Re: what keyboard do you use?
On Sat, Feb 03, 2024 at 09:10:49AM -0500, Lee wrote: On Fri, Feb 2, 2024 at 8:57???PM Russell L. Harris wrote: On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 08:25:09PM -0500, Lee wrote: >which keyboard do you like and why? CHERRY MX BOARD 3.0 (Purchased several years ago; in daily use since.) Excellent mechanical quality of the keyswitch. Keyswitch plungers which start sticking (high resistance upon depression) is the biggest problem I have found. The next-greatest problem is intermittent contact of key switch contacts. Both problems are maddening for the touch typist. OK - good to know. I am a touch typist, so I guess I'm giving that one a pass. I am saying that these are the biggest problems I have found with keyboards in general, and that the CHERRY MX BOARD 3.0 does not have these problems. If you are a touch typist, focus upon the quality of the keyswitch. Cherry makes/uses a good keyswitch. Buy Cherry. RLH
Re: xfce screen detachment
On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 02:41:47PM -0500, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: On 1/8/24, mick.crane wrote: On 2024-01-07 04:00, Russell L. Harris wrote: system: amd64 desktop, debian 12, xfce, NEC MultiSync EA192M monitor I don't know precisely how to describe the problem, other than "detachment". About every week or so, when using the rodent, the entire screen -- borders and all -- moves with respect to the monitor screen as I move the mouse. The only recovery method I have discovered is to reboot. My hands and finders no longer are working well, so I likely clicked on something or pressed a key to cause the problem. I get this effect if pressing Alt and moving the mouse wheel. Me, too, in LXQt. It's HARD finding the fix until you can finally remember it. It's easy to hit a wall of misses when searching the Internet. As Mick says, hold down the ALT key and scroll the mouse rodent's wheel back and forth. I just blew up my desktop background to where it was basically one rendition of the small gif file that's normally tiled. It seems to be for commendable visual accessibility purposes, but it's sure a grouch maker until you figure out its activation/deactivation secret, lol. Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed * Cindy, Thanks for taking the trouble to post the confirmation. RLH -- He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground; a fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. - Psalm 107:33-34
Re: Changing keyboard layout fails
On Mon, Jan 08, 2024 at 10:28:07PM -0500, David Niklas wrote: Hello, I installed debian, 12.4.0 on 2 laptops. One of them, a 2023 ASUS Zenbook 15" 7735U, I cannot change the keyboard mapping on. Changing it on the other works like a charm. I initially set them up as dvorak, for my own ease, and now I want it to be qwerty. I have temporarily worked around the problem by using setxkbmap. I followed the guide here: https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard , using as root, # dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration # service keyboard-setup restart # udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=input --action=change In the config files, I can see the correct values in /etc/default/keyboard Having worked with Gentoo Linux at one point in time, I read their guide. Based on that info, I checked /etc/vconsole.conf and adjusted it from dvorak to qwerty without effect. I also tried (un)setting dvoark and qwerty layouts including doing multiple reboots without effect. I also tried installing the console-data package which was recommended elsewhere and set qwerty layout without effect. I'm flat out of ideas as to why the keyboard layout will not change. Anyone know how to change the keyboard layout on Debian? With Debian 12 amd64 and xfce, I use the APPLICATIONS > SETTINGS > KEYBOARD . Sometimes with previous Debian releases it has been necessary to monkey a bit with the LAYOUT menu (move up, move down, delete, add) to effect the change within the current session (without log out or restart). I use the American "Dvorak Classic" layout, in which the upper numeric key row conforms to the original Dvorak layout. RLH
Re: xfce screen detachment
On Sun, Jan 07, 2024 at 09:32:55PM -0800, Mike Kupfer wrote: Dan Ritter wrote: Russell L. Harris wrote: > system: amd64 desktop, debian 12, xfce, NEC MultiSync EA192M monitor [...] That sounds something like having an X11 screen larger than the monitor it is on, and X panning around that. Typically, though, panning requires the mouse to hit the border of the monitor. If that's what is happening, try right clicking-on the desktop to get the application menu, and run Settings => Desktop; then reset the resolution to what your monitor actually supports. FWIW, I've noticed that Xfce eventually gets confused about the settings for my display. I don't know what triggers it, but I'll suddenly notice that the display has gone from 1920x1200 to 1920x1080. Resetting it works (under Display, not Desktop). I don't see the problem with MATE, KDE, Cinnamon, or i3. This is on Debian 11, amd64 desktop (radeon 3000 video), Acer 23" monitor. I opened the display settings, but whatever I did did not correct the problem. The next time it happens I try display settings again and pay closer attention. Thanks. RLH
xfce screen detachment
system: amd64 desktop, debian 12, xfce, NEC MultiSync EA192M monitor I don't know precisely how to describe the problem, other than "detachment". About every week or so, when using the rodent, the entire screen -- borders and all -- moves with respect to the monitor screen as I move the mouse. The only recovery method I have discovered is to reboot. My hands and finders no longer are working well, so I likely clicked on something or pressed a key to cause the problem. RLH
Re: cups error -- SOLVED
On Mon, Dec 25, 2023 at 09:36:44PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: I copied the file to another computer in the LAN, ran LaTeX and dvips, and sent it to the same printer, but the file hung at the same spot. Any chance you can use `pdflatex` instead of `latex + dvips`? Have you tried to manually convert the PS to PDF before sending to the printer? or to convert straight from DVI to PDF? Nowadays PS is becoming a curiosity, so you may have better luck with PDF (there's a chance the problem is unrelated, of course). The PDF file produced with pdflatex hung at the same point as did the PS file produced with dvips. The PDF file produced with dvipdfm printed the entire file properly. Many thanks! RLH
Re: cups error
On Mon, Dec 25, 2023 at 09:36:44PM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: I copied the file to another computer in the LAN, ran LaTeX and dvips, and sent it to the same printer, but the file hung at the same spot. Any chance you can use `pdflatex` instead of `latex + dvips`? Have you tried to manually convert the PS to PDF before sending to the printer? or to convert straight from DVI to PDF? Nowadays PS is becoming a curiosity, so you may have better luck with PDF (there's a chance the problem is unrelated, of course). Thanks for the suggestion. I am a dinosaur; I have been running Debian since A.D.2000, and I have done things pretty much as I was taught by the guru who got me running. Are you saying that I can print to a printer which does not have PostScript? (All of my printers, which now are quite old, have PostScript.) P.S. I remember using LPR and the switch to LPRNG, and then the switch to CUPS. And now driverless CUPS. RLH
cups error
On a desktop debian 12.2 amd64 system with HP_LaserJet_P3010_Series_48E436 (ethernet), LaTeX documents composed with Emacs frequently print only up to a certain point (it varies with the document), and CUPS prints the error message: ERROR: typecheck OFFENDING COMMAND: known xdvi displays the document perfectly in its entirety. I copied the file to another computer in the LAN, ran LaTeX and dvips, and sent it to the same printer, but the file hung at the same spot. One time I was able to recover by cutting the section at which printing hung and pasting from another document. I have searched the Web but have not found a solution. RLH
Re: approx in debian 12
On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 02:02:10PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 05:18:02PM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: Should we report an error regarding the approx man page which states: I would not bother filing any cosmetic bug reports against a 12-year-old upstream man page. Agreed on that point. But I suspect that the maintainer is going to become involved to get approx working in Debian-12. I searched for "Debian approx apt-cache" and found several users of apt-cache and apt-cache-ng who reported the packages buggy and several who expressed appreciation for the stability of approx. Whatever release of approx I have running on the Debian-9 machine works flawlessly, but I do hope to upgrade the Debian version on that machine. I suppose I could reinstall on my planned replacement, and see whether approx still works with Debian-11, or go back to Debian-10, if necessary. RLH
Re: approx in debian 12
On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 11:57:44AM +0300, Reco wrote: Hi. On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 08:03:15AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 10:34:14AM +0300, Reco wrote: > Looks good. What about this one: > > apt update -o Acquire::http::Proxy=http://localhost: root@mollydew:/etc/approx# apt update -o Acquire::http::Proxy=http://localhost: Ign:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease Hm. I have this in my approx.conf for debian-security: debian-security http://deb.debian.org/debian-security Try changing it, I guess. The red screen still appears. Should we report an error regarding the approx man page which states: USEAGE approx is invoked by inetd(8) RLH
Re: approx in debian 12
On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 10:34:14AM +0300, Reco wrote: Looks good. What about this one: apt update -o Acquire::http::Proxy=http://localhost: root@mollydew:/etc/approx# apt update -o Acquire::http::Proxy=http://localhost: Ign:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease Err:2 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security Release 404 Not Found [IP: ::1 ] Hit:3 http://192.168.1.40:/debian bookworm InRelease Get:4 http://192.168.1.40:/debian bookworm-updates InRelease [52.1 kB] Reading package lists... Done E: The repository 'http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security Release' no longer has a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. root@mollydew:/etc/approx#
Re: approx in debian 12
On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 09:56:07AM +0300, Reco wrote:
OK. And what happens if you execute this on a approx server:
curl -x http://localhost: -v http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/Release
>/dev/null
root@mollydew:/etc/approx# curl -x http://localhost: -v
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/Release >/dev/null
% Total% Received % Xferd Average Speed TimeTime Time Current
Dload Upload Total SpentLeft Speed
0 00 00 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0*
Trying 127.0.0.1:...
