Re: Fixing errors on a BTRFS partition?

2023-01-12 Thread Intense Red
> Everything online hints that attempting repair is particularly > dangerous, but what else am I to do? You sum up my experience with BTRFS. I too was "scared" off from it and reformatted my BTRFS partitions and went back to ext4 -- it's a known quantity fit for humans with tons of advice of

Re: /boot/grub/grub.cfg menu entries

2022-12-08 Thread Intense Red
> You can also try os-prober as root and see if it detects the other > partitions. That seems to be the problem -- os-prober only shows that /dev/sdf1 has an OS on it, it seems to ignore the linux install on /dev/sdg1. IMO the next question becomes how do I convince os-prober to see /dev/s

Re: /boot/grub/grub.cfg menu entries

2022-12-06 Thread Intense Red
> To re-enable this, set GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false in /etc/default/grub. Thanks! But I did that, ran update-grub which reported: > Warning: os-prober will be executed to detect other bootable partitions. > Its output will be used to detect bootable binaries on them and create new boot entr

/boot/grub/grub.cfg menu entries

2022-12-06 Thread Intense Red
On my machine I have 2 bootable Linux installs, one each on /dev/sdf1 and / dev/sdg1. Grub *used to* detect the various partitions and creat entries for each one, but in this install it didn't do that. Looking at /boot/grub/grub.cfg it uses a function format that I don't recognize and canno

Re: No HDMI Audio

2022-07-25 Thread Intense Red
Just caught the tail end of this and thought I'd add in my $0,02 worth of experience. Using the latest Debian stable with KDE I had my PCMCIA sound come up "silent." Toying with KDE's controls and changing the sound driver and output (a confusing thing because there are multiple locations

Re: Predictable Network Interface Names

2022-03-30 Thread Intense Red
> Some people get excessively worked up over things like interface names > and like to throw around strong words for dramatic effect. Just ignore > the noise. I've just come to accept that the actual interface name is going to be some bizarre name. So I look it up, and then promptly rename it

Re: Torrents for 10.12

2022-03-26 Thread Intense Red
> Are there torrents for Debian 10.12 which was just announced? I think you mean 11.3. Either way, it usually takes a few hours or the next day before torrents are created and the web pages are updated. https://www.debian.org/CD/torrent-cd/ -- Fast fact: 90% of the American media is con

Re: URI for USB-connected Samsung CLX-4195 multifunction printer [SOLVED]

2022-02-03 Thread Intense Red
The core of my problem was that the printer was not being seen on the USB bus. Playing around with cables, various USB plugs/ports, etc. I got the printer to show up on a "lsusb" command. Once that was done the proprietary drivers "saw" the printer, the KDE desktop similarly saw the deskt

URI for USB-connected Samsung CLX-4195 multifunction printer

2022-02-03 Thread Intense Red
I had this working but now after a Linux reinstall I cannot get it to work again. :-( Using Samsung/HP's proprietary driver package at (https://support.hp.com/ us-en/drivers/selfservice/samsung-clx-4195-color-laser-multifunction-printer- series/16462344) the driver installs the printer int

Re: Getting Bullseye's VLC to read/play H265 videos

2021-10-31 Thread Intense Red
On Sunday, October 31, 2021 2:34:57 PM CDT Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > If VLC is not hard requirement then you can try SMPlayer/mpv or mpv only. Thanks! Both smplayer and mpv will play the videos. -- "There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen." -- Russi

Re: Getting Bullseye's VLC to read/play H265 videos

2021-10-31 Thread Intense Red
> Works out of the box on mine. Played H265 4K no problem. What is the > error you're getting? VLC doesn't give an error, it just endlessly tries loading and reloading the file (a video from a security camera). I'm guessing it's some oddity in the file format produced by the cheap Chinese

Getting Bullseye's VLC to read/play H265 videos

2021-10-30 Thread Intense Red
How can I convince Bullseye's VLC to read/play H265 videos? I have various h265 CODECS installed and other sources on the net report than VLC can play these files -- but not Bullseye's VLC. Can anyone whack me with a clue-bat? TIA. -- "It's easier for our software to compete with Linu

KSig for Debian 11/bullseye

2021-09-25 Thread Intense Red
KSig is a graphical editor for e-mail signature lines with a handy random function that can be plugged into KMail and other programs. For some reason it was dropped from Debian way back when. Someone recompiled it, made a *.deb and it ran fine in buster. But that binary *.deb requires KDE

Re: Why ``color_prompt`` is only set for ``xterm``? (colored prompt examples)

