Re: NTP fails to sync local clock

oes. I get many NTP servers (much more than the 4 pool entries), one marked wirh '*', some with '+', some with '#', and a few with '-'. Can the problem be caused by Debian's change from ntp to ntpsec? Do I need to install keys for my NTP server? Quite unusual, that no log messages appear in the logs. Steve

Re: Unused blocks and fstrim

disks and I seem to remember that not the whole disk was copied, but I might be wrong on that. Steve

NTP fails to sync local clock

lock is in sync with that server. The ntpq(8) man page says about +: +│ included by the combine algorithm In /var/log or with journalctl I don't see any hint what might be the reason. When I let it run, the offset as shown by ntpq grows over time. Steve

Unused blocks and fstrim

ssued? Does LVM keep information on every block about its usage or does it always have to pass trim operations to the lower layer? And does software RAID, i.e. /dev/md* keep this information on every block? Can RAID skip unused blocks from syncing in a RAID-1 array when I replace a disk? Steve

Re: LVM in LVM

Tim Woodall writes: > On Mon, 16 Sep 2024, Steve Keller wrote: > > > I don't see how this can be done in the current Debian 12. > Not sure because I've previously battled the opposite problem but I'd > start here in lvm.conf > >

LVM in LVM

inside, and when you need to access file systems in the guest from the host (while the guest is shutdown). I don't see how this can be done in the current Debian 12. Steve

Strip domain name from hostnames in output

ssh 853513u IPv6 474715 0t0 TCP foo.my.domain:41088->bar.my.domain:ssh (ESTABLISHED) I'd like the output to be shortened also in other tools that translate IP addresses into host names. Steve

Glasses for monitor work (was Re: BASH reference for those who are "learning by doing"?)

the inconvenience of carrying multiple pairs of glasses, I totally understand why - it makes a huge difference when I'm sat in front of the screen for hours at a time. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

New System, Problem with FTP

The following is specific to Ubuntu 24.04. If it should go to a Ubuntu-specific list, let me know and I'll find out how to make that happen. For now though, ... ... I have a new Ubuntu 24.04 system which is a rebuild of a 20.04 system. On the old system, I had logins set to use username and

Re: QEMU: Run a container of a different architecture

ess, it would be nice to be able to run qemu-aarch64 dynamically linked which finds its libs in the host environment but runs the command in the current inherited environment. But I guess that's impossible. Steve

Re: QEMU: Run a container of a different architecture

erpreter in the container's file system. Quite obvious. OK, I'll try copying the QEMU interpreter qemu-aarch64 and all needed libs and other files into the appropriate place... Steve

QEMU: Run a container of a different architecture

ode 1. I'd like to know if it's also possible to run the whole container in arm64 architecture using systemd-nspawn like above for amd64. Steve

Re: Trouble when editing a Debian wiki page

ot; button then the page lost indentation (no >> margin). This it happened to me when I added the TOC to >> EnvironmentVariables >> >> Cheers > >And now the server is mostly giving "503 Service Unailable" with the >occasional very slow service of a page. Y

Re: Mini-DebConf in Cambridge, UK - October 10-13 2024

On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 12:18:56PM +0200, somebody *claiming* to be Luna Jernberg wrote: Just to be 100% clear, that mail didn't come from Luna's normal gmail account but was instead spoofed and sent via emkei.cz, a "free online fake mailer". It's now blocked from

Re: OT: End the Phone-Based Childhood Now

On 2024-03-15 22:58, Marco Moock wrote: Am 15.03.2024 um 18:16:50 Uhr schrieb Jeffrey Walton: Fascinating reading here: . What the hell? I already get a ton of legitimate mail

Re: Meeting with the Development Team

Sigh. Please don't respond to spam, it just magnifies the noise. I'm already updating our anti-spam rules regularly to try and keep things as clean as possible. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circl

