Re: Debian 11 & Debian 12

Am 16.01.2024 um 22:25:40 Uhr schrieb Jeff Jennings: > Recently, I decided to download Debian 12.4 and was alarmed to notice > that Debian 12 downloads are no longer through https connections. https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/bt-cd/ https works fine here.

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

Hi, Gene Heskett wrote: > lsblk, which I've published several times, shows 5 drives. Duh. Obviously this thread overstretches my mental capacity. > And I've since tried cp in addition to rsync, does the same thing, killing > the sysytem with the OOM but much quicker. cp using all system memory

Filtrar comodins/regex de les línies

Bones, Tinc un fitxer de text, com podria ser per exemple una llista de números de telèfon (coneguts.txt): 972123456 97233 97234 97235 97236 972789012 però m'agradaria representar-hi rangs compatibles (expressions regulars) per abreviar: 972123456 972.. 972789012 En un

Re: 512e vs 4K sector confusion

Hi Stefan, On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 05:31:37AM +, Andy Smith wrote: > On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 11:32:37PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > What happens if you use diskimages that contain directly a filesystem > > without going through the trouble of using a partition table? > > Does `ext4` also

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

On 1/16/24 17:08, gene heskett wrote: > lsblk, which I've published several times, shows 5 drives. by-id listing > only shows 3. The drive I've been trying to use bounces from /dev/sdd to > sde to sdh dependin on which controller it is curently plugged into. > > And I've since tried cp in

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

gene heskett composed on 2024-01-16 20:08 (UTC-0500): > Felix Miata wrote: >> I straightened out the wrapping mess, and gave each entry a line number. I >> see >> nothing I recognize as representing serial number duplication among /dev/sdX >> (physical device) names: >> /dev/sda 9

Testing storage performance (Was Re: mdraid construction and testing (was: smartctl cannot access my stor...))

Hi Felix, On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 04:50:01PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > What can I use to test what its write speed is? I'm not seeing any option to > do so > in hdparm. The king of storage performance testing is "fio". It's packaged in Debian. It's really worth learning a bit about. What

Re: Debian 11 & Debian 12

Hi Jeff, On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 10:25:40PM +, Jeff Jennings wrote: > Please find a way to restore the integrity of open-source software > distribution. Firmware updates are required for almost every general purpose computing device in existence and at this time those are non-free. You

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

On 1/16/24 11:08, Thomas Schmitt wrote: ls -l /dev/sd[ij]* oot@coyote:~# ls -l /dev/sd[ij]* brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 128 Jan 16 05:01 /dev/sdi brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 129 Jan 16 05:01 /dev/sdi1 brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 144 Jan 16 05:01 /dev/sdj brw-rw 1 root disk 8, 145 Jan 16 05:01

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

On 1/16/24 06:09, Felix Miata wrote: Tom Furie composed on 2024-01-16 08:18 (UTC): Felix Miata writes: /dev/sdc 18 /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Brother_MFC-J6920DW_BROG5F229909-0:0 # How does a printer get a storage device assignment??? By having some kind of SD card slot or similar. So this

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

On Tue 16 Jan 2024 at 20:08:12 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > On 1/16/24 00:56, Felix Miata wrote: > > gene heskett composed on 2024-01-15 17:56 (UTC-0500): > > > > > Thanks for that composition: but it will be word wrapped: > > > root@coyote:~# for j in /dev/disk/by-id/* ; do printf '%s\t%s\n' >

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

On 1/16/24 01:18, Felix Miata wrote: Felix Miata composed on 2024-01-16 01:05 (UTC-0500): gene heskett composed on 2024-01-15 18:37 (UTC-0500): Ah,but I finally glombed onto the bug tan memory bar in htop as it was runniing, someplace in the data chain is a huge memory leak, my crash is

