Re: new computer arriving soon

2025-01-05 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 1/1/25 7:04 PM, Max Nikulin wrote: On 31/12/2024 11:01, Marc Shapiro wrote: What about LVM?  Is it usable (or even useful) with UEFI? Do you expect expect UEFI boot from purely LVM drives? Out of the box EFI system partition (fat) must be outside of LVM volumes. There is a chance that

Re: new computer arriving soon

2024-12-30 Thread Marc Shapiro
meaningful names when configuring and using partitions. 4. GPT has no need for extended and logical partitions, and all that troublesome CHS stuff. Cheers, David. What about LVM?  Is it usable (or even useful) with UEFI? Marc

Re: OFF TOPIC How can I help a friend remove coPilot?

2024-11-06 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 11/6/24 8:47 AM, Mindaugas wrote: That's right, there are Linux distributions (not that many) that don't use systemd. Devuan, for one. Marc

Re: XOFF (C-s) on ptys works by default

2024-11-06 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Dear contributor, On Tue, Nov 05, 2024 at 06:42:07PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > I suggest you try compiling projects more complex than Hello World. It is always a sliding slope to assume things about people you interact with on mailing-lists. When I do compile complex projects, I usually sta

Re: XOFF (C-s) on ptys works by default

2024-11-05 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Hello, On Tue, Nov 05, 2024 at 12:11:39PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > > It could have been handy on a real tty > > It is very handy on emulated ttys too. You never had the output of > tcpdump / tail -f /var/log/ / make you wanted to pause to inspect > something? On slow, physical VT100 termin

XOFF (C-s) on ptys works by default

2024-11-05 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Hello, Something funny is that on a pty you have XON/XOFF software flow control enabled by default: - if you type C-s (XOFF), output will be paused - if you type C-q (XON), output will be resumed It could have been handy on a real tty -- serial line/port -- although when I was using modems

Re: how2 format a flash drive

2024-07-06 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Hello, On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 09:53:41AM -0400, Lee wrote: > My question is: how do I reformat the flash drive so it's usable as a > "normal" flash drive again? Nowadays, people rarely "format" (*) their "drives". They create filesystems on raw devices. For example `mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdX`, where

Re: Debian 11 and IPv4 static IP address

2024-07-06 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Hello, On Sat, Jul 06, 2024 at 12:49:32PM +0200, Detlef Vollmann wrote: > The only thing that's always annoying is that too many programs > believe they have to overwrite /etc/resolv.conf... chattr +i # immutable still works :)

Re: Debian bookwork / grub2 / LVM / RAID / dm-integrity fails to boot

2024-05-22 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Hello, On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 05:03:34PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Hmm... I've been using a "plain old partition" for /boot (with > everything else in LVM) for "ever", originally because the boot loader > was not able to read LVM, and later out of habit. I was thinking of > finally moving /

Re: Debian bookwork / grub2 / LVM / RAID / dm-integrity fails to boot

2024-05-22 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Hello, On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 10:13:06AM +, Andy Smith wrote: > metadata tags to some PVs prevented grub from assembling them, grub is indeed very fragile if you use dm-integrity anywhere on any of your LVs on the same VG where /boot is (or at least if in the list of LVs, the dm-integrity pr

Re: Debian bookwork / grub2 / LVM / RAID / dm-integrity fails to boot

2024-05-22 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Hello, On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 08:57:38AM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: > I will try this work-around and report back here. As I said, I can > live with /boot on RAID without dm-integrity, as long as the rest can be > dm-integrity+raid protected. So, enable dm-integrity on all LVs,

Re: Debian bookwork / grub2 / LVM / RAID / dm-integrity fails to boot

2024-05-21 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Additional info: On Wed, May 22, 2024 at 08:49:56AM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: > Having /boot on a LVM non enabled dm-integrity logical volume does not > work either, as soon as there is ANY LVM dm-integrity enabled logical > volume anywhere (even not linked to booting), grub2 complains

Re: Debian bookwork / grub2 / LVM / RAID / dm-integrity fails to boot

2024-05-21 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Hello, On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 08:41:58PM +0200, Franco Martelli wrote: > I can only recommend you to read carefully the Wiki: > https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Dm-integrity I did, and it looks it does not seem to document anything pertaining to my issue: 1) I don't use integritysetup (fr

