ID#4 Start_Stop_Count and/or ID#193 Load_Cycle_Count.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.#Known_ATA_S.M.A.R.T._attributes
This will show you if a drive does spin up and down.
Start_Stop_Count should indeed tell you how many times the disk spun
updown.
OTOH Load_Cycle_Count indicates
how compatible are drivers on ports for different CPU architectures,
e.g. I have a USB HSDPA modem which works great on Wheezy port for x86
architecture, but can I expect it to work on Wheezy port for ARM?
If your ARM platform's USB driver works, then yes, you can expect the
exact same support
If some of you don't like it, write the software you want. Or pay
someone to write it. But enough already.
Doesn't guarantee that Debian will decide to use it.
I think the right way is to submit bug-reports about particular problems
you find in systemd. Maybe that won't cause a change to
One last step may be necessary : update the UUIDs in /etc/fstab and
/boot/grub/grub.cfg, as you created new volumes with new UUIDs instead
of cloning them. Or alternatively, change the UUIDs on the new disk with
tune2fs, mkswap... to match the ones on the old disk. Otherwise you'll
be stuck
My very old, failing Dell Inspiron would connect to the second monitor
by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F8, and would remember that setting across
reboots. It appeared to be a function of the hardware, mot the
software..
Actually it was probably done in the BIOS rather than in the hardware,
but yes, it
Rather than probing, I prefer to have grub pass the boot off to the
installed distro's own boot loader by chaining. That way, each install
can update it's own loader and be done with it.
Complete agreement. Of course, what really should happen is that Grub
itself should do (at boot) the
Recently, my Debian stable system started to refuse my password when
I want to unlock my screen.
Most users on the system use Gnome 3 and their lock screen works OK
(thank god), but I use XFCE and xscreensaver and this one has recently
decided that it can't accept any passwords any more.
I
softwatt softw...@gmx.com writes:
I had a similar issue, and it turned out I was typing the password in
the wrong language. If you use multiple languages, Try pressing
ALT+SHIFT (The default language switch) and retrying. You may need to do
it multiple times if you have multiple languages.
I was recently given a Mac Mini (Intel Mid 2007) that had been wiped.
I tried to install Debian (Wheezy) on it, and the installer reported
success, but when it came time to eject and reboot, Debian didn't
boot from the hard drive.
[...]
Is there a way to install Debian/Linux on this machine
With init, skipping a scheduled fsck during boot was easy, you just
pressed Ctrl+c, it was obvious! Today I was late for an online
conference. I got home, turned on my computer, and systemd decided
it was time to run fsck on my 1TB hard drive. Ok, I just skip it,
right? Well, Ctrl+c does
I've tried the i386 install (v7.7) CD multiple times and I've tried having
it put GRUB on the MBR and on the partition and neither way resulted
in a bootable install.
I think this can be made to work with a bit of twiddling (e.g. using
lilo or grub-legacy, or maybe tweaking of the partition
Look, if you reboot a laptop instead of suspending/hibernating it,
sooner or later you're going to have to think Hmm, it hasn't fscked for
a while. It shouldn't be a surprise when it does.
Actually, it's *always* a surprise. These fsck happen at long enough
intervals, that I can never know
Actually, it's *always* a surprise. These fsck happen at long enough
intervals, that I can never know if it was 4 months ago or 7 months
ago, and neither can I remember which laptop/desktop has the delay set
to 172 days vs 194 days vs 98 days vs ...
Can't you write a small script to obviate
I want to get back to the root of the problem and claim, that I want
to be able to interrupt *any* startup command, not just fsck.
Oh, yes, aol-mode me too! /aol-mode!
Systemd's boot seems to suffer a lot more from such problems. E.g. it
waits for a long time before timeout if one of the
I want to get back to the root of the problem and claim, that I want
to be able to interrupt *any* startup command, not just fsck.
The debug shell could be (part of) the answer,
You mean, they're probably going to answer by pointing us to the
debug shell? Yes, probably. But it's again just a
I've tried the i386 install (v7.7) CD multiple times and I've tried having
it put GRUB on the MBR and on the partition and neither way resulted
in a bootable install.
