Re: Monthly FAQ for Debian-user mailing list (modified 16th December 2023)

2023-12-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > * It may also be useful to for someone to post a summary email from time to > time to explain long threads. You did not move the old "to" but rather added a new one during the change from the text in 2023/12/msg00045.html to the new one: > > * It may also be

Re: On file systems

2023-12-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Remember > Apple's "fat binaries", which contained a binary for 68K and another > for PowerPC? Those were made with "forks", which was Apple's variant > of "several streams in one file". And so on. The most extreme example i know is Solaris:

Re: ntpsec as server questions

2023-12-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, gene heskett wrote: > > In the FWIW dept this time formula is pretty accurate back to the > > middle of 4713 BC. Greg Wooledge wrote: > Even the *Julian* calendar used in ancient Rome wouldn't have been in > use in 4713 BC. Any calendar would have been locally defined, if one > existed at

Re: Mailing List

2023-12-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, David Wright wrote: > I'm subscribed, but I don't receive that badge of honour. > This is from my other post in this thread—no LDOSUBSCRIBER: > > > X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.9 required=4.0 tests=CAPINIT,FOURLA, > > HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,LDO_WHITELIST,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW, > >

Re: Monthly FAQ for Debian-user mailing list (modified 1st December2023)

2023-12-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > * Before posting, it may be useful to check your post for spelling mistakes > and scan it for redundancy, duplicate words and redundancy. Some wisdom cannot be repeated enough. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Monthly FAQ for Debian-user mailing list (modified 1st December2023)

2023-12-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, there is a new surplus word "private" in these lines: > * Please post answers back to the list so others can benefit: private > private conversations don't benefit people who may only be following Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Mailing List

2023-12-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > Anyone one else having trouble with the mailing list? I got your message via the list. > Have received any messages since Nov 30 Normal traffic yesterday and today, i'd say. > I can not tell if I am still subscribed The "From:" address poc...@columbus.rr.com seems not to be recognized

Re: rhs time out error?

2023-11-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Karen Lewellen wrote: > ..ah, typo indeed. > it should be rsh. Quite a while ago rsh has been put in the pillory for not encrypting the connection. The town crier urged everybody to use ssh instead. Found in the web: https://fossies.org/linux/alpine/imap/docs/FAQ.txt _4.3 How does the

Re: rhs time out error?

2023-11-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Karen Lewellen wrote: > I cannot find out what rhs means. > Getting an rhs to imap server timeout with one of the new office emails. Can it be that "rhs" is a typo and should rather be "rsh" ? The web has old messages which resemble what you describe: Subject: "[Alpine-info] Why do I

Re: debian-12.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso usb grub boot error "invalid buffer alignment"

2023-11-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > all of the grub menu options (Graphical > > > install, Graphical expert install, Expert install, etc) give 2 errors: > > > 1) "..invalid buffer alignment... " with some long number beginning with > > > minus. > > > 2) kernel fail to load error, presumably due to

Re: UUID permanent at removable device?

2023-11-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Hans wrote: > I want to automatically create a bootable USB-stick using dd from an > ISO-file. The landscape of ISO files is wide and varied. An URL for getting the ISO would help to make more specific statements. > However, after generating the stick the UUID of the first partition >

Re: limit on attachment in mail to list

2023-11-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 08:16:20PM +, Gareth Evans wrote: > > > On 9 Nov 2023, at 13:47, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: > > > > > > 220 bendel.debian.org ESMTP Postfix > > > ehlo penguin > > > 250-bendel.debian.org > > > 250-PIPELINING > > > 250-SIZE 3072 > > > 250-STARTTLS > > >

Re: xorriso and SIGTERM/SIGINT handler

2023-11-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Max Nikulin wrote: > Are there obstacles making implementation of proper SIGINT and > SIGTERM signals handler prohibitively difficult? Ctrl+C is a common part of > UI familiar to the most of users. There are should be serious reasons if it > is necessary to teach them to touch an application

Re: How to use dmsetuup?

2023-11-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, David Christensen wrote: > Are there tools other than xorriso(1) that can create a compatible checksum? > Read the checksum? Not yet. The data format is documented in https://dev.lovelyhq.com/libburnia/libisofs/raw/branch/master/doc/checksums.txt For the general concept of AAIP attributes

Re: How to use dmsetuup?

