Re: Might NOT be a Debian problem

2025-09-24 Thread David Christensen
I9-14900K. Is that a likely culprit? Trying out a replacement would be an expensive experiment. Without suitable test equipment or software diagnostics, the only option is spare hardware and A-B testing. You have chosen fairly recent high-end components, so finding inexpensive compatible spares is not going to be easy. David

Re: Problems with SMR hard drives

2025-09-24 Thread David Christensen
oducts/cmr-smr-list/ Here is another SMR HDD and RAID cautionary tale: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-questions/2025-September/006930.html David

Re: Combine PDF files

2025-09-20 Thread David
On Sat, 20 Sept 2025 at 23:57, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On Sat Sep 20 16:30:29 2025 "Roy J. Tellason, Sr." wrote: > > On Saturday 20 September 2025 10:48:01 am Tom Browder wrote: > >> I have a new HP all-in-one printer I can use to scan to PDF. > >> Unfortunately I haven't found any Debian app

Re: Enlarging /boot and swap partitions

2025-09-18 Thread Erwan David
Le 16/09/2025 à 16:35, Stefan Monnier a écrit : So I've tried MODULES=dep (and still COMPRESS=lzma and COMPRESSLEVEL=9 as before). Now: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 122M 2025-09-16 00:43:13 initrd.img-6.16.7+deb14-amd64 But this is still *a lot*. More than 100MB even with `dep`? Wow! My crystal ba

Re: OT: Insight into speed of dd seeks and skips

2025-09-17 Thread David Christensen
test real flash memory capacity https://packages.debian.org/en/stable/f3 https://manpages.debian.org/trixie/f3/f3probe.1.en.html That said -- Debian has plenty of tools, shells, scripting and programming languages, libraries, etc., if you want to invent your own solution. David

Re: trixie: can't log in from lightdm.

2025-09-16 Thread David
On Tue, 16 Sept 2025 at 22:44, Charles Curley wrote: > I rebooted, and tried to log in. I got a very brief message, then was > thrown back to lightdm. > > I can go to a console and log in to my user account. I can then run > startx, and I am back in my usual session. > > I had made some changes t

Re: Specialized disk directory tools

2025-09-14 Thread David Christensen
On 9/14/25 05:31, mick.crane wrote: On 2025-09-12 22:43, David Christensen wrote: I use Xfce, which includes the Thunar file manager.  Searching the various menus and context menus, playing with the path edit box, etc., I am unable to determine how to search for a file (?).  STFW I see

Re: Synching between servers?

2025-09-13 Thread David Christensen
wing commands on the hosts and post the complete console sessions -- prompts, commands entered, and output displayed: $ cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a Please describe your network, your hosts, your services, and your use-case. David

Re: Specialized disk directory tools

2025-09-12 Thread David Christensen
w to search for a file (?). STFW I see questions, complaints, and instructions for adding a custom menu item action that relies upon other software. Comments and/or suggestions? David

Re: Failing Hard Drive, or False Alarms?

2025-09-11 Thread David
On Thu, 11 Sept 2025 at 15:19, alain williams wrote: > The files that contain the 30 sectors need to be restored from backup -- > hopefully they have not been modified since the last backup. How do we > determine *which* files need to be restored. I suspect this is more difficult > than it seems.

Re: CAUTION: Upgrading stable Trixie systemd-networkd might break your network

2025-09-10 Thread David
On Sun, 7 Sept 2025 at 01:41, David wrote: > CAUTION: Upgrading stable Trixie systemd-networkd might break your network > Something to be aware of, in last few hours the first point release 13.1 of > Debian Trixie has occurred. I notice there is an open bug [1] [2] with > multipl

Re: Failing Hard Drive, or False Alarms?

2025-09-10 Thread David
On Wed, 10 Sept 2025 at 17:51, Bruce Halco wrote: > A couple of weeks ago I upgraded to trixie. Since then I've gotten > a number of messages like >Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 8 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors > and >Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 30 Offline uncorrectable sectors >Thes

Re: Failing Hard Drive, or False Alarms?

