Re: Not authorized to run synaptic

2023-08-29 Thread Christian Britz
Am 28.08.23 um 19:24 schrieb Joe: > It's not obvious. I run synaptic from a standard menu launcher, where > the command is just synaptic-pkexec. It then requests the root password > before running. I'm on sid, which still ought to be very close to > testing at the moment. For me it asks for

Re: Failed to acquire pid file : /var/local/run/libvirt/qemu/driver.pid

2023-08-28 Thread Christian Britz
On 28.08.23, 18:44, zithro wrote: > On 27 Aug 2023 12:09, Mario Marietto wrote: >> $ uname -a >> Linux chromarietto 5.4.244-stb-cbe >> #8 SMP PREEMPT Sat Aug 19 22:19:32 UTC 2023 armv7l GNU/Linux > > Is it normal to get this "old" kernel on bookworm ARM ? No 6.x versions ? This does not seem to

Re: Debian 11.7: huge rtorrent seeding problem

2023-08-23 Thread Christian Britz
Hello Jason, maybe you need to configure your routing device to forward the bt ports to your Debian box, not the Mac. According to a quick Google search, you have to redirect ports 6881-6887, TCP and UDP. Regards, Christian Am 23.08.23 um 08:07 schrieb Jason: > Hi > > I use Debian 11.7 and

Re: keybase upgrade / install fails

2023-08-10 Thread Christian Britz
This package is not part of debian, so you should probably try their support channels. Gary Dale wrote: > 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

Re: Raspbian: After update from buster to bookworm,X11Forwarding in ssh connection stopped working

2023-08-07 Thread Christian Britz
gene heskett wrote: > On 8/7/23 10:51, B.M. wrote: >>> ssh -Y -C -l myUser otherHostname.local -v >>> > Is the @ sign between myUser and otherhostname now optional? He uses option -l login_name, which can be used alternatively to login_name@destination.

Re: Raspbian: After update from buster to bookworm, X11Forwarding in ssh connection stopped working

2023-08-07 Thread Christian Britz
Hi Bernd B.M. wrote: I just dist-upgraded my Raspberry Pi from buster to bookworm, and while This might very well be the reason for your problems. You should never skip a release, bullseye in this case. Upgrading directly from oldoldstable to stable will get you unpredictable results.

Re: Installing on Rock Pi 4

2022-07-19 Thread Christian Britz
Thank you, very interesting! >> I would call it semi-official. Gunnar Wolf is a respected Debian >> developer and the debian.net domain is a property of the project. I >> would prefer an official-official installer though. > > This was briefly touched on during a livestreamed discussion between

Re: Installing on Rock Pi 4

2022-07-19 Thread Christian Britz
Am 19.07.22 um 17:16 schrieb Nicolas George: > Christian Britz (12022-07-19): >> If this device really can boot the Debian installer, at least it's boot >> system is fundamentally different to an out of the box Raspberry Pi. > > IIRC, no two ARM systems have the same boot

Re: Installing on Rock Pi 4

2022-07-19 Thread Christian Britz
Hi Nicolas, Am 19.07.22 um 16:03 schrieb Nicolas George: > Hi. I am trying to install Debian on a Rock Pi 4 (v1.73). It is a > system-on-chip similar to and mostly compatible with the Raspberry Pi 4 > but with an on-board SSD. [...] > > I have tried the procedure described on: >

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-09 Thread Christian Britz
Am 09.07.22 um 16:14 schrieb Andy Smith: > Sounds like you have a misconfiguration that should be fixed, rather > than disabling IPv6 to work around it. > I do not know about this case, but there are still situations where applications have problems with IPv6. For example the proprietary

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-09 Thread Christian Britz
Am 09.07.22 um 15:52 schrieb Roger Price: > because directory /proc/sys/net/ipv6 doesn't exist. What is the new way of > disabling IPv6? I did it recently just in the way you described on Debian 11. -- http://www.cb-fraggle.de

Re: nft newbie

2022-07-06 Thread Christian Britz
Am 07.07.22 um 00:50 schrieb gene heskett: > I was just locked up by what may have been a ransomware attack by a link > from pocket, > part of firefox's default screen. I did a power down, and had quite a I doubt that. This would be such a security desaster for FireFox that it would have

Re: dlna server for roku?

