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#76 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Severe damage to ext4 filesystem - advice needed » 2022-02-12 17:39:11
It's probably better to use dmesg:
{sudo} dmesg | tailwill give you the last 10 lines, usually enough to find which drive letter the kernel has assigned to the USB stick you've just inserted.
#77 Re: Installation » Changing UUID of /root? » 2022-02-02 15:59:07
(The root user has the ID of 0.)
Errmmm, oops 
#78 Re: Installation » Changing UUID of /root? » 2022-02-02 05:57:38
Don't. Root requires a UUID of 1.
#79 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] youtube-dl upgrade problem » 2022-01-20 16:07:15
This is the latest version for yt-dl:
# youtube-dl -U
youtube-dl is up-to-date (2021.12.17)Meaning that the dev has now resumed work on this project.
I'm using a different method of keeping yt-dl current. After installing via apt, somebody advised me to "overwrite" (re-link) the executable with a later version and then use the -U functionality (as root!) to keep said executable at the latest version. I can't recall ATM where I got it from, maybe on these forums?
Not pretty, but it works 
#80 Re: Installation » xorg start only as super user! why? » 2022-01-06 23:36:37
For startx to work, you need the xinit package. And if it's not pulled in as dependency, the xdm package as well.
#81 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » OpenSSH questions » 2021-12-02 20:05:37
OpenSSH is a project from the OpenBSD folks, perhaps that's an avenue to try?
#82 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] [Beowulf] eudev upgrade failed » 2021-11-27 22:46:13
Thx all, but I managed to solve it, at least by the looks of it.
I knew from my Funtoo days portage had the option for emerge to completely re-install all installed software with a clean tree and I found a command effectively doing the same for aptitude:
aptitude reinstall '~i'That still gave me an error, so I moved the entire directory /var/lib/dpkg/info to a temporary location and recreated the /var/lib/dpkg/info directory itself. I reran the reinstall command for aptitude and all packages were nicely re-downloaded after cleaning out the package cache. So, everything is now reinstalled and after a reboot for a new kernel, all is well again 
#83 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] [Beowulf] eudev upgrade failed » 2021-11-27 17:50:38
OK, thx for helping anyway. I may put in a new(er) SSD for the OS while I'm at it, perhaps recover some settings from the old disk.
#84 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] [Beowulf] eudev upgrade failed » 2021-11-27 16:06:36
Well, that didn't work as advertised:
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
files list file for package 'libnet-ssleay-perl' contains empty filename
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)Furthermore, the file /var/lib/dpkg/info/libexpat1:amd64.list doesn't actually exist:
# ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/info/ | grep libexpat
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 434 Sep 19 2019 libexpat1:amd64.md5sums.bak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 110 Sep 19 2019 libexpat1:amd64.shlibs.bak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5823 Sep 19 2019 libexpat1:amd64.symbols.bak
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 67 Sep 19 2019 libexpat1:amd64.triggers.bak(the .bak extensions are mine, I moved them as suggested, so it's fairly easy to restore)
The machine is my file/backup server, not my daily-driver desktop. That one is quite alright and updated just fine as I'd mentioned before.
The system drive for the server is /dev/sdc, the other 4 are HDD's for the RAID6. here's smartctl:
smartctl -a /dev/sdc
smartctl 6.6 2017-11-05 r4594 [x86_64-linux-4.19.0-18-amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-17, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: JMicron based SSDs
Device Model: KINGSTON SV100S2128G
Serial Number: 08BA90006616
Firmware Version: D100811a
User Capacity: 128,035,676,160 bytes [128 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Rotation Rate: Solid State Device
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS (minor revision not indicated)
SATA Version is: SATA 2.6, 3.0 Gb/s
Local Time is: Sat Nov 27 16:54:30 2021 CET
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
<SNIPPED>
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0
2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 100 100 050 Pre-fail Offline - 0
3 Unknown_JMF_Attribute 0x0007 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0013 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Unknown_JMF_Attribute 0x000b 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0
8 Unknown_JMF_Attribute 0x0005 100 100 050 Pre-fail Offline - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 36710
10 Unknown_JMF_Attribute 0x0013 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 2380
168 SATA_Phy_Error_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 3
175 Bad_Cluster_Table_Count 0x0003 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 30
192 Unexpect_Power_Loss_Ct 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 025 100 020 Old_age Always - 25 (Min/Max 25/40)
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
240 Unknown_JMF_Attribute 0x0013 100 100 050 Pre-fail Always - 0
170 Bad_Block_Count 0x0003 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 0 309 0
173 Erase_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 5 13136 9594
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 19688 -
# 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 19622 -
Selective Self-tests/Logging not supportedA bit long, sorry. The file system (JFS) is fine, it's checked on every boot, last reboot was just 7 days ago. The drive is relatively old, re-used and replaced an even older drive (which had 60+k hours on it) and I may replace it with a newer one, although I'm hoping to upgrade the hardware and get an NVMe drive for it instead. (this older system can't boot from NVMe, so that's why it uses a SATA drive)
#85 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] [Beowulf] eudev upgrade failed » 2021-11-27 15:12:57
Update: it failed, I still get the error:
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
files list file for package 'console-setup' is missing final newlineReinstalling console-setup didn't help either. Purging libexpat1 will remove 122 packages depending on it, via the dependency chain on dbus, so that's not really an option.
That said, it's now affecting the upgrading of other packages as apt, as well as aptitude, will clonk out with the above error and not upgrade other packages at all.
