[RESOLVED] Re: Deluged setup instructions/help

[Intense Red]

   To get Deluge running one should remember that deluged is a Python program 
which rewrites its variables to a config file on exit. Once the config file is 
located it can be edited and the variables 

  The initialization problem is a problem. I used update-rc.d to disable the /
etc/init.d/deluged script that deluged installs.

   I then made deluged initialize with systemd by following the directions on 
this page:

https://deluge.readthedocs.io/en/latest/how-to/systemd-service.html

-- 
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unilateralism, but it is ultimately a story of domination. It calls for the 
United States to maintain its overwhelming superiority and prevent new rivals 
from rising up to challenge it on the world stage. It calls for dominion over 
friends and enemies alike. It says not that the United States must be more 
powerful, or most powerful, but that it must be absolutely powerful." -- 
Investigative journalist David Armstrong, explaining the Pentagon's policy of 
"full spectrum dominance."

Re: wifi bgn identification

[Russell L. Harris]

On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 01:19:44AM +, Andy Smith wrote:

Possibly you do have "iw" installed but did not find it because
"/sbin" is not in your user's PATH.


Yes; that was the problem.  Thanks.

Re: Mencoder and ffmpeg

[Carl Fink]

On 7/25/20 9:12 PM, Long Wind wrote:
BTW i want ffmpeg script that record desktop plus audio. i don't have 
time to read its manual. Thanks!


https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Capture/Desktop

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Re: wifi bgn identification

[Andy Smith]

Hello,

On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 12:05:23AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 07:56:16PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >`iw phy` should give you all that data and a lot more.
> 
> I do not find that command.

$ apt-file search --regexp bin/iw$
iw: /sbin/iw
$ apt show iw
Package: iw
Version: 5.0.1-1
Priority: optional
Section: net
Maintainer: Paride Legovini 
Installed-Size: 263 kB
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libnl-3-200 (>= 3.2.7), libnl-genl-3-200 (>= 
3.2.7)
Recommends: crda
Breaks: aircrack-ng (<< 1:1.0~rc2-1)
Replaces: aircrack-ng (<< 1:1.0~rc2-1)
Homepage: https://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/iw
Tag: hardware::TODO, implemented-in::c, interface::commandline,
 network::configuration, role::program, use::configuring
Download-Size: 87.9 kB
APT-Sources: 
http://apt-cacher.lon.bitfolk.com/debian/ftp.uk.debian.org/debian buster/main 
amd64 Packages
Description: tool for configuring Linux wireless devices
 This package contains the `iw' tool which allows you to configure and show
 information about wireless networking.
 .
 In the future iw will become the canonical command line tool for wireless
 configuration and iwconfig/wireless-tools will no longer be required. See
 /usr/share/doc/iw/README.Debian for a more detailed overview of iw.

Possibly you do have "iw" installed but did not find it because
"/sbin" is not in your user's PATH.

Cheers,
Andy

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Re: Mencoder and ffmpeg

[David Wright]

On Sat 25 Jul 2020 at 18:36:12 (-0400), Carl Fink wrote:
> On 7/25/20 2:39 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> > 
> > I wanted to capture my webcam streaming and audio using ffmpeg but banged
> > against `a sea of troubles': sync problems, video freezing, video 
> > stuttering,
> > background noise, choose of one format rather than other...  Mencoder 
> > instead
> > at once easily, with:
> > 
> >$ mencoder tv:// -tv 
> > driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480:device=/dev/video0:forceaudio:alsa:adevice=hw.1,0
> >  -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=64:mode=3 -o webcam.avi
> > 
> > did perfectly the job.  But Mencoder is hardly ever used compared with
> > ffmpeg...
> > 
> > I wonder why so much difference in this case between the two respective
> > behaviours and wish to know what you listers think about all that...
> 
> Of course, anyone would have to guess to answer your question, since we
> can't ask all the people who don't use mencoder and do use ffmpeg "Why?"

Perhaps they read
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/04/msg01297.html

> I've used both, and for me the reason I prefer ffmpeg is that its syntax is
> simpler. Not simple, but better documented and more understandable.

Cheers,
David.

Re: wifi bgn identification

[Stefan Monnier]

> On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 07:56:16PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> With a laptop running Debian 10, is there an easy way to determine
>>> whether the built-in wifi radio is b, g, or n?
>>`iw phy` should give you all that data and a lot more.
> I do not find that command.  I did find "ip show", but it does not
> provide the b/g/n category.

It's in the `iw` package (according to `dpkg -S =iw`),


Stefan

Re: wifi bgn identification

[Russell L. Harris]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 07:56:16PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:

With a laptop running Debian 10, is there an easy way to determine
whether the built-in wifi radio is b, g, or n?


`iw phy` should give you all that data and a lot more.


I do not find that command.  I did find "ip show", but it does not
provide the b/g/n category.

Re: Videoconferencia 100 personas?

[Miguel A. De Paz]

Ok. Por un momento perdí el hilo por no leer todos los correos.

El sáb., 25 de julio de 2020 17:52, juan  escribió:

> lo que venimos diciendo desde el principio,  jitsi.meet solucionaría el
> problema, pero nunca lo solucionará una instancia gratuita, la que pones
> meet.jit.si  es la instancia publica y gratuita de los mismos
> desarrolladores, depende el dia y hora y cuanta gente la este usando tirará
> bien para 3 o 20 usuarios, lo que  venimos recomendado desde unos correos
> atrás es que instale su propia instancia  privada de jitsi.meet, tal vez un
> vps de 4 núcleos o 8gb de ram tire con 100 usuarios, pero habría que
> probarlo.
>
> Se implora que se lean todos los correos de un hilo antes de responder :)
> El 25/7/20 a las 23:48, Miguel A. De Paz escribió:
>
> Pues parece que hay una versión de Jitse Meet que puede ser usado con el
> navegador acá , y que tan solo hay que darle un
> nombre a la sala y luego comparti el lik por cualquier medio. Alguna vez
> instalé Jitsi Meet en mi teléfono pero nunca lo usé porque mi familiar
> hasta el día de hoy se empeña en usar whats. Se me ocurre que el compañero
> *User* puede realizar una prueba creando una sala y compartiendo el link
> a una hora determinada y conectarnos todos, con el fin de llegar a 100
> conexiones o más de manera simultánea y así verificar si soporta esos 100
> usuarios.
>
> Miguel A. De Paz
>
>
> El sáb., 25 de jul. de 2020 a la(s) 16:23, ssprigann ssprigann (
> ssprig...@gmail.com) escribió:
>
>> Estimados,
>> Leyendo por ahí encontre esta alternativa es Jitsi meet alternativa libre
>> para videoconferencia, sin límite de usuarios. No la he probado pero en
>> varios foros la recomiendan.
>> Te dejo el link.
>> https://meet.jit.si/
>> Comenta como te va.
>>
>> Saludos.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> El vie., 24 de julio de 2020 11:43, User  escribió:
>>
>>> Hola
>>>
>>> Uso Debian Buster.
>>>
>>> Necesito realizar una reunion de aprox 100 personas, via internet; y lo
>>> unico que se me ocurre, es videoconferencia!
>>>
>>> Es necesario que veamos al que participa, y que todos lo escuchen.
>>>
>>> Habria que instalar algun tipo de servidor?
>>> El SO de los Usuarios, podria ser cualquiera?
>>> Cual seria la forma mas simple? Solo sera una vez!
>>>
>>> Les agradeceria, cualquier sugerencia, o guia paso a paso. No tengo
>>> experiencia suficiente, en este tema.
>>>
>>> Muchas gracias por su atencion.
>>>
>>>

Re: wifi bgn identification

[Stefan Monnier]

> With a laptop running Debian 10, is there an easy way to determine
> whether the built-in wifi radio is b, g, or n?

`iw phy` should give you all that data and a lot more.


Stefan

wifi bgn identification

[Russell L. Harris]

With a laptop running Debian 10, is there an easy way to determine
whether the built-in wifi radio is b, g, or n?

Re: Fwd: Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

[Rh Kramer]

I suspect the threading on this will be broken -- I forwarded it to another 
computer where I have my notes on my adventures with "nutrition" programs.

On Saturday, July 25, 2020 6:40:47 PM you wrote:
> --  Forwarded Message  --
> 
> Subject: Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?
> Date: Saturday, July 25, 2020, 03:27:06 PM
> From: Miles Fidelman 
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

> But... isn't the tool the least of your problems?  The big one being,
> where are you going to get your nutritional database. (Seems to me that
> most of what Weight Watchers and Noom do is collect data on millions of
> products.)

