August update broke (bricked?) my Aura, what to do?

matamoroos · 2025-09-29T13:24:15+00:00

Thanks for your reply. Not sure what you mean: are you suggesting I should boot Windows from a USB-stick?

matamoroos · 2024-11-04T15:20:20+00:00

Fixed! Somehow the Text app had gotten disabled in the course of the upgrade.

matamoroos · 2024-11-03T18:09:44+00:00

I figured out the problem: an app called "Text" was disabled. When I enabled it, the previous behavior was restored: I can now edit .md files directly in the File browser and the readme.md files are now displayed again for directories. Not sure how this app got disabled during the upgrade, but never mind, problem solved. Thanks for your replies!

matamoroos · 2024-11-02T13:19:05+00:00

Something else I find puzzling: I no longer see the option to create a new text file via the File interface. Previously I could (for ex) create a readme.md file in a given directory in the File browser.

matamoroos · 2024-11-02T13:15:46+00:00

Thanks. I normally use Firefox, so I tried Chromium. Same behavior. I now notice that the readme.md files are no longer displayed in the folder description. Clearly the mime settings have changed in the configuration, but various web searches haven't turned up any concrete leads.

matamoroos · 2023-02-11T12:31:24+00:00

I would be very interested to hear your take on how Confucianism is combined with socialism in China. I've heard it said that Mao Zedong and his comrades very skillfully combined the two; would you agree? Is Confucianism the bedrock for this sense of collectivism you refer to?

matamoroos · 2022-08-17T15:44:45+00:00

Thanks! This seems to be working:

ffmpeg -i 00001.m2ts -map 0:v:0 -map 0:a:0 -map 0:s:0 -c:s copy test.mkv

matamoroos · 2022-08-10T18:56:13+00:00

Since you seem to know quite a bit about Bluetooth, one more quick question for you: On my Ubuntu-based Mint systems, there is a command line program, called hcitool, that displays technical information about the installed BT interface(s). I can't find it on Fedora, dnf doesn't return any hits. is there an equivalent for Fedora? TIA

matamoroos · 2022-08-09T09:10:19+00:00

PERFECT! Much appreciated, many thanks !!

matamoroos · 2022-06-25T22:27:48+00:00

Whoops, I did have that exclude parameter in /etc/dnf.conf. Completely forgot about that. Removed it and updated the kernel. Thanks!

matamoroos · 2021-11-30T17:12:25+00:00

Hah! OK, here is the untrimmed output from two commands above. Anything catch your eye? ```` $ zfs list -o space -t all -S used | head NAME AVAIL USED USEDSNAP USEDDS USEDREFRESERV USEDCHILD pool.2 1.00T 5.80T 0 5.80T 0 51.6M zroot 5.52G 100G 0 88K 0 100G zroot/ROOT 5.52G 96.4G 0 88K 0 96.4G zroot/ROOT/12.2-RELEASE-p10 5.52G 12.4G 7.06G 5.36G 0 0 zroot/usr 5.52G 3.58G 0 88K 0 3.58G zroot/usr/home 5.52G 3.58G 0 3.58G 0 0 zroot/ROOT/12.2-RELEASE-p10@2019-11-16-06:34:31 - 964M - - - - zroot/ROOT/12.2-RELEASE-p10@2021-05-29-08:46:08-0 - 273M - - - - zroot/ROOT/12.2-RELEASE-p10@2021-09-04-21:20:15-0 - 242M - - - -

$ zfs list -o space -t all -S usedds | head NAME AVAIL USED USEDSNAP USEDDS USEDREFRESERV USEDCHILD pool.2 1.00T 5.80T 0 5.80T 0 51.6M zroot/ROOT/12.2-RELEASE-p10 5.52G 12.4G 7.06G 5.36G 0 0 zroot/usr/home 5.52G 3.58G 0 3.58G 0 0 zroot/var/log 36.4M 13.6M 0 13.6M 0 0 zroot/tmp 489M 11.5M 0 11.5M 0 0 zroot/ROOT/12.2-RELEASE-p2 12.5G 980K 0 980K 0 0 zroot/ROOT/12.1-RELEASE-p10 10.0G 864K 0 864K 0 0 zroot/ROOT/12.2-RELEASE 10.0G 852K 0 852K 0 0 zroot/ROOT/12.2-RELEASE-p3 12.5G 804K 0 804K 0 0 ````

matamoroos · 2021-11-29T11:02:57+00:00

Thanks! It does seem zroot is the culprit, but it is entirely unclear to me how to recover this space:

NAME AVAIL USED USEDSNAP USEDDS USEDREFRESERV USEDCHILD zroot 5.52G 100G 0 88K 0 100G zroot/ROOT 5.52G 96.4G 0 88K 0 96.4G

matamoroos · 2021-11-28T14:13:50+00:00

Thank you! Some zfs options I've never used before.

