Re: Fatal error while burning CD

2021-06-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > >modesty_on_drive=1:min_percent=75:max_percent=80 Michael Lange wrote: > burning failed with this option, too (two out of three runs). Looks like you really need a new drive. > cdrskin: FATAL : SCSI error on write(299,13): See MMC \ > specs: Sense Key 5 "Illegal

Re: Fatal error while burning CD

2021-06-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i got an SCSI log of a failed burn run from Michael Lange. No artsy dance between drive and libburn is to see, which could explain a misunderstanding between both. The drive buffer becomes full, after 17 seconds some few sectors seem to have been actually written, and then the second next

Re: Fatal error while burning CD

2021-06-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i am making theories how the drive firmware could perceive any illegal request while WRITE(10) commands come in. (Senile dementia is not among the usual signs of drive ageing. Rather they go blind or suffer stroke.) I would be interesting to see the SCSI log of a failed dummy burn. I.e. with

Re: Fatal error while burning CD

2021-06-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > What were your exact cdrskin arguments ? Michael Lange wrote: > cdrskin -v -dummy -eject dev=/dev/sr0 -sao speed=10 '04 Pujeva.wav' \ >sao_pregap=75 '05 New Pulse.wav' sao_pregap=225 '07 Rocket \ >Keronian.wav' '10 Dodo.wav' Looks quite unsuspicious. The

Re: Fatal error while burning CD

2021-06-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Michael Lange wrote: > cdrskin: FATAL : SCSI error on write(442,13): See MMC specs: Sense Key > 5 "Illegal request", ASC A8 ASCQ 04 The hex number triple (5, A8, 04) is the reply of the drive to command WRITE(10) after 34 such commands succeeded. (34 = 442 / 13. 13 is the smallest multiple

Re: cdrskin: burn cdda with cue sheet file

2021-06-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Michael Lange wrote: > cdrskin -v -dummy -eject dev=/dev/sr0 -sao speed=10 track1.wav \ > sao_pregap=75 track2wav sao_pregap=225 track3.wav track4.wav > > Is my assumption correct that this will add a 1-second pregap before > track2 and a 3-second pregap before track3 and no pregap

Re: cdrskin: burn cdda with cue sheet file

2021-06-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > [SEND CUE SHEET] is supposed to be followed by a sequence of WRITE(10) > > commands which deliver the payload data as a single unstructured stream. The Wanderer wrote: > ...and that would, at least at a glance, seem to make it seem even > *more* like the term doesn't really fit

Re: cdrskin: burn cdda with cue sheet file

2021-06-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, The Wanderer wrote: > I have always intuitively understood the term "cue sheet" to be derived > in some way from the context of stage and/or screen acting I think it stems from the name of the data structure by which the layout of a SAO-Session is described to the drive by the SCSI command

Re: cdrskin: burn cdda with cue sheet file

2021-06-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Michael Lange wrote: > > https://web.archive.org/web/20151223114027/http://digitalx.org/cue-sheet/ > > cdrskin: FAILURE : In cue sheet file: Multiple occurrences of FILE Reco wrote: > cdrskin(1) says: > a *single file* which is given in the sheet by command FILE. Indeed. cdrskin expects a

Re: Removing messed up folder

2021-06-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Gary L. Roach wrote: > Somehow, I've managed to really mess up the owner and access to a folder. You are probably not to blame. :)) > The folder looks like this: > d? ? ?    ?  ?    ? doc What's its full path ? Is it /run/user/NNN/doc, where NNN is "gary"'s user id

[Off topic thoughts] Re: debian installation issue

2021-06-14 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > Secure Boot (Microsoft's attempt to stop you from using Linux) Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > While I'm not a fan of Microsoft: > > https://wiki.debian.org/SecureBoot#What_is_UEFI_Secure_Boot_NOT.3 > > "Microsoft act as a Certification Authority (CA) for SB, and they

Re: bootcd, xorrisso, debian-cd, making an iso of a current system and backing up

2021-06-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Semih Ozlem wrote: > Can someone familiar with bootcd, xorriso, debian-cd explain how and for > what purpose those commands are used? xorriso produces and manipulates ISO 9660 filesystems, which may be bootable from optical media and disk-like media. debian-cd is the tool by which the

Re: what program sets up /run/user/1000/ ?

