Re: Bookworm: Weird Firefox issue

2024-05-23 Thread Michael Kjörling
, it's _something_ about your Firefox settings. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Debian, fail2ban, Version?

2024-05-20 Thread Michael Kjörling
/fail2ban/releases lists 0.11.2 (Nov 2020), 1.0.1 (Sep 2022), 1.0.2 (Nov 2022) and 1.1.0 (April 2024). The release notes for 1.1.0 says 0.11 or 1.0 can be used if you have Python < 3.5; and 1.0.1 says 0.11 can be used if you have Python < 2.7. -- Michael Kjörling  https:/

Re: Dovecot correct ownership for logs

2024-05-19 Thread Michael Kjörling
o manage its own /var/log/$subsystem directory itself; it doesn't need to do anything to anything in /var/log, it only needs to be able to descend into its own directory. Yes, you _can_ do it in other ways. But the above is definitely _one_ way. -- Michael Kjörling  https:

Re: Suspicious "invoice" email?

2024-05-17 Thread Michael Kjörling
am. Spam occasionally getting through here is an unfortunate side-effect of the debian-user mailing list being set up to allow people who aren't already subscribed to it to post to it. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Regression in Radeon driver in latest Debian Stable kernel

2024-05-16 Thread Michael Kjörling
he kernel you currently have installed and which does not exhibit the problem to the same degree, to reduce the risk that it gets purged for being among the older ones you have installed. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Regression in Radeon driver in latest Debian Stable kernel

2024-05-15 Thread Michael Kjörling
is something somehow introduced by Debian, or an upstream bug. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: debian bookworm japanese kana input disabled

2024-05-09 Thread Michael Kjörling
heck that you get the +deb12u2 or newer glib package versions; and see if that fixes the problem before you poke around too much with the configuration (and risk breaking something else in the process). Then let us know whether you're still having the same issue or whether that r

Re: Lightweight Emacs for container?

2024-05-06 Thread Michael Kjörling
so try with --no-install-recommends --no-install-suggests to apt-get install; but there's no denying that present-day Emacs is fairly heavy-weight. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: HDD long-term data storage with ensured integrity

2024-05-03 Thread Michael Kjörling
me people; for others, other alternatives provide better trade-offs. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Zoom in the official repo is outdated

2024-04-24 Thread Michael Kjörling
oject, then filing a bug against the specific package through the Debian bug tracker is the correct way to do it. _If so_, then start at <https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting>. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Strange New Installation Behavior

2024-04-22 Thread Michael Kjörling
ke there has otherwise been any _two_ consecutive releases (ignoring Sid) where the codenames began with the same letter, much less three. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Strange New Installation Behavior

2024-04-22 Thread Michael Kjörling
ion (Debian 12.5 shipped with kernel ABI 6.1.0-18 <https://www.debian.org/News/2024/20240210>.) -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Debian non-free-firmware policy making OS misleading and Free Software unfriendly

2024-04-22 Thread Michael Kjörling
the point you're making, but especially if you elaborate at length (and I would certainly call ~1700 words "at length" in this context), the specific point you're making should ideally be up front so that people can quickly and easily tell what you're talking about and whether that

Re: Debian non-free-firmware policy making OS misleading and Free Software unfriendly

2024-04-21 Thread Michael Kjörling
ferences. If you have a concrete suggestion for how this could be made clearer, I suspect that the Debian Installer and Debian Webmaster teams would appreciate suggestions. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: No $DISPLAY variable set over ssh

2024-04-18 Thread Michael Kjörling
e host ip.add.re.ss provide any further details? -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: LibreOffice removed from Debian

2024-04-18 Thread Michael Kjörling
e year and month). Given that 7.6 was released in August 2023 and 24.2 _just_ before February 2024 (Wikipedia puts it at 31 Jan 2024), the jump from 7.6 to 24.2 represents about half a year's worth of development. And please trim your mail system's "SPAM" markers from subject lines when replyi

Re: LibreOffice removed from Debian

2024-04-18 Thread Michael Kjörling
fects of bugs being closed incorrectly; but my understanding from the sidelines of this thread is that that was corrected quickly once brought to attention. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Automatic reboot on kernel crash in Debian 12 - how?

2024-04-16 Thread Michael Kjörling
ld get me closer to my desired state, I would still like to know which one and perhaps even what might be an appropriate value for it. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Automatic reboot on kernel crash in Debian 12 - how?

2024-04-16 Thread Michael Kjörling
at scenario? This happened on a VM that I can't directly influence the hardware configuration of (a commercially provided VPS), but I should be able to jury-rig something using the provider's API if necessary. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on

Automatic reboot on kernel crash in Debian 12 - how?

