Re: sharing a network connection from debian to non-debian

2021-01-16 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-15 21:02, Dan Hitt wrote: In 2016, i had a computer with mint on it (which is a form of ubuntu), and it was connected to an internet modem. There was a super simple gui on it that i could use to share that connection with some older hardware that were not directly connected to the int

Re: How to restore BIOS-based backup on a UEFI machine

2021-01-14 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-14 07:41, Jesper Dybdal wrote: I backup my Buster server simply as a (compressed, encrypted) cpio archive. Restoring it to a BIOS-based machine is simple: boot a rescue cd, partition the disk, restore all files, fix fstab if necessary, run update-grub and grub-install in a chroot en

Re: old red cables cause Disk errors ...

2021-01-13 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-13 15:46, Dennis Wicks wrote: Well, this is all very interesting! I have *two* SATALink/SATARaid expansion cards and neither of them have any red cables! Okay. Are you confident the cables are good? They are at pci addresses 05:00 and 05:01! How do I tell which is which? Do y

Re: Disk errors ...

2021-01-13 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-13 13:55, David Christensen wrote: Download the manufacturer diagnostic utility for whatever brand disk(s) you own and run it.  I prefer tools that run on bootable media (e.g. USB flash drive); Windows may be required.

Re: Anyone using a Displayport to VGA adapter?

2021-01-13 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-13 14:40, Felix Miata wrote: David Christensen composed on 2021-01-13 14:15 (UTC-0800): rhkramer wrote: * Does it handle at least 1920x1080 resolution? Yes.; that is the maximum resolution for this model. I'll bet on double check you would find the limit is 1920

Re: Disk errors ...

2021-01-13 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-13 14:34, Michael Stone wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 01:55:37PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: If you have any red SATA cables, replace them with new black SATA 6 Make sure you wear a beaded neckless while doing that under a full moon. I used to think "a cable is a

Re: Anyone using a Displayport to VGA adapter?

2021-01-13 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-13 09:50, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone on here using a Displayport to VGA adapter? I have two Star Tech DP2VGA2. If so: * How's it working? I have not experienced any issues with them. * Does it handle at least 1920x1080 resolution? Yes.; that is the maximu

Re: Disk errors ...

2021-01-13 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-13 11:07, Dennis Wicks wrote: Greetings; I am getting very frequent disk errors and I can't figure out which drive they are occurring on. I get two messages: [174384.704895] sata_sil :05:00.0: Event logged [IO_PAGE_FAULT domain=0x address=0xcf99c100 flags=0x]

Re: question about intel gpu hang

2021-01-07 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-07 13:52, Muhamad Moghadam wrote: Hi Everybody,I have a pc with intel gpu and run it on fedora, but intel gpu will be hang with fedora kernel ( 5.7 or more ). If I install debian, will my problem be solved? Perhaps. It is next to impossible to determine whether or not operating sys

Re: HBA or SATA PCIe card FSC TX150 S7 Server

2021-01-05 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-05 10:46, basti wrote: Hello, Hello. :-) we have a old FSC TX150 S7 Server and need more disk space. So we want to by a https://www.icydock.com/goods.php?id=153. The diskspace is used as fileserver / simple HDD no SSD and the network connection is 1Gbit round about 100mb/s. So I

Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

2021-01-04 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-04 09:14, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 04.01.2021 09:31, David Christensen wrote: Reboot -- boots okay -- login manager displayed -- login okay -- Xfce desktop okay -- external monitor not getting signal. Xfce -> Settings -> Display only lists one monitor &q

Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

2021-01-03 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-01 15:51, David Christensen wrote: 2021-01-01 12:18:31 root@dipsy ~ # lspci 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF119M [NVS 4200M] (rev a1) 01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GF119 HDMI Audio Controller (rev a1) On 2021-01-03 17:43, Alexander V

Re: enable journal

2021-01-03 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-03 15:52, Felix Miata wrote: David Christensen composed on 2021-01-03 15:41 (UTC-0800): Again, not of much use (?). How do I get information out of the systemd journal? sudo mkdir /var/log/journal or turn it on in /etc/systemd/journald.conf. STFW 'systemd jo

Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

2021-01-03 Thread David Christensen
(Re-ordered for clarity.) On 2021-01-03 04:01, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sat, Jan 02, 2021 at 01:52:47PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: On 2021-01-02 05:23, Darac Marjal wrote: On 01/01/2021 23:51, David Christensen wrote: I have a Dell Latitude E6520 with Nvidia Optimus graphics: I

Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

2021-01-03 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-03 06:51, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 03.01.2021 02:52, David Christensen wrote: Any suggestions for trouble-shooting the crashes? Have you checked the systemd journal? Even after you reboot frozen system you can see last syslog messages easily from previous boot with this

Re: recommendations for supported, affordable hardware raid controller.

2021-01-03 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-03 01:25, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 02 ian 21, 13:35:06, David Christensen wrote: AIUI a journaling filesystem provides a two-step process to achieve atomic writes of multiple sectors to disk -- e.g. a process wants to put some data into a block here (say, a file), a block there

Re: ZFS guidance

2021-01-02 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-02 13:10, Gregory Seidman wrote: I've been running 10+ LVM volumes on top of dmcrypt on top of md RAID1 on Debian for many, many years and it has served me well. I've been double-mirroring (i.e. three active drives in the RAID array) for the last several with the idea that I can manual

Re: Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

2021-01-02 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-02 05:23, Darac Marjal wrote: Thanks for the reply. :-) On 01/01/2021 23:51, David Christensen wrote: I have a Dell Latitude E6520 with Nvidia Optimus graphics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Optimus I have disabled Optimus in the CMOS Setup: Video -> Opti

Re: recommendations for supported, affordable hardware raid controller.

2021-01-02 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-02 03:24, Andrei POPESCU wrote: http://www.unixsheikh.com/articles/battle-testing-data-integrity-verification-with-zfs-btrfs-and-mdadm-dm-integrity.html That looks interesting. Thanks for the link. :-) On 2021-01-02 08:08, Richard Hector wrote: On 3/01/21 12:24 am, Andrei POPES

Re: recommendations for supported, affordable hardware raid controller.

2021-01-02 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-02 00:11, Steven Mainor wrote: All, thanks for all the help so far. For all the people asking why, a few reasons. First I love to tinker with and learn about things and the only raid controller I have access to is on my production server and I don't really get to "play" with it muc

Re: Debian Squeeze Installer: HTTP proxy server to access outsideworld?

2021-01-02 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-02 00:48, FadeOut FF wrote: I want http proxy server If you are asking how to respond to the "HTTP Proxy?" question in the Debian Installer, I press and leave it blank. David

Re: I have a Gigabyte GA-A320M-H is there a BUG in this motherboard?

2021-01-02 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-02 01:06, ike wrote: On 01/01/2021 11:42 PM, ike wrote: I have a Gigabyte GA-A320M-H I have tried to install Debian 10.7 . I have enable Iommu and CSM. When the menu comes up it does not matter what I select after I hit enter the screen is just a mess can you help

Nvidia Optimus, Debian 10, and Firefox ESR crashes

2021-01-01 Thread David Christensen
debian-users: I have a Dell Latitude E6520 with Nvidia Optimus graphics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia_Optimus STFW and RTFM: https://wiki.debian.org/NVIDIA%20Optimus -> Using only the integrated GPU https://wiki.debian.org/NVIDIA%20Optimus#UsingOnlyOneGPU I have disabled Optimus i

Re: recommendations for supported, affordable hardware raid controller.

2021-01-01 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-01 10:06, Steven Mainor wrote: I'm looking for recommendations for a 6 or 8 port SATA hardware raid controller that will hopefully be supported by the kernel and/or open source drivers to put in my desktop computer. Any input welcome, thanks. Why? What is your computer? What Deb

Re: Discussion about backup passwords for LUKS encrypted filesystems before revising wiki

2020-12-24 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-12-24 10:06, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, December 22, 2020 07:20:39 PM David Christensen wrote: Thank you for offering to improve Debian documentation. :-) You're welcome, but I wasn't making a general offer to improve documentation, just to fix something that

Re: Discussion about backup passwords for LUKS encrypted filesystems before revising wiki

2020-12-22 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-12-22 09:11, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: See the quoted paragraph, below, quoted from the [[https://wiki.debian.org/LVM#Encrypted_LVM][LVM#Encrypted_LVM]] wiki. It seems to me that the idea of creating and saving backup passwords is something of a red herring (to borrow a "Briticism"). Th

Re: NULL pointer dereference

2020-12-19 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-12-19 08:13, Grzesiek Sójka wrote: Hi there, I found the following in my "server" log: == BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0008 PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: [#2] SMP PTI CPU: 5 PID: 12441 Comm: awk Tainted: G

Re: ssh access with all ports close.

