On 2/19/22 06:31, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
Hi Gene,
If this was someone calling you from a TV station saying they had a TV
transmitter that was varying in power output - you'd have a mental checklist.
You'd get down there, perhaps schedule some sort of power down / reduced
power operation and then you'd check - power supplies, feeder cables, hot
spots on cables - whatever. Divide and conquer- working back to a baseline
of known working conditions and eliminating causes.
My suggestion to you of a reinstall is partly designed to get you out of this
"X happens, I did Y, now I've got Z" - to get to a known initial state.
Take out all the serial converters to UPS, lathe and so on. Wireless keyboard
doesn't present as serial in the same way that brltty does - if it did, I'd
have brltty with every install on this laptop.
Copy off your home directory as you did before - maybe using tar.gz and
preserving permissions. Start with the .iso that includes firmware - the
unofficial one.
Build back slowly - do an expert text mode install if you can. Then add your
Trinity desktop - I don't think any of us can help you there, since we don't
run trinity.
Check and you should find that brltty isn't installed at all. Then re-add
thingsgradually until you have the working system you want. Document it - write
down
the steps you take / copy configuration files you change.
That will also reveal logging / login slowdowns or whatever caused by
individual devices as you add them back. Keep a list as you go.
That's the counsel of perfection: alternatively:
apt rdepends brltty gives me:
me@mymachine:~$ apt rdepends brltty
brltty
Reverse Depends:
Suggests: speechd-el (>= 3.7.2)
Depends: brltty-espeak (= 6.3+dfsg-1+deb11u1)
Suggests: orca
Depends: brltty-x11 (= 6.3+dfsg-1+deb11u1)
Depends: brltty-speechd (= 6.3+dfsg-1+deb11u1)
Depends: brltty-flite (= 6.3+dfsg-1+deb11u1)
You could try apt-get remove (or equivalent) on each of those packages and
see if that clears it. I _know_ this is frustrating as all get out for you
but a clear approach, written down so that you can remember where you got
to will be very helpful.
If all else fails, you can then share it with the list and say "I got to
step X with no problems, then Y happened - help me out here" and we'll
have some better idea. We all jib at you for being vague/not indluding
details but otherwise it is all just guesswork for the usual folk that
hang out here.
All the very best, as ever,
Andy Cater
How much longer till trixie is officially out?? What you are proposing
sounds like several days work, and i have other irons in the fire. This
release has been such a disaster for me because the install insists on
installing and configuring orca and brltty w/o asking. I've done 40 some
installs now, trying to stop it from wasting about a second while its
yelling every keystroke at me because it thinks I'm blind. I finally
have orca disabled and the computer is useful. The delays are a pain in
the a$$ but i can do work now. It is not useful when orca is using 90%
of a 6 core I5 yelling at me loud enough to announce and pronounce every
keystroke or mouse motion/click loud enough to wake the neighbors. The
first 23 installs never asked me if I wanted that crap. And if you nuked
the orca executable it would not reboot but hung forever waiting for
orca to start. I have it usable, the installer AFAIAC is broken and I
don't want to have to go through all that again. Until the installer
ASKS me if I want it because it thinks I am blind, I have only one nerve
left and and the suggestion that I do yet another install, is standing
on it. Trying to remove it now, it insists on removing gnome and every
dependency. I just checked again with synaptic, removing either orca or
brltty still wants to destroy the system, Yet all I get when I fuss
about the broken installer is "won't fix, not broken'.
.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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