>From my records in my free format database (which would not be suitable for 
your program (at least not in its present condition), some notes on available 
databases.

>From "USDA databases" Thu Sep 08 06:57:41 2016 
Date: 09/08/16 06:57 am 
Subject: USDA databases

There is documentation available to explain how the databases are organized, 
what they contain, etc.  Several different formats are available (ASCII text, 
Access, etc.) Statistical information (e.g., standard deviation) is available 
for some data.

   * [[http://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=8964][USDA National 
Nutrient Database for Standard Reference: Release 28]]

   * 
[[http://www.ars.usda.gov/sp2UserFiles/Place/80400525/Data/SR/SR28/sr28_doc.pdf]
[Composition of Foods: Raw, Processed, Prepared; USDA National Nutrient 
Database for Standard Reference, Release 28 (2015); Documentation and User 
Guide]]

   * [[https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/docs/SR_BrandedFoods_May2016.pdf][USDA 
Branded Food Products Database; Documentation; May 2016]]--an experimental 
public / private partnership, dissolved in 2015 (iirc) after developing data 
for 354 products, incorporated as an adjunct (iiuc) to the USDA database SR28

   * [[https://www.ars.usda.gov/Services/docs.htm?docid=24912][SR27 - Download 
Files]]

And, from some documentation on CRON-O-Meter (which is a program like you're 
describing, available in an online version and a Linux version:


The foods in our database come from several sources.

   * NCCDB (Nutrition Coordinating Center Food & Nutrient Database) from the 
University of Minnesota, contains over 16000 food entries with comprehensive 
data on 70 nutrients.

   * USDA (SR28) (United States Department of Agriculture National Nutrient 
Database for Standard Reference (SR28)) contains over 8000 food entries with 
data on over 70 nutrients.

   * ESHA (ESHA Research, Inc.) contains over 35000 brand name products and 
restaurant menu items. These items don't typically have as full of a nutrient 
profile as the USDA and NCCDB items, but contain all the published information 
from the product nutrition labels--I don't know how many nutrients--may vary.

   *  Nutritionix: barcode scanning database, contains data for over 
400,000 food product nutrition labels--I don't know how many nutrients--may 
vary. Nutritionix API

   * CNF 2010 (Canadian Nutrient File)
This data has a lot of overlap with the USDA data (many entries are 
derived it), but adds a lot of additional foods, as well as reflecting 
differences found in Canadian foods. It has french and english names for all 
items, as well as standard measures in metric units--I don't know how many 
nutrients--may vary.

   * IFCDB (Irish Food Composition Database) contains nearly 1000 irish food 
and supplement products--I don't know how many nutrients--may vary.

   * CRDB (CRON-O-Meter Community Database) foods submitted by CRON-O-Meter 
users (they show green in the food search dialog)--I don't know how many 
nutrients--may vary. 

   * Custom
These are your custom foods. These are private and can only be viewed and 
used by you, or any friends you have linked to for food-sharing--nutrients 
included may vary based on where I got the data (I mean, like from which of 
the databases listed below.


One of my points is that data / databases are available.

I'm also willing to share with you my file on my experiences with this type of 
program.  NUT is available for LInux, but it was really freaky -- for example, 
you had to specify how many meals per day you intended to eat (for this 
example, assume 6, 3 meals, 3 between meal snacks, and then when you entered 
the first meal it multiplied all the nutritional values by 6.  I forget what it 
did as you entered the other meals.

CRON-O-Meter was much better, but not really good enough to suit me.

I experimented with possibly as many as 10 such programs that I could run 
without touching Windows.  One of them (I forget which) tracked something like 
60 different nutrients, things like micrograms and such of minerals, vitamins, 
...

If you're really interested, I can make my file with my notes in it available 
to you.

You can treat it as a plain text file, or read it as emails in any email client 
that can handle mbox files, or, with a special file I can 

Re: Mencoder and ffmpeg

[rhkramer]

On Saturday, July 25, 2020 06:36:12 PM Carl Fink wrote:
> On 7/25/20 2:39 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> > Hi all.
> > 
> > I wanted to capture my webcam streaming and audio using ffmpeg but banged
> > against `a sea of troubles': sync problems, video freezing, video
> > stuttering, background noise, choose of one format rather than other... 
> > Mencoder instead
> > 
> > at once easily, with:
> >$ mencoder tv:// -tv
> >driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480:device=/dev/video0:forceaudio:alsa:a
> >device=hw.1,0 -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=64:mode=3 -o
> >webcam.avi
> > 
> > did perfectly the job.  But Mencoder is hardly ever used compared with
> > ffmpeg...
> > 
> > I wonder why so much difference in this case between the two respective
> > behaviours and wish to know what you listers think about all that...
> 
> Hi, Rodolfo,
> 
> Of course, anyone would have to guess to answer your question, since we
> can't ask all the people who don't use mencoder and do use ffmpeg "Why?"
> 
> I've used both, and for me the reason I prefer ffmpeg is that its syntax is
> simpler. Not simple, but better documented and more understandable.

In my very limited experience and recollection:

   * this (the difference in "sea of troubles) is somewhat surprising because 
mencoder is sort of a front end for ffmpeg (or maybe ffmpeg is a backend for 
mencoder, and perhaps one of several backends?)

   * in my experience, ffmpeg has a bazillion options, thus, it is a big 
program, and, if you choose the wrong ones, you can really bog the program 
down (like converting format and frame rates, and audio formats, and syncing 
the audio, and ...)

Re: Videoconferencia 100 personas?

[juan]

lo que venimos diciendo desde el principio,  jitsi.meet solucionaría el 
problema, pero nunca lo solucionará una instancia gratuita, la que pones 
  meet.jit.si  es la instancia publica y gratuita de los mismos 
desarrolladores, depende el dia y hora y cuanta gente la este usando 
tirará bien para 3 o 20 usuarios, lo que  venimos recomendado desde unos 
correos atrás es que instale su propia instancia  privada de jitsi.meet, 
tal vez un vps de 4 núcleos o 8gb de ram tire con 100 usuarios, pero 
habría que probarlo.


Se implora que se lean todos los correos de un hilo antes de responder :)

El 25/7/20 a las 23:48, Miguel A. De Paz escribió:
Pues parece que hay una versión de Jitse Meet que puede ser usado con 
el navegador acá , y que tan solo hay que darle 
un nombre a la sala y luego comparti el lik por cualquier medio. 
Alguna vez instalé Jitsi Meet en mi teléfono pero nunca lo usé porque 
mi familiar hasta el día de hoy se empeña en usar whats. Se me ocurre 
que el compañero *User* puede realizar una prueba creando una sala y 
compartiendo el link a una hora determinada y conectarnos todos, con 
el fin de llegar a 100 conexiones o más de manera simultánea y así 
verificar si soporta esos 100 usuarios.


Miguel A. De Paz


El sáb., 25 de jul. de 2020 a la(s) 16:23, ssprigann ssprigann 
(ssprig...@gmail.com ) escribió:


Estimados,
Leyendo por ahí encontre esta alternativa es Jitsi meet
alternativa libre para videoconferencia, sin límite de usuarios.
No la he probado pero en varios foros la recomiendan.
Te dejo el link.
https://meet.jit.si/
Comenta como te va.

Saludos.




El vie., 24 de julio de 2020 11:43, User mailto:latin...@vcn.bc.ca>> escribió:

Hola

Uso Debian Buster.

Necesito realizar una reunion de aprox 100 personas, via
internet; y lo
unico que se me ocurre, es videoconferencia!

Es necesario que veamos al que participa, y que todos lo escuchen.

Habria que instalar algun tipo de servidor?
El SO de los Usuarios, podria ser cualquiera?
Cual seria la forma mas simple? Solo sera una vez!

Les agradeceria, cualquier sugerencia, o guia paso a paso. No
tengo
experiencia suficiente, en este tema.

Muchas gracias por su atencion.

Re: Mencoder and ffmpeg

[Carl Fink]

On 7/25/20 2:39 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote:

Hi all.

I wanted to capture my webcam streaming and audio using ffmpeg but banged
against `a sea of troubles': sync problems, video freezing, video stuttering,
background noise, choose of one format rather than other...  Mencoder instead
at once easily, with:

   $ mencoder tv:// -tv 
driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480:device=/dev/video0:forceaudio:alsa:adevice=hw.1,0
 -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=64:mode=3 -o webcam.avi

did perfectly the job.  But Mencoder is hardly ever used compared with
ffmpeg...

