Re: Meeting with the Development Team

2024-02-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
Sigh. Please don't respond to spam, it just magnifies the noise. I'm already updating our anti-spam rules regularly to try and keep things as clean as possible. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue

Re: debian-cd baking process

2024-02-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 06:12:47PM +0100, Kevin Price wrote: >Dear Steve: > >Am 18.01.24 um 00:37 schrieb Steve McIntyre: >> Kevin Price wrote: >>> I'm not quite sure where to address this to, > >> Argh, that's my code in the debian-cd package. "reportbug d

Re: please, help to get the image write done, due to an error. Thank you!

2024-02-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
lled with version 12.4.1. Where did you get this image from? What exact errors is the image writer program reporting? Without that information it's very difficult to help you. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < sladen> I actually stayed

Re: what keyboard do you use?

2024-02-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
ing it - full size and a good level of mechanical tactile feedback WITHOUT ALL THE NOISE ALL THE TIME. Very much recommended. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Re: chrony date months off

2024-01-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
tc. I also wrote fake-hwclock (packaged in Debian) for this kind of reason. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

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

2024-01-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hey Andy. Andy Smith wrote: > >On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 12:53:43AM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> I'm clearly a member of a third group of people,,, :-) > >Oh, I didn't mean to imply that those going by taste were in a >minority! Taste, or possibly, "just never tho

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

2024-01-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
right to get >a different religion. 😀 I'm clearly a member of a third group of people,,, :-) Putting partitions on the RAID drives helps *me* identify them. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Re: debian-cd baking process

2024-01-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
Maybe there's a bug already that I didn't find. Argh, that's my code in the debian-cd package. "reportbug debian-cd" should do the right thing... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

2024-01-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
someone 89 years old, which I am. It's nothing to do with your age. You keep on bringing this up. People are volunteering their time to help you. When you don't pay attention and go wandering off-topic it makes it much harder for people to help. I hope you can understand that. -- Steve McIntyre, Cam

Re: Debian on Asus X205TA [Was: Re: Installing Debian on an old Asus EEE PC]

2024-01-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
systems like the Bay Trail platform in the X205TA. I still have an old mixed-moded Apple Imac that works that way as a test machine. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Re: md0 + UUIDs for member disks

2023-12-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
/md0? The reason behing using UUIDs is that individual disks don't have persistent names attached: /dev/sda might be /dev/sdb next time, etc. MD RAID devices *do* include persistent metadata so that the system can recognise them reliably. You should be fine as you are

12.4.0 point release published

2023-12-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi folks, The new 12.4.0 point release is now out. It contains the needed fixes for the ext4 data corruption bug (https://bugs.debian.org/1057843). It's now safe to upgrade as normal, panic over. Many thanks to all the people who spent all of their weekend making this happen... -- Steve

Re: Problem with apt update (is not signed)

2023-10-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
ge included software which depended on system calls only provided by a newer kernel. Docker is *awful* here - it doesn't actually isolate you from this kind of mismatch; instead it hides the details of problems to make them almost impossible to debug. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

2023-10-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
ably lose access to the Windows installation - it will be depending on the RAID setup. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Re: Debian live boot corrupting secure boot

2023-09-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
but I only tried 10 live, so far). The newer images might be causing firmware key revocation updates to be applied. This is part of the Secure Boot story - if you want to stay secure, systems will need to be updated to stop older software with known holes from being run. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Re: Debian live boot corrupting secure boot

2023-09-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
Stefan wrote: >> With outdated keys secure boot does not protect you. > >Just to clarify: in 99.99% of the cases, SecureBoot does not protect you >(and is not designed to protect you either). Sigh. Lose the misinformation crap, please. It's getting tedious. -- Steve McIntyre

Re: Please verify Gnome and KDE wiki articles for correctness

2023-08-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
mally respond within a few hours. Not enough spammers on fire. :-( -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Re: Feeds aren't yet dead (Was: Re: perl module listgarden)

2023-08-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
t;I follow them on Fediverse. I'm not going to sit there reloading 72 >web sites every day. > >(Doesn't have to be RSS; any feed tech like Atom is fine also) Similar here. I'm using FreshRSS daily to pick up on RSS/atom feeds from all over the place... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: How does the bookworm amd64 netinst 738MB iso fit into a 700MB cd-r?

