Re: virtualisation

2023-05-22 Thread Mark Allums
On 5/22/2023 2:10 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: mick.crane wrote: This is a request for best practice, perceived knowledge. For one reason and another this PC/Workstation (what is the difference?) boots in legacy mode. It was something to do with the SS usb port not booting the installer in EFI mode. I

Re: efi problem

2023-04-22 Thread Mark Allums
On 4/22/23 15:06, mick.crane wrote: On 2023-04-22 19:05, DdB wrote: Am 22.04.2023 um 19:30 schrieb mick.crane: I suspect the GPU is suspect because there are small blocks of pixels appearing where they aren't wanted. I'd like to re-install the OS as I've got copies of everything I think. Just

Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?

2023-04-08 Thread Mark Allums
paste yes, silver no.  That's out-of-date.  Silver is conductive.  Silver paste is not superior to Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut or Arctic (maker of the most popular silver paste) MX-6. You want non-conductive, non-capacitive paste. Mark Allums

Re: does your Thunderbird for deb11 often become unresponsive?

2023-03-04 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/3/23 12:17, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 03.03.2023 09:02, hlyg wrote: at first i suspect Thunderbird(TB) try to access some sites that are blocked in china i disable show Start Page when it launches i disable check email automatically for each account but it becomes unresponsive

DM crashes in Sid

2022-05-12 Thread Mark Allums
that recalls that could post a link, it'd be great, or could coach me how to diagnose and fix, or at least tell me what to Google for... Thanks Mark Allums

Re: I've been caught out

2022-01-24 Thread Mark Allums
On 1/24/22 05:08, gene heskett wrote: On Monday, January 24, 2022 5:19:13 AM EST Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, gene@coyote:~/Debian-arm/linux$ patch -p1 ../patches/*.patch patch: ../patches/0001-mm-memcg-Disable-threshold-event-handlers-on- PREEMPT.patch: extra operand man patch says

Re: Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead for the USPS.com

2022-01-03 Thread Mark Allums
Did you click on a phishing link? Mark Allums On 1/3/22 16:16, local10 wrote: Jan 3, 2022, 22:11 by robe...@debian.org: The site works fine for me. In FF, click on 'SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN', which should take you to the full error output. Then click 'Copy text to clipboard' and paste

Re:[solved] Broken libc6 running Sid (multiarch sytem)

2021-12-19 Thread Mark Allums
On 12/19/21 18:12, Mark Allums wrote: On 12/19/2021 2:30 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 19 dec 21, 07:24:56, Tim Woodall wrote: On Sat, 18 Dec 2021, Mark Allums wrote: Preparing to unpack .../libc6_2.33-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libc6:amd64 (2.33-1) over (2.34-0experimental1) ... dpkg

Re: Broken libc6 running Sid (multiarch sytem)

2021-12-19 Thread Mark Allums
On 12/19/2021 2:30 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 19 dec 21, 07:24:56, Tim Woodall wrote: On Sat, 18 Dec 2021, Mark Allums wrote: Preparing to unpack .../libc6_2.33-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libc6:amd64 (2.33-1) over (2.34-0experimental1) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt

Broken libc6 running Sid (multiarch sytem)

2021-12-18 Thread Mark Allums
it, but I guess I don't understand the man page about forcing things, cause it won't work. The following is some of my thrashing around, trying to understand and fix it. I'm no guru, what do? Mark Allums root@martha:/home/george/Desktop# apt -f install The following packages have unmet

Re: Please help to test latest Debian 11 release candidate on real hardware

2021-07-24 Thread Mark Allums
using the package https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/hw-probe <https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/hw-probe>. You can download Debian 11 release candidate on the page https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ <https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/>. Andrey Mark Allums

Re: Messed up Email

2021-06-21 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/21/2021 6:22 PM, Gary L. Roach wrote: Hi all, Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10 KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.5 Qt Version: 5.11.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.54.0 Kernel Version: 4.19.0-16-amd64 OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 4 × AMD FX(tm)-4350 Quad-Core Processor Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM

Re: new harddrive degraded speed

2021-01-21 Thread Mark Allums
On 1/20/21 11:41 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: i bought a new harddrive western digital red plus 6tb === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Western Digital Red Device Model: WDC WD60EFRX-68L0BN1 Serial Number:WD-WX62D60C9L6X LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 212e6b9ad Firmware