Debian bookwork / grub2 / LVM / RAID / dm-integrity fails to boot

2024-05-20 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Hello, 1. INITIAL SITUATION: WORKS (no dm-integrity at all) I have a Debian bookwork uptodate system that boots correctly with kernel 6.1.0-21-amd64. It is setup like this: - /dev/nvme1n1p1 is /boot/efi - /dev/nvme0n1p2 and /dev/nvme1n1p2 are the two LVM physical volumes - a volume g

Re: HDD long-term data storage with ensured integrity

2024-05-04 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
On Fri, May 03, 2024 at 01:50:52PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > Thank you for devising a benchmark and posting some data. :-) I did not do the comparison hosted on github. I just wrote the script which tests the dm-integrity on dm-raid error detection and error correction. > FreeBSD also o

Re: HDD long-term data storage with ensured integrity

2024-05-03 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
On Mon, Apr 08, 2024 at 10:04:01PM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: > For off-site long-term offline archiving, no, I am not using RAID. Now, as I had to think a bit about ONLINE integrity, I found this comparison: https://github.com/t13a/dm-integrity-benchmarks Contenders are btrfs, zfs,

Re: SOLVED (was: Re: using mbuffer: what am i doing wrong?)

2024-04-14 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 04:14:33PM +0200, DdB wrote: > - the resulting transfer is way faster than say ... ssh. AFAIK ssh is mono-threaded (like OpenVPN, unless you use the kernel module). wireguard is multi-threaded. The symptom will be one CPU ("core") at 100% and the rest mostly idle.

Re: using mbuffer: what am i doing wrong?

2024-04-11 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Hello, On Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 03:13:01PM +0200, DdB wrote: > from my research, the abbreviated takeaway is: I never used mbuffer, I use buffer combined with netcat-traditional: # receiver (TCP server on port 8000) nc -l -p 8000 | buffer -S 1048576 -s 32768 -o /dev/null # sender (TCP c

Re: HDD long-term data storage with ensured integrity

2024-04-08 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Hello, On Mon, Apr 08, 2024 at 11:28:04AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > So, an ext4 file system on an LVM logical volume? > > Why LVM? Are you implementing redundancy (RAID)? Is your data larger than > a single disk (concatenation/ JBOD)? Something else? For off-site long-term offline arc

Re: HDD long-term data storage with ensured integrity

2024-04-08 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
For offline storage: On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 05:53:15AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > Does anyone have any comments or suggestions regarding how to use magnetic > hard disk drives, commodity x86 computers, and Debian for long-term data > storage with ensured integrity? I use LVM on ext4, and

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-03-30 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Hello, On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 07:02:54PM +0100, Kamil Jo?ca wrote: > O-o, is there any simple test to check if I have infected version or > not? For example, under root: path="$(ldd $(which sshd) | grep liblzma | grep -o '/[^ ]*')" if hexdump -ve '1/1 "%.2x"' "$path" | grep -q f30f1efa55

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-03-28 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Hello, On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 05:30:50PM -0400, Lee wrote: > Apparently the root of the security issue is that wall is a setguid program? a) wall must be able to write to your tty, which is not possible if wall is not installed setguid OR if people have sane permissions on their terminals

Re: Debugging an USB array issue

2024-03-15 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Hello, On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 06:54:38PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > I may be stating the obvious, but have you made sure the USB hub > is providing enough power to keep your disks happy? It's a 60W external power supply, for 4 disks.

Re: Debugging an USB array issue

2024-03-15 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Hello, On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 01:30:08PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > I have never had long-term happiness with multiple disks > connected via USB. I strongly recommend that you find a 4 or 8 > disk SATA/SAS PCIe card -- an LSI 2008, for example -- and connect > through that, instead. US prices are

Debugging an USB array issue

2024-03-15 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Hello, on a Debian bullseye uptodate system [1], I experiment frequent (every 3-4 hours on heavy load) disk disconnections from a md RAID10 array with 4 drives connected to an USB 1M adapter [2]. Errors do not look like a timeout, but like a DMA error [3]. Immediately after, the disk reappea

Re: Bullseye debian security support?

