"Package was removed from Debian because of a variable name" myth (?) (was: Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?)

2022-01-23 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 11:17:25AM +, mick crane wrote: > I was a little concerned about the direction of travel when that software > got removed from the repository because of variable names. If you're referring to the WebOOB package, that was not why it was removed and incorrect

Re: smartd

2022-01-23 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 09:16:53PM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > From: Andy Smith > Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2022 19:07:23 + > > You are better off finding the damaged sectors and causing the drive > > to remap them by writing new content in there. Then you don'

Re: smartd

2022-01-22 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 09:18:27AM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > smartd reports to syslog. > > Jan 22 08:49:17 joule smartd[563]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 155 Currently > unreadable (pending) sectors > Jan 22 08:49:17 joule smartd[563]: Sending warning via >

Re: How to best whitelist CDN deb.debian.org?

2022-01-19 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 02:20:08PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > If you have a secure network that must not be able to connect out to > arbitrary web sites, I think you probably should be running a local > proxy or Debian mirror outside of that network, then allowing your > secure ne

Re: How to best whitelist CDN deb.debian.org?

2022-01-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Andreas, On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 08:23:15AM +0100, Andreas Ames wrote: > I am sitting behind a firewall, in my case esp. ZScaler. I am wondering, > what the best way is to whitelist "deb.debian.org" for package management. I think you may be going about things the wrong way. I don't know

Re: Re: XEN domU: Guest Rx stalled, unreachable

2022-01-16 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 04:35:51PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 10:11:30PM +0100, Felix Odenkirchen wrote: > > A udev update changed the interface name for virtual network devices > > from "eth0" to "enX0" (using persistent block device naming scheme), > >

Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-15 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 11:28:54AM +0100, Marco Möller wrote: > https://www.preining.info/blog/2022/01/future-of-my-packages-in-debian/ > > I wish that someone could publish some background information, neutral and > respectful and without harming anybody. If Norbert himself did not

Re: Replace line in file based on pattern

2022-01-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Jan 02, 2022 at 05:52:36PM -0500, Paul M. Foster wrote: > In a script, I'd like to search for a pattern in a file, and replace that > line entirely with a new line, once (not globally). I've tried > > sed -i s/search/new_line/ > > but this only replaces the string itself. I want

Re: [OT] sending command to multiple SSH sessions, like in mRemoteNG

2021-12-30 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Marco, On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 05:49:38PM +0100, Marco Möller wrote: > As my aim is to interactively run the same commands on several machines, in > order to observe if they everywhere behave the same or what different > results they would produce, does each SSH session report back to Ansible

Re: [OT] sending command to multiple SSH sessions, like in mRemoteNG

2021-12-30 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 05:15:18PM +0200, Anssi Saari wrote: > Marco Möller writes: > > this command is then sent to all SSH connected remote systems at > > once as if the command would have been typed in at each single > > of the SSH connected remote systems CLI individually. Do you > >

Re: LVM passphrase

2021-12-28 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Dec 28, 2021 at 10:00:51PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 08:55:29AM +1100, David wrote: > > I don't know about Grub asking for passwords, because I don't > > encrypt boot partitions. But if the question is about the initrd > > password prompt, then ... >

Re: How to see the list of CRITICALLY vulnerable packages in Debian?

2021-12-25 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 12:07:26AM +0100, maxwillb wrote: > No dev so much as bothered to click on the 'NVD' link? > > Merry Christmas! Dear max, I am the ghost of Christmas Open Source and I encourage you to ask for a full refund from Debian and all other volunteer projects that you are

Re: qmail package in bullseye

2021-12-24 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 09:58:11PM +0900, 황병희 wrote: > Hi, there is no qmail package in bullseye. what's wrong? It was removed from Debian in May 2020 and hasn't been in a release since buster: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=961289 If you still have interest, can

Re: linux-image-amd64 (5.10.84-1)

2021-12-21 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Philippe, This is probably more of a debian-user question - let's continue there. On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 11:43:28AM +0100, phil995511 - wrote: > Hello, > > The linux-image-amd64 (5.10.84-1) are announced from something days on this > page : > >

