Re: hangs at boot

2022-11-30 Thread Tixy
sn't got anything to > do with these services but I have no idea what it might be. The above, and presumably 'remote CUPS printers' in the earlier post, involve the network and related services like DNS or DHCP. --  Tixy

Re: Passwords

2023-01-17 Thread Tixy
's site, Arch wiki etc. -- Tixy

Re: Cloning a disk: partclone?

2023-01-19 Thread Tixy
rely it's also straightforward to just copy the data in the partition then resize the filesystem... cp /dev/sdX1 /dev/sdY1 resize2fs /dev/sdY1 Assuming you've already partitioned the target disk /dev/sdY to how you want it. (And assuming the filesystem is ext2..ext4) -- Tixy

Re: Cloning a disk: partclone?

2023-01-19 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2023-01-19 at 19:56 +, Tixy wrote: > > Surely it's also straightforward to just copy the data in the partition > then resize the filesystem... > >  cp /dev/sdX1 /dev/sdY1 >  resize2fs /dev/sdY1 > > Assuming you've already partitioned the target disk /d

Re: USB enumeration issue

2023-01-24 Thread Tixy
on then that would be a smoking gun, and you could prove it by booting the earlier kernel or reverting firmware. -- Tixy

Re: USB enumeration issue

2023-01-24 Thread Tixy
pend device, error -110 > What would be useful is the log of the boot before that, where usb 1-5 worked, to see log messages for 'usb 1-5' to find out what it is. -- Tixy

Re: USB enumeration issue

2023-01-24 Thread Tixy
d. [1] https://tracker.debian.org/news/1406376/accepted-linux-614-1-source-into-unstable/ -- Tixy

Re: USB enumeration issue

2023-01-23 Thread Tixy
er kernel, presumably there is one still installed as Debian doesn't automatically uninstall kernels. Also, looking at old kernel logs from back when it was working would be useful (/var/log/kernel.N.gz where N if the biggest number there is). Hopefully that will show what device is on usb 1-5 (though I believe port numbers may change over time and depend on what's plugged in). -- Tixy

Re: Cloning a disk: partclone?

2023-01-20 Thread Tixy
On Fri, 2023-01-20 at 14:56 +0200, Anssi Saari wrote: > Tixy writes: > > > Surely it's also straightforward to just copy the data in the partition > > then resize the filesystem... > > > >  cp /dev/sdX1 /dev/sdY1 > >  resize2fs /dev/sdY1 > > Sure. Par

Re: USB enumeration issue

2023-01-25 Thread Tixy
use? (I'm clutching at straws here, as I don't think they use the bluetooth standard). I have wireless devices on one of my machines and the receiver for the PC is a tiny USB device that only sticks out about 5mm from the case, just wondered if you have such a thing plugged in and overlooked. -- Tixy

Re: USB enumeration issue

2023-01-25 Thread Tixy
On Wed, 2023-01-25 at 08:06 +, Tixy wrote: > My final idea: have you used a wireless keyboard or mouse? or wireless headphones.

Re: Initramfs/ Initrd Resolution

2023-01-30 Thread Tixy
ore starting linux, and linux itself just uses whatever mode the hardware is set to. -- Tixy

Re: Vulnerable git in bullseye - what's the process?

2023-01-27 Thread Tixy
which says it's been fixed in sid. And the PTS shows it was fixed yesterday in old-stable and sid. But no sign I can see that anything is being done for stable (Bullseye) which is what Sijmen asked about. (I wouldn't know where to look for stable security update activity). -- Tixy

Re: switch from IDE to AHCI causes not finding root FS

2023-01-28 Thread Tixy
conf to put it back to what seems to be the default 'MODULES=most' rather than 'MODULES=dep'. -- Tixy

Re: "usermod: user user is currently used by process" while using (trying to) thunderbird to back up my gmail account's data ...

2022-11-06 Thread Tixy
tps://systemd.io/HOME_DIRECTORY/ So might be worth running the 'homectl' command to see if it exists, it doesn't on my the Debian 11 install. So like I said, probably a red herring. -- Tixy

Re: blacklist mei_me?

