from:"p"


Thank you for the guidance, I really appreciate it.


On 06/29/2024 03:34 PM, David Christensen wrote:

On 6/29/24 10:01, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:



On 06/29/2024 12:28 PM, Darac Marjal wrote:


On 29/06/2024 15:13, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
I have just restated by Xfce4 user on my Bookworm system and find 
that I can no longer resize some of the apps on the desktop and the 
icons in the upper right corner of the tool bar are missing.


Often, this is an indication that the window manager isn't running. 
For XFCE4, the window manager is called "xfwm4". Try pressing 
"Alt+F2" to bring up the launch dialog, enter "xfwm4" at the prompt 
and press enter.



This is only om my user directory, the root directory is still normal.

Don't run X sessions (read: don't run XFCE) as root.


I have not the faintest idea as to what might be going on and would 
greatly appreciate assistance.


Thanks in advance.


Well, the problem is back. I logged out and back in, and there it was!

I tried "Alt+F2" then "xfwm4" (without the quotes, of course) and got 
nothing.



Please power off your computer.  Then power on your computer. Then 
document every command or value you enter into the computer and every 
response by the computer.  If and when the computer does something 
other than what you expect, document what the computer did and what 
you expected it to do.  Research the proper terminology and use it.  
Then power off, power on, follow your document, and see if the issues 
are repeatable.  Then post your document.



David



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Re: Strange Problem





On 06/29/2024 12:28 PM, Darac Marjal wrote:


On 29/06/2024 15:13, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
I have just restated by Xfce4 user on my Bookworm system and find 
that I can no longer resize some of the apps on the desktop and the 
icons in the upper right corner of the tool bar are missing.


Often, this is an indication that the window manager isn't running. 
For XFCE4, the window manager is called "xfwm4". Try pressing "Alt+F2" 
to bring up the launch dialog, enter "xfwm4" at the prompt and press 
enter.



This is only om my user directory, the root directory is still normal.

Don't run X sessions (read: don't run XFCE) as root.


I have not the faintest idea as to what might be going on and would 
greatly appreciate assistance.


Thanks in advance.


Well, the problem is back. I logged out and back in, and there it was!

I tried "Alt+F2" then "xfwm4" (without the quotes, of course) and got 
nothing.


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Re: Strange Problem





On 06/29/2024 10:13 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
I have just restated by Xfce4 user on my Bookworm system and find that 
I can no longer resize some of the apps on the desktop and the icons 
in the upper right corner of the tool bar are missing. This is only om 
my user directory, the root directory is still normal.


I have not the faintest idea as to what might be going on and would 
greatly appreciate assistance.


Thanks in advance.


I don't know what I did, but the problem seems  to be gone.

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Strange Problem

I have just restated by Xfce4 user on my Bookworm system and find that I 
can no longer resize some of the apps on the desktop and the icons in 
the upper right corner of the tool bar are missing. This is only om my 
user directory, the root directory is still normal.


I have not the faintest idea as to what might be going on and would 
greatly appreciate assistance.


Thanks in advance.

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Synaptic Update Error

2024-05-24 Thread Stephen P. Molnar


During a routine update I got the error:

E: Release file for 
http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/dists/bookworm-updates/InRelease is 
expired (invalid since 1d 15h 6min 44s). Updates for this repository 
will not be applied.


/etc/apt/sources.lis entries are:

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 12.5.0 _Bookworm_ - Official amd64 DVD 
Binary-1 with firmware 20240210-11:28]/ bookworm non-free-firmware main 
contrib


deb http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ bookworm non-free-firmware 
non-free contrib main
deb-src http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ bookworm non-free-firmware 
non-free contrib main


deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ bookworm-security 
non-free-firmware non-free contrib main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ bookworm-security 
non-free-firmware non-free contrib main


# bookworm-updates, to get updates before a point release is made;
# see 
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_updates_and_backports
deb http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ bookworm-updates 
non-free-firmware non-free contrib main
deb-src http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ bookworm-updates 
non-free-firmware non-free contrib main


I am somewhat puzzled, as I don't see '/InRelease' in any of the entries 
in /etc/apt/sources.list. Where does the problem source in sudo apt 
update come from. I am rather loathe to edit the sources.list.


Thanks in advance.

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Quickemu Problem

2024-05-18 Thread Stephen P. Molnar


I have just installed installed Quickemu v-6.1.4.

    quickget windows 11 ran as it should without any errors or warnings.
    However:
        (base) comp@Abanormal:~/VM$ quickemu --vm windows-10.conf
    ~/VM ~/VM
    Quickemu 4.9.4 using /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 v7.2.9
 - Host: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) running Linux 6.1 
(Abanormal)

 - CPU:  AMD FX(tm)-8320 Eight-Core Processor
 - CPU VM:   1 Socket(s), 2 Core(s), 2 Thread(s), 4G RAM
    ERROR! You have insufficient RAM to run windows in a VM
    (base) comp@Abanormal:~/VM$

I am somewhat confused as:

    (base) comp@Abanormal:~$ free -ght
       total    used    free  shared 
buff/cache   available
        Mem:   7.7Gi   2.3Gi   225Mi 34Mi   
5.4Gi   5.3Gi

        Swap:  975Mi    50Mi   925Mi
 Total: 8.6Gi   2.4Gi   1.1Gi

The strange thing is that I have installed Windows 10 using QEMU/KVM 
virt-manager without any RAM problems at all.


Some guidance would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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Kvm Bridge Network Problem

2024-05-04 Thread Stephen P. Molnar

I am running Bookworm on my main platform. After quite a bit of googling 
and many errors and much head scratching I have managed to follow the 
instructions in:


https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-to-add-network-bridge-with-nmcli-networkmanager-on-linux/ 
.


I have currently implicated this on a Windows 10 client. However, there 
still remains a problem. After the first restart of the Windows client 
the internet was accessible. However, a problem arose after I 
successfully installed br0 (copy attached). I was able to use the LAN 
printer and the 40" TV , but could not access the Host.


I'm sure that I have missed something, but I don't know what.

Guidance to a solution to the problem would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

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# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# Specify that the physical interface that should be connected to the bridge
# should be configured manually, to avoid conflicts with NetworkManager
iface enp2s0 inet manual

#Primary network interface with bridge
auto br0
iface br0 inet static
address 162.237.98.238
broadcast 162.237.98.255
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 162.237.98.1
bridge_ports enp2s0
bridge_stp off
bridge_waitport 0
bridge fd 0

Re: QEMU/KVM virt-manager Problem

2024-05-02 Thread Stephen P. Molnar





On 05/02/2024 12:54 PM, Gareth Evans wrote:




On 2 May 2024, at 17:47, Gareth Evans  wrote:



On 2 May 2024, at 15:43, Stephen P. Molnar  
wrote:


I am running Bookworm and have implemented QEMU/KVM virt-manager. 
When I install a client I have been using virt-manager --> View 
-->Scale Display --> Always. However, now the 'Always ', the only 
option available is the default 'Only when Fullscreen'.


Is Bookworm the VM client too?  With GUI?  Does this happen for all 
clients, just one, or one type?


Off the top of my head, I think the scale always option may disappear 
if the guest display doesn't support it - I seem to recall VirtualBox 
Guest Additions being required for this functionality for some guests 
in VirtualBox (which I acknowledge you are not using, I'm just 
saying...) so I don't think it's "straightforward" functionality


What video protocol are you using?

spice-vdagent is mentioned here a few comments down

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/virt-manager-scale-display-not-working/138275/3
I am using the procedure in 
https://getlabsdone.com/install-windows-10-on-ubuntu-kvm/


I am most interested in installing Windows 10, as there computation 
chemistry windows apps that I want to use on Bookworm. However, the same 
problem is resent for Linux clients that I've installed.


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QEMU/KVM virt-manager Problem

2024-05-02 Thread Stephen P. Molnar

I am running Bookworm and have implemented QEMU/KVM virt-manager. When I 
install a client I have been using virt-manager --> View -->Scale 
Display --> Always. However, now the 'Always ', the only option 
available is the default 'Only when Fullscreen'.


Now this in not exactly a major problem, but it makes me wonder what 
else might be going wrong?


I would appreciate some guidance in this matter.

Thanks in advance.

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Re: Strange New Installation Behavior

2024-04-22 Thread Stephen P. Molnar





On 04/22/2024 11:03 AM, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote:

Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d...@ewoof.net> wrote:

On 22 Apr 2024 09:00 -0400, from s.mol...@sbcglobal.net (Stephen P.
Molnar):

I downloaded and ran the 512 check sum on a copy of
Debian-12.5.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso and ran the Graphical Install mode on
the 1.0 TD SSD on my Computer. The installation went smoothly
without any warning or error messages.

I logged in as root to set up the Desktop and, much to my surprise,
found that my previous Desktop configuration was still there!!???
This was also the case when I logged in user!!!???

It sounds to me like you intended to do a clean reinstall, but the
obvious question given the observed behavior is: did you actually do
that? For example, did you actually reformat (create file systems
anew)?

My guess would be that you installed _on top of_ the previous
installation rather than wiping and replacing it; so I'd start with
seeing if that hypothesis can be ruled out. An easy way might be to
check /var/cache/apt/archives and look for old linux-image .deb files.
If it's a freshly installed system, there should only be one or two,
likely at 6.1.0-20 for Bookworm. If you see any kernel older than
6.1.0-18, those are remnants from a previous installation (Debian 12.5
shipped with kernel ABI 6.1.0-18
<https://www.debian.org/News/2024/20240210>.)

He said he wanted to revert to Bullseye rather than Bookworm, so it's
to be expected that there will be older kernels, if that's really what
he meant and what he did. But as you say, without a clear statement of
the intent and the actions taken it's difficult to be sure.


I did not want to revert to Bullseye, but to reinstall to Bookworm.

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Strange New Installation Behavior

2024-04-22 Thread Stephen P. Molnar

I am running Bookworm and cleaned up a couple of files too many 
resulting in a messed up Xfce Desktop. I decided that this would be a 
good time to reinstall the Bullseye.


I made a backup of my /home/comp directory using Deja-dup.

I downloaded and ran the 512 check sum on a copy of 
Debian-12.5.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso and ran the Graphical Install mode on the 
1.0 TD SSD on my Computer. The installation went smoothly without any 
warning or error messages.


I logged in as root to set up the Desktop and, much to my surprise, 
found that my previous Desktop configuration was still there!!??? This 
was also the case when I logged in user!!!???


I have been using computers in my work since the 1960, the era of the 
Hollerith Card and tape drives and Linux since early days of Slackware 
and the Red Hat Mother's Day Edition. Now I am not a computer expert but 
a Research Chemist.  I have installed Linux OS's many times and consider 
Linux my primary computational platform. I have never encountered the 
situation and have no ideas as to what is going on.


I have been runnind Debian since Etch.

I would appreciate some insight into what might be going on.

Thanks in advance.

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Skype: smolnar1

Internet Access Problem

2024-04-11 Thread Stephen P. Molnar

I am running Bullseye and attempting to use QEMU/KVM virt-manager, on 
the computers on my LAN rather than Oracle VM VirtualBox.


I particularly would like to be able to run Windows 10 as there in one 
application that I need for my molecular modeling research that is not 
available for Linux.


I followed the How To (HowTo.txt, attached) without any warning or error 
messages. However, when I pinged yahoo.com. I got the result:


Reply from 169.234.75.136: Destination host unreachable.

It is my understanding the internet should be reachable from Windows 10 
from the default connection.


The default virt-manger xml file and the host i pa results are also 
attached.


I would appreciate any sort of insight as to what might have gone wrong.

Thanks in advance.

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How To Install Windows 10 on Ubuntu
KVM?
By: Saifudheen Sidheeq


Published: August 23, 2020 - Last updated: November 4, 2023


https://getlabsdone.com/install-windows-10-on-ubuntu-kvm/
 (base) comp@AbNormal:~$ ip a
1: lo:  mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group 
default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
   valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
   valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: enp2s0:  mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP 
group default qlen 1000
link/ether bc:ee:7b:5e:83:36 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 162.237.98.238/22 brd 162.237.99.255 scope global dynamic 
noprefixroute enp2s0
   valid_lft 547sec preferred_lft 547sec
inet6 2600:1700:4280:3690::3f7/128 scope global dynamic noprefixroute
   valid_lft 2583846sec preferred_lft 596646sec
inet6 2600:1700:4280:3690:beee:7bff:fe5e:8336/64 scope global dynamic 
mngtmpaddr noprefixroute
   valid_lft 3414sec preferred_lft 3414sec
inet6 fe80::beee:7bff:fe5e:8336/64 scope link noprefixroute
   valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: virbr0:  mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state 
DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 52:54:00:c4:59:37 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.122.1/24 brd 192.168.122.255 scope global virbr0
   valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
4: virbr1:  mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state 
DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 52:54:00:68:bf:76 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.100.1/24 brd 192.168.100.255 scope global virbr1
   valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
(base) comp@AbNormal:~$

Re: 404 Not Found Error Problem

2024-03-06 Thread Stephen P. Molnar





On 03/06/2024 09:09 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:

On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 08:21:11AM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:

Not Found

The requested URL was not found on this server.
Apache/2.4.57 (Debian) Server at abnormal.att.net Port 80

I've installed WebMO a number of times and have not encountered this
particular problem before.

Are you "abnormal.att.net"?  Or at least pretending to be that host
in your error messages?

