Re: Automount USB storage like in GNOME but on the console

2025-07-30 Thread Anssi Saari
Anders Andersson writes: > Now I'm using a console-only Debian, and of course this automount > doesn't happen but so far I haven't been able to figure out which part > of the modern desktop system that makes this possible and automatic. It seems to me udisks2 is the library and a CLI interface t

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

2025-07-11 Thread Anssi Saari
Andy Smith writes: > I think it's worth considering the fact that new computer users are > increasingly less likely to use email and are more likely to find email > intimidating. Do you have a proposal then for a forum (as in, a platform for group discussion) that's more palatable to the youngst

Re: Bugs?

2025-07-10 Thread Anssi Saari
Lee Winter writes: > [A1] is that netinstall left /etc/sudoers missing and /etc/sudoers.d/README > empty -- there are no users at all. But that > README file contains a strong recommendation for using visudo, which no > longer exists. visudo is included in the sudo package. I'd expect you have

Re: parallel gnu and parallel from moreutils

2025-06-02 Thread Anssi Saari
Federico Kircheis writes: > I could not find any information if something like the following has > already been proposed (and eventually rejected): > > moreutils should also provide /usr/bin/parallel.moreutils, even if gnu > parallel is not installed(!) > > gnu parallel should also provide /usr/b

Re: Slight upgrade issues

2025-05-22 Thread Anssi Saari
Rob van der Putten writes: > Stable / 12: > New net-tools comes with ifconfig with empty numeric values: It's all zero; > > RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) > RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0 > TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B) > TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

Re: Trixie - freeze? Questions

2025-05-21 Thread Anssi Saari
Hans writes: > First question: Would you recommend to upgrade now or just wait until the > official release? I'll wait for the official release, check if any nasty bugs in it are real and relevant to me (known severe bugs chapter in the release notes) and if not, then upgrade. But whatever floa

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

2025-05-16 Thread Anssi Saari
xuser writes: > No virtualization?, my 15 year old dell e6500 has it. As I recall, Intel has played with virtualization support a lot. Disable virtualization on some low end CPUs just to piss people off. Or really, to "differentiate the different product lines" or some such marketing bullshit.

Re: Preparing for Debian 13

2025-05-16 Thread Anssi Saari
Default User writes: > Since Debian 13 should soon be released, what should I be doing  > ahead of time to prepare for the upgrade? For me, upgrading is  > always a major hassle, so I try to make it as easy as possible. The release page is here: https://www.debian.org/releases/testing/ There'

Re: Installation cannot find network

2025-05-12 Thread Anssi Saari
Arbol One writes: > I'd like to install Debian 12 in a GMKtec NucBox M3 PLUS, but the > installation cannot find the network connection. > Is this box compatible with Linux? anyone! Network hardware is sometimes newer than what Debian has support for in the installer. I had this issue a few y

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-12 Thread Anssi Saari
Eben King writes: > On 5/11/25 08:46, Anssi Saari wrote: >> Stefan Monnier writes: >> It does seem like the slightly longer 16:10 screens are making a >> comeback, at least in the Thinkpad T16. > > Two of my monitors have that aspect ratio. Well, why not, let's

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-11 Thread Anssi Saari
Stefan Monnier writes: > FWIW, I tried a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen5 (2017) as a replacement for my > old T61, and while it does come with some notable improvements (longer > battery life, much lighter, much smaller pixels), it wasn't terribly > faster, and it suffered from a shorter screen, so in th

Re: Open source, multiplatform password manager with sync capability

2025-05-06 Thread Anssi Saari
Marc SCHAEFER writes: > Has anyone experienced the following setup: I wonder how fast the git repo grows as you add stuff in the keepass database? Personally, for sharing a keepass database between Linux/Android/Windows computers I use keepass2 and keepass2android and the database is online, a

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-05-03 Thread Anssi Saari
Bernard writes: > which reminds me that, in the installation process of ‘ISPY/AgentDVR’ > packages, Video Acceleration was mentioned as a compulsory step, with > a warning that it could eventually affect some other applications ; I > had replied ‘Y’, because I thought it was easily reversible. >

Re: Not able to ping other pcs in LAN.

