Re: State: stopped "Filter failed" on a Xerox Phaser 6125N. how do you troubleshoot a printer in Linux?

2020-04-06 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Mon, 6 Apr 2020, Albretch Mueller wrote: WOuld you suggest a good guideline about how to troubleshoot printers? When CUPS works, it just works. When it doesn't, it's a nightmare. Some of the defaults for CUPS (especially for its behaviour after errors) are questionable at the be

System unusably slow after Debian upgrade.

2020-02-27 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, Long time Linux user here, very familiar with tools for system administration but somewhat stumped by the behaviour of a system installed by me about six years ago at a local farm. It's an old Intel 'NUC' like this one: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/78577/intel-

Re: System unusably slow after Debian upgrade.

2020-02-28 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, Thanks Greg, Dan and Rico for the replies. Keep them coming, I'm afraid we're not out of the woods yet. On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 03:11:10PM +0000, G.W. Haywood wrote: ... Jessie to Stretch to Buster ... Immediately, the users started to complain about performance. Not ju

Re: System unusably slow after Debian upgrade.

2020-02-28 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, Thanks very much for the reply. On Fri, 28 Feb 2020 Andrei POPESCU wrote: What Desktop Environment? I believe GNOME is using Wayland by default and needs hardware acceleration. Try something like LXDE instead. Sorry, I did mean to mention that but I forgot. It's XFCE, and the gree

Re: System unusably slow after Debian upgrade.

2020-02-28 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hello again, On Fri, 28 Feb 2020, Dan Ritter wrote: A ridiculously decelerated gzip is evidence of one of the following: - CPU throttling - disk errors - something interfering with the disk reading or writing You've probably seen my reply to your first by now, it seems that disc access probl

Re: System unusably slow after Debian upgrade.

2020-02-29 Thread G.W. Haywood
esponded to everyone but if I have missed anything, or perhaps attributed something to the wrong author, please don't hesitate to pipe up. == On Fri, Feb 28, 2020, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 G.W. Haywood wrote

Re: [SOLVED, sort of] System unusably slow after Debian upgrade.

2020-03-01 Thread G.W. Haywood
ks Nicholas and Thomas, good calls but (as it turns out) I didn't need to get on my bike, and it definitely wasn't a network problem. On Sat, 29 Feb 2020, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: On Sat, Feb 29, 2020, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > G.W. Haywood wrote: > > It's just like the machine i

Re: [SOLVED, mor or less] System unusably slow after Debian upgrade.

2020-03-02 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Mon, 2 Mar 2020, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 11:50:09AM +, G.W. Haywood wrote: > ...There were in fact three instances of Postgres running (9.4, 9.6 > and 11.7) after the two jumps from Jessie to Stretch to Buster... I don't think this is rela

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2020 #206

2020-03-02 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Mon, 2 Mar 2020, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Du, 01 mar 20, 14:59:49, G.W. Haywood wrote: > > If there's any interest I can follow up with any significant findings > but otherwise I won't spam the list. In my opinion it would be good to have your findings on a

Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

2020-03-04 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Wed, 4 Mar 2020, grumpy wrote: if new drive is the same size or larger install new drive boot using usb drive, i use systemrescuecd dd if=old_drive of=new_drive If there might be any problem with readability on source disc sectors, then 'ddrescue' is far superior to plain old 'dd

Subject: Re: Advice on upgrading to SSD

2020-03-05 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Thu, 5 Mar 2020, 0...@caiway.net wrote: > -dsr- wrote: > > There used to be (still?) a set of Western Digital drives that > would go into a hard sleep and park their heads repeatedly. This > tended to cause a shortened lifespan as well as terrible > performance. > with cron: #

Re: System unusably slow after Debian upgrade.

2020-03-09 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi Marco, Thanks very much for the trouble you have taken in your reply, I do appreciate it very much. On Sun, 8 Mar 2020, Marco Möller wrote: Upgrading your OS could result in the indexed search database to become rebuild, and this can take a very(!) long time and meanwhile painfully renderin

Re: System unusably slow after Debian upgrade.

2020-03-12 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Mon, 09 Mar 2020, Thomas Schmitt wrote: G.W. Haywood wrote: > ... I am very happy to post the custom kernel .config as it stands, > if anyone would like to see it. I guess some readers would righteously complain if you send ~ 1 lines here. I did't mean that I was

Re: ntp questions

2020-03-15 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Sun, 15 Mar 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: ... What I wanted was to sync to the debian servers with this machine, and then let it broadcast to the rest of the local network, Some observations about ntpd and NTP in general: 1. Unless you're running a time laboratory, don't use ntpd.

