ALSA plugins

2021-11-21 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Hi all, I was recently told that ALSA doesn't normally allow sharing a soundcard with two applications, but there are two ALSA plugins, dsnoop and dmix to share capture and playback respectively. I spent some time in searching the web for possible info on how to install or how to check if tho

Re: ALSA plugins

2021-11-22 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 11/21/21 9:33 PM, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: On 11/21/21 20:57, Miroslav Skoric wrote: Hi all, I was recently told that ALSA doesn't normally allow sharing a soundcard with two applications, but there are two ALSA plugins, dsnoop and dmix to share capture and playback respectively. I

Re: ALSA plugins

2021-11-25 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 11/22/21 1:04 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: The dmix plugin is installed by default. $ aplay -L|grep dmix dmix:CARD=HDMI,DEV=3 dmix:CARD=Generic,DEV=0 The dsnoop plugin is installed by default: $ arecord -L|grep dsnoop dsnoop:CARD=Generic,DEV=0 dsnoop:CARD=Generic,DEV=2 You configure them either

Firefox insists to be default !?

2022-01-12 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Hi all, After the recent upgrade of Firefox (and Thunderbird) in oldoldstable (Mate desktop), Firefox always asks me to be default browser, even though I have set it as default in Mate's default applications, and respond to that asking by click on 'dont ask me again'. Furthermore, Thunderbir

Firefox insists to be default browser ...

2022-02-17 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Hi all, After the recent upgrade of Firefox and Thunderbird in oldoldstable (Mate desktop), about a month ago or so, when the versions changed from 60-something to 90-something, Firefox annoyingly keeps asking me to be the default browser, even though I always respond to that asking by click

Upgrade issue with Debian 9 -> 10

2022-07-03 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Hi all, Yesterday I attempted to upgrade Compaq Presario CQ56 laptop to buster. I followed instructions in 'Chapter 4. Upgrades from Debian 9 (stretch)', so all went well with a minimal upgrade (apt-get upgrade). When it finished, I went to the main part of the upgrade (apt full-upgrade). It

Re: Upgrade issue with Debian 9 -> 10

2022-07-03 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 7/3/22 1:17 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Ctrl-Alt-F2 brings tty2 from where I can log in, then sudo etc. df -h shows that filesystem /dev/mapper/localhost-root (mounted on /) is 99% used, and /dev/mapper/localhost-usr (mounted on /usr) is 100% used. Apt tends to store files in /var - it's

Re: Upgrade issue with Debian 9 -> 10

2022-07-05 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 7/3/22 4:28 PM, Miroslav Skoric wrote: Haven't tried that, but something else already helped: While it was idling with fsck in tty1, I went to tty2 and entered: apt --fix-broken install   ... and it did/resumed full upgrade. (Interestingly, this time it did not complain about no spa

Re: Upgrade issue with Debian 9 -> 10

2022-07-05 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 7/3/22 7:51 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 7/3/22 02:31, Miroslav Skoric wrote: Hi all, Yesterday I attempted to upgrade Compaq Presario CQ56 laptop to buster. I followed instructions in 'Chapter 4. Upgrades from Debian 9 (stretch)', so all went well with a minimal upgrad

Re: Upgrade issue with Debian 9 -> 10

2022-07-05 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 7/5/22 9:37 AM, Tom Dial wrote: Post the output from # fdisk -l (or $ sudo fdisk -l) # vgdisplay -v (or $ sudo vgdisplay -v) Here it is: # fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 298.1 GiB, 320072933376 bytes, 625142448 sectors Disk model: Hitachi HTS54323 Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector si

An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-11 Thread Miroslav Skoric
I have an old comp (CPU Pentium II Celeron 400 MHz, 224 MB RAM) running ham radio server in Debian 8. It works well in CLI, but very slow after starting GUI. I wonder whether it would be worth to try (if possible at all) to upgrade it to Debian 9. Any experience with such old boxes? Misko YT7M

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-12 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 11/11/20 7:09 PM, Linux-Fan wrote: Pentium II is old indeed. Whenever using old processors, it is important to test if the new kernel will still support them. So maybe I shall try some newer kernel only?

