Re: Cannot see a process listening on 127.0.0.1

Victor Sudakov writes: > It's different in *BSD which got me confused. In *BSD, even if you bind > to INADDR_ANY, you'll see something like this in sockstat output: > > root dovecot39601 21 tcp4 *:110 *:* > root dovecot39601 22 tcp6 *:110 *:* >

Re: ssh session times out annoyingly fast, why?

Britton Kerin writes: > I'm using ssh from a debian box to a rasberry pi (sorta debian also :). > > For some reason ssh sessions seem to time out pretty quickly. I've > tried setting ClientAliveInterval and ClientAliveCountMax and also > ServerAliveInterval and ServerAliveCountMax, but it

Re: Towards a custom personalized Debian installer

Richard Owlett writes: > The default of copying an ISO file to a device is inconvenient for my > peculiar goals. > I want an executable installer resident on an ext4 formatted partition. > It must be possible. A testable installer preceded ISO format. > I'm working thru

Re: linux isn't robust enough to handle bad sector??

Long Wind writes: > Test the Seagate ST3320311CS using the ThinkCentre and Seagate SeaTools > Bootable. > > it has only exe file, no iso file, you need Windows > https://www.seagate.com/files/old-support-files/seatools/USBbootSetup-SeaToolsBootable.zip Actually 7zip can extract the files from

Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice

Dan Ritter writes: > samba - if you need to share files with Windows That depends, Windows 10 Pro these days has NFS support. Not that good since it's from Microsoft but gets the job done.

Re: Can slrn decode MIME messages?

Charlie Gibbs writes: > Is there a way to get slrn to decode MIME messages? I'm > running Stretch on the laptop on which I read Usenet, and > "slrn --version" returns the following: It seems like yes with some work. I found an old patch for "minimal multipart handling" and it (mostly) applies

Re: what calculator do you use?

kaye n writes: > Hello Friends, > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see any calculator app in my Debian os. > What do you guys use? I'm having trouble with Galculator. > Thank you! I used to have a simple alias for tcsh which just evaluated the command line via awk, awk "BEGIN{ print $* }".

Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster

Greg Wooledge writes: > unicorn:~$ systemctl status -.mount > systemctl: invalid option -- '.' > Hint: to specify units starting with a dash, use "--": > systemctl [OPTIONS...] {COMMAND} -- -.mount ... > unicorn:~$ systemctl status -- -.mount > ● -.mount - / >Loaded: loaded

Re: BIOS time fine, Linux/Debian's isn't! ...

Brad Rogers writes: > On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 07:19:12 -0400 > Albretch Mueller wrote: > > Hello Albretch, > >> How do you make Linux get the time from the BIOS at start time and >>take it from there? > > Linux *is* reading the RTC; The problem is that Windows expects that > time to be in the

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

The Wanderer writes: > I'm fairly sure the live environment I used (the amd64 image from > https://www.debian.org/CD/live/) does likewise. I do have some other > bootable media (of extremely primitive nature, graphics-wise) which I > know for a fact uses ISOLINUX or similar, and I could try one

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

The Wanderer writes: > I need to get that live-boot medium ready and do those tests. That seems like a good thing to do. Another thing you could do is post your grub.cfg. It seems a little odd you haven't. Also from previous discussion I think it's worth mentioning that Grub doesn't actually

Re: Debian 9, dhclient does not update gateway

Tapio Lehtonen writes: > This is tail from /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.leases > lease { > interface "eth0"; > fixed-address 192.168.250.41; > option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; > option routers 192.168.250.6; > option dhcp-lease-time 3600; > option dhcp-message-type 5; > option

Re: Select which system to boot while rebooting

PstrfZ writes: > On the same machine I need to host three operating systems, all > debian-based.  Is it possible to select which system to boot > while rebooting? (My intent is then to reboot the selected system > by sending the command via SSH) Yes, I do this a lot in a script which

Re: Sharing files LINUX-LINUX / LINUX-WINDOWS / WINDOWS-WINDOWS

Kanito 73 writes: > At first I thought to use both SAMBA for LINUX-WINDOWS and maybe NFS for > LINUX-LINUX but I used NFS long time > ago and it was slow as a turtle. Is there another networking service > available that runs faster only for > LINUX-LINUX or it is better to use SAMBA for

Mysterious Clementine dependency on libgcrypt.so.11

I installed clementine music player today but it refuses to run, complaining: clementine: error while loading shared libraries: libgcrypt.so.11: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Um, well, libgrypt.so.11 hasn't been Debian for a bunch of versions and on other Debian 10

Re: Mysterious Clementine dependency on libgcrypt.so.11

The Wanderer writes: > As a start to troubleshooting: where did you install this from? The > Debian archives, or somewhere else? Never mind, old libmtp in /usr/local was the problem. Note to self, these should be cleaned up sometimes...