I wonder why so much difference in this case between the two respective
behaviours and wish to know what you listers think about all that...


Hi, Rodolfo,

Of course, anyone would have to guess to answer your question, since we
can't ask all the people who don't use mencoder and do use ffmpeg "Why?"

I've used both, and for me the reason I prefer ffmpeg is that its syntax is
simpler. Not simple, but better documented and more understandable.
--

Carl Fink   nitpick...@nitpicking.com

Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com.  Reviews!  Observations!

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

[David Christensen]

On 2020-07-25 13:22, Joe wrote:

Shame about that. If you didn't need FOSS I'd recommend Microsoft
Access, by far the best piece of software they ever produced (not that
it's a high bar). It combines a simple database server, OK for one user,
with a visual RAD system to make the user interface. Beyond doubt, it's
the quickest way to do what you want, and you can probably do most of
what you need with no code at all, just editing properties of objects.
But you have to walk the Dark Path, and pay money.


+1


Using VBA to pull data from Access and feed it into other Office 
applications is very compelling-- Excel graphs, Word form letters, etc..




There will never be a FOSS Access, because the FOSS database people
sneer at it. A damn cheek, given the appalling state of LibreOffice
Base. I've tried to use that, but it's impossibly buggy. OK for editing
tables, now that it is finally able to talk to remote database servers
reliably and without ODBC, but disastrous for making user interfaces.
The last time I used the Report Writer (literally the last time ever) it
simply wasn't working at all


Ouch.  was wondering about that when I posted the link to LibreOffice 
Base (which I have not tried for a very long time)...



It's been a while, but Linux-Apache-MySQL-Perl worked for me back in the 
day:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamp_stack


David

Re: Videoconferencia 100 personas?

[Miguel A. De Paz]

Pues parece que hay una versión de Jitse Meet que puede ser usado con el
navegador acá , y que tan solo hay que darle un
nombre a la sala y luego comparti el lik por cualquier medio. Alguna vez
instalé Jitsi Meet en mi teléfono pero nunca lo usé porque mi familiar
hasta el día de hoy se empeña en usar whats. Se me ocurre que el compañero
*User* puede realizar una prueba creando una sala y compartiendo el link a
una hora determinada y conectarnos todos, con el fin de llegar a 100
conexiones o más de manera simultánea y así verificar si soporta esos 100
usuarios.

Miguel A. De Paz


El sáb., 25 de jul. de 2020 a la(s) 16:23, ssprigann ssprigann (
ssprig...@gmail.com) escribió:

> Estimados,
> Leyendo por ahí encontre esta alternativa es Jitsi meet alternativa libre
> para videoconferencia, sin límite de usuarios. No la he probado pero en
> varios foros la recomiendan.
> Te dejo el link.
> https://meet.jit.si/
> Comenta como te va.
>
> Saludos.
>
>
>
>
> El vie., 24 de julio de 2020 11:43, User  escribió:
>
>> Hola
>>
>> Uso Debian Buster.
>>
>> Necesito realizar una reunion de aprox 100 personas, via internet; y lo
>> unico que se me ocurre, es videoconferencia!
>>
>> Es necesario que veamos al que participa, y que todos lo escuchen.
>>
>> Habria que instalar algun tipo de servidor?
>> El SO de los Usuarios, podria ser cualquiera?
>> Cual seria la forma mas simple? Solo sera una vez!
>>
>> Les agradeceria, cualquier sugerencia, o guia paso a paso. No tengo
>> experiencia suficiente, en este tema.
>>
>> Muchas gracias por su atencion.
>>
>>

Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

[tomas]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 10:54:56PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:

[...]

> It's mentioned in the dpkg manpage, search for the --log option there.

:-)

Thanks, that puts it to rest.

As always, if everything else fails, read the instructions.

Cheers
-- t


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Re: Videoconferencia 100 personas?

[ssprigann ssprigann]

Estimados,
Leyendo por ahí encontre esta alternativa es Jitsi meet alternativa libre
para videoconferencia, sin límite de usuarios. No la he probado pero en
varios foros la recomiendan.
Te dejo el link.
https://meet.jit.si/
Comenta como te va.

Saludos.




El vie., 24 de julio de 2020 11:43, User  escribió:

> Hola
>
> Uso Debian Buster.
>
> Necesito realizar una reunion de aprox 100 personas, via internet; y lo
> unico que se me ocurre, es videoconferencia!
>
> Es necesario que veamos al que participa, y que todos lo escuchen.
>
> Habria que instalar algun tipo de servidor?
> El SO de los Usuarios, podria ser cualquiera?
> Cual seria la forma mas simple? Solo sera una vez!
>
> Les agradeceria, cualquier sugerencia, o guia paso a paso. No tengo
> experiencia suficiente, en este tema.
>
> Muchas gracias por su atencion.
>
>

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

[David Christensen]

On 2020-07-25 07:25, Thomas Schmitt wrote:


See below for the full output of smartctl -a.


I saved one drive that had the click of death (and died shortly 
thereafter).  My notes indicated it passed the manufacturer diagnostic 
tests, but failed the manufacturer full erase procedure.  The last SMART 
report follows.



Unfortunately, my drive was Seagate and yours is Western Digital, so 
comparing SMART reports can be an apples-vs-oranges comparison.



I typically look at the "SMART Attributes Data Structure".  The 
"Seek_Error_Rate" and "Hardware_ECC_Recovered" parameters would seem to 
attract attention, but grep'ing for those fields across the SMART 
reports for all of my drives indicates nothing special.



Similarly, "SMART Extended Comprehensive Error Log".  Both of our 
reports say "No Errors Logged".



I suspect the "click of death" is orthogonal to manufacturer diagnostics 
and SMART reports.  Human ears seem to be the only diagnostic tool for 
this failure mode.  A recording could be informative in general, and 
submitted as proof for an RMA in specific cases.



David

--


June 5, 2019

+ smartctl -x /dev/sdb
smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.9.0-9-amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 7200.11
Device Model: ST31500341AS
Serial Number:xxxREDACTEDxxx
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 00e361a80
Firmware Version: CC3H
User Capacity:1,500,301,910,016 bytes [1.50 TB]
Sector Size:  512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate:7200 rpm
Device is:In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4
SATA Version is:  SATA 2.6, 3.0 Gb/s
Local Time is:Wed Jun  5 09:56:53 2019 PDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
AAM feature is:   Disabled
APM feature is:   Unavailable
Rd look-ahead is: Enabled
Write cache is:   Enabled
ATA Security is:  Disabled, NOT FROZEN [SEC1]
Wt Cache Reorder: Unknown

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
See vendor-specific Attribute list for marginal Attributes.

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x82) Offline data collection activity
was completed without error.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status:  (   0)	The previous self-test routine 
completed

without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection:(  617) seconds.
Offline data collection
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Auto Offline data collection on/off 
support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:(0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:(0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time:(   1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:( 296) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time:(   2) minutes.
SCT capabilities:  (0x103f) SCT Status supported.
SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.

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  3 Spin_Up_TimePO   100   090   000-0
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  7 Seek_Error_Rate POSR--   075   060   030-31372716
  9 Power_On_Hours  -O--CK   096   096   000-4058
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184 End-to-End_Error-O--CK   100   100   099-0
187 Reported_Uncorrect 

Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

[Sven Joachim]

On 2020-07-25 16:25 -0400, The Wanderer wrote:

> On 2020-07-25 at 16:02, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 07:47:01PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all...
>>>
>>> Please what do those occurrences of `' mean in /var/log/dpgk.log just 
>>> on
>>> the right next to some (and some not) of packages names?
>>
>> You mean like this:
>>
>>   2019-10-18 17:09:25 install gcc-8-base:amd64  8.3.0-6
>>
>> I don't know for sure, But grepping around in my logs shows a version
>> number in that place, when there's no ''. So my hunch would be
>> that it is the prior installed version (when there was one) or 
>> when there was --uh-- none.
>
> On mine, I also note that the lines with  in column 5 have
> 'install' in column 3, whereas the ones with a version number in column
> 5 in that column have 'upgrade' in column 3. This seems to back up that
> interpretation.
>
> My guess would be that this is done just to keep the number of columns
> per line equal between the install and upgrade cases, most likely
> because it makes translating this into a table by columns easier.
>
> I haven't checked the source, and offhand don't know of any obvious
> non-source documentation to check, however.

It's mentioned in the dpkg manpage, search for the --log option there.

