Re: apt upgrade in buster is confused

2023-07-24 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 4:36 PM Scott Edwards wrote: > > https://paste.debian.net/1286823/ > > I just want to upgrade to stable, but I'm stuck here Run 'apt-get update' first, and then 'apt-get upgrade'. If Apt-get fails, then try Aptitude. Aptitude has a better solver, and can often come up

Re: Upgrade to Debian 11 and still have the same problems.

2023-07-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 5:22 PM Maureen L Thomas wrote: > > So I have been snooping around the system and found this message in the lshw > command: > > *-generic DISABLED > > description: Wireless interface > > product: RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter > > vendor: Realtek

Re: Unable to ssh to Debian 9 from 9 or 11

2023-07-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 2:27 AM Roger Price wrote: > > On Sun, 16 Jul 2023, Intense Red wrote: > > > Are you trying to ssh into the box as the root user? > > I do not ssh into remote boxes as root; I use ssh to root only within the box. > > > If so, remember Debian's ssh configuration stops

Re: latest upgrade to systemd 252.12-1 error about invalid attributes /var/log/journal and slow sshd connections

2023-07-15 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 1:09 PM David Mehler wrote: > > [...] > > "2. "I noticed that when I change UsePAM yes to UsePAM no then this > issue is resolved." > > BINGO! I flipped that UsePAM setting to no and the problem has gone away. If you need a datapoint about UsePAM... I've been setting it

Re: Wireless temperature & humidity measurement

2023-07-14 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 3:37 AM Bruno Kleinert wrote: > > I'm looking for a wireless way to measure temperature and humidity indoor > with hardware off the shelf and software included in Debian 12 bookworm. > > Sensors --> Radio --> Receiver --> Any typical PC interface, e.g., USB, > Ethernet.

Re: file server

2023-07-12 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 6:07 AM jeremy ardley wrote: > > On 12/7/23 17:44, lina wrote: > > My computer only has 2 TB data storage capacity, > > > > I want to have 100 TB capacity to store/analyze data. > > On this scale it's almost certainly easier and cheaper to use a cloud > provider who can

Re: Migrating from hard drives to SSDs

2023-07-12 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 6:40 AM gene heskett wrote: > [ ...] > One of the things apparently missing in today's support for the arm64 > boards such as the bananapi-m5, is the lack of support for the nvme > memory on some of these devices. I have quite a few of them, all booting > and running from

Re: Migrating from hard drives to SSDs

2023-07-11 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 4:18 PM Mick Ab wrote: > > I am thinking of changing my storage from two 1TB hard drives in a software > RAID 1 configuration to two M.2 Nvme 1 TB SSDs. The two SSDs would be put > into a software RAID 1 configuration. Currently each hard drive contains both > the

Re: Bye Bye [preauth]

2023-07-05 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Jul 5, 2023 at 1:42 AM Vito.V wrote: > > Hi I have a question about preauth attempts per day. > > When I run logwatch Why do I get ? Bye Bye [preauth] : 2484 Times ? > > there are around 3000 connections to SSH per day. Is this amount normal ? > > Is this something to be concerned about?

Re: Why does Debian have code names for releases?

2023-07-03 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Jul 3, 2023 at 4:42 AM Roger Price wrote: > > On Sun, 2 Jul 2023, David Wright wrote: > > > Perhaps more people remember the A5 is the Holyhead Road, rather than > > Exactly my point that inanimate objects of which there are many examples are > best known by numbers. Numbers so well

Re: How do I remotely access the computer in the next room?

2023-07-02 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Jul 2, 2023 at 6:56 PM hobie of RMN wrote: > > I need the best way currently available to operate my brother's computer > in the next room through my computer. I think we're both running Debian > 11, the stable version for me, the testing version for him. I've tried > ssh -X. It does

Re: Monitor Problem

2023-07-02 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Jul 2, 2023 at 4:36 PM Felix Miata wrote: > Stephen P. Molnar composed on 2023-07-02 13:58 (UTC-0400): > [...] > > I am at a resolution of 1024x768. Also, after I got in the first tine I > > decided to reboot and see what would happen. I had to do the fix again, > > so, of course, it is

Re: When to sudo apt clean?