Re: Mysterious Clementine dependency on libgcrypt.so.11

deloptes writes: > Anssi Saari wrote: > >> Never mind, old libmtp in /usr/local was the problem. Note to self, >> these should be cleaned up sometimes... > > One good advise is to isolate custom builds and follow the rule > 1. if possible build debian package Tha

Re: exporting display like

Nicolas George writes: > mick crane (12020-12-17): >> please bear in mind I don't know what I'm doing. >> It is convenient to have the one display and keyboard/mouse >> I sometimes if on windows use putty/Xming to start GUI program on other >> Debian PC. >> Think I used screen before so can

Re: clipgrab as alternative to youtube-dl

Fred writes: > There is a binary for Linux available for download as a AppImage > file. What is an AppImage file and what does one do with it. The > program was probably compiled for Ubuntu. Is it likely to also run on > Debian? AppImage files are a kind of package that contain an app and all

Re: Debian 10 freezes unexpectedly.

Serkan KURT writes: > Hi. > Debian 10 freezes after a while when I watch a video with VLC or in a video > conference call (with Firefox or > Chromium). It is not clear when it will freeze. This problem was not > happening in Debian 9 8 7. I may have a related problem, for me Firefox window

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

The Wanderer writes: > On 2020-12-27 at 16:36, Anssi Saari wrote: > >> The Wanderer writes: >> >>> I need to get that live-boot medium ready and do those tests. >> >> That seems like a good thing to do. > > I have it ready now, but haven't shut

Re: How i do upgrade my operating system to Debian “buster”?

William Torrez Corea writes: > My version actually is Debian 4.19.146-1 (2020-09-17) x86_64 GNU/Linux. It seems you might already be running Buster although that looks like a kernel version. You can check with lsb_release -d or the GUI program hardinfo.

Re: Why is idle not detected?

Rainer Dorsch writes: > Is there a way to find out what is the holding back the idle detection? Some years ago I remember I had an indicator in KDE which clearly indicated the culprit. For me it was usually Chromium back then. I haven't seen that recently and I have no idea what provided that

Re: What is the command to access the temp sensors in a rpi4?

Gene Heskett writes: > Greetings all; > > ISTR there is a "vcg*" sort of thing to read that stuff, but have lost it > in the fog of time. vcgencmd measure_temp Or has that changed? I don't have a Pi 4, just a 3B and 3B+.

Re: Archivemail

Keith Bainbridge writes: > On 25/1/21 7:41 am, Jochen Spieker wrote: >> Is anybody still using MH mailboxes? > > I think that means each mail in its own file? If so YES, because if I > lose a file, I lose only 1 email not thousands. MH is a mail format where each mail is stored in separate

Re: Debian and Android

Dale Amon writes: > I simply want to drag my photos from the phone over a USB mount > and store them on my laptop. Well, if it's just photos then you could try using PTP instead of MTP. Should be under USB Preferences on the phone and I think Gnome's file manager should support it out of the

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

The Wanderer writes: > Unless someone else in the household happens to have Win10 install media > sitting around, which given that the number of tech-savvy people in the > household who run Windows is a grand total of 1 is not terribly likely. Microsoft does make their installation media freely

How to manage a firewall script with minor tweaks for different machines?

I've recently setup nftables firewalls on the machines of my little home network. I was a little optimistic and thought I could get by with a simple one that only allows ssh and nfs in i.e. two TCP ports and mDNS with its slightly more complex rules. But then... One machine has a radius server

Re: How to manage a firewall script with minor tweaks for different machines?

john doe writes: > You could have one common file that includes a custum file (1). > You would have one custum file per host (custum-cups, custum-smb ...). Right, thanks. I missed the whole include ability in nftables.

Re: How to manage a firewall script with minor tweaks for different machines?