Cheers,
   Sven

Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

[tomas]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 04:25:50PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2020-07-25 at 16:02, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 07:47:01PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all...
> >> 
> >> Please what do those occurrences of `' mean in /var/log/dpgk.log 
> >> just on
> >> the right next to some (and some not) of packages names?
> > 
> > You mean like this:
> > 
> >   2019-10-18 17:09:25 install gcc-8-base:amd64  8.3.0-6
> > 
> > I don't know for sure, But grepping around in my logs shows a version
> > number in that place, when there's no ''. So my hunch would be
> > that it is the prior installed version (when there was one) or 
> > when there was --uh-- none.
> 
> On mine, I also note that the lines with  in column 5 have
> 'install' in column 3, whereas the ones with a version number in column
> 5 in that column have 'upgrade' in column 3. This seems to back up that
> interpretation.

Oh, I forgot to say that I filtered "install" lines. So there are
"install" lines with a version number -- this seems to be the
action (install can also replace a version).

But yes, our takes seem to coincide otherwise.

> My guess would be that this is done just to keep the number of columns
> per line equal between the install and upgrade cases, most likely
> because it makes translating this into a table by columns easier.

That makes sense, yes.

> I haven't checked the source, and offhand don't know of any obvious
> non-source documentation to check, however.

We are a lazy pack, ain't we ;-P

Cheers
-- t


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Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

[rhkramer]

On Saturday, July 25, 2020 01:38:10 PM Richard Owlett wrote:
> Back in 70's/80's I wrote programs as part of routine job duties.
>{8080/8085 assembler, dBase and Paradox}
> Neither I, nor my employers, classed me as a "programmer".
> I was "Senior Engineering Tech" or "Junior Engineer".
> IOW, I was not in abject *AWE* of computers. *ROFL*
> 
> Right now I'm working on a personal project.
> INPUT:How much of what did I eat?
> OUTPUT:   How much [cal/protein/fiber] did I eat?

There is a FOSS (I believe -- I'm pretty sure the source is available) program 
that does that -- can't recall the name -- will check my notes this evening.

It is a little less slick than some of the commercial programs, but it does 
import a database with the nutritional values of quite a few foods (it's from 
a federal agency, like the FDA or something).  It would be nice if more people 
worked on it and brought it up to date.  (For one thing, it uses an older 
version of that database -- it should be set up so that it can easily link to 
any new database that comes along._
 
> SQL {and variants} seen to dominate all else.
> IIRC, dBase was simpler.
> 
> What current FOSS system might I be comfortable with?

Well Libre / Open Office has a database that might be somewhat similar to 
Microsoft Access (and thus Paradox and dBase).

I have been working towards my own free format database (ala askSam) for a 
number of years (I don't want to say how many), but it does work for me.  

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

[David Christensen]

On 2020-07-25 02:16, Thomas Schmitt wrote:


David Christensen wrote:

Click of death.


At least this is the reality which i will present to the disk vendor
while negotiating about replacement.

But personally i still have doubts that it is this particular problem.
The knocking is not "Click-click-click" as described in the web, but
rather "Pok" ... 3 or 4 seconds ... "Pok" ...


That description sounds similar enough to what I heard from my failing 
HDD's.  Their sound was a metal-on-metal "click".  Your drive, being 
"enterprise", may have a shock absorber that muffles the sound.



David

Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

[The Wanderer]

On 2020-07-25 at 16:02, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 07:47:01PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>
>> Hi all...
>> 
>> Please what do those occurrences of `' mean in /var/log/dpgk.log just 
>> on
>> the right next to some (and some not) of packages names?
> 
> You mean like this:
> 
>   2019-10-18 17:09:25 install gcc-8-base:amd64  8.3.0-6
> 
> I don't know for sure, But grepping around in my logs shows a version
> number in that place, when there's no ''. So my hunch would be
> that it is the prior installed version (when there was one) or 
> when there was --uh-- none.

On mine, I also note that the lines with  in column 5 have
'install' in column 3, whereas the ones with a version number in column
5 in that column have 'upgrade' in column 3. This seems to back up that
interpretation.

My guess would be that this is done just to keep the number of columns
per line equal between the install and upgrade cases, most likely
because it makes translating this into a table by columns easier.

I haven't checked the source, and offhand don't know of any obvious
non-source documentation to check, however.

-- 
   The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw



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Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

[David Christensen]

On 2020-07-25 10:38, Richard Owlett wrote:

Back in 70's/80's I wrote programs as part of routine job duties.
   {8080/8085 assembler, dBase and Paradox}
Neither I, nor my employers, classed me as a "programmer".
I was "Senior Engineering Tech" or "Junior Engineer".
IOW, I was not in abject *AWE* of computers. *ROFL*

Right now I'm working on a personal project.
INPUT:    How much of what did I eat?
OUTPUT:    How much [cal/protein/fiber] did I eat?

SQL {and variants} seen to dominate all else.
IIRC, dBase was simpler.

What current FOSS system might I be comfortable with?


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice_Base


David

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

[Joe]

On Sat, 25 Jul 2020 12:38:10 -0500
Richard Owlett  wrote:

> Back in 70's/80's I wrote programs as part of routine job duties.
>{8080/8085 assembler, dBase and Paradox}
> Neither I, nor my employers, classed me as a "programmer".
> I was "Senior Engineering Tech" or "Junior Engineer".
> IOW, I was not in abject *AWE* of computers. *ROFL*
> 
> Right now I'm working on a personal project.
> INPUT:How much of what did I eat?
> OUTPUT:   How much [cal/protein/fiber] did I eat?
> 
> SQL {and variants} seen to dominate all else.
> IIRC, dBase was simpler.

I think you will want SQL for this job. You will need a query with a
join of two tables. Spreadsheets really can't do that on a large scale.
I have no doubt that there are other ways (e.g. the hard way, by
programming the join code from scratch) but SQL makes that part fairly
easy. Flat-file databases are OK for trivial card-file applications,
but as soon as you want joins, you need to go relational and that
pretty much means SQL. I must admit, that after many years of dabbling,
I can still barely speak basic SQL, but that's all most simple jobs
need.
> 
> What current FOSS system might I be comfortable with?

Shame about that. If you didn't need FOSS I'd recommend Microsoft
Access, by far the best piece of software they ever produced (not that
it's a high bar). It combines a simple database server, OK for one user,
with a visual RAD system to make the user interface. Beyond doubt, it's
the quickest way to do what you want, and you can probably do most of
what you need with no code at all, just editing properties of objects.
But you have to walk the Dark Path, and pay money.

There will never be a FOSS Access, because the FOSS database people
sneer at it. A damn cheek, given the appalling state of LibreOffice
Base. I've tried to use that, but it's impossibly buggy. OK for editing
tables, now that it is finally able to talk to remote database servers
reliably and without ODBC, but disastrous for making user interfaces.
The last time I used the Report Writer (literally the last time ever) it
simply wasn't working at all, and I needed to produce an invoice
urgently. I ended up writing a PDF generator in PHP, single-purpose
certainly, just for my invoices, but it's guaranteed to work. No
software rot until PHP8...

The hard part of any database job is the user interface, an SQL database
server like MariaDb Just Works, as does SQLite. I've tried a variety of
methodologies, including CakePHP and Laravel (also a PHP framework). I
was hoping that a framework would reduce the amount of work, which they
do in some ways, but they introduce a huge amount of extra baggage. OK
if you're building something with dozens of forms and tables, or if
you're doing this every day professionally, but it doesn't help much
with simple hobby jobs. PhpMyEdit is good for really simple jobs, but it
doesn't scale well. 

I have a server, so I naturally build web applications, which are
automatically cross-platform. But I think even with a single modestly
powered computer, it's as easy to do it that way as to build interfaces
with graphics toolkits. HTML is adequate for most jobs, though *still*
missing a couple of obvious user interface features. I consider the use
of JavaScript to be an admission of defeat, but sometimes there's no
way around it. But my little netbook runs Apache2 with PHP7 and
MariaDb quite happily, for when I need to do some work away from home,
and it's trivial to copy SQL databases between servers. My first server
had 256MB of RAM, and Apache2/PHP5 and MySQL worked OK on that.

Here's how I did what you want to do: I have two main tables, the
journal and the food data. I have a third table of food categories,
which is only used as an input aid, as I currently have over 300 types
of food, which would not work well in a single drop-down list. I have a
fourth table of users, in case the application ever gets used by more
than one person.

