Re: hoe do I use spectacle screen recording?

2024-05-26 Thread Gary Dale
to install simplescreenrecorder. I've never knew spectacle to be able to do that. Il giorno dom 26 mag 2024 alle ore 23:18 Gary Dale ha scritto: I've just switched into a Plasma/Wayland session on my Debian/Trixie AMD64 system so I could try out screen recording with Spectacle. However I can't figu

hoe do I use spectacle screen recording?

2024-05-26 Thread Gary Dale
I've just switched into a Plasma/Wayland session on my Debian/Trixie AMD64 system so I could try out screen recording with Spectacle. However I can't figure out how to get it to work. I switch to the "recording: tab, and select the video format, but then what? I can select "workspace",

Re: recent Trixie upgrade removed nfs client

2024-04-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-04-30 10:58, Brad Rogers wrote: On Tue, 30 Apr 2024 09:51:01 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: Hello Gary, Not looking for a solution. Just reporting a spate of oddities I've encountered lately. As Erwan says, this is 'normal'. Especially ATM due to the t64 transition. As you've found out

recent Trixie upgrade removed nfs client

2024-04-30 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Trixie on an AMD64 system. Yesterday after doing my usual morning full-upgrade, I rebooted because there were a lot of Plasma-related updates. When I logged in, I found I wasn't connected to my file server shares. I eventually traced this down to a lack of nfs software on my

Bug#1069866: scribus: List AUto-indent and second line tabs both don't work properly

2024-04-25 Thread Gary Dale
Package: scribus Version: 1.5.8+dfsg-5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? I was trying to clean up a bulletted list in an existing document. It had used manual bullets, line

Bug#1069865: scribus: Importing PDFs that contain PNG images appears to leave a border around the PNG image

2024-04-25 Thread Gary Dale
Package: scribus Version: 1.5.8+dfsg-5 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? I have a template that allows me to create a document divided into 3 equal columns for narrow or 3-fold

Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie?

2024-02-27 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-02-27 14:13, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 2:12 PM Gary Dale wrote: On 2024-02-27 10:25, Kushal Kumaran wrote: On Tue, Feb 27 2024 at 10:15:59 AM, Gary Dale wrote: [...] Can anyone explain how Trixie is handling crontabs now? This behavior has existed forever. I'm

Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie?

2024-02-27 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-02-27 10:32, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 10:15:59AM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. I have an old wifi adapter that Linux has problems with that works once I run: /usr/sbin/modprobe brcmfmac echo 13b1 0bdc > /sys/bus/usb/driv

Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie?

2024-02-27 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-02-27 10:25, Kushal Kumaran wrote: On Tue, Feb 27 2024 at 10:15:59 AM, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. I have an old wifi adapter that Linux has problems with that works once I run: /usr/sbin/modprobe brcmfmac echo 13b1 0bdc > /sys/bus/usb/driv

Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie?

2024-02-27 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-02-27 10:26, The Wanderer wrote: On 2024-02-27 at 10:15, Gary Dale wrote: Anyway, that got me down the rabbit hole to try to find where the crontab file is. ls -l /root/cron* ls: cannot access '/root/cron*': No such file or directory also # whereis crontab crontab: /usr/bin

where are the crontab files in Trixie?

2024-02-27 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. I have an old wifi adapter that Linux has problems with that works once I run: /usr/sbin/modprobe brcmfmac echo 13b1 0bdc > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/brcmfmac/new_id However when I add those lines to the root's crontab using # crontab -e as @reboot

Re: running Jami in Trixie - possible locale issue

2024-02-27 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-02-26 22:47, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 10:10:45PM -0500, Gremlin wrote: On 2/26/24 20:28, Gary Dale wrote: $locale locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory

Re: running Jami in Trixie - possible locale issue

2024-02-27 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-02-26 22:47, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 10:10:45PM -0500, Gremlin wrote: On 2/26/24 20:28, Gary Dale wrote: $locale locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory

Re: running Jami in Trixie - possible locale issue

2024-02-27 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-02-26 22:10, Gremlin wrote: On 2/26/24 20:28, Gary Dale wrote: On 2024-02-26 17:31, Gremlin wrote: On 2/26/24 17:18, Gary Dale wrote: On 2024-02-26 16:03, Gremlin wrote: On 2/26/24 14:36, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. I've installed jami from testing

