Re: kernel errors

2023-01-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Richmond wrote: > I put a dvd in and mounted it. Then rebooted. I saw these messages: > > [ 756.539018] pktcdvd: pktcdvd0: writer mapped to sr0 > [3.744658] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] scsi3-mmc drive: 62x/62x writer dvd-ram > cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray > [ 19.585098] pktcdvd: pktcdvd0: writer

Re: kernel errors

2023-01-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Richmond wrote: > kernel: [9.506798] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] tag#12 FAILED Result: > hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE cmd_age=2s > kernel: [9.507009] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] tag#12 Sense Key : Not Ready > [current] > kernel: [9.507146] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] tag#12 Add. Sense: Medium not

Re: Can't install Debian to CF card in SATA adapter

2023-01-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Mike wrote: > I don't think that it's a bad grub binary, as I have reinstalled several > times, with the same result. But if it's indeed shim which is complaining then it complains about the content of grubx64.efi. I guess that the problem would show up in the output of objdump -x

Re: Can't install Debian to CF card in SATA adapter

2023-01-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Mike wrote: > booting to the EFI Shell, I > can access the EFI parition, cd to EFI/debian and manaully call > shimx64.efi, giving the following output: > > Reloc 0 block size 0 is invalid > Relocation failed: Unsupported The web has remarkably few info on that problem. The best i found is

Re: Missing links of libraries (*.so) on Debian 11

2023-01-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Nicolas George wrote: > The .so symbolic are not for running programs, they are for building > them. For running, you only need the .so.vers links. Yes, but at build time, the actually used SONAME is recorded in the binary. ldd will show library.so.SONAME as run-time library. > If all the

Re: VLC not ejecting CD/DVDs

2023-01-04 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Charles Curley wrote: > If I read the source for VLC correctly, VLC uses a SCSI ioctl to attempt to > eject. > https://github.com/videolan/vlc/blob/master/modules/gui/eject.c Yes. EjectSCSI() in line 67 does what a burn program would do for ejecting an optical medium. But the ioctl

Re: colorscheme in vi

2022-12-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Curt wrote: > You'd think it would be more a question of the terminal. I myself am living happily with :syntax off This reduces the flippy-colorful appearance of vim to what i have chosen as -bg and -fg of my xterms. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Can't mount CD image of Win95 game

2022-12-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i meanwhile had a chance to inspect the image file and found that it shows a repeating pattern of bytes with value 255 every 2352 bytes. This corresponds to the size of medium level CD sectors, as can be obtained by SCSI command "READ CD" (e.g. via Linux ioctl CDROMREADRAW). CD-DA audio

Re: 'grep -o -m' (was Re: Can't mount CD image of Win95 game)

2022-12-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, The Wanderer wrote: > With the '-o' option, grep prints only the parts of the line that were > matched - but the plural here is very relevant. If that guess is > correct, then the "line" in question has *four* occurrences, so grep > prints them all - each on a separate line of output. The

Re: Can't mount CD image of Win95 game

2022-12-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Yvan Masson wrote: > Kernel logs say "isofs_fill_super: get root inode failed". So there is more stuff inserted between the volume descriptor and the root directory of the ISO. (The descriptor contains a minimal directory record which points to the content of the root directory. All

Re: Can't mount CD image of Win95 game

2022-12-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > To obtain the offset of the first occurence of "CD001", do > > > > offst=$( expr \ > > $( grep -a -o -b -m 1 CD001 cdimage.iso \ > > | sed -e 's/:/ /' \ > > | awk '{ print $1 }' ) - 32769 ) The Wanderer wrote: > Cutting down the

Re: Can't mount CD image of Win95 game

2022-12-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Yvan Masson wrote: > I am really not at ease using tools like hexdump, I pondered a bit more. If it's an ISO filesystem wrapped into some header and maybe a footer, then mount option -o offset= could help. To obtain the offset of the first occurence of "CD001", do offst=$( expr \

