Duplex tumble options missing since CUPS upgrade

2020-07-01 Thread Gareth Evans
Hello, The duplex tumble option seems to have disappeared for me when printing, I think since a recent CUPS upgrade on Debian 10.4 No matter whether I use driverless or Brother drivers with MFC-L2740DW the only options are "short edge"/"long edge" or "portrait"/"landscape" respectively, but

rsync link corruption with -H and --link-dest

2020-11-21 Thread Gareth Evans
Hi all, I have asked this question on both the rsync mailing list and serverfault.com but got no response from either. I would be grateful, if this isn't too off-topic, if anyone could explain the following: man rsync for -H includes: "If you specify a --link-dest directory that contains

Re: Debian 10 and tethering USB

2020-11-23 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue, 24 Nov 2020, at 00:14, Gareth Evans wrote: > On Mon, 23 Nov 2020, at 16:08, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 13:55:25 + > > mag...@autistici.org wrote: > > > > > Instead a friend of mine has an iPhone. There were > > > no prob

Re: Debian 10 and tethering USB

2020-11-23 Thread Gareth Evans
On Mon, 23 Nov 2020, at 16:08, Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 13:55:25 + > mag...@autistici.org wrote: > > > Instead a friend of mine has an iPhone. There were > > no problems with Debian 10 and iOS 13, instead with > > iOS 14, 14.0.1 and 14.1 tethering USB does non work > >

Re: Debian 10 64bit

2020-12-15 Thread Gareth Evans
on) suggests a password error, doesn't it? The fact that sudo was made to work during the first installation (having not initially) suggests that su must have succeeded at some point, doesn't it? Kind regards, Gareth On Tue, 15 Dec 2020, at 18:12, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 0

Re: Debian 10 64bit

2020-12-15 Thread Gareth Evans
It seems to me that Jerry may have mistakenly typed a user rather than root password at the su (not sudo) prompt at least once, but also used the correct (root) password at least once. How else could changes to /etc/sudoers (which I imagine is what is meant by "the sudouse(r) file") have been

Re: Debian 10 64bit

2020-12-15 Thread Gareth Evans
e, 15 Dec 2020, at 18:12, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 06:02:48PM +, Gareth Evans wrote: > > It seems to me that Jerry may have mistakenly typed a user rather than root > > password at the su (not sudo) prompt at least once, but also used the > > correct (roo

Re: rsync link corruption with -H and --link-dest

2020-11-22 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sun, 22 Nov 2020, at 08:44, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 04:43:21AM +0000, Gareth Evans wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have asked this question on both the rsync mailing list and > > serverfault.com but got no response from either. >

Re: Hijacking Threads [was: Re: rsync link corruption with -H and --link-dest]

2020-11-22 Thread Gareth Evans
> On Sun, 22 Nov 2020, at 17:08, Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 16:55:19 +0000 > > "Gareth Evans" wrote: > > > > Hello Gareth, > > > > >On Sun, 22 Nov 2020, at 15:38, Brad Rogers wrote: > > >> Once one sets up

Re: Hijacking Threads [was: Re: rsync link corruption with -H and --link-dest]

2020-11-22 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sun, 22 Nov 2020, at 15:38, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 17:10:10 +0200 > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > Hello Andrei, > > >Starting a new e-mail requires filling out at least the To: address so > >it is easier to reply instead (especially with many addresses in To: > >and Cc: that

Re: Hijacking Threads [was: Re: rsync link corruption with -H and --link-dest]

2020-11-22 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sun, 22 Nov 2020, at 17:20, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 04:55:19PM +0000, Gareth Evans wrote: > > [...] > > > Thanks to all who have replied pointing out the issues. > > No worries. Things happen. No need to defend yourself, I hope. > >

Re: Hijacking Threads [was: Re: rsync link corruption with -H and --link-dest]

2020-11-22 Thread Gareth Evans
I may be a Claws convert :) Thanks G On Sun, 22 Nov 2020, at 17:08, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 16:55:19 + > "Gareth Evans" wrote: > > Hello Gareth, > > >On Sun, 22 Nov 2020, at 15:38, Brad Rogers wrote: > >> Once one sets up an MUA c

Re: problem with wifi

2021-01-19 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue, 19 Jan 2021, at 19:59, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 19 ian 21, 10:37:57, Gareth Evans wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Jan 2021, at 07:53, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Ma, 19 ian 21, 02:51:21, Gareth Evans wrote: > > > > > > I thought without eg. connman

