Re: Fatal error while burning CD

2021-06-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > What were your exact cdrskin arguments ? Michael Lange wrote: > cdrskin -v -dummy -eject dev=/dev/sr0 -sao speed=10 '04 Pujeva.wav' \ >sao_pregap=75 '05 New Pulse.wav' sao_pregap=225 '07 Rocket \ >Keronian.wav' '10 Dodo.wav' Looks quite unsuspicious. The sao_preg

Re: Fatal error while burning CD

2021-06-24 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 09:19:43 +0200 "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: (...) > > $ cdrskin dev=/dev/sr0 -minfo 2>&1 | tee -i /tmp/cdrskin_minfo > > ... > > Vendor_info: 'PLEXTOR' > > Identifikation : 'DVDR PX-810SA' > > Revision : '1.01' > > According to Google this drive iseems to have appea

Re: Fatal error while burning CD

2021-06-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i am making theories how the drive firmware could perceive any illegal request while WRITE(10) commands come in. (Senile dementia is not among the usual signs of drive ageing. Rather they go blind or suffer stroke.) I would be interesting to see the SCSI log of a failed dummy burn. I.e. with

RESOLVED: Font color selection in MATE terminal

2021-06-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/22/2021 08:14 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I have vision problems. I *MUST* have black on white text in all cases. The program I'm running gives out colored text. The MATE Help screen is NOT helpful. Help please. There is a bug in MATE Terminal 1.16.3 [used in Debian 9] which prevents sett

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

2021-06-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 08:49:40AM +0200, Markus wrote: > Ok so...hmmm...I did not remove it myself. I mean why would I want to do > that?!?! Nevertheless this is an issue now. > Interestingly when booting my computer this morning grub was there and > booted into Buster. Shouldn't it be gone if it

Kernel tuning service

2021-06-24 Thread Gokan Atmaca
Hello Is there a kernel tuning service in Debian ? I heard it from one person during a chat. But there is no such service that I know of. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org ⠈⠳⣄

firmware: Davicom DM96xx USB 10/100 Ether ... (which package do I need for that Ethernet interface?)

2021-06-24 Thread Albretch Mueller
sudo lshw -class network ... *-network description: Ethernet interface physical id: 1 bus info: usb@1:1.3 logical name: eth1 serial: 00:e0:4c:53:44:58 size: 100Mbit/s capacity: 100Mbit/s capabilities: ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 10

Re: Kernel tuning service

2021-06-24 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 24 June 2021 07:30:05 Gokan Atmaca wrote: > Hello > > Is there a kernel tuning service in Debian ? I heard it from one > person during a chat. But there is no such service that I know of. There was such a utility, about 20 years ago, that fixed some of the low hanging fruit, but pro

Re: Fatal error while burning CD

2021-06-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i got an SCSI log of a failed burn run from Michael Lange. No artsy dance between drive and libburn is to see, which could explain a misunderstanding between both. The drive buffer becomes full, after 17 seconds some few sectors seem to have been actually written, and then the second next WRI

Re: apt-key says deprecated, but not saying what else to use

2021-06-24 Thread Marco Möller
On 20.06.21 14:11, Darac Marjal wrote: On 19/06/2021 21:07, Marco Möller wrote: Hello, Command apt-key and its man page say that apt-key is deprecated, but do not suggest an instead recommended tool. It is only mentioned that keys would now be organized in /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/  . But how sh

Re: apt-key says deprecated, but not saying what else to use

2021-06-24 Thread Marco Möller
On 20.06.21 17:36, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sat, 19 Jun 2021 22:07:35 +0200 Marco Möller wrote: Hello Marco, Command apt-key and its man page say that apt-key is deprecated, but do Coincidentally, I recently got notification of a pertinent blog post by Julian Andres Klode. See; https://blog.j

Re: firmware: Davicom DM96xx USB 10/100 Ether ... (which package do I need for that Ethernet interface?)

2021-06-24 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 07:49:42AM -0400, Albretch Mueller wrote: > ... driver=dm9601 Kernel module "dm9601" is built by Debian Kernel Team and should be included at "linux-image-$(version)-$arch" package. As of stable, that is. That specific kernel module does not require any firmwa

Re: firmware: Davicom DM96xx USB 10/100 Ether ... (which package do I need for that Ethernet interface?)

