Re: List attachments

> No, please don't use pastebin.com Agreed. > People here care about software freedom. So please don't > recommend (here) non-free software providers with their stupid > logins, cookies, tracking, terms-of-service, javascript requirements > and who knows or cares what else when we have a

Re: Is Debian 9 supposed to work on a Geode?

> When I see "uSD slot, easy accessible" in a bulleted list of what looks > like requirements, then I get the impression that any device that lacks > a microSD slot, or where it's not easy to access, would be excluded. I > wouldn't reject an otherwise promising computer just because it has a >

Re: Choice of VMs under i386 Stretch?

> If it had been done 10 years ago it wouldn't need to be done now. :) [ The initial install was in 2003, FWIW. ] I do use 64bit Debian on another machine, but to tell you the truth, I don't notice any difference at all (other than bigger hex numbers in GDB which take up more screen real estate

Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices

> /sbin/ifquery --list | grep ^en # or grep ^wl Of course, this fails when for some reason (either local configuration or lack or necessary info for "predictable" naming) the interface is called ... eth0! Stefan

Re: nXML "No completions available"

> I seek to edit a DocBook XML file in emacs23. Any chance you could try something more recent than Emacs-23? [ FWIW, on my emacs25 tests, the two lines you gave weren't sufficient: it decided to use docbook only based on the subsequent ... element. ] Stefan

Re: Choice of VMs under i386 Stretch?

>> I'm partial to VirtualBox. Is that on any of the Debian DVD'S? > No, because it isn't free software. > See for details. I believe what you wrote is slightly misleading: the base VirtualBox software seems to satisfy the definition of Free Software just

Re: Choice of VMs under i386 Stretch?

> I have an innate desire to help people, but more importantly I give > people the benefit of the doubt. Besides I self-taught myself a few > things along the way, so I consider it a win. Yes, please (and please remind me of that as well when I fail to follow it ;-) >> Now, which one of you is

Re: How to have password shown?

> For the use his old father might do with a computer I think that cheap > board could do. Cheap or not, new hardware implies more garbage to dispose of, (a lot) more carbon emissions to produce the new hardware, ... BTW, for all I know, the OP might already be running Raspbian on a PI ;-)

Re: Choice of VMs under i386 Stretch?

> Because the hardware features to permit efficient virtualization weren't > available on i386-only CPUs. (And there's really no good reason to run a VM > host [vs guest] in i386 mode if it can run in amd64 mode.) By "there's really no good ..." I think you mean "I can't think of any good ...".

Re: Buster Installation - Partition phase - Inode option to choose - SSD or Mechanical HD

> How do I search for answer to my inadequately phrased question below. > 1. I assume that sector size is a _TERM_ reserved for something fixed >when the disk is manufactured. > 2. What is the proper search term to use for something whose dimensions >would be "megabytes/inode"? {I'll use

Re: Buster Installation - Partition phase - Inode option to choose - SSD or Mechanical HD

> you described. The man page doesn't tell us what the default value is, > but the Arch wiki says it's one inode per 16384 bytes. > > Since the default inode size is 256 bytes, that tells us the inodes > take about 1.5% of the

Nautilus doesn't let me open files with the default application

When I select a file and: - double-click - hit RET - hit C-o - select "Open with " in the menu Nautilus only refreshes the current window, placing the selected file at the top and nothing else (where I expect that it should launch the application, passing to it the selected file name). The only

Re: Nautilus doesn't let me open files with the default application

> Regression? Does this look familiar? > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=874003 It does: I removed /home//.config/xfce4/helpers.rc and the problem seems to have disappeared! Thanks, Stefan

Re: 24-hour vs. 12-hour time, ambiguity, and abbreviations (was Re: Default date output format changed after an upgrade to buster)

>> >> It seems intuitively obvious to me that between 11:59 Ante-Meridiem and >> >> 12:01 Post-Meridiem must lie 12:00 Meridiem. (Though 12:00:01 - one >> >> second later - would be Post-Meridiem again.) In my interpretation of this part of the world, it's never exactly noon nor exactly midnight:

Re: Default date output format changed after an upgrade to buster

> And the only solution to Zeno's Paradox that I've been able to identify > relies on the notion that space and time are not infinitely > subdivisible. Really? I thought the solution is that while the distance is divided at each step, the time between each step is also divided, so you end up

Re: When/how/why to use "sudo", "su" or "su -" -- was [Re: rocks n diamonds]

> Do you have any problem with my statement: >> Today Linux is being used by an individual who is the _only_ >> user of a standalone system (e.g. laptop). Permission issues >> are much more intuitive in the Unix world than for a single >> user/owner of a laptop. I do: "Linux" is many different

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

> As a computer user who happens to be blind, one of the > most frustrating issues is the fact that except for expensive > servers, none of these boxes output any machine readable text > when booting up or in setup mode such as when the coin cell that > powers the CMOS BIOS gives up the

Re: Debian Buster: Is it safe to use on autodefrag on a Btrfs filesystem that is used for (Restic) backup only with no Btrfs snapshots or subvolumes?

> Btrfs is not my thing, but I looked at the reference that was posted, > and the Gotchas referred to within, and they mention log files having > tens of thousands of extents. Doesn't sound very good. Maybe it doesn't sound very good, but except for very specific circumstances, it makes no

Re: Debian Buster: Is it safe to use on autodefrag on a Btrfs filesystem that is used for (Restic) backup only with no Btrfs snapshots or subvolumes?

> Is it safe to use autodefrag for my use case? It sounds like it might be "safe" (the text doesn't actually say it's unsafe, but just that it has downsides). I do wonder why you'd want to do that, tho. Fragmentation is typically something that clueless Windows users worry about (a left over

Re: A followup on github discussion

> It now seems to be established that putting Open Source software up on > a public server is protected speech. Exporting copies of closed source > proprietary software, however, is not. This means that Microsoft has to > avoid knowingly exporting restricted material to certain countries. My

Re: Wpa_Supplicant Fails Authentication

> Solved the wpa_supplicant "No Such Device" problem on my system. > Change "allow-hotplug" to "auto" of wireless device stanza > in /etc/network/interfaces. But now wpa_supplicant fails to > authenticate. However, wireless dongle (Rosewill RNX-N180UBEv3) will > connect with security turned off

Re: Wpa_Supplicant Fails Authentication

> In my initial trials and tribulations with this thing, the driver was > the first thing I checked. No, got the correct one. The issue is not whether you got the correct one or not. The issue is whether the one you're using is good enough. > Just had to install the non-free Realtek firmware

Re: Hibernation takes too long

> Afaik it's advised to copy files to SSDs and not copy blockwise (dd) because > layouts can differ very much and performance would suffer. As long as the filesystem is properly aligned on a 4KB boundary, I don't think there'll be any noticeable difference. I highly doubt this explains the 2

Re: Hibernation takes too long

> What is the proportional size between RAM and swap? There's no such thing. They're both sized depending on your particular needs. Stefan

Re: Where'd lsb-compat go?

> 3) It spurs me to ask: So, if not via LSB, what is the canonical way to > programatically determine the version of an installed Debian setup? Why would a program want to know? That won't give it very much information, since the system may very well have a mix of packages from different Debian

Re: Wpa_Supplicant Fails Authentication

>> > Just had to install the non-free Realtek firmware package which I did BTW, the "rtlwifi" family of drivers in Linux kernel (which includes things like rtl8192cu and various others, and which used to live in the "staging" part because it was not a well-enough behaved citizen) has been

Re: Hibernation takes too long

> I attached a screen shot of read write speed. > The 2 min hibernation time is when there is little or no contents > present. If I have many things opened, it would take more. Also, if the problem is in the time it takes to write the hibernation data, then those 2 minutes should mostly be spent

Re: Hard disks auto-spinning-down

>     logger "Setting spindown on disk drive: $DISK_DEV" >     sdparm --flexible -6 --set SCT=4000 $DISK_DEV >     sdparm --flexible -6 --set STANDBY=1 $DISK_DEV I found sdparm inscrutable so far so I'm really curious how you came up with the above incantation (`sdparm -al /dev/sdb`

Re: Attributing

> Attribute quotes accurately. Oh, right, another reason why I prefer not to put attributions is to make sure they're not inaccurate. > You've been told this before, BTW, at least once (it's in the archives) as > you appear to be expressing an element of "surprise" or something. Yes, I've

Attributing (was: Choice of VMs under i386 Stretch?)

