(testing) Mousewheel superfast after recent reinstall

Reported both as a Debian kernel issue: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1029584 (since I thought for a while that it was that) And as a libinput issue: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/issues/852 I dunno what the proper fix would be, or where, but I am sure

(testing) Mousewheel superfast after recent reinstall

Hi, I recently reinstalled my laptop with Debian testing and since then the mouse wheel is almost unsual. I used it (on Openbox) to switch between desktops, and it used to be that one "click" (not as in middle mb, but ratcheting of the mousewheel) would switch by one desktop. Now it switches throu

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

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 ]

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

msg01167.html > > > > that these deal with the same machine, and that Gunnar hasn't quite > > mastered the technique of threading, but is keen to add to the > > list of tested hardware. > > > One doesn't always read all the messages and only uses the su

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

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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

im that this was painstaking and time consuming, that backups are indeed a good thing but that you shouldn't need to reinstall every time you update. So I've suggested him that he post the system configuration onto the mailing system so we may help him out (fellow user on the list). Now consider

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

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

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 ]

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

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

21/07/msg01167.html > > that these deal with the same machine, and that Gunnar hasn't quite > mastered the technique of threading, but is keen to add to the > list of tested hardware. > One doesn't always read all the messages and only uses the subject to get a idea. Now

Re: Update or reinstall

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

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

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

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 11:07 AM Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Wed, 3 Mar 2021, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > Pierre this is why I raised our true stochastic quantum natures You > might > > walk thru a wall tonight too. It just isn't very likely > > are you suggesting that by monitoring pulseaudi

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

On Wed, 3 Mar 2021, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: Pierre this is why I raised our true stochastic quantum natures You might walk thru a wall tonight too. It just isn't very likely are you suggesting that by monitoring pulseaudio, I reduce the wave packet, like opening the cat's door? best regard

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

On Wed, Mar 3, 2021, 9:08 AM Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Wed, 3 Mar 2021, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > OK, it's good that we can rule out some of the possible causes, like > > "permissions are wrong on /usr/bin" or "there's a cron job that > > deletes it every week". We're still left with a myster

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

On Wed, 3 Mar 2021, Greg Wooledge wrote: OK, it's good that we can rule out some of the possible causes, like "permissions are wrong on /usr/bin" or "there's a cron job that deletes it every week". We're still left with a mystery, but it's slightly smaller now. actually, it's still a mystery

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

Pierre Frenkiel (pierre.frenk...@gmail.com) wrote: > > ls -ld / /usr /usr/bin /usr/bin/pulseaudio > >drwxr-xr-x 39 root root 4096 Jul 13 2019 / >drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Jul 7 2017 /usr >drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 86016 Jul 7 2017 /usr/bin >-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 95688 Aug

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

On Mon, 1 Mar 2021, Greg Wooledge wrote: ls -ld / /usr /usr/bin /usr/bin/pulseaudio drwxr-xr-x 39 root root 4096 Jul 13 2019 / drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Jul 7 2017 /usr drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 86016 Jul 7 2017 /usr/bin -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 95688 Aug 15 2019 /usr/bin/p

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

Pierre Frenkiel (pierre.frenk...@gmail.com) wrote: > On Sun, 28 Feb 2021, mick crane wrote: > > > That is a bit weird. Is it an actual file and not a link ? > > it's a file. Since I re-enabled my monitoring, it didn't disappear. > wait and see... Have you done *any* basic, proactive analysis

Re: OT (was: Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day)

On Mon, Mar 1, 2021, 7:22 AM wrote: > On Sunday, February 28, 2021 10:16:34 PM Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > Hint: You know you're getting old when you find your 2nd wife on dating > > sites 😂 > > I hope that is your 2nd ex-wife ;-) > Well of course "ex-wife". Do I look like a Mormon polygamist??

