Re: Missing SATA Drives on ROMED8-2T Motherboard

2020-11-23 Thread Sven Hartge
Scott Colby wrote: > In all cases, the behavior was the same: all expected drives are > reported in the firmware, and the drives attached to SATA4_7 show > up in the OS (sd{a,b,c,d}), but the others are absent. Which would mean that the Kernel does not have a driver for the chip driving SATA0_3

(solved) Re: fibre problem with Intel 82571EB

2020-11-23 Thread Frank Weißer
Thanks to Wolfgang from > debian-...@lists.debian.org the following did the trick: IMO this is not a network card issue. I guess renaming the interface names would help. Only do the following if the system isn't used by anyone else... (0) Put down the MAC addresses of eth3 and eth4 (eth4 shou

Re: Executing 'systemctl poweroff' from script run by cron.

2020-11-23 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 10:55:50PM -, Juan R. de Silva wrote: > 1. Why, when the script is run by the user cron job, the execution > requires authentication, while run from the same user terminal, it does > not. What "systemctl poweroff" actually does (src/systemctl/systemctl.c,

LaTeX to epub

2020-11-23 Thread Emanuel Berg
Can I compile LaTeX to epub? ebook-convert gives an encoding error ebook-convert from the PDF I mean and, if "PDF sucks" as people say, how is one supposed to do it? what markup is preferred for epub? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 https://dataswamp.org/~incal

Missing SATA Drives on ROMED8-2T Motherboard

2020-11-23 Thread Scott Colby
Hello, I am running Debian 10 with an Epyc 7232P on an ASRock Rack ROMED8-2T motherboard. All my packages are up to date, and I have upgraded my motherboard's firmware to the latest version as well. This motherboard has two MiniSAS HD connectors (SATA0_3 and SATA4_7) which are capable of fanning

Re: Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

2020-11-23 Thread Mike McClain
On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 07:51:09AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 01:20:39PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > > I just cd'd to that directory and it looks like there's > > about 1 GB there. > > unicorn:~$ du -sh /usr/share/zoneinfo > 3.5M /usr/share/zoneinfo > unicorn:~$

Re: Dual Win10/Linux on HDD+SDD installation & RTL8821CE

2020-11-23 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-11-23 09:10, Kanito 73 wrote: Hello Finally I bought the laptop with Ryzen 5, it arrived yesterday. At first I backed up (clonezilla) the whole brand new system (Windows 10) before running for first time to have a virgin copy of the original system. Today I will erase the disks to cre

Re: Debian 10 and tethering USB

2020-11-23 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue, 24 Nov 2020, at 00:14, Gareth Evans wrote: > On Mon, 23 Nov 2020, at 16:08, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 13:55:25 + > > mag...@autistici.org wrote: > > > > > Instead a friend of mine has an iPhone. There were > > > no problems with Debian 10 and iOS 13, instead with >

Re: Debian 10 and tethering USB

2020-11-23 Thread Gareth Evans
On Mon, 23 Nov 2020, at 16:08, Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 13:55:25 + > mag...@autistici.org wrote: > > > Instead a friend of mine has an iPhone. There were > > no problems with Debian 10 and iOS 13, instead with > > iOS 14, 14.0.1 and 14.1 tethering USB does non work > > anymo

Re: initrd inspection

2020-11-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> > Hm. Apt-file search says (Buster) that /usr/bin/lsinitrd is in package >> > dracut-core (not installed in my box, so I can't double check now). >> initramfs-tools-core: /usr/bin/lsinitramfs Apparently `lsinitrd` only lists the contents of the first archive, whereas `lsinitramfs` lists the con

Re: Size of initrd

2020-11-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Use unmkinitramfs. It appears you've only looked at the first archive, > the early one, which gets the kernel into shape. The second, main one > is the big one. OK, for those interested I tracked it down: indeed the machine with the larger initrd had MODULES=most instead of MODULES=dep. It took

Executing 'systemctl poweroff' from script run by cron.