>> (General observation: it's really quite annoying that you remove all >> attribution when you quote previous emails in your replies.) > It really is very annoying, primarily because it's intentional, and so > intentionally annoying, which is really, really annoying. Interesting. I never read

Re: KISS gpg

>> So I think you're stuck with copying by hand the actual file that >> holds the private key (somewhere in ~/.gnupg) if you want to "export" >> it. Once you've done that, you can put it in "another-dir" with >> a similar structure and then use >> >> gpg --homedir ../another-dir

Re: KISS gpg

>> so even changing $HOME won't help and I don't see any envvar which >> influences it.  I suggest you contact the GPG development folks (maybe >> open an issue for it). > > Not sure - cause if you close gpg and agent etc. and set the GNUPGHOME and > start again all the work will be done in the

Re: Backup Times on a Linux desktop

> Suppose that you backup 2000 files in a day and inside this backup a chunk > is deduped and referenced by 300 files. If the deduped chunk is broken > I think you will lost it on 300 referenced files/chunks. This is not good > for me. I don't know what other backup software does, but at least

Re: Backup Times on a Linux desktop

> On linux with all that decision freedom it can be good and bad cause you have > to think about things :D All the answers I've seen mention the use of "cron" but I'm not sure what they mean by that, nor am I sure what is your typical use of the desktop (e.g. is it always ON?), so I think it's

Re: Metavariable [was: Help with --regex in locate]

> I think the canonical name is "metasyntactic variable" [1]. I've > seen also just "metavariable", although Wikipedia would say that > the latter belongs in the realm of logic [2], not programming. AFAICT those two usages are one and the same: when you see "foo" it's because the code is actually

Re: dropbox security situation

> I use full disk encryption (cryptsetup / LUKS), so the password file > is secure at rest, and when I'm actually using the system, if > gpg-agent is used, then anyone with access to the machine can access > the password file anyway. That assumes a single-user situation. But in case someone

Re: Hex editor with ASCII line underneath the line of hex.

> Which hex editor shows a line of hex with the corresponding ASCII under the > line of hex ? I suspect that it shouldn't be too hard to get something working if you start from nhexl-mode in Emacs: E.g. from abcdefghabcdefgh you can go to

Re: Hex editor with ASCII line underneath the line of hex.

> (similar to the output of `od -t xz`). BTW, I see that `od -t x1c` is using a format like the one you're asking for (it's not an *editor*, tho). Stefan

Re: Hex editor with ASCII line underneath the line of hex.

>> Which hex editor shows a line of hex with the corresponding ASCII under the >> line of hex ? > I suspect that it shouldn't be too hard to get something working if you > start from nhexl-mode in Emacs: And indeed, I just added a `nhexl-separate-line` user config to nhexl-mode to do that. Just

Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types

> I use a much better supported system called Debian. It did > require me to spend a bit more on the firewall hardware, but on > the other hand it is tremendously speedy and configurable. I like this option as well, but I find it hard to come across suitable hardware. I need: - ≥2 ethernet

Re: usb snooper

> I have what I believe to be noise or crosstalk causing interference > between a wireless keyboard mouse and the machine they are controlling, > which is an rpi4. The app itself doesn't expose any usb traffic to the > user. The effect is as if the finger was lifted from the key for a >

Re: usb snooper

> How else can one put a keyboard and mouse on an r-pi except via a usb port? I thought you were using bluetooth? Stefan

Re: KISS gpg

>> AFAICT the sockets are not created in GNUPGHOME, so your "gpg with other >> GNUPGHOME" will still talk to the same agent and confusion will ensue. > yes seems the only way is true a different user, as it seems to be per > design one user - one agent, which also makes sense as the agent is the >

Re: KISS gpg

> The current default version of GnuPG, since 2015, necessarily uses a > client-server agent to access the private keys. While it is convenient > and secure for everyday use, but for some tasks, the efforts it makes to > protect my files from myself prevent me from doing the tasks I want. Not

Re: USB WIFI Adapters?