2024-04-16 Thread Michael Kjörling
to set some more settings to ensure that the system will automatically reboot on a panic? If so, what? I know that best is to not crash; this is _in case of_. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: using mbuffer: what am i doing wrong?

2024-04-09 Thread Michael Kjörling
t defaults to resolving IPs and ports to names. At a minimum, add -n if you are grepping its output for a specific port number. (You may also want to use grep -w.) I also suggest to double-check to make sure that you don't have a firewall blocking the traffic. -- Michael Kjörling

Re: How to file a Debian bug report? was: Debian 12.5: pigz 2.6-1 fails with error message (Upstream issue 111)

2024-04-02 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 2 Apr 2024 10:27 +0200, from jch...@student.ethz.ch (Jonathan Chung): > Can someone help me to file a bug report? https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: help needed to get a bookworm install to succeed

2024-03-31 Thread Michael Kjörling
loppy (on a system that couldn't boot from CD) but actually installing from a CD. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-03-28 Thread Michael Kjörling
wishlist against debian-installer. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-03-28 Thread Michael Kjörling
data, your network and your usage. Which will almost certainly be very different from mine, or Alice's, or Bob's; never mind between my desktop system, Carol's server and Mallory's laptop; and therefore will require a different implementation. -- Michael Kjörling  https://micha

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-03-28 Thread Michael Kjörling
r wall, I have apcupsd set up to send notifications to everywhere if there's a power failure, and ahead of a power-failure system shutdown. Doesn't make much difference if I am at the console, but is very useful if I'm logged in remotely. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.k

Re: filesystem info

2024-03-24 Thread Michael Kjörling
mt_misc, portal > > is there "simple" documentation to explain what these are Not sure if that's what you're looking for, but have you looked at the filesystems(5) man page? -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-23 Thread Michael Kjörling
end node is not much of an issue. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-23 Thread Michael Kjörling
ing on a PC. The solution is much the same: use supported software, and install updates promptly. For a firewall, get one where the vendor offers, or can at least be expected to offer, upgrades for a significant amount of time. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.s

Re: Can't find informatin on passwdqc, pwqcheck or cracklib

2024-03-22 Thread Michael Kjörling
e code but _not_ the built binaries) or configuration files created later; but that shouldn't be an issue with man pages. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Michael Kjörling
ld's page at its current URL. The XKCD comic isn't bad, but it completely ignores the issue of just _how_ the constituent words in the passphrase are chosen. Diceware _explicitly_ addresses that. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Interne

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Michael Kjörling
rarily forced to change them every few months. Committing _every_ password to memory is completely impractical. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Michael Kjörling
rases that meet those requirements they usually fail. Which is why I keep recommending Diceware. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Michael Kjörling
measly 10^15 times the age of the universe. I sincerely doubt that guessability of such a password will be the weak link in overall system security. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Michael Kjörling
the contents of ~/.ssh/my_key_.pub; do not ever, no matter what anyone tells you, share the contents of ~/.ssh/my_key_ Step 4: Update ~/.ssh/config to indicate IdentityFile ~/.ssh/my_key_ It's not _that_ hard. I'm pretty sure pretty much anyone who can meaningfully use SSH to start with can f

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Michael Kjörling
is generated under the user's control should not present any significant difficulties. Also, I suspect that you use the term "certificate" here in a different sense than elsewhere, because aside from the issues surrounding PKI certificate revocations (as opposed to

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-20 Thread Michael Kjörling
o not let users rotate their keys themselves; and if so, why on Earth not? -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-19 Thread Michael Kjörling
ord-strong/ [3]: https://www.diceware.com/ [4]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/new-wordlists-random-passphrases [5]: https://xkcd.com/936/ [6]: https://xkcd.com/538/ -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: DoS protection solutions for Debian Servers ?

2024-03-14 Thread Michael Kjörling
onsidered essentially plaintext authentication. Still, it does reduce the impact of background noise scanning. And of course, again, having a plan and process to apply updates (especially but not necessarily restricted to security-related updates) quickly as they become available.

Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie?

