Re: after system update, gnome-calculator freezes

w f: > > Yesterday I ran a system update. Nothing major; just bits. What "bits"? /var/log/apt contains more information. > Suddenly, gnome-calculator no longer works. When launched, it freezes. > After a few seconds, I get a "'Calculator' is not responding." popup > "Force Quit" or "Wait." > > Wh

Re: ext4 FS Crash

Daniel Harris: > > Not sure if I can attach a picture of the error messages but some of the > errors are > ext4_find_entry > ext4_journal_check_start > ext4_setattr > mounting filesystem read-only Please do not send any attachments here. I suggest you just copy and paste the log messages from jou

Re: I/O errors during RAID check but no SMART errors

Andy Smith: > Hi, > > On Wed, Oct 09, 2024 at 08:41:38PM +0200, Franco Martelli wrote: >> Do you know whether MD is clever enough to send an email to root when it >> fails the device? Or have I to keep an eye on /proc/mdstat? > > For more than a decade mdadm has shipped with a service that runs i

Re: I/O errors during RAID check but no SMART errors

Michael Kjörling: > On 8 Oct 2024 11:29 -0400, from d...@randomstring.org (Dan Ritter): >> >> This looks like a drive which is old and starting to wear out >> but is not there yet. The raw read error rate is starting to >> creep up but isn't at a threshold. > > I agree. The almost 62000 hours is

Re: I/O errors during RAID check but no SMART errors

e...@gmx.us: > On 10/8/24 16:07, Jochen Spieker wrote: >>| Oct 06 14:27:11 jigsaw kernel: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 9361257600 op >>0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 150 prio class 3 >>| Oct 06 14:27:30 jigsaw kernel: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 9361275264 op >>0x0:(READ

Re: I/O errors during RAID check but no SMART errors

Andy Smith: > On Tue, Oct 08, 2024 at 04:58:46PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: >> The way I understand these messages is that some sectors cannot be read >> from sdb at all and the disk is unable to reallocate the data somewhere >> else (probably because it doesn't know

Re: I/O errors during RAID check but no SMART errors

Dan Ritter: > Jochen Spieker wrote: > >> The sector number mentioned at the bottom is increasing during the >> check. > > So it repeats, and it's contiguous. That suggests a flaw in the > drive itself. It definitely looks like that: | Oct 06 14:27:11 jigsaw ke

I/O errors during RAID check but no SMART errors

ut it would be great if I didn't need to restore. Regards, Jochen -- I see weapons of mass destruction as shameful but necessary. [Agree] [Disagree] <http://archive.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html> signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: ain't it time to fix #790955 (couldn't find any console keymaps)?

will most probably not reach the package maintainer here. Regards, Jochen -- My drug of choice is self-pity. [Agree] [Disagree] <http://archive.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html> signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: solution to / full

lina: > > My / is almost full. > > # df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > udev126G 0 126G 0% /dev > tmpfs26G 2.3M 26G 1% /run > /dev/nvme0n1p2 23G 21G 966M 96% / > tmpfs 126G 15M 126G 1% /dev/shm > tmpfs 5.0M

Re: LUKS encryption help

detr...@tuta.io: > > Around May I installed Debian 10 on my (external) hard drive in BIOS > (not UEFI) mode for backup purposes. In the end of June I took the > drive out of the drawer and tried to boot into it but to my surprise > my LUKS encryption password does not work anymore. I'm very sure

Re: bullseye: systemd-networkd-wait-online timeouts

Jochen Spieker: > > Aug 18 10:59:20 h2907737 systemd-networkd-wait-online[936688]: Event loop > failed: Connection timed out > Aug 18 10:59:20 h2907737 apt-helper[936686]: E: Sub-process > /lib/systemd/systemd-networkd-wait-online returned an error code (1) I was able to at le

