On 2019-07-18, Richard Hobson wrote:
> Curt wrote:
>> Of course, if you have no network connectivity on the machine, this
>> might prove to be a difficult maneuver. However, you could download the
>> package from another machine with connectivity and transfer it via sneaker
On 2019-07-17, Dan Ritter wrote:
>>
>> Fibre is point-to-point, and any interference with it will cause a
>> significant drop in received signal, which will be investigated.
>
> And it will be located swiftly, thanks to time-domain
> reflectrometry:
>
>
On 2019-07-17, Richard Hobson wrote:
>
> usb 1-2: Direct firmware load for rtlwifi/rtl8712u.bin failed with error -2
>
> usb 1-2: r8712u: Firmware request failed.
>
> Does this suggest the appropriate firmware isn't available locally?
I think so.
> If so some help on how I obtain it would be
On 2019-07-17, David Banks wrote:
> Hi, using Buster, I have my /etc/default/keyboard set up like this:
>
> XKBOPTIONS="pc105"
> XKBLAYOUT="gb"
> XKBOPTIONS="ctrl:nocaps"
> BACKSPACE="guess"
> XKBVARIANT=""
>
> I am using Fluxbox without any configuration. When I launch
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| plain 'su' is a really bad idea for many reasons, so using 'su -'
is
| strongly recommended to always get a
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On Saturday 13 July 2019, Curt Howland was heard to say:
> Just installed Buster.
>
> I know some kinks will work out, but seriously, /sbin is not in
> root's path by default?
Ok, the problem is /etc/profile is not being run when the
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Just installed Buster.
I know some kinks will work out, but seriously, /sbin is not in root's
path by default?
- --
You may my glories and my state dispose,
But not my griefs; still am I king of those.
--- William Shakespeare, "Richard II"
On 2019-07-12, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
>> Either way it won't break (a hint - Recommends weren't always the
>> default), or the user will learn something new in a process.
>
> I'm pretty sure Jonas was around when that happened ;)
>
I've always used apt-get until apt rolled around recently and
On 2019-07-12, wrote:
>
>
> I have the impression you're being blindsided by ideology there. To me,
C’est l’hôpital qui se moque de la charité.
--
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
On 2019-07-10, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> Ever since upgrading to buster I've been completely unable to get any
> sound out of MPV. And I haven't found any way online of how to
> re-enable sound f or it either. SMplayer works okay and gives sound,
> as does mpd, but MPV vie ws a television
On 2019-07-10, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> After that, it would be *wonderful* to have a well-written, comprehensive
> summary of the situation, and all of the available options, and their
> benefits and drawbacks, so users can choose the best one for their needs.
>
I agree.
--
"These findings
On 2019-07-10, Andy Smith wrote:
> Secondly, the reason I asked you what you would like done is that in
> the message I replied to you said that the release notes were
> something that users don't read. But your proposed solution is to
> put more things in the release notes.
I said users don't
On 2019-07-10, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi Curt,
>
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2019 at 07:59:53AM +0000, Curt wrote:
>> I think these reserves are relevant and pertinent to the patch
>> itself and should be revealed to the user, whom we cannot assume
>> or expect to follo
On 2019-07-09, bw wrote:
>>We are beginning to diverge here from the sound technical arguments and
>>sober, unemotional discourse for which this forum is renown.
>
> Come on, that's just not true. This list is full of crap and nobody even
There was a certain element of jocularity up there that
On 2019-07-08, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hi Curt,
>
> On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 05:48:24PM -0000, Curt wrote:
>> it "amounts to trusting that CPU manufacturer (perhaps with the
>> insistence or mandate of a Nation State's intelligence or law
>> enforcement agencies) has
On 2019-07-09, bw wrote:
>
>> Normally, it's sufficient to use a decent mailer instead of a toy or
>> ancient Greek fax machine.
>>
>> -nik
>>
>
> You mean a windows-clone email client? haha, yeah right. I fart in your
> general direction.
>
We are beginning to diverge here from the sound
On 2019-07-09, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
>>
>> What do these Freudian lapses involving the preposition "of" mean
>> (an appeal to the numerous armchair shrinks in the group)?
>>
>
> A writer located in the .fr domain?
> "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar" - Sigmund Freud to his daughter Dr.