2022-11-15 Thread Tixy
than > causing > delays. > If you use Google to search for mei_me you'll lots o similar reports going back a decade, e.g. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=168403 These seem to suggest blacklisting the module or disabling Management Engine Interface in the BIOS. -- Tixy

Re: sid - no sound on speakers

2022-11-13 Thread Tixy
On Sat, 2022-11-12 at 19:01 +1000, David wrote: > What are you running? > Stable, Testing, Unstable? The subject line if prefixed with 'sid'. So Unstable I presume. -- Tixy

Re: service vs systemctl

2023-03-07 Thread Tixy
ice that # has one or more .socket files, we also stop the .socket units. # Users who need more control will use systemctl directly. Personally, I still use 'service' through habit and won't change until it doesn't do what I expect. -- Tixy

Re: service vs systemctl

2023-03-07 Thread Tixy
I accidentally deleted a sentence in my last reply, here's the corrected version... On Tue, 2023-03-07 at 15:38 +0800, Ken Young wrote: > Hello > > For debian 11, service is just a wrapper to systemctl, is it right? It's a 217 line shell script and looking at it it checks for which init system

Re: Re: home server for email box

2023-03-10 Thread Tixy
ken email server. For most people, email service is pretty critical so you will likely want a second fallback email server somewhere else. This is what I do, I used to have a VPS for this but to save money I recently moved to an email hosting service that supports receiving emails for other domains. -- Tixy

Re: Strange application menus (File, Edit…) behaviour since last update

2023-03-09 Thread Tixy
ected. And it broke threading. -- Tixy

Re: MPV Player...

2023-02-27 Thread Tixy
raught with problems. As is oft pointed out here, see... https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian -- Tixy

Re: cpu supported?

2023-02-18 Thread Tixy
On Sat, 2023-02-18 at 07:09 +, piorunz wrote: > On 18/02/2023 06:17, Tom wrote: > > > > It also has 2 drives one is chip and the other spins. > > What? > I'm guessing that's one SSD and one spinning magnetic media hard drive. -- Tixy

Re: Debugging what is deleting/recreating /etc/resolv.conf with wrong configuration, on debian stable

2023-02-28 Thread Tixy
t; new name for eth0 Or eno for ethernet too. My ethernet started out as eno2 when I did the initial install and this changed to eno1 when I disabled the onboard wireless in the bios. --  Tixy

Re: Debian 11 upgrade to Debian 12

2023-02-28 Thread Tixy
e. If you looked at the release notes [1] it suggests # apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs # apt full-upgrade Then lists some possible issues and there remedy. [1] https://www.debian.org/releases/testing/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#minimal-upgrade -- Tixy

Re: Debian 11 upgrade to Debian 12

2023-02-28 Thread Tixy
On Tue, 2023-02-28 at 14:52 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Feb 28, 2023 at 06:32:27PM +0000, Tixy wrote: > > On Tue, 2023-02-28 at 13:16 -0500, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > [...] > > > All I did was modify /etc/apt/sources.list from Bullseye to Bookworm, the

Re: Apt sources.list

2023-04-15 Thread Tixy
kworm" to "testing", will it > do that, and (other than the instabilities of testing) is there any > liability to it? Testing doesn't get explicit security support so there's no point in having 'testing-security' lines in sources.list (I guess it'll give an error anyway). -- Tixy

Re: Evolution email (problem?)

2023-04-27 Thread Tixy
's Gmail where 'folders' aren't really folders, just tags applied in a database. Who knows how it's going to behave when they Google maps that onto the IMAP protocol. -- Tixy

Re: Evolution email (problem?)

2023-04-27 Thread Tixy
proper IMAP sever (Dovecot) run by me and used that for work email. --  Tixy

Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting)

2023-04-30 Thread Tixy
ted the idea of Wastebaskets, if I delete something I want it deleted, not just hidden and taking up space). -- Tixy

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-01 Thread Tixy
d64). Because this issue seemed familiar I looked at my bash command history and that has me cd'ing into that directory and doing a du command there and then deleting stuff. So I guess I've also resorted to manually cleaning it up in the past. -- Tixy

Re: Evolution email (problem?) (IMAP, Gmail, email compacting)

2023-05-01 Thread Tixy
k at the remote email folders again it will re-download them. -- Tixy

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-02 Thread Tixy
nd is that this is and error, a noop, or means 'every package'. The latter you be real bad, the other two now a useful suggestion to people. Of course, it could be special cased to mean 'purge everything not installed', which count be useful, but the man page doesn't say that. -- Tixy

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-02 Thread Tixy
et a list of installed packages and remove them all. Of course, this would break at some point after removing a package with executable programs used by package scripts. ;-) -- Tixy

Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?