2025-09-10 Thread David Christensen
run the following commands, and post the complete console session -- prompts, commands entered, and output displayed: # cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a # lsblk # David

Re: Very long startup time for an application in Debian testing

2025-09-06 Thread David
On Sat, 6 Sept 2025 at 20:37, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 9/6/25 8:36 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: [...] > > This problem only started about a week ago. > Solved this today by using a rather big hammer. I purged all GVFS > packages and that has solved this particular problem. GVFS is basically > a

CAUTION: Upgrading stable Trixie systemd-networkd might break your network

2025-09-06 Thread David
CAUTION: Upgrading stable Trixie systemd-networkd might break your network Hi, Something to be aware of, in last few hours the first point release 13.1 of Debian Trixie has occurred. I notice there is an open bug [1] [2] with multiple reports of systemd-networkd segfaulting and leaving the system

Re: OT: Best kind of distro for SSD?

2025-09-06 Thread David Christensen
picking a Linux distribution. I doubt SSD vs. HDD will be of concern. If anything, a conventional install on a read-write disk vs. a "live" install on read-only media is of concern -- some Linux distributions offer one or the other. Debian offers both. David

Re: Cron job for inxi -i reports WAN IP:

2025-09-06 Thread David
On Sat, 6 Sept 2025 at 08:21, Roger Price wrote: > If I call inxi -i from the command line, it works correctly: [...] > Where does the come from ? How can I persuade the inxi cron job to > tell me the WAN IP ? Hi, I can't explain why, but 'man inxi' has discussion about its 'filter' and how to

Re: Aw: Re: RAID & Backups

2025-09-05 Thread David Christensen
On 9/5/25 02:48, Karl Vogel wrote: On Thu 04 Sep 2025 at 15:43:32 (-0400), David Christensen wrote: I am aware of `zfs status`, but I only run it a few times each month. Is there some kind of automated ZFS pool monitoring tool that notifies the sysadmin of a failure? I'd just run

Re: RAID & Backups

2025-09-05 Thread David Christensen
On 9/4/25 20:03, Gareth Evans wrote: On Thu 04/09/2025 at 20:42, David Christensen wrote: I am aware of `zfs status` ... Hi David, I was intrigued, but: $ sudo zfs status unrecognized command 'status' $ sudo zfs status rpool unrecognized command 'status' Were you

Re: Aw: Re: RAID & Backups

2025-09-04 Thread David Christensen
of `zfs status`, but I only run it a few times each month. Is there some kind of automated ZFS pool monitoring tool that notifies the sysadmin of a failure? David

Re: Please check my sudo bash script

2025-09-03 Thread David Christensen
On 9/3/25 04:00, Tom Browder wrote: On Tue, Sep 2, 2025 at 07:40 Tom Browder wrote: On Tue, Sep 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM David Christensen wrote ... David, I finished following your 'recipe' a few minutes ago, with mods for my system. I just rebooted and see all three new driv

Re: Please check my sudo bash script

2025-09-02 Thread David Christensen
On 9/2/25 05:40, Tom Browder wrote: On Tue, Sep 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM David Christensen wrote: ... David, thanks so much. I do appreciate this message in particular which is the "looking over my shoulder" guidance I was looking for before I proceed to the next step. Blessings! -Tom

Re: Please check my sudo bash script

2025-09-02 Thread David Christensen
048 1953523711 1953521664 931.5G Linux filesystem So, should I hand edit the /etc/fstab file (after saving a copy), and try to get one new drive loaded and tested at a time as suggested early on by David Christensen? -Tom The commands presented here are a "best guess", but are un

Re: Limitations of rsnapshot-style backups (Was: Re: lazy old guy asks question)

2025-09-02 Thread David Christensen
12 options zfs zfs_arc_max=8589934592 in your /etc/modprobe.d/zfs.conf For a lot of small workloads, 512M - 1G works well. Thank you for the suggestions. :-) David

