Re: Installer can't find network interface on Intel NUC BOXNUC8i3BEH1

2019-02-13 Thread Rick Thomas
> On Feb 13, 2019, at 6:51 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > > >> On Feb 13, 2019, at 5:47 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> >> On Wed, 2019-02-13 at 16:17 -0500, Laurent Dumont wrote: >>> I'm not sure if it's the exact same case but I had the same issue with a >>> more recent motherboard. Debian faile

Re: Swap space choice on a SSD <- Current best practice on?

2019-02-13 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 14/02/2019 à 03:14, Curt Howland a écrit : I also put in ramdisk options for /tmp in /etc/fstab You mean tmpfs, not ramdisk. Nobody sane would prefer ramdisk over tmpfs for /tmp.

Re: Swap space choice on a SSD <- Current best practice on?

2019-02-13 Thread David Christensen
On 2/13/19 1:28 PM, Andy Smith wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 01:14:36PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: A swap partition is faster than a swap file. Has something changed in this regard since kernel version 2.6 then? http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0507.0/1690.html I do not follo

Re: Swap space choice on a SSD <- Current best practice on?

2019-02-13 Thread David Christensen
On 2/13/19 1:23 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: David Christensen wrote: On 2/13/19 6:11 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: If you want maximum SSD longevity, increase the amount of space that the SSD can use for remapping by never writing to some amount of space. Easiest is to not fill the disk with partitions -- le

Re: Installer can't find network interface on Intel NUC BOXNUC8i3BEH1

2019-02-13 Thread Rick Thomas
> On Feb 13, 2019, at 5:47 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Wed, 2019-02-13 at 16:17 -0500, Laurent Dumont wrote: >> I'm not sure if it's the exact same case but I had the same issue with a >> more recent motherboard. Debian failed to detect the network card with the >> E1000 drivers. >> >> I

Re: Swap space choice on a SSD <- Current best practice on?

2019-02-13 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 One of the things I do with an SSD is turn down "swappiness" to a minimum. In /etc/sysctl.d/custom.conf I put the following lines: vm.swappiness = 0 vm.vfs_cache_pressure = 40 vm.dirty_background_ratio = 10 vm.dirty_ratio = 40 There are also a

Re: Installer can't find network interface on Intel NUC BOXNUC8i3BEH1

2019-02-13 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2019-02-13 at 16:17 -0500, Laurent Dumont wrote: > I'm not sure if it's the exact same case but I had the same issue with a > more recent motherboard. Debian failed to detect the network card with the > E1000 drivers. > > I tried an iso with the non free repo without success. > > A base U

Re: OT: Current_Pending_Sector on /dev/sd?

2019-02-13 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 13/02/2019 à 15:01, Alexander V. Makartsev a écrit : IMO, it's ok for disk devices to develop unreadable blocks (bad blocks), No it's not ok. Unreadable blocks means lost data. Internal firmware of the disk takes care of bad blocks, marks them internally and reallocates them. (makes sure

Re: OT: Current_Pending_Sector on /dev/sd?

2019-02-13 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 13/02/2019 à 14:59, Dan Ritter a écrit : basti wrote: hello, I have a raid6 with 4 disks. 2 of them show Current_Pending_Sector 1. (...) A small number in CPS is fine. No it's not fine. It means that the the host requested to read unreadable data, so useful data has been lost. "Offline

Re: Swap space choice on a SSD <- Current best practice on?

2019-02-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 04:23:56PM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > "Over-provisioning often takes away from user capacity, either > temporarily or permanently, but it gives back reduced write > amplification, increased endurance, and increased performance." > > Increased endurance is increased

Re: Swap space choice on a SSD <- Current best practice on?

2019-02-13 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 01:14:36PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: AFAIK over-provisioning has no effect on longevity -- longevity is proportional to total number of cells times rated erase/ write cycles per cell divided by write throughput. In the absence of trim, restricting the logical capac

Re: Swap space choice on a SSD <- Current best practice on?

2019-02-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 01:14:36PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > A swap partition is faster than a swap file. Has something changed in this regard since kernel version 2.6 then? http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0507.0/1690.html Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-no

Re: Swap space choice on a SSD <- Current best practice on?