Re: running Jami in Trixie - possible locale issue

2024-02-27 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-02-26 21:29, Max Nikulin wrote:   env | grep 'LC_\|LANG'     systemctl --user show-environment | grep 'LC_\|LANG'  $ env | grep 'LC_\|LANG' LANGUAGE=en_GB LC_MONETARY=en_CA.UTF-8 LANG=iu_CA.UTF-8 LC_MEASUREMENT=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_CA.UTF-8

Re: running Jami in Trixie - possible locale issue

2024-02-27 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-02-26 20:43, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 08:28:01PM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: $locale locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default

Re: running Jami in Trixie - possible locale issue

2024-02-26 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-02-26 17:31, Gremlin wrote: On 2/26/24 17:18, Gary Dale wrote: On 2024-02-26 16:03, Gremlin wrote: On 2/26/24 14:36, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. I've installed jami from testing but it fails to start. When I run it from the command line, I get

Re: running Jami in Trixie - possible locale issue

2024-02-26 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-02-26 16:03, Gremlin wrote: On 2/26/24 14:36, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. I've installed jami from testing but it fails to start. When I run it from the command line, I get: $jami & [1] 7804 $ Using Qt runtime version: 6. 4.2 "notify se

running Jami in Trixie - possible locale issue

2024-02-26 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 system. I've installed jami from testing but it fails to start. When I run it from the command line, I get: $jami & [1] 7804 $ Using Qt runtime version: 6. 4.2 "notify server name: Plasma, vendor: KDE, version: 5.27.10, spec: 1.2" "Using locale: en_GB"

Re: Can't list root directory

2024-02-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-02-01 02:37, Loren M. Lang wrote: On January 31, 2024 1:28:37 PM PST, hw wrote: On Wed, 2024-01-31 at 09:27 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: On 2024-01-30 15:54, hw wrote: On Mon, 2024-01-29 at 11:42 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 workstation. I've lost

Re: Can't list root directory

2024-02-02 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-01-31 12:02, Max Nikulin wrote: On 29/01/2024 23:42, Gary Dale wrote: "ls -l /" just hangs It may dereference symlinks, call stat, etc. to colorize output. May it happen that you have automount points or something related to network mounts? Does "echo /*" hang

Re: Can't list root directory

2024-01-31 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-01-29 12:55, Hans wrote: Hi Gary, before loosing any data, I suggest, to boot from a liuvefile linux. Please use a modern livefile like Knoppix or Kali-Linux. If it is not a BIOS problem, you should see the device again and are able to mount it. If /root is on a seperated partition,

Re: Can't list root directory

2024-01-31 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-01-29 11:42, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 workstation. I've lost the ability to see the root directory even when I am logged in as root (su -). This has been happening intermittently for several months. I initially thought it might be related to failing NVME

Re: Can't list root directory

2024-01-31 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-01-30 15:54, hw wrote: On Mon, 2024-01-29 at 11:42 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 workstation. I've lost the ability to see the root directory even when I am logged in as root (su -). This has been happening intermittently for several months. I initially

Can't list root directory

2024-01-29 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Trixie on an AMD64 workstation. I've lost the ability to see the root directory even when I am logged in as root (su -). This has been happening intermittently for several months. I initially thought it might be related to failing NVME drive that was part of a RAID1 array

Bug#1059359: gimp: GIMP corrupts alpha layer when saving as .PNG

2023-12-23 Thread Gary Dale
Package: gimp Version: 2.10.36-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? I add an alpha layer to an image, make some areas transparent then export the image as a .PNG file * What

Is there a problem with Linux-image-6.1.0-16?

2023-12-21 Thread Gary Dale
Several days ago my main server upgraded to kernel 6.1.0-16 but various other devices that are also running Bookworm seem stuck at 6.1.0-13. They are all using the same architecture. Some are using the same mirror as the server that upgraded. I haven't set any special policies on upgrades.

