Re: Linux & AD mixted authentication issue
On 4/27/20 8:21 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 27 apr 20, 12:55:20, Brian wrote: On Mon 27 Apr 2020 at 07:20:20 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 08:34:52AM -0400, Jack Dangler wrote: Surprised you got to the page. I get - Forbidden You are not allowed to access this! when attempting to access the wiki at all. The wiki admins have blocked certain IP address ranges, presumably as an anti-spam or anti-DoS measure. Unfortunately, this block is extremely intrusive (you can't even read the wiki, let alone write to it), seems to be done at the web server level, is not documented anywhere, and affects real people just trying to read the wiki for help. And since it's not documented anywhere, there's no indication of how to request access (removal from the blacklist, or whatever it is). https://wiki.debian.org/DebianWiki/FAQ Not really useful for those who can't access the wiki at all. Quote from the page above: Q: Access to wiki.debian.org is blocked with 403 Forbidden Please mail w...@debian.org with your IP address. Kind regards, Andrei Yeah - unless you have dynamic IP addressing, in which case you'll be making that request daily... I'm not sure I know of anyone hiding out waiting to pounce on wikipedia...
Re: Linux & AD mixted authentication issue
On 4/27/20 8:23 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 12:55:20PM +0100, Brian wrote: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianWiki/FAQ OK... I don't know how anyone is expected to find that page, but now that I know it exists, I guess I can add it to the bot's factoids in #debian, and then eventually knowledge of it will start to spread. Thanks. Forbidden You are not allowed to access this!
Re: Linux & AD mixted authentication issue
On 4/24/20 5:08 PM, Jean-Luc Chandezon wrote:
Hello,
I configure AD authentication (I followed
https://wiki.debian.org/AuthenticatingL ... eDirectory), and it works
fine.
I added AD group to debian sudoers, no problem. @mydomain.ad is the
default suffix for login. USers does not need to put this.
My issue:
Even locally I can not open session aymore, as root, or as local unix
user. Is it possible?
Here are krb5.conf:
---
logging]
Default = FILE:/var/log/krb5.log
[libdefaults]
ticket_lifetime = 24000
click-skew = 300
default_realm = MYDOMAIN.AD
# The following krb5.conf variables are only for MIT Kerberos.
kdc_timesync = 1
ccache_type = 4
forwardable = true
proxiable = true
[realms]
MYDOMAIN.AD = {
kdc = mydomain.ad:88
admin_server = mydomain.ad:464
default_domain = mydomain.ad
}
[domain_realm]
.mydomain.ad = MYDOMAIN.AD
mydomain.ad = MYDOMAIN.AD
---
Thanks
Jean-Luc
Surprised you got to the page. I get -
Forbidden
You are not allowed to access this!
when attempting to access the wiki at all.
Re: OT: Questions about (buying and) using a laptop docking station
On 3/16/20 9:50 AM, Andrii Borovyi wrote: Once again I though about getting a dock station for my Dell Vostro 3360. Seems like there is no easy solution there. The only thing I discovered is to switch to Latitude or XPS models (sorry, but no Inspiron nor Vostro) that have support for docking stations. Unfortunately, that's the only result of my research I came to. Maybe with newer DELL's the situation is easier, but it's hard to say for sure. Kind regards, Andrii --- Оригінальне повідомлення --- Від кого: rhkra...@gmail.com Дата: 16 березня 2020, 14:42:50 Asking this OT question here because this is my go to list for questions, especially ones for which I don't belong to a list that might be more specific to this subject. Background: I've installed Buster on an old laptop (my newest laptop, a Dell Inspiron 1501) and I'm working on installing other software (gcc+, make, git, Python and such) so that I can take the laptop to various meetings where I hope to get help on some software I'm trying to write (in C/C++ and Python). I'm thinking about buying a laptop docking station to make it easier to disconnect the laptop to take it to meetings. I don't know much about a laptop docking station except that the ones I've looked at seem to need only a USB (C or A) cable to connect the laptop to the docking station. (I'm about 90% sure that the Inspiron1501 does not have a USB-C port.) (Aside: I need to get a docking station with a VGA output as I "run" the laptop through a KVM switch and one of the computers connected to it has no HDMI output, and the KVM switch itself has no HDMI input.) I get the idea (or I am jumping to the conclusion?) that there is some hardware in the docking station (like graphics and audio chips) which I'm assuming would need to be supported by Buster. Is that correct? Any recommendations for a suitable docking station? Take a look at the WAVLINK USB 3.0 Universal Docking Station (Rev 3). It has a disc for win drivers, but also has support for mac and linux. The linux drivers are community supplied, but do say that they are well supported. I'm considering this one for myself. At the moment, I'm setting up a win box for my gf using it, just to see how it behaves.If it works as advertised, I'll do a little more digging into the community drivers and then grab a second one and give it a go on one of my older laptops running Debian...