Re: bullseye: systemd-networkd-wait-online timeouts

Andy Smith: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 09:36:30PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: > >> Aug 18 10:59:20 h2907737 systemd-networkd-wait-online[936688]: Event loop >> failed: Connection timed out >> Aug 18 10:59:20 h2907737 apt-helper[936686]: E: Sub-process >> /lib/system

Re: bullseye: systemd-networkd-wait-online timeouts

Charles Curley: > On Wed, 18 Aug 2021 21:36:30 +0200 > Jochen Spieker wrote: > >> Is there anything I can do about this without changing >> /etc/network/interfaces? As far as I understand, I cannot switch to >> systemd network configuration as long as the interfaces fi

Re: nvme SSD and poor performance

Pierre Willaime: > > Using fstrim seems to restore speed. There are always many GiB which are > reduced : > > # fstrim -v / > / : 236,7 GiB (254122389504 octets) réduits This is probably the total amount of unused space on that SSD. The first fstrim run after a reboot always trims a

bullseye: systemd-networkd-wait-online timeouts

127.0.0.1 2a01:dead:beef:dead:beef:dead:beef:dead Is there anything I can do about this without changing /etc/network/interfaces? As far as I understand, I cannot switch to systemd network configuration as long as the interfaces file exists. Regards, Jochen -- If nightclub doormen recog

Re: Whole Disk Encryption + SSD

piorunz: > > I have question regarding whole disk encryption. What technology should > I use, to have encryption of everything, or at least /home, but preserve > free blocks and have TRIM? The canonical answer is "LUKS". You can configure it during installation if you want to. I always use LVM as

systemd failed to create user.slice

Hi, the short version of my problem is this, happening on a fairly fresh stable system: # systemctl start user@1000.service Job for user@1000.service failed because the service did not take the steps required by its unit configuration. See "systemctl status user@1000.service" and "journalctl -xe

Re: Access to PPA's

Gary L. Roach: > > Some of my most useful software is only available through Ubuntu PPA's . I > can no longer access PPA's since Debian changed their security policies. > When trying to access a PPA I get the following: > >  The repository > 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/elmer-csc-ubuntu/elmer-csc-pp

Re: fsck error on boot: /dev/sda1: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY and Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary

Alexander V. Makartsev: > On 19.03.2021 21:23, Jochen Spieker wrote: >>> Note : Linux installed on sdb (ext4) and sda is a NTFS file system and >>> >>> I don't want my SSD or HDD died suddenly >> But I am afraid that is exactly what is happening. >

Re: fsck error on boot: /dev/sda1: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY and Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary

Robbi Nespu: > > I worried I might missing some package for hdd and sdd maintainance (coz I > doing minimal install previously) There is no maintenance that needs to be done for hard disks or solid state disks to increase longevity. It often makes sense to setup smartmontools which can monitor th

Re: Archivemail

Keith Bainbridge: > > To answer the question about MH, yes. It is the default for Sylpheed & > Claws. Thanks! J. -- I eat meat and am concerned about bugs which are resistant to antibiotics. [Agree] [Disagree] sign

Re: Archivemail

Mark Fletcher: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 12:17:55AM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: >> >> The main problem is that one has to replace a few modules/functions, >> mostly the long-obsolete rfc822. I think I can get away with throwing >> away the get_filename function com

Re: Archivemail

Mark Fletcher: > > OK deciphering the above for anyone who might follow after me: > archivemail is dependent on Python2 which, it appears, is getting > removed from bullseye (although as of right now it's not gone yet, it's > installed on my system and I didn't ask for it, so something is clear

Encrypted swap fails in initramfs

replacing the /dev/mapper path in /etc/crypttab with a UUID, but, to my surprise, the underlying LVM volume does not have a UUID. Other LVM volumes (one unencrypted /, one LUKS container for /home) do have UUIDs. Why is that? Regards, Jochen. -- If politics is the blind leading the blind, entertain

Re: scp overwriting precaution?