Andy Smith writes: > Ansible can be very simple and quick to learn and everything you've > mentioned in your post can easily be done with it. Thanks, I'd heard of Ansible before and I tried it and cdist and decided to do this with Ansible. Mostly because I couldn't get anywhere with cdist.

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

Markus writes: > So it seems that apt-listbugs has done the pinning. Right? Right and while I've never used apt-listbugs, it should've asked you what to do when you updated your system? Since the issue concerns ARM based systems only, binning was not the correct choice. As the bug is fixed now

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

The Wanderer writes: > #990082 is for shim-signed, and it does seem to be closed now, but if > I'm reading the discussion correctly that's not the package we're > concerned with. True, especially as #990082 is specific to ARM. > $984520 is for grub-efi-amd64, which I think is the package we're

Re: badblocks

Cindy Sue Causey writes: > One caveat is that the "dual" docking stations that have the clone > ability may be easy to trigger into an irreversible clone that > destroys data on the second hard drive. I'd seen someone complain > about that in their product review. I suppose. I also have one of

Re: apt tells me that grub-efi, grub2-common are no longer needed

Markus writes: > Hi guys, it is nice that from all of this a little discussion took of. > But what can I actually do to fix my problem here? Any suggestions? What was the problem again? Just the suggestion to run apt autoremove which probably isn't a good idea now? Easiest is probably waiting

Re: make custom kernel

mick crane writes: > I've done it before but I've forgotten and the order. > What's the procedure for making a custom kernel? > Install linux headers > change to a "build" directory > make menu-config > ./configure > make > make dep > make install > make clean I assume there are full

Re: booting Debian default kernel with lilo results in kernel panic

Fourhundred Thecat <400the...@gmx.ch> writes: > How can I boot Debian kernel with lilo? I have a vague memory you may need to specify root option per image in lilo.conf. From my ancient lilo.conf: # Jessie stock kernel image = /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-amd64 label = "Jessie" initrd =

Re: Moving dual boot Win10 & Debian 10 system from Legacy to UEFI

"Juan R. de Silva" writes: > Do you guys think it is actually feasible? Anybody can suggest something > easier, smarter? It's a lot of work to do... :-( Why do you think this would be a problem? I intend to do this on my desktop system at some point. I thought I'd just get a new SSD and make

Re: Moving dual boot Win10 & Debian 10 system from Legacy to UEFI

"Juan R. de Silva" writes: > There is a difference in suggested by your link approach and my > requirements. I have reasons to avoid re-installation of my existing > Windows 10. The suggested procedure based on fresh install of Windows 10 > from from the media created by Microsoft Media

Re: Need help with ffmpeg installation - strange behaviour of my system - am I correct here?

Joerg Kampmann writes: > Hello group I wanted to install ffmpeg under Debian 9 and got some > errormessages (in German): How about errormessages not in German? LANG=en_US.utf8 apt install ffmpeg? > ffmpeg : Hängt ab von: libavcodec58 (>= 10:4.1.6) soll aber nicht > installiert werden

Re: No networking after resume from suspend

Richmond writes: > Dan Ritter writes: > >> Richmond wrote: >>> Looks like this bug: >>> >>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1798921 >> >> Could be. >> >> In which case, this will be solved in the new Stable, most >> likely out in May or June. >> >> You could try a

Re: Incorrect password Debian 10.8 after installation

David Christensen writes: > Questions: > > 1. How do I make a copy of a boot entry? (So that I can edit the > copy and keep the original.) In Grub, you don't really need to since changes are not saved. For permanent changes then in Linux edit the various files in /etc/grub.d and regenerate

Re: sshfs has fubared mount

Gene Heskett writes: > fusermount: user has no write access to mountpoint /sshnet/Hardinge1 > which is > ls -la /sshnet/ (on this machine) > total 84 > drwxr-xr-x 9 gene gene 4096 Feb 8 10:10 . > drwxr-xr-x 28 root root 4096 Dec 12 03:44 .. > drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Feb 4 15:59 GO704

Re: Incorrect password Debian 10.8 after installation

writes: > I don't know how far "some" reaches, but try -Q then > (mnemonics: Q like "quote"). > > Not Emacs-y, but worth a try would be -I Neither worked, although I only tried in grub-emu. But it should work the same as Grub.