Re: Can't mount CD image of Win95 game

2022-12-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > >dd if=cdimage.iso bs=1 count=64 | od -t c Yvan Masson wrote: > 000 \0 377 377 377 377 377 377 377 377 377 377 \0 \0 002 \0 001 > 020 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 This does not give me ideas. > >strings cdimage.iso | head

Re: Can't mount CD image of Win95 game

2022-12-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Yvan Masson wrote: > I have a CD image of an old Win 95 game. [...] > $ file cdimage.iso > cdimage.iso: data So the cdimage.iso is not an ISO 9660 filesystem or somehow defaced. (Does the image file perhaps begin by "RIFFCDXA" ?) What do you get from the following runs ? dd

Re: installation partition recommendations

2022-12-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Semih Ozlem wrote: > Hi everyone I am trying to install debian 11 on a 32 gb usb. > [...] > the installation finished giving no errors but the system wont boot from > this usb How far does booting get ? - Does EFI offer the USB stick for booting ? - Does GRUB show up but fail to find the

Re: e-mail with line in body beginning with "From"

2022-12-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > [...] any other line which starts with "From" must > be "armored". And the way you do that is to precede it with "> ". > I don't know the RFCs involved, but I'm guessing they mandate or > suggest this treatment. It does not look like being fully specified by

Re: problem getting debian live to run

2022-12-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, L Dimov wrote: > DPC: RP PIO log size 0 is invalid Looks like https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209943 where it is characterized as annoying message but elsewise harmless. > thunderbolt 0-0: reading DROM failed Looks like a problem with the egg-laying woolmilkpig, which

Re: hangs at boot

2022-12-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, jd wrote: > Perhaps there's just something iffy with the installation media I used? I deem this unlikely, given that you report no errors during installation. Nevertheless: Which installation image did you use ? If the installation medium with that image is still at hand, what checksum do

Re: just saying

2022-11-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, David wrote: > I'm a spook, and proud of it! A true rosicrucian like me would never admit to be one. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: definiing deduplication (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?)

2022-11-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, hw wrote: > with CDs/DVDs, writing is not so easy. Thus it is not as easy to overwrite them by mistake. The complicated part of optical burning can be put into scripts. But i agree that modern HDD sizes cannot be easily covered by optical media. I wrote: > > [...] LTO tapes [...] hw

Re: About /etc/apt/sources.list | Warehouse for users of the stable version

2022-11-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, c0ldz...@outlook.com wrote: > I have a question about stabilizing the warehouse: > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-handbook/apt.zh-cn.html#sect.apt-sources.list.stable Most of us are probably not educated enough to cope with a chinese language site. So i propose that we discuss the

Re: gpg says no user ID

2022-11-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i managed to produce a rare self-misattribution by copy+paste: - the program gpg writes about the Debian CD signing key DA87E80D6294BE9B : > > > WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature! > > > There is

Re: gpg says no user ID

2022-11-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, the program gpg writes about the Debian CD signing key DA87E80D6294BE9B : > > > WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature! > > > There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner I wrote: > > This is a security usability problem. How is a non-expert to know

Re: gpg says no user ID

2022-11-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Thomas George wrote: > I am going to erase every thing I have done and start over. There's no need for starting over. The SHA512SUM file is meanwhile authenticated by your run of: > > gpg2 --verify SHA512SUMS.sign SHA512SUMS > > [...] > >   gpg: Good signature from "Debian CD signing key

Re: gpg says no user ID

2022-11-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Thomas George wrote: > gpg2 --verify SHA512SUMS.sign debian-11.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso > ...gpg: BAD signature from "Debian CD signing key Consider to re-read my mail of yesterday: Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 09:19:29 +0100 Subject: Re: No Public Key

Re: Explaining snapshots (for backup)

2022-11-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > In this email I want to hyptothesize on what a snapshot might be in the hope > that others can correct / amplify it when I go wrong. Nitpicking mode on. > I suppose I could copy the entire contents of > whatever I wanted to make a snapshot of (by any of a

