Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

2023-10-01 Thread David Wright
On Sun 01 Oct 2023 at 21:27:17 (+0200), Hans wrote: > Some other idea: As the kernel boots, but does not find the root-partition, I > am stopping at the > shell > > (initramfs) > > Is there anything I can do from this point? > > I also see, that the kernel tries to find some "block" device,

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

2023-10-01 Thread gene heskett
On 10/1/23 16:01, hw wrote: On Sun, 2023-10-01 at 04:31 -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 9/30/23 23:22, hw wrote: On Sat, 2023-09-30 at 18:29 -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 9/30/23 13:28, Matthias Böttcher wrote: sudo dphys-swapfile swapoff sudo systemctl stop dphys-swapfile.service sudo systemct

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

2023-10-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
> that is easy to explain. The kernel is searching for a device with the > special UUID. As I changed the size of the partition with gparted, > the UUID changed. > > Now the kernel says: This UUID is not existent, what is correct > (kernel param: root=UUID=MyUUIDX) > > I can not get the new U

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

2023-10-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
>>> There I disagree, Greg, it makes a handy download tool, directly >>> from wherever, directly to the machine that needs it. That, >>> apt/synaptic and git are the major net tools I use. Obviously I'm >>> not trying to run them simultaneously. Every machine here 7 ATM, can >>> browse the net, m

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

2023-10-01 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Oct 1, 2023 at 6:29 PM Hans wrote: > > I already thought of this. Problem is in the BIOS, as I can not set AHCI there > (Menu disappeared), so no Linux sees the device. Maybe it is hidden? https://superuser.com/questions/1711770/unlock-advanced-menu-hidden-in-bios Jeff

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

2023-10-01 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-10-01, Hans wrote: >> If you don't remember partitioning you can install cygwin and use fdisk >> on it. cygwin also provides blkid to get label and uuid. > > I tried to get the UUID in Windows but I am not sure, if GUID (Microsoft > naming?) is the same as UUID in Linux. Not directly fr

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

2023-10-01 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-10-01 at 17:39, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2023-10-01 at 15:36, Hans wrote: > >> Hi the Wanderer, >>> (If you're unlucky, there may not *be* any such driver for that >>> model, or at least not one you can get your hands on. In which >>> case, barring the downgrade-the-firmware angle, you

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

2023-10-01 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-10-01 at 15:36, Hans wrote: > Hi the Wanderer, >>> Second: The setting of AHCI has disappeared, so I can not change >>> the settings in BIOS. And: the BIOS can not be reflashed! >> >> Please describe exactly what you have done to try to downgrade the >> UEFI (which isn't a BIOS, as I und

Re: Monthly FAQ for Debian-user list (unmodified August 2023)

2023-10-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Oct 01, 2023 at 04:47:39PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Sun, Oct 1, 2023 at 1:29 PM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > > an-user is a mailing list provided for support for Debian users, > > and to facilitate discussion on relevant topics. > > What is an-users? Drat!! I was hoping nobody

Re: Monthly FAQ for Debian-user list (unmodified August 2023)

2023-10-01 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Oct 1, 2023 at 1:29 PM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > an-user is a mailing list provided for support for Debian users, > and to facilitate discussion on relevant topics. What is an-users?

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

2023-10-01 Thread Felix Miata
Hans composed on 2023-09-30 17:34 (UTC+0200): ... > On my notebook I have 2 drives, one is a NVME drive, the other a normal > harddrive What I would try to do in sequence if I had it here: 1-have Acer support explain why the AHCI option disappeared, and get it to restore it with new BIOS or

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

2023-10-01 Thread hw
On Sun, 2023-10-01 at 00:01 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 9/30/23 19:59, hw wrote: > > > > I guess your notebook is now bricked. If it's still under warranty, > > have them fix it. > > > AIUI Windows 11 still works, so the notebook computer is not bricked; > but it no longer plays nice

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

2023-10-01 Thread hw
On Sun, 2023-10-01 at 04:31 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 9/30/23 23:22, hw wrote: > > On Sat, 2023-09-30 at 18:29 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > On 9/30/23 13:28, Matthias Böttcher wrote: > > > > sudo dphys-swapfile swapoff > > > > sudo systemctl stop dphys-swapfile.service > > > > sudo system

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

2023-10-01 Thread Hans
Hi the Wanderer, > Having read over the rest of this thread, so far I do not see anything > to indicate that the UUID has changed. Ok > > Rather, I think that this is likely to be the entire problem. > > At least on some (many?) systems, when this is set to RAID rather than > AHCI, a different d

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

2023-10-01 Thread Hans
Some other idea: As the kernel boots, but does not find the root-partition, I am stopping at the shell (initramfs) Is there anything I can do from this point? I also see, that the kernel tries to find some "block" device, but i am not sure, what he actually does Kernel output is:

Re: btrfs snapshots (of root file system)?

