libera/#devuan/ Saturday, 2024-06-15

AlexLikeRockis a milkl smoothie00:01
AlexLikeRockhahaha00:01
AlexLikeRock in my desperation , :00:01
AlexLikeRockjunmp from ASCII , to beowolf00:02
AlexLikeRockthen  by problems  with  "MOUNT"   JUMP TO CHIMAERA00:02
AlexLikeRockproblem with MOUNT conthinues  THEN JUMP  to daedalus00:03
AlexLikeRockthen00:03
AlexLikeRocki   chickened out00:03
gnarfacemaybe the update is just incomplete?00:04
AlexLikeRockand put it back to chimaera00:04
AlexLikeRockYES00:04
gnarface"apt-get update && apt-get --no-install-recommends dist-upgrade"00:04
AlexLikeRockits  F*** dissarter !00:04
gnarfaceyou're not supposed to downgrade00:04
AlexLikeRockand one mo think , to blow your mind00:05
AlexLikeRockthey con from 32 bit00:06
AlexLikeRock i migrate from 32 bit to 64 bit00:06
AlexLikeRockHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH00:06
gnarfacehmm, lots of opportunities for dependency mess there00:06
AlexLikeRockyes00:07
AlexLikeRocklike this00:07
AlexLikeRock¿agree? [Y/n/q/?]y00:08
AlexLikeRockthe new ones  :00:08
AlexLikeRock  libinput-bin00:08
AlexLikeRockSe delete  los siguientes paquetes:00:08
AlexLikeRock  libinput-bin:i386{a}00:08
AlexLikeRocki have alot of files at i386 XDDDD00:09
gnarfacehmm, so it is probably trying to replace the i386 one with the amd64 one because you didn't enable multi-arch ? just a guess00:09
AlexLikeRockwell , yes, now  my pcs are a 64 bit00:09
gnarfacemaybe you should go through pkginfo.devuan.org and check the version of every package to make sure it's the right one for chimaera00:09
gnarfaceand also i guess make sure it's the 64-bit one...00:10
AlexLikeRockbut  i feel  dager by now   remplace all at one ,,00:10
gnarfaceyea, seems dangerous. you should probably make a backup first....00:10
AlexLikeRockI prefer to replace little by little00:10
gnarfaceyou probably should have made a backup before doing any of this in fact...00:10
AlexLikeRocki can not make a backup00:10
gnarface:( i'm sorry00:10
AlexLikeRocki dont hace free space00:10
AlexLikeRockthats why im try to fix  bby days00:11
gnarfacemaybe if you enable multi-arch it will be easier because then you can have amd64 and i386 packages installed concurrently, and you can just remove the ones you want...00:13
gnarfacestill, seems very risky00:13
gnarfacealso, that'll use more space so you'll have to keep an eye on it00:13
AlexLikeRockok,  libinput-bin  its  now install at 64 bit  ,  let  me try  reboot00:13
AlexLikeRockyes00:13
AlexLikeRockbye the way00:17
AlexLikeRockgnarface,00:18
AlexLikeRockwhen start the OLD DEVUAN00:18
AlexLikeRock say :00:18
AlexLikeRockuser@(none):$00:18
gnarfacethat means you didn't define a hostname00:19
gnarfaceit's set by /etc/init.d/hostname.sh from the contents of /etc/hostname00:19
gnarfacethough i've seen some other stuff pull it from /etc/hosts too00:20
gnarfaceyou should have both set correctly00:20
AlexLikeRock /etc/hostname   =  they hace a name00:20
AlexLikeRocksexy00:20
gnarfaceoh, you did bring this up before, i remember... not sure why it wouldn't work though00:21
AlexLikeRock /etc/init.d/hostname.sh00:21
gnarfaceis it possible your init system isn't running /etc/init.d/hostname.sh at boot?00:21
AlexLikeRock127.0.0.1 localhost00:22
AlexLikeRock#127.0.0.1 sexy00:22
gnarfacesee what happens if you run it manually then reopen the terminal00:22
AlexLikeRockhosts00:22
AlexLikeRockok, let me copy   the script00:22
gnarfacelrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Aug 27  2016 /etc/rcS.d/S01hostname.sh -> ../init.d/hostname.sh*00:23
gnarfaceyou'll also need this symlink^00:23
AlexLikeRockits  at  /etc/init.d/00:25
gnarfacei think i mentioned this last time, but depending on your dhcp server and client, it might override your host name configuration00:26
gnarfacebut if you're not using dhcp, you should put your static ip in /etc/hosts as the hostname sexy00:27
AlexLikeRocki foiund  it00:27
AlexLikeRock  /etc/rcS.d/S07hostname.sh00:27
AlexLikeRockmmmmmm00:27
AlexLikeRockok, whats unistall?00:28
gnarfacedunno, that should have been installed already from the "initscripts" package00:28
gnarfaceyou're using sysvinit, right?00:28
AlexLikeRockyes00:29