2022-05-15 Thread Christian Britz
I can recommend MiniDLNA. It streams without problems from my Raspberry Pi. I do not have a Roku device, but it have tested it with 3 other devices successfully. On 2022-05-14 19:29 UTC+0200, Lee wrote: > I'd like to watch my own video files on a Roku; apparently what I need > is DLNA software

Running Sky Go on Debian

2022-05-11 Thread Christian Britz
Greetings, this might be slightly OT, on the other hand it might be of some interest to others, so please excuse me. For years I am trying to find a way to use the Sky Go PayTV service on Debian, I don't like booting Windows for that. For a short time, they had a good web player, but they

Re: "Disabling IRQ #9" - how to check for impact

2022-05-03 Thread Christian Britz
Problem seems to be gone with latest Debian stable kernel update! I don't see the message anymore with 5.10.113. On 2022-04-28 10:34 UTC+0200, Christian Britz wrote: > Hello Ilya, > > thank you for sharing so many interesting details! > > On 2022-04-28 02:53 UTC+02

Re: Dual booting Debian on an Windows machine.

2022-04-30 Thread Christian Britz
Generally it is easier to install Windows first, then Debian, but of course it is possible the other way round. The Debian boot manager can be configured to respect the Windows installation, the Windows boot manager does not know anything about other operating systems, so you should leave that to

Re: Net install installer fails to access any mirror...........

2022-04-29 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-04-29 13:54 UTC+0200, Charlie wrote: > On both of these the installer does not find any mirror I select, for > the last 3 days. Can you give more details of the error message? Have you tried the CDN deb.debian.org as mirror? That is usually the best option. > No error messages that

Re: Can an NAS appliance be used as a regular computer?

2022-04-28 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-04-28 12:42 UTC+0200, Tom Browder wrote: > All I want is a small PC able to host multiple drives for redundant > storage. Can a typical NAS appliance be used for that? As suggested by me and others before, I would look for a cheap device like the Raspberry Pi for home use. You can

Re: "Disabling IRQ #9" - how to check for impact

2022-04-28 Thread Christian Britz
Hello Ilya, thank you for sharing so many interesting details! On 2022-04-28 02:53 UTC+0200, IL Ka wrote: > This is a known kernel > bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207749 >   I was almost sure the messages first appeared

Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye

2022-04-27 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-04-27 14:46 UTC+0200, Tom Browder wrote: > And for future reference, what brand of SSDs (and memory) do you use? Currently I use what is built in to my laptop, a SK Hynix SSD. The Raspi home server is connected to a traditional hard disk. In the past I had a Samsung EVO SSD for home

Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye

2022-04-27 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-04-27 14:22 UTC+0200, Christian Britz wrote: > > > On 2022-04-27 13:57 UTC+0200, Tom Browder wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 06:42 Christian Britz > <mailto:cbr...@t-online.de>> wrote: >> ... >> >> I have seem some indications on the

Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye

2022-04-27 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-04-27 13:57 UTC+0200, Tom Browder wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 06:42 Christian Britz <mailto:cbr...@t-online.de>> wrote: > ... > > I have seem some indications on the web though, which suggest there > might be an ISO image for updating the driv

Re: Crucial SSDs and Debian Bullseye

2022-04-27 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-04-27 13:06 UTC+0200, Tom Browder wrote: > drive. From what I can find at Crucial, I need to install their Storage > Executive program on a Windows host, hook up the SSD to a USB/SATA > connector on that host, and configure or install the firmware onto the SSD. Sounds really crappy. A

Re: Recommendations for a home server running Debian Bullseye (11)?

2022-04-26 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-04-26 15:28 UTC+0200, Stefan Monnier wrote: > As a Debian user who considers current computer hardware should have a life > expectancy of at least 10 years, my main question w.r.t to those beasts > is what part of the hardware is supported by the vanilla Linux kernel > (since that's

Re: Recommendations for a home server running Debian Bullseye (11)?