I think this can be made to work with a bit of twiddling (e.g. using
lilo or grub-legacy, or maybe tweaking of the
users equally well. If it does, the relevance of having a ^C at boot
time for stopping an fsck might be open to examination.
The issue goes beyond fsck. It's important to be able to interrupt
various long-running operations (typically waiting for an event)
during boot.
Stefan
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There is a sort of half-way house, whereby a second user can login
to a workstation without the first user logging out, but the same
keyboard and screen are used and the first user cannot do anything
while the second user has control. I don't know how commonly used this
is, Windows has had it
users equally well. If it does, the relevance of having a ^C at boot
time for stopping an fsck might be open to examination.
The issue goes beyond fsck. It's important to be able to interrupt
various long-running operations (typically waiting for an event)
during boot.
But some
Atomic in the original word meaning can't be cut, and stopping is a form of
cutting. Rolling back is a strategy to permit stopping an atomic operation,
but I am unsure thi can be done always.
The fact that *some* actions need to be atomic doesn't prevent
interrupting various (other)
Is there a good utility out there to predict the remaining
running/charging time of my battery?
For the remaining runtime most of the utilities out there seem to just
divide the remaining capacity by the current power usage, which doesn't
account for the fact that the current power usage may not
The best thing is to educate your children instead of trying to
shelter them from those sites.
Why choose
or
Security in depth
Stefan
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Darac == Darac Marjal mailingl...@darac.org.uk writes:
There's a great utility called ibam which pays attention to
the historical performance of your battery. The main benefit is if your
The == The Wanderer wande...@fastmail.fm writes:
Try ibam, and (if you use gkrellm) gkrellm-ibam. I've
The bios, the last defense when things go south, may not
regcognise a bluetooth usb attached keyboard.
AFAIK the BIOS simply sees a USB keyboard and mouse whether or not the
actual device will be reached via a wire or a radio signal.
This depends: there are two kinds of cordless mouses and
In the environment you described I would not be worried. I have never
lost any data on my USB mounted disks. You sound like you are
mounting your device for backup, using it, then unmounting it until
needed again. I have never had any problems doing that. I think you
could continue that
perspective. I don't feel comfortable with countries that openly cooperate
with the intelligence services.
As opposed to those who do it covertly, you mean?
Stefan not funny
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Could anyone here, honest, as we all are I know, guarantee at 100% that
the OP won't ever have any virus issue on his Debian system ?
[...]
Should he fear viruses as much as on a Windows system ?
Wrong questions.
The question is whether an anti-virus scanner will provide extra
protection on a
One of the build options for a laptop I'm looking at buying is DVD vs
Blu-Ray. I've never used Blue-ray before, so is there some compelling
reason, as a Linux guy, to want to get Blu-ray?
Get neither: nowadays an optical reader is just a relic of the past,
making your laptop heavier and
https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/284124-myth-busting-is-linux-immune-to-viruses
Nobody serious would claim that a system like GNU/Linux can be immune.
But that doesn't mean that anti-virus software is a good way to protect
a GNU/Linux system.
Stefan
We run a list server. Clamav and spamassassin find viruses and spam all
the time.
Not finding spam would indeed be pretty scary.
As for finding viruses, don't forget that finding viruses is only useful
if that virus would have infected some other machine. Viruses caught
by anti-virus
Hello guys. I wanted to know if antivirus is required for Debian or for
linux in general. And if it is required, what are the recommended antivirus
for Debian?
The corresponding Debian package is `unattended-upgrades'.
Much more efficient, and much more secure.
Stefan
All that aside, think of the money that the BBC spends
administering and enforcing the system that they have created.
Indeed. For that same reason public transit systems should be paid out
of the normal government budget rather than being tied to individual
users (which can also be
If I do
aptitude update
while my proxy is down (or when I'm offline), the previous package lists
are apparently gone, so after that, any aptitude command will tell me
things like:
# aptitude install foo
E: The value 'testing' is invalid for APT::Default-Release as such a release
is
>> Sent from my iPad
> And ?
Indeed, Reminds me of the annoying successful Intel marketing slogan,
which was nicely subverted by "Looks good from the outside, but ...".