Re: debian-cd baking process

On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 06:12:47PM +0100, Kevin Price wrote: >Dear Steve: > >Am 18.01.24 um 00:37 schrieb Steve McIntyre: >> Kevin Price wrote: >>> I'm not quite sure where to address this to, > >> Argh, that's my code in the debian-cd package. "r

Re: please, help to get the image write done, due to an error. Thank you!

mages labelled with version 12.4.1. Where did you get this image from? What exact errors is the image writer program reporting? Without that information it's very difficult to help you. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < sladen> I act

Re: what keyboard do you use?

h-2 with Cherry MX Brown switches. I'm loving it - full size and a good level of mechanical tactile feedback WITHOUT ALL THE NOISE ALL THE TIME. Very much recommended. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Re: chrony date months off

certificates etc. I also wrote fake-hwclock (packaged in Debian) for this kind of reason. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Re: To partition or not to partition MD arrays (Was Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help)

Hey Andy. Andy Smith wrote: > >On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 12:53:43AM +, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> I'm clearly a member of a third group of people,,, :-) > >Oh, I didn't mean to imply that those going by taste were in a >minority! Taste, or possibly, "just ne

Re: To partition or not to partition MD arrays (Was Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help)

e the right to get >a different religion. 😀 I'm clearly a member of a third group of people,,, :-) Putting partitions on the RAID drives helps *me* identify them. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Re: debian-cd baking process

d. Maybe there's a bug already that I didn't find. Argh, that's my code in the debian-cd package. "reportbug debian-cd" should do the right thing... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

category I fit into is the poor short term >memory of someone 89 years old, which I am. It's nothing to do with your age. You keep on bringing this up. People are volunteering their time to help you. When you don't pay attention and go wandering off-topic it makes it much harder for pe

Re: Debian on Asus X205TA [Was: Re: Installing Debian on an old Asus EEE PC]

FI systems like the Bay Trail platform in the X205TA. I still have an old mixed-moded Apple Imac that works that way as a test machine. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Content of /etc/ethers

#x27;.' to separate a name and an interface number or VLAN ID, like host.0 and host.1 for the LAN and WLAN interface? Steve

Re: md0 + UUIDs for member disks

/md0? The reason behing using UUIDs is that individual disks don't have persistent names attached: /dev/sda might be /dev/sdb next time, etc. MD RAID devices *do* include persistent metadata so that the system can recognise them reliably. You should be fine as yo

12.4.0 point release published

Hi folks, The new 12.4.0 point release is now out. It contains the needed fixes for the ext4 data corruption bug (https://bugs.debian.org/1057843). It's now safe to upgrade as normal, panic over. Many thanks to all the people who spent all of their weekend making this happen... --

Re: Why is bullseye-backports recommended on bookworm?

Thanks Greg for the precise explanation. I would suggest to put it in the Debian Wiki for futur reference. Le 18-11-2023, à 09:18:56 -0500, Greg Wooledge a écrit : On Sat, Nov 18, 2023 at 12:24:30AM -0600, David Wright wrote: On Fri 17 Nov 2023 at 14:07:54 (+), Tixy wrote: > At time of wri

Re: Problem with apt update (is not signed)

seen this kind of symptom in the past when a docker image included software which depended on system calls only provided by a newer kernel. Docker is *awful* here - it doesn't actually isolate you from this kind of mismatch; instead it hides the details of problems to make them almost impossible to debug. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Re: Understanding package dependencies

, why lsb-base can be removed without ntpsec. Is there a way to search for "Provides" in packages? I.e. show me all packages (installed or all) that provide some feature "foobar"? Steve

Understanding package dependencies

newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 12.3 kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Won't continuing here leave ntpsec with an unresolved package dependency? Steve

usrmerge in bookworm

bash gives the strange looking /usr/bin/sh where all Uni*ers are strongly used to /bin/sh. But also things like the following don't work anymore: $ dpkg -S $(type -p sh) dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern /usr/bin/sh And I don't see a comfortable way around this. Steve