2023-04-08 Thread Tixy
ck yet in my searches. I installed 'thermald' to stop my CPUs hitting the max junction temperature and hard resetting after a few minutes. I was quite surprised that the standard kernel doesn't actually have thermal protection which throttles CPU clocks and requires an external userspace program to do this. -- Tixy

Re: bookworm

2023-02-09 Thread Tixy
n-free-firmware'. See... https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/01/msg00706.html -- Tixy

Re: Pulseaudio - Daemon.conf

2023-07-19 Thread Tixy
On Wed, 2023-07-19 at 01:24 +0200, Stefan Schumacher wrote: > I noticed that pulseaudio is not part of Debian Bookworm anymore. Yes it is [1] and it's still running on my machine after upgrading to Bookworm. (I run the LXDE desktop.) [1] https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/pulseaudio -- Tixy

Re: Debian home page -> Download link broken:

2023-06-11 Thread Tixy
e the wiki page should be deleted, or just say go RTFM, i.e. read the release notes for the release you want to upgrade to. -- Tixy

Re: fstrim: /: the discard operation is not supported

2023-06-11 Thread Tixy
e done since I googled how to do this a few releases ago. > Any hints what to test or where to search for a solution? After changing lvm.conf did you rebuild initramfs and reboot? -- Tixy

Re: Debian home page -> Download link broken:

2023-06-12 Thread Tixy
On Sun, 2023-06-11 at 15:24 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 2:12 AM Tixy wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2023-06-10 at 23:55 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > Debian's wiki says to use apt-get: > > > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUpgrade. Also see

Bookwork upgrade fail with encrypted root

2023-06-12 Thread Tixy
cryptsetup-initramfs to be removed? Either way, it seems safe advice to other people with an encrypted root partition to mark the package as manually installed to help prevent issues. -- Tixy

Re: Package policy?

2023-08-08 Thread Tixy
, looks like one of the libraries it depends on isn't present in the correct version. -- Tixy

Re: Email bodies not show anymore in Evolution Email

2023-05-04 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2023-05-04 at 20:09 +0200, zithro wrote: > > A recent email from the Debian security team confirms this (Advisory > DSA-5396-2) : > > "The webkit2gtk update released as 5396-1 introduced a compatibility > problem that caused Evolution to display e-mail incorrectly. Evolution > has been

Re: Email bodies not show anymore in Evolution Email

2023-05-04 Thread Tixy
-4.0 > > libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18 > > libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 > > Ah, thank you very much for that information. In the meanwhile, I > found > that there is already a bug report available at Debian about that. That's good, because I too can only read email by hitting Ctrl-U to view the source. -- Tixy

Re: SOLVED: Re: Chromium oops: libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so

2024-01-23 Thread Tixy
Debian 6.1 kernel if you don't explicitly want the 6.5 one from backports. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1057969 -- Tixy

Re: Test

2023-12-22 Thread Tixy
On Fri, 2023-12-22 at 12:15 -0500, Pocket wrote: > This is a test of the emergency broadcast system Please stop spamming the 1000 or so people subscribed to this list. -- Tixy

Re: difference in seconds between two formatted dates ...

