Re: (deb-cat) Servidor de Caliu fora de linia?

2021-08-03 Thread Aniol Martí
Hola Narcís, On 3/8/21 10:44, Narcis Garcia wrote: Bones, no sé si en aquest grup hi ha algú de Caliu.cat , doncs és per avisar que el servidor on tenen allotjat el web no respon en aquest moment. Salut. Avui i demà el servidor estarà fora de servei per manteniment de les estacions

Re: Updating kernels impossible when /boot is getting full

2021-08-03 Thread Marc Shapiro
Sorry, Stefan.  This was supposed to go to the list. On 8/2/21 11:02 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote: On 8/1/21 9:33 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: So really think hard before splitting off a filesystem outside of volume management. I believe it is more likely to cause problems than it is to avoid

(deb-cat) Servidor de Caliu fora de linia?

2021-08-03 Thread Narcis Garcia
Bones, no sé si en aquest grup hi ha algú de Caliu.cat , doncs és per avisar que el servidor on tenen allotjat el web no respon en aquest moment. Salut. -- __ I'm using this express-made address because personal addresses aren't masked enough at this mail public archive. Public archive

Re: listing initrd content

2021-08-03 Thread David
On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 at 02:03, David wrote: > On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 at 01:45, David Wright wrote: > As the warning says, it and /usr/bin/cryptroot-unlock will go away > if you uninstall 'cryptsetup-initramfs', which is pulled in by 'cryptsetup', > which describes itself as a transitional dummy

Re: Missing some RAM?

2021-08-03 Thread Sven Hartge
local10 wrote: > BIOS-e820: [mem 0x-0x0009c7ff] usable > BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0009f800-0x0009] reserved > BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000f-0x000f] reserved > BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0010-0xafde] usable > BIOS-e820:

Re: burn iso to usb

2021-08-03 Thread Gunnar Gervin
Guys and girls: Thx a lot for crash course/s! I have to let it go a bit; pretty extreme learning portions here. My head gets all wired up. But I have to go this track; for me it's all in the terminal; it's more accurate, always works,& faster. And I remember it way better. Geg On Mon, 2 Aug

Re: Missing some RAM?

2021-08-03 Thread local10
Aug 3, 2021, 10:05 by s...@svenhartge.de: > The PCI memory area is probably to blame here. Also the kernel needs > some memory for itself. > > Please reboot your system and then, as root do: > > dmesg | grep "e820" > > and post the output. That will tell us the memory map of your system and >

Re: Being concise [Re: Iso to Usb]

2021-08-03 Thread Gunnar Gervin
Andy, THX A LOT! To the point; Booting in 32b, running 64. Seen a lot i686, &/or 64b software in it that confused me. Now I may have a solution. If this old (definitely a Mac 2,1): Ever revives from this malstrom. It matters a bit, cos my macbook Pro won't come back in week/s. I have a Debian

Re: ISO to external SSD

2021-08-03 Thread Gunnar Gervin
Dan, 40-50% of my ssd, is that correct For i386 or amd64? If I take both I'll still have 149gb. Interesting. I can do it, because the original need of the ssd evaporated. Thus it's possible to try both into the old mac(hine). But in that list you linked to, are a lot more than those two ISO

Missing some RAM?

2021-08-03 Thread local10
Hi, The "why 1G memory is missing?" thread got me thinking. My PC also seems to be missing hundreds MB of RAM and that's how it's been for years. I have 4*2GB RAM boards so, in theory, I should've had 8GB of RAM but top shows only 7472.2MiB. Even after the MiB to MB conversion there's still

Re: Missing some RAM?

2021-08-03 Thread Sven Hartge
local10 wrote: > The "why 1G memory is missing?" thread got me thinking. My PC also > seems to be missing hundreds MB of RAM and that's how it's been for > years. I have 4*2GB RAM boards so, in theory, I should've had 8GB of > RAM but top shows only 7472.2MiB. Even after the MiB to MB conversion

Re: Missing some RAM?

2021-08-03 Thread local10
Aug 3, 2021, 10:56 by s...@svenhartge.de: > So in the end, we have 2812MB + 4846MB = 7658MB (approx) usable for the > system as a whole. The Kernel and it data structures also take some of > this, so to have ~7400MB as usable memory is not unreasonable. > Thanks for the explanation.

Re: burn iso to usb

2021-08-03 Thread Gunnar Gervin
Nicolas. Will it work if I su into Root ? BR, geg. On Mon, 2 Aug 2021, 22:52 Nicolas George, wrote: > Greg Wooledge (12021-08-02): > > No, that won't work. > > > > https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls#pf53 > > > > If you want to use redirections with sudo, you either need to wrap > > things

Re: why 1G memory is missing?

