Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured?

2022-03-31 Thread tomas
On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 07:58:38PM +0100, piorunz wrote: > On 29/03/2022 10:56, Sven Hoexter wrote: > > E.g. we now have PSI as an information source > > https://lwn.net/Articles/759781/ > > which can be used with the Facebook oomd or systemd-oomd to > > have userland control over which process to

Re: Running Steam Proton Games with primusrun

2022-03-31 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 1:20 PM Jonathan Marquardt wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 06:32:29PM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Thing that should not work but almost always works for me: Mark the > nvidia > > GL packages for reinstall and let aptitude do its thing, restart and run > > pvkrun glxge

Re: Running Steam Proton Games with primusrun

2022-03-31 Thread /dev/fra
Hi Jonathan, On 31/03/22 20:20:14 CEST, Jonathan Marquardt wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 06:32:29PM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Thing that should not work but almost always works for me: Mark the > > nvidia GL packages for reinstall and let aptitude do its thing [...] > > I did: > > # apt

Re: startx xauth fails after upgrade to Bullseye 11.3

2022-03-31 Thread Larry Doolittle
> my workstation's hostname is the same as my login > username, which is (obviously) also the name of my home directory. > And yet, I've never seen this problem before. > So, there are definitely a few more variables involved in this one. To reproduce, run xauth list $(hostname -f):0 from a direct

Strange .desktop file for KRename

2022-03-31 Thread Yvan Masson
Hi list, I just installed KRename to be able to mass rename files in KDE. However, I noticed that if I try to start it from the KDE menu, nothing happens (while it works properly when right clicking on files). The .desktop file (/usr/share/applications/org.kde.krename.desktop) contains the

Re: Running Steam Proton Games with primusrun

2022-03-31 Thread Jonathan Marquardt
On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 06:32:29PM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: > Thing that should not work but almost always works for me: Mark the nvidia > GL packages for reinstall and let aptitude do its thing, restart and run > pvkrun glxgears to make sure things are working. If that breaks, try > including

Re: Where do you get Virtualbox

2022-03-31 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2022 31 Mar 12:29 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > I'm not sure exactly why it's even being uploaded to unstable. But I > guess if some Debian developer wants to spend their time doing that, > they're permitted. Maybe they keep hoping that upstream will change > their policy some day? Or that

Re: Where do you get Virtualbox

2022-03-31 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 06:57:04PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Alas, you cannot always choose exactly what you use a must comprimise a > little. For virtualbox one of my interrogations is that the package in sid > is very good, is stable, but it never goes to testing. There ust be a > reason, but I

Re: Where do you get Virtualbox

2022-03-31 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 06:57:04PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Le 31/03/2022 à 15:57, The Wanderer a écrit : > > For myself, the answer is quite simple: I don't. VirtualBox used to make > > my life easier, but the combination of not being available in Debian > > testing with the *reasons* why it is

Re: Where do you get Virtualbox

2022-03-31 Thread Erwan David
Le 31/03/2022 à 15:57, The Wanderer a écrit : For myself, the answer is quite simple: I don't. VirtualBox used to make my life easier, but the combination of not being available in Debian testing with the *reasons* why it isn't available there (license-related, last time I checked, if I remember

Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured?

2022-03-31 Thread piorunz
On 30/03/2022 09:18, Tixy wrote: I may be wrong here, but I seem to remember that something like that used to happen a long time ago, and it had a habit of picking the X server as the first thing to kill, not very friendly for GUI users. Well, nowadays oom killer is not so picky. It just kill

Re: startx xauth fails after upgrade to Bullseye 11.3

2022-03-31 Thread David Wright
On Thu 31 Mar 2022 at 07:30:14 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 10:27:25PM -0700, Larry Doolittle wrote: > > I seem to have rediscovered Debian bug 889720 > > xauth crashes when directory name matches host name > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=889720 > >

Re: QEMU/KVM doesn't open new window - Access only via vnc viewer

2022-03-31 Thread Gareth Evans
> On 31 Mar 2022, at 09:44, Dieter Rohlfing wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm just about to install Debian11/Bullseye on a host. There are several > VMs running under QEMU/KVM to set up. > > With Debian9/Stretch I created a new VM via command line: > > /usr/bin/kvm -drive > file=/qemu/win-70/win-70.jes

Re: exit bash during installation

2022-03-31 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-03-31 at 09:38, Haines Brown wrote: > Early in an installation I wanted to find the machine's local IP > address in order to configure the network manually terminal (Alt-F2). > Finding that commands to get the local addresss were not available, What commands did you try? I'd be a little

Re: exit bash during installation

2022-03-31 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 09:38:45AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > Early in an installation I wanted to find the machine's local IP > address in order to configure the network manually terminal (Alt-F2). > Finding that commands to get the local addresss were not available, I > went to exit bash. Al

Re: Where do you get Virtualbox

2022-03-31 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-03-31 at 09:30, Dan Ritter wrote: > Erwan David wrote: > >> virtualbox is available either in Sid, or on Oracl's virtualbox >> repository. Where do you get it (I am on testing). > > Running testing means you have to expect this sort of thing. > In any case, you seem to have answered you

exit bash during installation

2022-03-31 Thread Haines Brown
Early in an installation I wanted to find the machine's local IP address in order to configure the network manually terminal (Alt-F2). Finding that commands to get the local addresss were not available, I went to exit bash. Although bash recognize the exit command, it did not work. How do I get