Re: Limitations of rsnapshot-style backups (Was: Re: lazy old guy asks question)

2025-09-02 Thread David Christensen
be a bad idea. This supports the prior statement "dedup is worse than useless on general purpose workloads". David

Re: Please check my sudo bash script

2025-09-02 Thread David Christensen
yout you want (in the correct order), and d-i does the details. Finally, it looks like your OS disk is /dev/sdb. Out of habit and superstition, I would rearrange the drive, racks, cabling, HBA, ports, etc., so that the primary OS disk is /dev/sda during operations and maintenance. David

Re: Limitations of rsnapshot-style backups (Was: Re: lazy old guy asks question)

2025-09-02 Thread David Christensen
On 9/2/25 11:12, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, Hello. :-) On Tue, Sep 02, 2025 at 09:05:39AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: David Christensen wrote: a. Set the ZFS backup file system property "dedup". This will enable block-level de-duplication, which can de-duplicate data more than

Re: Limitations of rsnapshot-style backups (Was: Re: lazy old guy asks question)

2025-09-02 Thread David Christensen
On 9/2/25 06:05, Dan Ritter wrote: David Christensen wrote: a. Set the ZFS backup file system property "dedup". This will enable block-level de-duplication, which can de-duplicate data more than hard links alone. This is generally not a good thing to recommend; one of the auth

Re: Limitations of rsnapshot-style backups (Was: Re: lazy old guy asks question)

2025-09-02 Thread David Christensen
On 9/1/25 14:57, Karl Vogel wrote: On Mon 01 Sep 2025 at 16:15:39 (-0400), David Christensen wrote: a. Set the ZFS backup file system property "dedup". This will enable block-level de-duplication, which can de-duplicate data more than hard links alone. This option eats RAM like

Re: Please check my sudo bash script

2025-09-01 Thread David Christensen
.pearson.com/en-us/subject-catalog/p/design-of-the-unix-operating-system/P20009243/9780132017992 David

Re: Limitations of rsnapshot-style backups (Was: Re: lazy old guy asks question)

2025-09-01 Thread David Christensen
08-31-03h09 p5/backup/laalaa.tracy.holgerdanske.com@zfs-auto-snap_d-2025-09-01-03h09 M /var/local/backup/laalaa.tracy.holgerdanske.com/dev M /var/local/backup/laalaa.tracy.holgerdanske.com/etc M /var/local/backup/laalaa.tracy.holgerdanske.com/proc David [1] https://man

Re: Please check my sudo bash script

2025-08-31 Thread David
On Sun, 31 Aug 2025 at 14:56, Tom Browder wrote: > > I just added three new SSD and want to prep them for use. > > I plan to use a script to do that incrementally. Given the disks show > the following when running "lsblk -o ..." ('# ' added): > > # NAME SIZE FSTYPE MOUNTPOINT > # sda 3.6

Re: lazy old guy asks question

2025-08-30 Thread David Christensen
Without knowing the details of your Synology NAS, it is hard to make suggestions. David

Re: lazy old guy asks question

2025-08-29 Thread David Christensen
On 8/28/25 21:55, David Christensen wrote: On 8/28/25 16:52, mick.crane wrote: If I've got 3 200Gb disks that are working and one 1 Tb disk and want to be able to copy and replace the 3 disks. Can I dd copy them to .isos on the 1 Tb disk then put them back on other disks so they boot?

