ord followup "plonk".
having been reading usenet since before the great renaming
it was a term that i haven't used often.
i found out years ago that i just don't have the energy any
more to get that mad about something on-line. the n key is
many fewer keystrokes than *plonk*. :)
songbird
things worse for people who don't need it.
i don't know if apt has been fixed or not to honor the
don't remove packages from the cache flag i have set, but the
last time i ran it ages ago it cleared things out i didn't
want it to remove so i won't run it again. i always use
apt-get.
songbird
more recent versions of
some packages:
frex:
uname -a
Linux ant 5.13.0-trunk-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.13.9-1~exp2 (2021-08-10) x86_64
GNU/Linux
it's not stupid, it's just one way of doing things.
songbird
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 03:07:06PM -0400, songbird wrote:
>> Greg Wooledge wrote:
>> ...
>> >> deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free
>> >> deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ experimental main
so
i would back up the important stuff to another media or
partition and then do a fresh install.
songbird
found later if needed).
i don't need to keep the information in a database as
just having the log file will be enough.
how would you do this?
this isn't a homework assignment i'm just curious how
easy or hard this would be to accomplish.
thanks. :)
songbird
through. sometimes a glitch will burn me but i
have a separate bootable stable partition (and backups) so
i don't usually get too far out of whack. :)
songbird
David Wright wrote:
> On Wed 18 Aug 2021 at 20:55:12 (-0400), songbird wrote:
>> let's suppose you have a directory where there are
>> various scripts, libraries, programs, data, etc.
>>
>> you want to know exactly which other scripts, libraries,
>> e
g to establish, but i'm
sure you can get closer. i'm not too worried about that
aspect as much as i'm just curious in general. :)
songbird
ly log accesses, reads, etc., it will probably
> do exactly what you want.
thanks! very useful to know. :)
songbird
have not
looked into it further.
songbird
work through.
my morning routine is to watch what comes through in the
package updates and set some aside if i think they might be
too intrusive and i'm in the middle of something else.
this is more than most people probably want to do but i
don't mind it - it keeps me in tune with what is changing. :)
songbird
piorunz wrote:
...
> New install would change network interface name anyway.
net.ifnames=0 works for me in that regards.
songbird
e high resolution.
>
> It feels like there's some setting in /proc or /sys that got changed
> accidentally.
>
> Any debugging tips?
it does not take that much space to set up a separate
partition for stable on a system to keep a working version
available and for comparison. this is what i do.
songbird
│ swap area │
>│ physical volume for encryption │
>│ physical volume for RAID│
>│ physical volume for LVM │
>│ do not use the partition│
>│ │
>│ │
>│ │
>└──┘
>
> then repost (but you might as well give answers as above).
songbird
David Wright wrote:
> On Sat 28 Aug 2021 at 08:36:32 (-0400), songbird wrote:
...
>> just to note that using "bookworm" in your subject line can
>> give the implication that "bookworm" is actually released which
>> it hasn't. it is much better to us
minal or tab and then
use that instead.
the other approach would be to redirect the output of the programs
that are causing problems to a file or /dev/null
songbird
change one thing at a time until you
figure out where you made the mistake that is messing things
up.
songbird
songbird wrote:
i should have also mentioned mate-tweak which i've had installed
for a long time too.
songbird
st of the time so i do want to check out what is
being updated recently. sounds like you would be better
off with stable. :)
songbird
i were running large expensive equipment i'd surely have
some UPS and surge protection for those. if only just enough
to get them to shut down without destroying the work in
progress (or themselves).
songbird
enough to pass through the surge suppression?
>
> I thought the only effective way to make a difference is to
> *unplug* them.
i do that too at times.
songbird
203.5M firefox
songbird
group.
> What can I do to terminate the process with x-session?
does it work if you don't put it in the background?
songbird
o start over and do a fresh install.
if there is any data you need to back up and haven't done that yet
i'd do that first.
this will likely go a lot faster than trying to figure out what's
broken if you've done something really strange and don't have the
background to figure it out.
songbird
ux
GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true
=
HTH
songbird
this is normal behavior for as long as i can remember using
firefox.
