I can ssh in, reboot, and all is well. Is there any way to completely turn
off the screen saver and its timer via system settings?
There may be related problems with my newly installed HP printer which
sometimes hangs when attempting to print random web pages (I don't do it
intentionally but I'm s
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 09:51:01AM +0200, Anssi Saari wrote:
Michael Stone writes:
On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 10:55:48AM -0500, e...@gmx.us wrote:
How do I tell how many lanes a given drive uses (preferably before purchase)?
It would be buried in the technical docs. I've only seen 4x drives
(b
pe...@easthope.ca writes:
> In a realistic case, there are more than two exclusion patterns.
> Comments or suggestions about the two possibilities? Astonishingly
> better ideas? =8~o
Put the exlucde patterns in a file and use --exclude-from=file? Works
for me, so far with tar and bup, rsync h
Anssi Saari wrote:
> > Yes. Also not many drives can sustain a multi-gigabyte write rate
> > anyway...
>
> I have to say I was quite disappointed when I cloned a 1TB SSD to a 2TB
> one, average speed wasn't much higher than writing to an HD. I don't
> remember what the target drive was though. Si
Tom Browder wrote:
> I can ssh in, reboot, and all is well. Is there any way to completely turn
> off the screen saver and its timer via system settings?
There are three things that could be called screen saver
settings:
- the console blanker is controlled via
setterm -blank 0
(t
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 07:14 Dan Ritter wrote:
> Tom Browder wrote:
...
> > I can ssh in, reboot, and all is well. Is there any way to completely
> turn
> > off the screen saver and its timer via system settings?
>
> There are three things that could be called screen saver
...
Thanks, Dan, I
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 08:21 Tom Browder wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 07:14 Dan Ritter wrote:
>
>> Tom Browder wrote:
>
> ...
>
>> > I can ssh in, reboot, and all is well. Is there any way to completely
>> turn
>> > off the screen saver and its timer via system settings?
>>
>> There are thr
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 04:14:58PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 09:01:19AM -0600, Tom Browder wrote:
[...]
> > unable to open display ""
>
> This one is because they have to "talk" to the right X server, so they
> need the DISPLAY env variable set, to know which
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 09:01:19AM -0600, Tom Browder wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 08:21 Tom Browder wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 07:14 Dan Ritter wrote:
> >
> >> Tom Browder wrote:
> >
> > ...
> >
> >> > I can ssh in, reboot, and all is well. Is there any way to completely
> >> turn
to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 04:14:58PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> >
> > DISPLAY=:0
>
> (of course, this will only work if there /is/ an X server running
> in the first place :)
(of course, if there is no X server running, only the console
setting has any meaning.
Replying to a very old email of mine below just for an update. At the time
I never got to the bottom of why I couldn't use Xorg with dual head 4K
monitors. Today I finally got around to trying Bookworm, it made no
difference, however one of my experiments gave me a slightly different
error about m
Am 09.12.24 um 20:30 schrieb Paul Scott:
> I have never been completely clear about the format for sources.list.
>
> Can someone tell what to add to sources.list to get mozillavpn (sid)
Mozilla VPN is based on Mullvad VPN. Mullvad is cheaper and provides
Debian packages.
On 12/12/24 04:43, deb...@kcburns.com wrote:
On 12/11/2024 3:08 PM, Van Snyder wrote:
After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets
really slow. The mouse jerks when it works at all. It takes a minute
or two for wndows to close or top. At the moment, Firefox has 19
processe
On 12/11/24 15:08, Van Snyder wrote:
After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets
really slow. The mouse jerks when it works at all. It takes a minute
or two for wndows to close or top. At the moment, Firefox has 19
processes running. Memory is half full, and swap is about
On 12/11/2024 3:08 PM, Van Snyder wrote:
After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets really
slow. The mouse jerks when it works at all. It takes a minute or two for
wndows to close or top. At the moment, Firefox has 19 processes running.
Memory is half full, and swap is ab
On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 04:33 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 12/12/24 04:08, Van Snyder wrote:
> > What alternatives that aren't such pigs do you recommend?
