Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian
You might want to read the manual with the computer. My Lenovo would boot automatically to Windows. In the manual, it had a hold on the side, trusty paperwork clip press the hole, boots into bios. Install Linux On Thu, Jun 8, 2023, 2:51 PM Bret Busby wrote: > On 9/6/23 05:18, Bret Busby wrote: > > On 9/6/23 05:02, Bret Busby wrote: > >> On 9/6/23 04:52, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >>> Bret Busby writes: > >>> > My understanding is that Windows 11 computers have malware that is > designed > to prevent booting into anything other than the malicious Windows 11. > > A procedure to get around the Windows 11 malware, and to be able to > boot into > Linux, has, I believe, been described on the Ubuntu Users mailing > list. > >>> > >>> > >>> Can you perhaps point out a link to read that procedure? Thanks! > >>> > >>> Rodolfo > >>> > >> I have posted a query to the Ubuntu list, asking the person who I > >> believe, provided the procedure on that list, and, who has published > >> equivalent information for Windows 10. > >> > >> I seek his response. > >> > >> .. > >> Bret Busby > >> Armadale > >> West Australia > >> (UTC+0800) > >> .. > > Have you disabled "secure boot" on your Windows 11 PC? > > > > .. > > Bret Busby > > Armadale > > West Australia > > (UTC+0800) > > .. > > If you go to > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2022-July/thread.html > > and scroll down to the thread starting with the subject "Questions about > Linux Mint and this list", read that message, and, work your way through > the responses, especially, the ones from Liam Proven, you should be able > to get the answer that you seek. > > .. > Bret Busby > Armadale > West Australia > (UTC+0800) > .. > >
Re: Fixing errors on a BTRFS partition?
Try this article https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:BTRFS On Thu, Jan 12, 2023, 5:43 AM Nate Bargmann wrote: > I have a Freedom Box Pioneer (hardware is an Olimex A20-OLinuXino-LIME2 > unit with a Samsung 128 GB micro-SD card. The micro-SD is partitioned > into 2GB boot ext2 and the remainder as the root partition as BTRFS. > > The thing has been crashing for months and now it started giving GPG > signature errors when trying to run 'apt update'. I copied the entire > micro-SD card to an image file with dd so I have a backup. Running > 'btrfs check' resulted in a lot of errors so I ran the check and > directed the output to a file which is over 2MB in size! The following > is a small snippet of what it in the file: > > [1/7] checking root items > [2/7] checking extents > checksum verify failed on 2337062912 found 0098 wanted 0025 > checksum verify failed on 2337062912 found 0098 wanted 0025 > Csum didn't match > owner ref check failed [2337062912 16384] > ERROR: errors found in extent allocation tree or chunk allocation > [3/7] checking free space cache > [4/7] checking fs roots > checksum verify failed on 2337062912 found 0098 wanted 0025 > checksum verify failed on 2337062912 found 0098 wanted 0025 > Csum didn't match > root 11670 inode 1109704 errors 200, dir isize wrong > root 11670 inode 1109705 errors 2001, no inode item, link count wrong > unresolved ref dir 1109704 index 2 namelen 4 name json filetype 1 > errors 4, no inode ref > root 11670 inode 1109706 errors 2001, no inode item, link count wrong > unresolved ref dir 1095383 index 2 namelen 11 name 20-json.ini > filetype 7 errors 4, no inode ref > root 11670 inode 1109707 errors 2001, no inode item, link count wrong > unresolved ref dir 978863 index 4 namelen 7 name apache2 filetype > 2 errors 4, no inode ref > root 11670 inode 1109710 errors 2001, no inode item, link count wrong > unresolved ref dir 1095409 index 2 namelen 11 