to restore important files from your backup at any time. If you cannot do this, for whatever reason, that should be your top priority (wrt to computers :)). Regards, Jochen. -- TFI Friday makes me feel very alone. [Agree] [Disagree] <http://archive.slowlydownward.com/

Re: unsubscibe from mailing list

[Posted & mailed] Robert: > > Is it posible to unsubscibe me fromthe mailind list? Yes, send an e-mail to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with the subject "unsubscribe". Make sure to use the same e-mail address that you used for subscribing. J. -- When I am at nightclubs I enjoy looking at

Re: Snort IDS

Mattia: > > I have some problems with snort on debian that are already been reported but > the current maintainer seems not active. > For what I found online it seems that snort is the most used IDS, so I find > it quite odd that it's not maintained in Debian. Looking at popcon data[1] it appears

Re: Debian 10 (Buster) and Swappiness

Reco: > On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 03:53:55PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> On Jo, 22 aug 19, 09:21:31, Gustavo - Emar wrote: >>> >>> After upgrading from Debian Stretch to Buster (10), we realize that it is >>> not managing memory as before. >>> First, even with Swappiness = 0 and having 32 Ram, (1

Re: Server hardware advice.

lder generation Celeron without AES instructions. A €30 240GB Kingston SSD provides plenty of fast storage and all together this is a powerful, clean system using <10W. Jochen

Re: Upgrading to Buster but keeping Postgresql-9.6

Phil Endecott: > > Does anyone have any advice about the possibility of upgrading > systems from Stretch to Buster, but keeping Postgresql-9.6 for > the time being? With previous Debian releases you always had to migrate your cluster to the new Postgres version manually. The new packages are inst

Re: System on a chip - performance relative size and setup (how can the (Debian) setup make a difference?)

Erik Josefsson: > > As far as I understand, it is quite recent that SD cards are fast and large > enough to be able to carry and run an entire Debian instance. The capacity is not a problem for quite some time, depending on your space requirements. You can still run a minimal Debian on way less t

Re: Can any setting be changed after an "install Buster from scratch"-procedure?

Erik Josefsson: > > Can every setting made with an "install Buster from scratch"-procedure (like > the one for [Teres-I DIY laptop] available at box.redpill.dk) be changed > after the install procedure is completed? > > I mean, can some settings be "hard-coded" by an install procedure? > > Or in

Re: mutt imap_headers [solved]

Nick: > On 2019-03-31 17:07 BST, Nick wrote: >> >> The not so good: no marker appears until I open messages. I >> had expected that my imap_headers setting would cause the marker to >> appear on all the qualifying messages in the index. How can I make >> that happen? > > Solved: close mutt, del

Status of PHP support in stretch

running PHP now? Pray for good support in Debian, upgrade to 3rd party packages? Upgrade to buster already? Regards, Jochen. [1] FWIW, the PGP key used for the repository (AC0E47584A7A714D) is signed by Ondřej Surý (0C99B70EF4FCBB07) which, in turn, is signed by 184 keys fro debian-keyring

Re: taming lsblk command

Jude DaShiell: > what works over here: > lsblk -n < /usr/bin/sort This command feeds the content of the file /usr/bin/sort into stdin of lsblk. That does not make sense and I guess lsblk is just ignoring this input. J. -- I enjoy shopping, eating, sex and doing jigsaw puzzles of idealised landsc

Re: heads up: timidity causes pulseaudio to not find sound cards

Eric S Fraga: > > I recently did an 'apt update; apt upgrade' on my desktop which is > running testing (aka buster). Doing so led to my losing sound through > any application that relies on pulseaudio, e.g. firefox. I could still > use console based tools (e.g. mocp) to listen to music but pulse

Re: I may volunteer to be a package maintainer

Robert Arkiletian: > > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pyfltk > > I noticed that Debian and hence Ubuntu have dropped the "python-fltk" package. > > If I volunteer to be the maintainer of the package is there > documentation I can read to learn how to become a package maintainer? You already rece

Re: Getting packages from stable again instead of unstable

Rick Macdonald: > > Now that I have removed unstable form sources.list and preferences > (pinning), won't my packages from unstable eventually be upgraded from > stable as the stable versions become newer than the unstable packages that I > currently have installed? Yes, "eventually". At some unk

Re: An introduction to Debian's topology/structure/???