Re: lazy old guy asks question

2025-08-28 Thread David Christensen
The "other" disks contain nothing of value and can be zeroed? 6. How many "other" disks do you have? 7. What are the size(s) of the "other" disks? 8. What do you want on the "other" disks when you are done? David

Re: Useful in the installer

2025-08-24 Thread David Christensen
. I like Perl, so: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/perl-for-system/1565926099/ AIUI the modern solution is configuration management software: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open-source_configuration_management_software David

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-21 Thread David Wright
On Thu 21 Aug 2025 at 02:03:20 (-0700), Van Snyder wrote: > On Wed, 2025-08-20 at 23:21 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > On 8/20/25 21:34, Van Snyder wrote: > > > On Wed, 2025-08-20 at 23:15 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > But if the OP is intent upon conv

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-20 Thread David Christensen
On 8/20/25 21:34, Van Snyder wrote: On Wed, 2025-08-20 at 23:15 -0500, David Wright wrote: But if the OP is intent upon converting the disk, a more manual approach, I'm the OP. Dell told me that there's a Windoze 10 product key burned into the MB. They said to download a Win 10 ins

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-20 Thread David Wright
On Wed 20 Aug 2025 at 11:04:01 (+0100), debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > David Christensen wrote: > > On 8/19/25 13:51, Van Snyder wrote: > > > On Tue, 2025-08-19 at 12:47 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > >> When my eyes saw 9 partitions, my old brain

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-20 Thread David Christensen
On 8/20/25 03:04, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: David Christensen wrote: On 8/19/25 13:51, Van Snyder wrote: Let me know when you develop a method to convert a drive from MBR to GPT without blowing away the partition table. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/mbr-to-gpt

Re: CPU support

2025-08-19 Thread David Christensen
said, Windows 11 may "work" on a Dell Latitude E5470; but without all of the Windows 11 features. David

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-19 Thread David Wright
to do with, your /boot directory (or partition) on your Linux system. It does nothing but hold all the files installed by grub-pc and used by Grubᴮ. Cheers, David.

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-19 Thread David Christensen
On 8/19/25 13:51, Van Snyder wrote: On Tue, 2025-08-19 at 12:47 -0700, David Christensen wrote: When my eyes saw 9 partitions, my old brain thought GPT and skipped: When I bought the Dell Latitude E5470 it came with Windoze 10 on an MBR disk — and without installation media and product codes

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-19 Thread David Christensen
, my old brain thought GPT and skipped: On 8/17/25 15:03, Van Snyder wrote: >From fdisk -l: > ... > Disklabel type: dos Thank you for pointing that out. David

Re: I think Firefox is crashing my system

2025-08-18 Thread David Wright
security grounds? After all, browsers are not much use without connecting to the Internet. Cheers, David.

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-18 Thread David Wright
but not that it can't boot if it somehow finds itself in that situation.) > > It looks to me like the original ESP was a logical, and the reason > > for failure. In > > spite of what you found in the Ubuntu bug report, I must suspect > > current location > > being a primary rather than logical is the reason why it works now, > > not a lower > > starting sector number. Starting sector numbers for primaries are all > > in the MBR > > table, even for a primary on the far end of the disk, but not so for > > logicals. Cheers, David.

Re: Fwd: Re: I think Firefox is crashing my system

2025-08-18 Thread David Wright
On Sun 17 Aug 2025 at 23:05:19 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > On 8/17/25 20:18, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 17 Aug 2025 at 14:05:03 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > > > On 8/17/25 06:28, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 23:00:29

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-18 Thread David Wright
? I don't think you've posted your new layout, so I'm only guessing. It's not the size of the disk (<2TB), but you did have the EFI in a logical partition, not a primary one. AFAIK that's not necessarily out of specification, but it might not be supported by your particular machine's firmware. Cheers, David.

Re: Hard drive checksum issue

2025-08-18 Thread David
On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 at 12:32, Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 03:46:14 +0000 David wrote: > > I found them reassuring, because Christian Franke is the primary > > developer of smartmontools [1], and in the first bug above he wrote, > > 11 years ago: &quo

Re: Atypical migration to Trixie

2025-08-18 Thread David Christensen
On 8/18/25 04:02, Richard Owlett wrote: On 8/17/25 4:52 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 8/16/25 04:41, Richard Owlett wrote: I currently have Debian 12.8 on a Dell Latitude [4GB RAM, 150GB disk] which I purchased as a refurbished machine years ago. The local Staples has a sale on of