2024-02-27 Thread Michael Kjörling
ontab(1) man page, as well as in the NOTES section of the cron(8) man page. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Useful Unix compatible commands

2024-02-25 Thread Michael Kjörling
Killing those would have potentially severe negative impacts on my ability to actually use the computer to perform normal, useful tasks. _That a process is doing a lot of work doesn't by itself mean that it shouldn't be running._ -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kj

Re: How to find system configuration vulnerabilities; was: Thank you Debian

2024-02-21 Thread Michael Kjörling
h _is_ a vulnerability in your setup. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Determining which file is at a given LBA offset; was: HDD error: Current_Pending_Sector

2024-02-20 Thread Michael Kjörling
ming ext[234]fs, it looks like you can use tune2fs, udisks and debugfs to determine the pathname to the file at a given LBA offset. See http://www.randomnoun.com/wp/2013/09/12/determining-the-file-at-a-specific-vmdk-offset/ -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: GRUB lost graphical terminal mode

2024-02-20 Thread Michael Kjörling
tion is working at all and not dumping you to a grub> rescue prompt. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: GRUB lost graphical terminal mode

2024-02-18 Thread Michael Kjörling
lank screen GRUB? -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: SMART Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt rising - should I be worried?

2024-02-15 Thread Michael Kjörling
snapshot of the data onto the backup drive, even in the presence of live changes while the backup is running. (It's not necessarily _quite_ point-in-time atomic because I have two ZFS pools plus an ext4 file system; but it's close enough to be a workable approximation.) -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: simple virt-manager setup

2024-02-14 Thread Michael Kjörling
quot; in libvirt/KVM parlace) will allow you to recreate the VM to that point in time. You can also clone VMs. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: simple virt-manager setup

2024-02-13 Thread Michael Kjörling
prudent. You may want to consider subscribing to https://lists.libvirt.org/archives/list/us...@lists.libvirt.org/; subscription is mailto:users-j...@lists.libvirt.org. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: [ *** ] Job anacron.service/stop running (15min 49s / no limit)

2024-02-11 Thread Michael Kjörling
outSec=, TimeoutStartSec= and TimeoutStopSec=. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: hexchat being discontinued?

2024-02-11 Thread Michael Kjörling
uot;good". -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Home UPS recommendations

2024-02-08 Thread Michael Kjörling
option, just return the UPS as a "I changed my mind". Whether or not it's technically broken, seems to me that it's clearly not healthy. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Difficulties with PS1.

2024-02-07 Thread Michael Kjörling
as well. See bash(1) for details. Note that this will likely also have other consequences. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: How can we change the keyboard layout?

2024-02-06 Thread Michael Kjörling
answer to share. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: tn5250

2024-02-05 Thread Michael Kjörling
ded again, thanks. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure a debian-user list post is not the preferred way to request addition of a package that hasn't been in Debian for some 12-13 years. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: How can we change the keyboard layout?

2024-02-05 Thread Michael Kjörling
e one on my Bookworm system even has a comment right there on how to use an entirely custom keymap, and that's also mentioned in the keyboard(5) man page. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: tn5250

2024-02-05 Thread Michael Kjörling
ws/219802/bug540953-removed-packages-from-unstable/ https://bugs.debian.org/540953 -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: what keyboard do you use?

2024-02-04 Thread Michael Kjörling
way is almost certainly reconfigurable because otherwise everyone would be stuck with the exact same keyboard layout, which would make for a rather poor internationalization/ localization experience. If you're happy with your current keyboard, great. -- Michael Kjörling  ht

Re: what keyboard do you use?

2024-02-04 Thread Michael Kjörling
can be flipped physically. Past that I expect it involves some Xmodmap trickery (or maybe treachery) to flip the mapping of the scan codes. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: what keyboard do you use?

2024-02-03 Thread Michael Kjörling
ally sealed (unlikely...) or that the keys are easily removable and replaceable for cleaning. Because no matter how clean you try to keep it, grime eventually does get in and start interfering with the mechanism. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet,

Re: Issues after upgrading 11 -> 12

2024-01-30 Thread Michael Kjörling
e machine to > upgrade. I'll follow the release notes to the letter then, > and see whether I have better luck. For what it's worth, back when I upgraded my system from Bullseye to Bookworm (I think around the time 12.1 came out) closely following the release notes, the process was smooth, i

Re: apt full-upgrade failed at marco-common package

2024-01-30 Thread Michael Kjörling
ebian.org/releases/bullseye/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#file-conflicts should help. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Issues after upgrading 11 -> 12; was: Is 12.4 safe, or should I wait for 12.5?

2024-01-29 Thread Michael Kjörling
? [1]: https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#record-session -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: cli64 CPU segfaults

2024-01-29 Thread Michael Kjörling
| grep cli64 | wc -l Useless use of wc. :-) "grep -c" will show a count of matching lines. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Data and hardware protection measures

2024-01-28 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 28 Jan 2024 19:19 +0100, from h...@adminart.net (hw): > On Fri, 2024-01-26 at 15:56 +0000, Michael Kjörling wrote: >> On 26 Jan 2024 16:11 +0100, from h...@adminart.net (hw): >>> I rather spend the money on new batteries (EUR 40 last time after 5 >>>

Re: Postponed publickey before Accepted publickey - what's happening there then?