We could similarly add before the above marketing phrase something like
"Sounds coherent except that it's ...".
> http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1114662-REG/asus_90ig01c1_ba_wireless_ac1300_usb_adapter.html
> http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1025036-REG/asus_usb_ac56_wireless_ac1200_db.html
Any word on how well they work on GNU/Linux? E.g. is the driver fully
supported in the mainline
>> Why on earth would you want to go to the bother of using AVX
>> instructions for working with Base64?
> For performance, of course.
I think the question was: what makes you think AVX will improve
the performance of *your* code? Base64 encoding/decoding should be
completely
> No guarantee, but in my experience, WiFi "just works" in Debian Squeeze
> and Jessie.
That was more or less true back in the 11n days. Nowadays we're back to
having trouble: most chipset have some kind of support, but many of them
have support that's not integrated in the kernel, i.e. you need
> Just a thought, have you considered just replacing the internal wireless
> card? As far as I can tell, it's a regular Mini-PCI-E card and should be
> accessible under a flap on the bottom of the laptop. Something like an Intel
> 7260 should work nicely. 802.11a/b/g/n/ac plus Bluetooth 4.0 and it
> So by "small" I mean small enough to be used without getting out of the
> car (in order to set the machine on the hood or trunk). And though many
In that case, a 10" netbook (like the MSI Wind or a plethora of others)
would probably be a good option. You can have them for very cheap
nowadays,
>Is there anything small which can run Debian?
How small is "small"?
My old MSI Wind U100 netbook ran Debian perfectly, i.e. all the hardware was
fully supported, including 3D graphics, with no need for any binary
blobs (according to "vrms" it was clean, except for those pesky
> You may just be cheap, Reco. I'm willing to pay for what is not free
> when I deem it is worth my money to do so. YMMV.
Free Software is about freedom, not about money, nor about
technical advantages.
Freedom to run the software without having to accept some ridiculous EULA.
Freedom to share
>> If you think of non-free in terms of Debian non-free, then non-free
>> and proprietary can be different things. That gets into a whole
>> different hornets nest.
> Evaluate here, please. I honestly can not grasp this concept.
I think he's referring to things like emacs24-common-non-dfsg.
IOW,
> the author. That was one of the 2 things I lost when I made the
> transition to linux in 1998, the other was the instability of Amigados,
> sometimes crashing several times a day.
W.r.t crashing several times a day, you can easily recover this feature
with a little cron job,
Stefan
> iwl3945 :03:00.0: firmware: failed to load iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode (-2)
This just says that the kernel did not find the firmware for your Wifi
chip. It should be installed in /lib/firmware, typically done by
installing the non-Free package "firmware-iwlwifi".
> and does not enter the login
> I have a Lenovo T540p and while I was able to install Debian, then
> Ubuntu and Mint, I have to say this: Wireless doesn't work!
Not sure how it works nowadays, but back in the T60 days at least, the
wireless cards used in those Thinkpads was part of those things you
could choose (tho you often
[ Speaking as someone who re-installs as rarely as possible, and whose
machines almost all derive (via upgrades like yours) from an install
from around 2006. ]
> | The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
> |
> | Remove the following packages:
> |
> I am still running Wheezy and would like to test Jessie before committing to
> it. Is a chroot a viable method? If so, can someone point me to a link on
> how best to set it up and use it. I will want to test it with, and without,
> systemd. Would a dual boot be a better way to test this?
> But telling them what they "should" do, unless it relates to behaviour that
> affexts you directly(*) is the first step on the road to intolerance,
> persecution, the Talibans and the Inquisition, etc.
Other people using flash (or Windows, or iPads, ...) does affect me
directly, and I think it
>> Useful hints are most often found in Xorg.0.log, which for some people at
>> least, is better seen in a "pastebin"[1] than an email attachment.
> Please stop suggesting that! Logs inline or as an attachment are fine.
Agreed. `pastebin' sucks rocks because when you search the internet for
an
> That is precisely what I am talking about. The arrogance of it. You have no
> right to insist on our doing anything. You personally really are in league
> with the Taliban.
He has the right to say or write anything he wants, pretty much.
