Re: Laptop fails to suspend

[Andrea Borgia]

Il 30/03/19 00:56, Sam Smith ha scritto:


I have an older Lenovo T520 laptop that I've ran Debian on for years and 
I have never had any issues with putting it to "sleep" or suspending 
when closing the lid. However after upgrading from stretch to Buster, 
suspend fails to work.


While researching a similar bug [1] on my EEEpc (similar in the sense 
that it affected suspend and manifested itself after upgrade), I recall 
seeing a few bugs that specifically mentioned Lenovo:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/

So, first thing, have a look if the issue is already known and perhaps 
fixed upstream.


Next, try these guides:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingKernelSuspend
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Power_management/Suspend%20and%20hibernate

If you want to bisect kernel changes to find out exactly when it broke, 
just use the archives.[2]


Good luck :)


[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=919227
[2] https://snapshot.debian.org/

System Freezing

[Martin Marais]

Greetings all.

Never logged a bug before and need advice where to log this particular case.

I have been having issues with my Debian system freezing on my PC - see
specs below - same issue after reinstall on 3 different SSDs including a
USB install with only CherryTree and Keepassx installed beyond standard
clean install (nothing else configured or customized). Happens on KDE,
Gnome and XFCE. The system would run for random times and then freeze
solid with nothing working, not even other terminal sessions - NOTHING.

Have had to switch to QubesOS which runs fine without any issues.

The same Debian install works fine on macbookpro 8.1 (I install Debian
on the desktop hardware and just swap the SDD in the mac and it works
perfectly - just need wireless driver installed. PS it blew my mind when
I found this worked for my particular machines! Debian kicks ass!)

I've checked logs before and could not see anything unusual (not that I
am log pro) (will see if I can get some more logs for upload). When it
freezes all logging is lost so I don't expect it to be useful.

Freezing issue happened with both current Radeon X1950 PRO and R9 280x
Sapphire.

Debian install was amd64 9.8.0 but it started happening around January
on previous versions. I suspected it was something hardware related as I
was overseas and came back my R9 died - but I doubt it is hardware since
QubesOS is working without issues.

Debian template on QubesOS also works fine.

Hardware:

---
brand: |
  ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
model: |
  M5A99FX PRO R2.0
bios: |
  2301
cpu: |
  AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight-Core Processor
chipset: |
  Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RD9x0/RX980 Host Bridge
[1002:5a14] (rev 02)

gpu: |
    Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV570 [Radeon X1950 PRO]
[1002:7280] (rev 9a) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
  Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV570 [Radeon X1950 PRO]
(Secondary) [1002:72a0] (rev 9a)
network: |
  Qualcomm Atheros AR5212/5213/2414 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
  Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit
Ethernet Controller (rev 09)
memory: |
  16283
usb:
  9


Cheers.

Martin.

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Re: text editors

[deloptes]

David Wright wrote:

> Emacs has a huge repertoire of functionality accessible through its
> commands, without any requirement to know or use *lisp. You sometimes
> see some lisp-ish stuff on the screen when, say, using its help
> system, but it can be ignored if you don't understand it. Just keep
> feeding it files and commands.
> 

The true religion behind Linux reveals!

Re: Kodi Bluray support.

[Alexandre GRIVEAUX]

Le 29/03/2019 à 17:47, Curt a écrit :
> On 2019-03-29, Alexandre GRIVEAUX  wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Do anybody play bluray with kodi ?
>>
>> Its work well with VLC on the same machine with:
>>
>> - libaacs
>> - libdplus
>> - some others related
>>
>> But i'm unable to play it with kodi, kodi detect a DVD instead of 
>> bluray.
> Then what happens? Because a cursory reading of the internets indicates
> this ('detecting' a dvd rather than a bluray) isn't a show-stopper.
>
> I also read that you need a KEYBD.cfg file in ~/.config/aacs in order to
> play (decode) bluray discs with kodi.
>
> That file seems to be here:
>
>  https://vlc-bluray.whoknowsmy.name/files/KEYDB.cfg
>
> Maybe you have that file already.
>
> Good luck.
>
>> I'm using paquages from debian repos.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>
Hello,


Thanks for the clue but as you stated i already using this is the file
with VLC.