2024-01-27 Thread Michael Kjörling
isabling all unwanted authentication methods as suggested on the Red Hat page, and maybe enabling them on a host-by-host and as-needed basis. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: rsync --delete vs rsync --delete-after

2024-01-26 Thread Michael Kjörling
mirrored backups will help you is when you have only one backup >> set, the backup itself works fine, but a backup drive fails, _and_ the >> source fails before you've been able to make a new backup. For a primary copy, _of course_ the calculus is different. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Data and hardware protection measures; was: rsync --delete vs rsync --delete-after

2024-01-26 Thread Michael Kjörling
setup is far from ideal when it comes to backups in that I > should make backups more frequently. That doesn't mean I shouldn't > have good backups and that UPSs and RAID were not required. Or that, again, they solve different problems. -- Michael Kjörling  https://m

Re: Home UPS recommendations

2024-01-26 Thread Michael Kjörling
been very reliable. Battery replacement is basically flip it onto its side, remove a lid, slide the old battery out, put the new battery in, put the lid back, and done. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: standardize uid:gid?

2024-01-26 Thread Michael Kjörling
rks well in today's software ecosystem. Some reasonable suggestions have already been mentioned. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: rsync --delete vs rsync --delete-after

2024-01-18 Thread Michael Kjörling
ur RPO. The only time when something like mirrored backups will help you is when you have only one backup set, the backup itself works fine, but a backup drive fails, _and_ the source fails before you've been able to make a new backup. That's a _very_ narrow scenario and easily solved by having two

Re: rsync --delete vs rsync --delete-after

2024-01-18 Thread Michael Kjörling
rypto-malware). Disconnected back ups are better here. > > It is not for against your shed going up in flames. Off site for this. OP has specified (17 Jan 19:52 UTC) that the threat model includes, among many other things, "mechanical failure" and "lightning&q

Re: rsync --delete vs rsync --delete-after

2024-01-18 Thread Michael Kjörling
usage scenarios (because it is, at its core, an enterprise solution), at the basic level the biggest difference is that you write "zpool create" instead of "mkfs.ext4". -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: rsync --delete vs rsync --delete-after

2024-01-17 Thread Michael Kjörling
ch easier. (It essentially passes to rsync with --link-dest, and manages the respective root directories.) -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: debian-cd baking process

2024-01-17 Thread Michael Kjörling
you might end up reporting it against the wrong package. Someone will almost certainly fix it if you get it wrong; it might just take longer to get the bug fixed, especially for a low-priority bug like I would at first glance consider the one you're talking about in this thread. --

Re: Debian 11 & Debian 12

2024-01-17 Thread Michael Kjörling
.html Be prepared to need to make significant concessions in other areas if you use one of those, and keep in mind that unless you have _really_ gone out of your way in picking components, there will still be a _lot_ of non-free code running on your computer. -- Michael Kjörling

Re: File has unexpected size (x != y). Mirror sync in progress? [IP: ...] ...

2024-01-13 Thread Michael Kjörling
ing for reauthentication? -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: nftables firewall question: matching udp in ipv6

2024-01-12 Thread Michael Kjörling
n then narrow it down until it logs the traffic you want to accept, at which point you can change the "log" action into an "accept" action. Note that forwarding and filtering can interact in non-intuitive ways. You may need to add corresponding log rules to each releva

Re: SMART Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt rising - should I be worried?

2024-01-10 Thread Michael Kjörling
can be made before there is any actual data loss. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: SMART Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt rising - should I be worried?

2024-01-10 Thread Michael Kjörling
Only if the attribute hits the "failure" threshold, whatever that happens to be or mean for that particular attribute. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: SMART Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt rising - should I be worried?

2024-01-09 Thread Michael Kjörling
f those, if desired. As long as the drive is being honest about failures and is reporting failures rapidly, the RAID array can do its work. What you absolutely don't want to see is I/O errors relating to the RAID array device (for example, with mdraid, /dev/md*), because that would presumably mean

Re: SMART Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt rising - should I be worried?

2024-01-09 Thread Michael Kjörling
t > this point, but might look a bit deeper; https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/solid-state-drives/870-evo-sata-2-5-ssd-1tb-mz-77e1t0b-am/ indicates that the warranty is five years or 1200 TBW for the 2 TB model. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjor

Re: SMART Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt rising - should I be worried?