Re: sshfs has fubared mount

Gene Heskett writes: > See my reply to David. All those mounts are to the root of the > filesystems on the other machines, and that then accounted for the fact > I was seeing root:root for the already mounted systems. A point that if > I ever knew it, I've since forgotten since the other

Re: how to set link/level in wifi configuration?

Long Wind writes: > ubuntu can easily connect above link/level 60, it's stable If you mean with same hardware and same location then why not stick with it since it works better? If you don't mean that then what do you mean?

Re: Creating my first LAN

Brian writes: > Ten minutes after writing that I recollected I possess a non-working > router. It is the first I bought (> 100 GBP) and has not yet beem > re-cycled. > > My network also hasn't any spare LAN ports to connect to and some of > the devices have beem wireless-enabled to communicate

Re: How to manually install WiFi firmware on Debian Live?

Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z writes: > Hello. > > I tried to make a "Realtek RTL8191SU Wireless LAN 802.11n USB 2.0 > Network Adapter" work on Debian 10 Live with LXDE, but I couldn't. > Here is what I already have tried: > > 1-. Downloaded package firmware-realtek from package.debian.org. > 2-. Booted

Re: How to manually install WiFi firmware on Debian Live?

deloptes writes: > Anssi Saari wrote: > >> udevadm trigger is the command to run to simulate plugging in the wifi >> adapter after you have the firmware available. I don't think modprobe >> loads firmware. > > loading the driver, loads the firmware > unloading

Re: Status update {Re: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems}

Richard Owlett writes: > The more I think about my observed symptoms, it would seem logical to > be kernel related. > > If the Linkzone is physically connected when PC is turned on, the boot > process will hang until the Linkzone is disconnected. I have a guess then. Maybe the Linkzone comes up

Re: How to manually install WiFi firmware on Debian Live?

Tixy writes: > That doesn't seem to be the standard method for the last 9 years, > see... > > https://lwn.net/Articles/518942/ > https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/5/175 Thanks. > Maybe the old ways are still enabled in Debian and used in some cases? > My bullseye kernel does have the kernel config

Re: How to make btrfs forget a disk?

Victor Sudakov writes: > "wipefs -t btrfs -f -a /dev/nvme1n1" did the job. > > Still wondering where those labels are stored on disk in Linux. Didn't wipefs tell you? I don't have any btrfs but for me wipefs prints at which offset it found which label. Like this, for a Linux swap partition: #

Re: How to manually install WiFi firmware on Debian Live?

IL Ka writes: > 1-. Downloaded package firmware-realtek from package.debian.org. > 2-. Booted Debian Live. > 3-. Copied package from hard disk to the desktop (apt complains when > I load it directly). > 4-. Executed: sudo apt install firmware-realtek > 5-. Executed: sudo depmod -a > 6-.

Re: How to manually install WiFi firmware on Debian Live?

Kenneth Parker writes: > That brings up a question: Do Debian and Devuan (Debian fork without > SystemD) use the same Kernels? > > (And I may be able to answer my own question when I get home, as I run both). At least the versions look similar, 4.19 in stable and 5.10 from backports.

Re: [TOTALLY OFFTOPIC] Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

Dan Ritter writes: > Intel knew that their argument was bull: they owned the market > and needed ways of subdividing their CPUs to fit every price > point. Turning off ECC support was one of those ways. > That strategy started with the 80486, when they brought out a > cheap version called the

Re: Debian install Question

Henning Follmann writes: > You will find a iso here which includes most of the non-free firmware here: > https://cdimage.debian.org/images/unofficial/non-free/images-including-firmware/10.8.0+nonfree/amd64/iso-dvd/ > > Please take the time to read AND understand the information on that site. I

Re: Debian install Question

Andrei POPESCU writes: > Try installing in expert mode (if the image boots), as far as I recall > there was an option to enable and use backports. Thanks. Well, the referenced LWN discussion mentioned tethering and indeed, plugging in my phone and enabling USB tethering resulted in a detected

Re: Deb10 installer can't install grub

Dave Sherohman writes: > Any tips on making use of the grub shell to make further progress, such > as getting the system to boot in non-rescue mode (i.e., not chrooted > from the installer)? The help information available in the grub shell > itself isn't terribly useful because it scrolls off

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

Felix Miata writes: > Also ip a. Someday you may no longer have arp: > Well, it's been about a decade since that was written but not much has changed. One issue is, ifconfig shows only one

Re: Mozilla VPN on Debian?

