Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64

2024-09-13 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/12/2024 08:35 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 09/12/2024 07:13 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: i Ricard, It has a keyboard failure - the "h" key is intermittent and my primary account is "Richard" ;/ [ I presume you know tat tis kind of failure can often (sadly not    always) be fixed by cleani

Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64

2024-09-13 Thread Hans
Hi Richard, exchanging the keyboard yourself might be not a great thing. If it is not an apple computer, where you have to strip the whole computer, most keyboards are very simple to echange. There are often some videos on youtube, which show, how to do it. On most, there are 1 - 3 screws to

Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64

2024-09-13 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/13/2024 03:56 AM, Hans wrote: Hi Richard, exchanging the keyboard yourself might be not a great thing. If it is not an apple computer, where you have to strip the whole computer, most keyboards are very simple to echange.[snip] ROFL The keyboard is not the only problem. I was an electron

Re: Disk drive zero-fill benchmarks for various synchronization methods and block sizes

2024-09-13 Thread Anssi Saari
David Wright writes: > On Tue 10 Sep 2024 at 11:56:25 (+0300), Anssi Saari wrote: >> Why do you think that? Which part of the fsync manpage explicitly covers >> fsync's effect on device files? Share share, it's fair. > “fsync() transfers ("flushes") all modified in-core data of (i.e., > modi

Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64

2024-09-13 Thread George at Clug
On Friday, 13-09-2024 at 20:17 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 09/13/2024 03:56 AM, Hans wrote: > > Hi Richard, > > > > exchanging the keyboard yourself might be not a great thing. If it is not an > > apple computer, where you have to strip the whole computer, most keyboards > > are > > very simple

scp in crontab problem

2024-09-13 Thread Marcus Park
Hi list, I have put the private key into my debian VPS (in ~/.ssh/ dir). When I scp a file from this VPS to another one by hand without password, it works. But when I put this scp into crontab, it seems not work. The scp in crontab via private key didn't run as I expect, nothing was copied t

Re: scp in crontab problem

2024-09-13 Thread basti
On 13.09.24 14:24, Marcus Park wrote: Hi list, I have put the private key into my debian VPS (in ~/.ssh/ dir). When I scp a file from this VPS to another one by hand without password, it works. But when I put this scp into crontab, it seems not work. The scp in crontab via private key didn'

Re: scp in crontab problem

2024-09-13 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 20:24:51 +0800, Marcus Park wrote: > I have put the private key into my debian VPS (in ~/.ssh/ dir). Does this private key have a passphrase? > When I scp a file from this VPS to another one by hand without password, it > works. > > But when I put this scp into crontab, i

Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64

2024-09-13 Thread Richard Owlett
On 09/13/2024 07:03 AM, George at Clug wrote: On Friday, 13-09-2024 at 20:17 Richard Owlett wrote: On 09/13/2024 03:56 AM, Hans wrote: Hi Richard, exchanging the keyboard yourself might be not a great thing. If it is not an apple computer, where you have to strip the whole computer, most key

Re: scp in crontab problem

2024-09-13 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 20:24:51 +0800 Marcus Park wrote: > Hi list, > > I have put the private key into my debian VPS (in ~/.ssh/ dir). The private key of what? And to ~/.ssh/ on which computer. you are talking about transferring a file from one computer to another; which one? And why the privat

[fixed]Re: startx returns "Xf86EnableIO: failed to enable I/O ports 0000-03ff"

2024-09-13 Thread Pierre Willaime
Le 11/09/2024 à 17:55, Max Nikulin a écrit : grep -r system.conf /usr/share/dbus-1/ /usr/share/dbus-1/system.conf:  ignore_missing="yes">/etc/dbus-1/system.conf I do not have this file as well. I suggest Pierre to compare config files of live and installed environments. I recommend to read

Re: [fixed]Re: startx returns "Xf86EnableIO: failed to enable I/O ports 0000-03ff"

2024-09-13 Thread Max Nikulin
On 13/09/2024 21:09, Pierre Willaime wrote: I do not think it was related to non-free-firmware repository (Here is my sources.list below) deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware It seems repositories are properly configured. In general however "apt

Re: OT: Spectacles

2024-09-13 Thread Peter Ehlert
my personal experience: On 9/10/24 05:37, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Larry Martell wrote: What are these driving glasses? I can no longer drive at night and would love to know about them. As well as uncorrected visual faults, such as short-sightedness or astigmatism, another reason for

Re: Disk drive zero-fill benchmarks for various synchronization methods and block sizes

2024-09-13 Thread tomas
On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 03:00:14PM +0300, Anssi Saari wrote: > David Wright writes: > > > On Tue 10 Sep 2024 at 11:56:25 (+0300), Anssi Saari wrote: > > >> Why do you think that? Which part of the fsync manpage explicitly covers > >> fsync's effect on device files? Share share, it's fair. > > >

Re: Disk drive zero-fill benchmarks for various synchronization methods and block sizes

2024-09-13 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 8:00 AM Anssi Saari wrote: > > David Wright writes: > > > On Tue 10 Sep 2024 at 11:56:25 (+0300), Anssi Saari wrote: > > >> Why do you think that? Which part of the fsync manpage explicitly covers > >> fsync's effect on device files? Share share, it's fair. > > > “fsync()