Re: Bulleye: How do I disable scrolling on touchpad...........
On 1/8/20 12:52 AM, Charlie wrote: From my keyboard: Hello Everyone, Trying to stop all scrolling on my touchpad has me tricked; and the mad scrolling is driving me nuts. Debian Bullseye, FVWM, HP laptop, xserver-xorg-input-synaptics installed. VertTwoFingerScroll =0 in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/70-synaptics.conf Stopped the the xorg-xserver from bringing up a GUI at boot. $ synclient -l Parameter settings: LeftEdge= 142 RightEdge = 3411 TopEdge = 80 BottomEdge = 1419 FingerLow = 1 FingerHigh = 1 MaxTapTime = 180 MaxTapMove = 169 MaxDoubleTapTime= 180 SingleTapTimeout= 180 ClickTime = 100 EmulateMidButtonTime= 75 EmulateTwoFingerMinZ= 282 EmulateTwoFingerMinW= 7 VertScrollDelta = 77 HorizScrollDelta= 77 VertEdgeScroll = 0 HorizEdgeScroll = 0 CornerCoasting = 0 VertTwoFingerScroll = 1 HorizTwoFingerScroll= 0 MinSpeed= 1 MaxSpeed= 1.75 AccelFactor = 0.0518672 TouchpadOff = 0 LockedDrags = 0 LockedDragTime RTCornerButton = 0 RBCornerButton = 0 LTCornerButton = 0 LBCornerButton = 0 TapButton1 = 0 TapButton2 = 0 TapButton3 = 0 ClickFinger1= 1 ClickFinger2= 1 ClickFinger3= 1 CircularScrolling = 0 CircScrollDelta = 0.1 CircScrollTrigger = 0 CircularPad = 0 PalmDetect = 0 PalmMinWidth= 10 PalmMinZ= 200 CoastingSpeed = 20 CoastingFriction= 50 PressureMotionMinZ = 30 PressureMotionMaxZ = 160 PressureMotionMinFactor = 1 PressureMotionMaxFactor = 1 GrabEventDevice = 0 TapAndDragGesture = 1 AreaLeftEdge= 0 AreaRightEdge = 0 AreaTopEdge = 0 AreaBottomEdge = 0 HorizHysteresis = 19 VertHysteresis = 19 ClickPad= 0 Any help please. Charlie East Gippsland Wildlife Rehabilitators Inc.. http://www.egwildlife.com.au/ Set this in a bash script and run it - #!/bin/bash xinput --disable 12
Re: audio recorder
On 9/21/19 10:36 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Jack Dangler wrote: On 9/20/19 9:58 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Jack Dangler wrote: Wanted a utility for snipping youtube clips, recording skype, etc. and someone suggested 'audio recorder' to me. I found some information for it here - https://mintguide.org/audio/267-audio-recorder-capture-and-record-audio-from-any-device-on-linux-mint.html . Adding the repo for the tool results in - ~ $ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:osmoma/audio-recorder 'This PPA does not support xenial' Cannot add PPA: ''This PPA does not support xenial''. Is there another tool for this purpose or is there a way to make this one work? If you're running xenial, then you're running Ubuntu, not Debian. If you're running mint, you're running mint, not Debian. If you were generally asking for advice about recording audio, I would recommend audacity, youtube-dl, and a thorough understanding of either jack or pulseaudio or both. -dsr- And therein lies the rub. I'm _not_ running Ubuntu, which is why I was surprised to see the "does not support xenial" message... ... what are you running? So far we have a message on the debian-users list that mentions Mint and Xenial. -dsr- 1 Mint 1 Debian 1 Ubuntu 1 Gentoo
Re: audio recorder
On 9/20/19 9:58 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Jack Dangler wrote: Wanted a utility for snipping youtube clips, recording skype, etc. and someone suggested 'audio recorder' to me. I found some information for it here - https://mintguide.org/audio/267-audio-recorder-capture-and-record-audio-from-any-device-on-linux-mint.html . Adding the repo for the tool results in - ~ $ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:osmoma/audio-recorder 'This PPA does not support xenial' Cannot add PPA: ''This PPA does not support xenial''. Is there another tool for this purpose or is there a way to make this one work? If you're running xenial, then you're running Ubuntu, not Debian. If you're running mint, you're running mint, not Debian. If you were generally asking for advice about recording audio, I would recommend audacity, youtube-dl, and a thorough understanding of either jack or pulseaudio or both. -dsr- And therein lies the rub. I'm _not_ running Ubuntu, which is why I was surprised to see the "does not support xenial" message... I've tried jack in the past with mixed results (always got the impression that this package was sort of like the big box of christmas lights in the attic). Pulse has been around longer, so maybe there's something to that suggestion. Thanks for the input.
