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#451 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] mtp-tool will not start » 2024-03-27 21:49:26

That very last error line would be due to missing fuse module, i.e. it's not loaded. If it exists in your installation you may load it manually by:

# modprobe fuse

Further by adding it to your /etc/initramfs-tools/modules (and update-initrd -u -k all) it will be installed automatically during the bootup.

#453 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Audio device: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio (rev 21) » 2024-03-25 03:21:16

The device node /dev/dsp which belonged to the OSS (Open Sound System) was dropped from linux kernel more than 14 years ago. Since then sound has been ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture).

edit: I guess you could roll your own /dev/dsp with:

daemon -r socat pipe:/dev/dsp,umask=000 exec:aplay

wink

#455 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Daedalus netinstall partitioning » 2024-03-22 21:10:45

If it tells you that you have not assigned "/" to a partition then I suppose one way out is to assign "/" to a partition.

#456 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] CLI throughput test for Linux » 2024-03-22 13:02:00

With ssh access to remote servers you can obtain time statistics quite easily. E.g.

Download timing:

ssh $remote dd if=/dev/urandom bs=100M count=2 | time cat > /dev/null 

Upload timing:

dd if=/dev/urandom bs=100M count=2 | ssh $remote "time cat > /dev/null" 

That results in time measures for 200 Mib (aka megabytes) plain bulk data transfers.

#457 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Can't use my Directories » 2024-03-11 21:10:01

I met a tortoise on a Hawaii beach some many years ago, and she also had doubts about reusing partitions.

However she well understood the concept difference between "partition" and "file system" (on the partition). Therefore she was able to reuse the partitions where she had had a "/"  and "/usr" filesystem on before for a new installation. Then  she cleverly opted for the approach to hook up that "/home" filesystem as a post-install hands-on iby editing of "/etc/fstab" as well as removing the content of that newly installed "/home" subtree.

They are clever in Hawaii.

#458 Re: Off-topic » question regarding hyperbola os » 2024-03-11 20:50:33

Here are some options:

  1. e.g. ttps://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:manual:reference_installation is a h-chopped link

  2. e.g. https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id … stallation is that unchopped link in plain text

  3. e.g. https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id … stallation is that link with simple "url" tag wrapping:

    [url]https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:manual:reference_installation[/url]
  4. e.g. (the link) is that link with "url" wrapping that split acutal link from highlight text:

    [url=https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:manual:reference_installation](the link)[/url]
  5. e.g. https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:manual:reference_installation is that link likewise split and used as both link and as high-light text after an initial space:

     [url=https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:manual:reference_installation] https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:manual:reference_installation[/url]

    (without initial space in the highlight, the forum renderer reduces it to option 3)

I suppose the ordinary poster would use option 2 as it requires little to no thought around the resulting link presentation.

Option 5 is of course "The Correct Way" technically but it's rather fiddly to achieve and somewhat prone to discrepancy between the actual link and its highlight.. And option 5 actually also allows for, say, tracking parameters on the actual link without showing them.

On the other hand the general safety advice would be: Don't follow any link without first copy-paste it into a plain text editor so you can review it and be satisfied about its parts. In that spirit, the h-chopping is ideal.

#459 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] In firefox a google popup asking to remember my password, how to stop? » 2024-02-27 03:06:02

Why do you say "Google" ? That's not a program.
What are you logging *to*?
What program do you use?

#460 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] In firefox a google popup asking to remember my password, how to stop? » 2024-02-24 08:32:31

"including this one"? Do you say you get som google popup from this forum?
The forum software does not raise any such popup afaik.
Which kind of browser do you use?

#461 Re: Other Issues » Clear logs » 2024-02-16 21:24:38

Those timeout 1 cat sub commands serve no purpose apart from delaying execution (which is what timeout achives). Is that from some random web advice?

And why do you want to connect some sub commands? And in such obscure manner?
Your script effectively has three command lines:

rm /var/log/boot.0 && rm /var/log/dmesg && timeout 1 cat
> /var/log/kern.log && timeout 1 cat
> /var/log/syslog

Those are the portions up to the semi-colons, which sub-dvide them into those command lines whilst && joins sub commands such that the latter (the right-hand side sub command) is only executed if the former (the left-hand side sub command)  succeeds.

I'd suggest you rather want something like this:

#!/bin/sh
rm -f /var/log/boot.0 /var/log/dmesg
> /var/log/kern.log
> /var/log/syslog

I.e. remove the first two files ignoring that they might alread be removed, and then reset the other two to empty contents.

#462 Re: Other Issues » Modem throws CME ERROR 50 (incorrect parameters) on ATH1 » 2024-02-16 12:00:51

@TCH: there is a modemmanager-gui package which presumably interacts with the ModemManager program of the modemmanager package, and there's also the modem-manager-gui-help package with, again presumably, documentation.

#463 Re: Freedom Hacks » [SOLVED] Want to compile something, but need to revert some stuff, » 2024-02-11 05:54:21

git reset ab30493

That will reset the checked out tree to the files of that commit, and mark that as HEAD for this workspace. The future history of the project following that commit will remain.