For completeness:
apt policy libexpat1 console-setup
libexpat1:
Installed: 2.2.6-2+deb10u1
Candidate: 2.2.6-2+deb10u1
Version table:
*** 2.2.6-2+deb10u1 500
500 http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged beowulf/main amd64 Packages
500 http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged beowulf-security/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
console-setup:
Installed: 1.193~deb10u1
Candidate: 1.193~deb10u1
Version table:
*** 1.193~deb10u1 500
500 http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged beowulf/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status#86 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] [Beowulf] eudev upgrade failed » 2021-11-23 15:56:07
Thx, I'll give it a try later.
#87 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] [Beowulf] eudev upgrade failed » 2021-11-20 17:45:15
Hmmm, oddly enough, upgrading the exact same packages on my desktop went flawlessly. Difference: I used apt on the server and aptitude on the desktop.
#88 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] [Beowulf] eudev upgrade failed » 2021-11-20 17:01:48
I still get the same error. Key is this line:
files list file for package 'console-setup' is missing final newlineThx for replying!
#89 Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] [Beowulf] eudev upgrade failed » 2021-11-20 07:50:52
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Updating my server, I got this error message:
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following packages will be upgraded:
eudev libeudev1
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1170 kB of archives.
After this operation, 3072 B disk space will be freed.
Get:1 http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged beowulf/main amd64 eudev amd64 3.2.9-10~beowulf1 [1072 kB]
Get:2 http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged beowulf/main amd64 libeudev1 amd64 3.2.9-10~beowulf1 [97.8 kB]
apt-listchanges: Reading changelogs...
Fetched 1170 kB in 1s (1557 kB/s)
(Reading database ...
dpkg: warning: files list file for package 'libexpat1:amd64' missing; assuming package has no files currently installed
dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
files list file for package 'console-setup' is missing final newline
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)Yes, I'm using pkgmaster as other entries in sources.list failed me too many times. Things may have improved since, so I might give it a try again.
#90 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Anyone using Pi-Hole? » 2021-11-04 16:30:37
You still need proprietary boot files from an SD card to boot via the network.
You should be able to have the RPi boot from a server and make it have a session there (thin client model), so the RPi is only a "transport portal" (for want of a better explanation) between your in/output devices (mouse/keyboard/monitor) and the actual system you're running (on the server).
#91 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] sysvinit, runit, or OpenRC? » 2021-10-22 21:22:18
Open RC here. Got acquainted with it on Funtoo (Gentoo based). On Ascii it was just a sym-link to SysVinit, but Beowulf has proper implementation. (AFAIK!) Never tried runit.
#92 Re: Off-topic » It's a sad day . . . » 2021-10-08 21:25:46
What size is the glass then?
#93 Re: Installation » Can I add OpenRC after installing with SysV » 2021-10-02 16:57:14
Yes you can. However, OpenRC will actually replace SysV on Beowulf. In Ascii, OpenRC was indeed a layer on top of SysV, not so in Beowulf.
#94 Re: Installation » How to partition my disk ? » 2021-09-16 21:53:39
Strictly speaking, no. MBR still works, but GPT is required for drives over 4TB in size.
As for partitioning the entire drive, that's up to you: if you want to retain your Win-OS install you keep it as is (just shrink the size of the Win-OS partition), otherwise just use the partition scheme I gave you.
#95 Re: Installation » How to partition my disk ? » 2021-09-16 15:11:47
But that's just the local IMAP cache, no?
Yes, it is.
My understanding is, if I don't want to use my email providers gmx, 1and1 to host my emails, I need an IMAP server.
Previously, I ran that on a local server.
I want all emails, my 15 years' IMAP emails and all new ones from different email addresses in one place.
I see where you're coming from (and what you want) but if you only have a laptop and nothing else (which is the case, as I understand some of your other posts), having an IMAP server is not really necessary. Unless you want to continue to store your mail in your archive, because in that case the route your mail takes is still via the local IMAP server.
#96 Re: Installation » How to partition my disk ? » 2021-09-15 21:55:18
Thunderbird stores mail in the home directory of each user. Suppose your user name is Lizzy, it stores mail in
/home/Lizzy/.thunderbird/<random>.default/Mail<random> is just a random set of characters, which Thunderbird creates when you're opening the app for the first time.
So, it's on a separate partition, which also includes all of your other personal data. The setup I gave you allows to keep that data if you decide to choose a different Linux version. Of course, you still need to back it up securely!
#97 Re: Installation » How to partition my disk ? » 2021-09-15 21:32:02
My suggestion:
512MB for /boot
40GB for /
8GB for swap
the rest is for /home
Thunderbird is the email client you're after, especially as you also use Firefox. Mozilla used to have a suite that included their browser, email client, chat and webpage editor. Nowadays it's called Seamonkey (it's a separate project now), regrettably it's no longer in Devuan.
#98 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Blanking screen » 2021-09-14 22:28:55
ie: Does it write to the conf file?
No it doesn't. It bypasses xorg.conf completely.
Could you please post the link where you got the information?
Sure: https://unix.stackexchange.com/question … acking-out
I still need to figure out which system boot script would be the best to add this command to. Or perhaps add a new boot script specifically for it. May take a while I'm afraid 
HTH!
#99 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Blanking screen » 2021-09-14 19:32:49
Thx all! I had forgotten about DPMS and a quick search on the web gave me the command
xset dpms 0 0 0 && xset s noblank && xset s off #as root!After letting the machine idle for a few hours it appears this does the trick as the screen didn't blank. So, I'll add this to a boot-script somewhere.
#100 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Blanking screen » 2021-09-13 22:00:58
Found those on Mate already, and the power settings management thing, no dice 
Mind, I re-used my /home dir from Ascii, it's on a separate HDD.
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