Re: OT: Questions about (buying and) using a laptop docking station

2020-03-17 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Mon, 16 Mar 2020, rhkramer wrote: (Aside: I need to get a docking station with a VGA output as I "run" the laptop through a KVM switch and one of the computers connected to it has no HDMI output, and the KVM switch itself has no HDMI input.) I get the idea (or I am

Re: emacs problem: M-x write-abbrev-file

2020-03-19 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Thu, 19 Mar 2020, Default User wrote: I'm trying to learn Emacs, using: "Learning GNU Emacs". Old, but it would still seem to be a reputable and authoritative source. Well I used to use that book, but that was 25 years ago. Try this instead: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/m

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-24 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 Rick Thomas wrote: ... I've ordered a Raspberry Pi 4 ... I hope that it doesn't turn out that you were impetuous. I know that I was, when I bought my first 4B, and tried to use it instead of my desktop machine for browsing, mail, and a bunch of X sessions. It w

Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-24 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Tue, 24 Mar 2020, deloptes wrote: Does someone has experience with USB3 disks - may be in raid1 on the Rpi4? I tried years ago with usb2 disks in raid1 and the results were miserable. A good point I missed. I should have said in my previous post that the USB interface devices t

Re: Re: NAS software for Raspberry Pi that supports full range of client OS (Win-10, MacOS-X, Linux) ?

2020-03-25 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Wed, 25 Mar 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: setting [a VPN] up looks rather daunting. It isn't so difficult when you get the hang of it. If you like I can set one up for you by sending two files and some simple instructions. Here's the configuration for an openvpn server at my place o

Re: Question regarding an ACPI BIOS Error (bug)

2020-03-28 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Sat, 28 Mar 2020, rba777 wrote: ... [    0.457794] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Failure creating named object [\_GPE._E4A], AE_ALREADY_EXISTS (20190816/dswload2-323) [    0.457802] ACPI Error: AE_ALREADY_EXISTS, During name lookup/catalog (20190816/psobject-220) ... Using apt and apt-f

Re: network-manager takes 1-4 restarts in order to recognize and connect to already-configured wifi network, USB dongle NIC

2020-03-29 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Sat, 28 Mar 2020, Alan Tu wrote: ... "Debian testing" system ... network-manager 1.22.8-1. ... # systemctl restart network-manager After one to four times of this, eventually network-manager establishes the network connection. It seems to me that network-manager is only really us

Re: network-manager takes 1-4 restarts in order to recognize and connect to already-configured wifi network, USB dongle NIC

2020-03-31 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Mon, 30 Mar 2020, David Wright wrote: On Sun 29 Mar 2020 at 13:46:05 (+0100), G.W. Haywood wrote: > On Sat, 28 Mar 2020, Alan Tu wrote: > > > ... "Debian testing" system ... network-manager 1.22.8-1. ... > > # systemctl restart network-manager > &g

Re: Things Kids Shouldn't Do at Home

2020-04-03 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Thu, 2 Apr 2020, Martin McCormick wrote: My thanks to all those who theorise that it was this particular drive's time to die. It is several years old and I was thinking along the lines that the rest of you were thinking. One thing I haven't done yet is to see if the clock crystal

Re: I just installed OpenNTP. Now what?

2007-08-29 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > So just installed OpenNTP on a shiny new etch system. The daemon is started > during startup but now what? How do I know that my clock is being > synchronized? Look at the messages in /var/log/daemon.log > I checked the config and there

Re: Shut down or leave on?

2007-09-02 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 Cousin Stanley wrote: > > My previous server used 100 Watts on average. > > > > If left on 24/7, that's 61,320 hours a year, > > or 6,132,000 Watt-hours or 6,132 kWh. > > > > The number of hours per year that you used > in your calculation seems a bit high .

Re: Problems with text file going from Linux to MS Windows

2007-09-02 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Sun, 2 Sep 2007 Matus UHLAR wrote: > On 21.07.07 10:46, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > If I want to send a text file to an MS Windows user there are problems: in > > fact, in MS Windows a text file which has been composed under Linux is not > > correctly read: the line ends are not recogn

Re: How to pipe from python script to system process that script starts

2007-09-03 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, > This will be sort of involved Why make it involved? :) > I'm wanting to learn python so ... use a python script to call > exipick to find all frozen messages in the Exim queue, then feed the > message id's to something ... so I can look at the message headers. > ... > I'm assumin

Re: mail (un)delivery

2007-09-03 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Mon, 3 Sep 2007 Doug wrote: > I don't have nslookup installed but it seems wierd to me that one > hostname would have more than one IP address. Any host which is on more than one network interface (for example a firewall or a router) will have more than one IP address. It may also

Re: Thinking about devoting a serious part of my life to linux...

2007-09-04 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 blues wrote: > I would really love to become a good sys admin; linux is very > interesting to me as a popular alternative to the crap business > model of MS. Whatever you think about the way it does things, Microsoft is one of the most successful companies that t

Re: system logs and localtime

2007-09-04 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 Tony Heal wrote: > I have a remote server at a client site that had /etc/localtime > pointing to Eastern instead of Central. I have fixed this. Is there > a way for this to take affect without rebooting the server? It has already taken effect. You don't need to rebo

Circular dependency.

2014-07-09 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, I have no use for Java on a headless file server, and for some reason every time I upgrade anything on one particular system (using apt) the tool whines about certain Java packages being 'kept back'. I have little idea why they were installed on the system in the first place, still les