2025-04-28 Thread Anssi Saari
mailinglists.accustom...@aleeas.com writes: > Hi all, > > I recently installed Debian on my old desktop, before this it was > running Ubuntu. So my issue is before installing debian I was able to > ping me other machine using ```ping hostname.local```, but after > installing debian 12 I am not abl

Re: Xpra

2025-04-28 Thread Anssi Saari
Mario Marietto writes: > This seems to be an interesting alternative to compare to xpra also because > it works even on FreeBSD (the OS that I use > everyday) : > > https://winswitch.org/dev/ It says in the FAQ it actually bundles xpra, NX and VNC. NX is what x2go uses. So not an alternative, m

Re: Xpra

2025-04-26 Thread Anssi Saari
Nicolas George writes: > Frank Guthausen (HE12025-04-25): >> Maybe it is overkill for what you want, but you can use x2go to >> have this kind of remote ressource usage for an entire desktop. > > Thanks. But a full desktop is definitely what I do not want. This is the > great thing about Xpra: li

Re: Potential bug report for Realtek MicroSD Card Reader

2025-04-18 Thread Anssi Saari
Brandan Ballantyne writes: > Hey Team! This is a list for Debian users. > I'm new to Debian and running the latest Debian 12.10 with > updates. I'm having an issue with my MicroSD card reader and I'm not > sure how to proceed. Looks like you didn't actually specify what the problem is? Your li

Re: Can you help me run Box64 on my Raspberry Pi 5?

2025-04-10 Thread Anssi Saari
Stefan Monnier writes: > My N°1 search engine nowadays is Wikipedia (protected from ads and SEO > madness), and here again it offers one of the best answers to the > question of what is "numpy". In this context, it's probably enough to say that numpy is a numeric library which will be part of th

Re: map mainboard sata connector to device name

2025-04-10 Thread Anssi Saari
debian-u...@howorth.org.uk writes: > Serious disk enclosures have lights that can be turned on to indicate > which disk has failed. Yes. I take it the actual question is, is there a DIY version of that? This sort of thing is why I mostly do just mirroring.

Re: When an external disk is connected, the wireless mouse works by being connected from a shorter distance.

2025-04-08 Thread Anssi Saari
"James H. H. Lampert" writes: > On 4/7/25 9:23 AM, Serkan Kurt wrote: > . . . >> Can the USB3 port be used with the USB2 protocol in terms of software? > > I've never heard of USB breaking compatibility with prior versions. Uncommon to be sure but I remember an old BeagleBoard had this. USB port

Re: X client from Wayland to X11 through ssh

2025-04-06 Thread Anssi Saari
Eben King writes: > xev works as not-root, so X clients in general work. So how do I get > around this? Installing not-Wayland is an option, but I probably should > replace it with some WIMP interface so if I need it, it's there. Thanks. So, as xev works, X forwarding works and it's not your

Re: array suggestions

2025-04-05 Thread Anssi Saari
Dan Ritter writes: > Prices via Newegg 24 hours ago. Here's a 4x for $28: > https://www.newegg.com/p/3C6-00SN-00045 Of course, now I understand. My problem is I don't have a spare x16 slot to put the card into, just an x4. Hence the bridge chip needed. Next build, definitely going for a motherbo

Re: Pls help fixing /boot/efi and GRUB

2025-04-05 Thread Anssi Saari
David Wright writes: > host!auser 09:57:47 /somewhere/that/is/obnoxiously/long/program-1.2.3$ > /bin/su --login > Password: > bullseye on /dev/sda5 toto05 > host 09:57:59 ~# cd /somewhere/that/is/obnoxiously/long/program-1.2.3 > host 09:58:08 /somewhere/that/is/obnoxiously/long/progra

Re: array suggestions

2025-03-22 Thread Anssi Saari
Eben King writes: > I have a 2x1TB RAID-1 array on one of my computers. It holds a backup. > It's starting to become too small, not because it's shrinking, but > because I'm getting more stuff. So, I need to do something that ends up > with a larger array using 3, maybe 4 disks. It'd be nice i

Re: array suggestions

2025-03-22 Thread Anssi Saari
Dan Ritter writes: > (Cheap: $45 for a 4 x M.2 PCIe to PCIe x16 slot card. $10 for > single adapters.) The last part I can agree with but I recently paid something like $80 for a TXB122 card which is just a 2x NVMe m.2 to PCIe x4 adapter card with the ASM2812 bridge chip. A card like this one: h