2023-11-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, David Christensen wrote: > Adding checksum file(s) to the contents burned to disc is an important step > that should not be omitted I let xorriso compute and store the checksums in a non-file block range at the end of the ISO filesystem. Each file gets an AAIP attribute which points to an

Re: How to use dmsetuup?

2023-11-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I have 3 100 disk spindles of dvd's bought years ago, that are > > no longer recognized in any of the 4 or 5 dvd writers I have, but one box > > of rewritables about the same age, stored n a light tight cardboard box, > > will likely outlast me. Unwritten write-once

Re: On folders vs. directories and history

2023-11-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Nicolas George wrote: > > Ear, ear! Curt wrote: > An ear c'est une oreille. C'est probablement because les frenchais ne cannot pas prononcer le "H". Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: How to compare one folder to one directory

2023-11-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > I concur with Nicolas: every time you say "folder", a unicorn dies. Loris Bennett wrote: > In German there are also two words: 'Ordner' (folder/binder) and > 'Verzeichnis' (directory/catalogue). People also use both more or less > interchangeably. But if you say

Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly

2023-10-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: > This is what's causing the loop to iterate more times than it should, > and to re-process input. That's not what i see in my experiments. I see stuttering output which first repeats the lines put out so far before it adds a new line. The getline() loop iterates as

Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly

2023-10-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, tom kronmiller wrote: > I ended up using setvbuf(stdin, NULL, _IONBF, 0) in the parent process and > that seems to have fixed the actual program I was having trouble with. stdin ? Not setvbuf(stdout, NULL, _IONBF, 0) ? That would be one of the weirder remedies and explanations which can be

Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly

2023-10-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, it helps to do fflush((stdout); after each printf(), or to run before the loop: setvbuf(stdout, NULL, _IONBF, 0); So it is obvious that the usual output buffering of printf() causes the repetitions of text. The loop does not do any extra cycles, as i could confirm by inserting a stderr

Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly

2023-10-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i can reproduce the problem with the given example after changing int main(int, char **) { to int main(int argc, char **argv) { in order to get it through the compiler. (There is also a memory leak about line_buf which does not matter now.) Not only the read offset of stdin seems to get

Re: Date time problem bookworm, fvwm....

2023-10-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > My clock is a... shell script in a tiny Xterm which > also shows my battery status. My digital clock with date display is a C program which mainly watches the network traffic. It even has an own date format ("A0" = 2000, now is "C3") which has an odd history

Re: Date time problem bookworm, fvwm....

2023-10-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Charlie wrote: > I removed the clock from the > FVWM task bar and Gkrellm now dis[pays the right time. So a fix > of sorts with which I can live. Congrats. :)) > being a bit long in > the tooth to start relearning another window manager. I'm using fvwm since the last century. It's

Re: Date time problem bookworm, fvwm....

2023-10-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Charlie wrote: > The date on that system is one day in advance and one hour late. Not > terrible, > However after a short period 100% of one of the CPU cores is used, > noisy running, and top -c shows this as the user: > /usr/libexe/fvwm2/2.7.0/FvwmScript 17 4 none 0 8 FvwmScript DateTime

LUKS related directories in root of a Debian 11

2023-10-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i am wondering what creates and touches on a Debian 11 system a lot of empty directories in the /-Directory. The names indicate that they have something to do with LUKS: /1678114330.LUKS1_test_cryptsetup_defaults /1678114331.LUKS1_test_with_twofish_cipher ...

Re: Strange Monitor Behavior

2023-10-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, my ~ 10 year old Iiyama ProLite X2775HDS sometimes does strange things when i wake it by keyboard or mouse movement after X had cut off itsi signal because i was inactive for a few minutes. Either it stays black although it reported to have in nput signal again, or it shows an interlaced and

Re: HP RP2430 RISC sysytem

2023-10-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i forward an answer from Ilya Klimovisky to me directly, which was obviously meant to reach the subscribers of debian-user@lists.debian.org too. > Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2023 14:24:07 +0300 > From: Ilya Klimovisky > > Hi Thomas,hi Debian users! > Many thanks for the answer. I have a free of

Re: HP RP2430 RISC sysytem

2023-10-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > But a machine from the early 2000s and contemporary GNU/Linux will > > probably not become a happy couple. > FWIW, I'm running Debian testing on a 2003 Thinkpad X30 and it's working > quite nicely. Well, if there is enough of love involved ... :o) Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: HP RP2430 RISC sysytem