Re: cups problems in bullseye

2021-12-15 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Gene, On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 06:58:34AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > I only made the apple comment after receiving bounce msgs > 3 times from attempting to post to @cups.org. I've already asked once that you show us the exact text of those bounces, so that we might determine where the

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

2021-12-15 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Jorge, On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 11:39:59AM -0300, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote: > I intend to use Btrfs. This means if I later decide to use some of the > unpartitioned space, I can easily and efficiently add it to the main > Btrfs file system without directly using LVM (since Btrfs actually

Re: cups problems in bullseye

2021-12-15 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 04:31:55PM -, Curt wrote: > On 2021-12-14, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 12 Dec 2021 at 11:14:37 (-0800), Gene Heskett wrote: > >> Andy, plz remove your PM when posting to debian-user, firefox makes > >> it very difficult to put the list address as the To:

Re: CUPS mailing list (was: Re: bullseye fusses)

2021-12-11 Thread Andy Smith
On Sun, Dec 12, 2021 at 02:56:12AM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Is that the list that you are talking about? For those playing along at home, Gene directly sent me a rambling HTML reply which did confirm that c...@cups.org is the list he is talking about, but only went on to say that he

CUPS mailing list (was: Re: bullseye fusses)

2021-12-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Dec 11, 2021 at 06:11:28PM -0800, Gene Heskett wrote: > #3: I see apple has completed the embrace,engulf,destroy of cups, its mailing > list > has been removed from the apple servers. The bounce as undeliverable msg > resolves > to an apple server, but there is not a cup list

Re: telling if we've actually booted from /boot/xen-4.14-amd64.gz

2021-12-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Tim, On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 10:11:04PM +, Tim Woodall wrote: > Is there a simple way to tell if the kernel/hypervisor that was used to > boot is the one currently installed in /boot. I do not do this - I build my own hypervisor packages when there is an upstream XSA that affects me and

Re: Reasonably simple setup for 1TB HDD and 250GB M.2 NVMe SSD

2021-12-08 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 05:14:09AM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > Bottom line, there is a high probability that your SSD will work fine for > many years and if/when it will die for whatever reason, just replace it and > recover data (or a whole system) from backups. OP: I agree

Re: Fw: new buster install, dvd said 11.,1 but installed 10.1

2021-11-28 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Gene, On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 09:03:21PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > I have installed bullseye now, but still can't install anything fom > trinity despite installing the keyrnig and the updatig it wth synaptic. > What the hell is going on? We don't know because despite being repeatedly

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-14 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 07:26:11PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Is not me thats confused Yes, it still is. > but both lsblk and blkid spitting out 4 sets of identical UUID's as all > drives are identical. Like I have told you many many times in this thread, the *context* of the UUID matters.

Re: processor compatibility

2021-11-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 09:39:16PM +0100, deutsch_da...@tuta.io wrote: > Hello! Is the Intel Core i7-9750H processor supported by your operating > system? I don't have one but this suggests yes: https://linux-hardware.org/index.php?id=cpu:intel-6-158-10-core-i7-9750h That CPU is a

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-13 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 01:14:56PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > I wouldn't argue near as loud if it hadn't already been proven to me that > what you call filesystem UUID's are volatile. What I and everyone else call filesystem UUIDs do not change unless you force them to change, because they

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-13 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 09:28:46AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > the next question is why does > --scan even report it if its no good? blkid returns different UUID's. > Would those work? Why are you under the impression that every single thing called a UUID must work as a *filesystem* UUID? Lots

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-13 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 08:39:15AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > And I just found I didn't have an mdadm.conf, and I had figure a > new -C would have created it. But the last time I ran it, no > mdadm.conf was created. > > So I made a 2 liner from the --scan output. What else should it have? It

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 11:42:32AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 12 November 2021 10:18:07 Dan Ritter wrote: > > After you have set them up, mdadm.conf has things like this: > > > > ARRAY /dev/md/0 metadata=1.2 name=debian:0 > > UUID=aeac6271:676b1852:04f077d6:fcd285d6 ARRAY

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 11:56:48AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > There's also the fact that disk manufacturers are notoriously > unable to commit to the same size disks across models. I was interested to discover a couple of years ago that there has for some time been a standard for storage

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 03:41:15PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 12 Nov 2021 14:12:58 -0500 > Gene Heskett wrote: > > Despite nuking mdadm.conf, and zeroing the drive with dd, its still > > locked and untouchable by gparted. And I cannot rmmod the raid stuff, > > its busy.