name 20-json.ini > filetype 7 errors 4, no inode ref > root 11670 inode 1109711 errors 2001, no inode item, link count wrong > unresolved ref dir 978863 index 5 namelen 3 name fpm filetype 2 > errors 4, no inode ref > root 11670 inode 1109714 errors 2001, no inode item, link count wrong > unresolved ref dir 978864 index 30 namelen 4 name json filetype 1 > errors 4, no inode ref > root 11670 inode 1109734 errors 2001, no inode item, link count wrong > unresolved ref dir 45938 index 176 namelen 17 name > gschemas.compiled filetype 1 errors 4, no inode ref > root 11670 inode 1109735 errors 2001, no inode item, link count wrong > unresolved ref dir 6679 index 36 namelen 15 name giomodule.cache > filetype 1 errors 4, no inode ref > root 11670 inode 1109771 errors 2001, no inode item, link count wrong > unresolved ref dir 295871 index 242 namelen 24 name > rsyslog.service.dsh-also filetype 1 errors 4, no inode ref > root 11670 inode 1109784 errors 2001, no inode item, link count wrong > unresolved ref dir 978742 index 31 namelen 12 name readline.ini > filetype 1 errors 4, no inode ref > . > . > . > ERROR: errors found in fs roots > Opening filesystem to check... > Checking filesystem on /dev/mmcblk0p2 > UUID: ea375ed2-d6e7-49d4-9b19-a624ba09b96c > The following tree block(s) is corrupted in tree 11670: > tree block bytenr: 6562955264, level: 1, node key: (1109704, 96, 3) > found 19331854402 bytes used, error(s) found > total csum bytes: 14201108 > total tree bytes: 1242775552 > total fs tree bytes: 1160757248 > total extent tree bytes: 61292544 > btree space waste bytes: 327420862 > file data blocks allocated: 182356692992 > referenced 113920880640 > > > Everything online hints that attempting repair is particularly > dangerous, but what else am I to do? At the moment the system is pretty > much useless. > > All insights appreciated. > > - Nate > > -- > "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all > possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." > Web: https://www.n0nb.us > Projects: https://github.com/N0NB > GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819 > >
Re: ssh session times out annoyingly fast, why?
have you tried "ssh -Y" option On 9/21/20 4:38 PM, Britton Kerin wrote: I'm using ssh from a debian box to a rasberry pi (sorta debian also :). For some reason ssh sessions seem to time out pretty quickly. I've tried setting ClientAliveInterval and ClientAliveCountMax and also ServerAliveInterval and ServerAliveCountMax, but it doesn't seem to make any difference. Is there some other setting somewhere that affects this? Thanks, Britton -- Joseph Loo j...@acm.org
Re: How to mount or link as extention of fs?
On 03/17/2018 03:32 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings! > > I have separated my /home file system from root so I can > install new systems without clobbering it. To make it most > useful is there any way I can mount, link, whatever, it so > that it appears to be an extension of, or included in, > /home? That is not just another mount on the root fs. > > TIA Dennis > Have you ever thought of doing an autofs mount on the /home directory? That way you do not need to have it a separate partition. I just mount the individual home directories to the /home mount point. If you have an autofs setup, you could have the individual directories on different machines and share the same directory. If you are clever enough, you could even have multiple directories for the same user come from different nfs servers, e.g. ~user/Picture can be in one location and ~user/Documents from another location. But the user logging into the machine would only see it as a single location without any links. -- Joseph Loo j...@acm.org
Re: How to mount or link as extention of fs?