2021-09-04 Thread Intense Red
> In /root/.bashrc I use this to give a red prompt including host and > full path followed by a new line. I take this idea a bit further, setting a longer prompt and setting workstation hosts for specific colors for user logins, and then doing a red prompt for servers. Part of my ~/.bashr

Re: Debian 11 and Win10 dual boot -- SOLVED

2021-08-29 Thread Intense Red
> does it automatically boot to Debian with Windows listed in your GRUB menu? Yes, exactly. It works as it should: Upon boot the GRUB menu is presented, with Debian, its emergency option, and the option of booting into Windows. Thus, all is right in the world. :-) That was done by disa

Debian 11 and Win10 dual boot -- SOLVED

2021-08-28 Thread Intense Red
The problem was that Win10 would constantly overwrite the MBR and blow away GRUB which forced the computer to boot straight into Windows. The solution is to go into Windows, open a command prompt/shell as the Windows administrator and run: "bcedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\debian\grubx64.

Debian 11 and Win10 dual boot

2021-08-27 Thread Intense Red
On a new HP Laptop pre-installed with Win10 Home edition installed on an SSD. In the laptop's BIOS Secure Boot was turned off. A fresh copy of Debian 11 was installed into the machine's 1TB HD. After reboot, GRUB comes up normally and Linux works fine. But once Windows is chosen from G

RTL8852 driver for Debian 11

2021-08-19 Thread Intense Red
This is for a new consumer-grade HP laptop which seems to be (according to Windows) running a Realtek 8852 wireless connection (no standard Ethernet jack on this laptop). Debian 11 doesn't seem to detect the wireless NIC. Does anyone know what driver is used for this? -- "The world's

Re: baloo_file_extr -- how to disable or remove it?

2020-09-21 Thread Intense Red
> Can someone shed some light on how to disable or remove the > baloo_file_extr? To answer my own question, as root run the following: # balooctl disable # balooctl stop Then it'll be likely you'll need to run: # killall -9 baloo_file baloo_file_extractor For me I had to run these rep

baloo_file_extr -- how to disable or remove it?

2020-09-21 Thread Intense Red
On my KDE/stable box I have the baloo_file_extr process running hog wild. It takes up fully 1/2 of the memory and significant amounts of CPU. I gather it's some sub-function of Dolphin but there's no way I want this "service" running on my computer. Can someone shed some light on how to d

[RESOLVED] Re: Deluged setup instructions/help

2020-07-25 Thread Intense Red
To get Deluge running one should remember that deluged is a Python program which rewrites its variables to a config file on exit. Once the config file is located it can be edited and the variables The initialization problem is a problem. I used update-rc.d to disable the / etc/init.d/delug

Re: Deluged setup instructions/help

2020-07-10 Thread Intense Red
> Checking the /etc/default/deluged file would be recommended as well. That just contains a switch to enable the daemon (already done to no effect). > In case you (the OP) end up writing a .service file (system or user) to > replace the init script kindly attach it to a wishlist bug for inclu

Re: Deluged setup instructions/help

2020-07-10 Thread Intense Red
> may I ask whether there is anything about deluge/deluged in particular that > makes you want to use it? My default is to use the transmission package but that has a documented bug in which some torrents cause an "invalid argument" error. > Or is it just the one you've used before, so you

Deluged setup instructions/help

2020-07-09 Thread Intense Red
I want to set up a deluged server on Debian stable. Installing the relevant packages there are zero -- none, nada, zilch! -- instructions or example config files. From my perspective deluged nor deluge-web does not install itself in any sort of a working or bare-bones configuration which

Re: Is Linux a single-user system ? was: When/how/why to use "sudo", "su" or "su -"

2019-09-13 Thread Intense Red
> What about the really big iron ? The heck with mainframes. Back in the 1990s I had PC-based Debian boxes with users working on dumb terminals hooked up to the PC via serial cables. That certainly seemed "multi-user" to us and it didn't require big iron. -- "There’s class warfare, all

Re: Problem enabling IOMMU with Buster and Xen

2019-09-11 Thread Intense Red
> Have you enabled SR-IOV in the bios? I love how the various BIOS entries have zero help even though AMI has an empty help/description field. No, that was not enabled -- thanks! -- but even enabling it, doing a cold/poweroff boot cycle does nothing. It still gives the exact same error messa

Problem enabling IOMMU with Buster and Xen

2019-09-10 Thread Intense Red
A box booting Xen with an updated Debian 10/Buster setup as Xen's dom0, a Ryzen CPU and Radeon-based GPU. /etc/default/grub has been modified to include: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet iommu=1 amd_iommu=on" and grub has been updated. After a reboot Xen reports: # xl dmesg | grep I

Re: kde4 can't find file usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes/lines

2017-06-29 Thread Intense Red
> Does anyone else have this problem with KDE4 after Jessie/Stretch upgrade? The changes between KDE in Jessie and KDE in Stretch are substantial, including killing off kdm and replacing it with sddm. On multiple machines I've had the upgrade go pretty rocky, not only at the dm level but

Re: aptitude is dangerous - any replacement?