2021-06-04 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > That's a great proof that some people with knowledge (and smart) do run > GNOME. Actually i run fvwm2 and don't even know how to get an xterm from the GNOME ridden Ubuntu VM which i have to start once in a year. The presented knowledge stems from a

Re: what program sets up /run/user/1000/ ?

2021-06-04 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > I would rather disable xdg-document-portal in order to redice the risk > rather than increasing it. I meant "reduce" rather than "redice". (But mathematically it is a quite appropriate typo while talking about unknown risks. It's a gamble.) Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: what program sets up /run/user/1000/ ?

2021-06-04 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, songbird wrote: > some strange fs entry shows up: > # ls -l /run/user/1000 > d? ? ? ??? doc We had this topic a few day ago. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/06/msg00020.html I had some further private conversation with the OP John Conover which causes

Re: Create Live image from installed Debian?

2021-06-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Hans wrote: > Maybe bootcd is that what you need. Take a look at it. In my role as curious bystander i follow this advice. Using tracker.debian.org i get to https://sources.debian.org/src/bootcd/6.4/FAQ.backup/ which promises indeed "The bootcdwrite command creates a life-cd with your

Re: Ownership and permissions on /run/user/601/doc ???

2021-06-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
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Re: Ownership and permissions on /run/user/601/doc ???

2021-06-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, John Conover wrote: > Odd, root can not access the /run/user/601/ directory, but the user > can This is said to be a fuse filesystem feature. See e.g. https://superuser.com/questions/169977/mount-point-permission-denied > dr-x-- 2 theuser users 0 Dec 31 1969 doc/ > Odd

Re: Ownership and permissions on /run/user/601/doc ???

2021-06-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > Are you already the user with id 601 ? > > If not: Does it work better if you become that user ? John Conover wrote: > As the user, or as root. Then it could be owned by another user id. (Hard to guess while stat(2) fails even for the boss.) But you could at least verify that

Re: Ownership and permissions on /run/user/601/doc ???

2021-06-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, John Conover wrote: > Peculiar ownership and permissions on /run/user/601/doc: >d? ? ?? ?? doc/ Are you already the user with id 601 ? If not: Does it work better if you become that user ? The web knows about problems of program df with /run/user/*/doc

Re: xv

2021-05-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > halve_jpeg.c Dan Hitt wrote: > It was unwilling to deal with a non-color image that i had ("Unsuitable JPEG > format with 1 components per pixel"), [...] > if i need to deal with non-color images, i can try to modify it. It is much ad-hoc work, i have to confess. The images

Re: xv

2021-05-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Dan Hitt wrote: > Thomas, that sounds awesome, please do post somewhere (and provide a link > here, if you would be so kind). So on popular demand by one potential user here it is http://scdbackup.sourceforge.net/halve_jpeg.c SHA256SUM:

Re: xv

2021-05-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > : Unsupported JPEG process: SOF type 0xc2 My xv reports this on Progressive JPEG images like http://www.reasoft.com/tutorials/web/img/progress.jpg My xv binary stems from source xv-3.10a.tar.gz of june 2000. Its Makefile indicates that it gets linked statically with

Re: info pages WHERE? -- was [Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?]

2021-05-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: > That's in the info(1) tool. I agree, info has a better search ability > than pinfo(1). Oops. I did not make the connection from your final statement to your mentioning of pinfo. (I could make excuses that you mention "info and pinfo" on the way to the end. But

Re: info pages WHERE? -- was [Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?]

2021-05-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: > the inability to *search* within the > info page to find occurrences of your keyword can be maddening. It's not _that_ terrible. Pressing in info dd the "/" key, i get a prompt Regexp search []: The input "dsync" brings me to the ‘dsync’ explanation. Pressing "/"

Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?