2023-05-31 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Hello, On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 11:37:34AM -0700, John Conover wrote: > How long will Debian Bullseye have debian security team support after > Bookworm is announced? LTS planning is here: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS bullseye will be LTS-supported til june 2026 (not yet clearly defined), but

buster docker has issue with bookworm container

2023-05-30 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Hello, I had a few issues with building a bookworm container using the debian:bookworm image (problems with repository signatures and lzma decompression errors) on a buster docker host. The buster and bullseye containers seem to work like a charm though. So I went the bullseye -> upgrade to book

Re: update-initramfs

2023-04-11 Thread Marc Auslander
On 4/10/2023 11:00 PM, David Wright wrote: On Mon 10 Apr 2023 at 20:17:11 (-0400), Marc Auslander wrote: I'm on Buster. In /boot I keep a copy of the current working linux named by appending -knowngood to the four files. My idea is that if an update fails, I have a recent working linux.

Re: update-initramfs

2023-04-11 Thread Marc Auslander
On 4/11/2023 9:30 AM, zithro wrote: On 11 Apr 2023 02:17, Marc Auslander wrote: I'm on Buster. In /boot I keep a copy of the current working linux named by appending -knowngood to the four files.  My idea is that if an update fails, I have a recent working linux.  This is different

update-initramfs

2023-04-10 Thread Marc Auslander
I'm on Buster. In /boot I keep a copy of the current working linux named by appending -knowngood to the four files. My idea is that if an update fails, I have a recent working linux. This is different from vmlinuz.old which is the previous kernel version. The updates in question are not to

Re: exim4 smarthost selection based on sender

2022-11-27 Thread Marc Auslander
On 11/27/2022 12:20 PM, Gregory Seidman wrote: I send email from several email addresses. I pay for an email service for both sending and receiving email, but I pull it down locally (via POP with fetchmail) and send messages from my Debian server with mutt. All of those email addresses wind up fo

linux-image-4.19.0-22-amd64

2022-09-30 Thread Marc Auslander
linux-image-amd64 wants linux-image-4.19.0-22-amd64 but only linux-image-4.19.0-22-amd64-unsigned show up in a search.

Re: Ethernet Performance Problem Solved

2022-09-06 Thread Marc Auslander
On 9/6/2022 5:00 PM, Marc Auslander wrote: I have an Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02) Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller There is also a Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8161

Re: A correct version follows. Ethernet Performance Problem

2022-09-06 Thread Marc Auslander
Please ignore this - a correct description follows. On 9/6/2022 4:30 PM, Marc Auslander wrote: I have an Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02) lsmod says the driver is Realtek. firmware-realtek is installed The cable leading to it

Ethernet Performance Problem

2022-09-06 Thread Marc Auslander
I have an Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02) Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller There is also a Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8161 (rev 15)     Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor

Ethernet Performance Problem

2022-09-06 Thread Marc Auslander
I have an Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02) lsmod says the driver is Realtek. firmware-realtek is installed The cable leading to it, when connected to a different computer, runs at almost 1000 Mb according to iperf3. When takin

Re: [SOLVED] Re: One-user system.

2022-05-11 Thread Marc Shapiro
terminal.  After I graduated I got a TRS 80 Model III (Z80)  with cassette tape for mass storage and 16K of RAM. Marc

Re: file born 30 seconds after its creation on ext4 - bug?

2022-04-29 Thread Marc Auslander
On 4/29/2022 10:20 AM, duh wrote: On 4/27/22 11:05 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: Having skimmed over a number of the replies, and really not being qualified, may I just toss out a probably useless ideas to use the "sync" command. Looking at the 'man sync' shows at the bottom several variant

Re: random usernames in attempts to break in to my machine?

2022-04-05 Thread Marc Auslander
On 4/5/2022 3:30 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: You gotta be careful: kicking out an IP for just one login failure might shut *you* out because you forgot to ssh-add your key (or because you mistyped your password once). OTOH, if "they" keep changing their IP address for each retry, you wouldn'

Google smtp and pop

2022-03-04 Thread Marc Auslander
Google has now said they are pulling the plug on userid/password authentication for apps. I use fetchmail and exim4 to get and send mail. Neither, AFAIK, supports OAUTH2. I'm also still on stretch but will update if I have to. So what suggestions does anyone have for dealing with OAUTH2 acc

Re: Thunderbird not allowing local accounts

2022-02-06 Thread Marc Shapiro
ith my name.  Properties shows the location of this to be 'mailbox:///var/mail/marc'.  No soft links required.  Am I misunderstanding the problem, here? Marc

Re: what is flooding /var/tmp?