2023-06-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
j...@jretrading.com wrote: >On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 11:30:04 +0100 >Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> ssmcmlxx+debianu...@gmail.com wrote: >> >I tried to write the debian-12.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso to cd using >> >cdrskin and xorriso but they both refused my command. >

Re: How does the bookworm amd64 netinst 738MB iso fit into a 700MB cd-r?

2023-06-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
to fix this, and I hope that the 12.1 images will work better. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < sladen> I actually stayed in a hotel and arrived to find a post-it note stuck to the mini-bar saying "Paul: This fridge and

Re: Boot an EFI system with QEMU

2023-04-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
My local test scripts for UEFI boot do other things too, but I add the following: -pflash -pflash where I copy matching images from /usr/share/OVMF in the ovmf package. See the file /usr/share/doc/ovmf/README.Debian for what the different files offer (secure boot, etc.). -- Steve McIntyre,

Re: Debian installation using debootstrap and grub-install - no entry in ESC boot menu

2023-04-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
or example), saving a small amount of disk space here could cause a massive PITA later. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < sladen> I actually stayed in a hotel and arrived to find a post-it note stuck to the mini-bar saying "Pa

Re: Debian installation using debootstrap and grub-install - no entry in ESC boot menu

2023-04-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
boot interface, however (as in my original >recipe). That's just qemu-system-x86_64 defaulting to using SeaBIOS for firmware. I boot VMs in UEFI mode all the time, using the EDK2 binary builds in the ovmf package. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com

Re: [Bookworm] installer stops due to missing wifi firmware

2023-03-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
y one of the current daily/weekly images it will most likely work too... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < sladen> I actually stayed in a hotel and arrived to find a post-it note stuck to the mini-bar saying "Paul: This fridge and fittings are the correct way around and do not need altering"

Re: awk not just using the Field separator as such. it is using the blank space as well ...

2023-02-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
difficult to find edges if you look. :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < sladen> I actually stayed in a hotel and arrived to find a post-it note stuck to the mini-bar saying "Paul: This fridge and fittings are the correct way around and do not need altering"

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

2023-01-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
operating systems. And that did not last very long. Sigh. Secure Boot also does a reasonable job of blocking persistent pre-boot malware, which is absolutely worth doing. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < sladen> I actually stayed in a hotel and

Re: quite the end of an era: Re: Bug#931659: transition: rm python2

2023-01-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
wondering what the path >forward is for us. Correct, we're still on buster for now. I'm *hoping* to move forwards to moin 2 on python 3 at some point soon, and Paul Boddie has been doing some great work on the ackaging front there. But there's a bit more work needed yet all round. -- Steve McIntyr

Re: Package versions in multi-arch

2023-01-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
llvm-toolchain-15 source package - that will bump the version in both cases so that they match. binNMUs are horrible. :-( -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews

Re: exim4 smarthost selection based on sender

2022-11-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
org same_domain_copy_routing = yes I then add the desired authentication details in /etc/exim4/smtp_auth/$sender_address for each of the sender addresses. HTH! Be aware that doing authenticated smtp to Google and O365 (etc.) is getting harder and harder as they continue to try to destroy mail as an

Re: Backing up whole Debian installation from laptop to laptop via ssh?

2022-11-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
. For some unknown reason, network configuration (wireless networks etc.) in NetworkManager includes the MAC address of the local NIC too, so you may need to fix those up after transfer. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the t

Re: échec installation debian

2022-11-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
[ Re-adding a CC to the debian-cd list ] Maybe you'd get better help on the debian-user-french mailing list. On Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 01:45:00PM +0100, Rima AOUADENE wrote: >Hi!  >I have a Mac Os, I don't arrive to install debian!  > >Le mar. 8 nov. 2022 à 15:02, Steve McInt

Re: grub-xen-host in bullseye-proposed-updates

2022-09-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
llow for easier upgrades for everyone. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews

Re: firmware: secure boot dbx with software-center but not apt?

2022-09-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
ates to device firmware. DBX is the method used by UEFI firmware to block execution of known-bad and known-vulnerable UEFI binaries when running with Secure Boot enabled. Apt does not know show anything here as the DBX is not a package, it's a lower-level update to firmwa

Re: UEFI refusing NVRAM writes, breaking GRUB install and upgrade

2022-09-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
lean true -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Since phone messaging became popular, the young generation has lost the ability to read or write anything that is longer than one hundred and sixty characters." -- Ignatios Souvatzis

Re: UEFI refusing NVRAM writes, breaking GRUB install and upgrade

2022-09-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
rub-install with >the --no-nvram option. > >However, the problem reappears when running apt upgrade. > >Is there a way to mitigate this problem? Maybe a way to tell >grub-install to always use --no-nvram? Yup. See https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI#Firmware_does_not_support_settin

Re: Should a serious bug have made in into bullseye 11.5?