2023-10-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Ilya Klimovisky wrote: > Hello Debian team, Disclaimer: We are the users (although somewhat watched by the team). > Could you please be so kind as to advise which version I can install to > the HP RP2430 RISC system? The newest release for HP PA-RISC (hppa) is more than 10 years old:

Re: Need help with PGP signature verification

2023-10-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Tom Browder wrote: > I found a usable answer. Run "gpg file.asc" and the output shows the two > fingerprints: the primary key fingerprint and the subkey fingerprint. Wow, that's surprising. But indeed the man page says: COMMANDS ... gpg may be run with no commands, in which case

Re: Need help with PGP signature verification

2023-10-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, maybe gpg --keyid-format long --verify signature_file.asc /some/dummy/file this gives me the last 16 characters of the fingerprint. Like: gpg:using key E9CBDFC0ABC0A854 with a matching payload file i get something like: Primary key fingerprint: 44BC 9FD0 D688

Re: Need help with PGP signature verification

2023-10-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Tom Browder wrote: > I'm willing to trust published PGP key fingerprints for signers of Rakudo > downloadable files. Do i get it right that you talk about https://rakudo.org/downloads ? > Question:  How can I get the fingerprint from the downloads?  > The products I download are (1) the

Re: cronitor.io for monitoring cron jobs

2023-09-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > and we're all twins [1] ;-) > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_(name) But paradoxly less than half of all twins bear this very cool name. Have a nice day :) Thomas

How to remove GNOME from a headless virtual Sid

2023-09-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, how to get rid of voluminous desktop stuff without colateral damage ? Does somebody here have experience to share about de-GNOME-ing a virtual Sid system ? Reason why i ask: A dist-upgrade of my virtual Sid lasted nearly 2 hours and used up 4.5 GiB of its virtual disk. (About half of this

Re: Happy 30 Years Debian Project

2023-08-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Luna Jernberg wrote: > Happy Birthday 30 years of the Debian Linux Project \o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/ > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianHistory?action=AttachFile=get=Debian-announcement-1993-pic-by-Ian_Murdock.png Also available as ASCII:

Re: Bootloader error grub minimal bash "load the kernel first" after installing my live image via calamares installer

2023-08-14 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, please reply to the list in order to keep all readers informed. (It would be ok to Cc my mail address, but it is not necessary.) - Forwarded message from Sakkra Billa - Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2023 09:32:37 +0530 From: Sakkra Billa To: Thomas Schmitt Subject: Re: Bootloader error grub

Re: Bootloader error grub minimal bash "load the kernel first" after installing my live image via calamares installer

2023-08-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Sakkra Billa wrote: > I followed the tutorial > from: https://www.willhaley.com/blog/custom-debian-live-environment/ > [www.willhaley.com] to make a live custom debian 12 image. (The xorriso run looks ok.) > In order to > install it on my VM I installed calamares, calamares-settings-debian

Re: Time stamps on sessions on a DVD backup.

2023-08-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Session time stamps would help when recovering from a > storage failure. Eg. > > DateTOC layout : Idx , sbsector , Size , Volume Id > 2023-07-23 ISO session : 1 , 0 ,678303s , ISOIMAGE > 2023-07-29 ISO session : 2 ,716368 ,

Re: file descriptor VS file handle

2023-07-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > Why there are two sets of file accessing system calls must have historical > > reasons. to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > [...] file descriptor is a > kernel thing, FILE* is libc, i.e. userspace [1] (I know *you* know it, > but it might be interesting for others). Well, at least it did

Re: file descriptor VS file handle

2023-07-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, cor...@free.fr wrote: > In linux systems, are file descriptor and file handle meaning the same > stuff? In the programming language C on Linux (more generally: on POSIX systems) "File descriptor" is an integer number handed out by system calls like open(2), pipe(2), socket(2), and others. It

Re: Monitor Problem

2023-07-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > The system did indeed install ffrom an iso on a USB flash drive. Congrats. > Two peoblems remain; > Booting into the 500GB SDD, upon which I installed Debian-12.0.0 still has a > highest resolution of 1024x768. > Booting into the 1TD SSDmstill hangs with a

Re: Monitor Problem

2023-07-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > > "[...] ASUS M5 A97 R2.0 Motherboard BIOS 2603 [...]" It comes to me that such a UEFI BIOS should be ready to boot from USB stick. Do you have one at hand with content that is not really worth keeping ? Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Monitor Problem

2023-07-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > Until the unfortunate error 'out of range, which started this threadk, the > CD/DVD drive had been working. ... digging in the archives ... Can it be the thread began as "Out of Range Monitor Problim" https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/06/msg01115.html

Re: Monitor Problem

2023-07-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > I assume that it is a DVD because of: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1038440 > "debian-cd: debian-12.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso is too big for a CD" I forgot to assume that the ISO would be for i386. This netinst ISO version still fits on "700 MB" CDs.