Re: Tiling display support

2020-12-19 Thread Mark Allums
Oh, thanks, I've reread specs. It says 'refresh rate up to 240Hz', but for full resolution it's 5120 x 1440 | 60 Hz. There is LG, which promises 3840 x 2160 144Hz. I'll be more careful. Which LG model offers 144 Hz at 3480 x 2160? Because I am shopping for a high-refresh 4k device right now,

Re: Replacement Email Client

2020-10-24 Thread Mark Allums
Both Thunderbird and Balsa have been rejected as T'bird is a behemoth and no longer in development; Thunderbird has been spun off from Mozilla, and is actively being developed.  The thing is still pretty fat, but they recently added support for PGP/GPG encryption built-in.  I wouldn't

Re: dosemu

2020-10-17 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/17/20 12:47 PM, ellanios82 wrote:  Mark replied : > Consider dosbox-x, related to dosbox (fork), but much easier to configure and use, with lots of new features. https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x Mark .  - thanks Mark vm.  

Re: dosemu

2020-10-17 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/17/20 2:56 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 10/17/20 12:47 PM, ellanios82 wrote:   Mark replied :  > Consider dosbox-x, related to dosbox (fork), but much easier to configure and use, with lots of new features. https://github.com/joncampbell123/dosbox-x <https://github.com/joncampb

Re: Fwd: dosemu : DOS emulator program

2020-10-17 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/17/20 11:27 AM, ellanios82 wrote:  - meantime , got lucky : added to APT Sources List :   http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stretch main contrib>  - did "apt install dosemu" .  Oh Miracle !  dosemu installed & working, sweet  [ have to say,

Re: chromium users https question

2020-10-15 Thread Mark Allums
It;s not https, it's JavaScript. Having to do ad-blockers, maybe. Mark On 10/15/2020 3:11 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 15 October 2020 14:22:39 l0f...@tuta.io wrote: Hi, 15 oct. 2020 à 18:26 de ghesk...@shentel.net: But I've not been able to click on an "https" link and have it

Re: Partial Mouse Lockup

2020-10-07 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/6/20 1:27 PM, Thomas George wrote: Mouse clicks don't work though mouse moves the pointer. This happens infrequently, once in a day or two. I am using two pc's, a raspberrypi and a Ubuntu Studio each with its own Logitech usb keyboard and have experienced  this problem on both systems.

Re: Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups

2020-08-12 Thread Mark Allums
On 8/12/2020 7:14 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I'm getting closer to setting up a consistent backup plan, backing up to an external USB drive. I'm wondering about a reasonable filesystem to use, I think I want to stay in the ext2/3/4 family, and I'm wondering if there is any good reason to use

Re: Very old hardware...

2020-07-12 Thread Mark Allums
On 7/11/20 7:07 PM, David Wright wrote: On Sun 05 Jul 2020 at 23:44:09 (+0200), Thomas Schmitt wrote: David Wright wrote: My 650MHz Pentium III (Coppermine) [...] consumes ~50mA idling, ~300mA when busy. [...] at 220V 11 to 66 Watt. That's unusual for a full size PC of that time. I knew

Re: Are All Drives Installed .

2020-06-25 Thread Mark Allums
On 6/25/2020 4:36 PM, Arun Mathai wrote: Hello Guys,  I own a Dell e6420 ,  and i had installed debian buster (mate).But the brightness and wifi drivers and i assume the hdmi drivers were not installed. How can i know that all the drivers for my device is installed? You may need to install

Re: Newbie

2020-06-25 Thread Mark Allums
Ask one question per post.  Do research yourself (Google is your friend.) Mark On 6/25/2020 4:26 PM, Arun Mathai wrote: Hello Guys, I am a total newbie for debian. I have some technical difficulties and questions that i want to ask. Could anyone please tell me how to proceed. Regards,

Re: Strange squealing noise from computer

2020-05-29 Thread Mark Allums
On 5/29/2020 8:03 AM, J.W. Foster wrote: So just to be fair this is NOT a Debian specific issue as I run several distros including Debian and Windows10. I have a recently built DIY computer that is making a LOUD squealing sound. I thought of fan bearings at first and I tried individually

Re: Synaptic error

2020-04-12 Thread Mark Allums
On 4/12/2020 10:44 AM, Reco wrote: Your local apt index file is out of sync with the mirror. They should give a button in Synaptic that performs the equivalent of "apt-get update". Reload.