Or is your web browser going to that host, when you expected it to go
to localhost or something?

When I went to abnormal.att.net there was an index.html in /var/www/html 
that opened with the message that the installation was correct and that 
the index.hml should be removed.


After I deleted the file WebMO opened!

Problem solved.

Many thanks for your reply.

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404 Not Found Error Problem

2024-03-06 Thread Stephen P. Molnar

I am running a new installation of Bookworm and have encountered a 404 
Not Found error problem with WebMO (https://www.webmo.net):


Not Found

The requested URL was not found on this server.
Apache/2.4.57 (Debian) Server at abnormal.att.net Port 80

I've installed WebMO a number of times and have not encountered this 
particular problem before. There are complete installation instruction 
on the web page The installation process did not generate any warning or 
error messages. In fact a diagnose.html file is generated (attached) and 
shows no problems.


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<<< text/html; charset=UTF-8; name="diagnose.html": Unrecognized >>>

Re: Error: Failed to start Apache2 service on boot

2024-03-01 Thread Stephen P. Molnar





On 03/01/2024 11:08 AM, Markus Schönhaber wrote:

01.03.24, 16:36 +0100, Stephen P. Molnar:


I am running up to date Bookworm and get the 'Failed to start Apache2
service on boot' error message.

I searched Google and found
https://forums.debian.net/voew.top9c,php?t=14419s which didn't solve the
problem.

I then tried sudo systemctl status apache2.service resulting in:

× apache2.service - The Apache HTTP Server
  Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/apache2.service; enabled;
preset: enabled)
  Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2024-03-01 10:14:07
EST; 20min ago
    Docs: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/
     Process: 4474 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/apachectl start (code=exited,
status=1/FAILURE)
     CPU: 41ms

Mar 01 10:14:07 AbNormal systemd[1]: Starting apache2.service - The
Apache HTTP Server...
Mar 01 10:14:07 AbNormal apachectl[4477]: AH00526: Syntax error on line
11 of /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/userdir.conf:

[1] ^^


Mar 01 10:14:07 AbNormal apachectl[4477]: Illegal option ExecCG

[2] ^^


Mar 01 10:14:07 AbNormal apachectl[4474]: Action 'start' failed.
Mar 01 10:14:07 AbNormal apachectl[4474]: The Apache error log may have
more information.
Mar 01 10:14:07 AbNormal systemd[1]: apache2.service: Control process
exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Mar 01 10:14:07 AbNormal systemd[1]: apache2.service: Failed with result
'exit-code'.
Mar 01 10:14:07 AbNormal systemd[1]: Failed to start apache2.service -
The Apache HTTP Server.

Unfortunately, I am not conversant in ancient Greek and wold very
appreciative of assistance.

Hm, to me it seems that the problem description in the log is written in
pretty plain English:

[1] Look at /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/userdir.conf line 11
there you should see something like
[2] "ExecCG" which probably should read "ExecCGI" instead.


That was the problem. Many thanks.

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Error: Failed to start Apache2 service on boot

2024-03-01 Thread Stephen P. Molnar

I am running up to date Bookworm and get the 'Failed to start Apache2 
service on boot' error message.


I searched Google and found 
https://forums.debian.net/voew.top9c,php?t=14419s which didn't solve the 
problem.


I then tried sudo systemctl status apache2.service resulting in:

× apache2.service - The Apache HTTP Server
 Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/apache2.service; enabled; 
preset: enabled)
 Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2024-03-01 10:14:07 
EST; 20min ago

   Docs: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/
    Process: 4474 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/apachectl start (code=exited, 
status=1/FAILURE)

    CPU: 41ms

Mar 01 10:14:07 AbNormal systemd[1]: Starting apache2.service - The 
Apache HTTP Server...
Mar 01 10:14:07 AbNormal apachectl[4477]: AH00526: Syntax error on line 
11 of /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/userdir.conf:

Mar 01 10:14:07 AbNormal apachectl[4477]: Illegal option ExecCG
Mar 01 10:14:07 AbNormal apachectl[4474]: Action 'start' failed.
Mar 01 10:14:07 AbNormal apachectl[4474]: The Apache error log may have 
more information.
Mar 01 10:14:07 AbNormal systemd[1]: apache2.service: Control process 
exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Mar 01 10:14:07 AbNormal systemd[1]: apache2.service: Failed with result 
'exit-code'.
Mar 01 10:14:07 AbNormal systemd[1]: Failed to start apache2.service - 
The Apache HTTP Server.


Unfortunately, I am not conversant in ancient Greek and wold very 
appreciative of assistance.


Thanks in advance.

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Re: Inclusive terminology (instead of master/slave) for network bonding/LACP

2024-02-23 Thread Stephen P. Molnar





On 02/23/2024 07:33 AM, Mariusz Gronczewski wrote:

Dnia 2024-02-23, o godz. 12:40:19
Arno Lehmann  napisał(a):


On 23.02.24 at 10:33, Mariusz Gronczewski wrote:

On 22.02.2024 11:19, Ralph Aichinger wrote:

Hello!

I know this is a loaded topic...

...

There is no good reason *why*. It's entirely US political feel-good
activism

Statement one above proven.

...

All it does is wastes tens of thousands of people's time once the
have to fix

If there's a single person in the world who feels existing
terminology to hurt them, I consider my usage of such terms.

So you do nothing all day or ? Because there is always someone that
will find something a problem.


If it makes one person feel better, I think I did something good.

That's HORRID argument. You can do massive variety of unexcusably bad
things with that excuse. "But that person was happy for it"


If it makes others feel worse, I have to balance arguments. Arguments
such as "it was always thus" or "it's too much effort" are not strong
ones.


And that 0.001% that isn't even affected by term want it changed is
argument to you why ?


As it happens, I prefer being called "woke" above being rude.


How about "unable to discuss actual topic but throwing useless
generalizations in every sentence"? Is that woke or rude ?




Neither. it's a waste of bandwidth!

I'm guilty of that for posting this.

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Re: Orphaned Inode Problem

2024-02-19 Thread Stephen P. Molnar




On 02/19/2024 12:20 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:

On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 10:02:10AM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:

I am running up to date Bookworm on my Debian platform:

Processor   AMD FX(tm)-8320 Eight-Core Processor
Memory  8026MB (5267MB used)
Machine TypeDesktop
Operating SystemDebian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)

I have been plagued with orphaned inodes. Last night the problem cane to a
head. When I reboot the computer, after an orphaned inode incident created
stop, it got as far as the user login. After the return I got the Windows
infamous blue screen. Restarting produced the same problem.

Fortunately, I have another SSD used to test Bookworm, before updating on
the SSD that is having the problem. I can access the problem drive and am in
the process of backing up files.

I ran sudo e2fsck -f/dev/sdc1 and got:

Script started on 2024-02-19 08:15:52-05:00 [TERM="xterm-256color"
TTY="/dev/pts/0" COLUMNS="100" LINES="24"]
[?2004h(base) ]0;comp@AbNormal:
~[01;32mcomp@AbNormal[00m:[01;34m~[00m$ sudo e2fsck -f
/dev/sdc1lcaomo[Ksudo e2fsck -f /dev/sdc1
[?2004l
[sudo] password for comp:
e2fsck 1.47.0 (5-Feb-2023)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
/lost+found not found.  Create? yes
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information

/dev/sdc1: * FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *
/dev/sdc1: 7982363/121577472 files (0.3% non-contiguous),
421959365/486307328 blocks
[?2004h(base) ]0;comp@AbNormal:
~[01;32mcomp@AbNormal[00m:[01;34m~[00m$ [?2004l

Comments and suggestions will be appreciated.

This session doesn't show anything to worry about. As far as fsck
is concerned, the file system looks clean. Back up its contents as
quickly as you can and treat the disk with suspicion. There are
other candidate suspects for file system corruption (flaky power
supply, software doing silly things, kernel bugs, loose cables),
but the disk would be the pirmary.

Cheers

Thanks for he reply. It's somewhat reassuring.

According to my logs the box had its' last major  last upgrade in 2014, 
so I shouldn't be too surprised.


My backup is underweight and should be done sometime tomorrow.  I have a 
2 TB HDD I'm going to use for the new install.


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https://insilicochemistry.net
(614)312-7528 (c)
Skype:  smolnar1

Orphaned Inode Problem

2024-02-19 Thread Stephen P. Molnar


I am running up to date Bookworm on my Debian platform:

Processor   AMD FX(tm)-8320 Eight-Core Processor
Memory  8026MB (5267MB used)
Machine TypeDesktop
Operating SystemDebian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)

I have been plagued with orphaned inodes. Last night the problem cane to 
a head. When I reboot the computer, after an orphaned inode incident 
created stop, it got as far as the user login. After the return I got 
the Windows infamous blue screen. Restarting produced the same problem.


Fortunately, I have another SSD used to test Bookworm, before updating 
on the SSD that is having the problem. I can access the problem drive 
and am in the process of backing up files.


I ran sudo e2fsck -f/dev/sdc1 and got:

Script started on 2024-02-19 08:15:52-05:00 [TERM="xterm-256color" 
TTY="/dev/pts/0" COLUMNS="100" LINES="24"]
[?2004h(base) ]0;comp@AbNormal: 
~[01;32mcomp@AbNormal[00m:[01;34m~[00m$ sudo e2fsck -f 
/dev/sdc1lcaomo[Ksudo e2fsck -f /dev/sdc1

[?2004l
[sudo] password for comp:
e2fsck 1.47.0 (5-Feb-2023)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
/lost+found not found.  Create? yes
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information

/dev/sdc1: * FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *
/dev/sdc1: 7982363/121577472 files (0.3% non-contiguous), 
421959365/486307328 blocks
[?2004h(base) ]0;comp@AbNormal: 
~[01;32mcomp@AbNormal[00m:[01;34m~[00m$ [?2004l


Comments and suggestions will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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https://insilicochemistry.net
(614)312-7528 (c)
Skype:  smolnar1

Re: Problem opening VMWare Player

2024-01-08 Thread Stephen P. Molnar





On 01/08/2024 08:53 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:

On Mon, Jan 08, 2024 at 08:33:11AM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:

I am running Bookworm.

I have installed VMWare-Player-Full-Bundle v-17.5.0, after checking that
Debian still supports it.

When I attempt running I get an error:

Failed to execute command "@@BINARY@@"
failed to execute child process "@@BINARY@@" (no such file or directory

When you run *what*?  What command, exactly?

In any case, this is very clearly a failed installation.  The @@BINARY@@
is a placeholder that should have been replaced by a program name (with
or without a path) during the installation.

Either you didn't follow the installation instructions correctly, or
something went wrong during the installation, which you'll have to
discover and fix before trying the installation again.


Thanks for the quick reply.

I don't doubt what you're saying. The installer reported that there were 
no errors. Obviously, it was wrong.


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https://insilicochemistry.net
(614)312-7528 (c)
Skype:  smolnar1

Problem opening VMWare Player

2024-01-08 Thread Stephen P. Molnar


I am running Bookworm.

I have installed VMWare-Player-Full-Bundle v-17.5.0, after checking that 
Debian still supports it.


When I attempt running I get an error:

Failed to execute command "@@BINARY@@"
failed to execute child process "@@BINARY@@" (no such file or directory

Suggestions for a solution will be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

--
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https://insilicochemistry.net
(614)312-7528 (c)
Skype:  smolnar1

Re: Synaptic Problem


Thank you for your detailed response. It is much appreciated.


On 12/23/2023 02:01 PM, Pocket wrote:

On 12/23/23 12:00, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:



On 12/23/2023 10:20 AM, Pocket wrote:

On 12/23/23 09:13, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:

Thanks for your reply. Please see belowl


On 12/23/2023 08:44 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:

On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 08:34:16AM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
I installed VMware-Player-Full-17.5.0-22583795.x86_64.bundle 
without any

problems.

Wen I tried to run the app using the run icon I got the error:

Failed to execute./update command "@@BINAR@@".
railed to execute child process "@@BINARY@@" (No sudh file or 
directory)


So, I uninstalled the program:

Did you check the directories afterwards, removing any files you 
found

related to vmware?


root@AbNormal:/usr/bin# vmware-installer --list-products
Product Name Product Version
 
vmware-player    17.5.0.22583795
root@AbNormal:/usr/bin# vmware-installer -u vmware-player
All configuration information is about to be removed. Do you wish to
keep your configuration files? You can also input 'quit' or 'q' to
cancel uninstallation. [yes]: no

Uninstalling VMware Installer 3.1.0
 Deconfiguring...
[##] 


100%
Uninstallation was successful.
root@AbNormal:/usr/bin#


That looks like a success ...


However, I have a bit of a problem, when I attempt:

(base) comp@AbNormal:~$ sudo apt update
[sudo] password for comp:
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security 
bookworm-security InRelease

Hit:2 http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian bookworm InRelease
Hit:3 http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian bookworm-updates InRelease
Hit:4 https://repo.skype.com/deb stable InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
W: https://repo.skype.com/deb/dists/stable/InRelease: Key is 
stored in
legacy trusted.gpg keyring (/etc/apt/trusted.gpg), see the 
DEPRECATION

section in apt-key(8) for details.
(base) comp@AbNormal:~$ sudo apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: The package virtualbox-7.0 needs to be reinstalled, but I 
can't find an

archive for it.
(base) comp@AbNormal:~$


If you were using virtualbox before vmware, could this be left over?
Virtualbox has been removed from Debian stable versions - see
https://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox but I think you could pick it 
up from

Oracle.

