Re: Strange message

2023-06-15 Thread Pascal Obry
dated from Debian/sid? Maybe related to an issue I had where I had all the remote sinks not listed and so was not able to play sounds across network with pipewire- pulse. --   Pascal Obry /  Magny Les Hameaux (78)   The best way to travel is by means of imagination   http://photos.obry.n

Re: Wayland vs X

2022-03-09 Thread Pascal Obry
understand correctly there is work on this part, so at some point Wayland will be the best choice for the already mentioned big enhancements it brings. Regards, --   Pascal Obry /  Magny Les Hameaux (78)   The best way to travel is by means of imagination   http://www.obry.net   gpg --keyserver

Re: Opensource photo user group

2021-05-26 Thread Pascal Obry
uot;serious" > (whatever that means). Certainly not! Have you really missed darktable project since 10 years. Since 1 or 2 years I would certainly call the project "serious" and many professionals are using it daily. I'm using it since many years and do prepare exhibitio

Re: dhclient and ipv6 DNS Servers

2020-01-14 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 14/01/2020 à 21:14, Rainer Dorsch a écrit : prepend dhcp6.name-servers 2001:4860:4860::, 2001:4860:4860::8844; avoids the error message, but has no visible effect I can see. The IPv6 DNS servers still do not show in resolv.conf. You may receive IPv6 DNS information from IPv6 Router Adv

Re: Root is in RO after boot

2020-01-07 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 07/01/2020 à 16:45, Kenneth Parker a écrit : So are you saying that initrd is called without / being mounted at all! Of course. The main purpose of the initramfs is to mount the final root filesystem before starting the final init.

Re: Root is in RO after boot

2020-01-07 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 07/01/2020 à 15:28, Kenneth Parker a écrit : As far as I know, it's mounted ro, so that initrd can check if it is okay Nonsense. The initramfs can check the root filesystem before mounting it, so it does not need to mount it read-only. (via fsck). And initrd is then supposed to remount

Re: Debian Graphical Installer: why does it format swap?

2020-01-05 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 05/01/2020 à 18:50, Joe a écrit : Windows uses a swap file, not a separate partition. We are told that there is no performance penalty for Linux to do so also. Using a swap file can cause a performance penalty if the file is heavily fragmented. Granted, it also applies to a fragmented LVM

Re: Debian Graphical Installer: why does it format swap?

2020-01-05 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 05/01/2020 à 16:40, Clod Turner a écrit : Why does the Debian Graphical installer compromise any other Linux install on the same HDD/SSD by reformatting swap. This is a well known long standing "feature" of the Debian installer. It is not specific to the graphical installer. Also it does n

Re: uefi boot install and disk partitions

2020-01-05 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 05/01/2020 à 11:00, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : On Sun, Jan 05, 2020 at 10:47:52AM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 04/01/2020 à 20:47, Sven Joachim a écrit : [FAT, hard links] a feature that is crucial for dpkg. I vaguely remember this, but not when and why dpkg needs to create

Re: uefi boot install and disk partitions

2020-01-05 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 04/01/2020 à 20:47, Sven Joachim a écrit : On 2020-01-04 13:38 +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Some new boot specification mounts the EFI partition on /boot Citation needed, which specification is that? Freedesktop/systemd's Boot Loader Specification. <https://www.freedesktop.

Re: uefi boot install and disk partitions

2020-01-04 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 04/01/2020 à 11:25, Bonno Bloksma a écrit : I have been creating a small (300MB) primary /boot partition at the beginning of the disk for as long as I can remember... That is after disks got to be too big for the BIOS to reach all of the disk to be able to boot from a file anywhere on the

Re: Fresh-installed Debian 10 (UEFI, LUKS&LVM) not accessible through Secure Boot

2020-01-01 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 01/01/2020 à 13:59, l0f...@tuta.io a écrit : 1 janv. 2020 à 10:36 de didier.gau...@gmail.com: SecureBoot has its own limitations and perhaps your use case is covered here: https://wiki.debian.org/SecureBoot#Secure_Boot_limitations for example, I cannot use SecureBoot on my recent laptop d

Re: No security support for binutils and libqt5webkit5, what to do?