Re: Package request

2020-03-27 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/27/2020 7:42 PM, Justin wrote: Good day, I am inquiring if you make a package which would like onenote for microsoft. Do you have a interactive package that would be used just like onenote or similar? Also do you make a package like a virtual machine or similar where you can instal

Re: how to keep 2 PCs partially in sync

2020-03-24 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/24/20 4:05 PM, Patrick Scribus wrote: Hello, two of my computers have a similar role as desktop. The installed packages are nearly the same, the configuration is nearly the same and the stored data in /home also. Especially the texts, the pictures and the like require too much time and

Re: no upgrade of libkpmcore8 to libkpmcore9

2020-03-19 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/19/2020 8:03 AM, Marco Möller wrote: The dependency libkpmcore9 cannot be upgraded from libkpmcore8, therefore the package partitionmanager is hold back from upgrades. What exactly causes "apt upgrade" to not be able to upgrade to libkpmcore9 from libkpmcore8? Below I will show what I

Re: All true assertions in a bash find one liner? ...

2020-02-27 Thread Mark Allums
On 2/27/2020 6:40 AM, Albretch Mueller wrote: I need to find all files which names satisfy a pattern and contain a certain string, then from those files I need to printf some metadata, a la: Instead of the lines of the first search by the extensions to look like: "12/15/18

Re: Modern automounters and umount

2020-02-25 Thread Mark Allums
On 2/25/20 3:43 AM, Curt wrote: On 2020-02-25, Mark Allums wrote: george@martha:~$ systemctl stop gvfs-daemon Failed to stop gvfs-daemon.service: Unit gvfs-daemon.service not loaded. You cannot stop what does not exist. I think the systemd unit involved is run-user-1000-gvfs.mount

Re: Modern automounters and umount

2020-02-24 Thread Mark Allums
On 2/24/20 10:08 AM, David Wright wrote: On Mon 24 Feb 2020 at 10:54:28 (-), Curt wrote: On 2020-02-24, Mark Allums wrote: george@martha:~$ gvfsd --no-fuse bash: gvfsd: command not found george@martha:~$ systemctl stop gvfsd Failed to stop gvfsd.service: Unit

Re: Modern automounters and umount

2020-02-24 Thread Mark Allums
On 2/23/20 3:02 PM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 09:58:10PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: Explain this, then: george@martha:~$ udisksctl unmount -b /dev/sdb1 Unmounted /dev/sdb1. george@martha:~$ sudo e2fsck -c -c -k -p -f -C 0 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1 is in use. e2fsck: Cannot

Re: Modern automounters and umount

2020-02-23 Thread Mark Allums
On 2/23/20 5:00 AM, Curt wrote: I never understood the actual procedure for unmounting when gvfsd was doing it;s thing, nor how to prevent the whole mess in the first place (short of doing without gvfsd, et al). Well, at any rate, I can only believe your deal here (*completely* unrelated to

Re: Modern automounters and umount

2020-02-23 Thread Mark Allums
On 2/22/20 8:36 AM, Curt wrote: On 2020-02-22, Mark Allums wrote: But does not require superuser, if udisks2 mounted it on your user's behalf in the first place. Explain this, then: george@martha:~$ udisksctl unmount -b /dev/sdb1 Unmounted /dev/sdb1. george@martha:~$ sudo e2fsck -c -c -k

Re: Modern automounters and umount

2020-02-21 Thread Mark Allums
On 2/21/20 9:23 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 08:53:50AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: Indeed.  And FWIW, you should/might be able to avoid the `sudo` by asking udisks2 to do the unmount Yep. It requires you to specify the device, rather than the filesystem mount point:

Re: Do one thing. Do it right

2020-02-14 Thread Mark Allums
On 2/14/2020 3:29 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: What I don't know is whether they bother (from a technical standpoint rather than espionage) to track a SIM-less phone. Making contact in Same question for a phone with an old SIM card. Same question for a phone in "airplane mode".

Re: Anyone with experience scanning with Epson

2020-02-07 Thread Mark Allums
On 2/7/2020 10:53 AM, Michael Stone wrote: On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 03:36:55PM +, Brian wrote: On Fri 07 Feb 2020 at 10:25:22 -0500, Michael Stone wrote: On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 03:05:31PM +, Brian wrote: > On Fri 07 Feb 2020 at 09:37:17 -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb

Re: Cuda sdk for Debian?