2020-11-23 Thread Juan R. de Silva
I am running Buster after fairly deafult installation. One of my scripts executes '/usr/bin/systemctl poweroff' command. And I am having trouble executing this script from cron. 1. If run from user's CLI, the script succeeds. 2. If run from root crontab the script succeeds. 3. If run from user's

Re: Hijacking Threads [was: Re: rsync link corruption with -H and --link-dest]

2020-11-23 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 11:17:56 -0500 Celejar wrote: Hello Celejar, >I made this same point in another email, but I just want to remind Indeed you did. And rightly so; It's possible that my messages could be construed as saying CM is the _only_ MUA capable of such configuration. That was not my

4Second DecTalk Delay? (fwd)

2020-11-23 Thread Karen Lewellen
I am posting the below as requested. Please send any solutions their way. Thanks, From: Chime Hart Subject: 4Second DecTalk Delay? Hi All: Over the years, rather randemly, after ocasional changes in hard-drives, my DecTalk U S B has an anoying 4second delay after typing. Lots of internet sear

Re: Dual Win10/Linux on HDD+SDD installation & RTL8821CE

2020-11-23 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 17:10:56 + Kanito 73 wrote: > About wifi... Do anybody use RTL8821CE with a latest Debian 10 kernel > (package) without installing an external driver? My old laptop has > RTL8723 that required to install rtlwifi_new driver (from GIT) but > currently runs fine with the kern

Re: Dual Win10/Linux on HDD+SDD installation & RTL8821CE

2020-11-23 Thread Kanito 73
Hi > Are you sure that operation will benefit from faster storage (as opposed > to more CPU and/or RAM)? It is a new computer, it has good processor/RAM and already has the highest memory possible (12Gb), the idea is to help now by speed on the storage device... Relative to the size of partiti

Re: Hijacking Threads [was: Re: rsync link corruption with -H and --link-dest]

2020-11-23 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Sun, 22 Nov 2020, at 16:55, Gareth Evans wrote: > > Once one sets up an MUA correctly, one only has to click 'Compose' for > > all the required fields, apart from Subject, to be filled in. > > When does clicking "compose" have this effect? In a good (probably standalone) MUA. In Fastmail's w

Re: Dual Win10/Linux on HDD+SDD installation & RTL8821CE

2020-11-23 Thread Linux-Fan
Kanito 73 writes: Hello Finally I bought the laptop with Ryzen 5, it arrived yesterday. At first I backed up (clonezilla) the whole brand new system (Windows 10) before running for first time to have a virgin copy of the original system. Today I will erase the disks to create partitions a

Re: Problem with /var/mail file > 2GB with pop3

2020-11-23 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 17:38:19 +0200 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 23 nov 20, 07:24:37, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Monday, November 23, 2020 06:15:09 AM Sven Hartge wrote: > > > Joe wrote: > > > > That's why we have IMAP, which doesn't use mbox. > > > > > > The IMAP protocal and the backen

Re: Dual Win10/Linux on HDD+SDD installation & RTL8821CE

2020-11-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 23 nov 20, 17:10:56, Kanito 73 wrote: > Hello > > Finally I bought the laptop with Ryzen 5, it arrived yesterday. At first I > backed up (clonezilla) the whole brand new system (Windows 10) before running > for first time to have a virgin copy of the original system. Today I will > erase

Dual Win10/Linux on HDD+SDD installation & RTL8821CE

2020-11-23 Thread Kanito 73
Hello Finally I bought the laptop with Ryzen 5, it arrived yesterday. At first I backed up (clonezilla) the whole brand new system (Windows 10) before running for first time to have a virgin copy of the original system. Today I will erase the disks to create partitions and install both Windows

Re: initrd inspection (was: Size of initrd)

2020-11-23 Thread Felix Miata
Curt composed on 2020-11-23 12:39 (UTC): > tomas wrote: >> The initramfs is a compressed cpio archive (of the initial file >> system at boot time). You can inspect it like so: >> gunzip < /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-10-amd64 | cpio -it | less > lsinitramfs /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-10-amd64 If

Re: How to write in Chinese

2020-11-23 Thread Markos
Em 22-11-2020 00:06, Ming escreveu: On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 08:10:08PM -0300, Markos wrote: [...] Hi Ming, That's right, I think I need to choose an "input method". I'm gradually understanding what I need. I found a tutorial that explains what the input methods are. http://xahlee.info/kbd/

[i915/drm error] Cannot control brightness

2020-11-23 Thread prog-amateur
Hello, the brightness doesn't work (cursor moves but not real brightness). Could you please help or at least forward to the relevant member ? Thank you very much for your kind help. Error message :Some messages appear during boot (after grub) : i915 :00:02.0 : [drm] *ERROR* Failed to get th

Re: Hijacking Threads [was: Re: rsync link corruption with -H and --link-dest]

2020-11-23 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 19:14:05 + Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 11:39:20 -0700 > Charles Curley wrote: > > Hello Charles, > > >Thank you. I just learned something useful about Claws-Mail. > > You're welcome. > > For those interested, Claws Mail has it's own mailing list. > > Sub