Re: IMPORTANT: do NOT upgrade to new stable point release

2023-12-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 2023-12-09 13:09, Dan Ritter wrote: https://fulda.social/@Ganneff/111551628003050712 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1057843 The new kernel release is reported to contain an ext4 data corruption bug. It's prudent not to upgrade, or if you have started to upgrade, not to

Re: IMPORTANT: do NOT upgrade to new stable point release

2023-12-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 2023-12-10 11:56, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 11:50:18AM -0500, Gary Dale wrote: On 2023-12-09 14:18, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 9 Dec 2023 20:54 +0200, from ale...@nanoid.net (Alexis Grigoriou): I just upgraded to Bookworm this morning. I did reboot a couple of times

Re: IMPORTANT: do NOT upgrade to new stable point release

2023-12-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 2023-12-10 12:24, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 05:09:15PM -, Curt wrote: On 2023-12-10, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: "Now" is almost exactly Sun 10 Dec 16:55:43 UTC 2023 You mean in the Zulu Time Zone (as I am all at sea)? Use "date -u" to see current UTC time. That

Re: IMPORTANT: do NOT upgrade to new stable point release

2023-12-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 2023-12-09 14:18, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 9 Dec 2023 20:54 +0200, from ale...@nanoid.net (Alexis Grigoriou): I just upgraded to Bookworm this morning. I did reboot a couple of times but there seems to be no problem (yet). Is there anything I should look for or do other than rebooting? If

CUPS classes wrecking printing

2023-12-09 Thread Gary Dale
I've running Debian/Bookworm (stable) on an AMD64 system - a laptop. It's a fresh install of Debian from about 6 months back that has been kept up to date. Each December I am involved in an event that requires me to use 3 photo-printers to print a lot of 4x6 photos. It takes 2 or 3 printers

Re: network bonding on Debian/Trixie

2023-10-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 2023-10-16 21:20, Igor Cicimov wrote: On Tue, Oct 17, 2023 at 12:12 PM Gary Dale wrote: On 2023-10-16 18:52, Igor Cicimov wrote: Hi, On Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 8:00 AM Gary Dale wrote: I'm trying to configure network bonding on an AMD64 system running

Re: network bonding on Debian/Trixie

2023-10-16 Thread Gary Dale
On 2023-10-16 18:52, Igor Cicimov wrote: Hi, On Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 8:00 AM Gary Dale wrote: I'm trying to configure network bonding on an AMD64 system running Debian/Trixie. I've got a wired connection and a wifi connection, both of which work individually. I'd like them

network bonding on Debian/Trixie

2023-10-16 Thread Gary Dale
I'm trying to configure network bonding on an AMD64 system running Debian/Trixie. I've got a wired connection and a wifi connection, both of which work individually. I'd like them to work together to improve the throughput but for now I'm just trying to get the bond to work. However when I

Re: SMART error messages being sent to the wrong address

2023-10-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 2023-10-04 02:43, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 9:32 PM Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Bookworm on a headless server. The box has had a variety of roles and names. At one time it was called fanny after the groundbreaking rock band and because it had a lot of fans

Re: SMART error messages being sent to the wrong address

2023-10-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 2023-10-04 03:22, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Oct 04, 2023 at 02:43:36AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: [...] $ sudo su - ...better spelt these days as "sudo -i" (or "sudo -s"), see sudo(1)'s man page. Or sudo bash - or whatever your preferred shell is.

Re: SMART error messages being sent to the wrong address

2023-10-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 2023-10-03 22:31, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 09:02:39PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Add a CNAME record to your DNS. Mail delivery is supposed to ignore CNAME records. Perhaps you meant to say an MX record. But either way, the OP's question is still not answered -- where is

Re: SMART error messages being sent to the wrong address

2023-10-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 2023-10-03 23:39, Charles Curley wrote: On Tue, 3 Oct 2023 20:57:57 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: I can't find where the e-mail address is being set. Tracing down the smartmontools config files didn't turn up any obvious problems. The email address is set with the -m option in the file /etc

SMART error messages being sent to the wrong address

2023-10-03 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Bookworm on a headless server. The box has had a variety of roles and names. At one time it was called fanny after the groundbreaking rock band and because it had a lot of fans in it. This latter attribute led to it being made into a file server and renamed BigData. The