Update on problem mounting NFS share

I gave up on the NFS business and went back to good old buggy but reliable SAMBA (LOL), which is what I was using when I was on Debian 8, and which worked fine. Except for one thing, everything's great. In /etc/fstab, I have: //192.168.1.156/BigVol1 /mnt/bigvol1 civs vers=2.0,credentials=/r

Re: Debian will not boot any more, wrong UUID

obably lose access to the Windows installation - it will be depending on the RAID setup. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Re: Debian live boot corrupting secure boot

one (but I only tried 10 live, so far). The newer images might be causing firmware key revocation updates to be applied. This is part of the Secure Boot story - if you want to stay secure, systems will need to be updated to stop older software with known holes from being run. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Re: Debian live boot corrupting secure boot

Stefan wrote: >> With outdated keys secure boot does not protect you. > >Just to clarify: in 99.99% of the cases, SecureBoot does not protect you >(and is not designed to protect you either). Sigh. Lose the misinformation crap, please. It's getting tedious. -- Steve McI

Re: Letting Windows go: scanning

On 2023-09-20 10:17, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: When I used to use HP MFD's I used to have to connect to it with USB to get scanning. I do not know if network scanning is now supported or not. Scanning directly to a computer, using drivers installed on that computer, is a nightmare - even w

Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings

Le 20-09-2023, à 08:46:06 +, Andy Smith a écrit : Hello, On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 08:13:43AM +0200, steve wrote: Le 19-09-2023, à 16:52:24 +0200, Nicolas George a écrit : > what you intend is completely forbidden by Google's terms and > service. And they have detection: please o

Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings

Dear all, Thank you for your answers, unfortunately they don't help me much (provided code is too complicated for me). Le 19-09-2023, à 16:52:24 +0200, Nicolas George a écrit : steve (12023-09-19): I have a list of 200 keywords and would like for every one to launch a search on a spe

[a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings

Hello, I'm sorry if this question is a bit OT but since the answer will be implemented from a Debian machine, it's not completely OT :) I have a list of 200 keywords and would like for every one to launch a search on a specific website and put the result(s) in a file, something like: search key

Can't mount NFS NAS after major upgrade

=,password=,ro 0 0 Then I had the following line, replicated for several directories on bigvol1, to bind them to directories on the home filesystem, all in a script called /root/remount that I executed manually after each reboot: mount /mnt/bigvol1/dir-1 /home/steve/dir-1 -o bind,ro I had d

Re: Please verify Gnome and KDE wiki articles for correctness

and we normally respond within a few hours. Not enough spammers on fire. :-( -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com Can't keep my eyes from the circling sky, Tongue-tied & twisted, Just an earth-bound misfit, I...

Re: Gradle version in bookworm

On 2023-08-26 03:18, Mark Fletcher wrote: continue using it -- but since I can get it onto my machine with zero effort via Intellij I am a Jetbrains subscriber who uses many of their IDEs, including IntelliJ, and if that's the way you want to go, I'm certainly not going to tell you not to.

Re: Bookworm VPS image and cron

On 2023-08-25 08:38, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 03:02:55PM -0700, Steve Sobol wrote: So, there you go... it was a problem with DO's Bookworm image. I'm assuming the omission wasn't intentional and if that is, in fact, the case, it will get fixed quickly.

Re: Bookworm VPS image and cron

.04, 22.04, and Debian bullseye all shipped with cron properly installed. Come to think of it... I just checked a local bookworm VM I'm running at home, and it has cron installed, too. I'll open a ticket. Response from the provider: [ Hi Steve, Thanks for reaching out to DigitalO

Re: Bookworm - cron?

On 2023-08-05 13:16, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 12:53:08PM -0700, Steve Sobol wrote: Part of my standard procedure for setting up new VMs involves editing root's crontab. But cron isn't installed. Seems unlikely. There are system cron jobs that are not yet

Re: Bookworm - cron?