> I have no experience with AC, but for N and below the Asus USB-56 has > "just worked" flawlessly with several generations (7, 8, 9) of Debian; > also the Asus RT-N66U. Of course, you have to remember that those product names can be "reused" for completely different internal hardware, so while a

Re: I support the founder of FreeSoftware

> Donald Trump will go down in history as the greatest President in the > last 100 years, maybe more. I guess I could live with that, but only if he goes down quickly. Stefan

Re: Understanding the two-year release cycle as a desktop user (and a Debian newcomer)

> I would happily consider using Debian Testing for example, but wherever I see > someone asking about it I always find someone discouraging from using it due > to the possibility of having broken or unsecure packages for a long time due > to it being automated. Other tools you can use: LVM

Re: Understanding the two-year release cycle as a desktop user (and a Debian newcomer)

> Right. You can also use a CD based Linux such as finnix to shrink an > existing LVM logical volume (LV), create a new LV for swap, and run > mkswap to lay down a swap partition on it. BTW, you don't need a separate CD or anything like that: you can use your initrd for that same purpose. I.e.

Re: set gnome locales to C.UTF-8

> In GNOME, terminals are not children of the window manager, or even of > the session manager. When you ask for a terminal, GNOME sends a letter > to dbus, asking dbus to please make a terminal. Your gnome-terminal > is a child of dbus, and inherits its environment from dbus. Is that how

Re: System unusably slow after Debian upgrade.

> It would also be good to look after the basics, like running "uptime" > to check the load average, "top" to see if there are processes running > amok, "df" to see if a file system is unexpectedly full, and so on. Yes, I'd recommend running `atop` on both machines during your test to try and see

Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation?

> You want to debate the validity of running av on any system these days is > ridiculous Then it should be trivial to prove me wrong by pointing to the large body of evidence to support your claim. Stefan

Re: XFCE doesn't start

>> I've bent my system bad. When I boot, it comes up in the CLI -- not in >> slim, to XFCE. It does the regular login and the .bashrc tricks, and >> startx starts XFCE just fine. [...] > But, if you want to diagnose your display manager, first figure out > which one you were trying to use. He

Re: Clarification Re: Displaying an arbitrary file in _both_ HEX and ASCII

> I posted in two fora (here and a LUG mailing list). > *NOBODY* picked up on two key features I presumed obvious ;/ That's likely because noone cares about what you want. Bloody bastards! While I'm here, let me give another suggestion (besides the use of Emacs, which I gather you think is not a

Re: Planning a Debian NAS

> I want to set up a file server on my home LAN with just consumer-grade > hardware, and run Debian stable on it.  For hardware, I am probably > going to get a refurbished mid-range tower with a four to six 3.5" SATA > drive capacity, and put WD Reds in it. Unless you already own that hardware

Re: graphics woes :-(

> anything at all, then, after a very long time, I see the stream of Linux text > messages that indicates booting, but I never see a graphical login screen. > (The delay before the messages appear is far longer than a normal boot cycle > -- indeed, I had given up waiting for something to happen

Why I don't like UUIDs (Re: can't mount sdf1 in stretch, gparted claims its fat32)

>> Me too, so I usually label the permanent stuff at least. UUID's can and >> will change for no detectable reason. > For those reading along or finding this in search results: no, filesystem > UUIDs don't change for no detectable reason. Don't implement anything based > on this theory. What he

Re: Why I don't like UUIDs (Re: can't mount sdf1 in stretch, gparted claims its fat32)

> Usually a UUID collision is a result of a subtle mistake, like cloning > a disk and then trying to mount a file system by UUID while the clone > is still attached. At least, that's the first scenario I can think of. I wouldn't call it a "subtle mistake". Instead it's what *always* happens