audio recorder
Wanted a utility for snipping youtube clips, recording skype, etc. and someone suggested 'audio recorder' to me. I found some information for it here - https://mintguide.org/audio/267-audio-recorder-capture-and-record-audio-from-any-device-on-linux-mint.html . Adding the repo for the tool results in - ~ $ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:osmoma/audio-recorder 'This PPA does not support xenial' Cannot add PPA: ''This PPA does not support xenial''. Is there another tool for this purpose or is there a way to make this one work? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Re: OT Calibre
On 4/22/19 5:10 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 09:01:40PM +0100, Paul Sutton wrote: On 22/04/2019 20:58, Andrea Borgia wrote: Il 22/04/19 21:51, Bob Bernstein ha scritto: Where is the 'Quit' or 'Exit' button in Calibre's gui? It seems there's no specific quit button but I can close it without problems by clicking the "X" button at the top right corner of the window (using xfce4). Hmm, from a UX / UI viewpoint won't new users expect a close / quit button or menu option, ? I don't think so. I just started using it a few months ago and I actually never noticed the absence of close/quit menu options and/or buttons until reading this thread. I find that the toolbar layout works really well, and naturally supports clicking the "X" in the top of the window border to close/quit. Regards, -Roberto And there's the other kill switch... kill -KILL ... that should make it quit.
Re: unicornscan [resolved]
On 10/04/2018 02:57 PM, Reco wrote: Hi. On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 01:06:11PM -0400, Jack Dangler wrote: Curious if anyone has installed this package from sourceforge. I got it to run some udp tests and it will configure but make install fails. Just wondering if anyone else on the list has used it or run into an issue like this. Thanks. Used? No. I don't even want to know what kind of function a program linked with both libpg and libpcap should have. Built? That was somewhat tricky, but doable. Assuming current stretch, and amd64 arch, apt install libpq-dev libdnet-dev libltdl-dev libpcap-dev patch -p1 -i inline-is-wrong.diff CFLAGS='-O2 -g -pipe -D_GNU_SOURCE' ./configure make Reco The patch blew chunk when it ran, but I was able to massage the .c file and rebuild. This solved the original and subsequent errors. Thank you very much for the help!!
unicornscan
Curious if anyone has installed this package from sourceforge. I got it to run some udp tests and it will configure but make install fails. Just wondering if anyone else on the list has used it or run into an issue like this. Thanks.