He indeed doesn't have a right to *force* you to do
> 'dd' will at best get you a 500GB disk on your new 900G SSD.
Not at all. You can easily use the remaining space afterwards.
As for me, I indeed wouldn't use `dd` in your case. Because instead,
I'd move to LVM. I.e. setup an LVM volume group on your new disk, and
create logical volumes for /
> However, as far as I'm aware, a good UEFI implementation will allow you to
> associate different keys with different boot partitions. Therefore Windows
> boots in secure mode because it verifies its own key and Linux ALSO boots in
> secure mode, because it verifies ITS own key.
The better
> Could you suggest some package to build a simple and powerful media server?
I use MPD on the server to play the music (which I control via various
MPD clients, mostly MPDroid (from F-Droid) on Android, Emacs's M-x mpc,
as well as via `client175' running on that same server, in case someone
>> :-) "There are no dumb questions. Only dumb answers."
> Okay. Here's one -- I was going to post it in gnu.emacs.help, but you
> changed my mind! Emacs running in X honors Alt as its Meta key. But if
> I launch 'emacs -nw' to avoid running in X that understanding (Meta == Alt)
> evaporates.
I'd like to let my phone play its music via my home-server's speakers.
This home-server is a headless OrangePi box running Debian testing (and
with a bluetooth dongle in one of its USB ports).
I followed https://wiki.debian.org/BluetoothUser for the first steps and
things seem to be working OK
> http://blog.stevenocchipinti.com/2012/10/bluetooth-audio-streaming-from-phone-to.html/
> Looks like this is relevant for you.
Indeed, thank you very much!
Stefan
> MD5 alone can be somewhat dangerous even in benevolent environments: if the
> data sets are large enough or you are just unlucky, you are going to hit a
> colision and corrupt-or-lose-data-on-dedup sooner or later.
it doesn't seem worried about this. Admittedly, they use sha1 rather
than md5,
>> MD5 alone can be somewhat dangerous even in benevolent environments: if the
>> data sets are large enough or you are just unlucky, you are going to hit a
>> colision and corrupt-or-lose-data-on-dedup sooner or later.
> it doesn't seem worried about this. Admittedly, they use sha1 rather
^
G
> I apologize for my ignorance. I didn't realize that aptitude would
> install recommended packages
Indeed. I put
Aptitude::Recommends-Important "False";
in my /etc/apt/apt.conf years ago and never looked back.
Stefan
> * OpenRISC [3]
> 32 bit (these days 64 bit). LGPL. There are a few FPGA based
> implementations and some specialist "real silicon" implementations,
> AFAIK one on board of ISS. No idea whether one can buy "real
> silicon" (at least as mere mortal).
You definitely can. At least in a
> I agree. The dist upgrade was problematic and I finally had to wipe the root
> partition for a clean install. Thankfully, from my Caldera days, I use /opt
Hmm.. just to give a counter-point, almost all my current Debian
installs are the result of a stream of upgrades+clones from the first
> Recently when I started using Debian I noticed that the version of Iceweasel
> that Jessie comes with is 38.7.1, whereas the latest Firefox is 45. I also
> noticed that when I visit www.citibank.com using Iceweasel 38.7.1 the
> Citibank website tells me that my browser is out of date and not
>> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> rootfs 323M 189M 117M 62% /
> This is the problem. The root filesystem is too small, so you will not
> be able to install or upgrade a Debian kernel. This is a bug[1] in the
> automatic partitioner that
> Or simply "sudo bash --login"
> I haven't needed to use root login for years,
In which sense is this not a "root login"?
Or would "su -" not be considered a root login either?
What about "ssh root@localhost"?
Stefan
> Yes. Type w and you'll see the time at which you just logged in.
That seems to me like a completely unimportant detail, with little to
no consequence. When compared to the consequences of having a shell
with uid==0 this seems like nitpicking.
So, it confirms my suspicion that "root login" is
> to Google Chrome, which has indeed "thrown i386 machines under the bus", and
What do you mean by that?
There won't be any new versions of Debian's i386 version of the
chromium package?
Stefan
> But now all the browser coders have thrown i386 machines under the bus,
> and I'm apparently stuck with the broken i386 stuff left behind.
