Re: Any success with /var on ZFS in Debian Buster?

2020-07-29 Thread elvis
On 29/7/20 11:56 pm, Dan Ritter wrote: James Allsopp wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anyone had enjoyed any success putting /var on a ZFS partition in Debian Buster? Yes, on a largish number of servers plus a few desktops and a laptop. And a follow up, why do you use it? -dsr- --

Lenovo S205 boot

2020-07-29 Thread Russell L. Harris
On an older Lenovo S205 on which I never have managed to get Debian running, I did a netinstall of debian-bullseye-DI-alpha2-amd64-netinst.iso grub dummy failed, but the boot process terminates with the grub> prompt. I tried the ls command: grub> ls (proc) (hd0) (hd0,gpt3) (hd0,gpt2) (hd0,pt1)

Re: Epson WF-C5290 printer - connection issues.

2020-07-29 Thread Weaver
On 29-07-2020 06:17, Weaver wrote: > On 29-07-2020 05:44, Weaver wrote: >> On 28-07-2020 23:18, Brian wrote: >>> On Tue 28 Jul 2020 at 05:22:36 -0700, Weaver wrote: >>> Greetings all, I've just bought the above printer, downloaded the manufacturer's drivers, got the URI from

Re: Epson WF-C5290 printer - connection issues.

2020-07-29 Thread Weaver
On 29-07-2020 13:05, Weaver wrote: > On 29-07-2020 09:07, Brian wrote: >> On Tue 28 Jul 2020 at 13:17:33 -0700, Weaver wrote: >> >>> Ippfind delivers on nothing, also. >> >> How about 'ippfind -T 5'? > > Nothing! > Just a return to the prompt. But now ipp-usb advises `Printer Added'. But when a

Re: Epson WF-C5290 printer - connection issues.

2020-07-29 Thread Weaver
On 29-07-2020 13:04, Weaver wrote: > On 29-07-2020 07:43, Brian wrote: >> On Tue 28 Jul 2020 at 13:17:33 -0700, Weaver wrote: >> >>> On 29-07-2020 05:44, Weaver wrote: >>> > On 28-07-2020 23:18, Brian wrote: >>> >> On Tue 28 Jul 2020 at 05:22:36 -0700, Weaver wrote: >>> >> >>> >>> Greetings all,

Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup?

2020-07-29 Thread Stefan Monnier
> than half its size. NTFS creates a Master File Table smack in the > middle of the partition, and it's immovable. Well, generally - Are you really sure? I had the vague impression that `ntfsresize` acquired the ability to move those "immovable" files more than 10 years ago. Stefan

Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup?

2020-07-29 Thread David Wright
On Wed 29 Jul 2020 at 09:38:56 (-0700), Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On Wed Jul 29 08:39:26 2020 Andrew Cater wrote: > > > You _can_ use guided partitioning as a guide. Use Windows to > > reduce the amount of space it takes on the disk. Use Windows > > tools to format the second half of the disk, or

Re: linux-image-4.9.0-12-amd64 breaks LUKS root

2020-07-29 Thread David Wright
On Sun 26 Jul 2020 at 22:22:54 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-07-26 20:39, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 26 Jul 2020 at 16:46:48 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > > > > 2020-07-26 16:35:36 root@po ~ > > > # lsinitramfs -l /boot/initrd.img-4.9.0-9-amd64 > > > >

Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

2020-07-29 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 16:09:51 -0400 Dan Ritter wrote: > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Hi! all, > > > > Thought putting an old, retired system to good use would be better than > > letting it gather dust in a closet. And by old, I mean OLD! I > > built it 13 years ago. However, it's been

Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

2020-07-29 Thread Leslie Rhorer
I run a pair of Debian servers. One is essentially a NAS, and the other is a backup system. Both have 30TB (soon to be 48TB) arrays. I am running XFS, rather than ZFS on the RAID arrays. ZFS is definitely nice, but is not supported directly under Debian. I don't find the comparative

Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

2020-07-29 Thread Dan Ritter
David Christensen wrote: > On 2020-07-29 13:09, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > Thought putting an old, retired system to good use > > > > The problem I've run into is finding a NAS OS to run on it. > > > Debian with ZFS. > > > Does the Debian Installer support ZFS during

Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

2020-07-29 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-07-29 13:09, Dan Ritter wrote: Patrick Bartek wrote: Thought putting an old, retired system to good use The problem I've run into is finding a NAS OS to run on it. Debian with ZFS. Does the Debian Installer support ZFS during installation? Is ZFS fully integrated/ supported

Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

2020-07-29 Thread Dan Ritter
Patrick Bartek wrote: > Hi! all, > > Thought putting an old, retired system to good use would be better than > letting it gather dust in a closet. And by old, I mean OLD! I > built it 13 years ago. However, it's been upgraded many times since, > and was still my main box running Stretch

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-29 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-07-29 05:03, Richard Owlett wrote: [A suggested] approach is literally orders of magnitude more than I want. Consider these idealized cost functions for solution technologies A, B, and C: fA(t) = t*t + 1 fB(t) = (t/3)*(t/3) + 10 fC(t) = (t/10/*(t/10) + 100 Observe:

Homebuilt NAS Advice

2020-07-29 Thread Patrick Bartek
Hi! all, Thought putting an old, retired system to good use would be better than letting it gather dust in a closet. And by old, I mean OLD! I built it 13 years ago. However, it's been upgraded many times since, and was still my main box running Stretch until last year. Its current specs:

Re: SANE default scanner

2020-07-29 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 07:28:21PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Wed 29 Jul 2020 at 12:07:08 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] can read C. > > Reviewing a patch for a non-extisting bug? That's above and beyond the > call of duty :). Always glad to please ;-P Perhaps I should temper my offer.

Re: SANE default scanner

2020-07-29 Thread Brian
On Wed 29 Jul 2020 at 12:07:08 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 11:11:22AM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > > > If the patch is to be rejected, or just ignored, then my time would be > > better invested in an external work-around, it would be less effort than > > forking,

Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup?

2020-07-29 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On Wed Jul 29 08:39:26 2020 Andrew Cater wrote: > You _can_ use guided partitioning as a guide. Use Windows to > reduce the amount of space it takes on the disk. Use Windows > tools to format the second half of the disk, or whatever to vfat. Note that with NTFS you can't shrink the Windows

[OT]etiquette was: Unable to boot into the Gnome desktop after installing Debian Buster 10.4

2020-07-29 Thread Henning Follmann
On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 05:31:02PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 11:09:26AM -0400, Henning Follmann wrote: > > [...] > > > Oh jeeez, > > [Condescending, borderline-insulting stuff] > > Hey, Henning. This is a Debian users mailing list. This ain't twitter. > Go there

Re: Unable to boot into the Gnome desktop after installing Debian Buster 10.4

2020-07-29 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 11:09:26AM -0400, Henning Follmann wrote: [...] > Oh jeeez, [Condescending, borderline-insulting stuff] Hey, Henning. This is a Debian users mailing list. This ain't twitter. Go there if you feel the urge to let steam off. Cheers -- t signature.asc Description:

Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup?

2020-07-29 Thread Henning Follmann
Allright now, enough! This is the third question which just clearly shows you do not know enough to do this yourself. Please use the default install (not expert) and basically just do what suggested to you. And then stay here. Learn how to use and administer your computer. Then after a while you

Re: Unable to boot into the Gnome desktop after installing Debian Buster 10.4

2020-07-29 Thread Henning Follmann
On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 07:36:06PM +, gajuph4...@yahoo.com wrote: > I chose the option Expert Install when I installed Debian Buster. > > I did not install any desktop environment, print server or the standard > system utilities offered during installation. > > After successfully installing

Re: Epson WF-C5290 printer - connection issues.

2020-07-29 Thread Brian
On Tue 28 Jul 2020 at 20:05:56 -0700, Weaver wrote: > On 29-07-2020 09:07, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 28 Jul 2020 at 13:17:33 -0700, Weaver wrote: > > > >> Ippfind delivers on nothing, also. > > > > How about 'ippfind -T 5'? > > Nothing! > Just a return to the prompt. The printer is on the

Re: Any success with /var on ZFS in Debian Buster?

2020-07-29 Thread Dan Ritter
James Allsopp wrote: > Hi, > I was wondering if anyone had enjoyed any success putting /var on a ZFS > partition in Debian Buster? Yes, on a largish number of servers plus a few desktops and a laptop. -dsr-

Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup?