Re: Where do I find the definitive man page for mdadm?

2021-11-12 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 09:22:12AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > mdadm --create --verbose /dem/md0 --level=10 --raid-devices=4 /dev/sde > /dev/sdf /dev/sdg /dev/sdh > > should work. You may want to create identical partitions on each of the devices first, and use those instead of the raw

Re: Change eth0 to eno1

2021-10-26 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 06:06:18PM -0400, Paul M. Foster wrote: > Along about Debian 10, the standard first ethernet card interface for a > desktop machine, referred to as "eth0", was changed to "eno1". Just out of > idle curiosity, does anyone know why this was done? (It broke some stuff

Re: Disk partitioning phase of installation

2021-10-16 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 06:27:49AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Can I, during the manual disk partitioning phase, specify that > /home/richard/Downloads be on its own partition *AND* the rest of > /home/richard/ be on its own partition? Yes, because when you specify what filesystem or

Re: why pae kernel has only 3G memory

2021-10-15 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 04:27:10AM -0400, lou wrote: > i have stretch, it use 3G memory, 1G memory can't be used […] > i think pae kernel can use 4G memory It can be a restriction of your motherboard. Has it ever seen more than 3G in any operating system? If your CPU capable of running

Re: Package information for debian installer

2021-10-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Edhoari, On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 06:03:36AM +0700, Edhoari Setiyoso wrote: > Could anyone inform me what is the package name of this installer in order > to correctly submit request? The package name is "debian-installer"; its team web site is at:

Re: Then it happened to me...

2021-10-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 06:18:27PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > As you can see, the address at the top of the body was not mine. Mine > appears further down inside the body. Still inside angle brackets. I > suspect that's relevant to whatever bug bendel is suffering from. > > And

Re: New debian installation disk partition

2021-10-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Josef, On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 01:18:55PM +0200, Josef Strýček wrote: > I have a question how to partition new debain installation.I have 64GB ssd > and 500GB hdd. Can I have / on ssd with ext4 and hdd with btrfs /hame /var  Of course. > /tmp /opt. Could you recommend layout for ssd and hdd,

Re: You have been removed from the list (repeatedly)

2021-10-05 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Greg, On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 04:40:41PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > My best guess is that someone is spamming debian-user, the messages are > being sent to everyone, my local MTA's spam filters are blocking them, > and the mailing list is getting mad at me for blocking the spam that it's >

Re: OT: Interpreting math markup

2021-09-28 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 06:11:49PM -0400, Rh Kramer wrote: > I see things like (that's a simple one): > > [math]R_0[/math] > > I'm trying to find out what that markup is named, Is it AsciiMath? http://asciimath.org/#syntax I've no idea if it is, but I found it in a list of math

Re: upgrading and stuff

2021-09-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 06:22:17PM -0400, songbird wrote: > Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: [Upgrading from Debian 8.11] > don't waste any more time trying to upgrade from a version that > ancient. I've done 8 to 10 (by way of 9) on ten different machines in the year preceding the 11 release

Re: upgrading and stuff

2021-09-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Roy, On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 05:07:46PM -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > I haven't been paying a whole lot of attention to upgrades. > Mostly it's been a matter of running synaptic package manager from > time to time, and that's about it. Except that lately it doesn't > seem to be

Re: Privacy and defamation of character on Debian public forums

2021-09-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 09:06:34AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, September 24, 2021 05:31:47 PM The Wanderer wrote: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=994899 - specifically. > > the first reply (comment 10). […] > I've read over message #5, and without

Re: Privacy and defamation of character on Debian public forums

2021-09-24 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 03:34:28PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > My question though is, can emails be deleted from the debian > archive of the mailing list (and comments from the debian bug > list?)? I've seen spam emails deleted from the list archives and from bug logs; there is