Richard Owlett: > > That leads to asking two related questions: > 1. How can I get a list of packages tagged as required? Aptitude is great for answering questions like this: $ aptitude search '?priority(required) ?archive(stable)' https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/aptitude/ch02s04s05.en.html

Re: Buster and apt wanting to remove tons of packages...

Nicholas Geovanis: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 3:01 PM Jochen Spieker wrote: >> >> There should not be that many changes, but I generally would only >> upgrade to a newer release when the current system is up-to-date with >> regards to its current version. > &

Re: Buster and apt wanting to remove tons of packages...

sgarrulo: > > I had an installation of debian stable (stretch) which was fully upgraded > something > like a couple of months ago. Then I passed it to testing (buster). There should not be that many changes, but I generally would only upgrade to a newer release when the current system is up-to-da

Re: A Major Success Story, Using Debian 9.4

Kenneth Parker: > One more thing. I'm now learning, quickly, about recent changes, such as > the net-tools to iproute2 transition which, as I look at my other running > systems, has been going for a while, It has been going on since at least 2008, so calling these changes "recent" uses a quite fl

Re: I wish put another Debian, and with its command line.

m...@neidorff.com: > > What is your goal in doing another install? If you want a text interface, > then open a terminal window and make it full screen. Poof! Best of both > worlds. True. And for more isolation but without the requirement for reboots (and a separate kernel) you can use chroot

Re: I wish put another Debian, and with its command line.

Gdsi: > > On my disk is a little free space at which I wish put another Debian, > and with its command line. How much is "little free space"? > A few times I tried doing it but always there was a excess , as the > installer don't say exactly what is into minimal inst-ion, and I'm > afraid there's

Re: Not receiving emails

to...@tuxteam.de: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 02:11:24PM +0200, fmn...@gmail.com wrote: >> I apologize for the seemingly useless email, but I have re-subscribed >> to the list but I haven't been receiving new messages. > > (sending to you, CC list, just in case) > > According to your mail's headers

Re: Causes, cures and prevention of orphaned inodes?

Stephen P. Molnar: > > I installed memtest86+ and ran it with all of the defaults. It took > over an hour, but no errors were reported. That's not long enough. From what I have read you should let it run for a day or so and even then you cannot be sure that there are no memory errors. > I am ra

Re: Question on CVE-2017-5754 on Debian 8.9

Greg Wooledge: > > To use a package from experimental, you must download it directly, and > install it directly. You don't use apt or its cousins, unless it's > to backfill dependencies (apt-get -f install) from your actual release. Everything you wrote is correct but this paragraph. You can us

Re: After upgrade jessie -> stretch : munin/perl

Markus Grunwald: > > I learned that the apache configuration of munin is now included in the > package. So I adjusted the settings in /etc/apache: > > ./conf-enabled/munin.conf > ./conf.d/munin > Now I have a working www.the-grue.de/munin again :) > But: With this config, /all/ of my sites show m

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

Dan Norton: > On 11/13/2017 03:53 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: >> Dan Norton: >> >>> LVM reports as follows: >>> >>> dan@debian:/$ sudo vgdisplay -C >>>VG #PV #LV #SN AttrVSize VFree >>>debian-vg 1 5

Re: Debian 8 and Debian 9 Dual Boot

Dan Norton: henny|i > My first Linux install was about one year ago. After some missteps, I have > used Debian 8 in reasonable satisfaction on the desktop during that year. > Now I want to leave 8 in place and do a network install for Debian 9 on the > same disk and switch back and forth at boot ti

Re: Another Devuan annoyance: CLI default apps

deloptes: > > Indeed, thanks for the hint, however OP wanted to edit crontab, which needs > root access. 'crontab -e' works for all users. J. -- I am getting worse rather than better. [Agree] [Disagree] signature.a

Re: when do I get a browsere that will do internet purchases?