2019-12-29 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 29/12/2019 à 20:28, Andreas Goesele a écrit : I just went from jessie to buster and I didn't discover any serious problem so far. But I tried to remove all packages where there is no or only limitid security support and ended up with 5 packages I don't think I should/can remove: binutils (a

Re: New Install Boots to Grub

2019-12-16 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 16/12/2019 à 16:55, Dr. Jason Amerson a écrit : Hello, I installed Debian 10.2.0 from a USB drive and the installation finished without errors. The only thing that happened during install is that it was unable to setup the network. Anyways, I removed the USB drive and rebooted the computer

Re: Help! Borked suspend/hibernate after adding swap partition

2019-12-14 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 14/12/2019 à 16:35, Ottavio Caruso a écrit : On Sat, 14 Dec 2019 at 13:47, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 14/12/2019 à 14:20, Ottavio Caruso a écrit : I've also added: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="resume d823f1ee-2e16-4327-b0c1-639f377002bb" Wrong syntax. It should be &q

Re: Help! Borked suspend/hibernate after adding swap partition

2019-12-14 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 14/12/2019 à 14:20, Ottavio Caruso a écrit : $ sudo update-initramfs -u -k all update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-11-amd64 I: The initramfs will attempt to resume from /dev/sda7 I: (UUID=d823f1ee-2e16-4327-b0c1-639f377002bb) I: Set the RESUME variable to override this. (...)

Re: Help! Borked suspend/hibernate after adding swap partition

2019-12-14 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 14/12/2019 à 12:26, Ottavio Caruso a écrit : $ sudo update-initramfs -u -k all update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-11-amd64 I: The initramfs will attempt to resume from /dev/sda7 I: (UUID=d823f1ee-2e16-4327-b0c1-639f377002bb) I: Set the RESUME variable to override this. I'll

Re: Help! Borked suspend/hibernate after adding swap partition

2019-12-14 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 14/12/2019 à 10:43, Alexander V. Makartsev a écrit : Simple swap partition creation is not enough for hibernation to work, it also has to be configured in initrd. [2] Despite the file name it is no longer an initrd but an initramfs. https://wiki.debian.org/Hibernation#Changing_or_moving_th

Re: [Solved] iptables firewall and web sites not loading

2019-12-10 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 10/12/2019 à 20:13, nektarios a écrit : Pascal Hambourg wrote: Maybe a "MTU black hole" issue with PPPoE. Workarounds : - lower the MTU on the client side to 1492 - add a "TCPMSS --clamp-to-pmtu" iptables rule on the router (...) The tip you gave me really did the jo

Re: iptables firewall and web sites not loading

2019-12-09 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 10/12/2019 à 00:01, Nektarios Katakis a écrit : I am running an iptables firewall on an openwrt router I ve got. Which acts as Firewall/gateway and performs NATing for my internal network - debian PCs and android phones. All good but specific web sites are not loading for the machines that a

Re: nftables is not accepting rules from ufw

2019-12-05 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 06/12/2019 à 04:15, Brian Vaughan a écrit : ERROR: problem running ufw-init Bad argument `DROP' Error occurred at line: 4 Try `iptables-restore -h' or 'iptables-restore --help' for more information. Bad argument `-' Error occurred at line: 4 (...) Problem running '/etc/ufw/user.rules' Pro

Re: hdd partition alignment parted vs fdisk, partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary, parted bug?

2019-12-04 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 04/12/2019 à 13:15, Sergey Spiridonov a écrit : Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 33553920 bytes Disklabel type: gpt Disk identifier: 82DD924B-BF0E-40FF-9037-1FD4E7307D26 Device Start End Sectors Size Type /dev/sd

Re: external drive

2019-12-02 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 02/12/2019 à 22:28, Gene Heskett a écrit : On Monday 02 December 2019 16:02:59 Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 02/12/2019 à 02:30, Gene Heskett a écrit : What I did was plug the u-sd into a card reader/writer. The card wasn't recognized and dd refused to write to it. What do you

Re: external drive

2019-12-02 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 02/12/2019 à 02:30, Gene Heskett a écrit : What I did was plug the u-sd into a card reader/writer. The card wasn't recognized and dd refused to write to it. What do you mean *precisely* by "wasn't recognized" ? Then someone said I need to install exfat, Bullshit. dd does not care about

Re: Booting Debian 10 installer ISO from USB

2019-11-24 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 23/11/2019 à 20:13, Brian a écrit : On Sat 23 Nov 2019 at 11:00:58 -0600, pru...@finsakxim.com.mx wrote: This https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=841135 would explain why it works for you, as well as in other cases. It seems to only work at maximum level 1 directories; I alr