2022-09-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
ut that didn't include Xen. We *really* have a dearth of Xen experience among the maintainers, and that's not helping here. I'm building a new unstable package (2.06-4) right now with Valentin's patch applied, and once I've uploaded that I'll do a new bullseye package too. -- Steve McIntyre, Ca

Re: Advantages/Disadvantages of Open Source Software (Was Re: Package grub-xen-host breaks PV domains with 11.5 point release)

2022-09-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
rticular kind of license. Thanks Stefan, it's great to see that some people understand the issues. I'll be brutally honest: being accused of "possibly malicious" unwilligness is *not* a great way to convince overstretched volunteers to spend their time on issues. -- Steve McIntyre,

Re: UNetBootin on Debian 11

2022-07-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
installer team. Lots of our users were using it, and it was doing broken things to our installation images that caused lots of bug reports. We *massively* disrecommend its use. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts.

Re: sleep(1) vs. sync(1) twice before umount(8)

2022-07-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
uot; onto your dd call, or similar. *Or* you might want to call "sync" in a loop if you're worried you're about to lose power suddenly. This is what UPSes are for... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We

Re: MAC address of bridge interfaces

2022-06-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
0 inet dhcp hwaddress XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX (substitute your own MAC address here) and it all works flawlessly now. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews

Re: How to start Preseed installation on UEFI computer?

2022-06-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
end of the line, *before* the "---" separator and add any extra command line options you need there. 4. Hit Ctrl-x or F10 to boot As mentioned separately, you'll probably want to do this starting with the "Advanced Options ..." / "... Automate

Re: How to start Preseed installation on UEFI computer?

2022-06-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
f you hit E, that will let you edit the currently-loaded grub config so you can append preseed and other options. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews

Re: Debian "Bookworm" Installation

2022-04-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
n whether you have booted the installer in UEFI (GPT) or legacy BIOS (MS-DOS) mode. You can override the that choice, but depending on your setup you *may* need to use expert mode to be asked the question about which partition type to use. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Problems with custom install of MATE

2022-03-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
r own systems, of course. But could you *please* at least in future check for missing recommends that might be causing issues before mailing debian-user to complain about them? It's easy enough to do, and saves wasting the time of everybody on the list when there's an obvious

Re: 回覆: Debian boot entry won't generated after flash BIOS.

2021-10-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
llowed there. >Best would be if your BIOS was preserving boot entries across upgrades >(BIOS flashing). Absolutely. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com “Changing random stuff until your program works is bad coding practice, but if you do it fast enough it’s Machine Learning.” -- https://twitter.com/manisha72617183

Re: Access to files in wiki.debian.org.

2021-09-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
with my 1P address and the names of the files I need. I >do however find it passing strange that while the wiki had apparently been >locked down since mid-August or earlier, in mid-September I did have >access on wiki to both but not since. I've responded to Ken off-list to see wh

Write *once* storage (was Re: write only storage)

2021-09-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
altered (or read back). -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews

Re: moderators, I would appreciate if you could interfere

2021-08-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > >As Steve did not send this mail to you, I would not take it personally. Exactly, thanks. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could

Re: moderators, I would appreciate if you could interfere

2021-08-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
arnings; repeated bad behaviour may lead to temporary or permanent bans for offenders. If you're trying to label that as "politically correct" then I think you may need to change your expectations. The "principles of open source" do not include a free pass to be abusive to ot

Re: Root location

2021-08-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
novice. > >If the OP wants to run a 64-bit OS in the end, they should install a >64-bit OS to begin with. We finally now have a cross-grading tool in Debian: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/debian-crossgrader written by Kevin Wu as a GSoC project last year. It has worked well for me

Re: Offensive variable names [was: Cool down ...]