On 2023-08-05 13:23, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 5 Aug 2023 22:13 +0200, from johndoe65...@mail.com (john doe): But cron isn't installed. I just install a new Bookworm VM and 'cron' is present! :) Ditto. That must be some customization your VPS provider has made, if the installation didn't so

Re: Gradle version in bookworm

On 2023-08-05 12:12, Anders Andersson wrote: Impossible, fake news. It's Java. When I still coded C and assembly in the nineties everyone told me that Java would solve the issue of portability forever. Write once, run anywhere! Just run it, no worries! Ahhh... I don't know what com.gradle.ent

Re: Gradle version in bookworm

On 2023-08-05 09:50, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: However, it seems like there are rather serious blocking issues that have halted progress. When I need Gradle (whether on Mac, Linux or Windows), I just download the latest version, put it somewhere and use it. I do the same thing with Java VMs.

Bookworm - cron?

Crazy question: My VPS provider just started offering bookworm images. So when I set up a new server yesterday, I installed bookworm. Part of my standard procedure for setting up new VMs involves editing root's crontab. But cron isn't installed. What am I expected to use instead? (I assume

Re: Feeds aren't yet dead (Was: Re: perl module listgarden)

if >I follow them on Fediverse. I'm not going to sit there reloading 72 >web sites every day. > >(Doesn't have to be RSS; any feed tech like Atom is fine also) Similar here. I'm using FreshRSS daily to pick up on RSS/atom feeds from all over the place... -- Steve McIntyre

Re: [OT] connect to Amazon AWS service

On 2023-07-28 08:46, Haines Brown wrote: Sorry for a quetion not directly related to Debian, but where else to turn? I've used an on line validation servce to which I submit code. It terminated with the note that it has now become a web service on the Amazon EC2 Web Service. I registered for thi

Re: When to sudo apt clean?

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 automatically. > > > > Seconded. > > I

Re: php7.4 on bookworm

On 2023-06-26 00:52, Markus Schönhaber wrote: I don't know if that somehow qualifies as "best practice" but Ondřej Surý packages different PHP versions for Debian and Ubuntu one can install side-by-side: https://sury.org/ I can vouch for the quality of the Sury packages. I've used them for y

Re: When to sudo apt clean?

On 2023-06-23 21:59, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 05:29:22PM -0700, Steve Sobol wrote: [...] I'd much rather err on the side of extreme caution. If something goes bump, I'm screwed. To be fair, autoremove can improve safety: when it removes old kernel version

Re: When to sudo apt clean?

On 2023-06-23 16:54, Emanuel Berg wrote: Ah, don't worry, it is safe, I've done it a lot. I don't doubt that it is quite safe, most of the time. But I run my servers on Ubuntu and Debian. (Mostly Ubuntu right now; slowly migrating to Debian.) I get paid for hosting, as well as work I do th

Re: When to sudo apt clean?

On 2023-06-23 15:26, Emanuel Berg wrote: Steve Sobol wrote: In general people don't want to dist-upgrade automatically. Seconded. I'm not following, when these functions are invoked, be it scheduled by some other software or by the user from the shell, they are intended to do

Re: When to sudo apt clean?

On 2023-06-23 14:14, Dan Ritter wrote: It seems unlikely to me that you want to do an autoremove before you have done an upgrade. I'd not say unwise. Useless, pointless, perhaps; but it doesn't hurt anything. autoremove removes packages that were installed as dependencies of other packages

Re: How does the bookworm amd64 netinst 738MB iso fit into a 700MB cd-r?

j...@jretrading.com wrote: >On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 11:30:04 +0100 >Steve McIntyre wrote: > >> ssmcmlxx+debianu...@gmail.com wrote: >> >I tried to write the debian-12.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso to cd using >> >cdrskin and xorriso but they both refused my command. >>

Re: How does the bookworm amd64 netinst 738MB iso fit into a 700MB cd-r?