2023-06-27 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 2:18 PM Steve Sobol wrote: > > On 2023-06-27 10:54, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 23 Jun 2023 at 15:51:31 (-0700), Steve Sobol wrote: > >> On 2023-06-23 15:26, Emanuel Berg wrote: > >> > Steve Sobol wrote: > >> > > >> > > > In general people don't want to dist-upgrade

Re: Why does Debian have code names for releases?

2023-06-26 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 4:45 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > > riveravaldez wrote: > > It would be possible, as an alternative, to populate sources.list with > > '2021', > > for instance, instead of 'bullseye', 'bookworm', etc.? > > > > We could have something like, 'Debian 2023 - Bookworm', so,

Re: Why does Debian have code names for releases?

2023-06-26 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 12:21 PM Charles Curley wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Jun 2023 17:04:57 +0100 > Darac Marjal wrote: > > > OK, a question back at you, then: Why do you feel the need to > > remember Debian codenames? > > Imprimis: Because you use the code names as part of configuring > systems,

Re: Why does Debian have code names for releases?

2023-06-26 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 4:18 AM Roger Price wrote: > > I have difficulty remembering the Debian code names for releases Buzz Rex Bo > Hamm Slink Potato Woody Sarge Etch Lenny Squeeze Wheezy Jessie Stretch Buster > Bullseye Bookworm Trixie and Forky. > > It's much easier to remember that release

Re: Raspberry Pi Debian after upgrade Bullseye => Bookworm -- problem Setting up ca-certificates-java

2023-06-22 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 10:45 PM Rick Thomas wrote: > > That seems to have worked (I think)... > > On Thu, Jun 22, 2023, at 7:34 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > snip > > It might be worth looking at precisely what is not installed / removed > > dpkg -C will give you what needs

Re: Raspberry Pi Debian after upgrade Bullseye => Bookworm -- problem Setting up ca-certificates-java

2023-06-22 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 2:49 AM Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 21, 2023, at 9:21 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 12:15 AM Rick Thomas wrote: > >> > >> I have a Raspberry Pi that is running Debian (*not* Raspbian) that I just > >

Re: Raspberry Pi Debian after upgrade Bullseye => Bookworm -- problem Setting up ca-certificates-java

2023-06-21 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 12:15 AM Rick Thomas wrote: > > I have a Raspberry Pi that is running Debian (*not* Raspbian) that I just > upgraded from Bullseye => Bookworm. > > Following the upgrade whenever I try to install the latest upgrades, I get > errors (see attached transcript). > > Can

Re: Code of conduct reminder.

2023-06-21 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 4:51 PM Andy Smith wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 06:52:57PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > Could we please finish the package managers thread at this point? > > Do you include in that the sub-thread of that where the OP is > (still) attempting to get Synaptic to

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 2:24 AM Maurice Heskett wrote: > On 6/20/23 22:17, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:03:24 -0400 > > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > [...] > >> In a sensible design, the GUI part would run as you, and it would send > >> requests to a daemon that runs as

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 10:17 PM wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:03:24 -0400 > Greg Wooledge wrote: > [...] > > In a sensible design, the GUI part would run as you, and it would send > > requests to a daemon that runs as root, or simply issue shell commands > > with "sudo" or something, to do

Re: VirtualBox key is store in deprecated legacy keyring

2023-06-19 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 11:15 PM Rick Thomas wrote: > > I recently upgraded one of my Debian Bullseye machines to Bookworm. The > machine's main purpose is to run Virtualbox to allow me to experiment on > disposable VMs rather than real hardware. > > Now when I do "apt update" I get this