> User AgentMozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:96.0) Gecko/20100101
> Firefox/96.0
> OSLinux 5.15.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.15.5-2 (2021-12-18)
> KJ
songbird
Kamil Jońca wrote:
> songbird writes:
>
>> Kamil Jońca wrote:
>>>
>>> Recently I recognized strange behaviour during pdf download with
>>> firefox.
>>> 1. When I enter target name with colon - this colon is replaced with
>>> space.
>>
Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2022, at 05:19, songbird wrote:
>
>> you are right, but i just wanted to say that for some sites
>> the behavior is to generate a unique file name if they find
>> one that already exists with the same name and for other sites
>&g
e service, it wasn't much, but then they stopped taking
overseas payments so i had to find another service.
eternal-september works well for my use now, but it does
have hiccups here or there. so it's good to be patient
and go read a book or something here or there.
songbird
Jeremy Nicoll wrote:
> songbird wrote:
...
>> but what i do is set where files are saved in a
>> specific directory and leave it at that
>
> That works fine while you can be sure that a browser is only
> saving downloaded files. What about when if can do anything
>
Anssi Saari wrote:
> songbird writes:
>
>> eternal-september works well for my use now, but it does
>> have hiccups here or there. so it's good to be patient
>> and go read a book or something here or there.
>
> What kind of hiccups? I haven't noticed
Dan Ritter wrote:
> songbird wrote:
...
>> i really liked individual.net and gladly paid them for
>> the service, it wasn't much, but then they stopped taking
>> overseas payments so i had to find another service.
>
> They will take PayPal internationally; I don
tored security. perhaps this is a
choice you need to figure out for yourself?
songbird
ings on the matter
too. :)
if people want to keep trolling on the matter it's all fine with
me but it doubtful it will shed any more light in relation to how
much heat it will give off for not much gain.
songbird
what desktop are you running?
it may be set up in your desktop to automatically be started.
songbird
Peter Ehlert wrote:
> On 3/8/21 5:28 AM, songbird wrote:
...
>>aren't there gizmos that measure the watts being
>> drawn by clipping them around the plug that goes into
>> the wall?
> yes: "Kill A Watt" is one brand name, there are probably many others.
fine after
that.
songbird
Richard Owlett wrote:
...
> If it's a kernel issue, I'll just wait for Debian 11. I had essentially
> tried the 10.8 netinst to get instant gratification of moving from 32 to
> 64 bits in one day rather than one week.
certainly understandable. :) hope it works well for you!
songbird
Dan Ritter wrote:
...
> Try installing linux-cpupower and running turbostat (as root).
ok, thanks! :)
songbird
3-08 13:25:45 root@tinkywinky ~
> # cpufreq-info -p
> 160 160 powersave
>
>
> If I then load all cores at 100%, the Xfce CPU Frequency Monitor applet
> mostly indicates 1.60 GHz, with some bounces up to 1.72 GHz.
interesting! will check it out.
songbird
root you may need to understand more but it isn't
that often you should be having to do a whole lot of
changes once you have a stable install set up.
songbird
nyway, thanks in advance for any help you could give me.
my preference with that little memory would be to install a
lightweight desktop (i use MATE and that works fine for my
purposes).
> PS: If I'm not using the mailing list properly, let me know,
> I never used any before.
only that i wish people would stop posting HTML.
songbird
ly are. add in that
this is all for multiple hardware types from embedded
systems up to mainframes.
if you want to see an example of what it takes to
make changes to this sort of layout google "Debian
merged /usr" and read those threads. :)
songbird
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 10, 2021 10:06:59 AM songbird wrote:
>> Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote:
>> > PS: If I'm not using the mailing list properly, let me know,
>> > I never used any before.
>>
>> only that i wish people would
have
extra included at the bottom. :)
songbird
artitions to set up a free spot to do a new install and i'm not
sure i really want to do that yet. mainly i just wanted to make
sure i had a recent rescue image that would boot just in case my
future poking at UEFI things on this machine turns it into non-
functional.
songbird
silly me. :)
songbird
moved on i got things
switched over from Multiplan and a few other things i no
longer cared much about.
songbird
se sid" remarks.
> It is fun to play with the latest software.
>
> tried du -sh on /home/username /* etc.
> ls -ltr tail
> Thanks
lsof
LSOF(8) System Manager's ManualLSOF(8)
NAME
lsof - list open files
songbird
technocrats and cognitive elites
> involved in the development of this complete OS+packages could be
> misplaced in their perceptions. This is impossible.