2023-10-01 Thread hw
On Sun, 2023-10-01 at 10:51 +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > hw wrote: > > Hi, > > > > with btrfs, how do I make a snapshot of the root file system? The > > purpose is to update software and being able to go back to a previous > > state if necessary. > > > > There doesn't seem to be a

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

2023-10-01 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 01/10/2023 14:08, Hans wrote: The kernel is still starting, but does not find the root partition, as the UUID is wrong. And I can not get the correct UUID, as no Linux livefile does see the /dev/nvme partitions. I don't think the problem is an incorrect or changed UUID, but simply that you

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

2023-10-01 Thread gene heskett
On 10/1/23 14:06, Stefan Monnier wrote: There I disagree, Greg, it makes a handy download tool, directly from wherever, directly to the machine that needs it. That, apt/synaptic and git are the major net tools I use. Obviously I'm not trying to run them simultaneously. Every machine here 7 ATM,

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

2023-10-01 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-09-30 at 11:34, Hans wrote: > Dear folks, > > since days I am now fighting with a big and special problem I fell > into. > > On my notebook I have 2 drives, one is a NVME drive, the other a > normal harddrive. > > The NVME has got Widows_11 and Debian_12 on it. > > But here is the prob

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

2023-10-01 Thread Hans
Am Sonntag, 1. Oktober 2023, 20:24:40 CEST schrieb Michel Verdier: Hi Michel,> Did you change both kernel param and fstab ? You can use /dev/xxx in > fstab, no need to know the uuid. > I tried /dev/nvmeX (I could see the correct device in /etc/fstab "device was /dev/nvme at inbstallati

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

2023-10-01 Thread Hans
Hi Stefan, that is easy to explain. The kernel is searching for a device with the special UUID. As I changed the size of the partition with gparted, the UUID changed. Now the kernel says: This UUID is not existent, what is correct (kernel param: root=UUID=MyUUIDX) I can not get the new UUI

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

2023-10-01 Thread Hans
Am Sonntag, 1. Oktober 2023, 19:25:39 CEST schrieb Jeffrey Walton: > On Sun, Oct 1, 2023 at 1:09 PM Hans wrote: > > reset did not work. The menu for setting AHCI has completely disappeared > > > > The livesystems do not boot, as UEFI inhibits it. And in the BIOS UEFI can > > NOT be disabled! > >

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

2023-10-01 Thread Michel Verdier
On 2023-09-30, Hans wrote: > At boot, I can edit the kernel params, there is root=UUID=MY_UUID, here I > also > tried "root=/dev/nmve0p1n6", but also got no success. As I said, I can get > access to the /etc/fstab, but without the correct UUID it makes no sense. Did you change both kernel para

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

2023-10-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> AIUI Windows 11 still works, so the notebook computer is not bricked; >> but it no longer plays nice with dual-boot Windows 11 and Debian on the >> NVMe drive. > Yes, as Debian can not be booted any more, due to the wrong UUID of the root > device. I don't understand how the UUID could be such

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

2023-10-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
> There I disagree, Greg, it makes a handy download tool, directly from > wherever, directly to the machine that needs it. That, apt/synaptic and git > are the major net tools I use. Obviously I'm not trying to run them > simultaneously. Every machine here 7 ATM, can browse the net, making it ver

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

2023-10-01 Thread Hans
Hi David, > > Please provide manufacturer names and part numbers for: > * notebook computer Acer Aspire A317-51G > > * NVMe drive > Kingston manufacturer, do know not more > * hard drive normal SSD (I intend to install Debian on this as subtitute) > > > David The BIOS is INSYDEH20, Rev.