2020-02-05 Thread Mark Allums
On 2/5/2020 2:37 AM, An Liu wrote: Hi, As there is no Cuda offical support for debian from NVIDIA,anyone could share any Cuda experience. It's in non-free.  Enable non-free in sources.list and apt update.

Re: Pluma's syntax highlighting

2020-01-13 Thread Mark Allums
On 1/13/2020 10:03 AM, David Wright wrote: Once again, I can tell you nothing about Pluma. Pluma is a direct descendant of the Gnome 2 text editor, whose name currently escapes me.

Re: No security support for binutils and libqt5webkit5, what to do?

2019-12-30 Thread Mark Allums
On 12/29/2019 8:44 PM, Andreas wrote: I was supposing that Mark's answer implied that (against general policies of debian and for reasons unknown to me) in this case security changes of upstream would be passed on to debian, even if binutils is "not covered by security support". If this is

Re: No security support for binutils and libqt5webkit5, what to do?

2019-12-29 Thread Mark Allums
On 12/29/2019 1:28 PM, Andreas Goesele wrote: Hi, I just went from jessie to buster and I didn't discover any serious problem so far. But I tried to remove all packages where there is no or only limitid security support and ended up with 5 packages I don't think I should/can remove:

Re: Impossible to type "ù"

2019-12-16 Thread Mark Allums
On 12/16/19 3:53 PM, Pétùr wrote: Hi, I cannot type "ù" anymore on Debian Xfce Sid (French keyboard). All other accented character (éàûè) work but the cursor just blinked when using the dedicated key for "ù". Any clue? Bad key?

Re: Lua doesn't load the MySQL driver

2019-12-06 Thread Mark Allums
On 12/5/19 5:02 AM, Bjoern Schiessle wrote: I tried to move the file /usr/local/share/lua/5.2/DBI.lua away, then the error message changes to: Dec 05 11:57:35 sql error Error in SQL transaction: /usr/share/lua/5.2/DBI.lua:53: Cannot load driver MySQL. Available drivers are: PostgreSQL So

Re: external drive

2019-12-02 Thread Mark Allums
On 12/2/19 4:57 AM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, December 02, 2019 05:11:41 AM Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 02 December 2019 04:40:28 Andrei POPESCU wrote: Try a different (known good) reader and/or system. I'll look for one that claims exfat support. But I'm out in the puckerbrush

Re: external drive

2019-11-29 Thread Mark Allums
Install exfat support. apt install exfat-fuse exfat-utils Mark On 11/29/2019 7:25 AM, Łukasz Kruk wrote: Hi there, I have an external drive formatted to exFAT. I cannot access it? Can you please assist? Kind regards, L. Kruk.

Re: at-spi-dbus-launcher not responding

2019-10-20 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/19/2019 5:54 PM, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: On 10/19/19, Mike Kupfer wrote: I have a system running bullseye. When I try to log out, or shut down, from MATE, I invariably get a popup that tells me that at-spi-dbus-launcher is not responding. I click on "logout anyway", and the system

[solved] Re: installed zfsutils-linux post-installation script returned exit status 1

2019-09-17 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/17/19 2:41 AM, Curt wrote: On 2019-09-17, Mark Allums wrote: Well, what you provided in the initial OP was a bit on the parsimonious side. Now that we know a little more maybe this is the applicable bug (although it concerns a previous version of the package, and you haven't said--or have

Re: installed zfsutils-linux post-installation script returned exit status 1

2019-09-16 Thread Mark Allums
On 9/16/19 2:39 AM, Curt wrote: On 2019-09-16, Mark Allums wrote: I need advice diagnosing and dealing with this: E: zfsutils-linux: installed zfsutils-linux package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Maybe one or both of these bug reports apply: https

additional info: installed zfsutils-linux post-installation script returned exit status 1

2019-09-16 Thread Mark Allums
I should note, I don't actually have any disks set up yet with a ZFS file system. Installing Okular pulled in ZFS-utilities as a dependency. Chicken-or-egg problem. On 9/15/19 11:42 PM, Mark Allums wrote: I need advice diagnosing and dealing with this: E: zfsutils-linux: installed

installed zfsutils-linux post-installation script returned exit status 1

2019-09-15 Thread Mark Allums
I need advice diagnosing and dealing with this: E: zfsutils-linux: installed zfsutils-linux package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1 Thanks, Mark

Re: why won't ff look at this url?