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-12 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 11/11/20 7:42 PM, Felix Miata wrote: I have an old comp (CPU Pentium II Celeron 400 MHz, 224 MB RAM) running ham radio server in Debian 8. It works well in CLI, but very slow after starting GUI. I wonder whether it would be worth to try (if possible at all) to upgrade it to Debian 9. Any ex

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-12 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 11/11/20 9:43 PM, Charles Curley wrote: I have an old comp (CPU Pentium II Celeron 400 MHz, 224 MB RAM) running ham radio server in Debian 8. It works well in CLI, but very slow after starting GUI. I wonder whether it would be worth to try (if possible at all) to upgrade it to Debian 9. Any

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-12 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 11/11/20 7:09 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: Upgrading to a newer release is not likely to make it faster. If anything, it'll be slower (due to increased memory demands of newer software). That's something I have already experienced with previous upgrades. But it was always in full GUI (eithe

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-13 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 11/13/20 2:36 AM, Doug McGarrett wrote: I have been only cursorily following here, since I don't use debian, but I wonder if you might consider upgrading your mother board to a new one the same size and shape, with a faster processor and probably more ram. Then the latest version of deb wou

Re: Celeron vis a vis Pentium

2020-11-13 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 11/11/20 10:24 PM, Felix Miata wrote: ...PS: Pentium II and Celeron are two processors. Celeron is a budget family of Intel processors, based upon Pentium II, III, 4 and newer Pentium processors. Pentium II Celeron means a Celeron based upon the Pentium II family, the oldest family of Ce

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-13 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 11/13/20 12:12 AM, Linux-Fan wrote: Miroslav Skoric writes: On 11/11/20 7:09 PM, Linux-Fan wrote: Pentium II is old indeed. Whenever using old processors, it is important to test if the new kernel will still support them. So maybe I shall try some newer kernel only? If you have an

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-14 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 11/12/20 9:53 AM, Michael Lange wrote: A really good option in this field is IceWM. It has everything a typical user needs out-of-the-box and is extremely lightweight (and themeable). From my own experience I agree about that. Still, the tricky part will be to choose other gui programs

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-14 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 11/13/20 3:52 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: Beware that LTS support for jessie ended in June 2020. https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/ That system should be upgraded to some release with security support as soon as possible, especially since it's dealing with e-mail as far as I understand

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-14 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 11/13/20 9:29 PM, David Wright wrote: I would have thought that Debian has made kernel testing just about as easy as they can since: jessie installs with 3.16 but 4.9 is also available, stretch installs with 4.9 but 4.19 is also available, buster installs with 4.19 so there's full overla

Cannot boot after distro upgrade

2019-08-31 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Hello, After upgrading the old laptop from jessie to strech, it worked well for few days (although more slowly than it was with jessie). But after last proper shutdown, it does not boot anymore. In fact, it starts to boot until it comes to a point where it says: "You are in emergency mode. A

Re: Cannot boot after distro upgrade

2019-08-31 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 8/31/19 3:26 PM, Reco wrote: Boot with init=/bin/bash kernel commandline parameter, remount root filesystem read-write, fix your /etc/fstab (systemd is picky about filesystems it's not able to mount, and no, "noauto" won't fix it), reboot once more. Reco Hi, Sorry for my ignorance, but

Re: Cannot boot after distro upgrade

2019-08-31 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 8/31/19 3:26 PM, Étienne Mollier wrote: Perhaps you can attempt a boot in "Recovery Mode", see the "Advanced Boot Options" at the Grub menu stage of the boot. It could have a positive effect if a faulty kernel module is loaded and causes this loop in the boot sequence. Maybe a check of the

Re: Cannot boot after distro upgrade

2019-08-31 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 8/31/19 3:26 PM, Étienne Mollier wrote: Maybe a check of the memory and SMART data, if those options are available from your BIOS, could be welcome, especially SMART since some messages were mentioning checking the disk. I checked the system memory and hard disk self test (quick test and

Re: Cannot boot after distro upgrade

2019-09-01 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 8/31/19 3:48 PM, Reco wrote: On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 03:41:12PM +0200, Miroslav Skoric wrote: On 8/31/19 3:26 PM, Reco wrote: Boot with init=/bin/bash kernel commandline parameter, remount root filesystem read-write, fix your /etc/fstab (systemd is picky about filesystems it's not

