Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........
On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 12:16:00 +1000 Charlie wrote: > I[s] there is a > way to do it at all? Yes. Use Mouse-1 (typically the left-hand mouse button) to swipe the text you want to copy from the xterm. Go to the recipient program, and use Mouse-2 (typically the middle button on the mouse) to paste. Note that this is very temporary storage. It will not put the text in the clipboard, nor will a clipboard stack program like clipman see it. Ctl-c, ctl-v, etc. (CUA shortcuts) are Microsoft/IBM isms and not native to Unix or Linux, so older programs like xterm may or may not support them. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: system won't suspend automatically
On Tue, 11 Jun 2024 10:44:12 -0400 e...@gmx.us wrote: > Well, that is not encouraging. Does anyone know how to get the > monitor state programmatically? I'll write my own script based on > that. DFMS works. I mean if the computer won't do it for you, roll > your own. Install arandr, use it to set things up the way you want them. Then have it emit a suitable script. Call that from XFCE's session manager on startup. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Thinkpad T14 Gen 5, touchpad not detected
On Sun, 9 Jun 2024 06:51:00 +0200 Timothée Jaussoin wrote: > Is there something in particular I should look for ? > I would look for some of the identifiers in those dmsg lines you showed earlier. See if the touchpad was detected but rejected. That migh give you a clue as to why it was rejected. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Thinkpad T14 Gen 5, touchpad not detected
On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 22:17:49 +0200 Timothée Jaussoin wrote: > If you need some more information I'd be pleased to share whatever is > required :) You might look at the installation logs. /var/log/installer/ -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: lightdm errors
Don't tell just me. Please reply to the list. On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 13:28:23 -0400 e...@gmx.us wrote: > On 6/4/24 12:44, Charles Curley wrote: > [...] > [...] > [...] > > I did that a while back, when I set the monitors up this way. They > were arranged correctly once I logged in. It's just in lightdm that > they were wrong. They are correct now (I actually don't know why, > unless it's ignoring the hash mark for that line), but I get those > errors, which might be related to it not going into suspend overnight. > > I modified lightdm's config on 20 May (so says my log), but: > > eben@cerberus:~$ sudo journalctl | grep xrandr | uniq -c > --check-chars=6 3015 May 24 21:25:03 cerberus lightdm[2714286]: > xrandr: cannot find mode 1920x1200 >13581 May 25 00:41:10 cerberus lightdm[2823087]: xrandr: cannot > find mode 1920x1200 >14599 May 26 01:35:52 cerberus lightdm[282746]: xrandr: cannot > find mode 1920x1200 >17512 May 27 01:02:53 cerberus lightdm[951063]: xrandr: cannot > find mode 1920x1200 >18670 May 28 00:38:05 cerberus lightdm[1676638]: xrandr: cannot > find mode 1920x1200 >13689 May 29 00:34:24 cerberus lightdm[2413887]: xrandr: cannot > find mode 1920x1200 >14006 May 30 01:52:22 cerberus lightdm[3092520]: xrandr: cannot > find mode 1920x1200 >14376 May 31 01:40:14 cerberus lightdm[3751983]: xrandr: cannot > find mode 1920x1200 >15296 Jun 01 00:58:00 cerberus lightdm[206925]: xrandr: cannot > find mode 1920x1200 >16280 Jun 02 00:00:00 cerberus lightdm[175982]: xrandr: cannot > find mode 1920x1200 >13209 Jun 03 02:25:20 cerberus lightdm[909251]: xrandr: cannot > find mode 1920x1200 >12630 Jun 04 01:56:54 cerberus lightdm[1546837]: xrandr: cannot > find mode 1920x1200 > > There are no errors on the 23rd related to xrandr, so I suspect > something happened on the 24th. > > > > The logged event right before lightdm started acting up was > May 24 21:25:01 cerberus dbus-daemon[1362]: [session uid=1000 > pid=1362] Activating service name='org.xfce.Xfconf' req> > May 24 21:25:01 cerberus dbus-daemon[1362]: [session uid=1000 > pid=1362] Successfully activated service 'org.xfce.Xfco> > > Maybe that dbus update was bad? Or I only updated part of it or > something? > > -- > >This message was created using recycled electrons. > -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: lightdm errors
On Tue, 4 Jun 2024 09:55:51 -0400 Eben King wrote: > Jun 04 01:57:07 cerberus lightdm[1547009]: xrandr: cannot find mode > 1920x1200 > > and so on. > > I have three monitors on the onboard connectors. The left > (1920x1080) is tall, the other two (1920x1200) are wide. The default > situation was that the monitors were in the wrong order, and the left > one was sideways. I wrote a script which used xrandr to fix this in > XFCE, though I rarely need it. I suggest you use arandr to set things as you wish, then export a script to automate that setup. Then call the script from your session manager. Or, since you are using XFCE, Applications -> Settings -> Display and set things up there. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size
On Mon, 3 Jun 2024 15:25:12 -0400 e...@gmx.us wrote: > The USAF Thunderbirds predate Gallo Thunderbird by at least a year. > They were founded in 1953, and the law allowing Gallo Thunderbird's > creation wasn't passed until the next year. The wine was certainly > out by 1957. The Ford Thunderbird _might_ predate the wine, since it > came out in 1955. The email client though, no excuse for that one. Possibly sore or all of the various Thunderbirds out there were named for the Native American mythological creatures called thunderbirds. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Question About Free File Transfering Apps
On Wed, 29 May 2024 22:07:17 +0800 Carter Zhang wrote: > but they have respective problems. We can't advise you very well if we don't know what you think their respective problems are. A more important question: What problem would you like to solve? -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Aliases and OpenSMTPD
On Fri, 24 May 2024 13:08:56 -0400 Paul M Foster wrote: > There is a colon in my aliases file. I just omitted it in the email. Don't do that. Always use copy and paste to convey the contents of a configuration file. Murphy only know what else you inadvertently left out or added. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Bookworm: Weird Firefox issue
On Wed, 22 May 2024 23:02:17 +0200 (CEST) local10 wrote: > Have been using Debian + Firefox with Tutanota email for a number of > years and everything was fine until about a week ago when I started > to get a blank empty white page when trying to access the Tutanota > login page: https://mail.tutanota.com/login > > Tried https://mail.tutanota.com/login in Chromium and it works as it > should, that is, shows a proper log in page with the ID and password > fields, no issues. Tried https://mail.tutanota.com/login in Firefox > v126 but still got an empty white page. > > Any ideas? Thanks > > $ aptitude show firefox-esr > Package: firefox-esr > Version: 115.11.0esr-1~deb12u1 I get what looks like a proper log-in page on both firefox and vivaldi (a derivative of chromium). BTW, they are advising of a change in log-in URL. charles@hawk:~$ pre firefox vivaldi firefox-esr 115.11.0esr-1~deb12u1 amd64 vivaldi-stable 6.7.3329.31-1 amd64 charles@hawk:~$ Try a hard refresh to clear your cache: ctl-r. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Onboard not showing up in the XFCE system tray | Partial Solution
On Thu, 16 May 2024 14:09:33 -0600 Charles Curley wrote: > Onboard is not showing up in the XFCE system tray. Bookworm as > updated. I don't see any Debian bug reports or questions on the home > page. I believe I am not running Wayland. > > Has anyone else seen this? Fix/Workaround? Got a bit further. While knurdling around after replying to Geert Stappers , I did the following: charles@tsalmoth:~$ ps aux | grep onbo charles 2913 0.0 0.9 545852 36740 ?Sl May12 0:26 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/onboard --not-show-in=GNOME,GNOME-Classic:GNOME --startup-delay=3.0 charles44066 0.0 0.0 6332 2048 pts/8S+ 18:58 0:00 grep --colour=auto onbo charles@tsalmoth:~$ I couldn't find that in any of the terminal windows I started onboard from in previous experiments. The low process ID and date suggest that that was the instance started at login. (Also, the command line shown is the same one in the Sessions and Startup applet's Application Autostart tab.) So I killed it. charles@tsalmoth:~$ kill 2913 charles@tsalmoth:~$ ps aux | grep onbo charles44071 0.0 0.0 6332 2048 pts/8S+ 18:58 0:00 grep --colour=auto onbo charles@tsalmoth:~$ I then fired it up from a terminal, and got both the keyboard and notification tray icon. The "Hide Onboard" key (upper right corner on the compact layout) now works to hide the keyboard, with the icon remaining. I conjecture that the original instance, having failed to get its icon into the tray, also prevented later instances from doing so. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Onboard not showing up in the XFCE system tray
On Fri, 17 May 2024 20:42:10 +0200 Geert Stappers wrote: > On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 02:09:33PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > > Onboard is not showing up in the XFCE system tray. Bookworm as > > updated. I don't see any Debian bug reports or questions on the > > home page. I believe I am not running Wayland. > > > > Has anyone else seen this? > > I did > > > > Fix/Workaround? > > Start it manually (and after the start it remains in the system tray) Tried that. charles@tsalmoth:~$ onboard & [1] 43869 charles@tsalmoth:~$ [1]+ Doneonboard charles@tsalmoth:~$ I did not see anything in the notifications tray. The exit occurred when I hit the "Hide Onboard" key (upper right corner on the compact layout). Thanks for the idea. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Knocking on the door
On Fri, 17 May 2024 15:49:52 +0200 Maurizio Caloro wrote: > > > Hello > > > Please i know that this arn't the Dovecot forum, but let me try, on > the log's i have always knocking "unknown user" attempts. > > > > May 15 22:39:31 Dovecot/auth-worker(2602036): Info: conn > > unix:auth-worker (pid=2602030,uid=113): > > auth-worker<49>:sql(b...@domain.ch,194.169.175.10): unknown user I only see one record here. fail2ban requires multiple attempts within a certain period before it will ban the source address. > > > yes i try with fail2ban, but i didn't see or found the right regex, > so that this will be blocked please has any from you solve this > knocking task? Are you sure you want to worry about it? dovecot seems to be doing its job by refusing access to unknown users. If you see repeated attempts from the same source, you might want to craft a firewall rule to ban that source (or than network). Show us the files you have modified so we can see what you are doing. > > > thanks > > > > > Von meinem iPhone gesendet > -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Problème après mise à jour: la machine ne sort plus de veille.