Re: No Public Key

2022-11-14 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Thomas George wrote: > I thought to skip this step and tried > gpg --verify SHA515SUMS.sign.txt debian-11.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso That's not the right way. SHA515SUMS.sign verifies SHA515SUMS SHA515SUMS verifies debian-11.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso The latter step can be done by this command in

Re: about https://wiki.debian.org/Multimedia

2022-11-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Patrice Duroux wrote: > I have done a little change to its content but then I realized that > it is written that the list is generated from: > https://salsa.debian.org/nodiscc2-guest/awesome-linuxaudio > > I think that it should be: > https://salsa.debian.org/nodiscc/awesome-linuxaudio

Re: definiing deduplication

2022-11-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Presumably the "backuper" is the sysadmin, i.e. the same (group of) > person who chose the filesystem, so I'd say yes the "backuper" is > to blame. I rather mean the whole complex of system maintainer, users, and backup software. But even if there is a qualified

Re: definiing deduplication

2022-11-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > Data of different files or at different places in the same file > > may have relations which may become inconsistent during change operations > > until the overall change is complete. Stefan Monnier wrote: > Arguably this can be considered as a bug in the application (because >

Re: definiing deduplication (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?)

2022-11-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > the time window in which the backuped data > > can become inconsistent on the application level. hw wrote: > Or are you referring to the data being altered while a backup is in > progress? Yes. Data of different files or at different places in the same file may have relations

Re: definiing deduplication (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?)

2022-11-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > >   https://github.com/dm-vdo/kvdo/issues/18 hw wrote: > So the VDO ppl say 4kB is a good block size They actually say that it's the only size which they support. > Deduplication doesn't work when files aren't sufficiently identical, The definition of sufficiently identical

Re: definiing deduplication (was: Re: deduplicating file systems: VDO with Debian?)

2022-11-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, hw wrote: > I still wonder how VDO actually works. There is a comparer/decider named UDS which holds an index of the valid storage blocks, and a device driver named VDO which performes the deduplication and hides its internals from the user by providing a block device on top of the real

Re: afio batch operation

2022-11-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > # afio -ivZ -P bzip2 jeremy ardley wrote: > Corrected: > afio -ivZ -P bzip2 $i Indeed. (Being aware that Greg Wooledge is watching i would have added "$i".) > remarkably slow even on my PCIe NVME drive. DVD reading can be quite slow. bzip2 decompression is said to be

Re: afio batch operation

2022-11-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > I have a CD that was written by mondorescue and it has hundreds of files in > the form > .afio.bz2. They must be quite small if hundreds of them fit on a CD. > Can someone suggest a simple command line to extract the hundreds of files > and write/merge them into a single directory tree?

Re: Changes in the syslog date format?

2022-11-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, local10 wrote: > Any ideas as to get the old syslog date format back? The internet points to /etc/rsyslog.conf and in there: # # Use traditional timestamp format. # To enable high precision timestamps, comment out the following line. # $ActionFileDefaultTemplate

Re: Helium

2022-11-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i looked up some data points about helium. This table gives floating times for helium balloons and the pressure in usual helium cylinders (200 bar). https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luftballon#Ma%C3%9Fe The numbers of fillings per ballon diameter in the "10 liter" column indicate that the

Re: Boxed Distributions

2022-11-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Bret Busby wrote: > Are Blu-ray drives available for computers? Sure. My oldest one is a LG BD-RE GGW-H20L of 2008. My youngest is a ASUS BW-16D1HT which i bought recently after my Optiarc BD-5300S died mechanically. > I do not know of the storage capacity for a Blu-ray disc, Single

Re: Boxed Distributions

2022-11-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Bret Busby wrote: > Someone did say that the full distribution comprises of many disks, so, > maybe it needs four boxes? The four jewel case edition is here: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/jigdo-bd/ for 25 GB Blu-ray discs. (There is also a twin pack for 50 GB BDDL:

Re: Some of the parameters used in my genisoimage command don't produce a bootable ISO image