2021-11-25 Thread Marc Auslander
On 11/24/2021 10:40 PM, sp...@caiway.net wrote: Hello, My /var/tmp directory gets flooded by big files named: sort01ei1t sort01Eq7u sort01sLAs ... sortzZZtvv the files are approx. 13 Gb each. In 24 hours > 6000 are written. My big partition is filled by it until the system freezes. The file

Re: sysrq over *USB*

2021-11-21 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 09:02:50PM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: > Should I abandon all hope to make it work with USB, or should it work? Yes, sysrq can work with USB, but not with stock Debian kernels, because of [1]. Here is the work-around: 1) recompile kernel (see [2]) with the follow

Re: sysrq over *USB*

2021-10-18 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Hello, On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 09:33:20PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > It's a side issue, not my main question, but If feel some details are > missing in > the "apu2 null modem" block-box there :-) It may be that your e-mail client is not handling ASCII art properly, you can look at the

sysrq over *USB*

2021-10-15 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Hello, I made the following setup work, that is I can send break and '?' (to get the magic sysrq help) or 's' to do an Emergency sync, and the kernel logs it: laptopapu2 USB serial port --- null modem --- ttyS0 internal 16550A (an apu2 is an e

Re: Updating kernels impossible when /boot is getting full

2021-08-02 Thread Marc Shapiro
Sorry, Stefan.  This was supposed to go to the list. On 8/2/21 11:02 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 8/1/21 9:33 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: So really think hard before splitting off a filesystem outside of volume management. I believe it is more likely to cause problems than it is to avoid problems

Re: Memory allocation failed during fsck of large EXT4 filesystem

2021-07-05 Thread Marc Auslander
On 7/5/2021 4:30 AM, Reiner Buehl wrote: Hi all, I have a corrupt EXT4 filesystem where fsck.ext4 fails with the error message: Error storing directory block information (inode=366740508, block=0, num=406081): Memory allocation failed /dev/vg_data/lv_mpg: * FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED ***

Re: Font color selection in MATE terminal

2021-07-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
/2yv17y3Y/mateterminalcolors.png Why select 'Custom'? Richard needs black on white, so he should select 'Black on white'.  It works for me.  I have been using 'Custom', Yellow on Black, like my first monitor many years ago.  But selecting 'Black on white' gives exactly that. Marc

Re: Unexplained freezes and crashes, nothing in /var/log/messages

2021-06-03 Thread Marc Auslander
On 6/3/2021 10:20 AM, Ottavio Caruso wrote: On 03/06/2021 09:09, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: I check the temperature regularly with sensors and it's usually between 42 and 52 C. Problem is I can't check the temperature while it's freezing. You might run a background job that keep

Re: Thunderbird: how can I set permanent custom headers?

2021-05-14 Thread Marc Auslander
Ottavio Caruso writes: >Hi, > >For the lack of a dedicated Thunderbird mailing list, I am forced to >ask here. > ... try alt.comp.software.thunderbird

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-31 Thread Marc Auslander
Anssi Saari writes: >Brian writes: > ... >> >> Now - could I use this non-internet-capable router as a switch? > >Probably. Usually LAN ports on a router are setup as a switch. The >router may have a DHCP server running though which you may want to >disable. In my experiance, you should put the

Re: MATE desktop - changing icon of a Launcher

2021-03-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
ktop by dragging the icon onto a taskbar, then follow the same steps that you listed.  You can delete the icon from the taskbar afterwards, but this is probably not what you really want. Marc

Re: SOLVED - Re: Deb10 installer can't install grub

2021-03-03 Thread Marc Auslander
On 3/3/2021 6:30 AM, Dave Sherohman wrote: Based on this, I'm guessing that the original problem was that the installer forgot to include mdadm support in its grub options, even though it was configured with an mdadm boot device. And then I missed a couple steps after adding mdadm support, so

Re: identifying my LInux machine on my LAN

2021-02-17 Thread Marc Auslander
Paul Scott writes: > >ssh and Bitvise still fail t o connect > >Paul /var/log/auth.log may show what's happening if the request gets that far.