Re: Booting Debian 10 installer ISO from USB

2019-11-21 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 21/11/2019 à 19:08, pru...@finsakxim.com.mx a écrit : Now, my last issue is: quick scan always fails, looking only in "common places". So perhaps the location in the USB sdb3/boot/isos is not considered a "common place" and thus only full search can find it here. The quick scan only sear

Re: Orphaned Inode Problem

2019-11-18 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 18/11/2019 à 20:06, Stephen P. Molnar a écrit : The CPU is an AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core Processor on an ASUSTeK M5A97 R2.0 Motherboard with 8GB Ram. I have started having orphaned inodes when I run a major piece of software in my research program. How do you know you have orphaned inodes and

Re: no ethernet drivers in testing/10 netinstall image?

2019-11-02 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 02/11/2019 à 20:07, Joe a écrit : Kent Dorfman wrote: I'd make a strong argument that removing the common drivers from whatever kernel is used in "testing" is more an "unstable" action. (...) But at no time should a mature and extremely important device driver get pulled from it. Somethin

Re: no ethernet drivers in testing/10 netinstall image?

2019-11-02 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 02/11/2019 à 19:34, Kent Dorfman a écrit : I think we have slightly different perceptions of what the scope of the "testing" release is. I think you have a wrong perception of what Debian testing is. Testing is not stable. Besides, the testing installer images are not intended to install t

Re: what is the proper way to recover grub in an EFI environment ?

2019-11-02 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 02/11/2019 à 17:45, shirish शिरीष a écrit : Directory: P:\EFI ModeLastWriteTime Length Name - -- d- 15-02-2018 19:21Microsoft d- 15-02-2018 19:26Boot d---

Re: no ethernet drivers in testing/10 netinstall image?

2019-11-02 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 02/11/2019 à 15:21, Reco a écrit : On Sat, Nov 02, 2019 at 03:12:10PM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: IIUC the OP is talking about the netinst installer, not an installed system. Maybe he encountered a situation where the d-i package containing NIC modules was not installed yet, or the

Re: what is the proper way to recover grub in an EFI environment ?

2019-11-02 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 02/11/2019 à 13:30, shirish शिरीष a écrit : /boot/efi/ is empty As expected. /boot/efi is just a mount point for the EFI partition. Check /EFI/debian in the EFI partition (FAT). How did you change Debian boot mode to EFI ? Can you see a "debian" entry in the UEFI boot menu or boot order ?

Re: no ethernet drivers in testing/10 netinstall image?

2019-11-02 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 02/11/2019 à 14:03, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : Kent Dorfman wrote: There are no ethernet drivers in the modules directory for the netinstall image, other than a single broadcomm file...and no, it's not an obscure nic that requires custom firmware. It needs the humble e1000 driver. This i

Re: Raspberry Pi with Debian and LUKS

2019-10-30 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 30/10/2019 à 19:44, basti a écrit : - setup luks on 3rd partition and edit cryptfs Can you describe the setup ? What is cryptfs ? Do you mean /etc/crypttab ? - update initramfs included crptsetup, lvm, busybox, dm_crypt, dm_mod - reboot What it the point in including crypto and LVM supp

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-29 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 29/10/2019 à 20:37, Jimmy Johnson a écrit : the file system you use matters, some file systems only use uefi and will give you no legacy support. Utter nonsense.

Re: Bootable USB Buster System

2019-10-29 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 29/10/2019 à 17:23, deloptes a écrit : Jimmy Johnson wrote: I personally do not see a reason why I should mess up with the bios to switch back and fort to legacy and not legacy Because some (many ?) UEFI firmwares are defective and having them boot a GNU/Linux system in EFI mode can be a r

Re: Is it a bug that the iptable_filter module isn't loaded automatically with Debian 10 iptables-nft?

2019-10-28 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 28/10/2019 à 09:14, Andy Smith a écrit : I will take a guess that the switching of the iptables commands to use the nftables framework has somehow caused this iptable_filter module to not be loaded even though the firewall still works. Correct. Is it a bug that loading rules into the filt

Re: Dual boot: one legacy, the other uefi

2019-10-07 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 07/10/2019 à 09:42, Joe a écrit : On Sun, 6 Oct 2019 23:26:32 +0200 Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 06/10/2019 à 22:45, Beco a écrit : Now the system can boot both systems ok. But to choose which one you want, you need to enter the BIOS, change legacy to UEFI, and vice-versa, then you can boot

Re: Dual boot: one legacy, the other uefi

2019-10-06 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 06/10/2019 à 22:45, Beco a écrit : Now the system can boot both systems ok. But to choose which one you want, you need to enter the BIOS, change legacy to UEFI, and vice-versa, then you can boot. Would you mind telling which systems boots in EFI mode and which one boots in legacy mode ?