Re: Why I don't like UUIDs (Re: can't mount sdf1 in stretch, gparted claims its fat32)

>> Every time you have to reboot, it means your OS has somewhat failed you. > i don't think that at all. remember that each person can > have different preferences, requirements and expectations. That's why I wrote "have to". Of course, if you choose to reboot it, it's not you OS's fault. >

Re: guys

> I probably shouldn't post this. > I see all these questions people trying to get their installations to work. > It is supposed to be files with documentation what they do. > Is there a reason things seem to get more complicated ? What's with all these "I"s? Stefan

Re: Ethernet trouble

> And counting interfaces has worked for me for a couple decades, on many > systems and several OSs. FWIW, this whole mess exists for the simple reason that there isn't any kind of "aliasing" available for network interfaces. When stable names were added to block devices, it didn't break

Re: Ethernet trouble

> For the rest of us, who didn't drink the OO kool-aid, overloading is > just a nightmare. Even outside of OO, most languages overload `+` to mean "integer addition" when applied to integers and "double-precision float addition" when applied to double-precision floats. IOW while I agree that

Re: [epilogue] cpu frequence

> in fact when I restarted my laptop the problem returned. > By reading the link https://wiki.debian.org/CpuFrequencyScaling more > carefully Note that this page is pretty old/outdated. AFAIK nowadays the better option is to just throw away most of those tools and configs and just use the

Re: local network capability scanner?

> I'm not aware that there's a faster way of sending the files once > you've unpacked the archive locally. After all, you've thrown away the > benefits of compression and aggregation. rsync? Stefan

Re: local network capability scanner?

> also claims to be a gigahertz capable switch. IIRC gigabit ethernet doesn't run at gigahertz frequencies. > But file moves to/from the machines in the garage seems to indicate > theres a slow connection of around 10Mb/s someplace in that path. Is that really 10Mb/s (aka ~1MB/s)?

Re: local network capability scanner?

>> > I'm not aware that there's a faster way of sending the files once >> > you've unpacked the archive locally. After all, you've thrown away the >> > benefits of compression and aggregation. >> rsync? > Sure, if you're updating a tree. But AIUI the OP is transferring > a kernel source archive

Re: Displaying an arbitrary file in _both_ HEX and ASCII

Emacs comes with `hexl-mode` which provides some of that. The `nhexl-mode` (which you can subsequently install via `M-x package-list RET`) is an alternative which provides a few extra features. > I need to: > 1. Simultaneously display in _both_ HEX and ASCII format I'd expect they all do, tho

Re: Why I don't like UUIDs (Re: can't mount sdf1 in stretch, gparted claims its fat32)

>> PS: The only problem with LVM names is that Linux doesn't let you >> rename a volume group while it's active (at least last time I tried), >> which makes it painful to rename the volume group in which lives your >> root partition. > How painful is it to dd a live cd, boot from it and rename?

Re: Why I don't like UUIDs (Re: can't mount sdf1 in stretch, gparted claims its fat32)

>>What he meant is that filesystem UUIDs are (re)created automatically >>based on a heuristic of what it means for a filesystem to be "the same". > You understand that he didn't actually say that, right? This seems like your > own personal bugaboo instead. Definitely. > I dislike using names

Re: can't mount sdf1 in stretch, gparted claims its fat32

>> I bet some of his RT patches caused a mess > Nope, I just needed to reboot. "Needed to reboot" in this context means "need to work around a bug". I have no idea whether that bug has anything to with the RT patches, but the fact that rebooting avoided the problem is at least no proof that the

Re: Looking for Debian unofficial install for mac with firmware...