Re: Hard drive checksum issue

2025-08-18 Thread David Christensen
SeaTools for Linux: https://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/ David

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-18 Thread David Christensen
5-08-18 06:41:47 dpchrist@laalaa ~ $ perl -e 'print 194545663*512/1024/1024/1024, $/' 92.7666010856628 Do you have a URL for the ESP specifications that you mention? David

Re: UVR5 not working after upgrade to Debian 13

2025-08-18 Thread David
On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 at 10:07, Budi Janto wrote: > On 8/18/25 8:28 AM, David wrote: > > Great! It would be good to know the details of how you solved it, can you > > explain that please? Doing that is a valuable way to contribute to > > this/your community, so that when a

Re: Fwd: Re: I think Firefox is crashing my system

2025-08-17 Thread David Christensen
On 8/17/25 20:18, David Wright wrote: On Sun 17 Aug 2025 at 14:05:03 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: On 8/17/25 06:28, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 23:00:29 -0700, David Christensen wrote: # apt-get purge firefox-esr Since the goal is to reinstall firefox-esr shortly

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-17 Thread David Christensen
On 8/17/25 15:03, Van Snyder wrote: On Sun, 2025-08-17 at 13:46 -0700, David Christensen wrote: On 8/17/25 12:31, Van Snyder wrote: I upgraded the BIOS in my Dell Latitude E5470 from 1.19.3 to 1.34.3. Before upgrading: 1.  Did you run Setup and document the settings? I didn't write

Re: Hard drive checksum issue

2025-08-17 Thread David
On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 at 02:49, Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 01:10:32 +0000 David wrote: > > > > Is there any way to tell the drive to recalculate the checksum? I > > > don't see anything in the smartctl man page. > > > > Hi, internet search

Re: Fwd: Re: I think Firefox is crashing my system

2025-08-17 Thread David Wright
On Sun 17 Aug 2025 at 14:05:03 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > On 8/17/25 06:28, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 23:00:29 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > > # apt-get purge firefox-esr > > > > Since the goal is to reinstall firefox-e

Re: UVR5 not working after upgrade to Debian 13

2025-08-17 Thread David
On Mon, 18 Aug 2025 at 00:37, Budi Janto wrote: > On 8/14/25 3:45 PM, David wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 at 02:03, Max Nikulin wrote: > >> On 14/08/2025 07:30, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 05:57:27 +0700, Budi Janto wrote: > >>

Re: Hard drive checksum issue

2025-08-17 Thread David
On Sun, 17 Aug 2025 at 22:16, Charles Curley wrote: > I just took delivery of two WDC WD4005FFBX-68CAUN0 hard drives, to > replace two failing hard drives. I have put one of the new ones into > service. Everything looks nominal, except that smartctl reports: > > Warning! SMART Attribute Threshold

Re: Atypical migration to Trixie

2025-08-17 Thread David Christensen
What are your budget and schedule? David

Re: Fwd: Re: I think Firefox is crashing my system

2025-08-17 Thread David Christensen
On 8/17/25 06:28, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 23:00:29 -0700, David Christensen wrote: # apt-get purge firefox-esr Since the goal is to reinstall firefox-esr shortly afterward, we don't really want to remove anything that depends on firefox-esr, such as a desktop enviro

Re: I think Firefox is crashing my system

2025-08-17 Thread David Christensen
On 8/17/25 00:36, Felix Miata wrote: David Christensen composed on 2025-08-16 23:00 (UTC-0700): ... Also -- move aside your Firefox profile directory. Run the following command in a terminal with your normal user account: $ mv ~/.mozilla ~/.mozilla- old ... That could be excessive

Re: UEFI grub install fails

2025-08-17 Thread David Christensen
9": https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1090829 Is there more modern advice somewhere to get Trixie installed? Or, can I downgrade my Dell BIOS back to 1.19.3? STFW "site:dell.com Latitude 5470 firmware downgrade": https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000130652/downgrading-the-system-bios-on-a-dell-system — Van Snyder David

