Re: mdadm usage

2020-12-29 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 01:53:59AM +0100, deloptes wrote: you can start one of the drives that was member of raid1 array on any computer, just as Reco said by assembling the mdraid on that computer. Just be very careful about ever putting both halves of the array on the same computer again,

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

2020-12-29 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 04:52:48PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: Matching that level of versatility with *modern* ports on a modern motherboard, especially without access to a hardware-review site of the caliber I was drawing on at the time, is going to be difficult. Not really: fast USB & nvme

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

2020-12-29 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 02:26:27PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: On 2020-12-29 at 14:20, Romualdas Taluntis wrote: You have an old system with first gen i7 which predates widespread UEFI adoption by at least 1 generation, your motherboard specs at

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

2020-12-29 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 12:34:49PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: I agree. I can't imagine how it could not. Still, after 8 years, I'd open the PS up for cleaning if nothing else, unless it's been operating in a clean room all those years. FWIW, I wouldn't do that and consider it to be a bit nuts.

Re: transfer speed data

2020-12-24 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 05:09:47PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: Michael Stone (12020-12-23): No, network speeds are traditionally measured in bits because networks transferred data in bits and telcos dealt with bits, and they sold and billed bits. Computer internals were measured in bytes

Re: transfer speed data

2020-12-24 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 07:27:49PM -0600, David Wright wrote: I thought Michael Stone had already covered that, by suggesting sparse files (with which I'm not familiar) A sparse file is one which has logically allocated empty (zero-filled) blocks without allocating physical blocks. You can

Re: transfer speed data

2020-12-23 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 12:13:19AM +0800, Jeremy Ardley wrote: Getting back to the original question, rsync is inherently slower because both ends do deep file inspection and handshaking to decide what data transfer is required. scp is usually faster. If you're rsyncing to a non-existent

Re: transfer speed data

2020-12-23 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 11:37:07PM +0800, Jeremy Ardley wrote: I did some tests and found there was around a 10-20% difference in speed between runs. Yes, if you want more consistent numbers you'd need much larger test file sizes; if the transfer is taking less than a second there's a lot

Re: transfer speed data

2020-12-23 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 10:56:36AM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: Anyway, why would anybody honest want to use this kind of unit to measure an actual speed is beyond me. The only point to speak in kilo/mega/gigabits per second instead is to make the numbers seem larger to attract clueless

Re: transfer speed data

2020-12-23 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 09:56:01AM +0800, Jeremy Ardley wrote: Having said that, scp and ssh are affected by the encryption algorithm. The fastest one at the moment is blowfish and it's possible to get up to 50 MB/s on a gig lan. That's pretty ancient advice. The fastest on most modern x86

Re: adding a disk to a Volume group

2020-12-21 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 01:38:16PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: * Are you adding the new disk permanently or as removable media? If the latter, put a separate VG on it. Or don't bother. The reason I suggest this is if the new disk is removable, having the same VG span both disks may make the

Re: How should we handle greenbone-security-assistant?

2020-12-18 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 09:11:42AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: And at least anyone that is not installing the latest version can have an idea of whether it's important/urgent for them to upgrade or not. I think the software in question is a good example where there's basically no value in

Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?

2020-12-18 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 02:47:22PM -0500, Devops PK Carlisle LLC wrote: I understand your point about 32 bit being updated forever, and perhaps it does not need to be. Perhaps the happy medium would be to freeze it at some point, but leave it available as-is so that legacy software with 32 bit

Re: exporting display like

2020-12-18 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 03:56:40PM +0200, Anssi Saari wrote: Does xpra work for reattaching? Yes. The basic operation is "xpra start" to create a virtual X server, then you can "xpra attach" and "xpra detach" at will.

Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?

