[sf-perl] The SF Perl Raku Study Group, 02/09 at 1pm PST

[Joseph Brenner]

Hey David--

I eventually fixed the problem by doing a full upgrade to Debian 12, which
as it happens took forever to complete.

(I think I may go back to reinstalling from scratch, it's probably faster,
if only because it skips unpacking the accumulated cruft of packages I
haven't really been using.)



On Sun, Feb 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM David Christensen <dpchrist at holgerdanske.com>
wrote:

> On 2/5/25 12:06, Joseph Brenner wrote:
> > ... The Raku Study Group
> >
> > February 9, 2025  1pm in California, 9pm in the UK
>
>
> On 2/9/25 13:02, Joseph Brenner wrote:
> > Zoom won't let me get into the meeting unless I upgrade first.
> > Excellent.
>
>
> On 2/9/25 13:21, Joseph Brenner wrote:
> > And after the install, the new zoom was grindingly slow and hanging
> > up my entire system.   Trying a full restart.
>
>
> On 2/9/25 13:27, Bruce Gray wrote:
> > Thanks for keeping us informed.
>
>
> On 2/9/25 13:39, Joseph Brenner wrote:
> > Sure.   Currently, trying to use zoom makes my system totally
> > unusable.  I'm trying a few drastic measures that could take some
> > time.
> >
> > Feel free to talk amongst yourselves, or just call this one a
> > bust... I have no idea when I'll be able to join the meeting.
>
>
> I would say "put Zoom into a VM after you have fixed your machine", but
> Zoom is going to need access to the camera and microphone; and I have
> never done so with my hypervisor of choice (VirtualBox from Oracle
> package servers).
>
>
> STFW for "VirtualBox Zoom appliance" produces scarce few hits:
>
> https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=virtualbox%20zoom%20appliance
>
> https://www.gilesorr.com/blog/zoom-in-virtualbox-debian.html
>
>
> Searching zoom.com for "site:zoom.com virtualbox" does not produce
> anything obvious:
>
> https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=site%3Azoom.com%20virtualbox
>
>
> A Zoom Virtualbox appliance would be useful.  Perhaps searching and/or
> posting on the Zoom community site could produce positive results.
>
>
> If and when your machine is stable, consider taking an image of the
> system drive.  I do this before updating Debian (e.g. monthly) and/or as
> needed (e.g. before and/or after major system changes).
>
>
> David
>
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