OT (was: Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day)

On Sunday, February 28, 2021 10:16:34 PM Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > Hint: You know you're getting old when you find your 2nd wife on dating > sites 😂 I hope that is your 2nd ex-wife ;-)

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

On Sun, 28 Feb 2021, mick crane wrote: That is a bit weird. Is it an actual file and not a link ? it's a file. Since I re-enabled my monitoring, it didn't disappear. wait and see... best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Invariants [was: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day]

On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 09:16:34PM -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: [...] > But of course death is invariant to physics. In fact it makes the physics > clearer without altering it in any way. And then, "science advances one funeral at a time", attributed, IIRC to Max Planck, a... physicist. It se

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 12:05 PM Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 2021, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > In Schrödinger's Equation of quantum physics, "in practice, the square of > > the absolute value of the wave function at each point is taken to define > a > > probability density function".

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

On 2021-02-28 11:31, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Tue, 23 Feb 2021, David Wright wrote: Is this buster? yes Are you running any applications, particularly those involving sound, as root, particularly in response to some previous problem? no Is it just that binary that goes missing, or do

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

On Tue, 23 Feb 2021, David Wright wrote: Is this buster? yes Are you running any applications, particularly those involving sound, as root, particularly in response to some previous problem? no Is it just that binary that goes missing, or does apt/dpkg actually show that the entire pac

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

On Wed, 24 Feb 2021, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: In Schrödinger's Equation of quantum physics, "in practice, the square of the absolute value of the wave function at each point is taken to define a probability density function". the situation is rather complex now, after the experiments followi

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 10:16 AM Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 7:57 AM Pierre Frenkiel > wrote: > >> On Wed, 24 Feb 2021, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: >> >> > Quantum physics principles manifest in software, seen it before. The >> closer >> > you look, the more dice you have to roll

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 7:57 AM Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 2021, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > Quantum physics principles manifest in software, seen it before. The > closer > > you look, the more dice you have to roll > > > but according Einstein, God doesn't play dice > it se

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

On Wed, 24 Feb 2021, Dan Ritter wrote: Your best bet there is alsa with apulse to pretend that it's PulseAudio. the main difference is that it took 15 seconds to install pulseaudio and make it to work, and after 15 minutes of fight, I'm unable to make apulse to work I don't see why I shoul

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

On Wed, 24 Feb 2021, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: Quantum physics principles manifest in software, seen it before. The closer you look, the more dice you have to roll but according Einstein, God doesn't play dice it seems he was wrong, this time best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Tue, 23 Feb 2021, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Could be an option. What do you need pulseaudio for that > > isn't handled by alsa, jack and/or apulse? > > it's needed to have sound on youtube. > I tried your other suggestions a long time ago, and could not make them to >

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

> > > I can't answer that now, because I run > "ls -l /usr/bin/pulseaudio" every minute to find when it disappears, > and curiously, it didn't disappear this night > I'll see what happens after removing the ls command in cron. > You could use ``inotify-tools`` https://packages.deb

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 3:18 AM Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > I can't answer that now, because I run > "ls -l /usr/bin/pulseaudio" every minute to find when it disappears, > and curiously, it didn't disappear this night > Quantum physics principles manifest in software, seen it befor

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

On Tue, 23 Feb 2021, David Wright wrote: Is this buster? yes Are you running any applications, particularly those involving sound, as root, particularly in response to some previous problem? no Is it just that binary that goes missing, or does apt/dpkg actually show that the entire p

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

On Tue, 23 Feb 2021, Dan Ritter wrote: Could be an option. What do you need pulseaudio for that isn't handled by alsa, jack and/or apulse? it's needed to have sound on youtube. I tried your other suggestions a long time ago, and could not make them to work. I'll try again today best regards,

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021, 3:13 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > > On Tue, 23 Feb 2021, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > > > Patient: Doctor when I move my arm this way, it hurts. > > > Doctor: Don't do that with your arm. Next! > > > > very funny, but I don't see how it is related to my

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > On Tue, 23 Feb 2021, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > Patient: Doctor when I move my arm this way, it hurts. > > Doctor: Don't do that with your arm. Next! > > very funny, but I don't see how it is related to my pulseaudio problem, > unless you suggest to don't use it !