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port (#0)
GET http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/Release HTTP/1.1
Host: ftp.debian.org
User-Agent: curl/7.88.1
Accept: */*
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Content-Type: text/plain
< Last-Modified: Sat, 07 Oct 2023 09:30:02 GMT
< Content-Length: 149228
< Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2023 07:21:42 GMT
< Server: approx/5.12 Ocamlnet/
<
{ [4096 bytes data]
100 145k 100 145k0 0 193k 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 193k
* Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
root@mollydew:/etc/approx#
Re: approx in debian 12
debian http://fpt.debian.org/debian Is this a typo? It should be (ftp, not fpt) Yes; a typo. "journalctl | grep approx" on approx server should show something that's related to the problem. root@mollydew:/home/rlh# journalctl | grep approx Nov 14 07:54:27 mollydew groupadd[4819]: group added to /etc/group: name=approx, GID=120 Nov 14 07:54:27 mollydew groupadd[4819]: group added to /etc/gshadow: name=approx Nov 14 07:54:27 mollydew groupadd[4819]: new group: name=approx, GID=120 Nov 14 07:54:28 mollydew useradd[4825]: new user: name=approx, UID=111, GID=120, home=/var/cache/approx, shell=/usr/sbin/nologin, from=none Nov 14 07:54:29 mollydew systemd[1]: Listening on approx.socket - caching proxy server for Debian archive files. Nov 14 07:56:48 mollydew systemd[1]: approx.socket: Deactivated successfully. Nov 14 07:56:48 mollydew systemd[1]: Closed approx.socket - caching proxy server for Debian archive files. Nov 14 18:45:29 mollydew systemd[1]: Listening on approx.socket - caching proxy server for Debian archive files. Nov 15 08:24:34 mollydew systemd[1]: approx.socket: Deactivated successfully. Nov 15 08:24:34 mollydew systemd[1]: Closed approx.socket - caching proxy server for Debian archive files. Nov 15 21:27:22 mollydew systemd[1]: Listening on approx.socket - caching proxy server for Debian archive files. Nov 16 00:40:56 mollydew systemd[1]: approx.socket: Deactivated successfully. Nov 16 00:40:56 mollydew systemd[1]: Closed approx.socket - caching proxy server for Debian archive files. Nov 16 00:42:30 mollydew systemd[1]: Listening on approx.socket - caching proxy server for Debian archive files. Nov 16 07:19:45 mollydew systemd[1]: approx.socket: Deactivated successfully. Nov 16 07:19:45 mollydew systemd[1]: Closed approx.socket - caching proxy server for Debian archive files. Nov 17 01:43:36 mollydew systemd[1]: Listening on approx.socket - caching proxy server for Debian archive files. Nov 17 04:47:32 mollydew systemd[1]: approx.socket: Deactivated successfully. Nov 17 04:47:32 mollydew systemd[1]: Closed approx.socket - caching proxy server for Debian archive files. Nov 17 04:49:05 mollydew systemd[1]: Listening on approx.socket - caching proxy server for Debian archive files. root@mollydew:/home/rlh#
Re: approx in debian 12
On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 01:08:50PM +0300, Reco wrote: What you have is approx.socket unit, which causes systemd to listen on tcp:. On each incoming connection "approx@:-:.service" is started. That service is only used to serve that particular connection, and is terminated after. Thus, there's nothing to restart. You just edit /etc/approx/approx.conf, and try your changes immediately. I am trying to do another netinstall of Debian 12 on a Lenovo G570 laptop. Both the target machine (192.168.1.25) and the approx server (192.168.1.30) are in my LAN. The approx server is a fresh install of Debian 12. The approx.conf file has only two lines uncommented (should I add "us"?): debian http://fpt.debian.org/debian security http://security.debian.org/debian-security In netinstall, under CONFIGURE THE PACKAGE MANAGER, I have specified the debian archive mirror hostname: 192.168.1.30: and debian archive mirror directory: /debian/ Scanning the archive mirror produces the "red screen of death" BAD ARCHIVE MIRROR. Virtual console 4 says: "WARNING **: mirror does not support the specified release" RLH
Re: approx in debian 12
On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 07:14:04AM +0100, Kamil Jo?ca wrote: Kamil Jo?ca writes: Charles Curley writes: On Thu, 16 Nov 2023 04:11:37 + "Russell L. Harris" wrote: root@mollydew:/home/rlh# systemctl daemon-reload root@mollydew:/home/rlh# systemctl restart approx Failed to restart approx.service: Unit approx.service not found. root@mollydew:/home/rlh# systemctl status approx Unit approx.service could not be found. root@mollydew:/home/rlh# Well, that's weird. I installed approx on a Debian 12 machine, and got the same results you did. However: root@tsalmoth:~# ll /lib/systemd/system/approx* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 165 Feb 12 2023 '/lib/systemd/system/approx@.service' -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 167 Feb 12 2023 /lib/systemd/system/approx.socket root@tsalmoth:~# systemctl status approx.service Unit approx.service could not be found. But here I cannot see approx.service, only approx@.service (ie. service which can have multiple instances) What if you issue: systemctl status "approx@*.service" It appears to run; no error message is produced, but no output, either. But I am in not in familiar territory. RLH
Re: approx in debian 12
On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 07:48:44AM +0200, Anssi Saari wrote: "Russell L. Harris" writes: root@mollydew:/home/rlh# systemctl daemon-reload root@mollydew:/home/rlh# systemctl restart approx Failed to restart approx.service: Unit approx.service not found. root@mollydew:/home/rlh# systemctl status approx Unit approx.service could not be found. root@mollydew:/home/rlh# Looks like there's a cron job and a socket for it in the package. So are you sure you're even supposed to run it as a service? They do include an approx@.service so you could run it as whichever user you want but it makes me think that's not the idea here. Maybe the documents in /usr/share/doc/approx give more information about the intended usage. I've only taken a quick peek at the file list. I am not familiar with the term "approx.service". I have not touched the approx server (running Debian 9) for a couple of years or more. It "just runs". I have used the server without change to the configuration files for netinstalls since Debian 8 or 9, and the latest was to install Debian 12. In the mirror selection of netinstall, I only have to type in the host ip address and port: "192.168.1.40:". RLH
Re: approx in debian 12
On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 10:55:51PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: Do you really need approx if you have only the one machine? I install Debian for friends. They are amazed at how fast their old Windows machines run with Debian. And approx has been a time saver for me. In the network mirror configuration step, all I have to type in is: 192.168.1.40: I have not touched the approx server for a couple of years. RLH
Re: approx in debian 12
On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 10:23:45PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: On Wed, 15 Nov 2023 22:18:09 -0700 Charles Curley wrote: One thing I didn't like is that approx appears to require fiddling with sources.list. apt-cacher-ng simply requires setting a proxy value, in its own file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d. E.g.: root@hawk:/etc/apt/apt.conf.d# cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/02proxy Acquire::http::Proxy "http://aptcacher.localdomain:3142;; root@hawk:/etc/apt/apt.conf.d# Or, even simpler, install auto-apt-proxy on your clients and let them find your proxy. The package description says it works for approx. And that worked! -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/ Thanks for checking, Charles. My schedule does not allow me to work on it until tomorrow evening. However, can auto-apt-proxy be specified during mirror selection with a netinstall? That is my primary need and use for approx. A friend gave me his old Windows XP machine. I installed on it Debian 12 with XFCE desktop. I intend to use it to replace an old machine on which is installed Debian 9, running a mail server (getmail) and an approx server. RLH
Re: approx in debian 12
On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 07:41:03PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: On Thu, 16 Nov 2023 01:39:32 + "Russell L. Harris" wrote: I installed approx in a Debian 12 system, but when I attempt to restart it the error message appears "Unit approx.service not loaded." Please show us a complete copy and paste of the transaction, from the initial prompt and the command you entered, through to the following prompt, inclusive. Then, similarly for "systemctl status approx". You may need to run "systemctl daemon-reload". root@mollydew:/home/rlh# systemctl daemon-reload root@mollydew:/home/rlh# systemctl restart approx Failed to restart approx.service: Unit approx.service not found. root@mollydew:/home/rlh# systemctl status approx Unit approx.service could not be found. root@mollydew:/home/rlh#
approx in debian 12
I installed approx in a Debian 12 system, but when I attempt to restart it the error message appears "Unit approx.service not loaded." The approx man page (dated May 2011) says that approx is invoked by inetd, but I think that in Debian 12 approx is invoked by systemctl or systemd. synaptic indicates that systemctl is available, but not installed. RLH
local (lan) mirror - release not supported error
For several years I have been running approx on a machine in the lan, using it to install and update Debian for myself and friends. I have installed several releases, the last being release 12.2 on this machine. Because approx "just runs" trouble-free, I have forgotten the details of the installation. But now, trying to install "debian-12.2.0-i386-netinst.iso", I get the error "release not supported" error when I attempt to specify the local mirror (192.168.1.40:). RLH
Re: Debian for Celeron
On Sun, Nov 05, 2023 at 08:36:43AM +0100, Marco M. wrote: Am 05.11.2023 um 07:30:51 Uhr schrieb Russell L. Harris: This kernel requires an x86-64 CPU, but only detected an i686 CPU. Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for you CPU. You need the i386 image for your CPU. Use that link to download it with BitTorrent: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/i386/bt-dvd/debian-12.2.0-i386-DVD-1.iso.torrent Marco, I thank you for the link. I never had used BitTorrent, but I found and installed "biglybt" and soon had the iso image. I lost several hours messing around with getting the iso image onto a USB stick. And about five minutes ago, my old Celeron booted into Debian 12. I plan to use the machine either for "pi-hole" or for my weather station running "weewx". Again, thanks. RLH
Re: mirror for debian 10
On Sun, Nov 05, 2023 at 08:07:06AM +0100, Marco M. wrote: Am 05.11.2023 um 06:32:10 Uhr schrieb Russell L. Harris: I was under the impression that Debian 12 would not work on older machines. Am I mistaken? It requires a i686 cpu (Pentium Pro or newer) despite the i386 in the packaging system due to compatibility reasons. You Celeron 1.7 GHz will satisfy that. I thank you for the clarification. All I need is, if possible, to get Debian running on the machine. The later the release, the better. My thanks to all of you. RLH
Re: mirror for debian 10
On Sun, Nov 05, 2023 at 01:18:30AM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: I _think_ you can use , though I have never used it for Debian. I have used similar repos for Fedora and Ubuntu. I was under the impression that Debian 12 would not work on older machines. Am I mistaken? I checked several archives which claimed to support older releases, but I am not sure whether I tried archive.debian.org. RLH
mirror for debian 10
I need to install Debian on a old machine (1700 Mhz Celeron). I copied the installer image to USB stick and the installation appeared to go properly until I tried without success to find a Debian mirror which hosts Debian 10. RLH
Re: How to compare contents of two folders against third one?