Re: Cannot boot after distro upgrade

2019-09-01 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 9/1/19 1:20 PM, Étienne Mollier wrote: Hi Miroslav, Pascal is probably right. If you manage to have access to the command "dumpe2fs" in your rescue environment, what is the output of: # dumpe2fs /dev/mapper/localhost-home | grep '^Filesystem features:' Actual Ext3 should probably

Re: Cannot boot after distro upgrade

2019-09-01 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 9/1/19 5:33 PM, Reco wrote: So, let's do something easy and non-destructive first (I assume that /tmp does not contain anything useful): tune2fs -l /dev/localhost/tmp fsck.ext3 -f -n /dev/localhost/tmp fsck.ext4 -f -n /dev/localhost/tmp fsck.ext3 -b 8193 -f -n /dev/localhost/tmp fsck.ex

Re: Cannot boot after distro upgrade

2019-09-01 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 9/1/19 8:40 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 01/09/2019 à 17:01, Miroslav Skoric a écrit : EXT3-fs (dm-6): error: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional features (8000) This is not the same as the previous error message you showed while using the Debian Jessie 8.11 install

Re: Cannot boot after distro upgrade

2019-09-01 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 9/2/19 12:26 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 01/09/2019 à 22:59, Miroslav Skoric a écrit : root@(none):/# uname -a Linux (none) 3.2.0-4-486 #1 Debian 3.2.96-2 i686 GNU/Linux So you upgraded from Jessie to Stretch but still ran the old kernel from Wheezy all this time ? Wow. Sure. I

Re: Cannot boot after distro upgrade

2019-09-01 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 9/1/19 7:52 PM, Étienne Mollier wrote: The output of the above command (version dumpe2fs 1.43.4 31-Jan-2017) is the same as yours, with *one addition*: inline_data Good news, this is consistent with Reco's observation in the other thread. Follows his recommendations and see what happens.

Re: Cannot boot after distro upgrade (SOLVED)

2019-09-02 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 9/2/19 5:39 PM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 04:44:18PM +0200, Miroslav Skoric wrote: On 9/2/19 10:28 AM, Reco wrote: Judging from the pictures, it's the ext4 filesystem. So, let's proceed to the destructive steps: fsck.ext4 -f /dev/localhost/tmp mount -t

Re: Cannot boot after distro upgrade

2019-09-02 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 9/2/19 1:19 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Sure. I upgraded Jessie to Stretch last week. And it worked well for me until Friday eve. (And before that I upgraded Wheezy to Jessie cca year ago. It worked well for me too.) Until is doesn't work any more. You cannot run a new system with an old

Re: Cannot boot after distro upgrade (SOLVED)

2019-09-04 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 9/3/19 7:55 AM, Reco wrote: However, I wonder whether the other partitions (/, /usr, /var) shall remain ext3 in fstab, or they shall be changed to ext4 too. blkid has an answer for that. If it says that your /, /usr and /var are ext3 - leave them as that. Reco Exactly, blkid said ju

Screensaver issues after distro upgrade

2019-09-10 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Hello, After upgrading the old laptop from Jessie to Stretch, I noticed that the screensaver in Mate environment does not work for me as before. For example, when the screen goes black after some time of inactivity, for returning back it is not enough just to touch the touchpad or press any k

Re: Screensaver issues after distro upgrade (SOLVED)

2019-09-11 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 9/10/19 8:11 PM, Christopher David Howie wrote: On 9/10/19 4:30 AM, Miroslav Skoric wrote: After upgrading the old laptop from Jessie to Stretch, I noticed that the screensaver in Mate environment does not work for me as before. For example, when the screen goes black after some time of

Re: Screensaver issues after distro upgrade

2019-09-11 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 9/11/19 12:12 AM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: I saw the same problem when I tried lightlocker after upgrading to XFCE 4.14, so I went back to good old xscreensaver. Ugly bitmaps fonts and no theming, but secure and reliable. There is a new locker in XFCE, but there have been reports of segf

