Re: Install & restore backup: what if I use LVM?

2018-11-19 Thread solitone
> On 19 Nov 2018, at 16:59, Reco wrote: > > LVM requires certain kernel modules and hooks to be present in > initramfs. > If your current installation lacks them, I suggest you to install lvm2 > before the backup to save yourself the hassle of regenerating initramfs > after the restore.

Re: Install & restore backup: what if I use LVM?

2018-11-19 Thread solitone
Another option would be: (1) Install the system as it was (i.e. with physical partitions); (2) Restore the backed up configuration/files. (3) Move to LVM. How cumbersome would be point 3?

Re: Install & restore backup: what if I use LVM?

2018-11-19 Thread solitone
> On 19 Nov 2018, at 12:35, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 07:01:07AM +0100, solitone wrote: >> When I was playing with my disk's partition table I messed it up and >> lost everything. It was a dual boot system with macOS and Debian. >> >&g

Install & restore backup: what if I use LVM?

2018-11-18 Thread solitone
Hi, When I was playing with my disk's partition table I messed it up and lost everything. It was a dual boot system with macOS and Debian. Thanks to the back2l utility I have a full backup of Debian. Now I would reinstall it and recover all the backed up files. However, I didn’t use LVM and

Re: New SSD on a MacBook Pro

2018-11-17 Thread solitone
On 17/11/2018 16:50, Stefan Monnier wrote: Really? I thought his old drive was SATA (hence his worries that his new drive would need new drivers). No, the old original drive is PCIe 3.0 x4 AHCI. The new one is PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe.

Re: New SSD on a MacBook Pro

2018-11-17 Thread solitone
On 17 Nov 2018, at 16:06, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Didn't use LVM? Too bad: that means there's a risk your new dirve and > partitions will get new identifiers so your fstab may need to be adjusted. Ehm.. no.. I didn’t! > macOS doesn't touch EFI, AFAIK, so don't expect the Time Machine to >

Re: New SSD on a MacBook Pro

2018-11-16 Thread solitone
On 16/11/2018 14:46, Stefan Monnier wrote: I would expect the clone to work just fine. I'd expect your initrd contains drivers for both SATA and NVMe anyway. OK. Now that I know that initrd does contain NVMe drivers, I would ask whether my strategy for cloning is sensible. Firstly, here's

Re: New SSD on a MacBook Pro

2018-11-16 Thread solitone
On 16/11/2018 14:46, Stefan Monnier wrote: I would expect the clone to work just fine. I'd expect your initrd contains drivers for both SATA and NVMe anyway. But it's easy to check: zcat /boot/initrd.img- | cpio -vt | grep nvm will show you the relevant files in the your initrd. You

Re: New SSD on a MacBook Pro

2018-11-16 Thread solitone
Another issue I have is--how to migrate my debian system from the old original SSD to the new larger SSD? As for macOS [1], it should be easy. There is a macOS application called Time Machine that allows to backup macOS from the old SSD and to restore it to the new SSD. This would work with a

Re: New SSD on a MacBook Pro

2018-11-16 Thread solitone
On 15/11/2018 21:48, deloptes wrote: Check first if someone has used it on your type of hardware and what is the feedback - I assume you are not the first. NVMe is working fine - debian provide the kernel which provides the support and I have seen M.2 working just fine Late 2016 - Mid 2017

Re: New SSD on a MacBook Pro

2018-11-15 Thread solitone
On 15/11/2018 21:01, deloptes wrote: I also do not think you have to stick to this specific drive (JetDrive 850) - perhaps macOS certified, but from linux perspective it would make no difference. The thing is the form factor, which unfortunately is proprietary [1]. The connector resembles the

New SSD on a MacBook Pro

2018-11-15 Thread solitone
Hi, I've got a compatibility question regarding SSDs. I run debian 9.6 on a MacBookPro12,1 (Early 2015, 13"). I'm thinking of upgrading the stock 128 GB SSD [1]. Specifically, I'm considering the Trascend JetDrive 850 [2]. The original SSD uses a PCIe 3.0 x4 interface and the AHCI protocol.