Re: text editors

[mick crane]

On 2019-03-29 08:22, Erik Christiansen wrote:

On 29.03.19 17:26, Erik Christiansen wrote:

" Toggle relative line numbering.
function! NList_toggle()
if &rnu == 1
 set nornu" For absolute, elide the 'r'.
  else
 set rnu  " For absolute, elide the 'r'.
  endif
endfun


Apologies. There's almost always something omitted when pasting from
elsewhere. Let's include the connection to the F1 key:

noremap  :call NList_toggle()

A more meaningful function name would be better, too.
(but important here is only the connection, and the toggling, for the
moment.)

Erik


thanks for these

mick
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Re: Kodi Bluray support.

[Brad Rogers]

On Sat, 30 Mar 2019 12:01:54 +0100
Alexandre GRIVEAUX  wrote:

Hello Alexandre,

>Thanks for the clue but as you stated i already using this is the file
>with VLC.

In case you are not aware;  KEYDB.cfg is a moving target.  You have to
update it every now and then.

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Re: System Freezing

[Alexander V. Makartsev]

On 30.03.2019 12:20, Martin Marais wrote:
>
> Greetings all.
>
> Never logged a bug before and need advice where to log this particular
> case.
>
> I have been having issues with my Debian system freezing on my PC -
> see specs below - same issue after reinstall on 3 different SSDs
> including a USB install with only CherryTree and Keepassx installed
> beyond standard clean install (nothing else configured or customized).
> Happens on KDE, Gnome and XFCE. The system would run for random times
> and then freeze solid with nothing working, not even other terminal
> sessions - NOTHING.
>
> Have had to switch to QubesOS which runs fine without any issues.
>
> The same Debian install works fine on macbookpro 8.1 (I install Debian
> on the desktop hardware and just swap the SDD in the mac and it works
> perfectly - just need wireless driver installed. PS it blew my mind
> when I found this worked for my particular machines! Debian kicks ass!)
>
> I've checked logs before and could not see anything unusual (not that
> I am log pro) (will see if I can get some more logs for upload). When
> it freezes all logging is lost so I don't expect it to be useful.
>
Systemd's journal is keeping track of logs for every system boot. You
can check them individually with "journalctl":
    $ journalctl --list-boots  # Will display a list of logs
available for previous boots.
    $ journalctl --boot  # Will display logs for current boot session.
    $ journalctl --boot -1     # Will display logs for previous boot
session. -2 will display logs for previous session before -1.
>
> Freezing issue happened with both current Radeon X1950 PRO and R9 280x
> Sapphire.
>
> Debian install was amd64 9.8.0 but it started happening around January
> on previous versions. I suspected it was something hardware related as
> I was overseas and came back my R9 died - but I doubt it is hardware
> since QubesOS is working without issues.
>
>
Hopefully there will be some clue in logs about what is happening with
your system before it freezes.

-- 
With kindest regards, Alexander.

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⠈⠳⣄ 

A netinstaller image for Buster(testing)?

[Richard Owlett]

I've been asked to test some software which depends on items in Buster.
For personal reasons I'm exploring doing a very minimal install.
I was going to combine the two tasks by installing CLI only followed by 
installing desired portions of a DE.


I went looking for an amd64 netinst image. All I could find DVD 1-4 
images (DVD1 now downloading).


Did I miss something?As a wish-list item - I think it would be nice to 
have a path to testing information on the home page. YMMV


TIA

Re: troubleshooting nfs-kernel-server on Raspbian Jessie

[Jason]

On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 09:53:20PM -0500, Jason wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 09:20:17PM -0500, Jason wrote:
> > I am trying to set up an NFS export on a Ras Pi (Raspbian Jessie). 
> > Something seems to be missing and I need help troubleshooting it.
> > 
> > At first the NFS port 2049 was not even being opened. After much futzing 
> > around I discovered that if I manually start rpcbind with
> > 
> > $ sudo /etc/init.d/rpcbind start
> > 
> > then restart the nfs-kernel-server I can get it to work, but only if I 
> > spell out the full ip address of the client. For instance if I put this 
> > in /etc/exports it works:
> > 
> > /srv/export 192.168.1.1(rw,sync)
> > 
> > but not if I change it to this to allow other machines on the LAN to 
> > mount (I get: mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting 
> > 192.168.1.15:/srv/export):
> > 
> > /srv/export 192.168.1.*(rw,sync)
> 
> Now discovered that the below does work:
> /srv/export   192.168.1.0/24(rw,sync)
> 
> So now I guess I'm down to one question.
> > 1) Why does rpcbind not start automatically on boot?

In the meantime I discovered this in syslog:
Mar 30 09:57:05 hostname nfs-kernel-server[494]: Not starting: portmapper is 
not running ... (warning).