2022-04-26 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-04-26 10:49 UTC+0200, Jeremy Ardley wrote: > I also use a fanless home server, but it's definitely no slouch. > > My one is a NanoPi M4V2 usingRockchip RK3399 64-bit Dual Core Cortex-A72 + > Quad Core Cortex-A53 It [...] > snappy. It gets 12.47 seconds in the hardinfo n-queens test

"Disabling IRQ #9" - how to check for impact

2022-04-26 Thread Christian Britz
Hello Debianists, some days ago I updated the BIOS of my Lenovo IdeaPad S145-15IIL (had to boot a certain proprietary OS for this). I think since then there is a new error in the kernel log. I never noticed it before. [9.967601] irq 9: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) [

Re: Debian 11 bullseye - will it work on 12th gen core i3-12100?

2022-04-26 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-04-25 19:16 UTC+0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > Debian 11 was released almost 1 year ago. For new hardware you will need > Debian testing. For Debian 11 (current stable) you'll need second hand > hardware. Or a kernel from backports. There was a discussion on this list recently about

Re: Recommendations for a home server running Debian Bullseye (11)?

2022-04-26 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-04-25 23:58 UTC+0200, Stefan Monnier wrote: > That's quite vague. I myself use a BananaPi as home server with good > results (for my use case anyway), but I'm pretty sure that it wouldn't > cover half the needs of some other people's notion of "home server". I agree with Stefan. I am

Re: Changing from Debian 9.13 to Debian 11.3

2022-04-21 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-04-21 16:34 UTC+0200, Richard Owlett wrote: > My browser is a SeaMonkey stand alone executable. There is such a thing? The SeaMonkey I know, consists of many different files in a directory, not one "stand alone executable". And it will store it's settings and stuff in a profile

Re: how to register a system service

2022-04-21 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-04-21 10:13 UTC+0200, Henrik S wrote: > Given I have a program, I want to make it start/stop as the normal > system service such as postfix. > > How can I setup this? The man page for systemd.service contains examples for simple service files. Even I was able to create one and that

Re: After upgrade to bullseye, tty1-6 not working

2022-04-20 Thread Christian Britz
Hello Hobie, On 2022-04-20 12:13 UTC+0200, hobie of RMN wrote: > Hi, Folks - > With buster, I had done some tweaking to the boot command line in order to > have a certain font size come up in the plain text console windows. > Should I suspect that's still present in grub and is for some reason

Re: Debian installer with a newer kernel

2022-04-14 Thread Christian Britz
they can't install stable on their systems. Regards, Christian On 2022-04-14 12:00 UTC+0200, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 11:16:00AM +0200, Christian Britz wrote: >> Hello dear Debianists, >> >> if a new system has at least basic hardware support by t

Debian installer with a newer kernel

2022-04-14 Thread Christian Britz
Hello dear Debianists, if a new system has at least basic hardware support by the kernel provided by the Debian installer, you can solve many hardware problems by installing a newer kernel from backports after the system setup. Is there a solution for the case where the installer kernel is too

Re: Help settings up sound card on Debian stable

2022-04-14 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-04-13 09:28 UTC+0200, Yvan Masson wrote: > I have no idea of what you could do to make it work on stable, sorry. > But did you try running testing? It would be probably simpler, and > testing generally runs great. It seems to be more or less consent that you are not advised to run

Re: Debian "Bookworm" Installation

2022-04-14 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-04-14 01:07 UTC+0200, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > I've just attempted to Install "Bookworm" to a USB stick and it went > mostly to plan, apart from the fact that it won't boot. However that's > not the issue at hand: I can't find a way to persuade the installer's > partitioner to

Re: Running Steam Proton Games with primusrun

2022-03-31 Thread Christian Britz
Could be some 32 bit NVIDIA files missing, steam is 32 bit. Regards, Christian On 2022-03-27 13:03 UTC+0200, Jonathan Marquardt wrote: > Hi! > > I have a Dell XPS 15 with a dedicated NVIDIA GPU and I have a working > bumblebee setup. It works with all kinds of games, except for steam ones. >

Re: QEMU/KVM doesn't open new window - Access only via vnc viewer

2022-03-31 Thread Christian Britz
Hello Dieter, unfortunately I have no answer for this specific problem, but I can strongly recommend the virt-manager solution which utilizes qemu (and kvm if available). Regards, Christian On 2022-03-31 10:44 UTC+0200, Dieter Rohlfing wrote: > Hi, > > I'm just about to install