2023-12-25 Thread Tixy
On Sun, 2023-12-24 at 23:05 +, Albretch Mueller wrote: [...] > Why would %S be in the range second (00..60), instead of (00..59)?: To support leap seconds [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second -- Tixy

Re: differences among amd64 and i386

2023-12-16 Thread Tixy
have already dropped support > for i386.  amd64 would be the more future-proof choice. Just announced today [1] it looks like Debian will drop i386 installs for the next release. [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/12/msg3.html -- Tixy

Re: Firefox Warning [SOLVED]

2023-12-27 Thread Tixy
didn't play nicely with your Debian desktop and wants to update itself to new versions. (Non-ESR versions don't get security updates so I assume whoever built the software you installed wanted users to keep up-to-date and included a mechanism to ensure that.) -- Tixy

Re: The bug

2023-12-13 Thread Tixy
ned a few years ago to me when an update broke kernels running under the Xen hypervisor, which the VPS running my email was. -- Tixy

Re: 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors How worried should I be?

2024-01-02 Thread Tixy
nreadable (pending) sectors > > Jan 02 15:07:39 tiassa smartd[740]: Device: /dev/sda [SAT], 1 Currently > > unreadable (pending) sectors > > These are logged at suspiciously even times, like something is > looking at the disk every 30 minutes exactly. Perhaps 'smartd' the "SMART Disk Monitoring Daemon" ;-) -- Tixy

Re: Seeking a Terminal Emulator on Debian for "Passthrough" Printing

2024-01-12 Thread Tixy
ial port on another computer. -- Tixy

Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority?

2024-01-17 Thread Tixy
uld display the file. If there is no file, > then these directory entries shouldn't exist. Filesystem directories entries hold more than file and directory objects. As well as symbolic links, there's named FIFOs, named sockets, and devices. E.g. $ mkfifo a-fifo $ nc -lkU a-socket& $ ln -T target -s a-link $ ls -l a-* prw-r--r-- 1 tixy tixy 0 Jan 17 12:07 a-fifo lrwxrwxrwx 1 tixy tixy 6 Jan 17 12:08 a-link -> target srwxr-xr-x 1 tixy tixy 0 Jan 17 12:07 a-socket -- Tixy

Re: man page for cut

2024-01-17 Thread Tixy
last option letter. $echo hello|cut -zb2-5 ello$ (the 'z' option says use NUL byte for line terminator so in this case it didn't output the newline and my '$' command prompt got printed straight after the 'ello'. -- Tixy

Re: nftables: Clamping mss size to lower mtu (on PPPoE connection does not work)

2024-01-18 Thread Tixy
no-effect-in-nftables tcp flags syn tcp option maxseg size set rt mtu # connections from the internal net to the internet or to other # internal nets are allowed iifname $DEV_PRIVATE accept # the rest is dropped by the above policy } -- Tixy

Re: No Release file for Security Update

2024-01-18 Thread Tixy
ine exactly. apt-get update searches for > security.debian.org:80 [57.128.81.193] and times out, no connection Where could your machine be getting this IP address from? It's the same IP address shown in your output when you used the incorrect address 'ftp.security.debian.org' and for me that doesn't resolve to any IP address. -- Tixy

Re: nftables: Clamping mss size to lower mtu (on PPPoE connection does not work)

2024-01-18 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2024-01-18 at 14:16 +0100, Ralph Aichinger wrote: > On Thu, 2024-01-18 at 12:51 +0000, Tixy wrote: > > > > I have the same options in the forward chain except that I haven't > > qualified them with an interface name. Didn't occur to me that I >

Re: No Release file for Security Update

2024-01-18 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2024-01-18 at 12:06 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Tixy writes: > > Where could your machine be getting this IP address from?  It's the > > same IP address shown in your output when you used the incorrect > > address 'ftp.security.debian.org' and for me that doesn't

Re: No Release file for Security Update

2024-01-18 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2024-01-18 at 18:16 +, Tixy wrote: > On Thu, 2024-01-18 at 12:06 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > Tixy writes: > > > Where could your machine be getting this IP address from?  It's the > > > same IP address shown in your output when you used

Re: No Release file for Security Update

2024-01-18 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2024-01-18 at 18:51 +, Tixy wrote: > > On Thu, 2024-01-18 at 18:16 +, Tixy wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2024-01-18 at 12:06 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > > > > > Tixy writes: > > > > > > > > Whe

Re: quick alpine config question?