2021-08-03 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 07:14:32AM +0800, loushanguan2...@sina.com wrote: > Linux debian 4.9.0-13-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 4.9.228-1 (2020-07-05) i686 > GNU/Linux So you are running 32-bit kernel. Will the hardware do 64-bit? What does $ cat /proc/cpuinfo say? You may be able to install

Re: ISO to external SSD

2021-08-03 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-08-03 8:18 a.m., Gunnar Gervin wrote: > Dan, > 40-50% of my ssd, is that correct > For i386 or amd64? If I take both > I'll still have 149gb. Interesting. I can do it, because the original > need of the ssd evaporated. Thus it's possible to try both into the old > mac(hine). But in

Re: ISO to external SSD

2021-08-03 Thread Peter Ehlert
On August 3, 2021 8:17:58 AM Stefan Monnier wrote: Second, the price of spinning disks is such that it makes no sense to buy anything smaller than 4TB, which will fit all this, and 6-8 TB are often a reasonable idea even for single users. You seem to assume a 3½" form factor which either

Re: ISO to external SSD

2021-08-03 Thread Dan Ritter
Gunnar Gervin wrote: > Dan, > 40-50% of my ssd, is that correct > For i386 or amd64? If I take both > I'll still have 149gb. Interesting. I can do it, because the original need > of the ssd evaporated. Thus it's possible to try both into the old > mac(hine). But in that list you linked to, are a

Re: why 1G memory is missing?

2021-08-03 Thread Marco Möller
On 03.08.21 00:42, IL Ka wrote: i have 2 memory slots memtest86+ shows each has 2G, but total is 3G after booting linux, top shows total is 3G why 1 G is missing? Thanks! You probably have 32bit OS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_GB_barrier

Correction: Re: Persistent names for audio devices.

2021-08-03 Thread peter
The Subject of my preceding message was a blunder. System board and PCI sound hardware From: pe...@easthope.ca Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 20:20:16 -0700 > Got sound from the Intel device on the system board. Oddly enough > there was a plastic cover over the sockets on the chassis back.

Re: ISO to external SSD

2021-08-03 Thread Gunnar Gervin
For me, testing distros in an old Mac is way more than enough; I'll burn ISO Images; netinstalls. I agree that it's better to learn fewer things thorough than many quite shallow, good advice Gunnar . On Tue, 3 Aug 2021, 18:18 Stefan Monnier, wrote: > > Second, the price of spinning disks is

Re: 32b upgrade to 64 b; Boot.plist

2021-08-03 Thread Gunnar Gervin
I read a bit of my "questions" put before. WOW, what a MESS!!?!! Is it possible to understand 5%? Hardly. Sorry & trying to improve Gunnar On Fri, 30 Jul 2021, 07:53 Gunnar Gervin, wrote: > Hi beautiful ideals! > Decided to install Virtual Machine & Docker in this 14 year old ex-Macbook. > In

Re: 32b upgrade to 64 b; Boot.plist

2021-08-03 Thread Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside
Hi, On 2021-08-03 12:55 p.m., Gunnar Gervin wrote: > I read a bit of my "questions" put before. WOW, what a MESS!!?!! Is it > possible to understand 5%? > Hardly. Sorry & trying to improve > Gunnar > I've been explaining you this from the beginning and it didn't change much. Maybe saving your

[OFFTOPIC] Mass storage prices and form factor (was: ISO to external SSD)

2021-08-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
Peter Ehlert [2021-08-03 08:27:26] wrote: > On August 3, 2021 8:17:58 AM Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> Second, the price of spinning disks is such that it makes no >>> sense to buy anything smaller than 4TB, which will fit all this, >>> and 6-8 TB are often a reasonable idea even for single users. >>

Re: why 1G memory is missing?

2021-08-03 Thread IL Ka
> > inxi shows that only 3 GB are available as the TOTAL, although it finds > the 4 GB to be physically installed: > $ sudo inxi -m -x > Memory:RAM: total: 2.88 GiB used: 2.11 GiB (73.2%) > Array-1: capacity: 4 GiB slots: 2 EC: None max module size: 2 GiB note: > est. > Device-1: M1 size: 2

Re: 32b upgrade to 64 b; Boot.plist

2021-08-03 Thread Gunnar Gervin
Dan, thx for the best laugh of... me. Bullseye! I'll try my very best. Gunnar PS. The machine seems to recover. DS. On Mon, 2 Aug 2021, 15:58 Dan Ritter, wrote: > Gunnar Gervin wrote: > > I meant > > "& run it all; > > VM, Docker containers, websites in/via a 24/7 Cloud service storage & > >

Re: Updating kernels impossible when /boot is getting full

2021-08-03 Thread Kamil Jońca
David Christensen writes: [...] > > A 500 GB boot partition would be enough for several kernels, etc., on > Debian 10 amd64. OP wrote about 500 _M_ bytes (0.5G), and I can confirm, this is rather little, when trying updating kernels. KJ -- http://stopstopnop.pl/stop_stopnop.pl_o_nas.html

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Mass storage prices and form factor (was: ISO to external SSD)

2021-08-03 Thread Dan Ritter
Stefan Monnier wrote: > > That makes 3½" form factor even more dead than I thought (two 4TB 2½" > drives should offer better performance than one 8GB 3½" drive and use > less space, not sure about power consumption). Erm. You just doubled your failure rate. There are times when that's

Re: why 1G memory is missing?

