Re: initrd sizes mushroomed several months ago

2023-02-02 Thread Felix Miata
David Wright composed on 2023-02-01 22:39 (UTC-0600): > On Wed 01 Feb 2023 at 00:50:07 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote: >> I think 6.0's is smaller because that upgrade cycle is when I installed zstd >> before the newer kernel. It's specified by default in initramfs.conf, but the >> upgrades from 11 t

Re: initrd sizes mushroomed several months ago

2023-02-02 Thread Felix Miata
The Wanderer composed on 2022-11-13 06:54 (UTC-0500): > On 2022-11-12 Felix Miata wrote: >> # grep MODULES= /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf >> MODULES=dep >> # ls -Ggh /boot/initrd.img-[5,6]* >> -rw-r--r-- 1 6.8M May 8 2022 /boot/initrd.img-5.17.0-1-686 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 31M Aug 2 03:06 /bo

Re: kernel errors

2023-02-02 Thread David Wright
On Thu 02 Feb 2023 at 21:58:54 (+), Richmond wrote: > "Thomas Schmitt" writes: > > > > (If not there, then in the /scripts/local-block directory of the initrd ?) > > I don't know how I would look in that. Is it in RAM at boot time? Choose your kernel ↓↓Pick any name ↓↓

Re: kernel errors

2023-02-02 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 2 février 2023 Richmond a écrit : > There is no such file. Earlier I ran this: > > find / -print|grep "scripts/local-block" > > and it found nothing, which led me to believe it is some temporary file... >> >> (If not there, then in the /scripts/local-block directory of the initrd ?) its part o

Re: Syslog/Rsyslog/Systemctl issue

2023-02-02 Thread Michael Biebl
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Re: kernel errors

2023-02-02 Thread Richmond
"Thomas Schmitt" writes: > Indeed. But why should only the kernel be brain damaged ? > > (I expect some generic UUID searcher for block devices. Probably the sr > devices are near the end of its iteration. So one would not see any > protest in the log if the UUID is found on the device which is t

Re: kernel errors

2023-02-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Richmond wrote: > Perhaps the system was looking for resume space on sr0? That's my guess too. We already knew that the read address and block size come from the kernel's brain damaged representation of a drive which has not seen a medium since boot. My suspicion was that libblkid is involved

Re: kernel errors - SOLVED

2023-02-02 Thread Richmond
piorunz writes: > On 02/02/2023 14:05, Richmond wrote: >> After I did this, the errors went away. >> I don't know why the errors reference sr0, it's a mystery. > > They will most likely come back, this error is related to optical > drive, nothing to do with swap space. Perhaps the system was loo

Re: No USB with qemu+macOS+USB+iPads

2023-02-02 Thread Curt
On 2023-01-31, stand...@gmx.net wrote: > Hi from Germany. Sorry, I found no other way/group to ask. > > I want to use macOS to maintain some iPads for my school. I have not > found a way to address them via USB in the VM. Even a simple stick > does not appear. > It seems you have to install the

Re: Please help me install Tomcat

2023-02-02 Thread TRS-80
Amn Ojee Uw writes: > I've tried to install Tomcat, different version, like so : > /# Download the latest release of tomcat 10.1.5// > //wget > https://downloads.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-8/v8.5.85/bin/apache-tomcat-8.5.85.tar.gz// > // > //# Create tomcat directory// > //sudo mkdir /opt/tomcat//

Re: Syslog/Rsyslog/Systemctl issue

2023-02-02 Thread songbird
debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: ... > Maybe it's worth asking on the systemd-devel mailing list? did you reinstall rsyslog? did you purge the configs for it (back them up if needed)? when i remove a package i have been having troubles with i often purge it instead of uninstalling it. you

Re: No USB with qemu+macOS+USB+iPads

2023-02-02 Thread stand...@gmx.net
didier...@gmail.com schrieb am Donnerstag, 2. Februar 2023 um 09:50:07 UTC+1: > Le 02/02/2023 à 00:15, stand...@gmx.net a écrit : > > And beware, in Qemu terminoly, an Ipad is not a tablet, it's a computer. > To Qemu, tablets are pointing/drawing devices (think Wacom and such) Not even an usb-

Re: Syslog/Rsyslog/Systemctl issue

2023-02-02 Thread debian-user
> On 01/02/2023 21:48, Freyja wrote: > > Instead of just creating the folders, I've reinstalled some > > packages: > > I would consider complete reinstall (install from scratch). It may be > faster even for a person having experience with systemd > troubleshooting. Something low level is affect

Re: Syslog/Rsyslog/Systemctl issue

2023-02-02 Thread songbird
Max Nikulin wrote: > On 01/02/2023 21:48, Freyja wrote: >> Instead of just creating the folders, I've reinstalled some packages: > > I would consider complete reinstall (install from scratch). It may be > faster even for a person having experience with systemd troubleshooting. > Something low lev