#464 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Can't connect to repos » 2024-02-11 00:11:37

@aluma, "amprolla" is not involved at all in the delivery of packages. "amprolla" runs a program that reads the meta files from the debian and devuan-only repositories and "merges" them by creating the merged meta files which it then distributes to pkgmaster.devuan.org.

pkgmaster.devuan.org serves packages. It's repository (both the devuan-only and the merged parts) is also mirrored to several other servers, and the domain name "deb.devuan.org" is used to obtain all IP addresses for all those (inkluding pkgmaster.devuan.org).

Of course, DNS resolution is a separate subsystem that mostly doesn't involve devuan servers except for eventually and intemittently obtaining that resolution list for deb.devaun.org, which nameservers here and there digests into their cache for the in-between-times resolution service.

All in all, the most problems arise in the DNS resolution sub system; it almost never leads back to hickups with the cllient networking software. Usually due to the DNS subsystem being in transition with intermediate servers being updated. On occasion there are also transient inconcistencies in downloads due to the meta files have been updated on the actual server queried for those before the package pool of the actual server queried for those.

#465 Re: DIY » Announcement of the OpenMATE desktop environment » 2024-02-04 21:02:38

I remain amazed about FOSS people just ignoring that github is owned by Microsoft.

There are so many other places to use rather than supporting those guys.

#466 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » StartX doesn't work after a fresh install (segmentation fault 0x20) » 2024-02-02 21:37:14

@shimarin, thanks.

The initial step of that installer is a dialog with a menu of 8 options plus 'help'. You want me to guess that you used option '1 Install' (that's ok) and I can probably likewise guess from your outline for the handful of dialogs following; in particular that in the task selection dialog you unticked everything except the bottom one for standard utilities.

Eventually reboot into the installed system, which presents the login prompt on vt1.

So what's next? Login as root or user? And perhaps you can include the output of

grep ^Commandline /var/log/apt/history.log | grep -n ''

up to the point where you first ran into the Xorg issue.

#467 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Problematic Debian kernel » 2024-02-02 11:52:56

Yes. You should make sure daedalus-security is in  your sources, and upgrade.

#468 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » StartX doesn't work after a fresh install (segmentation fault 0x20) » 2024-02-02 10:33:15

1. Install media. This would be the filename of the iso file that you used to install devuan from. Perhaps even the URL you used. If you have done "installed devuan" some other way than using an installation media, then you would need to descritbe that too. Only so that I can do the same.

2. When installing with the installer ISO it takes you through a series of dialogs. I was asking that you tell me what to do so I can get the same installation done.

3. The boot command line is found in /var/log/syslog as a line with the text "Kernel command line:" in. It would tell me the specific kernel arguments used when the system starts. Presumably you would have "the default" from your manner of installation, so this point is merely a way for me to be ensured that my test system from points 1 and 2 runs in the same way as yours.

So don't worry about point 3, but please make sure you are thorough about points 1 and 2.

#469 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » StartX doesn't work after a fresh install (segmentation fault 0x20) » 2024-02-01 21:53:29

Could you tell what "fresh install of Devuan" means?
Which media did you use?
Which installer choices did you make?
What's your boot command line?

Would be good if I can replicate the issue; there have been similar Xorg crash reports before and possibly there's a common cause.

#470 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » StartX doesn't work after a fresh install (segmentation fault 0x20) » 2024-01-31 21:52:06

Did you install xserver-xorg-video-* package(s)?

Who is running startx; root or non-root?

#471 Re: Installation » Runlevel 3 or "manual mode" fails to start X11 » 2024-01-27 22:54:41

The short story is "yes, install seatd; log out and log in". That will make you run Xorg while avoiding the buggy code path of logind.

The long story is longer but who cares?

#472 Re: Installation » x won't start - Segmentation Fault after fresh install » 2024-01-21 20:36:56

How did you install? Which desktop environment did you choose? How have you got so many packages from "unknown" (especially both the nouveau and nvidia modules)?

#473 Re: Packaging for Devuan » expr from coreutils throws an error » 2024-01-21 20:26:45

You might try to reinstall libc6; version 2.31 is from chimaera:

apt-get install --reinstall libc6

But be sure to have a rescue boot at hand, just in case, because it's a rather fundamental system transition. Otoh it should have happened on the upgrade... did you "dist-upgrade" at all?

#474 Re: Packaging for Devuan » expr from coreutils throws an error » 2024-01-20 22:50:09

Ok. Remove the link /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 and run (as root)

# ldconfig

which usually does good things to the libraries. You might also need to set a new link (as root)

# ln -sTf /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6

to sort out that dangling one.

I would think this all has to do with system differences between bullseye and daedalus (bookworm), and yet it's peculiar that only expr brings a problem.

#475 Re: Packaging for Devuan » expr from coreutils throws an error » 2024-01-20 21:56:42

Ok. Some of those "libraries" are actually "ld scripts" rather than actual libraries; though I don't have a clear idea how it works... try:

$ find /usr/lib* /lib* -name libc.so\* | xargs ls -l

to get an overview of the "mess" smile

It's still peculiar that only expr is affected.

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