Re: Grub cannot see my new hard drive

2020-06-16 Thread deloptes
Matthew Campbell wrote: > Now Debian Linux is running on my new hard drive using /dev/sdb1 as the > root partition. I need to set up a separate USB flash drive to do all of > this by default so I don't have to do all of this work every time the > computer boots up. I also need to install Grub2 on

Re: "NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT"

2020-06-16 Thread Hans
Am Mittwoch, 17. Juni 2020, 01:17:24 CEST schrieb Seeds Notoneofmy: Try "aptitude purge ~nnvidia*", this might uninstall more. The "~n" means "choose everything with the expression of .", which in this case is "nvidia*". This might also deinstall libs and other things. My best way to dein

Re: libc-bin "cycle found while processing triggers"

2020-06-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 16 iun 20, 11:47:24, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Since postfix is already hosed: > > sudo rm -rf /etc/postfix > sudo apt install --reinstall postfix For most packages (didn't check postfix) this might not do what one expects. Files marked as dpkg conffiles will not be restored, as dpkg consid

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-16 Thread Gary L. Roach
On 6/16/20 12:26 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 09:21:24AM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: On 15.06.20 21:47, Gary L. Roach wrote: Someone in the Debian hierarchy decided that root Dolphin was too much of a security risk. So the problem has propagated to at least a half dozen ot

Re: "NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT"

2020-06-16 Thread Dan Ritter
Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: > > On 6/16/20 10:35 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > $ apt search nouveau > > ... > > xserver-xorg-video-nouveau/stable 1:1.0.16-1 amd64 > >X.Org X server -- Nouveau display driver > > > > So install that, make sure your X.org thinks it's the right > > driver to use, and re

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-16 Thread Gary L. Roach
On 6/15/20 1:05 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 15 iun 20, 12:47:59, Gary L. Roach wrote: I assume that with respect to the original message that it should be obvious that the root user problem stems from the underlying Debian OS. Someone in the Debian hierarchy decided that root Dolphin was to

Re: "NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT"

2020-06-16 Thread Seeds Notoneofmy
On 6/14/20 5:45 PM, floris wrote: (From nvidia-detect) $ nvidia-detect 10de:0391 Checking driver support for PCI ID [10de:0391] Your card is only supported by the 304 legacy drivers series, which is only available up to stretch. In other words; downgrade Buster to Stretch if you want to use the

Re: "NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT"

2020-06-16 Thread Seeds Notoneofmy
On 6/14/20 5:45 PM, floris wrote: (From nvidia-detect) $ nvidia-detect 10de:0391 Checking driver support for PCI ID [10de:0391] Your card is only supported by the 304 legacy drivers series, which is only available up to stretch. In other words; downgrade Buster to Stretch if you want to use th

Re: "NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT"

2020-06-16 Thread Seeds Notoneofmy
On 6/17/20 1:00 AM, elvis wrote: On 17/6/20 5:49 am, Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: On 6/14/20 5:45 PM, floris wrote: In other words; downgrade Buster to Stretch if you want to use the nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-304xx packages This isn't really an option :) buster-backports? yes, what abo

Re: "NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT"

2020-06-16 Thread elvis
On 17/6/20 5:49 am, Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: On 6/14/20 5:45 PM, floris wrote: In other words; downgrade Buster to Stretch if you want to use the nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-304xx packages This isn't really an option :) buster-backports? Maybe you can install the 304 driver, but yo

Re: libc-bin "cycle found while processing triggers"

2020-06-16 Thread Gary Aitken
On 6/16/20 9:47 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Gary Aitken wrote: ... Since postfix is already hosed: sudo rm -rf /etc/postfix sudo apt install --reinstall postfix Thanks, will save that for next time. Gary

Re: "NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT"