Re: How to stop systemd or whatever does,to always tries to check and fix disk errors

2023-06-19 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 8:48 PM Stefan Monnier wrote: > > [...] > > of=/dev/mmcblk1 status=progress bs=2M but very rarely it wants to boot. I > > don't understand where the error is. When I insert the sd card into the > > slot it beeps and it prepares itself to boot chrome OS from the internal >

Re: chroot: can't execute command "/bin/bash": No such file or directory

2023-06-18 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 5:03 AM Mario Marietto wrote: > > [...] > I've debootstrapped jessie on Ubuntu 14.04 with this command : > > debootstrap --foreign --arch=armhf jessie jessie-armhf > http://archive.debian.org/debian > > and it worked ok,but when I try to chroot within it : > >

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-17 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Jun 17, 2023 at 3:12 PM Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > One of the big differences between apt-get and aptitude is the resolver > > which is much more sophisticated (which doesn't necessarily mean always > > "better) in aptitude. > > Indeed, `aptitude` was not able to find a way to upgrade

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 2:32 PM gene heskett wrote: > > greetings, just had to reinstall bullseye. from an 11.2 netinstall. > > Sudo -E cannot run synaptic, and cannot run it from menu pulldown after > entering my pw. So what package manager with a gui for selection is > compatible with wayland?

Re: Bookworm upgrade, usrmerge failure

2023-06-12 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 5:48 AM Bastien Durel wrote: > > Hello, > > During bookworm upgrade, I ran into some usrmerge failures, which led > to an hard-to-fix situation > > Paramétrage de usrmerge (35) ... > > FATAL ERROR: > Both /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libidn.so.11 and >

Re: Debian home page -> Download link broken:

2023-06-11 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 3:35 PM Brian wrote: > > On Sun 11 Jun 2023 at 15:24:16 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 2:12 AM Tixy wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, 2023-06-10 at 23:55 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > Deb

Re: Debian home page -> Download link broken:

2023-06-11 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 2:12 AM Tixy wrote: > > On Sat, 2023-06-10 at 23:55 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > Debian's wiki says to use apt-get: > > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUpgrade. Also see > > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/uptodate.html .

Re: give us a clue

2023-06-11 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 1:24 PM mick.crane wrote: > [...] > I used firmware-bookworm-DI-alpha1-amd64-DVD-1.iso on a USB stick > and previously bookworm alpha "something or other" which is on a CD and > I've not got the iso to report the exact name.. > The keyboard and mouse respond in the BIOS

Re: Debian home page -> Download link broken:

2023-06-11 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 2:12 AM Tixy wrote: > > On Sat, 2023-06-10 at 23:55 -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > Debian's wiki says to use apt-get: > > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUpgrade. Also see > > https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/uptodate.html .

Re: Removing i386 architecture

2023-06-10 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 10:27 PM wrote: > > Folks: > > In order to install steam from the Debian repo, I followed the > directions to: > > dpkg --add-architecture i386 > > prior to the installation. Turns out steam wouldn't run my game, so I > uninstalled it. Now I don't need the i386

Re: Debian home page -> Download link broken:

2023-06-10 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 8:13 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 10, 2023 at 06:52:59PM -0400, songbird wrote: > > = > > # apt-get update > [...] > > Reading package lists... Done > > E: Repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian-debug testing-debug InRelease' > > changed its 'Codename'

Re: Email sender refusing to send to unknown ca

2023-06-02 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Jun 2, 2023 at 2:20 PM Tim Woodall wrote: > > Anyone come across delivery failures where the client cert is signed by > an internal ca. Are you sure it's not a self-signed end-entity certificate used in an Opportunistic Encryption scheme?

Re: Isn't KDE Live ISO accompanied by an ultra-light Windows Manager, like OpenBox is with LXDE?

