Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

2023-09-30 Thread hw
On Sat, 2023-09-30 at 18:29 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 9/30/23 13:28, Matthias Böttcher wrote: > > sudo dphys-swapfile swapoff > > sudo systemctl stop dphys-swapfile.service > > sudo systemctl disable dphys-swapfile.service > > > > . > However that did give me a clue about getting rid of zram

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

2023-09-30 Thread hw
On Sat, 2023-09-30 at 17:34 +0200, Hans wrote: > Dear folks, > > since days I am now fighting with a big and special problem I fell into. > > On my notebook I have 2 drives, one is a NVME drive, the other a normal > harddrive. > > The NVME has got Widows_11 and Debian_12 on it. > > But here i

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

2023-09-30 Thread Stefan Monnier
> But I cannot label the partition. At least not with gparted. I did > generate a new blkid then put the partuuid in fstab, rebooted it and > that worked. This sounds to me like a subliminal message telling me "see all the pain you avoided by using LVM instead". Stefan

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

2023-09-30 Thread David Christensen
On 9/30/23 08:34, Hans wrote: Dear folks, since days I am now fighting with a big and special problem I fell into. On my notebook I have 2 drives, one is a NVME drive, the other a normal harddrive. The NVME has got Widows_11 and Debian_12 on it. But here is the problem: As I resized the Wind

btrfs snapshots (of root file system)?

2023-09-30 Thread hw
Hi, with btrfs, how do I make a snapshot of the root file system? The purpose is to update software and being able to go back to a previous state if necessary. There doesn't seem to be a command to create snapshots but only subvolumes? How does a subvolume turn into a snapshot? (The root file

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

2023-09-30 Thread gene heskett
On 9/30/23 16:15, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 11:15:18AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 9/30/23 07:46, Andy Smith wrote: On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 03:26:19AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 9/29/23 17:32, Andy Smith wrote: On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 04:36:04PM -0400, gene hesket

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

2023-09-30 Thread gene heskett
On 9/30/23 14:16, Greg Wooledge wrote: search dphys swap Something I need to learn. But its been yonks since I last needed that. Anyway, problem is solved, Thank you. Take care ad stay well. Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, a

Re: naming a partition after the fact?

2023-09-30 Thread gene heskett
On 9/30/23 14:16, David Wright wrote: On Sat 30 Sep 2023 at 09:51:35 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: On 9/30/23 07:27, Andy Smith wrote: On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 03:28:09AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 9/29/23 20:05, Andy Smith wrote: As evidenced by this thread lots of people confuse partition

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

2023-09-30 Thread gene heskett
On 9/30/23 13:28, Matthias Böttcher wrote: sudo dphys-swapfile swapoff sudo systemctl stop dphys-swapfile.service sudo systemctl disable dphys-swapfile.service . However that did give me a clue about getting rid of zram0, which has been done now, thank you. Now I hope to uncomment the SSD line

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

2023-09-30 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 11:15:18AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 9/30/23 07:46, Andy Smith wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 03:26:19AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > On 9/29/23 17:32, Andy Smith wrote: > > > > On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 04:36:04PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > > > Swa

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

2023-09-30 Thread Matthias Böttcher
Hi Gene, please check explanations in this blog: https://www.dwarmstrong.org/zram-linuxmint/ HTH Matthias gene heskett schrieb am Sa., 30. Sept. 2023, 19:51: > On 9/30/23 13:28, Matthias Böttcher wrote: > > sudo dphys-swapfile swapoff > > sudo systemctl stop dphys-swapfile.service > > sudo sys

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

2023-09-30 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 01:50:57PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 9/30/23 13:28, Matthias Böttcher wrote: > > sudo dphys-swapfile swapoff > > sudo systemctl stop dphys-swapfile.service > > sudo systemctl disable dphys-swapfile.service > > > > . > Looks familiar but none of that is installed > cnc

Re: naming a partition after the fact?

