Re: using ddrescue on the root partition - boot with / as read-only

On 9/14/23 03:17, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2023-09-13 20:52:43 -0700, David Christensen wrote: On 9/13/23 04:54, Vincent Lefevre wrote: Hi, I need to use ddrescue on the root partition of my laptop. So I need to have the root partition mounted in read-only mode. How can I do that? Note that

Re: memtest86

> latest version is 10.6, get it at: > Freeware! Eww! I recommend https://www.memtest.org/ instead (admittedly, until a year or two ago, this Free Software was severely outdated and didn't really work with UEFI, but things have picked up again since).

Re: su

On 14/09/2023 22:26, Vincent Lefevre wrote: I noticed the issue just before the upgrade to bookworm (I wanted to do that for the upgrade). But I can't reproduce it in bookworm. So this may have been an old bug that has been fixed. I do not follow the topic, so I can not attribute changes to pa

Re: "Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!"

> In Debian 11 (bullseye), the current repository version of clamav > is 0.103.8; the recommended version is 0.103.10 (whence the message > in log files quoted in the subject line). The databases daily.cld, > main.cvd, and bytecode.cld are up to date, so presumably this provides > acceptable secur

Re: Chromium under Xfce/bookworm anyone?

On Thu, 14 Sep 2023 07:04:50 + Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d...@ewoof.net> wrote: > On 13 Sep 2023 13:14 -0400, from cele...@gmail.com (Celejar): > > The truth is, however, that although I thought I had fully investigated > > the problem, I was wrong. Upon further investigation, it seems that it

Re: memtest86

Tom Browder composed on 2023-09-14 15:29 (UTC-0500): > Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > ... >> I know "memtest86" was before "memtest86+", but memtest86+ is a successor >> I just found my system rescue disk, booted it, entered the memtest86++ and > see lots of FAILUREs (I have 128 Gb so that may

Re: memtest86

On 9/14/23 16:30, Tom Browder wrote: On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 13:15 Alexander V. Makartsev > wrote: ... I know "memtest86" was before "memtest86+", but memtest86+ is a successor I just found my system rescue disk, booted it, entered the memtest86++ and see lo

Re: usrmerge on root NFS will not be run automatically

Still going on with this? Have you actually looked at those two files: /lib/udev/rules.d/60-libsane1.rules and /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-libsane1.rules to see if they're identical or not and to see if you might have an idea how to merge them? [ as I suggested a week ago. ] `usrmerge` did g

Re: memtest86

On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 13:15 Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: ... > I know "memtest86" was before "memtest86+", but memtest86+ is a successor > > I just found my system rescue disk, booted it, entered the memtest86++ and see lots of FAILUREs (I have 128 Gb so that may be why it's been hit and miss)

Re: usrmerge on root NFS will not be run automatically

On Thu, 14 Sep 2023 15:01:50 -0400 Dan Ritter wrote: > Is this a mission-critical server? I'd say so, yes. It's not one single server. It's *all* workstations. > i.e. will screwing it up for a day cause other people to be upset Yes, because no one can use their computer. > or you to lose mone

Re: usrmerge on root NFS will not be run automatically

On Thu, 14 Sep 2023 13:20:09 -0400 Dan Ritter wrote: > > FreeBSD (actually a TrueNAS appliance) > > If it supports the 9P share system, Debian can mount that with > -t 9p. > > I don't know whether TrueNAS enabled that. No it does not. I just confirmed, the only choices are raw disk access (Z

Re: usrmerge on root NFS will not be run automatically

On Thu, 14 Sep 2023 11:00:17 -0400 Dan Ritter wrote: > What VM software are you using bhyve …which I know very little about. It's supported on the server, I've tried it, set up a VM, it works. But the server is mainly serving NFS shares to various clients. > and what's the OS on which that run

Re: using ddrescue on the root partition - boot with / as read-only

>> Indeed booting with `init=/bin/bash` can be a handy option I've used in >> the past: you get into the normal root (so you don't have to figure out >> how to find and mount root from the initramfs), mounted read-only. [ One other advantage over `break=premount` and friends is that I find it mu

Re: automate resumption of session

> If hibernation can work reliably on your system it would seem to meet > your requirement. FWIW, hibernation should usually work "on any system". Usually if it doesn't work it's because the system's boot setup doesn't accommodate it rather than because the hardware (or Linux) doesn't support it.