2023-05-30 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 8:25 AM wrote: > > On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 09:20:47PM +0900, Byung-Hee HWANG (황병희) wrote: > > [...] > > > Also i'm using old things such as old smartphone(s) made by LG, and old > > book <>, and old Tractor > > (my day job is farmer in South Korea). > > Farmers are the

Re: libqt5 errors

2023-05-29 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 12:57 AM Owen Hogarth wrote: > > I am running debian version: > PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)" > NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" > VERSION_ID="12" > VERSION="12 (bookworm)" > VERSION_CODENAME=bookworm > ID=debian > HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/; >

Re: pan nntp via stunnel.

2023-05-26 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 11:57 AM wrote: > > https://wiki.debian.org/Pan states, > > " ... to generate a RSA Private Key > #openssl genrsa -out priv.pem > > Generate Certificate > #openssl req -new -x509 -key priv.pem -out stunnel.pem -days 1095" > > No problem. I put the two files in

Re: Debian upgrade is failing

2023-05-23 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, May 23, 2023 at 8:57 AM Sayali Gole wrote: > > Debian 9 upgrade is failing ,failed to fetch url of source.list file > > Please provide solution on this issue asap. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUpgrade

Re: homebrew for debian or ubuntu

2023-05-17 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 5:25 PM Charles Curley wrote: > On Wed, 17 May 2023 14:02:22 -0700 > Dan Hitt wrote: > > > In a thread on backups, somebody mentioned backing up homebrew. > > > > So that means homebrew exists for linux, and that some active > > participants here use it. > [...] > Also,

Re: No space left on device ...

2023-05-17 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 1:06 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > > Albretch Mueller wrote: > > In case someone runs into the same problem, for some reason I can't > > quite understand "sudo hwclock --set" wasn't working. Someone helped > > me: > > > >

Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are usingthe wrong driver

2023-05-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 9:59 AM gene heskett wrote: > [...] > Couple that with my recent discovery that debian seems to be shipping > the cups from apple, last updated by its author in 2019. The new cups > site, openprinting.org copy's src cups-master.zip is about 2.5 times the > size of the

Re: how to find out regdomain/country of wifi network

2023-05-15 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 12:01 PM gene heskett wrote: > [...] > The point is that what can be done in software, can also be undone. I spent a lot of time on Fravia's site back in the 1990's. There was no protection scheme we couldn't break. Or I don't recall one.

Re: No space left on device ...

2023-05-14 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, May 14, 2023 at 8:32 PM Albretch Mueller wrote: > > I have been mounting an NTFS file system on a Windows laptop without > any problems whatsoever with a Debian Live DVD: > > $ uname -a > Linux debian 5.10.0-18-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.140-1 (2022-09-02) > x86_64 GNU/Linux > > and even

Re: how to find out regdomain/country of wifi network

2023-05-14 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 5:35 AM hl wrote: > > freebsd ask me regdomain/country of wifi when i set up wifi > > my wifi works in buster, how to find out regdomain/country it uses? > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/action/show/WiFi/RegulatoryDomainSupport?action=show=WiFiRegulatory > > To view the

Re: relevance of packages in repositories

2023-05-08 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, May 7, 2023 at 3:10 PM Brian wrote: > > On Sun 07 May 2023 at 14:57:32 -0400, Lee wrote: > > > On 5/7/23, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > On Sun, May 7, 2023 at 7:30 AM Дмитрий wrote: > > >> > > >> the stable version of Neodim 9.0 in debia

Re: relevance of packages in repositories

2023-05-07 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, May 7, 2023 at 7:30 AM Дмитрий wrote: > > the stable version of Neodim 9.0 in debian 12 is the SEVENTH version, and in > order to get the current version, you need to drag something like Homebrew, > it really pisses you off and pushes you away from using the distribution You might give

Re: Proper use of checkrestart

2023-05-05 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Apr 29, 2023 at 5:38 AM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > I have a script that fully updates a machine each night around 4:00 > AM. It also reboots the machine as required. > > I noticed Debian has checkrestart. The man page is at > https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/debian-go

Re: What settings should be used for VM?