2017-03-21 Thread Intense Red
> I meant a replacement with a text UI. dselect is still in the repository, though it's deprecated. -- "It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones." -- Nelson Mand

Re: Laptop randomly reboots

2017-01-20 Thread Intense Red
Random reboots can be anything, but often they're a power supply issue, and even more often, a RAM issue. The first thing I'd do if I were you is to try only 1 RAM module, run it for a few days, see if it's still acting up, and then try the other RAM module to see if you can isolate a bad

Re: System freezes after update to Jessie 8.4

2016-04-04 Thread Intense Red
> It now crashes /usr/bin/X after a minute or so of using iceweasel. I'm also getting the same type of random lockups though I haven't isolated it to Iceweasel (though FWIW, Iceweasel is typically running when it locks up). Like you, the system was rock solid until the 8.4 upgrade (which

Lockup problems with new 8.4 update

2016-04-03 Thread Intense Red
I've got a box running KDE and Debian stable, has been running fine for months, and today I did the update from 8.3 to 8.4. No problem; since it installed a new kernel, I told it to reboot. Ever since then I've been getting random lockups of the machine -- no keyboard or mouse functionali

Re: MP3 player compatible with Debian

2014-10-04 Thread Intense Red
> Respectfully, once you're getting above $100 USD, you're better off > getting an cheap android phone/tablet. I didn't catch the first part of this thread, but I agree with you. What I have to wonder about is what is meant by "compatible with Debian". I use a Sansa Clip (e.g. http://www.

Re: Dovecot *requires* MySQL?

2014-01-03 Thread Intense Red
On Thursday, January 02, 2014 10:04:33 PM Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > Dovecot does not require mysql. The dovecot-common package > recommends dovecot-mysql. Apt installs recommended packages by > default, but they are not required. You can exclude recommended > packages with --no-install-recommends.

Re: Best Mail Client

2013-12-05 Thread Intense Red
> It depends what you need... Exactly. Without specific criteria this will likely just be a sea of opinions. My own preference is KMail. It has its bugs, but the way it handles multiple e-mail addresses and accounts is IMO superior to other clients. -- "The Communists of the USSR told

Re: VLC commandline problems in Wheezy [solved]

2013-07-21 Thread Intense Red
> No, sorry. But I'd be glad to help you troubleshoot.. Thanks William. I think I've identified what the problem is. What I did under KDE was to create a second "file association" entry that ran VLC with my commandline parameters. Thus, there was 2 VLC file associations for, say, *.avi. I

VLC commandline problems in Wheezy

2013-07-20 Thread Intense Red
I have a Wheezy (with the deb-multimedia.org repository) computer running a KDE desktop as a HTPC. I use VLC to watch videos. If I run KDE's default VLC invocation, "/usr/bin/vlc VideoFileName.ext", VLC will run fine, popping up in a window on the desktop. However, if I run my own call

*Another* Backup software question...

2013-07-11 Thread Intense Red
Okay, here's a different backup software question. The scenario: Call me weird, but I buy plastic CDs and refuse to buy "electronic" music. I tediously rip my CDs to Ogg files and store them on my file server. (The CDs go into the basement.) Great, I'm happy. I have 12-15 GB of Ogg files.

Re: GRUB setup for multi-boot ISO from memory stick

2012-12-04 Thread Intense Red
Hi Brian, Thanks for your reply. It was thorough, complete, and all of the steps you listed out were perfectly logical and made sense. The only problem is that it doesn't seem to work. :-) I can't even get to the first step of mounting the memory card. > Are you sure you want to do this?

GRUB setup for multi-boot ISO from memory stick

2012-12-01 Thread Intense Red
I've been trying to set up Testing/Wheezy's DVD ISO to boot from a memory card/USB thumb drive, as outlined at http://www.pendrivelinux.com/boot- multiple-iso-from-usb-via-grub2-using-linux/ I have the *.iso file renamed "debian.iso" and put in the root directory of the USB drive/memory ca