fslint (no longer in Debian) and dupeguru may be of interest to you. I have used both. RLH
Re: automate resumption of session
On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 10:40:43PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: When I leave the office for the day, I typically shut down the computer. Why? I never turn my computer off. Same here, I always just suspend. I wish I had that option. But I live way out in the country, and now and then there is a power outage. My computer is running on a UPS, but UPS batteries die after being run down more than a few times, and battery replacement is expensive. And then there are lightning storms... For those computers where I'm not coming back to them the next day, I hibernate them, so they're truly "off" and a powercut is perfectly harmless, but when I turn them back on I get back to where I was. I have been using Debian since A.D.2000, but I never have been clear on the use of suspend and hibernate. If I am going to power-down the computer, hibernate sounds good; but how do I resume? RLH
Re: automate resumption of session
On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 07:10:34PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: Don't do that. ... Noted and now being implemented. Many thanks, Charles. RLH
Re: automate resumption of session
On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 08:19:54PM -0400, Larry Martell wrote: On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 8:15 PM Russell L. Harris wrote When I leave the office for the day, I typically shut down the computer. Why? I never turn my computer off. I wish I had that option. But I live way out in the country, and now and then there is a power outage. My computer is running on a UPS, but UPS batteries die after being run down more than a few times, and battery replacement is expensive. And then there are lightning storms... RLH
automate resumption of session
I am a writer. I use Emacs and LaTeX markup on a Debian/XFCE system. On a typical day, I have in progress three or four articles. I may work for several days on a given article. Each article is in a separate XFCE workspace. The text for each article resides in its own directory. For each article, I keep open an instance of emacs, a terminal window from which I execute latex and xdvi, and the xdvi window. When I leave the office for the day, I typically shut down the computer. The next morning, the first order of business is to recreate the previous working environment or ``session.'' For each article, this entails: (1) Click on the appropriate workspace button. (2) Open an instance of emacs. (3) In the emacs window, use the mouse to click on the icon to resize the window. (4) In emacs, open the file in the document directory. (5) Open a terminal window. (6) In the terminal window, use the mouse to click on the icon to resize the window. (7) In the terminal, cd to the document directory. (8) In the terminal, execute ``xdiv ... &'' to display the document. I would like write a script to automate the process, so that I need only boot the computer and type RESUME; but my efforts have been unsuccessful. RLH
Re: git setup
On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 09:54:02AM +0200, Loris Bennett wrote: Does a bare remote to which you simply push not already provide you with an adequate backup? One you have made a number of commits, you can just push them to the remote. I am old and my fingers sometimes strike the wrong keys. (In younger days, I was a very skilled typist.) And now and then, I manage to make an entire paragraph or more disappear. So, whether backups are manual or automated, my rule is (1) commit frequently, and (2) backup with each commit. However, I may have missed some of the intricacies of your scenario. You seemed to imply that you don't have a bare remote, which I find surprising. I also have old computers (with old drives). Moreover, I live out in the country where power interruptions are common (thus, I power a computer through a UPS). These two factors are why I wish to have a backup repository on a separate computer. --- As best I understand it (and kindly correct me if I am mistaken), a bare repository is a central repository used by a group of developers. Each developer has his own repository, and no developer ``owns'' the central repository. But for me, the only purpose of the backup repository is to ensure against data loss due to a catastrophic event such as drive failure on my production host. If pushing from PRODUCTION is more reliable or less trouble-prone than pulling from BACKUP, kindly explain to me, and I shall change. If a bare BACKUP is more reliable or less trouble-prone than a non-bare BACKUP, kindly explain to me, and I shall change. RLH
Re: git setup
On Fri, Aug 25, 2023 at 07:24:59AM +0100, Tixy wrote: On Thu, 2023-08-24 at 22:24 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: #!/bin/bash # post-commit # 2023.08.24 2200gmt ssh backup "git pull" exit 0 You could omit the 'exit 0' so it returns the error code from the ssh command, that way you'll get some feedback from failures to backup which you would probably want to know about. Thanks; I'll do it. I have run Debian for over twenty years, but I have much to learn. I'm also a bit confused about doing it this way. The usual workflow with git is to 'push' to the remote repository, which is in fact what you originally asked how to do. This particular exercise is aimed at automation; the impetus was a change of hosts and a move to Debian 12. I have been opening two terminals, one on the local host and the other (via SSH) on the remote host. Whenever I think it is time to capture the state of the document I am composing, I commit to the local repository, then I pull the update into the remote repository. To me, pull seemed natural, because the remote repository was cloned from the local. But if there is a reason to push, then I shall change. As others pointed out, you push with the command 'git push' which you could do in the hook script instead of 'ssh backup "git pull"'. But whatever works for you I guess. Sounds reasonable. Note, if you ever edit commits then having an automated 'pull' or 'push' command will fail, as by default they will only do a fast- forward operation. There are commandline options and config setups to change this. That's why I wrote the long description. The purpose of the system is to make backups as effortless as possible, and to allow me to reconsider a paragraph or a page which I deleted yesterday or last week. Offhand, I don't know how to edit a commit, or why I would need to. RLH
Re: git setup
On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 12:59:18AM -0400, Karl Vogel wrote: me% cat try #!/bin/sh export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin ssh -q -c aes128-...@openssh.com -i $HOME/.ssh/bkup_ed25519 \ bkup "logger -t autopull git pull whatever" exit 0 I am grateful for the recommendations. The backup works as expected if I keep a terminal window open and logged via SSH into the remote host, and execute ``git pull''. But I still have not managed to get the git hook script running. I decided to document the system and to give the document a title so that it can be found by others trying to put together a similar system. Kindly suggest improvements in the title or the content. --- USE OF GIT POST-COMMIT HOOK TO AUTOMATE SSH PULL OF A GIT REPOSITORY FOR DOCUMENT BACKUP (1) This is a git system running on a pair of Debian computers (LOCAL and REMOTE) and serving a single user. All git activity involves only the MASTER branch; there is no branching or merging. Routine operations consist of COMMITS to the production repository on the local host and PULLS into the backup repository on the remote host. Passwordless SSH is used for data transfer. (2) The primary purpose of the git system is archival and backup of text documents, which are composed in LaTeX markup. As a document takes shape during composition, from time to time it is committed. A secondary purpose of the git system is to allow reference or regression to an earlier stage in the development of a particular document. (3) SSH is configured for passwordless login to the remote host by the local host. (4) The PRODUCTION repository is ``192.168.1.85:/home/rlh/git.production''. (5) The BACKUP repository is ``192.168.1.35:/home/rlh/git.backup''. (6) The backup repository was cloned (non-bare) from the production repository. The git remote was assigned the alias ``backup''. (7) A git hook script on the local host named ``post-commit'' calls SSH on the backup host to pull the latest document version from the production repository. The script, the path of which is, ``.git/hooks/post-commit'', follows. Note that the shebang line specifies ``bash'', which is appropriate for a Debian/GNU Linux system: #!/bin/bash # post-commit # 2023.08.24 2200gmt ssh backup "git pull" exit 0
git setup
After much searching and reading, I have not discovered how to set up a pair of git repositories to work together. I write articles for publication. I typically spend anywhere from several hours to many days on each article. It is frustrating to work for an hour or two on a paragraph or a page and then accidentally to erase what I have written. In the past, I have found git to be a very good solution. But now I am moving to a new computer, and I an having difficulty replicating the previous setup. My needs are simple. I need two git repositories. The first is my work space, into which periodically I commit the article on which I am working. The second repository is my backup; it resides on another machine. Several times a day, I SSH into the backup machine and pull the working repository. It would be nice to be able to push from WORKING to BACKUP, eliminating the need to SSH. I cloned the WORKING repository from the old host, and the WORKING repository appears to function correctly. But I do not know how to configure the BACKUP repository. I tried the BARE option, but I am not able to push from WORKING to BACKUP. RLH
Re: Looking for a good "default" font (small 'L' vs. capital 'i' problem)