Re: [libreoffice-users] trying (again) to get conditional text to work [solved]

2023-10-03 Thread Gary Dale
On 2023-10-03 11:55, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running LibreOffice Writer 7.5.6.2 on a Debian/Trixie system. I'm driving certificate production from a database (spreadsheet). I'm trying to get a simple text replacement to work. The field is type "Conditional Text". The condition is [Fu

[libreoffice-users] trying (again) to get conditional text to work

2023-10-03 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running LibreOffice Writer 7.5.6.2 on a Debian/Trixie system. I'm driving certificate production from a database (spreadsheet). I'm trying to get a simple text replacement to work. The field is type "Conditional Text". The condition is [Fun-Run-2023].[Race-17799-final].sex EQ "F" - where

keybase upgrade / install fails

2023-08-10 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Bookworm on an AMD64 system. For the last two or three weeks I've been getting messages like below when I use apt: The keybase package doesn't seem to configure properly so apt keeps trying, and failing, to finish the package installation. Removing it (not purging) then

Re: laptop stopped getting to desktop after latest updates [RESOLVED]

2023-05-27 Thread Gary Dale
On 2023-05-19 23:32, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Bookworm on an ASUS FA506IC laptop. It's got an AMD Ryzen processor but an NVidia graphics card that provides me with great evidence for why I had previously avoided NVidia cards. I'm running Bookworm because I couldn't get it work

Re: laptop stopped getting to desktop after latest updates

2023-05-22 Thread Gary Dale
Share with the Debian community the X server logs of "Debian" and "systemrescuecd". Groeten Geert Stappers First is the log from a session that failed. Below is a log from a previous session that worked. Sorry, didn't get one from a systemrescuecd session - I thought I'd copied it to a

Re: laptop stopped getting to desktop after latest updates

2023-05-21 Thread Gary Dale
On 2023-05-19 23:32, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Bookworm on an ASUS FA506IC laptop. It's got an AMD Ryzen processor but an NVidia graphics card that provides me with great evidence for why I had previously avoided NVidia cards. I'm running Bookworm because I couldn't get it work

laptop stopped getting to desktop after latest updates

2023-05-19 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Bookworm on an ASUS FA506IC laptop. It's got an AMD Ryzen processor but an NVidia graphics card that provides me with great evidence for why I had previously avoided NVidia cards. I'm running Bookworm because I couldn't get it work on Bullseye. It'd been running OK with the

Re: WiFi firmware issue in Bookworm

2023-02-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 2023-02-09 22:09, The Wanderer wrote: On 2023-02-09 at 21:39, Gary Dale wrote: I'm trying to use a Linksys AE1200 wifi usb dongle as a second network connection for my Bookworm workstation. The device shows up in lsusb but not in ip link. According to what I've found, it needs the brcmfmac

Re: WiFi firmware issue in Bookworm

2023-02-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 2023-02-09 22:07, piorunz wrote: On 10/02/2023 02:39, Gary Dale wrote: Interestingly the device works in Bullseye as I installed Bullseye on the computer that used to use it. That really only required downloading the correct firmware package that contained the brcmfmac module. That package

WiFi firmware issue in Bookworm

2023-02-09 Thread Gary Dale
I'm trying to use a Linksys AE1200 wifi usb dongle as a second network connection for my Bookworm workstation. The device shows up in lsusb but not in ip link. According to what I've found, it needs the brcmfmac driver module, which seems to be in the 6.1 kernel and loaded: $ lsmod | grep

Re: support for ASUS AC1200 USB-AC53 Nano wifi dongle

2023-02-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 2023-02-08 10:55, Gary Dale wrote: On 2023-02-08 09:07, Gary Dale wrote: On 2023-02-08 00:55, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 08.02.2023 09:07, Gary Dale wrote: I thought this would be easier than it's turned out to be. There are Internet posts going back years about support

Re: support for ASUS AC1200 USB-AC53 Nano wifi dongle

2023-02-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 2023-02-09 03:30, Anssi Saari wrote: Gary Dale writes: I thought this would be easier than it's turned out to be. There are Internet posts going back years about support for this device but nothing recent - including a 5 year old Ubuntu post saying it works. Other wifi devices seem