> >
> You conspicuously omit your hardware specifications; what CPU, how many
> RAMs and how big is your swap partition?
Also, what kind of we
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 01:17:37AM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
>
> > installation is broken. Given the complexity of your haystack, I expect
> > finding and fixing the needle(s) would be time prohibitive.
> It is indeed, David. The package managers apt and synaptic cannot find
> anything wrong, an
On 12/12/24 04:50, Paul M. Foster wrote:
On 12/11/24 15:08, Van Snyder wrote:
After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets
really slow. The mouse jerks when it works at all. It takes a minute
or two for wndows to close or top. At the moment, Firefox has 19
processes runnin
On 12/11/2024 3:47 PM, Bret Busby wrote:
On 12/12/24 04:43, deb...@kcburns.com wrote:
On 12/11/2024 3:08 PM, Van Snyder wrote:
After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets
really slow. The mouse jerks when it works at all. It takes a minute
or two for wndows to close or to
On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 04:33 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> > After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets
> > really
> > slow. The mouse jerks when it works at all. It takes a minute or
> > two for
> > wndows to close or top. At the moment, Firefox has 19 processes
> > running.
On Wed, 2024-12-11 at 12:30 -0800, Peter Ehlert wrote:
> > After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets
> > really slow. The mouse jerks when it works at all. It takes a
> > minute or two for wndows to close or top. At the moment, Firefox
> > has 19 processes running. Memory is
On Wed, 2024-12-11 at 20:39 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 12:08:40PM -0800, Van Snyder wrote:
> > After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets
> > really slow. The mouse jerks when it works at all. It takes a
> > minute or
> > two for wndows to close
On 12/12/24 05:25, Van Snyder wrote:
On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 04:33 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets really
slow. The mouse jerks when it works at all. It takes a minute or two for
wndows to close or top. At the moment, Firefox has 19 proces
On Wed, 2024-12-11 at 23:01 +0200, Henrik Ahlgren wrote:
> On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 04:33 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> > On 12/12/24 04:08, Van Snyder wrote:
> > > What alternatives that aren't such pigs do you recommend?
> > >
> > You conspicuously omit your hardware specifications; what CPU, how
> >
Hi,
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 01:25:35PM -0800, Van Snyder wrote:
> Four core Intel i3 at 2287 MHz.
> 4 GB RAM.
I don't think I would try to run a GUI desktop environment in 2024 with
4G of RAM. Well, unless we were talking fvwm or something.
> "free -m" says swap is 34 GB with 6.2 GB or 18% in us
Hi,
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 01:29:43PM -0800, Van Snyder wrote:
> On Wed, 2024-12-11 at 20:39 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > Don't leave Firefox running for days with tabs open - close it
> > periodically?
>
> Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. If I close the windows manually,
> firefox forgets
On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 05:17 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> > I call this "memory leakage". I don't know if actual code bugs, or
> > the
> > sloppy way Firefox allocates and frees memory. As far as I know,
> > all
> > browsers suffer from this. If you find one which doesn't, let us
> > know.
> >
> >
On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 05:32 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> > The symptom remains that if I kill firefox and restart it, things
> > run a
> > lot faster for a few hours, and then bog down again.
> >
> I believe that 4GB of RAM is now not enough for web browsing,
> especially
> with web browsing invol
Hello,
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 02:01:53PM -0800, Van Snyder wrote:
> MB has all the RAM it can take, so more RAM would require a new MB.
What is the motherboard out of interest?
Thanks,
Andy
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you can see if anything in debugfs will help. That's part of e2fstools I
think.
In particular, you could use freei to free the inode for this directory
(although I suspect another fsck will then attach it back to lost and
found but I'm not sure)
N.B. Actions like this are last resort and you rea
After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets
really slow. The mouse jerks when it works at all. It takes a minute or
two for wndows to close or top. At the moment, Firefox has 19 processes
running. Memory is half full, and swap is about 10% used. When I kill
Firefox and restart
On 12/12/24 04:08, Van Snyder wrote:
After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets really
slow. The mouse jerks when it works at all. It takes a minute or two for
wndows to close or top. At the moment, Firefox has 19 processes running.