Re: recursively share NFS

2025-03-20 Thread Anssi Saari
Eben King writes: > I have this machine "alexandria". It mounts a directory from the nas > via NFS. When I export a parent directory on alexandria, the mount > point appears empty, even though you can ssh to it and see everything > there that should be. How do I get it to share the contents of

Re: Monthly FAQ for the Debian-user mailing list (last modified 20250301)

2025-03-05 Thread Anssi Saari
David writes: > Given that this infrastructure exists and is being used by most people > involved with producing Debian, it surprises me to hear talk of posting > diffs to the mailing list, which requires too much effort by both writers > and readers IMHO. Too much effort? I don't understand. Su

Re: Monthly FAQ for the Debian-user mailing list (last modified 20250301)

2025-03-04 Thread Anssi Saari
David writes: > It would assist everyone to follow changes to this "Monthly FAQ" > document if it can be hosted somewhere that provides diffs, such > as salsa.debian.org, or wiki.debian.org. I don't see a problem with just posting the diffs. Preferably in unified format.

Re: Hardware question

2025-03-04 Thread Anssi Saari
Van Snyder writes: > The nvidia-driver package from non-free apparently doesn't work with a Quadro > K2200. But you didn't check? The release notes tell a different story. > NVidia recommends the 570 driver. They always recommend the latest.

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-03 Thread Anssi Saari
Chris Green writes: > With modern systems booting so fast I wonder why anyone bothers with > hibernate or sleep. I guess my modern systems are different from yours, boot times are long. Also, in my life software has state and that is kept by sleep and hibernate. So when the computer wakes up, a

Re: Hardware question

2025-03-02 Thread Anssi Saari
Van Snyder writes: > I install the driver by running the NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-570.124.04.run script > at level 3, then rebooting. Why? > Is that DKMS? To be clear, it's a manual installation of drivers from the manufacturer. Definitely not DKMS. You want install stuff manually, you get to upda

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-02 Thread Anssi Saari
Eben King writes: > Normally I hibernate, and while it's hibernated, boot off a thumb drive > and back up (either by partition or the whole drive) to a dedicated > drive.  The idea is if my main drive takes a dump, I could replace it > with the backup drive, boot, and be on my merry way.  After t

Re: internal microphone stops working

2025-02-14 Thread Anssi Saari
Janet C writes: > Hello, > > I'm running bookworm on a Thinkpad T14s Gen4 AMD and am having an issue with > the internal microphone. Using the kernel from bookworm, the microphone > doesn't work at all, so I installed kernel 6.12 from backports. Now the > microphone works when I boot, but at s

Re: How to install a browser (epiphany) without affecting mailcap etc.?

2025-02-12 Thread Anssi Saari
Chris Green writes: > Installing epiphany just added it as a choice but left vivaldi as the > configured browser, but still epiphany grabbed everything. Have you considered you may get better information if you actually define this "everything"? For me it's the small handful of apps I mentioned

Re: How to install a browser (epiphany) without affecting mailcap etc.?

2025-02-10 Thread Anssi Saari
Chris Green writes: > However, when I install epiphany it takes over every single thing that > web browsers can do which is very frustrating, I only want to run it > explicitly for testing. Is there any way to prevent the install > changing all the mailcap and mime settings etc.? What I've done

Re: Sorry for spamming the list

2025-02-07 Thread Anssi Saari
Jeffrey Walton writes: > I've never seen the Usenet equivalents documented anywhere. Do you > know what they are? Maybe something like comp.debian or > comp.linux.debian? As an example, on news.gmane.io this debian-user list is gmane.linux.debian.user. If there's mirroring to general Usenet, I d

Re: Dell Latitude 5400 + plasma - keyboard?

2025-02-06 Thread Anssi Saari
Hans writes: > In console and in Plasma the Brightness can not be adjusted, but in XFCE it > can. However, I could not get, which keyboard setting XFCE is using, does pne > know? So is this a difference between Wayland and X then? You run Plasma in Wayland and XFCE in X since it only runs in X

Re: WLAN with /etc/network/interfaces

2025-02-04 Thread Anssi Saari
George at Clug writes: > iptables (which I like), nftables (which I ask, Why?) For a few years now, well, almost a decade, iptables has been a hollow shell with nftables inside. Why nftables? Because it unifies firewall for ipv4, ipv6 and bridges, so we don't need to have separate iptables, ip6t