Re: How to shut down

2018-03-31 Thread solitone
On 27/03/18 19:02, Don Armstrong wrote: > You can use either. `shutdown -h now` on a machine with systemd actually > invokes systemctl with the equivalent of systemctl poweroff Yes, I've checked again and now 'systemctl poweroff' does power off the machine. No idea on what changed.

How to shut down

2018-03-27 Thread solitone
What's the current best practice to shut down the system? In the old days I used to: # shutdown - h now but then I read of the systemd way: # systemctl poweroff However, with the latter the system does shut down, although the machine does not power off (I have to physically press the off

Re: XFCE and network manager

2018-03-16 Thread solitone
On 16/03/18 10:34, Abdullah Ramazanoglu wrote: > On Fri, 16 Mar 2018 10:20:42 +0100 > solitone <solit...@mail.com> wrote: > >> It was a fresh install. May it depend on the fact that I used an >> outdated installer? > > Possibly. I had installed stretch + xfce fro

Re: XFCE and network manager

2018-03-16 Thread solitone
On 16/03/18 08:27, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > Did you upgrade or was this a fresh install? > > task-xfce-desktop recommends network-manager-gnome (and thus > network-manager) on sid and stretch: > https://packages.debian.org/sid/task-xfce-desktop It was a fresh install. May it depend on the

XFCE and network manager

2018-03-15 Thread solitone
Just installed scratch with xfce4 on an oldish machine, downloading all the needed packages through my wifi adapter. On first boot wifi is down, and there is no application I can use to choose and connect to my wifi access point. I realize that xfce's own Airconfig has never lifted off and is

Re: apt uninstall apparmor

2018-01-14 Thread solitone
On 14/01/18 20:08, Brian wrote: > don't you think worth the effort? Yes, I do. And I've reinstalled apparmor, and will try intrigeri's solution.

Re: apt uninstall apparmor

2018-01-14 Thread solitone
On 12/01/18 21:37, Brian wrote: > Do you have a plan to inform the AppArmor team of your detailed findings? https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=887163 Apparently it's a well known issue. Cheers

Re: apt uninstall apparmor

2018-01-13 Thread solitone
On 13/01/18 20:51, Brian wrote: >> Do you have a plan to inform the AppArmor team of your detailed findings? > > Thought not. > > Pointing the finger at a 3+ year old post on another OS is easier than > engaging in a detailed bug report which involves time and effort. And > people wonder why

apt uninstall apparmor (was: Thunderbird no longer opens links)

2018-01-12 Thread solitone
On 30/11/17 08:48, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > On 30.11.2017 10:45, solitone wrote: >> Hi, since a few days, hyperlink no longer works in my Thunderbird. >> When I click a hyperlink in a message, Chromium (my system's default >> web browser) should open and display th

Re: Thunderbird no longer opens links

2018-01-05 Thread solitone
On 04/12/17 12:49, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 03:30:50PM +0100, solitone wrote: >> On 01/12/17 15:22, Jonathan Dowland wrote: >>> AppArmor is not enabled in current >>> stable, so you should only hit this bug if you are using stable's >>>

Re: HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue

2017-12-24 Thread solitone
On 24/12/17 11:24, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > I read that Cinnamon and MATE, both former clones of GNOME[2], have HiDPI in > mind: > is there any other possibility ? I use KDE's Plasma, which supports HiDPI pretty well.

Re: Thunderbird no longer opens links

2017-12-02 Thread solitone
On 01/12/17 22:59, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 01.12.2017 22:19, Michael Biebl wrote: I think it might be useful to open a (wishlist) bug report against the linux package to not add the recommends when building for stretch-backports Isn't AppArmor required in buster and also required in

Re: Thunderbird no longer opens links

2017-12-01 Thread solitone
, but was installed with the latest kernel update from stretch backports. I think it was installed because of that backported kernel version: Start-Date: 2017-11-26 06:57:11 Commandline: apt upgrade Requested-By: solitone (1000) Install: libapparmor-perl:amd64 (2.11.0-3, automatic), apparmor:amd64 (2 .11.0-3

Re: Thunderbird no longer opens links

2017-11-30 Thread solitone
On 30/11/17 08:48, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: I had this problem too, and yes AppArmor is the reason. Yes, I had a look at logs and I can confirm that apparmor is indeed the culprit: --- ~$ sudo journalctl -kaf