2019-08-24 Thread Mark Allums
Addons, plugins are all disabled. No change. Cheers, Gene Heskett Try clearing cache. Maybe reboot your router. Running a pi-hole? Restart it. Mark

Re: why won't ff look at this url?

2019-08-24 Thread Mark Allums
On 8/24/19 9:21 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings folks; https://abcnews4.com/news/nation-world/w-va-ambulance-ems-director-arrested-accused-of-missing-and-tampering-with-narcotics All I get for clicking on it is a blank screen. Thanks for any help. ad-blocker blocker? (site works for me)

Re: GeForce GT 710 on debian

2019-08-10 Thread Mark Allums
On 8/10/2019 11:16 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 10 aug 19, 16:57:06, Jonas Hedman wrote: Hi, my monitor (Samsung S22F350FHU 22"") doesn't play nicely with my with my ThinkCentre M92p. I tried to mess with setting, and I got it to work somewhat ok-ish but the picture is still a little

Re: GeForce GT 710 on debian

2019-08-10 Thread Mark Allums
On 8/10/19 9:57 AM, Jonas Hedman wrote: Hi, my monitor (Samsung S22F350FHU 22"") doesn't play nicely with my ThinkCentre M92p. I tried to mess with setting, and I got it to work somewhat ok-ish but the picture is still a little blurry and I got small black vertical lines on both sides. It

Re: [solved?] Can't Upgrade to Buster

2019-07-07 Thread Mark Allums
On 7/7/19 9:42 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sun, 7 Jul 2019 08:44:52 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: Hello Mark, I am not exactly sure why you are concerned about "mixed repos". Personally, I'm not. However, the nature of your questions indicated to me that you aren't entirely at hom

Re: [solved?] Can't Upgrade to Buster

2019-07-07 Thread Mark Allums
On 7/7/19 8:19 AM, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sun, 7 Jul 2019 07:30:51 -0500 Mark Allums wrote: Hello Mark, enabling bullseye in sources.list and running apt update seems to have Why add bullseye (testing)? Your talk thus far has been about buster (stable). It seems to me that you have mixed

Re: [solved?] Can't Upgrade to Buster

2019-07-07 Thread Mark Allums
On 7/7/19 6:59 AM, wrote: root@martha:~# apt-get update Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease [118 kB] Get:2 http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease [31.1 kB] Get:3 http://security.debian.org buster/updates InRelease [31.1 kB] Get:4

Re: Can't Upgrade to Buster

2019-07-07 Thread Mark Allums
On 7/7/2019 6:15 AM, Dekks Herton wrote: Mark Allums writes: I've been running Buster in Testing happily for months. So technically, I'm already upgraded. However, root@martha:~# apt-get update Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease [118 kB] Get:2 http

Re: Can't Upgrade to Buster

2019-07-07 Thread Mark Allums
On 7/7/2019 6:37 AM, Matthew Crews wrote: On 7/7/19 4:15 AM, Dekks Herton wrote: Mark Allums writes: I've been running Buster in Testing happily for months. So technically, I'm already upgraded. However, **snip** What do I do? For Buster its best to use apt update - then just answer

Re: Can't Upgrade to Buster

2019-07-07 Thread Mark Allums
On 7/7/19 6:15 AM, Dekks Herton wrote: Mark Allums writes: I've been running Buster in Testing happily for months. So technically, I'm already upgraded. However, root@martha:~# apt-get update Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease [118 kB] Get:2 http://security.debian.org

Re: Can't Upgrade to Buster

2019-07-07 Thread Mark Allums
On 7/7/19 6:08 AM, Mark Allums wrote: I've been running Buster in Testing happily for months.  So technically, I'm already upgraded.  However, root@martha:~# apt-get update Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease [118 kB] Get:2 http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster

Can't Upgrade to Buster

2019-07-07 Thread Mark Allums
I've been running Buster in Testing happily for months. So technically, I'm already upgraded. However, root@martha:~# apt-get update Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease [118 kB] Get:2 http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease [31.1 kB] Get:3