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

On 1/16/24 01:05, Felix Miata wrote: gene heskett composed on 2024-01-15 18:37 (UTC-0500): Ah,but I finally glombed onto the bug tan memory bar in htop as it was runniing, someplace in the data chain is a huge memory leak, my crash is caused by the OOM daemon killing things. And it only occurs

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

On 1/16/24 00:56, Felix Miata wrote: gene heskett composed on 2024-01-15 17:56 (UTC-0500): Thanks for that composition: but it will be word wrapped: root@coyote:~# for j in /dev/disk/by-id/* ; do printf '%s\t%s\n' "$(realpath "$j")" "$j" ; done /dev/sr0

Re: /mnt usage

On Mon 15 Jan 2024 at 21:41:15 (-0800), David Christensen wrote: > On 1/15/24 20:05, David Wright wrote: > > And I've never created any mount point under /mnt. For a one time > > copy, /mnt is handy; always there, I don't have to mkdir at all. > > What about when you have an portable backup drive

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

On Tue 16 Jan 2024 at 06:08:35 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote: > Tom Furie composed on 2024-01-16 08:18 (UTC): > > Felix Miata writes: > > >> /dev/sdc 18 /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Brother_MFC-J6920DW_BROG5F229909-0:0 # > >> How does a printer get a storage device assignment??? > > > By having some kind of

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

On Tue 16 Jan 2024 at 09:40:19 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 09:31:54AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > > David Wright composed on 2024-01-16 08:05 (UTC-0600): > > > On Tue 16 Jan 2024 at 00:55:52 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote: > > >> gene heskett composed on 2024-01-15 17:56

Re: Debian 11 & Debian 12

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 10:25:40PM +, Jeff Jennings wrote: > Recently, I decided to download Debian 12.4 and was alarmed to notice that > Debian 12 downloads are no longer through https connections. Do you mean, the initial download of the installer image? Do you mean, the repository that's

Correction to last message for Debian 11 and Debian 12

Greetings, After a couple of decades of using various Linux distributions, I've been on Debian 10 for some years. I like it a lot! Recently, I decided to download Debian 12.4 and was alarmed to notice that Debian 12 downloads are no longer through https connections. In addition, I installed

Debian 11 & Debian 12

Greetings, After a couple of decades of using various Linux distributions, I've been on Debian 10 for some years. I like it a lot! Recently, I decided to download Debian 12.4 and was alarmed to notice that Debian 12 downloads are no longer through https connections. In addition, I installed

Re: mdraid construction and testing (was: smartctl cannot access my stor...)

David Christensen composed on 2024-01-16 13:01 (UTC-0800): > STFW and RTFM I have seen recommendations for and against using whole > disks for RAID and for and against using partitions for RAID. And, as > this in the Internet, there are countless rumors and speculation. As I > switched from

To partition or not to partition MD arrays (Was Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help)

Hello, On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 01:01:02PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > On 1/16/24 11:51, Franco Martelli wrote: > > I thought it was mandatory for a RAID to partition drives with this > > partition type, am I wrong? In the ancient past it was required, because that was one of the ways that

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

On 1/16/24 11:51, Franco Martelli wrote: On 15/01/24 at 08:43, David Christensen wrote: When I built and ran a Debian 2 @ HDD RAID1 using mdadm(8), I did not partiton the HDD's -- I gave mdadm(8) the whole drives. I don't know if it is a good idea, in fact it exists a special partition type

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

On 15/01/24 at 08:43, David Christensen wrote: This I am still trying to do, the first pass copied all 350G of /home but went to the wrong drive, and I had mounted the drive by its label. It is now /dev/sdh and all labels above it are now wrong. Crazy. These SSD's all have an OTP serial number.