Re: Development permissions

2021-09-24 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 04:06:10PM +0300, Reco wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 01:59:58PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > Back then you could more or less safely assume that a file system > > image wasn't out to kill you. These days, though... > > Oh. Citation needed. Curious minds

Re: Privacy and defamation of character on Debian public forums

2021-09-24 Thread Andy Smith
On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 07:45:03AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > I was accused in public of wrongdoing on the Debian bug tracking > system That is an interesting point of view, but I think you were simply accused of being factually wrong and creating a poor quality bug report. It was your

Re: debian-installer RAID question

2021-09-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 06:55:56PM +0200, Felix Natter wrote: > How does d-i know how the individual HDDs were combined into a > RAID1? d-i doesn't as such. In Linux MD, member devices contain metadata to allow assembly by udev. You can examine the data on an MD member device like this:

Re: Permission Questions

2021-08-30 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 05:07:16PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > unicorn:~$ strace bash -c 'echo stuff >> /tmp/123' > [...] > openat(AT_FDCWD, "/tmp/123", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_APPEND, 0666) = -1 EACCES > (Permission denied) > > As far as I can see, this is a kernel bug. Unless I'm

Re: Specifying dedicated partions during install - pros/cons?

2021-08-29 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 08:27:39AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > David Wright wrote: > > > Do you mean this? > > > > > > ┌┤ [!!] Partition disks ├┐ > > > ││ > > > │ Mount point for this

Re: Typical timescales for publishing binary packages in -backports?

2021-08-20 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 08:26:07PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Thu 19 Aug 2021 at 16:16:01 +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > So I was wondering what is the typical timescale for binary packages > > from the kernel source upload to appear in buster-backports? > > I do not thi

Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them) (was: Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian])

2021-08-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 07:27:17AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > I think the primary use case of debian-user-offtopic would be to > have a place for people on debian-user to tell others to move > their threads. It is technically feasible of course. That's not the bit I'd have doubts about.

Re: bullseye: systemd-networkd-wait-online timeouts

2021-08-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Jochen, On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 09:36:30PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Aug 18 10:59:20 h2907737 systemd-networkd-wait-online[936688]: Event loop > failed: Connection timed out > Aug 18 10:59:20 h2907737 apt-helper[936686]: E: Sub-process > /lib/systemd/systemd-networkd-wait-online

Re: Debian 11 installer crashed and reboot

2021-08-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Chuck, On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 08:04:43AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > After some testing of the Debian 11 installer on Xen > (using the debian-11.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso), I find that > this image only supports installation into a Xen PV guest, > the guest always crashes and reboots for

Re: debian10/11 ssh from ipv6 address not in /etc/hosts.allow = sshd segfault segfault

2021-08-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 11:17:05AM +1000, raf wrote: > I just noticed many many sshd segfaults listed in > /var/log/kern.log. There are two versions. They look > like this: > > sshd[1086]: segfault at 7fff615eaec8 ip > 7ff2a586f42f sp 7fff615eaed0 error 6 in >

Typical timescales for publishing binary packages in -backports?

2021-08-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, I notice that yesterday there's been an acceptance email for source package linux-signed-amd64 version 5.10.46+4~bpo10+1 in buster-backports: https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2021/08/msg00139.html Previously there had also been one for version 5.10.46+3~bpo10+1. Yet as of today

Re: docker image of bullseye is outdated

2021-08-15 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 10:15:45PM +0300, илья пащук wrote: > docker image of debian bullseye should be updated to reflect it's release. There is a message on debian-boot (and -devel) here about it: https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2021/08/msg00096.html I'm not sure that the Debian

Re: what's wrong with my "/etc/apt/sources.list"? Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default

2021-08-15 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Evelyn, On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 06:00:08PM +0200, Evelyn Pereira Souza wrote: > E: The repository 'http://security.debian.org/debian-security > bullseye/updates Release' does not have a Release file. A few people have by now pointed out the specific cause of your problem, but the root cause

Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian]

2021-08-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 09:12:08PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > On 2021-08-09 9:37 p.m., Andy Smith wrote: > > I'm sorry you feel that way. It has felt quite frustrating having to > > repeat myself when I thought I was being clear about what I meant. >

Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian]