Re: please do *never* use GitHub for free software, was Re: Salsa vs Github

2019-05-18 Thread Mark Allums
On 5/17/19 10:43 PM, Ben Finney wrote: Mark Allums writes: On 5/17/19 2:28 AM, Dominik George wrote: Please explain, in detail, why. https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html https://www.adamhyde.net/another-good-reason-not-to-use-github/ https://www.mirbsd.org/permalinks/wlog

Re: please do *never* use GitHub for free software, was Re: Salsa vs Github

2019-05-17 Thread Mark Allums
On 5/17/19 2:28 AM, Dominik George wrote: please do*never* use GitHub for free software Please explain, in detail, why. If discrimination against parts of the community is not enough for you, here's why: https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html

please do *never* use GitHub for free software, was Re: Salsa vs Github

2019-05-17 Thread Mark Allums
On 5/16/19 11:34 AM, Dominik George wrote: please do*never* use GitHub for free software Please explain, in detail, why. Mark

Re: Synaptic error message -- how to respond

2019-04-24 Thread Mark Allums
On 4/24/19 4:42 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 04/24/2019 03:42 PM, Thomas D Dial wrote: On Wed, 2019-04-24 at 10:42 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I have repeatedly received the following error message: E: galternatives: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should  reinstall it

Re: Can't scan new disk

2019-02-25 Thread Mark Allums
On 2/25/19 8:48 AM, Curt wrote: On 2019-02-25, Mark Allums wrote: This is not satisfactory. Surely there is a way to neutralize a running gvfsd/fuse mount on a device without reinstalling to whole OS. Mark man gvfsd says: ENVIRONMENT GVFS_DISABLE_FUSE

Re: Can't scan new disk

2019-02-25 Thread Mark Allums
On 2/24/19 2:26 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 2/24/19 6:42 AM, Mark Allums wrote: Any advice as to how to stop the auto-mounter, gvfsd, or fuse, etc. from tying up my disk, or how to get fsck to scan it? Use an OS and/or desktop that do not have automatic mounting.  I use Debian Stable

Re: Can't scan new disk

2019-02-24 Thread Mark Allums
On 2/20/19 3:20 AM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: Maybe something simple like "lsof" command can shed some light on this problem? $ sudo lsof /dev/sdb $ sudo lsof /dev/sdb1 root@martha:~# lsof /dev/sdb lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfsd-fuse file system /run/user/1001/gvfs    

Re: Can't scan new disk

2019-02-20 Thread Mark Allums
On 2/20/19 3:20 AM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 20.02.2019 11:16, Mark Allums wrote: On 2/17/19 10:59 PM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 17.02.2019 1:21, Mark Allums wrote: On 2/16/19 2:41 AM, Curt wrote: On 2019-02-15, Mark Allums wrote: I just bought a new backup disk, and I want

Re: Can't scan new disk

2019-02-20 Thread Mark Allums
On 2/20/19 3:19 AM, Curt wrote: On 2019-02-20, Mark Allums wrote: Maybe something simple like "lsof" command can shed some light on this problem?     $ sudo lsof /dev/sdb     $ sudo lsof /dev/sdb1 root@martha:~# lsof /dev/sdb lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfsd-fuse file s

Re: Can't scan new disk

2019-02-19 Thread Mark Allums
On 2/17/19 10:59 PM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 17.02.2019 1:21, Mark Allums wrote: On 2/16/19 2:41 AM, Curt wrote: On 2019-02-15, Mark Allums wrote: I just bought a new backup disk, and I want to check it. It's mounted in a USB dock. Running the following gives an error: root

Re: Can't scan new disk

2019-02-17 Thread Mark Allums
Seagate IronWolf Pro 12 TB Buster, Orico USB 3.0 Dock Running the following gives an error: root@martha:~# umount /dev/sdb1 root@martha:~# e2fsck -c -c -C 0 -f -F -k -p /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1 is in use. e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting. Does e2fsck work when the drive is connected to an

Re: Can't scan new disk

2019-02-16 Thread Mark Allums
On 2/15/19 9:12 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 2/15/19 3:24 PM, Mark Allums wrote: I just bought a new backup disk, and I want to check it. It's mounted in a USB dock. Running the following gives an error: root@martha:~# umount /dev/sdb1 root@martha:~# e2fsck -c -c -C 0 -f -F -k -p /dev