2019-02-13 Thread Dan Ritter
David Christensen wrote: > On 2/13/19 6:11 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > If you want maximum SSD longevity, increase the amount of space that > > the SSD can use for remapping by never writing to some amount of > > space. Easiest is to not fill the disk with partitions -- leave 5-10% > > empty. > > A

Re: Installer can't find network interface on Intel NUC BOXNUC8i3BEH1

2019-02-13 Thread Laurent Dumont
I'm not sure if it's the exact same case but I had the same issue with a more recent motherboard. Debian failed to detect the network card with the E1000 drivers. I tried an iso with the non free repo without success. A base Ubuntu iso install was able to detect and configure the network driver.

Re: Swap space choice on a SSD <- Current best practice on?

2019-02-13 Thread David Christensen
On 2/13/19 5:41 AM, deb wrote: Again -- fussing with a full (not from a live .iso) 9.7 install; the Debian GUI installer is suggesting a Swap partition on a Kingston SSD. #1 Given that it's not great to pound the same area of a SSD with writes; is it indeed still best practice to go with a swap

Installer can't find network interface on Intel NUC BOXNUC8i3BEH1

2019-02-13 Thread Rick Thomas
I recently bought an intel NUC BOXNUC8i3BEH1. You can see a description of the product at Newegg: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856102213 I’m trying to install Debian Stretch on it debian-9.7.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso and (later) firmware-9.6.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso I mad

Re: How to Restart Networking in stretch

2019-02-13 Thread Kent West
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 2:25 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 02:13:52PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > But, that leaves my second question unanswered: > > > > 2) What is the canonical current method in 2019 to [semi-]manually > > configure networking in stretch? And is it documente

Re: How to Restart Networking in stretch

2019-02-13 Thread Kent West
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 12:08 PM David Wright wrote: > On Tue 12 Feb 2019 at 22:49:13 (-0600), Kent West wrote: > > stretch, 9.7 > > > > I've duckduckgo'd for two days, but there seems to be no definitive > answer > > as to how networking is supposed to be configured in stretch. debian.org > 's >

Re: How to Restart Networking in stretch

2019-02-13 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 02:13:52PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > But, that leaves my second question unanswered: > > 2) What is the canonical current method in 2019 to [semi-]manually > configure networking in stretch? And is it documented anywhere? (My two > days of searching leads me to think "no".

Re: How to Restart Networking in stretch

2019-02-13 Thread Kent West
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 8:10 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 10:49:13PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > "The Debian Administrator's Handbook" is for version 8, and talks > > about deprecated tools like ifup/down, which aren't even installed by > > default on stretch. > > The ifupdow

Re: what are you using instead of bind9?

2019-02-13 Thread Lee
On 2/12/19, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 06:40:01PM -0500, Lee wrote: >> What are people using these days to >> 1. have dnssec enabled lookups >> 2. filter external dns answers > > I use Unbound for resolvers. > > I understand that Unbound can do some RPZ-like things with it

Re: OT: Current_Pending_Sector on /dev/sd?

2019-02-13 Thread Claudio Kuenzler
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 2:22 PM basti wrote: > hello, > I have a raid6 with 4 disks. 2 of them show Current_Pending_Sector 1. > Hi Basti are you using mdadm for the raid-6 or a hardware raid controller? > The disks has warranty till Apr. 2019 so I decide to replace them. > If there's only 1

Re: Bug with soft raid?

2019-02-13 Thread Claudio Kuenzler
Hello Steve, As some of the other responders already said, check your drives' SMART values. But a disk may fail without any indication in the SMART table. I've seen this a couple of years ago and documented it here: https://www.claudiokuenzler.com/blog/301/disk-failure-not-detected-by-smart-ata1-f

Re: firefox does not redirect to login page

2019-02-13 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 06:39:14 -0800 Charlie Kravetz wrote: > On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:24:43 +0100 > Flo wrote: > >> I have an old laptop which I set up yesterday. And since it's >> old I only install the packages I need. >> >> Today I realized that I cannot login into an public hotspot. >> >> Up t

Re: Bug with soft raid?