Re: Monitor Problem

2023-07-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I placed a Debian12.iso in the CD/DVD dirve. Here are the results: > > CD-ROM Device dfriver for IDE (Four Channels Supported) > (c) Copyright . . . > Driver Version: : V340 > Device Name:: BANANA > No drives found, aborting installation You seem to

Re: mounting media in plasma5

2023-07-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Hans wrote: > getfacl /media/myusername/ > [...] > user:myusername:r-x I wonder why the desktop did not give you write permission. Does mount | grep /media/myusername show option "ro" in the part of the output line which is in "()" brackets ? If not: Can you create a new file in

Re: mounting media in plasma5

2023-07-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > drwxr-x---+  2 root root 4096 24. Jun 18:55 myusername > The device will be mounted under "/media/myusername/", but when I look. I > see owner rot and group root. And only root is allowed to read and write > into this folder. The "+" indicates the presence of ACL. What do you get from

Re: PGP-Schluessel auf keys.openpgp.org?

2023-06-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, sorry for this german mail which i sent to debian-user by mistake. (I was asked by the xorriso maintainer of another distro to upload my public PGP key to the keyserver which the distro uses. Hopefully i was able to fulfill that wish and did not publish any secrets of mine.) Have a nice

Re: PGP-Schluessel auf keys.openpgp.org?

2023-06-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > siehst Du eine Möglichkeit Deinen PGP-Schlüssel auf keys.openpgp.org zu > verwalten und die E-Mail-Adresse freizugeben? Ich habe die Ausgabe von gpg --export scdbac...@gmx.net hochgeladen. (Ich haette ja gerne inspiziert, was in dem Ausgabefile steht, aber soweit bringt mich "man gpg"

Re: How does the bookworm amd64 netinst 738MB iso fit into a 700MB cd-r?

2023-06-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Joe wrote: > Just a thought: Knoppix has never considered 700MB much of a limit. > "Because of its transparent decompression, up to 2 gigabyes of > executable software can be present on a CD, and up to 10GB on a > single-layered DVD." Debian ISOs have all their big data files compressed:

Re: How does the bookworm amd64 netinst 738MB iso fit into a 700MB cd-r?

2023-06-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, siso wrote: > The bug saved my drive fortunately. Yay for that. I have no report of persistent damage. But drives can take offense from overburning and then need a power cycle. > I wonder if we are seeing the last of CD-R as a Debian install medium. It seems not to be intented for now.

Re: How does the bookworm amd64 netinst 738MB iso fit into a 700MB cd-r?

2023-06-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, siso wrote: > I tried to write the debian-12.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso to cd using > cdrskin and xorriso but they both refused my command. Righteously. The ISO is just too large for "700 MB" CDs. In https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1038440 i wrote a comparison of old and new

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > I understand from the link that it has a 64 bit Celeron J4105 CPU. > > So its EFI would want an "amd64" ISO. Charles Curley wrote: > A Celeron should be able to run i386 Debian. But the amd64 might be a > better use of its capabilities. Other than with legacy BIOS, EFI looks

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > https://www.amazon.it/KUU-Notebook-Prozessor-Bluetooth-portatile/dp/B0C4TGX KBC/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?crid=3PK1MW55MAOA > $ dd if=debian-11.7.0-i386-netinst.iso of=/dev/sdd bs=4M; sync I understand from the link that it has a 64 bit Celeron J4105 CPU. So its EFI would want

Re: Link to import-im6.q16 not allowed by security policy ?

2023-06-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: > You must have got a completely different set of Google results than I did. That's a known effect from Google watching people digging in the web. But maybe this time it's only the search string. I entered attempt to perform an operation not allowed by the security

Re: Link to import-im6.q16 not allowed by security policy ?