2020-12-15 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 11:40:29AM -0500, Devops PK Carlisle LLC wrote: Being philosophically opposed to throwing a good machine into a landfill, I tend to hang on to equipment for a long time. My play/experimentation and last-ditch backup box is a 10 year old laptop. I hear that, but at least

Re: Migrating LVM volumes to a new machine

2020-12-11 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 11:46:46PM +, Mark Fletcher wrote: I would like to understand how to move a LVM VG from one machine to another, when the disk to be moved contains filesystems key to the source system. I have read section 13.6 of the LVM HOWTO which talks about moving VGs. ... I

Re: SanDisk USB stick problem

2020-12-10 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 10:17:41AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 09 dec 20, 15:23:44, Celejar wrote: I'm curious about this because I can't imagine that FUSE performance is as good as native, so why would automounters pay the performance penalty of FUSE when native mounting would seem

Re: Permissions on NFS mounts

2020-12-10 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 04:48:36PM +0300, Reco wrote: I just like to remind you the original question: Is there a way to put an account "beyond use", in any way including su, sudo etc, *In any way* includes the way I've described above IMO. So you're asking if there's a way to prevent

Re: Permissions on NFS mounts

2020-12-10 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 10:42:36AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: In the context of the original question, having a consistent set of local user accounts (name/UID pairs) across all of your systems in an NFS environment is useful for making sure all files have consistent ownership. Even on the

Re: Permissions on NFS mounts

2020-12-10 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 03:38:21PM -0500, Paul M Foster wrote: I have two users on the client: paulf 1000 and nancyf 1001. On the server, I have two users: pi 1000 and paulf 1001. I can mount the NFS share from the server to /mnt on my client. But any files belonging to me (user 1001 on the

Re: [Emc-users] buster warning

2020-12-07 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 04:03:21PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Monday 07 December 2020 10:20:18 Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 11:52:32AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 05 December 2020 11:11:40 Tixy wrote: > > Have you ever seen network interfaces appear under /dev ?

Re: setting the date for testing

2020-12-07 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 08:43:51PM +, Michael Grant wrote: I need to set the date to several years in the future in order to test something.  When I do this via the date command, the date returns back almost instantly (or within a few seconds). Depending on what you're doing you may want

Re: [Emc-users] buster warning

2020-12-05 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 11:52:32AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: On Saturday 05 December 2020 11:11:40 Tixy wrote: Have you ever seen network interfaces appear under /dev ? They don't appear there on my machines... They used to, No, they didn't. Network interfaces have traditionally been a

Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

2020-12-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 07:13:11PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: On 12/3/20 2:39 PM, Jerry Mellon wrote: Hi, I am new to linux and made the mistake of loading the i386 Debian release 10 onto my 64bit intel system. I now want to put the 64bit version for intel on the system. Why? Because

[Elecraft] What temp. to turn off KPA1500

2020-12-01 Thread Michael Stone
I wonder if it is advisable to allow the amplifier to cool before turning it off. Normally I wait until the fan stops, at 39 degrees C. Am I being too cautious? I leave the power supply turned on most of the time, since I use the amplifier nearly every day. Thanks N1VE

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

2020-11-30 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 09:44:13AM -0800, Charlie Gibbs wrote: However, there's another consideration: the KISS principle. A system that needs 780 files is going to be a lot more complex and difficult to understand than one that gets by with one or two. Actually, it's a lot more

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

2020-11-24 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 01:07:10PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: As I said, figuring out the valid TZ strings for a given location on our planet is a challenge. Unfortunately, the ... fine people ... who devised the standards for this sort of thing thought it would be really super clever to treat

Re: Certbot in Buster

2020-11-24 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 05:17:08PM +0100, Philipp Ewald wrote: (security)update i have to install manual? yes

Re: Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

2020-11-24 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 10:16:47PM -0600, Mike McClain wrote: I guess I'm just a little old fashioned. My first computer had no storage and my first hard drive was 20M so having a directory taking up 3.5MB when all I'm using there is less than 10KB just doesn't sit well with me. The kernel,

Re: Certbot in Buster

2020-11-19 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 09:11:10AM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Mi, 18 nov 20, 13:01:46, Michael Stone wrote: On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 06:42:27PM +0100, Philipp Ewald wrote: > can i install the package from unstable and after that i remove the entry in sourses.list? > or is this ris

Re: An old box running Debian 8

2020-11-18 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 12:18:33PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: David Wright composed on 2020-11-18 09:46 (UTC-0600): IIRC the Release Notes usually recommend upgrading the kernel (its minor version upgrade) early in the distribution upgrade process. I don't recall ever seeing that. Curious.

