Re: Automatically installing GRUB on multiple drives

2024-01-25 Thread Nicolas George
Tim Woodall (12024-01-26): > Until your UEFI bios writes to the disk before the system has booted. Hi. Have you ever observed an UEFI firmware doing that? Without explicit admin instructions? Regards, -- Nicolas George

Re: foss-north 2024

2024-01-25 Thread Luna Jernberg
Funderar på att eventuellt hålla något Debian aktigt i år om några mer vill hjälpa till? vet inte om jag orkar dra det stora lasset att arrangera allting helt själv men om inte kommer jag med stor sannolik dyka upp som besökare i år allafall Den fre 26 jan. 2024 kl 08:33 skrev Johan Thelin : > >

Re: foss-north 2024

2024-01-25 Thread Johan Thelin
Tjena, Just nu så vet vi inte - vi har en call-for-papers ute - men tar gärna emot andra förslag. Vi hade exempelvis ett Debian bug-squashing-party som var populärt innan pandemin. MVH Johan Thelin Recommended on-line reading: http://www.thelins.se | http://www.foss-gbg.se Recommended off-line

Fwd: foss-north 2024

2024-01-25 Thread Luna Jernberg
Skickar din fråga vidare till huvudarrangören av konferensen men gissar att flera talare kommer läggas till efter tid, då det fortfarande går att ansöka om att bli/vara en talare tills 5:e Mars (mingla med folk i Lunch och kaffepausen) men låter Johan Thelin huvudarrangör ge dig ett mer officiellt

Re: running a snap package on bookworm?

2024-01-25 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 7:43 PM D. R. Evans wrote: > > 1. I've never used a snap package before. > > 2. I want to run the acrordrdc program, which is available as a snap package. > > 3. Following instructions found following a search for help with snap, I ran: >sudo apt install snapd >

Re: Seeking a Terminal Emulator on Debian for "Passthrough" Printing

2024-01-25 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 10:44:35PM +, phoebus phoebus wrote:   A filter in between that in response to escape-code-1 starts sending data to the serial port instead of the terminal application and switches back to the terminal application on receiving of escape-code-2.   Development of a

Re: Automatically installing GRUB on multiple drives

2024-01-25 Thread Tim Woodall
On Wed, 24 Jan 2024, Nicolas George wrote: It is rather ugly to have the same device be both a RAID with its superblock in the hole between GPT and first partition and the GPT in the hole before the RAID superblock, but it serves its purpose: the EFI partition is kept in sync over all devices.

Re: running a snap package on bookworm?

2024-01-25 Thread Ralph Katz
On 1/25/24 13:33, D. R. Evans wrote: [snip] When I try the run command: $ snap run acrordrdc unknown command: run $ I was amazed that I simply couldn't find anything about actually running installed packages (plenty of sites tell me how to install a package, but none that I looked at then

Re: (SOLVED) disable trackpad when mouse is connected (GNOME bug?)

2024-01-25 Thread Keith Bainbridgge
Good afternoon Another option is to use a keyboard shortcut. My last laptop came with this set up using a Fn key combo (eg fn-f5) So I'm using a key that was set to answer MSteams calls - what? Check keyboard - shortcuts - touchpad. cinnamon gives options of toggle/switch on/ switch-off. I

Re: Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed

2024-01-25 Thread Max Nikulin
On 26/01/2024 07:09, Stefan Monnier wrote: systemctl --user status pipewire{,-pulse} wireplumber which shows that `wireplumber` failed to start. I was assuming that systemctl --user --failed journalctl --user --boot and as root systemctl --failed journalctl --boot

Re: (SOLVED) disable trackpad when mouse is connected (GNOME bug?)

2024-01-25 Thread Max Nikulin
On 25/01/2024 21:42, Max Nikulin wrote: Try     lsusb --verbose --tree I have received a private reply. Please, send messages to the mailing list in such cases. I intentionally combined -vt options and I find output more convenient than for just "lsusb -t". The "-t" option changes

Re: running a snap package on bookworm?