Re: Where do you get Virtualbox

2022-03-31 Thread Dan Ritter
Erwan David wrote: > virtualbox is available either in Sid, or on Oracl's virtualbox repository. > Where do you get it (I am on testing). Running testing means you have to expect this sort of thing. People forget that near the end of each release cycle, when testing is relatively quiet and nearly

Re: Predictable Network Interface Names

2022-03-31 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 3/30/22, Dan Ritter wrote: > Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 07:18:07PM +0100, Brian wrote: >> > That's good advice, but are MAC addresses memorable? >> >> Doesn't matter. You can choose a memorable name. The MAC address is >> simply the data point you place in the config file

Where do you get Virtualbox

2022-03-31 Thread Erwan David
virtualbox is available either in Sid, or on Oracl's virtualbox repository. Where do you get it (I am on testing). -- Erwan

Re: Predictable Network Interface Names

2022-03-31 Thread tomas
On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 08:04:13AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 07:10:33AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > Somewhat self-referential. I'm not the one getting worked up here ;-) > > And I'm not the one accusing people of lying. I hope my clarification --uh-- clears thin

Re: Predictable Network Interface Names

2022-03-31 Thread tomas
On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 12:39:37PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Thu 31 Mar 2022 at 07:28:47 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...]] > > > Since then, I learnt that I like to relax call my interfaces > > "eth0" and "wlan0". > > > > Can we still be friends? > > Of course! After all, we are both pla

Re: Predictable Network Interface Names

2022-03-31 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 07:10:33AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Somewhat self-referential. I'm not the one getting worked up here ;-) And I'm not the one accusing people of lying.

Re: Predictable Network Interface Names

2022-03-31 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-03-31 at 01:28, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > This is one weakness I see with freedesktop often. They try to > fight complexity with ever more complexity, with the end result > of a more user-unfriendly (because less understandable) system. Very well expressed. I've added that to the "complet

Re: Predictable Network Interface Names

2022-03-31 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 05:56:47PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: Because some of us work in corporate data centers. And everything you claim that helps us here really does the opposite. Because it was introduced in large part to support mobile computing. Which does not and will never be valuabl

Re: Running Steam Proton Games with primusrun

2022-03-31 Thread Christian Britz
Could be some 32 bit NVIDIA files missing, steam is 32 bit. Regards, Christian On 2022-03-27 13:03 UTC+0200, Jonathan Marquardt wrote: > Hi! > > I have a Dell XPS 15 with a dedicated NVIDIA GPU and I have a working > bumblebee setup. It works with all kinds of games, except for steam ones. > I'm

Re: QEMU/KVM doesn't open new window - Access only via vnc viewer

2022-03-31 Thread Christian Britz
Hello Dieter, unfortunately I have no answer for this specific problem, but I can strongly recommend the virt-manager solution which utilizes qemu (and kvm if available). Regards, Christian On 2022-03-31 10:44 UTC+0200, Dieter Rohlfing wrote: > Hi, > > I'm just about to install Debian11/Bullsey

Re: Predictable Network Interface Names

2022-03-31 Thread Brian
On Thu 31 Mar 2022 at 07:28:47 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...]] > Since then, I learnt that I like to relax call my interfaces > "eth0" and "wlan0". > > Can we still be friends? Of course! After all, we are both playing in the same game. -- Brian.

Re: startx xauth fails after upgrade to Bullseye 11.3

2022-03-31 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 10:27:25PM -0700, Larry Doolittle wrote: > I seem to have rediscovered Debian bug 889720 > xauth crashes when directory name matches host name > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=889720 > (Feb 2018) > > So, nothing to do with the Bullseye upgrade. > I must h

Re: Predictable Network Interface Names

2022-03-31 Thread Markus Schönhaber
31.03.22, 13:01 +0200, Sven Hartge: Greg Wooledge wrote: unicorn:~$ cat /etc/systemd/network/10-lan0.link [Match] MACAddress=18:60:24:77:5c:ec [Link] Name=lan0 Careful with that one. If you use VLANs then you suddenly get multiple interface with the same MAC and strange things will happe

Re: Predictable Network Interface Names

2022-03-31 Thread Sven Hartge
Greg Wooledge wrote: > unicorn:~$ cat /etc/systemd/network/10-lan0.link > [Match] > MACAddress=18:60:24:77:5c:ec > [Link] > Name=lan0 Careful with that one. If you use VLANs then you suddenly get multiple interface with the same MAC and strange things will happen, because it matches for all of

QEMU/KVM doesn't open new window - Access only via vnc viewer

2022-03-31 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Hi, I'm just about to install Debian11/Bullseye on a host. There are several VMs running under QEMU/KVM to set up. With Debian9/Stretch I created a new VM via command line: /usr/bin/kvm -drive file=/qemu/win-70/win-70.jessie.raw,if=virtio,media=disk,cache=none,format=raw -name Win-70 -vga std -m