How to format with stride/stripe_width options during install
Installing Debian 11 with netinst CD on a server with hardware raid. Installer has no custom format parameters option for ext4, like stride and stripe_width. How does one format the raid partitions with these options during OS installation?
Re: Install Debian 10 amd64 onto USB flash drive with and for Macintosh
On Thu 02 Sep 2021 at 22:29:34 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > On 9/2/21 5:37 PM, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 01 Sep 2021 at 16:00:13 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > > > > [three long posts] > > > > That was very useful. I've condensed it into a file (attached) for > > my own use. The footnotes are notes, guesses and queries. > > > > My main question is — there are three identical listings taken at > > different times; all say: > > > > > # mount | grep '.dev.sd' > > > /dev/sdb3 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro) > > > /dev/sdb1 on /boot/efi type vfat > > > (rw,relatime,fmask=0077,dmask=0077,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro) > > > > and yet two are labelled as wrong, and the third as correct. > > Thank you for your sharp eyes. Just a consequence of rewriting it for my own use, which meant crosschecking everything. > Without repeating those many hours of unpleasant work to confirm or > deny the console sessions and/or the intermediate conclusions, at this > point it does appear that I misread the output from the first two runs > of the following command in my post of 9/1/21 4:00 PM: > > # mount | grep '.dev.sd' > > As always, I will have to be careful when making decisions based upon > a single letter. Yes, I try to make it possible to use collateral information as a check. For example, years ago I would make all my partitions have slightly different sizes, because sizes were typically reported (and LABELs, PARTLABELs, UUIDs etc weren't). > RTFM mount(8), it talks about feeding UUID's into mount as > command-line arguments; but I do not see a way to have mount output > UUID's (?). I think you have to use a command like lsblk -l --fs or lsblk -l -o NAME,PARTUUID,PARTLABEL to get whatever you might want. If you only have busybox, then I think you're stuck with looking through the output from ls -lR /dev/disk for what you want. > (I never did figure out how to do a Secure Erase of the SSD.) I guess one can sacrifice a write-cycle and just zero the whole thing. > The contents of the SSD ESP filesystem are not ideal and I still do > not understand how the MacBook Pro firmware finds and/or chooses > between boot loaders. I read things like this: "With the introduction of System Integrity Protection in OS X 10.11 (El Capitan), Apple has locked down some of the things you can do with the nvram command. "Specifically, you can no longer set any variables that belong to the Efi GUID, like BootOrder. …"¹ but as I said, they don't mean a lot to me. ¹ https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/cms/page_26968084.html Cheers, David.
Re: sources.list 's security line
On 08.09.21 21:12, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 08:28:18PM +0200, Ulf Volmer wrote: >> On 08.09.21 16:50, Lee wrote: >> >>> Are you using a dnssec validating resolver? >>> >>> It'd be nice of somebody that understands dnssec would double-check, >>> but it looks like name lookups for security.debian.org has dnssec >>> enabled and not enabled for deb.debian.org >> >> deb.debian.org is a CNAME and this CNAME is correctly DNSSEC validated. >> But this CNAME points to an A record outside of debian.org which is not >> secured by DNSSEC. > > Apt uses SRV records, so: > > unicorn:~$ dig +short SRV _http._tcp.deb.debian.org > 10 1 80 debian.map.fastlydns.net. > > It still points outside of *.debian.org, but the CNAME part doesn't > matter. At least, not for apt in a recent Debian release in the > absence of a proxy. That may be true, but finally debian.map.fastlydns.net is not DNSSEC validated. Best regards Ulf
Re: sources.list 's security line
On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 08:28:18PM +0200, Ulf Volmer wrote: > On 08.09.21 16:50, Lee wrote: > > > Are you using a dnssec validating resolver? > > > > It'd be nice of somebody that understands dnssec would double-check, > > but it looks like name lookups for security.debian.org has dnssec > > enabled and not enabled for deb.debian.org > > deb.debian.org is a CNAME and this CNAME is correctly DNSSEC validated. > But this CNAME points to an A record outside of debian.org which is not > secured by DNSSEC. Apt uses SRV records, so: unicorn:~$ dig +short SRV _http._tcp.deb.debian.org 10 1 80 debian.map.fastlydns.net. It still points outside of *.debian.org, but the CNAME part doesn't matter. At least, not for apt in a recent Debian release in the absence of a proxy.
