Re: Bug?

2024-07-14 Thread David Christensen
On 7/14/24 00:57, Richard Bostrom wrote: Executing this script halts it after the tar with the following message. -- #!/bin/sh tar -zcvf bak.tar.gz /home/user/Documents && gpg -r backup@user.local -e bak.tar.gz && rm -rf bak.tar.gz && rsync -vac --delete /home/user/Documents/bak.tar.gz.gpg

Re: Bug?

2024-07-14 Thread Nicolas George
Richard Bostrom (12024-07-14): > tar -zcvf bak.tar.gz /home/user/Documents && Information missing: what is the current directory. > gpg -r backup@user.local -e bak.tar.gz && > rm -rf bak.tar.gz && > rsync -vac --delete /home/user/Documents/bak.tar.gz.gpg /media/user/6548-2136 > & -rf

Bug?

2024-07-14 Thread Richard Bostrom
Executing this script halts it after the tar with the following message. -- #!/bin/sh tar -zcvf bak.tar.gz /home/user/Documents && gpg -r backup@user.local -e bak.tar.gz && rm -rf bak.tar.gz && rsync -vac --delete /home/user/Documents/bak.tar.gz.gpg /media/user/6548-2136 & -rf bak.tar.gz.gpg

Re: Bug processo di installazione debian 32 bit

2024-06-30 Thread Stanislav Vlasov
вс, 30 июн. 2024 г. в 17:23, Uno Qualsiasi : > > Buongiorno vi contatto per segnalare un problema nel processo di > installazione di debian 12.5.0 dvd iso 32 bit, ossia che quando arriva al > momento di eseguire “grub-install” su disco primario mi fa errore. Su > qualsiasi pf 32 bit lo provi è

Re: Bug processo di installazione debian 32 bit

2024-06-30 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 30 Jun 2024 09:11 +0200, from unoqualsiasi...@icloud.com (Uno Qualsiasi): > Buongiorno vi contatto per segnalare un problema nel processo di > installazione di debian 12.5.0 dvd iso 32 bit, ossia che quando arriva al > momento di eseguire “grub-install” su disco primario mi fa errore. Su >

Bug processo di installazione debian 32 bit

2024-06-30 Thread Uno Qualsiasi
Buongiorno vi contatto per segnalare un problema nel processo di installazione di debian 12.5.0 dvd iso 32 bit, ossia che quando arriva al momento di eseguire “grub-install” su disco primario mi fa errore. Su qualsiasi pf 32 bit lo provi è fa lo stesso problema. Inviato da Uno qualsiasi

Re: NVIDIA drivers issue: Bug that keeps presenting on kernel 6.1.0-21

2024-06-20 Thread Anssi Saari
Daniel Rodriguez writes: > The solution of the post to this issue is to update the kernel from > 6.1.0-13 -> 6.1.0.18; however, my kernel is a later version: > 6.1.0-21-amd64, so I am stuck for solving this issue. Do you have any > idea about what may be happening and/or how to solve it? I

NVIDIA drivers issue: Bug that keeps presenting on kernel 6.1.0-21

2024-06-18 Thread Daniel Rodriguez
gt; [/usr/src/linux-headers-6.1.0-21-common/scripts/Makefile.modfinal:63: > /var/lib/dkms/nvidia-current/525.147.05/build/nvidia-peermem.ko] Error 127 > make[3]: *** Deleting file > '/var/lib/dkms/nvidia-current/525.147.05/build/nvidia-peermem.ko' > The post <https://forums.debian.ne

Re: Predictable network device names [was: Please help me identify package so I can report an important bug

2024-06-13 Thread tomas
On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 06:59:49AM +0200, Kamil Jońca wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de writes: [...] > > and of course, if you are using a desktop environment and NetworkManager > > or systemd-networkd, it's probably better to go with the flow and let > > them do. > > About year ago none of them was