2023-06-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Roger Price wrote: > > import-im6.q16: attempt to perform an operation not allowed by the security > > policy `PS' @ error/constitute.c/IsCoderAuthorized/421. Greg Wooledge wrote: > I tried googling the error message, and I get extremely confusing results, > but as near as I can tell, the

Re: OT: Mutt's Message-ID and web link

2023-05-29 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Reco wrote: > either one escapes symbols in their URI, or it > may not lead to the desired outcome. But escaping only works in the query part of the msgid-search URL: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/?m=zeyj9uusax%2b%2fybg...@tuxteam.de not in the path part of the convenience URLs:

Re: OT: Mutt's Message-ID and web link

2023-05-29 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Reco wrote: > [1] works for me perfectly, for instance. > [1] https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/?m=zeyj9uusax%2b%2fybg...@tuxteam.de That's not the same server side processing as in https://lists.debian.org/ZEyj9UUSAx+/YbG/@tuxteam.de Your URL submits a query where "+" and "/" are

Re: OT: Mutt's Message-ID and web link

2023-05-29 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: > https://lists.debian.org/ZEyj9UUSAx+/YbG/@tuxteam.de > Maybe in Message-ID string, "/" seems trouble. It is trouble in web URLs, not in E-Mail. RFC5322 says that the payload string of Message-ID is a msg-id, which consists of [CFWS] "<" id-left "@" id-right ">"

GPT backup table, was Re: virtualisation

2023-05-26 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, mick.crane wrote: > > > root@pumpkin:~# fdisk -l /dev/sda > > > Disk /dev/sda: 223.57 GiB, 240057409536 bytes, 468862128 sectors > > > ... > > > Disklabel type: dos > > > ... > > > Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type > > > /dev/sda1 * 2048 466862079 466860032

Re: how to create bootable usb stick from iso file

2023-05-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, it was too early in the morning when i wrote: > The MBR code is supposed to strat the boot procedure from USB stick on > EFI. It rather meant: The MBR code is supposed to start the boot procedure from USB stick on Legacy BIOS. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: how to create bootable usb stick from iso file

2023-05-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, hlyg wrote: > in debian, it is as easy as copying iso file to usb device (/dev/sdx), run > sync to be safe > Does this method work for other iso file? This depends on its content. The machine firmware looks for the existence of boot entry points. In case of x86: El Torito Catalog for optical

Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using the wrong driver

2023-05-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > 1. I am not a German > 2. This is not a joke > 3. At least one of 1, 2, or 3 is false So the most humorous guess would be that you are a german philosopher. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using the wrong driver

2023-05-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > i see 100% non-Hanlon opinions including a "sudo rm -R /" assassination > > attempt. to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Murder by a Hanlon razor. Now that would be... something. It would only be deadly if the assassination target is indeed stupid and not just pretending. > Perhaps

Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using the wrong driver

2023-05-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > If you still have issues with your printer, I strongly advise you to ask > > > on the German mailing list, Thomas Hochstein wrote: > > They started on the German mailing list, about a year ago ... Schwibinger Michael / Sophie wrote: > The Germans did send You to

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-05-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > I used the reinstall on brasero and it just said that it was up to date. What error message does Brasero issue before refusing to work ? What optical medium type do you give Brasero for burning ? I can probably help with composing a xorriso run which performs a

Re: I need help with my var partition.

2023-04-29 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > even after a reboot I still cannot burn a back up disk. In case the crisis lasts longer or you need to make a backup before its solution: What program do you use to burn your backups and what does it report when failing ? What kind of media shall be burnt ? Have a

Re: sha256sum --text generating blank spaces and hyphens?

2023-04-26 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Albretch Mueller wrote: > > > I am trying to avoid funky characters and sha256sum --text still > > > generates them!?! Andy Smith wrote: > > If you're referring to the space and then the file name ("-" in case > > of stdin) on the end, you can just select only the first output up > > to

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, to make this mail on-topic: Jesper Dybdal, do you see the riddling lines in file ~/.bash_history of the superuser ? If so: Do you see other strange lines there ? (Do they give more clue ?) A bit less on-topic: Greg Wooledge wrote: > Bash doesn't read the contents of the history file into

Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using the wrong driver

2023-04-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Bret Busby wrote: > > Why not just everyone attack each other? > > This looks like an uncontrolled pillow fight. We should rather invest our time in a discussion whether CP/M was better than DOS. Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > in this instance, however, we've had a series of emails from this >

Re: Riddling over systemctl, pulseaudio, firefox-esr, and salsa.debian.org

2023-04-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > So i did not play with them > but rather went on to notifications and loudspeaker test. I meant "Notification Permissions" instead of "notifications". Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Riddling over systemctl, pulseaudio, firefox-esr, and salsa.debian.org