If you've nothing that depends on either particularly, I'd recommend
virt-manager and the kvm/qemu universe.

Andy



Please advise.

Thanks in advance.

--
Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.
https://insilicochemistry.net
(614)312-7528 (c)
Skype:  smolnar1

Actually, I am using the QEM/KVM virt-manager programs for Windows 
10 and an very happy with them. However, right now I'm hung up on 
accessing the host and the internet from the Windows guest. I was 
hoping to get som insight from VMWare as to a solution.


My major problem is, because of the problem with VMWare Player, I 
can.t use Synaptic or apt to update and upgrade Bookworm.




This my shed some light on the subject

Try this

dpkg --verify


for example running on my system.
dpkg --verify
??5?? c /etc/skel/.bashrc
??5?? c /etc/initramfs-tools/update-initramfs.conf
??5?? c /etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf
??5?? c /etc/systemd/logind.conf
??5?? c /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
??5?? c /etc/sudoers.d/010_pi-nopasswd
??5?? c /etc/wayfire/greeter.ini
??5??   /usr/share/firefox/distribution/distribution.ini
missing /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-fbturbo.conf
??5?? c /etc/default/useradd
??5?? c /etc/dphys-swapfile
??5?? c /etc/login.defs
??5?? c /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

I have spoken



   What can you tell me about this?

comp@AbNormal:~$ dpkg --verify
??5?? c /etc/mime.types
?   /usr/lib/cups/backend/implicitclass
missing /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d (Permission denied)
missing /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/20-org.d (Permission denied)
missing /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/30-site.d (Permission denied)
missing /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d (Permission denied)
missing /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/90-mandatory.d (Permission 
denied)
missing /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/49-polkit-pkla-compat.rules 
(Permission denied)

missing /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority (Permission denied)
missing /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d (Permission 
denied)
missing /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/20-org.d (Permission 
denied)
missing /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/30-site.d (Permission 
denied)
missing /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d (Permission 
denied)
missing /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/90-mandatory.d 
(Permission denie

Re: Synaptic Problem


This worked:

https://www.ihaveapc.com/2011/10/fix-annoying-the-package-needs-to-be-reinstalled-but-i-cant-find-an-archive-for-it-error-in-linux-mint-ubuntu/

Thanks to all who answered by cry for help.


On 12/23/2023 12:30 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:

Thank you for your guidance.

The information in my last email is attached.


On 12/23/2023 12:22 PM, Michael Kjörling wrote:
On 23 Dec 2023 11:58 -0500, from s.mol...@sbcglobal.net (Stephen P. 
Molnar):

Thanks for the reply.
Please see below.

Please trim your replies. We don't need >100 lines of text when a few
lines of quoted material for context for the reply would do just fine.
(Certainly quote _relevant_ material, but that is almost never the
entirety of an email including previously quoted material.)

Then you'll also not need to say "please see below" because there
won't be a wall of text to scroll past to get to a few lines that
actually add something new to the discussion.





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https://insilicochemistry.net
(614)312-7528 (c)
Skype:  smolnar1

Re: Synaptic Problem


Thank you for your guidance.

The information in my last email is attached.


On 12/23/2023 12:22 PM, Michael Kjörling wrote:

On 23 Dec 2023 11:58 -0500, from s.mol...@sbcglobal.net (Stephen P. Molnar):

Thanks for the reply.
Please see below.

Please trim your replies. We don't need >100 lines of text when a few
lines of quoted material for context for the reply would do just fine.
(Certainly quote _relevant_ material, but that is almost never the
entirety of an email including previously quoted material.)

Then you'll also not need to say "please see below" because there
won't be a wall of text to scroll past to get to a few lines that
actually add something new to the discussion.



--
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https://insilicochemistry.net
(614)312-7528 (c)
Skype:  smolnar1

comp@AbNormal:~$ dpkg --verify
??5?? c /etc/mime.types
?   /usr/lib/cups/backend/implicitclass
missing /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d (Permission denied)
missing /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/20-org.d (Permission denied)
missing /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/30-site.d (Permission denied)
missing /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d (Permission denied)
missing /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/90-mandatory.d (Permission denied)
missing /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/49-polkit-pkla-compat.rules (Permission denied)
missing /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority (Permission denied)
missing /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d (Permission denied)
missing /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/20-org.d (Permission denied)
missing /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/30-site.d (Permission denied)
missing /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d (Permission denied)
missing /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/90-mandatory.d (Permission denied)
missing /var/log/apt
missing /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/libvirt-dbus.rules (Permission denied)
missing /usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/mimetypes
missing /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/mimetypes
missing /var/log/runit
missing /var/log/runit/ssh
??5?? c /etc/apache2/mods-available/userdir.conf
missing /var/log/apache2
??5?? c /etc/default/ufw
missing /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/systemd-networkd.rules (Permission denied)
missing /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.rules (Permission denied)
missing /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority (Permission denied)
missing /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d (Permission denied)
missing /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.pkla (Permission denied)
missing /var/log/speech-dispatcher
missing /etc/apparmor.d/disable
missing /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/org.gtk.vfs.file-operations.rules (Permission denied)
missing /var/cache/cups/rss (Permission denied)
missing /var/spool/cups/tmp (Permission denied)
? c /etc/sudoers
? c /etc/sudoers.d/README
missing /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/org.freedesktop.Flatpak.rules (Permission denied)
missing /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority (Permission denied)
missing /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d (Permission denied)
missing /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/org.freedesktop.Flatpak.pkla (Permission denied)
? c /etc/exim4/passwd.client
missing /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/org.freedesktop.packagekit.rules (Permission denied)
missing /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority (Permission denied)
missing /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d (Permission denied)
missing /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/org.freedesktop.packagekit.pkla (Permission denied)
?   /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-brf
? c /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf
missing /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/60-libvirt.rules (Permission denied)
missing /var/log/libvirt
missing /var/log/libvirt/lxc
missing /var/log/libvirt/qemu
? c /etc/default/cacerts
??5?? c /etc/sane.d/dll.conf
?   /usr/lib/cockpit/cockpit-session
missing /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/50-default.rules (Permission denied)
??5??   /opt/brother/scanner/brscan4/brsanenetdevice4.cfg
(base) comp@AbNormal:~$ dpkg --verify >verifydpkg
(base) comp@AbNormal:~$

Re: Synaptic Problem





On 12/23/2023 10:20 AM, Pocket wrote:

On 12/23/23 09:13, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:

Thanks for your reply. Please see belowl


On 12/23/2023 08:44 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:

On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 08:34:16AM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
I installed VMware-Player-Full-17.5.0-22583795.x86_64.bundle 
without any

problems.

Wen I tried to run the app using the run icon I got the error:

Failed to execute./update command "@@BINAR@@".
railed to execute child process "@@BINARY@@" (No sudh file or 
directory)


So, I uninstalled the program:


Did you check the directories afterwards, removing any files you found
related to vmware?


root@AbNormal:/usr/bin# vmware-installer --list-products
Product Name Product Version
 
vmware-player    17.5.0.22583795
root@AbNormal:/usr/bin# vmware-installer -u vmware-player
All configuration information is about to be removed. Do you wish to
keep your configuration files? You can also input 'quit' or 'q' to
cancel uninstallation. [yes]: no

Uninstalling VMware Installer 3.1.0
 Deconfiguring...
[##] 


100%
Uninstallation was successful.
root@AbNormal:/usr/bin#


That looks like a success ...


However, I have a bit of a problem, when I attempt:

(base) comp@AbNormal:~$ sudo apt update
[sudo] password for comp:
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security 
InRelease

Hit:2 http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian bookworm InRelease
Hit:3 http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian bookworm-updates InRelease
Hit:4 https://repo.skype.com/deb stable InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
W: https://repo.skype.com/deb/dists/stable/InRelease: Key is stored in
legacy trusted.gpg keyring (/etc/apt/trusted.gpg), see the DEPRECATION
section in apt-key(8) for details.
(base) comp@AbNormal:~$ sudo apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: The package virtualbox-7.0 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't 
find an

archive for it.
(base) comp@AbNormal:~$


If you were using virtualbox before vmware, could this be left over?
Virtualbox has been removed from Debian stable versions - see
https://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox but I think you could pick it up 
from

Oracle.

If you've nothing that depends on either particularly, I'd recommend
virt-manager and the kvm/qemu universe.

Andy



Please advise.

Thanks in advance.

--
Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.
https://insilicochemistry.net
(614)312-7528 (c)
Skype:  smolnar1

Actually, I am using the QEM/KVM virt-manager programs for Windows 10 
and an very happy with them. However, right now I'm hung up on 
accessing the host and the internet from the Windows guest. I was 
hoping to get som insight from VMWare as to a solution.


My major problem is, because of the problem with VMWare Player, I 
can.t use Synaptic or apt to update and upgrade Bookworm.




This my shed some light on the subject

Try this

dpkg --verify


for example running on my system.
dpkg --verify
??5?? c /etc/skel/.bashrc
??5?? c /etc/initramfs-tools/update-initramfs.conf
??5?? c /etc/plymouth/plymouthd.conf
??5?? c /etc/systemd/logind.conf
??5?? c /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
??5?? c /etc/sudoers.d/010_pi-nopasswd
??5?? c /etc/wayfire/greeter.ini
??5??   /usr/share/firefox/distribution/distribution.ini
missing /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-fbturbo.conf
??5?? c /etc/default/useradd
??5?? c /etc/dphys-swapfile
??5?? c /etc/login.defs
??5?? c /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

I have spoken



  What can you tell me about this?

comp@AbNormal:~$ dpkg --verify
??5?? c /etc/mime.types
?   /usr/lib/cups/backend/implicitclass
missing /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d (Permission denied)
missing /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/20-org.d (Permission denied)
missing /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/30-site.d (Permission denied)
missing /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d (Permission denied)
missing /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/90-mandatory.d (Permission denied)
missing /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/49-polkit-pkla-compat.rules 
(Permission denied)

missing /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority (Permission denied)
missing /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d (Permission denied)
missing /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/20-org.d (Permission denied)
missing /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/30-site.d (Permission denied)
missing /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d (Permission denied)
missing /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/90-mandatory.d (Permission 
denied)

missing /var/log/apt
missing /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/libvirt-dbus.rules (Permission 
denied)

missing /usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/mimet

Re: Synaptic Problem

Thanks for the reply.
Please see below.
On 12/23/2023 11:19 AM, David Christensen wrote:

On 12/23/23 05:34, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
I installed VMware-Player-Full-17.5.0-22583795.x86_64.bundle without 
any problems.

Where did you get that file?  The following URL (?):

https://www.vmware.com/products/workstation-player/workstation-player-evaluation.html 

I have suffered much negative reinforcement by attempting to use 
software on Debian that is not integrated into the Debian APT 
ecosystem.  So, I avoid such software whenever possible.

Wen I tried to run the app using the run icon I got the error:

Failed to execute./update command "@@BINAR@@".
railed to execute child process "@@BINARY@@" (No sudh file or directory)

So, I uninstalled the program:

root@AbNormal:/usr/bin# ls vmwar*
vmware-collect-host-support-info  vmware-license-check.sh 
vmware-networks

vmwarectrl              vmware-license-enter.sh  vmware-ping
vmware-fuseUI              vmware-modconfig vmware-uninstall
vmware-gksu              vmware-mount vmware-usbarbitrator
vmware-installer          vmware-netcfg
root@AbNormal:/usr/bin# ./vmware-uninstall
You have gotten this message because you are either downgrading VMware
Workstation, Player, or VIX, or because you attempted to run either
vmware-uninstall or vmware-uninstall-vix.

If you are downgrading, please uninstall all newer versions first, then
install again.

The vmware-uninstall* scripts have been deprecated.  Instead, please use
the vmware-installer.

Long form:
   vmware-installer --uninstall-product PRODUCT
Short form:
   vmware-installer -u PRODUCT

Where PRODUCT is one of vmware-workstation, vmware-player, or 
vmware-vix.

For a list of which products are installed, you may run:
   vmware-installer --list-products
or:
   vmware-installer -l

root@AbNormal:/usr/bin# vmware-installer --list-products
Product Name Product Version

vmware-player    17.5.0.22583795
root@AbNormal:/usr/bin# vmware-installer -u vmware-player
All configuration information is about to be removed. Do you wish to
keep your configuration files? You can also input 'quit' or 'q' to
cancel uninstallation. [yes]: no

Uninstalling VMware Installer 3.1.0
 Deconfiguring...
[##] 
100%

Uninstallation was successful.
root@AbNormal:/usr/bin#

However, I have a bit of a problem, when I attempt:

(base) comp@AbNormal:~$ sudo apt update
[sudo] password for comp:
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security 
InRelease

Hit:2 http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian bookworm InRelease
Hit:3 http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian bookworm-updates InRelease
Hit:4 https://repo.skype.com/deb stable InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
W: https://repo.skype.com/deb/dists/stable/InRelease: Key is stored 
in legacy trusted.gpg keyring (/etc/apt/trusted.gpg), see the 
DEPRECATION section in apt-key(8) for details.

(base) comp@AbNormal:~$ sudo apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: The package virtualbox-7.0 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't 
find an archive for it.

(base) comp@AbNormal:~$

Please advise.