2020-12-09 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-12-09 16:33, latin...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: I had a Buster server at home, but the owner of the house close all ports in the router, i can not access it anymore; i rented a server without root access, and transfer the server. There are many vendors who can rent a Debian virtual private serv

Re: SanDisk USB stick problem

2020-12-08 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-12-08 07:29, Fred wrote: Hello, I bought a SanDisk Cruzer Glide USB stick.  The fine print on the package says it has SecureAccess software.  It is so secure it prevents me from writing to it without running the included Bill Gates cancerous, virus infested, scourge of the Earth softw

Re: Firefox extensions keep disappearing

2020-12-06 Thread David Christensen
On 12/6/20 11:43 AM, Celejar wrote: Hi, I have several Firefox extensions (uBlock Origin, HTTPS Everywhere, NoScript, Privacy Badger) installed from Debian packages. Recently (the past few weeks / months?), they have begun to disappear from Firefox - they stop funcioning, and they don't appear o

Re: Web-bot tarpit aka spider trap (was: swamp rat bots Q)

2020-12-06 Thread David Christensen
On 12/6/20 11:15 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: It's nice to see that I am not the only sick puppy out there. At 69 years old, I still don't have much trouble with getting in touch with my inner 12-year-old when it comes to intrusive marketing which is so prevalent these days. I fo

Re: i386 debian to 64bit intel

2020-12-03 Thread David Christensen
On 12/3/20 2:39 PM, Jerry Mellon wrote: Hi, I am new to linux and made the mistake of loading the i386 Debian release 10 onto my 64bit intel system. I now want to put the 64bit version for intel on the system. Why? Do I have to backup the data I have in my $HOME directory You should backup

Re: debian-10.6.0-amd64 cryptsetup: Waiting for encrypted source device sdb2_crypt

2020-11-28 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-11-28 01:03, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 28 nov 20, 00:46:22, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-11-27 22:39, David wrote: On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 at 16:22, David Christensen wrote: Please configure your mail client so that it does not put the sender's e-mail address into the

Re: debian-10.6.0-amd64 cryptsetup: Waiting for encrypted source device sdb2_crypt

2020-11-28 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-11-27 22:39, David wrote: Thanks for the reply. :-) On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 at 16:22, David Christensen wrote: Please configure your mail client so that it does not put the sender's e-mail address into the body of your reply. Note that the system drive is 'sdb' (th

debian-10.6.0-amd64 cryptsetup: Waiting for encrypted source device sdb2_crypt

2020-11-27 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: I have a desktop computer with an Intel DQ67SW motherboard and an Intel SSD 520 Series 60 GB system drive connected to the first SATA port. I downloaded: debian-10.6.0-amd64-xfce-CD-1.iso I verified the GPG signature on the checksum file and verified the checksum on the IS

Re: Dual Win10/Linux on HDD+SDD installation & RTL8821CE

2020-11-23 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-11-23 09:10, Kanito 73 wrote: Hello Finally I bought the laptop with Ryzen 5, it arrived yesterday. At first I backed up (clonezilla) the whole brand new system (Windows 10) before running for first time to have a virgin copy of the original system. Today I will erase the disks to cre

Re: Redundancy for EFI System Partition: what do people do in 2020?

