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03:33.42Se7enI keep having dificulty with swap space
03:33.51Se7enI don't know the reason nor if it is a well-known bug
03:34.01Se7enBut it beaks apt
03:34.07Se7enAnd therefore hinders kernel upgrades
03:34.15gnarfaceyou mean you don't have enough swap?
03:34.30Se7enApt reports that  idon't have enough space left on the device
03:34.46gnarfacewell that doesn't sound like a swap problem
03:34.58Se7enAnd due to other things happening (such as dameons seg faulting) I also assume that it is linked to swap space
03:35.12gnarfacethat seems like a strange assumption
03:35.38gnarfacedid you check to see if there's actually enough space left on the non-swap part of the device?  keep in mind ext4 reserves 5% by default...
03:38.32Se7enWell I have confirmed that Swap fills up nonetheless. Also my computer just froze for 3 minutes while I was talking to you
03:38.46gnarfaceyikes
03:39.09gnarfacethat might be a separate issue, with or without a related cause
03:39.14Se7enIt appears that the system has dificulty with allocation of space
03:39.44gnarfacedf -h
03:40.05gnarfacesee anything with over 90% usage?
03:40.07Se7enI keep having to clear swap using bleachbit
03:40.16Se7en/dev/mapper/workstation--vg-var   2.7G  2.4G  193M  93% /var
03:40.25gnarfacenot good
03:40.57gnarfacesomething is causing that
03:41.00gnarfaceprobably
03:41.15gnarfacewell, it might just be a bit small too
03:41.21gnarfacemine is 2.5G
03:41.43gnarfaceoh that's apt-cache
03:41.52Se7enZMine is 2.7G
03:42.04gnarfacethere's some way to tell apt to use less ram anyway
03:42.17gnarfaceapt or apt-get
03:42.21gnarfacei forget exactly how
03:42.25Se7enI usually run apt
03:42.30Se7ennot apt-get
03:44.19Se7enThe big thing is
03:44.33Se7enIs this only my comp or is it due to a bug with the beta OS
03:46.48Se7enUsually the first dameon to segfualt because of this is the tor dameon
03:49.59gnarfaceoh, no i think something is quite wrong with your setup, that's my guess, but i don't know for sure
03:50.28gnarfacethe problem you seem to be having, i've only seen with either a memory leak or just not enough ram (less than 250 *megabytes*)
03:51.36Se7engnarface, not a problem with I have 512 MiB
03:51.44Se7enoops
03:51.45gnarface512MB?
03:51.49Se7enyeah
03:52.00Se7enI used to have 2.5GB but one of the ram sticks fried
03:52.01gnarfacemight still be too low these days, could be pushing it... google that apt option
03:52.06Se7enSo now I'm  back down to 512
03:52.19gnarfacethere is an apt option that will make it operate with less ram
03:52.36gnarfacethe problem is it's assuming you've got more ram than the downloaded cache of updates, or something like that
03:52.58gnarfacelike it tries to do too much at once
03:53.21gnarfaceyou don't want /var/ filling up either though, keep an eye on that
03:54.14Se7enIt apparently is storing the cache in /var/tmp
03:54.29gnarfaceyea
03:59.06gnarfaceit might actually be /var/ filling up
03:59.08gnarfacenot your ram
03:59.20Se7enWhat do
03:59.39gnarfacei think that option should still fix it
03:59.46gnarfacebut all i can do is google for you
04:00.03gnarfacealternately you could resize /var/ to give it more space in theory
04:00.08gnarfacebut i don't recommend that just yet
04:00.49gnarfacegoogle does show ubuntu users having what seems to be the same issue
04:01.31gnarfacewhat happens if you run "apt-get clean" first then try it again?
04:02.23Se7enIt deletes a whole bunch of cached things
04:02.30Se7enI already ran bleachbit
04:05.08gnarfaceapt-get upgrade still runs out of space though?
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04:05.22gnarfaceis there a pending update to apt?
04:05.32gnarfacewhat if you just upgrade that first?
04:07.02gnarfaceit's not /var/lib/apt/lists/partial filling up is it?
04:07.25gnarfacehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/09/msg00014.html like here?
04:09.32NewGnuGuycan you apt-get autoremove ?
04:12.55Se7enI'll have to wait until it happens again
04:13.02Se7enAs the whole thing has been rectified
04:13.10Se7enSince I ran bleachbit
04:13.58NewGnuGuySe7en: Is your /boot directory on its own partition?