Memory is half full, and swap is about
On December 11, 2024 12:09:24 PM Van Snyder wrote:
After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets really
slow. The mouse jerks when it works at all. It takes a minute or two for
wndows to close or top. At the moment, Firefox has 19 processes running.
Memory is half full, a
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 12:08:40PM -0800, Van Snyder wrote:
> After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets
> really slow. The mouse jerks when it works at all. It takes a minute or
> two for wndows to close or top. At the moment, Firefox has 19 processes
> running. Memory is ha
On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 12:01:30 +0100
Gregor Zattler wrote:
>
> Any ideas, pointers?
Please check free space and available inodes:
df -h
df -hi
Check mount state:
mount
You might try to mount the file system read-only and copy or rsync the
data from this state. The target file system should pro
Hi Gregor,
Am 11.12.2024 um 12:01 schrieb Gregor Zattler:
Hi,
* Gregor Zattler [2024-12-09; 01:54 +01]:
Dear debian enthusiasts, I use
rdiff-backup, which now is not able to
work with my most precious backup,
instead throws a python backtrace which
contains:
rdiff-backup, I guess, creates an
Hi Frank,
* Frank Guthausen [2024-12-11; 12:21 +01]:
> On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 12:01:30 +0100
> Gregor Zattler wrote:
>>
>> Any ideas, pointers?
>
> Please check free space and available inodes:
>
> df -h
> df -hi
not via df, but this information:
0 (master *) grfz@no:~$ sudo tune2fs -l /dev/mapper
Hi Arno,
* Arno Lehmann [2024-12-11; 12:59 +01]:
> Am 11.12.2024 um 12:01 schrieb Gregor Zattler:
>>> Or where to ask? The ext3-users
>>> mailing list does not exist any more?
>
> Linux kernel mailing lists might help, at least to ask where to find the
> ext family developers.
thanks, will do.
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 9:42 AM Tom Browder wrote:
>
> I can ssh in, reboot, and all is well. Is there any way to completely turn
> off the screen saver and its timer via system settings?
>
> There may be related problems with my newly installed HP printer which
> sometimes hangs when attempting
On 12/11/24 07:33, Tom Browder wrote:
> I can ssh in, reboot, and all is well. Is there any way to completely turn
> off the screen saver and its timer via system settings?
>
> There may be related problems with my newly installed HP printer which
> sometimes hangs when attempting to print random w
I see similar behaviour (using EXWM in Emacs as my window manager). I
don't have a solution beyond what I do: kill and restart Firefox
periodically.
Alternative browsers either don't cater to all the needs or are just as
bad (or worse, especially in terms of tracking etc.).
However, what depress
On 12/12/24 06:01, Van Snyder wrote:
On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 05:32 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
The symptom remains that if I kill firefox and restart it, things run a
lot faster for a few hours, and then bog down again.
I believe that 4GB of RAM is now not enough for web browsing, especially
with w
On 12/12/24 06:37, Van Snyder wrote:
On Wed, 2024-12-11 at 22:06 +, Andy Smith wrote:
Hello,
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 02:01:53PM -0800, Van Snyder wrote:
MB has all the RAM it can take, so more RAM would require a new MB.
What is the motherboard out of interest?
>From dmidecode:
Base
On Wed, 2024-12-11 at 21:37 +, Andy Smith wrote:
> Is this system at its max of memory? If not, then maxing it out will
> be
> a very cheap upgrade that will be absolutely worth it. If you don't
> know
> if it's maxed, tell us the motherboard, show us the output of "sudo
> lshw" or something.
On Wed, 2024-12-11 at 22:06 +, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 02:01:53PM -0800, Van Snyder wrote:
> > MB has all the RAM it can take, so more RAM would require a new MB.
>
> What is the motherboard out of interest?