Re: support for ASUS AC1200 USB-AC53 Nano wifi dongle

2023-02-08 Thread Gary Dale
On 2023-02-08 09:07, Gary Dale wrote: On 2023-02-08 00:55, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 08.02.2023 09:07, Gary Dale wrote: I thought this would be easier than it's turned out to be. There are Internet posts going back years about support for this device but nothing recent - including

Re: support for ASUS AC1200 USB-AC53 Nano wifi dongle

2023-02-08 Thread Gary Dale
On 2023-02-08 00:55, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 08.02.2023 09:07, Gary Dale wrote: I thought this would be easier than it's turned out to be. There are Internet posts going back years about support for this device but nothing recent - including a 5 year old Ubuntu post saying it works

support for ASUS AC1200 USB-AC53 Nano wifi dongle

2023-02-07 Thread Gary Dale
I thought this would be easier than it's turned out to be. There are Internet posts going back years about support for this device but nothing recent - including a 5 year old Ubuntu post saying it works. Other wifi devices seem to be recognized out of the box or with a simple install of

Re: latest testing update broke my laptop

2022-12-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-12-19 23:38, Gary Dale wrote: On 2022-12-18 00:53, David Christensen wrote: On 12/17/22 13:00, Gary Dale wrote: On 2022-12-17 14:39, David Christensen wrote: On 12/17/22 04:44, Gary Dale wrote: On 2022-12-16 21:29, Gary Dale wrote: My laptop no longer boots thanks to the latest

Re: latest testing update broke my laptop

2022-12-20 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-12-20 04:16, Brad Rogers wrote: On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 23:33:19 -0500 Gary Dale wrote: Hello Gary, you need to start with Debian/Stable then upgrade That's not correct. You *can* do it that way, but there are installer ISOs for testing. Not with this laptop. The Debian/Testing

Re: latest testing update broke my laptop

2022-12-19 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-12-18 00:53, David Christensen wrote: On 12/17/22 13:00, Gary Dale wrote: On 2022-12-17 14:39, David Christensen wrote: On 12/17/22 04:44, Gary Dale wrote: On 2022-12-16 21:29, Gary Dale wrote: My laptop no longer boots thanks to the latest update. If you want a GNU/Linux

Re: latest testing update broke my laptop

2022-12-19 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-12-17 23:10, Keith Bainbridge wrote: On 17 December 2022 9:00:49 pm UTC, Gary Dale wrote: On 2022-12-17 14:39, David Christensen wrote: On 12/17/22 04:44, Gary Dale wrote: On 2022-12-16 21:29, Gary Dale wrote: My laptop no longer boots thanks to the latest update. It stops after I

Re: latest testing update broke my laptop

2022-12-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-12-17 14:58, Charles Curley wrote: On Sat, 17 Dec 2022 11:39:51 -0800 David Christensen wrote: … the practical answer is install and find out. There are other ways besides "install[ing] and find[ing] out". https://linux-hardware.org is a very useful tool. And one should consider

Re: latest testing update broke my laptop

2022-12-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-12-17 14:39, David Christensen wrote: On 12/17/22 04:44, Gary Dale wrote: On 2022-12-16 21:29, Gary Dale wrote: My laptop no longer boots thanks to the latest update. It stops after I select a normal boot - it goes to the text mode console and displays an error message about

Re: latest testing update broke my laptop

2022-12-17 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-12-16 21:29, Gary Dale wrote: My laptop no longer boots thanks to the latest update. It stops after I select a normal boot - it goes to the text mode console and displays an error message about: [ 0.717939] ACPI BIOS Error (bug). If I go into recovery mode, I don't get that error

latest testing update broke my laptop

2022-12-16 Thread Gary Dale
My laptop no longer boots thanks to the latest update. It stops after I select a normal boot - it goes to the text mode console and displays an error message about: [ 0.717939] ACPI BIOS Error (bug). If I go into recovery mode, I don't get that error but then it stops after a message about