Re: how to determine if debian is intruded or compromised

2025-01-28 Thread Anssi Saari
hlyg writes: > i multi-boot with several disks, one of them running pirated Windows > > i have no confidence in pirated Windows, can malware or spyware in > Windows intrude linux in other disks?  how to determine if debian has > been intruded or compromised? I at least have never heard of Window

Re: continuing GPU woes

2025-01-28 Thread Anssi Saari
Eben King writes: I don't know if there's more history to this issue but a couple of things come to mind. > Checking card: NVIDIA Corporation GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] (rev a1) > Your card is supported by all driver versions. > Your card is also supported by the Tesla 470 drivers series. What ab

Re: about output from mount

2025-01-16 Thread Anssi Saari
Urs Thuermann writes: > Felix Miata writes: > >> I have the following in ~/.bashrc for making that easier: >> >> alias Mnt='mount | egrep -v "cgroup|rpc|ramfs|tmpfs|^sys|on /dev|on /proc|on >> /sys|on /var" | sort ' > > mount | fgrep -vf <(awk '/^nodev/{print $2}' /proc/filesystems) Thanks. I

Re: /dev/serial/by-id

2025-01-07 Thread Anssi Saari
Max Nikulin writes: > On 04/01/2025 17:19, gene heskett wrote: >> One does get tired and short tempered when a copy/paste error post >> bullseye that wrecks udev is said to not be fixed before >> trixie. Thats not excusable when the fix is a one line patch we've >> all done years ago. Get it from

Re: synaptic workalike that WILL run on sudo with wayland.

2025-01-02 Thread Anssi Saari
Stefan Monnier writes: > Sometimes I used cloned another system, and other times I used > Debootstrap running from one of the "images" provided by the board maker > (all those images suck, IMO: they're never designed with updates in mind). Indeed, thanks. Previously I've dismissed these patched

Re: synaptic workalike that WILL run on sudo with wayland.

2024-12-31 Thread Anssi Saari
Stefan Monnier writes: > I've never used Debian's installer on those boards, and don't even know > if Debian officially "supports" them. So how do you install Debian on those ARM boards? Put some image on whatever storage they have? In fact, that's what I've done with my Raspberry Pi Computer Mo

Re: synaptic workalike that WILL run on sudo with wayland.

2024-12-30 Thread Anssi Saari
Stefan Monnier writes: > FWIW, I've been using ARM-based SBCs for more than 10 years (4 different > boards, I'm ashamed to say) and have used Debian on all of them. So no: > you don't need Armbian to make use of that kind of hardware. OK, which ones? I'm only aware of the Rock64 and it's not ex

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-18 Thread Anssi Saari
Franco Martelli writes: > Peter A. Darnell, Philip E. Margolis - "C A Software Engineering Approach": > > https://www.google.it/books/edition/_/1nsS5q9aZOUC?hl=it&gbpv=0 > > Do you have it too? It's pretty old, with some typo, but it looks to > me good. Sorry, no, doesn't look familiar. I rememb

Re: OT: Possible memory leak in an exercise of a C handbook

2024-12-17 Thread Anssi Saari
Franco Martelli writes: > I'd prefer a mailing-list instead, once finished all the exercises, > I'd like to looking for somebody that he has my same handbook and to > ask him for exchange the exercises for comparison purpose. Just curious, which handbook is it?

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-16 Thread Anssi Saari
Larry Martell writes: > I use CrashPlan to back up to the cloud. Saved my ass more than once. What happened to CrashPlan though? I have a vague memory of running it for free, doing backups to a non-profit "cloud", in fact a computer club's server. Wasn't called cloud back then... But now CrashP

Re: SOLVED ? Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-16 Thread Anssi Saari
gene heskett writes: > No zfs that I know of, everything is ext4. As I've just played with zfs, the zfs packages to purge are these: libnvpair3linux libuutil3linux libzfs4linux libzpool5linux zfs-dkms zfs-zed zfsutils-linux

Re: From SSD to NVME

2024-12-12 Thread Anssi Saari
Michael Stone writes: > As a general matter PCIe devices can/will downgrade... Thanks for the comprehensive reply. Indeed, those single drive adapters are dirt cheap so that's a "why not" buy. It turns out I actually have a free x4 slot and dual SSD adapters using ASM2812 bridges seem pretty ch

Re: From SSD to NVME

2024-12-12 Thread Anssi Saari
Dan Ritter writes: > One of the tests that servethehome.com does in reviewing SSDs is the > write speed after cache saturation: that is, once you have sent enough > gigabytes in a row, what is the ongoing write speed? Thanks, excellent info, I had no idea servethehome does that kind of benchmark

Re: Shell function & variable usage.