Re: Raid 1

2021-01-24 Thread Marc Auslander
Andy Smith writes: >... >So personally I would just do the install of Debian with both disks >inside the machine, manual partitioning, create a single partition >big enough for your OS on the first disk and then another one the >same on the second disk. Mark them as RAID members, set them to >RAID

Re: Debian jessie > buster IPv6 link scope change of behaviour

2021-01-23 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 06:23:56PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > Yes, that documents what we normally observe as a %eth0 or %1 suffix > for IPv6 addresses which selects the interface to use. "Requires" > (unemphasised in the original) mean that it is necessary to identify a > particular zone, but IM

Re: Debian jessie > buster IPv6 link scope change of behaviour

2021-01-20 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 08:04:05AM +0100, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: > fe80::1 is specifically a link-local scope, a bit like if you try to > access a class variable without telling in what class it is. Reading RFC-4291 [1], 2.5.6 (link-local addresses) and RFC-4007 [2] 6, Zones Indices: B

Re: Debian jessie > buster IPv6 link scope change of behaviour

2021-01-20 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 11:59:46PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > As far as the address is concerned, fe80::1 is perfectly formed, > but ambiguous. Is that what your jessie error message used to say? The error was one of the usual kernel errors (-EINVALID probably), see below. Actually, stretch doe

Debian jessie > buster IPv6 link scope change of behaviour

2021-01-20 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Hello, I experiment a change of behaviour between the kernel of Debian jessie and Debian buster. Namely, before, ping6 fe80::1 would fail, since it is ambiguous (fe80::1 is a link scope, thus a zone/interface scope ID is required). With buster, it tries the first Ethernet interface, no error (un

Re: Add a hard drive to existing system??

2021-01-17 Thread Marc Auslander
Jerry Mellon writes: >Hello, >New to Debian, but have gotten Debian 10.7 loaded on to my system. I >have an ASUS gaming laptop(dont use it for gaming) with 12gb of memory >and intel corei7 and a 500gb hard drive. > >My question is what is the best(use dummy for linus statements please) >way to ad

Re: mdadm usage

2020-12-30 Thread Marc Auslander
Reco writes: > >And what purpose would it serve? IMO it's not a backup unless it's >stored in a way that's inaccessible to the system its taken from (until >it's actually needed of course). > >Reco IMHO, there are two levels of backup. The more common use is to undo user error - deleting the wron

Re: mdadm usage

2020-12-30 Thread Marc Auslander
Andrei POPESCU writes: > >Automatic mirroring / synchronizing is unsuitable for backups, because >it will also sync accidental changes to files (including deletions) or >filesystem corruptions in case of power outage or system crash (that may >lead to corrupted files or entire directories "disa

leapsecond file ('/usr/share/zoneinfo/leap-seconds.list'): will expire in less than 27 days

2020-12-01 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Hello, I quickly grepped my DEBIAN-USER mailing-list file but did not find any leapsecond in it, thus this message. I get this error on all of my buster machines although I think they are uptodate: Dec 1 09:34:39 virtual ntpd[2432]: leapsecond file ('/usr/share/zoneinfo/leap-seconds.list'): wi

Re: AppImage files (was: clipgrab as alternative to youtube-dl)

2020-11-19 Thread Marc Shapiro
ut someone maintains a current Firefox build as AppImage. Hi, Thanks for your answer.  I was able to get clipgrab to compile but the AppImage file is a later version and may be a better choice if it will run on Debian. I am using it on a Ddevuan system and it works just fine. Marc

Re: Kernel global lock in sr.c slows down parallel operations to multiple drive

2020-11-17 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 07:04:59AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > FWIW, I parsed this as "and possibly file a(nother) bug report[ about > this bug, since the one I thought I remembered having filed before seems > to have disappeared, if it ever existed in the first place]". Exactly, thank you for pa

Kernel global lock in sr.c slows down parallel operations to multiple drive

2020-11-17 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Hello, In jessie, the kernel had a very annoying bug: if you did I/O on multiple sr devices, the global lock in sr.c would slow down to a crawl. E.g. 5 DVD-R written to in parallel gave the same performance as one writing; and ejecting the DVD in parallel was completely sequential. Based on this

Re: PCI-Express not mapping a card's memory

2020-11-13 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
On Sun, Nov 08, 2020 at 05:54:14PM +0100, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: > What could I try to do? Thanks to some people around here (private replies), I tried: - finding an option in the BIOS about 64 bit PCI addresses, none found - setpci -s 01:00.0 COMMAND=0x02 - removing all ca

PCI-Express not mapping a card's memory

2020-11-08 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Hello, I have a Mellanox card, which is detected, however on one machine: 01:00.0 Network controller: Mellanox Technologies MT27500 Family [ConnectX-3] Subsystem: Mellanox Technologies MT27500 Family [ConnectX-3] Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 16 Memory at dfb0 (64-bit, non-p