2020-11-21 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-11-21 08:40, Andy Smith wrote: I'm used to using software RAID everywhere and providing redundancy for everything. how do you choose to provide redundancy for your ESP any why did you make that choice? I MBR and single 2.5" SSD's for system drives. For desktops and servers, I moun

Fwd: Regarding your case number 10724899 [ ref:_00D00hhzl._5004V11emZL:ref ]

2020-11-13 Thread David Christensen
Hello David Christensen, Thank you for contacting Seagate. This is a final email. We would like to inform you that due to the time frame and lack of response to our previous emails, this case will be closed. Feel free to create another online ticket if you need assistance and we will be happy to

Re: Fwd: Regarding your case number 10724899 [ ref:_00D00hhzl._5004V11emZL:ref ]

2020-11-11 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-11-11 17:43, Olivier wrote: On 2020-11-11 18:59, Felix Miata wrote: Thanks for the offers of help. Any competent Linux or BSD user understands that copying a USB flash drive with a live Linux distribution and a diagnostic application to a raw image file is easy. Apparently, Seaga

Fwd: Regarding your case number 10724899 [ ref:_00D00hhzl._5004V11emZL:ref ]

2020-11-11 Thread David Christensen
To: dpchr...@holgerdanske.com Hello David Christensen, Thank you for your email response. We apologize for the delay in our response; we have had staffing cuts due to the pandemic. We tried to contact you by phone xx, but were unable to reach you. We understand that you are requesti

Re: working with mp3 files

2020-10-29 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-29 04:42, mick crane wrote: hello, I am totally clueless about audio files. Have for example librivox recordings of "1984" split into a dozen files. Would like to combine them together into one file with ffmpeg join_together "files" some_options) out_file presumably each file has meta

Re: Intel RST driver -> SSD bug ?

2020-10-24 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-24 09:56, A. Kapetanovic wrote: David Christensen writes: Do you own the four books I previously recommended? Have please someone a advice for me ? Buy, read, enter all or part of the examples, and solve all or part of the exercises in "Learning Perl". The more ex

Re: Intel RST driver -> SSD bug ?

2020-10-23 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-22 21:48, A. Kapetanovic wrote: 23 oct. 2020 04:27:38 David Christensen : Who wrote algo- B1.pl?  Who designed the database?  Are they for a personal project, for a business, or something else? I designed all and it is for a personal business Okay. Do you own the four books I

Re: Bizarre packet loss

2020-10-22 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-22 19:07, Gregory Seidman wrote: First off, here's the network architecture: ISP (untrusted) router (NAT) | OpenWRT (trusted) router (NAT) ... wireless device | Cisco (unmanaged) switch---+ | | Netgear (unmanaged) switchwired devic

Re: Intel RST driver -> SSD bug ?

2020-10-22 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-22 03:01, A. Kapetanovic wrote: One second please, I have discovered something else : the problem is the same on a external HDD USB drive. amel@laptopasus:/media/amel/c4e65f75-d3ed-46f3-950d-bf833b0b409c$ ./algo- B1.pl Undefined subroutine &main::lisblocage called at ./algo-B1.pl l

Re: Intel RST driver -> SSD bug ?

2020-10-21 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-21 10:21, A. Kapetanovic wrote: David Christensen writes: Intel hardware RAID is best supported on Windows -- install a driver that includes an administration GUI, and you can see what the hardware is doing. I used smartctl, short and long test. Both seems to be OK (the shell is

Re: Intel RST driver -> SSD bug ?

2020-10-20 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-20 12:58, A. Kapetanovic wrote: Hi, I have a problem with my laptop, it looks like a SSD bug : some parts in a file vanishes (a function in a perl program). I have an asus laptop which uses intel RST technology (Rapid Storage Technology), and I wonder if the problem can come from t

Re: define (or translate, or substitute for) "interpolate": Re: rsync --delete

2020-10-19 Thread David Christensen
On Saturday, October 17, 2020 06:01:13 PM David Christensen wrote: I don't use Bourne arrays, and I barely understand how the shell interpolates lists and preserves items containing whitespace. When I can't figure it out, I switch to Perl. On 2020-10-19 05:29, rhkra...@gmail.com

Re: rsync --delete

2020-10-19 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-19 04:55, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 03:01:13PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: I try to use all lower case letters for variable names and all upper case letters for constants. ALL_UPPER_CASE is reserved for internal shell variables, and environment variables

