Re: Root is in RO after boot

Hi George, Run fsck on your root filesystem. On 8/1/20 5:15 am, George Shuklin wrote: On 1/7/20 4:33 PM, David Wright wrote: On Tue 07 Jan 2020 at 14:58:08 (+0200), George Shuklin wrote: After recent minor package upgrade (I'm on sid) I found that the root filesystem is in 'RO' mode. I chan

Re: Print Settings issue

On 2020-01-07, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> >> Maybe he could create a fake lsb 3.2 package with equivs (I'd tell him >> how, if I only knew how). > > I still think it's the wrong approach, and they should just figure > out how to supply the PPD file directly to CUPS. It's probably even > *easy* to d

Re: Bulleye: How do I disable scrolling on touchpad...........

On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 02:00:33 -0500 Jack Dangler wrote: > On 1/8/20 12:52 AM, Charlie wrote: > > From my keyboard: > > > > Hello Everyone, > > > > Trying to stop all scrolling on my touchpad has me tricked; > > and the mad scrolling is driving me nuts. > > > > Debian Bullseye, FVWM, HP

Re: Bulleye: How do I disable scrolling on touchpad...........

On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 02:00:33 -0500 Jack Dangler wrote: > On 1/8/20 12:52 AM, Charlie wrote: > > From my keyboard: > > > > Hello Everyone, > > > > Trying to stop all scrolling on my touchpad has me tricked; > > and the mad scrolling is driving me nuts. > > > > Debian Bullseye, FVWM, HP

Re: Samsung SCX-6122FN on Buster

Thank you for the feedback, Klaus. After sending previous e-mail, I have found OpenPrinting project. What I see is that the project provides open sourced drivers [0]. I found associated driver under Samsung as "Samsung SCX-6x22". I haven't tried but seems promising. I will give it a try with using

screen color distortion after xrandr

greets! I was trying to get a second monitor (a tv) to work using xrandr. I noticed that the screen on the laptop would suffer severe, almost 'psychedelic', effects if I hit a certain setting. unfortunately I don't recall the setting but the ill effect was consistent and rendered the display

Re: Any Bluetooth 5 adapter Debian compatible

On 2020-01-06, Dan Ritter wrote: > > I think of "natively" as meaning "supported in the standard > kernel". Some devices will still require a firmware blob, and > of those, some will require an unfree firmware blob. I consider natively to denote a device (in this case) that works without the req

Re: screen color distortion after xrandr

Felmon Davis wrote: > greets! > > I was trying to get a second monitor (a tv) to work using xrandr. I noticed > that the screen on the laptop would suffer severe, almost 'psychedelic', > effects if I hit a certain setting. > > unfortunately I don't recall the setting but the ill effect was consi

Re: Any Bluetooth 5 adapter Debian compatible

Curt wrote: > On 2020-01-06, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > I think of "natively" as meaning "supported in the standard > > kernel". Some devices will still require a firmware blob, and > > of those, some will require an unfree firmware blob. > > I consider natively to denote a device (in this case)

Re: screen color distortion after xrandr

ryOn Wed, 8 Jan 2020, Dan Ritter wrote: Felmon Davis wrote: greets! I was trying to get a second monitor (a tv) to work using xrandr. I noticed that the screen on the laptop would suffer severe, almost 'psychedelic', effects if I hit a certain setting. unfortunately I don't recall the setting

Re: apple mini

On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 03:40:01AM +0100, Felix Miata wrote: > Seems all you really need to do is remove the content from the home > directories, > e.g. rm -R This will cause the filesystem to mark the corresponding files as deleted so that they are not visible when accessing the filesystem conve

Re: screen color distortion after xrandr

On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 10:09:44 -0500 Dan Ritter wrote: > What *randr program were you using? > > arandr If arandr, look in ~/.screenlayout/ -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/

Re: Any Bluetooth 5 adapter Debian compatible

On 2020-01-08, Dan Ritter wrote: >> >> I consider natively to denote a device (in this case) that works without >> the requirement of any software emulation to lead it to believe it is >> functioning on a OS different from the host OS. > > That's a pretty odd interpretation: very few physical dev