Re: Predictable network device names [was: Please help me identify package so I can report an important bug

2024-06-12 Thread Kamil Jońca
to...@tuxteam.de writes: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 06:30:27AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [following up on myself, bad style, I know] > >> For my laptop, I very much prefer to say "sudo ifup eth0" than to >> say "sudo ifup en0ps&&@*#!☠" thankyouverymuch :) > > and of course, if you are

Predictable network device names [was: Please help me identify package so I can report an important bug

2024-06-12 Thread tomas
On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 06:30:27AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [following up on myself, bad style, I know] > For my laptop, I very much prefer to say "sudo ifup eth0" than to > say "sudo ifup en0ps&&@*#!☠" thankyouverymuch :) and of course, if you are using a desktop environment and

Re: Please help me identify package so I can report an important bug

2024-06-12 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 03:16:41PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 09:01:44PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > Mine loks like this: > > > > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet net.ifnames=0" > > People who are thinking of doing this should take a moment to

Re: Please help me identify package so I can report an important bug

2024-06-12 Thread debian-user
So question is, > can this be disabled on Proxmox? But with this hint, it should be > easy enough to figure out if this can be deactivated on the affected > systems, and if not the bug reports must be against these issues, as > Debian itself doesn't do such things. If it is an issue

Re: Please help me identify package so I can report an important bug

2024-06-12 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 09:01:44PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > No need. You can have your traditional names (I do). Just add > "net.ifnames=0" (if necessry separated by a space, should > other stuff be already there) to your GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT > in your /etc/default/grub, then ru

Re: Please help me identify package so I can report an important bug

2024-06-12 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 02:30:40PM -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Wednesday 12 June 2024 06:54:54 am Richard wrote: > > But also, just > > searching the web for this topic, you should have come across this > > answering your questions: https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkInterfaceNames > > >

Re: Please help me identify package so I can report an important bug

2024-06-12 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Wednesday 12 June 2024 06:54:54 am Richard wrote: > But also, just > searching the web for this topic, you should have come across this > answering your questions: https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkInterfaceNames > Wow. Just wow... That sort of thing just drives me crazy! :-) I can see

Re: Please help me identify package so I can report an important bug

2024-06-12 Thread Richard
on Proxmox? But with this hint, it should be easy enough to figure out if this can be deactivated on the affected systems, and if not the bug reports must be against these issues, as Debian itself doesn't do such things. If it is an issue with Debian preventing the disablement, the devs need to talk

Re: Please help me identify package so I can report an important bug

2024-06-12 Thread Jeffrey Walton
to take this up with the upstream devs themselves, so by the > time Trixie is being released, it may already be included. > > But besides that, what you describe in the first link sounds to me not like a > bug, but as a well thought-through decision. Network adapter names like eth0 >

Re: Please help me identify package so I can report an important bug

2024-06-12 Thread Richard
is being released, it may already be included. But besides that, what you describe in the first link sounds to me not like a bug, but as a well thought-through decision. Network adapter names like eth0 have been dropped with Debian 11 (I think, maybe even 10). So don't get your hopes up too high to ever

Please help me identify package so I can report an important bug

2024-06-12 Thread Peter Goodall
Hello, This bug, or a close relative, has already been reported in https://github.com/raspberrypi/bookworm-feedback/issues/239 as 'Predictable network names broken for ASIX USB ethernet in kernel 6.6.20' I added a comment reporting my experience in Proxmox here: https://github.com/raspberrypi

Re: [BUG] Acentuação de "ç" inconsistente entre ISO DVD e Live

2024-06-06 Thread Yuri Musachio
Gustavo, bom dia! Posso estar enganado, mas ACHO que você esta usando o layout errado. Realmente como você mencionou, utilizando "´ + c" no layout "English (US, alt. intl.)" o resultado será "ć". Para você utilizar o "ç" é necessário utilizar o layout "English (US, intl., with dead keys)" e