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

2023-10-01 Thread Hans
Hi David, > > AIUI Windows 11 still works, so the notebook computer is not bricked; > but it no longer plays nice with dual-boot Windows 11 and Debian on the > NVMe drive. > Yes, as Debian can not be booted any more, due to the wrong UUID of the root device. > > I am curious if and what the W

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

2023-10-01 Thread Hans
I already thought of this. Problem is in the BIOS, as I can not set AHCI there (Menu disappeared), so no Linux sees the device. > I hate to say this: you need to reinstall Windows 11, potentially and then > reinstall Debian. AHCI is the appropriate setting - maybe if you wipe the > machine it s

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

2023-10-01 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Oct 1, 2023 at 1:09 PM Hans wrote: > > reset did not work. The menu for setting AHCI has completely disappeared > > The livesystems do not boot, as UEFI inhibits it. And in the BIOS UEFI can NOT > be disabled! Sometimes you need to set a BIOS password to unlock additional menu items, like

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

2023-10-01 Thread Hans
Hi, reset did not work. The menu for setting AHCI has completely disappeared The livesystems do not boot, as UEFI inhibits it. And in the BIOS UEFI can NOT be disabled! I updated Windows from Win_10 to Win_11. It is not bricked, please read my first mail carefully: I canm still access the ex

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

2023-10-01 Thread gene heskett
On 10/1/23 11:01, Curt wrote: On 2023-10-01, gene heskett wrote: Andy, with good luck, you may make to your 89th birthday, which with good luck I'll celebrate next Wednesday. I certainly hope you do. By then you will not see any humor in trying to remember what, if anything, you had for brea

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

2023-10-01 Thread gene heskett
On 10/1/23 09:39, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sun, Oct 01, 2023 at 08:58:36AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Oct 01, 2023 at 05:07:48AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: You've a good view of this hw. However swap is not important to run linuxcnc, in fact its to be avoided because it messes with

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

2023-10-01 Thread gene heskett
On 10/1/23 08:59, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Oct 01, 2023 at 05:07:48AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: You've a good view of this hw. However swap is not important to run linuxcnc, in fact its to be avoided because it messes with realtime response. Linuxcnc needs, even with much of the control off

Re: naming a partition after the fact?

2023-10-01 Thread David Wright
On Sun 01 Oct 2023 at 09:28:37 (+), Andy Smith wrote: > On Sun, Oct 01, 2023 at 07:21:06AM -, Robert Riding wrote: > > It seems that there are various programs included in debian to create disk > > labels for partitions, so that you may have a line in fstab that looks like > > "LABEL=home

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

2023-10-01 Thread David Wright
On Sun 01 Oct 2023 at 13:39:17 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sun, Oct 01, 2023 at 08:58:36AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 01, 2023 at 05:07:48AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > You've a good view of this hw. However swap is not important to run > > > linuxcnc, in fact its t

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

2023-10-01 Thread David Wright
On Sun 01 Oct 2023 at 04:31:26 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On 9/30/23 23:22, hw wrote: > > On Sat, 2023-09-30 at 18:29 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > However that did give me a clue about getting rid of zram0, which has > > > been done now, thank you. Now I hope to uncomment the SSD line in f

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

2023-10-01 Thread Darac Marjal
On 01/10/2023 09:31, gene heskett wrote: Fedora has it by default since a while, and at first I thought it's a very stupid idea.  In practise, I can't be bothered anymore to create these annoying swap partitions.  They're only a waste of disc space. There haven't been any issues with it, and

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

2023-10-01 Thread Curt
On 2023-10-01, gene heskett wrote: >> > Andy, with good luck, you may make to your 89th birthday, which with > good luck I'll celebrate next Wednesday. I certainly hope you do. By > then you will not see any humor in trying to remember what, if anything, > you had for breakfast this morning.

Re: Does anyone own and use a Kindle Scribe?

2023-10-01 Thread Joe
On Sun, 01 Oct 2023 15:02:49 +0100 Sharon Kimble wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Does anyone own and use a Kindle Scribe, and know how to access and > copy files to and from since it moved over to it being mounted as an > mtp device, please? As I'm getting desperat

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

2023-10-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 05:34:31PM +0200, Hans wrote: > Dear folks, > > since days I am now fighting with a big and special problem I fell into. > > On my notebook I have 2 drives, one is a NVME drive, the other a normal > harddrive. > > The NVME has got Widows_11 and Debian_12 on it. > > But

Does anyone own and use a Kindle Scribe?