Brian writes: > On Fri 26 Feb 2021 at 18:04:28 +, D Dimov wrote: > >> Hello, >> Mozilla VPN is supposed to work on Ubuntu, but I wonder if it will >> work on Debian as well, considering that Ubintu is build on Debian. >> Has anyone tried? (The Mozilla support was not helpful in answering my

Re: Deb10 installer can't install grub

Greg Wooledge writes: > to...@tuxteam.de (to...@tuxteam.de) wrote: >> > 1x 4TB, single drive, 3.7 TB, w=108MB/s , rw=50MB/s , r=204MB/s >> > 2x 4TB, mirror (raid1),3.7 TB, w=106MB/s , rw=50MB/s , r=488MB/s > >> Thanks. Real data :) >> >> The doubling in read throughput is

Re: Mozilla VPN on Debian?

D Dimov writes: > And since you mentioned that you wouldn't sign up for it, do you have another > VPN > provider/service that you would recommend that works in Debian Buster > (stable) with just free > software? I've used AirVPN before (https://airvpn.org/), they have a web page for

Re: looks like I need an hid interface

Gene Heskett writes: > It looks as if dfu-programmer might work, but I just went to a buster > machine and installed dfu-* but the --targets listing output does not > include this particular ATmega1284p chip. avrdude might work instead. I haven't done much with ATmega anything in a while

Re: Reading of release notes (was Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye)

songbird writes: > Anssi Saari wrote: > ... >> And yes, the working upgrades are the reason I've stuck with Debian >> since Hamm. My ever evolving desktop computer is on its second >> installation now since I reinstalled when I switched to 64-bits >> somew

Re: Debian 11 Live USB with persistence?

Cmdte Alpha Tigre Z writes: > I wanted to do something exactly like that some months ago. > What I ended up doing is using a normal Debian installation > with an overlay file system mounted over the root. > It is too tricky to get the live images working with persistence. Thanks, but I actually

Re: Debian 11 Live USB with persistence?

"Thomas Schmitt" writes: > For legacy BIOS booting there is the need for an MBR which knows what > program of the boot loader to start. The Debian x86 ISOs have such an MBR > which knows the block address of the isolinux.bin program. But it does not > get copied to the USB stick by the 7z run

Re: deprecated options in openssh

Adam Weremczuk writes: > Installation and configuration was straightforward: > > sudo apt install logwatch > > /etc/cron.daily/00logwatch > #execute > /usr/sbin/logwatch --detail low --mailto x...@domain.com Maybe run logwatch manually and with different options? Like with --detail high or

Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

Steve Dondley writes: > I'm using zsh. > > What am I missing? In zsh, run rehash. Or start a new terminal.

Re: New SSD card for old dell 850

juh writes: > But I fear that it requires a sort of miniPCI interface that modern SSDs does > not > have. Can anyone confirm this or even better hint to a compatible > product? LITEONIT LMT-32L3M seems to be an mSATA drive. Those are around at least up to 500 GB in size. Another possibility

Re: nvme SSD and poor performance

Jochen Spieker writes: > Stay away from the "discard" option and do not worry about SSD life. What's the issue with the discard option? AFAIK, there may have been issues with it in the decade before last but again AFAIK, today some distros enable discard and some run fstrim on timer, both work.

Debian 11 Live USB with persistence?

I've tried a couple of ways to get a USB stick to boot (bios not efi) with persistence from debian-live-11.0.0-amd64-kde+nonfree.iso. Just stuffing that to the stick produces a working stick, just no persistence. The sparse instructions at https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/LiveUsbPersistence

Re: Reading of release notes (was Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye)

rhkra...@gmail.com writes: > But, if I did do an upgrade from one version to the next, it would not > surprise me if I forgot to read the upgrade notes. For me, the instructions for upgrading in the release notes are the only way I know how to find out how to upgrade Debian from one release to

Re: APT testing and unstabe Firefox: can't find newest version from unstable

rhkra...@gmail.com writes: > Top posting and not quoting anything as I'm coming from a different POV. > > If the OP needs firefox 91 (or whatever), there is another option, installing > the package available from Mozilla as a separate executable. Sure. I've had an issue with the Debian Buster's

Re: Dual GPU dual display support in Debian?

