e rest of the protocol.
Stefan
t for some parts of the message, but it seems this style
applies to the whole message, which makes no sense), tho maybe it's due
to some particularity of your configuration, or of the way you use your
MUA's editor.
Stefan
> In the more general case, telemetry is not in itself
> considered 'evil'.
I consider it evil if it's opt-out rather than opt-in.
Stefan
tend to run via Wine will probably be what I'd
usually describe as "proprietary crap" a.k.a black boxes, so it seems to
be one of the cases where the use of Snap/Flatpak should not make things
much worse.
Stefan
te search engine about
"Error:(0, h.requestMetadata) is not a function"?
Stefan
e is read from RTC to set system time
directly by the kernel in `kernel/time/timekeeping.c` and
`drivers/rtc/class.c`.
So The Right Solution™ apparently involves changes to the kernel.
Stefan
etails, such
as the actual errors you see, the specific way you "flashed" the USB
key, precisely what it is you flashed onto that key, what machine you're
trying to boot, and/or how exactly you tried to boot with that flashed
USB key.
Stefan
ue to
> a crash, instead of a controlled shutdown.
Notice I wrote "sleep". I'm concerned about the suspend+wakeup case,
not the case when you're booting up.
[ I thought I'd made it abundantly clear. ]
Stefan
John Hasler [2024-06-28 09:41:06] wrote:
> Stefan writes:
>> The question remains: how to make use of that info upon wakeup to
>> adjust the "initial" time before NTP takes over.
> hwclock -a can do this.
Indeed, and my question can be thought of as asking how to run
t information is not available to you.
It is if /etc/adjtime is set properly when you go to sleep.
See `hwclock(8)` or `adjtime_config(5)`.
Stefan
which seem too crude for my sense of aesthetics), but I'm more
interested in improving the initial approximation.
Stefan
s so upon suspend/wakeup: it seems targeted at
boot/shutdown.
The hwclock(8) tells me how to use the `hwclock` command but not how to
make other parts of the system run the `hwclock` command at the right
time (or how to get a similar result without running that command, of
course).
Stefan
second question is less important (I can write the drift factor by
hand, e.g. in case `ntpd` is not being told when the clock is (re)set
based on the RTC, making it impossible for it to compute a drift factor).
Stefan
that.
> Can I copy the USB key's kernel+initrd to a currently empty partition and
> then treat it in manner similar to USB key above? [goal being not to mess
> with a currently functioning system ;]
Yes.
Stefan
ode based on the assumption that
UB never happens.
The combination of the two makes it particularly entertaining.
Stefan
[ Sent directly to debian-user@lists. ]
> FWIW, this reply goes to list because I expect high probability Stefan would
> not
> see it otherwise. Most mailing list posts flow through to me unimpeded. Not so
> with Stefan's. AFAICT, every one of his is captured by Earthlink.net's &
boot from that.
- Take the HDD out of the X30 and connect it to my desktop via some
HDD<->USB adapter. Then do what I need to do to it from the comfort
of my desktop computer, typically using `chroot` along the way (this
is the second best).
Stefan
s really handy.
Stefan
/delicate that there can't be a term for every single situation.
Stefan
lause is misguided, it should apply only when the
> input is a tty.
And if it's not a tty, you get some kind of Undefined Behavior?
I don't think I'd like that because I don't think the benefit would be worth
the UB troubles.
> Relying on it is a terrible idea.
I'd tend to agree.
Stefan
UTC so you never need to worry about it.
And of course, NTP is your friend: several of my machines don't even
have an RTC and I haven't really felt like they are missing something.
Stefan
uot;system time zone", ie the time zone that the system
> clock it set to.
Funny, because I think on the contrary that the word "default" is key:
it conveys the information that this is just the time zone used by
default when converting a time to a human readable form.
You can drop "system" on the other hand, AFAIC.
Stefan
f them doesn't support booting from a USB key (tho it supposedly can
boot from USB floppy)).
Stefan
d or dvd just because some guys
> said that's it was obsolete or inferior to the usb keys et al ?