Re: rsync --delete

2020-10-19 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-19 14:12, Tixy wrote: On Mon, 2020-10-19 at 15:16 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/105 NOOO ;-) Excuse me while I go grep 'set -e' -R ... 2020-10-19 20:01:44 dpchrist@tinkywinky ~ $ cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a 9.13 Linux tinkyw

Re: rsync --delete

2020-10-17 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-16 15:09, Mike McClain wrote: I've been using rsync to backup to a flash drive but it's not performing exactly as I expected. The man page says: --deletedelete extraneous files from dest dirs A section of the backup script is so: Params=(-a --inplace --delete);

Re: Cannot install elixir from buster-backports

2020-10-15 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-15 01:52, Baptiste Beauplat wrote: Hi, (Please CC me, I'm not subscribed to the list) I cannot figure out why I can't install elixir from backports: $ sudo debootstrap buster buster $ sudo chroot buster /bin/bash # echo "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backpor

Re: Linux not seeing all SATA drives

2020-10-13 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-13 18:01, David Christensen wrote: Boot the Debian 9 or 10 installer, run the following commands, and post the console session: # smartctl -i /dev/sda My bad -- d-i does not include smartctl(8). What I'm after is make, model, interface, and firmware version information

Re: Linux not seeing all SATA drives

2020-10-13 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-13 08:39, Dennis Wicks wrote: David Christensen wrote on 10/12/20 10:01 PM: On 2020-10-12 19:19, Dennis Wicks wrote: I have 3 SATA drives on my system. I replaced all my red cables with new black cables. The BIOS sees all of them but when linux finishes booting it only sees two of

Re: SSD and HDD

2020-10-12 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-12 15:04, Weaver wrote: On 13-10-2020 07:27, mick crane wrote: I being a home user have pfsense on old lenovo between ISP router and switch to PCs I personally have apf-firewall onboard, and it's hard to beat in my opinion, for ease of config as well as efficiency, but pfsense is

Re: SSD and HDD

2020-10-12 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-12 14:27, mick crane wrote: might I ask a favour for information on accepted wisdom for this stuff ? I being a home user have pfsense on old lenovo between ISP router and switch to PCs another old buster lenovo doing email another Buster PC I do bits of programming on. Windows PC I

Re: Linux not seeing all SATA drives

2020-10-12 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-12 19:19, Dennis Wicks wrote: I have 3 SATA drives on my system. I replaced all my red cables with new black cables. The BIOS sees all of them but when linux finishes booting it only sees two of them. Do I have to do something to linux so it sees the third drive? FYI, I have the sy

Re: SSD and HDD

2020-10-11 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-11 09:45, mick crane wrote: Bearing in mind I rarely do installs and when I do usually let the installer do its thing. Got a PC that has SSD and a HDD. I see that you are supposed to avoid writes to SSD for longevity. Is it a matter of putting entries in fstab for /swap /var /home to

Re: General-Purpose Server for Debian Stable

2020-10-02 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-02 17:16, Linux-Fan wrote: David Christensen writes: The Fujitsu might do PCIe/NVMe 4X M.2 or U.2 SSD's with the right adapter card. Been there, failed at that: https://www.reichelt.de/pcie-x8-karte-zu-2x-nvme-m-2-key-m-lp-delock-90305-p256917.html?&trstct=pos_3&am

Re: General-Purpose Server for Debian Stable

2020-10-02 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-02 04:18, Linux-Fan wrote: David Christensen writes: On 2020-10-01 14:37, Linux-Fan wrote: >2x4T SSD for fast storage (VMs, OS) I suggest identifying your workloads, how much CPU, memory, disk I/O, etc., each requires, and then dividing them across your several comput

Re: General-Purpose Server for Debian Stable

2020-10-02 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-10-01 14:37, Linux-Fan wrote: Hello fellow list users, I am constantly needing more computation power, RAM and HDD storage such that I have finally decided to buy a server for my next "workstation". The reasoning is that my experience with "real" servers is that they are most reliable, v

Re: Debian 9.13 perl-5.24-1 compile from source dist/Time-HiRes Warning: No Makefile!