Gene Heskett: > > What do I do next? This is wheezy, fully uptodate. What to do next? -Upgrade to some thing more recent than oldoldstable. You cannot expect Mozilla to support the most recent Firefox on a Debian release that was superseded 2,5 years ago. J. -- I enjoy shopping, eating, sex an

Re: rsnapshot

Pol Hallen: > > well, does "delta" keeps my backup for 10 years? For your configuration: yes, I think so. I am still using rsnapshot's old days/weeks/months method, so I do not have own experience with the alpa/beta/gamma/delta thing. J. -- I am on the payroll of a company to whom I owe my undy

Re: rsnapshot

Pol Hallen: > > cat /etc/rsnapshot.conf > [...] > > retain alpha 1 > retain beta7 > retain gamma 12 > retain delta 10 alpha = daily beta = weekly gamma = monthly delta = yearly? > cat /etc/cron.d/rsnapshot > > 00 01 * * * root/usr/bin/rsnapshot alpha > 30 3

Re: how to automatically reload a firefox page

Steve Kleene: > On Mon, 24 Jul 2017 08:55:42 -0400, I wrote: > >> How about making a local web page reloadpage.html where you include the >> command to reload evert 234 seconds >> >> and make a table which includes the webpage you want to stay active on within >> your local page. > > Thanks for

Re: Audio CD Ripper: Best which use multicore for encoding?

Anonymous: > TIA Unless you have a very, very old multicore/multi-CPU system, the bottleneck in CD ripping is reading from the disc. Encoding MP3s (or whatever) should be considerably faster on any system from the past ten (or so) years. Even my trusty D510 Atom CPU can encode faster than the syst

Re: Problem with offlineimap

marcelol...@gmail.com: > > ~$ openssl s_client -connect imap.ufvjm.edu.br:993 > --- > Certificate chain > 0 s:/C=BR/CN=imap.ufvjm.edu.br >i:/C=IL/O=StartCom Ltd./OU=StartCom Certification Authority/CN=StartCom > Class 1 DV Server CA > 1 s:/C=IL/O=StartCom Ltd./OU=StartCom Certification Autho

Re: converting my local site to be https only access

Gene Heskett: > On Saturday 29 April 2017 04:05:01 Felix Dietrich wrote: >> Gene Heskett writes: >> >>> Where can I find a tut that is a complete instruction set to have it >>> do an auto-redirect to itself, but using the "s" stuff regardless of >>> the accessing client as long as the client can

Re: BUG or OPERATOR error? - was [Re: Measuring aggregate internet useage?]

Richard Owlett: > > I did an install using expert mode, not selecting any GUI. > At several points during the install I did Alt-F2 to bring up a terminal to > attempt running ifconfig. > > "Command not found" was the uniform response. > I booted the new install and attempted as root to run ifconf

Spam on Debian lists (was: Actually)

fc: > > Actually -- does anyone monitor this list for this type of stuff? You have no idea *how much* spam is blocked by the work of the list masters. But it's not that anybody monitors all of the almost 300 Debian lists¹ with thousands of posts each day. > I see these types of things come throug

Re: System broken after yesterday's upgrade

solitone: > On Wednesday, 12 April 2017 19:55:12 CEST Jochen Spieker wrote: >> I'd write a bug report. Your e-mail is a pretty good start. > > To Debian BTS? Related to the kernel package? I have no clues as to what > component might be actually involved. I'd use

