Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World"

>> > https://wiki.debian.org/EnvironmentVariables >> It needs some TLC: >> [quote] >> 1. At the end of booting, the mother of all processes -- init -- is started. >> 2. init runs services as described above. >> [/quote] >> >> Isn't this rather obsolete as long as systemd has been with us? > >

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

> I would have thought that techies understand its origins, and > non-techies are fairly unlikely ever to encounter it. That's the thing: if you use `home.arpa` for your home network, suddenly it's exposed to non-techies, like your friends and family, contrary to things like `in-addr.arpa`.

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

>> It's just such a shame that they chose a name which refers to "arpa" >> in it, which is not only US-centric but even belongs to the US's war >> department > > It belongs to the Internet Architecture Board and is administered by > IANA which is why they chose it. It stands for "Address and Routin

Re: Domain name to use on home networks

> If you go with the domain name home.arpa and an IPv4 subnet sliced out > of one of 192.168.0.0/16, 172.12.0.0/12 or 10.0.0.0/8, you can be > _almost certain_ that nothing will break because of those choices, now > _or_ in the future. 100% agreement. It's just such a shame that they chose a name

Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly

Max Nikulin [2023-10-23 23:25:33] wrote: > On 23/10/2023 15:45, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >> - Why no "fork() = " after the lines which show their number for the first >> time ? > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2530663/printf-anomaly-after-fork > fork clones stdout buffer and child exit flushes it

Re: 12.2: fork() causing getline() to repeat stdin endlessly

> I have a small program (extracted from a big program) which reads and > prints input lines using a loop of getline() calls. The real input lines > are all expected to be 52 characters long (+1 for the newline => 53), > that's what my example data for the small program looks like. If there is >

Re: Domain name to use on home networks; was: Bookworm:NetworkManager

>> This is generally true, Greg, and I get that, but every new version, >> which should just continue what works, doesn't cuz somebody moved a >> config file and last years fix doesn't work this year. And you can't >> ask for help when its not working. So YOU have to fix it based of what >> YOU kn

Re: Bookworm: NetworkManager

> the DHCP server is on a router > Running DNS service on a machine is done by many FWIW, I run `dnsmasq` as local DNS server on many of my machines, and this is already automatically setup to "DTRT" somehow (the DNS info obtained via DHCP are provided to `dnsmasq` and `/etc/resolv.conf` only poin

Re: Bookworm: NetworkManager

> I agree about that on most machines, but the machine in question has bind > running so nameserver needs to be set to 127.0.0.1 and the domain to > example.org in the resolv.conf file. Beware: at this rate, you may end up giving us enough info about what you're doing for us to actually help you.

Re: Bookworm: NetworkManager

>>> I want NetworkManager to not over write /etc/resolv.conf [...] > My setup is that I was a dhcp server to give out IPs and DNS info. > That way I can control those things without having to do so on every system. Populating `/etc/resolv.conf` from the DHCP-provided info is a useful part of "cont

Re: xrandr 1600x900 (ThinkPad X220T VGA-port) becomes 1440x900 (Samsung SyncMaster S20A300B)

> /var/log/Xorg.0.log https://paste.debian.net/plain/1295616 IIUC this is an `Xorg.0.log` from when the external monitor was not connected. I suspect a more useful one would be when the external monitor was connected as well. Stefan

Re: Mailutils+nullmailer: sender full name

> Traditional Unix terminal- or command-line-based MUAs inject new messages > into the outgoing mail queue by piping them to /usr/sbin/sendmail. > > Fancy GUI MUAs like Thunderbird are often written to work on either > Windows or Unix, so they don't always offer the ability to inject through > /usr

Re: HP RP2430 RISC sysytem

> 2GB RAM. IT IS NOT TOO MUCH for firefox-Monster.or OS? Could be, I don't know. I know that 1GB is too little (still works, but painfully so), and that 3GB is currently sufficient for my use-cases. The 2GB in my smartphone seem to be just enough for limited uses of Fennec. Stefan