2020-09-30 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-30 14:28, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 05:24:37PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 02:11:11PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: Unfortunately, none provide simple instructions for building on Debian. Is that what you want? https://www.debian.org

Re: Debian 9.13 perl-5.24-1 compile from source dist/Time-HiRes Warning: No Makefile!

2020-09-30 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-30 03:31, David wrote: On Wed, 30 Sep 2020 at 14:57, David Christensen wrote: I have installed the source code for the 'perl' package: $ apt-get source perl Ok. You haven't yet said why though, so our suggestions can't be tailored to your goals until you adv

Debian 9.13 perl-5.24-1 compile from source dist/Time-HiRes Warning: No Makefile!

2020-09-29 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: I have a computer with Debian: $ cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a 9.13 Linux tinkywinky 4.9.0-13-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.228-1 (2020-07-05) x86_64 GNU/Linux I have installed the source code for the 'perl' package: $ apt-get source perl When I attempt to compile the package

Re: Regarding case number 10724899 [ ref:_00D00hhzl._5004V11emZL:ref ]

2020-09-29 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-28 09:26, discsupp...@seagate.com wrote: Hello David Christensen, Welcome to Seagate Support, my name is Jairo and I'm glad to assist you today about SeaTools and its source code licenced under GPL. We will work together to find a solution. SeaTools Booteable uses free libr

Re: Regarding your case number 10724899 [ ref:_00D00hhzl._5004V11emZL:ref ]

2020-09-24 Thread David Christensen
code distributed with SeaToolsBootable_RC_2.1.2? Sincerely yours, David Christensen Tracy, California, USA dpchr...@holgerdanske.com cc:debian-user@lists.debian.org freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org license-violat...@fsf.org antitrust.complai...@usdoj.gov

Re: Regarding your case number 10724899 [ ref:_00D00hhzl._5004V11emZL:ref ]

2020-09-23 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-23 07:28, discsupp...@seagate.com wrote: Hello David Christensen, Welcome to Seagate Support, my name is Arianett and it is my pleasure to assist you today with your Seagate Video 3.5. As I understand, you want an image file of SeaTools Bootable to be used on a Linux. Please know

Re: linux isn't robust enough to handle bad sector??

2020-09-22 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-22 06:04, David Wright wrote: On Tue 22 Sep 2020 at 10:06:46 (+), Long Wind wrote: On Tuesday, September 22, 2020, 2:45:30 AM EDT, David Christensen wrote: https://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/ it has only exe file, no iso file, you need Windows You

SSH agent forwarding (was: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments)

2020-09-22 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-22 13:05, Gary Dale wrote: On 2020-09-22 00:25, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-09-21 18:04, Gary Dale wrote: The two servers are for different customers. I would not want to create a tunnel between them. Instead I have my normal ssh tunnels to each server from my workstation

Re: linux isn't robust enough to handle bad sector??

2020-09-22 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-22 03:06, Long Wind wrote: On Tuesday, September 22, 2020, 2:45:30 AM EDT, David Christensen wrote: Seagate SeaTools Bootable is a USB flash drive live Linux distribution with an app for testing Seagate products.  Microsoft Windows is not required: https://www.seagate.com

Re: linux isn't robust enough to handle bad sector??

2020-09-21 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-21 21:41, Long Wind wrote: seagate's new tool is for Windows, i've not used Windows for long timei've read their guide for old tool, its function look like smart tooli'm afraid  it won't be helpful to my diagnosis effort Seagate SeaTools Bootable is a USB flash drive live Linux di

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

2020-09-21 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-21 18:04, Gary Dale wrote: The two servers are for different customers. I would not want to create a tunnel between them. Instead I have my normal ssh tunnels to each server from my workstation. However the script is only readable by root while my tunnels are for my non-root account

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments

2020-09-21 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-21 00:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 05:27:49PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: Where does this behaviour (keeping the quotes) get set? What does the builtin "shopt" say? Especially the value of `compat42' is involved in quote removal. Joy! Joy! Happy! Happy! Anoth

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

2020-09-21 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-21 09:34, Gary Dale wrote: As an FYI, the scripts were the same on both servers because I had ssh sessions on both and copy/pasted the script from one to the other. (cat