2023-04-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Perhaps the browser is trying to do some kind of notification via > audio? > There are some "notification" entries in about:config worth > investigating. None of them looks to me like being related to audio. There would be many combinations of on-off. So i did not

Re: Riddling over systemctl, pulseaudio, firefox-esr, and salsa.debian.org

2023-04-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > But why does it [pulseaudio] stay modest until i go to > > https://salsa.debian.org/groups/optical-media-team/-/activity > > and why does it stay busy after i left that page ? Henning Follmann wrote: > I am pretty sure this is just coincidence. I tried at least three times

Re: Riddling over systemctl, pulseaudio, firefox-esr, and salsa.debian.org

2023-04-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, David Wright wrote: > googling pulseaudio cpu usage produces a lot of hits. Yes. But why does it stay modest until i go to https://salsa.debian.org/groups/optical-media-team/-/activity and why does it stay busy after i left that page ? I wrote: > > Next riddle is how i could keep

Re: How to make apt-cdrom read Flashdisk?

2023-04-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, SteffenTAN wrote: > They only give Me 3 files with name of DVD 1, 2 and 3 > so, I searching for answer then, I use rufus to Install the 1st DVD (Debian > OS) it's work. I guess you could install a base system from the "DVD-1" stick and then put the mount point addresses of the two other

Riddling over systemctl, pulseaudio, firefox-esr, and salsa.debian.org

2023-04-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i experience a strange behavior of my Debian 11 with firefox-esr and pulseaudio. After visiting https://salsa.debian.org/groups/optical-media-team/-/activity the most busy process on my Debian 11 is the one that was started at boot (or user login) automatically by /usr/bin/pulseaudio

Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

2023-04-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Yes, "structured programming" was the term used. Structured > programming uses functions, while loops, if/then/else statements, and > so on, instead of "GOTO 1230" type commands, to control a program's flow. Like with Rocky Mountain BASIC of HP 9000 machines in

Re: questions about cron.daily

2023-04-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > unicorn:~$ grep daily /etc/crontab > > > 25 6* * * roottest -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd / && run-parts > > > --report /etc/cron.daily ) Fred wrote: > > I also would like to know when cron.daily scripts run. Greg's command does > > not appear to reveal

Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

2023-04-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > I am surprised this thread has not started a mini-flame war. Emanuel Berg wrote: > We are working on it ... Maybe i can help by stating that Perl and Python are among the largest resource hogs known in the world of languages.

Re: should CLI have a nice UI today?

2023-03-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > IMHO computer systems should be ugly and boring. +1 Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: bookworm sha256sum may be defective

2023-03-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Jude DaShiell wrote: > https://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-15.0/iso/slint64-15.0-2.iso.sha256 > https://slackware.uk/slint/x86_64/slint-15.0/iso/slint64-15.0-2.iso Let's see what an older Debian perceives (... downloading 3.7 GiB lasts a while ...): $ sha256sum -c

Re: bookworm sha256sum may be defective

2023-03-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I have had multiple verification failures checking an iso with a sha256sum > verification file and am wondering if that program and the rest of the > shaxxxsum programs have one or more bugs that could account for these > failures. That would be quite surprising, given

Re: debian 12 installers

2023-03-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Debian used to include xv, with patches and PNG support. I wonder how the xv license permitted this. The only trace i found is a dead link at "XV Jumbo Patches" http://www.gregroelofs.com/greg_xv.html "fully patched XV source code (but Debian has permission)" >

Re: debian 12 installers

2023-03-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Van Snyder wrote: > > I use some old stuff such as xv Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > I can't see XV in modern Debian That's most probably because of its license terms as "shareware". I love it much and it turns out that my Debian 11 uses a binary which i made on a SuSE machine about 10 years

Re: kernel errors

2023-02-04 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > Maybe the script which runs blkid or alike has vanished during the recent > > reconstruction of the initrd which fixed the problems ? Richmond wrote: > I didn't need to reconstruct initrd to cause the problems. As far as I > remember all I did was destroy the swap space, having

Re: kernel errors

2023-02-04 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Richmond wrote: > /tmp/initrd21/scripts/local:[ "${quiet?}" != "y" ] && log_begin_msg > "Running /scripts/local-block" > [...] > local_block() > { >[ "${quiet?}" != "y" ] && log_begin_msg "Running /scripts/local-block" >run_scripts /scripts/local-block "$@" > [...] > Then