> Anna
On 2019-07-09, Curt wrote:
>>
>
> I've read a couple places that installing 'libnss-resolve:i386' fixes
> this issue.
>
What do these Freudian lapses involving the preposition "of" mean
(an appeal to the numerous armchair shrinks in the group)?
--
"Thes
On 2019-07-07, Wang Zhiheng wrote:
> Running Steam on debian 10 64-bit
> STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
> Pins up-to-date!
> WARNING: setlocale('en_US.UTF-8') failed, using locale: 'C'.
> International characters may not work.
> [2019-07-07 18:37:33] Startup - updater built Jun 17 2019
On 2019-07-09, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
>
> I followed the Linux Mint Forum directions an got the results shown in
> the attached DiscoveryStudio2019.run.log (attached).
> Next step(s), please?
Thanks for the vote confidence, but it's probably misplaced.
;-)
So, I guess, it doesn't run, and
On 2019-07-08, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
>
> Good idea, but it didn't work! Got the same result, it just took longer.
>
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=293074
Fastidious (27 steps!) but maybe effective.
Shorter:
bash DS2019Client.bin --keep
cd client/
sed s/"echoe"/"echo -e"/g
On 2019-07-08, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 04:18:28PM -0000, Curt wrote:
>> Well, looking at Ted Ts'o short patch, where he mentions the security
>> implications of the thing at some length, *twice*
>
> I think that some of Ted's stance migh
On 2019-07-08, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
>> Well, at the very least people should be informed who is likely to be
>> affected by the bug
>
> In my understanding a lot of daemons are affected. Would it make sense
> to (try to) list them all?
Well, then, you should make that explicit, viz. that
On 2019-07-08, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> I don't have any opinions at this time about the trustworthiness of
> various x86 CPU RDRAND instructions, but...
Well, looking at Ted Ts'o short patch, where he mentions the security
implications of the thing at some length, *twice*---once in the "intro"
On 2019-07-08, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> The timing was also not very good for the buster release cycle.
> Hopefully this will be sorted out properly in time for bullseye.
Earlier I thought bullseye was some sort of idiom for Buster going live.
Color me ignorant.
But concerning the currently
On 2019-07-07, Erik Dobák wrote:
>
> same behavior with xclip -o --selection clip-board > clip10.txt
>
I think you must pipe the primary to the clipboard before redirecting
the clipboard to a file.
xclip -o | xclip -sel clip > clip10.txt
https://github.com/astrand/xclip
I was unaware of this
On 2019-07-08, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> The timing was also not very good for the buster release cycle.
> Hopefully this will be sorted out properly in time for bullseye.
That would be great. Then if they could resuscitate ecryptfs-utils
I would be a happy camper.
;-)
> Kind regards,
> Andrei
On 2019-07-08, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
>
> On Lu, 08 iul 19, 09:44:51, Curt wrote:
>> On 2019-07-08, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>> >
>> > On Lu, 08 iul 19, 09:06:33, Curt wrote:
>> >> On 2019-07-08, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>> >>
On 2019-07-08, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> On Lu, 08 iul 19, 09:06:33, Curt wrote:
>> On 2019-07-08, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>> >
>> > This was fixed before the release.
>> What?
>
> Is there something wrong with the current wording?
I guess, as I th
On 2019-07-08, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> This was fixed before the release.
What?
> You are aware that the Release Notes are work in progress as long as the
> corresponding Debian release is still in testing, right?
>
How will the mistakes be fixed if no one points them out?
>> misleading (if
On 2019-07-08, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
>> Wow. Another reason to love systemd :-(
>
> Not clear to me why you are blaming systemd here.
>
Because systemd is to blame (at least in the opinion of some people in the
know, like Stefan Frisch, for instance):
On 2019-07-07, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
> It sounds a lot like this issue:
> https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#entropy-starvation
Due to systemd needing entropy during boot and the kernel treating such calls
as blocking when available entropy is
On 2019-07-06, Lee wrote:
>
> "an accident waiting to happen" was from me and I also gave the rfc
> for mdns, so that's hardly "nothing of substance to support that
I see. So the totality of the mdns rfc (*somewhat* more succinct than a
19th century Russian novelistic endeavor) is the
On 2019-07-06, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> (General observation: it's really quite annoying that you remove all
>>> attribution when you quote previous emails in your replies.)