2024-01-09 Thread Michael Kjörling
sectors pool. Absolutely do keep an eye on attribute 179. If the spare sectors pool start to fill up, the drive won't be able to reallocate any further sectors, and your RAID array won't do you much good. I would also keep an eye out for I/O errors in the kernel log, but be mindful of

Re: playing CDROM music questions

2024-01-08 Thread Michael Kjörling
that's a slightly different issue. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: playing CDROM music questions

2024-01-08 Thread Michael Kjörling
t; the script work? Check the output of: type play Most likely something else named play comes earlier in your $PATH. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: OT: coloured text?

2024-01-07 Thread Michael Kjörling
only permitted ONE argument after > the interpreter name. You're going to execute /bin/sed '-e 1d' 'filename' > with this. Okay, fair point. In my defense, I tried it and it worked. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: OT: coloured text?

2024-01-07 Thread Michael Kjörling
hebang lines which aren't for "shells" in the traditional sense might be: #!/usr/sbin/nft -f #!/usr/bin/env python3 #!/usr/bin/perl or if you are feeling evil... :-) #!/bin/sed -e 1d -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Intern

Re: reinstallation and restore after catastrophic mistake or failure; was: 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors How worried should I be?

2024-01-06 Thread Michael Kjörling
to do a bare-metal restore of their most recent backup often enough for _that_ to be worth the effort to create and maintain. Which is not to say that keeping configuration files version-controlled cannot provide benefits anyway; but given a proper, frequent backup regime, the benefits even of that are red

Re: Debian in HPC

2024-01-05 Thread Michael Kjörling
s type of questions. Judging from the activity graph that list fields a few dozen posts per month from currently about 70 members. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors How worried should I be?

2024-01-04 Thread Michael Kjörling
After restoring your most recent backup, consider doing a fstrim to TRIM unused blocks. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors How worried should I be?

2024-01-03 Thread Michael Kjörling
You may need to adjust for other file systems also on that drive, such as /boot.) -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Monthly FAQ for Debian-user mailing list (modified 20231216)

2024-01-01 Thread Michael Kjörling
Could we perchance add something to the FAQ about the inappropriateness of reposting private replies to the list without first confirming with the people involved that doing so is acceptable? -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2024-01-01 Thread Michael Kjörling
posts in the thread starting on Dec 21 2023 14:25:26 UTC, https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/254ebb90-9a49-4b5a-b1d6-e41b51d8a...@columbus.rr.com -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: URLs in Mutt

2024-01-01 Thread Michael Kjörling
ered with the browser > correctly interpreting the HTML. Install the urlview package, and then pass the mail text/html part to urlview. (I think it'll accept a simple pipe input.) See urlview(1) for details. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when,

Re: Printer weirdness

2023-12-30 Thread Michael Kjörling
n CUPS, and can quite confidently say that I have never seen any behavior in LibreOffice similar to that which you describe. That's with LibreOffice currently at 7.4.7.2 (4:7.4.7-1+deb12u1). -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2023-12-30 Thread Michael Kjörling
install the boot loader itself. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

2023-12-29 Thread Michael Kjörling
e)? Maybe GRUB _does_ print something indicating what the actual problem is, but it reboots so quickly after that that you don't have time to see it. A video might capture that fraction-of-a-second display (even if only partially) and help point you in the right direction.

Re: Synaptic Problem

2023-12-23 Thread Michael Kjörling
relevant_ material, but that is almost never the entirety of an email including previously quoted material.) Then you'll also not need to say "please see below" because there won't be a wall of text to scroll past to get to a few lines that actually add something new to the discussion. -

Re: apt upgrade can't find archive for virtualbox-7.0

2023-12-23 Thread Michael Kjörling
ackage, you might need to >> reinstall it before you can remove it. Please re-read my post in full. -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Accessing host and Internet from QEMU/KVM guest; was: Synaptic Problem

2023-12-23 Thread Michael Kjörling
QEM/KVM virt-manager programs for Windows 10 and an > very happy with them. However, right now I'm hung up on accessing the host > and the internet from the Windows guest. Maybe this will help: https://michael.kjorling.se/blog/2022/linux-kvm-host-nftables-guest-networking/ -- Michael Kjörling

Re: apt upgrade can't find archive for virtualbox-7.0; was: Synaptic Problem

2023-12-23 Thread Michael Kjörling
ds on using a specific other hypervisor. You may want to check out AQEMU as a replacement for virt-manager; I haven't tried it myself, but based on screenshots I have seen it looks like a closer match for VirtualBox's GUI tooling, and you will still have access to the full power of KVM through v

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