Thunderbird no longer opens links

2017-11-29 Thread solitone
Hi, since a few days, hyperlink no longer works in my Thunderbird. When I click a hyperlink in a message, Chromium (my system's default web browser) should open and display the link. This has been working fine for long, but now it no longer happens. I checked everything that's pointed out in

Re: Recovering accidentally deleted file folder

2017-10-17 Thread solitone
On 16/10/17 17:43, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: package "testdisk" Testdisk worked beautifully well for me

Re: Restore backup to KVM

2017-09-30 Thread solitone
This is serious hacking :^) On 30/09/17 13:04, Reco wrote: the next thing I have to suspect is that your backup misses /dev directory (possibly /proc and /sys). The contents for those are irrelevant. You simply do not have /dev, /proc, /sys in your root filesystem. No, I don't, you're

Re: Restore backup to KVM

2017-09-28 Thread solitone
On 28/09/17 08:58, Reco wrote: It's initrd that first tries to mount tmpfs filesystems on /root (and fails), and only *then* mounts your root filesystem to /root (with the intention to switch to it as /). Is the stock initrd supposed to work like this? When I boot my production system, I end

Re: Restore backup to KVM

2017-09-27 Thread solitone
On 27/09/17 14:01, solitone wrote: Although mkfs had warned me, I mistakenly formatted the entire file, like this: $ sudo mkfs.ext4 restore.img Now I've redone it the right way, using a loop device, and I'll see how it goes. It's a struggle! Now that I partitioned the image file, it sees

Re: Restore backup to KVM

2017-09-27 Thread solitone
On 27/09/17 08:56, Reco wrote: I'm curious to know how you'd achieve this. Although mkfs had warned me, I mistakenly formatted the entire file, like this: $ sudo mkfs.ext4 restore.img Now I've redone it the right way, using a loop device, and I'll see how it goes. Thank you!

Re: Restore backup to KVM

2017-09-26 Thread solitone
On 26/09/17 17:31, Reco wrote: On 26/09/17 13:01, solitone wrote: It's strange, since it finds /dev/sda, i.e. the entire disk: = [    6.438693] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 188743680 512-byte logical blocks: (96.6 GB/90.0 GiB) [    6.469182] sd 0:0

Re: Restore backup to KVM

2017-09-26 Thread solitone
On 26/09/17 17:31, Reco wrote: On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 01:12:52PM +0200, solitone wrote: However now it fails because it tries to mount /dev and /run on /root/dev and /root/run, rather than simply /dev and /run: = [...] Gave up waiting

Re: Restore backup to KVM

2017-09-26 Thread solitone
On 26/09/17 13:01, solitone wrote: It's strange, since it finds /dev/sda, i.e. the entire disk: = [    6.438693] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 188743680 512-byte logical blocks: (96.6 GB/90.0 GiB) [    6.469182] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect

Re: Restore backup to KVM

2017-09-26 Thread solitone
. Watch out for permissions. GNU Parted 3.2 Using /media/solitone/Maxtor/vmimages/alan_restore.img Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) p Model: (file) Disk /media/solitone/Maxtor/vmimages/alan_restore.img: 96.6GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition

Re: Restore backup to KVM

2017-09-25 Thread solitone
On 24/09/17 11:51, Reco wrote: Cheat it then and run QEMU like this (I don't know what's your root filesystem is called, you may need to replace sda2 with something else): qemu-system-x86_64 -hda \ -kernel \ -initrd \ -append "root=/dev/sda2 ro init=/bin/bash" Hi

Re: Restore backup to KVM

2017-09-25 Thread solitone
On 24/09/17 11:51, Reco wrote: ACLs are easy. Even tar(1) knows them. It's things like these that give you headache: $ /sbin/getcap /bin/ping /bin/ping = cap_net_raw+ep # lsattr /etc/resolv.conf i-e /etc/resolv.conf # getfattr -d /var/log/messages # file: var/log/messages

Re: Restore backup to KVM

2017-09-24 Thread solitone
, I've done all these steps. Fix extended file attributes, capability labels, SELinux labels if any etc. By hand, that is. This is hard, since I'm unaware of what files have extended attributes. For instance, I've just found out that /media/solitone has an ACL, but I would need to extract