2021-07-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
the garbage in your signature... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews

Re: debian installation issue

2021-06-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
ux distros, I *can* confirm that Microsoft care about Linux and SB working well. Hell, they're even using SB (shim, etc.) themselves for their own small Linux distro. That's not a *guarantee* of future goodwill, but they're not about to break things here on a whim. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: [jo...@debian.org: Debian Presence on Freenode]

2021-06-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
robbine...@gmail.com wrote: >On 6/16/21 9:11 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> For the new Libera.Chat network, we established a group registration and >> will also hand out Debian cloaks to members again. Please open an issue >> in our new Salsa project, if

Re: [jo...@debian.org: Debian Presence on Freenode]

2021-06-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 09:15:01PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: >Hi, >Does the new IRC server used by Libra.chat will include a version >release as Debian package ? I've no idea, to be honest. Sorry... :-/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

[jo...@debian.org: Debian Presence on Freenode]

2021-06-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
g so. Most of them aren't DDs but spend huge numbers of hours looking after our community for us. -- bye, Joerg - End forwarded message - -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Since phone messaging became popular, the young gene

Re: debian installation issue

2021-06-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
ole hard >drive or the start of a particular partition, chosen during >installation. I'm guessing it's the same for GPT partitioning. It's ... complicated. :-) See https://wiki.debian.org/Grub2#UEFI_vs_BIOS_boot for documentation I've written comparing how GRUB works in BIOS mode vs.

Re: OT: Strange behavior in Firefox -- google searches start by searching another URL / domain

2021-06-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
right. But connecting old software to the internet is *dangerous*. You appear to be worried about a third-party website/domain potentially tracking your activity, but I think that should be the least of your concerns at this point. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Hello, we need to package solanum, a new IRCD server.

2021-05-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
ssage you sent, seems more like a big huge "I". Please take a step back and re-read what you wrote here. You've read a *lot* into a short message that I'm guessing may be from a non-native English speaker. Maybe try and a be a little more welcoming, please? Simply asking the original poster fo

Re: xv (was Re: Changing background automatically, Mint 20.)

2021-05-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
ty. >My recollection is neither qiv nor feh gave me that. Maybe I didn't >look hard enough. Aha! Thanks for the suggestion! I've been looking for years for a replacement for xv myself. I've been playing with each of the things suggested here, but with no joy. Fin

Re: [sid] efibootmgr not working on linux 5.10.x [solved]

2021-05-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
p...@sojka.co wrote: >On 5/6/21 1:10 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> This line: >> >> efivarfs 16384 0 >> >> suggests the cause of the problem for you. efibootmgr (and other tools >> using libefivar) will look into both: >>

Re: [sid] efibootmgr not working on linux 5.10.x & LGA1155

2021-05-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
roblem for you. efibootmgr (and other tools using libefivar) will look into both: * /sys/firmware/efi/vars (the old, deprecated interface that was removed in 5.10) * /sys/firmware/efi/efivars (the new interface, provided by efivarfs) As you have efivarfs loaded but with use-count of 0, that

Re: Problem with Macbook 2,1 Installation Instructions

2021-04-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
- it's 64-bit but with crappy firmware that's limited to 32-bit only. Carl: please try the multi-arch netinst from https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/multi-arch/iso-cd/debian-10.9.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso instead. That will start in 32-bit UEFI, then install a 64-bit system with a 3

Re: Problem with Macbook 2,1 Installation Instructions

2021-04-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
lti-arch netinst from https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/multi-arch/iso-cd/debian-10.9.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso instead. That will start in 32-bit UEFI, then install a 64-bit system with a 32-bit version of Grub etc. You should not need to do anything special for this to work. -- Stev

Re: efibootmgr headach?

2021-03-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
lot of the issues raised in this thread. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "You can't barbecue lettuce!" -- Ellie Crane

Re: Non-free firmware [was: Debian install Question]

2021-03-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
e same machine as our official images, using the same software to build them. There's just some small config tweaks, that's all. In our team, we are ~always looking for more people to help, both for testing and development. We're a small group of volunteers, and we're all also busy doing other things

Re: shadowy, sort of fly by night debian mirrors? ...

2021-02-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
has *no* place at all on Debian mailing lists, nor anywhere else in our community. Please keep this kind of garbage to yourself in future, or you will be blocked from posting to Debian lists. Steve, for the Community Team. -- Steve McIntyre 93...@

Re: Need Support for Dell XPS 15 7590, Hard Drive Make Micron 2300 NVMe 1024 GB

2021-02-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
g...@extremeground.com wrote: >On 2021-02-18 09:48, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> zcor...@yahoo.com wrote: >>> Just received a new laptop, and both Debian Stable, and Debian >>> testing would not detect the hard drive.  Any possibility this can be >>> added to the t

Re: Need Support for Dell XPS 15 7590, Hard Drive Make Micron 2300 NVMe 1024 GB

2021-02-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
- the drive may be configured in "RAID" mode. If so, switching to "AHCI" will most likely solve your problem. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "You can't barbecue lettuce!" -- Ellie Crane

Re: Download Pages are, Locked??!???

