On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 09:15:50AM -0800, Gene Heskett wrote: > Two problems: > > > terminals went funkity late tuesday, spent Wed-Thu trying to reboot, would > not go beyond the 15 second mark rebooting. Finally ran the net installer in > rescue mode, copied my 122gb /home dir, on a 1.9T raid10 to a different drive > and reinstalled, then copied it back, but kmail refuses to use the copied > back data so I'm using FF to post this. > >
Hi Gene Check permissions on spools etc - how did you copy your data out? A tar ball preserving permissions is also quite useful for this. Goodness, what do you keep to make your /home directory 122G? > I also need to get totally, absolutely rid of brltty, its driving me berzerk > with its incessant muttering in a voice as bandwidth limited, or worse, than > a cell phone. Understandable maybe 5% of the time. I purposely did NOT even > visit those pieces of the installer for fear it would be enabled, because > even though killed by removing brltty in the previous install, 90% of the > syslog was errors because it couldn't use brltty. But I got it anyway. So > how do it get rid of it without it tearing down the system with its copius > error screaming? > Just a thought: apt rdepends brltty reveals a small number of things that depend on it. Use apt-get / aptitude or whatever to remove these in order. I don't know _why_ you keep getting brltty installed - disconnect any serial leads from this machine as a start. If you can't get brltty removed as above - copy your home directory off again and do a reinstall with the minimum connected to your machine. [The serial idea is because I seem to recall that if brltty finds a serial connection active at install, it may assume there's a brltty installed. In something of 150 or more installs of bullseye - we do a bunch with each release of images with a point release - I don't think I've ever seen brltty installed "by accident" so I'd love to know exactly what you do do each time. All the very best, as ever, Andy Cater > > Thanks for any advice on these two fronts. > > > Cheers, Gene