Re: kernel errors - SOLVED

2023-02-02 Thread piorunz
On 02/02/2023 14:05, Richmond wrote: After I did this, the errors went away. I don't know why the errors reference sr0, it's a mystery. They will most likely come back, this error is related to optical drive, nothing to do with swap space. -- With kindest regards, Piotr. ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ De

Re: kernel errors - SOLVED

2023-02-02 Thread Richmond
Richmond writes: > It may be a coincidence but yesterday I installed some > libguestfs-tools. Now I see errors when booting, which also appear in > /var/log/messages: > > kernel: [9.506798] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] tag#12 FAILED Result: > hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE cmd_age=2s > kernel:

Re: Fw: locating blocked port

2023-02-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Feb 02, 2023 at 08:48:43AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > Now the quetion is, what process is using that port? > >$ sudo ss -pt state listening 'sport = :6050' >Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address:Port Peer Address:Port Process >0 1 [:::127.0.0.1]:6050 *:*

Re: Syslog/Rsyslog/Systemctl issue

2023-02-02 Thread Freyja
This is only a solution I'll look at as last resort. There is too much work on that server. But I agree it's something I was already thought of. But we are not on Windows there, we should be able to do something. The only time I had to do this is because dpkg was totally broken for an unknown r

Re: Fw: locating blocked port

2023-02-02 Thread Haines Brown
After stumblin about and wasting people's time. I may have made some progress. First was the kind help that the jabref port can be found by searching on line for "net.sf.jabref.logic.remote.server" Remote port number". Doing so revealed that jabref's default port is probably 6050. I wouild nev

Re: Syslog/Rsyslog/Systemctl issue

2023-02-02 Thread Freyja
Deleted the folder, restarted and back to square 1. -- ❯ systemctl --failed   UNIT    LOAD   ACTIVE SUB    DESCRIPTION ● dbus.socket loaded failed failed D-Bus System Message Bus Socket ● syslog.socket   loaded failed failed Syslog Soc

Re: Syslog/Rsyslog/Systemctl issue

2023-02-02 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Feb 02, 2023 at 02:27:33PM +0100, Freyja wrote: > This [reinstalling] is only a solution I'll look at as last resort. > There is too much work on that server. > > But I agree it's something I was already thought of. > > But we are not on Windows there, we should be able to do something.

Re: Syslog/Rsyslog/Systemctl issue

2023-02-02 Thread Freyja
This is only a solution I'll look at as last resort. There is too much work on that server. But I agree it's something I was already thought of. But we are not on Windows there, we should be able to do something. The only time I had to do this is because dpkg was totally broken for an unknown r

Re: ASCII formatting for plain text email

2023-02-02 Thread debian-user
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 11:06:44PM +0100, Pierre Willaime wrote: > >1- a simple way to draw a line (without pressing 72 times on "-") > >--- > > Are you using emacs? I'm *sure* there must be a quick short-hand to do > this. I

Re: Syslog/Rsyslog/Systemctl issue

2023-02-02 Thread Max Nikulin
On 01/02/2023 21:48, Freyja wrote: Instead of just creating the folders, I've reinstalled some packages: I would consider complete reinstall (install from scratch). It may be faster even for a person having experience with systemd troubleshooting. Something low level is affected. However I

Re: ASCII formatting for plain text email

2023-02-02 Thread songbird
Pierre Willaime wrote: ... > I would like to format plain text emails to increase readability and > information separation. The idea is to go beyond markdown and to have > more visible elements. For example I am looking for a convenient way to > "draw" some ASCII boxes such as > > #

Re: Syslog/Rsyslog/Systemctl issue

2023-02-02 Thread songbird
Freyja wrote: ... > However journalctl still stucks on 24th Oct: > -- > ❯ journalctl -b > -- Journal begins at Sun 2022-10-23 19:55:11 CEST, ends at Mon > 2022-10-24 14:14:33 CEST. -- > -- No entries -- if you are not concerned about keeping the last journals for any reason i would remove the

Re: ASCII formatting for plain text email

2023-02-02 Thread tomas
On Thu, Feb 02, 2023 at 10:50:59AM +, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 11:06:44PM +0100, Pierre Willaime wrote: > > 1- a simple way to draw a line (without pressing 72 times on "-") > > --- > > Are you using e

Re: ASCII formatting for plain text email

2023-02-02 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 11:06:44PM +0100, Pierre Willaime wrote: 1- a simple way to draw a line (without pressing 72 times on "-") --- Are you using emacs? I'm *sure* there must be a quick short-hand to do this. I use vi, and t

Re: No USB with qemu+macOS+USB+iPads

2023-02-02 Thread didier gaumet
Le 02/02/2023 à 00:15, stand...@gmx.net a écrit : Thanks, I know it, but nothing of these works for me. I also tred virt-manager without success. I think there ist another problem which I don't see. I do not use Qemu (directly) nor MacOS X nor Ipads so I cannot assure you what you want is