Re: fstrim and Luks / dm-raid

2019-10-06 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 05/10/2019 à 21:12, Reco a écrit : The way I heard it, to trigger the corruption one should issue TRIM asynchronously *and* utilize NCQ for it. fstrim is synchronous. Asynchronous and synchronous to what ? To SSD's I/O queue. Can you explain what it means or provide any pointers ?

Re: fstrim and Luks / dm-raid

2019-10-05 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 05/10/2019 à 18:27, Reco a écrit : mdraid and dm-raid have discard disabled by default with RAID4/5/6 for safety reasons. One must pass the parameter devices_handle_discard_safely=Y to the module raid456 or dm-raid respectively to enable it. I want to make it clear that using this option wi

Re: fstrim and Luks / dm-raid

2019-10-05 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 05/10/2019 à 15:55, Reco a écrit : On Sat, Oct 05, 2019 at 02:52:55PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: I've got a computer with 3 SSD in RAID5 (dm-raid) containing a LUKS partition, then a lvm dm-raid (device-mapper) or mdraid (mdadm) ? Is fstrim useful in suc a case ? It's disabled by defaul

Re: disk going bad? or fuser related issues? . . .

2019-10-05 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 04/10/2019 à 16:45, Albretch Mueller a écrit : I use ntfs as a data transfer file system between Mac OS, *nix and Windows (I code primarily in java). Even though while using that partition through fuser it is noticeable slower, afaik, it is the only viable option there is. What does fuser

Re: USB flash drive opens read only -- how to fix?

2019-10-02 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 03/10/2019 à 05:05, David Christensen a écrit : On 10/1/19 11:51 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Yep. Never forget -- there's a whole computer with its own OS in your flash drive. That "write protect" (sometimes) available as a physical switch is just communicated to your drivers via some protoco

Re: USB flash drive opens read only -- how to fix?

2019-10-01 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 01/10/2019 à 23:09, Ken Heard a écrit : - - after unmounting and closing encryption running as root 'wipefs -a -f /dev/sdd' returns 'wipefs: error: /dev/sdd: probing initialization failed: Read-only file system'. The USB flash drive is probably physically write-protected. Check the ke

Re: GRUB key repeat too fast

2019-09-27 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 25/09/2019 à 17:27, Alberto Luaces a écrit : Pascal Hambourg writes: Le 25/09/2019 à 13:34, Alberto Luaces a écrit : Pascal Hambourg writes: I read a report about a similar issue in a Debian-related forum. IIRC, a workaround was to connect the keyboard to a USB port of different type

Re: GRUB key repeat too fast

2019-09-25 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 25/09/2019 à 13:34, Alberto Luaces a écrit : Pascal Hambourg writes: I have searched for a key repeat delay in the manual, but I found nothing. Which manual ? GRUB or the computer/motherboard ? GRUB's. You won't find anything useful there. By default, the keyboard in GRUB

Re: GRUB key repeat too fast

2019-09-25 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 25/09/2019 à 10:27, Alberto Luaces a écrit : I have switched to a new computer an existing Debian installation. At boot time, at the GRUB menu, each key press is repeated very fast, as if the key repeat delay were close to zero: I can only select either the first or the last option, since pr

Re: issues with initramfs after recently updating buster

2019-09-08 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 08/09/2019 à 02:28, ernst doubt a écrit : Today I saw the following errors on one of the machines (an HP EliteBook laptop) that I upgraded today: update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-5-amd64 cryptsetup: WARNING: The initramfs image may not contain cryptsetup binaries nor

Re: What is the location of the "depmod" program on your machine? vmware tools installation error

2019-09-06 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 06/09/2019 à 21:05, Charles Curley a écrit : Fresh install: root@jhegaala:~# ll /sbin/depmod /usr/sbin/depmod lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Feb 9 2019 /sbin/depmod -> /bin/kmod* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Feb 9 2019 /usr/sbin/depmod -> /bin/kmod* Upgraded: root@hawk:~# ll /sbin/depmod /usr/sb