>> It really is very annoying, primarily because it's intentional, and so
>> intentionally annoying, which is really,
On 2019-07-06, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> I am running Stretch RC2 and have encountered a problem attempting to
> tun RStudio (-1.2.1335-amd64). Here is the run log:
> comp@AbNormal:~$ comp@AbNormal:~$ /usr/bin/rstudio
> -bash: comp@AbNormal:~$: command not found
> comp@AbNormal:~$ Received
On 2019-07-06, songbird wrote:
> Curt wrote:
>> On 2019-07-05, mick crane wrote:
> ...
>>> I'm incrementing the number by the loop and some software sees 2 as
>>> bigger that 10 or something like this. I can probably get around that by
>>
>> Not s
On 2019-07-05, mick crane wrote:
>
> I'm incrementing the number by the loop and some software sees 2 as
> bigger that 10 or something like this. I can probably get around that by
Not sure exactly what you mean by some software, but you must be sorting
lexicographically (the numbers are
On 2019-07-05, wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 09:27:29PM +0100, Brian wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> Some users are always fearful of new technology. They find all sorts of
>> ways to rubbish it, usually without any strong technical grounds but by
>> an appeal to tradition and emotion.
>
> Some other
On 2019-07-05, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> pi@picnc:/ $ sudo apt update
> Get:1 http://raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster InRelease [15.0 kB]
> Get:2 http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian buster InRelease [25.1 kB]
> Reading package lists... Done
> E: Release file for
>
On 2019-07-04, Thomas wrote:
> Hello,
> I have an Gmail Mail account and lots of email.
> Iam not able to open this folder succesfull anymore.
> After some time I get this message.
> Unable to fetch item from backend (collection -1) Unable to retrieve item
> from
> resource.
>
> Whats the
On 2019-07-04, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 11:26:39AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> If it had been done 10 years ago it wouldn't need to be done now. :)
>
> (General observation: it's really quite annoying that you remove all
> attribution when you quote previous emails in
On 2019-07-04, deloptes wrote:
> Renato Gallo wrote:
>
>> Fingerprints are a good option
>>
>> Renato Gallo
>>
>
> No, they are not and it was explained previously why
>
Sure they are (depending on the use case/implementation). These things are
completely comparative and situational and your
On 2019-07-03, wrote:
>
>> I have an innate desire to help people, but more importantly I give
>> people the benefit of the doubt. Besides I self-taught myself a few
>> things along the way, so I consider it a win.
>
> I prefer that one, too :)
People get the benefit of the doubt until they
On 2019-07-03, Stephan Seitz wrote:
>
>>Following Curt's suggestion I removed the relevant module and rebooted.
>>'ip a' shows eth0. The advice in the Release Notes
>
> You probably meant that you removed the line?
>
> I noticed that since Debian 9 this file is added to the initrd. So if you
>
On 2019-07-02, Curt wrote:
> On 2019-07-01, Joe wrote:
>>
>> Debian's main selling point is that a Stable can *always* be upgraded
>> in place to the next version, so that kind of incompatibility does not
>
> Then it will fail to live up to the market
On 2019-07-02, The Wanderer wrote:
>> Not even that, it seems (no longer affects systemd).
>
> Have you confirmed that? It seems possible that on a systemd machine,
> things in other packages (such as whatever would provide that
> 99-default.link file, which unfortunately - because it's under
On 2019-07-02, The Wanderer wrote:
>> https://www.debian.org/releases///buster/s390x/release-notes/ch-informa=
> tion.en.html#migrate-interface-names
>
> (Any particular reason you linked to the s390x version of the release
> notes? It seems to match e.g. the amd64 one for this purpose, so it
>
On 2019-07-02, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> A restatement of my question might be:
>
> I run the i386 version of Debian 9.8.
> Using only contents of that set of installation DVDs, I wish to use a VM
> host capable of running multiple VM guests. Although the guests will be
> running in command
On 2019-07-01, Joe wrote:
>
> Debian's main selling point is that a Stable can *always* be upgraded
> in place to the next version, so that kind of incompatibility does not
Then it will fail to live up to the marketing for the brave 600 or so
Debian users (according to Popularity Contest)
On 2019-07-01, Matthew Crews wrote:
> On 7/1/19 10:35 AM, Curt wrote:
>> On 2019-07-01, Matthew Crews wrote:
>>>
>>> At a cursory glance, it does NOT appear that DVD-1 contains any VM Host
>>> software, other than perhaps nspawn (which is part of Systemd).