Re: utilities
On 09/25/2018 06:28 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 12:08:54PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, mick crane wrote: have a look in /usr/bin ? Not to forget /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin : https://wiki.debian.org/FilesystemHierarchyStandard /bin is specified to hold "essential" programs. /sbin is its add-on for system administrators. /usr/bin + /usr/sbin together hold nearly 4000 files on my system. Thakur Mahashaya wrote: no trick to be honest But are you aware that "standard utility" can be the start of a nice dispute among the regulars of a computer users' mailing list ? (Let's see what happens. No real persons or animals will be hurt.) $ aptitude search '?priority(required)' will get you a list of the packages installed that absolutely have to be installed. Remember the discussion about why Debian doesn't have a default firewall policy, because everyone needs something different? Same thing applies here: this is the minimal core that gets you a working system. Two things should pop out immediately: 1. Some packages have alternatives, where any of the alternatives will work but you do have to have one of them. 2. There's no boot loader. A boot loader is optional because it might be supplied by an outside system, like a VM hypervisor. -dsr- This is helpful to have! It doesn't quite answer the mail since it lists packages of utilities (and not individual utilities themselves as in the OPs request), but you could dissect those packages further to find out what is in them...
Re: utilities
On 09/25/2018 06:17 AM, Brian wrote: On Tue 25 Sep 2018 at 12:08:54 +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, mick crane wrote: have a look in /usr/bin ? Not to forget /bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin : https://wiki.debian.org/FilesystemHierarchyStandard /bin is specified to hold "essential" programs. /sbin is its add-on for system administrators. /usr/bin + /usr/sbin together hold nearly 4000 files on my system. Thakur Mahashaya wrote: no trick to be honest But are you aware that "standard utility" can be the start of a nice dispute among the regulars of a computer users' mailing list ? (Let's see what happens. No real persons or animals will be hurt.) There can be no dispute over the meaning of "standard system utilities". These are the ones which have a "Priority: standard" field in the package description. On my stretch: grep -B 1 "Priority: standard" /var/lib/dpkg/available odd but that grep doesn't produce anything on my laptop. the file is a single UTF8 file...
wfuzz install
Tried installing wfuzz this morning. Using either method (git clone or pip install) I'm getting this - "Command python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-nUZqL0/pycurl/ The two methods for install are - git clone github.com/xmenez/wfuzz && pip install pycurl pip install wfuzz Whether using git clone and then pip install pycurl, or using pip install wfuzz I come to the same message. Is this related to pycurl or is it something localized to pycurl (or am I doing something out of sync). Just checking to see if others have encountered the same situation. Thanks.
Re: Is there a log file of ...?
On 09/08/2018 11:55 AM, Michael Wagner wrote: On Sep 08, 2018 at 15:29:44, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: And while we're at it, CTRL-R and start typing a substring of the past command you're looking for: the more letters you have, the more specific the match becomes (also called "reverse incremental search"). Takes a bit to get used to, but is... magic. I'm surprised it is so little known. This is one of the first things I set when installing a new Debian. But you must set it explicitly in /etc/inputrc systemwide or in your ~/.inputrc. I don't how this behaviour is in other distris. Just my 2¢ Michael It is set on default in Mint...
Re: CVE-2017-5754 - ETA?
On 01/12/2018 10:00 AM, bw wrote: On Fri, 12 Jan 2018, Vincent Lefevre wrote: According to answers on https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/176624/how-do-i-check-if-kpti-is-enabled-on-linux/176654 linux-image-4.9.0-5-amd64 4.9.65-3+deb9u2 is still vulnerable as shown below: # dmesg | grep -i isolation You should get either [0.00] Kernel/User page tables isolation: enabled or [0.00] Kernel/User page tables isolation: disabled Search with dmesg | less it's about two pages down for me, $ uname -a Linux debian 4.9.0-5-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.65-3+deb9u2 (2018-01-04) x86_64 GNU/Linux I tried this on my Ubu workstation and didnt get anything back... $ dmesg | grep -i isolation $ $ uname -a Linux 4.10.0-40-generic #44~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Nov 9 15:37:44 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Re: “Meltdown” and “Spectre”: Every modern processor has unfixable security flaws