Linux-Fan writes: > Anssi Saari writes: > >> I was wondering, since I didn't really find anything definite via Google >> but is dual GPU dual display actually a supported configuration in >> Debian 11? > > I would be interested in knowing about that, too. I wo

Re: Debian 11, Nvidia Quadro P400, 2xiiyama 2560x1440, nvidia driver

Roger Price writes: > Before I plunge into the details, does anyone have a working xorg.conf > for such a setup? I would prefer to start with something that works > rather than describe in detail something that doesn't work. Maybe just dump the xorg.conf? If you use a desktop environment then

Dual GPU dual display support in Debian?

I was wondering, since I didn't really find anything definite via Google but is dual GPU dual display actually a supported configuration in Debian 11? So basically for a while I ran this kind of setup: Display 1 connected to CPU's integrated GPU (Core i7-4790K, Intel HD Graphics 4600).

Re: APT testing and unstabe Firefox: can't find newest version from unstable

"Daniel M." writes: > The debian package tracker (https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/firefox) > states that version 91.0.1-1 of firefox should be available, but I can > in no way install it. If you mean the line from that page "[2021-08-18] Accepted firefox 91.0.1-1 (source) into unstable (Mike

Re: Please help to test latest Debian 11 release candidate on real hardware

Andrey Ponomarenko writes: > LiveCDs for quick testing: > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-live-builds/amd64/iso-hybrid/ Well, are these images bootable via Grub directly and if so then what parameters are needed? Making testing easy eases testing...

Re: burn iso to usb

Stefan Monnier writes: >>> > cp /path/to/file.iso /dev/sdX >>> dd if=whatever.iso of=/dev/sdX >> It's up to taste. > > Not at all. The only right answer is: > > pv -parIe /dev/sdX Actually I'm not sure how good it is to have both -a and -r, pv doesn't really show which rate counter is

Re: burn iso to usb

David Wright writes: > On Mon 02 Aug 2021 at 16:14:15 (+0300), Anssi Saari wrote: >> Stefan Monnier writes: >> >> >>> > cp /path/to/file.iso /dev/sdX >> >>> dd if=whatever.iso of=/dev/sdX >> >> It's up to taste. >> > >

Re: OFFLIST: Gnome desktop removal messed up machine

writes: > It's fascinating how differently brains seem to be wired up. Awesome's > idea convinced me at first sight. So after my DE excursion (Gnome, then > XFCE, and deciding that no, I don't want anyone mounting my USB sticks > for me or limiting what I can do with my keyboard) I tried Awesome

Re: Only One Side Speaker is giving sound

Rishi writes: > Regarding my earlier mail. I am using debian on my laptop so the > speakers are internal speakers. I also use windows on dual boot on the > same laptop and I face no such audio issue while using Windows. So, I > am pretty sure it's not a hardware issue on my laptop. If it works

Re: percent char '%' in sudoers file

Bob Bernstein writes: > Full disclosure: In a typical Bob fit of impulsivity I, yes, edited > this file using 'sudo nsno /etc/sudoers'. In general, consider making a backup of config files before editing. Here's a sudo mini course: - Consider what needs to run as root and only run that

Re: OFFLIST: Gnome desktop removal messed up machine

Charlie writes: > On Thu, 5 Aug 2021 08:44:58 -0400 Greg Informed me about Re: > OFFLIST: Gnome desktop removal messed up machine > >> And I'm using fvwm with systemd. > > +1 :) Awesome Window Manager here, with systemd. I used to use fvwm for quite some time but fiddling with

New video card, how to deal?

I managed to snag a new video card with Nvidia's RTX3070Ti. Due to the recent release of the 3070Ti, I have a bit of a problem with Debian 10 as required drivers are quite new (460.84 or 465.31) and Buster has 460.73 in backports. And now Bullseye is frozen so presumably there won't be an

Re: partial freeze when playing 3D games

Toni Casueps writes: > Hi all, > > When running 3D games (video players or 2D games work fine), at a random > moment the image freezes. >From the video I guess this is about Windows games via some kind of emulation or translation layer? I really don't know. Maybe if you describe the setup?

Re: New video card, how to deal?