Re: usr merge apparently breaks amanda

2019-09-06 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 06/09/2019 à 16:39, Gene Heskett a écrit : On Friday 06 September 2019 10:20:14 Greg Wooledge wrote: I could very easily see amanda itself breaking from usrmerge, if it contains programs that try to invoke commands using their full paths (e.g. /bin/rm -f ...). Why would that break ? Old pa

Re: Cannot boot after distro upgrade

2019-09-03 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 03/09/2019 à 01:47, Miroslav Skoric a écrit : On 9/2/19 1:19 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: You should have upgraded the kernel as soon as you upgraded from Wheezy to Jessie. Same when upgrading from Jessie to Stretch. Probably you are right. But it makes me wonder why the previous upgrade

Re: Cannot boot after distro upgrade

2019-09-02 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 02/09/2019 à 16:44, Miroslav Skoric a écrit : On 9/2/19 10:28 AM, Reco wrote: fsck.ext4 -f /dev/localhost/tmp mount -t ext4 /dev/localhost/tmp /tmp umount /tmp fsck.ext4 -f /dev/localhost/tmp If the mounting succeeds, change filesystem type to ext4 for /tmp in /etc/fstab, and do the same fo

Re: Cannot boot after distro upgrade

2019-09-02 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 02/09/2019 à 09:56, Miroslav Skoric a écrit : lsblk didn't bring any difference regardless the stick is inserted or not. So I send photos :-) There was a wrong free block count on /dev/localhost/tmp, but it seems to be corrected now. Anyway this kind of minor error should not prevent mou

Re: Cannot boot after distro upgrade

2019-09-02 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 02/09/2019 à 00:51, Miroslav Skoric a écrit : Sure. I sent few photos on the commands' output. Don't know if the list accepts attachments. I don't think it accepts binary files.

Re: Cannot boot after distro upgrade

2019-09-01 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 02/09/2019 à 00:44, Miroslav Skoric a écrit : On 9/2/19 12:26 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 01/09/2019 à 22:59, Miroslav Skoric a écrit : root@(none):/# uname -a Linux (none) 3.2.0-4-486 #1 Debian 3.2.96-2 i686 GNU/Linux So you upgraded from Jessie to Stretch but still ran the old

Re: Cannot boot after distro upgrade

2019-09-01 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 01/09/2019 à 22:59, Miroslav Skoric a écrit : root@(none):/# uname -a Linux (none) 3.2.0-4-486 #1 Debian 3.2.96-2 i686 GNU/Linux So you upgraded from Jessie to Stretch but still ran the old kernel from Wheezy all this time ? Wow. If the dist upgrade was not complete (and if the system no

Re: Cannot boot after distro upgrade

2019-09-01 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 01/09/2019 à 17:01, Miroslav Skoric a écrit : EXT3-fs (dm-6): error: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (8000) This is not the same as the previous error message you showed while using the Debian Jessie 8.11 installer in rescue mode : EXT4-fs (dm-6): couldn't mount

Re: Cannot boot after distro upgrade

2019-08-31 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 01/09/2019 à 01:04, Miroslav Skoric a écrit : # dmesg | tail reported (among the other): EXT4-fs (dm-6): couldn't mount as ext3 due to feature incompatibilities EXT4-fs (dm-5): couldn't mount as ext3 due to feature incompatibilities # mount reported that /, /usr, and /var were there, but n

Re: Buster Installation - Partition phase - Inode option to choose - SSD or Mechanical HD

2019-08-26 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 26/08/2019 à 20:23, rhkra...@gmail.com a écrit : On Monday, August 26, 2019 09:20:13 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: The "bytes-per-inode" value ("-i" option) is the closest match to what you described. The man page doesn't tell us what the default value is, but the Arch wiki says it's one inode per

Re: Buster Installation - Partition phase - Inode option to choose - SSD or Mechanical HD

2019-08-25 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 25/08/2019 à 14:54, Richard Owlett a écrit : On 08/25/2019 07:36 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: 2. What is the proper search term to use for something whose dimensions     would be "megabytes/inode"? {I'll use "blob" for now } This is just a ratio without any act

Re: You may need more inodes if you store lots of emails locally in maildir format

2019-08-25 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 25/08/2019 à 14:10, rhkra...@gmail.com a écrit : I suppose that, for someone who was going to archive a lot of mail and store it in maildir format, they might have to consider more inodes (i.e., the news option). Probably. Or use a filesystem type such as Btrfs or XFS which, unlike ext*, d