Cannot read newsgroups with new Thunderbird

2022-10-05 Thread Miroslav Skoric
After a recent Thunderbird upgrade in Buster (from version 91-something to 101-something, or like), it stopped handling newsgroups properly (where the source is News Server (NNTP) on the same machine, and there nothing was changed/upgraded). To be precise, Thunderbird now seems downloading new

Re: Cannot read newsgroups with new Thunderbird

2022-10-06 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 10/6/22 1:05 AM, Ralph Katz wrote: On 10/5/22 07:08, Miroslav Skoric wrote: After a recent Thunderbird upgrade in Buster (from version 91-something to 101-something, or like), it stopped handling newsgroups properly (where the source is News Server (NNTP) on the same machine, and there

Image cloning software

2014-11-29 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Is there a good software for Debian 7.7 as well as for Debian 6.10 that is capable to produce a multi DVD/CD image of a working system, in a way that such image can be used later as a DVD/CD installation media for 'cloning' on the other comps (or on itself, in case of an irreparable failure of

Re: Image cloning software

2014-12-09 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Is there a good software for Debian 7.7 as well as for Debian 6.10 that is capable to produce a multi DVD/CD image of a working system, in a way that such image can be used later as a DVD/CD installation media for 'cloning' on the other comps (or on itself, in case of an irreparable failure of a w

Re: Resizing LVM issue

2014-06-29 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 06/22/2014 03:29 PM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Miroslav Skoric a écrit : 1. What would you do if you need more space in /tmp and you know you have some spare space in /home or else, but do not want to reinstall? If you are in such a situation, then you missed one of the goals of LVM. You

Linux replacement for Sony PMB?

2014-06-29 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Is there a good replacement for Sony's PMB software? I mean, something that can import both photos and videos from a camera, and store & play them in the order of date/time of recording. M. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Long-term support for Squeeze

2014-04-06 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 03/19/2014 01:42 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: After all, the clock keeps ticking and Debian squeeze is going to reach its End of Life in less than two months otherwise." Whatever happens, I'd keep 'Squeeze LTS' for at least a couple of years more, if for nothing else but for keeping the ol

Resizing LVM issue

2014-06-01 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Hi, I have encrypted LVM on one of my Wheezy machines, and recently noticed that /tmp space was too low for one application (In fact it was about 350 MB and I wanted it to be around 2.5 GB). So I tried to make /tmp space bigger while I was mounted and online, but vgdisplay reported no free sp

Re: Resizing LVM issue

2014-06-04 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 06/01/2014 11:03 PM, emmanuel segura wrote: i think the correct steps are: resize2fs /dev/mapper/localhost-home -2G lvresize --size -2G /dev/mapper/localhost-home Thank you. I tried with the first command but it did not work (it returned an error). However later I managed to resize t

Re: Resizing LVM issue

2014-06-04 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 06/01/2014 11:36 PM, Jochen Spieker wrote: If you don't have a backup you can try to resize the LV again to its original size and hope for the best. BTW, I found it to be good practice to initially use less than 100% of available space on my PVs for the LVs. That way I can grow filesystems

Re: Resizing LVM issue

2014-06-14 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 06/05/2014 11:29 AM, Jochen Spieker wrote: Miroslav Skoric: On 06/01/2014 11:36 PM, Jochen Spieker wrote: If you don't have a backup you can try to resize the LV again to its original size and hope for the best. Thanks for suggestions. Yep, I managed to return back to the original

Re: Resizing LVM issue

2014-06-14 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 06/05/2014 11:04 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: Richard Hector wrote: I prefer not to get in the situation where I have to shrink a filesystem though - xfs doesn't support it anyway. Agreed. Even better is to avoid it. Small ext{3,4} file systems shrink acceptably well. But larger ext{3,4} file

Re: Resizing LVM issue

2014-06-14 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 06/05/2014 08:42 AM, Richard Hector wrote: If I have to shrink a filesystem, I tend to shrink it to something smaller than my eventual goal, then shrink the LV to the goal, then resize2fs again without specifying the size, so it grows to fit. I prefer not to get in the situation where I ha

Installation disc creator (Was: Resizing LVM issue)

2014-06-22 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 06/15/2014 10:52 PM, Reco wrote: No, it seems to belong to main archive. $ apt-cache search apt on cd | grep ^apt apt - commandline package manager aptdaemon - transaction based package management service aptoncd - Installation disc creator for packages downloaded via APT Yep, aptoncd wa

Upgrade from 6.0.7 to 7.0 issues

2013-06-02 Thread Miroslav Skoric
I upgraded the other day, and noticed some differences between my desktop appearance (Gnome) and what is described in the Help. According to Help, there should be some Activities menu or something like that in the upper left corner, but only I see is Applications and Places in that screen area.

