On 2019-10-09, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I'm running Debian 9.8 and have just installed BibleTime, Xiphos, and
> diatheke. I expect BibleTime will become my primary tool. The available
> documentation has breadth, if not depth.
>
> For the type of usage questions I have, I have found archives of
On 2019-10-08, Dejan Jocic wrote:
>
> Anyway, most of Linux newbies will not create usb from Linux machine
> anyway, so I doubt that any of this will help OP. Personally, can't even
> remember when I was creating usb image from anything but Linux, so can't
> be of much help there.
Right, and as
On 2019-10-08, Joe wrote:
>
> But I'm pretty sure that any pre-installed Windows, and very few people
> now install it themselves, will be a UEFI installation, which cannot be
> changed to boot in legacy mode, nor vice-versa.
>
>From what I'm understanding you're batting a thousand here, Joe.
On 2019-10-08, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
>
> So I put noexec under the heading of it may deter somebody who is
> looking for easy targets.
>
The seminal vector of the ANU attack (a concerted, determined, and
sophisticated affair that might very well have been carried out by state
operatives) was
On 2019-10-07, Reco wrote:
>
> 1) Call me old-fashioned, but posters' personalities should not matter
> here, at this list.
I don't see what is old-fashioned about your opinion here. I would think
it were the gentilities of polite discourse that have become outmoded
(as demonstrated finely by
On 2019-10-05, wrote:
>
> # But we can bypass it with Jonathan's first method:
> tomas@trotzki:~$ /bin/sh bar/hello
> hello, world
>
I meant
bash -c "~/whatever"
appears to be faulty (for one reason or another.
--
"There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign."
On 2019-10-05, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
> I'm still lurking here, but not sure what this suggestion means.
He's not making one.
He's offering examples of the trivial circumvention of the noexec option
(but they all appear to be faulty for one reason or another).
> Please expand.
>
> On
On 2019-10-04, Dan Ritter wrote:
>
>> > the output of
>> >
>> > hostname -f
>>
>> root@pix:~# hostname -f
>> hostname: Name or service not known
>
> OK
>
"Name or service not known" is OK? You'd think it wouldn't be, and that
that devil systemd, believing the static hostname for the machine is
On 2019-10-04, wrote:
>
> Well -- that thing I implicitly mentioned was EFAIL [1], which could
> leak a PGP encrypted content by crafting a broken MIME/HTML container
> around it. You could argue that the MIME parser is broken, but software
> tends to be broken in various and creative ways
On 2019-10-03, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday, October 03, 2019 06:23:20 AM Andrew McGlashan wrote:
>> There have been numerous bugs with LookOut (otherwise known as
>> Outlook), running scripts and having other vulnerabilities due to
>> preview pane being open. I try to encourage
On 2019-10-02, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 04:55:29PM -0000, Curt wrote:
>> On 2019-10-02, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>> > On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 09:45:12AM +0300, Reco wrote:
>> >
>> > So, I'm done with you. I'm adding you to the same file
On 2019-10-02, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 09:45:12AM +0300, Reco wrote:
>
> So, I'm done with you. I'm adding you to the same file that the
> illustrious Mr. Owlett is in, so I never have to read your mangled,
> nonsensical crap again.
>
Aren't you delivering the right
On 2019-10-02, Lee wrote:
>>
>> https://imagedepot.anu.edu.au/scapa/Website/SCAPA190209_Public_report_web_2.pdf
>>
>
> Thanks for the link!
>
>> But the email program used by Client 0 is unspecified.
>
> As is the operating system - or did I miss that?
>
I don't think you did miss it.
--
On 2019-10-02, Torben Schou Jensen wrote:
> Interesting story.
>
> I am missing technical details.
> I do not understand how preview of e-mail can result in hackers stealing
> userid and password, what kind of mail program was used?
>
Yeah, it's better to go directly to the publicly available
On 2019-09-28, Curt wrote:
>> boot -n -net user,tftp=,tftp-server-name=qemutftp,bootfile=pxelinux.0
>
> I know nothing about option 66; I did notice that in the man page it's
>
> -boot n -net
>
> not
>
> -boot -n net.
Sorry, I meant not 'boot -n -net' (n not pr
On 2019-09-27, john doe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use option 66 (tftp-server-name) as explain at (1) with
> the Debian installer in combination with Qemu.
>
> As I understand it, the following Qemu command should be used:
>
> boot -n -net
On 2019-09-28, Felix Miata wrote:
>
>> apt-get doesn't clean by default. apt/aptitude probably do.