Re: Buster Installation - Partition phase - Inode option to choose - SSD or Mechanical HD

2019-08-25 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 25/08/2019 à 13:20, Richard Owlett a écrit : How do I search for answer to my inadequately phrased question below. 1. I assume that sector size is a _TERM_ reserved for something fixed    when the disk is manufactured. With modern disks, there are two sector sizes : - the physical sector s

Re: /usr 100%

2019-08-25 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 25/08/2019 à 10:06, Hadi Motamedi a écrit : On 8/25/19, der.hans wrote: du -sh /usr/* That will show you disk usage per directory in /usr/. My preferred command is du -hxd1 /usr | sort -h - ignores other filesystem (e.g. if you mounted something on /usr/local) - does not ignore "dot" f

Re: Buster Installation - Partition phase - Inode option to choose - SSD or Mechanical HD

2019-08-25 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 25/08/2019 à 02:33, Rick Thomas a écrit : On Aug 24, 2019, at 4:18 PM, l...@contacte.xyz wrote: What would be the «best» to choose for an SSD in an usual desktop environment ? What would be the «best» to choose for an mechanical HD in an usual desktop environment ? I don’t think there’s an

Re: Why do UID values of system users matter?

2019-08-16 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 16/08/2019 à 23:27, Steffen Dettmer a écrit : (Apparently man used uid 13 in Debian 8 / Jessi but 6 in Debian 9 / Stretch). AFAICS, user "man" has had UID 6 since at least Debian 6/squeeze.

Re: GRUB command line

2019-08-13 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 11/08/2019 à 22:54, Russell L. Harris a écrit : On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 09:09:26PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 11/08/2019 à 19:38, Finariu Florin a écrit : Hi everyone,Can you tell me where I find the step by step installation of Debian 10 with GRUB Command line?I'm in Debian

Re: GRUB command line

2019-08-11 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 11/08/2019 à 19:38, Finariu Florin a écrit : Hi everyone,Can you tell me where I find the step by step installation of Debian 10 with GRUB Command line?I'm in Debian UEFI installer mode. What do you mean by "installation of Debian 10 with GRUB Command line" ?

Re: installing Debian 10 to 3 hdds as one big system

2019-08-11 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 11/08/2019 à 09:42, Reco a écrit : The big question is - why would anyone make a RAID10 consisting of two drives. It's impossible to reshape it (mdadm does not support it for RAID10), it's I/O characteristics are indistinguishable from RAID1. With two drives the default RAID 10 "near" layou

Re: installing Debian 10 to 3 hdds as one big system

2019-08-10 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 10/08/2019 à 19:27, David Christensen a écrit : On 8/10/19 4:35 AM, Andy Smith wrote: Personally I would use the three devices as a RAID-10 which would result in half the capacity of the total (768G) and you could withstand the loss of any one device. RAID 10 requires 4 drives: Not Linux

Re: installing Debian 10 to 3 hdds as one big system

2019-08-10 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 10/08/2019 à 13:03, Pavel Vlček a écrit : I have computer with 3 hdds. One is ssd, 2 others are hdd. I want to install Debian 10 to all 3 disks as one big system. What do you mean by "one big system" ? One big filesystem ? Why ? What to use, raid or lvm? If you are concerned with perfo

Re: where is my disk space

2019-08-04 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 04/08/2019 à 22:56, Long Wind a écrit : the file is more than 3 G, i can't read it with nanoi have 3 G memory, no swap You do not use an *editor* to *read* a file, you use a pager such as more, less, most... why don't X print important error msg to terminals?i can't see any of them is

Re: where is my disk space

2019-08-04 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 04/08/2019 à 12:43, Long Wind a écrit : i think i find out it's in ~/.local it's Xorg.0.log.old it's more than 3.9G it seems keeping growing clearly i don't need it, i delete it it should solve my problem What about Xorg.0.log ? If these files keep growing up to such a size, then it means th

Re: Changing nameservers - WAS "Which resolv.conf file?"

2019-08-01 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 01/08/2019 à 20:06, Greg Wooledge a écrit : On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 07:58:56PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 01/08/2019 à 18:18, David Wright a écrit : I think that a lot of people install resolvconf (deliberately or incidentally) without really understanding what it's for or wh

Re: Changing nameservers - WAS "Which resolv.conf file?"