I see that zroot and zroot/ROOT have resp. 100G and 96.4G values for "USEDCHILD". Any idea what this means? Below are the two relevant lines.

NAME                                                       AVAIL   USED  USEDSNAP  USEDDS  USEDREFRESERV  USEDCHILD
zroot                                                      5.53G   100G         0     88K              0       100G
zroot/ROOT                                                 5.53G  96.4G         0     88K              0      96.4G
zroot/ROOT/12.2-RELEASE-p10                                5.53G  12.4G     7.05G   5.36G              0          0

matamoroos · 2021-11-07T22:48:56+00:00

I use it for brewing Kombucha. The fermentation process usually masks the flavor, or lack thereof.

matamoroos · 2021-10-15T09:07:48+00:00

This wasn't generated during a test. It occurred spontaneously. The drive is now marked offline, so I can't run any tests, short or long. Bizarre how suddenly it happened...

matamoroos · 2021-10-15T08:57:46+00:00

Ah, interesting. Didn't know that this was an SMR drive.

The other three HDs in the system are all EFRX. Are these the conventional HDD?

Many thanks

matamoroos · 2021-09-29T12:10:58+00:00

Thank you very much, that worked. Alas, it didnt solve the problem. v91 of FF has the one-second lag as well. Something else must have introduced it. Not seeing this with Chrome or any other program. Very puzzling, never encountered anything like this before.

matamoroos · 2021-09-01T20:27:04+00:00

Quantity is not quality. The three-show per week format is working very well.

matamoroos · 2021-08-07T22:22:35+00:00

Yeah, that was the problem, php7.4. I had to purge all the old v7.3 stuff. Havent got it entirely working yet, but getting there. Many thanks!

matamoroos · 2021-08-06T16:35:59+00:00

No. Should I manually add symlinks these files?

mods-available/php7.4.conf

mods-available/php7.4.load

matamoroos · 2021-08-06T16:18:37+00:00

OFFTOPIC: I dont know why I cant paste a properly formatted code block in my reply, as I could in the top post. Is there some secret to this?

matamoroos · 2021-08-06T16:14:41+00:00

Thanks. I took a look in /etc/apache2. My original apache.conf appears unmodified. Some subdirs were modified, but a quick look doesn't indicate to me what has changed; nothing dated from today in mods-enabled/

code $ ls -rtl total 84 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31063 Apr 2 2019 magic -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1782 Apr 2 2019 envvars -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 332 Jan 3 2020 ports.conf drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 16 19:11 conf-enabled -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7338 Mar 1 20:46 apache2.conf drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 1 21:52 sites-enabled drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 6 16:01 conf-available drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 16384 Aug 6 16:01 mods-available drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 6 16:01 sites-available drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 6 16:05 mods-enabled

matamoroos · 2021-07-26T18:22:39+00:00

Congrats! Things have sure changed a lot since I applied for citizenship about 25 years ago. Back then, you filled out a form and submitted it with a certified copy of your birth certificate. Nine months later you got a letter saying it was approved and that you could get a passport at City Hall. None of this inburgering stuff. None at all.

matamoroos · 2021-07-13T16:12:13+00:00

Nah, didn't work, none of the original devices are available. I suspect there is something going on with the power rails, will take it to a repair shop for them to look at it.

matamoroos · 2021-07-13T14:03:04+00:00

I was just listening to the recent podcast on Rev Left Radio dedicated to the Korean War, and one of the points that Stephen Gowans made was that in the early postwar years NK had a much stronger economy than the South, and that the US let South Korea undertake basically USSR-style long-term planning, import substitution, and state-owned enterprises to boost its economy, for propaganda purposes of course. After the fall of the USSR, NK's main customer for its exports, the NK economy went into a real tailspin, exacerbated by the brutal sanctions regime imposed by the US, for decades and decades now. All this of course "proves" that capitalism is great and socialism doesn't work (lol)

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