Re: installing on Lenovo Ideapad 3

2022-03-29 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-03-29 19:20 UTC+0200, Paul Scott wrote: >> Which ISO? > debian-11.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso This could be the root cause for the networking problems. Try the "unofficial" ISO which supports binary blobs. If this seems unethical to you, buy an ethernet adapter which does not need a

Re: installing on Lenovo Ideapad 3

2022-03-29 Thread Christian Britz
Hello, I use an older IdeaPad myself, so maybe I can help a little bit. On 2022-03-29 19:11 UTC+0200, Paul Scott wrote: >>> I have disabled Trusted Platform Module and Secure Boot. Should not be needed. I actually used TPM for aw hile for a virtualized Windows and Debian supports Secure Boot.

Re: OT: Which browser does jwz use? (Was Re: Does this happen often with sid?)

2022-03-28 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-03-28 19:14 UTC+0200, Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 06:16:23PM +0200, Christian Britz wrote: >> I would have been definitely interested which browser [jwz] >> recommends / uses these days. > > Ten years ago it was Safari: > >

Re: Does this happen often with sid?

2022-03-28 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-03-28 17:17 UTC+0200, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Meh - it's been a very long day so far. My mistake - Chuck is not jwz - but > the general warning about Sid still stands That's sad. I would have been definitely interested which browser he recommends / uses these days. --

Re: Does this happen often with sid?

2022-03-28 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-03-28 16:52 UTC+0200, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Hi Chuck, > > [The xscreensaver person, I presume - \o/ ] Do you think jwz is a debian user and takes part here with a pseudonym? :-O Then he could maybe help with bug #1006199. -- http://www.cb-fraggle.de

kwallet does not remember password anymore

2022-03-25 Thread Christian Britz
Hello Debianists, Since some days, I am using KDE Plasma again sometimes on Debian Stable. The kwallet utility does not remember my password anymore. The reason might be that I uninstalled one package too much previously. Any idea? Regards, Christian -- http://www.cb-fraggle.de

Re: its been done again. No network

2022-03-24 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-03-24 16:27 UTC+0100, Curt wrote: > On 2022-03-24, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: >> I'd strongly suggest that you use Gunnar Wolf's images that then give you >> something that is as near as anything vanilla Debian. Raspberry Pi folks are >> really not too interested in sorting out

Re: Simple and secure blogging software for nginx

2022-03-11 Thread Christian Britz
Thank you for your thoughts, Russel, On 2022-03-11 18:40 UTC+0100, Russell L. Harris wrote: > 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

Re: evince has died a horrible death. Sob...

2022-03-11 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-03-11 17:28 UTC+0100, gene heskett wrote: > Thats been the most complete pdf viewer I've ever used. But I just tried > to look at a doc I have looked at hundreds of times over he last years, > and it got all upset all over itself, while I was logged into that > machine with an ssh -Y

Re: Wayland vs X

2022-03-11 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-03-11 12:47 UTC+0100, Nate Bargmann wrote: > I have used Gnome on Wayland since late 2018. It improved a lot with > the release of Bullseye. I use this setup on two machines, a laptop and > a desktop that has two monitors. So far I have not had any issues with And what is the

Re: Simple and secure blogging software for nginx

2022-03-11 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-03-11 06:06 UTC+0100, Russell L. Harris wrote: > Life is too short to mess around with a markup language other than > LaTeX. Work always in LaTeX. Next topic on my learning agenda. :-) -- http://www.cb-fraggle.de

Re: Simple and secure blogging software for nginx

2022-03-10 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-03-10 22:16 UTC+0100, Dan Ritter wrote: > nginx is just a web server, apache is just a web server. Nearly > any blog can be set up with either one of them, or a number of > other servers. Static sites don't need language support in the > server at all. Sure, I think I was not precise

Re: Simple and secure blogging software for nginx

2022-03-10 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-03-10 22:28 UTC+0100, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 10:06:34PM +0100, Christian Britz wrote: >> I am looking for recommendations for setting up a blog with nginx web >> server. What I have so far: nginx-light with static pages. >> >> What woul