2024-01-25 Thread Max Nikulin
On 26/01/2024 03:33, D. R. Evans wrote: $ snap run acrordrdc unknown command: run $ I was amazed that I simply couldn't find anything about actually running installed packages Desktop environment GUI launcher or menu. Have you performed relogin after installing snap? When I tried it on

Re: in an object oriented world

2024-01-25 Thread John Hasler
Songbird writes: > every thing running on a computer should be able to say: > "I am [x version ...], these are my parents [y, z, 1, ...], i was > compiled by program [...] from source code [...], here are my > credentials [blah, blah]" > when sent a signal from GOD. Why should she believe it?

in an object oriented world

2024-01-25 Thread songbird
every thing running on a computer should be able to say: "I am [x version ...], these are my parents [y, z, 1, ...], i was compiled by program [...] from source code [...], here are my credentials [blah, blah]" when sent a signal from GOD. since GOD can kill you you should have the right

Re: Changing The PSI Definition

2024-01-25 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 07:32:38PM -0500, Thomas George wrote: > The current PSI works perfectly but I don't like the pale green prompt. > > Tried editing .bashrd , /ext/fprofile and /ext/bash.bashrc but no changes to > the PSI definition had any effect You appear to be asking about the shell

Changing The PSI Definition

2024-01-25 Thread Thomas George
The current PSI works perfectly but I don't like the pale green prompt. Tried editing .bashrd , /ext/fprofile and /ext/bash.bashrc but no changes to the PSI definition had any effect Searched for PSI and found /usr/src/linux-headers-6.1.0-16-amd64/include/config/PSI

Re: Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed

2024-01-25 Thread Stefan Monnier
> The problem might be in between of > > lspci -vnn Spews out a lot of stuff, the relevant part being presumably: 00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:284b] (rev 03) Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T61/R61 [17aa:20ac]

Debian/Xen on ARM: How to identify source of an unhandled SMC call during boot?

2024-01-25 Thread Paul Leiber
Dear Debian user list members, I am trying to run network related stuff (Samba, Zabbix) on a Raspberry Pi 4B in a virtualized environment using Debian Bookworm and Xen. I am running into reproducible complete system crashes/reboots due to a Xen watchdog triggering under certain, seemingly

Re: à quoi sert ibus ?

2024-01-25 Thread Étienne Mollier
Basile Starynkevitch, on 2024-01-25: > On 1/25/24 20:13, Étienne Mollier wrote: > > Daniel Caillibaud, on 2024-01-25: > > > Depuis peu une appli perd le clavier (alors que ça fonctionne très bien > > > dans toutes les > > > autres fenêtres). J'ai retrouvé le bug dans leur bugtracker, en attendant

Re: à quoi sert ibus ?

2024-01-25 Thread Basile Starynkevitch
On 1/25/24 20:13, Étienne Mollier wrote: Bonjour, Daniel Caillibaud, on 2024-01-25: Depuis peu une appli perd le clavier (alors que ça fonctionne très bien dans toutes les autres fenêtres). J'ai retrouvé le bug dans leur bugtracker, en attendant que ce soit réglé ils suggèrent de lancer

Re: running a snap package on bookworm?

2024-01-25 Thread D. R. Evans
Greg Wooledge wrote on 1/24/24 12:24: On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 12:16:21PM -0700, D. R. Evans wrote: 4. But now how do I actually run the program? I tried just running: $ acrordrdc Have you looked at the man page for snap? It's very long, so I took a guess and looked for "run". Thank you;

foss-north 2024

2024-01-25 Thread Luna Jernberg
Hejsan! https://foss-north.se/2024/index.html Datum och biljettförsäljning för foss-north 2024 i Göteborg i mitten av April 2024 har nu startat Någon som har tänkt att göra något på foss-north i år? Funderar på att åka dit IRL för första gången i år (då jag inte har kunnat tidigare år pga COVID

foss-north 2024

2024-01-25 Thread Luna Jernberg
Hejsan! https://foss-north.se/2024/index.html Datum och biljettförsäljning för foss-north 2024 i Göteborg i mitten av April 2024 har nu startat Någon som har tänkt att göra något på foss-north i år? Funderar på att åka dit IRL för första gången i år (då jag inte har kunnat tidigare år pga COVID

Re: à quoi sert ibus ?