2023-05-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 8:42 AM Igor Korot wrote: > > I am trying install Debian Buster on the VirtualBox as a guest. > > I set the VM to use HostOnly network with DHCP enabled, but when I ran the > installer it failed to auto-configure the network. > > How do I solve it? The Debain wiki for

Re: Auto-completion in Terminal

2023-05-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 11:39 PM Igor Korot wrote: > > I successfully installed Debian Buster on the VM. > Then I put in the Gues Additions CD in, open the Terminal, became root and > tried to do > > [code] > ./VBox > [/code] > > and then I pressed TAB, but nothing happened. > > What is going on?

Re: What settings should be used for VM?

2023-05-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 10:31 AM Igor Korot wrote: > > Hi, Jeffrey, > > On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 9:03 AM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 8:42 AM Igor Korot wrote: > > > > > > I am trying install Debian Buster on the VirtualBox a

Re: What settings should be used for VM?

2023-05-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, May 4, 2023 at 8:42 AM Igor Korot wrote: > > I am trying install Debian Buster on the VirtualBox as a guest. > > I set the VM to use HostOnly network with DHCP enabled, but when I ran the > installer it failed to auto-configure the network. > > How do I solve it? The guest should use a

Re: Impossible to change ownership of a file to user when user is UID 0

2023-05-01 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 10:50 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Mon, May 01, 2023 at 04:37:34PM +0200, Pierre Willaime wrote: > > On this system (not installed by me), my user has an UID and GID of 0 in > > /etc/passwd. Several users share root privileges like this on the server. > > > > >

Re: Impossible to change ownership of a file to user when user is UID 0

2023-05-01 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 10:44 AM Pierre Willaime wrote: > > Hi, > > I am unable to connect via SSH without password (ssh-copy-id was launched) to > a VM running Debian Stable. > > After some investigations, it is most likely a permission issue > > May 1 15:32:42 vm sshd[131848]: debug1: trying

Re: repeat of previous question that has gone unanswered severaltimes.

2023-05-01 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, May 1, 2023 at 9:40 AM gene heskett wrote: > > [...] > >lpinfo -v > gene@bpi51:~$ lpinfo -v > -bash: lpinfo: command not found > gene@bpi51:~$ sudo apt install lpinfo > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > Reading state information... Done > E: Unable to

Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using the wrong driver

2023-04-29 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 5:16 PM Schwibinger Michael wrote: > > Good afternoon. > The new printer is not working. > EPSON is saying > You cant use EPSON with Linux. > > Is this true? Plonk!

Proper use of checkrestart

2023-04-29 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Hi Everyone, I have a script that fully updates a machine each night around 4:00 AM. It also reboots the machine as required. I noticed Debian has checkrestart. The man page is at https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/debian-goodies/checkrestart.8.en.html. I want to ensure I understand "Exit

Re: sha256sum --text generating blank spaces and hyphens?

2023-04-26 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 3:42 AM Albretch Mueller wrote: > > This is not a debian question per se (more like a Linux bash one), > but I wasn't able to find an answer on the Internet. > > Here is first the problem I am having before you start reading a > conspiracy theory into it ;-) > > I need

Re: Putting important stuff exclusively in the subject [was: is it imminent that bookworm becomes stable?]

2023-04-25 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 5:36 AM hl wrote: > > > On 4/25/23 15:39, dmacdoug wrote: > > It's not that readers can't see both the message and the subject line at > > the same time, it's more a matter of expectations. > > > > There are a large number of ways to read messages from the list. I happen

Re: AW: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you areusing the wrong driver

2023-04-24 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 1:44 PM Curt wrote: > [ ...] > > I bought a HL-L2350DW not too long ago after my HL-2030 experienced a paper > jam > that wouldn't go away even though there was no longer any visible paper > stuck anywhere and in my infinite patience I kind of ripped the thing > apart and

Re: Starting stunnel with systemd.