>From dmidecode:
Base Board Information
Manufacturer
On 12/12/24 06:14, Eric S Fraga wrote:
However, what depresses me is the number of responses suggesting
increasing memory etc. It's a sad state of affairs we have reached
where simple web browsing (and it *should* be simple) requires such
significant resources. Even banking should not lead t
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 14:15:10 -0800, Van Snyder wrote:
> But "top -o %MEM shows firefox at the top with 12.4 GB VIRT, 377 MB
> res, 90 MB shr.
>
> Who is right?
You said your system has 4 GB of RAM.
This particular Firefox process may only have 377 MB loaded into resident
memory, but that's n
On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 05:17:46 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> Many years ago, I believe when I was being taught 'C' programming, we were
> taught to use two instructions named malloc and (I believe the other
> important corresponding instruction), dealloc, [...]
The opposite of malloc() is free().
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 22:14:20 +, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> However, what depresses me is the number of responses suggesting
> increasing memory etc. It's a sad state of affairs we have reached
> where simple web browsing (and it *should* be simple) requires such
> significant resources.
Sure,
On 2024-12-10, Thomas Schweikle wrote:
> Am Di., 10.Dez..2024 um 15:49:02 schrieb Mike McClain:
>> I've a couple od directories in ~/.cache I can't read or get rid of.
>> find: '/home/mike/.cache/gvfs': Permission denied
>> find: '/home/mike/.cache/doc': Permission denied
>> ls, rmdir and unlink a
Hi,
* Gregor Zattler [2024-12-09; 01:54 +01]:
> Dear debian enthusiasts, I use
> rdiff-backup, which now is not able to
> work with my most precious backup,
> instead throws a python backtrace which
> contains:
>
> OSError: [Errno 117] Structure needs cleaning:
> b'/mnt/mic-backup/rdiff-backup/du
On 12/10/24 10:33 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 9:22 AM Richard Owlett wrote:
[SNIP... ]
I'm looking for documentation for optimal use of the GUI.
My initial problems revolved around pause/resume.
Those raised the question "How do I go to point x minutes into a file?"
The
I don't like to be that guy that says, "Works for me", but I don't
notice problems with Firefox here. In fact, it's rock solid and I'm on
12.8 with all updates running GNOME. I have seen Chromium become quite
sluggish when certain Web pages are loaded but this hasn't affected
Firefox. I probably
* On 2024 11 Dec 15:02 -0600, Henrik Ahlgren wrote:
> On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 04:33 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> > On 12/12/24 04:08, Van Snyder wrote:
> > > What alternatives that aren't such pigs do you recommend?
> > >
> > You conspicuously omit your hardware specifications; what CPU, how many
> >
Hi,
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 06:07:49PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> I don't like to be that guy that says, "Works for me", but I don't
> notice problems with Firefox here.
[…]
> I do have 16GB of RAM
You have four times the RAM of the OP. 4G is incredibly marginal spec
for a desktop 2024.
You
On 12/10/24 22:17, gene heskett wrote:
The package managers apt and synaptic cannot find
anything wrong, and I should be on record as reporting that opening any
local file takes a minimum of 30 seconds to pop up the requester, during
which time the system is also locked.
That symptom alone
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 6:01 PM Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 05:17:46 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> > Many years ago, I believe when I was being taught 'C' programming, we were
> > taught to use two instructions named malloc and (I believe the other
> > important corresponding ins
On 12/11/24 16:14, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 01:17:37AM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
installation is broken. Given the complexity of your haystack, I expect
finding and fixing the needle(s) would be time prohibitive.
It is indeed, David. The package managers apt and syna
> After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets
> really slow. The mouse jerks when it works at all. It takes a minute or
> two for wndows to close or top. At the moment, Firefox has 19 processes
> running. Memory is half full, and swap is about 10% used. When I kill
> Firefox a
* On 2024 11 Dec 18:32 -0600, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 06:07:49PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> > I don't like to be that guy that says, "Works for me", but I don't
> > notice problems with Firefox here.
>
> […]
>
> > I do have 16GB of RAM
>
> You have four times the
On 12/11/24 19:42, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> From reading the rest of the thread, IMO, the OP hasn't been running an
> ad blocker which is just simply a necessity these days. I suspect that
> even running uBlock Origin that the situation will improve. Another
> step that may help is running a lighte
On 12/10/24 21:15, gene heskett wrote:
The current debian supplied t-bird doesn't [work].