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

On Tue, 23 Feb 2021, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: Patient: Doctor when I move my arm this way, it hurts. Doctor: Don't do that with your arm. Next! very funny, but I don't see how it is related to my pulseaudio problem, unless you suggest to don't use it ! best regards, -- Pierre Frenkiel

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

On Tue, 23 Feb 2021, David Wright wrote: When did this start to happen? . for years? . since installation? Is this buster? Are you running any applications, particularly those involving sound, as root, particularly in response to some previous problem? Is it just that binary that goes

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

On Tue 23 Feb 2021 at 09:38:08 (+0100), Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > every morning, ls /usr/bin/pulseaudio gives: > ls: cannot access '/usr/bin/pulseaudio': No such file or directory > and I must issue "aptitude reinstall pulseaudio" I plan to put the ls > comm

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

Patient: Doctor when I move my arm this way, it hurts. Doctor: Don't do that with your arm. Next! ☺ On Tue, Feb 23, 2021, 7:09 AM wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 01:40:22PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > > Greg Wooledge (12021-02-23): > > > This *is* part of the diagnostics. Preventing the de

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 01:40:22PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > Greg Wooledge (12021-02-23): > > This *is* part of the diagnostics. Preventing the deletion and then > > watching the logs to see who complains may help you pinpoint the > > culprit. Or it may not. But it's worth a try. > > Watch

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 01:07:10PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > fm+deb+u...@phosphorusnetworks.com (12021-02-23): > > maybe change your disk, but for now, try: > > > > # chattr +i /usr/bin/pulseaudio > > > > and see if it continues disappearing. > > And if somebody has an ache somewhere, they

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

Greg Wooledge (12021-02-23): > This *is* part of the diagnostics. Preventing the deletion and then > watching the logs to see who complains may help you pinpoint the > culprit. Or it may not. But it's worth a try. Watching the logs was not in the advice. With that addition, the advice is reason

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

Nicolas George (geo...@nsup.org) wrote: > fm+deb+u...@phosphorusnetworks.com (12021-02-23): > > maybe change your disk, but for now, try: > > > > # chattr +i /usr/bin/pulseaudio > > > > and see if it continues disappearing. > > And if somebody has an ache somewhere, they should just take > paink

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

fm+deb+u...@phosphorusnetworks.com (12021-02-23): > maybe change your disk, but for now, try: > > # chattr +i /usr/bin/pulseaudio > > and see if it continues disappearing. And if somebody has an ache somewhere, they should just take painkillers? Fixing the symptom without understanding the issu

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 08:37:34AM -0300, fm+deb+u...@phosphorusnetworks.com wrote: [...] > maybe change your disk, but for now, try: > > # chattr +i /usr/bin/pulseaudio > > and see if it continues disappearing. And watch your log files. Perhaps you catch the perpetrator whining loudly that i

Re: need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

> >hi, >the problem is exactly what says my subject. >every morning, ls /usr/bin/pulseaudio gives: > ls: cannot access '/usr/bin/pulseaudio': No such file or directory >and I must issue "aptitude reinstall pulseaudio" >I plan to put the ls comman

need to reinstall pulseaudio every day

hi, the problem is exactly what says my subject. every morning, ls /usr/bin/pulseaudio gives: ls: cannot access '/usr/bin/pulseaudio': No such file or directory and I must issue "aptitude reinstall pulseaudio" I plan to put the ls command every minute to find when it

Re: aptitude: a way to reinstall a package and all its dependents?

or that have missing, wrong or obsolete control data or files. dpkg will suggest what to do with them to get them fixed. Sven Joachim , 31 Tem 2020 Cum, 19:43 tarihinde şunu yazdı: > On 2020-07-31 15:10 +0200, local10 wrote: > > > Am looking for a way to reinstall a pac

Re: aptitude: a way to reinstall a package and all its dependents?