Re: problem with wifi

2021-01-18 Thread Gareth Evans
On Mon, 18 Jan 2021, at 20:33, David Christensen wrote: > On 2021-01-18 01:14, Long Wind wrote: > > buster's wifi connection is ok for several hours, so i think problem > > disappearbut after rebooting pc, problem appears again > > wifi is provided by hotel, they hide AP somewhere, i don't know

Python 3 wicd

2021-01-18 Thread Gareth Evans
There is apparently a Python 3 fork of wicd (or two) but I can't figure out what state they're in - are either of these likely to become available in Buster repos? Backports? https://github.com/PXke/wicd-reloaded https://github.com/zeph/wicd The latter is apparently "migrated upstream" to

Re: problem with wifi

2021-01-19 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue, 19 Jan 2021, at 07:53, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 19 ian 21, 02:51:21, Gareth Evans wrote: > > > > If the machine in question has a desktop environment and > > NetworkManager (or equivalent), doesn't /etc/network/interfaces (or > > interfaces

Re: Python 3 wicd

2021-01-19 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue, 19 Jan 2021, at 08:16, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 19 ian 21, 02:54:25, Gareth Evans wrote: > > There is apparently a Python 3 fork of wicd (or two) but I can't > > figure out what state they're in - are either of these likely to > > become available in Bus

Re: Odd behavior of Debian 10.7 with MATE desktop

2021-02-01 Thread Gareth Evans
On Mon, 1 Feb 2021, at 12:46, Richard Owlett wrote: > I have just installed Debian 10.7 to my Lenovo T510 Thinkpad having > copied debian-10.7.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso to a flash drive [the machine is > intentionally isolated from the internet]. > > When logging in as user, everything appears normal.

Re: gnome-control-center

2021-01-31 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sun, 31 Jan 2021, at 17:46, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2021-01-31 17:09 +0000, Gareth Evans wrote: > > > I'm trying to install gnome-online-accounts on Debian 10.7 with Mate: > > > > > > $ sudo apt install gnome-control-center gnome-online-accounts > > [.

Disappearning shim-signed after failed dist-upgrade

2021-06-22 Thread Gareth Evans
A recent dist-upgrade on Buster (in a scripted cron job run at 01:00 daily) failed due to apt-listbugs complaining about the boot-breaking bug in shim-signed, and pinning v1.33 in the process. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=990082 The next (manual) dist-upgrade removed

Re: Disappearing shim-signed after failed dist-upgrade

2021-06-29 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue 29 Jun 2021, at 17:11, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 29 Jun 2021 at 08:29:22 (+0300), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Lu, 28 iun 21, 09:46:17, David Wright wrote: > > > > > > But your evening run of apt-get -y dist-upgrade was unconstrained, > > > and so shim-signed could be removed

Re: Disappearing shim-signed after failed dist-upgrade

2021-06-29 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue 29 Jun 2021, at 22:41, Gareth Evans wrote: > On Tue 29 Jun 2021, at 17:11, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 29 Jun 2021 at 08:29:22 (+0300), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Lu, 28 iun 21, 09:46:17, David Wright wrote: > > > > > > > > But you

Re: Disappearing shim-signed after failed dist-upgrade

2021-06-26 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue 22 Jun 2021, at 19:13, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 22 Jun 2021 at 08:59:13 (+0100), Gareth Evans wrote: > > A recent dist-upgrade on Buster (in a scripted cron job run at 01:00 daily) > > failed due to apt-listbugs complaining about the boot-breaking bug in > > shi

gnome-control-center

2021-01-31 Thread Gareth Evans
I'm trying to install gnome-online-accounts on Debian 10.7 with Mate: $ sudo apt install gnome-control-center gnome-online-accounts [...] Package gnome-control-center is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is

Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem

2021-08-22 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sun 22 Aug 2021, at 05:36, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 20 Aug 2021 at 14:13:55 (+0100), Gareth Evans wrote: > > On Fri 20 Aug 2021, at 04:45, David Wright wrote: > > > On Thu 19 Aug 2021 at 07:42:56 (+0100), Gareth Evans wrote: > > > $ apt policy pitivi > >

Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem

2021-08-22 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sun 22 Aug 2021, at 13:18, Gareth Evans wrote: > On Sun 22 Aug 2021, at 05:36, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 20 Aug 2021 at 14:13:55 (+0100), Gareth Evans wrote: > > > On Fri 20 Aug 2021, at 04:45, David Wright > > > wrote: > > > > On Thu 19 Aug 2021

Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem

2021-08-18 Thread Gareth Evans
On Wed 18 Aug 2021, at 00:44, Gareth Evans wrote: > Hello, > > I upgraded from Buster stable to Bullseye stable last night, with > apparent success eventually, but it went less than smoothly and I would > be grateful for any advice as to why that may have been. > > I fol

Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem

2021-08-20 Thread Gareth Evans
On Fri 20 Aug 2021, at 12:32, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 10:45:57PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > One might assume so, but only you can check that. There are two logs > > of the upgrade. /var/log/apt/history.log (and its predecessors) shows > > the command issued, followed by

Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem

2021-08-20 Thread Gareth Evans
On Fri 20 Aug 2021, at 04:45, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 19 Aug 2021 at 07:42:56 (+0100), Gareth Evans wrote: > > On Thu 19 Aug 2021, at 05:50, David Wright wrote: > > > On Thu 19 Aug 2021 at 04:00:04 (+0100), Gareth Evans wrote: > > > > On Wed 18 Aug

Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem

2021-08-18 Thread Gareth Evans
On Wed 18 Aug 2021, at 23:33, piorunz wrote: > On 18/08/2021 16:14, Gareth Evans wrote: > > Unpacking gir1.2-gst-plugins-bad-1.0:amd64 (1.18.4-3) ... > > [1mdpkg:[0m error processing archive > > /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-Un4rDW/28-gir1.2-gst-plugins-bad-1.0_1.18.4-3_amd

Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem

2021-08-23 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sun 22 Aug 2021, at 15:37, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 22 Aug 2021 at 13:18:38 (+0100), Gareth Evans wrote: > > On Sun 22 Aug 2021, at 05:36, David Wright wrote: > > > On Fri 20 Aug 2021 at 14:13:55 (+0100), Gareth Evans wrote: > > > > > There is also n

Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem

2021-08-17 Thread Gareth Evans
Hello, I upgraded from Buster stable to Bullseye stable last night, with apparent success eventually, but it went less than smoothly and I would be grateful for any advice as to why that may have been. I followed the preparation advice at

Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem

2021-08-19 Thread Gareth Evans
On Thu 19 Aug 2021, at 05:50, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 19 Aug 2021 at 04:00:04 (+0100), Gareth Evans wrote: > > On Wed 18 Aug 2021, at 23:33, piorunz wrote: > > > On 18/08/2021 16:14, Gareth Evans wrote: > > > > Unpacking gir1.2-gst-plugins-bad-1.0:amd64 (1.1

Re: Buster to Bullseye upgrade problem

2021-08-21 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sat 21 Aug 2021, at 13:42, Sven Hartge wrote: > Gareth Evans wrote: > > > So I would like to know if apt is not handling this properly, or if > > the scenario of a file changing packages (see David's previous email) > > is an expected exception to the (so

Re: Colemak layout at boot time

2021-09-18 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sun 19 Sep 2021, at 05:49, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 18 Sep 2021 at 21:56:34 (+0100), piorunz wrote: > > On 18/09/2021 20:00, David Wright wrote: > > > > > A lot of hits from googling grub colemak including > > > https://forums.debian.net//viewtopic.php?f=16=76833 > > > which uses

Re: Colemak layout at boot time

2021-09-19 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sun 19 Sep 2021, at 06:14, Gareth Evans wrote: > On Sun 19 Sep 2021, at 05:49, David Wright wrote: > > On Sat 18 Sep 2021 at 21:56:34 (+0100), piorunz wrote: > > > On 18/09/2021 20:00, David Wright wrote: > > > > > > > A lot of hits from googling

Re: Colemak layout at boot time

2021-09-19 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sun 19 Sep 2021, at 13:00, Gareth Evans wrote: > On Sun 19 Sep 2021, at 11:48, Gareth Evans wrote: > > On Sun 19 Sep 2021, at 06:14, Gareth Evans wrote: > > > On Sun 19 Sep 2021, at 05:49, David Wright > > > wrote: > > > > On Sat 18 Sep

Re: Colemak layout at boot time

2021-09-19 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sun 19 Sep 2021, at 13:43, piorunz wrote: > On 19/09/2021 13:26, Gareth Evans wrote: > > > The commands appeared to succeed (with suitable alteration of variables) > > but my VM now boots into a grub prompt immediately - doesn't ask for LUKS > > password. I thi