Re: Error mounting LVM volume as root (SOLVED)

2020-10-11 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 10/11/20 2:04 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 10/11/20 6:34 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: That did it.  I am assuming that the system was just in the process of changing from the initrc to the actual running system?  But how do I get the boot sequence to activate the LVs automatically each time

Re: Error mounting LVM volume as root

2020-10-11 Thread Marc Shapiro
wap LV seems to be getting activated, but not the root LV, so it keeps trying to mount an LV that is not yet activated and eventually it times out and drops me into a shell.  From there, I can manually activate all LVs and exit the shell and the boot process continues successfully. Marc

Re: Error mounting LVM volume as root

2020-10-10 Thread Marc Shapiro
o manually activate them each time I boot the system. Marc

Error mounting LVM volume as root

2020-10-10 Thread Marc Shapiro
ork?  I am trying to put everything on LVM so that I can use snapshots to get consistent backups of a running system. Marc

Re: Sound (Alsa/PulseAudio) not working for ONE USER ONLY (addidional info)

2020-09-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 9/23/20 10:02 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: I am currently running Stretch, with alsa and pulseaudio. This box has three users.  My wife and daughter both get sound through Firefox, as well as 'play filename.mp3'.  Neither method works for my login.  When using 'aplay filename

Sound (Alsa/PulseAudio) not working for ONE USER ONLY

2020-09-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
x27;Loopback Analog Stero'.  I did the same thing under my wife's and daughter's login and the sound was going to the 'Built-in Audio Analog Stereo' How do I tell Alsa/PulseAudio to use the Built-in sound device, and not the loopback device? Marc

Re: Buster with MATE without systemd

2020-09-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 9/16/20 9:12 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 19:44:03 -0700 Marc Shapiro wrote: On 9/16/20 5:55 PM, David Wright wrote: On Wed 16 Sep 2020 at 16:15:12 (-0700), Patrick Bartek wrote: On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 13:52:15 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 10:32

Re: Buster with MATE without systemd

2020-09-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
megalithic operating system, I have a friend who works for Canonical, and he complains about systemd all the time. If anyone can suggest any other options, I am open to suggestions. Marc

Buster with MATE without systemd

2020-09-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
le to do what I want, what is the easiest way to accomplish it? Marc

Re: Question on 'dpkg --get-selections'

2020-09-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 9/12/20 12:29 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2020-09-11 22:03 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: Is there any option to have 'dpkg --get-selections' NOT include automatically installed packages? No, dpkg has no notion of automatically installed packages, that is an apt concept. Othe

Question on 'dpkg --get-selections'

2020-09-11 Thread Marc Shapiro
Is there any option to have 'dpkg --get-selections' NOT include automatically installed packages?  Otherwise, all packages show as manually installed, including those that would otherwise have been automatically installed. Marc

Re: Does Debian have a "nag" tool?

2020-08-22 Thread Marc Shapiro
nders, though. It doesn't have the versatility of doing it manually. Marc On Sat, Aug 15, 2020, 4:53 AM Joe wrote: > On Sat, 15 Aug 2020 06:30:13 -0500 > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > Just missed girlfriend's birthday by 6 weeks :{ > > [just sent a 'mea culpa

Re: xterm no title (buster)

2020-08-10 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 07:03:26PM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: > Should I try with another window-manager? I will also double-check that > the other working buster MATE installation uses marco. The bug is NOT present with compiz. The bug IS NOT present on a fresh buster install with mar

Re: xterm no title (buster)

2020-08-10 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 01:47:08PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Have you tried another "classic" X program? For example xmag or xeyes? Yes, they fail miserably. > xterm in a special way, or the decorations of all "classic" X programs > fail in the same way. I would guess that. Should I try

Re: xterm no title (buster)

2020-08-10 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
On Sun, Aug 09, 2020 at 09:59:12AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > To verify/falsify that, you might run xprop on your xterm window. > The property you are looking for is called WM_NAME. You can even xprop | grep WM_NAME WM_NAME(STRING) = "schaefer@reliand: /home/schaefer" > use xprop to /set/ t

Re: xterm no title (buster)

2020-08-08 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
On Sat, Aug 08, 2020 at 02:22:44PM -0700, Mike Kupfer wrote: > I assume you're using the system xterm, not something in /usr/local or > $HOME. yes schaefer@reliand:~$ which xterm /usr/bin/xterm (BTW was working nice before upgrade to buster) > Could the problem be locale-related? I have > >