Re: HP RP2430 RISC sysytem

> AFAICT the RP-2430 has a 650MHz PA-8700. Not sure how it compares to my > Pentium III, but it's likely somewhat slower at least for non-FP Actually, the SPEC results I find for CINT2000 for "similar" machines suggest that it's probably about as fast, so I think that with 2GB it should be defini

Re: HP RP2430 RISC sysytem

> But a machine from the early 2000s and contemporary GNU/Linux will > probably not become a happy couple. FWIW, I'm running Debian testing on a 2003 Thinkpad X30 and it's working quite nicely. Obviously the 1.2GHz Pentium III CPU is a bit sluggish and the 1GB of RAM makes it very painful to run

Re: Git for backup storage

>> `git gc` does delete the old data (if it's not reachable any more). > And it is very expensive. My point exactly. It's fairly expensive indeed, but it's usually an operation that is not very time-sensitive: it can usually be delayed to a convenient time, and you can run it infrequently and as

Re: Git for backup storage

> Have you tried? The very principle of Git makes it necessary, to remove > or update old data, to rewrite the whole subsequent history. > Furthermore, it is done by creating a new branch, the original data is > not actually deleted. `git gc` does delete the old data (if it's not reachable any mor

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

> that is easy to explain. The kernel is searching for a device with the > special UUID. As I changed the size of the partition with gparted, > the UUID changed. > > Now the kernel says: This UUID is not existent, what is correct > (kernel param: root=UUID=MyUUIDX) > > I can not get the new U

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

>>> There I disagree, Greg, it makes a handy download tool, directly >>> from wherever, directly to the machine that needs it. That, >>> apt/synaptic and git are the major net tools I use. Obviously I'm >>> not trying to run them simultaneously. Every machine here 7 ATM, can >>> browse the net, m

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

>> AIUI Windows 11 still works, so the notebook computer is not bricked; >> but it no longer plays nice with dual-boot Windows 11 and Debian on the >> NVMe drive. > Yes, as Debian can not be booted any more, due to the wrong UUID of the root > device. I don't understand how the UUID could be such

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

> There I disagree, Greg, it makes a handy download tool, directly from > wherever, directly to the machine that needs it. That, apt/synaptic and git > are the major net tools I use. Obviously I'm not trying to run them > simultaneously. Every machine here 7 ATM, can browse the net, making it ver

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

> But I cannot label the partition. At least not with gparted. I did > generate a new blkid then put the partuuid in fstab, rebooted it and > that worked. This sounds to me like a subliminal message telling me "see all the pain you avoided by using LVM instead". Stefan

Re: naming a partition after the fact?

>> > If you do mean a partition label, can you elaborate as to what the >> > use case is and why a filesystem label doesn't work for it? I'm sure >> >> FWIW, I use "partition" labels (more specifically LVM names) because >> they have the advantage of working the same no matter what the partition >

Re: naming a partition after the fact?

> If you do mean a partition label, can you elaborate as to what the > use case is and why a filesystem label doesn't work for it? I'm sure FWIW, I use "partition" labels (more specifically LVM names) because they have the advantage of working the same no matter what the partition holds, so I don'

Re: Debian live boot corrupting secure boot

> With outdated keys secure boot does not protect you. Just to clarify: in 99.99% of the cases, SecureBoot does not protect you (and is not designed to protect you either). Stefan

Re: Replacing Gkrellm

>> What do other people use instead? > Please see other replies in this thread from Darac and myself. I had seen them before I posted my question :-( IIUC they don't support reporting data about remote hosts, nor do they seem to offer a comparably compact representation of the data. Stef

Re: Letting Windows go: scanning

>>         HP LaserJet 400 MFP m425dn >>                 Min HPLIP Version: 3.12.6 >>                 Chrome OS Support: Yes >>                 Driver Plug-in: Yes >>                 Supported Level: Full >>                 Print Model: Mono >>                 Sca

Amanda (was: sata driver compataility Q)

> Compared to the setup required for amanda, that sounds very inviting. Amanda > has a very steep learning curve just because it is so versatile I'm still > waiting on stuff, so no more actual progress. I used Amanda many years ago and was quite pleased with it, but I must say I'm having a hard ti