AlexLikeRockhow to reinstall   init00:29
AlexLikeRock?00:29
AlexLikeRock00:29
AlexLikeRock   /etc/rcS.d/S07hostname.sh: 16: .: cannot open /lib/init/vars.sh: No such file00:29
gnarfaceah, that's from the package sysvinit-utils00:30
gnarfaceyou'll need that too00:30
gnarfaceas well as sysvinit and sysvinit-core, i assume00:30
gnarfacealso sysv-rc00:30
gnarfacethat begs the question of what you were using as an init before though...00:31
gnarfaceyou have a live iso on hand to recover with if this goes sideways, don't you?00:31
AlexLikeRock i foud  a lost  script   :  http://paste.debian.net/1320293/00:38
AlexLikeRockThanks so much00:38
AlexLikeRock gnarface00:38
AlexLikeRock!!!!00:38
AlexLikeRock do you like my script ?00:39
gnarfaceheh, yea that's great00:39
AlexLikeRockhehehehe00:39
gnarfacenot sure how that fixes your problem, but it's something anyway00:39
AlexLikeRock i put at  /etc/rcS.d/00:40
AlexLikeRockyesh , wait00:40
AlexLikeRock i copy 2 scripts00:40
gnarfaceit should actually be in /etc/init.d/ but with a symlink from /etc/rcS.d/00:40
AlexLikeRockfrom new dev uan to old devuan00:40
AlexLikeRock   /lib/init/init-d-script   and /lib/init/vars.sh00:40
AlexLikeRockOK,  ITS TIME TO eat00:44
AlexLikeRock thankns so much for your help  today ,    towmorrow  , i will come  , if my baby let me do it00:45
AlexLikeRockheheheh00:45
AlexLikeRocko/00:45
darwintrying to boot Devuan installer on an old PC with a Radeon RX 5700 XT... still got messed-up graphics like on anything newer... but I thought this card was from 2010s and still the installer kernel can't run it?09:08
darwinhad to do vga=ask09:08
rrqyes, it's actually pretty recent that the installer vga setting got changed to use 800x600 rather than the previous 640x480... devuan followed debian on that and maybe the idea was that nowadays "all" systems are capable of 800x60009:30
darwini'm installing Devuan on spare PC now09:31
rrqenjoy :)09:31
darwinhow can I rollback to classic Thunderbird Mail that still had UNIX MoveMail/mailspool?09:36
darwinjust installed Devuan on our third desktop but seems to not have zfsutils-linux available, so I can't access my /home drive14:36
rrqin contrib14:39
rrqdaedalus-backports/contrib for 2.2.414:39
darwinok14:44
darwinso far it always halts (overheats) building zfs 'dkms'... isn't there a way to force it to use fewer cores/jobs/threads like you can on Slackware?  Might have to switch that desktop14:51
darwinthe CPU is only FX-8350... simply can't run that many jobs of this size without that problem14:54
darwinor can I maybe rsync the kernel from the other desktop?14:55
fsmithreddarwin, try cpulimit to slow things down and run cooler.15:27
optyhi, just migrated from bullseye to chimaera :)15:44
optyi guess i don't have to reboot before upgrade to daedalus if i already used sysvinit etc. before the migration15:46
optyand i don't need to start eudev during boot in a container15:50
rustyaxedarwin: i've had to use cpufreq-set -u (to set max frequency) on my CPU cores on hot days, it might be worth a try.16:14
opvHi all! I would like to know if it's still possible to migrate from Debian to Devuan, in this case Bookworm to Daedalus. Thank you18:44
Xenguyopv, Hi19:02
XenguyIt is possible, yes19:02
XenguyWhat version of Debian are you running?19:03
XenguyOh sorry, missed that19:03
opvThat is awesome, thank you19:04
Xenguyhttps://www.devuan.org/os/documentation/install-guides/daedalus/bookworm-to-daedalus19:04
opvsystemd truly is a cancer upon the ecosystem19:04
Xenguyopv, If you use those instructions, please report back how things went for you, so we can constantly improve the documentation19:05
cousin_luigiopv: May I ask what pushed you back to sysv?19:08
XenguyMeanwhile, thank you fsmithred and rustyaxe , there's an application I use that has been CPU hungry lately.  I tried cpulimit just now, and it seems to work nicely so far for constraining the process to a reasonable limit, keeping the CPU temperatures away from dangerous levels19:13
rustyaxewelcome. It gets over 90degF indoors if i let the server run full steam in the summer :o19:15
XenguyWow, that's hot indeed (usually the most I have to deal with is 86 or so, which is hot enough)19:19