Re: System broken after yesterday's upgrade

solitone: > > Hi, something really weird is going on today on my system--debian stretch on > an Apple MacBookPro 12,1. If googling doesn't turn up something helpful (and maybe even then) I'd write a bug report. Your e-mail is a pretty good start. Regards, Jochen. -- If po

Re: When specifying path to file - confused about ./ and ~/

Richard Owlett: > On 03/27/2017 07:38 AM, The Wanderer wrote: >> >> Can you explain what your question is? > > No, not even after having having had an explanation that alleviated the > problem. I think you could have posed your question as simply: "What do ./ and ~/ mean? What is the difference

Re: repairing damage to package manager

songbird: > Chuck Hallenbeck wrote: >> >> One more O.T. observation: Debian let me do a truly dumb thing, but I >> wouldn't have it any other way. > > who here hasn't done an erroneous rm or some > other fumble fingered thing? > > a few weeks ago i was working on tagging some > pictures and

Re: repairing damage to package manager

Chuck Hallenbeck: > > One more O.T. observation: Debian let me do a truly dumb thing, but I > wouldn't have it any other way. That's the spirit! J. -- If I am asked 'How are you' more than a million times in my life I promise to explode. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: repairing damage to package manager

Chuck Hallenbeck: > > # apt-get remove upgrade-system apt Nice one! This brightens my day a little as it reminds me how I found out the relationship betweent the commands available on MSDOS 5.0 and the contents of the C:\DOS directory. :) I don't know how many times I had deleted stuff from there

Re: IPv6 connection problem with https://www.flickr.com/

Vincent Lefevre: > > On my Debian/unstable machine at home, IPv6 connection to > https://www.flickr.com/ freezes most of the time: I do not have this problem with native IPv6 at home (Debian sid ad well). Does OpenSSL have this problem as well? Does it maybe report something with respect to a TLS

Re: What file system to use?

Dennis Wicks: > > I am going to install some more disks and I was wondering which file system > to use. Use ext4 unless you have special requirements. I would always use LVM as well because it makes partitioning a lot easier. > I have several ext? and a few with Reiserfs. Is there a better choice

Re: Problem with offlineimap

Leandro Noferini: > > from yesterday I cannot fetch my mail with offlineimap because I get this > error: > > OfflineIMAP 7.0.12 > Licensed under the GNU GPL v2 or any later version (with an OpenSSL > exception) > Account sync BBs: > *** Processing account BBs > Establishing connection to bb

Re: debian NETINST installer problem - Nonsense error messages that don't indicate real problem

Peter Bradstreet: > Package: installer > Version: 8.7.1 > > This isn’t a ‘package’ per say… not sure what group it goes to There's a "debian-installer" pseudo package that you can use to report bugs. J. -- It is not in my power to change anything. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: Jessie or stretch for server

Dan: > > In a few months the Stretch Debian installation will automatically > become "stable". Is that correct? If you use "stretch" in the sources.list (instead of "testing"), then yes, your stretch installation will stay at stretch. > If I install Jessie I'll have to update very soon. Jessie

Re: kworker eats 45% from first cpu

Jochen Spieker: > deloptes: >> >> I moved my system to an SSD two days ago. I applied recommendation to >> use "discard" > > What do you mean by that? If you are talking about the mount > option, discard it. (Sorry for the pun.) Use a weekly cron job with

Re: kworker eats 45% from first cpu

deloptes: > > I moved my system to an SSD two days ago. I applied recommendation to > use "discard" What do you mean by that? If you are talking about the mount option, discard it. (Sorry for the pun.) Use a weekly cron job with 'fstrim -a' instead. If you are using LVM, set issue_discards=1 in /e

Re: probable broken tomcat6 package on wheezy

John Naggets: > > By installing the previous package version from the apt cache archive > as you mention I managed to find out that it is the libtomcat6-java > package which is broken. You just need to downgrade that package back > to deb7u3 and Tomcat will start again. > > Thanks for the hint an