Re: ASUS Laptops

2022-11-27 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-11-27 02:15, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: On 11/27/22 06:50, Gary Dale wrote: I've acquired an ASUS laptop (FA506IC-DS71-CA) and installed Debian on it. I started with Debian/Bullseye but had some problems starting a GUI (using sddm) so quickly did an apt full-upgrade to Bookworm. After

ASUS Laptops

2022-11-26 Thread Gary Dale
I've acquired an ASUS laptop (FA506IC-DS71-CA) and installed Debian on it. I started with Debian/Bullseye but had some problems starting a GUI (using sddm) so quickly did an apt full-upgrade to Bookworm. After installing the Realtek and Misc firmware, I'm able to boot into a Plasma5 desktop

Why is the unlock screen showing media processes?

2022-11-25 Thread Gary Dale
And how can I stop this behaviour? I'm running Debian/Bookworm on an AMD64 system. For the last while, I've noticed that when I go to unlock my screen, below the password box I get something showing a thumbnail and partial title of a video that either I was watching or which may have been

Bug#1024514: scribus: Need an easier way to maintain PDF annotations as internal links in a document

2022-11-20 Thread Gary Dale
Package: scribus Version: 1.5.8+dfsg-3+b2 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? I have a document that uses a lot of PDF annotations to link other locations in the document.

Re: [scribus] Too many styles show up when I Edit | Styles & other issues with styles

2022-11-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-11-04 17:27, Gary Dale wrote: On 2022-11-04 14:20, Gregory Pittman wrote: On 11/4/22 13:48, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Bookworm on an AMD64 system. Scribus is v1.5.8. I am having a lot of problems with styles. You can see the basic problem in the attached image which

Re: [scribus] Too many styles show up when I Edit | Styles & other issues with styles

2022-11-04 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-11-04 14:20, Gregory Pittman wrote: On 11/4/22 13:48, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Bookworm on an AMD64 system. Scribus is v1.5.8. I am having a lot of problems with styles. You can see the basic problem in the attached image which is a screenshot of Edit | Style window. I

[scribus] Too many styles show up when I Edit | Styles & other issues with styles

2022-11-04 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Bookworm on an AMD64 system. Scribus is v1.5.8. I am having a lot of problems with styles. You can see the basic problem in the attached image which is a screenshot of Edit | Style window. I apparently have multiple "Default Paragraph Style"s, for example. This survives

Re: [scribus] Scribus 1.5.8 - where did text columns go?

2022-11-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-11-01 11:39, Gregory Pittman wrote: On 11/1/22 11:05, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Bookworm on an AMD64 system. Scribus is v1.5.8. I have a Scribus document created from multiple templates combined into a single large document, with the base document being a copy of an older

[scribus] Scribus 1.5.8 - where did text columns go?

2022-11-01 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Bookworm on an AMD64 system. Scribus is v1.5.8. I have a Scribus document created from multiple templates combined into a single large document, with the base document being a copy of an older one originally created years ago. This shouldn't be relevant to the problem

Re: grep replacement using sed is behaving oddly

2022-10-22 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-10-21 15:14, David Wright wrote: On Fri 21 Oct 2022 at 14:15:01 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 08:01:00PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 01:21:44PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: I'm hoping someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong. I have a line

grep replacement using sed is behaving oddly

2022-10-21 Thread Gary Dale
I'm hoping someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong. I have a line in a lot of HTML files that I'd like to remove. The line is:     I'm testing the sed command to remove it on just one file. When it works, I'll run it against *.html. My command is:  sed -i -s 's/\s*\//g'

Re: KDE Connect started working

2022-10-10 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-10-10 02:42, Borden wrote: 10 Oct 2022, 00:13 by g...@extremeground.com: I've had the kdeconnect app on my desktop and on my Samsung phone for at least a couple of years without ever having them able to see each other. Yesterday evening I was looking at the notices on my phone and

KDE Connect started working

2022-10-09 Thread Gary Dale
I've had the kdeconnect app on my desktop and on my Samsung phone for at least a couple of years without ever having them able to see each other. Yesterday evening I was looking at the notices on my phone and saw that kdeconnect had found my desktop computer! It couldn't connect to it, but