2021-02-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
Stephen wrote: >Suddenly the download pages are forbidden? > >What is going on? Apologies, something screwed up and left the release directory not readable. Fixed now. :-/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "You can't barbecue lett

Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

2020-12-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
Darac wrote: >On 04/12/2020 11:25, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> We finally have a cross-grading option in Debian that takes away a lot >> of the pain: >> >> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/debian-crossgrader >> >> but it's definitely not something I'd reco

Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

2020-12-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
ng them as the number of i386 >installs that are worth cross-grading is probably quite low and >decreasing daily. We finally have a cross-grading option in Debian that takes away a lot of the pain: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/debian-crossgrader but it's definitely not something I'd

Re: Redundancy for EFI System Partition: what do people do in 2020?

2020-11-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
lks would be very happy if somebody wanted to do that... I had a conversation a few years back with some guys at one large PC vendor who were apparently considering adding firmware support like this. Then things went quiet and I can only assume it's not coming from them... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "You can't barbecue lettuce!" -- Ellie Crane

Re: Question: SSD speed

2020-10-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
modes as needed for compatibility with the controllers in your computers. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "You can't barbecue lettuce!" -- Ellie Crane

Re: Mounting /dev/shm noexec

2020-10-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
a habit of using /dev/shm for writing temporary trampolines for cross-language calls, and they need to be executable. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "You can't barbecue lettuce!" -- Ellie Crane

Re: grub broke boot of debian stable: error: symbol 'grub_calloc' not found

2020-07-31 Thread Steve McIntyre
ady, >2.02+dfsg1-20+deb10u2. Upgrade again, and you trouble should go away. No, the only change there was a fix for EFI chainloading. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "You can't barbecue lettuce!" -- Ellie Crane

Re: Slic3r --gui won't run

2020-07-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
r to convince existing developers to work on different stuff. On the Pi 4, it looks like there's finally (IMHO) a good option - using an EDK2 build in flash allows you to have a properly Free OS on top of that, using UEFI to boot. If I had an interest in the Pi, that's what I would be playing wit

Re: [OT] Regular DKIM issues on this ML (was: Re: why !oh why Debian and application list)

2020-06-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
Nod. Smartlist is based on procmail, and that is keen on adding ">" to the beginning of lines starting with "From", even when it's *not* working on mbox-style folders. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Armed with "Valor":

Re: Buster install with UEFI boot not working

2020-06-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
ed SB support until I fixed it. >2. Do I have to change default grub.conf file in >debian-installer/amd64/grub/grub.cfg. There are suggestions to use >linuxefi and initrdefi instead of linux and initrd in grub.cfg . Not at all, no. The default grub config should work just fine. -- St

Re: Dual Prolific PL2303 Serial Port USB devices have iSerial of 0?

2020-05-28 Thread Steve McIntyre
I abandoned them. FTDI cost more, but are massively more reliable in my experience. This is definitely a case of "you get what you pay for". -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents

Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition?

2020-05-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
likely to be difficult to resize after the fact. You can choose a smaller size *at your own risk*, but d-i will complain a lot if you try to go very small, below ~32MiB. HTH! -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Armed with "Valor": &quo

Re: For all specimens of Homo sapiens - about COVID19

2020-04-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
be the ability to opt out of >this chipping nonsense? Stay tuned. This is very much off-topic for debian-user, please take it elsewhere? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents qua

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
then we can (and will) moderate or block those people where necessary. We value free speech, but that does *not* extend to giving contributors a free pass to harass or abuse others. I hope you understand that. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Armed

Re: Debian is testing Discourse

2020-04-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
ebian developer for over a decade, and was DPL for a year. He understands the project, and is suggesting ways to help engage with more people too. *I'm* not such a fan of discourse myself, but equally mailing lists are also not popular with a lot of people. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: failure to install debian

2020-03-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
on device. OK. Your system has run out of space to store a boot variable. These are normally stored in NVRAM (flash) by the firmware. The most common cause I've seen for this is error logs stored in /sys/fs/pstore/ taking up lots of space. Could you check and see if you have any files there please? -- Steve

Re: Encrypted /boot password has to be entered twice

2020-02-25 Thread Steve McIntyre
then Linux needs it separately. Unfortunately there isn't a way for Grub to pass the passphrase to Linux so it has to ask you again. People are looking at ways to make this work better... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents quality of Discipline, Honor, Integrity and Loyalty. Now you don't have to be a Caesar to concord the digital world while feeling safe and proud.