Replacing Gkrellm (was: trying to make gkerelln show motherbord temp and voltages)

> gkrellm depends on gtk2 and should be avoided IMHO. Gkrellm's maintenance is indeed a worry, but I haven't found anything even remotely competitive as a replacement in terms and quantity and quality of information it's able to show me in a small space (about my machine as well as about my server

Re: memtest86

>>> latest version is 10.6, get it at: >>> > This, Stefan, looks exactly like the memtest86 we've all been using for > nearly 30 years. "we"? I sure haven't run that one, ever. I've run memtest86+ many times, yes, that's the one that "look like the old f

Re: usrmerge on root NFS will not be run automatically

> So the file in /lib appears to be newer. So what to do? Can I delete > the one in /usr/lib ? Yes. Stefan

Re: memtest86

> latest version is 10.6, get it at: > Freeware! Eww! I recommend https://www.memtest.org/ instead (admittedly, until a year or two ago, this Free Software was severely outdated and didn't really work with UEFI, but things have picked up again since).

Re: usrmerge on root NFS will not be run automatically

Still going on with this? Have you actually looked at those two files: /lib/udev/rules.d/60-libsane1.rules and /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-libsane1.rules to see if they're identical or not and to see if you might have an idea how to merge them? [ as I suggested a week ago. ] `usrmerge` did g

Re: using ddrescue on the root partition - boot with / as read-only

>> Indeed booting with `init=/bin/bash` can be a handy option I've used in >> the past: you get into the normal root (so you don't have to figure out >> how to find and mount root from the initramfs), mounted read-only. [ One other advantage over `break=premount` and friends is that I find it mu

Re: automate resumption of session

> If hibernation can work reliably on your system it would seem to meet > your requirement. FWIW, hibernation should usually work "on any system". Usually if it doesn't work it's because the system's boot setup doesn't accommodate it rather than because the hardware (or Linux) doesn't support it.

Re: using ddrescue on the root partition - boot with / as read-only

> Or perhaps I could use /bin/sh as init, so that systemd (and its > remount as rw) would be avoided? Indeed booting with `init=/bin/bash` can be a handy option I've used in the past: you get into the normal root (so you don't have to figure out how to find and mount root from the initramfs), moun

Re: automate resumption of session

>>When I leave the office for the day, I typically shut down the >>computer. Why? I never turn my computer off. Same here, I always just suspend. > I wish I had that option. But I live way out in the country, and now > and then there is a power outage. My computer is running on a UPS,

Re: usrmerge on root NFS will not be run automatically

> root@foobar:~# /usr/lib/usrmerge/convert-usrmerge > > FATAL ERROR: > Both /lib/udev/rules.d/60-libsane1.rules and > /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-libsane1.rules exist. The problem is that "usrmerge" needs to unify those two and doesn't know how. So you need to do it by hand. E.g. get rid of

Backup systems (was: I uninstalled OpenMediaVault (because totally overkill for me) and replaced it with borgbackup and rsyncq)

> More accurately, rsnapshot (which is basically a frontend to rsync) > tells rsync to do that; IIRC by passing --link-dest pointing at the > previous backup target directory. I've used a similar (tho hand-cooked) script running `rsync`. I switched to Bup a few years ago and saw a significant redu

Re: Boot issue

> When I boot the system, then the drives are not mounted as set in /etc/fstab. I suspect that showing us your `/etc/fstab` would help, Stefan

Re: Virtualization under Bookworm

> What's the current recommendation for someone who just wants to create > a one-off VM to run Debian under Debian? Last time I needed such a thing I used LXC. Stefan

Re: upgrade to bookworm broke phpmyadmin

> So, given that I purged everything and re-installed and it still didn't > work, is this indeed a packaging error? I've been running Debian for well > over 25 years (I started with a pre-release before buzz was released) and > I don't remember anything that didn't work after installing. I don't k

Re: Debian 11.7: huge rtorrent seeding problem

>>> There is no FW blocking >> Do you have a normal home router? > No. OpenWrt OpenWRT counts as "normal" in my book. >>> ipv6 is disabled >> Then it cannot work, because peers cannot reach you with IPv6. > How-to enable ipv6? AFAIK, IPv6 is enabled by default in OpenWRT unless you have a really

Re: Disk writes much slower in Bookworm i386 [Was: svnadmin dump ...]