[BUG] Acentuação de "ç" inconsistente entre ISO DVD e Live

2024-06-05 Thread Gustavo Júnior
Olá, Procurei por formas de reportar essa ocorrência no site do Debian, e vi que era recomendado mandar um e-mail para problemas em que o pacote causador é desconhecido. Espero que haja alguma explicação. Esse é um problema que eu venho tendo ultimamente. Eu sempre adorei a instalação em DVD,

Re: [SOLVED] Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition

2024-04-29 Thread Jonathan Dowland
uld be a fix for this or at least a way to handle this case with a much > clearer error message. So I'll probably open a bug report for the package > and the maintainer can decide if that should be forwarded upstream. Such a > rather trivial case shouldn't be resulting in such fatal errors. Th

Re: [SOLVED] Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition

2024-04-26 Thread John Crawley
On 26/04/2024 12:56, David Wright wrote: On Fri 26 Apr 2024 at 11:27:24 (+0900), John Crawley wrote: Innocent question: what difference does the comment make vs just ending the file with an empty line? Nothing for the computer, but visibility for me. Say you print the file on paper. All you

Last line [was: Re: [SOLVED] Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition]

2024-04-26 Thread Max Nikulin
On 26/04/2024 10:56, David Wright wrote: Editor examples: a windowed emacs buffer has a ≣ decoration at the extreme left edge after the last line of text, so that you can distinguish an absence of lines from empty lines. Perhaps that decoration should be explicitly enabled. However it

Re: [SOLVED] Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition

2024-04-25 Thread David Wright
ramfs can't handle the case that crypttab ends in the > > > line > > > of the last entry and not in a new line character. I think there either > > > should be a fix for this or at least a way to handle this case with a much > > > clearer error message. So I'll probably

Re: [SOLVED] Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition

2024-04-25 Thread John Crawley
. I think there either should be a fix for this or at least a way to handle this case with a much clearer error message. So I'll probably open a bug report for the package and the maintainer can decide if that should be forwarded upstream. Such a rather trivial case shouldn't be resulting

Re: [SOLVED] Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition

2024-04-24 Thread David Wright
uld be a fix for this or at least a way to handle this case with a much > clearer error message. So I'll probably open a bug report for the package > and the maintainer can decide if that should be forwarded upstream. Such a > rather trivial case shouldn't be resulting in such fat

Re: [SOLVED] Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition

2024-04-24 Thread Richard
with a much clearer error message. So I'll probably open a bug report for the package and the maintainer can decide if that should be forwarded upstream. Such a rather trivial case shouldn't be resulting in such fatal errors. Best Richard On Wed, Apr 24, 2024, 14:23 Michel Verdier wrote: > On 2

Re: Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition

2024-04-24 Thread Richard
Hello Hans, this is exactly what I did. To be precise, I followed this guide [1], with the difference that instead of "crypt" I used the actual name, luks- (Disks thanksfully shows everything relevant). It's not the first time I'm doing this. Yet I experience the errors mentioned. Sure, I'm not

Re: Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition

2024-04-24 Thread Michel Verdier
gt; luks,keyscript=/bin/cat initramfs extract line from /etc/crypttab to create its own crypttab as you have seen in main/cryptroot/crypttab, and only for rootfs, not for swap > Now, is this a bug in the package or am I missing something? And how do I > create a working initramfs now? swap

Re: Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition

2024-04-24 Thread Hans
Am Dienstag, 23. April 2024, 22:26:17 CEST schrieb Richard: Hi Richard, this is, what I am doing when this happens: 1. booting into a live system (any new is working, I prefer kali-linux) 2. If you are using encrypted filesystems, open it. But you have to name it like it is named in /

Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition

2024-04-23 Thread Richard
e-initramfs -ck all" from there. But now it even refuses to find the root partition in crypttab. Now, is this a bug in the package or am I missing something? And how do I create a working initramfs now? Best Richard