Re: Colemak layout at boot time

2021-09-19 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sun 19 Sep 2021, at 11:48, Gareth Evans wrote: > On Sun 19 Sep 2021, at 06:14, Gareth Evans wrote: > > On Sun 19 Sep 2021, at 05:49, David Wright wrote: > > > On Sat 18 Sep 2021 at 21:56:34 (+0100), piorunz wrote: > > > > On 18/09/2021 20:00, David Wright w

Re: runc CVEs in docker.io

2021-08-04 Thread Gareth Evans
On Mon 2 Aug 2021, at 11:48, Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Tuesday, 27 July 2021 18:07:53 CEST Gareth Evans wrote: > > Given that these are all fixed in Bullseye (and at least the grave > > apt-listbugs issue has been fixed in eg Ubuntu since March 2020 [1]) why >

runc CVEs in docker.io

2021-07-27 Thread Gareth Evans
Hello, I was just trying to install docker.io on Buster stable when apt-listbugs complained about one of the open CVEs listed here: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/runc Given that these are all fixed in Bullseye (and at least the grave apt-listbugs issue has been

Re: QEMU/KVM doesn't open new window - Access only via vnc viewer

2022-03-31 Thread Gareth Evans
> On 31 Mar 2022, at 09:44, Dieter Rohlfing wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm just about to install Debian11/Bullseye on a host. There are several > VMs running under QEMU/KVM to set up. > > With Debian9/Stretch I created a new VM via command line: > > /usr/bin/kvm -drive >

Re: SD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-29 Thread Gareth Evans
> On 28 Jan 2022, at 20:40, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 28 Jan 2022 at 18:22:37 (+), Gareth Evans wrote: >>> On 28 Jan 2022, at 18:16, Gareth Evans wrote: >>>>> On 28 Jan 2022, at 16:52, David Wright wrote: >>>>> On Fri 28 Jan

Re: SD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-28 Thread Gareth Evans
> On 28 Jan 2022, at 18:16, Gareth Evans wrote: > >  > >>> On 28 Jan 2022, at 16:52, David Wright wrote: >>> >>> On Fri 28 Jan 2022 at 07:30:25 (-0600), Martin McCormick wrote: >>> David Wright writes: >>>> I've not heard of t

Re: SD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-28 Thread Gareth Evans
> On 28 Jan 2022, at 16:52, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 28 Jan 2022 at 07:30:25 (-0600), Martin McCormick wrote: >> David Wright writes: >>> I've not heard of that problem. You were prevented from zeroing the >>> entire device, which would have wiped the partition table anyway. >>> >>>

Re: Resize2fs Questions

2022-01-31 Thread Gareth Evans
> On 31 Jan 2022, at 17:58, Gareth Evans wrote: > >  > >> On 31 Jan 2022, at 17:37, Andy Smith wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 05:27:56PM +, Gareth Evans wrote: >>>>>> On 31 Jan 2022, at 14:41, Martin

Re: Resize2fs Questions

2022-01-31 Thread Gareth Evans
> On 31 Jan 2022, at 17:37, Andy Smith wrote: > > Hello, > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 05:27:56PM +0000, Gareth Evans wrote: >>>> On 31 Jan 2022, at 14:41, Martin McCormick wrote: >>> >>> #I should be telling resize2fs to squeeze everything in

Re: Resize2fs Questions

2022-01-31 Thread Gareth Evans
> On 31 Jan 2022, at 18:03, Gareth Evans wrote: > >  > >> On 31 Jan 2022, at 17:58, Gareth Evans wrote: >> >>  >> >>>> On 31 Jan 2022, at 17:37, Andy Smith wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> On Mon, Ja

Re: Resize2fs Questions

2022-01-31 Thread Gareth Evans
> On 31 Jan 2022, at 14:41, Martin McCormick wrote: > > #I should be telling resize2fs to squeeze everything in to a 7GB > #partition. > sudo resize2fs /dev/loop0p2 +7G > [...] > then I delete P2 and then add a > new partition which defaults to 2. This seems to replace the partition

Re: Resize2fs Questions

2022-01-31 Thread Gareth Evans
 > On 31 Jan 2022, at 23:36, Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 05:57:45PM +0000, Gareth Evans wrote: >>> On 31 Jan 2022, at 17:37, Andy Smith wrote: >> Hi Andy, I appreciate the data doesn't go anywhere, but... >> >>>> then

Bullseye - who and users return nothing

2022-01-24 Thread Gareth Evans
Hello, I've just noticed that: $ who and $ users both return nothing, with or without sudo. $ sudo strace who access("/var/run/utmpx", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) openat(AT_FDCWD, "/var/run/utmp", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing

2022-01-24 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue 25 Jan 2022, at 03:28, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 03:06:00AM +0000, Gareth Evans wrote: >> On Tue 25 Jan 2022, at 03:02, Gareth Evans wrote: >> > On Tue 25 Jan 2022, at 02:54, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> >> A google search led me to <http

Re: modprobe tun required after reboot for virt-manager

2022-01-24 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue 25 Jan 2022, at 02:11, Gareth Evans wrote: > Further to my disappearing /var/run/utmp query, I also newly can't > start VMs with virt-manager without first doing > > $ sudo modprobe tun > > This has also changed recently, apparently without intervention on my part. >

Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing

2022-01-24 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue 25 Jan 2022, at 04:10, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > On 2022-01-24 23:03, Gareth Evans wrote: >> On Tue 25 Jan 2022, at 03:28, Greg Wooledge wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 03:06:00AM +, Gareth Evans wrote: >>>> On Tue 25 Jan 2022,

Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing

2022-01-24 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue 25 Jan 2022, at 04:50, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 25 Jan 2022 at 04:22:39 (+), Gareth Evans wrote: >> On Tue 25 Jan 2022, at 04:10, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside >> wrote: >> > On 2022-01-24 23:03, Gareth Evans wrote: >> >> Jan 25 01:46:52 qwe

Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing

2022-01-24 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue 25 Jan 2022, at 02:54, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 01:31:35AM +0000, Gareth Evans wrote: >> /var/run$ sudo touch utmp >> /var/run$ sudo chown root:utmp utmp >> /var/run$ sudo chmod 664 utmp >> /var/run$ ls -l utmp >> -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utm

Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing

2022-01-24 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue 25 Jan 2022, at 03:02, Gareth Evans wrote: > On Tue 25 Jan 2022, at 02:54, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 01:31:35AM +0000, Gareth Evans wrote: >>> /var/run$ sudo touch utmp >>> /var/run$ sudo chown root:utmp utmp >>> /var/run$ sudo chm

modprobe tun required after reboot for virt-manager

2022-01-24 Thread Gareth Evans
Further to my disappearing /var/run/utmp query, I also newly can't start VMs with virt-manager without first doing $ sudo modprobe tun This has also changed recently, apparently without intervention on my part. Presumably it has stopped being autoloaded somewhere. Should tun be in

Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing

2022-01-24 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue 25 Jan 2022, at 01:31, Gareth Evans wrote: > On Mon 24 Jan 2022, at 12:45, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 09:51:05AM +0000, Gareth Evans wrote: >>> I've just noticed that: >>> >>> $ who >>> >>> and >>>

Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing

2022-01-24 Thread Gareth Evans
On Mon 24 Jan 2022, at 12:45, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 09:51:05AM +0000, Gareth Evans wrote: >> I've just noticed that: >> >> $ who >> >> and >> >> $ users >> >> both return nothing, with or without sudo. > &g

Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing

2022-01-25 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue 25 Jan 2022, at 01:31, Gareth Evans wrote: > On Mon 24 Jan 2022, at 12:45, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 09:51:05AM +0000, Gareth Evans wrote: >>> I've just noticed that: >>> >>> $ who >>> >>> and >>>

Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing

2022-01-25 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue 25 Jan 2022, at 10:47, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 25 ian 22, 04:03:17, Gareth Evans wrote: >> >> Googling "Detected unsafe path transition during canonicalization" led me to >> >> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=260924 >&g

Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing

2022-01-25 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue 25 Jan 2022, at 13:11, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 01:06:42PM +0000, Gareth Evans wrote: >> Just realised I gave contradicting info earlier - I said both that I >> upgraded from Buster (which is literally true) and that >> >> "But f

Re: The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.