Le Fri, May 17, 2024 at 08:41:21AM +0200, Fabien R a écrit : > On 15/05/2024 11:12, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Plus précisément, ni le clavier ni la > > souris ne se réveillent, > J'ai de temps en temps un problème similaire mais seulement avec le touchpad. > Je reload le module associé et ça repart. Merci, de mon côté j'ai réglé temporairement le problème en redescendant au noyau linux-image-6.1.0-17-amd64. Bon week-end, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from home https://framapiaf.org/@charles_plessy - You do not have my permission to use this email to train an AI -
Onboard not showing up in the XFCE system tray
Onboard is not showing up in the XFCE system tray. Bookworm as updated. I don't see any Debian bug reports or questions on the home page. I believe I am not running Wayland. Has anyone else seen this? Fix/Workaround? -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Erreurs tracker-extract: Could not connect to filesystem miner endpoint: Le délai d’attente est dépassé
> Le 15/05/2024 à 11:03, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > > > j'ai des tonnes de ceci dans mes logs système: > > > > mai 15 17:51:18 bubu tracker-extract[1711]: Could not connect to > > filesystem miner endpoint: Le délai d’attente est dépassé > > Le Wed, May 15, 2024 at 11:12:12AM +0200, NoSpam a écrit : > > il s'agit d'un programme d'indexation de fichiers sous gnome. Sous Ubuntu il > s'agit du paquet tracker-miner-fs Merci, j'ai essayé `tracker3 reset -s -r` et ça a l'air de l'avoir calmé pour le moment. Bonne soirée, Charles
Problème après mise à jour: la machine ne sort plus de veille.
Bonjour à tous, désolé pour la rafale de messages mais c'est un peu la cata… Aujourd'hui j'ai redémarré mon portable et depuis il ne sort plus de veille après qu'il y soit entré. Plus précisément, ni le clavier ni la souris ne se réveillent, et je n'ai pas d'autre choix que de redémarrer complètement la machine.. J'avais eu ce problème depuis le début et la solution suivante trouvée par un autre utilisateur avait réglé le problème: Mettre dans /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep: case $1/$2 in pre/*) ;; post/*) echo -n reconnect > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/drvctl echo -n reconnect > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio2/drvctl ;; esac Je suis sous Bookworm et je ne sais pas très bien commment attaquer le problème. J'ai essayé de redémarrer sous linux-image-6.1.0-20-amd64 mais ça ne résoud rien. Je n'avais pas redémarré depuis longtemps, et j'ai perdu la trace de ce qui a pu être mis à jour récemment (à part bien sûr la glib qui m'avait fait perdre le support du japonais et du chinois dans Firefox…). La machine est un VAIO Pro 13 vieux de 9 ans environ… Si vous avez de idées, je suis preneur ! Bonne journée, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from work, https://fediscience.org/@charles_plessy Tooting from home, https://framapiaf.org/@charles_plessy
Erreurs tracker-extract: Could not connect to filesystem miner endpoint: Le délai d’attente est dépassé
Bonjour à tous, j'ai des tonnes de ceci dans mes logs système: mai 15 17:51:18 bubu tracker-extract[1711]: Could not connect to filesystem miner endpoint: Le délai d’attente est dépassé Il y a aussy d'autres messages du type: mai 15 17:58:49 bubu tracker-miner-f[4486]: Error opening readwrite database: database disk image is malformed Un systemctl status avec ou sans sudo ne montre pas de services avec tracker dans le nom. Je vois cependant les fichiers suivants: /lib/systemd/user/tracker-miner-fs-3.service /lib/systemd/user/tracker-extract-3.service /lib/systemd/user/tracker-miner-fs-control-3.service /lib/systemd/user/tracker-xdg-portal-3.service /lib/systemd/user/tracker-writeback-3.service Mais toute tentative d'arrêter, redémarrer, etc., ces services se soldent par des erreurs du genre: Failed to restart tracker-miner-fs-3.service: Unit tracker-miner-fs-3.service not found. Je voudrais vraiment enlever ces messages de mes logs, car j'ai un problème plus important à cerner, et ces messages me brouillent la vue… Une suggestion? Librement, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from work, https://fediscience.org/@charles_plessy Tooting from home, https://framapiaf.org/@charles_plessy
Erreurs gsd-media-keys Unable to get default source
Bonjour à tous, j'ai des tonnes de ceci dans mes logs système: mai 15 17:51:26 bubu gsd-media-keys[2154]: Unable to get default source Copilot m'a dit que c'est la faute à pulseaudio, mais mon système utilise pipewire… Le forum ArchLinux me dit qu'il faut réduire la version de pipewire de 0.3.68 à 0.3.66, mais je suis déjà à 0.3.65… Je voudrais vraiment enlever ces messages de mes logs, car j'ai un problème plus important à cerner, et ces messages me brouillent la vue… Une suggestion? Librement, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from work, https://fediscience.org/@charles_plessy Tooting from home, https://framapiaf.org/@charles_plessy
Re: Cindex
On Sun, 12 May 2024 09:55:55 -0500 John Hasler wrote: > https://www.opencindex.com/about-cindex/ Thank you. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Cindex
On Sun, 12 May 2024 17:20:47 +1000 David wrote: > Cindex, the world's premier indexing software, has just gone open > source. Might be a good project for someone who has the time. > > https://www.opencindex.com/ Are you sure it is open source? I cruised the web site and did not see a license. I did try to download it, but only got as far as the requirement for an email address (which strikes me as rather intrusive for open source), so I don't know whether the download includes source code or a license. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Installing testing on Acer Aspire 315
On Thu, 9 May 2024 09:32:32 -0700 Paul Scott wrote: > The error I'm getting is during "Install base system." The only way > I knew to save the log was with a camera. Even though I resized the > image this list apparently didn't allow the attachment. How else can > I save the log during install? Installation logs are saved during installation to the target's /var/log/installer/. You can save them to a USB stick after installation is complete, or reboot and find them. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Adding package to Debian Distro
On Thu, 9 May 2024 14:09:52 - (UTC) Curt wrote: > I don't think there is a process by which you could add closed-source > IBM software to a bona fide Debian depository, even the non-free one, > which only seems to contain firmware and drivers for closed-sourced > *hardware*. Isn't that what the non-free archive is for? https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive#s-non-free -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: perte de la touche morte du clavier pour saisir les accents circonflexes depuis une mise à jour système
Le Wed, May 08, 2024 at 03:21:24PM +0200, Frédéric Baldit a écrit : > > Je suppose qu'il vaut mieux m'abstenir...qu'en pensez-vous? Le bug 1070730 suggère d'essayer les paquets de https://people.debian.org/~smcv/bug1070730/ en attendant le correctif officiel, et de mon côté ça a réglé le problème après avoir redémarré Firefox. Bonne chance, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from work, https://fediscience.org/@charles_plessy Tooting from home, https://framapiaf.org/@charles_plessy
Re: Viewing an an OpenStreetMap tile offline.
On 05 May 2024 11:52:32 -0700 pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Hi, is anyone using Gosm or something similar to view OpenStreetMap > tiles offline? > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Gosm foxtrotgps is simple and easy to use. navit is much more flexible but has a much steeper learning curve. Both are in Debian repos. Both require gpsd. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: youtube-dl blocked?
On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 06:57:17 +0200 Marco Moock wrote: > Am 23.04.2024 um 20:40:25 Uhr schrieb Charles Curley: > > > It does not appear to be blocked from here (North America). > > By DNS? It does not appear to be blocked by DNS. charles@jhegaala:~$ host ytdl-org.github.io ytdl-org.github.io has address 185.199.110.153 ytdl-org.github.io has address 185.199.111.153 ytdl-org.github.io has address 185.199.108.153 ytdl-org.github.io has address 185.199.109.153 ytdl-org.github.io has IPv6 address 2606:50c0:8002::153 ytdl-org.github.io has IPv6 address 2606:50c0:8001::153 ytdl-org.github.io has IPv6 address 2606:50c0:8000::153 ytdl-org.github.io has IPv6 address 2606:50c0:8003::153 charles@jhegaala:~$ dig ytdl-org.github.io ; <<>> DiG 9.18.24-1-Debian <<>> ytdl-org.github.io ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 2298 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 4, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1 ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION: ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 1232 ; COOKIE: 7d7680b13414d622010066290ed6b9195aa4330329ee (good) ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;ytdl-org.github.io.IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: ytdl-org.github.io. 3414IN A 185.199.108.153 ytdl-org.github.io. 3414IN A 185.199.111.153 ytdl-org.github.io. 3414IN A 185.199.110.153 ytdl-org.github.io. 3414IN A 185.199.109.153 ;; Query time: 8 msec ;; SERVER: 192.168.100.12#53(192.168.100.12) (UDP) ;; WHEN: Wed Apr 24 07:53:26 MDT 2024 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 139 charles@jhegaala:~$ -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: youtube-dl blocked?