Re: Offline systems

2020-09-20 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-20 22:04, Peter wrote: Hi, >These are up to 70 > real, physical servers and not VMs? You might want to look at automated > ways to deploy and build that many servers. All 70 will be physical. I think about making 1 single server then using hdclone or acronis to make copy of it to

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

2020-09-20 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-20 20:52, Gary Dale wrote: On 2020-09-20 22:55, David Christensen wrote: 2020-09-20 19:50:55 dpchrist@tinkywinky ~/sandbox/sh $ cat debian-user-20200920-1727-gary-dale.sh #!/bin/sh doublequote="/root/clamscan-report" echo $doublequote singlequote='/root/clamsc

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

2020-09-20 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-20 20:38, David wrote: From the perspective of not knowing how these bash scripts were deployed, it's worth confirming that what we are assuming is the "same bash script" are indeed exactly identical. $ cmp script1 script2 If somehow the double quotes in the problem script have beco

Re: linux isn't robust enough to handle bad sector??

2020-09-20 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-20 01:40, Reco wrote: Hi. Hello. :-) On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 01:32:47AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-09-20 00:49, Long Wind wrote: On Sunday, September 20, 2020, 2:15:21 PM GMT+8, David Christensen First, backup your data. Please run the following

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in dash variable assignments

2020-09-20 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-20 18:18, Gary Dale wrote: On 2020-09-20 20:36, David Christensen wrote: The environments are identical. Have you tried '#!/bin/sh' ? That's my shebang line. Have you tried single quotes? Wouldn't want to. Single quotes alter the behaviour. Double q

Re: weird behaviour of quotes in bash variable assignments

2020-09-20 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-20 15:14, The Wanderer wrote: On 2020-09-20 at 17:27, Gary Dale wrote: I have the same bash script on two different Debian/Buster AMD64 servers. However on one it refused to run. I tracked it down quickly to a variable substitution problem. The line causing the problem reads: report

Re: linux isn't robust enough to handle bad sector??

2020-09-20 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-20 00:49, Long Wind wrote: On Sunday, September 20, 2020, 2:15:21 PM GMT+8, David Christensen First, backup your data. Please run the following command and post your complete console session -- prompt, command, output.  Substitute DISKID as appropriate:     # smartctl -x

Re: linux isn't robust enough to handle bad sector??

2020-09-19 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-19 19:37, Long Wind wrote: i'm creating FS on problem disk though it has passed short and long tests by smart tooli meet bad sector, mkfs complains foreverCtrl+C can't kill it, what should i do NOW?? [ 2719.089156] ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen [ 271

Re: ssh fingerprint mismatch for one single client

2020-09-19 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-19 15:42, Beco wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 2020 at 18:55, mick crane wrote: Student can connect via the mobile network but not through the ISP router? Might that be the port for ssh on the router ? Yes, student can connect via mobile. And, somewhat "yes", student can kind of connect

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

2020-09-19 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-19 07:57, David Wright wrote: On Thu 17 Sep 2020 at 13:32:16 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: On 2020-09-16 14:38, David Wright wrote: On Wed 16 Sep 2020 at 12:56:36 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: On 2020-09-16 01:59, Andrei POPESCU wrote: If I change the mode of the mount

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

2020-09-17 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-16 14:38, David Wright wrote: On Wed 16 Sep 2020 at 12:56:36 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: On 2020-09-16 01:59, Andrei POPESCU wrote: If I change the mode of the mount point to : Is there some advantage other than making a long listing visually distinctive when the

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

2020-09-16 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-16 01:59, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 12 sep 20, 15:00:57, Bob Weber wrote: Warning: If you forget to open and mount the file encrypted.img to $HOME/Private/ and you copy files to $HOME/Private/ it will appear to work correctly but they will not be encrypted!  If you don't move the

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

2020-09-12 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-12 12:14, Charles Curley wrote: On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 12:10:48 -0400 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I'm thinking about putting my backup encrypted files in a LUKS filesystem within a file instead of on a dedicated partition (for a few reasons). Why do you want a file system inside a file?