Re: Help to report a bug related to a usb3 lan adapter driver

2024-04-15 Thread Charles Curley
> For what I understood the problem was fixed in 6.8, but I'm using > debian 12 that will never use that so much new kernel I guess, could > you help me to report officially the bug so that the upstream channel > will correct it by the 6.1.0-22 version ? Bookwom backports has linux-ima

Help to report a bug related to a usb3 lan adapter driver

2024-04-15 Thread user7415 same
For what I understood the problem was fixed in 6.8, but I'm using debian 12 that will never use that so much new kernel I guess, could you help me to report officially the bug so that the upstream channel will correct it by the 6.1.0-22 version ? Thank you very much!

Bug#735496: initramfs-tools fails because of missing keyutils package

2024-04-11 Thread j
Hola, doncs això que sembla que aquest "bug" torna a estar present. https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2014/01/msg00218.html M'estic barallant amb una arrencada dual d'una linkat i una debian totes dues amb les particions arrel i swap xifrades. Per no haver de posar dues

Re: How to file a Debian bug report? was: Debian 12.5: pigz 2.6-1 fails with error message (Upstream issue 111)

2024-04-02 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 2 Apr 2024 10:27 +0200, from jch...@student.ethz.ch (Jonathan Chung): > Can someone help me to file a bug report? https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting -- Michael Kjörling  https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”

Re: Debian 12.5.0 amd64 and OpenZFS bug #15526

2024-03-26 Thread Gareth Evans
effort in getting to grips with this bug >>> (actually multiple bugs), and it looks like a fix may be forthcoming, >>> though not sure at the time of writing if there may be some further >>> polishing first >>> >>> https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/16019

Re: Debian 12.5.0 amd64 and OpenZFS bug #15526

2024-03-25 Thread David Christensen
On 3/25/24 15:05, Gareth Evans wrote: On Fri 22/03/2024 at 21:01, Gareth Evans wrote: As anyone interested can see from the ref to #15933 in the below, there seems to have been considerable effort in getting to grips with this bug (actually multiple bugs), and it looks like a fix may

Re: Debian 12.5.0 amd64 and OpenZFS bug #15526

2024-03-25 Thread Gareth Evans
On Fri 22/03/2024 at 21:01, Gareth Evans wrote: > As anyone interested can see from the ref to #15933 in the below, there seems > to have been considerable effort in getting to grips with this bug (actually > multiple bugs), and it looks like a fix may be forthcoming, though

Re: Debian 12.5.0 amd64 and OpenZFS bug #15526

2024-03-22 Thread Gareth Evans
have tested > extensively, considered the issue closed after upgrade to openzfs 2.2.2 > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/917224#c26 > > I wonder if the 2.2.3 issue is similar/related, or perhaps there are multiple > triggers. > > Watching with interest. > > Best wishes, > Ga

Re: Question about what package to report bug

2024-03-06 Thread Erwan David
package. Thanks for you help. apt-file shows au0828.ko comes in the linux-image-* packages. So report the bug for the one you use.

Question about what package to report bug

2024-03-06 Thread ke6jti
Hi, I have a possible kernel regression for a usb-dvb tuner card.  I know the error in dmesg points to kernel : au0828 but I am not sure what package this belongs to.  I think it belongs to v4l(video for linux) but I am still not sure what specific v4l package. Thanks for you help.

test of a gnuplot bug visible with Pango 1.52 (Debian/unstable)

2024-02-29 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Hi, Since the upgrade of the Pango library to 1.52 in Debian/unstable, I'm seeing an annoying bug in gnuplot with the wxt terminal. The issue can be reproduced with the following command: echo 'set terminal wxt; plot x' | gnuplot -persist A window appears, but it is not drawn and it cannot

Re: which package to file a bug report ?