On 03/17/2018 03:32 PM, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings! > > I have separated my /home file system from root so I can > install new systems without clobbering it. To make it most > useful is there any way I can mount, link, whatever, it so > that it appears to be an extension of, or included in, > /home? That is not just another mount on the root fs. > > TIA Dennis > Have you ever thought of doing an autofs mount on the /home directory? That way you do not need to have it a separate partition. I just mount the individual home directories to the /home mount point. If you have an autofs setup, you could have the individual directories on different machines and share the same directory. If you are clever enough, you could even have multiple directories for the same user come from different nfs servers, e.g. ~user/Picture can be in one location and ~user/Documents from another location. But the user logging into the machine would only see it as a single location without any links. -- Joseph Loo j...@acm.org
Re: Sony Memory Stick problem on Debian 9 stable
On 12/21/2017 02:53 AM, Farhad Mohammadi Majd wrote: >> First off, check that your card reader HARDWARE supports the MS. Have > you read the Wikipedia page on Memory Sticks? There are almost as many > variants as Secure Digital has. > > Yes, I have read that article and my memory card reader claims that it > supports Memory Stick and has a slot for it and I think when it is > detected by system, this means my memory card reader can read this type > of memory card. > >> Secondly, have you checked for physical switches on the Memory Stick? > There might be a read-only switch; there might even be a bank-select > switch. > > Yes, it has a *Lock* switch, it is set to open. > I believe there is something wrong with your hardware. I do not believe there are any sdc much less memory stick that contains 2 tB. The largest I heard is 256 gB and memory stick is old technology. In addition be careful of the switch. In sdc cards, the switch does not truly make the card read only, instead it is a bit to indicate the switch is on or off. It is up to the software to ensure that you do not write to it. Of course this may have changed -- Joseph Loo j...@acm.org
Re: Gparted will not label an existing FAT32 partition
On 11/11/2016 04:39 PM, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 11 Nov 2016 at 18:36:15 (-0500), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >> On Friday, November 11, 2016 04:58:41 PM Pascal Hambourg wrote: >>> Le 11/11/2016 à 22:17, Thomas Schmitt a écrit : >>>> The older format is MBR with 4 primary partitions and 4 logical >>>> ones in one of the primary partitions. >>> >>> Huh ? The number of logical partitions is unlimited. >> >> Ok, just to be part of this ongoing saga, I think the number of logical >> partitions is limited to something like 12 or 16 (or maybe the total number >> of >> partitions, primary plus logical is limited to 16. (And maybe that's a >> limit >> of one or more OSs rather than a universal limit.) > > That doesn't seem to square with > http://forums.justlinux.com/showthread.php?147959-How-to-install-and-boot-145-operating-systems-in-a-PC > (Scroll down to "Partition Tables".) > > Cheers, > David. > Your URL is talking about gpt scheme. The limitation is in the MSDOS partition scheme -- Joseph Loo j...@acm.org
Re: Installing Gutenprint
On 10/20/2016 01:31 PM, Radford & Sue Thomas wrote: > Hello Folks, > > I am an 86 year old Photoshop Guru and having trouble printing from PS > in OS 10.12. > > So I found Gutenprint and downloaded the latest version for my Epson > 4880. But what do I do now? > > No one I know of in Roanoke, VA has the brights to help me. Would you > please send me the info I need? > > Regards, > > Radford Thomas, PhD > Professor of Art > Virginia Western Community College Did you install the driver or just download it? Did you add the printer on your system? If you did all the above, you can just print the ps file to the printer. -- Joseph Loo j...@acm.org
Re: [computers] bad sectors on disk
On 02/10/2016 07:35 PM, TWS Admin wrote: > Please remove julius.robe...@wildernes.org.au > <mailto:julius.robe...@wildernes.org.au> from this list, he's no longer > working with us. > > thanks, > > the Wilderness society > > On 9 February 2016 at 19:57, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <r...@researchut.com > <mailto:r...@researchut.com>> wrote: > > Hello, > > On my RPi2, I saw the following reported by my kernel. > > [156278.815976] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] UNKNOWN(0x2003) Result: > hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x00 > [156278.823864] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB: opcode=0x28 28 00 9a 40 04 47 > 00 00 08 00 > [156278.831152] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector > 2587886663 > > > This got me worried so I ran an fsck on my drive. Following is the > report. > > 130 pi@pi:~$ sudo fsck -cvkv /dev/sdb1 > [sudo] password for pi: > fsck from util-linux 2.25.2 > e2fsck 1.42.12 (29-Aug-2014) > Checking for bad blocks (read-only test): done > > SEAGATE: Updating bad block inode. > Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes > Pass 2: Checking directory structure > Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity > Pass 4: Checking reference counts > Pass 5: Checking group summary information > > SEAGATE: * FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED * > >20013 inodes used (0.02%, out of 122101760) > 8944 non-contiguous files (44.7%) > 53 non-contiguous directories (0.3%) > # of inodes with ind/dind/tind blocks: 0/0/0 > Extent depth histogram: 16695/3216/62 >416471936 blocks used (85.28%, out of 488378008) >0 bad blocks > 63 large files > >17086 regular files > 2885 directories >0 character device files >0 block device files >0 fifos >0 links > 33 symbolic links (32 fast symbolic links) >0 sockets > >20004 files > 1 pi@pi:~$ > > > From the report, it says that there are 0 bad blocks. So is this a > bug in e2fsprogs ? > > > -- > Ritesh Raj Sarraf > RESEARCHUT -- http://www.researchut.com > "Necessity is the mother of invention" > > fsck checks primarily a directory structure not the hard drives. you might want to try badblocks -svn /dev/sdb Like always, backup your drive before you do this. -- Joseph Loo j...@acm.org
Re: grub rescue> (getting error: unknown filesystem) for all filesystems!