Re: Certbot in Buster

2020-11-18 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 06:42:27PM +0100, Philipp Ewald wrote: can i install the package from unstable and after that i remove the entry in sourses.list? or is this risky? I wouldn't do that, just download the appropiate debs from

Re: Certbot in Buster

2020-11-18 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 12:44:57PM +0100, Philipp Ewald wrote: Hello, https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/certbot-users-preparing-for-the-isrg-root-transition-january-11-2021/138059 certbot is on Version 0.31.0 in Debian Buster. As of January 11, 2021, we’re planning to make a change to our

Re: how to sell network nodes

2020-11-16 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 11:13:18AM +0100, Michael J. Baars wrote: As you can see from the log, with given blocksize, my benchmark does this exact same thing at a rate of 5663.7168 mb/s and at a maximum rate of 16589.7124 mb/s with blocksize 67108864 (the entire file at once). Just at first

Bug#973545: gcc-10: 10.2.0-15 to 10.2.0-16 900MB larger?

2020-11-01 Thread Michael Stone
Package: gcc-10 Version: 10.2.0-16 Severity: wishlist When upgrading from 10.2.0-15 to 10.2.0-16 aptitude reports that gcc-10 is 282MB larger, g++-10 is 312MB larger, and cpp-10 is 283MB larger. In -15 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/10/lto1 is 26M and in -16 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/10/lto1

Bug#973545: gcc-10: 10.2.0-15 to 10.2.0-16 900MB larger?

2020-11-01 Thread Michael Stone
Package: gcc-10 Version: 10.2.0-16 Severity: wishlist When upgrading from 10.2.0-15 to 10.2.0-16 aptitude reports that gcc-10 is 282MB larger, g++-10 is 312MB larger, and cpp-10 is 283MB larger. In -15 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/10/lto1 is 26M and in -16 /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/10/lto1

Bug#972713: libnss3: Handshake failed (-12251) with Pidgin since 2:3.58-1

2020-10-30 Thread Michael Stone
I had the same problem, as also discussed in https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/68357 The workaround in that thread worked for me as well. (Using NSS Preferences plugin to change maximum TLS version to 1.2.) It seems something is causing issues if TLS 1.3 is permitted, there is some discussion

[Elecraft] Training the KPA-1500

2020-10-24 Thread Michael Stone
I have read and attempted to follow the instructions in the manual for training the ATU in the KPA-1500, however I am not sure that I am doing it correctly. For instance, what mode should I use to produce a signal into the amplifier? Should I provide the signal continuously while the

Re: Zoom.

2020-10-22 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 06:08:23AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: From: Michael Stone Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 17:08:10 -0400 I'd strongly recommend switching to the amd64 distribution for a variety of reasons. Reasonable advice but for all other needs, the old machine serves well. I'd

Re: Zoom.

2020-10-19 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 12:57:52PM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: Obvious factor: replies mention 64 bit machines. 32 b here. Anyone have Zoom running on a 32 b machine with Debian 10? Probably not many, if any. I'd strongly recommend switching to the amd64 distribution for a variety of

Bug#972286: coreutils: Crash when using globs on a path with non-latin characters

2020-10-15 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 04:28:35PM -0400, you wrote: Steps to reproduce: 1. mkdir ~/ಇಳಿಕೆಗಳು 2. touch ~/ಇಳಿಕೆಗಳು/{a,b}.txt 3. ls ~/ಇಳಿಕೆಗಳು/*.txt crashes immediately By contrast: 1. cd ~/ಇಳಿಕೆಗಳು/ && ls *.txt succeeds 2. ls ಇಳಿಕೆಗಳು/*.txt succeeds Similarly, `cp ~/ಇಳಿಕೆಗಳು/*.txt .` crashes,