04:14.05Se7enIt should be
04:14.08Se7enYea
04:14.11Se7eni think it is
04:17.59NewGnuGuyI was having insufficient disk space problems recently and it turned out that each time I upgraded my kernel, apt would put another kernel version in my /boot partition without touching any of the existing kernel versions causing /boot to run out of space. Don't know I this is at all like what you are experiencing but here it is.
04:18.40Se7enMight be happening
04:18.55Se7enBut I can autoremove the old kernel and it disapears from grub
04:19.07NewGnuGuyapt-get autoremove is what I think fixed it for me
04:19.37gnarfacemy /var is 11GB
04:19.40gnarface:-/
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06:45.55tomg2I have 62 GiB in /var, mostly Debian packages.  I'm using Debian, but I am really anti-systemd.  So I use sysvinit and I guess I'm starting to hang around here.
06:53.36golinuxtomg2: Welcome!
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07:06.44tomg2golinux: thank you.  and I was in OFTC #debian and I talked about being pro-sysvinit a little there.  and I was in #linuxmint-chat on their official network and though everyone was very nice they main suggestion was that I come here
07:07.15tomg2I think they don't really know or worry much about init systems in the #linuxmint-chat channel, but I'm staying on the OFTC network for now too
07:10.45golinuxNice to know that they're funneling like-minded folks our way.
07:10.56parazydindeed :)
07:11.29golinuxparazyd: Your're still up?
07:11.38parazydjust woke up :)
07:11.47parazyd8am here
07:11.48golinuxAh!  I'm up late
07:11.52parazydhahaha
07:12.08golinuxYeah just did the time conversion in my head.
07:12.34parazydi added a little screencast here
07:12.36parazydhttps://heads.dyne.org/about.html
07:13.33tomg2yeah this one guy knew of these channels.  I'd been here before but I didn't think of coming here to talk about that stuff again for some reason
07:13.41tomg2I think his name was Veed
07:14.41parazydtomg2: have you upgraded to devuan already?
07:15.08tomg2no, I was planning on using Debian but with sysvinit for the foreseeable future.
07:15.28parazydyou should switch
07:15.41parazydnothing breaks, and you get better sysv support for sure :D
07:16.41tomg2I'll have to say that I can't right now, I can only stick with Debian for now
07:17.13tomg2though I understand if I'm in #devuan it makes sense to be interested in running Devuan
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07:33.06MDrightsis running Devuan everyday :P
07:34.27parazydour servers too
07:34.30parazydhaha
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08:12.03tomg2I would hope your servers run Devuan.  I think the loss of sysvinit might mean even the loss of the entire free world
08:12.26tomg2or at least the take over of systemd.  sometimes I think it would be more accurately called take-over-your-system.d
08:12.45parazydlol
08:13.00tomg2or take-over-your-system-demon, because it really is just that evil
08:13.08parazydhttps://pub.parazyd.cf/dev/random/systemd.jpg
08:13.34tomg2the scream eh? :)
08:13.59tomg2yeah, it may actually be supernaturally evil
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08:24.22AndySchm1tttomg2: Some Ubuntu 14.04 upgrades clobbered my system and I used that as an excuse to switch to Refracta last week. So far mostly good. I'd love to try Devuan on one of my servers soon
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08:32.35DocScrutinizer05https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/28/aws_is_awol_as_s3_goes_haywire/
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09:10.11Centurion_DanDocScrutinizer05: just one little ol db failure caused all that outage...
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11:01.17FlibberTGibbetis there a package in beta2 for r8169 drivers? i think in debian it would be in firmware-realtek or firmware-nonfree
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11:49.41tomg2rtl8169?
12:05.29FlibberTGibbettomg: yes, believe so
12:07.46Gupi think the package is in the repos but missing form the installer
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12:14.27fsmithredFlibberTGibbet, the packages are in the iso, but the wireless is not automatically detected. You can manually install firmware-realtek (or others) https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=71#p71
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12:30.19FlibberTGibbetthanks fsmithred. i tried firmware-realtek but it's not found in apt-get search
12:30.19infobotFlibberTGibbet: de nada
12:30.55KatolaZFlibberTGibbet: do you have the non-free repo enabled?
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12:31.54FlibberTGibbetunder jessie-security and jessie-updates, nothing listed in jessie main
12:33.04KatolaZFlibberTGibbet: it's in non-free
12:33.11KatolaZhttps://packages.debian.org/jessie/kernel/firmware-realtek
12:34.27FlibberTGibbetyup, saw that page
12:37.05FlibberTGibbetis the correct line in sources.list deb http://packages.devuan.org/merged jessie main contrib non-free (and deb-src...) ?
