Re: bootable pendrive from zip file

2024-04-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Max Nikulin wrote: > Out of curiosity, does the requirement of specific GUID exist for removable > drives? It is disputed, whether the specs say that the partitions must be marked by 0xEF in legacy MBR tables and by C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B in GPT. In practice there seems to be

Re: bootable pendrive from zip file

2024-04-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Luis Muñoz Fuente wrote: > I assume the problem is the debian link, which points to the same directory: > $ ls -l tmp/debian > lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 1 Apr 22 20:47 tmp/debian -> . > and creates a loop, That's not a link loop, because "." is not a symbolic link. But if a tree traversal is

Re: bootable pendrive from zip file

2024-04-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Luis Muñoz Fuente wrote: > why does extracting the files from the debian iso increase the > size so much? Hard to say if you do not show what you do in particular. In general an increase of about 120 MB is to be expected because of expansion of hardlinks: $ du

Re: bootable pendrive from zip file

2024-04-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Luis Muñoz Fuente wrote: > I recently used clonezilla and followed these instructions: > https://clonezilla.org/liveusb.php#linux-setup The variation for "uEFI", i assume. This aims at an undocumented habit of EFI implementations to look in any FAT filesystem for a \EFI\BOOT directory with

Re: LibreOffice removed from Debian

2024-04-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Is there any reason why LibreOffice has been removed from Debian??? https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libreoffice says The dependencies of libuno-cppuhelpergcc3-3=4:24.2.0-1 cannot be satisfied in unstable on arm64, s390x, i386, ppc64el, armel, amd64, and

Re: NextGov: Linux XZ Utils Backdoor Was Long Con, Possibly With Support

2024-04-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > But what if next time the back-doored software _does_ build without error? The initial build problems did not cause suspicion. It was the CPU load of sshd and an obscure complaint by valgrind which caused the discovery.

Re: Debian ISOs on USB stick

2024-04-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i read from bytes 2085412 to 2085479: "Info rrmation Syste rm VolumeSYSTEM~" which is similar to the alterations of one of the USB sticks shown in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1056998#35 The web knows about a Microsoft folder named "System Volume Information".

Re: Debian ISOs on USB stick

2024-04-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, David Christensen wrote: > # cmp --verbose debian-11.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso /dev/sdb I got my copy from https://get.debian.org/images/archive/11.3.0/amd64/iso-cd/debian-11.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso SHA256 matches: 7892981e1da216e79fb3a1536ce5ebab157afdd20048fe458f2ae34fbc26c19b In a further

Debian ISOs on USB stick, was: SOLVED

2024-04-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, David Christensen wrote: > It's a relatively simple experiment to confirm that a USB flash drive with > d-i changes after the first boot. This could still be https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1056998 where Lenovo BIOS and/or MS-Windows altered the USB stick. > Same for

Re: Debian 12.5: pigz 2.6-1 fails with error message (Upstream issue 111)

2024-04-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Chung Jonathan wrote: > Yes, I think the local fix is the way to go. I wrote: > > (You forgot to Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org. > > Consider to send your mail to the list address, too. I too would then > > resend my following reply to the list.) Since my "following reply" is quoted in

Debian ISOs on USB stick, was: SOLVED

2024-04-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, David Christensen wrote: > > the Debian installer modifies the contents of the USB flash drive when > > it runs. Do you mean inside the range of the ISO image or outside by creating a new partition ? songbird wrote: > if it is an iso image copied to the USB stick it should not > be

Re: Debian 12.5: pigz 2.6-1 fails with error message (Upstream issue 111)

2024-04-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Jonathan Chung wrote: > > pigz 2.6-1 on Debian 12.5 fails to execute due to a fixed bug on > > upstream https://github.com/madler/pigz/issues/111 > > Installing the version from sid resolves the issue which is clearly not > > optimal. I think the fix should be backported. > > Can someone help

Re: printing QR-codes on labels with 300dpi label printers with LaTeX

2024-03-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Max Nikulin wrote: > I admit "dithering" may be incorrect term, [...] > Consider 2 squares having size of 2.5×2.5 pixels. Non-even sizes and fuzzy > lines variants: > █████ > ██████ > ████ ██ >██ ██ >█████ > Second variant might have sense if an

Re: How does the 64bits time_t transition work?