Re: Two questions about LUKS in a file container

2020-09-12 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-12 09:10, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I'm thinking about putting my backup encrypted files in a LUKS filesystem within a file instead of on a dedicated partition (for a few reasons). I have two questions about that: * if I don't have that LUKS filesystem "mounted" and open and I wr

Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple of 4096 bytes ...

2020-09-11 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-11 07:21, David Wright wrote: On Thu 10 Sep 2020 at 16:15:05 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: On 2020-09-09 23:02, David wrote: On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 at 11:26, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-09-09 08:03, David Wright wrote: ... having been bitten by https://bugs.debian.org/cgi

Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple of 4096 bytes ...

2020-09-10 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-10 20:03, David wrote: On Fri, 11 Sep 2020 at 08:30, David Christensen... wrote: On 2020-09-10 09:44, David Wright wrote: I don't like parted particularly, and don't know what "free" does. Can you elucidate? $ man parted | grep -i free $ info --output=/d

parted(8) Error: The backup GPT table is corrupt, but the primary appears OK, so that will be used.

2020-09-10 Thread David Christensen
debian-users: My daily driver: 2020-09-10 16:17:14 root@tinkywinky ~ # cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a 9.13 Linux tinkywinky 4.9.0-13-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.228-1 (2020-07-05) x86_64 GNU/Linux parted(8) was complaining about the backup GPT table on a 300 GB external disk used to store i

Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple of 4096 bytes ...

2020-09-10 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-09 23:02, David wrote: On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 at 11:26, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-09-09 08:03, David Wright wrote: ... having been bitten by https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=923561 I have a 300 GB drive that has been causing me some confusion. Did I

Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple of 4096 bytes ...

2020-09-10 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-10 09:44, David Wright wrote: On Thu 10 Sep 2020 at 16:02:59 (+1000), David wrote: On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 at 11:26, David Christensen wrote: ,,, I'm not sure what to ask for in terms of the encryption: See cryptsetup(8) with the 'isLuks' action and/or the &#x

Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple of 4096 bytes ...

2020-09-09 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-09 08:03, David Wright wrote: ... having been bitten by https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=923561 I have a 300 GB drive that has been causing me some confusion. Did I elicity the bug when I partitioned the disk as follows? 2020-03-03 08:39:57 root@po ~ # pa

Re: query about kernel, download options, sessions

2020-09-08 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-08 15:04, Charles Curley wrote: On Tue, 8 Sep 2020 13:48:03 -0700 David Christensen wrote: I added an alias to my .profile so that --no-install-recommends is always set: 2020-09-08 13:45:56 root@tinkywinky ~ # grep 'no-install-recommends' .profile* .profile:alias apt-ge

Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple of 4096 bytes ...

2020-09-08 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-08 14:43, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, September 08, 2020 04:39:05 PM David Christensen wrote: Neither the string "2 MiB" nor the string "2 M" appear on page you have cited. That is correct, that's is what I have not found on that page.

Re: Looking for a generic drag and drop gui for custom commands

2020-09-08 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-08 05:16, Christoph K. wrote: David Christensen wrote: I'll probably go with the QT GUI Framework with either C++ or Python as programming language. Those sound like plausible choices. Will the app include accessibility features? Privacy? Security? No. That res

Re: query about kernel, download options, sessions

2020-09-08 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-08 03:45, nenu crok wrote: hello debian users, Hello. :-) after bit of research, i have decided to install debian. it is rock solid. i have few queries. please be simple. english is not my native language. i assumed kernel is most important for system security. do we have tweak

Re: query about kernel, download options, sessions

2020-09-08 Thread David Christensen
On 2020-09-08 10:27, Marko Randjelovic wrote: On Tue, 8 Sep 2020 10:45:41 + nenu crok wrote: i am privacy freak, hence not using android. however, after seeing size of libreoffice, is there any way an option to download only small portion. i have overheard aboout similar option in our os

Re: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple of 4096 bytes ...

2020-09-08 Thread David Christensen
On Tuesday, September 08, 2020 12:53:00 PM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Why start the first partition at 2 MIB, why not at any multiple of 4096 bytes that leaves room for whatever may need to be at the beginning of the disk (like maybe the MBR, or LILO, or ???)? I've seen the advice to align partit

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