On Tue, 23 Apr 2024 23:15:17 -0300 Markos wrote: > The site https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html > > is blocked? It does not appear to be blocked from here (North America). > > Is there any other alternative to download videos from Youtube in > Linux command line? root@jhegaala:~# apt-cache search youtube-dl haruna - Video player built with Qt/QML on top of libmpv youtube-dl - download videos from YouTube and other sites (transitional package) youtubedl-gui - GUI on yt-dlp (ie, youtube-dl) to download videos from a variety of sites yt-dlp - downloader of videos from YouTube and other sites ytfzf - script to find and watch youtube videos from the terminal root@jhegaala:~# -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared
On Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:41:24 -0700 David Christensen wrote: > My WAG is that nm-applet is failing to start, but I have been unable > to find if and where any error message is reported. My instance of nm-applet does run, and I see this as part of the boot process: root@hawk:~# journalctl -b | grep nm-app Apr 15 11:27:42 hawk NetworkManager[1354]: [1713202062.7737] agent-manager: agent[108f011a1115d508,:1.131/org.freedesktop.nm-applet/1000]: agent registered root@hawk:~# I suspect that if nm-applet doesn't start, you won't see any output from that command. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Help to report a bug related to a usb3 lan adapter driver
On Mon, 15 Apr 2024 20:57:00 +0200 user7415 same wrote: > I had a discussion in stack exchange related to the problem that is > well explained here: > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/774594/debian-12-all-of-sudden-my-usb3-lan-adapter-get-assigned-random-mac-address-ea > > For what I understood the problem was fixed in 6.8, but I'm using > debian 12 that will never use that so much new kernel I guess, could > you help me to report officially the bug so that the upstream channel > will correct it by the 6.1.0-22 version ? Bookwom backports has linux-image-6.6.13+bpo-amd64. You might try that. https://backports.debian.org/ It just so happens I have one of the same beasties. I just plugged it in to a machine running kernel 6.6.13+bpo-amd64, unplugged it, waited 20 seconds, and plugged it in to another machine running kernel 6.5.0-0.deb12.4-amd64. I then plugged it into a machine with 6.6.13+bpo-amd64. All three times I got a MAC address of 8c:ae:4c:d6:22:17. So either of those kernels might well work for you. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: tbird troubles
On Mon, 15 Apr 2024 08:28:24 -0400 gene heskett wrote: > I am supposedly running xfc4 as a desktop, but htop says I have a > heck of a lot of kde5 running. How do I get rid of the kde stuff? > Dependencies seem to be protecting it from being removed. You probably are running one or more programs that use KDE rather than gnome libraries. They cohabit nicely. I use XFCE and routinely run several KDE programs. Don't worry about it unless you are constrained by memory or other resources. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: What use can i give to linux?
On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 13:38:50 -0700 "James H. H. Lampert" wrote: > Which is why I still have DOS boxes (running IBM PC-DOS 2000, > with DOSShell, and no WinDoze whatsoever…. You might look into freedos. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Debian 12.5: pigz 2.6-1 fails with error message (Upstream issue 111)
On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 10:27:33 +0200 Jonathan Chung wrote: > I'm new with Debian bug reporting and thus need some help with that. > pigz 2.6-1 on Debian 12.5 fails to execute due to a fixed bug on > upstream https://github.com/madler/pigz/issues/111 Are you sure this is a bug and not a problem with your system? I am also using pigz 2.6-1 on Debian 12.5, and I don't see it. charles@hawk:~$ pigz --version pigz 2.6 charles@hawk:~$ pre zlib pigz pigz2.6-1 amd64 zlib1g 1:1.2.13.dfsg-1 amd64 zlib1g-dev 1:1.2.13.dfsg-1 amd64 charles@hawk:~$ What version of zlib are you running? -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Bookworm: Where are the ImageMagick binaries other than `convert`?
On Tue, 2 Apr 2024 12:07:47 +1030 Christian Gelinek wrote: > I have ImageMagick installed, but only the `convert` binary is in my > path. > > Other binaries like `magick` are not. Where can I find them, why > aren't they installed? man imagemagick -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: making Debian secure by default
On Mon, 1 Apr 2024 19:00:29 + Andy Smith wrote: > In my view a great example of the "people other than me just need to > get good" fallacy merged with the group of people predisposed to > hate systemd. > > It could have been any direct or indirect dependency of sshd here. > I'm quite sure almost none of them have the required resources and > processes to detect something like this. Easy, now. No-one is attacking systemd, and I don't think anyone wanted to start a systemd war. This could also have happened under System V initialization. I have no doubt that this sort of thing has happened in the past, and I fully expect it will happen again in the future. However, the defect has been caught and repaired. The system for dealing with vulnerabilities is working, if not perfectly. The question now is: what lessons can we learn from it. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick
On Sat, 30 Mar 2024 17:17:52 +0200 Antti-Pekka Känsälä wrote: > What could be the deal, when Firefox tries to stop me from unmounting > a stick, after I've accessed files on it through Firefox? I worry > about my stick security. Thanks. It sounds like Firefox has a file open on the stick. To check this, run something like lsof | grep -i offsite where offsite is in the path to the stick. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Bluetooth sound problems Debian 12 GNOME
On Mon, 18 Mar 2024 13:32:18 +0300 Jan Krapivin wrote: > Small problem is that LTS Kernel 6.1 doesn’t support this device, so > I have used Liquorix kernel, which I have installed earlier. Though, > I don’t need this kernel, as it haven’t helped me with sound > interrupts, which was my hope at first. I'm glad you reached a solution. You might also check the backports kernel, which is currently linux-image-6.6.13+bpo-amd64 6.6.13-1~bpo12+1. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Bookworm Networking Issues
On Sun, 17 Mar 2024 16:54:27 + David wrote: > I am running Bookworm on a thin client and Network-Manger seems to be > the source of my problems. > > I have purged Network-Manager from this thin client, but I can't find > out how to get /etc/network/interface to run. I have added to 2 NIC's > that I need. > > Can anybody suggest how to get the networking running? > > Thank you, > > David. > "man interfaces" might help. The name of the file is "/etc/network/interfaces". Note the s on the end. Do you have other typos, say, in the file? Also, you could show us verbatim the contents of your /etc/network/interfaces. You might also look at systemd-networkd. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: OT: End the Phone-Based Childhood Now
On Sat, 16 Mar 2024 12:30:46 -0700 Steve Sobol wrote: > I already get a ton of legitimate mail from the debian-user mailing > list. Don't need the off-topic crap. Concur. > > Admins, could you please get rid of the people who are contributing > to the noise? Or at least make them aware of their rudeness. Thank you. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Bookworm, fail2ban and sshd
On Fri, 15 Mar 2024 14:59:49 - (UTC) Curt wrote: > I guess it's this old bug: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=770171 Yup, thank you. I added the following stanza to /etc/fail2ban/jail.d/curley.conf: [sshd] backend = systemd (The "enabled" pair is already given in defaults-debian.conf.) And running "fail2ban-client -d | grep -i ssh" confirms both that the server is running, and that the ssh jail is enabled. Which lead to another problem: I got a warning: 519846]: WARNING 'allowipv6' not defined in 'Definition'. Using default one: 'auto' Which would have been fine, except a) I don't like warnings, and 2) I do not use or want ipv6. So I changed that to a no in fail2ban.local. And I had to move that stanza to under the [Definition] heading to quiet the warning. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Bookworm, fail2ban and sshd
On Thu, 14 Mar 2024 22:27:36 + Andy Smith wrote: > I think you want to set "backend = journald" in > /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf or its usual local override, but I have not > tested this as I still use rsyslogd. Thanks, but no cigar. I also tried setting backend to systemd (as noted in man jail.conf). Also no go. The man page also suggest specifying the path to the journal. I tried [DEFAULT] backend = systemd[journalpath=/var/log/journal/2284a3a8f11544c5a5c355d3ff3e744d/] That worked if I disabled sshd, but sshd still doesn't like it. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: logcheck(1) in bookworm 12.5 /etc/logcheck/logcheck.logfiles.d/syslog.logfiles
On Thu, 14 Mar 2024 11:25:52 -0700 cono...@panix.com (John Conover) wrote: > Email from logcheck(1) contains: > > E: File could not be read: /var/log/syslog > E: File could not be read: /var/log/auth.log > > which do not exist in bookworm 12.5. > > The offending file: > > /etc/logcheck/logcheck.logfiles.d/syslog.logfiles > > contains both filenames. Interesting. My logcheck instance works just fine, andmakes no such complaints. However, my /etc/logcheck/logcheck.logfiles.d/syslog.logfiles has them commented out. root@issola:~# cat /etc/logcheck/logcheck.logfiles.d/syslog.logfiles ## Log entries in the logs listed below will be checked by logcheck # The default is to check standard syslog files # created by rsyslog or other syslog daemons # (If your system does not use a syslog daemon you # can comment these lines out) # /var/log/syslog # /var/log/auth.log root@issola:~# So you might do the same. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Bookworm, fail2ban and sshd
I'm trying to set fail2ban up on bookworm. It refuses to run with the default configuration (sshd only), reporting: Failed during configuration: Have not found any log file for sshd jail Near as I can figure, fail2ban expects sshd's log file to be /var/log/auth.log. Which does not exist on my target machine. On a brief inspection, machines that have new installations of bookworm do not have /var/log/auth.log. Machines running bullseye or upgraded from bullseye to bookworm have it. Commenting out sshd's "enabled" line (in /etc/fail2ban/jail.d/defaults-debian.conf) allows the daemon to start, but it isn't doing anything useful. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: libbusiness-us-usps-webtools-perl and USPS Ground Advantage shipping
On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 23:15:13 -0500 Jeffrey Walton wrote: > I need to generate some shipping labels for drop-off at the USPS post > office using USPS Ground Advantage. > > I have a USB thermal printer for the shipping labels, > <https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08V28J3JS>. > > I see Debian carries libbusiness-us-usps-webtools-perl. I visited the > module's GitHub at > <https://github.com/ssimms/business-us-usps-webtools>, but the > examples are on the lite side. I don't see a workflow similar to > creating and printing a shipping label. > > My question is, can I use the module to create and print a shipping > label for a USPS Ground Advantage package? charles@jhegaala:~$ apt-cache show libbusiness-us-usps-webtools-perl Package: libbusiness-us-usps-webtools-perl Version: 1.125-2 Installed-Size: 74 Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Architecture: all Depends: perl:any, libhash-asobject-perl, liburi-perl, libwww-perl Description-en: Perl module enabling use of USPS Web Tools services Business::US::USPS::WebTools provides a Perl interface to the US Postal Service's Web Tools service. You need a UserID and Password to use these services. See the Web Tools site at http://www.usps.com/webtools/ for details. Description-md5: 9c76d38752bb4c43151a4c8fe5224e7e Homepage: https://github.com/ssimms/business-us-usps-webtools Tag: devel::lang:perl, devel::library, implemented-in::perl Section: perl Priority: optional Filename: pool/main/libb/libbusiness-us-usps-webtools-perl/libbusiness-us-usps-webtools-perl_1.125-2_all.deb Size: 26856 MD5sum: 2323b592f161074380195b80880115e3 SHA256: 8341a6417ce7017af88cba6185042911c88d9024a2b886428ba0803946085c73 charles@jhegaala:~$ So I would start at the web site for the Web Tools. http://www.usps.com/webtools/ On a brief scan of that site, I think the answer is yes, but you have some software development ahead of you. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: messages on my phone