Re: Restore backup to KVM

2017-09-22 Thread solitone
On 22/09/17 08:08, Reco wrote: Execute this on your source system. grep MODULES /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf If it says MODULES=most then you're in luck as it means your initrd contains all kernel modules for all kinds of hardware. And restoring from backup into QEMU-KVM means you only

Restore backup to KVM

2017-09-21 Thread solitone
It's time to test my backups. Apart from user files, I also back up system files, except for the following directories that are excluded: /dev, /lost+found, /media, /mnt, /proc, /run, /sys, /tmp. I would try and restore them to a virtual machine (KVM). Would it be possible? Is there a way to

Re: Rescue mode when root account locked

2017-09-20 Thread solitone
I'll unlock the root account then.

Rescue mode when root account locked

2017-09-20 Thread solitone
When I boot in rescue mode, I get this message: Cannot open access to console, the root account is locked. See sulogin(8) man page for more details When I press Enter to continue, it continues bootup in normal graphical mode. Would it be wiser to unlock the root account, so that I can go

Re: firmware-linux-nonfree needed? (was Stretch and i3-7300T)

2017-09-20 Thread solitone
On 19/09/17 22:01, deloptes wrote: what if you do cd .../brcm/ sudo ln -s brcmfmac43602-pcie.bin brcmfmac43602-pcie.txt On reboot I had a kernel panic. After removing that link everything works again. These are the messages I got:

Re: intel-microcode (was Stretch and i3-7300T)

2017-09-19 Thread solitone
On 19/09/17 19:02, solitone wrote: what about intel-microcode that I've just installed? Can I expect some performance related benefit? I gather that microcode updates are usually issued to fix errata in the CPU's design [1], and without the intel-microcode package installed an older version

Re: firmware-linux-nonfree needed? (was Stretch and i3-7300T)

2017-09-19 Thread solitone
On 19/09/17 14:11, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 07:54:32AM +0200, solitone wrote: On 18/09/17 07:11, Jimmy Johnson wrote: The packages you need to install are firmware-linux* and intel-microcode. Would firmware-linux-nonfree bring any advantage as far as performance

Re: Stretch and i3-7300T

2017-09-18 Thread solitone
On 18/09/17 07:11, Jimmy Johnson wrote: The packages you need to install are firmware-linux* and intel-microcode. Would firmware-linux-nonfree bring any advantage as far as performance is concerned? I don't have it installed, and everything works fine on my machine, but I wonder whether I

Re: Recommended editor for novice programmers?

2017-09-04 Thread solitone
On Sunday, 3 September 2017 21:33:55 CEST Dejan Jocic wrote: > On 03-09-17, solitone wrote: > > But is there anything that can do code autocomplation, for C++ or Java for > > instance? Like getting the list of methods available for an object, when > > typing a dot, as a

Re: Recommended editor for novice programmers?

2017-09-03 Thread solitone
On Saturday, 2 September 2017 15:01:37 CEST The Wanderer wrote: > I'm not sure what you would qualify as a "programming editor", but what > I use to write code (when nano won't do) is geany, which is a graphical > syntax-highlighting editor with various other features useful to a > programmer.

Re: macbook keyboard layout

2017-08-25 Thread solitone
On Friday, 25 August 2017 01:22:09 CEST Gene Heskett wrote: > Works fine ~ for EN, and utf8 here. On a MacBookPro 12,1 with italian keyboard works fine as well ~ (right-alt + ì) -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁Sent from my brain using neurons fueled by glucose. ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ ⠈⠳⣄

Re: which display manager would you suggest for Stretch?

2017-08-25 Thread solitone
On Thursday, 24 August 2017 02:37:41 CEST kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > gdm3 is the most the popular display manager with lightdm, sddm trailing > behind. I choose kde desktop during installation, and sddm whas installed. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁Sent from my brain using neurons fueled by glucose.