On 11/24/2015 06:16 PM, aman nangia wrote: > Since this boot disk is 146gb (2.5" sas drive) and has some important data > that needs to be retrieved, one option i thought was to take it out from > broken system and insert it into another system running debian that has a > empty filler disk panel. I did that thinking it will auto-recognize the disk > but it did not. > > What is the debian cli to run a scan/probe like in solaris (devfsadm -C) to > auto-recognize the newly added disk? That way i can mount it on /mnt and > retrieve my files over. > > Thx for any pointers! > > > On Tue, 11/24/15, aman nangia <aman_nan...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Subject: grub rescue> (getting error: unknown filesystem) for all > filesystems! > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Tuesday, November 24, 2015, 6:00 PM > > debian 6.0 on intel chipset > architecture (not amd chipset). It's HP Gen7 system with no > dvd drive (only usb). > > Will the file 'debian-live-6.0.4-amd64-rescue.img' that we > have handy help here to recover from above failed server? > Note the filename has amd in it and so am not sure if it > will work for intel chipsets based system or not. The size > of this img file is 600196kb file. There is no debian or > livecd media. > > From another good running debian 6.0 system i tried running > dd if=/var/tmp/above-filename of=/dev/sdbe1 bs=4M; sync > (where my sdbe1 was the usb flash drive). After the command > i inserted this usb on the broken system and tried to boot > from it, it won't recognize it still. > > Also, i tried putting a redhat 6.3 x86 and also rhel 5.3 x86 > dvd in the usb dvd drive and tried to boot from it, it says > cannot find it. > > am stuck now and need help! > > > > One way is to have a fully running system. put the drive into a spare slot or in a USB system. Depending on your system, it may automount (USB enclosure) or you will have to mount it on the system. First thing I would do is to just load it on the system and use gparted to look at it only (this can destroy your disk). Alternate method, is get something like parted magic (live rescue disk) and boot from it. There you can try mounting the drive. In some cases you may need to do a fsck to check the system (make backup before doing it). -- Joseph Loo j...@acm.org
Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows
On 10/13/2015 10:34 AM, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > On Tue, October 13, 2015 7:26 am, Joseph Loo wrote: >> have you tried installing >> ghostscript on your windows machine? It will convert ps and possibly pdf to >> pcl or some other printers they have drivers for. > > Ghostscript is one of the first solutions which occurred to me. I found a > HOWTO, but it was too complex to give to my associate to follow. > > And I found an article written about ten years ago which discussed the > problem of getting high-quality output when converting Postscript; much > depends upon the fonts used (scalable versus bit-mapped). The discussion > was a bit deep, and, all things considered, it appeared to me that PDF > might be a better solution for my associate. Also, most people know how > to read a PDF document, but may have difficulty sending a Postscript > document to the virtual Ghostscript printer; I myself am not sure how it > is done in Windows. > > Russ > What you need is to down load ghostview at the same time. Use this gui application to open the ps file. Have the program print the file. It can use the default window drivers to print. I use to do this a lot but to tell you the truth, it has been many years since getting it. The ghostscrpt program will download 23 basic fonts for the different printers. If you are using word, make sure the fonts embedded in the ps files. You can print many different files with the full accuracy of the ps file. -- Joseph Loo j...@acm.org
Re: print .tex or .dvi or .ps from Windows