Re: sources.list 's security line
On 08.09.21 16:50, Lee wrote: > Are you using a dnssec validating resolver? > > It'd be nice of somebody that understands dnssec would double-check, > but it looks like name lookups for security.debian.org has dnssec > enabled and not enabled for deb.debian.org deb.debian.org is a CNAME and this CNAME is correctly DNSSEC validated. But this CNAME points to an A record outside of debian.org which is not secured by DNSSEC. Best regards Ulf
Re: masked service file
On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 03:55:25PM +0100, mick crane wrote: > On 2021-09-05 16:01, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >On Sun, Sep 05, 2021 at 01:56:30PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > >[...] > > > >>* play the ball not the man - don't engage in disguised personal > >>attacks > > > >Yes, pretty please. > > > >Thank you, Andrew. > > I am the OP Oops. Sorry for the mis-attribution. So thank, you, Mick. Cheers - t signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: masked service file
On 2021-09-05, wrote: > > >> * play the ball not the man - don't engage in disguised personal attacks > > Yes, pretty please. > Yep. Never disguise your personal attacks.
Re: masked service file
On 2021-09-05 16:01, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Sep 05, 2021 at 01:56:30PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: [...] * play the ball not the man - don't engage in disguised personal attacks Yes, pretty please. Thank you, Andrew. I'm the original poster. It might help if I explain. Not a computer guy, I'm what you call an artist. Watched this stuff from the beginning, I'm the guy who told the computer graphics people what they needed to do if they wanted to do animation. "look, that thing is held all the way through, that thing is there for 18 frames, that thing is there for 5" "Oh we are going to need more memory, maybe we could use video tape ?" I love this stuff and I try to be helpful mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31
Re: Dragon Player doesn't
On 08/09/2021 04:16, Gary Dale wrote: On 2021-09-07 21:21, piorunz wrote: On 07/09/2021 18:04, Gary Dale wrote: I don't use Dragon Player normally but I was looking at it just now. When I right-click on a video file, select play with then choose Dragon Player to play it, it launches Dragon Player but doesn't play the file. When I select Play File from within Dragon Player, I can select a video to play, but again it doesn't play it. Has anyone else experienced this problem and/or come across a fix for it? I dont' use this program, but if you run it via terminal, what does it say? Good point. I get a lot of error messages that say "WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded". There are other messages that also mention phonon, like this sequence: WARNING: Phonon::createPath: Cannot connect Phonon::MediaObject ( no objectName ) to Phonon::VideoWidget ( no objectName ). WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded WARNING: Phonon::createPath: Cannot connect Phonon::MediaObject ( no objectName ) to Phonon::AudioOutput ( no objectName ). Along with numerous other messages, including several similar to: kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/metainfo.so" "Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/metainfo.so'" Please report on Debian BTS against Dragon Player then, include all terminal outputs and other system logs, if there is anything interesting there. Use "reportbug" package to do that. Also you may want to try Dragon Player on another machine before submitting bug, to make sure this is not your setup at fault. And/or you can try Bookworm see how it works there with newer version. -- With kindest regards, piorunz. ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org ⠈⠳⣄
Re: Dragon Player doesn't
On 08/09/2021 08:00, harrywea...@tutanota.com wrote: I installed Falkon and couldn't understand why it had almost zero configuration options. It wasn't until I installed konq-plugins they finally appeared. Please report this bug then on Debian Bug tracking system, against "Falkon", so installing this package pulls "konq-plugins", this is easy fix. -- With kindest regards, piorunz. ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org ⠈⠳⣄
Re: masked service file
On 2021-09-05 16:01, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Sep 05, 2021 at 01:56:30PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: [...] * play the ball not the man - don't engage in disguised personal attacks Yes, pretty please. Thank you, Andrew. I am the OP -- Key ID4BFEBB31
Re: sources.list 's security line
On 9/6/21, Jim Popovitch wrote: [.. snip lots ..] > security.d.o and deb.d.o are both hosted on fastly servers, albeit > different sets of servers. What is interesting to me is that the DNS for > security.d.o is operated by Debian whereas the DNS for deb.d.o is run by > fastly. I'm not sure that it matters but it is a significant difference > between the two. Are you using a dnssec validating resolver? It'd be nice of somebody that understands dnssec would double-check, but it looks like name lookups for security.debian.org has dnssec enabled and not enabled for deb.debian.org Lee
Re: Dragon Player doesn't
On 2021-09-08, Gary Dale wrote: >> >> I dont' use this program, but if you run it via terminal, what does it >> say? >> > Good point. I get a lot of error messages that say "WARNING: bool > Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not > be loaded". There are other messages that also mention phonon, like this > sequence: > WARNING: Phonon::createPath: Cannot connect Phonon::MediaObject ( no > objectName ) to Phonon::VideoWidget ( no objectName ). > WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend > plugin could not be loaded > Do you have the phonon4qt5 plugin(s) installed?