2024-12-11 Thread Anssi Saari
pe...@easthope.ca writes: > In a realistic case, there are more than two exclusion patterns. > Comments or suggestions about the two possibilities? Astonishingly > better ideas? =8~o Put the exlucde patterns in a file and use --exclude-from=file? Works for me, so far with tar and bup, rsync h

Re: From SSD to NVME

2024-12-10 Thread Anssi Saari
Michael Stone writes: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 10:55:48AM -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote: >>How do I tell how many lanes a given drive uses (preferably before purchase)? > > It would be buried in the technical docs. I've only seen 4x drives > (but I'm sure there may be some cheaper drives with fewer).

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-12-10 Thread Anssi Saari
Charlie Gibbs writes: > 5. Copy directories from the original drive to the new drive: > sudo rsync -av /bin /mnt/backup > sudo rsync -av /etc /mnt/backup > sudo rsync -av /lib /mnt/backup > sudo rsync -av /lib64 /mnt/backup > sudo rsync -av /opt /mnt/backup > sudo

Re: Automatic suspend-to-ram solution for Workstations

2024-12-09 Thread Anssi Saari
Felix Natter writes: > Dear Debian users, > > I am looking for an automatic suspend-to-ram (I know "sudo systemctl > suspend" ;-)) solution for workstations: I would like the system to > suspend if and only if: > > - there is no gui interaction from any user (especially with VNC > sessions) AND

Re: where is mail.log

2024-12-02 Thread Anssi Saari
poc...@homemail.com writes: > You did not comprehend what I posted. I am on the systemd mail list. > They have dropped all sysV support. Does it really even matter if there's SysV support in systemd? You can still put ExecStart=your-sysv-init-script start in your systemd service file and I don

Re: Trying to configure hibernate / resume

2024-12-02 Thread Anssi Saari
"Andrew M.A. Cater" writes: > A quick search with a search engine: boot is restricted, not impossible. > > The answer seems to be to install with LVM and encryption. That ensures > that the swap area is encrypted and *cannot* be messed with while the > device is hibernated (which is the rationale

Re: Adding a new boot disk while keeping old disk

2024-11-26 Thread Anssi Saari
Charlie Gibbs writes: > How do the rest of you deal with all the user-added stuff > that vanishes when you do a fresh install? I don't do fresh installs as a rule, not when changing hardware or shuffling files around like in your case, or when I wanted to switch from MBR partition table to GPT o

Re: debian for limited ram

2024-11-22 Thread Anssi Saari
Michael Kjörling writes: > I have successfully booted Debian Bookworm (without a GUI) on VMs with > slightly less than 256 MB RAM, so 512 MB should be plenty. I guess that depends. I remember having a cheap or free trial VPS for a month with just 512 MB. Git ran out of RAM trying to check out th

Re: Will Trixie include packaged Nvidia proprietary 560 drivers ?

2024-11-21 Thread Anssi Saari
George at Clug writes: > Yes, Wayland. But also Steam Games, as my Nvidia 960 was not able to > play the Steam game "Planet Crafter" at any usable performance (XFCE, > X11). Once I replace my Nvidia card with a Radeon RX 6600, the game > play was smooth and stable. That's a Windows game though,

Re: Contributing back: Using grub2 to boot CD-ROM images

2024-11-21 Thread Anssi Saari
Charles Curley writes: > I've developed a script and suitable grub stanzas to let the user > install several CD-ROM images on a hard drive, and boot from the > CD-ROMs without extracting the kernel or initrd. This gives the user > something of a rescue capability without requiring a CD/DVD or thu

Re: question about apt upgrade facing locally build packages

2024-11-20 Thread Anssi Saari
Patrice Duroux writes: > But could it be the a nice feature for apt to have a list apart on the > upgrading > (I would say then 'replacing') of such cases? > User can be alerted more easily during apt upgrade that some packages with a > same version could be replaced by the Debian archive ones.

Re: Will Trixie include packaged Nvidia proprietary 560 drivers ?

