Re: Problem with Deja Dup

2025-03-16 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
Thanks for the reply. I checked the permissions - they were read. Just for the heck of it I tried Restore and it worked! All is now well. On 3/16/2025 11:19 AM, Marco Moock wrote: On 16.03.2025 16:00 Uhr Stephen P. Molnar wrote: Deja Dup refuses to find my backups. I don't have the faintest

Re: Bookworm - broken update? (mariadb-common)

2025-03-16 Thread Gareth Evans
Reported at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1100655 for anyone interested.

Re: Bookworm - broken update? (mariadb-common)

2025-03-16 Thread Gareth Evans
> On 16 Mar 2025, at 16:06, Joe wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 14:38:45 + > "Gareth Evans" wrote >> >> So working again, but a messy/broken upgrade process for me. >> >> Is this worth reporting? > > Yes, I would think so, most Debian servers will be running mariadb on > bookworm, eithe

Re: Mailing list in nomail

2025-03-16 Thread Byunghee HWANG
(re-send email due to some spam rule) Hellow Eric and there, Eric S Fraga writes: > Response below/inline for email Leandro Noferini wrote: >> (original email sent 4 Mar 2025 at 12:20) >> >> Ciao a tutt*, >> >> is possible to set this mailling list in "nomail" mode to remain >> subscribed but

Re: Mailing list in nomail

2025-03-16 Thread Greg
On 2025-03-16, Byunghee HWANG wrote: >> >> Depending on what tools you use to read your emails, if they support >> NNTP (newsgroups), you can access this "mailing list" via the >> gmane.linux.debian.user newsgroup. This is how I access the list. > > Also i like gmane.linux.debian.user newsgroup.

Re: Bookworm - broken update? (mariadb-common)

2025-03-16 Thread Joe
On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 14:38:45 + "Gareth Evans" wrote: > On Sun 16/03/2025 at 11:01, Joe wrote: > > > What's the background here? Did you have a working mariadb > > installation before, and is it still working? > > Hi Joe, > > It was working before and after the failed upgrade, as neithe

Re: Problem with Deja Dup

2025-03-16 Thread Marco Moock
On 16.03.2025 16:00 Uhr Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > Deja Dup refuses to find my backups. I don't have the faintest idea > as to what is wrong or how to fix it. There were no problems with > restoring files on the computer that I retired. > > I would really appreciate some guidance as to solutions.

Problem with Deja Dup

2025-03-16 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
I have just installed Bookworm on my new computer and have encountered a perplexing problem. Deja Dup refuses to find my backups. I don't have the faintest idea as  to what is wrong or how to fix it. There were no problems with restoring files on the computer that I retired. I would really a

Re: Bookworm - broken update? (mariadb-common)

2025-03-16 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sun 16/03/2025 at 11:01, Joe wrote: > What's the background here? Did you have a working mariadb installation > before, and is it still working? Hi Joe, It was working before and after the failed upgrade, as neither it nor anything else had been upgraded. I copied mariadb.cnf from the ext

Re: reprepro dies with "duplicate sort specified but not supported in database"

2025-03-16 Thread Harald Dunkel
Harald Dunkel wrote: Where does this come from? reprepro is version 5.4.6+really5.3.2-1. Did somebody tried to turn back the clock? How can I recover from this? PS: Seems this came up with the reprepro "upgrade" 2 days ago: reprepro:amd64 (5.4.6-3, 5.4.6+really5.3.2-1) Regards Harri

Re: [slowly OT, was: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?]

2025-03-16 Thread Greg
On 2025-03-16, wrote: > >> > Not yet, I'm in the UK and the boat is in France, I'll be back there >> > in a couple weeks. :-) >> That's the dream, man, to leisurely navigate those French canals in the >> spring or summer. Good sailing to you. > I used to cycle them, also a dream. And waved to t

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-16 Thread Todd Zullinger
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 07:50:27PM +, Tim Woodall wrote: >> git fails to preserve ownership, permissions or timestamps. While this may > [...] > > Half-wrong. Git doesn't preserve ownerships, but it does preserve > permissions (the POSIX things). Still quarter(?)-wro

reprepro dies with "duplicate sort specified but not supported in database"

2025-03-16 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, Trying to add or remove a source package in my local sid repository reprepro returns % reprepro removesrc sid iproute2 BDB1015 references: duplicate sort specified but not supported in database db_open(/var/www/debian/db/references.db:references)[22]: Invalid argument There have been e

[slowly OT, was: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?]

2025-03-16 Thread tomas
On Sun, Mar 16, 2025 at 01:33:08PM -, Greg wrote: > On 2025-03-15, Chris Green wrote: [...] > > Not yet, I'm in the UK and the boat is in France, I'll be back there > > in a couple weeks. :-) > > That's the dream, man, to leisurely navigate those French canals in the > spring or summer. Goo

Re: Does anyone use a USB 'endoscope' on Debian, which ones should work OK?

2025-03-16 Thread Greg
On 2025-03-15, Chris Green wrote: > Greg wrote: >> On 2025-03-15, Chris Green wrote: >> > >> > Thanks for all the help everyone, it made me fairly sure most cameras >> > would be likely to work OK. I chose the above one (apart from Amazon >> > next day delivery) because it is reasonably high de

Re: Accessing individual disk's SMART diagnostics behing a physical RAID

2025-03-16 Thread Yassine Chaouche
Le 3/13/25 à 17:36, Michael Stone a écrit : I guess I don't understand how you expect smartctl to query a dead disk. It's dead, that means it's not going to respond. I secretly wished there was some kind of blackbox in some specialized chip or memory that specialized software can use for fore

Re: Bookworm - broken update? (mariadb-common)

2025-03-16 Thread Joe
On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 08:56:47 + "Gareth Evans" wrote: > Hello, > > $ cat /etc/debian_version > 12.10 > > An automated apt update/upgrade failed last night. On trying again, > I get: > > $ sudo apt update; sudo apt upgrade > > Preconfiguring packages ... > 48 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0

Re: Accessing individual disk's SMART diagnostics behing a physical RAID

2025-03-16 Thread Yassine Chaouche
Le 3/13/25 à 14:33, Erwan David a écrit : You can get the layout with lsblk, IIRC I'm not an expert on the subject, but from the few man pages and online help I've gathered, I have come to understand that the system (and lsblk) only see logical disks. Physical disks are hidden behind the RAID

Bookworm - broken update? (mariadb-common)

2025-03-16 Thread Gareth Evans
Hello, $ cat /etc/debian_version 12.10 An automated apt update/upgrade failed last night. On trying again, I get: $ sudo apt update; sudo apt upgrade Preconfiguring packages ... 48 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/13

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-16 Thread tomas
On Sun, Mar 16, 2025 at 07:51:24AM +, Tim Woodall wrote: > On Sun, 16 Mar 2025, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > Git *does* preserve permissions [1]. For the ownerships (and more accurate > > mtime, atime and ctime) cf. etckeeper. > > > Git only tracks the execute bit. And because it always writ

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-16 Thread Tim Woodall
On Sun, 16 Mar 2025, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Git *does* preserve permissions [1]. For the ownerships (and more accurate mtime, atime and ctime) cf. etckeeper. Git only tracks the execute bit. And because it always writes a new file rather than truncate then write by most editors, the permissio