Re: How do I install PHPMailer on a Debian/Bullseye Apache2 server -- resolved

2022-09-07 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-09-07 17:49, Gareth Evans wrote: On 7 Sep 2022, at 22:24, Gareth Evans wrote:  On 7 Sep 2022, at 22:01, Gareth Evans wrote:  On 7 Sep 2022, at 21:27, Gareth Evans wrote:  On 7 Sep 2022, at 17:55, Gary Dale wrote: I'm using a web hosting company that pretty much

How do I install PHPMailer on a Debian/Bullseye Apache2 server

2022-09-07 Thread Gary Dale
I'm using a web hosting company that pretty much limits me to using PHPMailer on their servers for sending complex e-mails (e.g. with attachments). That is working. To get it to work, I used the zip archive from the PHPMailer's github page and unzipped it into the site's public directory - so

Re: [casper] Help with ROACH2 uboot issue

2022-08-24 Thread Gary, Dale E
/proc/filesystems". > > If so then try specifying the filesystem type explicity, using a "-t > nfs". If I recall correctly the mount executable is busybox, so might > not be as featureful as the mount we normally encounter. > > regards > > marc > >

Re: [casper] Help with ROACH2 uboot issue

2022-08-24 Thread Gary, Dale E
something else to test local mounting in soloboot? Regards, Dale On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 3:05 AM Marc wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 12:57 AM Gary, Dale E > wrote: > > > > Hi Dave, > > > > There is only one interface on the server. I am not actually sure

Re: [casper] Help with ROACH2 uboot issue

2022-08-24 Thread Gary, Dale E
error message instead. > > Dave > > On Aug 23, 2022, at 5:57 PM, Gary, Dale E wrote: > > Hi Dave, > > There is only one interface on the server. I am not actually sure how it > works with the private network, but it is not a dedicated NIC. I was using > dnsmasq on the old se

Re: [casper] Help with ROACH2 uboot issue

2022-08-23 Thread Gary, Dale E
ing IP address 192.168.24.1 (or some other address on the > 192.168.24.0/24 subnet). This is something that would get changed in the > DHCP config files. Are you using dnsmasq for DHCP/TFTP/DNS for the ROACH2s? > > Dave > > > On Aug 23, 2022, at 5:08 PM, Gary, Dale E wrote:

Re: [casper] Help with ROACH2 uboot issue

2022-08-23 Thread Gary, Dale E
ou > can always reboot to “undo” any unsaved changes. > > Good luck, > Dave > > On Aug 23, 2022, at 3:19 PM, Gary, Dale E wrote: > > Hi Dave, > > I think you are right that I found the place to do it, but I don't know > what syntax to use to set the environmen

Re: [casper] Help with ROACH2 uboot issue

2022-08-23 Thread Gary, Dale E
twork interface. I think setting it to larger than 1500 won’t work for > the ROACH2s. > > I’m curious to know what the solution ends up being! > > Cheers, > Dave > > On Aug 23, 2022, at 12:08 PM, Gary, Dale E wrote: > > Hi All, > > I upgraded my remote boot server

Re: [casper] Help with ROACH2 uboot issue

2022-08-23 Thread Gary, Dale E
variable would > contain references other ${variables}. Be careful to escape them > propery, and only use saveenv once you are sure they do what you want. > > All the best and regards > > marc > > > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 7:08 PM Gary, Dale E wrote: > > >

[casper] Help with ROACH2 uboot issue

2022-08-23 Thread Gary, Dale E
Hi All, I upgraded my remote boot server to a new machine running ubuntu 20.04, and although I tried to set everything up the same for remote booting the ROACH2s, the process fails as shown in the attached file because the root file system could not be mounted. I found one suggestion on the web

how to change device number in RAID array

2022-08-22 Thread Gary Dale
I'm running Debian/Bookworm on an AMD64 system. I recently added a second drive to it for use in a RAID1 array. However I'm now getting regular messages about "SparesMissing event on...". cat /proc/mdstat shows the problem: active raid1 sda1[0] sdb1[2] - the newly added drive is showing up as

Bug#1017735: dolphin: Dolphin "back" button incorrect behaviour after search

2022-08-19 Thread Gary Dale
Package: dolphin Version: 4:22.04.3-1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? This is a longstanding issue. Navigate to a directory, then execute a search (Edit | Search). Next go to any