Re: Can't scan new disk

2019-02-16 Thread Mark Allums
On 2/16/19 2:41 AM, Curt wrote: On 2019-02-15, Mark Allums wrote: I just bought a new backup disk, and I want to check it. It's mounted in a USB dock. Running the following gives an error: root@martha:~# umount /dev/sdb1 root@martha:~# e2fsck -c -c -C 0 -f -F -k -p /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1

Re: Can't scan new disk

2019-02-15 Thread Mark Allums
On 2/15/19 6:08 PM, deb wrote: On 2/15/2019 6:24 PM, Mark Allums wrote: umount /dev/sdb1 root@martha:~# e2fsck -c -c -C 0 -f -F -k -p /dev/sdb1 Just curious, is it a Western Digital disk? No, a Seagate IronWolf Pro 12 TB

Re: Can't scan new disk

2019-02-15 Thread Mark Allums
On 2/15/19 6:21 PM, songbird wrote: Mark Allums wrote: I just bought a new backup disk, and I want to check it. It's mounted in a USB dock. Running the following gives an error: root@martha:~# umount /dev/sdb1 root@martha:~# e2fsck -c -c -C 0 -f -F -k -p /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1 is in use. e2fsck

Can't scan new disk

2019-02-15 Thread Mark Allums
I just bought a new backup disk, and I want to check it. It's mounted in a USB dock. Running the following gives an error: root@martha:~# umount /dev/sdb1 root@martha:~# e2fsck -c -c -C 0 -f -F -k -p /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1 is in use. e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting. What's causing this and how

Re: Why popular sites are looking ugly

2019-01-23 Thread Mark Allums
site have really nice looking fonts (debian.org for example). Try installing ttf-mscorefonts-installer. Mark Allums

Re: Nvidia drivers

2018-07-05 Thread Mark Allums
showed you in my earlier post. Mark On 7/5/18 8:03 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 7/5/18 5:42 PM, Francisco Mariano-Neto wrote: Hey all, I'm running kernel 4.15 with nvidia-driver 390.48-3 with no problems. However, recently my kernel was automatically upgraded to 4.16 and it broke the nvidia

Re: Nvidia drivers

2018-07-05 Thread Mark Allums
On 7/5/18 5:42 PM, Francisco Mariano-Neto wrote: Hey all, I'm running kernel 4.15 with nvidia-driver 390.48-3 with no problems. However, recently my kernel was automatically upgraded to 4.16 and it broke the nvidia driver. Running 'dkms autoinstall --all' does not help, it

Re: Graphics issues debian 8.6

2016-10-11 Thread Mark Allums
On 10/11/2016 03:10 PM, Mark Neidorff wrote: In a post on the mailing list, a user suggested installing: #apt-get install firmware-linux-nonfree-xserver-xorg-video-intel but I can't seem to be able to download or even find that firmware file. is nonfree enabled in /etc/apt/sources.list?

Re: [resolved] FireFox broken,

2016-09-11 Thread Mark Allums
funny that both of us on two completely different systmes starting having trouble with the same update to Firefox/Iceweasel. MArk Allums

Re: [resolved] FireFox broken,

2016-09-09 Thread Mark Allums
On 09/08/2016 01:54 PM, Brian wrote: On Thu 08 Sep 2016 at 09:30:54 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: On 09/07/2016 05:23 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Maybe this is related to libns3 that someone mention, but we have to get it from unstable? On wheezy, how? Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett Installing

Re: [resolved] FireFox broken,

2016-09-08 Thread Mark Allums
the problem. Not sending money through PayPal could be a crypto problem, too. Mark Allums Maybe this is related to libns3 that someone mention, but we have to get it from unstable? On wheezy, how? Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett Installing libnss3 from sid/unstable solved the problem of web sites

[resolved] FireFox broken,

2016-09-08 Thread Mark Allums
On 09/07/2016 05:23 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Wednesday 07 September 2016 16:43:40 Mark Allums wrote: On 09/07/2016 03:01 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 07/09/16 03:03 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 09/07/2016 01:39 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; Online business seems to have hit a roadblock

Re: FireFox broken, sends no data to paypal on payment screen.

2016-09-07 Thread Mark Allums
On 09/07/2016 03:01 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 07/09/16 03:03 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 09/07/2016 01:39 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; Online business seems to have hit a roadblock. Is there anything I can change in the about:config that will allow the "next" butt

Re: FireFox broken, sends no data to paypal on payment screen.