2019-08-01 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 01/08/2019 à 19:58, Pascal Hambourg a écrit : Le 01/08/2019 à 18:18, David Wright a écrit : I think that a lot of people install resolvconf (deliberately or incidentally) without really understanding what it's for or what it does. Then, because most people naturally check the conten

Re: Changing nameservers - WAS "Which resolv.conf file?"

2019-08-01 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 01/08/2019 à 18:18, David Wright a écrit : I think that a lot of people install resolvconf (deliberately or incidentally) without really understanding what it's for or what it does. Then, because most people naturally check the contents of /etc/resolv.conf, they indulge in all sorts of cargo-

Re: Changing nameservers - WAS "Which resolv.conf file?"

2019-07-31 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 31/07/2019 à 23:30, ghe a écrit : On 7/31/19 2:52 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Without resolvconf, the DHCP client would have completely overwritten resolv.conf instead of just adding one line. With resolvconf, at least you can have some control over resolv.conf. OK. vi gives me all the

Re: Changing nameservers - WAS "Which resolv.conf file?"

2019-07-31 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 31/07/2019 à 21:44, ghe a écrit : On 7/31/19 1:20 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: I still feel like you're missing the big picture here. resolvconf isn't the thing that's modifying your /etc/resolv.conf file. It's the thing (that was) modifying my resolv.conf. Resolvconf does not modify resolv

Re: Changing nameservers - WAS "Which resolv.conf file?"

2019-07-31 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 31/07/2019 à 19:56, Greg Wooledge a écrit : On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 07:51:45PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 31/07/2019 à 17:10, Bob Bernstein a écrit : What I want to do is get rid of the google 8.8.8.8 and replace it with a static nameserver suggested by my vpn. Edit /etc/network

Re: Changing nameservers - WAS "Which resolv.conf file?"

2019-07-31 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 31/07/2019 à 17:10, Bob Bernstein a écrit : What I want to do is get rid of the google 8.8.8.8 and replace it with a static nameserver suggested by my vpn. Edit /etc/network/interfaces.

Re: IPv6 prefix delegation: avahi-daemon vs dhcpcd vs kernel

2019-07-29 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 29/07/2019 à 13:08, Pascal Hambourg a écrit : Prefix delegation is a DHCPv6 feature. The kernel does managed it. Oops ! I meant "the kernel does NOT manage it".

Re: IPv6 prefix delegation: avahi-daemon vs dhcpcd vs kernel

2019-07-29 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 29/07/2019 à 11:07, Harald Dunkel a écrit : question about IPv6 support in sid: Whose job is it to bother about the IPv6 addresses dynamically bound to eth0? It depends what dynamic configuration method is used. SLAAC (using router advertisements) is in kernelspace. However some informatio

Re: GRUB on RAID0 software

2019-07-29 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 29/07/2019 à 00:26, Finariu Florin a écrit : Hi everyone, I can not install GRUB on Debian 10.It's fail every time. AFAIK GRUB supports RAID and most software RAID levels (only "linear" is not supported). How does it fail ? What is the error message ? What is displayed in the log console

Re: Can Grub Boot Through a USB Port on an Old PC?

2019-07-23 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 23/07/2019 à 20:28, Pascal Hambourg a écrit : If the system on the USB drive is GNU/Linux, you just need to put /boot on the internal drive so that GRUB can load them. Oops, my sentence was a bit incomplete. You just need to put /boot on the internal drive so that GRUB can load the

Re: Can Grub Boot Through a USB Port on an Old PC?

2019-07-23 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 23/07/2019 à 17:37, Martin McCormick a écrit : It may turn out to be less of a headache to make it a duel-boot system. One boot would be the latest debian console and the other would be Debian Wheezy If the system on the USB drive is GNU/Linux, you just need to put /boot on the in

Re: Can Grub Boot Through a USB Port on an Old PC?

2019-07-22 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 23/07/2019 à 04:53, Martin McCormick a écrit : The PC is old enough that it can not natively boot via a serial port but it might if grub knew about the bootable drive sitting in one of the ports. Do you mean that GRUB is installed on an internal drive ? By default, GRUB relies on the BIOS di

Re: Disable Wired Ethernet at Boot

2019-07-06 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 06/07/2019 à 23:02, Joe a écrit : On Sat, 6 Jul 2019 13:23:49 -0700 Patrick Bartek wrote: I'm going wireless with it. USB. No problem with that, but . . . What's the easiest way to prevent the wired ethernet (built-in on motherboard) from starting up? I was thinking of just commenting it

Re: New Hardware + old disks not recognized

2019-06-26 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 26/06/2019 à 20:15, Ross Boylan a écrit : So do you think the chroot generated initrd would have been OK if I'd mounted proc? Yes.