2021-06-24 Thread Albretch Mueller
> That specific kernel module does not require any firmware. Well, I am using: $ uname -a Linux Microknoppix 5.3.5-64 #16 SMP PREEMPT Wed Oct 23 02:08:38 CEST 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linux which they say is based on buster. I will have to test the thing with Debian and/or ask directly the knoppix folk

Re: firmware: Davicom DM96xx USB 10/100 Ether ... (which package do I need for that Ethernet interface?)

2021-06-24 Thread Reco
On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 09:28:54AM -0400, Albretch Mueller wrote: > > That specific kernel module does not require any firmware. > > Well, I am using: > > $ uname -a > Linux Microknoppix 5.3.5-64 #16 SMP PREEMPT Wed Oct 23 02:08:38 CEST > 2019 x86_64 GNU/Linux And that's non-Debian kernel. >

Re: firmware: Davicom DM96xx USB 10/100 Ether ... (which package do I need for that Ethernet interface?)

2021-06-24 Thread Albretch Mueller
// __ rötlich blinkende Router und USB-RJ45-Schnittstelle ... https://forum.vodafone.de/t5/Internet-Geräte/rötlich-blinkende-Router-und-USB-RJ45-Schnittstelle/m-p/2659178/ ~ it was written in German, because I was trying to directly ask on vodafone's fora, but I think based on the linux command

Re: firmware: Davicom DM96xx USB 10/100 Ether ... (which package do I need for that Ethernet interface?)

2021-06-24 Thread Albretch Mueller
> Try executing "/sbin/modinfo dm9601" Well, it seems to be the case. So what might be the problem then? $ /sbin/modinfo dm9601 filename: /lib/modules/5.3.5-64/kernel/drivers/net/usb/dm9601.ko license:GPL description:Davicom DM96xx USB 10/100 ethernet devices author: Pe

grub2 boot menu

2021-06-24 Thread mick crane
hello, I was dual booting but got another PC so I can have windows and debain at the same time. Just for tidiness of booting I'd have liked to comment out the submenu entry in /boot/grub/grub.cfg for windows just in case I wanted to put it back but not allowed. Physically removing the windows d

Re: firmware: Davicom DM96xx USB 10/100 Ether ... (which package do I need for that Ethernet interface?)

2021-06-24 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 09:42:06AM -0400, Albretch Mueller wrote: > // __ rötlich blinkende Router und USB-RJ45-Schnittstelle ... > > > https://forum.vodafone.de/t5/Internet-Geräte/rötlich-blinkende-Router-und-USB-RJ45-Schnittstelle/m-p/2659178/ > ~ > it was written in German, beca

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

2021-06-24 Thread David Wright
On Thu 24 Jun 2021 at 08:49:40 (+0200), Markus wrote: > Am 23.06.21 um 18:08 schrieb David Wright: > > On Wed 23 Jun 2021 at 17:01:07 (+0200), Markus wrote: > > > rc  grub-efi-amd64 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u3 > >↑↑ There's your problem. It's been removed (but not purged). > Ok so...hmmm...I did no

Re: grub2 boot menu

2021-06-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 02:51:06PM +0100, mick crane wrote: > I was dual booting but got another PC so I can have windows and debain at > the same time. Just for tidiness of booting I'd have liked to comment out > the submenu entry in /boot/grub/grub.cfg for windows just in case I wanted > to put i

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

2021-06-24 Thread Nicolas George
David Wright (12021-06-24): > Only if you'd gone ahead and removed all those other packages. Not even then. The GRUB packages are useful for installing the GRUB bootloader. Once it's installed, the computer will boot, and the package are not necessary, although they might be useful to automaticall

Re: grub2 boot menu

2021-06-24 Thread Felix Miata
mick crane composed on 2021-06-24 14:51 (UTC+0100): > I was dual booting but got another PC so I can have windows and debain > at the same time. Just for tidiness of booting I'd have liked to comment > out the submenu entry in /boot/grub/grub.cfg for windows just in case I > wanted to put it ba

Re: Bug#990086: apt-key is deprecated in bullseye, how to manage keys instead

2021-06-24 Thread Marco Möller
On 21.06.21 07:58, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 20 iun 21, 10:20:42, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Package: release-notes X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org, a...@packages.debian.org On Sb, 19 iun 21, 22:07:35, Marco Möller wrote: Command apt-key and its man page say that apt-key is deprecate