2022-10-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Mario Marietto wrote: > There are some kb of difference between the files produced by the two > techniques : > 79.3 MiB (83,106,001 byte) : find . -print -depth | cpio --create > --format='newc' > ../../initrd.img-5.10.0-18-amd64 > 79.3 MiB (83,108,291 byte) : find . | cpio --create

Re: Some of the parameters used in my genisoimage command don't produce a bootable ISO image

2022-10-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Mario Marietto wrote: > You seem to understand well what I'm trying to do and you are > able to give good suggestions. Probably i only have a good run of guessing here. > It seems that there isn't any CPIO > parameter that overwrites the old image. Is this correct ? I am not aware of any.

Re: Some of the parameters used in my genisoimage command don't produce a bootable ISO image

2022-10-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Mario Marietto wrote: > I've realized that as soon as a > new kernel has been installed by the user,logos and images > should be added automatically inside the initrd.img* file. For > this reason,I've created the bash script below. It works,I've > tested it. Now I should understand where to

Re: Some of the parameters used in my genisoimage command don't produce a bootable ISO image

2022-10-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Mario Marietto wrote: > But the technique below worked : So your initrd problems are solved now and you managed to modify a Debian Live ISO by help of Cubic ? Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Some of the parameters used in my genisoimage command don't produce a bootable ISO image

2022-10-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Mario Marietto wrote: > I'm trying to change the pictures inside the /live/initrd.gz file. I really wonder where this file comes from. > I have followed your suggestions,doing something like this : > gunzip /live/initrd.gz I also wonder about the absolute path "/live/initrd.gz". You have

Re: OT: debian live-file-iso change in chroot?

2022-10-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Hans wrote: > I had the idea, to boot the ISO in a chroot environment, then > upgrade the booted ISO via apt, and at last save the updated livesystem as > an ISO-file again. This might give you the desired data content or not. I could imagine stumblestones but have no experience with such an

Re: Some of the parameters used in my genisoimage command don't produce a bootable ISO image

2022-10-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Mario Marietto wrote: > echo /usr/share/plymouth/themes/homeworld/logo.png | cpio -H newc -o -A -F > /home/ziomario/Scrivania/PassT-Cubic/Debian-new/custom-disk/live/initrd Didn't you strive for manipulating the initrd in /d-i/gtk/initrd.gz of the ISO ? (Are you still with

Re: Some of the parameters used in my genisoimage command don't produce a bootable ISO image

2022-10-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, David Wright wrote: > they are no longer Debian logos. You > should give names to your edited files that indicate what they are: > /your/ images for /your/ derivative. Add them to the archive and > change the symlinks there. I found https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Guidelines which

Re: Some of the parameters used in my genisoimage command don't produce a bootable ISO image

2022-10-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Mario Marietto wrote: > echo logo_debian_dark.png | cpio -H newc -o -A -F initrd/usr/share/graphics > cpio: can't open initrd/usr/share/graphics: Is not a directory cpio option -F expects the path to the archive as argument. I.e. the path to the uncompressed initrd. > The images that I

Re: Some of the parameters used in my genisoimage command don't produce a bootable ISO image

2022-10-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Mario Marietto wrote: > anyway,using another append shouldn't be wrong because the debian developers > used,not me,in this way Oh. In this case we should not bet against their wisdom. If it is by mistake, then it is harmless and heavily tested during the last years. (Regrettably i have not

Re: Some of the parameters used in my genisoimage command don't produce a bootable ISO image

2022-10-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Mario Marietto wrote: > You are right. It works without using the APPEND option Yeah. Once again guessed right. :)) > I don't know if it's correct to use something like this in the ISOLINUX/menu.cfg file : > LABEL Custom Graphical Debian Installer >   SAY "Booting Custom Graphical Debian

Re: Some of the parameters used in my genisoimage command don't produce a bootable ISO image