2024-03-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Marco Moock wrote: > The libs will have a suffix of t64 I wonder whether those suffixes will go away at some stage of this effort. (Further i wonder when the package tracker appearance of libisoburn will become less ugly than currently: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libisoburn and how

Re: printing QR-codes on labels with 300dpi label printers with LaTeX

2024-03-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Max Nikulin wrote: > When vector graphics, that does not match device resolution, is rasterized, > the result is either non-even sizes of similar elements or fuzzy lines due > to dithering. Nitpicking: "Dithering" in raster graphics is emulation of color resolution at the expense of space

Re: OT: End the Phone-Based Childhood Now

2024-03-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Curt wrote: > as I believe Paul Valéry once noted, even the past isn't what it used > to be. That's why i want everything back exactly the way as it never was. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: OT: End the Phone-Based Childhood Now

2024-03-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, when i was a young Babyboomer in the late 1970s we were accused of destroying society by a "twin culture of sexual license and cannabis". The big Decline of the West was a sure thing, accelerated by excessive tv consumption. Other future threats were drying up oil wells, a comming ice age,

Re: Spam from the list?

2024-03-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Andy Smith wrote: > [...] I argue that at present it > isn't a good idea to just reject all DKIM failures like OP's mailbox > provider appears to be doing. Just for the records: The mails in question don't get rejected but rather marked as spam and then get delivered. The currently best

Re: Spam from the list?

2024-03-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Hans wrote: > Re: *SPAM* Re: Spam from the list? > In-Reply-To: <20240306112253.55e25...@earth.stargate.org.uk> referring the mail > > Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2024 11:22:53 + > > From: Brad Rogers > > Message-ID: <20240306112253.55e25...@earth.stargate.org.uk> I assume that this mail

Re: Spam from the list?

2024-03-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Hans wrote: > I changed nothing and suddenly many mails from debian-user > (but not all, only some) are recognized as spam. But the one you posted here did not come from debian-user. So maybe what changed is an inadverted subscription to one of debian-bugs-d...@lists.debian.org

Re: Spam from the list?

2024-03-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Hans wrote: > during the last moonths I get more mails from the debian-user list marked as > spam than before. > [...] > Below I send the header of an example of such a mail, maybe you can see the > reason? The message does not look like it came to you via debian-user: > X-Original-To:

Re: partition reporting full, but not

2024-02-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > when cfdisk reports: > Device Start End Sectors Size Type > /dev/sda2 1785522176 1786245119 722944 353M EFI System > /dev/sda3 1786245120 1933045759 146800640 70G EFI System > I don't understand the 'EFI System' note /dev/sda3 is / The partition type

Re: Contact Name...

2024-02-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Clayton Penn wrote: > I have attempted to register for the Debian Forums, but have not received a > verification email Did you try wether your new account is already working ? (Sorry, i'm not familiar with the current registration procedure.) If not: There seems to be some problem with

Re: "I: update-initramfs is disabled (live system is running on read-only media)" ...

2024-02-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Albretch Mueller wrote: > > How can you update the initramfs on read-only media? to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > You can't. Initramfs resides in the boot medium. To update it, > you have to write to said medium. One will have to create a new read-only medium. In case the original is a Debian

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Gene Heskett wrote: > Next experiment is a pair of 4T Silicon Power SSD's When f3 has (hopefully) given its OK, the topic of a full write-and-read test will come up again. I'm looking forward to all the spin-off topics. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Heh. Don't forget your own attempts to use a shredder as a PRNG stream. My original idea was to watch a minimal shred run by teeing its work into a checksummer. But then topic drift came in. So we got a farm show of random generators and a discussion about what

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Let me write out the example again, but with the bug fixed, and then > explain what each line does, [... lecture about advanced shell > programming ...] And this all because Gene Heskett was adventurous enough to buy a cheap fake USB disk. :)) Have a nice day :)

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, "info shred" says: > > > i=$(mktemp) > > > exec 3<>"$i" > > > rm -- "$i" > > > echo "Hello, world" >&3 > > > shred - >&3 > > > exec 3>- Greg Wooledge wrote: > In fact, that last line is > written incorrectly. It should say "exec 3>&-" and what that does >

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_is_a_file > But, there is more than one kind of file. "All files are equal. But some files are more equal than others." (George Orwell in his dystopic novel "Server Farm".) Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Combining Distro DVD's