2021-05-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > When copying a file and writing it to another medium, perhaps eg when > > writing a DVD .iso file directly to a USB stick, it's ideal. The Wanderer wrote: > Is there really no functional difference between the baseline trivial > functionalities of cat and dd?

Re: RESOLUTION --- Re: How to reference xxxdvd1.iso in sources.list

2021-05-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > IIRC there was a limit on the number of loop devices created {8?}. > Is there any default limit now? That would be man losetup and https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt The former seems to tell no limitation. The latter lists "loopback

Re: RESOLUTION --- Re: How to reference xxxdvd1.iso in sources.list

2021-05-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > I don't grok loop devices. [...] > Also the article I read evidently took advantage of "mount" being able to > loop mount without the loop option being explicitly referenced. Yes. mount is smart enough to see that your "device" is a data file and that it has to use a

Re: How to reference xxxdvd1.iso in sources.list

2021-05-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > In practice, queuing up a few mount/umount/eject commands and then runnng > the apt-get install commands or whatever by using an up arrow command to > repeat wasn't a problem. How did you work around the tray loading bug ? The Linux kernel lost the ability to wait

Re: How to reference xxxdvd1.iso in sources.list

2021-05-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, tomas wrote: > > > [1] https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList#CD-ROM Richard Owlett wrote: > > But I have an iso file on a disk drive -- be it internal HDD or a USB flash > > drive. tomas wrote: > And now this is for you: > "You can use -d for the directory of the CD-ROM mount point >or

Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, (there is at least one answer which was not Cc'ed to you as follow-up under https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/05/msg00358.html ) Pat Pathmanathan wrote: > I finally managed to install the following image on my iMac G5 : > [...] debian-10.0.0-ppc64-NETINST-1.iso [...] > 'Starting

Re: PC fan getting very loud

2021-05-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > > Put this mini-PC under any, not just Firefox, multi-threaded workload > > and you will have the same outcome. deloptes wrote: > What would be a good test to find out if this theory is true? Did you already compare the Firefoxes about the number of threads

Re: [Off topic] videos of german state TV, was Re: HTML syntax.

2021-05-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > the song "Meine Oma ist 'ne alte Umweltsau" (= "My granny is an old > > environmental hog"), sung by a children choir Michael Lange wrote: > Still seems to be available on yt, though. Legally it could now be "Zeitgeschichte" (= "contemporary history") and thus be exempted from

Re: [Off topic] videos of german state TV, was Re: HTML syntax.

2021-05-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > i really do not see any such censoring with the video about > > environmental problems with electrical cars. deloptes wrote: > But it was on youtube and was removed and I could not find it I agree that it is not people-friendly to try preventing the use of a video after it was

Re: [Off topic] videos of german state TV, was Re: HTML syntax.

2021-05-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Michael Lange wrote: > Oddly, it seems like the German public TV station ZDF blocked the video > for Germany due to "intellectual property rights" which are not explained > any further. The reason for not eternally offering videos for download is in the legal framework of german state TV.

[Off topic] videos of german state TV, was Re: HTML syntax.

2021-05-04 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, deloptes wrote: > I just tried to find a video on ARTE You believe french-german state TV ? > I watched some time ago. Video was called "Umweltsünder E-Auto?" For the non-germans: = "Environmental Sinner E-Car ?". (It was a bit exaggerated as in several other documentaries of ARTE, but

Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

2021-05-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Pat Pathmanathan wrote: > I am trying to install Debian 10.9 on the old iMac G5. I burned the > 'debian-10.9.0-ppc64el-netinst.iso’ [..] > I was > able to install Ubuntu Mate 16.04 for powerpc without any problem. Possibly you want Debian for "ppc64" or "powerpc". At least the boot

Re: Google vs. DDG (was: Social-media antipathy)