>
> Is there a way to choose the behavior other than typing apt-get instead of
> apt?
>
I think it's something like
Binary::apt::APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages "true";
in a file perhaps called
On 2019-09-24, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>
> That's the "auxiliary" module of SYSLINUX/ISOLINUX.
> https://wiki.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Library_modules
> In a bootable Debian ISO for amd64 it is supposed to have the path
> /isolinux/ldlinux.c32
>
Anything to do with this (it's old but
On 2019-09-22, David Wright wrote:
> On Sun 22 Sep 2019 at 16:31:22 (-), Curt wrote:
>> On 2019-09-22, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>> >
>> > So to avoid the cd command with absolute path, you would have to give
>> > the script address as absolute path:
>>
On 2019-09-22, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>
> So to avoid the cd command with absolute path, you would have to give
> the script address as absolute path:
>
> python /path/to/script/script.py
>
I make my local scripts executable and stick them in '/usr/local/bin'.
> Have a nice day :)
>
> Thomas
>
On 2019-09-22, Curt wrote:
It occurs to me that maybe the rpi isn't considered a Debian-based
platform, in which case, sorry for the disruption.
> On 2019-09-21, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>> My instant show stopper is in (fresh git clone today)
>> linuxcnc-dev/src: ./conf
On 2019-09-21, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> My instant show stopper is in (fresh git clone today)
> linuxcnc-dev/src: ./configure --with-realtime=uspace
> [...]
> checking for GTK 2.4.0 or above... no
> configure: error: GTK2 missing. Install it or specify --disable-gtk to
> skip the parts of
On 2019-09-20, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> We had this same problem with the mouse when the rpi3b+ was new, seems to
> me it should have been fixed by now. But raspbian is weird. In lots of
> ways. But wading thru the search results on thier forum is a cast iron
> bitch, "laggy mouse" gets you
On 2019-09-19, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> I recall it was something in /boot/cmdline.txt that had to be removed to
> make the mouse move in real time, but can't find that msg now, I assume
> because its been expired.
I'm reading not removed, but added?
usbhid.mousepoll=0
You can experiment
On 2019-09-17, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2019-09-17 11:10 -0500, David Wright wrote:
>
>>
>> Well, the only link *needed* is init, hence its dependency on package
>> init, whose sole function is to keep the number of init configurations
>> more than zero and less than two.
>>
>> The rest of those
On 2019-09-17, The Wanderer wrote:
>>> Yes, but unless I'm greatly misunderstanding matters, /sbin/init is
>>> not specific to sysvinit.
>> That's okay, as I never came close to claiming it was. But you focus
>> uniquely upon this "point," while ignoring the part about the "links
>> needed for
On 2019-09-17, The Wanderer wrote:
>> Why he would say "despite its name" eludes this correspondent,
>> because the package has *everything* to do with sysvinit, providing
>> as it does the "links needed for systemd to replace sysvinit.
>> Installing systemd-sysv will overwrite /sbin/init with a
On 2019-09-16, Brian wrote:
>>
>> The dist-upgrade will have resulted in installing the systemd-sysv
>> package, which (despite its name) has nothing to do with sysvinit; it is
>> the package which sets systemd as the primary / active / default init
>> system.
>>
>> Installing sysvinit-core
On 2019-09-17, Mark Allums wrote:
>>
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=923377
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=915831
>
> The first doesn't apply, and I don't think the second does, either. See
> my new post in this thread.
Well, what you provided in the
On 2019-09-16, Mark Allums wrote:
> I need advice diagnosing and dealing with this:
>
> E: zfsutils-linux: installed zfsutils-linux package post-installation
> script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Maybe one or both of these bug reports apply:
On 2019-09-14, Nicholas A Fleisher wrote:
> In the /etc/fstab written by the installer, the sixth field of the
> /boot/efi line has the value "1". My understanding is that only
> the root
> partition should have this value (and it does in this case; the
> installer wrote two lines in /etc/fstab
On 2019-09-13, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> And certainly many more, but that's all I could find in a minute or so
> with Google. The problem is, most of the relevant threads have unrelated
> Subject headers, like "rocks n diamonds". Which is not the OP's fault --
> it's just the way it ends up
On 2019-09-13, Paul Sutton wrote:
>
> Once I have run su to get to root I try and run
>
> dpkg-reconfigure rocksndiamonds
> and get
> bash: dpkg-reconfigure: command not found
>
> can anyone suggest what is wrong please,
I can only guess you've done a 'su' rather than 'su -' in becoming root.