Re: Dragon Player doesn't
-- Sent with Tutanota, the secure & ad-free mailbox. 8 Sep 2021, 13:16 by g...@extremeground.com: > On 2021-09-07 21:21, piorunz wrote: > >> On 07/09/2021 18:04, Gary Dale wrote: >> >>> I don't use Dragon Player normally but I was looking at it just now. >>> When I right-click on a video file, select play with then choose Dragon >>> Player to play it, it launches Dragon Player but doesn't play the file. >>> When I select Play File from within Dragon Player, I can select a video >>> to play, but again it doesn't play it. >>> >>> Has anyone else experienced this problem and/or come across a fix for it? >>> >> >> I dont' use this program, but if you run it via terminal, what does it say? >> > Good point. I get a lot of error messages that say "WARNING: bool > Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be > loaded". There are other messages that also mention phonon, like this > sequence: > WARNING: Phonon::createPath: Cannot connect Phonon::MediaObject ( no > objectName ) to Phonon::VideoWidget ( no objectName ). > WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin > could not be loaded > > WARNING: Phonon::createPath: Cannot connect Phonon::MediaObject ( no > objectName ) to Phonon::AudioOutput ( no objectName ). > > Along with numerous other messages, including several similar to: > > kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in > "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/metainfo.so" "Failed to > extract plugin meta data from > '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/metainfo.so'" > Dragonplayer is part of the KDE set up. I installed Falkon and couldn't understand why it had almost zero configuration options. It wasn't until I installed konq-plugins they finally appeared. I think KDE needs to pick up its game a little, in its ability to pull in dependencies. Needing to do a full KDE install in order to run a browser or video player is a little too much to expect, and having to hunt around for obscure necessities harks back to the dark ages, somewhat. Cheers! Harry
Re: Dragon Player doesn't
On 2021-09-07 21:21, piorunz wrote: On 07/09/2021 18:04, Gary Dale wrote: I don't use Dragon Player normally but I was looking at it just now. When I right-click on a video file, select play with then choose Dragon Player to play it, it launches Dragon Player but doesn't play the file. When I select Play File from within Dragon Player, I can select a video to play, but again it doesn't play it. Has anyone else experienced this problem and/or come across a fix for it? I dont' use this program, but if you run it via terminal, what does it say? Good point. I get a lot of error messages that say "WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded". There are other messages that also mention phonon, like this sequence: WARNING: Phonon::createPath: Cannot connect Phonon::MediaObject ( no objectName ) to Phonon::VideoWidget ( no objectName ). WARNING: bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() phonon backend plugin could not be loaded WARNING: Phonon::createPath: Cannot connect Phonon::MediaObject ( no objectName ) to Phonon::AudioOutput ( no objectName ). Along with numerous other messages, including several similar to: kf.coreaddons: no metadata found in "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/metainfo.so" "Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/metainfo.so'"
