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#126 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Strange filemanager behaviour » 2023-10-06 16:07:33

Altoid wrote:

But the locate result came up repeatedly, seems that it could find the hidden files.

From man locate
locate reads one or more databases prepared by updatedb(8) and writes file names matching at least one of the PATTERNs to standard output, one per line.

So if updatedb ran when the filesystem was not mounted it would find the "hidden" files and put them into the database. So running locate repeatedly would always show them, until the next updatedb run.

#127 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Strange filemanager behaviour » 2023-10-05 16:30:17

I think what fstab says may be a red herring. What seems to have happened is that the mount point is a directory in your root filesystem, and some files and directories have been moved into there when the /media/storage filesystem is not mounted.

To recover I suggest:
df -k /media/storage
If the filesystem is mounted there unmount it, and re-check with df -k /media/storage to make sure it's not mounted now.
As root:
cd /media
ls -al
Make sure there is not a storage2 dir already!
mv storage storage2
mkdir storage
Then storage2 will contain all the recovered data and the process of mounting the filesystem when needed should still work.

I've had to get at data buried under a mount point *without* unmounting the filesystem. But I would not recommend doing that unless you fully understand the process (NFS doesn't cross mountpoints, so mounting the root filesystem via NFS lets you get there. But it's a tricky process.)

#128 Re: Other Issues » OpenRC init script works fine on Gentoo and Artix – but not on Devuan » 2023-10-04 16:21:40

Read the man page for env.

#!/usr/bin/env python3

Will only work if python3 is in it's $PATH. Try which python3 to make sure it's installed on your system.

#129 Re: Off-topic » Hi all! Back again after many adventures! » 2023-10-03 15:53:03

fsmithred wrote:

I'm not sure what's in non-free now that they moved the firmware.

Nvidia's proprietary drivers etc (which you need to run CUDA apps) should be in there.

#130 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » The computer suddenly went out of action » 2023-10-01 16:25:08

First try running memtest86 for a few hours. Run it single threaded first. If it doesn't hang or report any faults try it again multi threaded. If memtest86 crashes as well then the OS must be innocent.

Next boot Linux and run watch sensors in a terminal window. That will show how hot the CPU etc are. If it gets over 100C then check all fans are OK, there's no fluff on the CPU, etc.

#131 Re: Packaging for Devuan » Basic Packaging workflow for new package.(new maintainer) » 2023-09-30 16:07:43

Could someone run adequate --all on Cerebus or Daedalus? I got a load of warnings on my system but it's ASCII and installing Nvidia CUDA support may have caused some of them (as well as other things I've had to mess with when recovering from a disk failure).

#132 Re: Packaging for Devuan » Basic Packaging workflow for new package.(new maintainer) » 2023-09-28 16:09:40

I've just found (from an article in Linux Magazine) that there's a program called adequate which sanity checks packages for violations of Debian package guidelines.

Install with apt-get install adequate and read it's man page for details (it won't usually need to be run as root). From a quick check it should find various packaging errors, although there can be false positives. And it only checks if a package is correctly packaged, not if it actually does what it is supposed to. But it looks worth adding to recommended workflow.

#133 Re: Devuan » They say systemd makes packaging easier, better of the two evils? » 2023-09-18 16:29:00

zapper wrote:

Btw, if systemd theoretically was the lesser of two evils, what the hell has this world become!

Presumably the only other choice would be Windows.

#134 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Deleting and renaming folders on an external hard drive. » 2023-09-18 16:16:58

Does the path to the directory have spaces in it? That could confuse things.

Try:
ls -A  /media/charon/seagate backup plus drive/dr web
If that gets similar errors try:
ls -A '/media/charon/seagate backup plus drive/dr web'
Putting quotes round the path should stop spaces in the name causing problems.

Assuming the directory really is empty (ls -A should return nothing if it is empty) try:
rmdir '/media/charon/seagate backup plus drive/dr web'

And similar for renaming directories.

#135 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Input/output error with EasyCap capture card on VLC and OBS » 2023-09-13 16:02:35

hunter0one wrote:
hunter@ryzen-rig:~$ ls -l /dev/video*
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81, 0 Sep 12 08:34 /dev/video0
crw-rw----+ 1 root video 81, 1 Sep 12 08:34 /dev/video1

Check your ID is in the video group. id should tell you. Post output from it if not sure.

#136 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » installing a theme from the official devuan package repository » 2023-09-07 16:23:43

When you see an example command starting with a $ don't enter the $, just the rest of the command. It's usually the terminal prompt.

In the unlikely event you did need to enter the $ the poster would tell you explicitly.

#137 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] after upgrade from chimaera to daedalus fail2ban package is broken » 2023-09-02 16:24:21

My first thought would be to patch the fail2ban initscript to always return success. Eg put exit 0 near the start of it.

#138 Re: Devuan » Devuan is much faster on older hardware than debian(celeron n3050) » 2023-08-31 16:41:56

How much memory does the system have? It might well be that systemd uses a LOT more memory, so the system starts page thrashing.

Either way it's nice to have another objective argument against systemd.

#139 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] manually mount disks always have different mount points? » 2023-08-29 16:03:45

golinux wrote:

It used to be easy with gksu thunar but gksu was removed/deprecated years ago. Search and there might be current alternatives.