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

Hello all It is good to see a few comments and help following my original post. I had set aside a few days to try out the Debian system and repositories but sorting out the effect on my main system and finding the cause has used up those days. I now have to return my kit to normal set-up and

Re: apple mini

Jonathan Dowland composed on 2020-01-08 16:16 (UTC): > On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 03:40:01AM +0100, Felix Miata wrote: >> Seems all you really need to do is remove the content from the home >> directories, >> e.g. rm -R > This will cause the filesystem to mark the corresponding files as > deleted

Re: Any Bluetooth 5 adapter Debian compatible

Curt wrote: > On 2020-01-08, Dan Ritter wrote: > >> > >> I consider natively to denote a device (in this case) that works without > >> the requirement of any software emulation to lead it to believe it is > >> functioning on a OS different from the host OS. > > > > That's a pretty odd interpreta

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

I do understand your frustration, the Manual option for the Debian Installer is complex. It took me a while to absorb, and understand... see further comment below On 1/8/20 9:04 AM, ct wrote: Hello all It is good to see a few comments and help following my original post. I had set aside a fe

Re: apple mini

On 1/8/20 10:44 AM, Felix Miata wrote > If you're seriously concerned the next owner might try that, create a new file > full of junk from /dev/random or from /dev/null that fills the existing > freespace, > then remove it. This is not at all a major job. Just get dd copying from /dev/random to

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

This all dates from the days when 1) you might actually need swap to complete an install and 2) swap was utilized by partition name and not a UUID. It's reasonable to wonder if the installer still needs to be so aggressive about swap space. There's a bug (842409) dating from 2016 regarding this

Re: apple mini

On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 11:41:00AM -0700, ghe wrote: On 1/8/20 10:44 AM, Felix Miata wrote If you're seriously concerned the next owner might try that, create a new file full of junk from /dev/random or from /dev/null that fills the existing freespace, then remove it. This is not at all a ma

Re: apple mini

On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 01:45:28PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 11:41:00AM -0700, ghe wrote: > > On 1/8/20 10:44 AM, Felix Miata wrote > > > > > If you're seriously concerned the next owner might try that, create a new > > > file > > > full of junk from /dev/random or fro

Re: apple mini

On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 02:03:39AM -0700, ghe wrote: Or if you want a multi-pass DoD wipe, try DBAN: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dban/ There is no current guidance that anything more than a single pass of zeros is necessary or beneficial when wiping a magnetic disk. There are reasons th

Re: apple mini

On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 01:55:45PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 01:45:28PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 11:41:00AM -0700, ghe wrote: > On 1/8/20 10:44 AM, Felix Miata wrote > > > If you're seriously concerned the next owner might try that, create a n

Re: Print Settings issue

On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 6:06 PM Curt wrote: > On 2020-01-07, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > My idea of an equivs LSB package is also rather deficient, as the > required libraries would still be missing (lsb.so...) which would > doubtless be a showstopper. > > I've read that the Epson L375 driver contai

Re: Print Settings issue

On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 03:17:35AM +0800, kaye n wrote: > On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 6:06 PM Curt wrote: > > > On 2020-01-07, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > My idea of an equivs LSB package is also rather deficient, as the > > required libraries would still be missing (lsb.so...) which would > > doubt

Re: Print Settings issue

On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 3:20 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 03:17:35AM +0800, kaye n wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 6:06 PM Curt wrote: > > > > > On 2020-01-07, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > > My idea of an equivs LSB package is also rather deficient, as the > > > required

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

With sufficient memory above 1GB probably a swap file could be created by an installer and maybe let the user know it got created and how to turn it on with swapon as well as under what circumstances it would be advantageous to the user to turn swap on. That might be a bit too complex for installat

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

Michael Stone writes: This all dates from the days when 1) you might actually need swap to complete an install and 2) swap was utilized by partition name and not a UUID. It's reasonable to wonder if the installer still needs to be so aggressive about swap space. There's a bug (842409) dating fro