2022-10-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Mario Marietto wrote: > ... > menuentry "Debian Custom Graphical Debian Installer" { > ... >   linux  /d-i/gtk/vmlinuz APPEND file=/cdrom/preseed/preseed.cfg auto=true video=vesa:ywrap,mtrr vga=788 "${loopback}" > ... >  initrd /d-i/gtk/initrd.gz > If I remove the argument APPEND,the only

Re: Some of the parameters used in my genisoimage command don't produce a bootable ISO image

2022-10-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Mario Marietto wrote: > > > menuentry "Debian Custom Graphical Debian Installer" { > > >   linux  /d-i/gtk/vmlinuz APPEND file=/cdrom/preseed/preseed.cfg > > > auto=true video=vesa:ywrap,mtrr vga=788 "${loopback}" > > >  initrd /d-i/gtk/initrd.gz > > > > > > Does it make more sense ? I

Re: Some of the parameters used in my genisoimage command don't produce a bootable ISO image

2022-10-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > menuentry "Debian Custom Graphical Debian Installer" { >   linux  /d-i/gtk/vmlinuz APPEND file=/cdrom/preseed/preseed.cfg auto=true > video=vesa:ywrap,mtrr vga=788 "${loopback}" >  initrd /d-i/gtk/initrd.gz > > Does it make more sense ? In the interest of future readers who seek the same

Re: Some of the parameters used in my genisoimage command don't produce a bootable ISO image

2022-10-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Mario Marietto wrote: > What I haven't understood well is if, in your opinion, this "code" is well > written or not : > > menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux Custom (kernel 5.10.0-18-amd64)" { >   linux /d-i/gtk/vmlinuz APPEND file=/cdrom/preseed/preseed.cfg auto=true > initrd=/live/initrd.gz

Re: Some of the parameters used in my genisoimage command don't produce a bootable ISO image

2022-10-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Mario Marietto wrote: > In the end I found the solution. Congrats. - Some remarks on the way to success: > isolinux/menu.cfg > LABEL English (en) > SAY "Booting English (en)..." > linux /live/vmlinuz boot=casper

Re: Some of the parameters used in my genisoimage command don't produce a bootable ISO image

2022-10-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Mario Marietto wrote: > Finally I found something that's very close to the solution : > https://askubuntu.com/questions/1228909/preseed-config-using-cubic-is-ignored-during-installation If this shall be the solution then the files to change would probably be isolinux/menu.cfg

Re: Some of the parameters used in my genisoimage command don't produce a bootable ISO image

2022-10-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i should have looked into the boot/grub/grub.cfg file for initrd usage: ... menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux Live (kernel 5.10.0-18-amd64)" { linux /live/vmlinuz-5.10.0-18-amd64 boot=live components splash quiet "${loopback}" initrd /live/initrd.img-5.10.0-18-amd64 } ... many

Re: Some of the parameters used in my genisoimage command don't produce a bootable ISO image

2022-10-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Mario Marietto wrote: > Does it make sense to insert the preseed file inside this file ? > > /home/ziomario/Scrivania/PassT-Cubic/Debian-new/custom-root/boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-18-amd64 ? > What's the difference between initrd and initrd.img-5.10.0-18-amd64 ? Interesting question. (You

Re: Some of the parameters used in my genisoimage command don't produce a bootable ISO image

2022-10-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Mario Marietto wrote: > Can you suggest some other nice places where I can post the > question again ? No. This list here and debian-live are the best places to ask. At least i know of no better ones. If i were in your situation i would try to find out how the software in the initrd is

Re: Some of the parameters used in my genisoimage command don't produce a bootable ISO image

2022-10-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Mario Marietto wrote: > I suppose that the ML debian-live is not > active or it is a very very low level of activity. It's what exists in respect to Debian Live ISOs. https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-live/ mentions the bug tracking system, the debian-live mailing list, and an IRC

Re: Some of the parameters used in my genisoimage command don't produce a bootable ISO image