Re: Fwd: Re: I think Firefox is crashing my system

2025-08-16 Thread David Christensen
On 8/16/25 13:26, Van Snyder wrote: David Christensen wrote on 08/16/2025 12:52:18 PM Perhaps backup the Firefox bookmarks, uninstall Firefox and purge configuration files, restart, install Firefox, and restore bookmarks? How do I do those things? 0. Run the following command as root to

Re: I think Firefox is crashing my system

2025-08-16 Thread David Christensen
crashes. Perhaps backup the Firefox bookmarks, uninstall Firefox and purge configuration files, restart, install Firefox, and restore bookmarks? David

Re: I think Firefox is crashing my system

2025-08-16 Thread David Christensen
On 8/15/25 18:29, Van Snyder wrote: On Fri, 2025-08-15 at 16:58 -0700, David Christensen wrote: What extensions are installed and enabled in Firefox? I think I have none installed. I don't know how to ask Firefox. Firefox -> Tools -> Add-ons and Themes -> Extensions ->

Re: I think Firefox is crashing my system

2025-08-15 Thread David
On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 at 02:55, Van Snyder wrote: > On Fri, 2025-08-15 at 23:59 +0000, David wrote: >> On Fri, 15 Aug 2025 at 23:09, Van Snyder wrote: >>> I have Debian 12 on one computer and Debian 12 and 13 on another. The >>> first one is an old backup I rarely use.

Re: I think Firefox is crashing my system

2025-08-15 Thread David
On Fri, 15 Aug 2025 at 23:09, Van Snyder wrote: > I have Debian 12 on one computer and Debian 12 and 13 on another. The > first one is an old backup I rarely use. The new one was crashing in both > Debian 12 and 13 so I sent the MB back to MSI. I started using the backup > computer and it's crash

Re: I think Firefox is crashing my system

2025-08-15 Thread David Christensen
h. So it's hard to return > to the console and ask what top is telling me. Please run the following commands and post your console session (prompts, commands input, output displayed): $ cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a $ free $ df $ dpkg -l firefox* What extensions are installe

Re: Enlarging /boot and swap partitions

2025-08-15 Thread David Christensen
mputer. If you have multiple disks with such, the result could be confusion and broken boot for one or more OS's. I avoid these problems by installing mobile racks in my computers, putting each OS on its own disk, and inserting only one OS disk at a time (except when I boot a live disk to work on the OS disk). David

Re: UVR5 not working after upgrade to Debian 13

2025-08-14 Thread David
On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 at 02:03, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 14/08/2025 07:30, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 05:57:27 +0700, Budi Janto wrote: > >>from tkinter import tix > >> ImportError: cannot import name 'tix' from 'tkinter' > >> (/usr/lib/python3.13/tkinter/__

Re: The backup GPT table is corrupt

2025-08-13 Thread David Wright
ite likely that the last 34 sectors of the disk were never written or read when the format was MBR, so you wouldn't know whether the error had been present or not. Cheers, David.

Re: virtual terminal mouse pointer color

2025-08-13 Thread David Wright
r of the pointer is affected by the size, shape and colour of the text cursor when the two coincide. > I have looked in the source of gpm, the word color seems to only appear > in relation to menu colors. Cheers, David.

Re: UVR5 not working after upgrade to Debian 13

2025-08-13 Thread David Crosswell
On 14/8/25 10:30, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 05:57:27 +0700, Budi Janto wrote: from tkinter import tix ImportError: cannot import name 'tix' from 'tkinter' (/usr/lib/python3.13/tkinter/__init__.py) There is no clue of the package named tix. Try installing tix. See i

Re: The backup GPT table is corrupt

2025-08-13 Thread David Christensen
On 8/13/25 11:40, mick.crane wrote: On 2025-08-13 00:33, David Christensen wrote: On 8/12/25 01:22, mick.crane wrote: The BIOS is like 12 years old. The boot list option has UEFI checked Okay. Please check and post the Setup settings for the disk drive. Please run and post: # gdisk -l

Re: gftp-gtk disappeared from trixie ?