On 01/04/2018 12:55 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2018-01-04 at 12:30, Michael Fothergill wrote: On 4 January 2018 at 17:22, Curt wrote: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/meltdown-and-spectre-every-modern- processor-has-unfixable-security-fladdws/U TL;DR Windows, Linux, and macOS have all received security patches that significantly alter how the operating systems handle virtual memory in order to protect against a hitherto undisclosed flaw. ... In the immediate term, it looks like most systems will shortly have patches for Meltdown. At least for Linux and Windows, these patches allow end-users to opt out if they would prefer. The most vulnerable users are probably cloud service providers; Meltdown and Spectre can both in principle be used to further attacks against hypervisors, making it easier for malicious users to break out of their virtual machines. ... For typical desktop users, the risk is arguably less significant. While both Meltdown and Spectre can have value in expanding the scope of an existing flaw, neither one is sufficient on its own to, for example, break out of a Web browser. Apparent moral of story for CPU: don't speculate (but it's significantly *slower*). Isn't this mainly an Intel problem? I use AMD chipsets. I would go for Ryzen nowadays anyway. Meltdown so far is not known to affect anything other than Intel. Spectre, however, is confirmed to affect AMD CPUs - and Ryzen CPUs are specifically stated to be affected. Did this also affect Motorola chipsets? I know they haven't been popular in a while, but I believe they are still in use (i.e. 68000)
Re: Debian, FF & NavyFed
On 12/19/2017 03:31 PM, Tom Dial wrote: On 12/19/2017 06:06 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 06:10:28PM -0800, Mike McClain wrote: I signed up with Navy Federal Credit Union online banking last week. I can login, I get the banner in color , it says getting your info. Which browser? ... ... Oh, you're one of those people who hides details in the Subject. "FF" meaning Firefox? Upstream Firefox Quantum? One of the firefox-esr packages in Debian? Iceweasel? Which release of Debian? Which Firefox family package version? What does it say in "About Firefox"? As soon they come back with and display my balance all the text turnes to grey and a twiddler pops up and it stays like that forever. NFCU's tech support will not admit to knowing who's waiting for what just we don't support Linux. Well-known and frequent response type from customer support staff operating based on a script. I've been a Navy Federal customer for around 40 years and found their customer support for banking operations to be quite good. I've used their online banking application since it became available, along with their online bill paying when it became available. Sounds like either an advertisement or some kind of applet. They have applets for iPhone and Android, but not for PCs. Suggestions on how to fix this or how to approach it are most welcome. 1) Try Google Chrome. 1a) Try Chromium. 1b) Try upstream Firefox Quantum if you're using a package; try the packaged firefox-esr if you're using upstream. Their web application has worked for numerous versions of Google Chrome, Chromium, and Firefox, on Debian Linux, for years. I have used it, today, with the following: Chromium: Version 63.0.3239.84 (Developer Build) built on Debian 9.3, running on Debian 9.3 (64-bit) [chromium 63.0.3239.84-1~deb9u1] Firefox: 52.5.2 (64 bit) [firefox-esr 52.5.2esr-1~deb9u1] 2) Try installing Java (with Firefox applet support).\ This may be necessary. 2a) Try installing Flash (with Firefox plugin support). As far as I know, I do not have flash available; neither browser has any hints of it. 3) Try disabling any ad blocker type things you're using. Adblock Plus is not a problem nor, I suspect, is absence of an ad blocker (3b). 3b) Try adding an ad blocker type thing. 4) Try borrowing a Microsoft Windows machine. This is unnecessary. 5) Try a different bank. NFCU, by the last report I saw, is the largest credit union. In the world. It probably did not happen because of sloppiness in either operations or customer support. The general rule of thumb in Internet life: the more important a web site is, the more atrociously, horribly, indefensibly BAD it is. Governments, banks, hospitals -- all use the WORST possible web technology you've never even heard of. Always. Every fucking time. Count on it to work only in one specific (deprecated) version of MSIE on one specific (past end of life) release of Windows. When the stars align correctly. In my experience, this is not the case for navyfederal.org. A careful look at exactly what the firewall mentioned in the initial post might reveal something, especially as the presenting symptom appears to be a hang, maybe waiting for something blocked. Regards, Tom Dial Check's in the mail, Tom. :)
Re: Debian, FF & NavyFed