Re: kernel errors

2023-02-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Richmond wrote: > No local block. :-? Maybe you can find our from where the message comes: grep -r 'Running.*scripts.*local-block' /tmp/initrd21 Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: initrd sizes mushroomed several months ago

2023-02-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, David Wright wrote: > > > $ cpio -t < /boot/initrd.img-6.0.0-6-amd64 Felix Miata wrote: > > Is that a typo? I copied & pasted that and the screen loaded binary > > gibberish. Greg Wooledge wrote: > GNU cpio(1) says that -t implies -i, so it should work on Debian. Probably the initrd is

Re: kernel errors

2023-02-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Richmond wrote: > Perhaps the system was looking for resume space on sr0? That's my guess too. We already knew that the read address and block size come from the kernel's brain damaged representation of a drive which has not seen a medium since boot. My suspicion was that libblkid is

Re: Who pays Debian developement

2023-01-31 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > how does it actually work? Most of the software in the Debian operating system is taken by Debian for free from "upstream" projects. For example i maintain as upstream developer libburn, lisofs, and libisoburn with their applications cdrskin and xorriso. They are not specific to Debian or

Re: kernel errors

2023-01-26 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Thomas Amm wrote: > First you might remove the pktcdvd module: > Not sure if it causes this specific problem but it is for pre- > growisofs CD-RW writing. The packet writing device bundles smaller write requests in larger chunks and ensures to write only at addresses and with sizes which

Re: kernel errors

2023-01-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, piorunz wrote: > read attempts continue, Obviously your drive groper is different from Richmond's. Both get lured into their activities by the kernel bugs. > Inserting blank disc on every reboot is not a solution in my opinion. And I > didn't verified it myself, It would be interesting to

Re: kernel errors

2023-01-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Richmond wrote: > VENDOR MODEL SIZE PHY-SEC LOG-SEC > HL-DT-ST HL-DT-ST_DVDRAM_GH15F 204820482048 > It has stayed like this after I removed it. Next question would be whether the error messages stopped after this. But re-reading your initial post: > > I see

Re: Unexpected permission denied

2023-01-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, jeremy ardley wrote: > > > I have vague memories there are more file flags in newer Linux file > > > systems? Dan Ritter wrote: > > There are extended attributes, [...] > > lsattr and chattr are the relevant commands. Nicolas George wrote: > What you describe are file attributes specific

Re: kernel errors

2023-01-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > If you have some blank optical medium, then try whether the emitter of > > the read attempt can be discouraged if the drive is perceived as offering > > just one block of 2048 bytes. Richmond wrote: > I don't know how to do that. Do you mean make a DVD with 1 block of data?

Re: kernel errors

2023-01-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > Back in 2020 i would quite surely have noticed > > if that behavior had been shown. Richmond wrote: > lsblk -b -o VENDOR,MODEL,SIZE,PHY-SEC,LOG-SEC /dev/sr* > VENDOR MODELSIZE PHY-SEC LOG-SEC > TSSTcorp TSSTcorp_DVD+_-RW_TS-L632H 1073741312 512

Re: kernel errors

2023-01-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, piorunz wrote: > CD inserted: > $ lsblk -b -o VENDOR,MODEL,SIZE,PHY-SEC,LOG-SEC /dev/sr0 > VENDOR MODEL SIZE PHY-SEC LOG-SEC > hp hp_DVDRW_GUE1N 62765670420482048 > DVD inserted: > $ lsblk -b -o VENDOR,MODEL,SIZE,PHY-SEC,LOG-SEC /dev/sr0 > VENDOR MODEL

Re: kernel errors

2023-01-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, the log messages about "unaligned transfer" would be explained if indeed the block size of the drive would be mistaken as 512 bytes rather than 2048 bytes. So it might be interesting to let lsblk report "sector" sizes as perceived by the kernel: lsblk -b -o

Re: kernel errors

2023-01-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, piorunz wrote: > Today, kernel 5.10, Debian 11 Bullseye, and problem still exists :D > > $ lsblk -b -o VENDOR,MODEL,SIZE /dev/sr0 > VENDOR MODELSIZE > hp hp_DVDRW_GUE1N 1073741312 Now that's a strange size: 1 GiB - 512 bytes. The readable data capacity of an optical

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