On Sun, Aug 20, 2023 at 10:14:20PM +0200, Christoph K. wrote: And I loathe fonts in which the numerals 3, 5, 6, and 9 are not radically different. Interesting point. Didn't pay much attention to these numerals, yet. Back in the 1970's, I ran across a detailed study of character shape with respect to the problem of readability after photographic reduction (microfilm and microfische) in hand-lettered engineering drawings (24in x 36in). Reading that study brought about a change in my own handwriting. The study was by a oil company; perhaps it was Shell Oil. That would be really interesting to read. Do you have any (more) hints on how to find that study? Do you remember what change you did in your handwriting? If we (Texas, near Austin) end up with an Autumn with moderate temperatures, I should have a copy in the boxes of papers stored in the garage. I need to sort and cull, anyway. But within a few years (circa A.D. 1980), computerized drafting was introduced and quickly became dominant. I think I was in the very last generation which learned to letter by hand. On the 3, 5, 6, and 9, open the end of the loops, and shorten the horizontal stroke on top of the 5 so the 5 is not mistaken for an S. Always put horizontal strokes on I. Make the 1 with a flag on the upper end and put a horizontal stroke on the 7, German-style. My handwriting is a odd mixture of cursive script and printing. Years ago, in the days when you used pencil to write computer code on a paper form, for conversion to punched cards by a keypunch operator, I got used to writing zeros with a slash. But if most of your writing is numerals (as in spreadsheets), then you may prefer to slash the alphabetic O. The keypunch operators used ``double-entry'' -- the code was typed a second time by a different operator, to guard against error. I read somewhere that the double-entry scheme is used for obtaining an accurate digital version of material which originally was typeset by hand. And, that better accuracy is obtained if the language of the document is foreign to the typists. RLH
Re: Looking for a good "default" font (small 'L' vs. capital 'i' problem)
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Re: Looking for a good "default" font (small 'L' vs. capital 'i' problem)
I am a XFCE user with a similar taste in fonts, but I have no need for umlaut. I am concerned primarily with the distinction between numeral 1 and lower case L. And I loathe fonts in which the numerals 3, 5, 6, and 9 are not radically different. Back in the 1970's, I ran across a detailed study of character shape with respect to the problem of readability after photographic reduction (microfilm and microfische) in hand-lettered engineering drawings (24in x 36in). Reading that study brought about a change in my own handwriting. The study was by a oil company; perhaps it was Shell Oil. For Debian, I searched by opening EDIT > PREFERENCES > APPEARANCE in a terminal. I currently am using `go mono regular'. But `liberation mono regular' looks promising. RLH -- He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground; a fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. - Psalm 107:33-34
Re: Thunderbird vs Claws Mail
Consider evolution.
Re: Feeds aren't yet dead (Was: Re: perl module listgarden)
On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 05:29:33PM +, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 03:07:47AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: For that matter, is RSS still in use? $ r2e list | wc -l 72 Andy, I don't understand; kindly explain. I have a blog and a web site, both of which I create with make4ht, so they have no RSS feed. Of course, everyone else uses WordPress, which can produce a RSS feed. But I compose with LaTeX as my markup language, and (the last I checked) LaTeX is only marginally-compatible with WordPress. But I am a dinosaur, and I am not sure that RSS still is vital or even helpful to a web site; therefore my query. RLH
Re: perl module listgarden
On Wed, Aug 02, 2023 at 03:18:12PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: On 8/2/23 14:03, Russell L. Harris wrote: I have not used Perl for several years, and I do not know how to proceed. I am trying to install Dan Bricklin's RSS feed generator, ListGarden. metacpan.org cannot find the listgarden module. Here is the output: perl listgarden.pl Can't locate ListGarden.pm in @INC (you may need to install the ListGarden module) (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.32.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.32.1 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.32 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.32 /usr/share/perl/5.32 /usr/local/lib/site_perl) at listgarden.pl line 21. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at listgarden.pl line 21. ListGarden does not appear to be a Debian package: https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=LIstGarden=names=all=all MetaCPAN is unable to find ListGarden: https://metacpan.org/search?size=20=ListGarden STFW "ListGarden" I see: http://www.softwaregarden.com/products/listgarden/ Under "How to get it", follow the link "Generic Perl Version": http://www.softwaregarden.com/products/listgarden/plainperl.html The instructions do not mention a Makefile.PL or Build.PL, so it appears that you will need to install distribution files, adjust the PERL5LIB environment variable, configure your services/ apps, etc., manually. Thanks, David. I did follow the plainperl.html link. All the files came from Dan Bricklin's ListGarden web site. Perhaps the Perlmongers mail list still is active. For that matter, is RSS still in use? RLH
perl module listgarden
I have not used Perl for several years, and I do not know how to proceed. I am trying to install Dan Bricklin's RSS feed generator, ListGarden. metacpan.org cannot find the listgarden module. Here is the output: perl listgarden.pl Can't locate ListGarden.pm in @INC (you may need to install the ListGarden module) (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.32.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.32.1 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.32 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl-base /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.32 /usr/share/perl/5.32 /usr/local/lib/site_perl) at listgarden.pl line 21. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at listgarden.pl line 21. -- He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground; a fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. - Psalm 107:33-34
Re: Recommendations for a UPS?
On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 12:23:46PM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: I used to use UPS units from APC back when you could replace the battery. I haven't had an UPS (but always on a surge protecter) for awhile, but electricity (now FPL) is not as reliable in my new location and I need one. All the reviews I've seen on Amazon for smaller capacity UPSs for APC and Tripp Lite are not that great (I usually concentrate on the one- and two-star reviews). Any recommenndations from fellow Debian folks? Thanks. -Tom Experience with APC: every one died emitting smoke Experience with Tripp Lite: five have been in daily use for years; finally had to replace the batteries Experience with Eaton/Powersonic (new owner of Tripp Lite): had to scrap an expensive sinusoidal output unit because a proprietary component failed and PowerSonic discontinued support. RLH -- He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground; a fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. - Psalm 107:33-34
hplip on debian 11
A few weeks ago, I installed Debian 11 on a Dell Vosotro-200 belonging to a friend. I installed the hplip package and used hp-setup, which successfully got an old HP ink jet printer working on the system. The friend also has a Dell Optiplex 330, on which I installed Debian 11 a few months ago. He wished to move the inkjet printer to the Optiplex, so, using synaptic, I tried to install hplip on the Optiplex. However, the SEARCH function of synaptic could find no match for ``hplip''. I was able to execute RELOAD, MARK ALL UPGRADES, and APPLY on the Optiplex and upgraded chromium. The repository is: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
Re: change synaptic repositories
On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 04:50:56PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: Russell L. Harris wrote: Where can I find a list of URLs for Synaptic repositories such as that displayed by the installer? I need to switch from a local Approx repository to one of the publically-accessible repositories such as maintained by debian.org. Regardless of what interface you are using (apt, apt-get, aptitude, synaptic...) the repos are defined in /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* -dsr- But those contain only the repositories selected for the installation.
Re: change synaptic repositories
On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 08:57:16PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 08:47:54PM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: Where can I find a list of URLs for Synaptic repositories such as that displayed by the installer? I need to switch from a local Approx repository to one of the publically-accessible repositories such as maintained by debian.org. Synaptic is a front end to apt so: https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList All the best, Andy Cater Thank you! That page provided the URL of the list I needed, which is: https://www.debian.org/mirror/list
change synaptic repositories
Where can I find a list of URLs for Synaptic repositories such as that displayed by the installer? I need to switch from a local Approx repository to one of the publically-accessible repositories such as maintained by debian.org. -- He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground; a fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. - Psalm 107:33-34
Re: does your Thunderbird for deb11 often become unresponsive?