Re: Problem with sound disappearing

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 10:16:12PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 16/01/2024 13:04, Maureen Thomas wrote: > > My sound has been working just fine the day before that.  Now nothing. > > Have a look into PipeWire articles in ArchLinux and Debian wiki. > This certainly. It's also relatively easy to

Re: No Release file for Security Update

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 05:48:27PM +0100, Marco Moock wrote: > Am 16.01.2024 um 11:30:09 Uhr schrieb Thomas George: > > > The result was  bookworm InRelease, bookworm-updates InRelease, > > bookworm-secutity Relesse 404 Not Found [IP: 146.75.30.132 80] > ^ > > There seems to be a

Re: Exim4

Il existe sous Debian des paquets exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-heavy exim4-dev exim4-doc-html eximon4 sa-exim qui pourraient aider à résoudre le problème. Et l'option -be du programme exim est peut-être pertinente. Enfin, il existe (chez OReilly) un gros livre papier sur les

Re: No Release file for Security Update

Am 16.01.2024 um 11:30:09 Uhr schrieb Thomas George: > The result was  bookworm InRelease, bookworm-updates InRelease, > bookworm-secutity Relesse 404 Not Found [IP: 146.75.30.132 80] ^ There seems to be a typo!

Re: No Release file for Security Update

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 11:30:09AM -0500, Thomas George wrote: > I commented out the dvd and added to sources.list lines for bookworm, > bookworm-updates and bookworm-security. What lines did you add? > Ran apt-get update > > The result was  bookworm InRelease, bookworm-updates InRelease, >

Re: 512e vs 4K sector confusion

* 2024-01-15 15:20:51-0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > In your dd commands that moved these filesystems, did you specify ibs= > and/or obs= > ? > If so, what values did you use? "dd" is not a special tool for accessing device files. It's a simple file copy tool: like "cat" or "cp" but with

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

Hello, On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 01:17:42AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > If rsync really is bugged, maybe a change of options would avoid the bug. Try > instead of -av, -rlptgoDAXUNH. Could it be that verbosity is the OOM > crippler, and > not necessarily from rsync itself, but possibly from the

No Release file for Security Update

My system is Bookworm installed from the first DVD which was downloaded with the checksums and successfully checked. I commented out the dvd and added to sources.list lines for bookworm, bookworm-updates and bookworm-security. Ran apt-get update The result was  bookworm InRelease,

Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority?

I wrote: > You may be able to prevent Firefox from getting increased priority by > using polkit. hw writes: > How would I do that? All the freedektop stuff always has been a big > mystery, and polkit is part of it, or isn't it? I don't know, but it at least has a man page and I think that this

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

Hi, i, too, wondered where there should be a duplicate serial number. But indeed: David Wright wrote: > > /dev/sdi53 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Gigastone_SSD_GST02TBG221146 > > /dev/sdj1 54 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Gigastone_SSD_GST02TBG221146-part1 > ↑ that is /really/ bad! Does the

Re: Problem with sound disappearing

On 16/01/2024 13:04, Maureen Thomas wrote: My sound has been working just fine the day before that.  Now nothing. Have a look into PipeWire articles in ArchLinux and Debian wiki.

Re: /mnt usage

hw writes: > /tmp is volatile nowadays and not temporary. That's particularly Volatile storage is, by definition, temporary. > braindead when you want Libreoffice to be able to recover files after > a crash, which, by default, autosaves in /tmp. /tmp is a terrible place to store recovery

Re: Thunderbird filters

On 16/01/2024 12:36, David Christensen wrote: My Debian, Thunderbird, and message filters are working very well.  :-) My experience is that enough garbage appears in thunderbird profiles after several years of usage. Unsubscribed NNTP groups, IMAP caches that thunderbird considered

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

On 16/01/2024 15:18, Tom Furie wrote: /dev/sdc 18 /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Brother_MFC-J6920DW_BROG5F229909-0:0 # How does a printer get a storage device assignment??? By having some kind of SD card slot or similar. I have heard that some devices expose a USB mass storage interface out of the

Exim4

Bonjour à vous, J'essaye de configurer exim4 pour envoyer des messages. Un petit mot sur l'installation: Debian - Fetchmail - Procmail - Exim4 J'essaye de mettre une authentification en place pour pouvoir envoyer des mails. j'arrive à rapatrier les Email. Malheureusement, impossible d'en