2024-02-28 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Tue Feb 27, 2024 at 7:12 AM GMT, Frank Weißer wrote: > So we are at my original question: Which package to file a bug report ? Package "debian-installer", I think; and/or submit an installation report, which can be done with reportbug against the "installation-report&qu

Re: Debian 12.5.0 amd64 and OpenZFS bug #15526

2024-02-27 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue 27/02/2024 at 22:52, David Christensen wrote: > ... > These appear to be the ZFS packages for the available Debian releases: > > https://packages.debian.org/buster/zfs-dkms > > busterzfs-dkms (0.7.12-2+deb10u2) > buster-backports zfs-dkms (2.0.3-9~bpo10+1) >

Re: Debian 12.5.0 amd64 and OpenZFS bug #15526

2024-02-27 Thread David Christensen
On 2/26/24 20:52, Gareth Evans wrote: Replied to OP by mistake, reposting to list. On Sun 25/02/2024 at 05:34, David Christensen wrote: debian-user: Is Debian 12.5.0 amd64 affected by OpenZFS bug #15526? https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-12.5.0-amd64

Re: which package to file a bug report ?

2024-02-26 Thread Frank Weißer
Marco Moock: Am Fri, 23 Feb 2024 13:59:41 +0100 schrieb Frank Weißer : The installer does format it as ext4, but shows ext2 and places that in fstab, what ends up in emergency mode. That's why I'm here That is definitely a bug. So we are at my original question: Which package to file

Re: Debian 12.5.0 amd64 and OpenZFS bug #15526

2024-02-26 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue 27/02/2024 at 04:52, Gareth Evans wrote: > https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/15933 > > seems to suggest that or a similar issue is still ongoing with Open ZFS > 2.2.3 ... I wonder if that might be a regression, since what I think is the same issue as openzfs #15526 appeared to be

Re: Debian 12.5.0 amd64 and OpenZFS bug #15526

2024-02-26 Thread Gareth Evans
Replied to OP by mistake, reposting to list. On Sun 25/02/2024 at 05:34, David Christensen wrote: > debian-user: > > Is Debian 12.5.0 amd64 affected by OpenZFS bug #15526? > > https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-12.5.0-amd64-netins

Debian 12.5.0 amd64 and OpenZFS bug #15526

2024-02-24 Thread David Christensen
debian-user: Is Debian 12.5.0 amd64 affected by OpenZFS bug #15526? https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-12.5.0-amd64-netinst.iso https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/zfs-dkms https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/15526 David

Re: which package to file a bug report ?

2024-02-24 Thread Marco Moock
t it manually? > > > The installer does format it as ext4, but shows ext2 and places that > in fstab, what ends up in emergency mode. That's why I'm here That is definitely a bug.

Re: Where to report print driver bug

2024-02-23 Thread Marco Moock
Am Fri, 23 Feb 2024 14:47:41 -0500 schrieb James Klaas : > "Generic PCL 6/PCL XL Printer Foomatic/pxlcolor (recommended)" Do you know the file that provides that? If so, you apt-file search "file" to find the package that provides it.

Where to report print driver bug

2024-02-23 Thread James Klaas
I was going to submit a bug for this but I don't know what package I should report the bug against. Debian bugreport says: Please enter the name of the package in which you have found a problem, or type 'other' to report a more general problem. If you don't know what package the bug

Re: which package to file a bug report ?

2024-02-23 Thread Frank Weißer
First of all: I use german during installation; but I doubt that is relevant. Marco Moock: Am 22.02.2024 schrieb Frank Weißer : I only choose ext2 for formatting the encrypted partition, because nothing else is offered. That is really strange. If I did install Debian 12, it offered me a

Re: which package to file a bug report ?

2024-02-23 Thread Marco Moock
Am 22.02.2024 schrieb Frank Weißer : > I only choose ext2 for formatting the encrypted partition, because > nothing else is offered. That is really strange. If I did install Debian 12, it offered me a list of different file systems, including ext2/3/4. > Despite that the partition in fact is

Re: which package to file a bug report ?