2024-02-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Steve Matzura wrote: > I thought it'd be a nice idea to combine any and all distribution media for > a release into a single medium--a USB drive, of course. The initial situation will depend much on the distro ... But given that Debian is about the last one i know with all its packages in

Re: grub-pc error when upgrading from buster to bullseye

2024-02-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, John Boxall wrote: > I am aware that the label and uuid (drive and partition) are replicated on > the cloned drive, but I can't find the model number (in text format) stored > anywhere on the drive. Maybe the grub-pc package takes its configuration from a different drive which is attached to

Re: grub-pc error when upgrading from buster to bullseye

2024-02-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, John Boxall wrote: > Setting up grub-pc (2.06-3~deb11u6) ... > /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WDS100T2B0A-00SM50_21185R801540 does not > exist, so cannot grub-install to it! > What is confusing to me is that the error indicates the source SDD even > though I have updated the boot

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Still there's the discrepancy between doc and behaviour. Depends at which documentation you look. Obviously stemming from https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=155175#36 i read in

Re: shred bug?

2024-02-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Maybe it is unstated but mandatory to use -n 1 as well? > And optionally -s N? Naw. It just doesn't want to work pipes. Initially i tried with these options: shred -n 1 -s 1K -v - | sha256sum as preparation for a proposal to Gene Heskett, like:

Re: Fast Random Data Generation

2024-02-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Linux-Fan wrote: > I wrote a program to automatically generate random bytes in multiple > threads: > https://masysma.net/32/big4.xhtml > ... > || Wrote 102400 MiB in 13 s @ 7812.023 MiB/s That's impressive. > Secure Random can be obtained from OpenSSL: > > | $ time for i in `seq 1 100`; do

Re: Unidentified subject!

2024-02-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, David Christensen wrote: > Concurrency: > threads throughput > 8 205+198+180+195+205+184+184+189=1,540 MB/s There remains the question how to join these streams without losing speed in order to produce a single checksum. (Or one would have to divide the target into 8 areas which get

Re: Unidentified subject!

2024-02-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, David Christensen wrote: > $ time dd if=/dev/urandom bs=8K count=128K | wc -c > [...] > 1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 4.30652 s, 249 MB/s This looks good enough for practical use on spinning rust and slow SSD. Maybe the "wc" pipe slows it down ? ... not much on 4 GHz Xeon with

Re: Unidentified subject!

2024-02-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > In the other thread about the /dev/sdm test: Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Creating file 39.h2w ... 1.98% -- 1.90 MB/s -- 257:11:32 > > > [...] > > > $ sudo f3probe --destructive --time-ops /dev/sdm > > > Bad news: The device `/dev/sdm' is a counterfeit of type limbo > > > Device

Re: Unidentified subject!

2024-02-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, gene heskett wrote: > my fading eyesight couldn't see > the diffs between () and {} in a 6 point font. I need a bigger, more > legible font in t-bird. That's why i propose to copy+paste problematic command lines. Your mouse can read it, your mail client can send it, and we have youngsters

Re: shred bug?

2024-02-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Ah, it seems to be this one, from 2002: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=155175 So it's not a bug but a feature. :( I'm riddling over the code about the connection to an old graphics algorithm (Bresenham's Algorithm) and how shred produces a

Re: shred bug?

2024-02-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > shred: -: invalid file type to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Hmm. This looks like a genuine bug: the man page mentions it. Even the help text in https://sources.debian.org/src/coreutils/9.4-3/src/shred.c/ says If FILE is -, shred standard output. The name "-" is recognized in

Re: Unidentified subject!

2024-02-10 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Gene Heskett wrote: > Is bash not actually bash these days? It is not doing for loops for me. Come on Gene, be no sophie. Copy+paste your failing line here. :)) IIRC the for-loop in question writes several copies of the same file. (

Re: Generic Linux / clib question

2024-02-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > The readline library is released under the full GPL, not the LGPL. If > > you dynamically link it with a program, then you can only release that > > program under terms compatible with the GPL. This is an intentional > > choice. to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >

Re: Generic Linux / clib question

2024-02-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Van Snyder wrote: > Years ago, I knew the name of the routines one could use to have some stdin > history and be able to edit it, like you can do in XTerm or gnuplot or Sounds like readline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Readline https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/readline An

Re: Things I don't touch with a 3.048m barge pole

2024-02-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, gene heskett wrote: > GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.9 > > Partition table scan: > MBR: MBR only > [...] > Found invalid GPT and valid MBR; converting MBR to GPT format > in memory. > [...] > Warning! Secondary partition table overlaps the last partition by 33 blocks! > You will need to

Re: How can we change the keyboard layout?