Re: New Hardware + old disks not recognized

2019-06-25 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 24/06/2019 à 01:40, Ross Boylan a écrit : # update-initramfs -u -k 4.19.0-5-amd64 update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.19.0-5-amd64 /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/cryptroot: 64: /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/cryptroot: cannot open /proc/mounts: No such file cryptsetup: WARNING

Re: IPv4 v IPv6

2019-06-23 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 23/06/2019 à 08:27, Gene Heskett a écrit : On Saturday 22 June 2019 22:49:36 John Hasler wrote: Gene writes: Well, I'd expect there is a registration fee... ...particularly since it may take a whole cluster of servers to cover locally, the whole ipv6 address space. I don't know what you m

Re: New Hardware + old disks not recognized

2019-06-23 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 23/06/2019 à 04:06, Ross Boylan a écrit : My leading suspect for why the hard disks aren't recognized is that they are all attached through 02:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS2116 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 [Meteor] (rev 02) whereas before they were vanill

Re: linux-kernel needs dist-upgrade (again)

2019-06-22 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 03/05/2019 à 15:32, Greg Wooledge a écrit : On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 06:10:45AM +, Bonno Bloksma wrote: I would like to understand why apt-get upgrade holds backup the upgrade of the Linux kernel. Because the kernel ABI changed, and a new package has to be installed. It's not just an up

Re: IPv4 v IPv6

2019-06-20 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 18/06/2019 à 18:19, Reco a écrit : On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 04:45:59PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 18/06/2019 à 16:11, Reco a écrit : The problem can be 'solved' by announcing specific IP routes to each and every host on both sites. Yes, it's gross. Not all hos

Re: Intended question

2019-06-20 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 18/06/2019 à 18:15, David Wright a écrit : It's long been a disappointment that there's no GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_LABEL=true parameter in /etc/default/grub. What for ? grub-mkconfig does not use LABELs by defaut, so there is no need to disable them. I wish there was a way to tell grub-mkconfig

Re: IPv4 v IPv6

2019-06-18 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 18/06/2019 à 16:11, Reco a écrit : Custom routes? When routing between 2 networks using the same range, either with a VPN or some kind of direct connection? It's going to need some evil double NAT sorcery, especially if the same actual addresses are in use on both. As long as: a) It's L3 V

Re: IPv4 v IPv6

2019-06-18 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 17/06/2019 à 17:39, Curt Howland a écrit : Yes, IPv6 does have such allocations. The first 64bits is network block, then the last 64bits are your local machine. Unless you want to enable SLAAC which requires 64+64, you can select different sizes for the network the host parts. Your network

Re: IPv4 v IPv6

2019-06-18 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 18/06/2019 à 14:46, Greg Wooledge a écrit : On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 02:39:53PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 17/06/2019 à 19:00, Dan Ritter a écrit : sudo apt remove avahi* This may raise some dependency issues. Here : The following packages will be REMOVED: adwaita-icon-theme

Re: IPv4 v IPv6

2019-06-18 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 17/06/2019 à 19:00, Dan Ritter a écrit : sudo apt remove avahi* This may raise some dependency issues. Here : The following packages will be REMOVED: adwaita-icon-theme avahi-daemon bochs bochs-term bochs-x ca-certificates-java colord default-jre default-jre-headless epdfview firefox

Re: Intended question - was {Re: Forgot name of Debian "configuration" {wrong word?} file}

2019-06-17 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 17/06/2019 à 04:50, Felix Miata a écrit : I recommend learning to use LABELs on all your filesystems. They are massively easier for humans to work with than UUIDs. You get to assign them in accordance with how your brain functions, e.g.: # LABEL=m12P01esp

Re: Boot Problem

2019-06-17 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 16/06/2019 à 15:53, Stephen P. Molnar a écrit : I have just installed a new SSD in my 64 bit Stretch platform. When I boot the machine I get the following error: error: file '/boot/grub/i386-pc/normalmod' not found Entering rescue mode .. . . grub rescue>_ Pressing Contro-Alt-Delete reboots

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