Thanks in advance.

On 12/23/23 06:13, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> My major problem is, because of the problem with VMWare Player, I
> can.t use Synaptic or apt to update and upgrade Bookworm.

Do you have an sources.list(5) configuration line for VirtualBox?

2023-12-23 08:15:57 root@taz ~
# egrep '^deb' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/90-virtualbox.list
deb https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian bullseye contrib

David

The only line in that subdirectory is:

deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.skype.com/deb stable main

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https://insilicochemistry.net
(614)312-7528 (c)
Skype:  smolnar1

Re: apt upgrade can't find archive for virtualbox-7.0; was: Synaptic Problem


Thanks fr the reply. Please see below:


On 12/23/2023 09:01 AM, Michael Kjörling wrote:

On 23 Dec 2023 08:34 -0500, from s.mol...@sbcglobal.net (Stephen P. Molnar):

However, I have a bit of a problem, when I attempt:

(base) comp@AbNormal:~$ sudo apt update
[sudo] password for comp:
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian bookworm InRelease
Hit:3 http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian bookworm-updates InRelease
Hit:4 https://repo.skype.com/deb stable InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
W: https://repo.skype.com/deb/dists/stable/InRelease: Key is stored in
legacy trusted.gpg keyring (/etc/apt/trusted.gpg), see the DEPRECATION
section in apt-key(8) for details.
(base) comp@AbNormal:~$ sudo apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: The package virtualbox-7.0 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an
archive for it.
(base) comp@AbNormal:~$

Please advise.

VirtualBox isn't in the official Debian repositories, so you likely
used Oracle's repository to install it at some point and then removed
that repository from your apt configuration (possibly as a part of
installing VMWare; in general, having more than one hypervisor
installed on the same system is discouraged). Alternatively, you might
have installed VirtualBox using a manually downloaded .deb file.

Either re-add Oracle's repository per
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads#Debian-basedLinuxdistributions
and try `apt reinstall virtualbox-7.0` (this is probably the easiest
if you want to keep running VirtualBox).

Or reinstall the .deb using dpkg -i if you originally installed
VirtualBox that way.

Or you could try `apt remove virtualbox-7.0`.

If you don't want to run VirtualBox going forward, the easiest way
might be to just `apt purge virtualbox-7.0`.

(base) comp@AbNormal:~$ sudo apt purge virtualbox-7.0
[sudo] password for comp:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: The package virtualbox-7.0 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find 
an archive for it.

(base) comp@AbNormal:~$


Depending on the current state of the package, you might need to
reinstall it before you can remove it.

After either remove or purge (see the apt man page for the difference
between the two) you should be able to reinstall it later if you want
to.

More generally, I agree with Andy's recommendation to check out
KVM/QEMU unless you have something in particular which depends on
using a specific other hypervisor. You may want to check out AQEMU as
a replacement for virt-manager; I haven't tried it myself, but based
on screenshots I have seen it looks like a closer match for
VirtualBox's GUI tooling, and you will still have access to the full
power of KVM through virsh if you want that.



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Re: Synaptic Problem


Thanks for your reply. Please see belowl


On 12/23/2023 08:44 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:

On Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 08:34:16AM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:

I installed VMware-Player-Full-17.5.0-22583795.x86_64.bundle without any
problems.

Wen I tried to run the app using the run icon I got the error:

Failed to execute./update command "@@BINAR@@".
railed to execute child process "@@BINARY@@" (No sudh file or directory)

So, I uninstalled the program:


Did you check the directories afterwards, removing any files you found
related to vmware?


root@AbNormal:/usr/bin# vmware-installer --list-products
Product Name Product Version
 
vmware-player    17.5.0.22583795
root@AbNormal:/usr/bin# vmware-installer -u vmware-player
All configuration information is about to be removed. Do you wish to
keep your configuration files? You can also input 'quit' or 'q' to
cancel uninstallation. [yes]: no

Uninstalling VMware Installer 3.1.0
     Deconfiguring...
[##]
100%
Uninstallation was successful.
root@AbNormal:/usr/bin#


That looks like a success ...


However, I have a bit of a problem, when I attempt:

(base) comp@AbNormal:~$ sudo apt update
[sudo] password for comp:
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian bookworm InRelease
Hit:3 http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian bookworm-updates InRelease
Hit:4 https://repo.skype.com/deb stable InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
W: https://repo.skype.com/deb/dists/stable/InRelease: Key is stored in
legacy trusted.gpg keyring (/etc/apt/trusted.gpg), see the DEPRECATION
section in apt-key(8) for details.
(base) comp@AbNormal:~$ sudo apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: The package virtualbox-7.0 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an
archive for it.
(base) comp@AbNormal:~$


If you were using virtualbox before vmware, could this be left over?
Virtualbox has been removed from Debian stable versions - see
https://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox but I think you could pick it up from
Oracle.

If you've nothing that depends on either particularly, I'd recommend
virt-manager and the kvm/qemu universe.

Andy



Please advise.

Thanks in advance.

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Actually, I am using the QEM/KVM virt-manager programs for Windows 10 
and an very happy with them. However, right now I'm hung up on accessing 
the host and the internet from the Windows guest. I was hoping to get 
som insight from VMWare as to a solution.


My major problem is, because of the problem with VMWare Player, I can.t 
use Synaptic or apt to update and upgrade Bookworm.


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Synaptic Problem

I installed VMware-Player-Full-17.5.0-22583795.x86_64.bundle without any 
problems.


Wen I tried to run the app using the run icon I got the error:

Failed to execute./update command "@@BINAR@@".
railed to execute child process "@@BINARY@@" (No sudh file or directory)

So, I uninstalled the program:

root@AbNormal:/usr/bin# ls vmwar*
vmware-collect-host-support-info  vmware-license-check.sh vmware-networks
vmwarectrl              vmware-license-enter.sh  vmware-ping
vmware-fuseUI              vmware-modconfig       vmware-uninstall
vmware-gksu              vmware-mount vmware-usbarbitrator
vmware-installer          vmware-netcfg
root@AbNormal:/usr/bin# ./vmware-uninstall
You have gotten this message because you are either downgrading VMware
Workstation, Player, or VIX, or because you attempted to run either
vmware-uninstall or vmware-uninstall-vix.

If you are downgrading, please uninstall all newer versions first, then
install again.

The vmware-uninstall* scripts have been deprecated.  Instead, please use
the vmware-installer.

Long form:
  vmware-installer --uninstall-product PRODUCT
Short form:
  vmware-installer -u PRODUCT

Where PRODUCT is one of vmware-workstation, vmware-player, or vmware-vix.

For a list of which products are installed, you may run:
  vmware-installer --list-products
or:
  vmware-installer -l


root@AbNormal:/usr/bin# vmware-installer --list-products
Product Name Product Version
 
vmware-player    17.5.0.22583795
root@AbNormal:/usr/bin# vmware-installer -u vmware-player
All configuration information is about to be removed. Do you wish to
keep your configuration files? You can also input 'quit' or 'q' to
cancel uninstallation. [yes]: no

Uninstalling VMware Installer 3.1.0
    Deconfiguring...
[##] 
100%

Uninstallation was successful.
root@AbNormal:/usr/bin#

However, I have a bit of a problem, when I attempt:

(base) comp@AbNormal:~$ sudo apt update
[sudo] password for comp:
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian bookworm InRelease
Hit:3 http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian bookworm-updates InRelease
Hit:4 https://repo.skype.com/deb stable InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
W: https://repo.skype.com/deb/dists/stable/InRelease: Key is stored in 
legacy trusted.gpg keyring (/etc/apt/trusted.gpg), see the DEPRECATION 
section in apt-key(8) for details.

(base) comp@AbNormal:~$ sudo apt upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: The package virtualbox-7.0 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find 
an archive for it.

(base) comp@AbNormal:~$

Please advise.

Thanks in advance.

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Fwd: Re: Problem Installing WebMO.23.0.17

2023-12-21 Thread Stephen P. Molnar

I'm hoping for some help is solving this problem.

An excellent discussion of the installation  of WebMO is www/webmo.net

 Forwarded Message 
Subject:Re: Problem Installing WebMO.23.0.17
Date:   Thu, 21 Dec 2023 12:36:54 -0500
From:   Stephen P. Molnar 
To: JR Schmidt 
CC: William Polik 

JR

Thanks for the quick response.

(base) comp@AbNormal:~$ sudo apt-get install apache2
apache2-suexec-custom libcgi-pm-perl
[sudo] password for comp:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
apache2 is already the newest version (2.4.57-2).
apache2-suexec-custom is already the newest version (2.4.57-2).
libcgi-pm-perl is already the newest version (4.55-1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

To address the question if Apache is running:

(base) comp@AbNormal:~$ sudo service apache2 stop
(base) comp@AbNormal:~$ sudo service apache2 start
Job for apache2.service failed because the control process exited with
error code.
See "systemctl status apache2.service" and "journalctl -xeu
apache2.service" for details.
(base) comp@AbNormal:~$ sudo systemctl status apache2.service
× apache2.service - The Apache HTTP Server
 Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/apache2.service; enabled;
preset: enabled)
 Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2023-12-21 12:34:04
EST; 14s ago
   Docs: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/
    Process: 35373 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/apachectl start (code=exited,
status=1/FAILURE)
    CPU: 18ms

Dec 21 12:34:04 AbNormal systemd[1]: Starting apache2.service - The
Apache HTTP Server...
Dec 21 12:34:04 AbNormal apachectl[35379]: (2)No such file or directory:
AH02291: Cannot access directory '/var/log/apache2/' for main error log
Dec 21 12:34:04 AbNormal apachectl[35379]: (2)No such file or directory:
AH02291: Cannot access directory '/var/log/apache2/' for error log of
vhost d>
Dec 21 12:34:04 AbNormal apachectl[35379]: AH00014: Configuration check
failed
Dec 21 12:34:04 AbNormal apachectl[35373]: Action 'start' failed.
Dec 21 12:34:04 AbNormal apachectl[35373]: The Apache error log may have
more information.
Dec 21 12:34:04 AbNormal systemd[1]: apache2.service: Control process
exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Dec 21 12:34:04 AbNormal systemd[1]: apache2.service: Failed with result
'exit-code'.
Dec 21 12:34:04 AbNormal systemd[1]: Failed to start apache2.service -
The Apache HTTP Server.
(base) comp@AbNormal:~$ sudo journalctl -xeu apache2.service
Dec 21 12:34:04 AbNormal apachectl[35373]: Action 'start' failed.
Dec 21 12:34:04 AbNormal apachectl[35373]: The Apache error log may have
more information.
Dec 21 12:34:04 AbNormal systemd[1]: apache2.service: Control process
exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
░░ Subject: Unit process exited
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://www.debian.org/support
░░
░░ An ExecStart= process belonging to unit apache2.service has exited.
░░
░░ The process' exit code is 'exited' and its exit status is 1.
Dec 21 12:34:04 AbNormal systemd[1]: apache2.service: Failed with result
'exit-code'.
░░ Subject: Unit failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://www.debian.org/support
░░
░░ The unit apache2.service has entered the 'failed' state with result
'exit-code'.
Dec 21 12:34:04 AbNormal systemd[1]: Failed to start apache2.service -
The Apache HTTP Server.
░░ Subject: A start job for unit apache2.service has failed
░░ Defined-By: systemd
░░ Support: https://www.debian.org/support
░░
░░ A start job for unit apache2.service has finished with a failure.
░░
░░ The job identifier is 4943 and the job result is failed.

On 12/21/2023 11:05 AM, JR Schmidt wrote:

I probably cannot be of much help, since it doesn't look like Apache is even 
started:

Dec 21 06:42:27 AbNormal apachectl[4457]: (2)No such file or directory: 
AH02291: Cannot access directory '/var/log/apache2/' for main error log
Dec 21 06:42:27 AbNormal apachectl[4457]: (2)No such file or directory: 
AH02291: Cannot access directory '/var/log/apache2/' for error log of vhost 
defined at /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf:1

It appears that Apache was not installed correctly, since the log directory 
doesn't even exist.  I wouldn't be surprised if there were more fundamental 
issues as well.

You can try removing/reinstalling APACHE itself.  If you cannot connect to 
Apache (just http:// abnormal.att.net) then Apache isn't even running.

Although I double Apache has started, even if it HAS, it it likely not using 
SSL.  Thus the right URL would be:
http://abnormal.att.net/~comp/cgi-bin/webmo/login.cgi

-Original Message-
From: Stephen P. Molnar 
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2023 6:20 AM
To: supp...@webmo.net
Subject: Problem Installing WebMO.23.0.17

Due to an increasing number of show stopping que

Re: Problem with /var/cache/apt/archives/

2023-12-16 Thread Stephen P. Molnar


Many thanks for the replies.

I'll add 'sudo apt-get autoclean to' my update bat file.


On 12/16/2023 09:55 AM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:

"Stephen P. Molnar"  writes:


I am running Bookworm on my Debian computer. When I installed the OS I
selected the option for separate /var etc, and selected the default
sizes of the partitions.

When I ran sudo apt update this morning I received the error message:

E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/

Can I increase the size of the /var partition on the ssd without
having to reinstall the system?

Thanks in advance.