2024-02-22 Thread Frank Weißer
Marco Moock: Am 22.02.2024 um 13:18:48 Uhr schrieb Frank Weißer: I use to encrypt my swap and /var/tmp partitions during installation. That is LUKS. the partition tool in debian installer offers me randomized keys for that and has 'delete partition' set to 'yes', which costs lot of

Re: which package to file a bug report ?

2024-02-22 Thread Marco Moock
Am 22.02.2024 um 13:18:48 Uhr schrieb Frank Weißer: > I use to encrypt my swap and /var/tmp partitions during installation. That is LUKS. > the partition tool in debian installer offers me randomized keys for > that and has 'delete partition' set to 'yes', which costs lot of > time, not

which package to file a bug report ?

2024-02-22 Thread Frank Weißer
on reboot I end up in emergency mode. What package have I to file the bug report against? Please apologize my poor english. Kind regards readU Frank

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-16 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 08:02:12AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: What Thomas was trying to do is to get a cheap, fast random number generator. Shred seems to have such. You're better off with /dev/urandom, it's much easier to understand what it's trying to do, vs the rather baroque logic in

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-14 Thread David Wright
On Tue 13 Feb 2024 at 11:21:08 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 09:35:11AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 13 Feb 2024 at 07:15:48 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 11:01:47PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > > > … but not much. For me,

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-13 Thread tomas
On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 01:03:44PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > On 2/13/24 09:40, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > Shred will determine the size of the file, then write data to the > > > file, rewind, write data again, etc. On a traditional hard drive, >

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-13 Thread gene heskett
On 2/13/24 16:00, David Christensen wrote: On 2/13/24 11:31, gene heskett wrote: Next experiment is a pair of 4T Silicon Power SSD's When they & the startech usb3 adapters arrive.  I'll get that NAS built for amanda yet. 2.5" SATA SSD's and SATA to USB adapter cables for $187.97 + $10.99 =

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-13 Thread David Christensen
On 2/13/24 09:40, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Greg Wooledge wrote: Shred will determine the size of the file, then write data to the file, rewind, write data again, etc. On a traditional hard drive, that will overwrite the original private information. On modern devices, it may not.

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-13 Thread David Christensen
On 2/13/24 11:31, gene heskett wrote: Next experiment is a pair of 4T Silicon Power SSD's When they & the startech usb3 adapters arrive.  I'll get that NAS built for amanda yet. 2.5" SATA SSD's and SATA to USB adapter cables for $187.97 + $10.99 = $198.96 each set?

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-13 Thread gene heskett
On 2/13/24 14:44, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Gene Heskett wrote: Next experiment is a pair of 4T Silicon Power SSD's When f3 has (hopefully) given its OK, the topic of a full write-and-read test will come up again. I'm looking forward to all the spin-off topics. I'll have to admit it has

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Gene Heskett wrote: > Next experiment is a pair of 4T Silicon Power SSD's When f3 has (hopefully) given its OK, the topic of a full write-and-read test will come up again. I'm looking forward to all the spin-off topics. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
hat exactly is a bug in shred's documentation. Plus the shell programming webinar. And a diagnosis about a rightously failed attempt to change the partition table type from MBR/DOS to GPT. And this all because Gene Heskett was adventurous enough to buy a cheap fake USB disk. Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-13 Thread gene heskett
On 2/13/24 12:56, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: Let me write out the example again, but with the bug fixed, and then explain what each line does, [... lecture about advanced shell programming ...] And this all because Gene Heskett was adventurous enough to buy a cheap fake

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-13 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 06:54:58PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Let me write out the example again, but with the bug fixed, and then > > explain what each line does, [... lecture about advanced shell > > programming ...] > > And th

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Let me write out the example again, but with the bug fixed, and then > explain what each line does, [... lecture about advanced shell > programming ...] And this all because Gene Heskett was adventurous enough to buy a cheap fake USB disk. :)) Have a