2024-11-19 Thread Anssi Saari
George at Clug writes: > ​Hi, > > What are the chances that when Debian Trixie is released it will include > packaged Nvidia proprietary 560 drivers (these drivers are currently in > beta) ? I don't know the odds but beta drivers don't seem to go even in experimental which has 545 at the moment

Re: debian-to-windows message transfer

2024-11-19 Thread Anssi Saari
Henrik Ahlgren writes: > Perhaps try Magic-Wormhole: > > https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ > > apt install magic-wormhole Very interesting, thank you. Maybe not that great for LAN use but I might have have a use for it.

Re: debian-to-windows message transfer

2024-11-18 Thread Anssi Saari
Christian Britz writes: > Am 16.11.24 um 05:42 schrieb Greg Wooledge: > >> If your Windows machine can run an ssh daemon that you can log into, >> then you could use it as your SOCKS proxy, though I have no idea how >> you'd go about setting up an sshd on Windows. > > Should not be to hard using

Re: debian-to-windows message transfer

2024-11-16 Thread Anssi Saari
"Russell L. Harris" writes: > Debian machines are on the 192.168.1.xxx network. I keep a W10 > machine on the 192.168.2.x network, primarily to access the chewy.com > web site which, since about June, serves my Debian machines a blank > white page. Only one of the Debian machines is set up for

Re: Can someone explain containers, pods, docker, etc. please

2024-11-12 Thread Anssi Saari
Chris Green writes: > But there is no Python 2 available for Debian 12... That's just what's in the package manager. Python source code is available and from that any Python version can be built. Pyenv is a tool which makes that easy.

Re: appimage magic

2024-11-12 Thread Anssi Saari
fxkl4...@protonmail.com writes: > i don't see anything in that about appimage AppImages are ELF binaries. So the answer to your question "how does my debian powered device know what to do", is that it knows how to run ELF format binaries. I'd assume there are technical descriptions available on h

Re: IP Masquerade failing

2024-10-31 Thread Anssi Saari
Timothy M Butterworth writes: > As you can see here pinging google from eth0 fails. If masquerading was > working then ping would be successful. Well, if it helps, I don't have external accress on my router via the inside interface either. Works from the LAN hosts though. > Can ip masquerading

Re: Bug in 'more' command

2024-10-16 Thread Anssi Saari
Greg Wooledge writes: > Why did you make it so complicated? What's wrong with simply: > > alias l='ls -lF|more -e' > > or perhaps: > > export MORE=-e > alias l='ls -lF|more' $ ls|more -e more: unknown option -e Try 'more --help' for more information. I included the reason in my pos

Re: Bug in 'more' command

2024-10-15 Thread Anssi Saari
Jim Anderson writes: > One time usage is not bad, but if you use 'more' often, as I do, this > behavior is a repeating waste of time. I hope the developers will > revert to the traditional behavior. I doubt that but who knows. For decades, I've had an alias like this: alias l="ls -lF|more" C

Re: Refugee from [x]ubuntu, a few initial questions

2024-10-15 Thread Anssi Saari
Chris Green writes: > No need for that (testing for me), I can try and if it all goes pear > shaped I'll just have to go out to the system in the garage with a > screen and keyboard (and mouse). If the backup system is down for a > while it wouldn't be a disaster. I've actually done a headless

Re: firmware failed to load nouveau/nv98_fuc084

2024-10-14 Thread Anssi Saari
kamaraju kusumanchi writes: > My machine is rebooting randomly. To find out what is going on, I > looked at dmesg and found these errors. How can I fix them? If you > need extra information, please let me know which command I need to run > and I will provide its output. There may be hints as to

Re: Cleanup in a bash script

2024-10-03 Thread Anssi Saari
writes: > What actually happens seems completely different to me: the shell > gets the EPIPE from the dying tee before it can see the EINTR, right? That depends. tee -i will ignore SIGINT but ./script gets it. So it can keep writing in the pipe, from the script proper or its SIGINT handler and e

Re: Cleanup in a bash script

2024-10-02 Thread Anssi Saari
writes: > On Tue, Oct 01, 2024 at 01:53:26PM +0300, Anssi Saari wrote: >> Greg Wooledge writes: >> >> > On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 14:08:19 +0300, Anssi Saari wrote: >> >> Tim Woodall writes: >> >> >> >> > However

Re: Cleanup in a bash script

2024-10-01 Thread Anssi Saari
Greg Wooledge writes: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 14:08:19 +0300, Anssi Saari wrote: >> Tim Woodall writes: >> >> > However on trying to debug something else, I wanted to run it like this: >> > >> > ./script |& tee log >> > >> >

Re: Cleanup in a bash script

2024-09-30 Thread Anssi Saari
Tim Woodall writes: > However on trying to debug something else, I wanted to run it like this: > > ./script |& tee log > > and now it doesn't clean up if I it. Just a point here about tee since I didn't see anyone else mention it. tee has had the -i option to ignore interrupt signals for ages.

