On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 01:17:37AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > > installation is broken. Given the complexity of your haystack, I expect > > finding and fixing the needle(s) would be time prohibitive. > It is indeed, David. The package managers apt and synaptic cannot find > anything wrong, and I should be on record as reporting that opening any > local file takes a minimum of 30 seconds to pop up the requester, during > which time the system is also locked. I've installed some stuff folks have > suggested to no avail so I gave up wasting everybody's time and just put up > with it. memtest86 has toured the 32gigs several times but doesn't find > anything. Frustrating but apparently it hasn't bothered anyone else. It > would very helpful if something stuck up a hand or did the gotta pee dance > but in 2 years nothing has. Maybe its something leftover from ripping out > orca and brltty that I tried to stop by a fresh install around 30 times. > The installer put them in even when I said no. > >
Gene, You make life difficult for yourself (and, coincidentally, for the rest of us who try to follow what you've done :) ) You've got an NVME drive that's unused, I think, that you could put onto your motherboard. Bring your system to the minimum you can - disconnect the other drives for the meantime. Install Debian to that drive - standard, stable Debian. Gradually reinstate the other drives and potentially copy data across once you have a simple stable Debian 12. The 30 installs you did resulted in a whole stream of annoyed emails: that was almost entirely because you had a USB serial device. Simplify, simplify, simplify. If all else fails, get hold of a secondhand machine that you can use to troubleshoot problems like this rather than your main machine. All best, as ever, Andy Cater (amaca...@debian.org) > > > > When I destabilize a system, my preferred solution is a backup, > > re-image, and restore cycle. To make this solution possible, I have > > invested myself in disaster preparedness. And, I must continue > > investing effort on a regular basis to keep it viable. > > > > > > When all I had was data backups, my best option was backup, wipe, fresh > > install, and restore. > > > > > > Things were truly scary before I had decent data backups. > > > > > > If you rebuild the computer as a hypervisor host (using the NVMe PCIe > > SSD) and a storage server (using the various SATA SSD's), you can do all > > the experimentation you want inside virtual machines. If a VM blows up, > > the base system keeps running and so do the other VM's. This removes > > your current problem of "all of your eggs in one basket". Also, a good > > hypervisor makes it easy to snapshot and revert VM's. This facilitates > > disaster preparedness and disaster recovery for the VM's. You would > > still need data backups; use the HDD's. > > > > > > David > > > > . > > Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. > - Louis D. Brandeis >