>
On 2019-09-12, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 07:31:13PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
>> Even more astonishing is the fact that the US Government switched
>> their am/pm meanings sometime between 2000 and 2008, which shows
>> just how ambiguous they are.
>
> [citation needed]
>
>
On 2019-09-12, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> But, ok, I'll try to burn that into my memory -- at night (when it is dark)
> 12:00 (midnight) is the beginning of morning (12:00 am). During the day,
> when
> it is light 12:00 (noon) is the beginning of night (12:00 pm).
>
>> If 11:59 PM is two
On 2019-09-11, Curt wrote:
> On 2019-09-11, Grzesiek Sójka wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> Is there any utility to calculate crc16 (not the crc32) in Debian?
>
>
> curty@einstein:~$ apt-cache search crc16
> node-crc - module for calculating Cyclic Redundancy Check (CR
On 2019-09-11, Grzesiek Sójka wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Is there any utility to calculate crc16 (not the crc32) in Debian?
curty@einstein:~$ apt-cache search crc16
node-crc - module for calculating Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC)
> Thanks in advance for any help
>
>
--
Thug: This is a stickup!
On 2019-09-11, Curt wrote:
> On 2019-09-10, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> On 2019-09-10 22:06 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> after an upgrade from stretch to buster, the date default output changed on
>>> my
>>> system
On 2019-09-10, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2019-09-10 22:06 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> after an upgrade from stretch to buster, the date default output changed on
>> my
>> system
>>
>> As an example:
>>
>> Tue Sep 10 19:50:26 CEST 2019 (stretch)
>> Tue 10 Sep 2019 09:26:33 PM CEST
On 2019-09-09, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 09/08/2019 02:55 PM, Marc Shapiro wrote:
>> I have Linux Journal in epub format up through June of 2018. I didn't
>> grab the others as they became available and by the time I realized that
>> LJ was closing permanently, the archives were no longer
On 2019-09-08, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >
>> > What does this do that the iso doesn't, and note it takes a windows
>> > machine to follow those instructions.
>>
>> Eh? How do you work that out?
>
> I won't, theres always another way to skin that cat. ;-) Time, if I have
> it, will sort that out.
On 2019-09-01, D. R. Evans wrote:
>
> How do I configure konqueror in buster so that I can run more than one
> instance?
Settings-Configure Konqueror-Performance-
Disable 'Always try to have one preloaded instance'
Quit
Kill all residual konqueror processes.
This is the fix I gleaned from bug
On 2019-09-03, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Curt wrote:
>> I post to the group via news.gmane.org with a NNTP client.
>
> Can you see gmane.linux.debian.user there ?
I guess I wasn't precise enough. news.gmane.org is the news server.
gmane.linux.debian.user is this
On 2019-09-03, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>
> ---
> And a curious question towards Curt :
> Your mails have the same
> Old-Return-Path:
> as in the message copy which Rodolfo gave me as the one to which h
On 2019-08-31, The Wanderer wrote:
>
> (And may I say that it's annoying to need to explain this every time, in
> order to forestall being called out for "senseless use of cat"? Not that
> I get called out for that here very much, but it does seem to happen
> virtually every time I don't include
On 2019-08-28, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> If you can't say something constructive Brian, please just stfu. I won't
> claim to speak for the rest of the list, but I am damned tired of your
> negative attitude. You have, I assume the same clothes to get glad in
> that you got mad in. Use them.
In
On 2019-08-28, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> It may, looks as if it could, but by itself lacks sufficient context to
> ring any bells.
https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user@lists.debian.org/msg747147.html
Drop Revert-udev-network-device-renaming-immediately-give.patch.
...
In case you rely on
On 2019-08-28, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
>> in Bullseye it appears that
>> '/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules' won't even kind of sort of
>> maybe work in specifically unspecified cases (if I understood a recent
>> announcement here correctly).
>
> A link?
>
On 2019-08-27, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>> In spite of posts about it in -user, you are just about clueless about
>> status of /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules, aren't you?
>>
> I can read them just fine. But when written in swahili, they aren't that
> easy to understand. But first, make
On 2019-08-26, steef wrote:
> hi folks!
>
> is there a simple commandline command to get pdftk so kind to merge a
> couple of pdf-files? the explanation in the man and --help-files is
> for me in somewhat cryptic english. kind regards, Now it complains
> with 'input-errors'.