On Wed, 06 Mar 2024 18:39:17 + ghe2001 wrote: > Worst of all, I haven't been able to find out how to delete them :-) To delete them, press and hold the message. A menu will pop up. Hit More…. Hit the trash can in the lower left. If you have a mac, you may be able to delete from it. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Reportbug Assisance
On Tue, 5 Mar 2024 20:40:31 -0500 Tom wrote: > Just reminding whomever checks this mailbox, that I am still awaiting > an answer to this question here. Well, I'm no expert on KDE. But if you haven't gotten any other response, as Marco Moock suggested, I'd file it under kinfocenter. Whoever is responsible for that can always reassign it if that's appropriate. Let us know the bug number when you do so those who wish to can track it. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: strange time problem with bullseye
On Wed, 6 Mar 2024 02:47:06 +0800 hlyg wrote: > wifi connection is good, i suppose both correct time with server > automatically Not necessarily. You should install an NTP client if you haven't already. I suggest systemd-timesyncd. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Serious problem with debian 12 bookworm
On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 19:58:13 + (UTC) Anastasia Broch wrote: > Hi I'm using debian 12 in Lenovo yoga legion core i5 12th gen with > RTX 3050 and I'm figuring a serious issue using debian 12 on this PC, > … > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone Apparently some people haven't noticed that this is a near duplicate of this recent email on the list: From: Mansour Nasri To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Problem of suspend activities ( debian 12 ) Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 09:38:05 +0100 The main difference, as far as I can see, it the sender's email address. Troll? Who knows? Who cares? I suggest you ignore this thread. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Problem of suspend activities ( debian 12 )
On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 09:38:05 +0100 Mansour Nasri wrote: > Hi I'm using debian 12 in Lenovo yoga legion core i5 12th gen with > RTX 3050 and I'm figuring a serious issue using debian 12 on this PC, > When the PC is on sleep mode ( suspend ) it's doesn't wake up anymore > until forcing shutting down and this each time the PC turns on > suspend mode, ( fastboot are disabled )of course, on my old PC dell > i7 10th I never had this kind of issue, but this it it's the case, > please help to resolve this problem I really don't want to back to > windows anymore. Thank you so much You might look at installing the backports kernel. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie?
On Tue, 27 Feb 2024 14:13:49 -0500 Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > The debian wiki suggests that the handling of cron/anacron is > > evolving. > > That sounds like a euphemism for "being killed off" by Systemd and > its timers. These days cron and anacron are run as services/timers by systemd. root@hawk:~# systemctl list-units '*cron*' UNITLOAD ACTIVE SUB DESCRIPTION cron.serviceloaded active running Regular background program processing daemon anacron.timer loaded active waiting Trigger anacron every hour nextcloudcron.timer loaded active waiting Run Nextcloud cron.php every 5 minutes LOAD = Reflects whether the unit definition was properly loaded. ACTIVE = The high-level unit activation state, i.e. generalization of SUB. SUB= The low-level unit activation state, values depend on unit type. 3 loaded units listed. Pass --all to see loaded but inactive units, too. To show all installed unit files use 'systemctl list-unit-files'. root@hawk:~# -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP
On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 21:10:31 +0100 Ralph Aichinger wrote: > I just think this mailing > list probably is not the right place to argue this question. Hear, hear! Those who wish to weigh in have done so. I doubt any further argumentation will change anyone else's mind. Now kindly stop wasting your time, my time, bandwidth, and hard drive space on this. And grow some tolerance for other people's foibles, and perhaps others will grow some tolerance for your foibles. Thank you. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Issue with USB External Keyboard, External Mouse, and Screen Brightness on Dell Laptop
On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 13:49:54 -0300 Marcelo Laia wrote: > Thank you all for the invaluable assistance provided. Unfortunately, > the issue has resurfaced today. I don't believe it's related to the > age of the hardware, although my Inspiron 5547-A20 is from 2014, as > indicated below: A stab in the dark: I take it that you ran the upower --dump command while the battery was discharging. 10,916 V looks a bit odd to me. What does a dump show when the battery is fully charged? I wonder if that voltage is too low to support the laptop. My two ancient Lenovos (2011 and 2012) are both showing much better values than that. The difference between the energy-full and energy-full-design values, and the capacity both lead me to wonder if it isn't time to buy a new battery (or maybe a new or refurbished laptop). -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Missing http_async_client.so in the `kamailio-extra-modules`
On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 21:13:46 +0500 Евгений Гостьков wrote: > Can you add http_async_client.so to deb package > `kamailio-extra-modules` or maybe make distinct deb package like a > `kamailio-http-async-client` ? Have you checked with kamailio support resources (mail lists, web sites, etc.)? If that doesn't produce results, I suggest you file a bug against kamailio-extra-modules. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: GRUB lost graphical terminal mode
On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 08:04:47 + Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d...@ewoof.net> wrote: > On 19 Feb 2024 22:44 +0100, from borde...@tutanota.com (Borden): > >> Would you be willing to post your /boot/grub/grub.cfg for a setup > >> where you get the blank screen GRUB? > > > > Yeah, I probably should have opened with that. Sorry: > > > > ``` > > # If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update > > # /boot/grub/grub.cfg. > > # For full documentation of the options in this file, see: > > # info -f grub -n 'Simple configuration' > > > > GRUB_DEFAULT=0 > [snipped remainder] > > If that's your /boot/grub/grub.cfg, it's a miracle that your GRUB > installation is working at all and not dumping you to a grub> rescue > prompt. > That clearly isn't the OP's /boot/grub/grub.cfg, but /etc/default/grub. As the former is often rather lengthy, and the list does reject large attachments, perhaps Borden will put it up at https://paste.debian.net or some other pastebin facility and provide the URL. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Banning a user from posting to Debian lists
just checking -- CK
Re: Hard links - How do they work: TANSTAAFL
On Sun, 18 Feb 2024 16:15:01 -0800 Kushal Kumaran wrote: > Have you read their FAQ page about hard links? > https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/blob/dev/FAQ.md#how-do-snapshots-with-hard-links-work An excellent writeup. The only thing I would add is that creating a hard link does require an entry in a directory somewhere. If that requires adding a block to the directory entry, that will happen. So hard links are not entirely free. TANSTAAFL: There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Link. But I doubt that this explains all of Keith Bainbridge 's problem. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Package Identification Assistance
On Thu, 15 Feb 2024 20:33:16 -0500 Neal Heinecke wrote: > I need to identify the package responsible for creating the software > sources window. There is a minor bug/typo where the first tab reads > "Ubuntu Software" I have no idea what a "software sources window" is. Do you know the name of the program? Often the name of the program is also the name of the package. Apt-file is a useful tool here. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: simple virt-manager setup
On Thu, 15 Feb 2024 10:31:30 +0100 Felix Natter wrote: > Looks like I write my own script, since I don't need snapshots or > incremental backups or even multiple disks :) Take a look at rsnapshot. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Unidentified flying subject!
On Fri, 09 Feb 2024 04:30:14 + Richmond wrote: > So you need to store a lot of data and then verify that it has written > with 'diff'. Yeah. I've been thinking about this. Yeah, I know: dangerous. What I would do is write a function to write 4096 bytes of repeating data, the data being the block number being written to. So the first block is all zeros, the second all ones, etc.. For convenience they would be 64 bit unsigned ints. And, given the block number, a function to verify that block number N is full of Ns and nothing else. By doing it this way, we don't have to keep copies of what we've written. We only have to keep track of which block got written to which LBA so we can go back and check it later. Now, divide the drive in half. Write block zero there. Divide the two halves each in half, and write blocks one and two. Divide again, and write blocks three through five. Etc., a nice binary division. Every once in a while, I would go back and verify the blocks already written. Maybe every time I subdivide again. If we're really lucky, and the perpetrators really stupid, the 0th block will fail, and we have instant proof that the drive is a failure. We don't care why the drive is failing, only that the 0th block (which is clearly not at the end of the drive) has failed. Here's a conjecture: This was designed to get people who use FAT and NTFS. I know that FAT starts writing at the beginning of the partition, and goes from there. This is because floppy disks (remember them?) have track 0 at the outside, which is far more reliable than the tracks at the hub simply because each each flux reversal is longer. So the first 64G should be fine; only after you get past there do you see bad sectors. I believe NTFS does similarly. But I don't think that's what they're doing. Other operating systems have put the root directory and file allocation table (or equivalent) in the middle of the disk (for faster access), Apple DOS for one. mkfs.extX write blocks all over the place. I think that they are re-allocating sectors on the fly, regardless of the LBA, until they run out of real sectors. So we write 64G+ of my 4096 byte blocks. It'll take a while, but who cares? If Gibson is correct that these things only have 64 gig of real memory, and my arithmetic is correct, we should start seeing failures after writing 16777216 of my 4096 blocks. Of course, these things might allocate larger sectors than 4096 bytes. In which case we'll hit the limit sooner. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Unidentified subject!