> As that text says, the "mac" ISOs do/did not contain anything extra > but rather lack/lacked of UEFI boot entry points and of any UEFI boot > software. Some MAC firmwares are said to take offense from UEFI > bootable ISOs. Simply try whether yours is among them. If any > mentioning of

Re: LVM Boot fail

> Boot faults to an (initrd) prompt with a complaint that the /usr LV, > correctly identified by its UUID, does not exist. It does, but is not > activated. In fact, lvscan shows that only the root and swap LVs > are active, and the others are not. Why does the initrd want to check activation of

Re: *nix

> That members of the most generalist species on earth should extol the > merits of the most extreme form of specialisation is something of an > ironic puzzlement here in the balcony seats. If you want to stay on top, you have to impose on others different rules than those you impose on yourself.

Re: Do one thing. Do it right

> The OP might be better off buying old stuff from ebay. Indeed, tho craigslist seems ethically superior. I suspect that "we"'ve built enough gadgets over the last 20 years that there really shouldn't be any need for me to buy some new electronic device for the rest my lifetime ;-) > Surely any

Re: Modern automounters and umount

> So either "udisksctl" is lying or something else is happening > behind the scenes (e.g. an over-eager automounter remounting > the file system again). Or the /dev/sdb1 is still mounted elsewhere. Stefan

Re: Modern automounters and umount

>> > $ mount | fgrep /dev/sr0 >> > /dev/sr0 on /media/ddval/ISOIMAGE type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime, >> > nojoliet,check=s,map=n, blocksize=2048,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmode=500, >> > fmode=400,uhelper=udisks2) >> > $ sudo umount /dev/sr0 >> > umount: /dev/sr0: not mounted > Try instead: sudo

Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation?

> defense in depth / layered defense... would you recommend having a Linux > anti-malware? No. All those only try to recognize known threats. When a threat is known, the security hole it exploits is also known, and the fix for it already exists as well, so updating your distribution to the

Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation?

>> > defense in depth / layered defense... would you recommend having a Linux >> > anti-malware? >> No. All those only try to recognize known threats. When a threat is >> known, the security hole it exploits is also known, and the fix for it >> already exists as well, so updating your

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

> You could get a USB hub that could connect some peripherals -- > keyboard, mouse, printer, USB sticks... but nothing that will > handle video or power connections. > The generic laptop docks rely on high-bandwidth, high-power USB3 > ports, and laptop support for alternate video modes sent over

Re: non function firefox

> Firefox is not working with wallmarts search function. Just one more reason to stay far away from Walmart. Stefan

How do I blacklist a package?

APT keeps wanting to install `sse2-support` on my dear Thinkpad X30, but that machine's CPU does not support SSE2, so the package's installation always fails. How can I tell APT that it shouldn't *try* to install `sse2-support`? I tried to put a "hold" on the package with echo

Re: Use of installer's interactive shells on tty1-tty4

>> 1,3,4 are not available shells. >> IIRC: > That does not match my recent experience. My recent experience is that I'm unable to predict which VC will be used for what any more (it used to be that the GUI sessions were in F7 and up, but nowadays it's usually F2 and up, tho on some of my

Re: How do I blacklist a package?

>> APT keeps wanting to install `sse2-support` on my dear Thinkpad X30, but >> that machine's CPU does not support SSE2, so the package's installation >> always fails. >> >> How can I tell APT that it shouldn't *try* to install `sse2-support`? >> >> I tried to put a "hold" on the package with >>

Re: Question: SSD speed

Michael Stone [2020-10-08 11:44:17] wrote: > On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 11:35:19AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> In 2020 assume you'll need more than one and let the computer figure >>> out how to split it. >> >>I'm not sure what you're referring to here

Re: Question: SSD speed

> In 2020 assume you'll need more than one and let the computer figure > out how to split it. I'm not sure what you're referring to here. OT1H, from the context I get the impression you're talking about DVD-R, but OTOH in 2020 the assumption should rather be not to bother with DVDs any more.

