password is it disaster?

2024-10-15 Thread Dan Ritter
Chris Green wrote: > I'd like to force a different password from my own password when I do > 'sudo -i' to get root privilege. However I'm a bit frightened about > what might happen if I set 'Defaults rootpw' in the sudoers file but > forget to actually c

Re: If one sets 'Defaults rootpw' in sudoers but no root password is it disaster?

2024-10-15 Thread Roland Müller
I am to tired to test this now - but I guess as prerequisite you should then give the root user a password.  A long time ago I was "providing" root with a password in some Debian or Ubuntu system using 'passwd'. sudo should not cope with an undefined root password, a

If one sets 'Defaults rootpw' in sudoers but no root password is it disaster?

2024-10-15 Thread Chris Green
I'd like to force a different password from my own password when I do 'sudo -i' to get root privilege. However I'm a bit frightened about what might happen if I set 'Defaults rootpw' in the sudoers file but forget to actually create a root password. (This is on sy

Re: I/O errors during RAID check but no SMART errors

2024-10-10 Thread Franco Martelli
On 09/10/24 at 21:10, Jochen Spieker wrote: Andy Smith: Hi, On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 08:41:38PM +0200, Franco Martelli wrote: Do you know whether MD is clever enough to send an email to root when it fails the device? Or have I to keep an eye on /proc/mdstat? For more than a decade mdadm has s

Re: I/O errors during RAID check but no SMART errors

2024-10-09 Thread Jochen Spieker
Andy Smith: > Hi, > > On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 08:41:38PM +0200, Franco Martelli wrote: >> Do you know whether MD is clever enough to send an email to root when it >> fails the device? Or have I to keep an eye on /proc/mdstat? > > For more than a decade mdadm has shipped with a service that runs i

Re: I/O errors during RAID check but no SMART errors

2024-10-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 08:41:38PM +0200, Franco Martelli wrote: > Do you know whether MD is clever enough to send an email to root when it > fails the device? Or have I to keep an eye on /proc/mdstat? For more than a decade mdadm has shipped with a service that runs in monitor mode to do thi

Re: I/O errors during RAID check but no SMART errors

2024-10-09 Thread Franco Martelli
On 08/10/24 at 20:40, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, On Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 04:58:46PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: Why is the RAID still considered healthy? At some point I would expect the disk to be kicked from the RAID. This will happen when/if MD can't compensate by reading data from other m

Re: I/O errors during RAID check but no SMART errors

2024-10-09 Thread Jochen Spieker
Michael Kjörling: > On 8 Oct 2024 11:29 -0400, from d...@randomstring.org (Dan Ritter): >> >> This looks like a drive which is old and starting to wear out >> but is not there yet. The raw read error rate is starting to >> creep up but isn't at a threshold. > &

Re: I/O errors during RAID check but no SMART errors

2024-10-09 Thread Jochen Spieker
0 prio class 3 >>| Oct 06 14:28:09 jigsaw kernel: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 9361284864 op etc. > > Those aren't sequential, or even exhibiting the same interval from one to > the next. Am I misinterpreting the data? No, but the numbers are close to each other and the errors

Re: I/O errors during RAID check but no SMART errors

2024-10-08 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 8 Oct 2024 11:29 -0400, from d...@randomstring.org (Dan Ritter): >> The disk has been running continuously for seven years now and I am >> running out of space anyway, so I already ordered a replacement. But I >> do not fully understand what is happening. > > The dr

Re: I/O errors during RAID check but no SMART errors

2024-10-08 Thread eben
wrote this song I'm 22 now, but I won't be for long. Time hurries on / and the leaves that are green turn to brown. -- S&G, "Leaves that are Green"

Re: I/O errors during RAID check but no SMART errors

2024-10-08 Thread Jochen Spieker
cks end with this: >> >>| Oct 07 10:26:12 jigsaw kernel: md/raid1:md0: sdb1: rescheduling sector >>10198068744 >> >> What does that mean for the other instances of this error? > > I expect you probably have either no TLER value set Thanks a lot, I had never

Re: I/O errors during RAID check but no SMART errors

2024-10-08 Thread Jochen Spieker
| Oct 06 14:37:20 jigsaw kernel: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 9400871680 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 160 prio class 3 … and so on. On the second RAID check, the numbers are not the same, but in the same range. > If the disk is a few days away from being replaced, I would not > bother sh

Re: I/O errors during RAID check but no SMART errors

2024-10-08 Thread Andy Smith
ght? Why > doesn't md mention it? I suspect that the times you saw an error from the SCSI layer but not from MD, were times that the SCSI layer retried and got the data out eventually. When the SCSI layer times out of all its retries it actually resets the drive and then the whole bu

Re: I/O errors during RAID check but no SMART errors

2024-10-08 Thread Dan Ritter
cate the data somewhere > else (probably because it doesn't know what the data should be in the > first place). Yes. > The disk has been running continuously for seven years now and I am > running out of space anyway, so I already ordered a replacement. But I > do not ful

I/O errors during RAID check but no SMART errors

2024-10-08 Thread Jochen Spieker
Hey, please forgive me for posting a question that is not Debian-specific, but maybe somebody here can explain this to me. Ten years ago I would have posted to Usenet instead. I have two disks in a RAID-1: | $ cat /proc/mdstat | Personalities : [raid1] [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid6

Re: I am currently facing a bug but unsure what is causing it

2024-09-10 Thread tomas
t down.After > that, I tried to off that button by pressing the button for 6-7 seconds but > after powering on next time, it shows a CMOS error and then laptop gets > started with battery 0%(even if it was charged 100% before). > > Note that I installed Debian 3 days ago.How to rep

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