>
> So why such naming?
>
> Could I be educated in this regard please?
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianAMD64Faq
songbird
ber or repository?
and cut the hostility and swearing, it just won't help
anything at all other than to encourage people to ignore
you.
songbird
rdware (and all the AC and power costs).
the other nice thing was not listening to those printers
hammering away.
songbird
I\DEBIAN\GRUBX64.EFI)
thanks! :)
songbird
ng I don't, or maybe
> the -amd64 version of the testing package *is* there and I'm just
> managing to miss it?
perhaps so because of the differences in the names?
one has the *bpo stuff in the names and the others don't?
not sure, but that does look possible...
songbird
to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
#
menuentry "Refind Menu" {
insmod part_gpt
insmod fat
insmod chain
root=hd0,1
chainloader /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI
}
=
and then run update-grub
songbird
controller/device/
cabinet involved in the redundancy.
however, not knowing how those devices were set up perhaps
moving the blinking red devices to another cabinet might be
worth a try.
songbird
in more ancient times
i've done connections between machines via null modem
serial port cables.
i don't need WiFi here and i dislike broadcasting
anything for no reason other than to avoid a cable run.
songbird
Audio Converter - 6.1.2
Converting: 1.mp4 -> wav
encode failed with exit status: 1.wav: 256
Total files converted: 0, failed: 1
=
thank you! :)
songbird
27;t make sense.
try not installing desktop at all to see if it will boot
that ways. you can always add a desktop later.
songbird
R. Ramesh wrote:
...
> Songbird, thanks for your help. I found out some more. Linux was booting
> after all. It appeared to be hung because I did not get a login prompt.
> I booted sysrescuecd and began inspecting logs and then hit ctrl-alt-1
> and voila, I get login prompt. Aft
appen.
any ideas? googling isn't giving me useful results and
the man pages aren't either. :(
songbird
digging into it and why i don't know much about it even
now other than it is there and i hate it. haha... :)
thanks, not sure i'm going to make any more headway on this
for the moment.
songbird
cessing
you can use awk/gawk or many other things available.
i never much got into perl.
i think more modern peoples use perl instead of
grep/awk/etc. :)
songbird
Any way
it can still happen that things break with electronics.
i had my CPU fry several weeks ago and i have a UPS.
> Thank you for all your helping this old lady.
:) glad you were able to get it working again. :)
songbird
since the change over to systemd borked my
system all those years ago.
songbird
Nicolas George wrote:
...
> songbird (12021-03-28):
>> something is causing /etc/fstab to be rescanned when i change
>> the file and i don't want that ever to happen unless i actually
>> run the mount command myself. how can i turn this off?
>>=20
>> MA
ed and reconnected.
...
you can use blkid to give you the UUID and if you've given the
partition/filesystem a LABEL it will also report that.
update your fstab to use either of those.
songbird
think of being super easy, but listing all
packages on the system and then reinstalling each of them
should do it.
i think... :)
songbird
en machine. It didn't
> take too long and I could be sure things didn't get too badly screwed up
> by doing it manually. There was only about a dozen or so
> directories/files that needed to be changed.
good to know it wasn't that bad! :)
songbird
Richard Owlett wrote:
> The MATE terminal "Help"(sic) claims VT102 emulation but does not say
> how to obtain it.
i'd put in my .bashrc the line:
TERM="vt102" && export TERM
> IIRC the VT100 series were *physically* a B&W display.
no, phosphors were white, green and amber.
songbird
Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 07:30:42PM -0400, songbird wrote:
>> Richard Owlett wrote:
>> > The MATE terminal "Help"(sic) claims VT102 emulation but does not say
>> > how to obtain it.
>>
>> i'd put in my .bashrc the
les
(1 distinct program)
(1 distinct packages)
These processes (1) do not seem to have an associated init script to restart
them:
...
thanks! :)
songbird
Thomas Schmitt wrote:
...
> Have a nice day :)
thanks! sorry all, did not see the topic already went by.
songbird
while talking about
> unknown risks. It's a gamble.)
haha! :) cheers!
songbird
e i consider sensitive so i don't need to worry
about what is left where.
songbird
#
# efibootmgr
BootCurrent: 0001
Timeout: 1 seconds
BootOrder: 0001,,0006,0007,0005
# efibootmgr -o 0,1,5,6,7
BootCurrent: 0001
Timeout: 1 seconds
BootOrder: 0000,0001,0005,0006,0007
songbird
,1
chainloader /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI
}
=
but i also have this documented in another place just in case
grub deletes my 40_custom file.
songbird
Andrea Neroni wrote:
...