Re: [semi-OT] temperature/humidity/flood sensor recommendations

2018-01-14 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 01/08/2018 04:57 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: Hi all, This is semi-OT but I am curious to know what temperature/humidity/flood sensors everyone out there has experience with. I am looking for something to use at home, but I would like to stay away from WiFi and smart home devices. Basical

Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

2018-05-25 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 05/21/2018 03:55 PM, David Wright wrote: As for appendix C in the Installation Manual, well that looks like a bit of a joke: who's running linux in 256MB memory, let alone 16MB? One of my older machines still runs Wheezy LTS in 224 MB RAM. And soon I am going to try an upgrade to Jessie.

Not power off after shutdown in Jessie

2018-05-30 Thread Miroslav Skoric
After upgrading from Wheezy LTS to Jessie, one of my machines having 512 MB RAM, does not power off when it reached target shutdown. It seems some old issue/bug with systemd or else. In fact, everything closes down properly except it does not unmount the following: /run/user/1000 /run/user/106

Re: Not power off after shutdown in Jessie

2018-06-03 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 05/31/2018 04:18 PM, Curt wrote: On 2018-05-31, Miroslav Skoric wrote: After upgrading from Wheezy LTS to Jessie, one of my machines having 512 MB RAM, does not power off when it reached target shutdown. It seems some old issue/bug with systemd or else. In fact, everything closes down

Re: Not power off after shutdown in Jessie

2018-06-04 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 05/31/2018 08:01 AM, Miroslav Skoric wrote: After upgrading from Wheezy LTS to Jessie, one of my machines having 512 MB RAM, does not power off when it reached target shutdown. It seems some old issue/bug with systemd or else. In fact, everything closes down properly except it does not

Re: Not power off after shutdown in Jessie

2018-06-10 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 06/04/2018 03:12 PM, Curt wrote: I'm really too ignorant to be answering questions and should be asking some. However I can't think of any. Except: any clues in the logs? Look here: /usr/share/doc/systemd/README.Debian.gz under Debugging boot/shutdown problems ===

Re: Not power off after shutdown in Jessie

2018-06-13 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 06/10/2018 06:33 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2018-05-31 at 02:01, Miroslav Skoric wrote: After upgrading from Wheezy LTS to Jessie, one of my machines having 512 MB RAM, does not power off when it reached target shutdown. It seems some old issue/bug with systemd or else. In fact, everything

Recreating a second boot kernel in LILO

2017-01-14 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Hello all, Intro: I have been using LILO for ages. Now running Wheezy 7.11 LTS. As usual and for test purposes on older machines I have two kernel flavours: 486 and 686-rt. In LILO boot menu they appear as Linux486 and Linux686 (before renaming they were Linux and LinuxOLD). Both work nice on

Re: Recreating a second boot kernel in LILO

2017-01-30 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 01/14/2017 05:38 PM, Stephen Powell wrote: On Sat, Jan 14, 2017, at 10:05, Richard Owlett wrote: On 1/14/2017 8:45 AM, Miroslav Skoric wrote: Hello all, Intro: I have been using LILO for ages. Now running Wheezy 7.11 LTS. As usual and for test purposes on older machines I have two kernel

Machine freezes after kernel update

2015-10-06 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Hi, After the last kernel update and restart, a wheezy-based machine (laptop running 7.9) boots to some point, however it freezes just before opening GUI. Access to CLI (Ctrl-Alt-F1 etc) is also not possible. What to do to recover? Regards, M.