Re: xterm no title (buster)

2020-08-08 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
> > What about if you use another window-manager and/or desktop-environment? > > I haven't tried that yet. I just tried twm and it says "Untitled" even with xterm -T abcd &

Re: xterm no title (buster)

2020-08-08 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
On Sat, Aug 08, 2020 at 08:25:39AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Does it affect other terminal emulators? no, mate-terminal is not affected. > Have you checked whether the problem also shows up for a freshly created > user (i.e. without any config of your own)? yes, it does. > What about if yo

Re: xterm no title (buster)

2020-08-08 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
On Sat, Aug 08, 2020 at 09:47:56AM +, Long Wind wrote: > have you looked at .bashrc? Actually, I have sent the usual title escape sequence: it works in mate-terminal, but xterm's title remains blank. Thomas Schmitt : Also I tried the -T option, with no success. Running MATE in marco (buster

xterm no title (buster)

2020-08-08 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
Hello, I have a funny problem since I upgraded my laptop to buster: xterm does not have any title. It is the only window that has this problem. I did not see anything special in the .Xresources. Anyone having this issue ? Thank you for pointers.

Visitors List of Southern California 2020 Linux Expo

2020-06-24 Thread Marc Daniels
pricing & more info. Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you. Regards, Marc Daniels Sr. Marketing Analyst

Re: Sharing /boot and /lib/modules with multiple distros

2020-06-06 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 6/6/20 2:58 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sat, Jun 06, 2020 at 02:06:42PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: I usually have three different distros installed.  I was wondering if I could have a separate partition (possibly in an extended partition) containing /boot and /var/modules that would be

Sharing /boot and /lib/modules with multiple distros

2020-06-06 Thread Marc Shapiro
duplicated for each distro, while allowing me to run lilo from any of them.  The only file that would need to be duplicated would be /etc/lilo.conf, and it doesn't take much space.  Is this a workable idea? Marc

Re: trouble installing gnome

2020-06-06 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 6/6/20 8:58 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 11:14:13 -0400 leonard morin wrote: Hello leonard, Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify: Both instances of that should either be deleted or have an # inserted at the start of the line. IMO, the former is prefera

Re: Buster install using debootstrap. (SOLVED)

2020-06-05 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 6/5/20 6:31 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 6/4/20 11:30 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: I also don't understand why it says that it could not create temporary files in /tmp.  I am running this as root and /tmp is owned by root. What am I missing? /tmp (and /var/tmp/) should

Re: Buster install using debootstrap.

2020-06-05 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 6/4/20 11:30 PM, Sven Hartge wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: I also don't understand why it says that it could not create temporary files in /tmp.  I am running this as root and /tmp is owned by root. What am I missing? /tmp (and /var/tmp/) should have the following permissions and r

Buster install using debootstrap.

2020-06-04 Thread Marc Shapiro
also don't understand why it says that it could not create temporary files in /tmp.  I am running this as root and /tmp is owned by root.  What am I missing? If anyone can help me with this I would greatly appreciate it. Marc

Re: Fwd: lists.debian.org has received bounces from you

2020-05-26 Thread Marc Shapiro
would become an issue.  For me, it has never been more than 1 bounce.  Nothing top worry about. Marc

Re: Re: checksum fails on current openstack debian 9 image

2020-04-23 Thread Marc-Antoine Bourgeot
Thanks richard ! Now I'm sure there is something wrong on my side ! :-)

checksum fails on current openstack debian 9 image

2020-04-23 Thread Marc-Antoine Bourgeot
Hi everyone ! I just downloaded the latest openstack debian 9 image from a debian mirror using : https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/openstack/current-9/debian-9-openstack-amd64.qcow2 I also got the checksum and its signature : https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/openstack/current-9/SHA256SUMS htt

Buster without systemd?

2020-03-22 Thread Marc Shapiro
needs then I may have to. Marc

Re: Boot process hangs at, it seems, network initialisation

2020-03-22 Thread Marc Auslander
On 3/22/2020 10:50 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: Hello, For the first time, I'm having problems installing Debian testing on new hardware; Asus TUF X570 Plus mobo with onboard Realtek network L8200A i/f As things stand, it /seems/ that the boot process is waiting for the network interface to come up,

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