On 10/13/2015 05:12 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 13 October 2015 04:57:07 rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: >> On Mon, October 12, 2015 9:16 pm, Don Armstrong wrote: >>> Use PDF instead of PS. That's the fool-proof method, and you get the >>> advantages of the PDF specification. >>> >>> [It's also probably time to move away from pdflatex to xelatex or >>> some other LaTeX engine with real utf8 support.] >> >> Thanks for bringing up the utf8 issue; I keep forgetting about it. >> >> But is the PDF file I produce with whatever is in Jessie likely to be >> readable by Windows XP or Vista? I ask this because I have an older HP >> laserjet which cannot decipher Postscript Level 3. > > Surely the whole point of .pdf is that it is an open standard which > is "universal"? And it has traditionally been easier to make use of from > Windows than from Linux. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format > > Lisi > I am a little late in the discussion, but have you tried installing ghostscript on your windows machine? It will convert ps and possibly pdf to pcl or some other printers they have drivers for. It has been a long time since I used it on windows. -- Joseph Loo j...@acm.org
Re: Ethernet NIC renegotiation problem.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/18/2015 08:06 PM, Richard Hector wrote: On 19/02/15 15:32, Dan Purgert wrote: Point of contention -- if the BUCH is only using cat5 in his install, the fact he's getting gbit for any time at all is a miracle. Min requirement for gig over copper is 5e (with cat6 being preferred). My understanding is that Cat5 is and has always been the minimum requirement for 1000base-T. At a quick glance, Wikipedia appears to agree, though it suggests 5e or 6 is preferred. On slightly deeper reading, it seems that while all of these specs have the same target characteristics, the tolerances reduce as the spec goes higher, so more reliable performance is likely. I now see more point in the higher specs than I did half an hour ago :-) I agree with the requirement to do the cabling, and especially terminations, properly. Richard I believe the wikipedia article actually stated at 100base cat 5 and cat5e is okay but the gigabit is to use cat 5e. Quote from article: To support Gigabit Ethernet, a higher performance version of cat 5, enhanced cat 5 or cat 5e has been added to the standards. Cat 5e adds new performance requirements to permit higher speed network operation In real life depending on the length your throughput for 5 will be far less than 5e. - -- Joseph Loo j...@acm.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJU5WROAAoJEEMx95CapKFE8m0P/0LJYyO4QRBtofwJj8iqzSQL gNV6ET3dLe77Ig5bmNVXrMxw+8O1ipcM1SePFFsYg+C9oFb3/a9YmYXsvaWs0bmT juaIUFfyAMImxN+GyTJhGxGoj9EEdjTvXHo1TBCIP1BRh5m2KkqwZjuxsDpJz3yu JMRxDe8iqN8BdHJn3BAAUxS84CGuHJ1fi9jZoOSjjRp76665Zqd8hijW13hqpdCC +uJzyzvYYgd5tV7avedVFNxGe3kEQJmP7UiMHQ1entY+ERAv4Km+v7t7Yt+ZhUyc TPBLzW7gvO/+WlT25y89SbFXAJxRSSnUdw0zXaslySHg7LzPZUV4UYyP+IvNuJjo I/qWEoMVfGsLWCB8QsVOckE2wm7VBqnWoRxlnuDb5QXFam1L2NHZn5CK6QpC6pw9 NWOk55u5CDjxpM5X9ia04iNkDyaecIM0ELvX2XS1xLug4DucnHMN7tIAHixcDqUv mhkeuYrvnaT/vPTrFAkTty9WzK+GYOomi1nNPlDYBT8lou5OdJmtYxulq1zUf4vv 1wUFvLflIfnRpPY78h2yjh99Atenxu4Kc+a+WeiBhg4gaINzeks7r1f1ynGhokdH yPQ24uFBM4tkDgduisdVYktjL4iXYI0Ako6lhY0119Ovl1QPbg0hZQvcgyCZEX6N PxbZp2Mf4jfHxBqoxcOT =jr63 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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/54e56468.9060...@aqcm.org
Re: How to recover a damaged partition
On 01/21/2015 06:53 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I'm working with new 4TB drives, and one of them just had a bad spot in a fairly awkward place. The very first block of an ext4 partition was unreadable, and caused problems in booting, as well as anything else that wanted to scan partitions. I overwrote the first 4K with zeroes, deleted the partition (with gdisk) and created a new unformatted partition to cover the area. Now that partition passes a read test, and I'm checking the other partitions. The damaged partition has been inactive for a while, so I'm quite sure I have adequate backups. But now seems to be a time for me to learn -- lots of things have been going wrong, and I've been learning how to cope. So I wonder if there's a way to get that partition back, at least in part, without using my backups. Any hints, pointers, tutorials, or opinions welcome. -- Kevin O'Gorman #define QUESTION ((bb) || (!bb)) /* Shakespeare */ Please consider the environment before printing this email. Have you tried doing a badblocks on the partition. This will try reading and writing data to the partition to check the disk drive. I generally do this on my drive before deploying. It tends to remove the bad blocks. You can also try grc's Spinrite (cost money) at grc.com -- Joseph Loo j...@acm.org -- 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/54c06e22.4080...@aqcm.org