2023-04-23 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 12:57 PM wrote: > > After starting interactively, stunnel works. > > To automate, this service file was created. > > $ cat /etc/systemd/system/stunnel.service > [Unit] > Description=StunnelStarter > Documentation=man:stunnel(8) > After=network.target auditd.service > >

Re: Gnome desktop environment

2023-04-22 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 4:49 PM Peter Ehlert wrote: > > On April 22, 2023 12:58:24 PM Mark Fletcher wrote: >> >> On Sat, 22 Apr 2023 at 20:53, William Torrez Corea >> wrote: >>> >>> I want to delete the Gnome desktop environment. >>> >>> What command is used for an elimination complete? >>>

Re: tmp on tmpfs

2023-04-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 10:14 AM Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2023-04-19 08:34:50 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > There is one downside to /tmp on tmpfs: it eats RAM. You gotta > > have some of it (currently I've 9G free on / and 16G RAM). > > True, and when I used tmpfs in the past (in

Re: Apt sources.list

2023-04-18 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 1:46 PM Frank wrote: > > Op 18-04-2023 om 16:33 schreef Vincent Lefevre: > > On 2023-04-15 21:59:19 +0200, Frank wrote: > >> Op 15-04-2023 om 18:12 schreef Tixy: > >>> Testing doesn't get explicit security support so there's no point in > >>> having 'testing-security'

Disable laptop suspend and hibernate when plugged-in or charging?

2023-04-18 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Hi Everyone, I have a Pinebook Pro, https://www.pine64.org/pinebook-pro/ . The laptop suspends or hibernates even when charging. I cannot SSH into it. I want to disable suspend or hibernate while the laptop is plugged-in. I visited https://wiki.debian.org/Suspend , but it does not discuss the

Re: Apt sources.list

2023-04-17 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 12:45 AM wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 09:20:22PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > [...] > > > Corporations don't need browser cooperation for Data Loss Prevention > > > (DLP) (but they already have it). Corporations just run an > >

Re: Apt sources.list

2023-04-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 4:52 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 3:06 PM Tim Woodall wrote: > > > > On Sat, 15 Apr 2023, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > Now, personally I don't feel this is a threat model that I need to > > > worry

Re: Apt sources.list

2023-04-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 3:06 PM Tim Woodall wrote: > > On Sat, 15 Apr 2023, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > Now, personally I don't feel this is a threat model that I need to > > worry about. I just use plain old http sources at home, and if "They" > > learn that I've downloaded rxvt-unicode and

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 10:08 AM Jesper Dybdal wrote: > ... > In the long term, now that I'm retired, I hope to drop Windows > completely - but not quite today :-). ++ My family went Windows-free about 2014. Grandparents, parents and me are all using Linux. I cut them over to Linux because of

Re: Apt sources.list

2023-04-15 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 11:09 AM wrote: > On Sat, 15 Apr 2023 14:01:27 +0100 > Alain D D Williams wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 08:52:06AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > While we are talking about this, is there any reason why all the > > http: should not be https: ? > > > > I have done

Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using the wrong driver

2023-04-15 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Apr 15, 2023 at 4:26 PM Bret Busby wrote: > > On 16/4/23 03:57, Bret Busby wrote: > > On 15/4/23 19:41, Brian wrote: > > > > > > > >>> Why not just everyone attack each other? > >> > >> There have not been any attacks whatsoever on any users. > >> > >>> This looks like an uncontrolled

Re: Mailing list usage questions

2023-04-12 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 2:06 PM wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 02:02:39PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > [...] > > > If you wish to wander from the convention, then don't be surprised > > when unexpected things happen. > > Unexpected things happen to me

Re: Mailing list usage questions

2023-04-12 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 1:52 PM wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 12:38:37PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 10:12 PM The Wanderer wrote: > > > > > > ... > > > Some mail services apparently treat this "discard incoming mess

Re: Mailing list usage questions

2023-04-12 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 10:12 PM The Wanderer wrote: > > ... > Some mail services apparently treat this "discard incoming messages that > look like duplicates of ones you already have a copy of" behavior as a > feature; Gmail is the best-known example. That has problems when (as > with this

Re: https://: vs. https://:.