I have three main web pages: the primary one is to make journal entries,
and show cumulative figures for single days or date ranges. it can also
edit existing entries. The next most important is for adding new foods,
which again allows editing of existing foods. There are various
databases on the Net giving nutritional values for thousands of food
types, and of course there's the side of the packet for packaged foods.
These two pages I made by hand, with a mix of PHP and HTML. The third
is a week-based statistics page, which I made with Laravel, but which
again had some hand-written PHP and HTML.

It has a few rough edges, as the programs you write for yourself never
get properly finished. I've done the 20%, I'm not willing to do the
other 80% to polish it. But it works.

Another pathway to user interfaces is either Visual Basic or Delphi, in
the FOSS form of Gambas and Lazarus. Good for making forms, but the
integration of databases is nowhere near as complete as with Access.
But it may suit you.

-- 
Joe

Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

[tomas]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 07:47:01PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> Hi all...
> 
> Please what do those occurrences of `' mean in /var/log/dpgk.log just on
> the right next to some (and some not) of packages names?

You mean like this:

  2019-10-18 17:09:25 install gcc-8-base:amd64  8.3.0-6

I don't know for sure, But grepping around in my logs shows a version
number in that place, when there's no ''. So my hunch would be
that it is the prior installed version (when there was one) or 
when there was --uh-- none.

But perhaps someone more in the know chimes in.

Cheers
-- t


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About /var/log/dpgk.log

[Rodolfo Medina]

Hi all...

Please what do those occurrences of `' mean in /var/log/dpgk.log just on
the right next to some (and some not) of packages names?

thanks for any help

cheers

rodolfo

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

[David Wright]

On Sat 25 Jul 2020 at 14:45:58 (-0400), Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 12:38:10PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> 
> > Back in 70's/80's I wrote programs as part of routine job duties.
> >   {8080/8085 assembler, dBase and Paradox}
> > Neither I, nor my employers, classed me as a "programmer".
> > I was "Senior Engineering Tech" or "Junior Engineer".
> > IOW, I was not in abject *AWE* of computers. *ROFL*
> > 
> > Right now I'm working on a personal project.
> > INPUT:  How much of what did I eat?
> > OUTPUT: How much [cal/protein/fiber] did I eat?
> > 
> > SQL {and variants} seen to dominate all else.
> > IIRC, dBase was simpler.
> > 
> > What current FOSS system might I be comfortable with?
> > 
> I used dBase (FoxPro) and Paradox decades ago. My advice: learn SQL and
> select the DBMS of your choice. SQLite3, PostgreSQL, MySQL. For
> portability and low traffic, I'd select SQLite3.

I think I indirectly made that suggestion in this thread
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/07/msg00057.html
which referred back to the OP's own thread
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/06/msg00757.html

> Gone are the days of xBase and the like. SQL is the lingua franca for
> all modern database systems. And SQLite3 has bindings for most modern
> languages.
> 
> Since you probably would like an application with a nice interface

One can never be sure: the OP seems pretty fearless when it comes to CLIs.

> (curses, GUI, web), I'd suggest PHP. The platform for your interface is
> in the server and the browser; you just have to write some HTML, which
> is pretty easy. Otherwise, you're looking at fiddly code with GTK or QT
> (or ncurses).

Cheers,
David.

Re: issues with storage media

[Andrew Cater]

Parted / gparted are useful tools. The live .iso is very useful if you have
an unknown disk - you can boot into linux to examine disk formats. The
crucial thing to know is that most partitions can be recovered with enough
care.

USB keys - try and buy a known brand. Stick small labels on them. Know what
you use them for. They will still fail sometimes - don't rely on them for
longest term storage. Back up files you want to other media as well/

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 5:59 PM Semih Ozlem 
wrote:

> Hi I ran into the following problems a few times.
> As operating system I use debian 10 (.2 gnome) and ubuntu 18, 19,
> (recently 20).
>
> Question 1 An external hard disk that I use (which is I think possibly
> failing) was formatted in NTFS. While I was working on a machine at the
> university where I used to work, all files disappeared, and reappeared and
> the format of the disk was changed to FAT or something like that. I have no
> idea why and how this happened. Does anyone have any clues
>
> Question 2 I use usbs to store the files I work with. Quite a few times
> when working with linux systems, the usbs refused to mount, giving wrong fs
> type blaah blaah error. This was a usb that I used and stored files to
> working under linux, and I do not remember the exact format on the disk. I
> tried various programs to recover the files, and in some cases I was able
> to recover some in other cases I was not able to. Sometimes I was able to
> format the usb to be able to use it again, a few times I was unable to.
> What methods are available to recover data, and what to do when something
> like this happens.
>
>
> Thank you in advance
>

Re: issues with storage media

[David Christensen]

On 2020-07-25 10:59, Semih Ozlem wrote:

Hi


Hello.  :-)



As operating system I use debian 10 (.2 gnome) and ubuntu 18, 19, (recently
20).



Question 2 I use usbs to store the files I work with. Quite a few times
when working with linux systems, the usbs refused to mount, giving wrong fs
type blaah blaah error. This was a usb that I used and stored files to
working under linux, and I do not remember the exact format on the disk. I
tried various programs to recover the files, and in some cases I was able
to recover some in other cases I was not able to. Sometimes I was able to
format the usb to be able to use it again, a few times I was unable to.
What methods are available to recover data, and what to do when something
like this happens.


fsck -- for Linux file systems

zpool scrub -- for ZFS pools and file systems

ddrescue -- to copy out blocks of a failing device

It has been too long since I used tools for recovering deleted files.


I suggest that your put your data onto a reliable storage platform. 
Choices including buying and configuring a network attached storage 
(NAS) appliance, installing and configuring a NAS operating system 
distribution on the hardware of your choosing, and building a file 
server using the hardware and software of your choosing.  This list 
would be most helpful for the third choice using Debian.



Next, I suggest that your implement disaster preparedness -- backups of 
data and OS configuration settings, images of operating system disks, 
and archives of the prior two.  Keep your backups, archives, and images 
off-line when not in use.  Keep some portion of your media off-site 
(e.g. rotate media on a schedule).



David

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

[Miles Fidelman]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 12:38:10PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:

Back in 70's/80's I wrote programs as part of routine job duties.
   {8080/8085 assembler, dBase and Paradox}
Neither I, nor my employers, classed me as a "programmer".
I was "Senior Engineering Tech" or "Junior Engineer".
IOW, I was not in abject *AWE* of computers. *ROFL*

Right now I'm working on a personal project.
INPUT:  How much of what did I eat?
OUTPUT: How much [cal/protein/fiber] did I eat?

SQL {and variants} seen to dominate all else.
IIRC, dBase was simpler.

What current FOSS system might I be comfortable with?


You might try googling "open source alternatives to dbase" - there seems 
to be quite a list.  Or you could go with a NoSQL database like CouchDB.


But... isn't the tool the least of your problems?  The big one being, 
where are you going to get your nutritional database. (Seems to me that 
most of what Weight Watchers and Noom do is collect data on millions of 
products.)


Good Eating,

Miles Fidelman

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

[tomas]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 12:38:10PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Back in 70's/80's I wrote programs as part of routine job duties.
>   {8080/8085 assembler, dBase and Paradox}
> Neither I, nor my employers, classed me as a "programmer".
> I was "Senior Engineering Tech" or "Junior Engineer".
> IOW, I was not in abject *AWE* of computers. *ROFL*
> 
> Right now I'm working on a personal project.
> INPUT:How much of what did I eat?
> OUTPUT:   How much [cal/protein/fiber] did I eat?
> 
> SQL {and variants} seen to dominate all else.
> IIRC, dBase was simpler.
> 
> What current FOSS system might I be comfortable with?

There are a couple of packages which might fit your
loose description (Disclaimer: I never tried any of
those). Perhaps kexi. Browse through the output of

  aptitude search '~sdatabase'

... there might be some nuggets in there.

Good luck
-- t


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Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

[Paul M Foster]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 12:38:10PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:

> Back in 70's/80's I wrote programs as part of routine job duties.
>   {8080/8085 assembler, dBase and Paradox}
> Neither I, nor my employers, classed me as a "programmer".
> I was "Senior Engineering Tech" or "Junior Engineer".
> IOW, I was not in abject *AWE* of computers. *ROFL*
> 
> Right now I'm working on a personal project.
> INPUT:How much of what did I eat?
> OUTPUT:   How much [cal/protein/fiber] did I eat?
> 
> SQL {and variants} seen to dominate all else.
> IIRC, dBase was simpler.
> 
> What current FOSS system might I be comfortable with?
> 

I used dBase (FoxPro) and Paradox decades ago. My advice: learn SQL and
select the DBMS of your choice. SQLite3, PostgreSQL, MySQL. For
portability and low traffic, I'd select SQLite3.