Re: Simple and secure blogging software for nginx

2022-03-10 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-03-10 22:09 UTC+0100, Kevin Exton wrote: > You need a blogging CMS like WordPress, or alternatively some kind of > static site generator like GatsbyJS. Not sure what is or isn't in the > Debian repositories though...  Thank you, I allow my self to reply on the list. I heard that

Simple and secure blogging software for nginx

2022-03-10 Thread Christian Britz
Dear community, I am looking for recommendations for setting up a blog with nginx web server. What I have so far: nginx-light with static pages. What would I need to be able to host a blog? I search something as simple and secure as possible, there will be very low traffic. It should be

Re: Installing/Preparing Debian on a headless system

2022-03-09 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-03-10 08:35 UTC+0100, Christian Britz wrote: > ...and this is not the latest kernel available in pure Debian. It is This is what I got directly from Debian: Linux raspberrypi 5.10.0-12-arm64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.103-1 (2022-03-07) aarch64 GNU/Linux -- http://www.cb-fraggle.de

Re: Installing/Preparing Debian on a headless system

2022-03-09 Thread Christian Britz
Hi Keith, On 2022-03-10 08:12 UTC+0100, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > uname : > Linux rasp14 5.10.92-v8+ #1514 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jan 17 17:39:38 GMT 2022 > aarch64 GNU/Linux ...and this is not the latest kernel available in pure Debian. It is missing important security fixes. Since last night an

Re: Installing/Preparing Debian on a headless system

2022-03-09 Thread Christian Britz
I just modified an image from raspi.debian.net and was able to login via ssh. Thank you all for the input. :-) On 2022-03-09 15:57 UTC+0100, Christian Britz wrote: > Hello, > > after learning that the Debian-based RaspberryPi OS does not get > security fixes always in time (see dirty

Re: Installing/Preparing Debian on a headless system

2022-03-09 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-03-09 18:57 UTC+0100, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Which Raspberry Pi model - Pete Batard has a version of UEFI that works on > a Pi 4 and can boot enough to then use the Debian installer. Essentially, > you put UEFI and the raspberry pi firmware package in the ESP on a USB stick > or

Re: Wayland vs X

2022-03-09 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-03-09 18:15 UTC+0100, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > Here's something about the X ecosystem that I don't understand anymore. > I've read the statement > that "X isn't developed anymore, only XFree86". In other words, X source > was re-based to Xfree86 > a long time ago. So it must be that

Re: Installing/Preparing Debian on a headless system

2022-03-09 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-03-09 16:53 UTC+0100, Christian Britz wrote: > > > On 2022-03-09 16:50 UTC+0100, Brian wrote: >> The short answer is that you use the network-console udeb. To do that, >> I preseed wirh >> >> d-i anna/choose_modules string network-console >> &

Re: Installing/Preparing Debian on a headless system

2022-03-09 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-03-09 16:50 UTC+0100, Brian wrote: > The short answer is that you use the network-console udeb. To do that, > I preseed wirh > > d-i anna/choose_modules string network-console > > I boot with a netinst using hd-media and pressed from a file. That sounds very interesting, can you

Installing/Preparing Debian on a headless system

2022-03-09 Thread Christian Britz
Hello, after learning that the Debian-based RaspberryPi OS does not get security fixes always in time (see dirty-pipe), I am considering installing pure Debian on my system. It seems not all proprietary components are supported, but I don't need video acceleration anyway, for example. My Pi acts

Re: Wayland vs X

2022-03-09 Thread Christian Britz
Hi Kevin, On 2022-03-08 23:01 UTC+0100, Kevin Exton wrote: > I tried Wayland some years ago now (might have been when they first > trialled it in Ubuntu) but decided not to stick with it. > > Since more desktop environments are beginning to choose Wayland as the > default display protocol, I was

Re: Problems with custom install of MATE

2022-03-08 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-03-08 15:50 UTC+0100, Richard Owlett wrote: > I have SeaMonkey launched from "Internet" sub-menu of "Applications" > menu. IIRC it was only a couple of mouse clicks to get it there. If you don't have some Debian/Snap/Flatpak package from some source available, I know no other way to

Re: Problems with custom install of MATE

2022-03-08 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-03-08 14:11 UTC+0100, Richard Owlett wrote: > 4. I'll be installing SeaMonkey but have forgotten how to have it appear > on appropriate Applications sub-menu. As there is no Debian package for SeaMonkey, you will probably extract the binaries from seamonkey-project.org somewhere.