2021-05-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > Searching for "Stieglitz" DDG shows With Javascript off: 1st try: Alfred Stieglitz 2nd try: Alfred Stieglitz, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Focke-Wulf Fw 44 Stieglitz 3rd try: Joseph E. Stiglitz, Alfred Stieglitz, Stieglitz Snyder Architecture, Christine Stieglitz Quite random choice, but

Re: bash completion and spaces

2021-04-26 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Not the parser, technically. The correct term is word splitting. Always good to know which part of the shell tries to bite me. :)) > $ string=' hithere ' > [...] > $ printf '<%s> ' $string ; echo > As C programmer i am now tempted to scream. (This

Re: bash completion and spaces

2021-04-26 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > what accounts for the three missing characters (namely SPACE, TAB, > and NEWLINE)? They get eaten by the shell parser if you do not use quotation marks: $ echo $COMP_WORDBREAKS | wc -c 11 $ echo "$COMP_WORDBREAKS" | wc -c 14 So to see all characters (including the newline added

Re: looks like I need an hid interface

2021-04-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > Can you tell the questions which you get asked and what you answered ? > jigdo-lite filename.jigdo It would help if you quote the dialog literally, skipping lengthy messages but telling each question text and each of your inputs. Our list fellow Steve McIntyre, the maintainer

Re: looks like I need an hid interface

2021-04-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > The bullseye-RC1 iso files are out: Gene Heskett wrote: > And I like to use jigdo, but > its been putzed with since the last time I used it, and I couldn't make > it run as it demanded far more arguments than it used to. Can you tell the questions which you get

Re: hello. Please help this big report go in the correct direction....

2021-04-14 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, (It seems that Timothy Danielson is not subscribed and missed the answers https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/04/msg00410.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/04/msg00411.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/04/msg00412.html ) In summary plus my own two cents:

Re: MX patito feo 19.3 : trying to apt upgrade

2021-03-30 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, ellanios82 wrote: > : perhaps if i wait a day or 2 , i might get lucky  :) On the risk to be proven wrong by more experienced bystanders, i assume that you need to find a mirror with the new package, update your package list from that mirror, and use it for upgrading. (My theory is that

Re: MX patito feo 19.3 : trying to apt upgrade

2021-03-30 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > E: Failed to fetch > http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/mx/mx/repo/pool/main/m/mx-docs/mx-doc > s_20200817mx19+1_all.deb This server only has the predecessor package mx-docs_20200817mx19_all.deb It seems that mx-docs_20200817mx19+1_all.deb already has a successor named

Re: Is there an alternative filesystem hierarchy that could be adapted to Debian.

2021-03-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z wrote: > > By the way, what does "usr" mean? The Wanderer wrote: > I can't completely rule out a derivation from "user", but I don't think > that's usually considered likely. My german translation of S.R. Bourne's The Unix Syistem of 1983 states: "Der Katalog /usr

Re: Older Release(s) Iso(s)

2021-02-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, PK - Panos Katertziadis wrote: > The jigdo approach does not work either, the files > themselves are missing and the jigdo binary reports it If you mean the error message after the first input to jigdo-lite $ jigdo-lite ... To resume a half-finished download, enter name of .jigdo

Re: Debian install Question

2021-02-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, David Wright wrote: > > Take care: this stick will have very strange partitioning. I am preaching against this partition table layout since years. deloptes wrote: > newbies use ubuntu :) ... which eventually switched to a neater layout in the 20.10 ISOs with only one partition table hack

Re: Strange statistics from gparted

2021-02-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I am experimenting with custom installs of MATE on Debian 10.7 . > > [...] > > I have a default install with / on sda1. > > The custom install has / on sda2. > > [...] > > When running gparted from the first, it reports > > sda1 used space is 3.85 GB > > sda2

Re: How to access forumns?