2020-07-29 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 08:53:57PM +, gajuph4...@yahoo.com wrote: > I have manually partitioned my hard disk drive as follows: > > /boot is assigned 200MB > /root is assigned 10GB > /swap is assigned 20GB > /home is assigned 35GB > /var is assigned 10GB > /usr is assigned 5GB >

Re: Keepalived: mensajes repetidos "Received advert from 172.18.88.143 with lower priority 103, ours 104, forcing new election"

2020-07-29 Thread Camaleón
El 2020-07-29 a las 09:52 -0300, Roberto Carna escribió: > El mié., 29 jul. 2020 a las 2:56, Camaleón () escribió: (...) > > > vrrp_instance VI_1 { > > > interface ens32 > > > state MASTER > > > virtual_router_id 51 > > > priority 101 # 101 on proxy-master, 100

Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup?

2020-07-29 Thread Hans
Am Mittwoch, 29. Juli 2020, 15:23:54 CEST schrieb gajuph4...@yahoo.com: > Hi Dan > > There's a distro called Parted Magic which is based on Slack. The > partitioning tool used by Parted Magic is gparted > > Two questions: > > (1) Can I use gparted to format any disk space to vfat? > Yes, you

Any success with /var on ZFS in Debian Buster?

2020-07-29 Thread James Allsopp
Hi, I was wondering if anyone had enjoyed any success putting /var on a ZFS partition in Debian Buster? Thanks James

Re: Additional information to add to "Unable to boot into the Gnome desktop after installing Debian Buster 10.4"

2020-07-29 Thread Hans
Am Mittwoch, 29. Juli 2020, 15:17:17 CEST schrieb gajuph4...@yahoo.com: Looks for me, that it is a driver problem. The system has got no correct driver and is trying to use framebuffer. Do you have the correct xserver packages installed for your graphics card? Vesa should always work but better

Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup?

2020-07-29 Thread gajuph4...@yahoo.com
Hi Dan There's a distro called Parted Magic which is based on Slack. The partitioning tool used by Parted Magic is gparted Two questions: (1) Can I use gparted to format any disk space to vfat? (2) Why has it to be vfat and not some other filesystem such as amigo or macOS? Regards. Alan

Re: Keepalived: mensajes repetidos "Received advert from 172.18.88.143 with lower priority 103, ours 104, forcing new election"

2020-07-29 Thread Roberto Carna
Estimado, gracias por tus comentarios- 172.18.88.142 es la la IP del master y 172.18.88.143 es la IP del slave, salen de ahi. No se de donde sale la prioridad 103-104, dado que yo defino 100-101, esa es tambien mi duda. La version que tengo de keepalived es la estable de Debian 10, vos

Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup?

2020-07-29 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, July 29, 2020 08:35:33 AM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Oh, I just meant to say that there are ways to see those hidden files.

Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup?

2020-07-29 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, July 29, 2020 07:35:16 AM Dan Ritter wrote: > gajuph4...@yahoo.com wrote: > > Hello Dan, > > > > You wrote: / will have everything in it except your personal data; /var, > > /srv, and so forth all fall under it. > > > > Sorry for the noob question but what does /home contain? > >

Re: Capture screen with mencoder

2020-07-29 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Nicolas George writes: > Rodolfo Medina (12020-07-29): >> Thanks... The reason why I wanted to use mencoder instead of ffmpeg is that >> with the latter, when I tried to capture webcam and audio together, >> especially with my old laptop (but partially also with my new desktop pc), >> I've been

Re: Systemd leaves uninterruptible processes

2020-07-29 Thread Mart van de Wege
On Wed, 2020-07-29 at 13:53 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 28 iul 20, 17:32:55, Mart van de Wege wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Since the past month or so, systemd leaves systemd-user-runtime-dir > > processes in an uninterruptible state, apparently after cleaning up > > after a user sessions

Re: Additional information to add to "Unable to boot into the Gnome desktop after installing Debian Buster 10.4"

2020-07-29 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 12:53:58PM +0200, echo test wrote: > try > > $ systemctl get-default > > if the output is not --> graphical.target > > then > > $ systemctl set-default graphical.target > > then > > $ starx ^^ startx ^ :-) Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: Digital

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/29/2020 06:13 AM, Joe wrote: [snip] I'd recommend using the right tool for the job. Which is why I'll investigate. Your approach is literally orders of magnitude more than I want.

Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup?

2020-07-29 Thread Dan Ritter
gajuph4...@yahoo.com wrote: > You wrote: Any partition (actually, the filesystem) can be mounted as any > directory. > > What are the commands to mount a partition as a directory please? > > I am a bit confused: the file system consists of partitions such a / , /boot > , /home , /var , /etc

Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup?

