Re: GIMP keeps crashing!

2020-10-02 Thread riveravaldez
On 10/2/20, Rebecca Matthews wrote: > ``` > GNU Image Manipulation Program version 2.10.8 > git-describe: GIMP_2_10_6-294-ga967e8d2c2 > C compiler: > Using built-in specs. > COLLECT_GCC=gcc > COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/8/lto-wrapper > OFFLOAD_TARGET_NAMES=nvptx-none > OFFLOA

Re: can't boot to a graphical interface.

2020-10-02 Thread David
On Sat, 3 Oct 2020 at 03:24, Frank McCormick wrote: > While compiling an application today my Debian bullseye system somehow > got messed up. It will boot to a CLI but no X, apparently because for > some reason the system is unable to access some files in > /usr/share/dbus-1. It keeps saying acce

Re: General-Purpose Server for Debian Stable

2020-10-02 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-02 17:16, Linux-Fan wrote: David Christensen writes: The Fujitsu might do PCIe/NVMe 4X M.2 or U.2 SSD's with the right adapter card. Been there, failed at that: https://www.reichelt.de/pcie-x8-karte-zu-2x-nvme-m-2-key-m-lp-delock-90305-p256917.html?&trstct=pos_3&nbc=1 I adde

Re: Mounting /dev/shm noexec

2020-10-02 Thread Steve McIntyre
Andy Smith wrote: ... >Though note that it seems systemd once did use "noexec" for /dev/shm >but stopped 10 years ago because it broke some uses of mmap: > > > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/501c875bffaef3263ad42c32485c7fde41027175 libffi also has a habit of using /dev/shm for wri

Re: General-Purpose Server for Debian Stable

2020-10-02 Thread Linux-Fan
David Christensen writes: On 2020-10-02 04:18, Linux-Fan wrote: David Christensen writes: On 2020-10-01 14:37, Linux-Fan wrote: >2x4T SSD for fast storage (VMs, OS) I suggest identifying your workloads, how much CPU, memory, disk I/O, etc., each requires, and then dividing them acros

Re: General-Purpose Server for Debian Stable

2020-10-02 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-02 04:18, Linux-Fan wrote: David Christensen writes: On 2020-10-01 14:37, Linux-Fan wrote: >2x4T SSD for fast storage (VMs, OS) I suggest identifying your workloads, how much CPU, memory, disk I/O, etc., each requires, and then dividing them across your several computers.

Re: Mounting /dev/shm noexec

2020-10-02 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 10:35:51PM +0300, Valter Jaakkola wrote: > So where can I change the mounting parameters of /dev/shm, or otherwise > arrange > it so that /dev/shm is noexec already at/after boot? > > (Out of curiosity, where is /dev/shm mounted from?) I think from systemd:

Re: Mounting /dev/shm noexec

2020-10-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2020-10-02 22:35 +0300, Valter Jaakkola wrote: > I an effort to increase security one of the things I'm trying to do is to have > no world-writable directories where anything (well, binaries at least) could > be > executed from. I use Debian Linux 10 amd64. (I'm a home user.) > > When I run `s

Re: Mounting /dev/shm noexec

2020-10-02 Thread deloptes
Valter Jaakkola wrote: > So where can I change the mounting parameters of /dev/shm, or otherwise > arrange it so that /dev/shm is noexec already at/after boot? > > (Out of curiosity, where is /dev/shm mounted from?) perhaps you are looking for tmpfs settings AT least here it is mounted as tmpfs

Re: can't boot to a graphical interface.

2020-10-02 Thread deloptes
Frank McCormick wrote: > While compiling an application today my Debian bullseye system somehow > got messed up. next time compile in chroot and as a dedicated user (not root)

Mounting /dev/shm noexec

2020-10-02 Thread Valter Jaakkola
Hi, I an effort to increase security one of the things I'm trying to do is to have no world-writable directories where anything (well, binaries at least) could be executed from. I use Debian Linux 10 amd64. (I'm a home user.) When I run `sudo find / -type d -perm -2` and remove from the listing t

Re: "ps -o %mem" and free memory in Linux

2020-10-02 Thread Fabrice BAUZAC-STEHLY
Victor Sudakov writes: > I summed up with awk the values of %mem, which are supposed to be "ratio > of the process's resident set size to the physical memory", correct? > > In my understanding, the value of %mem should indicate how much physical > memory is spent on the "individual" part of the

