Re: Debian bullseye

[deloptes]

Greg Wooledge wrote:

> So you're also below the minimum memory requirement for a no-desktop
> system (220 MB vs. 256 MB), but it's not by a *lot*.  So you're probably
> just scraping by.  This hardware is past its end of life, I would say.
> Anything you get it to do at all is just a bonus.

But one could tweak this and that and fit to the system size.

The firewall here has minimal installation and 256MB memory + 4GB compact
flash card of which 770MB are used (openvpn and shorewall)

OP could afford a RPi4 for approx 50,- and be better off at the end

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Re: Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement

[deloptes]

Dan Ritter wrote:

> If you print in black/white more often than you need color, you could
> still use a local print shop or get things mailed to you for those
> occasions - photos and posters, especially, but basically any document.
> 
> In that case, get a monochrome laser printer. I recommend a
> Brother with all of the following features:

I have always used HP laser and now I have 402dn (double side + network). It
cost around 200,- and works great (2y since I have it)
Before this I used HP laser 5L which I used over 15y.

I also go to the local copy shop for printing in color (once every 3-4y).

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Re: Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement

[James H. H. Lampert]

Personally, I wouldn't accept an inkjet as a gift. You use them like 
crazy, and you go through absurdly overpriced cartridges like crazy. You 
*don't* use them like crazy, and those absurdly overpriced cartridges 
clog, and you still go through them like crazy. And the pages come out 
soggy, and are even more vulnerable to water damage than what I write 
with my fountain pens. As far as I'm concerned, the only thing they're 
good for is edible printing, and for what little of that I do (typically 
one page every few months), it's far cheaper to email an image to the 
local cake supply, and have them do it.


(The first rule of edible printing is you don't run anything but edible 
ink in that printer. The second rule of edible printing is you *DO NOT* 
run anything but edible ink in that printer. And you still don't talk 
about Fight Club.)


I have had three monochrome laser printers (an HP 4ML, followed by an HP 
2100M, which I then replaced with a rebuilt 2100M, which I still have. 
And I've had two color laser printers, a Samsung CLP-315, bought new and 
used until it wore out, followed by a rebuilt Samsung CLP-415, which I 
still have.


And I have an ALPS MicroDry, that I bought used, after they'd been 
discontinued.


Before the Samsungs, bought a Xerox color laser. It went back to Staples 
the day after it arrived: It was a lot bulkier in real life than it was 
in the pictures, it made the devil's own noise when it was running, and 
it claimed to be a PostScript machine, but curled up its toes and said 
"helll meee" if I actually fed it a PostScript data stream. 
That's not to say that the Samsungs will do anything if fed PostScript, 
but at least they were relatively inexpensive, as well as being almost 
as compact and quiet as my 2100M.


What I've seen of HP lasers more recent than the 2000-series has not 
impressed me. That's a major reason why I went with a rebuilt 2100M, 
instead of something more recent. That and the fact that being able to 
accept and RIP a PostScript data stream, fed through a Centronics port, 
is a non-negotiable requirement for me: it's either that, or I have to 
dump the data stream to a file, distill it into a PDF, and print that.


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Re: Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement

[jeremy ardley]

On 18/09/2021 7:05 am, Dan Ritter wrote:

Charles Curley wrote:

Requirements:

* I print rarely, and I do use color. The carts on the L7700 tend to
   go bad before they empty, Inkjet or laser? Or other?

* Buster and Bullseye should both support any recommendations. I don't
   use Windows.

I've had good results with HP over the years, and they support Linux
well.

Reccomendations?

I have standard recommendations. In your case, I would ask: do
you need a printer?

If it's convenient for you to go to a local print shop, it will
be cheaper to use their high quality printers. It looks like
there are five places like that in town. (I looked at your web
page.)

If you print in black/white more often than you need color, you could
still use a local print shop or get things mailed to you for those
occasions - photos and posters, especially, but basically any document.