Are you doing anything to get rid of unused packages?  If not the
archives just keep growing.  An occasional

# apt-get autoclean

will do a lot for you.

clean
clean clears out the local repository of retrieved package files.
It removes everything but the lock file from
/var/cache/apt/archives/ and /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/.

autoclean (and the auto-clean alias since 1.1)
Like clean, autoclean clears out the local repository of retrieved
package files. The difference is that it only removes package files
that can no longer be downloaded, and are largely useless. This
allows a cache to be maintained over a long period without it
growing out of control. The configuration option
APT::Clean-Installed will prevent installed packages from being
erased if it is set to off.



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Problem with /var/cache/apt/archives/

2023-12-16 Thread Stephen P. Molnar

I am running Bookworm on my Debian computer. When I installed the OS I 
selected the option for separate /var etc, and selected the default 
sizes of the partitions.


When I ran sudo apt update this morning I received the error message:

E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/

Can I increase the size of the /var partition on the ssd without having 
to reinstall the system?


Thanks in advance.

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Problem with Xfce4 Applications Menu

2023-12-12 Thread Stephen P. Molnar

I have just bumbled my way thorough reinstalling v 12.4.0 on my main 
Linux platform and have managed to mangle the Xfce4Applications Menu by 
somehow misusing MenuLibre.


Some how the contents of some of the subdirectories have been shifted to 
an 'Other' subdirectory. My question is how do i reconstruct the 
Applications Directory?


Thanks in advance.

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Re: Synaptic Problem

2023-12-10 Thread Stephen P. Molnar

On 12/10/2023 01:22 PM, gene heskett wrote:

On 12/10/23 10:47, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:

I have just reinstalled Bookworm.

Unfortunately, when I tru tto use synaptic I get the following error:

E: The package brscan4 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an
archive for it.

E: Internal error opening cache (1). Please report.

Unfortunately, Google has not been of any help.

A solution to the problem would be appreciated.

Tanks in advance.

A solution may already exist on your machine if it knows about brscan.

Brother has a deb containing their smartinstaller as a bash script,
named in my case "linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.1-1" or your can get
the latest version from brothers sites, visit with firefox.

Unpack it, run it from a cli, it asks for the model number string of
the printer or scanner, goes to brother'sown linux repo and downloads
the latest version available for that device and installs and
configures it to Just Work with cups IF you have removed cups-browsed
thereby disallowing cups from setting up the default printer driver
which cannot drive the printer in anything but waste paper mode.
Brothers own drivers support every feature the printer has, accessible
from the web interface cups serves at localhost:631. Despite the poor
publicity I've seen about factory drivers, brothers drivers for linux
work 100% here. Linux support is excellent for their products.

Cheers, Gene Heskett.

Gene

Thank you for your encouraging reply. I have the Brother MCF-L2710DW
Laser printer and am very pleased with it. I followed your directions
and ran:

sudo bash linux-brprinter-installer-2.2.3-1

Here are the CUPS results:

Description:MFCL2710DW
Location:
Driver: Brother MFCL2710DW for CUPS (grayscale, 2-sided printing)
Connection:
dnssd://Brother%20MFC-L2710DW%20series._ipp._tcp.local/?uuid=e3248000-80ce-11db-8000-b42200417fc9

Defaults: job-sheets=none, none media=iso_a4_210x297mm sides=one-sided

I ran "Prnt Test Page" anmd got:

Defaults: job-sheets=none, none media=iso_a4_210x297mm sides=one-sided

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Re: Synaptic Problem

2023-12-10 Thread Stephen P. Molnar


I appreciated the suggestion, but it didn't solve the problem with Synaptic.


On 12/10/2023 11:03 AM, Arno Lehmann wrote:

Hi all,

Am 10.12.2023 um 16:53 schrieb to...@tuxteam.de:

On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 10:47:09AM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:

I have just reinstalled Bookworm.

Unfortunately, when I tru tto use synaptic I get the following error:

E: The package brscan4 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an 
archive

for it.


brscan4 is not in the official Debian repos. Perhaps you have installed
it from another source which has disappeared.

Superficial Internet search suggests that it is a Brother thing.


Indeed it is.

Brother have some installation helper script, but that is not really 
playing nicely with the idea of using remote repos for installation. 
It may be simplest to use dpkg to uninstall the brscan4 package, do 
the necessary upgrades etc., and then install the brother stuff again.


That way, you'll also have relatively up to date Brother drivers.

If you want to avoid the odyssey through Brother's web site, have a 
look at https://pieterhollander.nl/post/brother-printer-debian/ and 
consider just believing them.


Cheers,

Arno



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Synaptic Problem

2023-12-10 Thread Stephen P. Molnar


I have just reinstalled Bookworm.

Unfortunately, when I tru tto use synaptic I get the following error:

E: The package brscan4 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an 
archive for it.

E: Internal error opening cache (1). Please report.

Unfortunately, Google has not been of any help.

A solution to the problem would be appreciated.

Tanks in advance.

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Re: Boot Problem


My Os is up to date and running the version XFCE4

I've attached the log files that i could find. I hope that it will help.


On 12/05/2023 02:26 PM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:

On 05.12.2023 23:33, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
I decided to try something. I logged in to the rescue  mode as root 
and entered startx at the prompt. This generated the error:


Unable to contact settings server
failed to execute child process "dbus-launch" (No such file or 
directory)


I vaguely remember having similar behavior as you described in the 
first message, but I can't recall what was the root cause of that problem.
Probably it was Xfce4 user session failing to start because of config 
file or cache corruption.
Try to create a new test user and login using these new credentials, 
just to test it out.


It would be great if you'd also share an information about your 
system, installed version of Xfce, etc.
Contents of log files in your user's home directory 
"~/.xsession-errors" and "~/.xfce4-session.verbose-log".

You can use Debian Pastezone [1] to share long text files.


[1] https://paste.debian.net/
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(base) comp@AbNormal:~$ cat Xorg.0.log
[ 7.958]
X.Org X Server 1.21.1.7
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
[ 7.958] Current Operating System: Linux AbNormal 6.1.0-11-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.38-4 (2023-08-08) x86_64
[ 7.958] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-11-amd64 root=UUID=5b89d91f-1709-4d1c-9421-32aef272fac5 ro quiet
[ 7.958] xorg-server 2:21.1.7-3 (https://www.debian.org/support)
[ 7.958] Current version of pixman: 0.42.2
[ 7.958] 	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
[ 7.958] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[ 7.958] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Dec  5 09:53:34 2023
[ 7.965] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[ 7.971] (==) No Layout section.  Using the first Screen section.
[ 7.971] (==) No screen section available. Using defaults.
[ 7.971] (**) |-->Screen "Default Screen Section" (0)
[ 7.971] (**) |   |-->Monitor ""
[ 7.972] (==) No monitor specified for screen "Default Screen Section".
	Using a default monitor configuration.
[ 7.972] (==) Automatically adding devices
[ 7.972] (==) Automatically enabling devices
[ 7.972] (==) Automatically adding GPU devices
[ 7.972] (==) Automatically binding GPU devices
[ 7.972] (==) Max clients allowed: 256, resource mask: 0x1f
[ 7.980] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
[ 7.980] 	Entry deleted from font path.
[ 7.984] (==) FontPath set to:
	/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,
	/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,
	/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,
	/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,
	/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,
	/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,
	built-ins
[ 7.984] (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
[ 7.984] (II) The server relies on udev to provide the list of input devices.
	If no devices become available, reconfigure udev or disable AutoAddDevices.
[ 7.984] (II) Loader magic: 0x55ab5609bf00
[ 7.984] (II) Module ABI versions:
[ 7.984] 	X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
[ 7.984] 	X.Org Video Driver: 25.2
[ 7.984] 	X.Org XInput driver : 24.4
[ 7.984] 	X.Org Server Extension : 10.0
[ 7.985] (++) using VT number 7

[ 7.985] (II) systemd-logind: logind integration requires -keeptty and -keeptty was not provided, disabling logind integration
[ 7.986] (II) xfree86: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card0)
[ 7.986] (II) Platform probe for /sys/devices/pci:00/:00:02.0/:01:00.0/drm/card0
[ 7.992] (--) PCI:*(1@0:0:0) 1002:68f9:1545:5450 rev 0, Mem @ 0xc000/268435456, 0xfea2/131072, I/O @ 0xe000/256, BIOS @ 0x/131072
[ 7.993] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
[ 7.995] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
[ 8.017] (II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 8.017] 	compiled for 1.21.1.7, module version = 1.0.0
[ 8.017] 	ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 10.0
[ 8.017] (II) Applying OutputClass "Radeon" to /dev/dri/card0
[ 8.017] 	loading driver: radeon
[ 8.017] (==) Matched radeon as autoconfigured driver 0
[ 8.017] (==) Matched ati as autoconfigured driver 1
[ 8.017] (==) Matched modesetting as autoconfigured driver 2
[ 8.017] (==) Matched fbdev as autoconfigured d

Re: Boot Problem

I decided to try something. I logged in to the rescue  mode as root and 
entered startx at the prompt. This generated the error:


Unable to contact settings server
failed to execute child process "dbus-launch" (No such file or directory)


On 12/05/2023 01:03 PM, Tom Furie wrote:

"Stephen P. Molnar"  writes:



On 12/05/2023 12:47 PM, Tom Furie wrote:

"Stephen P. Molnar"  writes:


I have Bookworm installed on a 1TB SSD. When I attempted logging this
morning I failed! Rather than opening my XFCE desktop I was sent back
tot he login screen, over and over and . I got the

When you say "back to the login screen", do you mean back to a graphical
login screen, or to a text console login screen?


Xfce4 graphical login screen

Then the problem is not a display issue, but something wrong in loading
the desktop. I don’t use XFCE, but hopefully this means dead-end lines
of enquiry such as display drivers are halted, and that someone with
XFCE experience can chime in and offer advice.



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Re: Boot Problem


I've attached the log. I hope that someone can tell me what the problem is.

Thanks inn advance.


On 12/05/2023 11:59 AM, Joe wrote:

On Tue, 5 Dec 2023 11:05:15 -0500
"Stephen P. Molnar"  wrote:


I have Bookworm installed on a 1TB SSD. When I attempted logging this
morning I failed! Rather than opening my XFCE desktop I was sent back
tot he login screen, over and over and . I got the
same result attempting to login as root. I have to assume that grub
has been
corrupted>

As it happens I also have Bookworm installed on a second SSD on my
platform. I'm there sending this email

I have Grub Customizer installed in both. I have also just downloaded
and burned debian-12-2-0-ams64.

I am very nervous about messing with the OS. What might be my best
course of action to fix the problem (short of reinstalling)?


As Hans has said, this is a display issue, long after grub has
finished, if you're seeing a login prompt. Almost always, that means
your X session is not starting.

Something you could try first is to look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log as
there may be a clue there to the problem.



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[ 7.958] 
X.Org X Server 1.21.1.7
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
[ 7.958] Current Operating System: Linux AbNormal 6.1.0-11-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.38-4 (2023-08-08) x86_64
[ 7.958] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-11-amd64 root=UUID=5b89d91f-1709-4d1c-9421-32aef272fac5 ro quiet
[ 7.958] xorg-server 2:21.1.7-3 (https://www.debian.org/support) 
[ 7.958] Current version of pixman: 0.42.2
[ 7.958] 	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
[ 7.958] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
	(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
	(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[ 7.958] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Dec  5 09:53:34 2023
[ 7.965] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[ 7.971] (==) No Layout section.  Using the first Screen section.
[ 7.971] (==) No screen section available. Using defaults.
[ 7.971] (**) |-->Screen "Default Screen Section" (0)
[ 7.971] (**) |   |-->Monitor ""
[ 7.972] (==) No monitor specified for screen "Default Screen Section".
	Using a default monitor configuration.
[ 7.972] (==) Automatically adding devices
[ 7.972] (==) Automatically enabling devices
[ 7.972] (==) Automatically adding GPU devices
[ 7.972] (==) Automatically binding GPU devices
[ 7.972] (==) Max clients allowed: 256, resource mask: 0x1f
[ 7.980] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
[ 7.980] 	Entry deleted from font path.
[ 7.984] (==) FontPath set to:
	/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,
	/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,
	/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,
	/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,
	/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,
	/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,
	built-ins
[ 7.984] (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
[ 7.984] (II) The server relies on udev to provide the list of input devices.
	If no devices become available, reconfigure udev or disable AutoAddDevices.
[ 7.984] (II) Loader magic: 0x55ab5609bf00
[ 7.984] (II) Module ABI versions:
[ 7.984] 	X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
[ 7.984] 	X.Org Video Driver: 25.2
[ 7.984] 	X.Org XInput driver : 24.4
[ 7.984] 	X.Org Server Extension : 10.0
[ 7.985] (++) using VT number 7

[ 7.985] (II) systemd-logind: logind integration requires -keeptty and -keeptty was not provided, disabling logind integration
[ 7.986] (II) xfree86: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card0)
[ 7.986] (II) Platform probe for /sys/devices/pci:00/:00:02.0/:01:00.0/drm/card0
[ 7.992] (--) PCI:*(1@0:0:0) 1002:68f9:1545:5450 rev 0, Mem @ 0xc000/268435456, 0xfea2/131072, I/O @ 0xe000/256, BIOS @ 0x/131072
[ 7.993] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
[ 7.995] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
[ 8.017] (II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 8.017] 	compiled for 1.21.1.7, module version = 1.0.0
[ 8.017] 	ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 10.0
[ 8.017] (II) Applying OutputClass "Radeon" to /dev/dri/card0
[ 8.017] 	loading driver: radeon
[ 8.017] (==) Matched radeon as autoconfigured driver 0
[ 8.017] (==) Matched ati as autoconfigured driver 1
[ 8.017] (==) Matched modesetting as autoconfigured driver 2
[ 8.017] (==) Matched fbdev as autoconfigured driver 3
[ 8.017] (==) Matched vesa as autoconfigured driver 4
[ 8.017] (==) Assigned the driver to the xf86ConfigLayout
[ 8.017] (II) LoadModule: "radeon"
[ 8.017

Re: Boot Problem


Xfce4 graphical login screen


On 12/05/2023 12:47 PM, Tom Furie wrote:

"Stephen P. Molnar"  writes:


I have Bookworm installed on a 1TB SSD. When I attempted logging this
morning I failed! Rather than opening my XFCE desktop I was sent back
tot he login screen, over and over and . I got the

When you say "back to the login screen", do you mean back to a graphical
login screen, or to a text console login screen?