2024-02-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Loris Bennett wrote: > As many have pointed out, it is short for 'Steuerung', but I have met > many Germans who refer to this key as 'String'. I am not sure why BASIC ? Or the popular bundle theory: [Strg] (= [Ctrl]) means "String", [AltGr] (= right side [Alt]) means "Altgriechisch" (=

Re: about 64bits time_t transition and deborphan

2024-02-06 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Patrice Duroux wrote: > Out of curiosity, I started this transition on some packages from > experimental and I observed that deborphan is not without > «disruption». > [...] > Is this something to be reported to deborphan as it could also be in > some other cases than this time_t transition?

Re: install Kernel and GRUB in chroot.

2024-02-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Dmitry wrote: > Yep. `dd` copy partitions table. Amazing. Not so amazing after you realize that a partition table is just data on the storage medium and not some special property of the storage device. dd copies data. If these data contain a partition table and get copied to the right place

Re: AW: AW: su su- sudo dont work

2024-01-27 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Andy Smith wrote: > It is hard to understand how what Michael/Sophie/Tobias does can in > any way be "fun" for them, though maybe that is just our lack of > understanding. I expressed my suspicion of a "Hurz" performance in https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/05/msg00100.html Have

Re: Automatically installing GRUB on multiple drives

2024-01-26 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Nicolas George wrote: > You seem to be assuming that the system will first check sector 0 to > parse the MBR and then, if the MBR declares a GPT sector try to use the > GPT. That's what the UEFI specs prescribe. GPT is defined by UEFI-2.8 in chapter 5 "GUID Partition Table (GPT) Disk

Re: Automatically installing GRUB on multiple drives

2024-01-26 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i hate to put in question the benefit of my proposal, but: Nicolas George wrote: > The firmware would never write in parts of the > drive that might contain data. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1056998 "cdrom: Installation media changes after booting it" Two

Re: Automatically installing GRUB on multiple drives

2024-01-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Nicolas George wrote: > Interesting. Indeed, “table-length: 4” causes sfdisk to only write 3 > sectors at the beginning and 2 at the end. I checked it really does not > write elsewhere. > That makes it possible to use full-disk RAID on a UEFI boot drive. Very > good news. \o/ (Nearly as

Re: Automatically installing GRUB on multiple drives

2024-01-24 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i cannot make qualified proposals for the GRUB question, but stumble over your technical statements. Nicolas George wrote: > Since mdadm can only put its superblock at the end of the device (1.0), > at the beginning of the device (1.1) and 4 Ko from the beginning (1.2), > but they still have

Re: Looking for archive management system for backups burned to optical discs

2024-01-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, David Christensen wrote: > I have a SOHO file server with ~1 TB of data. I would like archive the data > by burning it to a series of optical discs organized by time (e.g. mtime). > I expect to periodically burn additional discs in the future, each covering > a span of time from the previous

Re: OT: Is there any size limit for ISO's?

2024-01-22 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Hans wrote: > does anyone know, if there is a limit of the size an iso may have? With xorriso: 4 TiB = 4096 GiB. An ISO 9660 filesystem may have 2 exp 32 data blocks. The usual block size is 2 exp 11 = 2048 bytes. That would be 2 exp 43 = 8 TiB in total. But xorriso uses libburn for writing

Re: counting commas

2024-01-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: > unicorn:~$ string="apple,banana,cherry,date" > unicorn:~$ commas=${string//[!,]/} > unicorn:~$ echo "${#commas}" > 3 Always astonishing what a good bashism can do. > But at this point, we have to wonder what the *actual* goal is. Up to now we only know about the

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

2024-01-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Anssi Saari > It does seem strange to me, even in MS-DOS era I was able to set a > terminal scrollback to 5000 lines without issue, when RAM was maybe 4 MB > and a DOS terminal program probably had access to way less than that. I have no problems with 130 xterms of 10,000 lines each. > So