In that case, get a monochrome laser printer. I recommend a
Brother with all of the following features:

- BRScript/3 (their PostScript emulator)
- ethernet jack
- duplex

Prices start at about $100.

Other people can direct you to reliable color laser printers.

-dsr-


I agree totally on using laser over inkjet. The cost per page and print 
speed are far superior for laser.


Worse is inkjet life. They inevitably clog or jam after only a few 
hundred pages.


I do find that labels and envelopes usually don't fare well in cheap 
lasers. That is the advantage inkjets have. I worked around this by 
buying a cheap thermal label printer on aliexpress and wrote a linux 
driver for it. My cost per small label is 0.5c and large 2c. My toner 
cost per laser page is around 0.5c so maybe 1c per page for life of 
printer (fuji-xerox)

Re: Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement

[Dan Ritter]

Charles Curley wrote: 
> Requirements:
> 
> * I print rarely, and I do use color. The carts on the L7700 tend to
>   go bad before they empty, Inkjet or laser? Or other?
> 
> * Buster and Bullseye should both support any recommendations. I don't
>   use Windows.
> 
> I've had good results with HP over the years, and they support Linux
> well.
> 
> Reccomendations?

I have standard recommendations. In your case, I would ask: do
you need a printer?

If it's convenient for you to go to a local print shop, it will
be cheaper to use their high quality printers. It looks like
there are five places like that in town. (I looked at your web
page.)

If you print in black/white more often than you need color, you could
still use a local print shop or get things mailed to you for those
occasions - photos and posters, especially, but basically any document.

In that case, get a monochrome laser printer. I recommend a
Brother with all of the following features:

- BRScript/3 (their PostScript emulator)
- ethernet jack
- duplex

Prices start at about $100. 

Other people can direct you to reliable color laser printers.

-dsr-

Re: Debian 11: evince and apparmor flood kernel log

[Klaus Singvogel]

Roger Price wrote:
> In Debian 11, evince has an appamor profile which floods the kernel log with
> hundreds of messages of the style:

Not only at Debian 11, even Debian 10 has it.

[...]
>  (evince:2869): GVFS-WARNING **: 22:18:18.510: can't init metadata tree 
> /mnt/home/rprice/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/home: open: Permission denied
[...]
> Is there some way of calming evince+appamor?

The location of your home is uncommon (as on my side).

Fix: edit /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/home.d/site.local

Best regards,
Klaus.
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Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement

[Charles Curley]

I have an HP Officejet Pro L7700, which is starting to show its age.
Also HP has discontinued the standard size cartridges. I can get the
large ones.

First question:

I print rarely. Inkjet or laser? Or other? The carts on the L7700 tend
to go bad before they empty, 

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Your Thoughts on Printer Replacement

[Charles Curley]

I have an HP Officejet Pro L7700, which is starting to show its age.
Also HP has discontinued the standard size cartridges. I can get the
large ones. I suspect I could buy a printer for what four large
cartridges would cost me.

Requirements:

* I print rarely, and I do use color. The carts on the L7700 tend to
  go bad before they empty, Inkjet or laser? Or other?

* Buster and Bullseye should both support any recommendations. I don't
  use Windows.

I've had good results with HP over the years, and they support Linux
well.

Reccomendations?

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Re: Mutt/Neomutt and mailcap

[Jonathan Dowland]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 07:43:25AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:

Unfortunately, it breaks in Bourne-family shells.

snip

In Bourne/POSIX/bash, semicolon is a command terminator or separator,
and may not appear by itself, or at the start of a command.  It may
appear at the end.


Good catch! I never actually tried a plain ';', so I hadn't hit that.
When I appropriated the idea, I prefixed it with ':' in order to get
my hostname into the line too (: hostname ;), side-stepping the issue.

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Re: Debian bullseye

[Charles Curley]

On Fri, 17 Sep 2021 17:10:49 -0400
Greg Wooledge  wrote:

> This is an astonishingly low amount of memory by today's standards.
> 
>  says:

I am very much aware of this, thank you.