On 2020-07-31 15:10 +0200, local10 wrote: > Am looking for a way to reinstall a package and all "subpackages" the > package depends on. Normally I use aptitude to install packages. Something like this should do the trick: # aptitude reinstall mypackage '~i~Rmypackage&#

Re: aptitude: a way to reinstall a package and all its dependents?

Semih Ozlem > Thanks for the detailed response, I'll look into it. My need for this is just a personal one-time use. I have a package that started to behave a bit strange so I want to reinstall it with all its dependencies just to be sure that nothing got corrupted over time. I was hoping

aptitude: a way to reinstall a package and all its dependents?

Am looking for a way to reinstall a package and all "subpackages" the package depends on. Normally I use aptitude to install packages. Any ideas? Thanks

Re: How to reinstall without loosing configurations?

, piling up during the years is creating such inconveniences, so > I've decided to reinstall my Debian. that can be a good way to get rid a lot of cruft from packages you no longer use and whatever gets left behind if you don't purge packages when you remove them. but i think it is also

Re: How to reinstall without loosing configurations?

far as I know, uses the same engine as Chromium, but opens the pages that Chromium doesn't!!! Though Linux and particularly Debian are very good in providing proper updating, I start thinking that maybe something left behind in the process, piling up during the years is creating such inconve

How to reinstall without loosing configurations?

Chromium, but opens the pages that Chromium doesn't!!! Though Linux and particularly Debian are very good in providing proper updating, I start thinking that maybe something left behind in the process, piling up during the years is creating such inconveniences, so I've decided to rei

Fail to boot in UEFI mode after a reinstall of grub-efi

Hi, I have a Gigabyte MB with some years with an Intel processor capable of 64bits. If I install Windows or Debian from scratch I can boot in UEFI mode. I can boot a USB pen with a Debian installer in UEFI mode. If UEFI boot it gets broken for a reason, like replacing the boot disk, I can not

RE: mariadb uninstall/reinstall-Solved

Thanks to all for your help. Dan's suggestion (below) worked. Larry -Original Message- From: Dan Ritter [mailto:d...@randomstring.org] Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2017 11:04 AM To: larry owens Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: mariadb uninstall/reinstall On Thu, S

Re: mariadb uninstall/reinstall

Cindy-Sue Causey writes: > I was wondering about that. I a-sumed maybe it tried to over-purge > other important packages the way that happens sometimes. There is no risk: only explicitly named packages are purged. The rest are deleted on demand. -- Alberto

Re: mariadb uninstall/reinstall

ir the installation I have decided to remove and > reinstall. Unfortunately I have been unable to find a set of instructions > to safely remove Maria. Can anyone point me to a working process (the one's > on the web currently don't seem to work). TIA You can think of it as

Re: mariadb uninstall/reinstall

on the web >> currently don't seem to work). TIA > > Hi, as long as you installed it from Debian packages, you only have to > purge (as opposed to only remove) its packages and then reinstall. I was wondering about that. I a-sumed maybe it tried to over-purge other important

Re: mariadb uninstall/reinstall

installed it from Debian packages, you only have to purge (as opposed to only remove) its packages and then reinstall. Populating the new database is the real work, in my opinion. -- Alberto

mariadb uninstall/reinstall

to the new Debian. I am just finishing the upgrade to Stretch and have run into an issue. Somehow as part of the conversion for my LAMP server I screwed up the Maria db. After trying to repair the installation I have decided to remove and reinstall. Unfortunately I have been unable to fin

Re: Can't fix broken packages. Uninstalled packages require many removals to reinstall

hing from synaptic, it says > "you have held broken packages" > but "apt-mark showhold" and "dpkg --get-selections | grep hold" > don't show any result. > > > I've tried then to reinstall each of them using aptitude. > Starting with bras