Re: Legacy Dell 760 apt-get updates?

2022-03-08 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-03-08 09:20 UTC+0100, cono...@panix.com (John Conover) wrote: > Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/i915/icl_dmc_ver1_09.bin > for module i915 > > The machine seems to run fine, but do I need to add something? Yes, you want to install package firmware-misc-nonfree. And I

Re: linux kernel and nvidia - never ending story

2022-03-07 Thread Christian Britz
Hello Hans, I understand your frustration, I was also frustrated sometimes back when I used nVidia, but IMO Debian is not to blame here, the situation is completely the responsibility of nVidia. 0. After reading your post again, I realize that sections 1 to 4 of my reply do not really apply to

Re: Launch a minimal MATE DE

2022-03-06 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-03-06 09:49 UTC+0100, Richard Owlett wrote: > Thanks. I'll try that. At the moment I'm having some hardware problems > connecting the test machine to the internet. I use a Alcatel Linkzone > 4GLTE Hotspot from T-Mobile. Intermittently Debian doesn't recognize it. > Yesterday it was

Re: Launch a minimal MATE DE

2022-03-06 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-03-06 09:30 UTC+0100, Richard Owlett wrote: >> apt-get --no-install-recommends install mate-desktop-environment > When I attempted to run startx I received the message >> startx: command not found Hi Richard, I can't tell you anything about the dependencies but you could try to

Re: Google smtp and pop

2022-03-04 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-03-04 18:30 UTC+0100, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > Find another mail host. And you could find a mail client which correctly replies to messages. ;-) -- http://www.cb-fraggle.de

Re: Google smtp and pop

2022-03-04 Thread Christian Britz
I userd getmail instead of fetchmail in the past, and a quick web search reveals that it seems to support OAUTH2: https://www.bytereef.org/howto/oauth2/getmail.html. Regards, Christian On 2022-03-04 16:59 UTC+0100, Marc Auslander wrote: > Google has now said they are pulling the plug on

Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop?

2022-03-04 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-03-04 16:10 UTC+0100, Hans wrote: > There are also other WM available, which may be faster, like fvwm95, openbox, > twm. amiwm ;-) -- http://www.cb-fraggle.de

Re: Which flavour for a 2GB RAM laptop?

2022-03-04 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-03-04 11:47 UTC+0100, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > One of my memory slot has died, so I am running a Thinkpad with 2GB ram > only. I have been told that, even if I put a 4GB ram module in, it won't > be as fast as 2x2GB ram (true? Stop me here if I am wrong). Never mind > put an 8GB

Cutefish desktop environment

2022-03-03 Thread Christian Britz
Hi, I just installed the very promising new desktop environment from CutefishOS on my bullseye system. I learned that they offer an APT repository with pre-built binaries: deb [arch=amd64] http://packages.cutefishos.com bullseye main First impression: It looks really cute ;-). Very clean and

Re: Wine fails because of missing libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll

2022-03-03 Thread Christian Britz
> I'm looking for the exact package that contains zlib1.dll but I can't > find it. Libwine depends on libz-mingw-w64 but the zlib1.dll there is > not the same as the one wine puts in the drive_c directory. The one in > drive_c directory is a PE32 DLL and the one provided with > libz-mingw-w64

Re: Debian 11 hangs on boot

2022-03-02 Thread Christian Britz
Maybe a problem with the video configuration? Checking /var/log/Xorg.0.log could be a good first step. Cheers, Christian On 2022-03-02 11:11 UTC+0100, Thanos Katsiolis wrote: > Hello, > > boot gets stuck on > > "[OK] Started GNOME Display Manager" > > Apart from solving the problem, I would

Re: Crash on starting cheese

2022-03-02 Thread Christian Britz
Hello Armin, did it work before? Might not be related, but I had the following experience with Cheese: I somehow managed to select an invalid resolution for my cam, which also made Cheese crash IIRC. The solution was to reset it's resolution settings with the dconf-editor. You can always report

Re: After Feb 24 update my X11/KDE stopped working (can't log in). (using debian testing)