Re: No sound with Pulseaudio

Hello. You can check this documentations about pulse audio. https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/ 2020-01-06, pr, 23:00 deloptes rašė: > Dan Ritter wrote: > > > I have found, in troubleshooting complex systems, that blaming > > all the working things for the f

Re: apple mini

On 1/8/20 11:59 AM, Michael Stone wrote: > No, that's still an unnecesarily slow alternative Hence the suggestion to run it overnight, while asleep. And, I suspect, dd is plenty good enough to make the disk in a Mac Mini unreadable by a Mac OS. > which will not improve > your security but will

Re: apple mini

On Sun, 05 Jan 2020 21:54:30 + mick crane wrote: > yes I know this is Debian user list > yes I know that apple is unix. > I got an apple mini to give to somebody > to clean it up is that > "userdel" > "makeusr" or something like that ? OSX has a provision for cleaning out the whole kazoo, in

Re: apple mini

On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 12:53:15PM -0700, ghe wrote: On 1/8/20 11:59 AM, Michael Stone wrote: No, that's still an unnecesarily slow alternative Hence the suggestion to run it overnight, while asleep. And, I suspect, dd is plenty good enough to make the disk in a Mac Mini unreadable by a Mac O

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

Jude DaShiell composed on 2020-01-08 14:35 (UTC-0500): > With sufficient memory above 1GB probably a swap file could be created > by an installer For an installation that /requires/ swap, due to a limited RAM target, simply to proceed, an extra swap from the target freespace could be created in a

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

On Wed 08 Jan 2020 at 20:48:53 (+0100), Linux-Fan wrote: > Michael Stone writes: > > > […] Perhaps some discussion sent to the BTS about alternate > > behaviors would be useful, rather than just rants that "something" is > > "broken"? > > I am not the OP, yet I have often wondered about this beha

Re: apple mini

On 1/8/20 1:21 PM, Michael Stone wrote: > If you use /dev/zero you'll be limited by the speed of the disk. If you > use /dev/random you'll run probably under 1 megabyte per second (that > is, probably on the order of 100 times slower; unless your night is more > than a month long it won't be overn

Re: apple mini

On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 02:43:54PM -0700, ghe wrote: According to the dban dox, multiple passes do make a difference. I've never understood why writing the same tracks over and over makes much difference, though. But I've seen it in more than one place. Yes, it's a wrong idea which has been ver

Re: apple mini

On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 03:21:08PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: dd is certainly sufficient, but suggesting that someone use random data is to suggest slowing things down without providing any advantage. I think "cp" might be faster still than "dd", at least in the /dev/zero case, but the diffe

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

On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 05:04:27PM +, ct wrote: Other than Pascal’s ‘feature’ - I assume he does not like it either - we still do not have a valid reason. Unless one of the debian-installer maintainers happens to be reading this mailing list, you're just going to get educated guesses. It wo

Re: just a general question really

On 5/01/20 12:23 am, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > Now its all slim and compatible SATA\SAS cables with safe connectors, so > you don't have to worry about bending or breaking pins on the > motherboard or external storage adapter. Still need to be careful. I was transferring data to a new drive,

Re: apple mini

I use ATA secure erase ; I activate it with hdparm from a live usb drive (you may need to install hdparm). I do not know if ATA secure erase is supported by the mini bios and drive. Many bioses I have seen that freeze security can be unfro

64bit ext4 and kernel version compatibility

Hi,   On my DVR, I am running fairly old version of kernel (3.13.0-132-generic, mythbuntu 14.04.5 LTS). I want to convert ext4 fs on this server to 64bit so that I can grow it past 16TB limit. At that time of installation (2014), e2fsprogs did not support 64bit fs.  Now it does. Before I get

Re: screen color distortion after xrandr

For some reason, debian-user rejected this post (and will inform me in due course), so I'm posting it again. On Wed 08 Jan 2020 at 08:28:35 (-0600), David Wright wrote: > On Wed 08 Jan 2020 at 14:24:12 (+0100), Felmon Davis wrote: > > I was trying to get a second monitor (a tv) to work using xrand

Re: apple mini

On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 10:36:33PM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 03:21:08PM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: dd is certainly sufficient, but suggesting that someone use random data is to suggest slowing things down without providing any advantage. I think "cp" might be fa