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 09:31:54AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > David Wright composed on 2024-01-16 08:05 (UTC-0600): > > > On Tue 16 Jan 2024 at 00:55:52 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote: > > >> gene heskett composed on 2024-01-15 17:56 (UTC-0500): > > >>> Thanks for that composition: but it will be

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

David Wright composed on 2024-01-16 08:05 (UTC-0600): > On Tue 16 Jan 2024 at 00:55:52 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote: >> gene heskett composed on 2024-01-15 17:56 (UTC-0500): >>> Thanks for that composition: but it will be word wrapped: >>> root@coyote:~# for j in /dev/disk/by-id/* ; do printf

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

On Tue 16 Jan 2024 at 00:55:52 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote: > gene heskett composed on 2024-01-15 17:56 (UTC-0500): > > > Thanks for that composition: but it will be word wrapped: > > root@coyote:~# for j in /dev/disk/by-id/* ; do printf '%s\t%s\n' > > "$(realpath "$j")" "$j" ; done > > /dev/sr0

Re: /mnt usage

On Mon, 2024-01-15 at 21:41 -0800, David Christensen wrote: > On 1/15/24 20:05, David Wright wrote: > > And I've never created any mount point under /mnt. For a one time > > copy, /mnt is handy; always there, I don't have to mkdir at all. > > > What about when you need multiple temporary mount

Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority?

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 02:17:05PM +0100, hw wrote: > On Tue, 2024-01-16 at 08:03 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 01:43:23PM +0100, hw wrote: > > > There's only a bunch of links in that directory, apparently all > > > pointing to files that don't exist. Don't you have

Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority?

On Tue, 2024-01-16 at 14:17 +0100, hw wrote: > On Tue, 2024-01-16 at 08:03 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 01:43:23PM +0100, hw wrote: > > > There's only a bunch of links in that directory, apparently all > > > pointing to files that don't exist. Don't you have that? > >

Re: /mnt usage

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 6:07 AM David Christensen wrote: > > On 1/15/24 20:05, David Wright wrote: > > And I've never created any mount point under /mnt. For a one time > > copy, /mnt is handy; always there, I don't have to mkdir at all. > > What about when you need multiple temporary mount

Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority?

On Tue, 2024-01-16 at 08:03 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 01:43:23PM +0100, hw wrote: > > There's only a bunch of links in that directory, apparently all > > pointing to files that don't exist. Don't you have that? > > unicorn:~$ ls -l /run/user/1000/systemd/units > total

Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority?

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 01:43:23PM +0100, hw wrote: > There's only a bunch of links in that directory, apparently all > pointing to files that don't exist. Don't you have that? unicorn:~$ ls -l /run/user/1000/systemd/units total 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 greg greg 32 Jan 4 10:33

Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority?

On Tue, 2024-01-16 at 12:15 +, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > hw wrote: > > On Tue, 2024-01-16 at 11:27 +0100, Arno Lehmann wrote: > > > I don't know anything about rtkit, but I may be able to parse > > > English :-) > > > > > > Am 16.01.2024 um 10:42 schrieb hw: > > > ... > > > > The

Re: /mnt usage

On 1/16/24, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 09:41:15PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: >> On 1/15/24 20:05, David Wright wrote: >> > And I've never created any mount point under /mnt. For a one time >> > copy, /mnt is handy; always there, I don't have to mkdir at all. >> >> >>

Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority?