Gone are the days of xBase and the like. SQL is the lingua franca for
all modern database systems. And SQLite3 has bindings for most modern
languages.

Since you probably would like an application with a nice interface
(curses, GUI, web), I'd suggest PHP. The platform for your interface is
in the server and the browser; you just have to write some HTML, which
is pretty easy. Otherwise, you're looking at fiddly code with GTK or QT
(or ncurses).

Paul

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Mencoder and ffmpeg

[Rodolfo Medina]

Hi all.

I wanted to capture my webcam streaming and audio using ffmpeg but banged
against `a sea of troubles': sync problems, video freezing, video stuttering,
background noise, choose of one format rather than other...  Mencoder instead
at once easily, with:

  $ mencoder tv:// -tv 
driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480:device=/dev/video0:forceaudio:alsa:adevice=hw.1,0
 -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -lameopts cbr:br=64:mode=3 -o webcam.avi

did perfectly the job.  But Mencoder is hardly ever used compared with
ffmpeg...

I wonder why so much difference in this case between the two respective
behaviours and wish to know what you listers think about all that...

thanks for any help

cheers

rodolfo

Mobian op de Pinephone

[Paul van der Vlis]

Hoi,

Ik ben sinds kort de trotse bezitter van een Pinephone. Deze kwam met
UBports (door ontwikkeling van Ubuntu Touch).  Ik had hem in China
besteld, hij kostte 150 euro. Ik had gerekend op nog extra douane kosten
en dergelijke, maar niemand die daar over begon.

Echter al na twee dagen deed hij het niet meer. Ik kreeg alleen kort een
Pinephone logo in beeld, hoorde een zachte klik, en de boel zat vast. In
eerste instantie dacht ik dat het hardware problemen waren, echter de
zachte klik bleek van de camera te komen, toen ik de dipswitch uitzette
was er geen klik meer. En die camera wordt vanuit het operating systeem
geinitialiseerd, dus dit was geen hardware probleem.

Het operating systeem staat op eMMC (een soort flash), echter er kan ook
een SD-kaartje in de telefoon. Een bootbaar SD-kaartje gaat dan voor
eMMC. Uiteraard kun je dat eMMC ook flashen.

Ik heb een SD-kaartje gemaakt met Mobian, een soort Debian met Phone
Shell (phosh), wat deels van Gnome en deels van Purism komt. En dit deed
het wel. Een kwestie van een bestand kopieren met dd, en dan daarna de
partitie vergroten zodat je het hele SD-kaartje kunt gebruiken.

Ik heb een beetje rondgekeken en dingen geprobeerd. Het meeste
functioneerd. https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=pinephone
In eerste instantie was ik niet zo blij met de userinterface, maar als
je het eenmaal iets beter kent is het nog helemaal niet zo gek. De
telefoon is vrijwel geheel Debian testing.

Wat ik mis is een applicatie om het adresboek te synchroniseren. Er is
wel iets mogelijk maar dat is erg moeizaam volgens mij. Er is wel een
agenda die met carddav werkt volgens mij (niet echt getest).

Verder mis ik een navigatie-programma zoals OSMand~.

Er zijn meer operating systemen voor deze telefoon, je kunt simpel
wisselen door een SD-kaartje om te wisselen.

Ik zag dat er nu ook een experimentele Android-versie is. Het voordeel
van deze telefoon is dan:

- Duidelijke scheiding tussen modem en hoofdsysteem (USB verbinding).
- Boot proces is helemaal open.
- De hardware is open source, maar uiteraard zitten er wel closed source
onderdelen in zoals de SoC. De onderdelen kunnen los besteld worden.
- Uiteraard simpel om een Google-vrije telefoon te maken.

De telefoon is niet reuze snel, maar het is wel acceptabel vind ik. De
batterij gaat met Debian wellicht wat sneller leeg vergeleken met een
andere telefoon, maar het lijkt me wel bruikbaar.

Groeten,
Paul


-- 
Paul van der Vlis Linux systeembeheer Groningen
https://www.vandervlis.nl/

issues with storage media

[Semih Ozlem]

Hi I ran into the following problems a few times.
As operating system I use debian 10 (.2 gnome) and ubuntu 18, 19, (recently
20).

Question 1 An external hard disk that I use (which is I think possibly
failing) was formatted in NTFS. While I was working on a machine at the
university where I used to work, all files disappeared, and reappeared and
the format of the disk was changed to FAT or something like that. I have no
idea why and how this happened. Does anyone have any clues

Question 2 I use usbs to store the files I work with. Quite a few times
when working with linux systems, the usbs refused to mount, giving wrong fs
type blaah blaah error. This was a usb that I used and stored files to
working under linux, and I do not remember the exact format on the disk. I
tried various programs to recover the files, and in some cases I was able
to recover some in other cases I was not able to. Sometimes I was able to
format the usb to be able to use it again, a few times I was unable to.
What methods are available to recover data, and what to do when something
like this happens.


Thank you in advance

FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

[Richard Owlett]

Back in 70's/80's I wrote programs as part of routine job duties.
  {8080/8085 assembler, dBase and Paradox}
Neither I, nor my employers, classed me as a "programmer".
I was "Senior Engineering Tech" or "Junior Engineer".
IOW, I was not in abject *AWE* of computers. *ROFL*

Right now I'm working on a personal project.
INPUT:  How much of what did I eat?
OUTPUT: How much [cal/protein/fiber] did I eat?

SQL {and variants} seen to dominate all else.
IIRC, dBase was simpler.

What current FOSS system might I be comfortable with?

TIA

Re: Obscure error messages from ACPI BERT in dmesg

[Thomas Schmitt]

Hi,

Semih Ozlem wrote:
> whenever I logon and have more than a few pages in
> firefox open, suddenly my memory usage (memory is 3.7 GiB as displayed by
> ubuntu system monitor) is around 70 and 80 percent. If I open a few more
> pages it jumps. If it reaches 100 % the computer freezes.

Well, yes, if your RAM is full and cannot be outsourced to swap storage
then undesirable things happen.


> I am wondering if
> the issues are at all related, and if you know ways of monitoring the system
> to decide whether it is just an issue of RAM being not powerful enough,

If you see in dmesg output
  [...] BERT: Error records from previous boot:
then maybe this is hardware related too.

But if firefox is just eating up your memory, then only more RAM or more
swap storage can help.
For a quick test, you could create a swap file on disk and try whether
your system gets more endurance.
See e.g.
  https://linuxize.com/post/create-a-linux-swap-file/

If not by some colorful system monitor i would watch the load on RAM
and swap by periodically executing command
  free -h
and ignoring all its columns except the first two: "total" and "used".


But as one can see from my recent posts, i am not an experienced sysadmin
who knows the most thorough hardware tests.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas

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

[Thomas Schmitt]

Hi,

i quoted smartctl:
> >   4 Start_Stop_Count0x0012   100   100   000Old_age   Always -  
> >  18
> >   9 Power_On_Hours  0x0012   100   100   000Old_age   Always -  
> >  19
> >  12 Power_Cycle_Count   0x0032   100   100   000Old_age   Always -  
> >  18
> > 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   100   100   000Old_age   Always -  
> >  19
> > 193 Load_Cycle_Count0x0012   100   100   000Old_age   Always -  
> >  19

Reco wrote:
> The most interesting part of that output is here.
> Once per hour on average drive performs head parking,

The power cycles were intentional. The machine was rebooted several times
yesterday for various reasons.

(I wonder why yours reports 57 with Power_Cycle_Count but only 35 with
 Power-Off_Retract_Count.)


> which cannot explain what you're seeing.

Yeah. We'd need something that happened at least during the last 12 hours
of operation at least 900 times per hour.

I still did not find my loudspeakers to listen to the wikipedia audio
file whether it indeed plays a sedately periodic and somewhat thud-like
sound.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas

Obscure error messages from ACPI BERT in dmesg

[Thomas Schmitt]

Hi,

i don't get to cursing at vim and sshd of Debian 10 because i am still
stuck with hardware issues.

My newest problem is a message at boot time about some problem that was
recorded in the ACPI Boot Error Record Table during the previous uptime.
Google and uefi.org tell me that BERT is a facility where firmware can
store error messages which it deems at risk of being not delivered via
the normal error message channels of a running OS.