Re: Epson XP-820 Small-in-one
On 12/05/2014 08:43 PM, Gary Dale wrote: I bought the XP-820 because it was on sale and could print to CD/DVD - a feature that I liked about my earlier Espon R-320 printer. Unfortunately the XP-820 needs the Epson escpr driver while the R-320 used the Cups-Gutenprint driver. The former doesn't seem to include the print-to-CD/DVD feature that the latter has. There is a work-around, of writing to an SDHC card then inserting the card into a lot in the printer and using the printer's control panel to print a design to CD/DVD. This is quite cumbersome so I'm hoping someone has a method of getting the XP-820 to print to CD/DVD from Linux. I used Turboprint from turboprint.info. It is a paid program and it allows me to print to CD/DVD. Unfortunately they have not come out a driver for the epson xp820. I have a Epson XP810 -- Joseph Loo j...@acm.org -- 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/548291b5.6050...@aqcm.org
Re: Can't install Debian - USB keyboard doesn't turn on until Windows loads
On 07/09/2014 06:50 PM, Kitty Cat wrote: I have two questions: 1. Would anyone be willing to give me a link to a simple USB keyboard that you think would work with this machine at boot time? Perhaps on Amazon.com or Newegg.com, etc.? 2. Do you know of a Debian CD of some type that will load a kernel without the need of a key press before the kernel loads? Debian install CD's and Live CD's require a key press at boot in order to load a kernel. I'm not sure about Knoppix but thought I would ask before wasting a DVD disc to find out that it won't boot. Here is what's going on with this machine: The USB keyboard that I have is not supported by the motherboard for some reason. However, the keyboard does work however after a kernel loads. My keyboard is a an AZZA brand, model number KME381U. It has buttons on it that will (in Windows) launch a web browser, change the speaker volume, etc. The motherboard has no PS/2 connector. I do have a PS/2 keyboard that I could use, but there is no place on the motherboard to plug it in. The motherboard does not have a clear CMOS jumper that I could find. There is a CMOS jumper on the motherboard, however, when this jumper is switched, when the computer boots, it puts me directly into CMOS and the keyboard did not work while in CMOS. I did take out the battery, waited a while, left the battery out, turned on the computer with the CMOS jumper moved and wound up back in CMOS but the keyboard was still not working. I was able to install Debian by changing the windows bootloader to boot the Debian installer as I described earlier. Now Debian is the only OS on the machine. I was planning to only use this computer via SSH connection. So, I only need a keyboard if I want to change CMOS settings or select an option from the Grub boot menu. So, it appears that my only solution is to get a different USB keyboard for this machine. On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 12:16 PM, B lazyvi...@gmx.com mailto:lazyvi...@gmx.com wrote: On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 10:57:23 -0700 Thomas D. Dean tomd...@wavecable.com mailto:tomd...@wavecable.com wrote: Maybe you need to clear the BIOS settings? I have never had to do that. From what he said, he's done that (although removing the battery don't work, except if you wait for some time because of the capacitor(s) power backup). IF this was done correctly (jumper or short circuit of 2 points), we could assume a non-ps/2 machine resetting its BIOS would, by default, enable legacy USB; but we can't be sure 100%... About the key typing time windows, I've seen BIOSes that only left ~1s, which is quite short (addon cards, such as SCSI controllers, can also reduce the window). -- J.A I'm such a no-life that when I get out home, people think I'm a new neighbor --' Before you do that, Have you tried all the USB slots. some of the motherboards are sensitive to the USB connection at the bios start period. One clue, is power on the keyboard at the start, i.e. flash of the keyboard lights (sometimes). -- Joseph Loo j...@acm.org