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12:43.07FlibberTGibbetsorted. thanks all
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23:24.17XenguyHi, can anyone confirm whether amd64 is to 64-bit as i386 is to 32-bit (on Intel architecture) ?
23:26.14XenguyAlso, if yes, is "amd64: the standard/default terminology generally?
23:26.23Xenguy*"amd64"
23:26.25DeFenderXenguy, how do you mean?
23:27.00XenguyDeFender: Well, on the Devuan d/l page for installation ISOs, they appear to use the above terminology
23:27.35XenguyAnd I was surprised to see 64-bit labelled 'amd'
23:27.46DeFenderdebian has always named its x86 architecture compatible installs "i386" for 32 bit and "amd64" for 64 bit
23:28.12XenguyI am not familiar much with the 64-bit installations, so just trying to find out about this, as I've found someone who wants to try installing Devuan
23:28.26XenguyDeFender: OK, perfect, thanks for answering
23:28.34DeFenderwere it me, I'd have named them "x86-32" and "x86-64", but they didn't do that
23:28.42XenguyExactly ;)
23:28.43DeFenderI'm pretty sure the names are the way they are for legacy reasons.
23:28.53XenguyIt's a bit confusing at first glance
23:28.58DeFenderindeed.
23:29.32DeFenderXenguy, https://wiki.debian.org/DebianAMD64Faq
23:29.42XenguyHaving settled that then, I am really stoked to find this person asking me if I can help install Devuan on their PC...
23:29.45Xenguytx
23:30.10DeFendersure.
23:30.36DeFenderand yeah, this basically said what I just speculated, that it's because amd called it that and they came out with the first 64-bit x86.
23:30.39XenguyI have had a 'pizza + beer' standing offer for years, for anyone who wants help installing Linux, and only *once* in all that time did anyone ever take me up on the offer :-)
23:30.54DeFenderinteresting that they actually used the more sane name for it in pre-release.
23:30.54XenguyThat makes sense
23:31.38DeFender(I just found this faq from a quick google search. didn't know all of this before.)
23:31.58XenguySo one more Devuan installation coming up (world domination 1 PC at a time ;-)
23:32.23DeFenderso you're that guy who stands out on the corner with the sign that says "will install linux for food"
23:32.32XenguyOh, I meant to ask, I've seen some folks mentioning issue with wifi during the beta2 install...
23:32.35Xenguyhaha
23:32.46Xenguy*mentioning issues
23:33.02XenguyIs this still something I need to be prepared to work around, or ...?
23:33.32DeFenderwouldn't be able to help you with that one, i'm on a desktop.
23:33.42XenguyDeFender: Not just food - there absolutely must be ale included, or the deal is off! ;)
23:33.47DeFenderhehehe.
23:34.03Xenguydrives a hard bargain...
23:34.06gnarfaceas far as i know, the current installer has non-free firmware installed, so the wifi that is known to work will work in the devuan installer.  this is NOT the case for debian though, as they refuse to put any non-free firmware or software in their installers
23:34.24gnarfaceinstalling from wifi is always gonna be a crapshoot though, especially if its not unencrypted wifi
23:34.42gnarfacein either case i'd definitely recommend installing via physical ethernet cable if at all possible
23:35.18gnarfaceit's much easier to work out hardware&driver-specific wifi issues with a separate, WORKING network connection
23:35.46Xenguygnarface: I checked with this guy today, and he has cables also, so we should be good.  I just wanted to know in advance if there might be any issues like wifi, more because of the 'optics' involved
23:35.54Xenguybrb
23:36.35gnarfaceXenguy: yea, there might be issues with the wifi.  just not issues you wouldn't have with any other distro using the same kernel version
23:38.25gnarfacesome wifi chips will work without non-free firmware, some more will work with it, but the vast majority of wifi and bluetooth devices are still completely unsupported in linux
23:38.46DeFendergnarface, even post-install?
23:38.49*** join/#devuan fleeky (~fleeky@75-101-60-65.dsl.static.fusionbroadband.com)
23:39.17gnarfaceDeFender: well if we're talking about all wifi devices on the market total, yea... driver support is just not there yet.  do research before you buy.
23:39.26malinasI understand that the current debian-installer runs on pretty much anything with a monitor, but damn it feels so rudimentary for things like wifi and disk partitioning
23:40.20*** join/#devuan xes_ (~xes@unaffiliated/xes)
23:40.31gnarfacethings in Linux as a whole that are still currently quite primitive, and your Windows-users buddies will certainly make fun of you for:  1) most wifi/bluetooth devices 2) USB audio devices 3) any OpenGL hardware acceleration not using Nvidia drivers
23:40.41DeFenderit's not easy research to do, but yeah.