2023-09-30 Thread David Wright
On Sat 30 Sep 2023 at 09:51:35 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On 9/30/23 07:27, Andy Smith wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 03:28:09AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > On 9/29/23 20:05, Andy Smith wrote: > > > > As evidenced by this thread lots of people confuse partition > > > > names/labels for

Re: naming a partition after the fact?

2023-09-30 Thread David Wright
On Sat 30 Sep 2023 at 11:13:36 (-0400), Stefan Monnier wrote: > Yes, filesystem labels are a different beast because they're stored > inside the partition. The allowed format of that label, where it's > stored within the data, and hence how to read/write it is different for > every filesystem, so

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

2023-09-30 Thread David Wright
On Sat 30 Sep 2023 at 03:26:19 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On 9/29/23 17:32, Andy Smith wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 04:36:04PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > cnc@rpi4:/etc$ sudo swapon -s > > > FilenameTypeSize Used > > > Priority > > > /dev/z

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

2023-09-30 Thread gene heskett
On 9/30/23 13:28, Matthias Böttcher wrote: sudo dphys-swapfile swapoff sudo systemctl stop dphys-swapfile.service sudo systemctl disable dphys-swapfile.service . Looks familiar but none of that is installed cnc@rpi4:/etc$ sudo dphys-swapfile swapoff sudo: dphys-swapfile: command not found cnc@r

Re: CVE-2023-5217 unimportant for firefox?

2023-09-30 Thread hede
On Sat, 30 Sep 2023 17:28:29 +0200 Klaus Singvogel wrote: > hede wrote: > > Hi, > > > > does anyone know why CVE-2023-5217 (critical vp8 encoder bug) is rated as > > an "open unimportant issue" for firefox-esr? Currently it is not fixed in > > bookworm and newer [1]. Mozilla itself rates it

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

2023-09-30 Thread Matthias Böttcher
sudo dphys-swapfile swapoff sudo systemctl stop dphys-swapfile.service sudo systemctl disable dphys-swapfile.service

Re: CVE-2023-5217 unimportant for firefox?

2023-09-30 Thread hede
On Sat, 30 Sep 2023 07:37:04 -0400 The Wanderer wrote: > When I follow the link to [3], and look at the bottom of the page, I see > what looks to me like an explanation Ah, I get it. That's indeed a good explanation. Then the state of "vulnerable" is simply wrong, because it's actually "not app

Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

2023-09-30 Thread Hans
Dear folks, since days I am now fighting with a big and special problem I fell into. On my notebook I have 2 drives, one is a NVME drive, the other a normal harddrive. The NVME has got Widows_11 and Debian_12 on it. But here is the problem: As I resized the Windows and Linux partitions, the

Re: CVE-2023-5217 unimportant for firefox?

2023-09-30 Thread Klaus Singvogel
hede wrote: > Hi, > > does anyone know why CVE-2023-5217 (critical vp8 encoder bug) is rated as an > "open unimportant issue" for firefox-esr? Currently it is not fixed in > bookworm and newer [1]. Mozilla itself rates it as "critical" [2]. That's fixed in Debian Bullseye. If I look into /usr/

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

2023-09-30 Thread gene heskett
On 9/30/23 07:46, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 03:26:19AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 9/29/23 17:32, Andy Smith wrote: On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 04:36:04PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: Swap file is the last thing I want, much slower than a swap partition. There has been no

Re: naming a partition after the fact?

2023-09-30 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> > If you do mean a partition label, can you elaborate as to what the >> > use case is and why a filesystem label doesn't work for it? I'm sure >> >> FWIW, I use "partition" labels (more specifically LVM names) because >> they have the advantage of working the same no matter what the partition >

Re: Debian live boot corrupting secure boot

2023-09-30 Thread Valerio Vanni
Il 29/09/2023 05:39, Max Nikulin ha scritto: Yes, but couldn't it add news keys without blacklisting old ones? It is beyond my knowledge of UEFI and secure boot: specs, requirements from Microsoft, and state of affairs with bugs in implementations. That is why I am suggesting to check for di

Re: naming a partition after the fact?