2022-02-25 Thread Christian Britz
itor rotation on R5 > 230 GPU. > > Question: is there any forum where should I report this conclusion to > get attention of the X11 packagers/developers? > > Thanks! > Karel > > > > On 2/25/22 16:56, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: >> On 2/25/22, Karel Gardas

Re: After Feb 24 update my X11/KDE stopped working (can't log in). (using debian testing)

2022-02-25 Thread Christian Britz
Hello Karel, please try it with a temporary clean profile. Regards, Christian On 2022-02-25 13:12 UTC+0100, Karel Gardas wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm using debian testing so not sure if this is the right ML, but after > Feb 24 update I'm no longer capable of logging into the X11/KDE-plasma. >

Re: packages kept back on Debian stable

2022-02-24 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-02-24 19:32 UTC+0100, L Dimov wrote: > The following NEW packages will be installed: >   libabsl20200923 libopengl0 linux-image-5.10.0-11-amd64 These are legitimate Debian packages which are also installed on my Bullseye system. Apparently, some dependencies have changed. --

Re: packages kept back on Debian stable

2022-02-24 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-02-24 18:50 UTC+0100, L Dimov wrote: > I do indeed use apt-get update and apt-get upgrade, and I am aware that > there are ways I can force them to upgrade, but should I? At least it will help you to analyze the situation, you still can cancel the operation. IMO this is not a normal

Re: Trying to deug initramfs boot delay

2022-02-21 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-02-22 00:50 UTC+0100, Michael Lange wrote: > First, when I run lsinitramfs on the initrd in use, the first items of > the command's output are: > > kernel > kernel/x86 > kernel/x86/microcode > kernel/x86/microcode/.enuineIntel.align.0123456789abc >

Re: Definitive instructions for Buster LTS security updates

2022-02-21 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-02-21 15:45 UTC+0100, David Wright wrote: > AFAICT, running buster, nothing has yet changed. My sources.list > is attached (ignore the first line), and as of this morning it > yields: And I think nothing will change in the future. Take the Stretch example at

Re: Error when updating user Python packages

2022-02-20 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-02-20 03:35 UTC+0100, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > Probably you should be using the pip3 command instead. It may not be > installed, > so I think this will install it: >  sudo apt-get install python3-pip python3-pip is installed. I think it came with the Debian installer. It makes no

Re: Error when updating user Python packages

2022-02-19 Thread Christian Britz
It happens also when I run sudo pip list --outdated, so I think it is not related to my user profile. On 2022-02-19 21:59 UTC+0100, Christian Britz wrote: > Hello Debian users, > > I would like to update the Python3 packages which I installed for my > local user via pip. > >

Error when updating user Python packages

2022-02-19 Thread Christian Britz
Hello Debian users, I would like to update the Python3 packages which I installed for my local user via pip. The command "pip list --user --outdated" gives the following error messages. This is on Debian stable. Any ideas? ERROR: Exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File

Re: Cannot login to my user?

2022-02-18 Thread Christian Britz
Mr. Anderson, can you login to the command line? If so, you could check the file .xsession-errors in your home directory. You can also switch with "Bob" to Xfce for testing purposes. If you can't resolve it, backup your data from /home/bob and empty the directory (start with a clean profile).

Re: Any plan to upgrade bash to 5.1.16 on bullseye?

2022-02-16 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-02-16 10:16 UTC+0100, Daniel Qian wrote: > Hi, > > There is a severe bug on GNU Bash which is fixed in 5.1.16. > > Bug info: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2022-01/msg00020.html > > While currently debian bullseye GNU Bash is 5.1.4. Without reading the details: If you

Re: ssh -X and size of GUI elements (KDE/Qt)

2022-02-15 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-02-15 17:26 UTC+0100, Dan Ritter wrote: > It's probably a disagreement on screen dpi settings. Check your > native setting and then replicate it on your headless server's > KDE config? Wouldn't this mainly/exclusively affect the fonts? I set dpi in both systemsettings5 tool explicitly to

ssh -X and size of GUI elements (KDE/Qt)