2020-06-16 Thread Seeds Notoneofmy
On 6/16/20 10:35 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: $ apt search nouveau and I got this: root@bruda:/home/brudabuster# apt search nouveau Sorting... Done Full Text Search... Done bumblebee/buster-backports,now 3.2.1-22~bpo10+1 amd64 [installed,automatic]   NVIDIA Optimus support for Linux libdrm-nouveau2

Re: "NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT"

2020-06-16 Thread Seeds Notoneofmy
On 6/16/20 10:35 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: $ apt search nouveau ... xserver-xorg-video-nouveau/stable 1:1.0.16-1 amd64 X.Org X server -- Nouveau display driver So install that, make sure your X.org thinks it's the right driver to use, and reboot for good luck. I currently have the nvidia driv

Re: "NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT"

2020-06-16 Thread Dan Ritter
Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: > > On 6/16/20 10:03 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Sorry, you're wrong. > > > > Your card is in the NV40 column here: > > https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix/ > > > > It's pretty well supported. > > Thanks, Dan. > > But can you confirm: are you saying that m

Re: "NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT"

2020-06-16 Thread Seeds Notoneofmy
On 6/16/20 10:03 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: Sorry, you're wrong. Your card is in the NV40 column here: https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix/ It's pretty well supported. -dsr- ...and anyone who can help, please do. The problem is really bad, each website out there with video that

Re: "NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT"

2020-06-16 Thread Seeds Notoneofmy
On 6/16/20 10:03 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: Sorry, you're wrong. Your card is in the NV40 column here: https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix/ It's pretty well supported. Thanks, Dan. But can you confirm: are you saying that my card is fully supported under Buster? If so, then we c

Re: "NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT"

2020-06-16 Thread Dan Ritter
Seeds Notoneofmy wrote: > On 6/14/20 8:59 AM, Hans wrote: > > > the 7600GT was supported by debian (I am not sure, if it still is with the > > actual kernel). > > > > At the moment it is supported by the kernel module "nouveau", but when you > > need hardware acceleration for i.e. games or other

Re: "NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT"

2020-06-16 Thread Seeds Notoneofmy
On 6/14/20 5:45 PM, floris wrote: In other words; downgrade Buster to Stretch if you want to use the nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-304xx packages This isn't really an option :) Maybe you can install the 304 driver, but you must downgrade the Xserver to version 1.19 But this one seems to be

Re: bash-completion pros/cons

2020-06-16 Thread David Wright
[much snipping] On Tue 16 Jun 2020 at 09:19:16 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: > On 2020-06-16 at 08:57, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 01:53:59PM +0200, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > >> Maybe sometimes completion is not working as it should, nothing is > >> perfect, but globally I thi

Re: "NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT"

2020-06-16 Thread Seeds Notoneofmy
On 6/14/20 8:59 AM, Hans wrote: the 7600GT was supported by debian (I am not sure, if it still is with the actual kernel). At the moment it is supported by the kernel module "nouveau", but when you need hardware acceleration for i.e. games or other applications, you have to install the driver f

Re: [OT] Regular DKIM issues on this ML (was: Re: why !oh why Debian and application list)

2020-06-16 Thread Reco
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 09:28:11PM +0200, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > Hi, > > 16 juin 2020 14:50 de recovery...@enotuniq.net: > > > And *now* it gets interesting. Because what's came to the list was text: > > > > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Content-Transfer-Encoding:

Re: [OT] Regular DKIM issues on this ML (was: Re: why !oh why Debian and application list)

2020-06-16 Thread l0f4r0
Hi, 16 juin 2020 14:50 de recovery...@enotuniq.net: > And *now* it gets interesting. Because what's came to the list was text: > > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Can we imagine that the ML simply 64-decodes the email and rese

Re: Question for users of Thunderbird on buster

2020-06-16 Thread Virgo Pärna
On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 13:12:25 -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: > > I'll have to dig in and see if there's a way to turn it off. I'll look at the > details of the font as well; I'm not at all sure what exactly is telling TB > "if you see two consecutive "less-than" signs, then render them as a single > "mu