Re: {Debian (>=Jessie)} AND { MultiMediaCard, SD Memory Card, etc}

Richard Owlett: > On 12/3/2016 7:05 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: >> >> https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-T61-and-prior-T-series/Boot-T61p-from-SD-card/m-p/261121/highlight/true#M41072 >> looks like you are out of luck. >> > > Maybe. May be not. I suspect

Re: {Debian (>=Jessie)} AND { MultiMediaCard, SD Memory Card, etc}

Pascal Hambourg: > Le 03/12/2016 à 13:59, Jochen Spieker a écrit : >> >> CF cards were much more clever from the beginning compared to cheaper >> alternatives (like SSD or MMC cards). I would expect them to have better >> wear levelling than a common SD card. > &g

Re: {Debian (>=Jessie)} AND { MultiMediaCard, SD Memory Card, etc}

Richard Owlett: > On 12/2/2016 4:21 PM, Jochen Spieker wrote: >> >> Beware that this might slightly increase power usage / reduce battery >> life. That's at least my observation from a couple of years ago. >> Depenging on the hardware, an SD card can keep a bus ali

Re: {Debian (>=Jessie)} AND { MultiMediaCard, SD Memory Card, etc}

deloptes: > Steven Mainor wrote: > >> I don't know if this helps answer #3 or not. I have ran Debian from a >> microSD flash card before but the card reader was attached via USB. >> >> It didn't last very long before the flash card degraded. I think running >> an operating system on flash used up

Re: {Debian (>=Jessie)} AND { MultiMediaCard, SD Memory Card, etc}

Richard Owlett: > I have a well used Lenovo R61 Thinkpad whose sole raison d'etre is to serve > as a test platform for experiments which may spectacularly fail. > > To quote a product description, it has: > Card Reader > 4 in 1 card reader > Supported Flash Memory > Memory Stick PRO,

Re: apt-get changelog is unsuccessful, but changelog exists

Brian: > > It's quite amazing what people expect to be supported on this list. > Wheezy is an unsupported distribution, just like hamm, etch, potato etc. That's not entirely true: https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/ Wheezy is still in LTS support until end of May 2018. I don't know whether

Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION

Richard Owlett: > > My original question had (apparently incorrectly assume that partitions > handled user/group/world permissions in the same manner as file systems. Even if you found a solution to your problem, this sentence does not make much sense and I still assume you are confused about a f

Re: Permissions for an entire PARTITION

Richard Owlett: > On 10/25/2016 10:40 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> >> The simplest way would be to synchronize your UID across all your >> installed operating systems. If your UID is, let's say, 1000 on every >> system, and the files on the partition are owned by user 1000, then >> user 1000 (you)

Re: rsnapshot advice

Pol Hallen: > > PPS: main backup of each server will be /etc/ For /etc you can also install etckeeper on all servers and just git+ssh pull from a remote location. J. -- Television advertisements are the apothesis of twentieth century culture. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: imapsync and Debian

Daniel Bareiro: > On 14/10/16 16:30, Jochen Spieker wrote: > >>> I am planning to migrate about 200 e-mail accounts from a mail server >>> using Dovecot to a mail server running Cyrus. > >> Sounds weird! I though most people migrate _to_ Dovecot nowadays (if

Re: imapsync and Debian

Daniel Bareiro: > > I am planning to migrate about 200 e-mail accounts from a mail server > using Dovecot to a mail server running Cyrus. Sounds weird! I though most people migrate _to_ Dovecot nowadays (if they haven't already). Care to elaborate the reasons? I don't want to discuss it, I am jus

Re: Mutt and monthly delete old messages

Mark Fletcher: > > So I was thinking of implementing a policy of deleting messages from > this mail folder on my PC (the one Mutt is looking at) on a say monthly > basis. If you prefer a mutt-only solution (without archivemail) you could also use a hook to mark all mails older than 30 days for