2025-08-12 Thread David
On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 at 04:00, David wrote: > On Tue, 12 Aug 2025 at 22:23, Gerard ROBIN wrote: > > has gftp-gtk disappeared permanently from trixie? > Hi, I think the answer is yes. I do not know anything about this package > except what I have written here. > > After

Re: gftp-gtk disappeared from trixie ?

2025-08-12 Thread David
On Tue, 12 Aug 2025 at 22:23, Gerard ROBIN wrote: > has gftp-gtk disappeared permanently from trixie? Hi, I think the answer is yes. I do not know anything about this package except what I have written here. After bookworm, the source package 'gftp' does not build the binary package ''gftp-gtk'

Re: The backup GPT table is corrupt

2025-08-12 Thread David Christensen
document the changes. With EUFI, you will need to add boot entries for whatever OS's you have on disk. David

Re: The backup GPT table is corrupt

2025-08-12 Thread David Christensen
at the next reboot or after you run partprobe(8) or kpartx(8) The operation has completed successfully. David

Re: The backup GPT table is corrupt

2025-08-11 Thread David Christensen
  shared  buff/cache available Mem:  62   4  37   0  22 58 Swap:  0   0   0 David

Re: Can/should I delete /tmp partition?

2025-08-11 Thread David Christensen
my daily driver, and install the "System Load Monitor" Xfce panel applet to monitor CPU usage, memory usage, and swap usage. I suggest using this if you use Xfce, or looking for an equivalent if you use a different desktop. David

Re: recognizing an xterm running only bash from the CLI

2025-08-10 Thread David Wright
om the CLI to X I have to go to X and see which > /dev/pts/* is just running bash. Is that so that you can have "You have mail in /var/mail/mike" typed in the middle of your command lines? > Does anyone know a way to ID that open xterm from the CLI? Cheers, David.

Re: Can/should I delete /tmp partition?

2025-08-10 Thread David Christensen
On 8/10/25 14:13, Nicolas George wrote: David Christensen (HE12025-08-10): From a risk/ reward standpoint, the risk is that you will trash you system while attempting to rearrange partitions and swap. The reward is that your swap space will grow from ~1 GB to ~3 GB. Or just turn the

Re: Can/should I delete /tmp partition?

2025-08-10 Thread David Christensen
is maxed out, then it is time for a new computer with more memory. Again, ignore nvme0n1p5. David

Re: Extracting indiviual files or directories from XYZ.tar.xz - Possible?

2025-08-08 Thread David Wright
re supported by mc. You can list their contents with View (F3) and open the archive with Open (Enter, or double-clicking it). Cheers, David.

Re: ssh-add no longer accepts passphrase

2025-08-05 Thread David Christensen
ards AIUI SSH, RSA keys, and SHA-1 are now considered bad practice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34196504 It could be that your old keys used SHA-1 and the updated ssh-add(1) was rejecting them per a new policy (?). AIUI "ed25519" keys are now preferred (untested code): $ ssh-keygen -t ed25519 David

Re: writing iso file to usb stick with dd - garbled files - usb eject error?

2025-08-03 Thread David Christensen
On 8/3/25 14:54, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, David Christensen wrote: Beware that the Debian installer (d-i) can change the contents of the USB flash drive when it runs (!). I am not aware that the Debian installer writes into the byte range of the ISO 9660 filesystem. The ISO 9660 filesystem

Re: writing iso file to usb stick with dd - garbled files - usb eject error?

2025-08-03 Thread David Christensen
On 8/2/25 21:50, Titus Newswanger wrote: On 8/2/25 22:44, David Christensen wrote: 5. Verify the computed SHA256 checksum appears in the downloaded SHA512SUMS file: I've been meaning to learn how to sha512sum after it is written to disk. Now I've got it. Here are my results: on

Re: writing iso file to usb stick with dd - garbled files - usb eject error?

