Re: swap maxed out when plenty of RAM available

2022-03-22 Thread Charles Kroeger
I use dphys-swapfile this is a system service that auto configures a swap at boot without requiring a static partition. it computes the size of an optimal swap file and or resizes an existing swap file if necessary. it mounts, dismounts, and deletes the swap if not wanted. it doesn't dynamically

wpa_supplicant, was Re: iwd + systemd-networkd + resolvconf wrinkles

2022-03-22 Thread David Wright
On Sat 19 Mar 2022 at 10:18:49 (+1100), Charlie wrote: > On Fri, 18 Mar 2022 14:32:40 + Brian wrote: > > > Regarding the installer: at present it provides an /e/n/i with wpa-* > > lines. Changing wpasupplicant to iwd in d-i would requir some work. > > No matter what the benefits of iwd are, I

Re: how comes bug reports are processed after 10 minutes?

2022-03-22 Thread David Wright
On Tue 22 Mar 2022 at 08:49:12 (+0100), Harald Dunkel wrote: > apparently it takes about 10 minutes between filing a bug report (no > attachments) and sending the confirmation EMail. Thats quite a long > time. Imagine you have to forward Debian's bug number to your own > in-house BTS. > > There ar

Re: simple talking clock / reminder for when monitor is off and it is dark

2022-03-22 Thread Samuel Wales
thanks very much to all. i almst missed this as it didn't show uyp in my inbox. it sounds like there exist things that say the time or can be made to. then i can use cron to run it or at for a one-off. i have beep turned off [and currently pulseaudio purged] but videos play sound with no problem

Re: swap maxed out when plenty of RAM available

2022-03-22 Thread David Christensen
On 3/22/22 07:55, Adam Weremczuk wrote: Hi all, I run a tiny and lightweight Debian 9.9 LXC container on Proxmox 6.2-6. It has 512 MB of memory and 512 MB of swap assigned and typically needs 50-100 MB to operate. Last year I started seeing about half of swap being used with very little use

Re: "Could not display mtp://XXXXX" error no such interface 'org.gtk.vfs.mount' on object at path /org/gtk/vfs/mount/1"

2022-03-22 Thread didier gaumet
Le mardi 22 mars 2022 à 11:04 +, Ottavio Caruso a écrit : [...] > org.gtk.vfs.mount  is not there and I don't think it should exists > ata ll. I tend to think this is a Debian bug with gvfs, but I am > running oldstable and will be moving to stable soon. There is a bug affecting Debian (Deb

force IPv6 dynamic address?

2022-03-22 Thread Jeremy Ardley
I have a debian workstation with a static IPv6 address mapped in DNS as well as dynamic addresses which change with time. The problem I have is that when my thunderbird mail client connects to gmail it always uses the static IPv6 address as originator and this shows up in the headers of the de

Re: swap maxed out when plenty of RAM available

2022-03-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 04:00:23PM -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 2:17 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 01:00:42PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > That's the usual issue. The /tmp filesystem is usually configured to live > > > in RAM, > > > > Tha

Re: swap maxed out when plenty of RAM available

2022-03-22 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 2:17 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 01:00:42PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > That's the usual issue. The /tmp filesystem is usually configured to live > > in RAM, > > That's not the default in Debian. Of course, it might have been set up > that wa

Re: swap maxed out when plenty of RAM available

2022-03-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 01:00:42PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > That's the usual issue. The /tmp filesystem is usually configured to live > in RAM, That's not the default in Debian. Of course, it might have been set up that way on the OP's system. > at some point an application needed to us

Re: simple talking clock / reminder for when monitor is off and it is dark

2022-03-22 Thread Will Mengarini
* Samuel Wales [22-03/20=Su 23:03 -0700]: > [...] i want debian to tell me the time at certain times. Nobody has yet mentioned the festival package, which is a full text-to-speech system. Once you have that installed, you can use cron or at jobs to speak whatever you want at specific times.

Re: swap maxed out when plenty of RAM available

2022-03-22 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 12:21 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > Charles Curley wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Mar 2022 14:55:34 + > > Adam Weremczuk wrote: > > > > > It has 512 MB of memory and 512 MB of swap assigned and typically > > > needs 50-100 MB to operate. > > > > The rule of thumb to which I am accust

Re: swap maxed out when plenty of RAM available

2022-03-22 Thread Dan Ritter
Charles Curley wrote: > On Tue, 22 Mar 2022 14:55:34 + > Adam Weremczuk wrote: > > > It has 512 MB of memory and 512 MB of swap assigned and typically > > needs 50-100 MB to operate. > > The rule of thumb to which I am accustomed is to have a swap space > double the physical RAM. If necessa

Re: simple talking clock / reminder for when monitor is off and it is dark

2022-03-22 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sun, 20 Mar 2022, Samuel Wales wrote: i want debian to tell me the time at certain times. for example tonight i have to take medicine at 2:40 am. I second the suggestions of at and cron. If you want a one-off reminder, use at. If you want a regular reminder use cron. Cron has a lot of f

Re: swap maxed out when plenty of RAM available

2022-03-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 10:35:40AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Tue, 22 Mar 2022 14:55:34 + > Adam Weremczuk wrote: > > > It has 512 MB of memory and 512 MB of swap assigned and typically > > needs 50-100 MB to operate. > > The rule of thumb to which I am accustomed is to have a swap sp

Re: swap maxed out when plenty of RAM available

2022-03-22 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 22 Mar 2022 14:55:34 + Adam Weremczuk wrote: > It has 512 MB of memory and 512 MB of swap assigned and typically > needs 50-100 MB to operate. The rule of thumb to which I am accustomed is to have a swap space double the physical RAM. If necessary, you can create a swap file and add

swap maxed out when plenty of RAM available

2022-03-22 Thread Adam Weremczuk
Hi all, I run a tiny and lightweight Debian 9.9 LXC container on Proxmox 6.2-6. It has 512 MB of memory and 512 MB of swap assigned and typically needs 50-100 MB to operate. Last year I started seeing about half of swap being used with very little use of RAM. I then made the following chan

Re: how comes bug reports are processed after 10 minutes?