> I have done additional research, and it now appears that programs that do > extensive disk writes run much slower (3-6x) in Bookworm than they did in > Bullseye. The two cases I have observed are 'svnadmin dump', and extracting > an SQL backup of a Bacula database from Postgresql (backup file ab

Re: debian image questions

>> Based on shenanigans I've seen people get up to in classes at the >> college where I work, I'm nearly certain that it would be possible to >> create a Windows executable which would dump specified data into a >> disk-image file on the hard drive, and modify the Windows boot > https://www.goodbye

Re: debian image questions

> Based on shenanigans I've seen people get up to in classes at the > college where I work, I'm nearly certain that it would be possible to > create a Windows executable which would dump specified data into a > disk-image file on the hard drive, and modify the Windows boot > configuration to includ

Re: chrome web browser worthless

> It would be nice if we had an exact recipe for how to reproduce the > problem. Failing that, it'll be up to Gene to debug the situation on > his end. I'm still leaning toward an edited /etc/hosts file. My guess is that his Chrome runs in a kind of container that doesn't have access to the host

Re: Migrating system from u-sd to nvme memory on arm64's?

> root@sentinel:/var/s3# sudo nvme smart-log /dev/nvme0n1 Aha, apparently the trick is to use NVMe drives, where the SMART data is more readable than for (S)ATA drives. Thanks, Stefan

Re: Migrating system from u-sd to nvme memory on arm64's?

> smartctl -a /dev/whatever produces SMART data which may include > things like: > > 233 Media_Wearout_Indicator 0x0032 002 002 000Old_age Always > - 0 > or > > 241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0032 099 099 000Old_age Always > - 7395041209 > or > > 1

Re: Migrating system from u-sd to nvme memory on arm64's?

>> I'm not sure that this is correct. I have several SSDs around here, all >> several years old, all with swap partitions and all in daily use. None >> has failed me yet. > Most modern SBC images for Debian and Armbian don't have a swap > partition. It's not usually necessary and it provides a vect

Re: Migrating system from u-sd to nvme memory on arm64's?

>> I'm not sure that this is correct. I have several SSDs around here, all >> several years old, all with swap partitions and all in daily use. None >> has failed me yet. > Most modern SBC images for Debian and Armbian don't have a swap > partition. It's not usually necessary and it provides a vect

Re: Migrating system from u-sd to nvme memory on arm64's?

>> In either case they are detected as ordinary HDD drives and you need >> do nothing out of the ordinary other than it's preferable to not put >> a swap partition on them for wear reasons. > Now you tell me . . . Don't worry: it's a sorely outdated recommendation. There can still be circumsta

Re: Freezing mouse and other suff

>> I am wondering whether the 8GB refers to the amount of the RAM, and the >> reference to the HDD is the type, without the capacity? > And, in that, if the computer's amount of RAM, is only 8GB, what is the size > of the swap partition? If the computer has only 8GB RAM, then, I suggest > that at

Re: Freezing mouse and other suff

>> computer.  I have an 8gb seagate ATA  harddrive, Inetl core i3-9100T CPU 310 > Bank 9 suggests that the main memory might be ECC memory? Hmm... according to Wikipedia the i3-9100T does not support ECC memory. Stefan

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

> Motorola's 68000 line had an internal 32 bit architecture, which made > the CPU both performant and expensive. Hmm... it had a (non-internal) 32bit instruction set architecture (i.e. programmers could directly manipulate 32bit entities), but internally it manipulated only 16bit at a time (e.g. a

Re: Monitor Problem

>> The iso is Debian-1.0.0-amd64-netist.iso and the sha523sum mathced. >> What would ce the effect of updating the BIOS? >> > Debian-1??? Pontius still hadn't got his wings when that version > appeared. :-) Makes you appreciate Debian maintainers's foresight, providing support for amd64 several y

Re: Why does Debian have code names for releases?