Re: grub2 boot menu

2021-06-24 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-06-24 at 10:32, Felix Miata wrote: > mick crane composed on 2021-06-24 14:51 (UTC+0100): > >> I was dual booting but got another PC so I can have windows and debain >> at the same time. Just for tidiness of booting I'd have liked to comment >> out the submenu entry in /boot/grub/grub.cf

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

2021-06-24 Thread Markus
Thank you, David, for the very useful hint. I found this in apt history: Start-Date: 2021-03-06 21:08:42 Commandline: apt full-upgrade Requested-By: markus (1000) Upgrade: grub-common:amd64 (2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u3, 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u4), grub2-common:amd64 (2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u3, 2.02+dfsg1-20+

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

2021-06-24 Thread Markus
I wanted to reinstall grub-efi-amd64 and got this: markus@bmtMB1:/var/log/apt$ sudo apt install grub-efi-amd64 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situati

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

2021-06-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 05:06:50PM +0200, Markus wrote: > I wanted to reinstall grub-efi-amd64 and got this: > > markus@bmtMB1:/var/log/apt$ sudo apt install grub-efi-amd64 > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Some packages could not be i

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

2021-06-24 Thread Markus
More information: markus@bmtMB1:/var/log/apt$ sudo apt policy grub-efi-amd64 grub-common grub2-common grub-efi-amd64-bin grub-efi-amd64: Installed: (none) Candidate: 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u3 Version table: 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u4 500 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian buster/main a

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

2021-06-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 06:43:15PM +0200, Markus wrote: > grub-efi-amd64: > Installed: (none) > Candidate: 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u3 > Version table: > 2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u4 500 > 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages > 500 http://security.debian.org

Re: Kernel tuning service

2021-06-24 Thread Gokan Atmaca
> Now-a-days there are two versions of some of the more popular kernels, > with the other version designed for people who run machinery which often > needs corrective response in case a machine needs correcting quickly, as > in a very few microseconds. They will have an rt in their version names.

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-24 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 01:25:37 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 23 iun 21, 17:12:07, Michael Grant wrote: > > > Apparently the lines are blurry enough for you to include Signal in that > > > list. > > > > Why? Not blurry at all. Signal is just as closed a system as > > WhatsApp. Maybe more

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-24 Thread Dan Ritter
Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 01:25:37 +0300 > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Mi, 23 iun 21, 17:12:07, Michael Grant wrote: > > > > Apparently the lines are blurry enough for you to include Signal in > > > > that > > > > list. > > > > > > Why? Not blurry at all. Signal is just as clo

Re: grub2 boot menu

2021-06-24 Thread David Wright
On Thu 24 Jun 2021 at 14:51:06 (+0100), mick crane wrote: > I was dual booting but got another PC so I can have windows and debain > at the same time. Just for tidiness of booting I'd have liked to > comment out the submenu entry in /boot/grub/grub.cfg for windows just > in case I wanted to put it

Re: grub2 boot menu

2021-06-24 Thread didier gaumet
Hello,  Grub can ignore all or only certain OSes that os-prober detects by setting up the desired behaviour in /etc/default/grub from the grub info page: [...]" 'GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER' Normally, 'grub-mkconfig' will try to use the external 'os-prober' program, if installed, to discov

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-24 Thread Brian
On Thu 24 Jun 2021 at 14:04:13 -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 01:25:37 +0300 > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Mi, 23 iun 21, 17:12:07, Michael Grant wrote: > > > > Apparently the lines are blurry enough for you to include Signal in > > > > that > > > > list. > > > > > > Why? Not

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-24 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 21:03:28 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Thu 24 Jun 2021 at 14:04:13 -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 01:25:37 +0300 > > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > > On Mi, 23 iun 21, 17:12:07, Michael Grant wrote: > > > > > Apparently the lines are blurry enough for you to inclu

Re: Fatal error while burning CD

2021-06-24 Thread Michael Lange
Hi, On Thu, 24 Jun 2021 14:18:08 +0200 "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > Hi, > > i got an SCSI log of a failed burn run from Michael Lange. > > No artsy dance between drive and libburn is to see, which could explain > a misunderstanding between both. > The drive buffer becomes full, after 17 seconds s

Re: Fatal error while burning CD

2021-06-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > >modesty_on_drive=1:min_percent=75:max_percent=80 Michael Lange wrote: > burning failed with this option, too (two out of three runs). Looks like you really need a new drive. > cdrskin: FATAL : SCSI error on write(299,13): See MMC \ > specs: Sense Key 5 "Illegal requ