Re: about 10th new install of bullseye
On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 09:15:50AM -0800, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Two problems:
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> terminals went funkity late tuesday, spent Wed-Thu trying to reboot, would not go beyond the 15 second mark rebooting. Finally ran the net installer in rescue mode, copied my 122gb /home dir, on a 1.9T raid10 to a different drive and reinstalled, then copied it back, but kmail refuses to use the copied back data so I'm using FF to post this.
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Hi Gene
Check permissions on spools etc - how did you copy your data out?
A tar ball preserving permissions is also quite useful for this.
Goodness, what do you keep to make your /home directory 122G?
> I also need to get totally, absolutely rid of brltty, its driving me berzerk with its incessant muttering in a voice as bandwidth limited, or worse, than a cell phone. Understandable maybe 5% of the time. I purposely did NOT even visit those pieces of the installer for fear it would be enabled, because even though killed by removing brltty in the previous install, 90% of the syslog was errors because it couldn't use brltty. But I got it anyway. So how do it get rid of it without it tearing down the system with its copius error screaming?
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Just a thought: apt rdepends brltty reveals a small number of things
that depend on it. Use apt-get / aptitude or whatever to remove these in
order.
I don't know _why_ you keep getting brltty installed - disconnect any
serial leads from this machine as a start. If you can't get brltty
removed as above - copy your home directory off again and do a reinstall
with the minimum connected to your machine.
[The serial idea is because I seem to recall that if brltty finds a serial
connection active at install, it may assume there's a brltty installed.
In something of 150 or more installs of bullseye - we do a bunch with
each release of images with a point release - I don't think I've ever
seen brltty installed "by accident" so I'd love to know exactly what you
do do each time.
All the very best, as ever,
Andy Cater
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> Thanks for any advice on these two fronts.
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> Cheers, Gene
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