opvcousin_luigi: to be honest, I've started looking for alternatives years ago, but I still run Debian on some servers19:28
opvThe XZ fiasco, and now the systemd-tmpfile-home thing, really is the last straw.19:29
opvI consider systemd to be akin to microsoft products in that their production use can no longer be justified19:29
fsmithrednote that if you have multi-cores, you can set cpulimit to greater than 100%.19:33
cousin_luigiopv: Was xz systemd-specific?19:46
cousin_luigiAnd I have no idea what the other is19:47
Xenguyfsmithred, My knowledge of cores is weak, but my goal is to limit the application from consuming 100% CPU, which drives up the temperature to levels that feel too high for comfort19:50
fsmithredrun top then press 1 to see how many cores/threads you have19:51
fsmithredso if you have a dual-core, setting a process to 100% will let it use half your computing power.19:52
Xenguyfsmithred, I see CPUs numbered 0 to 320:01
XenguyBut now that I think of it, it's not so much the 'cores' issue, as the temperatures being reported by 'sensors'20:02
fsmithredquad-core or dual-core with hyperthreading20:02
XenguyIn the end I don't want to see temperatures approaching 'critical' levels20:02
opvcousin_luigi: yes, xz specifically targetted systemd. it was super sneaky on multiple levels like that20:02
opvthe other one is a new functionality which lets it manage tmpfiles and homefiles20:02
Xenguyfsmithred, Okay makes sense20:02
fsmithredknowing how many cores lets you know how much percentage you can use20:02
opvwhere just now they've had a beautiful bug which would nuke /home if you tell it to clean tmpfiles20:03
XenguyAgain, sensors reports temperatures approaching 'critical', and that is worrisome20:03
fsmithredcpulimit -e <program> -l <percentage>20:04
XenguyBut cpulimit is delivering lower temperatures as promised, so that's a clear win, even if I haven't optimized things perfectly20:04
GeDaMosystemd is now replacing sudo, I'm sure there's no way that could go wrong20:05
opvcompletely unacceptable20:05
Xenguyfsmithred, Thanks, appreciate the cpulimit option, it's exactly what I was looking for, and needed20:05
fsmithredif you run it before the program starts, it will wait for it20:06
XenguyGeDaMo, Funnily enough I just removed sudo, 'just in case'20:06
Xenguyfsmithred, Hrm, good to know, yeah I was wondering what the easiest workflow was, cos I'm going to be using it on a regular basis with this application I expect20:07
fsmithredyou could make a wrapper script for it20:08
fsmithredafk, bbl20:14
cousin_luigiopv: Are you sure that's not a question of convenience due to its widespread adoption?20:39
Xenguyfsmithred, My cheat:  alias qb='qbittorrent && cpulimit -e qbittorrent -l 50'20:47
opvcousin_luigi: the xz thing? no, they found out it was tailored to be triggered by systemd on ssh login20:58
opvquite literally the mother of 0days as far as classic servers are concerned20:59
Xenguyopv, But IIRC it was some 'smart' config set up by Debian, no?21:08
XenguyThat linked systemd and ssh somehow?21:08
darwinthanks21:20
opvXenguy: yes, but that's not exclusive to Debian, that's just another systemd tentacle that happened to be specifically targetted22:14
opvDistros like Fedora and Arch were just as affected, aswell as upcoming Rocky etc22:15
opvI don't remember the specific name of the systemd-something, but it hooks into the login process22:16
darwinhow can I select only 1/8 threads and cpulimit apt-get install zfsutils?  It just says the process died22:17
gnarfacecgroups maybe? (not sure, sorry, just a guess)22:20
darwinyou don't need that for cpulimit but apparently can't just have it run another program as an argument/flag/switch.  I started but didn't press 'y' then got the process number in another terminal and passed that to cpulimit22:25
darwineven with 1/8 threads it halted apparently from overheating... so there's some other program I can us for this, maybe cpufreq also?22:26
darwinmaybe I need to 'repaste' CPU?22:27
gnarfacewell if it's even overheating at that point, you might want to make sure the fans are still working....22:27