Re: normally start new xterms

2024-01-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > I coopted the otherwise useless "Windows" key (aka "Left Super" for > > > WM things: Super-L makes an xterm: > > > # Terminal > > > Key "t" A 4 Exec exec xterm i wrote: > > For me the Flying Windows keys pop up or push down the affected window: > >

Re: counting commas

2024-01-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > why doesn't grep count 2 commas > echo 'Kích thước máy xay cỏ, giá máy thế nào , phụ tùng máy mua ở đâu' | > grep -c , > 1 Happens with much simpler text too: $ echo ',,,' | grep -c ',' 1 The man page explains it: -c, --count Suppress normal

Re: normally start new xterms

2024-01-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > I coopted the otherwise useless "Windows" key (aka "Left Super" for > WM things: Super-L makes an xterm: > # Terminal > Key "t" A 4 Exec exec xterm For me the Flying Windows keys pop up or push down the affected window: Key Super_L A N RaiseLower Key

Re: normally start new xterms

2024-01-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > *FvwmButtons xterm_ts5 linuxterm.xpm Exec xterm -ls -geometry 80x24 -bg > > wheat -fg black -sl 1 +sb John Conover wrote: > >Action 'Exec exec xterm ...' The framework of this line probably

Re: normally start new xterms

2024-01-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > >xterm -ls -geometry 80x24 -bg wheat -fg black -sl 1 +sb & Max Nikulin wrote: > Options may be put into ~/.Xresources > xterm*vt100.saveLines: 1 > xterm*VT100.background: wheat > xterm*VT100.foreground: black I have it in ~/.fvwm2rc as: *FvwmButtons xterm_ts5

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

2024-01-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, gene heskett wrote: > > where did the extra 19.4G's come from? Can filesystem > > ext4's overhead account for that? In an earlier mail: > > > command line: rsync -a --bwlimit=10m --fsync --progress /home/ > > > /mnt/homevol David Christensen wrote: > Please RTFM rsync(1) to choose your

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

2024-01-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > What did finally help ? Just the shorter terminal scroll back memory ? gene heskett wrote: > That, and possibly the --bwlimit=10m, giving the SSD time to keep their > stuff in one sock. Then i place my bet on the terminal alone. Linux is able to handle disk-to-disk copies that

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

2024-01-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i see that i messed up "h" and "k" in my explanation of the fight over the link targets in /dev/disk/by-id. So another attempt: sdh has a unique serial number GSTD02TB230102. Thus we see in https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2024/01/msg00667.html these two links: /dev/sdh

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

2024-01-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, David Christensen wrote: > I suspect the conflicting serial numbers are causing problems in the kernel, > as indicated by the /dev/disk/by-id/* problems. That's not in the kernel but in udev/systemd's process of creating the symbolic links in /dev/disk/by-id/. It gets /dev/sd[h-l] and

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

2024-01-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Curt wrote: > I discovered a couple of discussions of the phenomenon, the upshot of which > were: > 1) That's what you get when you purchase cheap SSDs. > https://www.reddit.com/r/truenas/comments/s0rrpo/two_sata_ssds_with_identical_serial_numbers/ > 2) SSDs belonging to the same software

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

2024-01-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, after i began enumerating suspects, gene heskett wrote: > terminals scroll back memory, I purposely set this > particular terminals scrollback to 200 lines with that in mind. How large was it set when your runs caused the OOM killer to act ? I have a good number of xterms with 10,000 lines

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

2024-01-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Gene Heskett wrote: > lsblk, which I've published several times, shows 5 drives. Duh. Obviously this thread overstretches my mental capacity. > And I've since tried cp in addition to rsync, does the same thing, killing > the sysytem with the OOM but much quicker. cp using all system memory

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

2024-01-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i, too, wondered where there should be a duplicate serial number. But indeed: David Wright wrote: > > /dev/sdi53 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Gigastone_SSD_GST02TBG221146 > > /dev/sdj1 54 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Gigastone_SSD_GST02TBG221146-part1 > ↑ that is /really/ bad! Does the

Re: 512e vs 4K sector confusion

2024-01-14 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Andy Smith wrote: > what I meant was that fdisk showed a single partition of > 3.2TB size, while the entire disk being only the 400G Then it's what i would expect from fdisk. > I did try using fdisk on the destination to delete the partition and > recreate it with the correct numbers, but