2022-10-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > ( cd /home/ziomario/Scrivania/PassT-Cubic/ISO/preseed/ > > echo preseed.cfg | cpio -H newc -o -A -F > > /home/ziomario/Scrivania/PassT-Cubic/ISO/debian-live-11.5.0-amd64-xfce/d-i/initrd > > ) Mario Marietto wrote in a mail Cc'ed to debian-user@lists.debian.org: > ok. I did

Re: Some of the parameters used in my genisoimage command don't produce a bootable ISO image

2022-10-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Mario Marietto wrote: > I've found this tutorial and I've followed,integrating the Thomas > suggestions : > https://github.com/Nidouille/Debian-Automated-Installation The section "Creation de l'ISO" is outdated since Debian 7. The excuse "UEFI : grub Modification non faite, car je suis en

Re: Some of the parameters used in my genisoimage command don't produce a bootable ISO image

2022-10-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Mario Marietto wrote: > Drive current: -outdev 'debian-live-11.5.0-amd64-xfce.iso' > Media current: stdio file, overwriteable > Media status : is written , is appendable > Media summary: 1 session, 1310720 data blocks, 2560m data, 40.3g free > ... > xorriso : FAILURE : -indev differs from

Re: Some of the parameters used in my genisoimage command don't produce a bootable ISO image

2022-10-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Mario Marietto wrote: > I've replied on the ubuntuforums. The deficiency of your run in https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2479825=14115075#post14115075 is that you did not give the options for creating EFI boot lures. Your VM states to have OVMF as firmware. > I have also tried

Re: Some of the parameters used in my genisoimage command don't produce a bootable ISO image

2022-10-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i already saw your questions in the web and wrote on https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2479825=14115063#post14115063 - Your genisoimage run does not produce boot lures for EFI which would lead to GRUB, but only

Re: Thank you for downloading Debian!

2022-09-30 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Loren wrote: > I attempted to download the current version and in the middle of > downloading Bit Torrent reset my browser. [...] > Now what do I do? I'd try plain https download. E.g if you wanted to get by Bit Torrent:

Re: question re tar

2022-09-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, jr wrote: > I [...] cannot find an obvious (any!) place where headers could be set [...] > I [...] hope that someone can/will supply Gmail specific instructions The normal way to participate is to subscribe your mail address at https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ or by sending a mail to

Re: question re tar

2022-09-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, jr wrote: > I see a single thread only. cannot see "a new thread [started] with > every message", sorry. Your mails lack headers like "In-Reply-To:" or "References:", which should tell the Message Id of the mail to which you answer resp. some or all IDs of the thread. (My "References:" only

Re: Verify a mirror?

2022-09-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > If some Evil Instance is controlling your whole internet, well... > your installation media will be already compromised. The attacker must not forget to fake the page with the Debian GPG signatures: https://www.debian.org/CD/verify Further any contact has to be

Re: question re tar

2022-09-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Max Nikulin wrote: > It seems some files are present multiple times in your list. > tar cvWf test.tar file.txt file.txt Well if it is that easy to create the situation, i can test what happens on restoring the tarball: $ tar cvf test.tar x x x x $ rm x rm: remove regular file ‘x’?

Re: question re tar

2022-09-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > test/hardlinks/hardlink_x link to u/test/hardlinks/x This comes when i edit my experiment output to remove unnecessary local information. I forgot to remove that last "u/". jr wrote: > what will happen > if I extract such an archive on a "normal" computer with ext3/4 >

Re: question re tar

2022-09-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Will Mengarini wrote: > Note that the file-type character "h" (the leftmost character in your > second line of output) isn't documented in > , The 'h' probably comes from

Re: Weird set -u error

2022-08-26 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Why {PS1:+x} rather than {PS1:-}? It seemed to be the nearest suitable variation which was similar to the proposal [ ${var+x} ] in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3601515/how-to-check-if-a-variable-is-set-in-bash where one can see a nice table of

Re: Weird set -u error

2022-08-26 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > $ cat Makefile.test > SHELL := /bin/bash -u > [...] > /etc/bash.bashrc: line 7: PS1: unbound variable > [...] > Why do I get that unbound variable error? According to a comment in /etc/bash.bashrc it tests for emptiness of PS1 in order to detect non-interactive shell sessions: # If not