> Question: having those information, is it possible to repair the partition =
> to a state where I can copy away as much data I can and how can I do it?
> Thanks to everybody!
testdisk
songbird
parts of files someplace but gladly i didn't find a
bit of it anywheres.
songbird
too.
if the program or OS is crashing in some manner a
coredump may help. still i would try the kernel update
first, 2nd check graphics drivers, then see where that
gets you.
songbird
as an actual write speed of about
> 20 MB per second. The cp -r or rsync of a few gigabytes can
> return well before the data is actually written.
i have a pretty large io buffer so when i copy some big files
and then sync it may take as long as 30 or more seconds even
with a decent SSD.
songbird
boot to make sure i've not broken something
8. if that comes up then you should have a way forward by
unpinning kernel and attempting upgrade again
songbird
#x27;m relying upon that process for something critical
until i've got everything synced up and then i restart or reboot
and all should be ok.
songbird
ting messages out of evolution folders into something else
so that mutt can look at them). just trying to understand this
hiccup.
thanks! :)
songbird
Richard Owlett wrote:
...
> My hardware can support either 32 or 64 bit OS.
> I *ONLY* use one or the other.
> My goal is to determine which I chose at installation.
that should be somewhere in:
/var/log/installer
songbird
ave to use the
MATE desktop menu shutdown or reboot commands to do it and
then it will save everything. i also have a backup copy of
the layout in case something happens to reset things (i've
had that happen at times) so i can restore it.
songbird
ls /crash
total 228
-rw--- 1 root root 282624 Feb 28 09:48 'core.0.!root!f.2537'
-rw--- 1 me me 282624 Feb 28 09:49 'core.1000.!home!me!f.2546'
songbird
g on and i'm not sure what it is coming
from. so i want all processes for all users to be able to
be able to be recorded if it happens again. just trying to
catch this if i can. it happens once in a while. not too
often.
songbird
The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2022-02-28 at 11:35, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 11:25:13AM -0500, songbird wrote:
>>
>>> >> me@ant(14)~$ ulimit -a
>>> >> real-time non-blocking time (microseconds, -R) unlimited
>>> >> core
Greg Wooledge wrote:
...
> Well, that's interesting. You *can* specify an absolute directory by
> this mechanism. I guess I learned something today.
:)
> So, what exactly was the complaint? That songbird shot themselves in
> the foot by specifying an absolute directory fo
00 watt power fanless PSU. all seems to be doing ok
so far other than some kind of lock up (keyboard or
compositor issue not sure yet) once in a while.
songbird
you actually want the changes to be made.
5. create file system on what remains
# mkfs.ext4 -v -b 2048 -L FD02 /dev/sd
=
songbird
t all with debugging this further, but
since others might be seeing this message and wondering what is
going on i'll post this anyways.
songbird
Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> songbird wrote:
...
>> i have two versions of it now, but it was a five years ago and
>> i don't recall if i made the changes or got a new version from
>> the author. :)
>
> Your request for a dry-run mode was fulfilled by a new version:
>
Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
:)
...
> songbird wrote:
>> one of the nice people here posted a program for doing this
>> called make_isombr_part (or something similar).
>
> That was me.
>
> Presentation of first version:
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/
X.Org X server -- Intel i8xx, i9xx display driver
# uname -a
Linux rant 5.16.0-3-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 5.16.11-1 (2022-02-25) x86_64
GNU/Linux
songbird
as it gets me further along in figuring out what this specific
problem is and what chunk of code it is coming from.
songbird
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2022-03-06 07:12:10 -0500, songbird wrote:
>> when i search for this kind of problem on the internet i come
>> up with:
>>
>> https://itectec.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-why-am-i-getting-event-processing-lagging-behind-msg-in-ubuntu-20-10/
he OP's, but all of the modern Intel graphics chipsets
> need non-free firmware for acceleration to work.)
i didn't have firmware-misc-nonfree installed so now that is
so perhaps that will help. thanks.
songbird
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