>> > Unlike numbers, names are memorable and unambiguous (when well-chosen). >> This claim is far from evident and needs justification. The only [...] > Leaving aside that Titanic is the real name of the ship and not a > codename, the evidence is all around you. Look no further than > your login

Re: Why does Debian have code names for releases?

> But I can't see what's wrong with codenames. It's not just a "tradition", > it's standard practice in most fields of endeavour. You slap a name on > a project, and everyone knows what they're talking about. Unlike numbers, > names are memorable and unambiguous (when well-chosen). AFAICT codename

Re: Very small fonts on 4K monitor [solved]

>> I think you'll want to read things like >> https://wiki.debian.org/MonitorDPI > That's a rather old reference and not particularly relevant to Debian 12 / Sorry, the information I mean to convey is that your problem is probably an incorrect DPI info (presumably one influenced by the displa

Re: Very small fonts on 4K monitor [solved]

> I recently upgraded my display to a 4K monitor. [...] > I had the immediate problem that most text was almost too small > to view. I think you'll want to read things like https://wiki.debian.org/MonitorDPI -- Stefan

Re: RFP: deadEarth RPG documentation - free and open RPG game

Did you mean to send this to debbugs? Stefan Joshua Allen [2023-06-28 11:11:58] wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: deadearth > Version : second edition > Upstream Contact:i...@thegamecrafter.com > * URL > :https://web.archive.or

Re: RFP: onlyoffice -- both online and offline desktop editors

Did you mean to send this to debbugs? Stefan Joshua Allen [2023-06-28 09:12:18] wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > * Package name: onlyoffice > Version : 7.4.0 > Upstream Contact: onlyoffice.com > * URL :https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DesktopEdit

Re: Want to report a bug, don't know which package

> I recently updated from Bullseye to Bookworm and noticed that font hinting > settings in > `~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf` are ignored. This was not the case on > Bullseye and I'd like to > report this as a bug. When I run reportbug it asks for a package name, but I > have no idea which >

Re: Why does Debian have code names for releases?

>> > DO NOT USE "stable" IN YOUR sources.list FILE! >> And this is because... ? > Because a full release upgrade is a process that requires planning and > execution with intent. There are many steps to follow, in order to > maximize the chances of it actually working, and not breaking your > syste

Re: Why does Debian have code names for releases?

> Also, I struggle with the names, always need to go to the project web page > or wikipedia if I need to look up which version has which name, and it's > always a nuisance. > > A small one, though. Also, I really like the Debian project, its resulting > software collections, and thus my wish is to

Re: package managers problem

> I understand not running, say, VLC as root. But Synaptic? It allows you > to search, install and remove packages. Two of those things can't be > done without root permissions. I absolutely run it as root. > The problem is not what the App is expected to do, but the GUI code may "accidentally" do

Re: package managers problem

>> Probably you're running Synaptic on Wayland with root permission. >> Please restart your session without Wayland, or run Synaptic without >> root permission > > Thank you. That's the error I saw Correction: the above is not an error message. It's a guess of the likely cause of the error messa

Re: How to stop systemd or whatever does,to always tries to check and fix disk errors

> ok,do you have some workaround to propose to me,boys ? Not before you give more info, no. Stefan

Re: How to stop systemd or whatever does,to always tries to check and fix disk errors

[...] > of=/dev/mmcblk1 status=progress bs=2M but very rarely it wants to boot. I > don't understand where the error is. When I insert the sd card into the > slot it beeps and it prepares itself to boot chrome OS from the internal > memory,not Linux from the sd card. > > The problem could be system

Re: package managers problem

>> > One of the big differences between apt-get and aptitude is the resolver >> > which is much more sophisticated (which doesn't necessarily mean always >> > "better) in aptitude. >> >> Indeed, `aptitude` was not able to find a way to upgrade one of my >> `stable` machines, so I ran `apt` instead,

Re: bookworm isn't as stable as buster

> i have tried bookworm,noticed many improvements Indeed. > today it becomes unresponsive when i transfer files to cell phone with > go-mtpfs Cool. Haven't bumped into this improvement myself yet. Can't wait! Stefan

