Re: about 10th new install of bullseye
On Friday, February 18, 2022 3:19:43 PM EST David Wright wrote:
> On Fri 18 Feb 2022 at 09:15:50 (-0800), Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Two problems:
> >
> > 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.
> No idea what funkity means, nor what is significant about 15 seconds
> when booting. I have systems that boot in <3.5 seconds and other that
> take nearly a minute. Nor am I sure what's special about /home with
> respect to booting — it should have no role.
>
> > 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?
> Um, perhaps https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/05/msg01001.html
>
At 87 yo, you're expecting me to remember a post I made, what, 3 years
ago? But its pretty close to exactly it. But I still don't recall if I
unplugged the adapter that time, and by now there is probably at least
one more, maybe two in my usb tree.
> Cheers,
> David.
>
> .
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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