23:41.02gnarfacemalinas: i can confirm disk partitioning will work everywhere :)
23:41.20DeFendergnarface, #3 is why I only use nvidia.
23:41.20Xenguyback
23:42.28malinassomething that really annoys me is how many times you have to confirm things when you just want an automatic paritioning with LVM, for instance
23:42.59malinas(and on an empty disk, at that)
23:43.10XenguyDeFender: And yet Nvidia are rather unhelpful to FOSS I understand
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23:43.40DeFenderactually, speaking of which, my kde screensaver seems to not be making full use of the video card, as the graphics are not as crisp as they were before i installed devuan (same hardware, but had been using debian, switched for obvious reasons) and the system monitor shows high CPU usage while the screen saver is running (which it also didn't do before). You wouldn't happen to know how to fix this, would you?
23:43.44XenguyYou don't want to partition by mistake though, do you? ;)
23:44.36XenguyChoose 'blank screen' as your screensaver =)
23:44.53DeFenderXenguy, they have drivers that work well in linux, which is at least slightly more helpful to FOSS than the stuff that doesn't.
23:45.10gnarfaceXenguy: yes that nvidia's drivers and kernel support and IRC channel are all served up with maximum contempt is quite evident.  unfortunately they still have better support than everyone else's reverse-engineered offerings.  they seem to strategically put in *just enough* effort to maintain that edge too, but until either Intel starts making better video cards, or AMD starts ... figuring out how to write a driver to save
23:45.10gnarfacetheir lives, that's where we're stuck.
23:45.22XenguyDeFender: I've just read stuff about them blocking opening up drivers etc.
23:45.27DeFenderXenguy, that's... not a fix. I WANT the shinies. I just want them to make full use of the hardware they should be using.
23:45.54malinassounds like your hardware acceleration isn't there at all
23:46.21DeFendermalinas, it's there in some way though, because MPV uses it just fine.
23:46.39XenguyGood luck.  For some reason I always preferred the default blank screen - almost like whoever chose that as a default (Linux?) was thinking of the 'stealth' Linux installation or something
23:46.43DeFender(Albeit with some minor bugs of its own, but one thing at a time...)
23:47.09gnarfacewell mesa has made huge progress lately, with some help from Intel and AMD.  i have hope for the future.  somehow it seems like AMD is reverse-engineering their own hardware though.  i dunno why they seem so helpless when it comes to drivers.
23:47.41Xenguy*Linus
23:47.49malinasmy radeon HD 7970 a few years back? never had a proper 2D acceleration... thank you amd...
23:48.16DeFenderXenguy, oh, certainly blank screen makes sense as a default. I just like the shinies.
23:48.33XenguyAnd why not, computers are supposed to be fun too
23:48.39Xenguyfuntoo
23:48.42Xenguy:P
23:48.50gnarfacestill using the starfield one that looks just like windows95 until it starts swooping and spinning
23:48.58XenguyA classic
23:49.05XenguyNever gets old
23:49.42malinasDeFender: did you check the usual stuff like glxinfo to begin with?
23:50.17malinasbecause mpv being good at displaying videos does not necessarily mean that you have hardware acceleration set up
23:50.37Xenguytakes a break...
23:51.39DeFendermalinas, i didn't say mpv is good at displaying videos, i said it's using the hardware. I set the vo to use vdpau and it works fine without complaining that it's not available.
23:52.39DeFenderhuh, i don't seem to have glxinfo
23:52.43DeFenderwhat package is it in?
23:53.06malinasit's in mesa-utils
23:53.34malinasand vpdau is an API, not necessarily tied to your nvidia drivers any more
23:53.43DeFenderinteresting.
23:55.03DeFendermalinas, okay, installed. What am I supposed to be looking for? (don't know much about video stuff)
23:55.21malinaslook at the first lines
23:55.59DeFendername of display: :0 / display: :0  screen: 0 / direct rendering: Yes
23:56.18malinaswhat about the glx vendor string?
23:56.26DeFenderserver glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
23:56.45DeFenderclient glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
23:56.59malinasok good, so it's a problem with KDE, or its screensaver
23:57.13malinasfor which I can provide no help
23:58.10DeFenderthe one i'm using is in the category "openGL screensavers"... you'd think that'd mean it'd use the video card...
23:58.26DeFenderalright, i'll have to look for KDE-specific help. THanks anyway.
23:59.57gnarfacevdpau is video decoding

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