Join pdfs:
pdftk
On 2019-08-20, Nektarios Katakis wrote:
Intel Corporation Device 3198 (rev 03)
>
> If I understand correctly the problem was solved? If so you can check
> `man alcactl` on how to persist the configuration generated from the
> init command you ran.
>
I think this is a bug in a kernel
On 2019-08-18, John Kerr Anderson wrote:
>
> Aug 18 13:45:13 ideapad kernel: [ 4269.876500] snd_hda_codec_realtek
> hdaudioC0D0: Unable to sync register 0x1f0e00. -5
> Aug 18 13:49:47 ideapad kernel: [ 4543.985442] snd_hda_codec_realtek
> hdaudioC0D0: Unable to sync register 0x1f0e00. -5
Looks
On 2019-08-16, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> The Contacts List in Empathy notifies in bold letters, "You haven't
> added any contacts yet". Meanwhile the "Add Contact" button is pale
> grey; disabled.
That goes beyond confounding; it's downright frustrating.
Have you installed any of the
On 2019-08-16, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 02:20:09PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
>> AIUI exim should be able to deliver emails into a user's mbox, but
>> I'm confused about how exim is meant to do that, because it runs as
>> user Debian-exim, but mailbox permissions are
On 2019-08-14, Reco wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 08:58:56AM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote:
>> Reco wrote:
>>
>> > 1) libpam-systemd, loginctl and friends.
>> > Useful for a workstation, useless for a server.
>>
>> I wouldn't go this far. libpam-systemd and loginctl can be useful
On 2019-08-13, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 07:47:52AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
>> I'm in a strange mood today (I end up here often) -- I like to see things
>> like
>> that written as:
>>
>> mplayer -novideo
>>
>> or
>>
>> mplayer -novideo
>>
>> It makes it more
On 2019-08-10, Richard Hector wrote:
>
> Similarly, one of our local fuel stations has (or had) vouchers that say
> things like '10c per litre off every litre of fuel' - which also quickly
> gets into trouble if taken literally :-)
You mean that would mean 20c off the second litre and 30c off
solution. The boot sequence this time did not look like
RedHat with the green success indicators, in fact there were hardly
any boot messages on tty1 at all. This is different.
However, the boot was successful and the console is working perfectly
now. No more tty1 dead.
Problem solved.
Many thanks.
Curt-
On 2019-08-10, Dennis Wicks wrote:
>
> If you have some suggestions on what info to gather then let
> me know. Bear in mind that during the boot process my system
> is pretty much unresponsive for the hour or so until the
> window manager is up and everything has settled down.
>
An hour or
On 8/9/19, Curt Howland wrote:
> Hi. New Buster install.
> [ ***] A start job is running for Hold until boot process finishes (2h
> 54m 38s / no limit)
Those asterisks are also red, and moving left to right, the same as
seen during shutdown when something won't politely die.
Only t
? The start-up messages fly by, but I
don't see any failures, or any indication of what process it is that
won't stop starting.
Curt-
On 2019-08-08, Dan Ritter wrote:
>>
>> I think you are missing the point: When someone asks a question on this
>> list, then that someone gets to decide what the question is.
>
> Sure. But they also bear the burden of communicating precisely
> what it is that they are asking for, and
On 2019-08-08, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 08, 2019 at 11:52:41AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>>The central riddle is how mount(8) can fail to make the filesystem
>>available without visibly reporting an error.
>>A question about "mount -v" and its exit value is pending.
>>Maybe one
On 2019-08-08, Brad Rogers wrote:
>
> So, when a person agrees to the terms of the EULA, they waive their
> legal right to reverse engineer. If you wish to NOT waive your rights,
> then you don't accept the EULA. Of course you then won't be able to
> install, never mind use, the software.
On 2019-08-08, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The central riddle is how mount(8) can fail to make the filesystem
> available without visibly reporting an error.
Nothing to do with these swaps spaces (I took a gander at the /etc/fstab)?
/wa1/Swap5 ...
/wa2/Swap6 ...
"I can
On 2019-08-08, Curt wrote:
> On 2019-08-05, Dennis Wicks wrote:
>>
>>
>> So anyway, I typed in "sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /wa1" and it
>> seemed to finish successfully, but "ls /wa1" indicated that
>> in fact it had not. Nothing mounted on wa1!