I am running Old Stable on my machines:
2024-12-11 16:25:14 dpchrist@laalaa ~
$ cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a
11.11
Linux laalaa 5.10.0-33-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.226-1 (2024-10-03)
x86_64 GNU/Lin
> two for wndows to close or top. At the moment, Firefox has 19 processes
> running. Memory is half full, and swap is about 10% used. When I kill
> Firefox and restart, things go back to normal for a few hours.
> What alternatives that aren't such pigs do you recommend?
FWIW, it's not necessarily
On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 06:42 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> I believe that the problem, and, the reason that the Internet (on top
> of
> which, runs, or, hobbles along, the World Wide Web, hobbled by the
> web
> applications), is the malignant use of javascript client-side
> processing.
Shortly after
Van Snyder wrote:
I didn't know of uBO. Is it the best ad blocker? How do I install it?
I keep gmail, twitter, and facebook tabs, one page from EIA, and one page from
my own server open.
uBlock Origin, can install it from within firefox, Add-Ons and Extensions.
Regards,
Geoff
On Wed, 2024-12-11 at 18:42 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> > You have four times the RAM of the OP. 4G is incredibly marginal
> spec
> > for a desktop 2024.
The first computer I was paid to write software for, in 1966, had 1,400
6-bit characters, not bytes, not kB, not MB, not GB. That's why IBM
ca
On 12/10/24 22:59, Bob McGowan wrote:
And I'm here to say I've also had problems I've imputed to Tbird, based
on the fact that when Tbird is NOT running, the systme is as solid as a
rock.
I have also had issues with Thunderbird. It works most of the time and
I cannot argue with the price, so
On 12/11/24 5:20 PM, Van Snyder wrote:
On Wed, 2024-12-11 at 18:42 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote:
You have four times the RAM of the OP. 4G is incredibly marginal
spec
for a desktop 2024.
The first computer I was paid to write software for, in 1966, had 1,400
6-bit characters, not bytes, not kB
Hi,
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 05:24:42PM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
> On 12/10/24 22:17, gene heskett wrote:
> > I should be on record as reporting that opening any local file takes
> > a minimum of 30 seconds to pop up the requester, during which time
> > the system is also locked.
>
> That s
On 12/11/24 20:25, David Christensen wrote:
On 12/10/24 22:17, gene heskett wrote:
The package managers apt and synaptic cannot find anything wrong, and
I should be on record as reporting that opening any local file takes
a minimum of 30 seconds to pop up the requester, during which time
the
On 12/11/24 12:08, Van Snyder wrote:
After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets
really slow. The mouse jerks when it works at all. It takes a minute or
two for wndows to close or top. At the moment, Firefox has 19 processes
running. Memory is half full, and swap is about 10
On 12/12/24 00:28, David Christensen wrote:
>
> I have installed the NoScript extension in Firefox. I typically enable only
> enough JavaScript to get a site working. YouTube recently changed their
> site such that videos stall after about a minute if google.com is blocked.
> When I enabled goog
On Wed, 2024-12-11 at 17:34 -0800, James H. H. Lampert wrote:
> On 12/11/24 5:20 PM, Van Snyder wrote:
> > On Wed, 2024-12-11 at 18:42 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> > > > You have four times the RAM of the OP. 4G is incredibly
> > > > marginal
> > > spec
> > > > for a desktop 2024.
> >
> > The fir
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On 12/11/24 17:42, gene heskett wrote:
First, I don't own a wired mouse except the serial
interfaced one on my now dead from nearly 40 yo caps trs-80 color
computer
I thought you ran a graphical desktop environment (?). Doing so without
a pointing device sounds like a lot of work.
If a
On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 22:02:19 -0500, gene heskett wrote:
> Alright, here's some clues: I cannot use digiKam to retrieve pix fron my
> camera, it will not wait on his lag. Shotwell will wait but suffers from
> this lag. Adding strace to the cli invocation may work, or may not.
> Noobvious error i
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