[0.006446] ACPI: BERT 0x89F05608 30 (v01 INTEL  EDK2 
0001 INTL 0001)
...
[0.893410] BERT: Error records from previous boot:
[0.893410] [Hardware Error]: event severity: fatal
[0.893411] [Hardware Error]:  Error 0, type: fatal
[0.893412] [Hardware Error]:   section type: unknown, 
81212a96-09ed-4996-9471-8d729c8e69ed
[0.893412] [Hardware Error]:   section length: 0xc20
[0.893413] [Hardware Error]:   : 0001   
  
[0.893414] [Hardware Error]:   0010:    
  
[0.893414] [Hardware Error]:   0020:    
  

... repeated in steps of 0x10 and all words being  until:

[0.893505] [Hardware Error]:   0c10:    
  

Google search of 81212a96-09ed-4996-9471-8d729c8e69ed gives the impression
that it is like plague and cholera united. (Computers freeze or reboot ...)

I do not see such dramatic effects, though.
Meanwhile i outruled that it is the knock-happy HDD (because unplugging it
does not prevent or change the message at next boot) or the missing i915
firmware (i installed it).

In the hope to learn more about that UUID or the format of BERT i even
downloaded
  https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI_6_2_B_final_Jan30.pdf
But my hope to see UUID lists for error types was disappointed.


Does anybody have an idea how to identify the offending hardware part ?
(I cannot unplug CPU or SSD, of course ...)


Have a nice day :)

Thomas

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

[Reco]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 04:25:16PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>   4 Start_Stop_Count0x0012   100   100   000Old_age   Always  
>  -   18
>   9 Power_On_Hours  0x0012   100   100   000Old_age   Always  
>  -   19
>  12 Power_Cycle_Count   0x0032   100   100   000Old_age   Always  
>  -   18
> 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   100   100   000Old_age   Always  
>  -   19
> 193 Load_Cycle_Count0x0012   100   100   000Old_age   Always  
>  -   19

The most interesting part of that output is here.
Once per hour on average drive performs head parking, which cannot
explain what you're seeing.

For the comparison, this is what I consider "normal" (head parking
completely disabled):

  4 Start_Stop_Count0x0032   100   100   000Old_age   Always -  
 57
  9 Power_On_Hours  0x0032   050   050   000Old_age   Always -  
 20037
 12 Power_Cycle_Count   0x0032   100   100   000Old_age   Always -  
 57
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   100   100   000Old_age   Always -  
 35
193 Load_Cycle_Count0x0032   100   100   000Old_age   Always -  
 3130

Reco

[SOLVED] Re: Looking for advise about optional i915 DMC firmware

[Thomas Schmitt]

Hi,

Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 1) enable contrib and non-free in sources.list
> 2) apt-get update
> 3) figure out which firmware package is needed, and install it
> [...]
> apt-get install firmware-misc-nonfree

This silenced indeed the boot message about the missing firmware.


Dan Ritter wrote:
> On a server or desktop, you don't care. Servers reduce power by
> themselves and desktops sleep when you step away long enough.

It's a mix of server and desktop.

I decided to install the firmware because each boot reports an ACPI BERT
error record which was written by some firmware during the previous
uptime (or at its very end).
Regrettably the message did not vanish and leaves me clueless what
firmware wanted to report what problem.


Thanks for the help.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas

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

[Stefan Monnier]

> Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> I guess it's still spin-down
^
like

Sorry, my fingers didn't obey my brain,


Stefan

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

[Thomas Schmitt]

Hi,

Reco wrote:
> It's all other lines that are interesting here.
> I.e. 'Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds' section.

I wanted to wait with the long list until the self-test is done.
See below for the full output of smartctl -a.


Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I guess it's still spin-down

But it happens when the drive is writing and reading a "shred" file of
100 GB. It also happens when the firmware is the only software that is
up and running.




#  smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl 6.6 2017-11-05 r4594 [x86_64-linux-4.19.0-9-amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-17, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: WDC WD4003FRYZ-01F0DB0
Serial Number:VBGD2GPF
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000cca 095c57dbd
Firmware Version: 01.01H01
User Capacity:4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate:7200 rpm
Form Factor:  3.5 inches
Device is:Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is:   ACS-2, ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4
SATA Version is:  SATA 3.2, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is:Sat Jul 25 16:05:24 2020 CEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x80) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status:  (   0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection:(   87) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities:(0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off 
support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
No Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:(0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:(0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time:(   2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:( 454) minutes.
SCT capabilities:  (0x003d) SCT Status supported.
SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME  FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE  UPDATED  
WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b   100   100   016Pre-fail  Always   
-   0
  2 Throughput_Performance  0x0005   100   100   054Pre-fail  Offline  
-   0
  3 Spin_Up_Time0x0007   158   158   024Pre-fail  Always   
-   370 (Average 392)
  4 Start_Stop_Count0x0012   100   100   000Old_age   Always   
-   18
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   005Pre-fail  Always   
-   0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b   100   100   067Pre-fail  Always   
-   0
  8 Seek_Time_Performance   0x0005   100   100   020Pre-fail  Offline  
-   0
  9 Power_On_Hours  0x0012   100   100   000Old_age   Always   
-   19
 10 Spin_Retry_Count0x0013   100   100   060Pre-fail  Always   
-   0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count   0x0032   100   100   000Old_age   Always   
-   18
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   100   100   000Old_age   Always   
-   19
193 Load_Cycle_Count0x0012   100   100   000Old_age   Always   
-   19
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0002   181   181   000Old_age   Always   
-   33 (Min/Max 24/36)
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   100   100   000Old_age   Always   
-   0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0022   100   100   000Old_age   Always   
-   0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0008   100   100   000Old_age   

Re: Re: linux-image-5.7.0-1-amd64: Oops on kernel (NULL pointer dereference) after NFS is mounted on client

[Robin Gutöhrlein]

Hi,
yes I tried it. I typed the whole "Oops" screen, tried to send it, but
it would not. The report it saved into a file was scrambled...
Best regards

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

[Stefan Monnier]

> It is its way of saying it's an unsupported feature and you cannot
> disable drive heads parking this way. Was worth the shot.

I guess it's still spin-down: WD drives support it but just ignore the
APM settings of "how long to wait before spin-down" and use their own
algorithm instead.


Stefan

Re: [Sid] ahci: disk order

[Grzesiek Sójka]

On 2020-07-24 21:08, Reco wrote:

Hi.

On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 10:03:01PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:

On Vi, 24 iul 20, 21:58:26, Andrei POPESCU wrote:

On Vi, 24 iul 20, 19:39:21, Grzesiek Sójka wrote:

Hi there,

I noticed that SATA disks appear in random order. More precisely, I have two
disks, HDD and SSD. Sometimes HDD=/dev/sda, SSD=/dev/sdb and sometimes
HDD=/dev/sdb, SSD=/dev/sda. Is there any way to fix the disk order?


Not that I know of.


I would
like the disk connected to port 1 to be sda, disk connected to port 2 to be
sdb and so on (like it was in the past)


It might be possible with some special udev rules,


Correction: probably not, since those names are assigned by the kernel.


A correction over the correction ;) :

- it's possible, it's called RENAME= in udev rules.
- it's unneeded in about every case, given that wonderful /dev/disk
   directory.
- and if it is needed for some reason, one's always better to use SYMLINK
   over the RENAME.


Thanks for the info

Re: problems with GRUB

[Dan Ritter]

anthony gennard wrote: 
> Almost 15 months ago I suffered a massive stroke and am left with memory
> loss. I am 90 years of age, and i`m westling with trying to recover some
> computer skill.
> 
> I have managed to build a further machine and double installed Debian
> 10 from a CD received with Debian magazine and Windows 10. The install
> process installed Grub in two parts and makes it difficult to catch the
> option to launch the first, it flies passed too fast. I`m too slow to
> react. I am reluctant to try to set up a graphic. How do I do that please.

Hold down an arrow key as the machine boots. Grub will stop the
countdown.


> The second problem I have is with the second machine with a very old
> install for which I cannot remember the login details. I have done
> research but I think the advice is not correct. Does anyone have any
> advice please.

Generically, you can change the root password this way:

Use the arrow key method to stop GRUB from booting immediately.

Choose to edit the boot command.

Add the string

init=/bin/sh

to the command line, then boot.

It should make you root, with no network and no services
started.

mount -o remount,rw /

will make the disk read/write instead of read-only. Now run the 
passwd command to reset root's password. You will not need to
supply the old one.