Re: Machine freezes after kernel update

2015-10-07 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 10/07/2015 08:56 AM, Riley Baird wrote: After the last kernel update and restart, a wheezy-based machine (laptop running 7.9) boots to some point, however it freezes just before opening GUI. Access to CLI (Ctrl-Alt-F1 etc) is also not possible. What to do to recover? Debian saves your old k

Re: Machine freezes after kernel update

2015-10-08 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 10/08/2015 10:58 AM, Riley Baird wrote: rescue CLI? If dpkg is available during the rescue CLI, you can install the .deb file using the command $ dpkg -i /path/to/packagename.deb Riley, that was the solution I looked for and dpkg did the job. I reinstalled the previous kernel and remov

Re: Machine freezes after kernel update

2015-10-08 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 10/08/2015 12:37 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: Thanks. Well I do not have GRUB here but LILO, and there are no saved old kernels as long as I know. There should be; Debian doesn't delete old kernels as part of the upgrade process. Even LILO should have an option to boot older kernels. Older ker

Re: Machine freezes after kernel update

2015-10-10 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 10/09/2015 06:09 PM, Brad Rogers wrote: If that's true, that's a *serious* bug. LILO (or Grub, come to that) should never delete kernels. I know Grub doesn't but, as I said before, I've not used LILO for some years. Even so, I'd be surprised if it could actually _delete_ kernels like that

Re: Machine freezes after kernel update

2015-10-10 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 10/09/2015 05:19 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: In fact, (and in my case) LILO does delete old kernels during the upgrade, Wow! I really think that is a bug *if* it does. What makes you think that is the case? Ok, let me say it this way: That laptop has 2 different flavours of kernel, the

Re: Machine freezes after kernel update

2015-10-10 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 10/09/2015 08:45 PM, Piyavkin wrote: I have exactly the same issue with the same kernel-packages. See here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/10/msg00231.html Yes, my symptom was identical to what you have described there. Interestingly you use GRUB and not LILO, but even your GR

Re: Machine freezes after kernel update

2015-10-11 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 10/10/2015 09:33 PM, Piyavkin wrote: Miroslav, by the way, what version of BIOS your laptop has? Insyde F15

Re: Machine freezes after kernel update

2015-12-04 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 10/10/2015 09:33 PM, Piyavkin wrote: Yeah, but if the issue becomes permanent in all the future versions starting from 3.2.71-2? It's kind of scary. Good news: After some time waiting, there came version 3.2.73-2 and I tested it both with 686-rt and 486 flavors. Both work good. No proble

Re: Image cloning software

2014-12-15 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 12/09/2014 11:11 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: You should probably provide more details about the installation to be cloned and hardware where the clone will be used. Kind regards, Andrei Here it is: 'Source 1' hardware: Desktop CPU Celeron 400 MHz, RAM 224 MB, HDD 21 GB (a half of a 41 GB

Gnome: status line issue

2016-01-31 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Hi, I am not sure now, but probably somewhere during the system upgrade from squeeze to wheezy, one of my machines somehow 'lost' the ability of the status line in Gnome GUI to show active programs, normal or [minimized]. What to do to recover that ability? Regards, M.

Gnome GUI: status line issue

2016-03-06 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Hi, I am not sure now how that has happened, but probably somewhere during the system upgrade from squeeze to wheezy (the upgrade done from within GUI), one of my machines somehow lost the ability of the status line in Gnome GUI to show icons of active program windows, either normal or [minim

How to configure two NIC's in Debian 6.0.4 box?

2012-02-15 Thread Miroslav Skoric
I have a dual-boot Win$/Debian box having two cards, an older one 3Com (3C905TX in Win$, 3c59x in Deb) and a newer one TP Link (TF-3200 in Win$, sundance in Deb). Both cards are wired to the other two machines in the LAN, the older card links to an older box, the newer card links to a newer box

Re: How to configure two NIC's in Debian 6.0.4 box?