2019-02-13 Thread David Christensen
On 2/12/19 12:48 PM, David Christensen wrote: I had a Linux md RAID0 (mirror) ... Correction -- RAID1 is mirror. David

Re: How to Restart Networking in stretch

2019-02-13 Thread David Wright
On Tue 12 Feb 2019 at 22:49:13 (-0600), Kent West wrote: > stretch, 9.7 > > I've duckduckgo'd for two days, but there seems to be no definitive answer > as to how networking is supposed to be configured in stretch. debian.org's > link to "The Debian Administrator's Handbook" is for version 8, and

Re: firefox does not redirect to login page

2019-02-13 Thread Steve Kemp
> > > > > > Try going to http://192.168.1.1 > > > > I don't think one can assume that that's the correct address. > > It's better if that is *not* a correct address. What we want is > for the browser to make a request that won't be https, so that > the router can hijack it to redirect to the log

Re: WiFi without Network Manager

2019-02-13 Thread Ric Moore
On 2/13/19 9:14 AM, John Hasler wrote: s better not to post "Thanks" to a busy mailing list. If you must do so please put "Thanks" in the subject line. OR "solved", which is much more useful for the next guy. No need for "thanks" as "solved" is the ultimate goal for posterity. It's what I lo

kmail - just a little problem

2019-02-13 Thread Hans
Hi folks, I am running into a little problem with kmail in plasma. The problem is, that the column on the very left side (the one where the folders like "kmail-folder" are shown) with the the definition "name" is very, very big (more than 4000 pixels wide). But I can not get it smaller, and t

Re: firefox does not redirect to login page

2019-02-13 Thread Dan Ritter
David Wright wrote: > On Wed 13 Feb 2019 at 09:44:49 (-0500), Dan Ritter wrote: > > Flo wrote: > > > Dear All, > > > > > > I have an old laptop which I set up yesterday. And since it's old I only > > > install the packages I need. > > > > > > Today I realized that I cannot login into an public

Re: firefox does not redirect to login page

2019-02-13 Thread David Wright
On Wed 13 Feb 2019 at 09:44:49 (-0500), Dan Ritter wrote: > Flo wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > I have an old laptop which I set up yesterday. And since it's old I only > > install the packages I need. > > > > Today I realized that I cannot login into an public hotspot. > > > > Up to now it worked

Re: firefox does not redirect to login page

2019-02-13 Thread Charlie Kravetz
On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:24:43 +0100 Flo wrote: >Dear All, > >I have an old laptop which I set up yesterday. And since it's old I only >install the packages I need. > >Today I realized that I cannot login into an public hotspot. > >Up to now it worked in a way that I got redirected to the login pag

Re: (Alexander) Re: (Stuck! Fresh 9.6 install) iwlwifi-8625-26.ucode <- Can not find/what is it? Spot of help please?

2019-02-13 Thread Richard Hector
On 14/02/19 2:30 AM, deb wrote: > Thank you Alexander. > > I kinda like the idea of pulling the Intel wifi and just going with a > Think Penguin free software wifi. > > https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-usb-adapter-gnu-linux-tpe-n150usb > > The one that says: "Debian 7,

Re: firefox does not redirect to login page

2019-02-13 Thread Dan Ritter
Flo wrote: > Dear All, > > I have an old laptop which I set up yesterday. And since it's old I only > install the packages I need. > > Today I realized that I cannot login into an public hotspot. > > Up to now it worked in a way that I got redirected to the login page > where I had to click on

Re: P2V Debian 9 with VMware Converter

2019-02-13 Thread Adam Weremczuk
Forgot to mention the source server was up and running the entire time, no down time. On 13/02/19 14:06, Alexandre GRIVEAUX wrote: It's hard to beat 20-30 seconds it takes to click and type into VMware Converter and leave it running. It works well for Debian 7, probably 8 as well but not 9 :(

Thanks Dan. Re: Swap space choice on a SSD <- Current best practice on?

2019-02-13 Thread deb
Thank you. On 2/13/2019 9:11 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: deb wrote: On 2/13/2019 8:46 AM, Michael Stone wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 08:41:33AM -0500, deb wrote: #1 Given that it's not great to pound the same area of a SSD with writes; is it indeed still best practice to go with a swap partition

firefox does not redirect to login page

2019-02-13 Thread Flo
Dear All, I have an old laptop which I set up yesterday. And since it's old I only install the packages I need. Today I realized that I cannot login into an public hotspot. Up to now it worked in a way that I got redirected to the login page where I had to click on the connect button. This does

Re: OT: Current_Pending_Sector on /dev/sd?

2019-02-13 Thread Dan Ritter
Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > On 13.02.2019 18:22, basti wrote: > > Most hardware RAID controllers perform automatic full surface scans to > ensure data consistency (also could be called "patrol scans") and mark > HDDs as "Expected to Fail Soon" to warn user. > You have to backup your data regu

Re: P2V Debian 9 with VMware Converter

2019-02-13 Thread Adam Weremczuk
Short answer - because it will take significantly longer and potentially lead to more errors. Especially if I have a number of servers with different structures and purposes. It's hard to beat 20-30 seconds it takes to click and type into VMware Converter and leave it running. It works well f

Re: WiFi without Network Manager

2019-02-13 Thread John Hasler
deb wrote: > note: this is why I think top-posting is best. People don't have to > scroll through tons of crap to get to "Thanks" :-) When I open a message on a mailing list or newsgroup and see nothing but quoted text I usually just move on to the next message. On the other hand I find top-pos

Re: Swap space choice on a SSD <- Current best practice on?