AFAICT nobody in this thread suggested to ditch CD or DVD.
Can we stick to the actual discussion, please?
Stefan
DVD,
including virtual ones for VMs).
The intention is to avoid confusing those users who intuitively skip the
parts talking about CD/DVD images because they don't have a CD/DVD
reader/writer (or don't want to use it).
Stefan
when "burned" on
a USB flash drive. So I think the question is whether it's time to
change the doc to stop suggesting that those images should be burned
onto optical media.
Stefan
nnect to
eduroam at one place it's likely it'll also work elsewhere but it's not
always the case.
Stefan
y it's "open source", then "anyone" should be allowed to
update the code to adapt to the new kernel code. IOW *you* can fix it,
or if you don't have the time/energy you may be able to find someone
else to fix it (potentially paying them for it).
Stefan
> I just installed Debian Testing on my new Thinkpad T14 Gen 5 and I found out
> that the touchpad is not actually detected by the system.
Maybe it's the same issue as the one posted very recently under the
subject:
Touchpad not detected by kernel on ThinkPad X13 Gen5
- Stefan
hem is a PITA which I think should be treated as
a bug.
Stefan
e that's not hopelessly restricted.
I'd recommend you look at the routers supported by OpenWRT.
Of course, if you can do it with cables (ethernet/powerline/younameit)
it's probably going to work better, but I guess you know that already.
Stefan
rg/wiki/Thin_client)
The advantage is that it's all standard components, can work over any
network config, ...
Stefan
es
not explain why his attempt to use `-t` to downgrade some packages
resulted in `apt` saying " is already the newest version".
Stefan
db5.3-util libc-bin libc-dev-bin
I can never remember exactly what `-t` really does, but I suspect you'll
need things like
apt install libc-bin/bookworm
to state more explicitly what you want.
Maybe you can do something like
apt install $(apt-show-versions | sed -n 's|/testing.*|/stable|p')
- Stefan
> Anyone know a hosting service, like GitHub or GitLab, offering recent Debian
> virtual machines to run tests ?
I'd expect most of them do, but at least SourceHut does according to
https://man.sr.ht/builds.sr.ht/compatibility.md#debian
Stefan
not able to read LVM, and later out of habit. I was thinking of
finally moving /boot into an LV to make things simpler, but I see that
it'd still be playing with fire (AFAICT booting off of LVM was still not
supported by U-Boot either last time I checked).
Stefan
heir
> names.
This OTOH is very handy, making the filename into a kind of "passwd" to
access the file's content.
Stefan
any other ELisp packages, of course; it's not
exclusive to Org. ]
Stefan
y ... responsive, but that's all we can do).
The stupidest case I bumped into is Github where replying by `plain/text`
email lets you add comments to an issue, but `text/markdown` replies are
simply sent to `/dev/null` even though Markdown is the standard format
they use in the web interface.
Stefan
ip_forward
# ^D
logout
%
Stefan
> You don't need to, but I definitely think he does.
^^
[ Oh, bias, when will you leave me alone? ]
Stefan
>> > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
>> This doesn't sound right. Maybe you should investigate why you're
> No need to “investigate”, the answer is obvious: in
You don't need to, but I definitely think he does.
Stefan
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
>
> work only if I'm root. It does not work using sudo.
This doesn't sound right. Maybe you should investigate why you're
seeing this behavior, rather than work around the problem.
`sudo` *is* root.
Stefan
files as a kind of remote host).
Stefan
sing their
> service. With Jitsi, your meeting data is yours. It is not used internally
> for other products, and it is not shared with partners like the Big Tech
> companies do.
There's also BigBlueButton (more featureful than Jitsi, but apparently
harder to install/setup/maintain) and I also heard good things about
Galène https://galene.org/ (which is apparently the simplest to
install/setup/maintain and the least demanding on the server).
Stefan
Github).
Stefan
hes.
Stefan
impugn the developers' motives.
Yup, better try to make the developers/maintainers your friends, so you
may get them to do something with which they disagree just to make you
happy, rather than refuse to do something out of spite, even tho they
know it's right.
