device name (symlink) stability

2017-04-25 Thread Vincent Lefevre
After a reboot of a Debian/unstable machine, I got: /dev/cdrw -> sr1 while it was /dev/cdrw -> sr0 before the reboot. More precisely, the change in the lshw output: *-scsi:0 physical id: 8c logical name: scsi2 capabilities: emulated *-cdrom

Re: device name (symlink) stability

2017-04-25 Thread Michael Biebl
Hi Am 25.04.2017 um 10:53 schrieb Vincent Lefevre: > After a reboot of a Debian/unstable machine, I got: > > /dev/cdrw -> sr1 > > while it was > > /dev/cdrw -> sr0 [..] > Is it normal that the device names are not stable? > > In particular, it is strange that all the symlinks point to sr

multiple drives, 'Gave up waiting for suspend/resume device'

2017-04-25 Thread craigswin
For a desktop install from a thumbdrive of testing RC3, there were three drives plugged in to the motherboard. One drive was the installation target. The other two had old installs, RC3 and Wheezy. Bizarrely, the resulting fstab has two swap partitions. One from the target drive, and a second

Re: Possibly erroneous "device not present" message during boot

2017-04-25 Thread Brian
On Mon 24 Apr 2017 at 15:10:16 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 24 Apr 2017 at 19:37:22 (+0100), Brian wrote: > > > > A modicum of reassurance and help is never wasted, particularly for > > those users who come to this thread in the future. > > > > My laptop has a single slotted reader on the

Re: Measuring aggregate internet useage?

2017-04-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/24/2017 04:12 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: On 24/04/17 22:58, Richard Owlett wrote: If there were user accessible registers with a running total of uploaded/downloaded data since device power on would be almost ideal granularity. Is ifconfig available on a console during installation?

Re: funny times

2017-04-25 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/23/2017 09:33 PM, songbird wrote: when my computer is turned off the clock runs slow. when my computer is turned on the clock runs fast. so any single adjustment in /etc/adjtime doesn't work (as my number of hours off or on the computer each day may change). You may have reached l

Re: device name (symlink) stability

2017-04-25 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Hi, On 2017-04-25 12:14:30 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 25.04.2017 um 10:53 schrieb Vincent Lefevre: [...] > > In particular, it is strange that all the symlinks point to sr0 > > except cdrw, which now points to sr1. > > The udev rules responsible for creating those symlinks is > /lib/udev/ru

mutt & maillist digests

2017-04-25 Thread Mike McClain
I'm running Debian Wheeze on a P3 1/2M memory. Mostly CL. Mutt 1.5.21 is the culprit ( or am I? ) I subscribe to mailing lists in digest form. Mutt recognizes the fact when I'm viewing a Debian User digest but not when I'm reading a 'help-bash' digest from gnu.org. The difference that's got me

Re: mutt & maillist digests

2017-04-25 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2017-04-24 15:57:17 -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > I'm running Debian Wheeze on a P3 1/2M memory. Mostly CL. > Mutt 1.5.21 is the culprit ( or am I? ) > I subscribe to mailing lists in digest form. > Mutt recognizes the fact when I'm viewing a Debian User digest but not > when I'm reading a 'h

Re: Mouse pointer _sometimes_ too big

2017-04-25 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/24/2017 11:19 AM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: Mine will occasionally do something like this. In my case, it gives the appearance it's switching back and forth between entire cursor themes. Is there a chance that's actually what's going on here rather than it "just" being about pixel size? Min

Re: device name (symlink) stability

2017-04-25 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 25.04.2017 um 16:09 schrieb Vincent Lefevre: > Hi, > > On 2017-04-25 12:14:30 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: >> Am 25.04.2017 um 10:53 schrieb Vincent Lefevre: > [...] >>> In particular, it is strange that all the symlinks point to sr0 >>> except cdrw, which now points to sr1. >> >> The udev rules

Re: mutt & maillist digests

2017-04-25 Thread David Wright
On Tue 25 Apr 2017 at 17:22:28 (+0200), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2017-04-24 15:57:17 -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > > I'm running Debian Wheeze on a P3 1/2M memory. Mostly CL. > > Mutt 1.5.21 is the culprit ( or am I? ) > > I subscribe to mailing lists in digest form. > > Mutt recognizes the f

Re: multiple drives, 'Gave up waiting for suspend/resume device'

2017-04-25 Thread Felix Miata
craigswin composed on 2017-04-25 04:41 (UTC-0700): > For a desktop install from a thumbdrive of testing RC3, there were three > drives plugged in to the motherboard. One drive was the installation > target. The other two had old installs, RC3 and Wheezy. > > Bizarrely, the resulting fstab has

Re: Re: funny times

2017-04-25 Thread songbird
Ric Moore wrote: > On 04/23/2017 09:33 PM, songbird wrote: >> when my computer is turned off the clock >> runs slow. >> >> when my computer is turned on the clock >> runs fast. >> >> so any single adjustment in /etc/adjtime >> doesn't work (as my number of hours off or >> on the computer each

Old, stale bug reports (bug triage)

2017-04-25 Thread Felix Dietrich
Looking through bugs in the Mnemosyne package I noticed a couple of old and stale reports that could have already been closed. E.g. the discussion in report #783929 ends with the upstream developer saying that Mnemosyne is working as intended and in the last message he simply writes "Done." – yet,