2019-02-13 Thread Dan Ritter
deb wrote: > > On 2/13/2019 8:46 AM, Michael Stone wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 08:41:33AM -0500, deb wrote: > > > #1 Given that it's not great to pound the same area of a SSD with > > > writes; is it indeed still best practice to go with a swap partition > > > on a SSD rather than a swap F

Re: How to Restart Networking in stretch

2019-02-13 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 10:49:13PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > "The Debian Administrator's Handbook" is for version 8, and talks > about deprecated tools like ifup/down, which aren't even installed by > default on stretch. The ifupdown package has priority "important" and, as far as I know, it is in

Re: P2V Debian 9 with VMware Converter

2019-02-13 Thread Alexandre GRIVEAUX
Le 2019-02-13 14:58, Adam Weremczuk a écrit : Short answer - because it will take significantly longer and potentially lead to more errors. Especially if I have a number of servers with different structures and purposes. It's hard to beat 20-30 seconds it takes to click and type into VMware Co

Re: OT: Current_Pending_Sector on /dev/sd?

2019-02-13 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 13.02.2019 18:22, basti wrote: > hello, > I have a raid6 with 4 disks. 2 of them show Current_Pending_Sector 1. > The disks has warranty till Apr. 2019 so I decide to replace them. > > After I change the disk and install it on an other computer to overwrite > with zero it the Current_Pending_Sec

Re: OT: Current_Pending_Sector on /dev/sd?

2019-02-13 Thread Dan Ritter
basti wrote: > hello, > I have a raid6 with 4 disks. 2 of them show Current_Pending_Sector 1. > The disks has warranty till Apr. 2019 so I decide to replace them. > > After I change the disk and install it on an other computer to overwrite > with zero it the Current_Pending_Sector is gone. > > W

Re: WiFi without Network Manager

2019-02-13 Thread mick crane
On 2019-02-13 13:32, deb wrote: note: this is why I think top-posting is best. People don't have to scroll through tons of crap to get to "Thanks" :-) A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the m

Re: Swap space choice on a SSD <- Current best practice on?

2019-02-13 Thread deb
On 2/13/2019 8:46 AM, Michael Stone wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 08:41:33AM -0500, deb wrote: #1 Given that it's not great to pound the same area of a SSD with writes; is it indeed still best practice to go with a swap partition on a SSD rather than a swap FILE? That's not a thing: the SS

Re: WiFi without Network Manager

2019-02-13 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, February 13, 2019 08:32:22 AM deb wrote: > note: this is why I think top-posting is best. > > People don't have to scroll through tons of crap to get to "Thanks" :-) I vary the use of top-posting and "bottom"-posting depending on circumstances. For thanks and similar, top posting w

Re: Swap space choice on a SSD <- Current best practice on?

2019-02-13 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 08:41:33AM -0500, deb wrote: #1 Given that it's not great to pound the same area of a SSD with writes; is it indeed still best practice to go with a swap partition on a SSD rather than a swap FILE? That's not a thing: the SSD will balance writes physically across the d

Swap space choice on a SSD <- Current best practice on?

2019-02-13 Thread deb
Hello folks: Again -- fussing with a full (not from a live .iso) 9.7 install; the Debian GUI installer is suggesting a Swap partition on a Kingston SSD. #1 Given that it's not great to pound the same area of a SSD with writes; is it indeed still best practice to go with a swap partition on

Re: WiFi without Network Manager

2019-02-13 Thread deb
note: this is why I think top-posting is best. People don't have to scroll through tons of crap to get to "Thanks" :-) On 2/12/2019 3:07 PM, ghe wrote: On 2/12/19 9:15 AM, deb wrote: Glenn, thanks for this! More than welcome. For your amazement, here's the comcastRoutes.sh from my laptop,

(Alexander) Re: (Stuck! Fresh 9.6 install) iwlwifi-8625-26.ucode <- Can not find/what is it? Spot of help please?