&g
On 2019-07-01, Matthew Crews wrote:
>
> At a cursory glance, it does NOT appear that DVD-1 contains any VM Host
> software, other than perhaps nspawn (which is part of Systemd).
Isn't nspawn a chroot container?
> Hope this helps.
>
On 2019-07-01, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>> >
>> > For whatever it's worth, when I upgraded this machine from stretch to
>> > buster a couple months ago, it continued using eth0 as the interface
>> > name without any immediately obvious issues. I did the conversion to
>> > "predictable interface
On 2019-07-01, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 07:47:35AM -0000, Curt wrote:
>> Another, less serious, gotcha for those inveterate upgraders and newbies
>> who don't read the release notes is that
>> '/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules' is no longer
On 2019-07-01, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 01:14:07PM -0000, Curt wrote:
>>The second triad of NUMBER % RANK columns corresponds to the number of people
>>using the package regularly* and by that metric ecryptfs-utils beats encfs by
>>a
>>rela
On 2019-07-01, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 01 July 2019 03:52:55 Jonathan Dowland wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 12:45:57PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >At this point, I'd call it a buster delaying bug. That last is going
>> > to cost too many that can't ignore it and don't have
On 2019-06-30, Andrea Borgia wrote:
> Il 30/06/19 11:52, Curt ha scritto:
>
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=928956
>>
>> Due to #765854 ecryptfs-utils has been removed from Buster.
>> The kernel module (ecryptfs.ko) is still built but depe
I was preparing an upgrade to Buster until I saw this:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=928956
Due to #765854 ecryptfs-utils has been removed from Buster.
The kernel module (ecryptfs.ko) is still built but depending on the
upgrade path users will be unable to mount their
On 2019-06-28, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>
>> I read the OP's question as "the total installed size including
>> dependencies" -- assuming none of those dependencies has been
>> installed before (ex nihilo, so to speak).
>
> Explicitly *YES*!
> It's nice to have someone actually read what I write
On 2019-06-28, deloptes wrote:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
>
>> There was a period a decade back where the capacitors
>> were legendarily bad. Your unit may have some of them in it.
>
> It was around 2004. From a trustful source I understood that the Chinese
> manage to steal the formula from Japan,
On 2019-06-25, Hans wrote:
>
> When it was decided to use new names, then ALL related packages should be
> adapted to the new style. If it is not done, this is a bug. More over, IMO it
> is a critical release bug. For a new release I expect those things fixed. It
> is
> a thing of quality.
On 2019-06-25, Aidan Gauland wrote:
>>
>> In this hypothetical scenario, the sudoers rule is applied to ALL
>> systems, including production ones, and sysadmins doesn't have proper
>> backups.
> OK, not having a (good) backup system is definitely bad. You should
> always have that even if your
On 2019-06-25, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 12:42:37PM -0000, Curt wrote:
>> On 2019-06-22, Andy Smith wrote:
>> > I am not aware of any other compression tool that offers to do what
>> > gzip's --rsyncable option does, but I owuld be intere
On 2019-06-22, Andy Smith wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 07:59:18PM +0400, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
>> I was refering to the long option --rsyncable of gzip(1).
>
> I am not aware of any other compression tool that offers to do what
> gzip's --rsyncable option does, but I owuld be
On 2019-06-23, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Sunday, June 23, 2019 09:55:33 AM Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
>> "If I told you you had beautiful body, would you hold it against me?"
>> -same sketch
>
> Something makes me think / remember that was not original with Monty Python
> --
> I think it was
On 2019-06-23, David Christensen wrote:
>
> STFW I see:
>
> https://www.bestvpnz.com/tutorials/how-to-set-up-l2tp-ipsec-vpn-on-linux-networkmanager-strongswan/
>
> I have installed:
>
> 2019-06-22 19:04:11 root@tinkywinky ~
> # dpkg-query --show xl2tpd strongswan network-manager-strongswan
>
On 2019-06-22, deloptes wrote:
> Brad Rogers wrote:
>
>>>Is it a TV program or a computer program?
>>
>> On TV, it's a programme.
>>
>
> thank you
In British English.