2021-01-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Neil du Toit wrote: > When I tried to register for Debian User Forumns I received the following > list of error messages: > Your IP has been blocked because it is blacklisted. For details please > see http://www.spamcannibal.org/cannibal.cgi?page=lookup= The web traces of spamcannibal.org

Re: MacOS Big Sur balenaEtcher Bug

2021-01-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Stephen Muscarella wrote: > > When the flash is complete in balenaEtcher, it says files cannot be read by > > the system and when I look at the size of the USB bootable it becomes like > > 2-3 MB and looks corrupted. It might be that balenaEtcher interprets too much. Probably it shows only

Re: 'no mountable file systems' error upon attempted installation of Debian 10.7.0 amd64 dmg

2021-01-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, of course the advise is correct to download the Debian installation image and to put it plainly onto a USB stick (or to burn it onto a DVD). But: LuKaRo wrote: > Mac OS is not able to open it, as it does not really support other > file systems than the Apple ones. That's a bit hard to

Re: lua-ldoc restricts lua versions and doesn't work with lua5.3

2021-01-07 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Eugene Pakhomov wrote: > wouldn't it make more sense to: > - Remove the Lua-Versions line > - Make lua-ldoc package depend just on lua-any (it will bring some lua with > it by itself) Whatever works best for you locally. :)) But if you ever meet a Debian Developer who is willing to touch

Re: lua-ldoc restricts lua versions and doesn't work with lua5.3

2021-01-07 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Eugene Pakhomov wrote: > Why is there a restriction in the first place? Interesting question. In https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/l/lua-ldoc/control-1.4.6-1 i see Depends: lua-any, ... lua5.1 | lua5.2 | lua5.3, > Would just removing the line with

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

2020-12-29 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, The Wanderer wrote: > > https://www.debian.org/CD/live/) [ISOLINUX or GRUB ?] Anssi Saari wrote: > I can't tell without booting that, there are both grub and isolinux > directories on that image (debian-live-10.7.0-amd64-standard.iso that > is.) The ISOLINUX equipment is for legacy BIOS or

Re: NULL pointer dereference

2020-12-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > > If this is recurring error, was it identical in terms of codes, trace and > > register data? Grzesiek Sójka wrote: > Errors look similar but I'm not an expert. Some numbers are different. Does it always name "awk" as the userland program which triggered the

Re: SanDisk USB stick problem

2020-12-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > If you never complain those products broken-by-design, the > > > companies will keep bringing them to the market. deloptes wrote: > > Your idea is not bad but only in theory of a dreamer. to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Your life would be miserable weren't it for many

Re: "humor": "first bug?" (bug in my (backlit thin screen) computermonitor)

2020-11-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > I believe it is a fungus gnat, and it has been crawling around within my Or maybe a springtail ? They are good at crawling in narrow environments. Regrettably the "CD fungus" was never properly cultivated and identified. Maybe you can get a close-distance camera and take some evidence

Re: Installing Debian 10 from flash drive [NO network]

2020-11-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I've copied (using dd) the .iso of Debian 10's DVD1 to a USB flash drive. > I attempted to install gparted using Synaptic. > The message received was: > "Please insert the disk labeled: > Debian GNU/Linux10.0.0_Buster_-Official amd64 DVD If i search "gparted" by

Re: Kernel global lock in sr.c slows down parallel operations to multiple drive

2020-11-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > In jessie, the kernel had a very annoying bug: if you did I/O on > multiple sr devices, the global lock in sr.c would slow down > to a crawl. I dedicated a little temple to that bug. https://dev.lovelyhq.com/libburnia/web/wiki/ConcurrentLinuxSr In short: - It is gone since about

How to decipher smartcl -x and nvme error-log output ?