2016-09-07 Thread Mark Allums
On 09/07/2016 03:58 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 09/07/2016 03:43 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 09/07/2016 03:01 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 07/09/16 03:03 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 09/07/2016 01:39 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; Online business seems to have hit a roadblock

Re: FireFox broken, sends no data to paypal on payment screen.

2016-09-07 Thread Mark Allums
On 09/07/2016 03:43 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 09/07/2016 03:01 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 07/09/16 03:03 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 09/07/2016 01:39 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; Online business seems to have hit a roadblock. Is there anything I can change in the about:config

Re: FireFox broken, sends no data to paypal on payment screen.

2016-09-07 Thread Mark Allums
On 09/07/2016 03:01 PM, Gary Dale wrote: On 07/09/16 03:03 PM, Mark Allums wrote: On 09/07/2016 01:39 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Greetings all; Online business seems to have hit a roadblock. Is there anything I can change in the about:config that will allow the "next" butt

Re: FireFox broken, sends no data to paypal on payment screen.

2016-09-07 Thread Mark Allums
t to login, which is about 10% of the time. After rebooting, it will not login at all. Cheers, Gene Heskett Firefox is definitely broken. I can't view YouTube videos or visit many common web sites. I get a security warning. I blame a crypto update for this, as well as a Firefox update. Mark Allums

Re: Change systemd to not be default in Stretch

2015-06-23 Thread Mark Allums
On 06/23/2015 11:45 AM, Don Armstrong wrote: On Mon, 22 Jun 2015, Zebediah C. McClure wrote: Non-booting system because of race condition in drive mounting. The ordering of drives by systemd is based on dependencies, and there shouldn't be issues. But that said, if you've found one, please

Re: Screen goes black after install

2015-06-17 Thread Mark Allums
On 06/17/2015 10:12 AM, Dwijesh Gajadur wrote: Hello everyone. I recently bought and installed a PCI ATI Rage 128 Video card on my pc. I then installed Debian Jessie on the pc. After booting the following lines appear: Loading, Please wait... fsck from util-linux 2.25.2 /dev/sda5: clean,

Re: Moving from 56k modem

2015-06-17 Thread Mark Allums
On 06/17/2015 11:03 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: My connectivity for ~3 decades has been at = 56k. Current ISP abandoning that market ;/ I do not wish DSL, cable, nor satellite as they restrict me to one physical location. I was assuming that meant connecting via cell network. Is that correct?

Re: No sound at boot

2015-05-24 Thread Mark Allums
I have a decent setup with an ASUS ROG motherboard (overkill for Linux, I know). I was tooling along nicely, when, after an update (back when Jessie was Testing), sound quit working at boot. Of course, the first thing I tried was root@persephone:~# modprobe snd-hda-intel and that got me sound

Re: No sound at boot

2015-05-24 Thread Mark Allums
On 05/24/2015 04:50 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: On Sun, 24 May 2015 04:12:03 -0500 Mark Allums m...@allums.top wrote: Try to run lsmod | grep snd, and add the modules that snd-hda-intel depend on before the line loading it in the relevant file in /etc/modules-load.d or in /etc/modules. root

Re: No sound at boot

2015-05-24 Thread Mark Allums
On 05/24/2015 04:13 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Sun, 24 May 2015, Mark Allums wrote: No such line in /etc/fstab. However, a line similar to above is in /etc/mtab. (The defaults are not there. All of the options are spelled out.) I have the same thing on 2 laptops, and the directory

Re: No sound at boot

2015-05-24 Thread Mark Allums
On 05/24/2015 04:50 AM, Petter Adsen wrote: On Sun, 24 May 2015 04:12:03 -0500 Mark Allums m...@allums.top wrote: Try to run lsmod | grep snd, and add the modules that snd-hda-intel depend on before the line loading it in the relevant file in /etc/modules-load.d or in /etc/modules. root

Re: No sound at boot

2015-05-24 Thread Mark Allums
On 05/24/2015 01:15 AM, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: On Sat, 23 May 2015, Mark Allums wrote: . . . Re-Installing ALSA does nothing, of course, and I guess I have no Google skills, because all I can find with Google is advice to reinstall ALSA. . . . hi Mark, I had almost the same problem

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