Re: package managers problem

> One of the big differences between apt-get and aptitude is the resolver > which is much more sophisticated (which doesn't necessarily mean always > "better) in aptitude. Indeed, `aptitude` was not able to find a way to upgrade one of my `stable` machines, so I ran `apt` instead, which punted on

Re: package managers problem

> I really don't understand why people want a GUI package manager at all. I always use the plain "batch command line" tools like `apt` or `aptitude`, indeed (and not the ncurses UI of `aptitude` which I found difficult to use when I tried it). But I think the reason is quite simple: while most pe

Re: RTL8812au support for wifi adapters

> I have a PC that uses a Wi-Fi adapter TP-Link 725N which uses the rtl8812au > driver. This is not an included driver on the installation to work out of > the box. The way to install it in previous versions (kernel 5.+) was to > router 4G connection from my smartphone to the bluetooth receiver, pe

Re: Debian home page -> Download link broken:

> Using "stable" in your sources.list is idiotic, and you should not do > it. Ever. I guess I'm an idiot, then. I find it quite convenient because it says exactly what I want: I want those machines to run Debian stable, whichever version that "stable" happens to be at any particular time. AFAIK

Re: give us a clue

> Somebody gave me a Toshiba satellite laptop with the identifying number > C50-A-19T > I think this is what is called a Dynabook. > Installed bookworm on it twice the last time with the iso with the freeware. "freeware"? As in proprietary software that is gratis? > This did not automagically ca

Re: fancontrol

>> i use i386 because the computer has 2Gb Ram memory only and was a present Sounds like a good reason to me. >> and to put 1Tb ssd and 8Gb Ram memory it’s the maximum I installed bullseye >> i386 with the little memory.. I also run i386 on many of my machines, but note that for the machines wit

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

> I want to install Debian on a new machine but don't manage to boot > from USB stick. (I can do so regularly with another machine, so the > USB stick is ok and so is the Debian netinst I burned onto it.) At > the boot I press F9 and a menu appears where I can choose to boot from > USB stick; but

Re: Running Debian without initramfs?

> What you should consider is that this initramfs setup allows you to > pull the disk from your (possibly dead) computer and stuff it into > some other (with hopefully similar architecture) and you have at > least a fair chance that the thing will boot, because at initramfs > time some modules are

Re: Debian USB Wifi

> I believe that there are at least some 11ac cards supported by the > vanilla kernel and open source firmware: > > https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath10k > https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath10k/firmware Oh so the Free ath10k firmwares have now grown support fo

Re: Debian USB Wifi

> I want to buy a usb to wifi network. How do I check if the hardware(usb) > has debian support? That's tricky: - It's fairly frequent that manufacturers change the underlying hardware without changing the product name (presumably because they find that some other wifi chipset provides the s

Re: Firefox resource utilization (was Re: A case for supporting antiquated hardware, was Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?)

> With no client-side javascript, it's not possible to change just a part of > a web page[0]. The server must send the whole web page to be rendered by the > client. So while it decreases CPU usage in the client, it increases network > usage. Isn't it unethical to also "steal" more bandwidth than n

Re: need nano like editor that can print

> An simple non-x editor like nano that can print thru cups. > Is there such a critter? Emacs works in a tty (i.e. "non-x") and I'm sure it can do that. Whether it counts as "simple", is another question, of course. More generally, I'd expect pretty much all non-toy editors to offer a way to pass

Re: Cable colors and urban legends

> I was pretty sceptical about Gene's claim, especially for nowadays, but > I just found > https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/insulated-copper-wire-turned-into-gray-powder.976956/ > FWIW. From 2019. Yeah, I saw that one as well, but note that the black wire also saw "corrosion" (tho less so), a

Re: Cable colors and urban legends

> 5~10 years ago, I cut the end off of a bad red SATA cable. > To my surprise, the copper conductor was disintegrating as Gene describes. > Unbelievable. > Somebody botched their chemical engineering. Cool: second first hand account. Thanks. So there is at least some anectodal evidence. I also f