Re: jigdo error

2020-02-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
ointed you at other options, but if you're happy to help then I'd like to try and work out what's gone wrong here with jigdo. I'm the maintainer. after all... :-) Which version of jigdo are you using, please? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Arm

Re: Looking for FOSS supported PCIe x4 SATA 6 Gb/s HBA with 4 or 8 ports

2020-02-11 Thread Steve McIntyre
ell for all those years 24/7. That particular model is limited on supported disk sizes, to 2T IIRC - I bought one from ebay and it was no use at all. My own choice for more SATA/SAS ports is a Highpoint RocketRAID 2720 - 8 ports on a PCIe 2.0 x8 connector. Supported o

Re: Looking for Debian unofficial install for mac with firmware...

2020-02-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
ld* be there, but it's not in the >list of files. Is that an oversight, or was there a conscious >decision to drop "mac" support with 10.3 ? Oops, no. I think that's a bug in the code that generates that web page. I'll fix that now. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Fresh install UEFI debian-10.2.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1 will not boot

2020-02-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
;"debian". Exit. > >Boots into Debian GNU/Linux. >Thanks! :-) \o/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Armed with "Valor": "Centurion" represents quality of Discipline, Honor, Integrity and Loyalty. No

Re: Fresh install UEFI debian-10.2.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1 will not boot

2020-02-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
David wrote: >On 2020-02-07 16:47, Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> If you *do* want to install to the removable media path too, then we >> also support that but you have to ask for it. See >> >> >> https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI#Force_grub-efi_inst

Re: Fresh install UEFI debian-10.2.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1 will not boot

2020-02-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
Apologies for the slow response - I've had 3 back-to-back conferences and I'm just catching up on mail... :-/ David wrote: >On 2020-01-30 16:47, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> OK. How exactly have you partitioned the target USB drive? What >> files are on the EFI System Partition ther

Re: Fresh install UEFI debian-10.2.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1 will not boot

2020-01-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
users. We explicitly disrecommend it for that exact reason. This is even more important with new features like UEFI and Secure Boot. Rufus is a different matter - it has a "DD mode" which *is* useful for writing an image to a USB stick unmolested. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Fresh install UEFI debian-10.2.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1 will not boot

2020-01-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
4-efi/modinfo.sh > > >It seems /usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi/modinfo.sh is missing. You don't need to tell grub-install to use x86_64-efi-signed as a target - it should work things out automatically and install shim etc. as needed. There is *not* a modinfo.sh for the signed

Re: help with installation?

2019-12-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
g the core packages that are marked as "standard" in the Debian archive. It's a small system that you might use for a server or in a VM where you don't want all the extra packages that the GUI desktops use. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com A

Re: Default Debian install harassed me

2019-10-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 12:00:11AM +0300, goleo . wrote: >On Sun, Oct 6, 2019 at 10:49 PM Steve McIntyre <93...@debian.org> wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 06, 2019 at 09:50:54PM +0300, goleo . wrote: >> >Hi. >> > >> >After installing Debian 10 on my la

Re: Default Debian install harassed me

2019-10-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
t;xarchiver" and choose "Mark for Removal" or >"Mark for Complete Removal" it says it'll install Ark, >KDE 5 Frameworks and GNUSTEP. > >Here is the video proof: >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1IoGQP1omE I don't see any harassment here. Can y

Re: kernel unsigned

2019-10-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
re it >would be needed. It's only *needed* if you're doing SB, but even if you have SB disabled there is basically no downside to having the signed packages installed. Things will work just fine, just taking a *tiny* bit more disk space. Hence we've defaulted to doing things that way - everybody

Re: I support the founder of FreeSoftware

2019-09-20 Thread Steve McIntyre
a, for spreading lies dis >and mis-information about our duly elected and beloved President, Donald >John Trump. > >Donald Trump will go down in history as the greatest President in the >last 100 years, maybe more. This has no place at all on the Debian mail

Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked? - Bradley M. Kuhn is not an attorney (he should go get his JD and get licensed).

2019-05-05 Thread Steve McIntyre
i. Easily blocked/ignored. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com There's no sensation to compare with this Suspended animation, A state of bliss

Re: buster VM does not always start sshd

2019-05-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
domness at boot. Check your boot messages for "crng init done". This is biting lots of people. If you're running a VM, look into how to share a random device from the host. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Armed with "Valor"

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