On Thu, 08 Feb 2024 18:02:36 -0500 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Test it with Validrive. > > https://www.grc.com/validrive.htm > > Looks like proprietary software for Windows. badblocks, available in a Debian repo near you, might be a suitable replacement. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: D12 Installer does not recognize rtl8xxxu wifi
On Thu, 08 Feb 2024 19:24:35 +0100 Felix Natter wrote: > If I start a shell from the installer, I can see that the necessary > module rtl8xxxu is loaded (the same one that is loaded in live > option). So I guess it is a firmware issue. How can I get an > installer with non-free firmware (if that is the problem)? > I just found one page that says the (non-free?) FW is always included > in the images (starting from bookworm). Is that true? > Any other idea? My understanding is that the non-free firmware is now included on Debian installation media. I've been using "Debian GNU/Linux 12.2.0 "Bookworm" - Official amd64 NETINST with firmware 20231007-10:28" and had no problems with non-free firmware on my several computers. So to diagnose this further, exactly what hardware? Please run lspci, and run lspci -v for the offending device. Also, you can run the netinst installer at least through the relevant installation phase. Then please capture the logs, probably under /var/log. Searching syslog on the word "firmware" should turn up some interesting messages. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Home UPS recommendations (Was Re: rsync --delete vs rsync --delete-after)
On Thu, 8 Feb 2024 15:29:21 + Andy Smith wrote: > I do not overly want to buy a Windows licence, run it > in a VM and pass USB through to that VM just to try this. You could try wine. You might need the more recent crossover-office, which is proprietary (but contributes greatly to wine). -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Network Problem: Redirection
On Fri, 2 Feb 2024 15:52:41 -0700 Charles Curley wrote: > But I don't think that will solve the routing problem. Well, I was wrong. That did solve the routing problems. I moved the apt-proxy line for the VMs' benefit into a VM's /etc/hosts and took it out of hawk's /etc/hosts. samba is now an alias in the virtual zone, so I don't need that line at all. Thanks, Greg, for spotting that. Sometimes I'm dense. It took me a while to realize what you were getting at. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Network Problem: Redirection
On Fri, 2 Feb 2024 16:52:48 -0500 Greg Wooledge wrote: > Well, we don't know what's "right" or "wrong" on your networks. These > are private (non-routable) addresses with no meaning to anyone but you > and your fellow network denizens. Agree. > > If you need different name resolution depending on whether you're > running on the host vs. running on the guest, then I would imagine > there is some well-known way to define that. Perhaps a different > hosts file that's only used by guests? I don't know virtualization > stuff well. Yup. I took a quick and dirty route to solve a problem, and it leaked over into another area. Sigh. The solution I took depends on the fact that the libvirtual stuff uses dnsmasq for DNS and DHCP. And dnsmasq reads the host machine's hosts file. Nice. But, as you pointed out, so does the host machine's DNS lookup stuff. Sigh. Possibly the solution to this problem is to see if I can take it out of hosts, add it to dnsmasq directly, and finagle dnsmasq to only be visible to the virtual machines. But I don't think that will solve the routing problem. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Network Problem: Redirection
On Fri, 2 Feb 2024 22:10:19 +0100 Marco Moock wrote: > Sorry for the first post. > Your problem is located in the name resolution. > > Show /etc/nsswitch.conf I have not touched this. root@hawk:~# cat /etc/nsswitch.conf # /etc/nsswitch.conf # # Example configuration of GNU Name Service Switch functionality. # If you have the `glibc-doc-reference' and `info' packages installed, try: # `info libc "Name Service Switch"' for information about this file. passwd: files systemd group: files systemd shadow: files gshadow:files hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mymachines networks: files protocols: db files services: db files ethers: db files rpc:db files netgroup: nis root@hawk:~# -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Network Problem: Redirection
On Fri, 2 Feb 2024 16:28:06 -0500 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > However, when I try to ping samba by host name: > > > > root@hawk:~# ping samba > > PING samba (192.168.122.1) 56(84) bytes of data. > > Note that this is a *different* IP address. Good catch, thank you. > > > # For the benefit of virtual machines. > > 192.168.100.12 apt-proxy > > 192.168.122.1 samba samba.localdomain > > And that's where it came from (/etc/hosts). If this IP address is > wrong, then it shouldn't be in here. Gnrrr. It's right for the virtual network (192.168.122.0). But shouldn't that work even if it isn't the "right" address? -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Network Problem: Redirection
I have an interesting network problem. I have a samba service on hawk. I have an alias for it in DNS: root@hawk:~# host samba samba.localdomain is an alias for hawk.localdomain. hawk.localdomain has address 192.168.100.6 root@hawk:~# host hawk hawk.localdomain has address 192.168.100.6 root@hawk:~# I can ping by IP address just fine: root@hawk:~# ping 192.168.100.6 PING 192.168.100.6 (192.168.100.6) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 192.168.100.6: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.083 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.100.6: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.034 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.100.6: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.044 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.100.6: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.052 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.100.6: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.063 ms --- 192.168.100.6 ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4101ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.034/0.055/0.083/0.016 ms root@hawk:~# However, when I try to ping samba by host name: root@hawk:~# ping samba PING samba (192.168.122.1) 56(84) bytes of data. From apt-proxy (192.168.100.12): icmp_seq=2 Redirect Host(New nexthop: hawk.localdomain (192.168.100.6)) From apt-proxy (192.168.100.12): icmp_seq=3 Redirect Host(New nexthop: hawk.localdomain (192.168.100.6)) From apt-proxy (192.168.100.12): icmp_seq=4 Redirect Host(New nexthop: hawk.localdomain (192.168.100.6)) From apt-proxy (192.168.100.12): icmp_seq=5 Redirect Host(New nexthop: hawk.localdomain (192.168.100.6)) --- samba ping statistics --- 5 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 4019ms root@hawk:~# host apt-proxy apt-proxy.localdomain is an alias for issola.localdomain. issola.localdomain has address 192.168.100.12 root@hawk:~# 192.168.100.12 is my router. apt-roxy is defined in /etc/hosts: root@hawk:~# cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 hawk.localdomainhawk # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters # For the benefit of virtual machines. 192.168.100.12 apt-proxy 192.168.122.1 samba samba.localdomain root@hawk:~# There is an apt-cacher-ng running on issola, 192.168.100.12. That apt-proxy entry is for the benefit of virtual machines on hawk. This mis-routing prevents the samba clients on hawk from mounting if I use the host name. Other machines have no problems with the share. However, as soon as I change hawk's fstab entry to the loopback address, samba on hawk is fine. Using the IP address works, but I'd rather use an alias in case some time in the future I move the samba service to another machine; all I need do is change the alias. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: How to insert symbols into emails
On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 22:02:20 +0100 Franco Martelli wrote: > I read that for custom sequence I've to create a ~/.XCompose file, > but where can I find the character to map i.e. Greek letters: "α" "β" > "γ" ? Try the gucharmap package. You look a character up by name, and copy it into place. E.g. crocodile, . > > In "/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose" file the ALPHA char is > defined as: > > : "α" U03B1 # GREEK SMALL > LETTER ALPHA > > What stands for ? Look at the Wikipedia entry for dead key. > Could I have an example of custom > ~/.XCompose file for this letter, please? https://wiki.debian.org/XCompose -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Stop packagekitd from downloading updates
On Sun, 28 Jan 2024 14:10:46 -0500 Stefan Monnier wrote: > How can I stop those downloads? > > Currently, I did > > systemctl mask packagekit Well, you might just get rid of the package. apt purge packagekit should do it. Less drastic, to simply shut down the current daemon, systemctl stop packagekit To prevent it from starting on the next boot: systemctl disable packagekit You may have to unmask it first. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Automatically installing GRUB on multiple drives
On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 11:17:34 +0100 Nicolas George wrote: > Which leads me to wonder if there is an automated way to install GRUB > on all the EFI partitions. I'm not aware of any existing solutions. Perhaps a script based on: for i in a b c d e ; do echo /dev/sd$i ; grub-install /dev/sd$i ; done Or perhaps extract the relevant devices from the output of cat /proc/mdstat Although I found it simpler (and faster) to have all my system stuff on an SSD, and the RAID on four HDDs. Grub goes on the SSD and that's that. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: SOLVED: Re: Chromium oops: libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so
On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 07:33:59 + Tixy wrote: > On Tue, 2024-01-23 at 13:34 -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > [...] > > As you've already found out, that's not the latest one, and if I'm not > mistaken is the one that introduce a wifi bug [1], so that could > explain it getting stuck in the wifi stuff during shutdown. > > You would probably be OK with the latest Debian 6.1 kernel if you > don't explicitly want the 6.5 one from backports. > > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1057969 > That does indeed sound like the problem I had. Thank you. I think I've spent enough time on this issue, so I'll stick with the backported kernel(s) until the next Debian is released (13). Or until something else goes wrong. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: SOLVED: Re: Chromium oops: libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so
On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 09:25:58 +0700 Max Nikulin wrote: > On 24/01/2024 03:34, Charles Curley wrote: > > So I purged the newer kernel, inux-image-6.1.0-15-amd64 > > The current kernel is linux-image-6.1.0-17-amd64 > > Perhaps you have not restored your sources.list or apt preferences > after the accidents with kernel bugs. Check that nothing extra is > added and nothing is missed in > > apt policy > Good catch, thank you. I found the problem. sources.list had two src lines commented out because the installer couldn't verify them. I have rectified that problem. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
SOLVED: Re: Chromium oops: libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so