Re: Question for users of Thunderbird on buster

2020-06-16 Thread Virgo Pärna
On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 07:07:01 + (UTC), davidson wrote: > > Different requirements call for different keyboard layouts. It sounds > like in Thunderbird, for whatever reason, you have one enabled that > doesn't fit yours. > Nothing to do with keyboard layouts. Some fonts have ligatures

Re: libc-bin "cycle found while processing triggers"

2020-06-16 Thread Dan Ritter
Gary Aitken wrote: > On 6/16/20 6:03 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Gary Aitken wrote: > > > On 6/15/20 3:37 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > Gary Aitken wrote: > > > ... > > > > > When originally built, the system had a screwed-up postfix > > > > > installation; > > > > > in attempting to solve this pro

Re: libc-bin "cycle found while processing triggers"

2020-06-16 Thread Gary Aitken
On 6/16/20 6:03 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: Gary Aitken wrote: On 6/15/20 3:37 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: Gary Aitken wrote: ... When originally built, the system had a screwed-up postfix installation; in attempting to solve this problem, I wanted to uninstall postfix and reinstall it. However, I don't

Re: [OT] Regular DKIM issues on this ML (was: Re: why !oh why Debian and application list)

2020-06-16 Thread David Wright
On Tue 16 Jun 2020 at 13:10:38 (+0200), l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > 13 juin 2020 à 21:05 de recovery...@enotuniq.net: > > On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 09:01:59PM +0200, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > >> 13 juin 2020 à 17:12 de recovery...@enotuniq.net: > >> > On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 06:10:15PM +0300, Reco wrote: >

Re: bash-completion pros/cons

2020-06-16 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-06-16 at 08:57, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 01:53:59PM +0200, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > > [...] > >> Maybe sometimes completion is not working as it should, nothing is >> perfect, but globally I think that it saves time more than its >> wastes. > > Then just use it a

Re: bash-completion pros/cons (was: Re: Need commands)

2020-06-16 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 01:53:59PM +0200, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: [...] > Maybe sometimes completion is not working as it should, nothing is perfect, > but globally I think that it saves time more than its wastes. Then just use it and be happy. And just accept that some (me, among others) are hap

Re: [OT] Regular DKIM issues on this ML (was: Re: why !oh why Debian and application list)

2020-06-16 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 01:10:38PM +0200, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > > Your e-mail passed DKIM test on my MTA with flying colors. > > > > Try that base64-encoded html thing next. > > > It was already base64 encoded, see below: > > --79Bu5A16qPEYcVIZL@tutanota > Content-Type:

Re: libc-bin "cycle found while processing triggers"

2020-06-16 Thread Dan Ritter
Gary Aitken wrote: > On 6/15/20 3:37 PM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Gary Aitken wrote: > ... > > > When originally built, the system had a screwed-up postfix installation; > > > in attempting to solve this problem, I wanted to uninstall postfix and > > > reinstall it. However, I don't think I should d

Re: bash-completion pros/cons (was: Re: Need commands)

2020-06-16 Thread l0f4r0
Hi Greg, 16 juin 2020 à 13:23 de wool...@eeg.ccf.org > It's flaky and full of errors. (Many of these errors end up on the > bash mailing lists as bug reports in bash, but nope, they're from > bash-completion.) It bloats bash, using a lot of memory, and taking > extra CPU and wall-clock time (ma

Re: bash-completion pros/cons (was: Re: Need commands)

2020-06-16 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 12:54:58PM +0200, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > Hi, > > 16 juin 2020 à 10:47 de david...@freevolt.org: > > > I hear some people find bash-completion helpful. Personally, though, > > no. Do not want. > > > Interesting/intriguing point of view. > Why would someone not be intereste

Re: Need commands

2020-06-16 Thread mick crane
On 2020-06-16 09:47, davidson wrote: many thanks mick -- Key ID4BFEBB31