Re: Question: SSD speed

2020-10-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 06:49:56PM -0500, Leslie Rhorer wrote: On 10/8/2020 2:17 PM, Michael Stone wrote: On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 01:27:15PM -0500, Leslie Rhorer wrote: Well, what, really, is wrong with pedantry? It makes conversation with humans harder Can you provide any data

Re: Question: SSD speed

2020-10-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 01:27:15PM -0500, Leslie Rhorer wrote: Well, what, really, is wrong with pedantry? It makes conversation with humans harder with no corresponding benefit. Not only that, but the discrepancy grows exponentially with the order of magnitude. The difference

Re: Question: SSD speed

2020-10-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 11:35:19AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: In 2020 assume you'll need more than one and let the computer figure out how to split it. I'm not sure what you're referring to here. OT1H, from the context I get the impression you're talking about DVD-R, but OTOH in 2020 the

Re: Question: SSD speed

2020-10-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 03:51:53PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: i wrote: > It is a classic that programs talk mixed about GB and GiB while not > clearly distinguishing them. Michael Stone wrote: This is basically never an issue in conversational usage as the difference is les

Re: Question: SSD speed

2020-10-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 11:53:16AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Michael Stone wrote: > I'd assume it's confusion between bits and bytes. [...] > just write out bit or byte Andrei POPESCU wrote: SI prefixes can also help... if you use them consistently. It is a classic that program

Re: Question: SSD speed

2020-10-07 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 12:48:09PM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: Jeremy Nicoll wrote: On Wed, 7 Oct 2020, at 09:39, Hans wrote: I have a little question. Smartctl is telling me, that my ssd drive is 6Gb/sec capable, but the actual speed is only 1,5GB/sec. If your SATA (presumably) connection

Bug#919893: rng-tools-debian: package shouldn't exist

2020-10-01 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 11:20:44PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Michael Stone dixit: you can fix it right now! So, what do you mean? Take over the rng-tools package? If so, it has a maintainer, you know. hmh has been quiet so far. he's been clear that he's happy for someone to take

Bug#919893: rng-tools-debian: package shouldn't exist

2020-10-01 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 09:32:47PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Michael Stone dixit: So your position is that rng-tools 2-unofficial-mt.14-1+b2 and rng-tools-debian 2-unofficial-mt.14-3 both in buster are completely different codebases? No, no, no, of course not. I’m talking about sid

Bug#919893: rng-tools-debian: package shouldn't exist

2020-10-01 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 05:28:12PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Michael Stone dixit: So you could have added whatever you needed to rng-tools and skipped the unnecessary package... No, rng-tools is a completely different software. So your position is that rng-tools 2-unofficial-mt.14-1+b2

Bug#919893: rng-tools-debian: package shouldn't exist

2020-10-01 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 04:51:54PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Michael Stone dixit: So the package that shouldn't have existed made it into buster, there's a ridiculous situation with 3 packages providing essentially the same functionality with minor differences and no practical way

Bug#919893: package shouldn't exist

2020-10-01 Thread Michael Stone
So the package that shouldn't have existed made it into buster, there's a ridiculous situation with 3 packages providing essentially the same functionality with minor differences and no practical way for a user to figure out which to install, and no movement on fixing this before the *next*

Re: ssh session times out annoyingly fast, why?

2020-09-29 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 11:13:59AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: In general it's kind of dumb on modern hardware to expire sessions that are still exchanging TCP keepalives unless you're under extreme pressure from a DoS attack or somesuch. Indeed, I'd be *very* surprised if a connection was

Re: ssh session times out annoyingly fast, why?

2020-09-29 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 04:34:06PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Setting the socket option to keep alive "fixed" that. You were lucky. ssh does that by default, so if ssh sessions are getting killed these days it's because the firewall ignores tcp keepalives when calculating timeouts. If

Re: ssh session times out annoyingly fast, why?

