Re: Re: linux-image-5.7.0-1-amd64: Oops on kernel (NULL pointer dereference) after NFS is mounted on client

Hi, yes I tried it. I typed the whole "Oops" screen, tried to send it, but it would not. The report it saved into a file was scrambled... Best regards

Re: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ?

> Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I guess it's still spin-down ^ like Sorry, my fingers didn't obey my brain, Stefan

Re: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ?

> It is its way of saying it's an unsupported feature and you cannot > disable drive heads parking this way. Was worth the shot. I guess it's still spin-down: WD drives support it but just ignore the APM settings of "how long to wait before spin-down" and use their own algorithm instead.

Re: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ?

Hi, Reco wrote: > It's all other lines that are interesting here. > I.e. 'Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds' section. I wanted to wait with the long list until the self-test is done. See below for the full output of smartctl -a. Stefan Monnier wrote: > I guess it's still

[SOLVED] Re: Looking for advise about optional i915 DMC firmware

Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: > 1) enable contrib and non-free in sources.list > 2) apt-get update > 3) figure out which firmware package is needed, and install it > [...] > apt-get install firmware-misc-nonfree This silenced indeed the boot message about the missing firmware. Dan Ritter wrote: >

Obscure error messages from ACPI BERT in dmesg

Hi, i don't get to cursing at vim and sshd of Debian 10 because i am still stuck with hardware issues. My newest problem is a message at boot time about some problem that was recorded in the ACPI Boot Error Record Table during the previous uptime. Google and uefi.org tell me that BERT is a

Re: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ?

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 04:25:16PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > 4 Start_Stop_Count0x0012 100 100 000Old_age Always > - 18 > 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 100 100 000Old_age Always > - 19 > 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100

Re: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ?

Hi, i quoted smartctl: > > 4 Start_Stop_Count0x0012 100 100 000Old_age Always - > > 18 > > 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 100 100 000Old_age Always - > > 19 > > 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000Old_age Always - > >

Re: Obscure error messages from ACPI BERT in dmesg

Hi, Semih Ozlem wrote: > whenever I logon and have more than a few pages in > firefox open, suddenly my memory usage (memory is 3.7 GiB as displayed by > ubuntu system monitor) is around 70 and 80 percent. If I open a few more > pages it jumps. If it reaches 100 % the computer freezes. Well,

Re: linux-image-5.7.0-1-amd64: Oops on kernel (NULL pointer dereference) after NFS is mounted on client

On 7/24/20, Robin Gutöhrlein wrote: > Hello, > > my server (Debian bullseye) is crashing after i mount a nfs (with > kerberos) share on a client machine (same debian). I have no idea how > to file the bug (and where it belongs). I can't use the reportbug tool > since I do not have a MTA

Re: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ?

Hi, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > You might not have read the entire [Click_of_death] article. Indeed. Now i need to search my old loudspeakers in order to compare the sound file on Wikipedia with the disk's sound. D. R. Evans wrote: > I can say that my experience (YMMV) is that 100% of the

Re: node.js updates processor microcode?

On 7/24/20 11:32 PM, mick crane wrote: On 2020-07-25 03:17, Carl Fink wrote: I just installed npm on a Stable (Buster) system with apt. It brought in dozens of other packages. Then I worked on other stuff while it downloaded and installed. When I came back, a curses prompt was informing me

Re: problems with GRUB

anthony gennard wrote: > Almost 15 months ago I suffered a massive stroke and am left with memory > loss. I am 90 years of age, and i`m westling with trying to recover some > computer skill. > > I have managed to build a further machine and double installed Debian > 10 from a CD received with

Re: [Sid] ahci: disk order

On 2020-07-24 21:08, Reco wrote: Hi. On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 10:03:01PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 24 iul 20, 21:58:26, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 24 iul 20, 19:39:21, Grzesiek Sójka wrote: Hi there, I noticed that SATA disks appear in random order. More precisely, I have

Re: node.js updates processor microcode?