2023-11-25 Thread Tixy
On Sat, 2023-11-25 at 13:49 +, Tixy wrote: > On Sat, 2023-11-25 at 11:46 +, Tim Woodall wrote: > > OK. This is weird! Something is joining those two lines. > > Not at this end it isn't. For me, all 3 of your diffs look the same on > screen and are binary the same apart

Re: quick alpine config question?

2023-11-25 Thread Tixy
ing it as being in quoted-printable encoding? Though looking at the RFC for that, it looks like deleting the trailing space should have caused the problem (by turning it into a soft line break) not fixed it. So it's perhaps some other quirk. -- Tixy

Re: Debian/Xen on ARM: How to identify source of an unhandled SMC call during boot?

2024-01-31 Thread Tixy
he address is probably determined > at runtime and not hardcoded. I sure those hex values aren't 'addresses' but the ID's for the secure monitor calls Paul already identified. Looking at the Linux sources I found the header for constructing these monitor calls: include/linux/arm-smccc.h So it might be worth looking at the files that include that. There are various drivers for firmware, and a watchdog driver amongst other things... drivers/watchdog/arm_smc_wdt.c -- Tixy

Re: Q: Gnome network odd

2024-02-01 Thread Tixy
ldn't need to because it looks like it's shipped with the main network-manage package which contains various files with 'plugin' in their name, including libnm-settings-plugin-ifupdown.so. As we've seen from the OPs latest reply, the plugin is configured to not manage interfaces. -- Tixy

Re: Q: Gnome network odd

2024-01-29 Thread Tixy
e a more vague memory that you could put config into /etc/network/interfaces then in some circumstance NetworkManager would not try and manage that interface, and in others it would take over. (Perhaps selected by allow hotplug option in the ifupdown config?) -- Tixy

Re: Home UPS recommendations

2024-01-26 Thread Tixy
hen the original batteries got rather feeble. (After 7 years). I've now stopped using it though because of the cost of the electricity it uses. It uses 18W when just sitting there ready for action, which worked out at 40GBP a year! -- Tixy

Re: Why is bullseye-backports recommended on bookworm?

2023-11-15 Thread Tixy
opined. > > But the bookworm-backports kernel is even newer. > So why not this one? Because it's a different package? bookworm-backports has a linux-6.5 package which is not a newer version of the linux-6.1 package it's totally separate as far as the packaging system is concerned. -- Tixy

Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router

2023-11-15 Thread Tixy
ut so far they're still releasing for it.) -- Tixy

Re: IMAP vs POP was Thunderbird vs Claws Mail

2023-11-19 Thread Tixy
ist and then if my script returns 'true' I have evolution set to delete them. -- Tixy

Re: debian-12.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso usb grub boot error "invalid buffer alignment"

2023-11-20 Thread Tixy
wasted quite a few hours after not noticing it's auto-mounting the disk I'm copying too and so trashing my clone. (I find out the copy is bad when doing a binary compare after the multi-hour copying is done.) -- Tixy

Re: IMAP vs POP was Thunderbird vs Claws Mail

2023-11-20 Thread Tixy
ssage making that point several years ago, I'm sure I've mentioned that here before. I did it in my last job as my employer used Google for mail, so I just forwarded everything to an email account on my email server at home. -- Tixy

Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router

2023-11-16 Thread Tixy
're > > still > > releasing for it.) > > If these can run the `armhf` port you should be fine for a few > more years. For `armel` the writing is on the wall, tho. They're armel. ARMv5 Thumb mode only. -- Tixy

Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router

2023-11-16 Thread Tixy
assuming it isn't dropped for some major region, like broken compilers etc. -- Tixy

Re: Why is bullseye-backports recommended on bookworm?

2023-11-17 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2023-11-16 at 14:04 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 16 Nov 2023 at 13:02:28 (+0100), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2023-11-15 13:54:51 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > > On Wed 15 Nov 2023 at 20:01:20 (+0100), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > On 2023-11

Re: No 6.5.10-4 realtime kernel?

2023-11-14 Thread Tixy
= command-line parameter. PREEMPT_DYNAMIC allows distributors to ship a single kernel while letting users pick the preemption mode that works best for their workload. So if you specificity need a real-time kernel this won't give it to you. [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/944686/ -- Tixy

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