| OneManHateGroup | I'm having trouble accessing an old hard drive through usb. | 03:44 |
|---|---|---|
| OneManHateGroup | I can't see the files and I can't do anything with them. I've tried to change the permissions with chmod, but I doesn't stick | 03:45 |
| fsmithred | what can you see? | 03:46 |
| OneManHateGroup | It's an old hdd from a lappy that died... I can see the directories, but can't see anything in them | 03:47 |
| fsmithred | try testdisk | 03:47 |
| stiltr | errors in dmesg? | 03:48 |
| OneManHateGroup | like... the "Downloads" directory should definitely have something in it. | 03:48 |
| fsmithred | there's also ddrescue | 03:51 |
| gnarface | well, fsck it first | 03:51 |
| gnarface | and if it's a ntfs filesystem, make sure you have edit mode even enabled in your kernel | 03:52 |
| gnarface | actually do the second of those first | 03:52 |
| gnarface | if the laptop died but the harddrive itself was not physically damaged, it could still leave the filesystem in a bad state, but the right fsck command can sometimes fix it | 03:53 |
| gnarface | if the harddrive was physically damaged you're probably out of luck | 03:53 |
| OneManHateGroup | I'll see what fsck | 03:54 |
| OneManHateGroup | says | 03:54 |
| gnarface | smartmontools can also give you some physical diagnostic information | 03:55 |
| OneManHateGroup | thanks | 03:58 |
| gour | morning | 10:29 |
| gour | i've problem with pulse audio, iow. i've to manualy launch 'pulseaudio --start --daemonize=false', otherwise only /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel/wrapper-2.0 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel/plugins/libpulseaudio-plugin.so is running. any hint? | 10:30 |
| xrogaan | lo | 10:36 |
| xrogaan | in ceres again? | 10:36 |
| gour | no, beowulf | 10:37 |
| xrogaan | this one doesn't exists? /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11 | 10:38 |
| gour | xrogaan: it does exist | 10:38 |
| xrogaan | yeah, but is it being launched at sessions start? | 10:39 |
| gour | xrogaan: well, i've 'PulseAudio' selected in autostart | 10:39 |
| xrogaan | I'm not on testing, you should check what pulseaudio does at startup | 10:44 |
| g0zzy | I don't suppose anyone here has unattended-upgrades working? I can't get them to run on Ascii - only Stretch | 10:46 |
| xrogaan | On a side note, I managed to have mpd run as my user but I have no idea how I did it. | 11:01 |
| xrogaan | g0zzy: haven't installed them | 11:02 |
| gour | when i removed PA plugin from the panel, nothing which is PA-releted was running on the system, but when i addplugin, then this /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel/wrapper-2.0 wrapper is launched, but there is no sound and mixer is not accessible | 11:21 |
| g0zzy | Actually i think i'll try to run unattended explicitly and see what happens | 13:39 |
| g0zzy | On another matter, i suppose that systemd is going to reduce stability? There have been frequent updates of packages including systemd on my Stretch systems recently | 13:48 |
| James1138 | Question. Devuan suggests (not requires) install of tiny-initramfs. Would it help or hurt my using Devuan on my laptop?? | 16:04 |
| fsmithred | never heard of it | 16:06 |
| James1138 | https://packages.debian.org/stretch/tiny-initramfs | 16:07 |
| James1138 | https://github.com/chris-se/tiny-initramfs | 16:08 |
| fsmithred | yeah, I read the package description | 16:08 |
| fsmithred | still have no idea if/why it's needed | 16:08 |
| fsmithred | Minimalistic initramfs implementation (automation) | 16:09 |
| fsmithred | This package builds a bootable initramfs for Linux kernel packages. | 16:09 |