What do you mean by that?
Stefan "who still uses 32bit userland pretty much everywhere"
FWIW, I stick to printers whose drivers are right there in Debian.
That saves me work and that lets me put my money where mouth is.
Maybe it's not too late to return your printer?
Stefan
> Find a file somehow belonging to the font you are interested in.
> Do "dpkg -L " on it.
^^
-S
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> Would pvmove —abort roll the changes back?
> How would this affect the server, since the earlier pvmove crashed this?
pvmove works as follows (more or less):
- allocate the destination.
- configure the destination as a mirror of the source.
- update the new mirror (that's what does the
> screen reader does not start and I don't get to login prompt yet.
I still have no idea what you're trying to do.
IIUC you have a machine without a display, yet you want to run a screen
reader. What have you done that would make you hope you'd get a screen
reader and/or a login prompt?
> The screen reader doesn't read the screen but what gets sent at the screen.
That's right. That presumes there is at least an abstract notion of
a screen and in a normal headless server, there is simply no such thing.
Hence, the need for something like Xdummy or Xvfb.
Stefan
> What g.u.i. app or apps prevent graphical user interface Linux from running
> if no display can be plugged into the computer?
So the machine does not have a monitor plugged into it.
But does it have a graphics card?
Stefan
>>> What g.u.i. app or apps prevent graphical user interface Linux from running
>>> if no display can be plugged into the computer?
>> So the machine does not have a monitor plugged into it.
>> But does it have a graphics card?
> Yes the machine has a graphics card radeon if I didn't murder the
> There are evidently serious flaws in Flash, either its design or its
> implementation, that warrant all the negativity, but the odd thing is that
> the clear technical unbiased treatment of the issue seems to be completely
> swamped by quasi religious fervour. Those of us who haven't seen the
> No, I mentioned this as a benefit. It's a side-effect to flash's
> writing the file mentioned in the previous sentence (the very first
> sentence of the post). I want the file and with flash I can have it.
My experience is the exact opposite: with HTML5 videos, I just
"right-click => Save Video
>> > No, I mentioned this as a benefit. It's a side-effect to flash's
>> > writing the file mentioned in the previous sentence (the very first
>> > sentence of the post). I want the file and with flash I can have it.
>> My experience is the exact opposite: with HTML5 videos, I just
>> "right-click
>However, when I tried to use the calculator program dc afterwards,
> the computer just sat there.
What else did you expect from `dc`?
Stefan
> What g.u.i. app or apps prevent graphical user interface Linux from running
> if no display can be plugged into the computer?
I don't understand the question. But I have the vague impression that
maybe Xvfb or Xdummy is part of the answer.
Stefan
> You might need to relaunch :
> invoke-rc.d cpufrequtils restart
> or maybe :
> /etc/init.d/cpufrequtils restart
Thanks, but I don't have cpufrequtils installed. Also, AFAIK
cpufrequtils works by fiddling with those /sys nodes just like I do
(once and for all), so it wouldn't cause such
Max scaling_max_freq seems stuck at 1GHz even though it should be able
to go up to 1.83GHz.
# echo 1833000 >/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq; cat
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
100
# cat
> Yes "Wheezy" under GNOME-2, and "Jessie" under GNOME-3
Right. Gnome-3 requires decent 3D support.
> I see, it has to do with graphics after all. X.Org's XAA and EXA are 2D
> accelerators, right?
That's right.
> My PC mainboard manual states it has got on-chip AGP 2D/3D.
I don't think X.org
> "Jessie" is not generally very responsive compared to "Wheezy", display
> update and mouse tracking is very very slow.
Could it be that your wheezy install did not use Gnome-3 and that you're
now using the standard Gnome-3 desktop (which presumes existence of 3D
GPU acceleration) on a system
> For those still using Flash and/or Chrome
> http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2458329/googles-chrome-browser-will-switch-off-flash-content-by-default
When will someone provide a Flash implementation in Javascript
(probably by combining the existing Flash implementation with
a
> How can I set up a machine to boot in UEFI mode when the running kernel was
> booted in legacy mode?