2023-10-01 Thread Sharon Kimble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Does anyone own and use a Kindle Scribe, and know how to access and copy files to and from since it moved over to it being mounted as an mtp device, please? As I'm getting desperate to copy files to it, that I want to read! Thanks for listening,

Bug report

2023-10-01 Thread Steven Truppe
Hello guys, i'm running linux debian stable and i had troubles running gufw, i solved the issue by installing the package polkit-mate and then add to the startup programms the application: /usr/libexec/polkit-mate-authentication-agent-1. i am using xfce4, here is the output of dpkg --status ap

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

2023-10-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Oct 01, 2023 at 08:58:36AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Oct 01, 2023 at 05:07:48AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > You've a good view of this hw. However swap is not important to run > > linuxcnc, in fact its to be avoided because it messes with realtime > > response. Linuxcnc needs

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

2023-10-01 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Oct 01, 2023 at 05:07:48AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > You've a good view of this hw. However swap is not important to run > linuxcnc, in fact its to be avoided because it messes with realtime > response. Linuxcnc needs, even with much of the control offloaded to mesa > and similar smart c

Monthly FAQ for Debian-user list (unmodified August 2023)

2023-10-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
an-user is a mailing list provided for support for Debian users, and to facilitate discussion on relevant topics. Some guidelines which may help explain how the list works: * The language on this mailing list is English. There may be other mailing lists that are language-specific, for example

Re: btrfs snapshots (of root file system)?

2023-10-01 Thread debian-user
hw wrote: > Hi, > > with btrfs, how do I make a snapshot of the root file system? The > purpose is to update software and being able to go back to a previous > state if necessary. > > There doesn't seem to be a command to create snapshots but only > subvolumes? How does a subvolume turn into a

Re: naming a partition after the fact?

2023-10-01 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sun, Oct 01, 2023 at 07:21:06AM -, Robert Riding wrote: > It seems that there are various programs included in debian to create disk > labels for partitions, so that you may have a line in fstab that looks like > "LABEL=home /home ext2 defaults 0 2" for instance. > These labels als

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

2023-10-01 Thread gene heskett
On 10/1/23 04:05, Max Nikulin wrote: On 01/10/2023 10:21, hw wrote: Well, zram is the way to go; why would you still use swap partitions or swap files instead? The topic of this thread is a *Pi board. It does not have as much RAM as significant part of x86_64 laptops and desktops with install

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

2023-10-01 Thread gene heskett
On 9/30/23 23:22, hw wrote: On Sat, 2023-09-30 at 18:29 -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 9/30/23 13:28, Matthias Böttcher wrote: sudo dphys-swapfile swapoff sudo systemctl stop dphys-swapfile.service sudo systemctl disable dphys-swapfile.service . However that did give me a clue about getting ri

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

2023-10-01 Thread Max Nikulin
On 01/10/2023 01:16, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Sep 30, 2023 at 01:50:57PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: cnc@rpi4:/etc$ sudo dphys-swapfile swapoff sudo: dphys-swapfile: command not found ... unicorn:~$ apt-cache search dphys swap dphys-swapfile - Autogenerate and use a swap file From my poin

Re: swap-fle on arm64, need to disable, how?

2023-10-01 Thread Max Nikulin
On 01/10/2023 10:21, hw wrote: Well, zram is the way to go; why would you still use swap partitions or swap files instead? The topic of this thread is a *Pi board. It does not have as much RAM as significant part of x86_64 laptops and desktops with installed Fedora. It seems, Gene it trying

Re: naming a partition after the fact?

2023-10-01 Thread Robert Riding
Hi, On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 21:00:01 +0200, gene heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I recall something I haven't used in a decade or more, but we used to > have a journal something or other that could rename a partition, and I > need something like it. debian 12 on an rpi4b and while a sudo -E >

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

2023-10-01 Thread David Christensen
On 9/30/23 19:59, hw wrote: On Sat, 2023-09-30 at 17:34 +0200, Hans wrote: Dear folks, since days I am now fighting with a big and special problem I fell into. On my notebook I have 2 drives, one is a NVME drive, the other a normal harddrive. The NVME has got Widows_11 and Debian_12 on it. B