Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

2020-12-27 Thread David Wright
On Sun 27 Dec 2020 at 07:02:53 (-0500), The Wanderer wrote: > On 2020-12-26 at 23:01, David Wright wrote: > > On Sat 26 Dec 2020 at 17:19:32 (-0500), The Wanderer wrote: > > > >> I have for some years been running Debian with an older model of > >> AMD GPU (Radeon HD 6870) for graphics. > >> >

Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?

2020-12-27 Thread David Wright
On Sun 27 Dec 2020 at 22:10:53 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 08:33:26AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 11:01:22 + "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > > > > > > > > Bug??: DI incorrectly detected this machine as having EFI. > > > > > > > At the

restarting pppd automatically

2020-12-27 Thread Graham Seaman
I'm having problems with pppd and an intermittent phone line connection. My external line occasionally drops out, usually briefly (I'm trying to get this fixed but need a workaround in the meantime). When the line goes down, I get this sequence: Dec 27 01:35:03 snoopy pppd[22798]: No response

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

2020-12-27 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-12-27 at 17:23, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 05:08:27PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > > [...] > >> I have the impression that things have by now developed to the >> point where a physical serial-port cable (of the classic type of >> serial port and cable, whose

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

2020-12-27 Thread tomas
On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 05:08:27PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: [...] > I have the impression that things have by now developed to the point > where a physical serial-port cable (of the classic type of serial port > and cable, whose connectors can be visually confused with a VGA port in > some

Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?

2020-12-27 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Dec 27, 2020 at 08:33:26AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 11:01:22 + > "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > > > > > > > Bug??: DI incorrectly detected this machine as having EFI. > > > > > > > At the beginning? Did you get presented with the UEFI install and did > >

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

2020-12-27 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-12-27 at 16:36, Anssi Saari wrote: > The Wanderer writes: > >> I need to get that live-boot medium ready and do those tests. > > That seems like a good thing to do. I have it ready now, but haven't shut down for another swap, in part because I've been napping. I may do it tonight, or

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

2020-12-27 Thread Anssi Saari
The Wanderer writes: > I need to get that live-boot medium ready and do those tests. That seems like a good thing to do. Another thing you could do is post your grub.cfg. It seems a little odd you haven't. Also from previous discussion I think it's worth mentioning that Grub doesn't actually

Re: Some recent update to unstable seems to have broken Xfce4 for me

2020-12-27 Thread Sven Hartge
Celejar wrote: > Some recent update to unstable seems to have broken Xfce4 for me: The Xfce team is uploading Xfce 4.16 at the moment. Because not all components can be uploaded in one go, this may cause some temporary problems or instability. I'd advise you to wait some days until all uploads

Re: Some recent update to unstable seems to have broken Xfce4 for me

2020-12-27 Thread Weaver
On 28-12-2020 05:58, Celejar wrote: > Hi, > > Some recent update to unstable seems to have broken Xfce4 for me: I > can't suspend the the machine anymore. When I try the keyboard shortcut > I've configured (that has worked for years), I get an error popup > window: > > Received error while

Re: Kde inutilisable

2020-12-27 Thread Jérôme
Le Sun, 27 Dec 2020 11:59:29 +0100, Francois Mescam a écrit : > je suis en testing et ce matin j'ai fait la mise à jour de kde sauf 4 > paquets que j'ai gelé pour cause de dépendances non satisfaites. > > Résultat lors du début d'une session mes diverses applis se lancent > bien mais le tour

Some recent update to unstable seems to have broken Xfce4 for me

2020-12-27 Thread Celejar
Hi, Some recent update to unstable seems to have broken Xfce4 for me: I can't suspend the the machine anymore. When I try the keyboard shortcut I've configured (that has worked for years), I get an error popup window: Received error while trying to log out

Re: /bin/sh naar bash i.p.v. dash linken

2020-12-27 Thread Geert Stappers
On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 09:13:23PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 06:01:31PM +0100, Cecil Westerhof wrote: > > Ik had helemaal niet gereageerd. :'-( > > > > Richard Lucassen writes: > > > > > On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 10:52:57 +0100 Cecil Westerhof wrote: > > > > > >> Ik heb er

Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?

2020-12-27 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 11:01:22 + "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > > Bug!!: I tried loading the firmware for the wifi if. DI asked all > > the right questions, and I gave it all the right answers. But it > > never connected. The dhcp server never got a request, and on the > > target hardware,

[SOLVED] python3.9 venv testing error message

2020-12-27 Thread songbird
the mismatch of the version of distutils prevented it from working so the solution was to upgrade distutils from unstable and it works now. songbird

Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?