2012-02-16 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 02/15/2012 07:25 PM, Christofer C. Bell wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Miroslav Skoric wrote: I wonder what is the best way to reconfigure the NIC's so the old card (now eth0) boots as eth1, and the new card (now eth1) boots as eth0? This is done using the file /etc

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-22 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 1/22/24 4:17 PM, Alain D D Williams wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 03:32:30PM +0100, sko...@uns.ac.rs wrote: I am getting the following message at any boot: "The volume "Filesystem root" has only 221.1 MB disk space remaining." df -h says: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-22 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 1/22/24 4:40 PM, Alain D D Williams wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 10:29:55AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: lvextend --size +1G --resizefs /dev/mapper/localhost-home Ie get lvextend to do the maths & work it out for me. Those who are cleverer than me might be able to tell you how to get it r

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-22 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 1/22/24 6:59 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 03:40:06PM +, Alain D D Williams wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 10:29:55AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: lvextend --size +1G --resizefs /dev/mapper/localhost-home Ie get lvextend to do the maths & work it out for me. Those

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-23 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 1/22/24 5:02 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 03:17:36PM +, Alain D D Williams wrote: The shrinking of /home is the hard part. You MUST first unmount /home, then resize the file system, then resize the logical volume. Before doing any of that, one should check the volume

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-23 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 1/22/24 7:01 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Ah, forgot to say: "pvdisplay -m" will give you a "physical" map of your physical volume. So you get an idea what is where and where you find gaps. "pvdisplay -m" provided some idea that there was some free space but (if I am not wrong) not how mu

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-23 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 1/22/24 11:21 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 10:41:57PM +0100, Miroslav Skoric wrote: As I need to extend & resize more than one LV in the file system (/, /usr, and /var), should they all need to be unmounted before the operation? As I remember, it is ext3 system on

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-23 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 1/23/24 7:36 AM, Andy Smith wrote: ext filesystems do need to be unmounted when shrinking them (they can grow online, though). When you use the --resizefs (-r) option, LVM asks you if you wish to unmount. Obviously you cannot do that on a fiulesystme which is in use, which means you'll need a

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-24 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 1/24/24 12:42 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: You'll have to unmount it, which generally means you will have to reboot in single-user mode, or from rescue media, whichever is easier. If you aren't opposed to setting a root password (some people have *weird* self-imposed restrictions, seriously), si

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-24 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 1/24/24 3:20 AM, Max Nikulin wrote: On 24/01/2024 06:29, Miroslav Skoric wrote:  # df -h /dev/mapper/localhost-root  6.2G  4.7G  1.2G  81% / Taking into account size of kernel packages, I would allocate a few G more for the root partition. dpkg -s linux-image-6.1.0-17-amd64 | grep -i

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-26 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 1/24/24 11:27 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 10:43:51PM +0100, Miroslav Skoric wrote: I do not have root account. Sure you do. You might not have a root *password* set. (I use sudo from my user account.) I think I already tried rescue mode in the past but was not

apt full-upgrade failed at marco-common package

2024-01-30 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Hi, I [partially] upgraded buster to bullseye according to official "Release Notes for Debian 11 (bullseye), 32-bit PC" (October 4, 2023). I did it in two sessions as suggested: "4.4.4 Minimal system upgrade" (# apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs). That part performed without any issue, and cat

Re: apt full-upgrade failed at marco-common package

2024-01-30 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 1/30/24 1:41 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 01:19:09PM +0100, Miroslav Skoric wrote: Unpacking marco-common (1.24.1-3) over (1.20.3-1) ... .[1mdpkg:.[0m error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-S65GMD/8-marco-common_1.24.1-3_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite

Re: apt full-upgrade failed at marco-common package

2024-01-30 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 1/30/24 1:40 PM, The Wanderer wrote: /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-S65GMD/8-marco-common_1.24.1-3_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/share/themes/Gorilla/metacity-1/metacity-theme-1.xml', which is also in package gnome-themes-more 0.9.0.deb0.8 Where do you get 'gnome-themes-more' from

Re: apt full-upgrade failed at marco-common package

2024-01-30 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 1/30/24 1:43 PM, Michael Kjörling wrote: https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#file-conflicts should help. Sure. Thanks!

Wine in bullseye, which way to go?

2024-02-01 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Hi! As I have some Windows software (for ham radio) that does not have adequate Linux versions, I wanted to install Wine and some related packages from the bullseye repository (wine, q4wine, winetricks, playonlinux, etc). By the way, I had Wine with buster earlier, and most Windows software w

Re: Wine in bullseye, which way to go?

2024-02-03 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 2/2/24 9:10 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: I am not sure what do you mean by "install that architecture". I have been using i386 versions of Debian, and I do not plan to reinstall it now just because the CPU may allow that. At some point, you will have to make a decision. i386 is going to stop