Re: still blue

2022-08-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > Either by your keyborad lights or by above xterm > > color setting. Emanuel Berg wrote: > :O > Did I say that or did you read my mind? In the original post of Mon, 25 Jul 2022 10:17:30 +0200, you wrote: >...> I have a programmable keyboard so I've done some of that [1], >...>

Re: still blue

2022-08-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > # Minimum brightness for blue to be perceivable > > blue_base=64 > > # Minimum advantage of blue over (red + green)/2 > > blue_advantage=64 Emanuel Berg wrote: > Thanks a lot, this is what I had in mind exactly! My eyes still perceived too much reddishness. They obviously need

Re: Debian live iso on usb returns grub

2022-08-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Massimo Maiurana wrote; > DD mode, as Rufus itself told me to use that mode in case of problems about > booting. We have to thank its author Pete Batard for bringing so many installation ISOs onto their USB sticks. > Indeed the Toshiba laptop is in legacy mode while the Asus one is in Efi

Re: Debian live iso on usb returns grub

2022-08-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Massimo Maiurana wrote: > So i tried putting the image in the key using Rufus on windows and it works! Did you use Rufus' "DD" mode or did you let it do its usual thing of unpacking the ISO into a partition of the USB stick ? (The latter is not advised by Debian Installation developers.) >

Re: List-Archive URLs and slashes in Message Ids

2022-08-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Paul Wise wrote: > This issue has been present for a long time unfortunately. > There is a workaround, you can use a URL query parameter instead: > https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/?m=YvogMm/B0cM/a...@einval.com This works indeed. I guess the proposal was already made to augment the URL

Re: Debian live iso on usb returns grub

2022-08-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Massimo Maiurana wrote: > This is the downloaded image: > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/weekly-builds/amd64/iso-dvd/firmware-testing-amd64-DVD-1.iso Works for my Debian 11 qemu/KVM with OVMF EFI "firmware". I get to the text/graphics menu with

List-Archive URLs and slashes in Message Ids

2022-08-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, something's wrong with the msgid-search URLs for Message-Ids with "/". In Andrew M.A. Cater's mail to this list Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2022 10:30:10 + Message-ID: i read and credulenltly forwarded to Massimo Maiurana: List-Archive:

Re: Debian live iso on usb returns grub

2022-08-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Massimo Maiurana wrote: > Sorry, forgot to mention that my iso was not the netinst one, i.e. the CD > image, but rather was the DVD image. Whenever an ISO has to be investigated or tested, a tangible download URL can be of great help ... (cough) ... :)) I confess that it also helps to test

Re: Debian live iso on usb returns grub

2022-08-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Massimo Maiurana wrote: > thanks for your answer. You got one more without Cc:maiur...@gmail.com : https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/YvogMm/B0cM/a...@einval.com (This one did not doubt your subject line as much as i did.) > What i took is not a live iso but instead it's the

Re: Debian live iso on usb returns grub

2022-08-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Massimo Maiurana wrote: > I've downloaded the latest iso with testing weekly build, I understand that there are no weekly builds of Debian Live based on Debian Testing. (I remember people asking for Debian 12 Live ISOs and being told that currently there are none.) So can you please tell

RE: Need working repo for Deb7 - wheezy

2022-08-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Aravinth kumar Anbalagan wrote: > root@policijas-db:~# gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 473041FA > gpg: requesting key 473041FA from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com > gpg: keyserver timed out Looks like a problem between your network and keyserver.ubuntu.com. I get no reply

RE: Need working repo for Deb7 - wheezy

2022-08-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Aravinth kumar Anbalagan wrote: > Received below error. Any other way to download the keys? > [...] > sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com $K > [...] > Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring > --secret-keyring /tmp/tmp.3r9by2p9YX