2023-04-10 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 3:30 PM wrote: > > Noticed this oddity when working with the new service. > > $ nslookup hornby.islandhosting.com > Server: 192.168.0.1 > Address:192.168.0.1#53 > > Non-authoritative answer: > Name: hornby.islandhosting.com > Address: 158.69.159.172 >

Re: the front (was: " Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: how to limit a CPU temperature?")

2023-04-08 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 1:29 PM Emanuel Berg wrote: > > >> I recommend to go fanless whenever possible. > >> Computers should be silent. > > > > Yeah, optimally ... > > What would happen, if we started a political movement based on > nationalism and Unix? > > What would be the first thing we would

Re: How: Require root password instead of user password for GUI programs

2023-04-06 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 8:36 AM B.M. wrote: > > I configured my system such that some users are in group sudo, but they are > asked for the root password instead of just their user password by creating a > file within /etc/sudoers.d/ with the line: > > Defaults rootpw > > This is working just

Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

2023-04-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 1:37 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 06:29:50PM +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > But cropping and ignoring the actual point of Stefan's mail rather > > misses the point and insults him. For example, three CVEs chosen at > > random from the

Re: package libxnvctrl0 installed by xfce, but nouveau is installed

2023-04-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 9:18 AM zithro wrote: > > I have a bug with the nouveau driver shown in dmesg, so I looked up for > solutions. > On freedesktop.org, they say to remove everything concerning nvidia > first, and only installing/using "nouveau" packages. > On my system, I found the package

Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

2023-04-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Apr 4, 2023 at 9:46 AM Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > Here are three more data points. > > > >* Emacs - 41 CVEs since 2000 [1] > >* Vi - 61 CVEs since 1999 [2] > >* Vim - 656 CVEs since 2001 [3] > > > > I'm not sure how many CVEs overlap for Vim due to Vi. > > I don't know what

Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

2023-04-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 1:31 PM Emanuel Berg wrote: > > Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > >> I saw many commands in /bin and /usr/bin are written by > >> perl. is perl still the first choice for sysadmin on linux? > > > > I am surprised this thread has not start

Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

2023-04-03 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Apr 2, 2023 at 4:59 AM wrote: > > I saw many commands in /bin and /usr/bin are written by perl. > is perl still the first choice for sysadmin on linux? I am surprised this thread has not started a mini-flame war. About the best you can say is, Perl is one of the more popular scripting

Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back

2023-03-26 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 5:16 AM Jesper Dybdal wrote: > > Yesterday, I upgraded Buster => Bullseye. For completeness, here is the Debian procedure for a release upgrade: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUpgrade . Jeff

Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back

2023-03-26 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 5:16 AM Jesper Dybdal wrote: > > Yesterday, I upgraded Buster => Bullseye. > > This morning, I got a mail from unattended-upgrades, which said: > > > Packages with upgradable origin but kept back: > > Debian stable: > >guile-2.2-libs w3m > > and > > Package

Re: ssh-add after graphical login

2023-03-23 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 8:57 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 08:53:48AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 4:43 AM Yassine Chaouche > > wrote: > > > > > > I'd like something to run ssh-add right after I login to m

Re: ssh-add after graphical login

2023-03-23 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 4:43 AM Yassine Chaouche wrote: > > I'd like something to run ssh-add right after I login to my desktop > (KDE). > ssh-add needs to prompt me for my passphrase, > and doesn't need any privileges. > > What are my options? You can remove the passphrase from the key. Then