Stefan
e
makes a fair amount of writes to the disk which ends up affecting the
reads needed to fetch the next chunk of sound?
Stefan
> Do you have any suggestion as to which list would be better to contact?
> Original: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2024/04/msg00324.html
Maybe `reportbug debian-installer`?
Stefan
ges.
Agreed. It should be easy to adjust the installation process with an
extra step whether to include/install non-free-firmware or not.
It's also an opportunity to raise awareness of the problem.
Stefan
> Actually, if I understand correctly, LibreOffice will really be
> removed on some architectures (armhf ppc64el s390x mips64el riscv64).
Stefan
ll rarely be exposed to it,
but `grep bugs /proc/cpuinfo` is one of the places where you can see it
being somewhat documented.
Stefan
how it seems that lust for money is a strong motivator to try
and take advantage of such situations.
Stefan
In any case, I wouldn't recommend using precompiled code from
a for-profit company: if they don't distribute the source code, it
clearly means they're not proud of their code and have something
to hide.
Stefan
tend to linger "for ever").
I guess that's one area where partitions are still significantly better
than LVM.
Stefan "who doesn't use much hot-plugging of mass storage"
act they're hard to remember, and that they're a bit too
magical/hidden for my taste, so they sometimes change when I don't want
them to and vice versa).
Stefan
to avoid writing to it.
Whether it ends up doing what you want depends on the hardware exposing
that info to the driver and the driver paying attention to it.
Stefan
M+ext4. Both Btrfs and ZFS share the same underlying
problem: more features => more code => more bugs.
Stefan
e extent possible (i.e. based on what is
expected to be a "normal/typical" use of the system).
Admittedly, "dummies" is not really the target audience for Debian, so
maybe the defaults aren't quite up to *that* task.
Stefan
> Can anybody suggest how to get the networking running?
Have you searched the web for answered?
I suspect searching for "get the networking running" or "fix my
problems" will get you up and running in no time.
Stefan
to use NetworkManager.
Stefan
u need to change the color range?
Stefan
> Run the database on the machine that stores the files and perform
> database access remotely over the net instead. ?
yes, but this doesn't resolve the performance issue with nfs
> Can you partition the files into 2 different shares? Put the database
> files in one share and access them using "sync", and put the rest of the
> files in a different share, with no "sync"?
this could be a solution, but I want to understand why is it so slow and fix
that
e
file/database corruption, so we would like to use sync option
best regards
Stefan
deallocate layoutstats clone
100% 0 0% 0 0% 0 0%
thanks for your help
best regards
Stefan
Hi Ralph,
I just tested it with scp and I got 262MB/s
So it's not a network issue, just a NFS issue, somehow.
best regards
Stefan
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 07. März 2024 um 11:22 Uhr
> Von: "Ralph Aichinger"
> An: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Betreff: Re: very poor nfs
share, 'sync'-mountoption is important (more or
less), but it should still be much faster than 20MB/s
so can somebody tell me whats wrong or what should I change to speed that up?
thanks in advance.
best regards
Stefan
ard?
I suggest you start by looking at https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/indi
and asking the maintainers mentioned there.
Stefan
> Building binaries when you have a 32-bit system and using a 64-bit kernel
> will never work.
And yet I do it every day,
Stefan
nd kernel)).
I haven't encountered any particular problem (both in terms of using and
installing Debian and in terms of "manually" building software from
source) that seems related to ARMv7 vs ARMv8.
Stefan
rovisioning and fstrim works and gets
>> mapped to the underlying layers all the way down to the SSD.
>
> I guest you didn't understand the systemd timer that runs fstrim on
> the host.
How can the host properly run `fstrim` if it only sees a disk image and
may not know how that image is divided into partitions/filesystems?
Stefan
>> Well, I was merely hoping that someone might finally have come up
>> with a working solution ...
> Stop smoking, lose weight, have a healthy diet and exercise.
And most importantly: be lucky!
Stefan
> So the question I'm getting to is: Do we have a utility that can be paired
> with whatever wifi/bluetooth this thing uses and would allow it to work?