> This hardware is past its end of life, I would say.
> Anything you get it to do at all is just a bonus.

Yeah. I will expect your expert advice when the time comes to replace
these boxen.

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Re: Debian bullseye

[Greg Wooledge]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 02:36:44PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> I am seeing similar. I have two Lenovo T-61s, ans several FIT-PCs
> (i686, 220Mi physical memory, no GUI). All are noticeably slower.

This is an astonishingly low amount of memory by today's standards.

 says:

  You must have at least 485MB of memory and 920MB of hard disk space
  to perform a normal installation. Note that these are fairly minimal
  numbers. For more realistic figures, see Section 3.4, “Meeting
  Minimum Hardware Requirements”.

You have *half* the minimum required amount of memory to perform an
installation, according to the official documentation.  (Which isn't
to say that installation is necessarily impossible; people do difficult
things all the time.)

Also, you said "slower", which implies that you previously ran some
other version of Debian (or Linux) on this same machine.  If this was
an upgrade, then you're skipping the relatively high memory requirements
of the installer.

 says:

  Install Type  RAM (minimum)   RAM (recommended)   Hard Drive
  No desktop256 megabytes   512 megabytes   2 gigabytes
  With Desktop  1 gigabytes 2 gigabytes 10 gigabytes

So you're also below the minimum memory requirement for a no-desktop
system (220 MB vs. 256 MB), but it's not by a *lot*.  So you're probably
just scraping by.  This hardware is past its end of life, I would say.
Anything you get it to do at all is just a bonus.

Re: Debian 11: evince and apparmor flood kernel log

[Reco]

Hi.

On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 10:54:32PM +0200, Roger Price wrote:
> I solved the problem by switching to mupdf, but mupdf is not as complete as 
> evince.

It's customary to add "YMMV" to such statements. Just saying.

> Is there some way of calming evince+appamor?

Pick whatever suits you:

Quick-and-dirty, but wrong way (apparmor is good, do not disable it
unless you know what you're doing):

/usr/sbin/aa-disable /usr/bin/evince


Easy, but wrong way (aa-logprof is only good for user-defined profiles,
and you *will* get complicated upgrades):

aa-logprof
# accept whatever the thing will show you


A correct way, but it may require more than one iteration:

echo '/mnt/home/rprice/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/home r,' >> 
/etc/apparmor.d/local/usr.bin/evince

aa-complain /usr/bin/evince
aa-enforce /usr/bin/evince

Reco

Re: Debian bullseye

[Charles Curley]

On Sat, 18 Sep 2021 07:54:50 +1200
"Dawn Dorsett"  wrote:

> I have been using Debian for several years and have just upgraded to
> Bullseye and I wish I hadn't.  It has some bug fixes in it (which
> were more like minor inconveniences anyway), but Bullseye is SLOW.

I am seeing similar. I have two Lenovo T-61s, ans several FIT-PCs
(i686, 220Mi physical memory, no GUI). All are noticeably slower.

When I get a chance, I'll follow IL Ka 's
suggestions; thank you.

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Debian 11: evince and apparmor flood kernel log

[Roger Price]

In Debian 11, evince has an appamor profile which floods the kernel log with 
hundreds of messages of the style:


 [24216.325764] audit: type=1400 audit(1631892398.580:255): apparmor="DENIED"
  operation="open" profile="/usr/bin/evince"
  name="/mnt/home/rprice/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/home" pid=2229
  comm="pool-evince" requested_mask="r" denied_mask="r" fsuid=2108 ouid=2108

and floods the console with messages such as

 (evince:2869): GVFS-WARNING **: 22:18:18.510: can't init metadata tree 
/mnt/home/rprice/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/home: open: Permission denied
 ** (evince:2869): WARNING **: 22:18:18.510: Error setting file metadata: can’t 
open metadata tree

Command ls -l /mnt/home/rprice/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/home reports

 -rw--- 1 rprice cs-users 800 Aug 18 10:48 
/mnt/home/rprice/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/home

Quoting file /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.evince:

 # evince is not written with application confinement in mind and is designed to
 # operate within a trusted desktop session where anything running within the
 # user's session is trusted.