| fsmithred | how is that different from update-initramfs? | 16:09 |
| fsmithred | where did you get the suggestion? | 16:10 |
| fsmithred | (What package Suggests it?) | 16:10 |
| James1138 | Synaptic suggested it when I right click on the kernel | 16:11 |
| fsmithred | well, don't get too attached to synaptic. Looks like it's going the way of the dodo. | 16:15 |
| fsmithred | Disclaimer: I exclude Recommends, so Suggests aren't even on the radar. | 16:16 |
| fsmithred | You don't need it. | 16:16 |
| golinux | Synaptic is not going the way of the dodo. http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=141382 | 16:21 |
| golinux | Looks like it will make it into buster. | 16:22 |
| fsmithred | cool. Should be there by next week. | 16:33 |
| ejr | hi. i am trying to get bluetooth to work on devuan ceres. with blueman i cannot connect to any audio devices successfully as I always get a "Protocol not available" error. With rfcomm i can connect to hci0, and even blueman then shows I am connect, but that way I only get a serial port as a connection and the new audio output device does not show up in pavucontrol, so i still get no sound from it | 19:20 |
| gnarface | are you using pulseaudio? | 19:21 |
| gnarface | bluetooth audio support was removed from alsa years back | 19:21 |
| gnarface | there's some 3rd party forks of it still floating around the internet somewhere but i don't know exactly where | 19:22 |
| ejr | yes, pulseaudio. i have also loaded the bluetooth module afaik | 19:22 |
| gnarface | hmm, theoretically it should still work with pulseaudio | 19:22 |
| ejr | it did once work, but i forgot how i set it up back then, and i think it was under debian still | 19:23 |
| gnarface | hmm. i do have a bluetooth device here that stopped working around kernel 3.1 | 19:23 |
| gnarface | if it was really that long ago maybe you ran into the same issue | 19:23 |
| gnarface | is it only audio that doesn't work? | 19:24 |
| gnarface | can you transfer files with obex and stuff? | 19:24 |
| ejr | i don't know, i only have two audio devices with bluetooth, no smartphone or so | 19:24 |
| ejr | maybe bluez-alsa is the 3rd party fork you were refering to about alsa... i could try that | 19:26 |
| gnarface | yes, i think that's the one | 19:26 |
| gnarface | it used to be part of debian | 19:26 |
| gnarface | before pulseaudio absorbed the functionality | 19:26 |
| ejr | i will see if that works... | 19:26 |
| gnarface | it's worth a try anyway | 19:27 |
| ejr | otherwise i'll just have to revert to good old cable | 19:27 |
| gnarface | don't forget to check permissions | 19:32 |
| gnarface | they won't behave the same as with systemd | 19:32 |
| gnarface | i'd assume if you got a serial terminal you have that part covered, but just be sure | 19:32 |
| gnarface | i seem to remember having to go out of the way to find a simple pairing app too | 19:33 |
| gnarface | it was the same type of thing | 19:35 |
| gnarface | where they'd removed a perfectly good stand-alone app with the lame excuse that the functionality was duplicated by some integrated gnome atrocity or something like that | 19:35 |
| gnarface | i assume it was all about someone | 19:39 |
| gnarface | ...someone's ill-conceived attempt to simulate vendor lock-in with debian | 19:39 |
| gnarface | but i also just ended up giving up on bluetooth over it | 19:40 |
| ejr | yeah, it sucks that bluetooth has become so hard to use on linux, especially considering how every stupid smartphone handles it so well | 19:43 |
| climbingturtle | 1796moh | 20:12 |
| climbingturtle | it's been a long day.. | 20:13 |
| golinux | Hello climbingturtle. Haven't seen you around much | 20:33 |