2023-09-30 Thread gene heskett
On 9/30/23 07:27, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 03:28:09AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 9/29/23 20:05, Andy Smith wrote: As evidenced by this thread lots of people confuse partition names/labels for filesystem labels, even though they are distinct things, which was why I as

Re: naming a partition after the fact?

2023-09-30 Thread gene heskett
On 9/29/23 23:31, Max Nikulin wrote: On 30/09/2023 02:54, gene heskett wrote: On 9/29/23 15:17, Andy Smith wrote: Probably, but adding a label to a *filesystem* is easy, so will that suit your needs? "man e2label" for ext* filesystems. That is what I couldn't remember Andy, thanks. In the c

Re: CVE-2023-5217 unimportant for firefox?

2023-09-30 Thread Lee
On 9/30/23, hede wrote: > Hi, > > does anyone know why CVE-2023-5217 (critical vp8 encoder bug) is rated as an > "open unimportant issue" for firefox-esr? Currently it is not fixed in > bookworm and newer [1]. Mozilla itself rates it as "critical" [2]. At the bottom of the page of your [1] is the

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

2023-09-30 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 03:26:19AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 9/29/23 17:32, Andy Smith wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 04:36:04PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > Swap file is the last thing I want, much slower than a swap partition. > > > > There has been no performance differenc

Re: CVE-2023-5217 unimportant for firefox?

2023-09-30 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-09-30 at 07:20, hede wrote: > Hi, > > does anyone know why CVE-2023-5217 (critical vp8 encoder bug) is rated as an > "open unimportant issue" for firefox-esr? Currently it is not fixed in > bookworm and newer [1]. Mozilla itself rates it as "critical" [2]. > > [1] https://security-tra

CVE-2023-5217 unimportant for firefox?

2023-09-30 Thread hede
Hi, does anyone know why CVE-2023-5217 (critical vp8 encoder bug) is rated as an "open unimportant issue" for firefox-esr? Currently it is not fixed in bookworm and newer [1]. Mozilla itself rates it as "critical" [2]. [1] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/firefox-esr

Re: naming a partition after the fact?

2023-09-30 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 03:28:09AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 9/29/23 20:05, Andy Smith wrote: > > As evidenced by this thread lots of people confuse partition > > names/labels for filesystem labels, even though they are distinct > > things, which was why I asked Gene if he really mean

nsswitch.conf does not follow order defined for 'passwd:' & 'group:'

2023-09-30 Thread jaikuma...@gmail.com
Hello, libnss-winbind being from backports version 2:4.17.8+dfsg-1~bpo11+1 added the following changes in /etc/nsswitch.conf which is producing the following nsswitch.conf contents: # /etc/nsswitch.conf # # Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality. # If you have the `glibc

Re: naming a partition after the fact?

2023-09-30 Thread gene heskett
On 9/29/23 20:05, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 06:01:09PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: If you do mean a partition label, can you elaborate as to what the use case is and why a filesystem label doesn't work for it? I'm sure FWIW, I use "partition" labels (more specifically

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

2023-09-30 Thread gene heskett
On 9/29/23 17:32, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 04:36:04PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 9/29/23 15:21, Andy Smith wrote: On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 03:15:54PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: I have SSD's for swap on an rpi4b, so to lessen the abuse of the u-sd card I need to turn

Re: On the uses of secure boot [was: Debian live boot corrupting secure boot]

2023-09-30 Thread tomas
On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 04:40:18PM -, Curt wrote: > On 2023-09-29, wrote: [...] > >> Sigh. Lose the misinformation crap, please. It's getting tedious. > > > He-said-she-said. > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/SteveMcIntyre > > Steve McIntyre [...] C'mon, Curt. You can better. Nearly eve