Re: Hibernate in stretch

2017-08-10 Thread solitone
On Saturday, 29 July 2017 18:40:58 CEST solitone wrote: > From what I gather, the patch was included in kernel version 4.8-rc2: > > $ git describe bafb2f7d4755bf1571bd5e9a03b97f3fc4fe69ae > v4.8-rc2-641-gbafb2f7d4755 > > The kernel shipped with Stretch is version 4.9.30: >

Re: Kernel development cycle

2017-08-09 Thread solitone
On Tuesday, 1 August 2017 14:15:52 CEST solitone wrote: > Let's consider a practical example, the history of patch > "drm/i915/execlists: Reset RING registers upon resume". This patch was > committed 641 commits after version 4.8-rc2: > > $ git describe bafb2f7d4755bf1

Kernel development cycle

2017-08-01 Thread solitone
Hi, please help me understand some general practices involved in kernel development. Specifically, I'm interested in how patches are included or reverted in different kernel versions. Let's consider a practical example, the history of patch "drm/i915/execlists: Reset RING registers upon

Re: Hibernate in stretch

2017-07-29 Thread solitone
On Wednesday, 26 July 2017 21:48:30 CEST solitone wrote: > I haven't yet figured out which kernel version contains such patch, though. > BTW, I have also submitted a bug to debian, pointing out that solution, but > it doesn't seem to have been considered yet: > https://bugs.debian

Re: Hibernate in stretch

2017-07-26 Thread solitone
On Thursday, 27 July 2017 00:05:08 CEST Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > What I'm remembering is that I would > close the lid outside, unplug it, bring it inside, plug it back in, > and open the lid hoping it would wake up as we expect = right where I > left off out on the porch. > > Quite a few times

Re: Hibernate in stretch

2017-07-26 Thread solitone
On Wednesday, 26 July 2017 04:15:06 CEST behrad eslami wrote: > Yes it is. its new for me. after upgrade i have these error > > On Tuesday, 25 July 2017 13:13:41 CEST behrad eslami wrote: > > Jul 23 20:23:45 laptop kernel: [ 90.862717] [drm] GPU HANG: ecode > > 9:0:0xd23b808f, in chromium

Re: Hibernate in stretch

2017-07-25 Thread solitone
On Tuesday, 25 July 2017 13:13:41 CEST behrad eslami wrote: > Jul 23 20:23:45 laptop kernel: [ 90.862717] [drm] GPU HANG: ecode > 9:0:0xd23b808f, in chromium [1484], reason: Hang on render ring, action: > resetJul 23 20:23:45 laptop kernel: [ 90.862721] [drm] GPU hangs can > indicate a bug

Re: From dual- to single-boot

2017-07-24 Thread solitone
On Tuesday, 25 July 2017 14:25:59 CEST Joel Rees wrote: > Can you boot without the Mac OS partition? I'm using grub to boot debian. To boot MacOS, I need to press the option key (⌥) to start up to Apple's Startup Manager, rather than grub. Startup Manager allows me to choose the MacOS

Re: From dual- to single-boot

2017-07-24 Thread solitone
On Monday, 24 July 2017 21:01:37 CEST Pascal Hambourg wrote: > AFAIK, parted (the command line program) cannot move the start of a > partition and its contents. Only gparted (the GUI program) can. Yes, Pascal, you're right: > Note that after version 2.4, the following commands were removed: >

From dual- to single-boot

2017-07-24 Thread solitone
I never use MacOs, so I want to just keep debian, so at least I'll put its 22 GB space to better use. I used to keep it just for some sporadic firmware update, but frankly I don't think I'll need this again in the future. The issue is that MacOs is at the start of the disc: ~$ ~$ sudo

Re: Hibernate in stretch

2017-07-23 Thread solitone
On Sunday, 23 July 2017 09:30:30 CEST Hans wrote: > I do not want to mourne or cause any anger, and I do not expect it to be > fixed at all. Remember, people do this in theire spare and free time, so we > cannot expect, to be it fixed at all. Well, great things have been developed in this spare

Re: Hibernate in stretch

2017-07-23 Thread solitone
On Sunday, 23 July 2017 08:58:41 CEST solitone wrote: > I'll file a new bug on bugs.freedesktop.org, since there are no open bugs on > that. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101884 -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁Sent from my brain using neurons fueled by glucose. ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ ⠈⠳⣄