Re: Different behaviour handling NFS mounts after login
On 07/02/2014 11:56 PM, Joerg Desch wrote: I've recently replaced Linux MINT on 3 machines with Debian Wheezy and GNOME3.4. All of my shares are mounted with NFS. For this purpose I use the following options (on all installations): rw,_netdev,hard,intr,user,nosuid,exec,async,auto Two of the machines opens Nautilus after each login. Neither the other installation of Debian nor a remaining MINT installations shows this behaviour. What's the problem here? Should I change something in the mount options? Or is this a setting within GNOME? You might want to try soft instead of hard. -- Joseph Loo j...@acm.org -- 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/53b5024f.8090...@acm.org
Re: Progress on my new Debian box
On 06/23/2014 12:27 PM, B wrote: On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 04:34:00 +1000 Andrew McGlashan andrew.mcglas...@affinityvision.com.au wrote: I believe that would be true of quite /old/ SSD drives, but definitely not for newer ones. I wouldn't be so positive… until a real independent lab, conducting real tests (especially with a high number of small files, test curiously (much too) often absent from testers sites). The new drives are subject to write issues, Yeah, like older ones. but to hit that problem will take just as long as a traditional spinning drive -- they too have limits, spinning drives are mechanical. May be, but most of my disks have a ≥ 10 years life (24/7) with a very few errors (only 2 of 45 have 1 3 unrecoverable sectors), so, if you can prove me SSD is as good as these, why not… There have been very heavy torture tests on thew newer range of SSDs and they are performing exceptionally well with mega data being written [1], up to fairly heavy data usage levels. All are biased (strangely, to lower the write errors due to multiple write repetitions on the same sectors); this is why until a _real_ lab, with plausible tests protocols and methodology doesn't make a test, I won't trust it more than my first underwear :) There is apparently a way to restore SSD drives to original condition by super heating the layer that breaks down (due to writes), targeting the exact spot with the right temperature returns the SSD drive to brand new state. Not sure when this newest generation will hit the market though. [2] Yeah, go figure heating _some_ cells among all in a today's chip density; not to mention that I don't see other sites/labs/researchers saying the same thing. On this ground too, us firms can't be trusted as they hire and pay indelicate specialists to _get_ the result they _want_; just as monsanto or the govts does. I think you are missing the problem associated with SSd. The wear problem is associated with the amount of free space. If the drive is 99.99% full, you could probably wear the drive out in no time at all. The wear problem is prevented by using free space that has not been written to it. thus if 00 % full drive will wear out faster than a drive that is 1% full. If you do not speak in context of the percentage full the benchmarks are not too useful. Most consumer grade ssd are limited to about 10K writes per cell. If you exceed the limit, dead cell. Remember that another factor involve is the number of spare cells. all of these things play in the role when an ssd fails. -- Joseph Loo j...@acm.org -- 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/53a8e0b5.5040...@acm.org
Re: VNC not connecting over SSH tunnel