I solved the problem by switching to mupdf, but mupdf is not as complete as 
evince.


Is there some way of calming evince+appamor?

Roger

Re: Debian bullseye

[piorunz]

On 17/09/2021 21:30, IL Ka wrote:


I have been using Debian for several years and have just upgraded to
Bullseye and I wish I hadn't.  It has some bug fixes in it (which
were more like minor inconveniences anyway), but Bullseye is SLOW.
Its getting to be as bad as Windows and takes forever to start up.

This may help:


You presumed he asked how to fix this. HE DIDN'T. Don't bother.

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Re: Debian bullseye

[Greg Wooledge]

On Sat, Sep 18, 2021 at 07:54:50AM +1200, Dawn Dorsett wrote:
> I have been using Debian for several years and have just upgraded to Bullseye
> and I wish I hadn't.  It has some bug fixes in it (which were more like minor
> inconveniences anyway), but Bullseye is SLOW.  Its getting to be as bad as
> Windows and takes forever to start up.  Libreoffice is particularly slow, and
> some days I see a delay between hitting the keyboard and the results
> appearing on the screen.  None of this was a problem with earlier releases.

This sounds very much like missing support for your video hardware
(either firmware or drivers or both).

If you'd like to fix the problem, instead of simply declaring Debian
to be "slow", you could start investigating.  Identify your video chipset
(using lspci -nn).  See whether any video firmware is desired but missing
(dmesg | grep -i firmware).  Try googling your video device with keywords
like "debian" or "linux" and see what steps other users have tried to
overcome the same problem with the same device -- it's highly likely
that you are not the first person to have the problem, after all.

Re: Debian bullseye

[IL Ka]

>
>
> I have been using Debian for several years and have just upgraded to
> Bullseye and I wish I hadn't.  It has some bug fixes in it (which were more
> like minor inconveniences anyway), but Bullseye is SLOW.  Its getting to be
> as bad as Windows and takes forever to start up.


This may help:
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-analyze.html



> Libreoffice is particularly slow, and some days I see a delay between
> hitting the keyboard and the results appearing on the screen.  None of this
> was a problem with earlier releases. So right now I'm pretty pissed off
> with Debian
>

vmstat(8) and top(8) may be used to track that.

Pay attention on Cpu% "sy" in top, it shouldn't be high. New kernel -- new
drivers. You may have hardware compatibility problems (or interrupt storm).

Also, check your drive health with smartmontools (bad drive may cause bad
performance):
https://packages.debian.org/buster/smartmontools

You can also measure its performance with fio
https://packages.debian.org/buster/fio

Re: Debian bullseye

[piorunz]

On 17/09/2021 20:54, Dawn Dorsett wrote:

I have been using Debian for several years and have just upgraded to Bullseye 
and I wish I hadn't.  It has some bug fixes in it (which were more like minor 
inconveniences anyway), but Bullseye is SLOW.  Its getting to be as bad as 
Windows and takes forever to start up.  Libreoffice is particularly slow, and 
some days I see a delay between hitting the keyboard and the results appearing 
on the screen.  None of this was a problem with earlier releases. So right now 
I'm pretty pissed off with Debian.

Regards,
_Dawn Dorsett_.



Okay. You shared your useless opinion. Bullseye is not slow, I disagree.
Now, as you didn't asked any questions, go away.

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Debian bullseye

[Dawn Dorsett]

I have been using Debian for several years and have just upgraded to Bullseye 
and I wish I hadn't.  It has some bug fixes in it (which were more like minor 
inconveniences anyway), but Bullseye is SLOW.  Its getting to be as bad as 
Windows and takes forever to start up.  Libreoffice is particularly slow, and 
some days I see a delay between hitting the keyboard and the results appearing 
on the screen.  None of this was a problem with earlier releases. So right now 
I'm pretty pissed off with Debian.