On 12/19/2017 02:05 PM, Matthew Crews wrote: Original Message Subject: Debian, FF & NavyFed Local Time: December 18, 2017 7:10 PM UTC Time: December 19, 2017 2:10 AM From: mike.junk...@att.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org I signed up with Navy Federal Credit Union online banking last week. I can login, I get the banner in color , it says getting your info. As soon they come back with and display my balance all the text turnes to grey and a twiddler pops up and it stays like that forever. NFCU's tech support will not admit to knowing who's waiting for what just we don't support Linux. Suggestions on how to fix this or how to approach it are most welcome. My first suggestion is to get a new bank. If they can't be bothered to help you, you shouldn't be bothered to be their customer. Make sure you tell them that poor customer service is the reason why. Oh, Yeah, Linux playground 3.2.0-4-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.2.89-2 i686 GNU/Linux I know Wheezy is old but it's old hardware, PIII, 250M memory, my video card hasn't been supported in years. Does what I want most times. FF ESR 52.3.0 (32 bit) My second suggestion is upgrade your machine. 250M memory is NOT enough to browse the modern web, even with FF ESR 52.3. You need a minimum of 1GB ram to comfortably use the modern web, preferably 2GB or more. My third suggestion is try different web browsers. Chromium (or Google Chrome) should just work out-of-the-box even if FF does not. As others have suggested, you could also try upstream FF 57. You may need to install some working version of Java or (shudder) Flash, even though Flash is EOL. My 2cp. -Matt FF version won't likely help. I also have accounts there and have the same complaint. I have 2 debian, 1 mint, and 1 Ubuntu box all running differing flavors of FF and Chrome. So far, they all do it. The only browser I've seen work with it is IE or Edge. Producing web sites for a particular OS/Browser is so archaic it isn't even professional. This "institution" has a number of quirks about it, and this is just one of them. If you really want to waste an afternoon, try calling them and explaining the technology gap to them...
Re: vbox installation
On 12/14/2017 12:53 PM, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: On 14/12/17 13:57, Jack Dangler wrote: All Just letting you know that virtualbox on a linux host stops at 5.0.4 for the moment if you intend to install the extension pack. I installed 5.2 this morning on a new deb box i built and when i installed the ext pack, 5.2 was removed from the system and replaced with 5.0.40. Regards Just for information. Vbox 5.2.2 is running fine under stretch with full USB support. Pity I can't say the same about a Win 10 VM that has been updating itself for the past hour - without any progress information. Peter HB Thanks for the update, Peter. I may try again in the future, but with work backing up, I installed a fresh deb kernel and installed/configured a short list of tools I need to get work done. It's actually much easier than i expected it to be. Updates might be a bit interesting, but I'll work it out. Merry Christmas!
Re: vbox installation
On 12/14/2017 09:03 AM, Alex ARNAUD wrote: I use Virtualbox 5.1.8 with the extension pack without issue on Debian Jessie. Wondering why it would not have regressed to 5.1 ... I only built this one because I could not get USB or shared files working between my Deb host and a rolling kali guest. I need both since this is an internal lab setup...
vbox installation
All Just letting you know that virtualbox on a linux host stops at 5.0.4 for the moment if you intend to install the extension pack. I installed 5.2 this morning on a new deb box i built and when i installed the ext pack, 5.2 was removed from the system and replaced with 5.0.40. Regards
Re: dd to clone a drive
On 09/26/2017 11:35 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 26 September 2017 09:57:57 Jack Dangler wrote: I have an existing drive near EOL (judging from the sounds). I got a replacement drive for it (same size). I plugged the replacement into a USB port and started a byte-for-byte copy with dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdc The process ran quietly for almost 30 hours with no discernable results so i killed it. Apparently, it had been running the whole time and resulted in approximately 300 of 500Gb copied. Is it 'usual' to have dd take upwards of 2 days to copy a drive ? The source drive is a 500G 5400rpm WD, and the target is a 500G 7200rpm WD black. Thanks for any input. I think when no bs size is specified, it does a sector copy and likely verifies it. In writing sd cards in a usb reader/writer here, dd's execution time can be cut to maybe 5 minutes for a 2GB image by the use of the "bs=4096" option in the above command line. That should mean your 500GB copy operation would take about 20 hours, probably much less since the hd can write faster than my sd cards can on a sustained basis like 500GB. Regards Jack Cheers, Gene Heskett Thanks to Roberto Sanchez, Michael Stone, Thomas Schmitt, Pascal Hambourg, Michael Stone, and Gene Haskett for the great input! A little more reading and a little experimentation, and I've got this working well. Changed the process so that each partition was separately cloned, but also changed block sizes and made sure that both source and target were unmounted. The partitions took far less time than the original, and the verification was successful on all. I even cloned my entire installation and booted from it to make sure that it, too, would function. Thanks again for all the invaluable help!