Re: How to install virtual keyboard for KDE

2023-03-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 2:10 PM Yvan Masson wrote: > > Using Debian testing with KDE, can someone tell me which package > provides a virtual keyboard for KDE ? I installed > qtvirtualkeyboard-plugin but it does not appear in KDE preferences > (although it works on SDDM). > > I already tried

Re: New Dell Inspiron 15 3000 Series 3511 sound problem on Debian 11 Stable

2023-03-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
> On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 7:55 PM Default User wrote: > [...] > My new machine does not seem to be listed there. Not surprising, since > manufactured in 2023-January. Components used in the machine may be listed. I got lucky on a HP laptop with an Ice Lake processor

Re: New Dell Inspiron 15 3000 Series 3511 sound problem on Debian 11 Stable

2023-03-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 7:55 PM Default User wrote: > > I just got a brand new Dell Inspiron 15 3000 Series 3511 laptop. Came with > Windows (ugh!) preinstalled. > My old Dell Inspiron 15 3000 Series 3542 laptop (made in 2014) just died. So > this one should work, right? > > No. Also see

Re: bookworm sha256sum may be defective

2023-03-17 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 9:36 AM Jude DaShiell wrote: > > I have had multiple verification failures checking an iso with a sha256sum > verification file and am wondering if that program and the rest of the > shaxxxsum programs have one or more bugs that could account for these > failures. That

Re: auto restarting in crontab

2023-03-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 7:03 PM Dan Ritter wrote: > > debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > Dan Ritter wrote: > > > p...@ymail.ne.jp wrote: > > > > For dev stuff, for example, I have many versions of ruby installed > > > > in the system by rbenv. > > > > > > > > Since I often change default ruby

Re: home server for email box

2023-03-12 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 9:05 PM Jeremy Ardley wrote: > > On 13/3/23 06:39, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > O > >> Each of those options has been chosen by the mail list administrator. > >> > >> As a general principal it's a good thing to know the system sending you > >> mail > >> is genuine. Given

Re: real debian or true debian?

2023-03-12 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 9:02 PM wrote: > > When such a debian (the digital product) is authentic, should we say it > "real debian" or "true debian"? > > I am not sure about this statement. I am having trouble parsing what you are asking... What is the context? Debian provides distribution

Re: SIP servers.

2023-03-11 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 7:54 PM wrote: > > Appears that repro remains unavailable. > https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual/Repro > > Also ekiga is gone. > > What are the current recommendations for SIP servers? There's also osip, https://www.gnu.org/software/osip/ . The last time I checked

Re: List admin email address?

2023-03-10 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 1:32 AM john doe wrote: > > On 3/11/23 06:14, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > I receive bounces when using the debian-users list (see below). I'd > > like to get the bad email address removed from the list. > > > > I want to conta

List admin email address?

2023-03-10 Thread Jeffrey Walton
Hi Everyone, I receive bounces when using the debian-users list (see below). I'd like to get the bad email address removed from the list. I want to contact the list admin, but I cannot find a contact at [1] or [2]. How do we contact the list admin? Thanks in advance. [1]

Re: Excel Spreadsheet to PDF (was: Re: PDF on debian)

2023-03-09 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 10:42 PM Charles Curley wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Mar 2023 08:50:08 +0800 > Corey Hickman wrote: > > > If I want to convert some excel files to PDF, what's the suggested > > way? I know I can program with java to implement that, but if there > > are existing command-line

Re: No /

2023-03-07 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Mar 7, 2023 at 11:34 AM Michael Lee wrote: > > Is it possible to reinstall the system and still retain the settings, logins, > etc.? Also see Data Management, https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch10.en.html . Jeff

Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .

2023-03-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Mar 4, 2023 at 12:12 PM David Wright wrote: > > On Sat 04 Mar 2023 at 01:02:54 (-0500), Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 6:10 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 05:45:54PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > The 'p

Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .

2023-03-03 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 6:10 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 05:45:54PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > The 'p' is a pci bus, the 's' is a slot number. Since the interface > > does not move around once installed, the interface will always have > > th

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