On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 10:19:48 -0700 Charles Curley wrote: > I have just installed Bookworm on my ancient Lenovo T520 (2011), > replacing Bullseye. I suspect the problem is somewhere in the video > driver chain. Any thoughts on how to proceed further with this? > > Upon trying to run chromium, I get: > > charles@jhegaala:~$ chromium & > [2] 33609 > charles@jhegaala:~$ libva error: > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so init failed > > charles@jhegaala:~$ I seem to have solved this problem, entirely by accident. I went to shut down the machine, and it got stuck trying to shut down wpa_supplicant and Network Manager. Ten minutes into the shutdown, I finally pulled the plug. A few reboots and shutdowns later, I decided to try another kernel. I had recently installed Bookworm from the 12.0 netinst CD image, so I had the 12.0 kernel, linux-image-6.1.0-9-amd64, 6.1.27-1, as my fall-back kernel. I rebooted to that, and was able to shut down and boot in quick order. So I purged the newer kernel, inux-image-6.1.0-15-amd64, leaving the older one in place. I then set up for bookworm backports, and installed a kernel from backports, linux-image-6.5.0-0.deb12.4-amd64, 6.5.10-1~bpo12+1. Not only does than kernel give me snappy boot and shutdown, but chromium runs, and show videos. I still get the libva error message, but chromium runs anyway. All of which leads me to suspect that the error message was a soviet herring, as Max Nikulin suggested elsewhere in this thread. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Debian 12 System Requirement
On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 04:09:14 + CHENG YING KIT KEITH wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > Can I install Debian 11 or 12 with "Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2699 v3 @ > 2.30GHz" CPU? Do they both support the following application > > Nginx 1.22.1 > PHP 8.2.7 > Mariadb 10.11.4 Debian 11 comes with php 7.4. Debian 12 comes with 8.2.7, specifically root@hawk:~# php --version PHP 8.2.7 (cli) (built: Jun 9 2023 19:37:27) (NTS) Copyright (c) The PHP Group Zend Engine v4.2.7, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies with Zend OPcache v8.2.7, Copyright (c), by Zend Technologies root@hawk:~# mariadb-server: Version: 1:10.11.4-1~deb12u1 nginx: Version: 1.22.1-9 Given that, and another consideration, I will suggest you use Debian 12. The other consideration is that Debian 11 will reach end of life before Debian 12 will, so you are better future-proofed with Debian 12. > > On the other hand, may I know the minimum requirement of Debian 11 > and 12? https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch02.en.html Note that those are often minimal requirements; your application, not Debian, will likely determine your minimum requirements. You should probably read the installation guide, https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/index.en.html You can get more information on specific packages at https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Looking for archive management system for backups burned to optical discs
On Mon, 22 Jan 2024 18:27:51 -0800 David Christensen wrote: > debian-user: > > I have a SOHO file server with ~1 TB of data. I would like archive > the data by burning it to a series of optical discs organized by time > (e.g. mtime). I expect to periodically burn additional discs in the > future, each covering a span of time from the previous last disc to > the then-current time. > > > I am looking for FOSS software for Unix platforms that goes beyond a > disc burner with multi-volume spanning. The term "archive management > system" comes to mind. > > > Comments or suggestions? gene heskett 's suggestion of Amanda is a good one. It has its kinks, but is solid and reliable. Amanda also handles compression and encryption for you. I currently use Amanda to back up to a RAID array. I then use rsnapshot to back portions of that (including the Amanda virtual tapes) to one of three rotating off-site USB external drives. I suspect the latter could be adapted to your requirements. If you don't find anything readily available, I'd look at using find and the mtimes to copy to a holding disk, which you can then burn to archive media. I suggest you look at Blu-Ray for archiving. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: ThinkPad Extra Buttons as /devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/input/input16
On Sun, 21 Jan 2024 22:41:01 +0100 Geert Stappers wrote: > Hoping that is it possible: > > How to inject key stroke or "button pressed" in > /devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/input/input16 ? Thinkwiki might be useful. https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed
On Sat, 20 Jan 2024 18:51:17 -0500 Stefan Monnier wrote: > So, IIUC the problem is that the hardware video decoder drivers aren't > found for some reason. I checked my VA-related packages and they seem > to be installed: > > # aptitude search '\' | grep '^i' > i A i965-va-driver - VAAPI driver for Intel G45 & HD Graphics > family i intel-media-va-driver - VAAPI driver for the Intel GEN8+ > Graphics family i A libvdpau-va-gl1 - VDPAU driver with OpenGL/VAAPI > backend i A mesa-va-drivers - Mesa VA-API video acceleration drivers > i va-driver-all - API de Video Acceleration (VA) – métapaquet de > pilotes i A vdpau-va-driver - VDPAU-based backend for VA API > # > > I tried to install `intel-media-va-driver-non-free` to see if that's > the problem, but it did not make any difference. You and I seem to be having similar problems. I suspect that it has to do with drivers initializing properly, not our respective browsers. I can run Firefox just fine, but not chromium. root@jhegaala:~# pre '\' i965-va-driver 2.4.1+dfsg1-1 amd64 intel-media-va-driver 23.1.1+dfsg1-1 amd64 libvdpau-va-gl1 0.4.2-1+b1 amd64 mesa-va-drivers 22.3.6-1+deb12u1amd64 va-driver-all 2.17.0-1amd64 root@jhegaala:~# I seem to be missing vdpau-va-driver, but it does not seem to be available for me (bookworm): root@jhegaala:~# apt install vdpau-va-driver Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Package vdpau-va-driver is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source However the following packages replace it: mesa-va-drivers E: Package 'vdpau-va-driver' has no installation candidate root@jhegaala:~# I've documented what I have so far in a thread with the subject "Chromium oops: libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so" root@jhegaala:~# lspci -vs 2.0 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T520 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 28, IOMMU group 0 Memory at f000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M] Memory at e000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] I/O ports at 6000 [size=64] Expansion ROM at 000c [virtual] [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit- Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features Kernel driver in use: i915 Kernel modules: i915 root@jhegaala:~# VLC also plays MP4 movies just fine. It reports: charles@jhegaala:~/ogg$ VLC media player 3.0.20 Vetinari (revision 3.0.20-0-g6f0d0ab126b) [55febf968d30] [http] lua interface: Lua HTTP interface [55febf882550] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface. [7f76bc0042f0] gl gl: Initialized libplacebo v4.208.0 (API v208) libva info: VA-API version 1.17.0 libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_17 libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so init failed libva info: va_openDriver() returns 1 libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_8 libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0 [7f76bc0042f0] gl gl: Initialized libplacebo v4.208.0 (API v208) libva info: VA-API version 1.17.0 libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_17 libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so init failed libva info: va_openDriver() returns 1 libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_8 libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0 [7f76d4c18c50] avcodec decoder: Using OpenGL/VAAPI backend for VDPAU for hardware decoding -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: netatalk not on bookworm
On Fri, 22 Dec 2023 12:39:21 -0700 Charles Curley wrote: > On upgrading from bullseye to bookwork, my netatalk installation has > been nuked. The bullseye package (3.1.12~ds-8+deb11u1) is still > present but no daemon is running nor is my Mac making backups to the > server. > > Is there a known fix or workaround for this? I ended up with a completely different solution. https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/discussions/574#discussioncomment-7951797 It is running on my desktop. I've gotten one good backup, and I can peruse the backups in the Time Machine app. We will see how it goes. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Chromium oops: libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so
On Fri, 19 Jan 2024 00:02:44 +0700 Max Nikulin wrote: > On 14/01/2024 00:19, Charles Curley wrote: > [...] > > [...] > > Have you faced real issues namely with hardware acceleration? Other than this, not that I know of. > > iHD driver is tied first, but your graphics card is too old for it, > so i965 loaded next. I am unsure if it is possible to suppress > attempt to load iHD and so to avoid an error message e.g. by setting > some environment variable. I see nothing in chromium's rather minimal man page. I also tried several command line switches in https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/, to no avail. > > chrome://gpu may provide more info. > Alas, chromium never gets far enough to deliver useful information. charles@jhegaala:~$ chromium chrome://gpu libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so init failed ^C Killed charles@jhegaala:~$ I did a killall -9 in another window to kill it. There are no crash reports. I looked in the two bug report sites mentioned in the man page for chromium, and did not see anything that looked relevant. I tried removing intel-media-va-driver | intel-media-va-driver-non-free, which required removing va-driver-all. No go. chromium just sits there as a background process, and I have to kill it. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help
On Tue, 16 Jan 2024 21:10:28 -0500 gene heskett wrote: > gene@coyote:~/src/klipper-docs$ lsblk -d -o > NAME,MAJ:MIN,MODEL,SERIAL,WWN /dev/sd[hijkl] > NAME MAJ:MIN MODEL SERIAL WWN > sdh8:112 Gigastone SSD GSTD02TB230102 > sdi8:128 Gigastone SSD GST02TBG221146 > sdj8:144 Gigastone SSD GST02TBG221146 > sdk8:160 Gigastone SSD GSTG02TB230206 > sdl8:176 Gigastone SSD GSTG02TB230206 Something is seriously wrong here. I worked at Maxtor for a while. They went out of their way to be sure there were no duplicate serial numbers. Gene, I suggest you check these SNs with the SN on the packages (if there is one) and on the label on the drive. Also, take each drive, one at a time, attach it to another computer with a fresh installation of Debian, one you haven't mucked with in any way, and only one other drive already in it, and read the SNs there. I also went looking for Gigastone's web site. Every page I tried at gigastone.com led to what I presume was an Error 404 page. I say presume because most of the text was in non-English, probably Chinese, characters. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: No Release file for Security Update
On Wed, 17 Jan 2024 11:31:52 -0500 Thomas George wrote: > # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 12.2.0 _Bookworm_ - Official amd64 DVD > Binary-1 with firmware 20231007-10:29]/ bookworm main > non-free-firmware > > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main non-free > non-free-firmware > > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-updates main non-free > non-free-firmware > > # deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-backports main non-free > non-free-firmware > > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-security main non-free > non-free-firmware > sources.list (END) The first thing I'll suggest is that you replace http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ with http://deb.debian.org/debian More to the point, the security URL I have is http://security.debian.org/debian-security > > > root@Phoenix:/etc/apt# apt-get update > Hit:1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease > Hit:2 http://ftp.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease > Ign:3 http://ftp.debian.org/debian bookworm-security InRelease > Hit:4 https://linux.brostrend.com stable InRelease > Err:5 http://ftp.debian.org/debian bookworm-security Release > 404 Not Found [IP: 151.101. I'm guessing that that brostrend line came from something in /etc/apt/sources.d. Sometimes renaming those is a useful debugging trick. For more information, see man 5 sources.list. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Seeking a Terminal Emulator on Debian for "Passthrough" Printing