Can't fix broken packages. Uninstalled packages require many removals to reinstall

" don't show any result. I've tried then to reinstall each of them using aptitude. Starting with brasero, I got: 'The following packages have unmet dependencies: libgnutls-deb0-28 : Conflicts: libhogweed2 but 2.7.1-5 is to be installed. Conflicts: li

Re: Is it possible to fully reinstall the base system without affecting /home?

thing to consider when you're doing your reinstall. --| John L. Ries | Salford Systems | Phone: (619)543-8880 x107 | or (435)867-8885 | --| On Sunday 2016-02-21 21:36, Kynn Jones wrote: Date: Sun, 21 Feb 201

Re: Is it possible to fully reinstall the base system without affecting /home?

Kynn Jones: > > But I thought I'd ask if there's anything close to this that would not > require backing up everything and reformatting the hard disk. If there is anything on your hard disk worth keeping that you haven't backed up at least weekly then you should start worrying about that now. Ha

Re: Is it possible to fully reinstall the base system without affecting /home?

and reformatting the hard disk. > > Wouldn't it be possible, for example, to boot the system up from a > > live CD, and reinstall the base system, leaving /home untouched? (I > > should mention that the hard disk in question is just one big > > partition, including /h

Re: Is it possible to fully reinstall the base system without affecting /home?

On 22/02/16 20:10, Dalios wrote: First of all you would have to move your /home to a new partition (to the same disk or another) and you would need to start from a Live CD/USB in order to do this step. Or move /home from a terminal as root. But if you have to create a new partition you might

Re: Is it possible to fully reinstall the base system without affecting /home?

Just to make sure, your filesystem is OK, right? > But I thought I'd ask if there's anything close to this that would not > require backing up everything and reformatting the hard disk. > Wouldn't it be possible, for example, to boot the system up from a > live CD, an

Re: Is it possible to fully reinstall the base system without affecting /home?

; > But I thought I'd ask if there's anything close to this that would not > require backing up everything and reformatting the hard disk. > Wouldn't it be possible, for example, to boot the system up from a > live CD, and reinstall the base system, leaving /home untouche

Is it possible to fully reinstall the base system without affecting /home?

would not require backing up everything and reformatting the hard disk. Wouldn't it be possible, for example, to boot the system up from a live CD, and reinstall the base system, leaving /home untouched? (I should mention that the hard disk in question is just one big partition, including /home

Re: Reinstall Stretch - Returns to Grub

Hi. On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 03:31:49PM -0700, ray wrote: > Reco, > > Thank you for the info. Can you suggest how this can help resolve the issue? Install either grub-efi-amd64 or grub-efi-ia32 (not both, choose one of these according to UEFI used in the laptop). Disable BIOS compatibili

Re: Reinstall Stretch - Returns to Grub

Reco, Thank you for the info. Can you suggest how this can help resolve the issue?

Re: Reinstall Stretch - Returns to Grub

Hi. On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 06:41:51PM -0700, ray wrote: > It is my understanding that UEFI is appropriate for systems with HDD > 2TB. UEFI has nothing to do with the disk size. GPT, on the other hand, does. And yes, you can force BIOS to boot from GPT-labeled drive. Reco

Re: Reinstall Stretch - Returns to Grub

ommands similarly to the way commands work from a bash prompt. The commands you need will vary according to your system's configuration, and can be found in Grub's man page or a howto somewhere. You may find it easier to boot installation media to a rescue system to reinstall the bootlo

Re: Reinstall Stretch - Returns to Grub

> control-alt-f7 gets you back to graphical mode. On Sun, 18 Oct 2015, ray > wrote: The system does not respond to cntrl-alt-f7 Just to clarigy, the system is at the grub prompt in a CSM boot. The BIOS has two settings for function key implementation. I have tried this under both.