2020-07-29 Thread Andrew Cater
You _can_ use guided partitioning as a guide. Use Windows to reduce the amount of space it takes on the disk. Use Windows tools to format the second half of the disk, or whatever to vfat. Boot Debian: use Debian to delete the vfat partition and create blank space: then use "use largest blank

Re: Unable to boot into the Gnome desktop after installing Debian Buster 10.4

2020-07-29 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 07:36:06PM +, gajuph4...@yahoo.com wrote: > I did not install any desktop environment, print server or the standard > system utilities offered during installation. > After successfully installing the OS, I rebooted into tty2 and installed the > packages named below:

Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup?

2020-07-29 Thread Dan Ritter
gajuph4...@yahoo.com wrote: > Hello Dan, > > You wrote: / will have everything in it except your personal data; /var, > /srv, and so forth all fall under it. > > Sorry for the noob question but what does /home contain? That's where each user's personal data is stored, and if you open a

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-29 Thread Joe
On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 04:40:24 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: > > You may wish to have a look at recutils: > > > > https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/ > > > > but it may not have some of the functionality you wish (although you > > could build on it

Re: Systemd leaves uninterruptible processes

2020-07-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 28 iul 20, 17:32:55, Mart van de Wege wrote: > Hi, > > Since the past month or so, systemd leaves systemd-user-runtime-dir > processes in an uninterruptible state, apparently after cleaning up > after a user sessions exits; I'm running XFCE4 with Lightdm, and thus I > get at least a

Re: Additional information to add to "Unable to boot into the Gnome desktop after installing Debian Buster 10.4"

2020-07-29 Thread echo test
try $ systemctl get-default if the output is not --> graphical.target then $ systemctl set-default graphical.target then $ starx Le mer. 29 juil. 2020 à 09:15, gajuph4...@yahoo.com a écrit : > Hi guys > > I posted a request for help titled "Unable to boot into the Gnome desktop >

Re: [Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-29 Thread mick crane
On 2020-07-29 10:40, Richard Owlett wrote: A database is over-kill for some personal preferences. apropos of nothing I found this great, clear introduction to Perl/Tk for inputting how many cups of coffee and bacon sandwiches you had.

Re: SANE default scanner

2020-07-29 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 11:11:22AM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Stefan Monnier (12020-07-28): > > The fact that you sometimes can, seems a clear indication that the > > underlying design still makes it possible [...] > "Significant" is a subjective threshold. Probing is less reliable than >

Looking for speed testers with concurrent SG_IO reading of two DVD drives

2020-07-29 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, are users here who have two optical drives attached to a Debian 10 amd64 system and are willing to test their speeds with concurrently reading data from DVD or BD media via SG_IO ? Do these two simultaneous runs (after unmounting /dev/sr0 and /dev/sr1) xorriso -outdev /dev/sr0

[Interim Solution] Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

2020-07-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote: You may wish to have a look at recutils: https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/ but it may not have some of the functionality you wish (although you could build on it with shell scripts & awk, say). A database is over-kill for some personal

Re: Capture screen with mencoder

2020-07-29 Thread Nicolas George
Rodolfo Medina (12020-07-29): > Thanks... The reason why I wanted to use mencoder instead of ffmpeg is that > with the latter, when I tried to capture webcam and audio together, especially > with my old laptop (but partially also with my new desktop pc), I've been > banged against `a sea of

Re: SANE default scanner

2020-07-29 Thread Nicolas George
Stefan Monnier (12020-07-28): > The fact that you sometimes can, seems a clear indication that the > underlying design still makes it possible: you just need a bit of code > somewhere in SANE so you can specify this URL in a more central place > than on the command line. IOW, a trivial new

Re: Capture screen with mencoder

2020-07-29 Thread Long Wind
is it possible to use mplayer to play video from one source and at same time play audio from another source? if it's possible, i think mencoder can be used to record desktop. On Wednesday, July 29, 2020, 2:52:07 AM EDT, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Nicolas George writes: > Rodolfo Medina

Re: Capture screen with mencoder

2020-07-29 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Nicolas George writes: > Rodolfo Medina (12020-07-28): >>How can I modify the above command so to capture >> desktop screen instead (with audio)? > > > mencoder does not support capturing the desktop. You may manage to tweak > it to enable libavdevice, but it is completely

Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup?

2020-07-29 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-07-28 13:53, gajuph4...@yahoo.com wrote: I have manually partitioned my hard disk drive as follows: /boot is assigned 200MB /root is assigned 10GB /swap is assigned 20GB /home is assigned 35GB /var is assigned 10GB /usr is assigned 5GB /usr-local is assigned 5GB /opt is assigned 5GB