On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 03:26:15AM +, piorunz wrote: On 05/03/2023 20:26, Russell L. Harris wrote: Thunderbird under Debian 11 gave minor miscellaneous problems from time to time. Can't reproduce. If you have exact problem, please describe and/or fill a bug. Disclaimer: I use TB for about 10 years and don't have any "miscellaneous problems" or "lost e-mails". My normal email client is mutt. I forward some HTML messages to Thunderbird and get some mail directly to Thunderbird. I do not recall the problems, because I do not use Thunderbird for critical mail. But when Thunderbird lost a couple of messages I did lose two or three messages which I did not delete. That disturbed me. And that instance provided the impetus to search for an alternative. I found Evolution, and I find it easier to use than Thunderbird. All I am saying is that Evolution is a good alternative to Thunderbird.
Re: does your Thunderbird for deb11 often become unresponsive?
Thunderbird under Debian 11 gave minor miscellaneous problems from time to time. But when Thunderbird lost a couple of messages, I switched to Evolution. Now I have no more problems and I prefer the features Evolution; I wish I had discovered Evolution long ago. -- He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground; a fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. - Psalm 107:33-34
CUPS printer on Debian 11.6
Fresh installation of Debian 11.6 on Dell Vostro 200 (Intel Core 2). The Vostro 200 is being added to a home LAN with Debian 11.6 running on a nondescript desktop (amd64) and a HP Laserjet P3015 Postscript (Ethernet). The amd64 machine works perfectly with the P3015. The printer configuration on both machines appears identical: DRIVER: HP LaserJet Series PCL 6 CUPS (grayscale) Connection: socket://192.168.1.211:9100 (1) The printer installs on Vostro 200 but does not print. (2) Should I install the P3015 as generic Postscript printer? (3) I cannot make sense of the new CUPS "driverless" scheme. Does it make my Postscript printers obsolete? -- He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground; a fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. - Psalm 107:33-34
Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst
On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 10:47:02PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 9:51 PM Russell L. Harris wrote: On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 05:49:30PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: >On 1/19/23 19:43, Russell L. Harris wrote: >>I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude >>3510 to cause it to see and boot from a Debian netinst image (Debian The Latitude 3510 was released in 2020. I doubt it is a 32-bit architecture, like early Pentiums. Actually, I received three old laptops. I got Debian 11 running on one of them; the BIOS reports: Inspiron 3542 Intel Core i5-4210U ram = DDR3L No indication of 32-bit or 64-bit. P.S. The Latitude 3510 has a COREi5 sticker by the keyboard. RLH
Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst
On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 05:49:30PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: On 1/19/23 19:43, Russell L. Harris wrote: I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude 3510 to cause it to see and boot from a Debian netinst image (Debian 11) written to USB flash (8Gbyte Patriot). For newer computers with UEFI firmware and Secure Boot, I use the "amd64" architecture version of the Debian Installer -- e.g.: debian-11.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso 1) Does this work on an Intel Pentium machine? 2) So I turn on Secure Boot? RLH
Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst
On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 09:27:39AM -0600, David Wright wrote: On Fri 20 Jan 2023 at 05:23:06 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 10:18:33PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 20 Jan 2023 at 03:43:09 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: > > I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude > > 3510 to cause it to see and boot from a Debian netinst image (Debian > > 11) written to USB flash (8Gbyte Patriot). BTW you don't say whether you've ever booted it from any kind of stick. The machine was a gift; this is my first experience with a laptop of recent manufacture. The Service Manual latitude-3510-sm-en-us.pdf (p88/9) says ??? Enable USB Boot Support - Allows the system to boot from an external USB device (Enabled by default) ??? Enable External USB Ports - Allows the user to enable or disable the USB ports on the computer (Enabled by default) I checked those. Page 87 (p89/90 also relevant) explains that you can turn on booting from an mSD card. It's worth trying a variety of sticks, and in every available port, lest it's USB2/3, or just some other inexplicable incompatibility. I've had laptops showing that behaviour. This flash stick has booted other machines. mSD sounds promising. RLH
Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst
On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 12:28:21PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 05:23:06AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 10:18:33PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 20 Jan 2023 at 03:43:09 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: > > I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude > > 3510 to cause it to see and boot from a Debian netinst image (Debian > > 11) written to USB flash (8Gbyte Patriot). The problem is that the "one-time menu" does not include the flash device. How did you create the flash device - what command did you use? After downloading the official netinst iso image, I copied it to the flash stick (I routinely do netinst of Debian): # cp debian-11.6.0-i386-netinst.iso /dev/sdb # sync
Re: dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst
On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 10:18:33PM -0600, David Wright wrote: On Fri 20 Jan 2023 at 03:43:09 (+), Russell L. Harris wrote: I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude 3510 to cause it to see and boot from a Debian netinst image (Debian 11) written to USB flash (8Gbyte Patriot). Typically you'd tap away at F12 after turning it on, and that would give you a one-time menu for where to boot from. The problem is that the "one-time menu" does not include the flash device. The F12 facility can be turned off, in which case you'd have to tap away at F2 instead, which would give you access to the full BIOS. The Boot Sequence will be somewhere in there, like (D430): Boot Sequence 1 USB Storage Device 2 CD/DVD/CD-RW Drive 3 Diskette Drive 4 Internal HDD Cardbus NIC D/Dock PCI slot NIC Onboard NIC Neither do the BIOS screens include the flash device. Boot Sequence [X] UEFI ST500LM034 (+) Add Boot Option I have searched with Google without success. The BIOS of this machine offers an order of magnitude more options than does the BIOS of other Dell machines. Regrettably, many of the parameters are not explained. RLH
dell latitude 3510 - bios settings to boot debian netinst
I have not figured out how to configure the BIOS of a Dell Latitude 3510 to cause it to see and boot from a Debian netinst image (Debian 11) written to USB flash (8Gbyte Patriot). RLH -- He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground; a fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. - Psalm 107:33-34
replace corrupted emacs aspell dictionary
I managed to approve incorrect spellings for several words in the Emacs aspell dictionary. How can I replace the corrupted dictionary with a pristine copy? -- He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground; a fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. - Psalm 107:33-34
Re: error using synaptic UPGRADE/INSTALL
On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 06:46:02PM -0500, David Wright wrote: On Mon 13 Jun 2022 at 12:38:37 (+0100), Brad Rogers wrote: On Mon, 13 Jun 2022 07:24:07 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: >On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 04:58:44AM +0000, Russell L. Harris wrote: >> I suppose I should have shut down some of processes before running >> Synaptic. >That shouldn't be necessary. While I would generally concur, I would not advise, for example, performing the monthly firefox upgrade while the browser is running. Indeed. It seems more likely that the problems arose because Synaptic was forcefully terminated. Of course, it may have been necessary due to a (now) unknowable problem. It would be helpful (maybe) to know how long Russell waited before performing the reset after Synaptic hung. Too late now, but it might simply have been performing complex 'bookkeeping' tasks. For example, occasionally, I've seen initrd.img being written out more than once during an update (although not recently). That can take time. Over the weekend, both ntfs-3g and linux-image-5.10.0 were upgraded, though I split them because I happened to upgrade ntfs-3g just after midnight Friday. A weekly upgrade might upgrade both at the same time. > I would also point out that a pair of upgrades like this would be split if you normally upgrade (in apt-get's parlance), but then dist-upgrade because you see a new kernel image being held back. But AFAICT, apt-get does not appear to try to avoid generating initrd twice in the same step. For example, in April, both apparmor and linux-image-5.10.0 caused initrd regeneration on this PC in one step. Not being a synaptic user, I don't know whether it informs users of what it is doing (other than through the logs), but I would have thought it ought to. If I recall correctly, the system became unresponsive. I've gotten lazy because I seldom have a problem with Synaptic. But it is easy enough to close files before starting the download+install, particularly if it involves a kernel upgrade. RLH
Re: error using synaptic UPGRADE/INSTALL
On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 11:27:04PM -0500, David Wright wrote: The fact that your working directory is a user's (yours?), and ???sbin directories are not in your $PATH suggests you might have become root using "su" and not "su -" or "su --login". Try one of these instead. (The change to su's semantics gets discussed here fairly regularly.) Thanks, David. It worked. That occurred to me when I first typed "su", but then I forgot to go back and try. Now I can sleep tonight without worrying about it. I suppose I should have shut down some of processes before running Synaptic. RLH
error using synaptic UPGRADE/INSTALL