2024-01-25 Thread Étienne Mollier
Bonjour, Daniel Caillibaud, on 2024-01-25: > Depuis peu une appli perd le clavier (alors que ça fonctionne très bien dans > toutes les > autres fenêtres). J'ai retrouvé le bug dans leur bugtracker, en attendant que > ce soit réglé ils > suggèrent de lancer en console `ibus restart` ce qui règle

Re: AW: su su- sudo dont work

2024-01-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 03:53:10PM +, Schwibinger Michael wrote: > Good afternoon > Why do I have to open a group? > This is to *tell* us information about why you're having problems with su and sudo Running the id command should give you information like uid=1000(amacater)

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

2024-01-25 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Thursday 25 January 2024 09:03:36 am Anssi Saari wrote: > Western Digital at least claims to have solved the leaking > problem with helium and since they've been making those drives for over > a decade, I think it's solved. Your source for this? -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest,

AW: su su- sudo dont work

2024-01-25 Thread Schwibinger Michael
Good afternoon Why do I have to open a group? 2 years ago sudo was no problem. Regards Sophie Thank You Von: Timothy M Butterworth Gesendet: Montag, 22. Januar 2024 00:07 An: Schwibinger Michael Cc: Greg Wooledge ; debian-user@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re:

Re: Issue with USB External Keyboard, External Mouse, and Screen Brightness on Dell Laptop

2024-01-25 Thread Max Nikulin
On 24/01/2024 02:13, Marcelo Laia wrote: After recently upgrade, my external keyboard and external mouse (both USB) stopped working after after the screen brightness automatically decreased. This has occurred a few times, and I can only solve it by rebooting the laptop. Were your

à quoi sert ibus ?

2024-01-25 Thread Daniel Caillibaud
Bonjour, Depuis peu une appli perd le clavier (alors que ça fonctionne très bien dans toutes les autres fenêtres). J'ai retrouvé le bug dans leur bugtracker, en attendant que ce soit réglé ils suggèrent de lancer en console `ibus restart` ce qui règle effectivement le pb, temporairement (faut

Re: Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed

2024-01-25 Thread Max Nikulin
On 24/01/2024 04:28, Stefan Monnier wrote: But since `pactl` seems to still be useful for Pipewire, I tried `pavucontrol` and it shows me no device from which to select in the "Output Devices". Now, how do I figure out why that is? The problem might be in between of lspci -vnn and

Re: (SOLVED) disable trackpad when mouse is connected (GNOME bug?)

2024-01-25 Thread Max Nikulin
On 25/01/2024 20:42, Henning Follmann wrote: The issue is a usb hub. Somehow GNOME thinks this hub is a mouse. Try lsusb --verbose --tree perhaps somebody plugged in a tiny receiver for a wireless mouse and forgot about it.

Re: Resizing LVM partitions

2024-01-25 Thread Stefan Monnier
BTW, instead of rescue mode, you can use the initramfs to do such things (I like to do that when I don't have a LiveUSB at hand because it lets you manipulate *all* partitions, including /). I.e. do something like: - Reboot - In Grub, edit your boot script (with `e`) to add `break=mount` to the

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

2024-01-25 Thread Anssi Saari
gene heskett writes: > I carefully note, the use of Helium and its problems is very carefully > ignored. I suppose helium is not required for SMR drives and could be used in CMR drives too... Western Digital at least claims to have solved the leaking problem with helium and since they've been

(SOLVED) disable trackpad when mouse is connected (GNOME bug?)

2024-01-25 Thread Henning Follmann
On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 03:30:23PM -0500, Henning Follmann wrote: > Hello, > for a while I am using > > gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad send-events > 'disabled-on-external-mouse' > > which really worked fine. > > But since last week this does not work anymore; in the way

Re: souris 2.4Ghz sans dongle bluetooth

2024-01-25 Thread Erwann Le Bras
Alors ta souris a peut-être été appairé avec trop de périphériques différents, ce qui t'oblige à supprimer une connexion pour en rajouter une. Peut-être qu'une réinitialisation permettrait de libérer les slots d'appairage et donc pouvoir l'appairer avec ton Win et ta Debian simultanément.

Re: Looking for archive management system for backups burned to optical discs

2024-01-25 Thread Anders Andersson
On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 4:03 PM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > About timestamps and incremental backup: > > If you only go for mtime, them you miss changes of file attributes > which are indicated by ctime. > Even more, timestamps alone are not a reliable way to determine which > files are new at

Re: Powered USB hub [was: Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help]

2024-01-25 Thread Anssi Saari
Max Nikulin writes: > Purchasing a powered USB hub, I made a mistake. I have not checked > compatibility with hubctl in advance. > https://github.com/mvp/uhubctl/ Wow, that's very cool. I wonder if there's anything similar for USB switches? I have one that's software controllable but it's not