2020-11-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, today my new machine's EFI came up with a text screen rather than its fancy graphics, saying that my disk is about to fail and that i shall make a backup. No specific information about the problem, though. It offered to go on with booting and everything seems fine for now. I executed

Re: Building my own packages

2020-11-04 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/ > > https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/libi/libisoburn/rules-1.5.2-1 > > https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/libi/libisoburn/control-1.5.2-1 Victor Sudakov wrote: > Looks scary. In FreeBSD, you don't need a

Re: Building my own packages

2020-11-04 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Victor Sudakov wrote: > As a person with the FreeBSD background, I'm used to building my own > packages with the exact build options I need [...] > What would you advise me to read? Since no Debian Developers answered yet, i propose to read https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/

Re: how to download the previous version files

2020-10-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, siming wrote: > I want to download the base-files_10.3+deb10u5.dsc, Let's just ask an old .jigdo file where it goes as last resort: $ gunzip http://us.cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/snapshot/Debian/ --try-last and indeed there is

Re: Zoom.

2020-10-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, tomas wrote: > Isn't it funny that we consider ourselves "liberal democracies", but > when crossing our $COMPANY's doorstep, we leave our convictions at the > wardrobe? Rental slavery is not in contradiction to the declaration of human rights. There are some regulations, though:

Re: how to download old edition

2020-10-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Kamil Jońca wrote: > Recently I tried to download old sarge jigdo images. > [...] > ‘./debian-31r8-i386-binary-14.iso.tmpdir/us.cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/snaps > hot/Debian/pool/main/z/zope-quotafolder/zope-quotafolder_0.1.1-1_all.deb’ > saved [16726/16726] > > Found 0 of the 1 files

Re: Question: SSD speed

2020-10-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > It is a classic that programs talk mixed about GB and GiB while not > > clearly distinguishing them. Michael Stone wrote: > This is basically never an issue in conversational usage as the difference > is less than the margin of error or real-world precision. If you're planning >

Re: Question: SSD speed

2020-10-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Hans wrote: > > > Smartctl is telling me, that my ssd drive is 6Gb/sec > > > capable, but the actual speed is only 1,5GB/sec. > > > [...] > > > The notebook is a little bit older, [...] Andrei POPESCU wrote: > You would have gotten much better answers by just specifying the exact > notebook

Re: Confusion on how to do it.

2020-10-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, John Brumby wrote: > Is there such a thing as a Full Debian Os ISO to be downloaded. Afaik, there is no single ISO which contains all packages. The usual advice is to download the first three DVD sized ISOs. In case of 64-bit x86 computers:

[SOLVED] Re: Riddling activity on encrypted and mounted partition

2020-09-29 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Andy Smith wrote: > your reply doesn't make it clear to me whether the > lazy init was the cause of your writes or not. It seems so. The disk is mounted without i/o being counted in /sys/block/sda/sda2/stat . If only half of the 733702 write ops of mkfs.ext4 were due to lazy_*=0, then they

[SOLVED] Re: Riddling activity on encrypted and mounted partition

2020-09-29 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Andy Smith wrote: > Could it possibly be the lazy init feature of ext4, which is enabled > by default and can sometimes result in several minutes of background > writes to a newly-created fs? Well, the blinking went on for at least an hour. > Create with: >mkfs.ext4 -E

Riddling activity on encrypted and mounted partition

2020-09-29 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i have encrypted my HDD's (*) data partition. Now the disk access LED is blinking rapidly as soon as i mount it. Is this normal ? I did: cryptsetup -v -y luksFormat --type luks2 /dev/sda2 cryptsetup open /dev/sda2 daten dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 count=7679784591 status=progress

Re: Offline systems

2020-09-26 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > su -c 'parted --list /dev/sdb' (/dev/sdb is thumb drive} > lists partitions from /dev/sda 9system drive) > even when /dev/sdb doesn't exist! man parted says -l, --list lists partition layout on all block devices and so it works for me. If i use --list, i get all

Re: Offline systems

2020-09-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, mick crane wrote: > What's the best appropriate means then to fetch mirror and then only fetch > differences to local copy ? wget does that doesn't it ? That's indeed an old selling point of Jigdo: No need to download packages which you already have. But you need a pair of .jigdo and

