Re: Slow disk reads - exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x6b0000 SErr 0x0 action 0x0

2021-12-24 Thread James Dutton
On Thu, 23 Dec 2021 at 22:09, Heladu wrote: > Dec 23 22:33:24 sigma kernel: [ 1250.855130] sd 5:0:0:0: [sda] tag#30 Add. > Sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed That is a faulty disk. Replace it. It has already lost the data stored on one sector, and when this happens, more fail.

Re: GRUB really slow to boot

2021-12-19 Thread James Dutton
Looks like the fix is this: # If you need to disable # gfxpayload=keep on your system, just add this line (uncommented) to # /etc/default/grub: # # GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text So, try just adding the above, then run "update-grub" to activate the change. The problem seems to be some GPU cards have

Re: GRUB really slow to boot

2021-12-19 Thread James Dutton
On Sat, 18 Dec 2021 at 23:54, Greg Wooledge wrote: > The symptoms I experienced were BEFORE the kernel was executed. During > GRUB itself. While sitting at the GRUB menu. > > Once the kernel started running, everything was within normal expectations. > Sounds like a race condition or infinite

Re: GRUB really slow to boot

2021-12-18 Thread James Dutton
10:23:54PM +0000, James Dutton wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This is most likely a failing disk. > > Please post the output of: > > smartctl -a /dev/sda > > > > or whatever your disk device name is, if not sda > > > smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-

Re: GRUB really slow to boot

2021-12-18 Thread James Dutton
Hi, This is most likely a failing disk. Please post the output of: smartctl -a /dev/sda or whatever your disk device name is, if not sda Kind Regards James On Sat, 18 Dec 2021 at 16:09, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Today I rebooted my machine for the first time in quite a while, after > the

Re: Problems upgrading from Debian 10 to 11

2021-12-14 Thread James Dutton
On Tue, 14 Dec 2021 at 08:34, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Du, 12 dec 21, 11:25:14, James Dutton wrote: > > > > I am struggling to understand why debian would not move to the bug > > fixed version from upstream xorgxrdp ? > > Just to clarify, Debian has picked

Re: Problems upgrading from Debian 10 to 11

2021-12-12 Thread James Dutton
On Sun, 12 Dec 2021 at 09:10, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Sb, 11 dec 21, 16:54:04, James Dutton wrote: > > Hi, > > > > After upgrading from Debian 10 to Debian 11, xrdp stopped working. > > Someone else has a very good description of the problem here: > &

Problems upgrading from Debian 10 to 11

2021-12-11 Thread James Dutton
Hi, After upgrading from Debian 10 to Debian 11, xrdp stopped working. Someone else has a very good description of the problem here: https://c-nergy.be/blog/?p=17113 Essentially, the problem is fixed by upgrading xorgxrdp to a version newer than 0.2.12. When I compiled the latest xrdp from the