With a bit of luck it can be "paired" with your "2TB" SSDs?
Stefan "sorry, couldn't resist"
e the more complex structure used
by journald. There must have been some other use-case they had in mind
where they thought they could avoid the linear-time scan or something in
a way that they expected would be algorithmically beneficial.
I just can't see what it is they had in mind.
Stefan
ng does have
its upsides. In the case of the format of `journald` logs, I don't
see them.
Stefan
y just as well.
> One-service-per-file approach is honestly good enough for most stuff.
> PITA to get chronological order though, every approach really have
> some drawbacks and benefits.
If you use a reasonable format with precise enough timestamps, you
should be able to "weave" entries from separate files back into
a coherent single chronology (assuming all those entries got their
timestamps from the same journald in the first place).
Stefan
te based on the size of Sqlite, but what are the advantages
of journald's representation compared to a naive one?
Stefan
PS: FWIW, the only time I thought about the design of a log format,
I was thinking along the lines of reducing redundancy, i.e. keeping
a kind of "suffix tree" of past
> So the apparently missing space is perhaps taken up by btrfs snapshots.
Another possibility is a (few) large file(s) that is/are still open for
some process(es) but have been `rm` (`unlink`) so they don't have a name
any more.
Stefan
d.
> Take a Clonezilla image.
FWIW, my crystal ball says "30s => software timeout rather than hardware
problem"
Stefan
buntu Software"
to find files that contain the string "Ubuntu Software".
Then pass those file names to `dpkg -S`.
Stefan
dummy partition in which you can put any info
you like.
Stefan
cript from a few days
> back to run. Is bash not actually bash these days? It is not doing for
> loops for me.
As discussed in related threads, there's the `f3` package in Debian
designed specifically for that.
You can try `f3probe /dev/sdX` (or use `f3write` and `f3read` if you
prefer to test at the filesystem level rather than at the block level).
Stefan
ing to run some
proprietary software (diagnostic and/or OS)?
Stefan
ver your whole encrypted partition, the
encryption will turn them into blocks that have all different contents.
This said, for the task at hand F3 seems like a simpler and more
direct answer.
Stefan
`badblocks` may be convinced that the drive works fine even when
it doesn't.
So, if you want to use `badblocks`, you may want to do it on an
encrypted partition (that covers the whole device) rather than on the
raw device.
Stefan
> Test it with Validrive.
> https://www.grc.com/validrive.htm
Looks like proprietary software for Windows.
Stefan
cks are being written.
Also, some Flash controllers use compression, so if you store data
that compresses well, they can let you store a lot more than if you
store already compressed data. ]
IOW, to really check, try to save 2TB of videos (or other already
compressed data), and then try and read it back.
Stefan
UC these key bindings were part of the CUA standard:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access
Stefan
ptimistic. But I suspect that a thousand similar bug
reports are harder to discard as marginal than one or two.
Stefan
ding Wayland.
Stefan
o worry about batteries or
bluetooth connection.
Stefan
Is "unattended-upgrades" installed by
> any chance?
Hmm yep, it is!
So that's it?
I self-inflicted this by installing this package so many years ago?
Thanks,
Stefan
, maybe the downloads
are not initiated by `packagekit` but by some other system (which just
happens to delegate the task to `packagekit`), and that other system may
end up deciding to do the same downloads some other way if `packagekit`
isn't available.
Stefan
All packages are up to date.
#
Where can I say specifically that I don't want automatic background
download of updates?
Stefan
[ Sorry, didn't read the actual post, just answering the Subject: ]
What makes you think initrd will be satisfied with a sound?
Stefan
oubleshooting sections in wikis may tell more. There is a chance
> that lsof may find another process holding audio devices.
Hmm... this time a web search lead me to
systemctl --user status pipewire{,-pulse} wireplumber
which shows that `wireplumber` failed to start.
Thanks. Haven't found the actual problem nor a fix, but I have
some leads.
Stay tuned, I'll be back with the results :-)
Stefan
--- Stefan
e input device listed, called
"Monitor of Dummy Input".
Stefan
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