Re: Hibernate works with secure boot on OpenSUSE

2024-09-25 Thread Anssi Saari
Kevin Chadwick writes: > Apparently hibernate works on OpenSuse with secure boot enabled when swap is > within an encrypted drive or encrypted itself. > > Is that true? If it is then why hasn't Debian followed suit? Seems to be true. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/591488/why-does-the

Re: can't get the sound settings stable for my headset

2024-09-25 Thread Anssi Saari
Max Nikulin writes: > On 25/09/2024 02:27, tom arnall wrote: >> immediately changes to handsfree, which produces only a hum in mono > > Is it a Bluetooth headset? That case see Debian wiki for limitations. Which part of the wiki? There seem to be a bunch of bluetooth pages in the wiki but search

Re: Disk drive zero-fill benchmarks for various synchronization methods and block sizes

2024-09-16 Thread Anssi Saari
writes: > On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 12:00:53PM +0300, Anssi Saari wrote: >> Jeffrey Walton writes: >> >> > The file system cache is still holding the writes. If I remove the >> > SDcard and try to use it, the image is corrupt. When I say "remove", I &g

Re: BIOS unreadable at boot

2024-09-16 Thread Anssi Saari
Will Mengarini writes: > ViewSonic 15E Isn't that a CRT from the '90s? So you have some adapter for HDMI? Is there really no other monitor you could use?

Re: [SUMMARY] UEFI multiboot

2024-09-16 Thread Anssi Saari
songbird writes: > hmm, well i actually use Refind for my normal booting up > and install GRUB as a backup. so far i've never needed the > backup but i do test it out from time to time. Um, so how do you choose which boot manager you want to run? UEFI boot menu?

Re: Disk drive zero-fill benchmarks for various synchronization methods and block sizes

2024-09-16 Thread Anssi Saari
Michael Stone writes: > [1] insofar as you want to use dd at all ... dd does conveniently provide progress and stats whereas cp does not.

Re: Disk drive zero-fill benchmarks for various synchronization methods and block sizes

2024-09-16 Thread Anssi Saari
Jeffrey Walton writes: > The file system cache is still holding the writes. If I remove the > SDcard and try to use it, the image is corrupt. When I say "remove", I > mean pop the card out of the card reader since the write has > supposedly finished. All right. So in fact, block devices either h

Re: Disk drive zero-fill benchmarks for various synchronization methods and block sizes

2024-09-13 Thread Anssi Saari
David Wright writes: > On Tue 10 Sep 2024 at 11:56:25 (+0300), Anssi Saari wrote: >> Why do you think that? Which part of the fsync manpage explicitly covers >> fsync's effect on device files? Share share, it's fair. > “fsync() transfers ("flushes&qu

Re: BASH reference for those who are "learning by doing"?

2024-09-10 Thread Anssi Saari
Karl Vogel writes: > Have you tried some different fonts? My eyesight is poor, and a good > font made all the difference. > > https://bezoar.org/posts/2023/0214/font-screenshots/ Fonts on what? I mostly can't control fonts on documents I edit or create, for work at least. A little hard to do on

Re: BASH reference for those who are "learning by doing"?

2024-09-10 Thread Anssi Saari
George at Clug writes: > Have you tried 100 Hz or greater monitors? All my monitors are 60Hz. I > wonder if these help with prolonged computer use? In my home setup one monitor does 75 Hz and the other 144 but I can't see much, if any, difference in clarity compared to 60 Hz. Also I have no id

Re: Disk drive zero-fill benchmarks for various synchronization methods and block sizes

2024-09-10 Thread Anssi Saari
David Wright writes: > On Mon 09 Sep 2024 at 11:52:19 (+0300), Anssi Saari wrote: >> David Christensen writes: >> >> > 2. sync(1) is unnecessary. >> >> Does it even do anything wrt device files? sync(2) says "sync() causes >> all pending modif

Re: Disk drive zero-fill benchmarks for various synchronization methods and block sizes

2024-09-09 Thread Anssi Saari
David Christensen writes: > 2. sync(1) is unnecessary. Does it even do anything wrt device files? sync(2) says "sync() causes all pending modifications to filesystem metadata and cached file data to be written to the underlying filesystems."