2025-08-03 Thread David Christensen
On 8/2/25 20:44, David Christensen wrote: 5.  Verify the computed SHA256 checksum appears in the downloaded SHA512SUMS file: Sorry for the error -- that should be: 5. Verify the computed SHA512 checksum appears in the downloaded SHA512SUMS file: David

Re: writing iso file to usb stick with dd - garbled files - usb eject error?

2025-08-02 Thread David Christensen
000d57c1e53 /home/dpchrist/samba/dpchrist/iso/debian/11.3.0/SHA512SUMS 2810f894afab9ac2631ddd097599761c1481b85e629d6a3197fe1488713af048d37241eb85def681ba86e62b406dd9b891ee1ae7915416335b6bb000d57c1e53 debian-11.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso HTH, David

Re: transferring boot

2025-08-01 Thread David Christensen
On 8/1/25 07:22, Eben King wrote: On 8/1/25 04:08, David Christensen wrote: The key is disaster preparedness and disaster recovery. I do back up my entire drive weekly.  NAS too.  However, I recently looked around for another 2T drive to implement two-level backups and didn't hav

Re: transferring boot

2025-08-01 Thread David Christensen
On 8/1/25 01:52, Nicolas George wrote: David Christensen (HE12025-08-01): I once heard a speaker who worked as a Linux system administrator on Wall Street state: "You should be able to pick any computer at random, throw it out a 7th story window, and have a replacement in operation wit

Re: transferring boot

2025-08-01 Thread David Christensen
On 7/31/25 15:15, Eben King wrote: On 7/31/25 17:31, David Christensen wrote: On 7/31/25 10:18, Eben King wrote: I recently got some SSDs, and decided to use one of them (a 256G model) to boot from.  I want the change to be undetectable, in that from a user perspective, nothing seems

Re: transferring boot

2025-08-01 Thread David Christensen
On 7/31/25 15:39, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, Hello. :-) On Thu, Jul 31, 2025 at 02:31:44PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: When OP asks how to add a new SSD to their system and move their boot drive to it, it seems really excessive that you advise moving off hundreds of gigabytes of data

Re: Please, don't let sudo be auto-removable

2025-07-31 Thread David Wright
nt will be given the power to become root using the "sudo" command.” So I think that confirming removal when the root password is empty is a check that always has to be made. Cheers, David.

Re: transferring boot

2025-07-31 Thread David Christensen
rtition the space, use a volume management solution -- LVM, BTRFS, ZFS, etc.. I would put the HDD into an external USB enclosure and use it for images and/or backups, or put the HDD into the NAS. David

Re: Please help me get out for my holiday break

2025-07-26 Thread David Wright
birch.relay.mailchannels.net helo=dormouse.elm.relay.mailchannels.net helo=iguana.tulip.relay.mailchannels.net helo=snail.cherry.relay.mailchannels.net etc., but not when the snail takes four hours to relay the fruits of my labour to the list. Cheers, David.

Re: Timestamp of last entry of command history is different than the last modified time of .bash_history. Is this the proper logic?

2025-07-25 Thread David Wright
nstances of bash getting interleaved. You need to read the HISTORY section of man bash. That means scrolling past a /lot/ of stuff about history. Search for HISTORY at the start of the line. Cheers, David.

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Stop udisks2 mounting my partitions?

2025-07-25 Thread David Wright
; "1" and that seem to have no effect). true/false I would imagine. See: https://storaged.org/doc/udisks2-api/latest/udisks.8.html and: https://storaged.org/doc/udisks2-api/latest/gdbus-org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Block.html No idea why they split the information across two pages. Cheers, David.

Re: Rephrased question -[Re: Understanding pdfseparate error messages]

2025-07-25 Thread David Wright
On Fri 25 Jul 2025 at 07:14:22 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 7/25/25 6:58 AM, Andy Smith wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 06:41:16AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > On 7/24/25 3:01 PM, David Wright wrote: > > > > Have you tested poppler with tri

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