x this, and I hope that the 12.1 images will work better. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < sladen> I actually stayed in a hotel and arrived to find a post-it note stuck to the mini-bar saying "Paul: This fridge and

Re: exim - bad file descriptor

Le 12-06-2023, à 21:25:40 +0200, Michel Verdier a écrit : On 2023-06-11, steve wrote: After a few days with this configuration, same errors are still present. I guess I'll have either to reinstall or go the postfix way. Just to be sure before you reinstall can you provide exim -bP |

Re: exim - bad file descriptor

Hi Michel, Le 10-06-2023, à 11:19:25 +0200, Michel Verdier a écrit : On 2023-06-10, steve wrote: Hi Michel and al, After a few days with this configuration, same errors are still present. I guess I'll have either to reinstall or go the postfix way. Just to be sure before you rein

Re: exim - bad file descriptor

Hi Michel and al, After a few days with this configuration, same errors are still present. I guess I'll have either to reinstall or go the postfix way. Have a nice day, steve Le 05-06-2023, à 10:50:00 +0200, Michel Verdier a écrit : Le 5 juin 2023 Steve a écrit : if one succeed wi

Re: exim - bad file descriptor

Le 05-06-2023, à 10:50:00 +0200, Michel Verdier a écrit : Le 5 juin 2023 Steve a écrit : if one succeed without message and with code 0, add in /etc/logrotate.d/exim4-base and /etc/logrotate.d/exim4-paniclog postrotate systemctl exim4-base endscript if you add reload but still get

Re: exim - bad file descriptor

Le 05-06-2023, à 10:21:52 +0200, Michel Verdier a écrit : Le 5 juin 2023 Steve a écrit : Merci pour ton aide Michel. De rien :) Let's continue in english for the list Sure. log_file_path = /var/log/exim4/%slog log_selector = +smtp_protocol_error +smtp_syntax_

Re: exim - bad file descriptor

Le 05-06-2023, à 09:09:05 +0200, Michel Verdier a écrit : Le 5 juin 2023 Steve a écrit : Yes, nothing is done after rotation. But I don't remember the default exim logging mechanism. Can you provide grep -r log_file_path /etc/exim* This gives nothing. Then can you provide exim -bP

Re: exim - bad file descriptor

Le 04-06-2023, à 19:11:57 +0200, Michel Verdier a écrit : Le 4 juin 2023 Steve a écrit : Does this help? Yes, nothing is done after rotation. But I don't remember the default exim logging mechanism. Can you provide grep -r log_file_path /etc/exim* This gives nothing.

Re: exim - bad file descriptor

Le 04-06-2023, à 14:30:08 +0200, Michel Verdier a écrit : Le 4 juin 2023 Steve a écrit : 2023-06-04T06:30:54.117016+02:00 box exim[24894]: 2023-06-04 06:30:54 1q5fOD-0006TT-2C failed to write to main log: length=91 result=-1 errno=9 (Bad file descriptor) 2023-06-04T06:30:54.150516+02:00 box

exim - bad file descriptor

Hi, Running Debian bookworm fully updated. Since a couple of weeks, i see strange lines in the logs: 2023-06-04T06:30:54.117016+02:00 box exim[24894]: 2023-06-04 06:30:54 1q5fOD-0006TT-2C failed to write to main log: length=91 result=-1 errno=9 (Bad file descriptor) 2023-06-04T06:30:54.150516

Re: HFLB Holding SA

Bonjour Marie, C'est visé de mon côté, à Olivier de jouer. ~ steve ~ Le lundi 01 mai 2023 à 08:04, Marie Vazquez a écrit : Chère Madame, chers Messieurs, Nous avons saisi ce jour le paiement détaillé ci-après par le débit du compte de la société citée en objet,

Re: Boot an EFI system with QEMU

On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 07:00:21PM +0200, Valentin Caracalla wrote: >Hello Steve, > >thanks a lot for the tip! However, I'm a complete novice when it comes to >running custom firmware in QEMU. I just tried the following: > >1.: Download the latest EDK2 release from Github