Carl Fink wrote: > I just installed npm on a Stable (Buster) system with apt. It brought > in dozens of other packages. Then I worked on other stuff while it > downloaded and installed. When I came back, a curses prompt was > informing me that it had already updated my kernel microcode. Is that

Re: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ?

Hi. On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 11:35:34PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Reco wrote: > > Have you tried to disable drive heads parking via hdparm? > > hdparm -J ? > The man page says "The factory default is eight (8) seconds". > That would be about twice as long as what i experience. > >

Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster

On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 09:49:04PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 24 iul 20, 17:53:53, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > Aren't those files an internal implementation detail? Most users won't > ever need to interact with those files or even be aware of their > existence. Strictly

problems with GRUB

Almost 15 months ago I suffered a massive stroke and am left with memory loss. I am 90 years of age, and i`m westling with trying to recover some computer skill. I have managed to build a further machine and double installed Debian 10 from a CD received with Debian magazine and Windows 10. The

Re: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ?

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 11:16:16AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Reco wrote: > > It's simple: > > smartctl -t long /dev/sda > > The short test yielded > Num Test_DescriptionStatus Remaining LifeTime(hours) > LBA_of_first_error > # 1 Short offline Completed

Mobian op de Pinephone

Hoi, Ik ben sinds kort de trotse bezitter van een Pinephone. Deze kwam met UBports (door ontwikkeling van Ubuntu Touch). Ik had hem in China besteld, hij kostte 150 euro. Ik had gerekend op nog extra douane kosten en dergelijke, maar niemand die daar over begon. Echter al na twee dagen deed hij

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 12:38:10PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Back in 70's/80's I wrote programs as part of routine job duties. > {8080/8085 assembler, dBase and Paradox} > Neither I, nor my employers, classed me as a "programmer". > I was "Senior Engineering Tech" or "Junior Engineer". >

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 12:38:10PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Back in 70's/80's I wrote programs as part of routine job duties. > {8080/8085 assembler, dBase and Paradox} > Neither I, nor my employers, classed me as a "programmer". > I was "Senior Engineering Tech" or "Junior Engineer". >

Re: issues with storage media

On 2020-07-25 10:59, Semih Ozlem wrote: Hi Hello. :-) As operating system I use debian 10 (.2 gnome) and ubuntu 18, 19, (recently 20). Question 2 I use usbs to store the files I work with. Quite a few times when working with linux systems, the usbs refused to mount, giving wrong fs type

About /var/log/dpgk.log

Hi all... Please what do those occurrences of `' mean in /var/log/dpgk.log just on the right next to some (and some not) of packages names? thanks for any help cheers rodolfo

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

On Sat 25 Jul 2020 at 14:45:58 (-0400), Paul M Foster wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 12:38:10PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > Back in 70's/80's I wrote programs as part of routine job duties. > > {8080/8085 assembler, dBase and Paradox} > > Neither I, nor my employers, classed me as a

Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

On 2020-07-25 16:25 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2020-07-25 at 16:02, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 07:47:01PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> >>> Hi all... >>> >>> Please what do those occurrences of `' mean in /var/log/dpgk.log just >>> on >>> the right next to some

Re: Videoconferencia 100 personas?

Estimados, Leyendo por ahí encontre esta alternativa es Jitsi meet alternativa libre para videoconferencia, sin límite de usuarios. No la he probado pero en varios foros la recomiendan. Te dejo el link. https://meet.jit.si/ Comenta como te va. Saludos. El vie., 24 de julio de 2020 11:43, User

FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

Back in 70's/80's I wrote programs as part of routine job duties. {8080/8085 assembler, dBase and Paradox} Neither I, nor my employers, classed me as a "programmer". I was "Senior Engineering Tech" or "Junior Engineer". IOW, I was not in abject *AWE* of computers. *ROFL* Right now I'm working

Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 07:47:01PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi all... > > Please what do those occurrences of `' mean in /var/log/dpgk.log just on > the right next to some (and some not) of packages names? You mean like this: 2019-10-18 17:09:25 install gcc-8-base:amd64 8.3.0-6 I

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

On 2020-07-25 10:38, Richard Owlett wrote: Back in 70's/80's I wrote programs as part of routine job duties.   {8080/8085 assembler, dBase and Paradox} Neither I, nor my employers, classed me as a "programmer". I was "Senior Engineering Tech" or "Junior Engineer". IOW, I was not in abject *AWE*

Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

On 2020-07-25 at 16:02, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 07:47:01PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> Hi all... >> >> Please what do those occurrences of `' mean in /var/log/dpgk.log just >> on >> the right next to some (and some not) of packages names? > > You mean like this:

Re: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ?

On 2020-07-25 07:25, Thomas Schmitt wrote: See below for the full output of smartctl -a. I saved one drive that had the click of death (and died shortly thereafter). My notes indicated it passed the manufacturer diagnostic tests, but failed the manufacturer full erase procedure. The last

issues with storage media

Hi I ran into the following problems a few times. As operating system I use debian 10 (.2 gnome) and ubuntu 18, 19, (recently 20). Question 1 An external hard disk that I use (which is I think possibly failing) was formatted in NTFS. While I was working on a machine at the university where I used

Mencoder and ffmpeg

Hi all. I wanted to capture my webcam streaming and audio using ffmpeg but banged against `a sea of troubles': sync problems, video freezing, video stuttering, background noise, choose of one format rather than other... Mencoder instead at once easily, with: $ mencoder tv:// -tv

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 12:38:10PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: Back in 70's/80's I wrote programs as part of routine job duties. {8080/8085 assembler, dBase and Paradox} Neither I, nor my employers, classed me as a "programmer". I was "Senior Engineering Tech" or "Junior Engineer". IOW, I

Re: issues with storage media

Parted / gparted are useful tools. The live .iso is very useful if you have an unknown disk - you can boot into linux to examine disk formats. The crucial thing to know is that most partitions can be recovered with enough care. USB keys - try and buy a known brand. Stick small labels on them.

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

On Sat, 25 Jul 2020 12:38:10 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: > Back in 70's/80's I wrote programs as part of routine job duties. >{8080/8085 assembler, dBase and Paradox} > Neither I, nor my employers, classed me as a "programmer". > I was "Senior Engineering Tech" or "Junior Engineer". > IOW, I

Re: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ?

On 2020-07-25 02:16, Thomas Schmitt wrote: David Christensen wrote: Click of death. At least this is the reality which i will present to the disk vendor while negotiating about replacement. But personally i still have doubts that it is this particular problem. The knocking is not

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

On Saturday, July 25, 2020 01:38:10 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > Back in 70's/80's I wrote programs as part of routine job duties. >{8080/8085 assembler, dBase and Paradox} > Neither I, nor my employers, classed me as a "programmer". > I was "Senior Engineering Tech" or "Junior Engineer". > IOW,

Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 04:25:50PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2020-07-25 at 16:02, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 07:47:01PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > >> Hi all... > >> > >> Please what do those occurrences of `' mean in /var/log/dpgk.log > >> just on > >>

Re: About /var/log/dpgk.log

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 10:54:56PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: [...] > It's mentioned in the dpkg manpage, search for the --log option there. :-) Thanks, that puts it to rest. As always, if everything else fails, read the instructions. Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: Digital

[RESOLVED] Re: Deluged setup instructions/help

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 /

Re: Mencoder and ffmpeg

On 7/25/20 2:39 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi all. I wanted to capture my webcam streaming and audio using ffmpeg but banged against `a sea of troubles': sync problems, video freezing, video stuttering, background noise, choose of one format rather than other... Mencoder instead at once easily,