Re: 512e vs 4K sector confusion

2024-01-14 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Andy Smith wrote: > I've got a disk image that sits on top of an LVM logical volume > that is on top of an mdadm RAID-1 that is on top of a pair of: > Device Model: Samsung SSD 870 EVO 4TB > Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical > so let';s say that is at /dev/foo/disk_image (where

Re: VAX emulation/simulation (was Re: systemd-timesyncd)

2024-01-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Bret Busby wrote: > Whilst, as I previously made the point, this is all off-topic for a Debian > operating system users mailing list But i found a premium excuse in the debian-cd and debian-live ISOs. :o) > the last seven versions of a file, being retained, was a > useful tool for software

Re: VAX emulation/simulation (was Re: systemd-timesyncd)

2024-01-09 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > You ruined my day :-) It was not my fault. Send complaints to the people who convened as "High Sierra Group" in 1986. > Something similar to IBM's kludgiest relic of the early 1960s has appeared > in linux? The unixoid community added System Use Protocol and

CD-DA sector addressing, was Re: playing CDROM music questions

2024-01-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i cannot contribute much to the practical issues with playing music. But i'd like to clarify technical properties of CD-DA media: Nicolas George wrote: > compared to data CDs, audio CDs lack one layer of error-correcting code True. Another drawback is that CD-DA sectors cannot be read by

Re: VAX emulation/simulation (was Re: systemd-timesyncd)

2024-01-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Bret Busby wrote: > > .; Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > IBM's MVS & its successors, most recently z/OS, have something > similar called a GDG (or Generation Data Group). The principle made it into ISO 9660 specifications. To make this thread relevant for Debian, let's assume that somebody asked

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

2023-12-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Albretch Mueller wrote: > But how do you strace a program saving the output (of the stracing) > in a logfile while you also save that program's output without making > it part of the stracing? man strace says: -o filename Write the trace output to the file filename rather

Re: Dealing with SPAM.

2023-12-25 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > [...] (it's actually a logistic function [1]). > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_function > Looking forward to Yet Another Of Those Nerdy Monster Threads ;-) Since it's happening periodically with about the same participants, shouldn't we rather try to

Re: lists

2023-12-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, (Cc-ing poc...@columbus.rr.com just in case the unsubscription strikes again.) Pocket wrote: > I spend several days trying to subscribed to the list, with the web signup > ALWAYS time out with a gateway error. The mails from the list have these informational headers: List-Subscribe:

Re: Monthly FAQ for Debian-user mailing list (modified 16th December 2023)

2023-12-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > * It may also be useful to for someone to post a summary email from time to > time to explain long threads. You did not move the old "to" but rather added a new one during the change from the text in 2023/12/msg00045.html to the new one: > > * It may also be

Re: On file systems

2023-12-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Remember > Apple's "fat binaries", which contained a binary for 68K and another > for PowerPC? Those were made with "forks", which was Apple's variant > of "several streams in one file". And so on. The most extreme example i know is Solaris:

Re: ntpsec as server questions

2023-12-08 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, gene heskett wrote: > > In the FWIW dept this time formula is pretty accurate back to the > > middle of 4713 BC. Greg Wooledge wrote: > Even the *Julian* calendar used in ancient Rome wouldn't have been in > use in 4713 BC. Any calendar would have been locally defined, if one > existed at

Re: Mailing List

2023-12-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, David Wright wrote: > I'm subscribed, but I don't receive that badge of honour. > This is from my other post in this thread—no LDOSUBSCRIBER: > > > X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.9 required=4.0 tests=CAPINIT,FOURLA, > > HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,LDO_WHITELIST,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW, > >

Re: Monthly FAQ for Debian-user mailing list (modified 1st December2023)

2023-12-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > * Before posting, it may be useful to check your post for spelling mistakes > and scan it for redundancy, duplicate words and redundancy. Some wisdom cannot be repeated enough. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Monthly FAQ for Debian-user mailing list (modified 1st December2023)

2023-12-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, there is a new surplus word "private" in these lines: > * Please post answers back to the list so others can benefit: private > private conversations don't benefit people who may only be following Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: Mailing List

2023-12-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > Anyone one else having trouble with the mailing list? I got your message via the list. > Have received any messages since Nov 30 Normal traffic yesterday and today, i'd say. > I can not tell if I am still subscribed The "From:" address poc...@columbus.rr.com seems not to be recognized

Re: rhs time out error?