Re: apple mini

On Thu, Jan 09, 2020 at 12:11:54PM +1300, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: I use ATA secure erase ; I activate it with hdparm from a live usb drive (you may need to install hdparm). I do not know if ATA secure erase is supported by the mini bios

Re: apple mini

> On Jan 8, 2020, at 07:46 PM, Michael Stone wrote: > >> If you need to protect against an attacker willing to examine your HDD with >> magnetic force microscopy, there is no substitute for physical destruction >> of the media. > > Yes--if single-pass all-zeros erase isn't sufficient, the n

Re: screen color distortion after xrandr

David Wright wrote: > For some reason, debian-user rejected this post (and will inform me in > due course), so I'm posting it again. > > > It sounds to me more like a Desktop problem: I don't know how to make > > the effects of xrandr stick like that. > > > > I would investigate where the settin

Re: screen color distortion after xrandr

On Wed 08 Jan 2020 at 22:03:37 (-0500), Dan Ritter wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > For some reason, debian-user rejected this post (and will inform me in > > due course), so I'm posting it again. > > > > > It sounds to me more like a Desktop problem: I don't know how to make > > > the effects of

Re: apple mini

On Wed 08 Jan 2020 at 19:57:10 (-0700), ghe wrote: > > On Jan 8, 2020, at 07:46 PM, Michael Stone wrote: > > > >> If you need to protect against an attacker willing to examine your HDD > >> with magnetic force microscopy, there is no substitute for physical > >> destruction of the media. > > >

Re: apple mini

On 09/01/2020 15:57, ghe wrote: Back in the analog days, I worked at a college radio station that sent out radio programs on tape. There was a big box that we passed a reel of tape over to erase it. That box might do disks too :-) I recall reading that the information encoded on HDDs is much

Re: apple mini

On 09/01/2020 16:45, David Wright wrote: No, don't mix degaussers and disks. If you want to reuse them, they're likely too damaged. If you're concerned about data recovery, then they're unlikely to be erased enough to prevent it. : "For certain forms o

Re: screen color distortion after xrandr

On Wed, 8 Jan 2020, David Wright wrote: It sounds to me more like a Desktop problem: I don't know how to make the effects of xrandr stick like that. I would investigate where the settings are being kept by: 1) check you have a bash prompt available somewhere, eg a VC. 2) make some change with

Re: Print Settings issue

Hello Friends, I've given up on using imagescan. I was able to install it, but it just could not detect the wifi printer, so I uninstalled it. The built-in Xsane scanner seemed to work at first, but now when I open it, I get: Error during CMS conversion: Could not open scanner ICM profile. On

Re: Print Settings issue

On 1/9/20 12:49 AM, kaye n wrote: Hello Friends, I've given up on using imagescan. I was able to install it, but it just could not detect the wifi printer, so I uninstalled it. The built-in Xsane scanner seemed to work at first, but now when I open it, I get: Error during CMS conversion

web server for development

For development of a web pages, I installed Apache2 on another machine in the LAN so that I can FTP web pages from the development machine to the web server and view the pages from the development machine. But the installation of Apache2 on Buster serves documents from /var/www/html/, which is ow

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

On Mi, 08 ian 20, 20:48:53, Linux-Fan wrote: > > * A single swap partition from other (actively used or not) installations. > In this case, changing the UUID _breaks_ all other installations at the > expense of the new installation. I agree that sharing a swap space is > bad with suspend-to-

Re: web server for development

On 1/9/2020 7:16 AM, Russell L. Harris wrote: > For development of a web pages, I installed Apache2 on another machine > in the LAN so that I can FTP web pages from the development machine to > the web server and view the pages from the development machine. > > But the installation of Apache2 on Bu

Re: apple mini

On Jo, 09 ian 20, 17:03:57, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 09/01/2020 16:45, David Wright wrote: > > No, don't mix degaussers and disks. If you want to reuse them, they're > > likely too damaged. If you're concerned about data recovery, then they're > > unlikely to be erased enough to prevent it. >