Re: Problem with crash post-install [ was: Update or reinstall ]

2021-07-29 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-07-29 3:13 p.m., David Wright wrote: > > I realise that we're not all receiving posts from Gunnar, but do we > actually know what the "update problem" is? > > I recall: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/07/msg01003.html > Is this the origin of the system under discussion?

Re: Problem with crash post-install [ was: Update or reinstall ]

2021-07-29 Thread David Wright
On Thu 29 Jul 2021 at 18:09:51 (+0200), Marco Möller wrote: > On 29.07.21 12:52, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > > I'm really asking why do it 3 time. > > In case it came back to the prompt *before* finishing to do it's job ? > > (...) > Misunderstanding: I wanted to suggest to run a "sudo

Re: Update or reinstall

2021-07-29 Thread David Wright
On Thu 29 Jul 2021 at 04:16:39 (-0400), Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > On 2021-07-29 12:58 a.m., David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 28 Jul 2021 at 17:25:09 (-0400), Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside > > wrote: > >> On 2021-07-28 3:16 p.m., Gunnar Gervin wrote: > >>> It is a Toshiba 160 gb hd i

Re: Problem with crash post-install [ was: Update or reinstall ]

2021-07-29 Thread Marco Möller
On 29.07.21 12:52, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: Hi, On 2021-07-29 6:48 a.m., to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 12:29:16PM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: On 29.07.21 10:25, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: Hi, (...) Gunnar ( Gunnar Gervin ) is having problem with h

Re: Problem with crash post-install [ was: Update or reinstall ]

2021-07-29 Thread songbird
Dan Ritter wrote: ... > There are situations in which it can take much longer than a few > seconds. They require a large amount of data to write and a slow > storage mechanism. > > Specific example: recursive copying of music files to my USB-2 > attached music player, which has an actual write spee

Re: Problem with crash post-install [ was: Update or reinstall ]

2021-07-29 Thread Dan Ritter
Greg Wooledge wrote: > which says: > > On Linux, sync is only guaranteed to schedule the dirty blocks for > writing; it can actually take a short time before all the blocks are > finally written. The reboot(8) and halt(8) commands take this into > accoun

Re: Problem with crash post-install [ was: Update or reinstall ]

2021-07-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 06:52:37AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > As far as I know, sync doesn't work in the background ! On many systems, it does. I can't even find a clear statement in the bullseye sync(1) man page of whether it does or not. The bullseye sync(1) comes from GNU

Re: Problem with crash post-install [ was: Update or reinstall ]

2021-07-29 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-07-29 6:48 a.m., to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 12:29:16PM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: >> >> On 29.07.21 10:25, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: >>> Hi, >>> (...) >>> Gunnar ( Gunnar Gervin ) is having problem with >>> his laptop. >>> The system crashes post-u

Re: Problem with crash post-install [ was: Update or reinstall ]

2021-07-29 Thread tomas
On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 12:29:16PM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: > > On 29.07.21 10:25, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > >Hi, > >(...) > >Gunnar ( Gunnar Gervin ) is having problem with > >his laptop. > >The system crashes post-update. > > > >He need to do clean install every time. > >And t

Re: Problem with crash post-install [ was: Update or reinstall ]

2021-07-29 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-07-29 6:29 a.m., Marco Möller wrote: > > On 29.07.21 10:25, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: >> Hi, >> (...) >> Gunnar  ( Gunnar Gervin ) is having problem with >> his laptop. >> The system crashes post-update. >> >> He need to do clean install every time. >> And this is probab

Re: Problem with crash post-install [ was: Update or reinstall ]

2021-07-29 Thread Marco Möller
On 29.07.21 10:25, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: Hi, (...) Gunnar ( Gunnar Gervin ) is having problem with his laptop. The system crashes post-update. He need to do clean install every time. And this is probably time consuming for him. If other user has some hints... Without havi

Re: Update or reinstall

2021-07-29 Thread tomas
On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 04:22:32AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Hi, > > On 2021-07-29 3:26 a.m., Gunnar Gervin wrote: > > A bottle in ocean, thx, poetic.. > > > It make it easier for other to read if you post your answer thru the reply. [...] > As I got told many time, "Pleas

Problem with crash post-install [ was: Update or reinstall ]

2021-07-29 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-07-29 3:25 a.m., Gunnar Gervin wrote: > The *link* is your request of it. > Geg > > On Thu, 29 Jul 2021, 00:25 Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside, > mailto:deb...@polynamaude.com>> wrote: > > Hi, > > On 2021-07-28 3:16 p.m., Gunnar Gervin wrote: > > It is a Toshiba 160 gb h

Re: Update or reinstall

2021-07-29 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-07-29 3:26 a.m., Gunnar Gervin wrote: > A bottle in ocean, thx, poetic.. > It make it easier for other to read if you post your answer thru the reply. When you just answer in the top of the message, it gets hard to see where it applies, even more if there's more than one question in

Re: Update or reinstall

2021-07-29 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-07-29 12:58 a.m., David Wright wrote: > On Wed 28 Jul 2021 at 17:25:09 (-0400), Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: >> On 2021-07-28 3:16 p.m., Gunnar Gervin wrote: >>> It is a Toshiba 160 gb hd in a 14 years old Macbook i386 ❤️/x86 32 b >>> booting from Bios not uefi. I'll give ful

Re: Update or reinstall

2021-07-28 Thread David Wright
On Wed 28 Jul 2021 at 17:25:09 (-0400), Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > On 2021-07-28 3:16 p.m., Gunnar Gervin wrote: > > It is a Toshiba 160 gb hd in a 14 years old Macbook i386 ❤️/x86 32 b > > booting from Bios not uefi. I'll give full report in 1-2 weeks, after > > put in VM in it, fast

Re: Update or reinstall

2021-07-28 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-07-28 3:16 p.m., Gunnar Gervin wrote: > It is a Toshiba 160 gb hd in a 14 years old Macbook i386 ❤️/x86 32 b > booting from Bios not uefi. I'll give full report in 1-2 weeks, after > put in VM in it, faster internet to it to handle VM. > And built websites with it. > Geg What's the li

Update or reinstall

2021-07-28 Thread Gunnar Gervin
It is a Toshiba 160 gb hd in a 14 years old Macbook i386 ❤️/x86 32 b booting from Bios not uefi. I'll give full report in 1-2 weeks, after put in VM in it, faster internet to it to handle VM. And built websites with it. Geg