2022-03-22 Thread Brian
On Tue 22 Mar 2022 at 07:25:55 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 08:49:12AM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > > apparently it takes about 10 minutes between filing a bug report (no > > attachments) and sending the confirmation EMail. Thats quite a long > > time. Imagine you have to

Re: ntp & ntpsec headless installation issues in Debian 11 (bullseye)

2022-03-22 Thread jaikuma...@gmail.com
On Tuesday, March 22, 2022 at 4:40:05 PM UTC+5:30, Reco wrote: > 1) Make preseed.cfg, pass it to the installer as specified at [1]. > 2) Add something like this into pressed.cfg: > preseed/late_command="in-target apt-get install -y ntpsec" > 3) Run the installer. Great, thanks Reco, it worked l

Re: Report a bug against which package - unattended-upgrades / apt / dpkg ??

2022-03-22 Thread Dan Ritter
David Wright wrote: > On Mon 21 Mar 2022 at 15:07:45 (+), Dr. Alex Sheppard wrote: > > On 21/03/2022 14:02, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Dr. Alex Sheppard wrote: > > So, unless anyone can explain otherwise, I think there is a bug to > > report against unattended-upgrades. > > Perhaps. But I'd avoi

Re: ntp & ntpsec headless installation issues in Debian 11 (bullseye)

2022-03-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 11:21:30AM +0300, Reco wrote: > It makes little sense to have two or more NTP clients installed on the > same host. Thus installing one should uninstall others. In jessie, stretch and buster, systemd-timesyncd was not a separate package. The systemd-timesyncd program was p

Re: how comes bug reports are processed after 10 minutes?

2022-03-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 08:49:12AM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > apparently it takes about 10 minutes between filing a bug report (no > attachments) and sending the confirmation EMail. Thats quite a long > time. Imagine you have to forward Debian's bug number to your own > in-house BTS. Yours only

Re: ntp & ntpsec headless installation issues in Debian 11 (bullseye)

2022-03-22 Thread Reco
On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 03:08:31AM -0700, jaikuma...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tuesday, March 22, 2022 at 3:30:07 PM UTC+5:30, Reco wrote: > > Debian-installer is forbidden to remove installed packages by default. > > Hence the message: > > Mar 22 07:35:57 in-target: E: Packages need to be removed but

Re: ntp & ntpsec headless installation issues in Debian 11 (bullseye)

2022-03-22 Thread jaikuma...@gmail.com
On Tuesday, March 22, 2022 at 3:30:07 PM UTC+5:30, Reco wrote: > Debian-installer is forbidden to remove installed packages by default. > Hence the message: > Mar 22 07:35:57 in-target: E: Packages need to be removed but remove is > disabled. Understood, then (if you know) what it is the way forw

Re: ntp & ntpsec headless installation issues in Debian 11 (bullseye)

2022-03-22 Thread Reco
On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 02:07:54AM -0700, jaikuma...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tuesday, March 22, 2022 at 2:10:05 PM UTC+5:30, Reco wrote: > > Thanks for quick reply :) > > Choose one NTP implementation, install it. > > If you need it to act as an NTP server - change an appropriate > > configuration

Re: Can't use mc's editor

2022-03-22 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2022 21 Mar 23:30 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > David Wright composed on 2022-03-21 23:07 (UTC-0500): > > > Felix Miata wrote: > > >> IIUC, and assuming standard file/directory permissions, if all instances > >> of MC are > >> closed, and its ini file is then removed, every setting (except fo

Re: Can't use mc's editor

2022-03-22 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2022 21 Mar 20:56 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 21 Mar 2022 at 19:34:46 (-0500), Nate Bargmann wrote: > > * On 2022 21 Mar 15:19 -0500, Joe wrote: > > > Probably best try nano unless you're particularly keen on vim. Don't > > > forget that geany is a GUI IDE, whereas mc is a ncurses appl

Re: ntp & ntpsec headless installation issues in Debian 11 (bullseye)

2022-03-22 Thread jaikuma...@gmail.com
On Tuesday, March 22, 2022 at 2:10:05 PM UTC+5:30, Reco wrote: Thanks for quick reply :) > Choose one NTP implementation, install it. > If you need it to act as an NTP server - change an appropriate > configuration file. Yes, that is what I mentioned - any of the implemention (ntp or ntpsec) gi

Re: ntp & ntpsec headless installation issues in Debian 11 (bullseye)

2022-03-22 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 01:42:28PM +0530, Jaikumar Sharma wrote: > It seems at first sight that systemd-timesyncd is default date/time > synchronization tool but it may act as full fledged NTP server? No. It can act as an NTP client only. > How to handle 'ntp' or 'ntpsec' headless in

how comes bug reports are processed after 10 minutes?

2022-03-22 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, apparently it takes about 10 minutes between filing a bug report (no attachments) and sending the confirmation EMail. Thats quite a long time. Imagine you have to forward Debian's bug number to your own in-house BTS. There are about 10^6 bug reports in Debian's BTS. Maybe 1% is updated

ntp & ntpsec headless installation issues in Debian 11 (bullseye)

2022-03-22 Thread Jaikumar Sharma
Hi, We are using ntp for a long time in our product, everything was fine till Debian 10 but starting from Debian 11 - it does not allow me to install ntp or ntpsec in headless way (same behaviour for both). Excerpts of log from /var/log/installer/syslog: --