2021-08-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 02:51:02AM +0200, Linux-Fan wrote: > I think that switching support over to a different medium i.e. from e- > mail to Q will see a different sort of user participating. > Hence, the "community" one would find on the Q site is not there yet. This > explains why it

Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian]

2021-08-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 06:05:58PM -0700, Weaver wrote: > > So that's where I think the problems are and why I think it would be > > good to try separating the user support from the debate club. > > I'm afraid this conversation is a waste of time. I'm sorry you feel that way. It has felt

Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian]

2021-08-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 04:22:46PM -0700, Weaver wrote: > On 10-08-2021 09:01, Andy Smith wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 10:19:19PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > >> I am asking the Debian Project to can this list in favour of an > >> alternate solution

Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian]

2021-08-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 04:06:43PM -0700, Weaver wrote: > On 10-08-2021 07:54, Andy Smith wrote: > > I really don't want to get into calling out specific sub-threads > > that have been ridiculously off-topic recently, They are not hard to > > find; there's

Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian]

2021-08-09 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 10:19:19PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > I am asking the Debian Project to can this list in favour of an > alternate solution or else to make it strictly for Debian-related > posts only. I want to walk this one back a bit as there's no need to destroy the

Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian]

2021-08-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Aug 09, 2021 at 07:26:50AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Aug 08, 2021 at 09:33:02PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > My only suggestion was a Stack Overflow-style question-answer site. > > Those aren't discussion forums. > > Two things: (a) SO is a co

Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian]

2021-08-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Aug 08, 2021 at 05:01:50PM -0700, Weaver wrote: > On 09-08-2021 07:33, Andy Smith wrote: > > A lack of politeness isn't really debian-user's biggest problem. I > > think debian-user's biggest problem is the lack of restraint > > prolific posters have on

Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian]

2021-08-08 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Aug 08, 2021 at 11:00:55PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Aug 08, 2021 at 03:26:25PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > To be honest I don't think that mailing lists are a very good venue > > for user support and I would these days prefer to direct people

Re: On improving mailing list [was: How to Boot Linux ISO Images Directly From Your Hard Drive Debian]

2021-08-08 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Aug 08, 2021 at 11:35:15AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > any ideas on how to make the situation better? To be honest I don't think that mailing lists are a very good venue for user support and I would these days prefer to direct people to a Stack Overflow-like site. The chief

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: Updating kernels impossible when /boot is getting full

2021-08-01 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, OP: You are pretty safe deleting (rm) vmlinuz* and initrd* things from /boot that are related to any kernels you aren't actually booted into at the time. That can give you back enough space to let apt finish what it wants to do. Just remember to do: # update-initramfs -u -k all

Re: merged /usr considered harmful (was Re: Bits from the Technical Committee)

2021-07-18 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 04:31:11PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > My personal opinion is that Debian is going into a mostly "we got the > best idea in the world but forgot that not everyone implement things the > same way". I recommend understanding the issue before

Re: RAID-1 and disk I/O

2021-07-17 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Urs, Your plan to change the SATA cable seems wise - your various error rates are higher than I have normally seen. Also worth bearing in mind that Linux MD RAID 1 will satisfy all read IO for a given operation from one device in the mirror. If you have processes that do occasional big reads

Re: Memory allocation failed during fsck of large EXT4 filesystem

2021-07-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 02:34:30PM +0300, IL Ka wrote: > > I use a 32bit OS Is the hardware capable of 64-bit? If so then it should be possible to install an amd64 kernel and e2fsprogs without completely converting your system to amd64. https://wiki.debian.org/CrossGrading (Stop

Re: Server setup

2021-06-14 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 04:39:11PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > I can understand the idea of cutting out part of the messages when I > answer. But this is now forcing me to repeat many times... You're being asked direct questions because your rambling style has no real

Re: Server setup

2021-06-14 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Polyna-Maude, On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 12:31:08PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Now what I did was to install the machine using the "helper" given by > the provider (OVH/OneProvider). This way I can dissect the working > system and see how the configuration is done. So what

Re: How to manage a firewall script with minor tweaks for different machines?