2021-08-03 Thread loushanguan2015
Thank Andy! my cpu is 32bit i have thought pae can support more than 4G memorybut in fact it can't use full 4G memory hardware $ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 28 model name : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N280 @ 1.66GHz

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Mass storage prices and form factor

2021-08-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
> One cloud storage provider, Backblaze, regularly publishes reports on > harddisk reliability (they obviously have a lot of data on that :-) All of them seem to be 3½" as well. Interesting. It actually looks like the 2½" HDD market has been abandoned: 5 years ago, the largest HDD were 5TB for

Re: why 1G memory is missing?

2021-08-03 Thread IL Ka
> > > That cpu was normally paired with the Intel 945 chipset that can’t support > more than about 3.25GB whether or not it’s 32/64 OS > Yes, and even worse: this CPU doesn't support 64bit OS > model name: Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N280 @ 1.66GHz >> address sizes: 32 bits physical, 32

Re: Help! Thunderbird lost my passwords

2021-08-03 Thread Douglas McGarrett
On 7/19/21 1:15 AM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 19.07.2021 05:13, w...@mgssub.com wrote: I installed tbird 78.12.0 (64-bit)  and it can't find my email passwords. I have browsed signons.sqlite  and the passwords seem to be there in the middle of the db. I have tried to install a prior

Re: Help! Thunderbird lost my passwords

2021-08-03 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 4/8/21 10:03, Douglas McGarrett wrote: a Master Password. What is it, and where is it, and should I need it? go: edit|preferences|privacy& Security and on my screen 'Passwords' is close to the bottom before you start scrolling -- All the best Keith Bainbridge

Re: Help! Thunderbird lost my passwords

2021-08-03 Thread Jude DaShiell
All passwords need to be written and secured. First by being part of a book or being in a specific place in a hard copy file. Second, encrypted before written down. For anyone to be able to use any of those passwords even if found they'd have to know the encryption system you used.

Re: why 1G memory is missing?

2021-08-03 Thread Jeremy Hendricks
That cpu was normally paired with the Intel 945 chipset that can’t support more than about 3.25GB whether or not it’s 32/64 OS On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 7:24 PM wrote: > Thank Andy! my cpu is 32bit > i have thought pae can support more than 4G memory > but in fact it can't use full 4G memory

Re: timedatectl DHCP NTP Server

2021-08-03 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 22:16:12 +0100 basti wrote: > As I can see now timedatectl seems *not* > using the NTP Server provide by DHCP. I have configure a NTP server > in LAN. Are you using NetworkManager? Out of the box, it does not pick up the relevant information from the dhcp client. There are

Re: why 1G memory is missing?

2021-08-03 Thread Jeremy Hendricks
Yup. That too. On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 7:42 PM IL Ka wrote: > >> That cpu was normally paired with the Intel 945 chipset that can’t >> support more than about 3.25GB whether or not it’s 32/64 OS >> > > Yes, and even worse: this CPU doesn't support 64bit OS > >> model name : Intel(R) Atom(TM)

Re: gnome-shell freezing

2021-08-03 Thread Sylvain Archenault
Any idea where i can look? top doesn't show anything and I dont know which process i should trace. Attached the last few lines of /var/log/messages before the freeze. On 7/31/21 8:53 AM, Sylvain Archenault wrote: > Hi > > Recently, my gnome session has been freezing a bit randomly - but it >

Re: Updating kernels impossible when /boot is getting full

2021-08-03 Thread David Wright
On Sun 01 Aug 2021 at 21:55:15 (+0200), Kamil Jońca wrote: > David Christensen writes: > > [...] > > > > A 500 GB boot partition would be enough for several kernels, etc., on > > Debian 10 amd64. > > OP wrote about 500 _M_ bytes (0.5G), and I can confirm, this is rather > little, when trying

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Mass storage prices and form factor (was: ISO to external SSD)

2021-08-03 Thread Linux-Fan
Stefan Monnier writes: Peter Ehlert [2021-08-03 08:27:26] wrote: > On August 3, 2021 8:17:58 AM Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> Second, the price of spinning disks is such that it makes no >>> sense to buy anything smaller than 4TB, which will fit all this, >>> and 6-8 TB are often a reasonable

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Mass storage prices and form factor (was: ISO to external SSD)

2021-08-03 Thread tomas
On Tue, Aug 03, 2021 at 01:11:16PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: [...] Nice line up. > I wonder what kind of drives are used nowadays in big datacenters (and > whether the prices they pay for them looks anything like the ones > above). One cloud storage provider, Backblaze, regularly publishes

Re: Updating kernels impossible when /boot is getting full

2021-08-03 Thread David Christensen
On 8/1/21 12:55 PM, Kamil Jońca wrote: David Christensen writes: [...] A 500 GB boot partition would be enough for several kernels, etc., on Debian 10 amd64. OP wrote about 500 _M_ bytes (0.5G), Please see: > On 8/1/21 3:29 PM, David Christensen wrote: >> I see a typo in my post --

Re: ISO to external SSD

2021-08-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Second, the price of spinning disks is such that it makes no > sense to buy anything smaller than 4TB, which will fit all this, > and 6-8 TB are often a reasonable idea even for single users. You seem to assume a 3½" form factor which either requires a "large" desktop or an external enclosure.