On 2019-06-22, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>> You seem to be assuming that Mr. Banjaya is in the USA. While that is
>> not impossible, given the Javanese name and non-USA usage of English,
>> I suspect that it is not correct.
>
> Thats entirely possible Carl, so you could well be correct, but after
On 2019-06-20, Bob Bernstein wrote:
>
>> ...detain these droids and bring them before the emporer
>
> What's an "emporer?"
It must be an emperor suffering from a metathesis.
> Thank you
>
On 2019-06-20, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
>
>> I think we (or at least I) must be missing some context here. For
>> starters, this must be some specific group of teenagers. And I'm sure
>> they're not given permission to take over running the whole TV station.
>>
>> Is this some specific educational
On 2019-06-17, Sarunas Burdulis wrote:
>
>..or install Adobe Reader 9.5.5, which is still available on Adobe FTP
>
> server. Very rarely needed here, but it works.
>
I wonder about the advisability of running software that hasn't received
security updates since 2013.
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On Monday 17 June 2019, Gene Heskett was heard
to say:
> How is that resolved, by unroutable address blocks such
> as 192.168.xx.xx is now?
Yes, IPv6 does have such allocations. The first 64bits is network
block, then the last 64bits are your
On 2019-06-15, Curt wrote:
> On 2019-06-15, Erik Christiansen wrote:
>> On 14.06.19 10:51, Celejar wrote:
>>> On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 18:50:22 +1000
>>> Erik Christiansen wrote:
>>> > I only use mupdf for problem pdf files, but it's very nifty to have on
>
On 2019-06-15, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> On 14.06.19 10:51, Celejar wrote:
>> On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 18:50:22 +1000
>> Erik Christiansen wrote:
>> > I only use mupdf for problem pdf files, but it's very nifty to have on
>> > hand.
>>
>> I actually love mupdf, and I use it as my main pdf reader.
On 2019-06-14, john doe wrote:
>
> Not realy an answer, depending on what you need vnc for, one alternative
> would be to use Cygwin as an ssh server on the Windows boxes.
He might try removing ~/.config/freerdp/known_hosts (after backing it
up) or commenting out or deleting the offending host
On 2019-06-11, john doe wrote:
>
> In other words, how can I set the hostname while using a preseed file
> loaded with 'auto url=server'.
>
> Any input is welcome.
Maybe this bug report (patch from canonical at bottom) will be of help
(although the patch checks for netcfg/hostname in the preseed
On 2019-06-10, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>> Maybe
>>
>> sudo systemctl stop serial-getty@ttyS0.service
>>
>> if you haven't already tried it.
>
> No, after a reboot, I don't need to.
>
> minicom is working, sorta. Theres enough diffs in the protocol to
> call "working" by a rather fuzzy
On 2019-06-10, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 08, 2019 at 04:50:06PM -0000, Curt wrote:
>> https://lwn.net/Articles/790553/
>>
>> I was actually going to point to another article on the subject, but as
>> it revealed the exact modus operandi for the (local) e
On 2019-06-06, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> What do I do next to get rid of this nearly invisible agetty gizmo once
> this machine is booted? It might be handy if this machine is truly
> hung, but I can count those instances on one hand with fingers left over
> in the 21 years I have been a
On 2019-06-09, wrote:
>
> What's much? What's little?
>
> This was just a typical useless anti-systemd slur: 12 million lines of
1.2 millions lines, actually, because the url dropped the decimal point,
thus multiplying by a factor of ten the other point, which I agree is
meaningless in and of
https://lwn.net/Articles/790553/
I was actually going to point to another article on the subject, but as
it revealed the exact modus operandi for the (local) exploit (which is
trivial to an extreme) I thought better of it.
--
“Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge,
On 2019-06-05, Ken Heard wrote:
>
> The latest version of Thunderbird for Debian Stretch, 70.7 which I now
> use, still allows only the US date format, MM-DD-, but for me at
> least expresses the time as HH:MM (24 hour clock). In a partially
> successful attempt to change the date format I
On 2019-06-02, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> I've read those man pages but never put them together that way.
> I'm hoping that reading
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-handbook/apt.en.html
> will either fill the gaps in my background or point me appropriately.