2023-11-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Karen Lewellen wrote: > ..ah, typo indeed. > it should be rsh. Quite a while ago rsh has been put in the pillory for not encrypting the connection. The town crier urged everybody to use ssh instead. Found in the web: https://fossies.org/linux/alpine/imap/docs/FAQ.txt _4.3 How does the

Re: rhs time out error?

2023-11-21 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Karen Lewellen wrote: > I cannot find out what rhs means. > Getting an rhs to imap server timeout with one of the new office emails. Can it be that "rhs" is a typo and should rather be "rsh" ? The web has old messages which resemble what you describe: Subject: "[Alpine-info] Why do I

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

2023-11-20 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > all of the grub menu options (Graphical > > > install, Graphical expert install, Expert install, etc) give 2 errors: > > > 1) "..invalid buffer alignment... " with some long number beginning with > > > minus. > > > 2) kernel fail to load error, presumably due to

Re: UUID permanent at removable device?

2023-11-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Hans wrote: > I want to automatically create a bootable USB-stick using dd from an > ISO-file. The landscape of ISO files is wide and varied. An URL for getting the ISO would help to make more specific statements. > However, after generating the stick the UUID of the first partition >

Re: limit on attachment in mail to list

2023-11-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 08:16:20PM +, Gareth Evans wrote: > > > On 9 Nov 2023, at 13:47, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: > > > > > > 220 bendel.debian.org ESMTP Postfix > > > ehlo penguin > > > 250-bendel.debian.org > > > 250-PIPELINING > > > 250-SIZE 3072 > > > 250-STARTTLS > > >

Re: xorriso and SIGTERM/SIGINT handler

2023-11-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Max Nikulin wrote: > Are there obstacles making implementation of proper SIGINT and > SIGTERM signals handler prohibitively difficult? Ctrl+C is a common part of > UI familiar to the most of users. There are should be serious reasons if it > is necessary to teach them to touch an application

Re: How to use dmsetuup?

2023-11-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, David Christensen wrote: > Are there tools other than xorriso(1) that can create a compatible checksum? > Read the checksum? Not yet. The data format is documented in https://dev.lovelyhq.com/libburnia/libisofs/raw/branch/master/doc/checksums.txt For the general concept of AAIP attributes

Re: How to use dmsetuup?

2023-11-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, David Christensen wrote: > Adding checksum file(s) to the contents burned to disc is an important step > that should not be omitted I let xorriso compute and store the checksums in a non-file block range at the end of the ISO filesystem. Each file gets an AAIP attribute which points to an

Re: How to use dmsetuup?

2023-11-05 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I have 3 100 disk spindles of dvd's bought years ago, that are > > no longer recognized in any of the 4 or 5 dvd writers I have, but one box > > of rewritables about the same age, stored n a light tight cardboard box, > > will likely outlast me. Unwritten write-once

Re: On folders vs. directories and history

2023-11-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Nicolas George wrote: > > Ear, ear! Curt wrote: > An ear c'est une oreille. C'est probablement because les frenchais ne cannot pas prononcer le "H". Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: How to compare one folder to one directory

2023-11-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > I concur with Nicolas: every time you say "folder", a unicorn dies. Loris Bennett wrote: > In German there are also two words: 'Ordner' (folder/binder) and > 'Verzeichnis' (directory/catalogue). People also use both more or less > interchangeably. But if you say

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

2023-10-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: > This is what's causing the loop to iterate more times than it should, > and to re-process input. That's not what i see in my experiments. I see stuttering output which first repeats the lines put out so far before it adds a new line. The getline() loop iterates as

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

2023-10-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, tom kronmiller wrote: > I ended up using setvbuf(stdin, NULL, _IONBF, 0) in the parent process and > that seems to have fixed the actual program I was having trouble with. stdin ? Not setvbuf(stdout, NULL, _IONBF, 0) ? That would be one of the weirder remedies and explanations which can be

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

2023-10-23 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, it helps to do fflush((stdout); after each printf(), or to run before the loop: setvbuf(stdout, NULL, _IONBF, 0); So it is obvious that the usual output buffering of printf() causes the repetitions of text. The loop does not do any extra cycles, as i could confirm by inserting a stderr

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