| golinux | Was really nice to meet you at the conf | 20:33 |
| golinux | Sorry I have to run. bbl | 20:34 |
| James1138 | Sorry... was away. What about this Debian package to add firmware support for bluetooth?? https://packages.debian.org/stretch/bluez-firmware | 20:34 |
| James1138 | https://support.system76.com/articles/bluetooth/ - Troubleshoot Bluetooth Issues | 20:35 |
| climbingturtle | golinux: Hi :D Yes that is true, been busy with friends and some work, especially now when the weather has been so nice and warm here. Though I'm of work the next 4 days so much focus will be on my computers! | 20:44 |
| climbingturtle | afk some now aswell, cooking some food | 20:44 |
| golinux | See you around then | 21:01 |
| golinux | climbingturtle: ^^^ | 21:01 |
| * fsmithred tries to remember who climbingturtle is. Were you sitting next to me at the table? | 21:12 | |
| golinux | Young lad from Sweden | 21:15 |
| _abc_ | Hi. fsmithred ? May I ask if you have a decent live-boot walkthrough somewhere? Writeup or graphical or whatever? | 21:18 |
| _abc_ | I am working on the unclean-umount of live-boot mounted persistence volumes issue | 21:18 |
| _abc_ | Relevant to devuan live-boot and other applications of live-boot with persistence, including with LUKS | 21:18 |
| _abc_ | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_USB#Examples_of_Live_USB_operating_systems devuan is missing | 21:19 |
| _abc_ | Also refracta2usb is missing. | 21:19 |
| fsmithred | _abc_, no, I don't. Check the debian-live manual and man live-boot (or maybe | 21:19 |
| _abc_ | fsmithred: editing the wikipedia entry to add refracta2usb and devuan would go to your credit. Do it imo. | 21:20 |
| fsmithred | I did that a few years ago and got edited out | 21:20 |
| ashleyk | these tenable people are so ridiculous | 21:22 |
| ashleyk | they wont even give you urls you can wget to download their crappy software | 21:22 |
| _abc_ | fsmithred: wow. | 21:22 |
| _abc_ | fsmithred: did you provide links to the sites like devuan.org etc? | 21:23 |
| ashleyk | oops wrong window | 21:23 |
| _abc_ | I'm tempted to try that now fsmithred , see what happens | 21:23 |
| fsmithred | I don't think devuan existed at the time | 21:23 |
| fsmithred | and r2u isn't in the devuan repo yet | 21:23 |
| _abc_ | fsmithred: the link to the r2u page again please? I it tedious to locate. | 21:24 |
| fsmithred | refracta.org | 21:24 |
| fsmithred | documentation | 21:24 |
| _abc_ | That's the distribution itself, no? | 21:24 |
| fsmithred | https://refracta.org/docs/readme.refracta2usb.txt | 21:25 |
| fsmithred | it's all intertwined and confusing | 21:25 |
| fsmithred | I need to go carry some wood in. Back in a few minutes. | 21:26 |
| gnarface | James1138: bluetooth firmware is probably packaged by brand | 21:43 |
| James1138 | Ahh | 21:44 |
| gnarface | (and in non-free) | 21:44 |
| gnarface | i guess ymmv depending | 21:45 |
| gnarface | i thought the broadcom ones were in a separate package though | 21:45 |
| gnarface | https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/d1pkgweb-query?search=firmware&release=any | 21:46 |
| gnarface | i'm don't think they always even distinguish between bluetooth and wifi | 21:47 |
| gnarface | some devices do both | 21:47 |
| _abc_ | fsmithred: edited, lame but all is in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_USB#Examples_of_Live_USB_operating_systems | 21:57 |
| fsmithred | _abc_, that's a list of distributions, so it should probably say Refracta instead of refracta2usb, which is the tool | 22:01 |
| fsmithred | wow, nice write-up. Thanks. | 22:02 |
| _abc_ | Yes but refracta2usb makes such live bootable distribs and should have it's own page. | 22:02 |