2022-01-26 Thread Gareth Evans
> On 25 Jan 2022, at 14:17, Martin McCormick wrote: > > This Pi is running Debian Stretch. I believe that's what version > 9 is called. I have it capturing audio from a radio receiver and > it's been doing that for several years now and it was doing that > yesterday morning. Later in the

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-07 Thread Gareth Evans
On Thu 7 Apr 2022, at 09:58, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 07:08:11PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: >>Tools menu/Options - General; 'Printing sets "document modified" status' > > Does anyone have any insight into why this is an option? More > specifically, what reason would

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

2022-04-11 Thread Gareth Evans
On Mon 11 Apr 2022, at 19:23, Brian wrote: > On Mon 11 Apr 2022 at 13:55:03 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 06:47:59PM +0100, Brian wrote: >> > BTW. I am interested in how using /usr/lib/cups/backend/snmp went. >> > Its drawback is that not all printers provide an snmp

Re: I uninstalled OpenMediaVault (because totally overkill for me) and replaced it with borgbackup and rsyncq

2023-09-03 Thread Gareth Evans
> On 3 Sep 2023, at 19:16, David wrote: [...] > I have a Dell R320 fitted with 8 1T SAS drives, the hardware raid is > turned off as OpenMediaVault uses sorfware RAID. > If I turn the hardware raid on can I use Debian as the opperating > system? Hi David, In general, outside of certain

Re: I *think* I found the apache2 docs, but it's in .html and Icannot get firefox to access it using "file:"+ /path/to/filedir

2022-06-21 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue 21 Jun 2022, at 18:06, gene heskett wrote: > On 6/21/22 12:11, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 11:55:56AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: >>> Greetings all; >>> >>> So how am I supposed to read these installed docs? >>> >>> Thanks all. >>> >>> Cheers, Gene Heskett. >>> --

Re: I *think* I found the apache2 docs, but it's in .html and Icannot getfirefox to access it using "file:"+ /path/to/filedir

2022-06-21 Thread Gareth Evans
> On 21 Jun 2022, at 22:12, Gareth Evans wrote: > > On Tue 21 Jun 2022, at 20:16, gene heskett wrote: >>> On 6/21/22 14:09, Gareth Evans wrote: >>> On Tue 21 Jun 2022, at 18:06, gene heskett wrote: >>>> On 6/21/22 12:11, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: &

Re: I *think* I found the apache2 docs, but it's in .html and Icannot getfirefox to access it using "file:"+ /path/to/filedir

2022-06-21 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue 21 Jun 2022, at 20:16, gene heskett wrote: > On 6/21/22 14:09, Gareth Evans wrote: >> On Tue 21 Jun 2022, at 18:06, gene heskett wrote: >>> On 6/21/22 12:11, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: >>>> On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 11:55:56AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: >>&

Re: I *think* I found the apache2 docs, but it's in .html andIcannotgetfirefox to access it using "file:"+ /path/to/filedir

2022-06-23 Thread Gareth Evans
> On 23 Jun 2022, at 21:49, gene heskett wrote: > > On 6/23/22 16:08, Gareth Evans wrote: >> OK. That's not something I can help with from scratch, but I will watch >> with interest for further discussion. >> >> Best wishes, >> G > Well, i

Re: I *think* I found the apache2 docs, but it's in .html andIcannotgetfirefox to access it using "file:"+ /path/to/filedir

2022-06-23 Thread Gareth Evans
> On 23 Jun 2022, at 01:46, gene heskett wrote: > > On 6/22/22 19:39, Gareth Evans wrote: >>> On Wed 22 Jun 2022, at 22:42, gene heskett wrote: >>> On 6/22/22 16:51, Gareth Evans wrote: >>>> On Wed 22 Jun 2022, at 21:16, gene heskett wrote: >

Re: non installed printer can not be removed

2022-06-24 Thread Gareth Evans
On Thu 16 Jun 2022, at 22:13, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am struggeling with a little problem, I can not explain. > > A friend of mine uses a printer (Samsung SL-C480FW), which is connected to > the > router with wireless. However, although there are no drivers and no ppd-files >

Re: nft newbie

2022-07-09 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sat 9 Jul 2022, at 07:17, Gareth Evans wrote: [...] > If there is no drop by default, why add "policy accept" for > related/established as it does? Doesn't this happen anyway? I suppose this probably modifies behaviour for otherwise closed ports (which would make sens

Re: nft newbie

2022-07-09 Thread Gareth Evans
Having found ufw suited my needs I have only dabbled with firewalld / firewall-config / firewall-applet over the years. Having noticed the recommendation for firewalld on the debian wiki re nftables https://wiki.debian.org/nftables#Use_firewalld I installed it and had a look at the default

Re: nft newbie

2022-07-09 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sat 9 Jul 2022, at 10:05, Roger Price wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jul 2022, Gareth Evans wrote: > >> Also for any good nft/netfilter overview articles etc. > > Have you seen "Mastering Linux Security and Hardening", 2nd Edition, Donald > A. > Tevault, chapter 4.