Try sudo thunar in a terminal window. Any way to run thunar as root *should* have the desired result. But I've not tested it.

#140 Re: Installation » Trying to install wine32 results in deleting all gnome and xfce » 2023-08-29 15:52:41

If you can't log in to the GUI try ctrl-alt-f1 (press all 3 keys at once, in that order) which should get you to a text console where you can log on and try to fix things.

Next time you try to install something *always* do a simulation run first and check what it says it's going to do.

#141 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] I had to remove my own user and add it back, what do I do now? » 2023-08-27 16:16:27

*If* you added it back with the *same* UID and GID then everything should work OK. But if not you will have problems.

Did it's home directory change? If not then all the files you had beforehand should be in there. Look at them with ls -al and check they show user and group names in the output.

If not it's possible to chown them to your new id with something like find . -uid 1000 -exec chown chris:chris {} \; (replace 1000 with the old UID, chris:chris with your new userid and group and chown with echo for the first run).

*** WARNING *** I've not tested this, though I've had to do it many years in the past.

#142 Re: Other Issues » Lazarus package broken? » 2023-08-25 16:31:03

Should you have non-free-firmware in your sources.list? I don't think that would cause this problem but might cause problems with hardware support later.

#143 Re: Devuan » Can anyone fill me in on why and how exactly systemd took over Linux? » 2023-08-22 16:18:08

I've recently found a new command most which is like less but automatically shows binary data in dump format. I've installed it on all my systems so I have some chance of making sense of binary data. But that's just a fallback although very worth having.

As far as Red Hat goes I've made a mental note to never use it again.

#144 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Radeon driver not loading under Daedalus » 2023-08-20 16:12:07

I suspect the PREEMPT_DYNAMIC kernel. I have one system I use to run CUDA (on a Nvidia card) where I have to boot it with the default kernel, not the preempt one, to get CUDA to work.

If you have an option to boot the 6.1 default kernel could you try it to see if that's the problem?

#145 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] How to hide Firefox titlebar » 2023-08-18 16:16:38

Could we have a few more details? What version of devuan are you running? What version of Firefox?

If not sure post output from cat /etc/os-release and copy whatever Help -> About Firefox shows (or post a screen shot).

#146 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » nvidia-persistenced failed to initialize » 2023-08-18 16:11:24

Marjorie wrote:

nvidia-persistenced has no real purpose unless you want to use CUDA.

It's not essential for CUDA either. Both the CUDA apps I use (gmp-ecm and msieve polynomial selection) work without it running.

#147 Re: Other Issues » Virus scanning on Devuan » 2023-08-11 16:27:24

Ron wrote:

If I were to run an AV on Linux, I'd just go back to Windows. It would defeat the whole purpose (one of them, at least).

The obvious use is to scan files etc that have to be processed on a Windows system. It's a lot harder for a virus to infect the system doing the scanning if that's a different OS. And possibly a different CPU, eg a Raspberry PI.

#148 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] EFI, 2 videocards, 1 monitor, grub, kernel, xorg.conf » 2023-08-11 16:12:22

I have got a system that runs CUDA on the GPU, but uses the onboard graphics to run the display. (It shares a monitor with 3 other systems via a KVM switch.) But for historical reasons it runs openSUSE 15.3 so I'm not sure how much I can help, beyond saying it is possible on some systems.

It has a GeForce GTX 970 with CUDA cuda-drivers-510 but a rather old motherboard (can't find the manual right now) in case that helps.

#149 Re: Other Issues » Virus scanning on Devuan » 2023-08-04 16:10:18

It's been there for a while:

chris@rigel:~/bin$ ls -l /boot/config-*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 186853 Jun 30  2022 /boot/config-4.9.0-19-amd64
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 186567 May  7  2018 /boot/config-4.9.0-6-amd64

$ grep -i fanotify /boot/config-4.9.0-*
/boot/config-4.9.0-19-amd64:CONFIG_FANOTIFY=y
/boot/config-4.9.0-19-amd64:CONFIG_FANOTIFY_ACCESS_PERMISSIONS=y
/boot/config-4.9.0-6-amd64:CONFIG_FANOTIFY=y
/boot/config-4.9.0-6-amd64:CONFIG_FANOTIFY_ACCESS_PERMISSIONS=y

This is on a system that's still running ascii. The older config will be off the installation DVD, which is why it's from May 2018.

#150 Re: ARM Builds » Bad owner or permissions on /home/ziomario/.ssh/config » 2023-08-01 16:17:23

ziomario wrote:
ziomario@Z390-AORUS-PRO-DEST:~$ ssh -Y marietto@192.168.1.6

where 192.168.1.6 is the IP assigned to the Chromebook (it is connected through the wi-fi network),but I get the following error :

Bad owner or permissions on /home/ziomario/.ssh/config

The message probably refers to /home/ziomario/.ssh/config on the system you are connecting from, not on the destination.

My advice to anyone with a similar problem would be to try ssh -v which would produce a lot more messages from ssh, which should tell you enough to solve the problem. If still stuck post *full* output here which should give us enough information to work out what the problem is.

I learnt that debuging ssh problems at work (although we had enough different OSes and ssh versions thatgetting them all to work properly took quite a while).

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