Hello:

Reading your post I vaguely recalled a similar issue (many) years ago when I was attempting to go from a single screen layout to a two (and then three) screen layout.

I was trying to get a manually configured xorg.conf file to work but had started the screen numbering at 1 instead of at 0.   

Once I got it to work I never had to look at it again: I have used the same *.conf file with the same hardware through at least four different distributions and now with Devuan since Jesse.

See Device Section here: https://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/ … #heading10

In short: screen numbers start at 0.

Best,

A.

Hello:

Indeed ...

But it happens and there can be quite a few reasons.
From crappy memory chips in cheap USB sticks to counterfit Kingston USB drives to faulty/dirty USB sockets.

I would first try the (apparently) offending drive on a different host. ie: another PC, laptop, RPi, whatever you have available.

Boot to a terminal and do a command line nuke of the thing, a thorough clean-up via dd.
Once that is done, attempt the same operation you had problems with and check the result.

If the problem subsists, the drive is bad.
If the operation was successful, repeat the whole process to rule out a fluke.

The first thing is to rule out a hardware fault.
In my experience, the usual suspects are the USB stick and then, if using a portable, the USB socket.

A few years ago I chased USB stick issues for over two days till I discovered an intermittently failing USB socket in my Asus 1000HE.

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A.

Hello:

+1

I was about to post the same thing/idea.

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A.

Hello:

Welcome.

As expected.  8^D

Indeed ...

I'd say that the organisers would have to first have a go at defining conference in terms of how many atendees/speakers actually configure one and would be feasible to get running as such, given the number obtained.

It could well be that you get 200/300 Dev1-ers able | willing | in-condition to attend, mingle and listen/exchange views with two to five speakers.

That is a level of activity that can probably be covered in a morning and an afternoon with maybe another morning for extras.

Just an idea.

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A.

* BTW: I'd love to attend but for me, Stockholm is ~12.537 km away, can't possibly afford it.

Hello:

Well ...
You know me, always so distracted.  8^D

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A.

Hello:

I do away with all that, particularly the xfce4-power-manager and any screensaver.

That said, have a read here.

As you can see from the quote above, combinations won't work well.

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A.

Hello:

Right ...

Do you have such an thing in your posession?
I don't know of any, but ...
... if you do, please tell us about it.

ie:
Plug it in, open a terminal, type lsusb and hit enter.
You should get a printout of all the USB devices plugged into your system.

~$ lsusb
Bus 008 Device 002: ID 0458:6007 KYE Systems Corp. (Mouse Systems) 
--- snip ---
Bus 007 Device 002: ID 05e3:0626 Genesys Logic, Inc. 
~$ 

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A.

Hello:

Probably because ...

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A.

Hello:

Indeed.
Very much so.

It made me rip it out and install Palemoon but it also started giving me all sort of grief.
eg: issues with log-in to accounts and very high CPU usage.

Thanks for that.

The main issue I have with Firefox is the way it started opening the drop down menus from the menu bar.
ie: right below the addresss bar.

My menu bar is very populated with both direct links (starting from the left end) and folders (all after the direct links).
A couple of the folders also having sub-folders and contain a lot of links.

I have a three monitor setup, my main working monitor being the centre one.

At one point (cannot recall when), Firefox started to behave differently.
ie: Up to then, Firefox knew it was in the centre screen and behaved accordingly, respecting the limits of the screen.

When things changed, on opening up a folder from the menu bar and then a sub-folder, the drop-down did not respect the limits of the screen the Firefox window was on, specifically the right limit.

The new behaviour was to open up towards the right edge of the screen, making all the content of the sub-folder invade the centre right screen.

It makes it very annoying and hard to read.
It also happens if I open Firefox in the centre left screen.

The only way it does not happen is if I open Firefox in the centre right screen.

Curiously enough, Palemoon does not suffer from this problem.

As a work-around, I could move the folders to the extreme left of the menu bar.
But I am not used to working like that.

Have you found something to solve this new and annoying behaviour?
I've searched all over to no avail.

Thanks in advance.

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A.

Hello:

After posting I realised that support for v6.1 ends December 2023.

Upgraded to 7.0.6:

~$ apt list | grep virtualbox | grep installed
--- snip ---
virtualbox-7.0/unknown,now 7.0.6-155176~Debian~buster amd64 [installed]
~$ 

If needed, the corresponding VBoxGuestAdditions and Extension Pack must also be installed for everything to work properly.

As before, no issues.

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A.

Hello:

Yes, it does.

I run Virtualxox-6.1 from the official source in my Devuan Beowulf with a backported kernel:

~$ uname -a
Linux devuan 5.10.0-0.deb10.16-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.127-2~bpo10+1 (2022-07-28) x86_64 GNU/Linux
~$ 

~$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
--- snip ---
# virtual box repository x installation
deb https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/ buster contrib non-free 
--- snip ---
~$ 

~$ apt list | grep virtualbox | grep installed
--- snip ---
virtualbox-6.1/unknown,now 6.1.42-155177~Debian~buster amd64 [installed]
~$ 

On boot I start a headless Chimaera VM to run PiHole+Unbound.
And every once in a long while, boot an XPSP3 VM to run some odd MS application or test a Linux image.

Have had no issues.

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A.