Re: Debian 11: MTA Exim4 not listening to fetchmail

2022-07-10 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sun 10 Jul 2022, at 15:38, Roger Price wrote: [...] > I removed the ipv6.disable=1 and rebooted, but this made no difference. I'm not sure if there may be other issues here too, but did you update-grub before rebooting? If not, does /etc/hosts currently contain localhost ::1 ? If so,

Re: Debian 11: MTA Exim4 not listening to fetchmail

2022-07-10 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sun 10 Jul 2022, at 17:12, Gareth Evans wrote: > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/407663/ipv6-socket-creation-failed-address-family-not-supported-by-protocol FWIMBW, this explains how to disable ipv6 for exim4 (albeit on Deb 9) though I'm not sure the advice re hosts f

Re: Debian 11: MTA Exim4 not listening to fetchmail

2022-07-10 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sun 10 Jul 2022, at 18:28, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Mine contains these lines: > > unicorn:~$ grep ::1 /etc/hosts > ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback > ff02::1 ip6-allnodes > > They were put there by Debian. I didn't touch them. [I got the ::1 and localhost the wrong way around in

Re: I *think* I found the apache2 docs, but it's in .html and Icannot getfirefox to access it using "file:"+ /path/to/filedir

2022-06-22 Thread Gareth Evans
> On 21 Jun 2022, at 22:37, Gareth Evans wrote: > >  > >> On 21 Jun 2022, at 22:12, Gareth Evans wrote: >> >> On Tue 21 Jun 2022, at 20:16, gene heskett wrote: >>>> On 6/21/22 14:09, Gareth Evans wrote: >>>> On Tue 21 Jun 2022,

Re: nft newbie

2022-07-12 Thread Gareth Evans
On Tue 12 Jul 2022, at 10:19, Maximiliano Estudies wrote: > drop and reject are not equivalent. Fair enough [...] > In most cases it's a best practice to configure all chains with > _policy drop_ and then add rules for the traffic that you want to > allow All the nftables and PF howtos I

Re: nft newbie

2022-07-11 Thread Gareth Evans
On Sun 10 Jul 2022, at 06:25, Gareth Evans wrote: > Thanks Roger, that also suggests "policy drop" in its nftables examples. As someone on firewalld-users kindly pointed out, there is > table inet firewalld { > chain filter_INPUT { [...] > reject with

Re: avahi-daemon allow/deny interfaces question

2022-07-12 Thread Gareth Evans
> On 11 Jul 2022, at 17:48, Ram Ramesh wrote: [...] > . However, my new machine has this daemon running which notices that $extif > does not have much activity and disables it after some timeout idle time. > Today I noticed that my $extif is vanishing and /var/log/daemon.log shows > some

Re: nft newbie

2022-07-12 Thread Gareth Evans
> On 12 Jul 2022, at 11:31, mick crane wrote: > On 2022-07-12 10:33, Gareth Evans wrote: >> On Tue 12 Jul 2022, at 10:19, Maximiliano Estudies > >>> In most cases it's a best practice to configure all chains with >>> _policy drop_ and then add rules for the t

CUPS bugfix vs upgrade?

2022-06-29 Thread Gareth Evans
After troubleshooting assistance from the Debian Printing team, I was advised to report my non-printing driverless printer issue upstream, which I have done. https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-filters/issues/472 Given that driverless printing works in CUPS 2.4 (on Ubuntu 22.04) are they

Re: I *think* I found the apache2 docs, but it's in .html and Icannot getfirefox to access it using "file:"+ /path/to/filedir

2022-06-22 Thread Gareth Evans
On Wed 22 Jun 2022, at 18:22, gene heskett wrote: > On 6/22/22 10:45, Gareth Evans wrote: >> >>> On 21 Jun 2022, at 22:37, Gareth Evans wrote: >>> >>>  >>> >>>> On 21 Jun 2022, at 22:12, Gareth Evans wrote: >>>> >>>

Re: I *think* I found the apache2 docs, but it's in .html and Icannot getfirefox to access it using "file:"+ /path/to/filedir

2022-06-22 Thread Gareth Evans
On Wed 22 Jun 2022, at 21:16, gene heskett wrote: > On 6/22/22 10:45, Gareth Evans wrote: > [and I sniped a few kilobytes of.] > > I think I've got it, but I did find what may be a bug in mod auth_plain. > > Its asking for a username and pw, but nothing seems to satisfy it I

Re: I *think* I found the apache2 docs, but it's in .html and Icannotgetfirefox to access it using "file:"+ /path/to/filedir