Bug#1017735: dolphin: Dolphin "back" button incorrect behaviour after search

2022-08-19 Thread Gary Dale
Package: dolphin Version: 4:22.04.3-1 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? This is a longstanding issue. Navigate to a directory, then execute a search (Edit | Search). Next go to any

Bug#1014920: firefox: please remove blank URL from tab history after opening a new tab

2022-07-14 Thread Gary Dale
Package: firefox Version: 78.0.1-1 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** * What led up to the situation? I use tabs * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? when I open a new

Re: Kontact/KOrganizer calendars not synching

2022-06-08 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-03-01 20:29, Gary Dale wrote: I'm running Debian/Bookworm on an AMD64 system. Some time back something apparently happened to my desktop calendars. They stopped showing anything. They used to sync with 2 different Google calendars that I update through my android phone. The events

Re: Debian license issue

2022-06-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-06-01 09:14, Lidiya Pecherskaya wrote: Hello, Is it possible to get information on the type of license under which the Debian software is available? Thanks in advance. Most of the packages are distributed under a free license - usually GPL or MIT but sometimes others. Packages under

Re: wtf just happened to my local staging web server

2022-05-07 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-05-05 02:37, Erwan David wrote: Le 04/05/2022 à 19:01, Gary Dale a écrit : My Apache2 file/print/web server is running Bullseye. I had to restart it yesterday evening to replace a disk drive. Otherwise the last reboot was a couple of weeks ago - I recall some updates to Jitsi - but I

Re: wtf just happened to my local staging web server

2022-05-06 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-05-05 03:57, Stephan Seitz wrote: Am Do, Mai 05, 2022 at 09:30:42 +0200 schrieb Klaus Singvogel: I think there are more. Yes, I only know wtf as „what the fuck”. Stephan Actually, it's "what the frack" - a nod to the Battlestar Galactica TV/movie franchise, which uses frack as

Re: wtf just happened to my local staging web server

2022-05-04 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-05-04 13:21, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, May 04, 2022 at 01:01:58PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: May 04 12:16:55 TheLibrarian systemd[1]: Starting The Apache HTTP Server... May 04 12:16:55 TheLibrarian apachectl[7935]: (98)Address already in use: AH00072: make_sock: could not bind to addre

wtf just happened to my local staging web server

2022-05-04 Thread Gary Dale
My Apache2 file/print/web server is running Bullseye. I had to restart it yesterday evening to replace a disk drive. Otherwise the last reboot was a couple of weeks ago - I recall some updates to Jitsi - but I don't think there were any updates since then. Today I find that I can't get

Re: Kontact/KOrganizer calendars not synching

2022-05-02 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-05-02 10:42, Herbert-Schwarzer wrote: Google sync's broken for everyone. Something about Google changing the API or something. I don't believe there's a timeline to fix. It's been fixed for a couple of weeks now! For me running Debian 11Bullseye it ist not fixed. Debian/Bookworm I

Re: Kontact/KOrganizer calendars not synching

2022-05-01 Thread Gary Dale
On 2022-03-02 18:26, Borden wrote: 1 Mar 2022, 20:29 by g...@extremeground.com: I'm running Debian/Bookworm on an AMD64 system. Some time back something apparently happened to my desktop calendars. They stopped showing anything. They used to sync with 2 different Google calendars that I

KATE regular expression "Replace All"s don't work properly

2022-05-01 Thread Gary Dale
I have a table copied from a  Word document and pasted into KATE that I'm trying to convert into an XML file. The table is simple - some tabs, a position title, some more tabs, the incumbent's name then the EOL. My regex to grab the information is:         ^\s*([^\t]*)\s*(.*)$ When I Find

[casper] Quick question about casperfpga

2022-04-02 Thread Gary, Dale
Hi All, I am attempting to migrate all of my EOVSA control software to Python 3. I've been using the old corr package to talk to ROACH2 boards and thought I could upgrade to casperfpga, which *surely* should be at Python3 by now, but it seems that it is still at Python2.7. Before giving up, I

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