2022-02-15 Thread Christian Britz
Hi, when I logon to my headless server via ssh -X, I can start graphical applications and they are displayed on my local X server. The font size is excactly the same as on my dektop, but GUI elements like buttons are somehow smaller in vertical size. It seems to depend on the used toolkit, I

Re: Sid : reboot looses boot partition and goes directly to bios

2022-02-15 Thread Christian Britz
Is this by any chance an UEFI system? I think I remember from dual boot times, that Windows 10 played from time to time with the EFI bootloaders and I experienced the same symptoms like you. I think running grub-install inside Debian fixed it for me. The final solution for me was to get rid of

Re: Plop in Debian install HDD into entirely new system

2022-02-11 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-02-11 21:34 UTC+0100, Thomas Anderson wrote: > I was curious what would happen if I threw my server HDD, into an > entirely new system: I would guess it would work, with some minor adjustmenst being necessary. Typically, all needed kernel modules for hardware support are available and

OT: Network-Manager

2022-02-08 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-02-08 17:48 UTC+0100, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 05:44:25PM +0100, Christian Britz wrote: >> Yes, I need some more help in the context of using Network-Manager. > > "Don't." > > Unless this is a laptop or something, in which case,

Re: Autostart command after network is available (usbip)

2022-02-08 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-02-08 17:44 UTC+0100, Christian Britz wrote: > [Install] > WantedBy=multiuser.target Changed that to [Install] WantedBy=network-online.target Now it works! :-) -- http://www.cb-fraggle.de

Re: Autostart command after network is available (usbip)

2022-02-08 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-02-08 16:46 UTC+0100, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 03:46:09PM +0100, Christian Britz wrote: >> I want to know how I can execute a command as root once after the >> network is available. > >> Is this to be done via systemd? > > Yes, th

Autostart command after network is available (usbip)

2022-02-08 Thread Christian Britz
I want to know how I can execute a command as root once after the network is available. I activated usbipd on my home server and want to attach the client automatically at boot. Manually attaching it works already. The command to be executed as root on the client is: usbip attach -r hostname -b

Re: Mini server hardware for home use NAS purposes

2022-02-05 Thread Christian Britz
The list doesn't seem to like attachments, so please see a picture of my new server here :-) http://amiga5000.ddns.net/raspi.jpeg On 2022-02-05 19:35 UTC+0100, Christian Britz wrote: > > > On 2022-02-02 20:24 UTC+0100, Christian Britz wrote: >> >> >> On 2022-02-

Re: Mounting NFS share from Synology NAS

2022-02-03 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-02-03 08:52 UTC+0100, Tixy wrote: > On Wed, 2022-02-02 at 17:06 -0500, Bob Weber wrote: > [...] >> I second the sshfs approach.   I use it between several Debian servers and >> have >> been happy with the results.  Once setup in the fstab a click in a GUI or >> mount >> command on

Re: Mounting NFS share from Synology NAS

2022-02-02 Thread Christian Britz
On 02.02.22 23:06, Bob Weber wrote: > On 2/2/22 07:36, gene heskett wrote: >> >> Sounds like how my network grew, with more cnc'd machines added. But I >> was never able the make MFSv4 Just Work for anything for more than the >> next reboot of one of the machines. Then I discovered sshfs

Re: Mini server hardware for home use NAS purposes

2022-02-02 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-02-02 17:55 UTC+0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2022 at 03:11:57PM +0100, Christian Britz wrote: >> Do you have any recommendations for me? > > I have much the requirements and my current solution is documented here: > <https://jmtd.net/hardware/phobos/> ...bookmarked! :-)

Re: Mini server hardware for home use NAS purposes

2022-02-02 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-02-02 15:25 UTC+0100, Dan Ritter wrote: > How small is small for you? A small box which fits under my desk. > And do you need RAID, or just storage, and if so, how much? RAID is overkill and I need approximately 500G of storage. > For example, an ASRock 4X4 BOX-R1000V will run

Re: Mini server hardware for home use NAS purposes

2022-02-02 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-02-02 15:30 UTC+0100, Grzesiek wrote: > I used Zyxel NSA310 some time ago, Debian howto: > https://forum.doozan.com/read.php?2,29970,30036 > More devices are supported The successor Zyxel NAS326 sounds interesting, but I am looking more for something which I do not have to hack before

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