2022-06-22 Thread Gareth Evans
On Wed 22 Jun 2022, at 22:42, gene heskett wrote: > On 6/22/22 16:51, Gareth Evans wrote: >> On Wed 22 Jun 2022, at 21:16, gene heskett wrote: >>> On 6/22/22 10:45, Gareth Evans wrote: >>> [and I sniped a few kilobytes of.] >>> >>> I think I've go

snapshot.debian.org

2022-06-06 Thread Gareth Evans
Hello, I have a strange printing problem which can be replicated on two identical printers on two different networks, when printing to wireless driverless IPP with Brother MFC-L2740DW printers from Bullseye, whether the printer is auto-detected or manually added via ocalhost:631 or

Re: snapshot.debian.org

2022-06-06 Thread Gareth Evans
On Mon 6 Jun 2022, at 12:19, Gareth Evans wrote: > Hello, > > I have a strange printing problem which can be replicated on two > identical printers on two different networks, when printing to wireless > driverless IPP with Brother MFC-L2740DW printers from Bullseye, whether

Re: Printing problem (was snapshot.debian.org)

2022-06-06 Thread Gareth Evans
On Mon 6 Jun 2022, at 13:05, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, June 06, 2022 07:34:07 AM Gareth Evans wrote: >> On Mon 6 Jun 2022, at 12:19, Gareth Evans wrote: >> > I have a strange printing problem which can be replicated on two >> > identical printers on t

Re: Printing problem (was snapshot.debian.org)

2022-06-06 Thread Gareth Evans
CUPS error log excerpt attached. G On Mon 6 Jun 2022, at 14:02, Gareth Evans wrote: > On Mon 6 Jun 2022, at 13:05, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >> On Monday, June 06, 2022 07:34:07 AM Gareth Evans wrote: >>> On Mon 6 Jun 2022, at 12:19, Gareth Evans wrote: >>>

Re: non installed printer can not be removed

2022-06-16 Thread Gareth Evans
 > On 17 Jun 2022, at 01:56, Gareth Evans wrote: > On Thu 16 Jun 2022, at 22:13, Hans wrote: >> Hi folks, >> >> I am struggeling with a little problem, I can not explain. >> >> A friend of mine uses a printer (Samsung SL-C480FW), which is connected

Re: non installed printer can not be removed

2022-06-16 Thread Gareth Evans

Re: non installed printer can not be removed

2022-06-16 Thread Gareth Evans
On Thu 16 Jun 2022, at 22:13, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am struggeling with a little problem, I can not explain. > > A friend of mine uses a printer (Samsung SL-C480FW), which is connected to > the > router with wireless. However, although there are no drivers and no ppd-files >

Re: Printing problem (was snapshot.debian.org)

2022-06-17 Thread Gareth Evans
On Mon 6 Jun 2022, at 20:03, Gareth Evans wrote: > On Mon 6 Jun 2022, at 17:45, Gareth Evans wrote: >> Recent message with screenshots didn't get through (at least yet) - >> text below, plus another observation. >> >> On Mon 6 Jun 2022, at 16:53, Gareth Evans wr

debian-user message size limit

2022-06-17 Thread Gareth Evans
Is there a limit for message size on debian-user? I can't find any such info on https://lists.debian.org/ https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ but a couple of recent large-ish messages (one ~270K with two screenshots, one 70K with log output) have

Re: debian-user message size limit

2022-06-17 Thread Gareth Evans
> On 17 Jun 2022, at 17:51, Nicolas George wrote: > > Gareth Evans (12022-06-17): >> but a couple of recent large-ish messages (one ~270K with two >> screenshots, one 70K with log output) have neither got through nor >> bounced back. > > “Avoid sendi

Re: debian-user message size limit

2022-06-17 Thread Gareth Evans
> On 17 Jun 2022, at 23:25, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > On 2022-06-17 18:20, Bijan Soleymani wrote: >>> On 2022-06-17 11:24, Gareth Evans wrote: >>> Is there a limit for message size on debian-user? >> I checked the data. I have been subscribed since 2003

Re: debian-user message size limit

2022-06-17 Thread Gareth Evans
On Fri 17 Jun 2022, at 20:00, Brian wrote: > On Fri 17 Jun 2022 at 16:24:54 +0100, Gareth Evans wrote: > >> Is there a limit for message size on debian-user? >> >> I can't find any such info on >> >> https://lists.debian.org/ >> >> h

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