Re: Question: SSD speed

> a container nears being full. If one has 1 MB of storage available > (allowing for file system overhead and block alignment), then 1 MB > of data will fit, but 1 MiB will not. In which way is the KB-vs-KiB discrepancy different from the "file system overhead and block

Re: General-Purpose Server for Debian Stable

> If it's quiet you want, try https://silentpc.com/. They are not cheap, > but their products are solid and reliable, and quiet. The two I have > are so quiet that I can hear the heads move on the 3.5" disk drives in > them. Sadly, they get noisier when you use SSDs instead: you can't hear the

Re: Error mounting LVM volume as root (SOLVED)

>     '/dev/vgname/lvname' instead of '/dev/mapper/vgname-lvname'. Indeed, I have found that `/dev//` doesn't work as argument to `root=` on the kernel command line, whereas `/dev/mapper/-` works fine. Maybe it merits a bug report. Maybe it'll be hard/inconvenient to make the kernel accept the

Re: How do I blacklist a package?

> In /etc/apt/preferences.d/, create no-sse2-support: > > # never install this package, ever > Package: sse2-support > Pin: release * > Pin-Priority: -1 Thanks, it seems to be working. It's a bit annoying that the resulting constraints aren't easily visible (e.g. APT just keep searching or tells

Re: /home as a symlink?

> Do either of these run a risk of files under /home being needed before > /disk2 is mounted (it is in fstab)? No, a normal boot will typically never look inside /home at all, and if it ever does it should/will likely be quite late, definitely after mounting /disk2. So using symlinks like you

Re: Zoom.

>>> Isn't it funny that we consider ourselves "liberal democracies", but >>> when crossing our $COMPANY's doorstep, we leave our convictions at the >>> wardrobe? >> In an ideal world one could just refuse to do so and quit the job. > There are many other things one can do, Among them I forgot to

Re: Zoom.

>> Isn't it funny that we consider ourselves "liberal democracies", but >> when crossing our $COMPANY's doorstep, we leave our convictions at the >> wardrobe? > In an ideal world one could just refuse to do so and quit the job. There are many other things one can do, starting with consistently

Re: Zoom.

> But this isn't an ideal world, is it? No, but the recent societal changes due to the pandemic have made an enormous difference: for many (most?) people now 100% of their communications outside of their immediate family (including the most intimate/private ones) goes through proprietary code

Re: Error mounting LVM volume as root

> I am attempting to mount an LVM Logical Volume as root, but I am getting an > error in the boot sequence when it attempts to mount the root filesystem.  > The error is saying that it can not find /dev/block/254:15, which is the LV > that I am trying to mount. Then it falls into a shell. > > When

Re: Error mounting LVM volume as root

> That did it.  I am assuming that the system was just in the process of > changing from the initrc to the actual running system? But how do I get the > boot sequence to activate the LVs automatically each time before attempting > to mount the / filesystem? AFAIK you don't need to do anything

Re: Question: SSD speed

>>> a container nears being full. If one has 1 MB of storage available >>> (allowing for file system overhead and block alignment), then 1 MB >>> of data will fit, but 1 MiB will not. >> In which way is the KB-vs-KiB discrepancy different from the "file >> system overhead and block

Re: one thing i don't like about Thunar file manager

> That feature appears useful in case of a directory with lots of files > where the first part of the filename is unknown (i.e. one can't guess > even the general area in the listing where the file might be). It's also useful when all the files (or at least many of them) start with the same

Re: How do I blacklist a package?

> I have no knowledge of this matter, but from what I understand from > sse2-support package page (1), by forbidding its installation you will get > rid of your error message without being rid of the error: that is précisely > its purpose to warn you, by failing to install, that a package that has

Re: Zoom.

> Does anyone have Zoom working in Debian 10? Don't know, but I use and recommend Jitsi as a Free Software alternative. Stefan

Re: OOM-killer not being involked under memory pressure

Hi, > Every few days, my desktop runs out of RAM, and this usually happens while > web browsing. What exactly makes you think the problem is that it ran out of RAM? > I wait for as much as an hour and a half, but just see the > screen as frozen the way it was at the time of the hang. 8 GB RAM

Re: OOM-killer not being involked under memory pressure

> I neglected to mention that I run XFCE with its System Load Monitor panel > plugin having a RAM indicator bar that climbs and maxes out right before the > hang. RAM is something I often need to monitor because I run scientific > computing programs which can also exhaust my RAM if I'm not

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