2021-06-12 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Jun 12, 2021 at 07:02:50PM +0300, Anssi Saari wrote: > But then... One machine has a radius server that needs UDP port 1812 > open. And another is a print server with CUPS and SMB which apparently > need at least TCP ports 631 and 137 open. It sounds like you need configuration

Re: ifconfig stats ??? Wrong behavior OR BUG ?

2021-06-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Kanto, On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 02:01:02PM +, Kanto Andria wrote: > dada@Jradebian:~$ sudo ifconfig enp0s31f6 stats     You just resolved "stats" in DNS and set the IP address of interface enp0s31f6 to that IP. >     inet 54.36..162.17  netmask 255.0.0.0  broadcast 54.255.255.255 I'm

Re: Slightly off-topic: anybody know of a way to keep one's Debian User List posts from failing DMARC?

2021-06-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Jun 09, 2021 at 09:58:13AM -0700, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > I'm told that the Debian List Server doesn't rewrite "From" > headers for DMARC-enabled senders, and neither does it do anything > else to handle DMARC-enabled senders. Correct, so the SPF test will always fail as the

Re: ipv6 stable privacy (rfc 7217) as default ipv6 address for outgoing traffic

2021-05-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Serge, On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 11:51:12AM +0200, Serge Pouliquen wrote: > I'm getting 2 addresses : one from slaac with stable privacy and one from > dhcpv6. > It looks like the one from dhcpv6 is used as the default for outgoing > traffic. > > How can I indicate that I want to use the one

Re: grub-set-default

2021-05-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Richmond, On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 04:34:34PM +0100, Richmond wrote: > grub-set-default 5 > > I cannot see any changes in /etc/grub.d/ or /etc/default/grub grub-set-default makes changes to /boot/grub/grubenv, which is read by the grub binary at boot time. You can examine its contents with:

Re: Restoring sticky bits after accidentally moving /usr directory

2021-05-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 11:40:38PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 11:46:38PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > I can't think of an easy way if you don't have backups. If you have > > another system you could get a list of all its permissions like so: >

Re: Restoring sticky bits after accidentally moving /usr directory

2021-05-18 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 06:26:18PM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > I goofed up and accidentally moved my /usr directory while trying to make > room on a full drive. I was able to recover, but I'm finding that services > are not working because the sticky bits for many files /usr/bin/* were

Re: AppleWEBkit

2021-05-11 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 10:22:27PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Is AppleWebKit a bot? "AppleWebKit" is found in the user agent of web browsers on macOS and iOS, including Google Chrome. https://developers.whatismybrowser.com/useragents/explore/layout_engine_name/webkit/ Since anyone can

Re: command to start sshfs at bootup?

2021-04-18 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Gene, On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 12:41:05PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > My best guess, and admittedly a WAG, certainly not a SWAG, is that ssh > and its ilk have been around for yonks. It has not been updated to allow > what the lastest rfc now does. Based on that, perhaps a low priority bug

Re: mdadm and whole disk array members

2021-03-26 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 02:31:21PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > I'm not convinced that the problem is the BIOS writing a partition > table. In your link the last post talks about zapping the > partition table to stop the behaviour. This suggests the BIOS/UEFI > was restoring the backup

Re: mdadm and whole disk array members

2021-03-26 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 06:20:56PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > I've found many other people complaining about similar issues when using > whole disks to create mdadm RAID arrays. Some of these complaints go back > many years, so this isn't new. Any time I've seen this problem pursued (as

Re: mdadm and whole disk array members

2021-03-22 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Gary, On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 06:20:56PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > I suggest that, since it appears the developers can't get this work > reliably, that the option to use the whole disk be removed and mdadm insist > on using partitions. At the very least, mdadm --create should issue a > warning

Re: Hardware failure?: Now what?

2021-03-20 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 02:29:25PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > MCE events: > 1 2021-03-20 13:58:30 -0600 error: Internal parity error, mcg mcgstatus=0, > mci Corrected_error Error_enabled, mcgcap=0x0c09, > status=0x904f0005, tsc=0xf442c87fda, walltime=0x605653e5, >

Re: fsck error on boot: /dev/sda1: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY and Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary

2021-03-20 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 10:36:37PM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > Personally, I don't think it is wise to throw away any HDD as soon as it > gets a few pending bad blocks for whatever reason. It really depends upon your risk stance. At home, on my home fileserver, it has RAID, it

Re: Package release number.