2020-09-29 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 04:22:32PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 08:18:54AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 03:48:56PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: >The normal reason people need to use ServerAlive or ClientAlive is NAT. >If your connection fr

Bug#971363: freeipa-client fails to install on upgrade

2020-09-29 Thread Michael Stone
Package: freeipa-client Version: 4.8.10-1 Severity: important dpkg configure stage fails without meaningful log: # dpkg --configure -a Setting up freeipa-client (4.8.10-1) ... dpkg: error processing package freeipa-client (--configure): installed freeipa-client package post-installation script

Re: ssh session times out annoyingly fast, why?

2020-09-29 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 08:44:18AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: This is likely quite true Michael, but it also is only a hint as to how to fix it for the OP. It was already fixed, serveraliveinterval/clientaliveinterval is the right answer. I guess I can review: these options simply have the

Re: ssh session times out annoyingly fast, why?

2020-09-29 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 03:48:56PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: The normal reason people need to use ServerAlive or ClientAlive is NAT. If your connection from ssh client to ssh server goes through a NAT router, the router may keep track of activity on that connection, and drop the translation

Re: crc not installed but rsync using it? ...

2020-09-26 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 02:11:30PM +0200, Albretch Mueller wrote: On 9/25/20, Michael Stone wrote: Just one would be good enough (pick the sha256sum). What you're doing is a waste of time. If you want to future proof then use sha3, via the rhash package. Something that I have noticed

Re: crc not installed but rsync using it? ...

2020-09-25 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 10:56:56AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: I usually give the OP credit for not clicking on the links he runs across that aren't on the up and up. I dunno, but the odor about them seems to be warning enough for me. That's simply not true. Compromised web sites are a thing,

Re: crc not installed but rsync using it? ...

2020-09-25 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 09:01:26AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: Your paranoia is excessive. I have 5 machines online ATM, but they are all on a local network in the 1902.168.xx.xx block, which is NOT routable from the internet but are NAT'd to my net address by having such a setup in a router

Re: crc not installed but rsync using it? ...

2020-09-25 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 01:49:25PM +0200, Albretch Mueller wrote: I have losts of (not necessarily all) text files (say in the 10 of thousands) in various directories which I need to process in a batch, but before I do that I want to make sure that I get a baseline of the source files. I use:

Bug#970608: src:coreutils: fails to migrate to testing for too long: FTBFS on arm64

2020-09-20 Thread Michael Stone
I thought debports architectures weren't supposed to prevent migration to testing so I'm confused about why the package hasn't migrated.

Bug#970608: src:coreutils: fails to migrate to testing for too long: FTBFS on arm64

2020-09-20 Thread Michael Stone
I thought debports architectures weren't supposed to prevent migration to testing so I'm confused about why the package hasn't migrated.

Re: How do I blacklist a package?

2020-09-12 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 04:28:46PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Some package you are trying to install must either depend on that package or recommend it. Try installing that package with --no-install-recommends. The entire purpose of that package is to prevent the installation of other

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-10 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 07:44:26PM +0100, Brian wrote: On Thu 10 Sep 2020 at 14:15:49 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: People are overthinking this. If you want more control, just skip the software selection screen altogether. If you're going to nit-pick over what gets installed when using it, you

Re: LEAN Debian install: Exploring task selection menu

2020-09-10 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 07:34:24PM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: I agree with Richard's criticism and would suggest to not present that first line "Debian desktop environment" at all, because it is redundant with the second line "... GNOME". If someone deselects the second line because no wanting

Re: my pc is shutdown unexpectedly

2020-09-10 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 12:15:56PM +, Long Wind wrote: 3rd installation failure is probably not caused by problem disk but 1st and 2nd installation failure is Almost certainly not. Turning off *is not* a symptom of a bad disk. You have at least a cooling issue, and who knows what other

Re: my pc is shutdown unexpectedly

2020-09-10 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 12:36:21PM +, Long Wind wrote: i've been warned "Core temperature above threshold" for a long time i just ignore it. probably it isn't cause of shutdown if it is, it can warn explicitly in /var/log that it will shutdown surely it can beep before shutdown, but i

Re: my pc is shutdown unexpectedly

2020-09-10 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 12:03:22PM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: After you recently already have had difficult to explain problems with a hard disk, there was never anything reported that sounded remotely like a hard disk problem.

Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple of 4096 bytes ...

2020-09-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 12:53:00PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple of 4096 bytes that leaves room for whatever may need to be at the beginning of the disk (like maybe the MBR, or LILO, or ???)? The current basic default is

Re: 32 versus 64 bit reading list suggestions

2020-09-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 07:26:33PM +0200, deloptes wrote: Yes I looked at it - fully configured €250,- without shipment and there was some reason that I dropped the idea and looked at alternatives. Well, they cost a heck of a lot less to send to the US. :D

Re: 32 versus 64 bit reading list suggestions

2020-09-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 07:48:33AM +0200, deloptes wrote: I alaready looked for a replacement. Surprisingly the devices with 3 or 4 network cards cost > 400,- US$ and consume more power. pcengines APU2 (3 nic) or APU4 (4 nic) will come in well under that, has 2 or 4GB RAM, quad core 1GHz CPU,

Re: how to test disk for bad sector

2020-08-31 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 05:46:52AM +, Long Wind wrote: it's unbelievable that both tests passed i've installed debian to it some time ago, it failed today i install fedora from usb stick while waiting for copying i'm doing something else, not paying attention to pc screen. suddenly i find

Re: Recommendation for filesystem for USB external drive for backups

2020-08-19 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 11:33:34AM +1200, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: On 20/08/2020 10:08, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-08-13 01:31, David Christensen wrote: Without knowing anything about your resources, needs, expectations, "consistent backup plan", etc., and given the choices ext2, ext3,

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

2020-08-12 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 10:26:45PM -0500, David Wright wrote: Registering a domain name with a dynamic DNS service is more complex than registering an email service It really isn't, but whatever. I really don't care if you want to come up with some workaround for DNS so feel free to stop

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

2020-08-11 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 11:18:10PM -0500, David Wright wrote: On Tue 04 Aug 2020 at 08:38:37 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote: On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 10:52:58PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > My main router doesn't have the facility to run that client. My > cascaded router does (to just tho

Re: System time instantly wrong when network lost

2020-08-05 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 07:57:07AM -0400, Carl wrote: Optimum Online is out here (Long Island). When I lost internet service, system time almost instantly switched to December 13, 2017 at 00:00 or so. If I connect the computer via my phone hotspot, NTP corrects the time rather quickly. As soon

Re: [OT] sudo: restrict to physical console only?

2020-08-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 04:09:30PM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: The idea of Tomas to look in /etc/sudoers.conf for something like 'requiretty' sounds promising. I will need a couple of days to read and learn about this and then testing it. That won't work. Anything that's based on identifying a

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

2020-08-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 03:57:43PM +0200, MAS Jean-Louis wrote: IPv4 address are becoming rare, and expensive for ISP. IPv6 is free, and plenty Maybe where you are, definitely not where I am. just ask for a public IPv6 address My ISP is 10 years into a 2 year plan to make them available.

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

2020-08-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 10:52:58PM -0500, David Wright wrote: My main router doesn't have the facility to run that client. My cascaded router does (to just those two services), but that one has a broken WAN port (hence its rôle). So I presume I'd be expected to run No-IP's own software on my

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

2020-08-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 09:05:57PM -0500, David Wright wrote: How do you keep this set of dynamic DNS providers informed each time your home's IP address changes, bearing in mind nobody's at home? A program runs on the local machine which updates the dynamic DNS entries, either periodically

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

2020-08-03 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 02:38:13PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: Ah, now you are back to using an external server, which the OP would like to avoid. It isn't possible to do this without an external server. Sending email involves an external server. That's why just using a redundant set of

Re: VMs on external storage CPU overloading

2020-08-03 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 10:21:01PM +0200, john doe wrote: I'm settleing on buying (1), Google says that it is UASP compatible. Is there some reason you're set on buying a thumb drive form factor?