Re: Offline systems

2020-09-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, mick crane wrote: > Somebody mentioned jigdo which looked like a good thing. Jigdo is used for making ISO images from a frame of ISO 9660 metadata and other non-packaged stuff (the .template file), and the .deb packages on a mirror, or in a repository, or in an older ISO image. The .jigdo

Re: Bad homepage reference for xorriso

2020-09-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > > https://packages.debian.org/buster/xorriso reports its homepage to be > > http://libburnia-project.org/. That gives a 404 error. I wrote: > If the situation does not get better until the next upstream release i will > change the "Homepage:" entry in the

Re: Bullseye Alpha 2 Netinst CD fails to boot

2020-09-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Kenneth Parker wrote: > comparing from > the DVD-1 (that I used yesterday for Try 1), it's missing the isolinux > Directory. I did $ wget https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/bullseye_di_alpha2/amd64/iso-cd/debian-bullseye-DI-alpha2-amd64-netinst.iso ... $ sha256sum

Re: Towards a custom personalized Debian installer

2020-09-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Andrew Cater wrote: > > The jigdo file which produces a 16GB file for writing to a USB stick is, > > essentially, the first three DVDs plus a bit on one medium. Richard Owlett wrote: > A link to instructions for creating that media? TIA If you have a Debian with internet connection, hop

Re: Bad homepage reference for xorriso

2020-09-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > https://packages.debian.org/buster/xorriso reports its homepage to be > http://libburnia-project.org/. That gives a 404 error. I get redirected to https://libburnia-project.org/ and then warned that the certificate belongs to a different domain. This address should

Re: Can't activate my account

2020-09-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, lars.fran...@telia.com wrote: > I was trying to register on the user forum. If we continue to discuss this, please Cc debian-user@lists.debian.org because there might be others who know more than i do. Hopping around in forums.debian.net i got to "HOWTO contact forum admins"

Re: Can't activate my account

2020-09-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Lars Fransén wrote: > I have created an account, user name LarsGIF, e-mail address > lars.fran...@telia.com. The subscription page of this list https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ does not ask for a username, only for a mail address. So you probably applied somewhere else. Where exactly

Re: Get an error when i use new kernel

2020-08-28 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i got an error about nvme yesterday when trying to rebase my first patch from kernel 4.19 to 5.9-rc2. [1.099627] nvme nvme0: failed to set APST feature (-10) Gave up waiting for root filesystem device The good news is that the very recent kernel version next-20200827 works for me.

Re: question regarding no space left on device message

2020-08-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Semih Ozlem wrote: > However I do not know how to install new programs in knoppix > (still there is apt-get install as a command, but debian packages > no longer seem to work, and I do not know which packages work with > knoppix system, [...]

Re: question regarding no space left on device message

2020-08-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Semih Ozlem wrote: > I used "dd if=isofilename of=devicename" So the partition table afterwards is the one which came with the ISO. MBR based, but accompanied by an invalid GPT. Further, this implies that your Live system is only running on RAM and not using a writable system disk.

Re: question regarding no space left on device message

2020-08-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Semih Ozlem wrote: > Hi Thomas, (You need to reply to the list, not to my mail address directly.) > the computer has 4gb RAM This should suffice for a RAM based session. But if you add large software packages, then 4 GB for everything will at some point not be enough. >

Re: question regarding no space left on device message

2020-08-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Semih Ozlem wrote: > When I try installing some programs while running debian live from a usb, I > get a message saying that there is no space left on device. > I presume this means that the space allocated on the usb for debian is not > enough to install the program in question. More people

Re: Is there permissve GPL3 compatible license ?

2020-08-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Marek Mosiewicz wrote: > That should be probably explained by some expert on GPL in Wikipedia > discussion here: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:License_compatibility Ouch. In general, Wikipedia authors are not allowed to be experts but should rather be researchers for the writings

Update: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ?

2020-08-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, a while ago i asked about the periodic knocking noise after each 4 seconds of my freshly bought 4 TB HDD WD4003FRYZ. We came to the conclusion that this was a reason to return the disk to the seller. "Click of Death" et.al. I did and got a replacement disk. That one knocks less loudly, more

Re: Is there permissve GPL3 compatible license ?