Re: Hibernate in stretch

2017-07-23 Thread solitone
On Sunday, 23 July 2017 02:54:06 CEST behrad eslami wrote: > I guess this is VGA kernel driver bug but i cant resolv it > https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2017/02/msg00210.html > https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2017/02/msg00211.html > [3.100956] [drm] Finished loading

Re: Hibernate in stretch

2017-07-22 Thread solitone
On Thursday, 20 July 2017 02:28:32 CEST behrad eslami wrote: > I increase swap and have same problem yet. Did you increased the swap partition, or are you using a swap file? -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁Sent from my brain using neurons fueled by glucose. ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ ⠈⠳⣄

Re: Hibernate in stretch

2017-07-22 Thread solitone
On my previous laptop with jessie hibernation didn't work. On my current laptop with stretch hibernation doesn't work either. During the several updates that interested stretch in the last few months, the symptoms changed, and I don't remember exactly their evolution at the moment. Currently,

Re: apt-get autoclean configuration

2017-07-21 Thread solitone
On Friday, 21 July 2017 16:09:15 CEST Curt wrote: > The man page sends you to '/usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz', > where the boolean values are exclusively (I think) "true" or "false", as > are all the default values in the /etc/apt/apt/apt.conf.d "fragments." I see, but what

Android Studio and AVDs

2017-07-20 Thread solitone
Is anyone using Android Studio on stretch? Have you managed to run apps on an Android Virtual Device (AVD)? I've tried everything. The emulator seems to start, I get no errors, and the emulated device appears on my screen (at least when using software accelaration, otherwise it doesn't start

Re: apt-get autoclean configuration

2017-07-20 Thread solitone
On Thursday, 20 July 2017 08:25:41 CEST David Wright wrote: > On Wed 19 Jul 2017 at 16:21:57 (+0200), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 03:48:03PM +0200, solitone wrote: > > > On Wednesday, 19 July 2017 15:22:33 CEST to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > >

Re: WLAN connection: 5 GHz priority

2017-07-20 Thread solitone
On Thursday, 20 July 2017 10:05:56 CEST Dan Purgert wrote: > That being said, most network admins worth anything will be approaching > the problem from their side too (e.g. with band steering), in order to > "encourage" client devices to connect to the 5 GHz signal. I've tried the band steering

WLAN connection: 5 GHz priority

2017-07-20 Thread solitone
Although this issue is widely discussed, but I didn't find a way to solve it. My access point provides both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands, and I'd like my WiFi adapter chose 5 GHz over 2.4. To accomplish this, I reduced the AP's TX power for 2.4 GHz, and increased that for 5 GHz. The point is that

Re: apt-get autoclean configuration

2017-07-20 Thread solitone
On Wednesday, 19 July 2017 23:02:04 CEST to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > There is this function StringToBool in apt-pkg/contrib/strutl.cc: > > [...] > > |// Check for positives > |if (strcasecmp(Text.c_str(),"no") == 0 || > | > |strcasecmp(Text.c_str(),"false") == 0 || > |

Re: apt-get autoclean configuration

2017-07-19 Thread solitone
On Wednesday, 19 July 2017 15:22:33 CEST to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > echo "APT::Clean-Installed no;" > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/no-autoclean I've set it to "false", not to "no". The manual says "off", but didn't find any occurence of "on" and "off" in the other apt config files, just "true" or

apt-get autoclean configuration

2017-07-19 Thread solitone
>From 'man apt-get': autoclean (and the auto-clean alias since 1.1) [...] The configuration option APT::Clean-Installed will prevent installed packages from being erased if it is set to off. I've just lost some cached package files, although they are

Re: Connessione wifi

2017-07-18 Thread solitone
Usually the language used here is english. I translate your question, so more people can understand it. On Tuesday, 18 July 2017 07:52:18 CEST Gabriele Cossetti wrote: > I've just installed Debian 9.0 on a IBM PC 386. I have the a > Sitecom N150 USB WI-FI adapter that won't work after

Re: How to use Garmin Connect with Debian 7?

2017-07-12 Thread solitone
On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 11:55:25 CEST Joerg Desch wrote: > I could use the Windows license key of the dead > windows notebook and run it inside VirtualBox. Do you know if the USB > connection to the Garmin devices runs through the virtual host? Yes, I used to have a VirtualBox instance on my

Re: How to use Garmin Connect with Debian 7?