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

2020-08-01 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 03:28:47PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: In my area (Tracy, California), people who have have Internet connections with static IP's know it and pay handsomly for such. All other connections are dynamic. Even so, some providers apparently do not change the dynamic

Re: [OT] Remote SSH (dynamic IP) without third-party server

2020-08-01 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 11:03:07PM -0300, riveravaldez wrote: Hi, to clarify: I would like to connect to a remote home-machine (dynamic IP) through SSH session but without using a third-party server (free or paid), just with software running in both machines. It's not possible. The simplest

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

2020-07-27 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 10:34:39PM +0100, Joe wrote: The OP is in a learning experience, it's what retirement is for. Huh. I thought it was for doing what you want instead of what other people tell you that you "have to" do.

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

2020-07-27 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 09:52:28PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: And, in Greg's defense, he provided some code, something no one of us did -- I'd say this round goes to him ;-) How? The OP request was for something simpler than SQL (presumably because he didn't want to learn SQL?), so the

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

2020-07-27 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 11:39:11AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 11:16:45AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 08:09:36AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > For a project of this size and scope, a Tcl application with an sqlite3 > database in a local file

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

2020-07-27 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 08:09:36AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: For a project of this size and scope, a Tcl application with an sqlite3 database in a local file seems well suited. Only on the internet can someone ask a simple question and get tcl as the answer. :-/

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

2020-07-26 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 06:58:06PM +0100, Joe wrote: On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 10:24:25 -0400 Michael Stone 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} &g

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

2020-07-26 Thread Michael Stone
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 was

Re: slashes in filenames [was Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster]

2020-07-24 Thread Michael Stone
On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 09:42:24AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: On 2020-07-24 at 09:22, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 07:54:27AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 07:49:26AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: Sounds like a case where directly editing the

[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#965164: policykit-1: fails to install

2020-07-16 Thread Michael Stone
Package: policykit-1 Version: 0.105-27 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable On install: Setting up policykit-1 (0.105-27) ... chown: cannot access '/usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1': No such file or directory > dpkg -L policykit-1 | grep help

Bug#965164: policykit-1: fails to install

2020-07-16 Thread Michael Stone
Package: policykit-1 Version: 0.105-27 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable On install: Setting up policykit-1 (0.105-27) ... chown: cannot access '/usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1': No such file or directory > dpkg -L policykit-1 | grep help

Bug#965164: policykit-1: fails to install

2020-07-16 Thread Michael Stone
Package: policykit-1 Version: 0.105-27 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable On install: Setting up policykit-1 (0.105-27) ... chown: cannot access '/usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1': No such file or directory > dpkg -L policykit-1 | grep help

Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition

2020-07-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 06:07:05PM +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote: A line for /usr is in /etc/fstab using it's UUID ... same as root is referenced by UUID (both are in the same lvm2 volume group). Why not just reference it by path?

Re: fsck crashes on buster

2020-07-08 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 10:17:44AM +0200, daggs wrote: my backup hdd has errors in the fs, so I've stopped the backup process and unmounted it. when I run fsck /dev/sdc1, I get this: root@utilsserver:/home/igor# fsck /dev/sdc1 fsck from util-linux 2.33.1 e2fsck 1.44.5 (15-Dec-2018) backup

Re: Suggestion for systemd and /usr on seperate partition

2020-07-07 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 10:45:17AM -0500, David Wright wrote: On Wed 08 Jul 2020 at 00:41:12 (+1000), Andrew McGlashan wrote: On 2/11/14 8:58 am, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > * David Baron [2014-11-01 19:13 +0200]: >> On Friday 31 October 2014 13:08:27 Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > [...] > >>>

Bug#963971: [Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#963971: samba-libs: libndr.so.0 gone from latest version, breaks sssd-ad-common dependency

2020-07-04 Thread Michael Stone
On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 03:21:03PM +0200, Mathieu Parent wrote: Le sam. 4 juil. 2020 à 15:15, Michael Stone a écrit : On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 07:28:32AM +0200, Mathieu Parent wrote: >clone 963971 -1 >tag 963971 + upstream >tag -1 + upstream fixed-upstream patch >reassign -1 ss

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