2020-08-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > I think however that it is NOT true that you can link directly from > BSD/MIT/Apache2 to corresponding strict GPL license. Well, as said, Apache2-to-GPLv2 conversion is not acknowledged by FSF and thus by most GPLv2(without+) issuers. If it was GPLv2+, then it would be ok, because you

Re: Is there permissve GPL3 compatible license ?

2020-08-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, sorry, i just read that Apache2 cannot be converted to GPLV2 but only to GPLv3. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#apache2 So it would have to be BSD, from which everybody can derive what matches best. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Is there permissve GPL3 compatible license ?

2020-08-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Marek Mosiewicz wrote: > That project is GPL2 licensed with commercial options avaialble > there is huge number of libraries written with Apache2 license. > It seems that currently only viable option is LGPL2.1+ It could well be Apache2 or BSD, provided that it is _for_ the GPL2 licensed

Re: Is there permissve GPL3 compatible license ?

2020-08-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, as for the subject: None that would allow forth and back excange of copyrightable material. That's a design goal of GPL. Once in, always in. See: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/copyleft.en.html to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > BSD, MIT and friends allow you to combine the stuff > > with any

Re: Disks renamed after update to 'testing'...?

2020-08-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > I only deem *UUID as safe, Nicolas George wrote: > UUID can get duplicated too. Just have somebody copy the whole block > device with "good ol' dd". Yes, sure. A HDD of mine got by the Debian installation 128 GPT slots of 128 bytes. So the primary GPT including "protective MBR"

Re: Disks renamed after update to 'testing'...?

2020-08-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, didier gaumet wrote: > give a name to the underlyning [GPT] partition Let me add the hint that a GPT partition "name" is a user defined string (in fstab and lsblk: PARTLABEL=) whereas the partition UUIDs in GPT get handed out by partition editors automatically as random data (human readable

Re: How to properly import the configuration of the Buster kernel into own development ?

2020-08-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, so i went back to the original configuration for exactly one kernel build and installation. Full make lasts 70 minutes, a development cycle lasts more than 3 minutes, even after running scripts/config --disable DEBUG_INFO It builds our universe and a few alternative ones too. So for the

Re: copy/paste in vim (in terminal)

2020-08-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Richard Hector wrote: > I used to be able to use my mouse to select/paste 'normally' (for X), > when using vim in a terminal. Sounds like "set mouse=a" is active. Do in a running vim :set mouse-=a and check whether you get better copy+paste behavior. If it helps, put set mouse-=a into

How to properly import the configuration of the Buster kernel into own development ?

2020-08-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > https://kernel-team.pages.debian.net/kernel-handbook/ch-common-tasks.html > > "generate a configuration based on the running kernel and the currently > >loaded modules (make localmodconfig)" n...@dismail.de wrote: > If you want to save yourself some trouble with localmod,

How to properly import the configuration of the Buster kernel into own development ?

2020-08-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, are people here who make their own kernels and know how to import the configuration of the originally installed kernel ? I got lured by https://kernel-team.pages.debian.net/kernel-handbook/ch-common-tasks.html into following "generate a configuration based on the running kernel and the

Re: xterm no title (buster)

2020-08-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: > buster: xterm does not have any title. > Anyone having this issue ? Not on my (provisory) LXDE desktop. xterms from the "System Tools" menu come with title "xterm". The same with xterms started by: xterm & xterms started by: xterm -T '' & come up with the title

Re: off-topic: URIBL_BLACK

2020-08-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, 황병희 wrote: > X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.4 required=4.0 [...]URIBL_BLACK[...] > [...] > i got URIBL_BLACK score in SpamAssassin. Grrr. Why are spam slanderers and virus scammers allowed to interfere with Debian ? Debian 10 installs a Firefox which accuses Debian ISOs of being malware and now

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