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Boot Problem

I have Bookworm installed on a 1TB SSD. When I attempted logging this 
morning I failed! Rather than opening my XFCE desktop I was sent back 
tot he login screen, over and over and . I got the same 
result attempting to login as root. I have to assume that grub has been 
corrupted>


As it happens I also have Bookworm installed on a second SSD on my 
platform. I'm there sending this email


I have Grub Customizer installed in both. I have also just downloaded 
and burned debian-12-2-0-ams64.


I am very nervous about messing with the OS. What might be my best 
course of action to fix the problem (short of reinstalling)?


Thanks in advance

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Re: Acer Monitors

2023-10-18 Thread Stephen P. Molnar

My thanks to all who responded. I am now looking at my new monitor and 
am pleased.



On 10/18/2023 01:02 PM, Felix Miata wrote:

Stephen P. Molnar composed on 2023-10-18 08:09 (UTC-0400):


I am running Bookworm on a AMD CPU and am considering purchasing an
Acer  and considering the EK272 EBI 72 in.
I'd be interested in hearing any comments from users of Acer products.

Made in 2018 27" 2560x1440 K272HUL has had poor black level since new, but it 
was
only $180. Also it likes to randomly either pretend signal is out of range, or
switch from its native 2560x1440 to a low resolution (1024x768 or so), on exit
back to login screen after a successful Xorg login session.


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Acer Monitors

2023-10-18 Thread Stephen P. Molnar

I am running Bookworm on a AMD CPU and am considering purchasing an 
Acer  and considering the EK272 EBI 72 in.


I'd be interested in hearing any comments from users of Acer products.

Thanks in advance.

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Strange Monitor Behavior

2023-10-16 Thread Stephen P. Molnar

I am running up top date Bookworm on my AMD Linux platform with a LG 
Monitor and have developed a rather strange problem.


When the system wakes up from sleep mode it has a bright pink screen. 
This seems to be a random occurrence. Turning the Monitor off and then 
back on returns the normal screen.


The monitor card is a Visiontek  Radeon HD 5450.

Googling brings mixed returns as to the problem.

I would appreciate guidance in this matter.

Thanks in advance.

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Re: Help ! libvirt

2023-09-21 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé

On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 09:05:43AM +0100, Bhasker C V wrote:
> Adding libvirt mailing list
> apologies for cross-posting
> libvirt version: 9.7.0-1
> 
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 8:39 AM john doe  wrote:
> 
> > On 9/21/23 09:32, Bhasker C V wrote:
> > > I am getting an error with libivrt when I create a VM
> > >
> > > ```
> > >   $ sudo virsh create ./win11.xml

Please post the win11.xml file contents too

> > > error: Failed to create domain from ./win11.xml
> > > error: internal error: mishandled storage format 'none'
> > >
> > > ```
> > >
> > > This is after I have done a dist-upgrade (was working fine before)
> > > debian trixie.
> > >
> > > error message says
> > > qemuBlockStorageSourceGetBlockdevFormatProps:1227 : internal error:
> > > mishandled storage format 'none'
> > >

With regards,
Daniel
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Re: Grub Error

2023-08-20 Thread Stephen P. Molnar

Thank you for your reply.  Fortunately, I was able to fix the problem 
with the help of another respondent to my plea.


Help from folks like you and your colleagues on the 'net  has kept my 
Computational Chemistry research  going  has since the early days of 
Slackware



On 08/20/2023 10:30 AM, Michael Kjörling wrote:

On 20 Aug 2023 08:14 -0400, from s.mol...@sbcglobal.net:

error: no such device; 1d937ccf-2b57-4dcd-97d9-83522d7s04f1.

error: unknown filesystem.

grub fescue>

Quite often this type of error is caused by grub.cfg being either
corrupted or out of sync with the reality of your system's storage.

The first thing I would try is to use some kind of recovery boot
environment to boot and (important) chroot into the root file system,
make sure /boot is mounted for /boot/grub (something like mount -a
from the Debian installer rescue environment with the root file system
as root should do), make a backup copy of /boot/grub/grub.cfg
somewhere, and run both update-grub and grub-install  to
regenerate grub.cfg and rewrite the GRUB boot code on disk. Pay close
attention to any error messages or warnings in the process.

Once you're able to boot into the normal system, you'll want to
similarly re-run both update-grub and grub-install to make sure that
the results are sane and gives you a system that will boot normally.

I'm assuming that particularly "fescue" is a typo in the email; GRUB
should say "rescue". If it really does say "fescue", something is very
wrong with your GRUB installation.

And yes, if GRUB is OK then you should be able to boot the system
manually at the GRUB prompt, if your / and /boot file systems are
intact.



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Strange Boot Behavior

2023-08-06 Thread Stephen P. Molnar


I have Debian 12 installed on my main computer.

This morning, when I booted the computer , I got "GRUB ERROR>"  and the 
message that there was no operating system on the boot SSD.


Fortunately, I have Debian 12 installed on two SSD's on the platform. I 
shut down the computer, restarted it with F2 to open the BIOS and 
selected  the other SSD with Debian. When GRUB came up I was presented 
the normal selection screen, The booting process continued normally with 
the SSD that gave me the "GRUB ERROR>" initially.


Then I shut down the system and restarted it. Normal start up!!

Does anyone have any ideal as to what might be going on (yes, I know an 
impossible question)?


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Synaptic Problem

2023-07-07 Thread Stephen P. Molnar


I have just installed Bookworm without any problems.

However, synaptic has developed a problem:

Google has not found a solution that works.

I would appreciate suggstions.

Thanks in advance.

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Re: Monitor Problem




On 7/6/23 12:56, Dan Ritter wrote:

Stephen P. Molnar wrote:

On 7/6/23 09:30, Dan Ritter wrote:

Stephen P. Molnar wrote:

A properly working Radeon driver suggests that the only issue is
a problem getting the EDID mode information from the monitor.

Options:

- Force the mode
- Swap from VGA to some other cable (HDMI, DVI) depending on
what the monitor has.
- Write a custom modeline

If you have an appropriate cable handy, that will be fastest and
easiest.

-dsr-


Thanks for the reply.

I changed the cable and get the same results.

To HDMI or DVI?

  

However, I am rather hesitant to try this.

Is there a possibility that I might destroy something?

Not with a modern monitor, no. And anything with an HDMI input
is modern.

However, you skipped right by "force the mode".

What's the output of
xrandr
with the current low-res setup?

-dsr-


I wasn't sure how to "force the mode"

Here is

(base) comp@AbNormal:~$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 8192 x 8192
HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DVI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
VGA-0 connected 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 
0mm
   1024x768  60.00*
   800x600   60.3256.25
   848x480   60.00
   640x480   59.94

also

  Kernel: 6.1.0-9-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-9-amd64
root=UUID=e9c597fe-afe5-48b1-bf3f-791c4781f0b8 ro quiet
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm
v: 4.18.0 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.26.0 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Cedar [Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series] vendor: VISIONTEK
driver: radeon v: kernel alternate: amdgpu arch: TeraScale-2 code: Evergreen
process: TSMC 32-40nm built: 2009-15 pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 16
ports: active: VGA-1 empty: DVI-I-1,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 1002:68f9 class-ID: 0300 temp: 44.0 C
  Device-2: Microdia REDRAGON Live Camera driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 2-4:2
chip-ID: 0c45:6536 class-ID: 0102 serial: 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 compositor: xfwm v: 4.18.0 driver:
X: loaded: radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: r600 gpu: radeon
display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1024x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 270x203mm (10.63x7.99")
s-diag: 338mm (13.3")
  Monitor-1: VGA-1 mapped: VGA-0 res: 1024x768 hz: 60 size: N/A modes:
max: 1024x768 min: 640x480
  API: OpenGL v: 4.5 Mesa 22.3.6 renderer: AMD CEDAR (DRM 2.50.0 /
6.1.0-9-amd64 LLVM 15.0.6) direct-render: Yes
 
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Re: Monitor Problem




On 7/6/23 12:29, Felix Miata wrote:

Stephen P. Molnar composed on 2023-07-06 12:02 (UTC-0400):


I changed the cable and get the same results.

Meaning what, another VGA cable, or a digital cable (DisplayPort, HDMI or DVI)??

VGA is an analog technology that dates back into the 1980s. Developers are
becoming fewer and fewer who use it, leading to potential regressions in 
software
that uses it. Digital is more competent. Use it if you can, and surely you can
with both your HD5450 and your LG digital flat panel display. Both DisplayPort 
and
HDMI provide the benefit of also carrying audio to your display, should that be
your wish.


Then I googled 'linux force vga monitor mode'. This resulted in:
  1. Open a Terminal by CTRL + ALT + T
  2. Type xrandr and ENTER
  3. Note the display name usually VGA-1 or HDMI-1 or DP-1
  4. Type cvt 1920 1080 (to get the --newmode args for the next step) and
 ENTER
  5. Type sudo xrandr --newmode "1920x1080_60.00" 173.00 1920 2048 2248
 2576 1080 1083 1088 1120 -hsync +vsync and ENTER
However, I am rather hesitant to try this.

Technically, yes, but as a practical matter highly unlikely, and cvt does no
better at generating a mode than X does if given the vertical refresh and
horizontal sync data it needs that EDID is failing to do. Create a file
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-monitor.conf containing:

Section "Monitor"
 Identifier "Monitor0"
 HorizSync  30-81
 VertRefresh56-75
 Option "PreferredMode"   "1920x1080"
EndSection

Note that the sync and refresh numbers should come from your display's
specifications in its manual, but those above are likely adequate to task. It's
also possible that 'hwinfo --monitor' would give you those two specs.


Well, the file didn't word. Booting resulted in an errorm message that the 
lightdm wasn't found.
I rebooted in tp the repauir mode and removed the file. The system rebooted OK.
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Re: Monitor Problem



On 7/6/23 09:30, Dan Ritter wrote:

Stephen P. Molnar wrote:

comp@AbNormal:~$ inxi -GSaz
System:
   Kernel: 6.1.0-9-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
 parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-9-amd64
 root=UUID=e9c597fe-afe5-48b1-bf3f-791c4781f0b8 ro quiet
   Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm
 v: 4.18.0 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.26.0 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 12 
(bookworm)
Graphics:
   Device-1: AMD Cedar [Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series] vendor: VISIONTEK
 driver: radeon v: kernel alternate: amdgpu arch: TeraScale-2 code: 
Evergreen
 process: TSMC 32-40nm built: 2009-15 pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 16
 ports: active: VGA-1 empty: DVI-I-1,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0
 chip-ID: 1002:68f9 class-ID: 0300 temp: 49.0 C
   Device-2: Microdia REDRAGON Live Camera driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
 type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-4:2
 chip-ID: 0c45:6536 class-ID: 0102 serial: 
   Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 compositor: xfwm v: 4.18.0 driver:
 X: loaded: radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: r600 gpu: radeon
 display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
   Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1024x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 270x203mm (10.63x7.99")
 s-diag: 338mm (13.3")
   Monitor-1: VGA-1 mapped: VGA-0 res: 1024x768 hz: 60 size: N/A modes:
 max: 1024x768 min: 640x480
   API: OpenGL v: 4.5 Mesa 22.3.6 renderer: AMD CEDAR (DRM 2.50.0 /
 6.1.0-9-amd64 LLVM 15.0.6) direct-render: Yes
comp@AbNormal:~$

The new installation is happy, up and running, but I still have the resolution 
problem.
Pointes towards a solution will be much appreciated.


A properly working Radeon driver suggests that the only issue is
a problem getting the EDID mode information from the monitor.

Options:

- Force the mode
- Swap from VGA to some other cable (HDMI, DVI) depending on
   what the monitor has.
- Write a custom modeline

If you have an appropriate cable handy, that will be fastest and
easiest.

-dsr-


Thanks for the reply.

I changed the cable and get the same results.

Then I googled 'linux force vga monitor mode'. This resulted in:

1. Open a Terminal by CTRL + ALT + T
2. Type xrandr and ENTER
3. Note the display name usually VGA-1 or HDMI-1 or DP-1
4. Type cvt 1920 1080 (to get the --newmode args for the next step) and
   ENTER
5. Type sudo xrandr --newmode "1920x1080_60.00" 173.00 1920 2048 2248
   2576 1080 1083 1088 1120 -hsync +vsync and ENTER

However, I am rather hesitant to try this.

