Monthly FAQ for the Debian-user mailing list

2022-10-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Debian-user is a mailing list provided for support for Debian users, and to facilitate discussion on relevant topics. Some guidelines which may help explain how the list works: * The language on this mailing list is English. There may be other mailing lists that are language-specific for exam

Re: Monthly FAQ for the Debian-user mailing list

2022-10-01 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-10-01 at 05:46, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Debian-user is a mailing list provided for support for Debian users, > and to facilitate discussion on relevant topics. > > Some guidelines which may help explain how the list works: Allow me, if you will, to share my experience on receiving ea

usrmerge

2022-10-01 Thread billium
Since the last update to my debian testing I am unable to install anything or upgrade. Setting up usrmerge (31) ... FATAL ERROR: Both /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 and /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 exist. I can move the stated file and create a symlink but there are so many files, i

Re: Re: Re: SSD Optimization - Crucial CT1000MX500SSD1

2022-10-01 Thread Marcelo Laia
Hi Andy, so sorry for that. Here is the long one. smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-5.19.0-2-amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Te

Re: usrmerge

2022-10-01 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Oct 01, 2022 at 11:06:55AM +0100, billium wrote: > Since the last update to my debian testing I am unable to install anything > or upgrade. > > Setting up usrmerge (31) ... > > FATAL ERROR: > Both /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 and /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 > exist. How did yo

Re: Monthly FAQ for the Debian-user mailing list

2022-10-01 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, October 01, 2022 06:10:48 AM The Wanderer wrote: > On 2022-10-01 at 05:46, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > Debian-user is a mailing list provided for support for Debian users, > > and to facilitate discussion on relevant topics. > I therefore reiterate my suggestion, from what I think wa

Re: usrmerge

2022-10-01 Thread billium
Thanks for your time Greg This occurred from updates only no installs for a while. I did try moving some of the files and sym linking, then rebooting to check, all worked (inc libc) but got bored doing it after about 30 times. I also tried sym linking /usr/bin and /usr/lib etc but it locked

Re: usrmerge

2022-10-01 Thread billium
On 01/10/2022 15:07, billium wrote: Thanks for your time Greg This occurred from updates only no installs for a while. I did try moving some of the files and sym linking, then rebooting to check, all worked (inc libc) but got bored doing it after about 30 times.  I also tried sym linking /usr

Re: Monthly FAQ for the Debian-user mailing list

2022-10-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Oct 01, 2022 at 06:10:48AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2022-10-01 at 05:46, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > Debian-user is a mailing list provided for support for Debian users, > > and to facilitate discussion on relevant topics. > > > > Some guidelines which may help explain how the

update-initramfs outside of /boot

2022-10-01 Thread Erwan David
My /boot is 235 MB (from deb 10 installer), however in testing I now have 56MB initramfs files and update-initramfs cannot work for the 3rd kernel to install (and apt autoremove keeps 2 kernels, thus at upgrade there are temporarily 3 kernels). I see that all the files of the initramfs are put

Re: Monthly FAQ for the Debian-user mailing list

2022-10-01 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Oct 01, 2022 at 02:19:47PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > That's probably a reasonable assumption. It's manually posted by me: it's > the same text, fairly well, each month (modulo any copying error), it's > not currently in version control. Now, I might be prepared to change > that if I

Re: update-initramfs outside of /boot

2022-10-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
> My /boot is 235 MB (from deb 10 installer), however in testing I now have > 56MB initramfs files and update-initramfs cannot work for the 3rd kernel to > install (and apt autoremove keeps 2 kernels, thus at upgrade there are > temporarily 3 kernels). MODULES=dep and COMPRESS=lzma in `

Re: update-initramfs outside of /boot

2022-10-01 Thread Erwan David
Le 01/10/2022 à 17:16, Stefan Monnier a écrit : My /boot is 235 MB (from deb 10 installer), however in testing I now have 56MB initramfs files and update-initramfs cannot work for the 3rd kernel to install (and apt autoremove keeps 2 kernels, thus at upgrade there are temporarily 3 kernels).