Re: BASH reference for those who are "learning by doing"?

2024-09-09 Thread Anssi Saari
debian-u...@howorth.org.uk writes: > As a mere bifocal (well vari-focal) wearer can I suggest a different > approach. Stop wearing tri-focals or any other variable focus specs for > reading a computer screen. Tell them to get a [very cheap] pair of > single focus reading glasses made to suit the d

Re: linux-image-6.10.6 fails to build in nvidia-tesla-470

2024-09-09 Thread Anssi Saari
Charles Curley writes: > apt purge linux-image-amd64 linux-headers-amd64 > apt install linux-image-amd64 linux-headers-amd64 > > You may want an "apt autopurge" in between. That should do it although it's apt autoremove I believe but if not you can explicitly remove the backport kernel image and

Re: OT: Question to shell script

2024-09-06 Thread Anssi Saari
Hans writes: > What I am exactly want to do: > > I have 5 live-build directories. In each I am starting my own script, which > is > setting variables and so on for the individual build and does some other > things (rennamin and copying the resulted ISO and so on). So you're asking how to do a

Re: linux-image-6.10.6 fails to build in nvidia-tesla-470

2024-09-06 Thread Anssi Saari
Rick Macdonald writes: > I'm running an up-to-date Bookworm desktop. I have an NVIDIA GeForce > GTX 760 (192-bit) using the NVIDIA Driver Version 470.256.02, coming > from the nvidia-tesla-470 packages. I've searched this list and the > package pages and don't see any bugs reported. > > The 6.10.

Re: laptop installs

2024-08-30 Thread Anssi Saari
"Roy J. Tellason, Sr." writes: > I don't think that I'd end up with the proper drivers if I did that... Linux distributions usually ship with almost all drivers, some specific ones might need an extra step to install. But I've never had a driver issue with Debian when changing hardware of an ins

Re: do we have KDE expertise among us?

2024-08-23 Thread Anssi Saari
DdB writes: > Beloved debian users, > > After years of using GNOME (even back in my Ubuntu-days), i got fed up > with the ever changing behavior, which came on top of "development > politics". And since i was/am still on buster, i decided to move forward > to bookworm-KDE. I only dabble in KDE,

Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-23 Thread Anssi Saari
David writes: > Hi, for your information, this wiki page: > https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian > has some information related to your question, I sometimes wonder if the deb-multimedia repo counts as a Frankendebian making thingy since the wiki page is ambiguous in my opinion. I sometimes

Re: Planned path - was [Re: Installing current i386 Debian on OLD syst W/O CD/DVD drive]

2024-08-02 Thread Anssi Saari
Richard Owlett writes: > I was hoping I could somehow tell grub to run an installer's ISO image. > I think the posted links will lead me adequately. I have actually tried that. The ISO image needs a little special support so that after the kernel has booted and initrd loaded, it needs to be able

Re: Installing current i386 Debian on OLD syst W/O CD/DVD drive

2024-08-01 Thread Anssi Saari
Richard Owlett writes: > I have an elderly Sony laptop and a more ancient desktop with unknown > motherboard happily running i386 Debian 9.0. As far as I can tell the > BIOS of neither machine supports booting from a flash drive. Neither > has functional CD/DVD drive. Both hard drives have copio

Re: why reliable linux hasn't gained more market share?

2024-07-21 Thread Anssi Saari
hlyg writes: > why free OS hasn't gained more share even after 30 years of development? But it has. The internet and what connects to it now mostly run Linux, other than Microsoft's single niche. Mobile phones run a Linux variant. The PC desktop is the only exception where they have domination,

Re: sendmail without DNS

2024-07-21 Thread Anssi Saari
Adam Weremczuk writes: > Let me rephrase my question, which should be easier to answer. > > What exactly shall I substitute: > > mailer = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t" > > with in /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf > > to make logwatch use postfix (already working without DNS) instead of >

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