Debian 11 AMD At the end of my weekly UPGRADE session using synaptic, the system hung. I restarted using the hardware RESET button. The system booted and found a number of orphaned nodes. When I started synaptic a message was displayed that I needed to run dpkg --configure -a. When I ran that command, the following message is displayed: root@penelope:/home/rlh# dpkg --configure -a dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable dpkg: warning: 'start-stop-daemon' not found in PATH or not executable dpkg: error: 2 expected programs not found in PATH or not executable Note: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin Running dpkg again gives the same result. Should I continue to run the system, or do I need to reinstall? RLH
Re: perl listgarden module
On Wed, Jun 01, 2022 at 01:08:50PM +, Andy Smith wrote: Hi Russell, On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 02:39:21AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: I am attempting to run the ListGarden RSS generator on Debian 11. Perl 5 (version 32) needs the ListGarden module. There is no such published module that I can find, so it seems likely that this is part of ListGarden itself and you just haven't installed it properly. I've no experience with ListGarden so can't help there. I suggest seeking help from the authors or the ListGarden user community. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting Thanks, Andy, you are right. Listgarden is now running on my machine, and I am quite happy with the features and ease of use. By the way, Listgarden is the product of Dan Bricklin, co-developer of Visi-Calc, the first spreadsheet. RLH
perl listgarden module
I am attempting to run the ListGarden RSS generator on Debian 11. Perl 5 (version 32) needs the ListGarden module. Meta::cpan does not recognize the module name. I am trying to implement a RSS (or Atom) feed on an blog I am generating with make4ht. RLH -- He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground; a fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. - Psalm 107:33-34
Re: firefox misbehaviour
On Sat, May 21, 2022 at 07:57:29AM +0200, Hans wrote: Does this help? Yes. Noted and filed for reference. Thanks. I changed several items under SETTINGS and that helped, but I don't understand the interactions. RLH
Re: weather station
On Sat, May 21, 2022 at 03:57:50PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: Whilst you conspicuously omit indication of where you are located, I have found that, here in Australia, the weather bureau has gone malicious, and blocks access where a web site visitor tries to reload a web page in less than a (unknown) specified period of time, which is somewhere around four hours after the web page was last reloaded. I have found using the pws dashboard for a local weather station on the Weather Underground, to be both more reliable, and, more localised (e.g., for me, https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/IWESTERN754), as the local Weather Underground is within about a kilometre, and, the weather bureau closest weather station, is about 10-15 kilometres away. The Weather Underground PWS dashboard updates, usually,about every 10-20s, I think. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) Hi, Bret. I am in central Texas, a little southeast of Austin. My weather station is at alysonwonderland.org. The weather bureau web site does not restrict access: https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Smithville=TX=EWX=30.0077=-97.1566 I considered wunderground.com, but the last time I checked, it seemed to me that wunderground "boilerplate" was too restrictive. So I have been paying for hosting and have been running the open-source weewx package for several years. My hardware is Davis, which has proved reliable. The only failures have been a bad supercapacitor, loss of an anemometer cup in a hailstorm, loss of windvane signal due to a lightning strike, and an anemometer shaft slowed by a spider web. Each problem has been subtle and has necessitated a bit of detective work, but Davis support in diagnosis has been exceptional. RLH
Re: firefox misbehaviour
On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 10:18:59PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: I am unfamiliar with "TAB AUTO REFRESH icon (and function)". TAB AUTO REFRESH is an extension which automatically reloads the current page every [specified number of] seconds. I use it to refresh the weather bureau forecast web page about once an hour and the web page for my personal weather station about every five minutes. When installed, TAB AUTO REFRESH displays an icon with a countdown of the number of seconds until the next refresh. Clicking on the icon brings up a window for resetting the refresh interval. RLH
firefox misbehaviour
Is anyone else having trouble with firefox over the past week? At first I noticed that NEW WINDOW sometimes was absent from the menu (FILE > NEW WINDOW). Then, some bookmarks went missing. Now the TAB AUTO REFRESH icon (and function) has vanished and does not reinstall. Debian 11, firefox 91.9.0esr (64-bit) RLH -- Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! - Isaiah 5:20
webcamd
I am having only limited success configuring the Debian webcamd package. I wish to display images from a Logitech web cam pointing out the window as a weathercam, uploading a new image about once a minute. I plan to upload the images to a subdirectory "webcam" of my weather website, www.example-weather.org/webcam. I am running Debian 11; but I also have machines running Debian 10 and Debian 9. I would like first to get things running in Apache on localhost before uploading to a shared host on hostgator.com. Ideally, the image would be on both. The example webcamd.conf calls for a font named "clean" to write dates on the pictures, but "fc-list" does not show "clean" installed. I have tried to specify "Monospace Regular" but that does not seem to work. My latest effort has the index_up.html and index_down.hthl displaying, but no photo. I also had the photo displaying without a date. Is there a webcam application more suitable for this application? RLH -- How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up? - Deuteronomy 32:30
Re: Simple and secure blogging software for nginx
On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 08:19:02AM -0500, songbird wrote: Christian Britz wrote: ... Thank you, I allow my self to reply on the list. I heard that WordPress is very common, but I fear it might be oversized for my public diary about moving to a new town, which I plan to write. And it is very often in the news with security holes... Don't want some bad person to manipulate my cute tiny Raspi, now that it has finally moved to pure Debian. ;-) I want the solution to be in the repository to benefit from unattended-upgrades. i use hugo for my website. but hugo is not nginx. Christian is talking about three different projects, each of which is demanding of time. Securing and maintaining a web server is a difficult matter. But when you can purchase hosting for US$4 per month, is it worth your while? Maintaining a blogging engine is a wholly different matter. And most people are looking for an engine which is requires little or no maintenance (Blosxom, for example) and is simple and natural to use. WordPress began as a blogging engine, but quickly morphed into an all-consuming religion. Writing a public diary about moving to a new town is yet another matter, and should not be constrained by either the blogging engine or the web server. That task can easily consume all of your time. You need to decide on your primary goal and focus upon that. RLH
Re: Simple and secure blogging software for nginx
I am a long-time user of Debian, Emacs, and LaTeX. I began blogging with version 1.0 of WordPress, but soon I grew weary of the constant need to upgrade. Over the years I have tried many (if not most) of the blogging engines, hoping to find a static engine which could read LaTeX markup. I even tried Blosxom; it was better than many. But not until this year "habe ich Nirvana erreichtet." (Forgive my poor deutsch; I am attempting to quote Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha.") The key is that I am using "make4ht" to invoke "text4ht". This allows me to compose in LaTeX and provides me with a set of .html files (and even a .css file) which I upload to a hosting service. One hosting service I use runs Apache; the other runs Nginx. Both work. In LaTeX, I use "report.cls" for the blog; each blog posting is a chapter. The postings are listed in a table of contents. Adding a new post involves a run of my script "make.blog": make4ht -c config.cfg -d blog-url blog-url.tex Life is too short to mess around with a markup language other than LaTeX. Work always in LaTeX. RLH -- How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up? - Deuteronomy 32:30
Re: sparse dictionary
On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 10:36:57PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: I discovered dictfmt and dictunformat, which seem to be applicable. But I do not know where in Debian (Debian 9) to look for the moby-thesaurus file. RLH
Re: sparse dictionary
On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 08:28:29PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 12:52:36AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 07:32:26PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 11:53:26PM +0000, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 08:41:07AM +1100, Charlie wrote: > > > On Sun, 30 Jan 2022 19:18:42 +0000 > > > "Russell L. Harris" wrote:> Well... according to packages.debian.org, dict-moby-thesaurus only exists in oldstable and oldoldstable. So, Debian 9 and 10. <https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dict-moby-thesaurus> shows the dates it was removed from unstable and from testing. <https://tracker.debian.org/news/1161371/removed-10-64-from-unstable/> shows that it was removed because: RoQA; dead upstream (10+ years); python2-only; no extrenal deps; extremely low popcon Thanks for taking the time to trace out the cause. It truly is a sad loss. I wish I knew enough about Python to know how much work it would take to make the data base compatible with Python 3 (or whatever dictionary currently is running on). Meanwhile, it is back to Roget. RLH
Re: sparse dictionary
On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 07:32:26PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 11:53:26PM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 08:41:07AM +1100, Charlie wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jan 2022 19:18:42 + > "Russell L. Harris" wrote: > > > Synaptic no longer shows the several "gazeteer" entries, and I do not > > find "moby thesaurus". > > Don't know, dict-moby-thesaurus is here My synaptic (0.90.2) cannot find it. Debian 11.2. What is "gazeteer"? Is that an Ubuntu thing? (This is not an Ubuntu mailing list.) gazetter - A geographical dictionary; a book giving the names and descriptions, etc., of many places. [1913 Webster] P.S. As a long-time Debian user (I started with Potato), I have no use for Ubuntu.
