Re: migrating grub from BIOS to UEFI loses /etc/default/grub

2024-05-28 Thread Florent Rougon
Le 28/05/2024, Harald Dunkel a écrit: > Full thread is on debian-boot mailing list. I've read it now, thanks for the info, Harald! Regards -- Florent

Re: migrating grub from BIOS to UEFI loses /etc/default/grub

2024-05-25 Thread Florent Rougon
Hi, Le 24/05/2024, Harald Dunkel a écrit: > if I migrate from grub-pc to grub-uefi, then grub-pc.postrm > removes /etc/default/grub on the final purge. I confirm the behavior, have been bitten by this. IMHO, it is a nasty bug: suppose your rely on your kernel command line to disable, say, the

Re: Quickemu Problem

2024-05-19 Thread Florent Rougon
Le 19/05/2024, Timothy M Butterworth a écrit: > sudo sync && sh -c "/usr/bin/echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" --w--- 1 root root 0 19 mai 13:11 /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches The redirection won't work unless the person is already root—there was a thread about this here just a few days ago.

Re: Dovecot correct ownership for logs

2024-05-14 Thread Florent Rougon
Le 14/05/2024, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit: > You might try > > ps -eo pid,user,group,comm | grep postfix > > or similar. Yep, and beware that the original message mentions a postfix program named 'local' (/usr/lib/postfix/sbin/local). > May 13 20:55:37 mail postfix/local[2824184]: (...)

Re: debian bookworm japanese kana input disabled

2024-05-09 Thread Florent Rougon
Hi, Le 09/05/2024, 冨澤守治 a écrit: > Hellow! > > Thanks you for your supprting everyday. > > Last night (JST) I did some apt update && apt upgade. > But all of sudden I can't input kana and even print any editer or calc cell. > (Roman alphabet has no problem on printing.) This may be due to a

Re: Fwd: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared

2024-04-19 Thread Florent Rougon
Hi, Le 18/04/2024, David Christensen a écrit: > 2024-04-18 02:27:18 root@laalaa ~ > # df `which nm-applet` > Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/sdb3_crypt12084M 8927M 2522M 78% / Not sure this command is super-useful: % df $(which awk)

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-03-28 Thread Florent Rougon
Le 28/03/2024, Greg Wooledge a écrit: > You can't stop root from writing to your terminal. Root has write > privileges on all devices. > > The purpose of mesg is to allow *other regular users* to send you > messages, or not. (...) Indeed, I understood that after running 'ls -la $(tty)', as

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-03-28 Thread Florent Rougon
Le 28/03/2024, Florent Rougon a écrit: > Did I miss the point of 'mesg n'?.. Ugh, sorry. Thanks to the 'ls -la $(tty)' command Andy Smith wrote in another message, I understood: 'mesg n' does prevent users from writing to your terminal using e.g. 'wall', *except* if said users are eit

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-03-28 Thread Florent Rougon
Hi, Le 27/03/2024, Andy Smith a écrit: > You could put a call to "mesg n" into a file in /etc/profile.d so > that all users execute it. Did anyone try 'mesg n' here? I tried: $ mesg n $ mesg; echo $? is n 1 Broadcast

Re: printing QR-codes on labels with 300dpi label printers with LaTeX

2024-03-13 Thread Florent Rougon
Florent Rougon wrote: > - printer matrix alignment if printer resolution is low (more > difficult; maybe try with some very small horizontal and veritical > shifts to see if it helps...). Thinking about it more, this is probably hopeless unless printer resolution is *extre

Re: printing QR-codes on labels with 300dpi label printers with LaTeX

2024-03-13 Thread Florent Rougon
hw wrote: >> That is quite likely: the pst- prefix means this is PSTricks, which is >> an oldish way of doing vector graphics with LaTeX. I tend to avoid >> PSTricks these days as it is generally awkward to use in PDF contexts, >> although there are various workarounds that often allow to do so.

Re: printing QR-codes on labels with 300dpi label printers with LaTeX

2024-03-11 Thread Florent Rougon
Hi, I haven't read the whole thread (sorry) but thought this might help. hw wrote: > When I zoom in on QR-codes in a PDF viewer, they don't get blurry. > Perhaps the pst-barcode package uses vector graphics? That is quite likely: the pst- prefix means this is PSTricks, which is an oldish way

Re: Fix for missing gsettings desktop schemas on unstable

2024-03-01 Thread Florent Rougon
Ash Joubert wrote: > You are welcome. There is a bug report with much discussion: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1065022 Thanks again Ash, that was quite informative. Regards -- Florent

Re: Fix for missing gsettings desktop schemas on unstable

2024-02-29 Thread Florent Rougon
Hi, Ash Joubert wrote: > There is a huge transition underway on unstable to migrate to 64-bit time_t. > After upgrading to the new libglib2.0-0t64, nothing could find gsettings > desktop schemas, breaking applications like rednotebook and reportbug (lol), > and after a reboot, stopping services

Re: what calculator do you use?

2020-07-13 Thread Florent Rougon
Eric S Fraga wrote: > Emacs Calc if using the computer, HP-48x simulator on my phone > otherwise. If you liked doing calculations as in the HP 48, try the orpie program in a terminal (Debian package of the same name)... or the x48 emulator on Linux (GUI, very impressive). More

Re: Sound issues on ThinkPad X220T (Lenovo)

2020-04-13 Thread Florent Rougon
Hi, For the record, I had the exact same problem on a computer running buster that I don't use very often. For sure, it was working fine even with timidity installed a few months ago. Many thanks to Andrei for the 'lsof | grep /dev/snd' command that pointed us in the right direction! Debugging