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-13 Thread debian-user
Greg Wooledge wrote: > Shred will determine the size of the file, then write data to the > file, rewind, write data again, etc. On a traditional hard drive, > that will overwrite the original private information. On modern > devices, it may not. Thanks for the excellent explanation :) One

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-13 Thread Greg Wooledge
gt;"$i" > > > > rm -- "$i" > > > > echo "Hello, world" >&3 > > > > shred - >&3 > > > > exec 3>- > Ironic that it truncates a file, and then immediately warns against > truncating a file inst

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-13 Thread David Wright
calls "shred -". The documentation has to support this use > case as well. /As well/ — which is why I wrote N in place of 1. The original bug report (which I hadn't seen until Thomas' post) says: "If you redirect output to a file it will work. Shredding a tty doesn't make muc

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
reg Wooledge wrote: > In fact, that last line is > written incorrectly. It should say "exec 3>&-" and what that does > is close file descriptor 3, which was previously opened on line 2. > [...] > This is an obvious bug in the info page. I wonder how many years > th

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-13 Thread tomas
On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 07:36:14AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 07:15:48AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > This is an obvious bug in the info page. I wonder how many years > > this has gone unnoticed. > > I've filed Bug#1063837 for it. <https:/

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-13 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 07:15:48AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > This is an obvious bug in the info page. I wonder how many years > this has gone unnoticed. I've filed Bug#1063837 for it. <https://bugs.debian.org/1063837>

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-13 Thread Greg Wooledge
previously opened on line 2. What it actually does *as written* is create/truncate a file whose name is "-", close the previously opened FD 3, and make FD 3 point to the file named "-". unicorn:~$ exec 3>- unicorn:~$ ls -ld -- - -rw-r--r-- 1 greg greg 0 Feb 13 07:12 - unicorn:~$ ls -l /dev/fd/3 l-wx-- 1 greg greg 64 Feb 13 07:12 /dev/fd/3 -> /home/greg/- This is an obvious bug in the info page. I wonder how many years this has gone unnoticed.

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-12 Thread tomas
On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 10:07:45PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_is_a_file > > But, there is more than one kind of file. > > "All files are equal. > But some files are more equal than others." > > (George Orwell in his dystopic novel "Server

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-12 Thread David Wright
On Sun 11 Feb 2024 at 09:16:00 (-0600), David Wright wrote: > On Sun 11 Feb 2024 at 09:54:24 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 03:45:21PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > Still there's the discrepancy between doc and behaviour. > > > > There isn't. The documentation

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-12 Thread Max Nikulin
On 12/02/2024 05:41, David Christensen wrote: Apparently, shred(1) has both an info(1) page (?) and a man(1) page. The obvious solution is to write one document that is complete and correct, and use it everywhere -- e.g. DRY. https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Man-Pages.html 6.9

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-12 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_is_a_file > But, there is more than one kind of file. "All files are equal. But some files are more equal than others." (George Orwell in his dystopic novel "Server Farm".) Have a nice day :) Thomas

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-12 Thread David Christensen
On 2/12/24 08:50, Curt wrote: On 2024-02-11, wrote: On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 09:54:24AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: [...] If FILE is -, shred standard output. =20 In every sentence, the word FILE appears. There's nothing in there which says "you can operate on a non-file".

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-12 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 04:50:50PM -, Curt wrote: > On 2024-02-11, wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 09:54:24AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > [...] > > > >>If FILE is -, shred standard output. > >>=20 > >> In every sentence, the word FILE appears. There's nothing in

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-12 Thread Curt
On 2024-02-11, wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 09:54:24AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > [...] > >>If FILE is -, shred standard output. >>=20 >> In every sentence, the word FILE appears. There's nothing in there >> which says "you can operate on a non-file". > > Point taken, yes.