| _abc_ | imo | 22:02 |
| _abc_ | imnsho | 22:02 |
| fsmithred | it used to be listed on a page that had all live-usb creators | 22:02 |
| _abc_ | Thanks for contributing that | 22:02 |
| _abc_ | We'll see if it lasts. I backed it up | 22:03 |
| fsmithred | cool, thanks | 22:03 |
| fsmithred | so, I also wanted to say that you have to look at the live-boot and live-config scripts | 22:03 |
| fsmithred | not everything in them is documented | 22:03 |
| _abc_ | I noticed it is not </iced over sarcasm> | 22:04 |
| _abc_ | Ok, starting fresh, done with wikipedia | 22:04 |
| _abc_ | Reading manpage and so on now. | 22:04 |
| fsmithred | lol | 22:04 |
| _abc_ | fsmithred: this is interesting, r2u is there too https://infogalactic.com/info/List_of_tools_to_create_Live_USB_systems | 22:17 |
| _abc_ | bummer that page exists already on wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tools_to_create_Live_USB_systems -- so what I did is superfluous. | 22:19 |
| _abc_ | EXCEPT refracta2usb is not on the wikipedia page... hmm | 22:20 |
| _abc_ | fsmithred: did you have a fallout with someone at wikipedia or err debian? :) | 22:20 |
| fsmithred | not that I know abaout | 22:20 |
| fsmithred | about | 22:20 |
| _abc_ | odd | 22:20 |
| fsmithred | I've done a very good job of staying out of online fights for the last 10 years | 22:21 |
| _abc_ | I stopped counting them a long time ago, not worth it. | 22:21 |
| fsmithred | but, ya know, I did switch my distribution to be based on devuan | 22:21 |
| fsmithred | so maybe I am the enemy and don't know it | 22:22 |
| _abc_ | $3/mo internet means "walmart people" are all online now. And it shows. I've been online since 1995 or so, before that modem stuff, then Compuserve, then raw internet. It's been going downhill all the way. And all the nice discussions on usenet and MIT piclist I was on are gone. | 22:22 |
| fsmithred | no, it disappeared before that | 22:22 |
| ashleyk | _abc_, hah what is a "walmart people" | 22:35 |
| ashleyk | $100/mo internet means "publix people" are all online now looo | 22:36 |
| _abc_ | pubic people? Sorry could not resist. | 22:39 |
| _abc_ | ashleyk: publix? | 22:39 |
| ashleyk | expensive place to get the same thing at walmart | 22:40 |
| _abc_ | ashleyk: http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/ <off topic? | 22:40 |
| _abc_ | ashleyk: oh, you mean wannabe apple fanbois? :) | 22:40 |
| ashleyk | _abc_, when you have the best prices, everyone comes to your store :) | 22:40 |
| golinux | Yeah, good off-topic for #debian fork | 22:41 |
| golinux | Please head over there . . . | 22:41 |
| _abc_ | yes, sir | 22:42 |
| fsmithred | ma'am | 22:42 |
| _abc_ | oh | 22:43 |
| tuxd3v | Hello all | 22:50 |
| _abc_ | fsmithred: option fastboot influences /etc/fstab checking as on the live squashfs or at initrd time? | 23:16 |
| fsmithred | huh? | 23:19 |
| _abc_ | cli kernel option fastboot, un-skips checking fs's in /etc/fstab, but which /etc fstab, the one in the initrd or the one in the live mounted squashfs ? | 23:20 |
| fsmithred | there's a nofastboot option | 23:20 |
| _abc_ | Yes that. Sorry. nofastboot | 23:20 |
| fsmithred | I don't know the answer | 23:21 |
| _abc_ | Also most live-* scripts must be in the initrd to work, right? | 23:21 |
| fsmithred | um | 23:21 |
| fsmithred | hard disk | 23:21 |
| fsmithred | If you have static | 23:21 |
| fsmithred | filesystems on your harddisk and you want them to be checked at boot time, use this parameter, | 23:21 |
| _abc_ | At boot time, in live boot mode, the live-* scripts should be on the initrd? | 23:21 |
| fsmithred | yes | 23:21 |