2019-02-13 Thread deb
On 2/12/2019 3:25 PM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: In response to that painful "(still installing 9.7 ...)". You can also use these official and unofficial at the same time images to install Debian. [1] As a last resort you can disassemble laptop and physically remove Intel WiFi NIC before ins

Re: iptables issue with ASP.Net Core Port 5000

2019-02-13 Thread Igor Cicimov
On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 11:30 pm Igor Cicimov On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 9:44 pm Patrick Kirk >> Hi all, >> >> I have a simple asp.net core site that runs with Postgres which works >> fine if I login as root and set it to run on port 80. SSL is done by >> cloudflare. I would prefer to use nginx or at leas

Re: P2V Debian 9 with VMware Converter

2019-02-13 Thread Alexandre GRIVEAUX
Le 2019-02-13 10:14, Adam Weremczuk a écrit : Hi all, I persistently get "The destination does not support EFI firmware" . Apparently the latest Converter doesn't support Debian 9 (yet?). More details on my issue here: https://communities.vmware.com/message/2837600 Has anybody had success t

OT: Current_Pending_Sector on /dev/sd?

2019-02-13 Thread basti
hello, I have a raid6 with 4 disks. 2 of them show Current_Pending_Sector 1. The disks has warranty till Apr. 2019 so I decide to replace them. After I change the disk and install it on an other computer to overwrite with zero it the Current_Pending_Sector is gone. What should I do? Whats our exp

Re: iptables issue with ASP.Net Core Port 5000

2019-02-13 Thread Alexandre GRIVEAUX
Le 2019-02-13 11:43, Patrick Kirk a écrit : Hi all, I have a simple asp.net core site that runs with Postgres which works fine if I login as root and set it to run on port 80.  SSL is done by cloudflare.  I would prefer to use nginx or at least have an iptable rule to redirect the port 80 traffi

Re: ati display driver problem with stretch

2019-02-13 Thread Long Wind
is crt or lcd relevant here?hp, using ati, is connected to lcd while lenovo, using intel is connected to crt i've tried switching monitor, hp seems better after switchingthis is unbelievable, but i'm not sure, more testing is needed my hardware is old, but my computing job isn't demanding, leno

Re: iptables issue with ASP.Net Core Port 5000

2019-02-13 Thread Igor Cicimov
On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 9:44 pm Patrick Kirk Hi all, > > I have a simple asp.net core site that runs with Postgres which works > fine if I login as root and set it to run on port 80. SSL is done by > cloudflare. I would prefer to use nginx or at least have an iptable > rule to redirect the port 80 t

Re: ati display driver problem with stretch

2019-02-13 Thread Felix Miata
Long Wind composed on 2019-02-13 08:45 (UTC): > sorry! the output is in color, > i don't know how to display them in one color > [1;34mGraphics: [0;37m [1;34mCard:[0;37m Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] > RS480 [Radeon Xpress 200 Series][0;37m > [1;34m  [0;37m [1;34mbus-ID:[0;37m 01:05.

iptables issue with ASP.Net Core Port 5000

2019-02-13 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, I have a simple asp.net core site that runs with Postgres which works fine if I login as root and set it to run on port 80.  SSL is done by cloudflare.  I would prefer to use nginx or at least have an iptable rule to redirect the port 80 traffic.  Both have the same failure so for now

Re: No ifconfig

2019-02-13 Thread Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
* https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/08/msg01613.html * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17152738 * https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=274269 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17151922 Since I needed an |ifconfig| with a more BSD-like interface /a

P2V Debian 9 with VMware Converter

2019-02-13 Thread Adam Weremczuk
Hi all, I persistently get "The destination does not support EFI firmware" . Apparently the latest Converter doesn't support Debian 9 (yet?). More details on my issue here: https://communities.vmware.com/message/2837600 Has anybody had success tricking Converter to perform a migration? Any

Re: ati display driver problem with stretch

2019-02-13 Thread Felix Miata
Long Wind composed on 2019-02-13 08:24 (UTC): > inxi: command not found > which package should i install?? sudo apt install inxi or get the latest version directly from: https://github.com/smxi/inxi It's only a script. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science. Team

Re: ati display driver problem with stretch

2019-02-13 Thread Felix Miata
Long Wind composed on 2019-02-13 08:05 (UTC): > hp dx5150 has many problem with debianjessie and wheezy fail to run on > itearly stretch seems > OKi've just installed 9.7, hoping it perform betterbut it's worse, X > Window(which use ati video > driver) is very slowat first i think the problem is