Finally:

sync

and then reboot or power-cycle. 

-dsr-

Re: node.js updates processor microcode?

[Carl Fink]

On 7/24/20 11:32 PM, mick crane wrote:

On 2020-07-25 03:17, Carl Fink wrote:

I just installed npm on a Stable (Buster) system with apt. It brought in
dozens of other packages. Then I worked on other stuff while it 
downloaded and
installed. When I came back, a curses prompt was informing me that it 
had

already updated my kernel microcode. Is that something node.js is really
supposed to do. That wasn't a confirmation prompt, it was, "I already 
did

this, do you want to restart services?"


I installed npm on Buster with apt a couple of days ago and did not 
get that message.

mick


Maybe your microcode was current.

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Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com.  Reviews!  Observations!

problems with GRUB

[anthony gennard]

Almost 15 months ago I suffered a massive stroke and am left with memory
loss. I am 90 years of age, and i`m westling with trying to recover some
computer skill.

I have managed to build a further machine and double installed Debian
10 from a CD received with Debian magazine and Windows 10. The install
process installed Grub in two parts and makes it difficult to catch the
option to launch the first, it flies passed too fast. I`m too slow to
react. I am reluctant to try to set up a graphic. How do I do that please.

The second problem I have is with the second machine with a very old
install for which I cannot remember the login details. I have done
research but I think the advice is not correct. Does anyone have any
advice please.

I`m sorry this is so vague but it is very difficult for me. I`m getting a
little better but I think I`m hoping for too much/

 John

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

[Reco]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 11:16:16AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Reco wrote:
> > It's simple:
> > smartctl -t long /dev/sda
> 
> The short test yielded
>   Num  Test_DescriptionStatus  Remaining  LifeTime(hours) 
>  LBA_of_first_error
>   # 1  Short offline   Completed without error   00%11
>  -
> 
> The long test is expected to end in 5.5 hours. Progress report is fewly
> entertaining because moving in steps of 10 percent:
> 
>   # smartctl -a /dev/sda | fgrep -A 1 'Self-test execution status' ; date
>   Self-test execution status:  ( 246) Self-test routine in progress...
>   60% of test remaining.
>   Sat 25 Jul 2020 10:57:53 AM CEST

It's all other lines that are interesting here.
I.e. 'Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds' section.

Reco

Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster

[tomas]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 09:49:04PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Vi, 24 iul 20, 17:53:53, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:

[...]

> Aren't those files an internal implementation detail? Most users won't 
> ever need to interact with those files or even be aware of their 
> existence.

Strictly speaking, yes. Sometimes, thinks leak through the abstraction
layer, sometimes they don't.

Some designs seem to take this into account (Serendipity? Sheer luck?
Wisdom? No idea) -- and they just don't break when things happen, but
kind of elegantly flow around the problem, perhaps even acquiring a
new level of beauty and symmetry. Some other just break. Or grow into
ugly monsters.

This is something I've watched at work. Sometimes I build something
for a customer, and (s)he comes back two years later and asks me "could
you...?". Sometimes, I go "uh...". Just sometimes it's "YES!". Then
I realize that I got the design "right" in the first place. Somehow
I succeeded in modeling the customer's unspoken needs correctly.

Yes, somewhat philosophical. Perhaps the problems of old age :)

> This looks to me very much like comparing apples and oranges.

It's both fruit, ain't it? And it's abstractions we delve in, our
very tissue.

> Besides, it's easier to find flaws in the design after the fact then to 
> foresee all possible ramifications in advance.

Yes.

Cheers
-- t


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

[Thomas Schmitt]

Hi,

rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> You might not have read the entire [Click_of_death] article.

Indeed. Now i need to search my old loudspeakers in order to compare
the sound file on Wikipedia with the disk's sound.


D. R. Evans wrote:
> I can say that my experience (YMMV) is that 100% of the drives
> that exhibit this phenomenon have failed sometime not long after the
> phenomenon began

I will try to get it exchanged. Hopefully the hearable activity without
any operating system running is reason enough. Will see next week.


Thomas Amm wrote:
> I'd backup my data before trying anything else

There are no valuable data on it yet. I used "shred" to write two files
of 100 GB each. Knocking continues while the drive writes 180 MB/s and
while it reads at 240 MB/s. The knock is a bit louder than the normal
working sounds of moving heads.
(I should build up a tree of many files with scattered content to hear
 it being truely busy. For now it makes no other unusual noises.)


David Christensen wrote:
> Click of death.

At least this is the reality which i will present to the disk vendor
while negotiating about replacement.

But personally i still have doubts that it is this particular problem.
The knocking is not "Click-click-click" as described in the web, but
rather "Pok" ... 3 or 4 seconds ... "Pok" ...


Reco wrote:
> It's simple:
> smartctl -t long /dev/sda

The short test yielded
  Num  Test_DescriptionStatus  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  
LBA_of_first_error
  # 1  Short offline   Completed without error   00%11 -

The long test is expected to end in 5.5 hours. Progress report is fewly
entertaining because moving in steps of 10 percent:

  # smartctl -a /dev/sda | fgrep -A 1 'Self-test execution status' ; date
  Self-test execution status:  ( 246) Self-test routine in progress...
  60% of test remaining.
  Sat 25 Jul 2020 10:57:53 AM CEST

The disk is doing its klonkwork reliably. But today the rythm seems to
tend more towards 1 beat per 4 seconds. Yesterday it was more like 1/3 bps.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas

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

[Reco]

Hi.

On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 11:35:34PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Reco wrote:
> > Have you tried to disable drive heads parking via hdparm?
> 
> hdparm -J ?
> The man page says "The factory default is eight (8) seconds".
> That would be about twice as long as what i experience.
> 
>   # hdparm -J /dev/sda
> 
>   /dev/sda:
>   SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb[]:  70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0a 04 53 00 00 
> 21 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>   SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb[]:  70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0a 04 53 00 00 
> 21 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>   SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb[]:  70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0a 04 53 00 00 
> 21 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>   SG_IO: bad/missing sense data, sb[]:  70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0a 04 53 00 00 
> 21 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
>wdidle3  = disabled
> 
> The sense data bear KEY=0x5, ASC= 0x21, ASCQ=0x04.
> Key 5 means: "Illegal request".
> From MMC-5 i read for ASC=0x21 only ASCQ 0 to 3:
>   5 21 00 LOGICAL BLOCK ADDRESS OUT OF RANGE
>   5 21 01 INVALID ELEMENT ADDRESS
>   5 21 02 INVALID ADDRESS FOR WRITE
>   5 21 03 INVALID WRITE CROSSING LAYER JUMP
> In SPC-3 the ASC=0x21 list ends already at ASCQ=2.
> SBC-2 lists no own error codes.
> Without knowing the failed command, it is quite obscure what happened.

It is its way of saying it's an unsupported feature and you cannot
disable drive heads parking this way. Was worth the shot.


> > What about smartctl long test, does it show anything suspicious?
> 
> I never used smartctl up to now.

It's simple:

smartctl -t long /dev/sda

# wait for the amount of time it says the test will go.

smartctl -a /dev/sda

Reco

Re: node.js updates processor microcode?

[Sven Hartge]

Carl Fink  wrote:

> I just installed npm on a Stable (Buster) system with apt. It brought
> in dozens of other packages. Then I worked on other stuff while it
> downloaded and installed. When I came back, a curses prompt was
> informing me that it had already updated my kernel microcode. Is that
> something node.js is really supposed to do. That wasn't a confirmation
> prompt, it was, "I already did this, do you want to restart services?"

I guess, you have the package "needrestart" installed. This program
warns you about services that need to be restarted after a library they
use has been changed.

It also warns if a new microcode-package was installed *sometime* in the
past and the system hasn't rebooted yet.

If you don't regulary install packages or use unattended-upgrades, the
installation of the new microcode-package may have been days or weeks
ago and you just didn't remember it, seeing the reminder from
needrestart surprised you.

Grüße,
Sven.

-- 
Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.

Re: linux-image-5.7.0-1-amd64: Oops on kernel (NULL pointer dereference) after NFS is mounted on client

[riveravaldez]

On 7/24/20, Robin Gutöhrlein  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> my server (Debian bullseye) is crashing after i mount a nfs (with
> kerberos) share on a client machine (same debian). I have no idea how
> to file the bug (and where it belongs). I can't use the reportbug tool
> since I do not have a MTA configured.

Hi, just in case: a little time ago I installed reportbug and reported
a bug and the MTA was not a previous condition. Have you given it a
try?

Best regards