Re: update-initramfs outside of /boot

2022-10-01 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2022-10-01 17:26 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Le 01/10/2022 à 17:16, Stefan Monnier a écrit : >>> My /boot is 235 MB (from deb 10 installer), however in testing I now have >>> 56MB initramfs files and update-initramfs cannot work for the 3rd kernel to >>> install (and apt autoremove keeps 2 kern

Re: update-initramfs outside of /boot

2022-10-01 Thread Felix Miata
Erwan David composed on 2022-10-01 16:21 (UTC+0200): > My /boot is 235 MB (from deb 10 installer), however in testing I now > have 56MB initramfs files and update-initramfs cannot work for the 3rd > kernel to install (and apt autoremove keeps 2 kernels, thus at upgrade > there are temporarily 3

firmware-iwlwifi

2022-10-01 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
Dear Debian community, what is the problem with firmware-iwlwifi in testing? The package is outdated but it's important. Kind regards Georgi

Re: update-initramfs outside of /boot

2022-10-01 Thread Erwan David
Le 01/10/2022 à 18:25, Felix Miata a écrit : Erwan David composed on 2022-10-01 16:21 (UTC+0200): My /boot is 235 MB (from deb 10 installer), however in testing I now have 56MB initramfs files and update-initramfs cannot work for the 3rd kernel to install (and apt autoremove keeps 2 kernels, th

Re: update-initramfs outside of /boot

2022-10-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I alreaady have compres=zstd (should be better than lzma). I'd be surprised if `zstd` compresses better than `lzma` (which itself should compress about the same as `xz`). I just tested here and I get zstd => 11049378 xz => 9989884 lzma => 9965122 Maybe with more control over t

Re: update-initramfs outside of /boot

2022-10-01 Thread debian-user
> Le 01/10/2022 à 18:25, Felix Miata a écrit : > > Erwan David composed on 2022-10-01 16:21 (UTC+0200): > > > >> My /boot is 235 MB (from deb 10 installer), however in testing I > >> now have 56MB initramfs files and update-initramfs cannot work for > >> the 3rd kernel to install (and apt autorem

Re: update-initramfs outside of /boot

2022-10-01 Thread Brian
On Sat 01 Oct 2022 at 20:07:13 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Le 01/10/2022 à 18:25, Felix Miata a écrit : > > Erwan David composed on 2022-10-01 16:21 (UTC+0200): > > > > > My /boot is 235 MB (from deb 10 installer), however in testing I now > > > have 56MB initramfs files and update-initramfs cann

Re: SSD Optimization - Crucial CT1000MX500SSD1

2022-10-01 Thread David Christensen
On 10/1/22 04:09, Marcelo Laia wrote: Hi Andy, so sorry for that. Here is the long one. smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-5.19.0-2-amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Self-test

Re: Monthly FAQ for the Debian-user mailing list

2022-10-01 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-10-01 at 09:44, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Saturday, October 01, 2022 06:10:48 AM The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2022-10-01 at 05:46, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: >> >>> Debian-user is a mailing list provided for support for Debian >>> users, and to facilitate discussion on relevant topics.

Re: Monthly FAQ for the Debian-user mailing list

2022-10-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
> For example: as soon as you've had more than one change in the entire > history of the document, you need to start considering what the previous > version against which you're showing differences is. If you try to do it > against all of them, it very quickly becomes unwieldy; if you try to do Fo

Re: Monthly FAQ for the Debian-user mailing list

2022-10-01 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-10-01 at 18:25, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> For example: as soon as you've had more than one change in the >> entire history of the document, you need to start considering what >> the previous version against which you're showing differences is. >> If you try to do it against all of them, it

Re: Re: SSD Optimization - Crucial CT1000MX500SSD1

2022-10-01 Thread Marcelo Laia
Please run the following command and post the complete console session -- prompt, command entered, output displayed -- on a web site (pastebin.com, etc.): # smartctl -x /dev/sda Here is: https://pastebin.com/znfuz82t Thank you so much! -- Marcelo

Re: SSD Optimization - Crucial CT1000MX500SSD1

2022-10-01 Thread David Christensen
On 10/1/22 17:40, Marcelo Laia wrote: Please run the following command and post the complete console session -- prompt, command entered, output displayed -- on a web site (pastebin.com, etc.): # smartctl -x /dev/sda Here is: https://pastebin.com/znfuz82t Thank you so much! These attrib

Pastebins [was Re: SSD Optimization - Crucial CT1000MX500SSD1]

2022-10-01 Thread David
On Sun, 2 Oct 2022 at 06:55, David Christensen wrote: > Please run the following command and post the complete console session > -- prompt, command entered, output displayed -- on a web site > (pastebin.com, etc.): Or paste.debian.net [1][2], which is a better match with the philosophy [3] of th