dd to clone a drive
I have an existing drive near EOL (judging from the sounds). I got a replacement drive for it (same size). I plugged the replacement into a USB port and started a byte-for-byte copy with dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdc The process ran quietly for almost 30 hours with no discernable results so i killed it. Apparently, it had been running the whole time and resulted in approximately 300 of 500Gb copied. Is it 'usual' to have dd take upwards of 2 days to copy a drive ? The source drive is a 500G 5400rpm WD, and the target is a 500G 7200rpm WD black. Thanks for any input. Regards Jack
Re: Iceweasel updates
On Mon, 2015-11-02 at 07:23 -0700, Charlie Kravetz wrote: > On Mon, 02 Nov 2015 08:00:59 -0600 > John Hasler wrote: > > >Jack Dangler wrote: > >> The next version of iceweasel i found in deb packages is 41 (quite a > >> jump), but says it is likely buggy (i'm guessing its in experimental). > > > >Unstable has 38.3. Works fine. > > The stable release of Firefox is Version 41.0.2, released Oct 15. > Doesn't that make 38 old? > > I added unstable main to my apt sources as - 'deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main' apt-get update ran fine. On asking to install the unastable iceweasel as - apt-get -t unstable install iceweasel I get quite a large list of packages but did not notice iceweasel among them. Is there something I missed or should I allow the long list of packages to install? (the list isn't here as it is fairly large but I can supply it. Again, thanks for the input. Regards Jack
Iceweasel updates
Got a msg this morning from online bank service that my browser (iceweasel) is no longer up to date (equates to ff31) and wants to 'either update your browser to a compatible version or install one of the following - [list of usual suspects]. The next version of iceweasel i found in deb packages is 41 (quite a jump), but says it is likely buggy (i'm guessing its in experimental). Has anyone installed this version and had significant issues with it? I'm stuck for online banking without it unless i install ff or chrome which I'd rather not do at this point. Thanks for any input/advice. Jack
prevent debian from sleeping
Hi, all - Just noticed that my deb sessions are going to sleep. I setup my .xinitrc file to prevent it using xset, but no joy. The .xinitrc contains the following - xset s off # don't activate screensaver xset -dpms # disable DPMS (energy star) features xset s noblank # don't blank the video device exec /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager # start lxde after adding the information here, i rebooted the system, but no change in the behavior. Any suggestions about how I can eliminate this behavior when it is not wanted (i.e. i'm watching a long video on youtube, or attending an online class, etc.). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1434469275.2001.5.ca...@gmail.com
Re: synaptic - stuck
Sent from jack@ipad4 On Sep 8, 2013, at 19:18, Philip Ashmore wrote: > On 08/09/13 22:07, Verde Denim wrote: >> On 09/08/2013 04:15 PM, Philip Ashmore wrote: >>> On 08/09/13 18:43, Verde Denim wrote: Ran an update last evening to include adding mono to the layout. If I could attach a screenshot, I would, but basically it looks to have installed all of the packages and configure them, but is now just sitting (still open on the 'installing software' dialog. It has been over 12 hours, so I'm wondering if I could just shut this down. The end of the text in the dialog is here - Setting up mono-apache-server4 (2.10-2.4) ... [] Reloading web server config: apache2apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName . ok [] Restarting web server: apache2apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName ... waiting apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName . ok Any input is, as always, much appreciated. >>> Two items that spring to mind >>> 1. is the "automatically close after the changes have been successfully >>> applied" check box checked? If not then it won't close >>> 2. is there another synaptic dialog open? I remember it sometimes offers >>> configuration options for some packages and the poor state of synaptic >>> desktop integration means that these won't appear in the task switcher - >>> you need to minimize all other windows and maybe even peek behind >>> synaptic by moving it to one side >>> >>> Regards, >>> Philip Ashmore >>> >>> >> Philip >> Thanks for the suggestions, but yes, the 'Automatic close' is checked >> and no, there are no other windows on the desktop. I thought about the >> fact that another process might be a possible culprit, but - >> >> jack 1271 1804 0 Sep07 ?00:00:00 /bin/sh >> /usr/bin/synaptic-pkexec >> root 1273 1271 0 Sep07 ?00:00:58 /usr/sbin/synaptic >> root 3462 1273 0 Sep07 pts/300:00:01 /usr/sbin/synaptic >> >> This looks ok. >> >> The details on the process running the update are - >> >> root 5957 3462 0 Sep07 pts/400:00:00 /usr/bin/dpkg >> --status-fd 63 --configure libart2.0-cil:al >> l libglade2.0-cil:amd64 libglib2.0-cil-dev:amd64 libgtk2.0-cil-dev:amd64 >> libglade2.0-cil-dev:amd64 libgno >> me-vfs2.0-cil:all libgnome2.24-cil:amd64 libmono-2.0-1:amd64 >> libmono-2.0-dev:amd64 libmono-corlib2.0-cil: >> all libmono-accessibility2.0-cil:all libmono-accessibility4.0-cil:all >> libmono-c5-1.1-cil:all libmono-cair >> o2.0-cil:all libmono-posix2.0-cil:all libmono-system2.0-cil:all >> libmono-security2.0-cil:all libmono-cecil >> -private-cil:all libmono-sharpzip2.84-cil:all >> libmono-data-tds2.0-cil:all libmono-system-data2.0-cil:all >> libmono-sqlite2.0-cil:all libmono-messaging2.0-cil:all >> libmono-system-messaging2.0-cil:all libmono2.0-cil >> :all libmono-system-web2.0-cil:all libmono-wcf3.0-cil:all >> libmono-system-data-linq2.0-cil:all libmono-cod >> econtracts4.0-cil:all libmono-compilerservices-symbolwriter4.0-cil:all >> libmono-cscompmgd8.0-cil:all libmo >> no-csharp4.0-cil:all libmono-custommarshalers4.0-cil:all >> libmono-data-tds4.0-cil:all libmono-system-trans >> actions4.0-cil:all libmono-system-enterpriseservices4.0-cil:all >> libmono-system-data4.0-cil:all libmono-db >> 2-1.0-cil:all libmono-debugger-soft2.0-cil:all >> libmono-debugger-soft4.0-cil:all libmono-sqlite4.0-cil:all >> libmono-system-web-applicationservices4.0-cil:all >> libmono-system-web-services4.0-cil:all libmono-system- >> web4.0-cil:all libmono-web4.0-cil:all libmono-http4.0-cil:all >> libmono-i18n-west2.0-cil:all libmono-i18n2. >> 0-cil:all libmono-i18n-cjk4.0-cil:all libmono-i18n-mideast4.0-cil:all >> libmono-i18n-other4.0-cil:all libmo >> no-i18n-rare4.0-cil:all libmono-i18n4.0-all:all libmono-ldap2.0-cil:all >> libmono-ldap4.0-cil:all libmono-m >> anagement2.0-cil:all libmono-management4.0-cil:all >> libmono-messaging4.0-cil:all libmono-rabbitmq2.0-cil:a >> ll libmono-messaging-rabbitmq2.0-cil:all libmono-rabbitmq4.0-cil:all >> libmono-messaging-rabbitmq4.0-cil:al >> l libmono-microsoft8.0-cil:all libmono-microsoft-build2.0-cil:all >> libmono-microsoft-build-framework4.0-ci >> l:all libmono-microsoft-build-utilities-v4.0-4.0-cil:all >> libmono-microsoft-build-engine4.0-cil:all libmon >> o-microsoft-build-tasks-v4.0-4.0-cil:all >> libmono-microsoft-csharp4.0-cil:all libmono-microsoft-visualc10. >> 0-cil:all libmono-microsoft-web-infrastructure1.0-cil:all >> libmono-npgsql2.0-cil:all libmono-npgsql4.0-cil >> :all libmono-opensystem-c4.0-cil:all libmono-oracle2.0-cil:all >> libmono-oracle4.0-cil:all libmono-peapi2.0 >> -cil:all libmono-peapi4.0-cil:all libmono-relaxng2.0-cil:all >> libmono-relaxng4.0-cil:all libmono-sharpzip2