gnarfacebut how i'd usually handle this is set the cpufreq governor to "powersave" which will just lock all cores to minimum clock speed22:27
gnarface(then i'd get the air conditioner repaired)22:28
gnarfaceif you have a situation where your rig is even overheating in powersave mode, you've got a physical problem with your cooling system, either in the rig itself or in the environmentals22:29
gnarfacelike, maybe a disconnected heatsinc or a melted cpu fan or something22:29
darwin'use'22:29
gnarface?22:30
darwini hadn't pressed the last key22:31
gnarfaceoh22:31
gnarfacecat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor22:32
gnarfacecompare that to "cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors"22:32
gnarface(those are your current options but there may be more supported by kernel modules in /lib/modules/`uname -r` that you simply haven't loaded)22:33
gnarface(you should be able to find them with:  find /lib/modules/`uname -r` -iname '*cpufreq*')22:34
darwini didn't find that exact directory/folder22:37
darwinthere was /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuidle/available_governors22:38
darwinwhich said ladder, menu22:38
darwinit is about time for a fan checkup on that desktop.  It's not a hot day but I have a few computers in one area22:39
darwinmaybe I should shut the rest off though they're idling22:39
gnarfacedarwin: hmm, strange...what kernel version?22:42
gnarfacedarwin: and what cpu?22:42
darwinFX-835022:44
darwinit's old which might be part the problem22:44
gnarfacenope22:44
gnarfacewhat does "uname -a" say?22:44
darwinthe system-board model is 13 years old, not very powerful22:44
gnarfaceit's the exact same cpu i'm using right now, i know the capabilities quite well22:45
gnarfacewhat does "uname -a" say?22:45
darwinLinux <hostname> 6.1.0.21-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.90-1 (2024-05-03) x86_64 GNU/Linux22:45
darwini am not IRCing from that one22:45
gnarfaceweird, current kernel... you should be seeing the same thing i'm seeing22:45
gnarfaceunless... hmm, do you have "quiet & cool" disabled in the bios? if so, that's probably your entire problem here22:46
darwini didn't type out the hostname because it's long and kind of irrelevant22:46
gnarfaceyea i don't care about your hostname dude that's fine22:46
darwini don't know if it has that setting... old BIOS... it's an ASUS Sabertooth 990FX22:46
gnarfaceare you fucking trolling me?22:46
* gnarface facepalm22:47
* gnarface sighs22:47
darwinno22:47
darwini will check22:47
gnarfaceyes, i know that motherboard has that feature22:47
gnarfacedon't ask how22:47
darwinit's been a long time since I opened that BIOS22:47
darwini forgot I hadn't recently22:48
gnarfaceevery single asus bios going back well before that one has had the "quiet&cool" feature, but the important thing to understand is it's just your regular normal cpufreq feature. if you disable that, you have no speed controls and it just runs at redline 100% of the time22:48
darwinso I change it to 'always enabled'?22:48
gnarfaceit should have default profile settings under ittoo22:49
gnarfaceenable it and set the profile to performance22:49
darwinshould I enable power down modes for storage and RAM also?22:49
gnarface(note that's "performance" for the fan speeds, not to be confused with the cpufreq "performance" governor)22:50
darwini wasn't sure about these settings; used to have PCs that would enter hibernation/suspend and not come out, or I thought would be stuck in quiet mode.  I remember you or someone said it should be called 'cool or quiet'22:50
gnarfaceyea, i said that22:51
gnarfacebut the only other option is always hot22:51
gnarfacei don't think the other stuff will matter in this context22:51
gnarfacedo whatever you want with it22:51
gnarfaceuh... darwin note i always view it in "advanced" mode, i don't think the default interface you see when you enter the bios has all the controls, not sure what you're looking at right now22:53
darwini always set advanced mode22:54
darwini set that... just forgot it was a different desktop (burnt out) I did this on recently22:54
darwinor maybe not burnt out but hardware failed, was pretty old22:54