Regards,
_Dawn Dorsett_.

Starting a new thread by replying [was: (unable to start a new discussion)...] but not my home network...

[tomas]

On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 12:25:00PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:

[...]

> Guilty as charged.  :-(
> 
> 
> Using Thunderbird, clicking "Reply List" and changing the Subject to
> "new subject [was: old subject]" is NOT the way to do it.  Clicking
> "Write", and cutting and pasting the Subject and/or body into a new
> message is what I should have done.

If you are starting an all-new thread, don't forget to also remove
the "In-Reply-To:" and possibly "References:" headers (for -- heh
reference, here are the ones from the mail you sent):

  References: 
  <9780563.fES1ZbLj8h@protheus2>
  <20210916074053.m2nv7ws6ir2pyjfv@acr13.nuvreauspam>
  
  <2f96483f-abb3-bf01-79d4-8db06e063...@yahoo.com>
  
  <20210916214855.461097e4@jhegaala.localdomain>
  <17092021093304.02d83dd33...@desktop.copernicus.org.uk>
  In-Reply-To: <17092021093304.02d83dd33...@desktop.copernicus.org.uk>

Civilised mail user agents use those to thread their threads.

Cheers
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New thread vs. changed Subject line (was Re: (unable to start a new discussion) Re: Can surf the internet, but not my home network...)

[The Wanderer]

On 2021-09-17 at 15:25, David Christensen wrote:

> On 9/17/21 1:46 AM, Brian wrote:
> 
>> However, a new discussion should be started in a*new*  thread, not
>> plonked willy-nilly into an existing thread. This is the second
>> time recently that someone has done that. The first time it
>> involved  an experienced user!
> 
> Guilty as charged.  :-(
> 
> Using Thunderbird, clicking "Reply List" and changing the Subject to
> "new subject [was: old subject]" is NOT the way to do it.  Clicking
> "Write", and cutting and pasting the Subject and/or body into a new
> message is what I should have done.

I'm not so sure.

I don't recall the exact case at hand here, but generally, if the new
topic bears a close enough derived relation from the older one that it
makes sense to use that "Was: [old subject]" notation in the Subject
line, then IMO replying in-place *is* the correct way to do it. (Barring
specific, case-dependent reasons otherwise.)

That Subject-line notation is for the case when the topic of the thread
has drifted, and you're adjusting the Subject line in your reply to
reflect the new topic, but you're still going to be quoting the previous
message in order to respond to it.

If that's not what you're doing - if you're starting a new topic
entirely, that bears no particular relation to the other message,
including not quoting its contents - then using that type of
Subject-line notation doesn't make sense, and neither does starting your
message via a "reply" action.

However, if that *is* what you're doing, then not only is that not
inherently a reason to start a new thread from scratch, but IMO doing so
would usually be inappropriate - because it separates the new message
from proximity to the one to which its contents are a reply, thus making
it harder to see the full context of the new message.

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Re: (unable to start a new discussion) Re: Can surf the internet, but not my home network...

[David Christensen]

On 9/17/21 1:46 AM, Brian wrote:

However, a new discussion should be started in a*new*  thread, not
plonked willy-nilly into an existing thread. This is the second time
recently that someone has done that. The first time it involved  an
experienced user!



Guilty as charged.  :-(


Using Thunderbird, clicking "Reply List" and changing the Subject to 
"new subject [was: old subject]" is NOT the way to do it.  Clicking 
"Write", and cutting and pasting the Subject and/or body into a new 
message is what I should have done.



David

Re: (unable to start a new discussion) Re: Can surf the internet, but not my home network...

[Stefan Monnier]

> edges of text characters. So if showing a screen full of text to show 
> the error, smunch the daylights out of it, it will still be readable. 