Any ideas what to look for for why rpcbind and/or portmapper and/or 
'whatever else' is not starting on boot? Most articles I've read on 
setting up nfs server make it sound like it should just work, and that 
has indeed been my experience on other systems, but on the RPi 
something seems to be missing or misconfigured.

Thanks,
-- 
Jason

Solved -- Re: A netinstaller image for Buster(testing)?

[Richard Owlett]

I've been pointed to https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/


On 03/30/2019 10:15 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:

I've been asked to test some software which depends on items in Buster.
For personal reasons I'm exploring doing a very minimal install.
I was going to combine the two tasks by installing CLI only followed by 
installing desired portions of a DE.


I went looking for an amd64 netinst image. All I could find DVD 1-4 
images (DVD1 now downloading).


Did I miss something?
As a wish-list item - I think it would be nice to 
have a path to testing information on the home page. YMMV


TIA

Re: troubleshooting nfs-kernel-server on Raspbian Jessie

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 30 March 2019 11:41:30 Jason wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 09:53:20PM -0500, Jason wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 09:20:17PM -0500, Jason wrote:
> > > I am trying to set up an NFS export on a Ras Pi (Raspbian Jessie).
> > > Something seems to be missing and I need help troubleshooting it.
> > >
> > > At first the NFS port 2049 was not even being opened. After much
> > > futzing around I discovered that if I manually start rpcbind with
> > >
> > > $ sudo /etc/init.d/rpcbind start
> > >
> > > then restart the nfs-kernel-server I can get it to work, but only
> > > if I spell out the full ip address of the client. For instance if
> > > I put this in /etc/exports it works:
> > >
> > > /srv/export 192.168.1.1(rw,sync)
> > >
> > > but not if I change it to this to allow other machines on the LAN
> > > to mount (I get: mount.nfs: access denied by server while mounting
> > > 192.168.1.15:/srv/export):
> > >
> > > /srv/export 192.168.1.*(rw,sync)
> >
> > Now discovered that the below does work:
> > /srv/export 192.168.1.0/24(rw,sync)
> >
> > So now I guess I'm down to one question.
> >
> > > 1) Why does rpcbind not start automatically on boot?
>
> In the meantime I discovered this in syslog:
> Mar 30 09:57:05 hostname nfs-kernel-server[494]: Not starting:
> portmapper is not running ... (warning).
>
> Any ideas what to look for for why rpcbind and/or portmapper and/or
> 'whatever else' is not starting on boot? Most articles I've read on
> setting up nfs server make it sound like it should just work, and that
> has indeed been my experience on other systems, but on the RPi
> something seems to be missing or misconfigured.
>
> Thanks,

I've found that sshfs is a whole lot less trouble to setup and make work. 
I am using it between 4 wheezy machines and a raspian jessie.

Except for some x niggles, it all Just Works. As the usr #1.
 
Cheers, Gene Heskett
-- 
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 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
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What does all this mean? was Re: text editors

[David Wright]

On Sat 30 Mar 2019 at 09:27:46 (+0100), deloptes wrote:
> David Wright wrote:
> 
> > Emacs has a huge repertoire of functionality accessible through its
> > commands, without any requirement to know or use *lisp. You sometimes
> > see some lisp-ish stuff on the screen when, say, using its help
> > system, but it can be ignored if you don't understand it. Just keep
> > feeding it files and commands.
> > 
> 
> The true religion behind Linux reveals!


Holier Linux believer ate thug's dinner!


Eighth nubile toiler reveres Linux!
And … ?


Cheers,
David.

Re: System Freezing

[rlharris]

On 2019.03.30 07:13, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:

On 30.03.2019 12:20, Martin Marais wrote:


Following installation of Debian 9.8 the machine would run a short time 
then become unresponsive.  The remedy I found was to set all power 
management options to NEVER.

Re: Kodi Bluray support.

[Alexandre GRIVEAUX]

Hello Brad,

Hello Alexandre,


Thanks for the clue but as you stated i already using this is the file
with VLC.

In case you are not aware;  KEYDB.cfg is a moving target.  You have to
update it every now and then.

I aware of that, the bluray is already inside this file KEYDB.cfg and 
that why i can play it on VLC.



Thanks.

Re: Kodi Bluray support.

[Brad Rogers]

On Sat, 30 Mar 2019 18:22:00 +0100
Alexandre GRIVEAUX  wrote:

Hello Alexandre,

>I aware of that, the bluray is already inside this file KEYDB.cfg and 
>that why i can play it on VLC.