Re: Reinstall Stretch - Returns to Grub

It is my understanding that UEFI is appropriate for systems with HDD > 2TB.

Re: Reinstall Stretch - Returns to Grub

control-alt-f7 gets you back to graphical mode. On Sun, 18 Oct 2015, ray wrote: Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 20:17:52 From: ray To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Reinstall Stretch - Returns to Grub Resent-Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 00:36:09 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Re: Reinstall Stretch - Returns to Grub

On Sun, 18 Oct 2015 17:17:52 -0700 (PDT), ray wrote: > I have stretch installed on a Toshiba and I am not able to reinstall it. > The first instance was installed using the BIOS mode CSM. I want to > reinstall using UEFI. Why do you want UEFI? You've got a working installation from CSM.

Reinstall Stretch - Returns to Grub

I have stretch installed on a Toshiba and I am not able to reinstall it. The first instance was installed using the BIOS mode CSM. I want to reinstall using UEFI. Now, I am using the a USB stick which Rufus was used to install stretch 64 DVD disk 1. I changed the BIOS from CSM to UEFI

apt-get upgrade --with-new-pkgs (was ... Re: Can't reinstall all Jessie packages.)

On Fri, Oct 09, 2015 at 09:38:39PM -0400, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > > Ah, nice catch... "--reinstall". I've used that *in desperate moments* > of things not gelling together. I never had problems with it, but I > can't say that I ever used it on apt. Another one

Re: Can't reinstall all Jessie packages

; returns "command not > found" and their system is hosed. > > I don't know how --reinstall works, but it may be trying to do the same > thing in which case reinstalling everything is probably a bad idea. > >> 3. *(recommended method): dpkg-reconfigure

Re: Can't reinstall all Jessie packages

install That won't work. Imagine what happens when the OP gets to the package "apt". They remove or purge the package (assuming that they pass the Big Fat Warning) and suddenly "apt-get install apt" returns "command not found" and their system is hosed. I do

Re: Can't reinstall all Jessie packages

Quoting maderios (mader...@gmail.com): > I can't reinstall all Jessie packages this way > dpkg -l | awk '/^i/ {print $2}' |xargs apt-get --reinstall install > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > 0

Re: Can't reinstall all Jessie packages

to totally reconfigure the package (probably, restoring it's configuration to default), you may just use apt-get install --reinstall. Yours sincerely, Jayson Willson 08.10.2015 21:46, Himanshu Shekhar пишет: I may be wrong, but I can suggest three methods: 1. (conceptually shouldn't wo

Re: Can't reinstall all Jessie packages

I may be wrong, but I can suggest three methods: 1. (conceptually shouldn't work) : apt-get remove ; apt-get install 2. (should work...your intentions must break your system): apt-get purge ; apt-get install 3. *(recommended method): dpkg-reconfigure Make sure the methods won't break your syste

Re: Can't reinstall all Jessie packages

Only for curiosity and information: what's the reason you want to reinstall all packages?. If you want to clean the system of garbage or misconfiguration spread around many packages, maybe it would be better for you to reinstall the whole system. Regards.

Can't reinstall all Jessie packages

Hi I can't reinstall all Jessie packages this way dpkg -l | awk '/^i/ {print $2}' |xargs apt-get --reinstall install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2792 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not

Re: how to reinstall bash

Martin Read wrote: > songbird wrote: >> Marko Randjelovic wrote: >>> I don't know what Debian release do you use, but since Squeeze, /bin/sh >>> should point to dash. >> >>i'm not sure about that... > > I suspect it to be the case that if you've been continuously upgrading > since before the

Re: how to reinstall bash

On 14/09/14 10:44, songbird wrote: Marko Randjelovic wrote: I don't know what Debian release do you use, but since Squeeze, /bin/sh should point to dash. i'm not sure about that... I suspect it to be the case that if you've been continuously upgrading since before the change was made, yo

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