Whatever happened to the idea of citing the actual text rather than
using an (unreadable) image?


Stefan

Re: (unable to start a new discussion) Re: Can surf the internet, but not my home network...

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 17 September 2021 09:10:01 Stefan Monnier wrote:

> > edges of text characters. So if showing a screen full of text to
> > show the error, smunch the daylights out of it, it will still be
> > readable.
>
> Whatever happened to the idea of citing the actual text rather than
> using an (unreadable) image?
>
>
> Stefan

Beats hell outta me Stefan, but a copy/paste from a terminal screen beats 
ALL the other methods for compression. But that involves launching 
whatever from a terminal screen, requiring the user to actaully type the 
command.

Oh the horrors...

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Re: Hundres of dovecot imap errors with fts_solr plugin polluting /var/log/mail.err

[Steve Dondley]

I think this is some kind of parsing bug from the response from solr.
The number of pairs of errors returned is the same number of hits
received during the search. So if I do a search with 7 results turned
up, I get 7 pairs of errors.


Fixed with the following:

1) simplified config file by removing the "fts_encforce = no" from 
90-plugin.conf


2) blew away the manages_schema file on the solr server

3) reloaded solr data store

4) deleted the solr index for the data store

5) rescanned the emails with doveadm

No more errors.

Re: Hundres of dovecot imap errors with fts_solr plugin polluting /var/log/mail.err

[Steve Dondley]

The bug I patched also threw a similar kind of error. See
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=970692. But this
error is cropping up for every user on the system. A google search
turns up nothing on a uid other than '0'.

I don't know if this is another debian issue or a misconfiguration on
my end. I'm not sure where to begin to look. Can someone please point
me in the right direction?


I think this is some kind of parsing bug from the response from solr. 
The number of pairs of errors returned is the same number of hits 
received during the search. So if I do a search with 7 results turned 
up, I get 7 pairs of errors.

Re: Interesting News.

[Eric S Fraga]

Thank you for posting this.  Interesting article.
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Re: (unable to start a new discussion) Re: Can surf the internet, but not my home network...

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 17 September 2021 04:46:20 Brian wrote:

> On Thu 16 Sep 2021 at 21:48:55 -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> > On Thu, 16 Sep 2021 19:46:43 -0300
> >
> > Dedeco Balaco  wrote:
> > > Why am i unable to start a new discussion? I have sent 4 messages!
> > > They have one attachment that is less than 150KiB - so, they are
> > > not considered big, for the list, right?
> >
> > I consider 150 KiB to be monstrous.
> >
> > Have you tried sending a short message with no attachment?
>
> Dedeco Balaco already has two short messages showing in this thread.
> That indicates he has the ability to start a new discussion.
>
> However, a new discussion should be started in a *new* thread, not
> plonked willy-nilly into an existing thread. This is the second time
> recently that someone has done that. The first time it involved  an
> experienced user!
>
> To take this thread further off-topic: there can be a good reason to
> send an attachment; for example, a log. Compression would reduce its
> size and is advised.

Likewise, a screenshot of a problem should be loaded into gimp, 
re-exported as a .jpg,  compressed until the colors are all screwed up. 
Leaving the compression at 12% quality will get a 250k screen shot, 
which will be blocked but jpeg throws away color before it throws away 
edges of text characters. So if showing a screen full of text to show 
the error, smunch the daylights out of it, it will still be readable. 
Even then its uo to the filters to say yay or nay.

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Hundres of dovecot imap errors with fts_solr plugin polluting /var/log/mail.err

[Steve Dondley]

I'm running debian bullseye. I've had issues running solr on debian in 
the past due to some kind of bug. I was able to get solr working with 
dovecot by upgrading the os.