Is there a possibility that I might destroy something?

--

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https://insilicochemistry.net
(614)312-7528 (c)
Skype:  smolnar1

Re: Monitor Problem




On 7/5/23 15:36, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:


On 7/5/2023 9:17 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:

Hi,


   "[...] ASUS M5 A97 R2.0 Motherboard BIOS 2603 [...]"

It comes to me that such a UEFI BIOS should be ready to boot from USB
stick.
Do you have one at hand with content that is not really worth keeping ?


Have a nice day :)

Thomas

Thank you, Thomas, for your recollention. The system did indeed 
install ffrom an iso on a USB flash drive.


Two peoblems remain;

Booting into the 500GB SDD, upon which I installed Debian-12.0.0 still 
has a highest resolution of 1024x768.


Booting into the 1TD SSDmstill hangs with a message: ;out of range'


Sorry I didn't have the information sooner, but I just got email working.

comp@AbNormal:~$ inxi -GSaz
System:
  Kernel: 6.1.0-9-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-9-amd64
root=UUID=e9c597fe-afe5-48b1-bf3f-791c4781f0b8 ro quiet
  Desktop: Xfce v: 4.18.1 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.36 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm
v: 4.18.0 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.26.0 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Cedar [Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series] vendor: VISIONTEK
driver: radeon v: kernel alternate: amdgpu arch: TeraScale-2 code: Evergreen
process: TSMC 32-40nm built: 2009-15 pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 16
ports: active: VGA-1 empty: DVI-I-1,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 1002:68f9 class-ID: 0300 temp: 49.0 C
  Device-2: Microdia REDRAGON Live Camera driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-4:2
chip-ID: 0c45:6536 class-ID: 0102 serial: 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 compositor: xfwm v: 4.18.0 driver:
X: loaded: radeon unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: r600 gpu: radeon
display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1024x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 270x203mm (10.63x7.99")
s-diag: 338mm (13.3")
  Monitor-1: VGA-1 mapped: VGA-0 res: 1024x768 hz: 60 size: N/A modes:
max: 1024x768 min: 640x480
  API: OpenGL v: 4.5 Mesa 22.3.6 renderer: AMD CEDAR (DRM 2.50.0 /
6.1.0-9-amd64 LLVM 15.0.6) direct-render: Yes
comp@AbNormal:~$

The new installation is happy, up and running, but I still have the resolution 
problem.
Pointes towards a solution will be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
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Re: Monitor Problem

2023-07-05 Thread Stephen P. Molnar




On 7/5/2023 9:17 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:

Hi,


   "[...] ASUS M5 A97 R2.0 Motherboard BIOS 2603 [...]"

It comes to me that such a UEFI BIOS should be ready to boot from USB
stick.
Do you have one at hand with content that is not really worth keeping ?


Have a nice day :)

Thomas


Thank you, Thomas, for your recollention. The system did indeed install ffrom 
an iso on a USB flash drive.

Two peoblems remain;

Booting into the 500GB SDD, upon which I installed Debian-12.0.0 still has a 
highest resolution of 1024x768.

Booting into the 1TD SSDmstill hangs with a message: ;out of range'
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Re: Monitor Problem

2023-07-05 Thread Stephen P. Molnar




On 7/5/2023 8:24 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:

Hi,

i wrote:

I assume that it is a DVD because of:
   https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1038440
  "debian-cd: debian-12.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso is too big for a CD"

I forgot to assume that the ISO would be for i386.
This netinst ISO version still fits on "700 MB" CDs.
   http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/i386/iso-cd/
says "673M" as size.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas


Thanks for thr reply.

Until the unfortunate error 'out of range, which started this threadk, the 
CD/DVD drive had been working.
The iso is Debian-1.0.0-amd64-netist.iso and the sha523sum mathced.

What would ce the effect of updating the BIOS?

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Re: Monitor Problem

2023-07-05 Thread Stephen P. Molnar




On 7/4/2023 4:26 PM, Felix Miata wrote:

Stephen P. Molnar composed on 2023-07-04 16:09 (UTC-0400):


I have gotten to the point where I wan to solve the resolution by
installing v-12 on my 500 GB SSD. However, although the CD/DVD drive is
first in the Boot Menu,  the system ignores that and boots into the Desktop.
Suggestions, please?

It could be the BIOS is being obstreperous, or the media could defective in some
way. To force an attempt to boot from removable media instead of internal 
storage,
BIOS provide a BBS hotkey. These depend on the BIOS, typically by brand. Among 
the
possibles:

ASRock  F11
AsusF8
Biostar F9?
DellF12
eCS F12 or F10
eMachines   F10
EVGAF7
GigabyteF12
HP  F9 or ESC or ESC,F9, or F10
Lenovo  F12 or F8 or F10
MSI F11
Toshiba F12

Proper timing of key strike varies, but must occur before POST completes.


Thanks for the reply.

F8 works.

I placed a Debian12.iso in the CD/DVD dirve. Here are the results:

CD-ROM Device dfriver for IDE (Four Channels Supported)
(c) Copyright .  .  .
Driver Version: : V340
Device Name:: BANANA
No drives found, aborting installation

Device driver not found:  'BANANA'
No valid CDROM device dfrivers selected

Now I'mm really getting into unknown territory.

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Re: Monitor Problem

2023-07-04 Thread Stephen P. Molnar

Unfortunately, I have lost access to the reply to this email in the 
thread where Felix gave me some great suggestions.


I bumbled on and got to the point where I can login to v-11 with out 
having to edit the Grub Menu selection. Resolution is still 1024x768 hz: 60.


I have gotten to the point where I wan to solve the resolution by 
installing v-12 on my 500 GB SSD. However, although the CD/DVD drive is 
first in the Boot Menu,  the system ignores that and boots into the Desktop.


Suggestions, please?

Thanks in advance.

On 7/2/2023 1:58 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:




On 07/02/2023 01:21 PM, Felix Miata wrote:

Stephen P. Molnar composed on 2023-07-02 10:57 (UTC-0400):


I should have posted to the debian users group, but unfortunately, I
can't  access the last reply you sent. Fortunately, I printed it.
I guess I really did it this time, I found a HDMI to HDMi at the
Microcenter but it doesn't open until 11:00am.

Walmart has them, unless the pegs are all out of stock. Same for Best Buy. 
They're
no different for PCs than for TVs.


So I thought I'd go ahead and remove the xserver-org-video-radeon driver
in preparation. When I rebooted the system I got an out of range signal
again. When I booted in to the recovery mode I got a arm_radeon_ vga
detect [radeon] *ERROR* VGA-1 probrd a monitor but no|invalid EDI error
that repeats over and over.

At the Grub menu with the default still selected, strike the E key, then 
navigate
to the end of the line that begins linu. Append there nomodeset, then proceed 
with
the boot via F10 or Ctrl-X. First, try normally using the HDMI cable you should
have procured by now.

Most developers haven't used VGA connections for more than a decade, so they 
miss
regressions they cause. Until users discover and report them, nothing gets done
about them. Digital connections both produce higher quality output, and more
reliability.


I really hate to bother you with this


Once again, your expertise and instructions have moved me back to 
whete I was.


(base) comp@AbNormal:~$ inxi -GSaz
System:    Kernel: 5.10.0-23-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 
10.2.1

   parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-23-amd64
   root=UUID=9848531c-e052-44b0-a5b6-9ea786f9eaee ro quiet 
nomodeset
   Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: 
xfwm4 dm: LightDM 1.26.0

   Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Graphics:  Device-1: AMD Cedar [Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series] 
vendor: VISIONTEK
   driver: N/A alternate: radeon bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 
1002:68f9 class ID: 0300
   Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: vesa 
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting

   alternate: ati display ID: :0.0 screens: 1
   Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1024x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 271x203mm 
(10.7x8.0")

   s-diag: 339mm (13.3")
   Monitor-1: default res: 1024x768
   OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 11.0.1 256 bits) v: 4.5 
Mesa 20.3.5 compat-v: 3.1

   direct render: Yes

I am at a resolution of 1024x768. Also, after I got in the first tine 
I decided to reboot and see what would happen. I had to do the fix 
again, so, f course, it is not permanent.


So the question is what do I do next? Perhaps, install Debian 12.0.0 
on my 500 GB SSD.


What do you think?

Thanks in advance. Apologies to the list fo not replying to the with 
my last email in the thread.

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https://insilicochemistry.net
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Skype:  smolnar1


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Re: Monitor Problem

2023-07-02 Thread Stephen P. Molnar





On 07/02/2023 04:50 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:

On Sun, Jul 2, 2023 at 4:36 PM Felix Miata  wrote:

Stephen P. Molnar composed on 2023-07-02 13:58 (UTC-0400):
[...]

I am at a resolution of 1024x768. Also, after I got in the first tine I
decided to reboot and see what would happen. I had to do the fix again,
so, of course, it is not permanent.

Appending nomodeset is primarily intended for troubleshooting graphics issues by
enabling fallback graphics functional for editing configurations and running
package management. As long as you must use nomodeset, you are forced into
1024x768 at best, sometimes worse. It's only coincidental that this mode is used
by both your original problem and using nomodeset, because it's a failsafe 
fallback.

Gotta love tribal knowledge...

Jeff

Oh, I do! I do!  Thank goodness for it, and all the great and 
knowledgeable people on this list!!!


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Re: Monitor Problem

2023-07-02 Thread Stephen P. Molnar




On 07/02/2023 01:21 PM, Felix Miata wrote:

Stephen P. Molnar composed on 2023-07-02 10:57 (UTC-0400):


I should have posted to the debian users group, but unfortunately, I
can't  access the last reply you sent. Fortunately, I printed it.
I guess I really did it this time, I found a HDMI to HDMi at the
Microcenter but it doesn't open until 11:00am.

Walmart has them, unless the pegs are all out of stock. Same for Best Buy. 
They're
no different for PCs than for TVs.


So I thought I'd go ahead and remove the xserver-org-video-radeon driver
in preparation. When I rebooted the system I got an out of range signal
again. When I booted in to the recovery mode I got a arm_radeon_ vga
detect [radeon] *ERROR* VGA-1 probrd a monitor but no|invalid EDI error
that repeats over and over.

At the Grub menu with the default still selected, strike the E key, then 
navigate
to the end of the line that begins linu. Append there nomodeset, then proceed 
with
the boot via F10 or Ctrl-X. First, try normally using the HDMI cable you should
have procured by now.

Most developers haven't used VGA connections for more than a decade, so they 
miss
regressions they cause. Until users discover and report them, nothing gets done
about them. Digital connections both produce higher quality output, and more
reliability.


I really hate to bother you with this


Once again, your expertise and instructions have moved me back to whete 
I was.


(base) comp@AbNormal:~$ inxi -GSaz
System:    Kernel: 5.10.0-23-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1
   parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-23-amd64
   root=UUID=9848531c-e052-44b0-a5b6-9ea786f9eaee ro quiet 
nomodeset
   Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: 
xfwm4 dm: LightDM 1.26.0

   Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Graphics:  Device-1: AMD Cedar [Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series] 
vendor: VISIONTEK
   driver: N/A alternate: radeon bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 
1002:68f9 class ID: 0300
   Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: vesa 
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting

   alternate: ati display ID: :0.0 screens: 1
   Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1024x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 271x203mm 
(10.7x8.0")

   s-diag: 339mm (13.3")
   Monitor-1: default res: 1024x768
   OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 11.0.1 256 bits) v: 4.5 
Mesa 20.3.5 compat-v: 3.1

   direct render: Yes

I am at a resolution of 1024x768. Also, after I got in the first tine I 
decided to reboot and see what would happen. I had to do the fix again, 
so, f course, it is not permanent.


So the question is what do I do next? Perhaps, install Debian 12.0.0 on 
my 500 GB SSD.


What do you think?

Thanks in advance. Apologies to the list fo not replying to the with my 
last email in the thread.


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Skype:  smolnar1

Re: Out of Range Monitor Problim

2023-07-01 Thread Stephen P. Molnar

OK. Now I boot into as user, but the resolution leaves something to be 
desired, 1024x760.


The new card is a ViasiontekHD5450 16GB D3 DVH PCI Card.

The Monitor is a LG Flattop 24EN33TW-B with a recommended resolution of 
1920X1080 67500 kHz 60kHz +/+ (Which, I think the resolution was before 
the mishap)


I installed inxi and get the following results:

(base) comp@AbNormal:~$ inxi -GSaz
System:    Kernel: 5.10.0-23-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.1
   parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.10.0-23-amd64
   root=UUID=9848531c-e052-44b0-a5b6-9ea786f9eaee ro quiet
   Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.24 info: xfce4-panel wm: 
xfwm4 dm: LightDM 1.26.0

   Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Graphics:  Device-1: AMD Cedar [Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series] 
vendor: VISIONTEK
   driver: radeon v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 1002:68f9 
class ID: 0300

   Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: loaded: ati,radeon
   unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa display ID: :0.0 screens: 1
   Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1024x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 271x203mm 
(10.7x8.0")

   s-diag: 339mm (13.3")
   Monitor-1: VGA-0 res: 1024x768 hz: 60
   OpenGL: renderer: AMD CEDAR (DRM 2.50.0 / 5.10.0-23-amd64 
LLVM 11.0.1)

   v: 3.3 Mesa 20.3.5 compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes

While I am quite comfortable, doing molecular orbital computations, I 
would be very uncomfortable trying to proceed further.