Re: SRT-tools version upgrade

2020-10-02 Thread john doe
On 10/2/2020 9:13 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 11:47:42AM -0700, Alan Latteri wrote: Hello, I request that set-tools be upgraded to the latest version, 1.4.2. File a wishlist bug against the package. Or chip in and update the package yourself! :) -- John Doe

Re: General-Purpose Server for Debian Stable

2020-10-02 Thread Linux-Fan
Linux-Fan writes: Hello fellow list users, I am constantly needing more computation power, RAM and HDD storage such that I have finally decided to buy a server for my next "workstation". The [...] * Of course, if there are any other comments, I am happy to hear them, too. I am looking in

Re: SRT-tools version upgrade

2020-10-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 11:47:42AM -0700, Alan Latteri wrote: > Hello, > > I request that set-tools be upgraded to the latest version, 1.4.2. File a wishlist bug against the package.

SRT-tools version upgrade

2020-10-02 Thread Alan Latteri
Hello, I request that set-tools be upgraded to the latest version, 1.4.2. Thanks, Alan

can't boot to a graphical interface.

2020-10-02 Thread Frank McCormick
While compiling an application today my Debian bullseye system somehow got messed up. It will boot to a CLI but no X, apparently because for some reason the system is unable to access some files in /usr/share/dbus-1. It keeps saying access denied. The directories and files are owned by root, an

GIMP keeps crashing!

2020-10-02 Thread Rebecca Matthews
``` GNU Image Manipulation Program version 2.10.8 git-describe: GIMP_2_10_6-294-ga967e8d2c2 C compiler: Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=gcc COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/8/lto-wrapper OFFLOAD_TARGET_NAMES=nvptx-none OFFLOAD_TARGET_DEFAULT=1 Target: x86_64-linux-gnu Configured

Re: Signing emails, was Re: General-Purpose Server for Debian Stable

2020-10-02 Thread David Wright
On Fri 02 Oct 2020 at 13:18:29 (+0200), Linux-Fan wrote:– > > OT: The hints about the details of e-mail encoding and signing are > appreciated. Some other notes are here: > https://sourceforge.net/p/courier/mailman/courier-cone/?viewmonth=202010 I took a look at that thread. > From: Linux-Fan -

Re: General-Purpose Server for Debian Stable

2020-10-02 Thread Stefan Monnier
> If it's quiet you want, try https://silentpc.com/. They are not cheap, > but their products are solid and reliable, and quiet. The two I have > are so quiet that I can hear the heads move on the 3.5" disk drives in > them. Sadly, they get noisier when you use SSDs instead: you can't hear the hea

Re: General-Purpose Server for Debian Stable

2020-10-02 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 01 Oct 2020 23:37:16 +0200 Linux-Fan wrote: > Hello fellow list users, > > I am constantly needing more computation power, RAM and HDD storage > such that I have finally decided to buy a server for my next > "workstation". If it's quiet you want, try https://silentpc.com/. They are not

Re: General-Purpose Server for Debian Stable

2020-10-02 Thread Linux-Fan
David Christensen writes: On 2020-10-01 14:37, Linux-Fan wrote: [...] Typical workloads: data compression (Debian live build, xz), virtual machines (software installation, updates) Rarely: GPGPU (e.g. nVidia CUDA, but some experimentation with OpenCL, too) single-core load coupled with very

Re: General-Purpose Server for Debian Stable

2020-10-02 Thread Dan Ritter
Linux-Fan wrote: > Dan Ritter writes: > > > You should also look at machines made by SuperMicro and resold > > via a number of VARs. My company is currently using Silicon > > Mechanics and is reasonably happy with them. We have a few HPs > > as well. I forgot to mention: though I wouldn't chara

Re: Firefox over JACK in Debian Testing

2020-10-02 Thread riveravaldez
On 10/1/20, Olivier Humbert wrote: >> On 6/6/2020 11:25 PM, riveravaldez wrote: > >> AFAIK Firefox lacks JACK support (in the sense that you can start >> JACK and then Firefox and then, automatically, all I/O audio-ports >> Firefox generated, appear as available JACK connections, let's say) > > Jo

Re: General-Purpose Server for Debian Stable

2020-10-02 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-01 14:37, Linux-Fan wrote: Hello fellow list users, I am constantly needing more computation power, RAM and HDD storage such that I have finally decided to buy a server for my next "workstation". The reasoning is that my experience with "real" servers is that they are most reliable, v