On Tue, 2024-01-16 at 07:05 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 11:27:43AM +0100, hw wrote: > > systemd[2241]: Started cgroupify@app-gnome-firefox-152280.scope.service. > > systemd[2241]: Started app-gnome-firefox-152280.scope - Application > > launched by gnome-shell. > > > >

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

Il 16/01/2024 12:08, Felix Miata ha scritto: Tom Furie composed on 2024-01-16 08:18 (UTC): Felix Miata writes: /dev/sdc 18 /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Brother_MFC-J6920DW_BROG5F229909-0:0 # How does a printer get a storage device assignment??? By having some kind of SD card slot or similar. So

Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority?

hw wrote: > On Tue, 2024-01-16 at 11:27 +0100, Arno Lehmann wrote: > > I don't know anything about rtkit, but I may be able to parse > > English :-) > > > > Am 16.01.2024 um 10:42 schrieb hw: > > ... > > > The messages in the journal are actually weird: > > > > > > > > >

Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority?

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 11:27:43AM +0100, hw wrote: > systemd[2241]: Started cgroupify@app-gnome-firefox-152280.scope.service. > systemd[2241]: Started app-gnome-firefox-152280.scope - Application launched > by gnome-shell. > > > in the journal. That service is a file that doesn't seem to

Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority?

On 2024-01-15, Tom Furie wrote: > There doesn't seem to be an overwhelming need for it once you step away > from the DE's. I don't use DE but bluez clementine gnumeric sound-juicer and a lots more which need dbus

Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority?

hw writes: >> > > It says 'made thread ... (at nice level 0) owned by 1000'. This is > inconclusive at best: The thread is obviously _at_ some nice level or > _at_ some priority and was made owned by 1000. > > If it had changed the priority it should say that, but it doesn't. It does say

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

Tom Furie composed on 2024-01-16 08:18 (UTC): > Felix Miata writes: >> /dev/sdc 18 /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Brother_MFC-J6920DW_BROG5F229909-0:0 # >> How does a printer get a storage device assignment??? > By having some kind of SD card slot or similar. So this pollution only results from a

Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority?

On Tue, 2024-01-16 at 11:27 +0100, Arno Lehmann wrote: > I don't know anything about rtkit, but I may be able to parse English :-) > > Am 16.01.2024 um 10:42 schrieb hw: > ... > > The messages in the journal are actually weird: > > > > > > rtkit-daemon[132284]: Successfully made thread 145442

Re: Seeking a Terminal Emulator on Debian for "Passthrough" Printing

On Mon, 2024-01-15 at 20:32 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 08:08:36PM +0100, hw wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I don't understand why you involve a terminal emulator in the process. > > Do you need to see the data that goes through the COM port displayed > > in a terminal (like

Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority?

On Tue, 2024-01-16 at 06:52 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 09:37:34PM +0100, hw wrote: > [...] > > And it turned out that it's apparently not rtkit-daemon but firefox > > itself that makes it assume a higher priority. > > Firefox itself can't (unless it is started with

Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority?

I don't know anything about rtkit, but I may be able to parse English :-) Am 16.01.2024 um 10:42 schrieb hw: ... The messages in the journal are actually weird: rtkit-daemon[132284]: Successfully made thread 145442 of process 145185 (/usr/lib64/firefox/firefox) owned by '1000' RT at priority

Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority?

Tom Furie writes: > Fewer than when things don't work when you *do* have dbus, apparently ;) > There doesn't seem to be an overwhelming need for it once you step away > from the DE's. I don't have a DE on my main desktop but still it looks like I have five dbus-daemons and one dbus-launch

Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority?

On Mon, 2024-01-15 at 15:24 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > You may be able to prevent Firefox from getting increased priority by > using polkit. How would I do that? All the freedektop stuff always has been a big mystery, and polkit is part of it, or isn't it?

Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority?

On Mon, 2024-01-15 at 21:02 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > I have --- at least temporarily --- disabled rtkit-daemon by masking > > the service and renaming > > /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.RealtimeKit1.service > > so dbus doesn't try to start it anymore. > > >

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

Felix Miata writes: > /dev/sdc 18 /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Brother_MFC-J6920DW_BROG5F229909-0:0 # > How does a printer get a storage device assignment??? By having some kind of SD card slot or similar.