| _abc_ | Okay, I think I get the picture. I am working on the issue of live persistence a) not fscking the persistence candidates before mounting them, and b) not umounting them cleanly using mount -o remount,ro at reboot time | 23:22 |
| _abc_ | Thanks for the tips. | 23:22 |
| fsmithred | patch-initrd in r2u messes with those scripts in initrd | 23:22 |
| _abc_ | The current initrd in devuan ascii is compressed using the usual crazy -9 options per debian standard initrd? | 23:23 |
| fsmithred | it is the same | 23:23 |
| _abc_ | fsmithred: oh? So a r2u generated initrd will have changed options wrt vanilla hybrid iso from devuan.org? | 23:23 |
| fsmithred | except in the minimal-live isos | 23:23 |
| _abc_ | Please go on? | 23:24 |
| fsmithred | r2u will change the initrd only if you do that deliberately | 23:24 |
| _abc_ | i.e. run the patch script? What does it add to the system? | 23:24 |
| fsmithred | can make it so you can write to the ro partition | 23:24 |
| fsmithred | modified live-* scripts | 23:25 |
| _abc_ | Oh I remount that manually as rw, write to it, then remount ro. | 23:25 |
| _abc_ | I.e. did not patch the initrd | 23:25 |
| fsmithred | it also allows you use persistent loopfiles on the first partition | 23:25 |
| _abc_ | fsmithred: does the patch ever get run from the menu? r2u menu? | 23:26 |
| fsmithred | yeah, it's in there. | 23:26 |
| _abc_ | that was horrible wording | 23:26 |
| _abc_ | Is in there, but will it be executed automatically from the ui? | 23:26 |
| fsmithred | nothing gets done automatically | 23:27 |
| _abc_ | How can I tell if the patch was run? By looking at a specific file in the unpacked initrd? | 23:27 |
| fsmithred | I always prefer to allow the user to break their own system | 23:27 |
| _abc_ | I don't remember selecting any patch initrd options in r2u, I do remember a message about the patch script. | 23:27 |
| _abc_ | fsmithred: great | 23:27 |
| fsmithred | it's on page 2 | 23:27 |
| fsmithred | Tools menu | 23:28 |
| _abc_ | I saw it but I think I did not run it. Is there a quick way to look inside an initrd file and see if it was modified? | 23:28 |
| fsmithred | lsinitramfs | 23:28 |
| fsmithred | will show files | 23:28 |
| fsmithred | I don't recall if there are any unique files added | 23:29 |
| _abc_ | I have /usr/lib/refracta2usb/functions/functions.patch-initrd installed from r2u, is this the script? | 23:29 |
| fsmithred | hang on | 23:29 |
| fsmithred | yeah | 23:29 |
| _abc_ | ok | 23:29 |
| fsmithred | look at the patch_files dir, too | 23:30 |
| _abc_ | Imo you should mass sed your scripts and add an attribution and version number in the headers. I hate disowned scripts floating around :) | 23:30 |
| fsmithred | those get put in the initrd | 23:30 |
| _abc_ | patch_files where? On the r2u system or on the live/hybrid? | 23:30 |
| _abc_ | ok | 23:30 |
| fsmithred | usr/lib/refracta2usb/patch_files | 23:30 |
| _abc_ | Ok, will look @ | 23:31 |
| _abc_ | Why did you choose gz compression for the initrd when rebuilt? Typically it is xz now? | 23:31 |
| _abc_ | # use gz or xz compression for the custom initrd | 23:31 |
| _abc_ | RECOMPRESS="gz" | 23:31 |
| fsmithred | gz was standard when that was written, but both are there | 23:32 |
| _abc_ | ok | 23:32 |
| _abc_ | You used bash $" " strings for translation (in the future?) reasons, or other reasons? | 23:33 |
| fsmithred | for translation, but I don't know if anything ever happened with that | 23:34 |
| _abc_ | ok | 23:34 |
| fsmithred | possibly in exegnulinux | 23:35 |
| _abc_ | I have no idea what that is, sorry. | 23:35 |
| fsmithred | devuan respin with trinity desktop (TDE) | 23:36 |
| _abc_ | The unclean umount issue is biting hard | 23:42 |