gnarfacewhen you have it set right, /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies will contain 5 different speeds22:55
gnarfaceif you've been running them without cpu frequency controls, that might have been affecting the failure rates22:56
darwinyes22:56
gnarfacethey get hot, and you really need the fans, i would recommend not using stock coolers, get something aftermarket and large22:56
gnarface(if you want to keep them longer, that is)22:57
darwinbefore water cooling I usually used CoolerMaster Hyper Evo 21223:00
darwinbut I think this one is older than those23:00
darwinit has something else, medium-sized23:00
darwinmaybe I can put a bigger one on but I think we're retiring that 13-year old design hardware as soon as I rebuild my main PC and the spare PC23:00
darwini see23:09
darwinever after BIOS changed from easier-to-navigate text mode before windows 1995 to forced GUI, they added so many options that some disappear on newer updates then even more options appear, often poorly-documented... I looked most up but forgot but some never found much information on either.  It's just too difficult to remember all these settings... but I think I've done this 'cool & quiet' one enough times now I'll remember it until we have newer ones23:11
darwingreat, adding that setting let me compile it so I can now mount /home HDD! :)23:15
gnarfacecool23:17
gnarfaceglad it worked out for you23:17
gnarfacedarwin: by the way, make sure you have acpid installed on there too23:30
darwinok23:37
darwinis an FX-8350 still going to be enough for xterm, file manager, text (editing, email, Usenet, IM/IRC), viewing (magazine, comic book), audio (XMMS or Audacious or DeadBeef), maybe one or a few web browser tabs all at once on Devuan 5?23:40
darwinthe main bottleneck was web browsers which now are using a hundred or several hundred MB per webpage, but it only has 32GB RAM, and I used to have 100+ tabs but won't be opening all those on this23:41
gnarfaceyea, it's fine. i even game on it. new CPUs are overrated.23:45
gnarfacewhat you really want is a SSD, but not the samsung evo ones, because there's a stupid bug with the bios that requires you to disable concurrent queries or whatever they're called (they're overpriced anyway)23:46
darwini see23:47
gnarfacemost the stuff these days that still drags is gonna be stuff that's GPU bound23:47
gnarfaceif you've got a decent GPU in there and plenty of ram you should be fine23:48
darwini have SSDs/M2/NVMe for OS when I can and HDDs for /home23:48
gnarfacegood enough23:48
gnarfacekeep the swap on the HDDs, don't swap on SDD23:48
darwinok23:48
gnarfacebut with that much ram you might want to consider using zram for swap23:48
darwinbut with 32GB or 64GB do you even need swap?  I read higher than 4GB you don't need it23:48
gnarfacewell, technically yes, but of course the more ram you have the less likely you are to get into a situation where it's a problem, but without swap stuff will still crash if it runs out23:49
gnarfaceso you're gambling on literally never running out of ram23:49
gnarface(which might be a tall order if you're playing World of Warcraft)23:50
darwini tend to not play commercial games but I do other stuff that can use up all RAM in a while23:50
gnarfacewell, firefox is a ram pig, but even so you'll need to open a lot of tabs to run out of 32G unless it's also leaking23:51
gnarfacei can't frankly imagine a workflow with over 100 tabs though, so maybe firefox will be the thing that it can't handle23:51
gnarfacefor me, it handles what i need it to do, but my needs are fairly modest23:52
gnarfaceyou might want to review your RAM speed settings in the bios just to make sure you're not wasting good ram if you have good ram23:53
gnarfacei didn't like what their optimized/auto-detected profiles did, and ended up just dialing in the spec speeds statically23:53
gnarface(their supposedly auto-optimized profiles fell short of the speeds on the product label)23:55
gnarfaceyou asked about the ram and drive sleep/suspend state settings? i don't remember what i set for those23:56
gnarfacei never sleep the computer23:56

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