On 2019-08-05, Dennis Wicks wrote:
>
>
> So anyway, I typed in "sudo mount /dev/sdb2 /wa1" and it
> seemed to finish successfully, but "ls /wa1" indicated that
> in fact it had not. Nothing mounted on wa1! Many other tests
> told me the same thing. "umount /wa1" said "not mounted"!
Would this
On 2019-08-07, Nimrod wrote:
>
>
> It seems there is something wrong with my laptop and Nokia 3 when they
> try to communicate. Currently I'm still using my Nokia 3 as a modem via
>
> Thanks in advance for any hint.
>
I really have no idea, but I was just reading that if it's a 5 ghz
hotspot
On 2019-08-06, The Wanderer wrote:
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=3D765448
>
> Interesting. How'd you find that? It didn't crop up in my searches based
> on the error messages I was seeing.
>
I looked for "debian virt-manager without systemd" using the G search
engine, and
On 2019-08-06, The Wanderer wrote:
>
> I tried this out myself recently, but couldn't get it to work; it
> reports that "libvirtd is installed but not running".
>
> As far as I can tell, the problem boils down to the fact that I refuse
> to have libpam-systemd installed, which means that I can't
On 2019-08-06, Curt wrote:
>>
>> it says multiple users - not the same user
>>
>>
>
> curty@einstein:~/glimmer$ man dm-tool
>
> switch-to-greeter
>Switch to the greeter suitable for logging into a new
>session.
>
> Say
On 2019-08-06, deloptes wrote:
> Curt wrote:
>
>> LightDM's dm-tool command can be used to allow multiple users to be logged
>> in on separate ttys. The following will send a signal requesting that the
>> current session be locked and then will initiate a switch to LightD
On 2019-08-06, Ed wrote:
> On 2019-08-06 09:02+0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>> On Lu, 05 aug 19, 21:56:55, Ed wrote:
>> >
>> > How do you run two login managers though so that you can have two users
>> > share the same computer without having to log out? In other words,
>> > whilst I go and
On 2019-08-05, Felix Miata wrote:
> Curt composed on 2019-08-05 11:29 (UTC):
>
>> Maybe this is the bug we're looking for:
>
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=834270
>
>> Fix (Simon says):
>
>> * removing the call to /usr/bin/clear_co
On 2019-08-05, davidson wrote:
>
> To me it looks like the log below is telling you that your power key
> was either being held down or stuck in that position.
>
> That is all.
Whatever libinput is trying to say is apparently repeated to the point
where I would consider the repetition itself to
On 2019-08-04, Ed wrote:
>
> 1. log in via lightdm/gdm
> 2. switch to a text console
> 3. run startx and use the window manager for a moment or two
> 4. switch back to first session
Maybe this is the bug we're looking for:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=834270
Fix
On 2019-08-04, Ed wrote:
> Hello,
>
> For years I would happily ctrl-alt-f<1-6> for an additional x.org
> session by running 'startx' and another window manager. Until now-ish.
>
>
> What I have observed is that x sessions started from a text console can
> cooperate with each other, it seems
On 2019-08-03, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> But seat0-greeter.log(s) are all this:
> ** Message: 13:37:04.194: Starting lightdm-gtk-greeter 2.0.6 (Dec 27
> 2018, 16:15:47)
> ** Message: 13:37:04.203: [Configuration] Reading
> file: /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf.d/01_debian.conf
> **
On 2019-08-03, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> [+3038.26s] DEBUG: Session pid=490: Authentication complete with return
> value 7: Authentication failure
Check permissions on '~.Xauthority' file maybe (think it should be
gene:gene). Maybe that file is 'stale' (whatever that might mean). Maybe
you could
On 2019-08-03, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
>> as well as the contents of
>>
>> /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log
What about the log?
What happens exactly?
>> might provide some clue.
--
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
On 2019-08-03, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> Or maybe its ssh thats using the new way, and xfce4 has not caught up. I
https://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user@lists.debian.org/msg745969.html
You're using lightdm as a display manager (graphical login)?
If so
sudo tail -f
On 2019-08-01, Brian wrote:
> On Thu 01 Aug 2019 at 19:35:33 -0000, Curt wrote:
>
>> On 2019-08-01, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
>>
>> > I suspect it it is a timing problem, and works for a not too big number
>> > of hops.
>> > How many hops for yo
On 2019-08-01, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> I suspect it it is a timing problem, and works for a not too big number of
> hops.
> How many hops for you, with traceroute?
> for me, traceroute stops at the ninth step ( 198.32.176.33),
> before reaching the target.