Re: sparse dictionary
On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 08:41:07AM +1100, Charlie wrote: On Sun, 30 Jan 2022 19:18:42 + "Russell L. Harris" wrote: Synaptic no longer shows the several "gazeteer" entries, and I do not find "moby thesaurus". Don't know, dict-moby-thesaurus is here My synaptic (0.90.2) cannot find it. Debian 11.2.
sparse dictionary
With respect to the dictionary and thesaurus, something has changed between Debian releases 9 and 11; it seems that a great many words are missing. The problem is not spelling; the spelling checker reports "correctly spelled". Synaptic no longer shows the several "gazeteer" entries, and I do not find "moby thesaurus". In default search method I have selected local host, and localhost for the server. I need the ability to use the system when not connected to the Internet. Is the current revision of the dictionary application unable to read all of the old databases? RLH -- How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up? - Deuteronomy 32:30
dvorak keymap misconfigured in bullseye
I installed release 11.2 for amd64. In the installer, I asked for the Dvorak keymap and XFCE desktop. After a successful install, I used Applications Menu > Settings > Keyboard and then > Variants to select the "Classic" Dvorak keymap. The change was not effective, even after rebooting; the default Dvorak keymap is still in effect. I attempted to switch to English (US), but that too was ineffective. And now the Variant tab brings up the ADD menu. -- How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up? - Deuteronomy 32:30
Re: First time WINE user looking for tutorial
On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 02:05:20PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: I use VirtualBox for my VM needs, but why would you need to: Google Earth has versions that run natively on Windows, OSX and Linux or you can run it in most any web browsers -- https://earth.google.com/ -- regardless of OS. It has been several years since I had need for Earth. Thanks for the update. RLH
Re: First time WINE user looking for tutorial
On Sat, Oct 09, 2021 at 08:24:38AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Sat, 9 Oct 2021 09:40:21 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: Just be forewarned, WINE is not the catchall solution to running Windows apps: The more involved codewise the program is like games or Photoshop, the more problems you'll have. In those cases, just run Windows in a virtual machine which is what I do for ALL Windows apps I need. Less or virtually no gotchas! Richard, Can you recommend a virtual machine for Debian which can run Google Earth? -- How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up? - Deuteronomy 32:30
Re: Ot: 6 or 7 nights to download a CD
On Fri, Oct 08, 2021 at 11:23:46AM -0400, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: There was one download manager that sold itself because it focused on being able to continue on without having to restart the download. Whatever that one in-browser manager was, that was my HERO for a number of years... until I discovered wget. Once in a while there will be a "gatekeeper" (cookie reliant) instance where wget also doesn't work still and though. I have not followed this thread, but hopefully someone mentioned jigo -- the jigsaw downloader. RLH -- How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up? - Deuteronomy 32:30
Re: usb audio interface recommendation
On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 03:12:06AM +, ghe2001 wrote: production; I have heard that older FocusRite interfaces work in Linux. So do new ones :-) I'm using one (last version, I think) with my Supermicro AMD64 Buster. Alsamixer sees it and selects it, and Audaciy is happy with it. Linux seems to call it Scarlett. Thanks, Glenn. I started to by a Scarlett, my dealer insisted on selling me a MOTU M2 because MOTU claims "class compatibility" (as it turns out, for Macintosh only). The build quality of the MOTU is impressive, but it has problems (noise) on every Linux machine I have tried with it. So tomorrow the MOTU gets returned for a Scarlett. In addition to the Lexicons, a Shure X2U "just works" with Debian. RLH
Re: usb audio interface recommendation
On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 10:15:27AM +0200, Linux-Fan wrote: I am using an SSL 2 here: https://www.solidstatelogic.com/products/ssl2 Tested successfully with Debian 10 amd64 and Debian 11 amd64 each with ALSA + PulseAudio non-professional audio. In case you consider buying it, I might be able to do a basic test with a Debian 11 i386, too. Caveat: I have found the interface to only be recognized properly if I attach it _after_ PulseAudio has already started up. Hence, I have it disconnected by default and upon needing it, first start `pavucontrol` and only afterwards attach the interface. Thanks for the offer. I generally fire up Audacity to record a streaming broadcast for later listening. If I connect to the broadcast before starting Audacity, then (with the Lexicon) I hear static until I unplug USB and reconnect. But that is a minor nuisance; once connected, the Lexicons are solid. Btw.: I saw you asked about the Motu M2 earlier (https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/09/msg00958.html). Was there any progress in getting it to run properly? A cursory internet search suggests that there were problems wrt. old kernels and PulseAudio. Additionally, some tuning to reduce kernel latency might be needed? See https://panther.kapsi.fi/posts/2020-02-02_motu_m4 for a summary. That is a bit too much tweaking for me to worry with. The MOTU M2 is impressive, but anything which works is better than anything else which doesn't. RLH
usb audio interface recommendation
Needed: a USB audio interface which "just works" with Debian 9, 10, 11 on i386 and amd64 desktop machines. The newest of my machines is several years years old and has both black and blue USB ports. The pots are getting noisy on my ancient Lexicon Alpha and Lexicon Omega, but otherwise the Lexicons work on any machine. I would be happy to purchase a interface which no longer is in production; I have heard that older FocusRite interfaces work in Linux. -- How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up? - Deuteronomy 32:30
motu m2 usb audio interface
I am hearing noise (like white noise) with a new MOTU M2 usb. The unit works properly with Window$7Pro. The noise occurs on three desktop machines, but varies with Debian version (tested on Debian 9, 10, & 11). On Debian 10, a one-second burst of noise is heard about every ten seconds. On Debian 9, the burst may be several seconds in duration, and is heard every 20 to 60 seconds. -- How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up? - Deuteronomy 32:30
Re: xfce terminal tabs
On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 04:32:32AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: Russell L. Harris wrote: On xfce terminal in Debian 11 I need a separate tab for each instance of the terminal. I would like you to read https://docs.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-terminal/command-line in the section called "Window or Tab Separators", and then ask a question. I printed it and read it; thanks for the reference, Dan. Last night, I did look at the preferences tab and I did a search, but I did not immediately spot a solution. I think I prefer the old system. RLH
xfce terminal tabs
On xfce terminal in Debian 11 I need a separate tab for each instance of the terminal. -- How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up? - Deuteronomy 32:30
Re: OT: Music player with substantial speakers than can play things like mp3, wav files from an SD card or USB pendrive
On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 07:50:44PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: I'd like to find a fairly large (I mean not a tiny hand held thing that uses batteries and has tiny controls) music player that can play things like mp3, wav and other music files from either an SD card or a USB pendrive. I recommend a TASCAM recorder or a TASCAM CD player (CD200-SB has SD and USB inputs). I'd prefer to be able to plug it in to a 120vac power source (ie., not use batteries) and have at least one of: * fairly large speakers for good sound Use powered monitors; Presonus Eris E3.5 work well ($100/pair from Sweetwater). * output jack for headphones Built-in on TASCAM units. * outputs that can connect to a "standard" audio amplifier / speaker setup Spend the additional money (very little) for balanced output (two wires plus ground), to have the ability to make a hum-free connection to other balanced gear. Balanced gear can also connect to unbalanced (RCA) gear. Balanced gear uses a XLR connector or a 3-conductor 1/4 inch phone plug for each channel. (There are things that would be nice to have, like if I'm playing music from an SD with 100 or more songs, it can remember where I left off when I turned it off and start from the next song when I power it on). Standard on the above. RLH
Re: Weather Report size, icons, radar maps
On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 01:32:24PM -0500, Greg Marks wrote: Greg, if you are interested in free real time (no delay) weather radar with a number of features, take a look at https://www.livewxradar.com/. Setting "Use custom address for radar map" to https://www.livewxradar.com does not solve the problem; still nothing shows up in the Radar Map tab of Weather Report. Forgive me; I did not mean to suggest LIVEWXRADAR as a solution to your problem. But when the forecast is for rough weather, I devote a browser screen to LIVEWXRADAR for the day or evening, and flip over to it now and then. Again, the big advantages are real time display and ability to zoom in and out. Local wind and rainfall I monitor with a Davis Vantage Pro2; I use WEEWX to log data and upload pages to a web site. RLH
Re: Weather Report size, icons, radar maps
On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 07:27:47PM -0500, Greg Marks wrote: Greg, if you are interested in free real time (no delay) weather radar with a number of features, take a look at https://www.livewxradar.com/. It is based on GoogleEarth, so it can zoom in to show even street names, and zoom out to show the land coast-to-coast. RLH
Re: (OT) Jokes, lprng and old cars [was: Printing addresses on a #10 envelope (US)?]
On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 07:19:13PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 06:38:46PM +0200, deloptes wrote: around 1998 you could already print with other tools than lpr or lprng. Until now, I was not aware that an "lpr" system still is in the Debian archive. I am running Debian 10 on a pc set up by the Debian installer. CUPS is installed; "lpr" is NOT installed. But CUPS recognises a "lpr" command, and "man lpr" displays a man page authored by Apple, Inc. So the approach I am using is both simple and modern. CUPS installs and manages the printer, which prints from the "raw" queue, in reponse to commands of the sort "lpr -P oki labelname". RLH
Re: Printing addresses on a #10 envelope (US)?
On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 10:10:22AM -0500, David Wright wrote: I still have clean fanfold labels that they jettisoned after lining up the lineprinters all those years ago. Beware David; label adhesives may die with age. Old fanfold labels likely will not adhere, and labels applied five to ten years ago pop free when the file folder is flexed. I learned the hard way, with file cabinets full of unlabeled file folders. Archivial labels are available, with a non-aging adhesive. RLH
Re: Printing addresses on a #10 envelope (US)?