After the upgrade, everything works perfectly fine and the search 
feature in my client using solr now works. However, I get hundreds of 
these pairs of errors every minute in mail.err:


Sep 17 04:47:52 email dovecot: imap(s)<8699><1eOe/CzMbOl/AAAB>: Error: 
fts_solr: received invalid uid '102

Sep 17 04:47:52 email dovecot: imap: Error: '
Sep 17 04:47:52 email dovecot: imap(s)<8699><1eOe/CzMbOl/AAAB>: Error: 
fts_solr: received invalid uid '103

Sep 17 04:47:52 email dovecot: imap: Error: '
Sep 17 04:47:52 email dovecot: imap(s)<8699><1eOe/CzMbOl/AAAB>: Error: 
fts_solr: received invalid uid '104

Sep 17 04:47:52 email dovecot: imap: Error: '
Sep 17 04:47:52 email dovecot: imap(s)<8699><1eOe/CzMbOl/AAAB>: Error: 
fts_solr: received invalid uid '105

Sep 17 04:47:52 email dovecot: imap: Error: '
Sep 17 04:47:52 email dovecot: imap(s)<8699><1eOe/CzMbOl/AAAB>: Error: 
fts_solr: received invalid uid '106

Sep 17 04:47:52 email dovecot: imap: Error: '
Sep 17 04:47:52 email dovecot: imap(s)<8699><1eOe/CzMbOl/AAAB>: Error: 
fts_solr: received invalid uid '118

Sep 17 04:47:52 email dovecot: imap: Error: '
Sep 17 04:47:52 email dovecot: imap(s)<8699><1eOe/CzMbOl/AAAB>: Error: 
fts_solr: received invalid uid '132

Sep 17 04:47:52 email dovecot: imap: Error: '
Sep 17 04:47:52 email dovecot: imap(s)<8699><1eOe/CzMbOl/AAAB>: Error: 
fts_solr: received invalid uid '133

Sep 17 04:47:52 email dovecot: imap: Error: '
Sep 17 04:47:52 email dovecot: imap(s)<8699><1eOe/CzMbOl/AAAB>: Error: 
fts_solr: received invalid uid '134

Sep 17 04:47:52 email dovecot: imap: Error: '
Sep 17 04:47:52 email dovecot: imap(s)<8699><1eOe/CzMbOl/AAAB>: Error: 
fts_solr: received invalid uid '135

Sep 17 04:47:52 email dovecot: imap: Error: '
Sep 17 04:47:52 email dovecot: imap(s)<8699><1eOe/CzMbOl/AAAB>: Error: 
fts_solr: received invalid uid '136

Sep 17 04:47:52 email dovecot: imap: Error: '
Sep 17 04:47:52 email dovecot: imap(s)<8699><1eOe/CzMbOl/AAAB>: Error: 
fts_solr: received invalid uid '137


...and so on


The bug I patched also threw a similar kind of error. See 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=970692. But this error 
is cropping up for every user on the system. A google search turns up 
nothing on a uid other than '0'.


I don't know if this is another debian issue or a misconfiguration on my 
end. I'm not sure where to begin to look. Can someone please point me in 
the right direction?

Re: (unable to start a new discussion) Re: Can surf the internet, but not my home network...

[Brian]

On Thu 16 Sep 2021 at 21:48:55 -0600, Charles Curley wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Sep 2021 19:46:43 -0300
> Dedeco Balaco  wrote:
> 
> > Why am i unable to start a new discussion? I have sent 4 messages!
> > They have one attachment that is less than 150KiB - so, they are not
> > considered big, for the list, right?
> 
> I consider 150 KiB to be monstrous.
> 
> Have you tried sending a short message with no attachment?

Dedeco Balaco already has two short messages showing in this thread.
That indicates he has the ability to start a new discussion.

However, a new discussion should be started in a *new* thread, not
plonked willy-nilly into an existing thread. This is the second time
recently that someone has done that. The first time it involved  an
experienced user!

To take this thread further off-topic: there can be a good reason to
send an attachment; for example, a log. Compression would reduce its
size and is advised.

-- 
Brian.