2017-07-12 Thread solitone
On Wednesday, 12 July 2017 11:07:39 CEST Joerg Desch wrote: > I'm using a Garmin Edge 520 for my bycicle and a (new) Forerunner for > running. How can I access Garmin Connect without installing the Windows > tools? > > The Garmin Edge 520 is already registered to my Garmin Connect account. > I've

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-11 Thread solitone
On Sunday, 11 June 2017 20:06:48 CEST Brian wrote: > if you change your sources.list to use a suitable > one from snapshot.debian.org it will be found. I didn't know that, thanks!

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-11 Thread solitone
On Sunday, 11 June 2017 10:39:25 CEST Dejan Jocic wrote: > In case that you are on stable, perhaps in old stable repository, or its > backports, after you add those to sources.list. No, I'm on stretch, so I'm using the stretch repository: deb http://ftp.it.debian.org/debian/ stretch main

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-11 Thread solitone
On Sunday, 11 June 2017 08:39:25 CEST Lisi Reisz wrote: > please, Solitone, let me and the list know what I am supposed to have said. No Lisi, I don't have more info than the list regarding what you supposedly said on this topic :-) In any case, I've just removed the hold on the 4 chrom

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-10 Thread solitone
--- Begin Message --- UTC Time: June 10, 2017 9:55 AM From: solit...@mail.com On Saturday, 10 June 2017 05:45:22 CEST Fungi4All wrote: > apt > > Hold a package: > sudo apt-mark hold > > Remove the hold: > sudo apt-mark unhold That's ok. I can then: $ sudo apt upgrade to upgrade that package to

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-10 Thread solitone
On Saturday, 10 June 2017 05:45:22 CEST Fungi4All wrote: > apt > > Hold a package: > sudo apt-mark hold > > Remove the hold: > sudo apt-mark unhold That's ok. I can then: $ sudo apt upgrade to upgrade that package to the latest available version. But my question was: once I've upgrated it,

Re: Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-10 Thread solitone
On Friday, 9 June 2017 23:38:40 CEST Jimmy Johnson wrote: > I've never downgrade using apt, but with synaptic it's not too hard, Hi Jimmy, and thanks for your reply. I'm under Plasma Desktop, so I don't have synaptic--I use KDE's Discover. Although I use it only for automatic updates. For

Downgrading specific packages with apt

2017-06-09 Thread solitone
I am on Debian 9 (scratch), and I have a MacBook Pro 12,1 with retina display. Few days ago I upgraded Google Chrome from version 58 to 59: google-chrome-stable:amd64 (58.0.3029.110-1, 59.0.3071.86-1) This new version no longer supports HiDPI. As a result everything in Chrome is so small that I

Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation

2017-04-20 Thread solitone
On Thursday, 20 April 2017 08:41:26 CEST Kent West wrote: > I installed on a Dell (don't recall the model number now, but it's a recent > model), and I found that the firmware appears to be buggy, in that you can > specify a UEFI installation to boot, and it shows the setting you enter, > but it

Re: Debian hardware compatibility

2017-04-20 Thread solitone
On Thursday, 20 April 2017 08:07:51 CEST Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 03:12:33PM +1000, John Elliot V wrote: > > Will stretch RC3 smoothly transition to stable (with an apt-get > > dist-upgrade) when stretch is released? > > Yes. In fact there's a very strong possibility you

Re: Secure boot - Uefi installation

2017-04-17 Thread solitone
On Tuesday, 18 April 2017 00:30:47 CEST Karagkiaouris Diamantis wrote: > do i have to disable the secure boot and then proceed with uefi > installation? Yes, you should disable secure boot. I had to do this when I installed Jessie on an HP UEFI laptop.