Re: Errors when doing a update

Brian LaPlante: > > Please find attached a copy of my sources.list and results of doing an > update. Any corrections that need to be made would be greatly appreciated. > Thanks in advance! If you want to solve your problem by editing your sources.list, you need to remove deb-multimedia.org from

Re: system monitor

roman_ca...@mail.md: > > Take time and look attentive to both cpu cores and to both ram and swap > graph and compare them Please elaborate what you think is wrong. The CPU graph in the taskbar probably only shows one CPU. The two colors you are seeing most probably to nice/usr/sys/iowait. I have

Re: system monitor

roman_ca...@mail.md: > hi users i need an advice in what bug category to place these: > https://postimg.org/image/yj08o66rh/ > > do you see that cpu and memory usage in system monitor window and in message > tray are different? No, I don't see any significant difference. All graphs hover around 4

Re: Getting fqdn, postfix, Comcast to all play nice together

John T. Haggerty: > > I have the following issue (seems to be common although my details seem to > differ): > > 1. I recently registered a new domain as WWW.whatever.org or whatever. Please use example.com when you do not want to disclose your real domain name. The domain whatever.org does not be

Re: OK to upgrade to 8.5?

Lisi Reisz: > On Thursday 28 July 2016 15:43:43 Jochen Spieker wrote: >> (Please don't top-post. Trim the quotes and reply below the quote you >> are referring to. Thanks.) > > Jochem - Steve is blind. Many (Most? All??)blind people find bottom posting > and tri

Re: wicd trouble -- continued

Glenn English: > > On Jul 28, 2016, at 7:35 AM, Mike McGinn > > wrote: > > > > I had some trouble with wicd which I cured by making sure that > > network manager was not running. Make sure NM is stopped and does > > not start. > > Don't think so. NM, IIRC, implies Gnome, […] NACK I run NM with

Re: OK to upgrade to 8.5?

(Please don't top-post. Trim the quotes and reply below the quote you are referring to. Thanks.) Steve Matzura: > I am running 8.0; 8.5 is out. Came out on June 24. You are right. I missed that the point release was labelled 8.5. As Lisi said: you do not need to do anything special to upgrade f

Re: OK to upgrade to 8.5?

Steve Matzura: > > Should I follow the standard procedure--edit sources.list to include > the DVD drive (if it's not there already), then 'apt-get upgrade' > followed by 'apt-get full-upgrade'? What do you mean with "8.5"? Debian jessie is version 8, Debian stretch ussupposed to be version 9, I th

Re: openssl too old and what to do about it

ng0: > > I am in the position where I have to run at least one Debian > stable based server, and with the recent upgrade of a search > engine, I can no longer use its proxy functionality. > This would require a version of OpenSSL which is not available in > Debian stable at this point. Which vers

Re: jessie won't install/boot on a Dell Poweredge R815

deloptes: > > Upgrade usually is done by > > apt-get update > apt-get upgrade > apt-get dist-upgrade No. You upgrade to a new stable release by reading and following the release notes. J. -- I am heading for the loony bin. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: How to download over https

Dan Ritter: > On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 09:50:15PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: >> >> Admittedly, one of the main issues with HTTPS is the number of >> handshakes your hardware can do per second. That probably isn't a >> problem for the CD image download server tha

Re: How to download over https

Pascal Hambourg: > Le 16/06/2016 22:13, Dan Purgert a écrit : > >> as well as making the overall amount of data >> transmitted somewhat larger. This is because encrypted blocks have >> specific size requirements (...) >> >> Remeber that a single packet can only carry 1460 bytes, before >> accoun

Re: How to download over https

Jörg-Volker Peetz: > Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote on 06/16/16 15:12: >> Did you take a look here: https://www.debian.org/CD/verify , "Verifying >> authenticity of Debian CDs"? >> >> The https protocol would add quite some overhead to the download of the >> iso-files which are already big by them self.

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