Of course;  Obvious, when one (i.e. me) thinks about it.   :-)

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Help updating a Jessie installation to Jessie LTS

[rh kramer]

I already made an attempt, and I'm a little worried that I may have messed
things up -- I'd like to try to recover and get back to a reliable Jessie
system.

What I did and why:

I understood from some other posts on the list that the mirrored
repositories for Wheezy and Jessie went away in early March, so (for
Jessie) I found a post that told me what the content of
/etc/apt/sources.list should be for Jessie LTS.

I then ran apt-get update and apt-get upgrade below are the results.

I think I know how to fix one part of the problem -- I think I need to
remove the references to jessie-updates from the sources.list file.  But,
I'm fairly sure that won't solve what looks to me like the bigger problem:

root@s31:~# apt-get upgrade
Bus errorackage lists... 1%
root@s31:~#

Oh, an extra credit question: are there mirrors I can use for Jessie LTS or
must I use debian.org?  If there are mirrors I can use, where would I find
those?

Here is what I put in the sources.list file:

from an email: On 2019-03-26, Pierre Fourès  wrote:
...

For Jessie LTS "/etc/apt/sources.list should look like this one:"

 deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
 deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free

 deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
 deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free

 deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free
 deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free

Here are the results I got from running apt-get update and then apt-get
upgrade:


root@s31:~# apt-get update
Ign http://deb.debian.org jessie
InRelease
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates
InRelease
Ign http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates InRelease
Get:1 http://deb.debian.org jessie Release.gpg [2,420 B]
Ign http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates Release.gpg
Get:2 http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main Sources [305 kB]
Get:3 http://deb.debian.org jessie Release [148
kB]
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/contrib Sources
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/non-free Sources
Get:4 http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main amd64 Packages [664 kB]
Ign http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates
Release
Get:5 http://deb.debian.org jessie/main Sources [7,063 kB]
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/contrib amd64
Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/non-free amd64
Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/contrib
Translation-en
Get:6 http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/main Translation-en [335
kB]
Hit http://security.debian.org jessie/updates/non-free
Translation-en
Get:7 http://deb.debian.org jessie/contrib Sources [50.4
kB]
Get:8 http://deb.debian.org jessie/non-free Sources [99.2
kB]
Get:9 http://deb.debian.org jessie/main amd64 Packages [6,818
kB]
Get:10 http://deb.debian.org jessie/contrib amd64 Packages [49.8
kB]
Get:11 http://deb.debian.org jessie/non-free amd64 Packages [83.2
kB]
Get:12 http://deb.debian.org jessie/contrib Translation-en [38.3
kB]
Get:13 http://deb.debian.org jessie/main Translation-en [4,581
kB]
Get:14 http://deb.debian.org jessie/non-free Translation-en [72.0
kB]
Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/main
Sources

Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/main
Sources

Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib
Sources

Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/non-free
Sources

Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64
Packages

Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib amd64
Packages

Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/non-free amd64
Packages

Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/main
Sources

Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/main
Sources

Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib
Sources

Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/non-free
Sources

Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64
Packages

Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib amd64
Packages

Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/non-free amd64
Packages

Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/main
Sources
  404  Not Found [IP: 151.101.56.204 80]
Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib
Sources
  404  Not Found [IP: 151.101.56.204 80]
Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/non-free
Sources
  404  Not Found [IP: 151.101.56.204 80]
Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64
Packages
  404  Not Found [IP: 151.101.56.204 80]
Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib amd64
Packages
  404  Not Found [IP: 151.101.56.204 80]
Err http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/non-free amd64
Packages
  404  Not Found [IP: 151.101.56.204 80]
Ign http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib
Translation-en_US
Ign http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib
Translation-en
Ign http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/main
Translation-en_US
Ign http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/main
Translation-en
Ign http://deb.debian.org jessie-updates/non-free
Translation-en_US
Ign h

Re: free software to paid work

[Jan Claeys]

On Thu, 2019-03-28 at 09:25 +, Paul Sutton wrote:
> In an effort to reach out to people and recruit much needed help for
> contributors to free software,  I just wondered if there were any
> examples of where  people have gained either full time work or full
> time education places as a result of contributing to free software.

There are many thousands of examples of people who got certain jobs
because of their open source and free software contributions (maybe
Linus Torvalds is one of the best-known examples), but of course it is
never a guarantee.  This obviously applies to companies that have their
own open source projects, but some other companies & organisations
(including some that are non-IT in some cases) will also value the
experience you gained.