Guidance would be very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.


On 06/30/2023 02:32 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
The problem is solved. Apparently the PCI card had a loose connector, 
so I replaced it.


As] soon as  adjust the resolution it'll be back to normal.

Many thanks to all that answered by request for help.

On 6/29/2023 4:09 PM, Felix Miata wrote:

Stephen P. Molnar composed on 2023-06-29 15:15 (UTC-0400):


All components were purchased from tho Microcenter herein Columbus.
It could, in fact, connect to a TV on the LAN in the same room, But now
I get form the TV: Computer No signal is it on?
Not a good sign. :( Did you turn the TV on, and to the correct input, 
before
turning on the PC? Some TVs don't like being late to the boot. So do 
some GPUs.



inxi -GSaz, in safe mode, returns- bash: inxi: command not found
If network is working, sudo apt install inxi will install it, but 
because

Bullseye's inxi is a broken antique, better to do the following as root:

cd /usr/local/bin && wget -O inxi smxi.org/inxi && chmod +x inxi
from:
https://smxi.org/docs/inxi-installation.htm#inxi-manual-install

to get the much improved current version. Inxi -Gaz is the best there 
is for

providing basic graphics troubleshooting info.


cat for both logs returns:  no such file or directory
Bad sign. I never use Wayland, so can't be sure what if any logging 
it does that
ordinary people can locate. Xorg should have left an old one in 
either location if
there is no current one. I think Wayland leaves its stuff in the 
journal:

<https://www.google.com/search?q=debian+journalctl+wayland>


Let me pose a hypothetical - Would installing Debian 12 on a different
drive boot. or would I (most likely) muck-up the entire computer?
It's possible to muck up what you have, but if you remove the current 
drive and
install the different one and Bookworm, it might be your best way 
forward. If the
installer can't work either, it would be near certain you've acquired 
a hardware
problem, hopefully easily resolved with a graphics card swap if you 
can locate one
to try without too much trouble. What to look for might depend on 
what you have in
there now. NVidia as good at giving people headaches like you have. 
Intel only
just began (after more than two decades of not) providing discrete 
graphics cards.
So hopefully you could get hands on a PCIe AMD card made less than 10 
years ago to

try.

Simply starting the Bookworm installer, if it starts at all, might 
say a lot.




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Re: Out of Range Monitor Problim

2023-06-30 Thread Stephen P. Molnar

The problem is solved. Apparently the PCI card had a loose connector, so 
I replaced it.


As soon as  adjust the resolution it'll be back to normal.

Many thanks to all that answered by request for help.

On 6/29/2023 4:09 PM, Felix Miata wrote:

Stephen P. Molnar composed on 2023-06-29 15:15 (UTC-0400):


All components were purchased from tho Microcenter herein Columbus.
It could, in fact, connect to a TV on the LAN in the same room, But now
I get form the TV: Computer No signal is it on?

Not a good sign. :( Did you turn the TV on, and to the correct input, before
turning on the PC? Some TVs don't like being late to the boot. So do some GPUs.


inxi -GSaz, in safe mode, returns-  bash: inxi: command not found

If network is working, sudo apt install inxi will install it, but because
Bullseye's inxi is a broken antique, better to do the following as root:

cd /usr/local/bin && wget -O inxi smxi.org/inxi && chmod +x inxi
from:
https://smxi.org/docs/inxi-installation.htm#inxi-manual-install

to get the much improved current version. Inxi -Gaz is the best there is for
providing basic graphics troubleshooting info.


cat for both logs returns:  no such file or directory

Bad sign. I never use Wayland, so can't be sure what if any logging it does that
ordinary people can locate. Xorg should have left an old one in either location 
if
there is no current one. I think Wayland leaves its stuff in the journal:
<https://www.google.com/search?q=debian+journalctl+wayland>


Let me pose a hypothetical - Would installing Debian 12 on a different
drive boot. or would I (most likely) muck-up the entire computer?

It's possible to muck up what you have, but if you remove the current drive and
install the different one and Bookworm, it might be your best way forward. If 
the
installer can't work either, it would be near certain you've acquired a hardware
problem, hopefully easily resolved with a graphics card swap if you can locate 
one
to try without too much trouble. What to look for might depend on what you have 
in
there now. NVidia as good at giving people headaches like you have. Intel only
just began (after more than two decades of not) providing discrete graphics 
cards.
So hopefully you could get hands on a PCIe AMD card made less than 10 years ago 
to
try.

Simply starting the Bookworm installer, if it starts at all, might say a lot.


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Re: Out of Range Monitor Problim




On 6/29/2023 1:23 PM, gene heskett wrote:

On 6/29/23 06:56, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:

I have Bullseye currently installed on my main Linux platform.

When I logged in this morning I got an Out of Range 95.3 kHz/60 kHz 
error.



What version are you running now?

That sounds like something an older monitor could fuss about. Did you 
get an indication it had dropped to a lower definition setting? Look 
at /var/log/xorg.log.1 or maybe .2 and see what it says. OTOH xorg.log 
of any kind is not being generated here. A clue I'm running wayland?  
Check and reseat the monitor cables in any event.  Otherwise maybe 
somebody smarter might know.


Although I have been using Linux since the early days of Slackware 
and the Red Hat Mother's day release, I'm strictly  a user. I googled 
the problem and got answers that I don't understand. I can boot into 
the rescue mode but can go no further.


Suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.



Cheers, Gene Heskett.


I'm running Debian 11, but I was going to install Debian 12 on another drive in 
the computer.
As I quered anther person responding to this thread, would that solve the 
problem or exacerbate it?

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Re: Out of Range Monitor Problim




On 6/29/2023 1:56 PM, Felix Miata wrote:

Stephen P. Molnar composed on 2023-06-29 11:50 (UTC-0400):


Felix Miata wrote:

Stephen P. Molnar composed on 2023-06-29 06:55 (UTC-0400):

I have Bullseye currently installed on my main Linux platform.
When I logged in this morning I got an Out of Range 95.3 kHz/60 kHz
error.

What was the system stated immediately before trying? IOW, was it
suspended, off, hibernated, asleep?
It's hard to help much when you tell so little about your current
system. Was your cat sleeping on it when you came to use it? Is it a
laptop? How many displays are attached? What GPU(s)? Which DE or WM?
Inxi -GSaz is a good way to provide needed system info, if you can
get logged in successfully somehow, maybe by rebooting, or
Ctrl-Alt-F3 then Alt-F7/F1 cycled a time or three, or cycling the
display's power. Is your video cable loose? Ancient? Is your display
ancient, or VGA (analog)? Is your display under warranty? Maybe it's
hinting you'd be wise to upgrade to Bookworm, or shouldn't be
tempted. How old is it?

So many unanswered questions. :(


First of all, I don't have a cat, so let's forego any further cattiness.

It really wasn't meant to be humorous. Horizontal configurations with top vents
are attractive to cats napping, leading to hair buildup collecting on 
components,
overheating, and strange behavior over time.


I built the system on 6/26/2015 and have kept up on maintenance
ASUS M5 A97 R2.0 Motherboard BIOS 2603

I see no video outputs on this one:
https://www.newegg.com/asus-m5a97-le-r2-0/p/N82E16813131872


AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core Processor 3500MHz

No GPU found on that either:
https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/fx-8320


8179 MB (DDR 1600MHz)

Not likely system RAM has anything to do with an out-of-range display problem.


The display is a 23 in LG flat screen (3 years old).

My then 3 year old LG from 2017 needed new LED strips, shortly after its 
warranty
expired. LG was Goldstar before its name change.


All the cables are firmly attached.

When did that happen last, 3 years ago? eBay stuff, or good stuff, and what 
type?
USB-C to DP? HDMI to HDMI? DVI to HDMI? Any adapters? These come in many 
flavors.
Is a KVM switch involved?


All components were purchased from tho Microcenter herein Columbus.
It could, in fact, connect to a TV on the LAN in the same room, But now 
I get form the TV: Computer No signal is it on?

inxi -GSaz, in safe mode, returns-  bash: inxi: command not found



Is inxi that hard for you to do? No help from rebooting, rebooting in failsafe
mode, or trying a TV instead of your 23?
# inxi -GSaz
System:
   Ho st: ara88 Kernel: 5.10.0-20-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
 v: 10.2.1 parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz root=LABEL= noresume
 ipv6.disable=1 net.ifnames=0 mitigations=auto consoleblank=0
 radeon.cik_support=0 amdgpu.cik_support=1
   Desktop: Trinity v: R14.0.13 tk: Qt v: 3.5.0 info: kicker wm: Twin v: 3.0
 vt: 7 dm: 1: TDM 2: XDM Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Graphics:
   Device-1: AMD Kaveri [Radeon R7 Graphics] vendor: ASRock driver: amdgpu
 v: kernel alternate: radeon arch: GCN-2 code: Sea Islands
 process: GF/TSMC 16-28nm built: 2013-17 ports: active: DP-1, DVI-D-1,
 HDMI-A-1, VGA-1 empty: none bus-ID: 00:01.0 chip-ID: 1002:130f
 class-ID: 0300
   Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.11 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu
 dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1
   Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3600x2640 s-dpi: 120 s-size: 762x558mm (30.00x21.97")
 s-diag: 944mm (37.18")
   Monitor-1: DVI-D-1 mapped: DVI-D-0 pos: top-left model: NEC EA243WM
 serial:  built: 2011 res: 1920x1200 hz: 60 dpi: 94 gamma: 1.2
 size: 519x324mm (20.43x12.76") diag: 612mm (24.1") ratio: 16:10 modes:
 max: 1920x1200 min: 640x480
   Monitor-2: DP-1 mapped: DisplayPort-0 pos: primary,bottom-l
 model: Acer K272HUL serial:  built: 2018 res: 2560x1440 hz: 60
 dpi: 109 gamma: 1.2 size: 598x336mm (23.54x13.23") diag: 686mm (27")
 ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 2560x1440 min: 720x400
   Monitor-3: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-A-0 pos: top-right model: Dell P2213
 serial:  built: 2012 res: 1680x1050 hz: 60 dpi: 90 gamma: 1.2
 size: 473x296mm (18.62x11.65") diag: 558mm (22") ratio: 16:10 modes:
 max: 1680x1050 min: 720x400
   Monitor-4: VGA-1 mapped: VGA-0 pos: middle-r model: Lenovo L2251x Wide
 serial:  built: 2011 res: 1680x1050 hz: 60 dpi: 90 gamma: 1.2
 size: 474x296mm (18.66x11.65") diag: 559mm (22") ratio: 16:10 modes:
 max: 1680x1050 min: 720x400
   API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.5 renderer: AMD KAVERI (DRM 3.40.0
 5.10.0-20-amd64 LLVM 11.0.1) direct-render: Yes

Out of range is a not infrequent occurrence here, with 11 or so displays shared
among 30+ computers. Reasons are many, including software that works the first
time, then barfs until a restart of X, or the whole PC. Asus' BIOS are

Re: Out of Range Monitor Problim


OK, Here we go.

First of all, I don't have a cat, so let's forego any further cattiness.

I built the system on 6/26/2015 and have kept up on maintenance

ASUS M5 A97 R2.0 Motherboard BIOS 2603

AMD FX-8320 Eight-Core Processor 3500MHz

8179 MB (DDR 1600MHz)

The display is a 23 in LG flat screen (3 years old).

All the cables are firmly attached.

On 6/29/2023 11:06 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
> Stephen P. Molnar composed on 2023-06-29 06:55 (UTC-0400):
>
>> I have Bullseye currently installed on my main Linux platform.
>
>> When I logged in this morning I got an Out of Range 95.3 kHz/60 kHz
>> error.
>
> What was the system stated immediately before trying? IOW, was it
> suspended, off, hibernated, asleep?
>
> It's hard to help much when you tell so little about your current
> system. Was your cat sleeping on it when you came to use it? Is it a
> laptop? How many displays are attached? What GPU(s)? Which DE or WM?
> Inxi -GSaz is a good way to provide needed system info, if you can
> get logged in successfully somehow, maybe by rebooting, or
> Ctrl-Alt-F3 then Alt-F7/F1 cycled a time or three, or cycling the
> display's power. Is your video cable loose? Ancient? Is your display
> ancient, or VGA (analog)? Is your display under warranty? Maybe it's
> hinting you'd be wise to upgrade to Bookworm, or shouldn't be
> tempted. How old is it?
--
Stephen P. Molnar, PhD
https://insilicochemistry.net
(614)-312-7528
Skype: smolnar1

Fwd: Out of Range Monitor Problim

I should have added that I can get into the rescue mode. Unfortunately, 
I don't what to do at that point, and Google is of no help.

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Subject:Out of Range Monitor Problim
Resent-Date:Thu, 29 Jun 2023 10:56:02 + (UTC)
Resent-From:debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date:   Thu, 29 Jun 2023 06:55:35 -0400
From:   Stephen P. Molnar 
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

I have Bullseye currently installed on my main Linux platform.

When I logged in this morning I got an Out of Range 95.3 kHz/60 kHz error.

Although I have been using Linux since the early days of Slackware and 
the Red Hat Mother's day release, I'm strictly  a user. I googled the 
problem and got answers that I don't understand. I can boot into the 
rescue mode but can go no further.

Suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

--
Stephen P. Molnar, PhD
https://insilicochemistry.net
(614)-312-7528
Skype: smolnar1

Out of Range Monitor Problim