Re: Cable colors and urban legends

>>> If rust colored dust falls from where copper used to be, you have your >>> evidence. >> Right. But I don't have that, so I don't have my evidence. Do you? > I didn't know I needed to save it at the time, so nothing physical. First hand reports count as evidence, thanks. >> Can you point to

Re: Cable colors and urban legends

> Plain old red is fine. Its the hot red which veers off toward magenta that > is the problem child, that particular dye is almost fluorescent, it gets > your attention in a sea of the more commonly use red dye for > electrical stuff. I'm pretty sure there are various ways to get that color, so if

Re: Cable colors and urban legends

>> Can you point to any evidence? > You've never cut open a magenta cable that quit to see what's inside? Nope. Never had them fail on me either for that matter. > If rust colored dust falls from where copper used to be, you have your > evidence. Right. But I don't have that, so I don't have m

10 year old machines are slow (was: A hypervisor for a headless server?)

> The most recent general-purpose Intel CPU without VT-X is from 2012. [...] > *everything* on processors that old is slow. Actually, for many (most?) single-threaded applications, I wouldn't be surprised if some 2010 CPUs end up within a factor 3 of the most badass desktop you can find today.

Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?

> Intel I5 cpu, Side note: this doesn't say much more than "an amd64 CPU produced by Intel in the last 13 years and whose release price was somewhere between $200 and $300" :-) See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_i5_processors for more details. Stefan

Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?

> Using qemu is out of discussion,because it is very slow. > But as I said, bhyve works better than qemu alone. Hmm... I'd expect qemu to be able to use KVM on all those machines where Bhyve can be used. Are you saying that you have a machine where Bhyve works well but KVM doesn't work at all, or

Cable colors and urban legends (was: Error Messages)

> And, strange as it sounds, replace any "hot red" aka "magenta" sata cable > with some other color. I am a CET and known to me since the 1970's, that > color of insulation dye will in time, convert the copper of the conductor > into a rust colored powder, and that is a poor conductor. This is ve

Re: UUIDS

>> IIRC booting with `resume=no` on the kernel's command line worked around >> the problem in my case. > > Yes, in your case, the system dumped its state into swap and kept > a remark "where" to get that state back. Actually, it had not. But when booting up, it still needs to check whether or not

Re: UUIDS

>> I'm sure it used to be that you could swap linux discs between PCs and it >> would sort itself out but I try swapping disks about and booting and they >> complain >> "Cannot find UUID..lots of identifying numbers" >> and gives intramfs prompt. > > The system seems to try to mount the root file s

Re: GPT backup table, was Re: virtualisation

> Back in the (DOS/w95) days, you would usually create one primary and one > extended, and populate the extended with as many partitions as you want. IIRC the reason why there was still that one primary was that you could only boot to a primary partition. BTW, I don't use extended partitions any

Re: Installation on NBD in the newly released

> Well, it is not a problem with nbd-client-udeb, it is a problem with the > lack of it in Debian installer. According to my reading of `nbd-client-udeb`, the whole purpose of that package is to use it with Debian's installer. So even if it's not supported in the default Debian installer, there's

Re: Installation on NBD in the newly released

> I will not go to further details here, anyone interested can go to: > https://t-w.github.io/debian/2022/03/09/diskless_debian_11_pxe_nbd/ > for details. Have you reported a bug about this? You might also get in touch with the maintainer of `nbd-client-udeb` since that package seems designed for

Re: i386: Geode LX and NOPL

Greg Wooledge [2023-05-20 11:23:27] wrote: > On Sat, May 20, 2023 at 10:36:21AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I was still able to use Debian on a (headless, armhf) 512MB machine >> without too much suffering two years ago, but I suspect that less than >> that might be impr

Re: i386: Geode LX and NOPL

> Recently, Intel has begun proposing some security improvements for > i686 that make use of the NOPL instruction -- and that, I think, could > cause support for the Geode LX to fall away from many Linux operating > systems because there's a fair and very reasonable argument that > adding security

Re: Searching for HA shared storage free for docker

> GlusterFS is vary simplistic to setup. "simplistic" means something like *too* simple, which implies that it is misleading. You presumably meant "simple" or "very simple" :-) Stefan

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