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-11 Thread David Christensen
, fast random number generator. Shred seems to have such. Well... I certainly wouldn't call it a bug. Maybe a feature request. Still there's the discrepancy between doc and behaviour. There isn't. The documentation says: SYNOPSIS shred [OPTION]... FILE... I interpret the above line

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-11 Thread David Wright
.@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > > What Thomas was trying to do is to get a cheap, fast random number > > > > generator. Shred seems to have such. > > > > > > Well... I certainly wouldn't call it a bug. Maybe a feature request. > > > > Still th

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > Still there's the discrepancy between doc and behaviour. Depends at which documentation you look. Obviously stemming from https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=155175#36 i read in https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/sh

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-11 Thread tomas
On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 09:54:24AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: [...] >If FILE is -, shred standard output. > > In every sentence, the word FILE appears. There's nothing in there > which says "you can operate on a non-file". Point taken, yes. Cheers -- t signature.asc Description:

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-11 Thread Greg Wooledge
a cheap, fast random number > > > generator. Shred seems to have such. > > > > Well... I certainly wouldn't call it a bug. Maybe a feature request. > > Still there's the discrepancy between doc and behaviour. There isn't. The documentation says: SYNOPSIS shred [OPTION]..

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-11 Thread tomas
On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 09:37:31AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 08:02:12AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > What Thomas was trying to do is to get a cheap, fast random number > > generator. Shred seems to have such. > > Well... I certainly w

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-11 Thread Greg Wooledge
-s 1K - | wc -c > > > shred: -: invalid file type > > > 0 > > > > > > > > > It looks like a shred(1) needs a bug report. > > > > I'm confused what you expected this command to do. You wanted to > > "destroy" (by overwriting wi

Re: shred bug?

2024-02-11 Thread Thomas Schmitt
, like: shred -n 1 -s 204768K -v - | tee /dev/sdm1 | sha256sum > I expect reading the code would tell. My code analysis is in https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/1162291656137153...@scdbackup.webframe.org to...@tuxteam.de found bug 155175 from 2002, which explains why. Se

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-11 Thread debian-user
> >> > >> > >> It looks like a shred(1) needs a bug report. > > > > I'm confused what you expected this command to do. You wanted to > > "destroy" (by overwriting with random data) a pipe to wc? What > > would that even look like?

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-10 Thread tomas
On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 07:10:54PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 04:05:21PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > > 2024-02-10 16:03:50 dpchrist@laalaa ~ > > $ shred -s 1K - | wc -c > > shred: -: invalid file type > > 0 > > > > > >

Re: Debian weather bug

2024-02-10 Thread Greg Marks
> > I have a bug report but am not sure which package it should be filed > > against. The Weather Report application, version 1.24.1, is affected, > > as is the weather reported by the Clock application, version 1.24.1, in > > the MATE desktop environment. Neither rep

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-10 Thread David Christensen
On 2/10/24 16:10, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 04:05:21PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: 2024-02-10 16:03:50 dpchrist@laalaa ~ $ shred -s 1K - | wc -c shred: -: invalid file type 0 It looks like a shred(1) needs a bug report. I'm confused what you expected this command

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-10 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 04:05:21PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > 2024-02-10 16:03:50 dpchrist@laalaa ~ > $ shred -s 1K - | wc -c > shred: -: invalid file type > 0 > > > It looks like a shred(1) needs a bug report. I'm confused what you expected this command to do. Y

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-10 Thread David Christensen
;. Hmm. This looks like a genuine bug: the man page mentions it. Also, /dev/stdout as target runs into the very same problem. Cheers Testing: 2024-02-10 16:01:54 dpchrist@laalaa ~ $ cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a 11.8 Linux laalaa 5.10.0-27-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.205-2 (2023-12-3

Re: shred bug?

2024-02-10 Thread tomas
On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 02:58:06PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > Ah, it seems to be this one, from 2002: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=155175 > > So it's not a bug but a feature. :( > > I'm riddling o

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