On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 21:32:44 + (UTC) phoebus phoebus wrote: > I have a client workstation with a proprietary terminal emulator > running on Windows. This PC is connected to a POS printer via a COM > serial port. The client workstation along with the printer and other > connected devices, forms the client-side of our Point of Sale (POS) > system. … > The printer model is a Thermal Line Dot Printing type and it supports > the ESC/POS command system, created by Epson, which provides > efficient and functional commands for communication with the printer. > For more information on ESC/POS, please refer to this site: > https://download4.epson.biz/sec_pubs/pos/reference_en/escpos/index.html This article was very helpful. > Our objective is to explore open-source solutions for this > configuration as we aim to replace the proprietary software. I take it that by "the proprietary software" you mean the proprietary terminal emulator running on the client PC. One thing you might be able to do quickly is establish an SSH tunnel between the PC and the server, then route the proprietary terminal emulator telnet traffic through the tunnel. That, at least, will get you a more secure connection between the PC and the server. If I understand things correctly, the server sends all sorts of information to the proprietary terminal emulator. Most of that gets displayed on the emulator. But, given one VT escape code, the emulator sends the subsequent data off to the printer, until it gets the other VT escape code. The printer may then return a response. If that understanding is correct, I suggest you grab an existing open source terminal program that supports VT escape codes: 1) Modify how it handles those two escape codes. 2) Modify it to listen to the printer for responses, encode those appropriately, and ship them to the server. I haven't worked with VT escape sequences in decades. If I recall correctly, some escape sequences cause the terminal to send information back to the server. In that case, you may need to synchronize return information from the printer with other return information. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Chromium oops: libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so
I have just installed Bookworm on my ancient Lenovo T520 (2011), replacing Bullseye. I suspect the problem is somewhere in the video driver chain. Any thoughts on how to proceed further with this? Upon trying to run chromium, I get: charles@jhegaala:~$ chromium & [2] 33609 charles@jhegaala:~$ libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so init failed charles@jhegaala:~$ ps PID TTY TIME CMD 32502 pts/800:00:00 bash 32506 pts/800:00:04 emacs 33609 pts/800:00:00 chromium 33630 pts/800:00:00 chromium 33631 pts/800:00:00 chromium 33633 pts/800:00:00 chromium 33656 pts/800:00:00 chromium 33657 pts/800:00:00 chromium 33688 pts/800:00:00 ps charles@jhegaala:~$ killall -9 chromium charles@jhegaala:~$ [2]+ Killed chromium charles@jhegaala:~$ ps PID TTY TIME CMD 32502 pts/800:00:00 bash 32506 pts/800:00:04 emacs 33695 pts/800:00:00 ps charles@jhegaala:~$ vainfo libva info: VA-API version 1.17.0 libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_17 libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so init failed libva info: va_openDriver() returns 1 libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/i965_drv_video.so libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_8 libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0 vainfo: VA-API version: 1.17 (libva 2.12.0) vainfo: Driver version: Intel i965 driver for Intel(R) Sandybridge Mobile - 2.4.1 vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints VAProfileMPEG2Simple: VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointEncSlice VAProfileH264StereoHigh : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileVC1Main: VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileVC1Advanced: VAEntrypointVLD VAProfileNone : VAEntrypointVideoProc charles@jhegaala:~$ Display is: root@jhegaala:~# lspci -vs 2.0 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T520 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 28, IOMMU group 0 Memory at f000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M] Memory at e000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] I/O ports at 6000 [size=64] Expansion ROM at 000c [virtual] [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit- Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [a4] PCI Advanced Features Kernel driver in use: i915 Kernel modules: i915 root@jhegaala:~# grep 'model name' /proc/cpuinfo model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2520M CPU @ 2.50GHz model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2520M CPU @ 2.50GHz model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2520M CPU @ 2.50GHz model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2520M CPU @ 2.50GHz root@jhegaala:~# -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Seeking a Terminal Emulator on Debian for "Passthrough" Printing
On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 09:59:48 -0500 Greg Wooledge wrote: > The real problem here is that we're all blind men trying to grasp > the elephant. A good summary of what we know so far. I suspect that the OP should question whether it's time to scrap the elephant entirely, and re-think the problem de novo. Remember that an elephant is a horse designed by a committee. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help
On Fri, 12 Jan 2024 21:42:54 -0500 gene heskett wrote: > gene@coyote:~$ sudo smartctl -i -d /dev/md0p1 Gene, you could try reading the fine man page. The -d option takes an argument, which eats the /dev/md0p1, leaving no device for smartctl to look at. I have no idea what md0p1 is, but I doubt it's a physical drive, like sda. So that's two problems. And you probably don't need the -d option. Try "ls /dev/sd?" and go from there. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?
> you refused to recognize that the sub-heading contradicts with the > so-called package's description Yes yes, so file a bug report as recommended. > three decades younger than you but you don't have to sound patronizing or > condescending. You started the war. What's wrong with being old? You established you're three decades younger but what's your BMI? -- CK
Re: systemd-timesyncd
> Quit using Google search. Use DuckDuckGo. Use StartPage instead, aka ixquick.com -- System Information GTK 3.24.39 / GLib 2.78.3 Locale: en_US.UTF-8 (charset: UTF-8) Operating System: Linux 6.6.9-amd64 (x86_64)
Re: systemd-timesyncd
On Mon, 8 Jan 2024 10:02:25 +0700 Max Nikulin wrote: > Isn't it /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf, not /etc/systemd/timesyncd? It > might be a reason why systemd-timesyncd did not follow configuration. It is indeed /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf. However, there is also /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf.d/, so one may drop local configurations into place without mucking in timesyncd.conf. Since systemd-timesyncd provides /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf, changes to it will likely be overwritten on the next upgrade to systemd-timesyncd. I have: root@jhegaala:~# ls /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf.d/ 50localTimeServers.conf root@jhegaala:~# cat /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf.d/50localTimeServers.conf [Time] NTP=192.168.100.12 192.168.100.6 # File of local time servers provided via DHCP and 60ntp. root@jhegaala:~# 60ntp is my own script which picks up time servers from DHCP information and which is run by Network Manager. This machine is a laptop. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Trouble with OpenSMTPD
On Sun, 7 Jan 2024 17:36:12 -0500 Paul M Foster wrote: > For reason(s) I don't understand, opensmtpd will not start via > "systemctl start opensmtpd". According to "sudo smtpd -n", the > configuration file passes, but it just won't start. Have you looked to see what systemd has to say? After running "systemctl start opensmtpd", run "systemctl status opensmtpd". You may also find "journalctl -b -u opensmtpd" useful. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: systemd-timesyncd
On Sun, 7 Jan 2024 20:36:12 + "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > > Take care, stay warm, well, and unvaxed. > > ^^^ > > Gene - no partisan opinions, please, as per Code of Conduct? Oh, come on! Just because Gene doesn't like certain ancient Digital Equipment products…? -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors How worried should I be?
On Fri, 5 Jan 2024 17:25:48 -0800 David Christensen wrote: > I would be curious to know if a secure erase forces the pending > sector issue and, if so, what the result is. An interesting thought. Alas, I am far enough along on re-installing that I do not want to try it. Sorry. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: systemd and timezone
apt-listchanges: News - tzdata (2023d-1) unstable; urgency=medium From 2023c-8 on the tzdata package ships only timezones that follow the current rules of geographical region (continent or ocean) and city name. All legacy timezone symlinks (old or merged timezones mentioned in the upstream backward file) were moved to tzdata-legacy. This includes the US/* timezones. Please install tzdata-legacy in case you need the legacy timezones or to restore the previous behavior. This might be needed in case the system provides timezone-aware data over the network (e. g. SQL databases). -- Benjamin Drung Tue, 02 Jan 2024 14:17:33 +0100 What's wrong with NTP, too simple? # dpkg-reconfigure tzdata Current default time zone: 'America/New_York' Local time is now: Fri Jan 5 20:58:45 EST 2024. Universal Time is now: Sat Jan 6 01:58:45 UTC 2024. -- System Information GTK 3.24.39 / GLib 2.78.3 Locale: en_US.UTF-8 (charset: UTF-8) Operating System: Linux 6.6.9-amd64 (x86_64)
Re: 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors How worried should I be?
On Fri, 5 Jan 2024 21:01:28 + Andy Smith wrote: > So has this coaxed the drive into reducing its pending sector count > to zero or does that still say 1? Last I looked, it was still at 1. When I finish my reinstallation, I will look again. > > I have had drives in the past that never decremented it even though > they had clearly done a remap, and others that took a long time > (weeks) to get around to doing so. As the Zen master said, we will see. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: Installing Debian on an old Asus EEE PC
On Fri, 05 Jan 2024 16:48:39 + Eric S Fraga wrote: > anybody here have any experience installing a recent(-ish) version of > Debian on an Asus EEE PC? This is a small notebook sized laptop with > Celeron cpu and little space & memory. I've just found one in one of > my boxes and thought I'd see if I can make use of it. It's currently > running with a 2.x kernel! It might help if you gave us a bit more information. Exact make and model number? You should be able to find that on a label somewhere or with dmidecode. How much memory? free -h should tell us that. How large a local hard drive do you have? I suspect you need a minimum of 1 GiB of RAM to run Bookworm, but the more the merrier. How much hard drive you need depends on what you want to put on it. If you have another machine with more hard drive space, an NFS server might extend your usable space on the EEE PC. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors How worried should I be?