For full time education places, do you mean something like a
scholarship?  That would be useful in places where university
educations are expensive, of course, but I don't know if there exist
any such scholarships right now.  Maybe someone else knows more about
this?


-- 
Jan Claeys

After upgrading to stretch, a package refuses to purge or upgrade

[Martin McCormick]

I am stuck between old package and script files which I can't
seem to get rid of so new ones can stop and start services in the
new way.

The package in question is called speakup and is the
screen reader for debian among other Linuxen.  I need to blow
away the old package and install an upgraded version of the same
program but this is what happens:

root@wb5agz:~# apt-get install speakup
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  espeak espeak-data espeak-ng-data libespeak-ng1 libespeak1 libpcaudio0
  libsonic0
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  espeakup*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 25 not upgraded.
12 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 79.9 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
dpkg: error processing package espeakup (--remove):
 package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should
 reinstall it before attempting a removal
Errors were encountered while processing:
 espeakup
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Oh.  It gets better.

root@wb5agz:~# apt-get autoremove

Reading package lists... 0%

Reading package lists... 100%

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree... 0%

Building dependency tree... 0%

Building dependency tree... 50%

Building dependency tree... 50%

Building dependency tree... 60%

Building dependency tree... 75%

Building dependency tree... 91%

Building dependency tree   

Reading state information... 0%

Reading state information... 0%

Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  espeakup
The following packages will be upgraded:
  espeakup
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 25 not upgraded.
12 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/37.2 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Reading changelogs... 100%
  
Reading changelogs... Done
(Reading database ... 
(Reading database ... 5%
(Reading database ... 10%
(Reading database ... 15%
(Reading database ... 20%
(Reading database ... 25%
(Reading database ... 30%
(Reading database ... 35%
(Reading database ... 40%
(Reading database ... 45%
(Reading database ... 50%
(Reading database ... 55%
(Reading database ... 60%
(Reading database ... 65%
(Reading database ... 70%
(Reading database ... 75%
(Reading database ... 80%
(Reading database ... 85%
(Reading database ... 90%
(Reading database ... 95%
(Reading database ... 100%
(Reading database ... 42616 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../espeakup_1%3a0.80-5+deb9u3_i386.deb ...
Failed to stop espeakup.service: Unit espeakup.service not loaded.
invoke-rc.d: initscript espeakup, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit status 5
dpkg: trying script from the new package instead ...
Failed to stop espeakup.service: Unit espeakup.service not loaded.
invoke-rc.d: initscript espeakup, action "stop" failed.

It wasn't running anyway.

dpkg: error processing archive 
/var/cache/apt/archives/espeakup_1%3a0.80-5+deb9u3_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 5
update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling 
back to defaults
Failed to start espeakup.service: Unit espeakup.service is not loaded properly: 
Invalid argument.
See system logs and 'systemctl status espeakup.service' for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript espeakup, action "start" failed.
● espeakup.service - Software speech output for Speakup
   Loaded: error[0m (Reason: Invalid argument)
   Active: inactive (dead)
 Docs: man:espeakup(8)

Mar 28 10:12:29 wb5agz systemd[1]: 
[/lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service:12…CE}'
Mar 28 10:12:29 wb5agz systemd[1]: espeakup.service: Service lacks 
both Exe…ing.
Mar 28 10:46:36 wb5agz systemd[1]: 
[/lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service:12…CE}'
Mar 28 10:46:36 wb5agz systemd[1]: espeakup.service: Service lacks 
both Exe…ing.
Mar 28 10:46:38 wb5agz systemd[1]: 
[/lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service:12…CE}'
Mar 28 10:46:38 wb5agz systemd[1]: espeakup.service: Service lacks 
both Exe…ing.
Mar 28 10:46:44 wb5agz systemd[1]: 
[/lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service:12…CE}'
Mar 28 10:46:44 wb5agz systemd[1]: espeakup.service: Service lacks 
both Exe…ing.
Mar 28 10:46:45 wb5agz systemd[1]: 
[/lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service:12…CE}'
Mar 28 10:46:45 wb5agz systemd[1]: espeakup.service: Service lacks 
both Exe…ing.
Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/espeakup_1%3a0.80-5+deb9u3_i386.deb
E: Sub-

Re: After upgrading to stretch, a package refuses to purge or upgrade

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Sat, 30 Mar 2019 22:18:52 -0500
"Martin McCormick"  wrote:

>I am stuck between old package and script files which I can't
>seem to get rid of so new ones can stop and start services in the
>new way.
>
>   The package in question is called speakup and is the
>screen reader for debian among other Linuxen.  I need to blow
>away the old package and install an upgraded version of the same
>program but this is what happens:
>
>root@wb5agz:~# apt-get install speakup
>The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
>  espeak espeak-data espeak-ng-data libespeak-ng1 libespeak1 libpcaudio0
>  libsonic0
>Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
>The following packages will be REMOVED:
>  espeakup*
>0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 25 not upgraded.
>12 not fully installed or removed.
>After this operation, 79.9 kB disk space will be freed.
>Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
>dpkg: error processing package espeakup (--remove):
> package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should
> reinstall it before attempting a removal
>Errors were encountered while processing:
> espeakup
>E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
>Oh.  It gets better.
>
>root@wb5agz:~# apt-get autoremove
>
Reading package lists... 0%

Reading package lists... 100%

Reading package lists... Done
>
Building dependency tree... 0%

Building dependency tree... 0%

Building dependency tree... 50%

Building dependency tree... 50%

Building dependency tree... 60%

Building dependency tree... 75%

Building dependency tree... 91%

Building dependency tree   
>
Reading state information... 0%

Reading state information... 0%

Reading state information... Done
>The following additional packages will be installed:
>  espeakup
>The following packages will be upgraded:
>  espeakup
>1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 25 not upgraded.
>12 not fully installed or removed.
>Need to get 0 B/37.2 kB of archives.
>After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
>Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
>Reading changelogs... 100%
  
Reading changelogs... Done
>(Reading database ... 
(Reading database ... 5%
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(Reading database ... 25%
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(Reading database ... 55%
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(Reading database ... 100%
(Reading database ... 42616 files and directories currently installed.)
>Preparing to unpack .../espeakup_1%3a0.80-5+deb9u3_i386.deb ...
>Failed to stop espeakup.service: Unit espeakup.service not loaded.
>invoke-rc.d: initscript espeakup, action "stop" failed.
>dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit status 5
>dpkg: trying script from the new package instead ...
>Failed to stop espeakup.service: Unit espeakup.service not loaded.
>invoke-rc.d: initscript espeakup, action "stop" failed.
>
>It wasn't running anyway.
>
>dpkg: error processing archive 
>/var/cache/apt/archives/espeakup_1%3a0.80-5+deb9u3_i386.deb (--unpack):
> subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 5
>update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported; falling 
>back to defaults
>Failed to start espeakup.service: Unit espeakup.service is not loaded 
>properly: Invalid argument.
>See system logs and 'systemctl status espeakup.service' for details.
>invoke-rc.d: initscript espeakup, action "start" failed.
>● espeakup.service - Software speech output for Speakup
>   Loaded: error[0m (Reason: Invalid argument)
>   Active: inactive (dead)
> Docs: man:espeakup(8)
>
>Mar 28 10:12:29 wb5agz systemd[1]: 
>[/lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service:12…CE}'
>Mar 28 10:12:29 wb5agz systemd[1]: espeakup.service: Service lacks 
>both Exe…ing.
>Mar 28 10:46:36 wb5agz systemd[1]: 
>[/lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service:12…CE}'
>Mar 28 10:46:36 wb5agz systemd[1]: espeakup.service: Service lacks 
>both Exe…ing.
>Mar 28 10:46:38 wb5agz systemd[1]: 
>[/lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service:12…CE}'
>Mar 28 10:46:38 wb5agz systemd[1]: espeakup.service: Service lacks 
>both Exe…ing.
>Mar 28 10:46:44 wb5agz systemd[1]: 
>[/lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service:12…CE}'
>Mar 28 10:46:44 wb5agz systemd[1]: espeakup.service: Service lacks 
>both Exe…ing.
>Mar 28 10:46:45 wb5agz systemd[1]: 
>[/lib/systemd/system/espeakup.service:12…CE}'
>Mar 28 10:46:45 wb5agz systemd[1]: espeakup.service: Service lacks 
>both Exe…ing.
>Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.
>dpkg: error while cleaning up:
> subprocess installed post-instal

Liveusb w/ persistent data

[Joe B]

Hello,

I’ve asked this on irc a number of times but links and answers I try are
usually outdated or simply don’t work

I want to make a bootable buster with persistent data so it saves my
settings whenever I reboot.

Looking for links I haven’t tried or steps that could help out.

Any help is appreciated

Thanks