I can't reach
On 2019-08-01, Curt wrote:
> On 2019-07-31, Bob Bernstein wrote:
>> I _think_ my upgrade from Jessie to Stretch -- which entailed
>> installing systemd for the first time on this box -- introduced
>> that 8.8.8.8. into my config. I've never been at a loss to
>>
On 2019-07-31, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> I _think_ my upgrade from Jessie to Stretch -- which entailed
> installing systemd for the first time on this box -- introduced
> that 8.8.8.8. into my config. I've never been at a loss to
> select my own nameservers, and that never has been one of them.
>
On 2019-07-31, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> I want to make a change or two to resolv.conf, but every time I
> come across it I flee in terror, warned that my changes will be
> destroyed and the linux gods angered.
>
> What is the approved method for changing the list of DNS servers
> called upon by,
On 2019-07-30, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> curty@einstein:~$ apt-cache show texlive-base | grep -i updmap
>>> updmap-map --
>>>
>>> So simply spelt 'updmap-map', I guess.
>>
>> On stretch, it seems it's just updmap
>
>
> Thanks all, that seems to be the case...
Yes, I managed to get
On 2019-07-29, wrote:
>
> (this is an oldstable Debian).
>
> Perhaps the thing you're looking for is simply spelt "updmap"?
curty@einstein:~$ apt-cache show texlive-base | grep -i updmap
updmap-map --
So simply spelt 'updmap-map', I guess.
> Cheers
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On 2019-07-29, hans.ullr...@loop.de wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> in the latest version of kmail (debian/stable) I discovered several
> issues. As it might be possible, they belong together, I am just
> describing it here. Maybe these are already known.
>
> 1. It is not possible, to print an email any
On 2019-07-28, deb wrote:
> (Just trying this one again. No one else has seen this?)
>
>
>
> on Debian Stretch 9.8 to 9.9 --has anyone else run into nemo just flat
> out crashing?
>
Martin ran into it.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=869165
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On 2019-07-28, davidson wrote:
>
> I have no experience with KDE, and very little understanding in
> general of display managers or desktop environments. So my suggestions
> are made in ignorance of whether your display manager or DE might
> somehow override the effect of the changes I suggest
On 2019-07-27, Shahryar Afifi wrote:
> Thank you for the suggestion but it did not fix the issue
/etc/pulse/daemon.conf or ~/.config/pulse/daemon.conf
flat-volumes = no
$ pulseaudio -k
$ pulseaudio --start
On 2019-07-27, Shahryar Afifi wrote:
> Also, this happens when video ends and another begins.
> Where can I find the log files?
>From November 2016:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=844994
Suggested workaround:
setting 'flat-volumes = no' in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf
Recent
On 2019-07-26, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>>
>> That this stumbling block presents an insurmountable challenge to the
>> development community defies the intellectual capacities of your
>> admittedly naive correspondent.
>
> It's not insurmountable. The package maintainers simply have to work
>
On 2019-07-26, davidson wrote:
>>>
>>> How can we persuade the Debian bsdmainutils package maintainers to
>>> allow the Linux version of column to be shipped?
>>
>> Can't they all get along by using /etc/alternatives?
>
> I don't think file collisions are the kind of thing the debian
>
On 2019-07-21, Felix Miata wrote:
>
>> What the heck is this all about...??
>
> IME, problems with random screen colors typically indicates RAM trouble. If
> you
>
I had a CRT monitor once that died psychedelically.
So did Aldous Huxley. But I digress.
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On 2019-07-20, Charles Zeitler wrote:
> thanks for your reply.
>
> i didn't want to say this, but i get connected on my windows installation.
>
Have you tried any of the ipv4 addresses, rather than a ipv6 one
(perhaps unrelated, but I saw a straw and I grabbed it).
eunews.frugalusenet.com or
On 2019-07-13, Shahryar Afifi wrote:
> Modifying .config/evolution/accels does not take effect and every time
> evolution runs the modification gets over writing by evolution.
> Please advise.
> Thank you.
>
All I know is the file is apparently (over)written at exit time, so
any changes must be
On 2019-07-18, Paul Sutton wrote:
> main.cpp 308 : SDL video initialization failed: Unable to open a
> console terminal
I believe a pattern is emerging.
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On 2019-07-18, Paul Sutton wrote:
>
> Error: I could not initialize video!
> The Simple DirectMedia error that occurred was:
> Unable to open a console terminal
Maybe you need to set 'SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland' (if you're residing in
wayland, that is)
.
> This worked fine in Stretch, so has
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