Re: Videoconferencia 100 personas?

lo que venimos diciendo desde el principio,  jitsi.meet solucionaría el problema, pero nunca lo solucionará una instancia gratuita, la que pones   meet.jit.si  es la instancia publica y gratuita de los mismos desarrolladores, depende el dia y hora y cuanta gente la este usando tirará bien para

Re: Mencoder and ffmpeg

On Saturday, July 25, 2020 06:36:12 PM Carl Fink wrote: > On 7/25/20 2:39 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > I wanted to capture my webcam streaming and audio using ffmpeg but banged > > against `a sea of troubles': sync problems, video freezing, video > > stuttering, background noise,

Re: wifi bgn identification

> With a laptop running Debian 10, is there an easy way to determine > whether the built-in wifi radio is b, g, or n? `iw phy` should give you all that data and a lot more. Stefan

Re: Videoconferencia 100 personas?

Ok. Por un momento perdí el hilo por no leer todos los correos. El sáb., 25 de julio de 2020 17:52, juan escribió: > lo que venimos diciendo desde el principio, jitsi.meet solucionaría el > problema, pero nunca lo solucionará una instancia gratuita, la que pones > meet.jit.si es la instancia

Re: wifi bgn identification

> On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 07:56:16PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> With a laptop running Debian 10, is there an easy way to determine >>> whether the built-in wifi radio is b, g, or n? >>`iw phy` should give you all that data and a lot more. > I do not find that command. I did find "ip show",

Re: wifi bgn identification

On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 01:19:44AM +, Andy Smith wrote: Possibly you do have "iw" installed but did not find it because "/sbin" is not in your user's PATH. Yes; that was the problem. Thanks.

Re: Videoconferencia 100 personas?

Pues parece que hay una versión de Jitse Meet que puede ser usado con el navegador acá , y que tan solo hay que darle un nombre a la sala y luego comparti el lik por cualquier medio. Alguna vez instalé Jitsi Meet en mi teléfono pero nunca lo usé porque mi familiar hasta el

Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

On 2020-07-25 13:22, Joe wrote: Shame about that. If you didn't need FOSS I'd recommend Microsoft Access, by far the best piece of software they ever produced (not that it's a high bar). It combines a simple database server, OK for one user, with a visual RAD system to make the user interface.

Re: Fwd: Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database and spreadsheet tools?

I suspect the threading on this will be broken -- I forwarded it to another computer where I have my notes on my adventures with "nutrition" programs. On Saturday, July 25, 2020 6:40:47 PM you wrote: > -- Forwarded Message -- > > Subject: Re: FOSS equivalents of *OLD* database

wifi bgn identification

With a laptop running Debian 10, is there an easy way to determine whether the built-in wifi radio is b, g, or n?

Re: wifi bgn identification

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 07:56:16PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: With a laptop running Debian 10, is there an easy way to determine whether the built-in wifi radio is b, g, or n? `iw phy` should give you all that data and a lot more. I do not find that command. I did find "ip show", but it

Re: Mencoder and ffmpeg

On Sat 25 Jul 2020 at 18:36:12 (-0400), Carl Fink wrote: > On 7/25/20 2:39 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > > I wanted to capture my webcam streaming and audio using ffmpeg but banged > > against `a sea of troubles': sync problems, video freezing, video > > stuttering, > > background noise,

Re: wifi bgn identification

Hello, On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 12:05:23AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 07:56:16PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >`iw phy` should give you all that data and a lot more. > > I do not find that command. $ apt-file search --regexp bin/iw$ iw: /sbin/iw $ apt

Re: Mencoder and ffmpeg

On 7/25/20 9:12 PM, Long Wind wrote: BTW i want ffmpeg script that record desktop plus audio. i don't have time to read its manual. Thanks! https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Capture/Desktop -- Carl Fink nitpick...@nitpicking.com Read my blog at blog.nitpicking.com.