Re: Debian 10 and tethering USB

2020-11-23 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 13:55:25 + mag...@autistici.org wrote: > Instead a friend of mine has an iPhone. There were > no problems with Debian 10 and iOS 13, instead with > iOS 14, 14.0.1 and 14.1 tethering USB does non work > anymore. We are both using the graphic interface > Xfce and the icon on

Re: AMD Ryzen 5 3550H + GPU AMD Radeon Vega 8 (+nVidia)

2020-11-23 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 17:37:17 + Kanito 73 wrote: > Hi > > Does it work fine for you? I've read that the AMD (Ryzen) Radeon Vega GPU > overheats and becomes slow or laggy when playing or rendering... [Back on list:] I've only used it so far for general, non-gaming work, aside from running v

Re: Why use an email client AND sendmail/popa3d - Does this avoid the hijack?

2020-11-23 Thread John Hasler
I use Fetchmail to fetch my mail every five minutes from Newsguy. This means that my mail is never on anyone else's server for more than a few minutes. Fetchmail hands it off to Exim which passes it through Mailagent and Spamassassin and then delivers it to my inbox. Outgoing mail is delivered t

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

2020-11-23 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 07:51:09 -0500 Greg Wooledge wrote: > (And yes, I know find | wc -l isn't an accurate way to count files if > their names are unrestricted. Here I'm assuming there aren't a huge > number of filenames in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ with newlines.) You are also assuming that there ar

Re: Problem with /var/mail file > 2GB with pop3

2020-11-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 23 nov 20, 07:24:37, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, November 23, 2020 06:15:09 AM Sven Hartge wrote: > > Joe wrote: > > > That's why we have IMAP, which doesn't use mbox. > > > > The IMAP protocal and the backend storage have no connection. > > Well, they do in a way -- if you use

Re: Debian 10 and tethering USB

2020-11-23 Thread tomas
On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 01:55:25PM +, mag...@autistici.org wrote: > Hi, > > Since years I'm using Debian with tethering USB for > the Internet connection, without any problems with > different mobile phones and different versions of > Android. > > Instead a friend of mine has an iPhone. There

Re: Size of initrd

2020-11-23 Thread tomas
On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 08:15:47AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 10:03:06PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > The initramfs is a compressed cpio archive (of the initial file > > system at boot time). You can inspect it like so: > > > > gunzip < /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-10

Re: Problem with /var/mail file > 2GB with pop3

2020-11-23 Thread Sven Hartge
Didar Hossain wrote: > Dovecot has "single instance attachment storage" (SIS) as well as its > own native mdbox binary format (multiple emails per file indexed > efficiently). > The SIS is a feature that I am really excited about since we have > multiple user receiveing the same email - it reall

Debian 10 and tethering USB

2020-11-23 Thread magnus
Hi, Since years I'm using Debian with tethering USB for the Internet connection, without any problems with different mobile phones and different versions of Android. Instead a friend of mine has an iPhone. There were no problems with Debian 10 and iOS 13, instead with iOS 14, 14.0.1 and 14.1 tet

Re: pygopherd

2020-11-23 Thread Glenn Holmer
On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 12:08 PM Brad Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 08:25:12 -0600 > Glenn Holmer wrote: > > >Is it just for lack of a maintainer? Does it have to do with the Python > >3 migration? > > Did you look at the reason(s) for removal? Pretty much all the info you > require is th

Re: Problem with /var/mail file > 2GB with pop3

2020-11-23 Thread Didar Hossain
On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 07:24:37AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, November 23, 2020 06:15:09 AM Sven Hartge wrote: > > Joe wrote: > > > That's why we have IMAP, which doesn't use mbox. > > > > The IMAP protocal and the backend storage have no connection. > > Well, they do in a way

Re: Size of initrd

2020-11-23 Thread Curt
On 2020-11-23, Curt wrote: > On 2020-11-21, wrote: >> >> The initramfs is a compressed cpio archive (of the initial file >> system at boot time). You can inspect it like so: >> >> gunzip < /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-10-amd64 | cpio -it | less > > lsinitramfs /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-10-amd64

Re: Size of initrd

2020-11-23 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 10:03:06PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > The initramfs is a compressed cpio archive (of the initial file > system at boot time). You can inspect it like so: > > gunzip < /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-10-amd64 | cpio -it | less Debian's initrd images are actually multiple cp

Re: Size of initrd

2020-11-23 Thread Curt
On 2020-11-21, wrote: > > The initramfs is a compressed cpio archive (of the initial file > system at boot time). You can inspect it like so: > > gunzip < /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-10-amd64 | cpio -it | less lsinitramfs /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-10-amd64