AFAIK it goes something like this:
- Use a GPT partition table, rather than MBR (you can usually convert
from one to the other without reformatting, but that can require tricky
fiddling, so
> I confirm that gdisk can convert a disk from MBR/MSDOS to GPT from
> within a system running on the disk.
Indeed that's exactly what I used for that.
> Anyway, unless the UEFI firmware is broken, you can boot in UEFI mode
> from an MSDOS partitionned disk, provided that you can create a small
> My client cannot run an up-to-date Flashplayer on Linux.
Why not? AFAIK my daughter's computer (running 32bit Debian stable) has
a working flash player (and yes, I'm talking about Adobe's crap plugin,
rather than gnash which sadly seems to have died).
Stefan
> You could potentially just use the policyrcd-script-zg2 package, and
> then your boolean setting would be:
>
> echo -e "#!/bin/sh\nexit101;" > /etc/policy-rc.d.
>
> Or something similar. [Or if you really just want a boolean, you could
> potentially write your own package which plugged into
> My solution to that is physical access to the computer, actually sitting in
> front of it - login without a password.
While I don't need a strong password in such a situation, I do want some
password because I don't like it when other people use my account
(usually they don't like it either
>> I often need something like this when running inside a chroot and
>> always have trouble finding the clean way to do it
> Here's one example that mk-sbuild uses:
> (jessie-amd64)$ cat /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d
> #!/bin/sh
> while true; do
> case "$1" in
> -*) shift ;;
> makedev)
> No, it does not. What you show is not an option, an option would be
> something in /etc. This is editing a script in /usr/sbin, in complete
> violation of any good practice with packages managers.
FWIW, I also find it disappointing that I can't do it in an etc file of
some sort. E.g. I often
> The above "almost" refers to whatever is required to run Debian as installed
> to that *explicit* partition.
Maybe systemd is a bit more picky, but at least in the past, the root
partition did not need to be present in /etc/fstab, so in many cases
there was no need to do anything at all when
>> Use LVM, of course (and you can use LVM snapshots to speed up the
>> cloning).
> Sounds like a nice idea, but how do you use snapshots to clone a logical
> volume and then use the clone as a regular volume ?
Not sure what you mean by "regular volume". All my "partitions" are
logical volumes
> a maximum consumption of about 3W, and has no configuration at
[...]
> A typical AP needs 10-20W,
What kind of AP would consume 20W? Mine consumes around 5W and that includes
a 2TB disk attached to it (and spinning).
> and has an expected lifetime of 1-4 years.
Where do you get those
>> What kind of AP would consume 20W? Mine consumes around 5W and that includes
>> a 2TB disk attached to it (and spinning).
> An Asus RT-N56U needs 30W max. A Linksys EA6900 needs 42W.
I'm not concerned about max consumption. I'm talking about 24/7
consumption (i.e. the impact on the monthly
I'm looking for a decentralized instant message system (e.g. XMPP, SIP,
...) where I can be sure that I receive all messages, even if I'm not
connected when the message is sent [ Obviously, I'll only receive them
when I'm back online. ]
IIUC there is some XMPP features that allow such reliable
> drivers basically broken, or you can buy some 3 year old hardware for
> insane prices, or what else can a normal gamer do?
Hmmm... my experience with (2nd hand) 3 year old hardware is that it's
rather cheap, yet I don't think that's what you meant by "insane
prices".
Stefan
>> Reminds me of a need I couldn't conveniently satisfy: allow known weak
>> passwords on some specific user accounts but make sure you can not use
>> them remotely (in my case I only wanted to allow GDM logins for them).
>> E.g. make it so that sshd only lets you login if your user is in the
>>
> That weak passwords are a problem in themselves or that other services
> get started right away after install too is irrelevant to the point
> made -- again IMHO.
Reminds me of a need I couldn't conveniently satisfy: allow known weak
passwords on some specific user accounts but make sure you
> SSH access to userfoo and userbar", I'd like to do "disallow non-GDM
> access for userfoo and userbar".
Let me rephrase that: I'd like to "disallow non-GDM
use of userfoo and userbar's password for login".
E.g. I'd still like to allow non-password logins via SSH for those
users, since the only
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