On 07/10/2012 01:41 AM, Chris Davies wrote: Gary Dalegaryd...@rogers.com wrote: I can connect to every workstation in a remote office using: ssh -L 5902:remote workstation's local IP:5900remote router's public IP xtightvncviewer -encodings tight localhost:5902 However, there is one workstation [...] The ssh session also shows this message: channel 3: open failed: connect failed: No route to host Indeed, I can't even ping it from the remote ssh server. However, when I went to the office and tried to connect using my laptop, connected into the local network, I was able to connect normally. The ssh server is on the local subnet (a 192.168.x.x non-routable network) as are the workstation I'm trying to connect to and the laptop (when I plugged it into their network). The local forwarding would be handled on the subnet so that if it worked for one station, shouldn't it work for all? We have four devices to consider: homepc Your own system, outside the office workpc Your own system, inside the office remote_router The end-point for the primary ssh transport remote_workstation The target machine for the VNC session Homepc and workpc might be the same, but as they have different IP addresses I'll name them differently. At the risk of stating the obvious, I'm going to do it anyway: * There has to be a route between homepc and remote_workstation for the ssh transport to succeed. This works. * There has to be a route between workpc and remote_workstation for the native VNC session to succeed. This works. * There has to be a route between remote_router and remote_workstation for the VNC session to succeed. This doesn't work. The error No route to host is often triggered when the source has a route to the target but the target is not responding to the arp request. I initially suggested that there is a routing issue between remote_router and remote_workstation, and this was further evidenced by you not being able to ping remote_workstation from remote_router. You've then explained that the network topology is flat and that the remote_router and remote_workstation are on the same subnet. I can only suggest at this stage that you go back and re-check the IP address assigned to the non-working remote_workstation. Chris While you are at it, why don't you list the ip addresses and the net mask for each item. ifconfig will tell you what each machine has. -- Joseph Loo j...@acm.org
Re: URW Bookman Font
On 12/30/2011 01:47 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 19:55:23 -0800, Joseph Loo wrote: I have just installed Debian Squeeze. I have replaced the open office package with Libre Office 3.4.3. I am trying to use the URW Bookman L font. I have the bold, italic, and the bold italic. The non-bold non-italic are both missing. I have TeXLive: Recommended fonts installed As far as I know, the file that X applications need for the normal URW Bookman L font is /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/b018012l.pfb, which is part of the gsfonts-x11 package. Do you have this package installed? (This font file is actually just a symlink to the corresponding font file from the gsfonts package; installing gsfonts-x11 should create all necessary symlinks and configure your system such that all X applications can use the ghostscript fonts.) If you have gsfonts-x11 installed and you still cannot use the font then you should check if it is listed in the fonts cache, like this: $ fc-list | grep -i bookman URW Bookman L:style=Demi Bold URW Bookman L:style=Light URW Bookman L:style=Light Italic URW Bookman L:style=Demi Bold Italic If you get the same output then there might be a problem with your LibreOffice installation. Can you use the Bookman fonts in other applications? (I use LibreOffice 3.4.4 on Sid and these fonts work fine for me.) I am away from my computer for a week. Will try to check on it as suggested. I found the issue with the font in LibreOffice 3.4.4 on Squeeze when I tried to set the font in writer. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f001fa9.2050...@gmail.com
URW Bookman Font
I have just installed Debian Squeeze. I have replaced the open office package with Libre Office 3.4.3. I am trying to use the URW Bookman L font. I have the bold, italic, and the bold italic. The non-bold non-italic are both missing. I have TeXLive: Recommended fonts installed -- Joseph Loo j...@acm.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1325217324.9564.6.camel@orion.milkyway