On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 09:24:48PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2021 10 May 16:05 -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: I use a dot-matrix printer with tractor feed to print self-adhesive address labels. There is no formatting; just several lines of plain text, one address per file. There is no driver; the printer is managed by CUPS to receive "raw" data. I print labels using the "lpr" command. Oh wow, memories! In the summer of 1990 while going to electronics school I bought a Panasonic KX-P1124 24 pin dot matrix printer. That set me back a few hundred bucks at the time but it was worth it to be able to submit near letter quality lab reports and schematic drawings. I used it for several years afterward until I bought a Deskjet (one and done with that tech) and then bartered my way into a laser printer. I don't recall if I gave the '1124 away or sent it to recycling several years ago. :-( It is cheap; it is easy and simple for one-off jobs (For labels I use the editor "nano".); a box of 5000 tractor-feed labels lasts for ever, even if you must print two or three duplicates to get to the tear-off point. The only down-side is the table space (I leave mine set up), and the fact that if you don't use it every few weeks, the ribbon dries out a little. My OKI Microline 320 connects via USB. RLH
Re: Printing addresses on a #10 envelope (US)?
On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 10:36:57AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: Are there other options? Looking about I don't see any. Even the online Google Docs does not appear to have any support for printing envelopes. I understand most people do things online but there is still a reason to use snail mail and representing an organization, my handwriting is poor enough that it is better served via printing envelopes. I use a dot-matrix printer with tractor feed to print self-adhesive address labels. There is no formatting; just several lines of plain text, one address per file. There is no driver; the printer is managed by CUPS to receive "raw" data. I print labels using the "lpr" command. RLH
Re: Label printer Debian compatible
On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 04:12:25PM -0600, Tom Browder wrote:
Has anyone had any success driving a mailing label printer for mailing labels
from either a LAN or direct connection with a Linux box?
I can print sheets of mailing labels from my main printer, but I would love to
be able to print single labels from my adress db with a suitable specialty
printer and a suitable Linux driver.
OKI Microline 320 Turbo via USB
CUPS ("raw" = no driver)
tractor-feed labels
RLH
Re: make a drawing
On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 05:06:20AM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote: Anyway, I'd like to make a drawing of it. Any idea what software might be used? sweethome inkscape dia
Re: mp3 images on in-dash radio
On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 02:08:02AM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: What happens if you play your CD in a computer player like rhythmbox or similar? I installed rhythmbox and plugged the USB flash stick into the computer, which was mounted on \media\. Whoever put together rhythmbox made the interface highly dependent upon intuitive interpretation of symbols, some of which I find inscrutable. I finally managed to play a track (no image was displayed), but after that rhythmbox showed the files greyed out, and then refused to show anything. Now I have a very low opinion of rhythmbox; life is too short to squander messing around with stuff like that. RLH
Re: mp3 images on in-dash radio
On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 07:31:10PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: What in-dash system are you using? The offending system is that of a 2016 Toyota Tundra; it has a software switch to defeat display of the album cover. While it is possible to embed information in an MP3 file, one has to do so affirmatively, and the space is quite limited. Understood. And I know that there are about three or four versions of ID tag. The "id3tool" man page speaks of version 1.1 and version 1.0. But after reading the id3 tag wikipedia page, the eyed man page, and the picard man page, I am confused, and do not know which, if any, id3 tags I need for this application. At present, experimentation is a bit difficult, because of 100+F daytime temperatures and carnivorous horseflies once darkness falls. Much more likely is that the stereo system is either: reading images from the USB stick in a slide-show mode I formatted the stick (which is 8Gb) before writing the files. or looking up "albums" via a web service and trying to display the covers. The Tundra does have a GSP navigation system integrated into the in-dash radio. But I am aware of no accounts. And my cellular stays powered down and in my briefcase. Moreover, my lecture series names likely do not match any music album names. RLH
mp3 images on in-dash radio
I processed several lecture series (analogue voice streams) as follows: (1) record each stream as a WAV file on a TASCAM digital recorder (2) load each WAV file into "Audacity" as a project, for editing and for manual insertion of a number of filename labels, to label sessions within each lecture series (3) use the "Audacity" FILE -> EXPORT MULTIPLE function to split each project into WAV files corresponding to the manually-inserted labels, with each session in a separate file (4) use "lame" to encode each of the WAV files as MP3 (5) use "id3tool" to create for each MP3 file a tag showing TRACK, TITLE, ARTIST, ALBUM, YEAR. (These fields have to do with the lecture series, lecture topic, and session number; they are not artist name and album and song titles in the usual sense.) (6) copy the MP3 files into folders of a directory structure, sorting them by lecture series (7) use "puddletag" to create a playlist for each folder (lecture series), to play sessions in proper order (8) copy the directory structure to a USB flash memory stick, for playback over the in-dash radio of an automobile. PROBLEM: For some of the sessions, the LCD display of the in-dash radio displays an image. The image is not related to any of the series of lectures. Moreover, some of the images are objectionable. Some in-dash radios make display of images optional. I have been unable to determine the source of the images. I have found no clues from searching on the Web. = Is it possible that an image is embedded in the MP3 file which I have created? Or can there be a URL to an image in the label which I have created? If so, at what stage of the processing was the image or link introduced? How can I remove them? = Doe the image originate in the in-dash radio? If so, where does it reside, and how and why is it associated with my files?
Re: Lenovo S205 boot
On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 01:19:46PM +1000, David wrote: On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 at 09:48, Russell L. Harris wrote: So is my processor AMD or Atom? The best way to answer this question is to run the command cat /proc/cpuinfo That prints about thirty lines; here are a few: processor: 1 vendor_id: AuthenticAMD cpu family: 20 model: 1 model name: AMD E-350 Processor stepping: 0 microcode: 0x52B cpu MHz: 868.287 cache size: 512 KB RLH
Re: Lenovo S205 boot
On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 09:34:01PM +, Andrew Cater wrote: Aha - it might be one of the strange generation of machines (way back) that had 32 bit UEFI/BIOS and a 64 bit capable Atom processor - maybe back as far as the Sandy Bridge series ... a long time ago anyway. Use, specifically, the Debian i386/amd64 multiarch netboot to install this and it works and installs the 32 bit Grub [BIOS] /Grub2 [UEFI] and 64 bit userland. Have done this once on an old Toshiba - this was the only way to get this machine to boot. Perhaps I missed something. The label on the bottom of the machine reads: Lenovo IdeaPad S205 Model Name: 1038 Mfg Date: 11/06/03 The netinstall image I used was: debian-bullseye-DI-alpha2-amd64-netinst.iso; that installation brings up the grub> prompt, and allows me to boot by typing in the commands: grub> root=(hd0,gpt2) grub> linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 grub> initrd /initrd.img grub> boot But X does not start. However, when press alt-F3 and open a terminal window, I can log in as a normal user and then I can become a superuser. The command: # dmesg |grep amd produces the output: amd_nb: x86/cpu/AMD: CPU erratum 688 worked around So is my processor AMD or Atom? Should I install with another netinstall image? if so, from where may I download it? RLH
Re: Lenovo S205 boot
On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 05:38:52PM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 05:52:10PM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: If going back to i386 is an option for you, the department of workarounds has an option. Again, at this point, my only hope for the machine (other than to toss it in the dumpster) is for it to provide a reasonable environment for composition when away from home. For me, composition requires emacs, LaTeX or TeXLive, xdvi, and (hopefully) a dictionary, together with a means such as ssh or rsync to transfer documents to the desktop machine when I arrive back home. The only other necessity is the ability to use the "Dvorak Classic" keymap (which differs from the Dvorak ANSI map offered by the installer). As to the touchpad, I find a touchpad awkward at best; it is better to pack along a USB mouse. Years ago my first attempt to install Debian overwrote the W$7 installation; otherwise, I might market the machine to a Window$ user. RLH
Re: non-smart debian phone
On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 09:38:40PM -0700, Dan Hitt wrote: I plan to get a non-smart phone to replace my smart phone. By non-smart, i mean that it does not have a touch screen. A couple of years back I switched to AT Back then the only flip-phone offered by AT was Kyocera. Battery life typically was one day, even with minimal use. AT replaced the phone once and the battery three times, but nothing cured the problem. Then an AT representative recommended a Samsung which has an ultra-low-power mode. This is a model SM-J337A. Yes, it is a "smartphone"; but it can go a full week on a charge.
Re: Lenovo S205 boot
On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 07:04:13PM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote: so far I can only confirm that the grub installation fails with both stable and testing. It seems something is at odds with writing the efivars. I did not yet get around to try again if I can switch the installation back to using grub-legacy somehow. I would not mind going back to Wheezy, if necessary. I envisioned the notebook machine for composition tasks when away from the office; so about the only software I would be using is Emacs, xdvi, and a dictionary, along with something such as rsync or scp or git to transfer new material back to the desktop upon return to the office. The notebook is much preferable to pen and paper. RLH