RE: Need working repo for Deb7 - wheezy

2022-08-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Aravinth kumar Anbalagan wrote: > W: GPG error: http://archive.debian.org squeeze Release: The following > signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1520281423 KEYEXPIRED 1501892461 > W: GPG error: http://archive.debian.org squeeze-lts Release: The following > signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED

Re: still blue

2022-07-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > Schoenes Abendessen :-) I hereby declare Central European Supper Time. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: still blue

2022-07-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > rhex="$(printf '%2.2x' "$r")" Greg Wooledge wrote: > As of bash 3.1, you can use printf -v rhex %2.2x "$r" I'm still at the bash level of DLD Linux 0.99pl13. > > bstart="$(expr "(" "$r" + "$g" ")" / 2 + "$blue_advantage")" > bstart=$(( (r+g)/2 + blue_advantage )) expr

Re: still blue

2022-07-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, refining my proposal i tested this function to list about 7600 blueish colors: --- #!/bin/bash # Minimum brightness for blue to be perceivable blue_base=64 # Minimum advantage of blue over (red + green)/2

Re: still blue

2022-07-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Nicolas George wrote: > > - Our brain lies to us about colors all the time. This begins already with the combination of light receptors and the first nerve cells in the chain which creates the color evaluations. As mammals we should normally be blind against red-yellow-green contrasts. Dogs

Re: closing Bullseye bugs pointing to a fix in Unstable?

2022-07-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > Well, "stable" means old software with old bugs. Those who want the new > > bugs, which are introduced by fixing the old ones, have to run something > > else. Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > Then why "nvidia-driver" in Stable was switched from previous "460.91.03-1" > version to

Re: closing Bullseye bugs pointing to a fix in Unstable?

2022-07-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > Surely "Closes:" is very convenient, but wouldn't you agree that this > puts the users of Stable at a disadvantage? Well, "stable" means old software with old bugs. Those who want the new bugs, which are introduced by fixing the old ones, have to run something else. I understand that

Re: OT, Re: Answering to the question

2022-07-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Nicolas George wrote: > > 1. Have you read the question in full? Very good point. The same is true for other people's anwers before commenting on them. (Cough. I still feel embarrassed about the "make" blooper.) john doe wrote: > Language barrier. Or a neighbor ringing the door bell.

Re: Does Debian supports backticks in the Makefile?

2022-07-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Igor Korot wrote: > This is what Gentoo generates: > ... > /bin/sh ../libtool --tag=CXX --mode=compile g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. > -I/home/igor/dbhandler/libpostgres -I..-D__WXGTK__ > -I../../dbinterface `pg_config --includedir` -g -O0 -MT > ... > libtool: compile: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H

Re: Does Debian supports backticks in the Makefile?

2022-07-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: > You're misunderstanding my conclusions. The backticks *do* work in the > end, since they're passed through to the shell, and the shell interprets > them the way the OP seems to want. Oops. I probably should have read on after having been interrupted by the real world.

Re: Does Debian supports backticks in the Makefile?

2022-07-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > It appears that an argument -I is missing before /usr/include/postgresql. > This is a very good theory. Together with Greg Wooledge's observation that "make"'s macro definition does not interpret `...` as output of shell commands we already have two reasons why that part of the

Re: Does Debian supports backticks in the Makefile?

2022-07-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, how about this theory: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cpp/Invocation.html#Invocation says "-I dir Add the directory dir to the list of directories to be searched for header files during preprocessing." Note the the singular "dir", not "dirs". In Igor Korot's Makefile.am we

Re: Does Debian supports backticks in the Makefile?

2022-07-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Still, I insist it should be called unless you /know/ you > want to supply your own header file. Question is what Igor Korot is trying to compile. If it is postgres itself or one of its helpers, then libpq-fe.h would probably be one of the "header files of your own

Re: Does Debian supports backticks in the Makefile?

2022-07-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cpp/Include-Syntax.html #include This variant is used for system header files. It searches for a file named file in a standard list of system directories. You can prepend directories to this list with the -I option (see Invocation). #include "file"

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