| _abc_ | On a r2u made hybrid stick, I keep getting FSCKxxxx.REC files even on the 1st ro mounted partition, the initrd is unpatched, so mounted ro | 23:42 |
| fsmithred | they're in the root of the stick? | 23:43 |
| fsmithred | I've only seen that a couple of times | 23:43 |
| _abc_ | root? In the 1st partition | 23:43 |
| fsmithred | yeah, root of the filesystem | 23:43 |
| _abc_ | I have a FSCK0000.REC which is 118784 in size and identifies with file as ELF 32-bit LSB shared object | 23:43 |
| _abc_ | strings shows some syslinux related stuff in it. | 23:44 |
| _abc_ | I do not have another syslinux lib file that size on the media | 23:44 |
| _abc_ | Can you look if you have it unpacked, maybe there is some file with that size? | 23:44 |
| _abc_ | Interesting, the persistence files are not in the initrd? Is this normal? | 23:46 |
| _abc_ | Upon live boot completion, would files written into the initrd override files in the live system mounted on the squashfs? | 23:47 |
| _abc_ | I think the last boot step consists in copying the initrd's parts into the mounted overlay, no? | 23:48 |
| fsmithred | switch root or pivot root | 23:48 |
| _abc_ | Yes but is there a copy step after that? | 23:48 |
| _abc_ | Or before that? | 23:48 |
| fsmithred | not sure | 23:49 |
| _abc_ | Looks like I need to add that at some point. | 23:49 |
| _abc_ | The whole persistence business lives on the squashfs not on the initrd as is now. | 23:49 |
| _abc_ | I would like to edit only the initrd, not touch / remaster the squashfs. | 23:50 |
| _abc_ | Only persistence related things I could find in the initrd are lib/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-storage.rules and so on | 23:50 |
| _abc_ | Note this particular initrd belongs to wheezy not devuan, should be the same. | 23:50 |
| fsmithred | oh | 23:51 |
| fsmithred | not necessarily | 23:51 |
| _abc_ | Persistence does work fine with that initrd, it boots cleanly (so far) | 23:51 |
| _abc_ | I'll postpone deleting the FSCK0000.REC some, I have no idea what file that was, could be important | 23:51 |
| _abc_ | uhh? Why? /usr/lib/refracta2usb/patch_files/bin/boot/2010-remove-persistence | 23:53 |
| fsmithred | not sure | 23:54 |
| _abc_ | Ah, persistence is "built into" the live system, the script live-persistence is used to install it not to run it. | 23:54 |
| _abc_ | Looking | 23:54 |
| fsmithred | That might get used if your persistent volume is on the first partition | 23:55 |
| _abc_ | It is not | 23:55 |
| fsmithred | no, I don't think that's a stock file. | 23:55 |
| fsmithred | dzz wrote that | 23:55 |
| _abc_ | I did not patch the initrd, so it is on the disk of the "host" not on the hybrid being edited | 23:55 |
| _abc_ | Crap that FSCK0000.REC makes me want to check if the stick still boots. | 23:56 |
| _abc_ | I had a really hard time persuading qemu to boot wheezy and devuan. | 23:56 |
| fsmithred | you haven't tried it? | 23:56 |
| _abc_ | fsmithred: only under qemu for now, also on a real system, but did not wait for it to boot to gui, it started nicely | 23:56 |
| _abc_ | fsmithred: do you know, by heart, which shutdown script handles "noeject" ? | 23:58 |
| fsmithred | fsck.fat 3.0.27 (2014-11-12) | 23:58 |
| fsmithred | 0x41: Dirty bit is set. Fs was not properly unmounted and some data may be corrupt. | 23:58 |
| fsmithred | No, I haven't messed with noeject | 23:59 |
| _abc_ | fsmithred: I told you the unclean umount thing is BAD. Both for the root fs and for in my case the 2nd fs which is persistence | 23:59 |
| fsmithred | grep for it in /lib/live/boot | 23:59 |
| _abc_ | nada | 23:59 |
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