Re: [SOLVED] System broken after yesterday's upgrade

2017-04-14 Thread solitone
On Thursday, 13 April 2017 12:44:06 CEST solitone wrote: > I tried and reset NVRAM, a nonvolatile random-access memory that > Macs use to store certain settings like sound volume, display resolution, > and (I realise only now) startup disk selection.. and GRUB doesn't start > any long

Re: System broken after yesterday's upgrade

2017-04-13 Thread solitone
On Thursday, 13 April 2017 11:02:06 CEST solitone wrote: > Apparenlty the only way I can restore functioning of the integrated keyboard > and trackpad is by booting up with an external usb keyboard and an external > usb mouse plugged in. I have the usual issues in grub and duri

Re: System broken after yesterday's upgrade

2017-04-13 Thread solitone
On Thursday, 13 April 2017 11:20:34 CEST Michael Lange wrote: > Another thought: if that is possible, have you tried to boot into a live > system, just to rule out a hardware issue? I had used Apple Diagnostics to perform a hardware check, and nothing wrong was found. After that, I tried and

Re: System broken after yesterday's upgrade

2017-04-13 Thread solitone
On Thursday, 13 April 2017 00:27:22 CEST Michael Lange wrote: > I would try to install a different kernel (if possible with external > keyboard) and boot into that one, if the problem disappears the culprit is > most likely the kernel. I managed to boot into the older kernel that I still had in

Re: System broken after yesterday's upgrade

2017-04-13 Thread solitone
On Thursday, 13 April 2017 09:53:05 CEST Dejan Jocic wrote: > If you have old kernel, you do not have to choose it in the GRUB menu during > boot, you can set up your GRUB to boot from it automatically. I have a submenu entry in my grub.cfg: solitone@alan:~$ grep --color menu /boo

Re: System broken after yesterday's upgrade

2017-04-13 Thread solitone
On Thursday, 13 April 2017 01:23:02 CEST Dejan Jocic wrote: > He should have old kernel still installed, right? If that is the case, > he could simply boot with old kernel. Yes, I still have 4.9.0-1-amd64. The point is even in the GRUB menu screen my keyboard no longer works well, which is

Re: System broken after yesterday's upgrade

2017-04-13 Thread solitone
On Wednesday, 12 April 2017 22:29:25 CEST Mart van de Wege wrote: > It's USB-related, so I'd say either the kernel package or udev. Ok, thanks. These are the related packages that were upgrated: linux-image-4.9.0-2-amd64:amd64 (4.9.13-1, 4.9.18-1) udev:amd64 (232-19, 232-22) libudev1:amd64

Re: System broken after yesterday's upgrade

2017-04-12 Thread solitone
On Wednesday, 12 April 2017 19:55:12 CEST Jochen Spieker wrote: > I'd write a bug report. Your e-mail is a pretty good start. To Debian BTS? Related to the kernel package? I have no clues as to what component might be actually involved. Thanks, Davide

System broken after yesterday's upgrade

2017-04-12 Thread solitone
like before everything started working after some pretty long time. As I said, the culprit might be yesteday's upgrade. Among others, the kernel was upgraded: Start-Date: 2017-04-11 07:33:56 Commandline: packagekit role='update-packages' Requested-By: solitone (1000) Upgrade: [...] li

Re: Laptop reboot and suspend

2017-04-05 Thread solitone
On Wednesday, 5 April 2017 19:49:29 CEST Teemu Likonen wrote: > If hibernation is like s2disk then yes, it works. I don't use it often, > though. Yes, it's suspend to disk. I would use it, but unfortunately in my system it doesn't work (screen does not turn on). Ciao

Re: Laptop reboot and suspend

2017-04-05 Thread solitone
On Wednesday, 5 April 2017 11:24:12 CEST Teemu Likonen wrote: > My laptop's (Apple Macbook Air) suspend-resume works > well with Debian 8 Does hibernation work as well? I have a MacBook Pro 12,1 with Debian 9 and while suspend does work, I didn't manage to have hibernate working reliably.

Random usb failure at bootup

2017-03-29 Thread solitone
Hi, this morning I experienced a bad issue that worried me for a while, but happily it ended well with no consequences. After resuming from suspend, the monitor was black, and I had to press the power button to hard shutdown the computer. On reboot, the monitor still didn't switch on. I tried

Re: revert package instructions found do not work

2017-02-17 Thread solitone
On Friday, 17 February 2017 03:54:22 CET Felix Miata wrote: > I forgot to hold the non-broken mc version 4.8.17 before upgrading, so want > to revert to the older packages in the cache: > # ll /var/cache/apt/archives/mc* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 510906 May 8 2016 mc_3%3a4.8.17-1_amd64.deb >

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