Re: [OT] Regular DKIM issues on this ML (was: Re: why !oh why Debian and application list)

2020-06-16 Thread l0f4r0
Hi, 13 juin 2020 à 21:05 de recovery...@enotuniq.net: > Hi. > > On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 09:01:59PM +0200, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > >> 13 juin 2020 à 17:12 de recovery...@enotuniq.net: >> >> > On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 06:10:15PM +0300, Reco wrote: >> > >> >> Let's see. >> >> >> >> >From what I saw t

Re: X11 / KDE Plasma 5 periodically freezes when I use GUI app inside LXC container

2020-06-16 Thread John Radek
> On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 at 09:41, Marco Möller > wrote: > sudo sysctl vm.swappiness= > sudo sysctl vm.vfs_cache_pressure= > sudo sysctl vm.dirty_background_bytes= > sudo sysctl vm.dirty_bytes= Thank you Marco. I checked my current values --- sudo sysctl vm.swappiness # vm.swappiness = 60 sudo s

bash-completion pros/cons (was: Re: Need commands)

2020-06-16 Thread l0f4r0
Hi, 16 juin 2020 à 10:47 de david...@freevolt.org: > I hear some people find bash-completion helpful. Personally, though, > no. Do not want. > Interesting/intriguing point of view. Why would someone not be interested in autocompletion please?  Best regards, l0f4r0

Re: X11 / KDE Plasma 5 periodically freezes when I use GUI app inside LXC container

2020-06-16 Thread Marco Möller
On 16.06.20 10:11, John Radek wrote: It usually takes 30sec and then the desktop unfreeze and everything is fine again. This could be caused by the "vm.swappiness", "vm.vfs_cache_pressure" or "vm.dirty" settings. These could be configured permanently in /etc/sysctl.conf or /etc/sysctl.d/myf

Re: Need commands

2020-06-16 Thread davidson
On Sun, 14 Jun 2020, mick crane wrote: On 2020-06-14 12:42, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 12:23:15PM +0100, mick crane wrote: On 2020-06-13 19:51, Darac Marjal wrote: ... >The full list of commands depends on what's installed, but you can >retrieve that list by opening a term

X11 / KDE Plasma 5 periodically freezes when I use GUI app inside LXC container

2020-06-16 Thread John Radek
Hi Everybody ;-), --- TL;DR: Could you please help me to get logs / trace or debug X (or KDE Plasma 5) that is freezing when I run (and actively use) X app inside LXC container? --- I'm trying to run GUI apps inside LXC container. I know that there are other ways (snapd) but I really like the ide

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-16 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 09:21:24AM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: > On 15.06.20 21:47, Gary L. Roach wrote: > >Someone in the Debian hierarchy decided that root Dolphin was too > >much of a security risk. So the problem has propagated to at least > >a half dozen other distros (Ubuntu,Kubuntu, Mint) to

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-16 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 08:33:29AM +1000, Keith bainbridge wrote: [...] > Here, hear i say. It is my computer. You own it, you do the work. Complaining ain't working ;-D > Now, i just tested both caja and nemo and both run as sudo and su > -c. caja could not connect to ibus. (Default file manag

Re: KDE run Dolphin as root?

2020-06-16 Thread Marco Möller
On 15.06.20 21:47, Gary L. Roach wrote: Someone in the Debian hierarchy decided that root Dolphin was too much of a security risk. So the problem has propagated to at least a half dozen other distros (Ubuntu,Kubuntu, Mint) to name a couple. To my knowledge, this is not true! It is the Dolphin

Re: Question for users of Thunderbird on buster

2020-06-16 Thread davidson
On Thu, 11 Jun 2020, D. R. Evans wrote: Virgo Pärna wrote on 6/11/20 1:27 AM: On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 14:10:45 -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: For example: if I type the "-" character twice in a row, Thunderbird displays only one, even though both characters are present in the text Speculation in t