Felix Miata writes: > Have you tried both pure FOSS solutions? If xserver-xorg-video-nouveau is > installed, try purging it. The generic nature of the modesetting DIX could > conceivably be enough to run that

Re: New video card, how to deal?

didier gaumet writes: > There is an Experimental Debian repository which contains the most up- > to-date non-free Nvidia driver (470.57.02-1, similar to Nvidia > website): > https://packages.debian.org/experimental/nvidia-driver Yes, thanks. Sure, experimental and unstable too already have new

Re: New video card, how to deal?

Felix Miata writes: > Modesetting DIX driver > > (Device Independent X driver) > > as opposed to Device Dependent X drivers Amdgpu, Intel, Nouveau & Radeon. OK. Well, the man page says it's a driver for KMS devices? A raw Nvidia chip with no supporting kernel driver isn't going to present

Re: Bash script problem

"Gary L. Roach" writes: > Hi all; > > I have just recently delved into the magical world of Bash scripting > and programmed up the following script(not finished). The object is to > parse the Path and check for the existence of each directory. Please > don't send back an Awk or Sed statement

Re: How exactly do I create a Debian live USB?

kaye n writes: > When I try to enter the live Debian, I get the terminal-like screen with this > message: > > user@debian:~# [ 41.896110] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev fd0, > sector 0 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio > class 0 That looks like a normal prompt to me. With an

Re: Buster to bullseye upgrade: Worth it or not?

local10 writes: > Am considering upgrading from buster to bullseye and looking for some > feedback from those who have already done so. Was it worth it, in your > opinion? Absolutely. I have a new video card in my desktop with no support in Buster. Not even in backports. Could've hacked support

Re: GUI browser in VNC

Julius Hamilton writes: > Hey, > > I’d like to run a desktop in VNC and open GUI browsers like Firefox in it. > > I succeeded in setting up the VNC server but after installing Firefox, > Chromium and Chrome I find they don’t open when I launch them. > > Is this because I am root user?

Re: Debian 11: Unable to detect wireless interface on an old laptop computer

Joe writes: > There was an early period when N-M was known as 'Notwork Manager', but > that was long ago. How long? I'm just reminded setting up EAP-TLS authentication for wlan in NetworkManager, Ubuntu 18.04. It took some work, I think I found some instructions that didn't make much sense

Re: iwd: Using iwd to connect to a wireless network (Part 2 - DNS managers)

Stella Ashburne writes: > I also installed the package resolvconf because I need to use it with openvpn. If you mean you want to use the old script update-resolv-conf with openvpn, I never got that to do the right thing with any reliability. With systemd-resolved you can use

Re: iwd: Using iwd to connect to a wireless network (Part 2 - DNS managers)

Stella Ashburne writes: > Yes, I was referring to using the old script update-resolv-conf with OpenVPN. > >> I never got that to do the right thing with any >> reliability. >> > Please explain what you meant by your statement. > > I've been using update-resolv-conf with OpenVPN without problems

Re: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive

Nate Bargmann writes: > That leads me to think that discard could be problematic on some > devices. Does a USB flash drive fall into that category? "USB flash drive" is a little generic. Bottom of the barrel in quality and price are memory sticks like the Sandisk Ultra Fit mentioned and they

Re: Development permissions

"Paul M. Foster" writes: > However, as I said, this type of situation had to be common on old > Unix systems, and they didn't have git. They had to have solved it > some other way. For me in the 90s the solution was what's mentioned. Group, permissions and setgid bit. And everyone was told to

Re: slower Debian 11 after upgrade from 10

"Andrew M.A. Cater" writes: > In your case: I would add the contrib and non-free parts to the > /etc/apt/sources.list as suggested. But these firmware packages were in non-free also in Debian 10 so just upgrading to Debian 11 shouldn't have changed anything. Unless Luben changed his stance on

Re: xmodmap settings lost when (usb) keyboard reattached.

Vincent Lefevre writes: > In the past, I wrote a script, put in the /etc/pm/sleep.d directory: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=633849#92 > > but there were some issues with it, as I mentioned there. It's also not directly applicable when the issue isn't related to

Re: [OT] sending command to multiple SSH sessions, like in mRemoteNG

Marco Möller writes: > The remote session management app "mRemoteNG" for MS Windows comes > with a functionality by which a command can be entered to its "Multi > SSH" input field, and this command is then sent to all SSH connected > remote systems at once as if the command would have been typed

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