Re: Debian installation using debootstrap and grub-install - no entry in ESC boot menu

or example), saving a small amount of disk space here could cause a massive PITA later. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < sladen> I actually stayed in a hotel and arrived to find a post-it note stuck to the mini-bar saying "Paul:

Re: Debian installation using debootstrap and grub-install - no entry in ESC boot menu

oot interface, however (as in my original >recipe). That's just qemu-system-x86_64 defaulting to using SeaBIOS for firmware. I boot VMs in UEFI mode all the time, using the EDK2 binary builds in the ovmf package. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval

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

On 2023-04-02 14:57, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: I'll admit that when I first saw perl, I thought it was horrific and I swore to continue using awk and C and ... anything but perl. But then one day $job required me to learn perl so I did and have been a convert ever since. Perl definitel

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

On 2023-04-02 02:24, Emanuel Berg wrote: If you are looking for a career, Python is much bigger but there is a lot of shell scripts and for that matter a little bit of Perl don't harm, absolutely mot. I'm seeing scripts written in Python far more often than Perl these days, but it is probably

Re: [Bookworm] installer stops due to missing wifi firmware

de this fix. Or if you try one of the current daily/weekly images it will most likely work too... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < sladen> I actually stayed in a hotel and arrived to find a post-it note stuck to the mini-bar saying "Paul: This fridge and fittings are the correct way around and do not need altering"

Re: awk not just using the Field separator as such. it is using the blank space as well ...

#x27;s not difficult to find edges if you look. :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < sladen> I actually stayed in a hotel and arrived to find a post-it note stuck to the mini-bar saying "Paul: This fridge and fittings are the correct way around and do not need altering"

Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst

out other operating systems. And that did not last very long. Sigh. Secure Boot also does a reasonable job of blocking persistent pre-boot malware, which is absolutely worth doing. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com < sladen> I actually stayed in a

Re: Passwords

Le 17-01-2023, à 15:05:37 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : chroot can be tricky for newcommers… That's why passwd is nice to us and has the -R option :) Thanks Tomas, didn't know that option. Will go to bed a bit less stupid tonight :-)

Re: Passwords

Le 17-01-2023, à 08:07:02 -0500, Greg Wooledge a écrit : On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 01:53:33PM +0100, steve wrote: Le 17-01-2023, à 07:19:04 -0500, Greg Wooledge a écrit : > On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 09:36:03AM +0100, steve wrote: > > Easier would be to delete the second field in /etc/s

Re: Passwords

Le 17-01-2023, à 07:19:04 -0500, Greg Wooledge a écrit : On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 09:36:03AM +0100, steve wrote: Easier would be to delete the second field in /etc/shadow for root, so there won't be anymore root password (it's empty). You can then create one with the 'passwd

Re: Passwords

Le 17-01-2023, à 07:58:40 +, Tim Woodall a écrit : One other thing you can do if you don't have a quick and easy way to boot is to manually replace the hash in /etc/shadow with one that you do know the password for. (This might be the case, for example, where the USB stick is for booting AR

Re: quite the end of an era: Re: Bug#931659: transition: rm python2

x27;m wondering what the path >forward is for us. Correct, we're still on buster for now. I'm *hoping* to move forwards to moin 2 on python 3 at some point soon, and Paul Boddie has been doing some great work on the ackaging front there. But there's a bit more work needed yet all round

Re: Package versions in multi-arch

xt new upload of the llvm-toolchain-15 source package - that will bump the version in both cases so that they match. binNMUs are horrible. :-( -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews

aptitude update / upgrade broke my Rapbian bullseye

remember. Now I wonder if there is a chance to get all these things fixed or if a fresh re-install would be easier, faster, and more sucessful. I think, first I should remove connmand, since I don't know what I'd need it for. Steve