2021-03-20 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Peter, On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 08:16:22AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > peter@joule:/home/peter$ dpkg -l | grep qemu-system-x86 > ii qemu-system-x86 1:3.1+dfsg-8+deb10u8 > i386 QEMU full system emulation binaries (x86) > > How is the "version

Re: Where can I change spamd logging?

2021-03-14 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 05:10:42PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > OPTIONS="--create-prefs --max-children 5 --helper-home-dir -s ~/log/mail.log" spamd is a system service and it normally (initially) runs as root, so using a ~ there probably isn't what you want. Storing logs from such a

Re: Where can I change spamd logging?

2021-03-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Gene, On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 11:25:20PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > What file, and where, do I edit to put that log someplace else? What's unclear or not working about the --syslog= option in "man spamd"? https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/spamassassin/spamd.8p.en.html You can change

Re: Deb10 installer can't install grub

2021-03-05 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 10:04:34AM +, Darac Marjal wrote: > So, if your file is small, then yes, you won't see any performance > benefit. But if your file is larger than a block, or if you want > to access more than one file at once, then RAID can read the > second block from a

Re: Custom mariadb installation

2021-02-27 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 10:44:27AM -0800, Bill wrote: > So I'd like to install mariadb on Debian 10 with the > --basedir=/usr/local/mariadb and --datadir=/data/mariadb. I've tried to add > these options to the "apt install mariadb-server" command line but I get > error messages saying the

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

2021-02-24 Thread Andy Smith
Albrecht, On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 11:27:31AM -0500, Albretch Mueller wrote: > I take pride at being from very prejudiced to cautiously racist > towards those not only "un-Amerikan", but, even "communist" > Chinese before they spread the Corona Virus… Your racist conspiracy theories are not only

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

2021-02-22 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Albrecht, On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 03:50:01AM -0500, Albretch Mueller wrote: > Andy Smith wrote: > > Those SHA1 hashes do appear here on another mirror: > > > > http://mirrorservice.org/sites/cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/10.8.0/amd64/iso-dvd/SHA1SUMS […] > I woul

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

2021-02-21 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 08:45:08AM -0500, Albretch Mueller wrote: > 1) as I used a known public hotspot connection, there was a new > hotspot advertising itself as "Wifi4EU" (of course, I didn't bite that > bait) Does not really seem relevant to a remote Debian mirror, unless you are

Re: "Run fsck manually"..?

2021-02-02 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 01:41:54AM +, Andy Smith wrote: > On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 07:13:16PM -0500, hobie of RMN wrote: > > He enters "fsck" or "fsck /dev/sda1", and in a short while gets fsck > > identifying it's version, and nothing else. > &g

Re: "Run fsck manually"..?

2021-02-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 07:13:16PM -0500, hobie of RMN wrote: > My brother's Debian system suddenly says on attempt to boot, "/dev/sda1: > UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY:Runfsck manually", and, "inodes that were part of > a corrupted orphan linked list found." > > He enters "fsck" or "fsck

Re: debian stable kernel not updating on one machine

2021-02-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 04:13:36PM -0700, D. R. Evans wrote: > I see that synaptic lists 4.19.0-14-amd64 as being available in > the repository; and, indeed, on another machine I updated earlier > in the day the kernel was updated from -13 to -14. > > How might I be able to diagnose why the

Re: debian-user list info and guidelines: spam

2021-01-25 Thread Andy Smith
Hi John, On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 08:16:38AM -0500, John Kaufmann wrote: > nb.net no longer run their own MTA (maybe for just this reason?), > farming it out to userservices.net. As a result they increasingly > unresponsive to complaints. I have not figured out my next step. As mentioned, I do

Re: debian-user list info and guidelines: spam

2021-01-24 Thread Andy Smith
Hi John, On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 01:03:07AM -0500, John Kaufmann wrote: > Your post provides a hook to ask about a question that arises sporadically: > Probably less than one a month I receive from Debian Listmaster Team > a message "lists.debian.org has received > bounces from you".

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