On Friday, February 18, 2022 3:19:43 PM EST David Wright wrote: > On Fri 18 Feb 2022 at 09:15:50 (-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. > No idea what funkity means, nor what is significant about 15 seconds > when booting. I have systems that boot in <3.5 seconds and other that > take nearly a minute. Nor am I sure what's special about /home with > respect to booting — it should have no role. > > > 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? > Um, perhaps https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/05/msg01001.html >
At 87 yo, you're expecting me to remember a post I made, what, 3 years ago? But its pretty close to exactly it. But I still don't recall if I unplugged the adapter that time, and by now there is probably at least one more, maybe two in my usb tree. > Cheers, > David. > > . Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>