Re: Dial-in serial getty

invalid argument of --local-line and agetty does not exec /bin/login in this case but only logs the error message, waits for 10s, and then exits. Since agetty does not wait for the modems carrier detect or for the "RING" message from the modem I don't see how it can be used on dial-in lines. Steve

Dial-in serial getty

mgetty but there is no systemd service file for it. Should I change the serial-getty@ service to use mgetty or should I create a new service for it? In case of the latter, does it suffice to only add the .service file or do I need anything else? Steve

Re: exim4 smarthost selection based on sender

n}{example.org same_domain_copy_routing = yes I then add the desired authentication details in /etc/exim4/smtp_auth/$sender_address for each of the sender addresses. HTH! Be aware that doing authenticated smtp to Google and O365 (etc.) is getting harder and harder as they continue to try to dest

Re: Backing up whole Debian installation from laptop to laptop via ssh?

ified grub and fstab. For some unknown reason, network configuration (wireless networks etc.) in NetworkManager includes the MAC address of the local NIC too, so you may need to fix those up after transfer. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.c

Re: Causing segmentations fault; Was: Re: No Public Key

Le 14-11-2022, à 08:58:02 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 08:51:47AM +0100, Henning Follmann wrote: [...] Mutt crashes trying to open this post (while opening gnupg). That's weird. Confirmed. Here too. mutt 2.2.7 (2022-08-07)

Re: grub-xen-host in bullseye-proposed-updates

Tim wrote: >Quick followup for those here who like me might have pinned grub, the >fixed version is in bullseye-proposed-updates for those who prefer not >to leave pins lying around forgotten... > >I haven't rebooted the host yet but I can confirm that my guests start >

Re: firmware: secure boot dbx with software-center but not apt?

h looks for updates to device firmware. DBX is the method used by UEFI firmware to block execution of known-bad and known-vulnerable UEFI binaries when running with Secure Boot enabled. Apt does not know show anything here as the DBX is not a package, it's a lower-le

Re: UEFI refusing NVRAM writes, breaking GRUB install and upgrade

m boolean true -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Since phone messaging became popular, the young generation has lost the ability to read or write anything that is longer than one hundred and sixty characters." -- Ignatios Souvatzis

Re: UEFI refusing NVRAM writes, breaking GRUB install and upgrade

running grub-install with >the --no-nvram option. > >However, the problem reappears when running apt upgrade. > >Is there a way to mitigate this problem? Maybe a way to tell >grub-install to always use --no-nvram? Yup. See https://wiki.debian.org/UEFI#Firmware_does_not_supp

Re: Should a serious bug have made in into bullseye 11.5?

r of platforms and architectures, but that didn't include Xen. We *really* have a dearth of Xen experience among the maintainers, and that's not helping here. I'm building a new unstable package (2.06-4) right now with Valentin's patch applied, and once I've uploaded that

Re: Advantages/Disadvantages of Open Source Software (Was Re: Package grub-xen-host breaks PV domains with 11.5 point release)

ic to a particular kind of license. Thanks Stefan, it's great to see that some people understand the issues. I'll be brutally honest: being accused of "possibly malicious" unwilligness is *not* a great way to convince overstretched volunteers to spend their time on issues.

Re: Google Chrome can share but Chromium cannot share screen

On Sun, 2022-09-11 at 10:26 +0200, Corentin Bardet wrote: > Hi, > > Le 2022-09-11 07:39, Pankaj Jangid a écrit : > > For a few work related meetings, I have to use Google Meet. But the > > screensharing doesn't work in the Chromium installed from stable APT > > repository. Clicking on the share-sc

Re: UNetBootin on Debian 11

debian installer team. Lots of our users were using it, and it was doing broken things to our installation images that caused lots of bug reports. We *massively* disrecommend its use. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the techn

Re: sleep(1) vs. sync(1) twice before umount(8)

lag=sync" onto your dd call, or similar. *Or* you might want to call "sync" in a loop if you're worried you're about to lose power suddenly. This is what UPSes are for... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're t

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