Re: Disk drive zero-fill benchmarks for various synchronization methods and block sizes

2024-09-13 Thread Rick Thomas
On Fri, Sep 13, 2024, at 5:00 AM, Anssi Saari wrote: ... > So the answer to > the question "is running sync needed after dd to block device" is > no. Someone else posted that too on this list recently, in another > thread. On the other hand, it may not be necessary, but it doesn't do any harm.

unwanted crontab message

2024-09-13 Thread Marcus Park
Hi list, When I run 'crontab -e' the screen shows some errors like, $ crontab -e Error detected while processing /usr/share/vim/vim82/filetype.vim: line 10: E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version: let did_load_filetypes = 1 line 13: E319: Sorry, the command is not availa

Re: unwanted crontab message

2024-09-13 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Sep 14, 2024 at 05:44:42 +0800, Marcus Park wrote: > Hi list, > > When I run 'crontab -e' the screen shows some errors like, > > $ crontab -e > Error detected while processing /usr/share/vim/vim82/filetype.vim: > line 10: > E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version: let

Re: unwanted crontab message

2024-09-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sat, Sep 14, 2024 at 05:44:42AM +0800, Marcus Park wrote: > When I run 'crontab -e' the screen shows some errors like, > > $ crontab -e > Error detected while processing /usr/share/vim/vim82/filetype.vim: I'm pretty sure that these errors will be coming from the editor binary that is set

Re: unwanted crontab message

2024-09-13 Thread Marcus Park
Andy Smith : As to why whatever it is set as right now is doing that, first work out where it is getting the setting from, so echo $EDITOR and echo $VISUAL. If neither of those are set then ls -la /usr/bin/editor. Thanks Andy. either $EDITOR or $VISUAL in my system is empty. And /usr/bin/

Re: scp in crontab problem

2024-09-13 Thread Marcus Park
basti: /usr/bin/scp -i /home/userYX/.ssh/myKEY r...@example.com ... updated: it's really due to environment issue, after I add the '-i' path to scp, jobs run well now. Thanks basti.

Re: unwanted crontab message

2024-09-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sat, Sep 14, 2024 at 06:12:02AM +0800, Marcus Park wrote: > either $EDITOR or $VISUAL in my system is empty. > > And /usr/bin/editor points to nano. Well, I do not really understand what is going on then as you are definitely running an editor that looks at vim config files, and nano won'

Re: unwanted crontab message

2024-09-13 Thread Will Mengarini
You are getting Vim error messages from a version of Vim that does not support scripting (probably vim.tiny). That version is probably installed on your system ALONG WITH a version that does support scripting, but cron does not have the scripting version of Vim on PATH. (Typically, your $HOME & ro

Re: unwanted crontab message

2024-09-13 Thread Will Mengarini
Or ... disambiguate which Vim crontab -e is using, so it's not vim.tiny. * Will Mengarini [24-09/13=Fri 15:47 -0700]: > You are getting Vim error messages from a version of Vim that does > not support scripting (probably vim.tiny). That version is probably > installed on your system ALONG WITH a

Re: Disk drive zero-fill benchmarks for various synchronization methods and block sizes

2024-09-13 Thread David Christensen
On 9/13/24 12:06, Jeffrey Walton wrote: To add a datapoint... My daily driver workstation is really fast with lots of RAM. It has 3.4 GHz cpu and 64 GB of RAM. I also set swappiness to a low value to avoid spilling out of RAM. I use a lot of SBC's/dev boards for testing. They usually use a S

old kernel appears more stable than latest

2024-09-13 Thread hlyg
i have installed latest 12.7, after running about 10 hours, it doesn't respond to my keyboard pressing, power LED on front panel of pc case become red, i have to reboot i run journalctl, i am not sure if msg below are related to my problem Sep 13 18:06:54 debian kernel: INFO: task RTW_CMD_

Re: unwanted crontab message

2024-09-13 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 22:46:09 +, Andy Smith wrote: > I just ran crontab -e as a fresh user and it actually invoked > /usr/bin/sensible-editor and asked me which editor I wanted to use > (now and in future). So perhaps the man page for crontab is out of > date. Agreed. hobbit:~$ strings /us

[SUMMARY] Re: UEFI multiboot

2024-09-13 Thread Max Nikulin
Avoid setting non-standard GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR in /etc/default/grub if you use Debian 12 bookworm with enabled Secure Boot and signed grub image from Debian. Alternatively install grub-2.12 from backports. On 23/08/2024 11:39, Felix Miata wrote: I don't know what vexing secure boot might introdu

Re: [SUMMARY] UEFI multiboot

2024-09-13 Thread Felix Miata
Max Nikulin composed on 2024-09-14 10:59 (UTC+0700): > So multiple loaders from the same vendor is tricky in the case of UEFI > SecureBoot. Behavior of grub may vary across Linux distributions. Thus, consider to KISS. Pick one installation's bootloader to depend on. Install no others. -- Evolut