Re: Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

2020-11-23 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 01:20:39PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > I just cd'd to that directory and it looks like there's > about 1 GB there. unicorn:~$ du -sh /usr/share/zoneinfo 3.5M/usr/share/zoneinfo unicorn:~$ find /usr/share/zoneinfo -type f | wc -l 780 Either something's wrong

Re: Problem with /var/mail file > 2GB with pop3

2020-11-23 Thread rhkramer
On Monday, November 23, 2020 06:15:09 AM Sven Hartge wrote: > Joe wrote: > > That's why we have IMAP, which doesn't use mbox. > > The IMAP protocal and the backend storage have no connection. Well, they do in a way -- if you use IMAP from your ISP for example, you don't need local storage on yo

Re: Why use an email client AND sendmail/popa3d - Does this avoid the hijack?

2020-11-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 23 nov 20, 14:27:36, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > So does htis get a new subject in the list? > > Good afternon All > > I was interested to read that Flo, the OP, uses separate mail > collection, sendmail and thunderbird. Some of the replies sound like > this is a common practice. > > What a

Re: initrd inspection

2020-11-23 Thread tomas
On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 12:19:02PM +0100, Sven Hartge wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 01:36:05AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > >> Tomas composed on 2020-11-21 22:46 (UTC+0100): > > >>> You can inspect it like so: > >> > >>> gunzip < /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-10-amd64 |

Re: initrd inspection

2020-11-23 Thread Sven Hartge
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 01:36:05AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: >> Tomas composed on 2020-11-21 22:46 (UTC+0100): >>> You can inspect it like so: >> >>> gunzip < /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-10-amd64 | cpio -it | less >> That was shortened to 'lsinitrd | less' in 2008 in o

Re: Problem with /var/mail file > 2GB with pop3

2020-11-23 Thread Sven Hartge
Joe wrote: > That's why we have IMAP, which doesn't use mbox. The IMAP protocal and the backend storage have no connection. You can for example use mbox with Dovecot just fine. (Not that anyone would *want* to, but that is a different story.) Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.

Re: Why use an email client AND sendmail/popa3d - trying to NOT hijack

2020-11-23 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-11-23 at 05:43, Joe wrote: > On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 13:21:25 +1100 Keith Bainbridge > wrote: >> PS Am I wrong to avoid 'everyting in 1 file' where possible (mail >> dir rather than mbox in this case)? OK this is probably a whole >> separate topic. > > As I've posted elsewhere, I have abou

Re: Why use an email client AND sendmail/popa3d - trying to NOT hijack

2020-11-23 Thread Joe
On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 13:21:25 +1100 Keith Bainbridge wrote: > Good afternon All > > I was interested to read that Flo, the OP, uses separate mail > collection, sendmail and thunderbird. Some of the replies sound like > this is a common practice. > > What are the advantages of this set of process

Re: Problem with /var/mail file > 2GB with pop3

2020-11-23 Thread Joe
On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 10:25:28 +0100 Flo wrote: > On 11/23/20 7:05 AM, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 22 Nov 2020 at 18:57:46 (+0100), Flo wrote: > >> On 2020-11-22 01:04, deloptes wrote: > >>> David Wright wrote: > >>> > I can't understand how anyone would want to have a live INBOX > >>

Re: Problem with /var/mail file > 2GB with pop3

2020-11-23 Thread Flo
On 11/23/20 7:05 AM, David Wright wrote: On Sun 22 Nov 2020 at 18:57:46 (+0100), Flo wrote: On 2020-11-22 01:04, deloptes wrote: David Wright wrote: I can't understand how anyone would want to have a live INBOX file containing 2GB of emails. Apart from the risks, it just seems so disorgani

Re: color border in image, drop everything outside of it

2020-11-23 Thread Emanuel Berg
> I don't understand what you mean by "sensible" data. > Your example > > . > ...sss... > ..skkks.. > ..s.. > ss... > > is a completely convex blob. Are we to understand that as > a constraint? Or are re-entrant shaped loops allowed? What sort > of re-entrants? I have des

Re: initrd inspection (was: Size of initrd)

2020-11-23 Thread tomas
On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 01:36:05AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > Tomas composed on 2020-11-21 22:46 (UTC+0100): > > > You can inspect it like so: > > > gunzip < /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-10-amd64 | cpio -it | less > > That was shortened to 'lsinitrd | less' in 2008 in openSUSE[1], > which > Mand

Changing language of Mate in Buster

2020-11-23 Thread john doe
Hello all, I installed Buster with Mate and I would like for some users to change their languages to something other than the default language. If I understand correctly, I should download the gnome2 language-selector, but I'm not finding what package is responsible for this? Any help is appric