>
>
My thinking went along
On 2019-06-01, Brian wrote:
>
> It can happen that a line such as
>
> deb file:///home/richard/dvdmount pool/main/
>
> gives the error message " ... does not have a Release file
>
> Leaving aside the validity of the line,
On 2019-05-30, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
>
> So the explanation in
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=780721#10
>
> iputils-ping, as priority "important", cannot declare a dependency on
> libcap2-bin, which is priority "optional".
>
> is wrong and in direct contradiction to The
On 2019-05-30, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Up until a couple of years ago I only had dial-up. Install DVDs {or
> their images} were my only choice for a repository. There are {now
> forgotten} apt related quirks to be aware of. I'm now giving myself a
> refresher course on using an install DVD (
On 2019-05-30, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 01:00:19PM -0000, Curt wrote:
>> On 2019-05-30, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>> > But libcap2-bin is priority important in both stretch and buster.
>>
>> Why is my Stretch apt-cache command telling me it's prio
On 2019-05-30, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 09:11:44AM -0000, Curt wrote:
>> There is a bug related to this imbroglio:
>>
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=780721
>> (libcap2-bin is recommended but is not a dependancy of iputils-pin
On 2019-05-27, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> That left me with the problem of telling the instance of apt being run
> internally by mmdebstrap that dvd1.iso is trusted. I unsuccessfully
> tried using the distribution DVD itself.
>
> What is the proper syntax to use dvd1.iso {preferred} or DVD in
On 2019-05-29, Andy Smith wrote:
>
> How did you install this system? Because /bin/ping is supposed to
> come with file capabilities such that the user can allow it to do
> what it needs to do (this is part of what 'dpkg-reconfigure
> iputils-ping' restores). So it would be interesting to know
On 2019-05-29, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> One of the useless things still running is some sort of an spi buss, but
> this motherboard has no such hardware. I can kill it with htop, but how
> do I remove it totally. From a seaarch in synaptic, it has nothing to do
> with Asistive Technology
On 2019-05-28, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>
> The exim4 installation provides a symbolic link
>
> snowball:558$ ls -l /usr/sbin/sendmail
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 May 7 11:44 /usr/sbin/sendmail -> exim4*
>
Actually, the right way to configure reportbug on a local-mail-only system is
to "run the
On 2019-05-28, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> experimental: 1.18.0-1
> Please try to verify if the bug you are about to report is already addressed
> by these releases. Do you still want to file a report [y|N|q|?]?
Think I might've entered 'q' here on the off chance it represented the word
quit.
On 2019-05-26, Gene Heskett wrote:
> hum:
> root@coyote:GenesAmandaHelper-0.61$ systemctl status rc.local
> ● rc-local.service - /etc/rc.local Compatibility
>Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rc-local.service; static; vendor
> preset: enabled)
I found this (not sure if it's
On 2019-05-27, wrote:
>
>
> If Network Manager is giving you grief, please go bark up /that/ tree
> (I can't say much about N-M, because I banned it from my boxes about
> ten years ago: I was at a customer's, in his LAN via an Ethernet, when
> N-M suddenly saw a WLAN out there, out the window
On 2019-05-25, wrote:
>
> Folks, please double-check that stuff before reposting. I don't want
> the Debian mailing list to become Fakebook or Twitter.
>
Or Der Spiegel.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/01/der-spiegal-fabrication-scandal-global/579889/
--
“Decisions are
On 2019-05-22, mick crane wrote:
>
> probably need the driver on windows as well.
Probably one or the other but not both.
> mick
>
On 2019-05-22, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> Its working now, and I have other irons in the fire, like how do I print
> to a printer shared by cups, from a win 10 Home edition that has taken a
> snapshot of its full screen window and has stored it on the win 10 box.
I did it like this (I'm failing
On 2019-05-21, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>> That I don't know. I don't have it here on my Stretch. It would be
>> interesting to discover what dragged brltty into yours.
>>
> Good question. The install image is supposed to be the latest straight
> amd64 debian stretch, with a rt-preempt kernel and
On 2019-05-21, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>> We are positively discriminating in favor of the blind.
>>
>> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
>
> Then perhaps the better question is why was it running on a new stretch
> install? I think it probably could be fixed to keep both camps happy.
That I don't know.
On 2019-05-21, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> This to me is a bug that needs fixed. No sense in denying someone using
There are already oldenbugs flurrying around the question, Gene.
Here's one from 2012:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=667616
tags 667616 + wontfix
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