Re: using ddrescue on the root partition - boot with / as read-only

On 2023-09-14 21:44:18 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > If data are really precious then seek for a specialized service. I normally have 2+ backups for important data. But I'd like to double-check with what is no longer readable on the laptop disk. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web:

Re: su

On 2023-09-14 21:25:56 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 14/09/2023 17:30, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Yes, XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is problematic, but as "su -" doesn't work in > > GNU Screen (it yields major display issues), I presume that some > > environment variables (terminal related?) are still useful.

Re: usrmerge on root NFS will not be run automatically

Marco wrote: > On Fri, 8 Sep 2023 12:26:38 -0400 > Dan Ritter wrote: > > * have the VM mount the filesystem directly > > How? I can only attach devices (=whole disks) to the VM or mount the > FS via NFS. I can't attach it as a device because it's not a device, > rather than a directory with the

Re: How to recover from a broken kernel upgrade

Thanks Tom. Editing wifi_regd.c seems pretty promising. I'll try that. -Mike On 2023-09-14 02:21, Tom Dial wrote: On 9/13/23 17:07, M. Cuffaro wrote: Hello all, I have looked around for an answer but was unable to find one, and was hoping that someone here could help me. *First, some back

Re: How to recover from a broken kernel upgrade

Hi Marco, thanks for the helpful reply. I'll consider this but as a last resort. Best, -Mike On 2023-09-14 00:39, Marco wrote: Am 13.09.2023 19:07 schrieb M. Cuffaro: Consult /var/lib/dkms/rtl88x2bu/5.13.1/build/make.log for more information. That drivers is incompatible with the current k

Re: using ddrescue on the root partition - boot with / as read-only

On 14/09/2023 19:48, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 14 Sep 2023 12:17 +0200, from vinc...@vinc17.net (Vincent Lefevre): badblocks says that there are 25252 bad blocks. I'm using ddrescue before doing anything else (mainly in case things would go worse), but I would essentially be interested in know

Re: su

On 14/09/2023 17:30, Vincent Lefevre wrote: Yes, XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is problematic, but as "su -" doesn't work in GNU Screen (it yields major display issues), I presume that some environment variables (terminal related?) are still useful. I just have tried it. "su -" preserves TERM=screen.xterm-25

Re: usrmerge on root NFS will not be run automatically

On Fri, 8 Sep 2023 12:26:38 -0400 Dan Ritter wrote: > Can you start a temporary VM directly on the server? I just checked. I can, yes. > If so, you can > * stop your remote Debian machine Ok, no problem. > * run a Debian rescue image in the VM on the NFS server No problem. > * have the VM m

Re: using ddrescue on the root partition - boot with / as read-only

On 14 Sep 2023 12:17 +0200, from vinc...@vinc17.net (Vincent Lefevre): > badblocks says that there are 25252 bad blocks. > > I'm using ddrescue before doing anything else (mainly in case things > would go worse), but I would essentially be interested in knowing > which files are affected. There's

Re: memtest86

On 14.09.2023 01:54, Tom Browder wrote: On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 3:48 PM Tom Browder wrote: On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 3:32 PM Tom Browder wrote: On 13.09.2023 19:10, Tom Browder wrote: Here I am again seeking help. I have used memtest86 long ago when I I see that it's a Debian package, and I i

Re: su

On 2023-09-06 14:36:48 +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 06/09/2023 10:41, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > Just put "ALWAYS_SET_PATH yes" into /etc/default/su and the problem > > is FIXED. "su" will work properly again! > > Greg, you provided a valid example when "su -" is undesirable, however in > ge

Re: memtest86

On 14.09.2023 00:42, gene heskett wrote: On 9/13/23 12:40, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 13.09.2023 19:10, Tom Browder wrote: Here I am again seeking help. I have used memtest86 long ago when I burned it on a CDROM disk. I see that it's a Debian package, and  I installed it. Now I see mem

Re: using ddrescue on the root partition - boot with / as read-only

On 2023-09-13 20:52:43 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 9/13/23 04:54, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I need to use ddrescue on the root partition of my laptop. > > > > So I need to have the root partition mounted in read-only mode. > > How can I do that? > > > > Note that "mount -o

Re: using ddrescue on the root partition - boot with / as read-only

On 2023-09-13 23:00:27 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Or perhaps I could use /bin/sh as init, so that systemd (and its > > remount as rw) would be avoided? > > Indeed booting with `init=/bin/bash` can be a handy option I've used in > the past: you get into the normal root (so you don't have to f

Re: Chromium under Xfce/bookworm anyone?

On 13 Sep 2023 13:14 -0400, from cele...@gmail.com (Celejar): > The truth is, however, that although I thought I had fully investigated > the problem, I was wrong. Upon further investigation, it seems that it's > my uBlock Origin settings that are causing the problem - disabling it > entirely (as o