2020-12-27 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 11:01:22 + "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > > > > Bug??: DI incorrectly detected this machine as having EFI. > > > > At the beginning? Did you get presented with the UEFI install and did > it try to install grub-efi at the end (or did it just ask whether you > wanted to

Re: QEMU-KVM VMs sometime freeze when I run them for a couple of days

2020-12-27 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
George Shuklin's comment may have intended this question too: Are backups running somewhere when the VMs "randomly" hang? Not necessarily on the VM that hangs, but somewhere touching a related filesystem, disk or network device? On Sun, Dec 27, 2020, 4:33 AM wrote: > From: Dan Ritter > > > You

Re: Format de data incorrecte de «ls -l»

2020-12-27 Thread Joan Montané
Missatge de Jordi Pujol del dia dg., 27 de des. 2020 a les 14:57: > > Com s'ha de comprovar l'alineament amb el CLDR ? En el cas que ens ocupa, aquí [1] hi ha les abreviatures dels mesos [1] https://unicode-org.github.io/cldr-staging/charts/latest/summary/ca.html#360c210ad4f23085 > > Em

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

2020-12-27 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-12-27 at 07:10, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2020-12-27 at 02:51, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> On 2020-12-26 18:44 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: >>> That's a good suggestion, except I don't see any way to do that >>> in the /etc/default/grub I have. >>> >>> The closest thing I see is >>> >>> #

Re: Format de data incorrecte de «ls -l»

2020-12-27 Thread Jordi Pujol
Hola Joan i tothom, On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 10:16 AM Joan Montané wrote: > Això seria equivalent (si es volgués fes que al canvi arribés a > tothom) que canviar els valors associats a %b (mesos abreujats). > No m'agrada perquè trenca l'alineament amb el CLDR i perquè canvia les > abreviatures

Re: Kde inutilisable

2020-12-27 Thread Erwan David
Le 27/12/2020 à 11:59, Francois Mescam a écrit : > je suis en testing et ce matin j'ai fait la mise à jour de kde sauf 4 > paquets que j'ai gelé pour cause de dépendances non satisfaites. > > Résultat lors du début d'une session mes diverses applis se lancent > bien mais le tour des fenres ne

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

2020-12-27 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-12-27 at 02:51, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2020-12-26 18:44 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2020-12-26 at 18:28, Felix Miata wrote: >> >>> I suggest a good place to start would be to goto >>> /etc/default/grub and switch from whichever mode is employed to >>> the other, either plain

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

2020-12-27 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-12-27 at 02:31, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 26 dec 20, 17:19:32, The Wanderer wrote: > >> With the new GPU in place, I get video output during POST and in >> the BIOS (yes, this machine is old enough that it doesn't have a >> UEFI) without problems. That demonstrates that the GPU

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

2020-12-27 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-12-26 at 23:01, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 26 Dec 2020 at 17:19:32 (-0500), The Wanderer wrote: > >> I have for some years been running Debian with an older model of >> AMD GPU (Radeon HD 6870) for graphics. >> >> I recently purchased a relatively recent model of GPU (Radeon RX >>

Impossible de ddémarrer VLC avec Optirun

2020-12-27 Thread Patrick ZAJDA
Bonjour, J'ai installé et configuré Bumblebee sous Debian Buster à fin de n'utiliser que macarte Nvidia quand nécessaire. Je souhaite l'utiliser pour VLC car avec le GPU Intel, la machine freeze tout simplement, je n'ai plus qu'à redémarrer si j'essaye de lire une vidéo quelle qu'elle soit

Kde inutilisable

2020-12-27 Thread Francois Mescam
je suis en testing et ce matin j'ai fait la mise à jour de kde sauf 4 paquets que j'ai gelé pour cause de dépendances non satisfaites. Résultat lors du début d'une session mes diverses applis se lancent bien mais le tour des fenres ne s'affiche pas et donc pas possible de changer de fenêtre

Re: Release status of i386 for Bullseye and long term support for 3 years?

2020-12-27 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 03:18:40PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 15:45:37 + > "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > > > > > > Well, that's a good start :) The test suite we used to test for > > stable release CDs is here: > >

Re: QEMU-KVM VMs sometime freeze when I run them for a couple of days

2020-12-27 Thread buz.hrach
From: Dan Ritter > You probably want to change that to 1 minute or so. Btw. could you please tell me how to do that? I know how to modify (=> override) systemd unit files but I have no idea how to change default timeout for mounted block devices that I didn't manually create in