On Thu, 4 Jan 2024 11:58:54 +0100 wrote: > > > > OOPS! -w is the destructive test. I now have a hard drive full of > > 0x00s. I should have used the -n option. However, it reported no > > failures. > > Ouch, I hope you had a backup. All the essential stuff, yes. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?
On Wed, 3 Jan 2024 22:40:33 +0100 Stella Ashburne wrote: > > Are you sure? WPA3-Personal is hardly new so Bookworm should have > > the support. Even the package description says that. > > > Could you provide me the URL to the package description please? You can get the package description of any package with: apt-cache show It usually includes the project web site. To answer your question about WPA3-Personal in wpasupplicant, the change log indicates that it was added on 2022-01-16 to version 2.10, which is the version I have on Bookworm. Change logs and other package documentation are usually found in /usr/share/doc/. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors How worried should I be?
On Wed, 3 Jan 2024 13:25:26 -0700 Charles Curley wrote: > I now have a writing test (-w) running. It has reported no failures on > its first pass. OOPS! -w is the destructive test. I now have a hard drive full of 0x00s. I should have used the -n option. However, it reported no failures. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors How worried should I be?
On Wed, 3 Jan 2024 11:05:10 + Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d...@ewoof.net> wrote: > Since both tests finished without > finding any errors, there _should_ have been no unreadable sectors. Agree. > > I'm inclined to believe that your drive is fibbing SMART data. Sigh. I am inclined to agree. Obviously they didn't hire me to write the firmware on the drive. > > As a background process, try running something like > > # ionice find / -xdev -type f -exec cat {} + >/dev/null That would only reach files on the partition where it is run. Since there is another operating system on this drive, and there are parts of the drive normally inaccessible to any operating system, I decided instead to boot to a USB stick and run badblocks. The read-only test took 12 minutes and reported no errors. I now have a writing test (-w) running. It has reported no failures on its first pass. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors How worried should I be?
On Wed, 3 Jan 2024 00:29:42 + Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Jan 02, 2024 at 04:42:37PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > [...] > > If a SMART long self-test came back clean then it already has been > re-mapped as a long self-test reads every user-accessible sector. I'm not so sure about that. See the journalctl output at the bottom of this email. > > If you really want to reassure yourself, look back in your logs for > the actual sector number and then read it with hdparm. Either it > prints the raw data or it gives an error. > > # hdparm --read-sector [sector number] /dev/sda > > (generally safe as it's only a read) I'll try that later. I don't want to take the time now to isolate the relevant log entries. > > It is annoying when a remapped bad sector doesn't seem to increment > the "remapped" count and decrement the "pending" count, but I've had > it happen. I wouldn't particularly worry about it unless the number > keeps going up OR the actual sector is still unreadable (though the > self-test should have spotted that). > > You can reconfigure smartd so that it only warns you about error > values that increase, not just the presence of the non-zero value > every 30 minutes. That's discussed in the comments of > /etc/smartd.conf and its man page. Good thoughts, thank you. > > > It's the only one on the computer. > > Like to live dangerously, huh… No. That's what fast networks, good and multiple backup programs, a good RAID array on another computer, and multiple off-site backups are for. > > Thanks, > Andy > root@tiassa:~# journalctl -b -u smartmontools.service Jan 02 12:37:39 tiassa systemd[1]: Starting smartmontools.service - Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology (SMART) Daemon... Jan 02 12:37:39 tiassa smartd[740]: smartd 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-6.1.0-17-amd64] (local build) Jan 02 12:37:39 tiassa smartd[740]: Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org Jan 02 12:37:39 tiassa smartd[740]: Opened configuration file /etc/smartd.conf Jan 02 12:37:39 tiassa smartd[740]: Drive: DEVICESCAN, implied '-a' Directive on line 21 of file /etc/smartd.conf Jan 02 12:37:39 tiassa smartd[740]: Configuration file /etc/smartd.conf was parsed, found DEVICESCAN, scanning devices Jan 02 12:37:39 tiassa smartd[740]: Device: /dev/sda, type changed from 'scsi' to 'sat' Jan 02 12:37:39 tiassa smartd[740]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], opened Jan 02 12:37:39 tiassa smartd[740]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], NS256GSSD330, S/N:W3ZK047027T, FW:V0823A0, 256 GB Jan 02 12:37:39 tiassa smartd[740]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], not found in smartd database 7.3/5533. Jan 02 12:37:39 tiassa smartd[740]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], is SMART capable. Adding to "monitor" list. Jan 02 12:37:39 tiassa smartd[740]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], state read from /var/lib/smartmontools/smartd.NS256GSSD330-W3ZK047027T.ata.state Jan 02 12:37:39 tiassa smartd[740]: Monitoring 1 ATA/SATA, 0 SCSI/SAS and 0 NVMe devices Jan 02 12:37:39 tiassa smartd[740]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], state written to /var/lib/smartmontools/smartd.NS256GSSD330-W3ZK047027T.ata.state Jan 02 12:37:39 tiassa systemd[1]: Started smartmontools.service - Self Monitoring and Reporting Technology (SMART) Daemon. Jan 02 13:07:39 tiassa smartd[740]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Jan 02 13:07:39 tiassa smartd[740]: Sending warning via /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner to root ... Jan 02 13:07:39 tiassa smartd[740]: Warning via /usr/share/smartmontools/smartd-runner to root: successful Jan 02 13:37:39 tiassa smartd[740]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Jan 02 14:07:39 tiassa smartd[740]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Jan 02 14:37:39 tiassa smartd[740]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Jan 02 14:37:39 tiassa smartd[740]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], self-test in progress, 20% remaining Jan 02 15:07:39 tiassa smartd[740]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Jan 02 15:07:39 tiassa smartd[740]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], previous self-test completed without error Jan 02 15:37:39 tiassa smartd[740]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Jan 02 16:07:39 tiassa smartd[740]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Jan 02 16:37:39 tiassa smartd[740]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Jan 02 17:07:39 tiassa smartd[740]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Jan 02 17:37:39 tiassa smartd[740]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Jan 02 18:07:39 tiassa smartd[740]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Jan 02 18:37:39 tiassa smartd[740]: Device: /dev/s
Re: 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors How worried should I be?
On Tue, 2 Jan 2024 18:01:32 -0500 Dan Purgert wrote: > On Jan 02, 2024, Charles Curley wrote: > > I have a brand new NVME device, details below, in a brand new > > computer. smartd just started returning pending sector errors. > > Means you've got "N" bad sector(s) on the drive. It happens, even on > new drives. Good to know. > > > > > A recent extended (long) test run since the first reported pending > > sector returned no errors. > > > > How worried should I be? > > I wouldn't be "very" worried; but I'd keep an eye on it (especially > with regards to any warranties you may have on the machine) OK, will do. If I understand that entry in the SMART report, the offending sector should eventually be re-mapped or else marked as unrecoverable. If the latter, I'll get really concerned. > > > Device Model: NS256GSSD330 > > Serial Number:W3ZK047027T > > You kinda removed the important bits out of this report with regards > to the drive health. Sorry. See my recent reply to Dan Ritter . > That being said, this drive is not an NVMe -- > did you check the right one? It's the only one on the computer. Dan Ritter corrected that. https://smarthdd.com/database/Netac-SSD-256GB/S0626A0/ -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/
Re: 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors How worried should I be?
On Tue, 2 Jan 2024 17:47:18 -0500 Dan Ritter wrote: > Charles Curley wrote: > > I have a brand new NVME device, details below, in a brand new > > computer. > > You might, but that's not what the details you show us are > saying. > > [...] > > That says this is a SATA device, not an NVMe device. > > Looking up the device model shows me this: > https://smarthdd.com/database/Netac-SSD-256GB/S0626A0/ > > which confirms: SATA in an M.2 form factor, not NVMe. Thank you for that correction. > > [...] > > These are logged at suspiciously even times, like something is > looking at the disk every 30 minutes exactly. If I correctly read the journal entries I appended to my previous email, that would be smartd. > > Note that "currently unreadable" sometimes means "the disk is > too busy to get back to us" and sometimes means "there's damage > on the disk". The disk's onboard controller should map around > damage automatically. > > Do you have any other symptoms? Anything interesting in the > SMART variables? Nothing that jumps out at me. Report appended as a text file. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/ root@tiassa:~# smartctl -a /dev/sda smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-6.1.0-17-amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: NS256GSSD330 Serial Number:W3ZK047027T Firmware Version: V0823A0 User Capacity:256,060,514,304 bytes [256 GB] Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical Rotation Rate:Solid State Device Form Factor: mSATA TRIM Command: Available Device is:Not in smartctl database 7.3/5533 ATA Version is: ACS-2 T13/2015-D revision 3 SATA Version is: SATA 3.2, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s) Local Time is:Tue Jan 2 15:27:45 2024 MST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x02) Offline data collection activity was completed without error. Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled. Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. Total time to complete Offline data collection:( 120) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities:(0x11) SMART execute Offline immediate. No Auto Offline data collection support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. No Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. No Conveyance Self-test supported. No Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities:(0x0002) Does not save SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability:(0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time:( 2) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time:( 10) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x0001) SCT Status supported. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 1 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x0032 100 100 050Old_age Always - 0 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0032 100 100 050Old_age Always - 1 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 050Old_age Always - 764 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 050Old_age Always - 25 160 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 050Old_age Always - 0 161 Unknown_Attribute 0x0033 100 100 050Pre-fail Always - 96 163 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 050Old_age Always - 5 164 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 050Old_age Always - 2126 165 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 050Old_age Always - 14 166 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 050Old_age Always -