Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-05-28 Thread Richmond
Andy Smith writes: > Hi, > > On Tue, May 28, 2024 at 11:31:29AM +0100, mick.crane wrote: >> Is there not some system that runs ethernet over the mains wiring or did I >> misunderstand it. > > It works extremely poorly, if at all. If wifi works you would prefer > wifi. > Do you mean homeplugs? I

Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login

2024-05-13 Thread Richmond
Mario Marietto writes: > There is still a problem. If I login automatically as user and inside > the script I do this : > > sudo iptables -A POSTROUTING -t nat -s 192.168.1.5 -j MASQUERADE > > it asks me for the password (don't know why it didn't before) but I > can't issue a password,because

Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login

2024-05-13 Thread Richmond
Erwan David writes: > Le 13/05/2024 à 14:36, Richmond a écrit : >> I was experimenting, and found this works: >> >> sudo xterm -e "echo 1 > hello" >> >> It created a file owned by root. But I found I was able to remove it >> without being ro

Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login

2024-05-13 Thread Richmond
writes: > On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 01:36:23PM +0100, Richmond wrote: >> I was experimenting, and found this works: >> >> sudo xterm -e "echo 1 > hello" > > That's like slicing your morning baguette with the chainsaw. I do that too. > > But if it

Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login

2024-05-13 Thread Richmond
I was experimenting, and found this works: sudo xterm -e "echo 1 > hello" It created a file owned by root. But I found I was able to remove it without being root even though group and world permissions were read only.

Re: Zutty fonts - zutty always uses the same font and fontsize

2024-05-02 Thread Richmond
Sirius writes: > Good old urxvt is quite lightweight compared to kitty. It understands the font names from xfontsel which is a major improvement on zutty. urxvt -bg black -fn -*-courier-*-r-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-* 8)

Re: Graphic Equalizer for Sound

2024-05-01 Thread Richmond
Dan Ritter writes: > Richmond wrote: >> Dan Ritter writes: >> >> > Parametric EQs are not the same as graphic EQs, but they are >> > reasonably easy to understand and offer much more control. >> > >> > Suppose you want to boost all the

Re: Zutty fonts - zutty always uses the same font and fontsize

2024-05-01 Thread Richmond
Sirius writes: > I can get it working with "zutty -font 12x24" and other numerically > named fonts. Wow that one actually worked. That's the first time I've seen a different font in zutty! > Trying with something like 'lucidasans-24' will make it dump core > however. I got this error:

Re: Graphic Equalizer for Sound

2024-05-01 Thread Richmond
Franco Martelli writes: > On 01/05/24 at 14:33, Richmond wrote: >> Is it possible to have a graphic equalizer for sound output? I am using >> the Mate desktop. I installed EasyEffects from a flatpak and it appears >> on the menu but does nothing. I don't know the c

Re: Graphic Equalizer for Sound

2024-05-01 Thread Richmond
Curt writes: > Why install from flatpak when there is a native Debian package? > To cut a long story short: user error. :( So I have it working now...

Re: Graphic Equalizer for Sound

2024-05-01 Thread Richmond
Dan Ritter writes: > Parametric EQs are not the same as graphic EQs, but they are > reasonably easy to understand and offer much more control. > > Suppose you want to boost all the bass below 50Hz. The > parametric type you want is a "shelf", the frequency is 50Hz, > the Q doesn't matter

Graphic Equalizer for Sound

2024-05-01 Thread Richmond
Is it possible to have a graphic equalizer for sound output? I am using the Mate desktop. I installed EasyEffects from a flatpak and it appears on the menu but does nothing. I don't know the command line. Probably there is an error. Debian 12.

Zutty fonts - zutty always uses the same font and fontsize

2024-05-01 Thread Richmond
I am puzzled by the zutty terminal emulator. I have tried: 1186 zutty -fontpath /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -fontsize 20 1187 zutty -fontpath /usr/share/fonts/X11/ -font adobe 1190 zutty -fontpath /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/ -fontsize 20 1191 zutty -fontpath /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/ -fontsize

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

2024-04-17 Thread Richmond
David Christensen writes: > Forwarded Message > Subject: Re: Debian 11 Xfce panel Network Manager applet has disappeared > Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:38:49 -0700 > From: David Christensen > To: Gareth Evans > > On 4/17/24 03:47, Gareth Evans wrote: >> On Wed 17/04/2024 at

Re: Bluetooth sound problems playing from a web browser

2024-04-08 Thread Richmond
Thanks, I tried it but it turns out to be a wifi/usb problem I think. Jan Krapivin writes: > Have you tried a LIVE-version of another Linux distribution? It will > be interesting to compare. > > вс, 7 апр. 2024 г. в 22:30, Richmond : > > Richmond writes: > >

Re: Bluetooth sound problems playing from a web browser

2024-04-08 Thread Richmond
Lee writes: > On Sun, Apr 7, 2024 at 3:30 PM Richmond wrote: >> >> Richmond writes: >> >> > Richmond writes: >> > >> >> When playing videos in a web browser, and sending the sound to a >> >> bluetooth speaker (amazon echo) I get pla

Re: Bluetooth sound problems playing from a web browser

2024-04-07 Thread Richmond
Richmond writes: > Richmond writes: > >> When playing videos in a web browser, and sending the sound to a >> bluetooth speaker (amazon echo) I get playback problems; stuttering, >> sound quality reduction to AM radio level or lower). These things can >>

Re: Bluetooth sound problems playing from a web browser

2024-03-30 Thread Richmond
Richmond writes: > When playing videos in a web browser, and sending the sound to a > bluetooth speaker (amazon echo) I get playback problems; stuttering, > sound quality reduction to AM radio level or lower). These things can > clear up after a minute or two, or be reduced. >

Bluetooth sound problems playing from a web browser

2024-03-30 Thread Richmond
When playing videos in a web browser, and sending the sound to a bluetooth speaker (amazon echo) I get playback problems; stuttering, sound quality reduction to AM radio level or lower). These things can clear up after a minute or two, or be reduced. When playing from nvlc however I get no such

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-03-28 Thread Richmond
Lee writes: > > oof. Are there instructions somewhere on how to make Debian secure by > default? > > Thanks, Lee I always thought it strange that debian has no firewall on by default. Why not offer to enable one during installation? Opensuse offers to enable one and offers to allow ssh.

Re: hexchat being discontinued?

2024-02-11 Thread Richmond
Default User writes: > :( > > Well, it seems that hexchat is being discontinued. > IMHO, it is/was the only IRC client that was actually usable.  > > Any recommendations for a GOOD alternative? > > You could try Pidgin. It's in the Debian repo. It has various protocols of which irc is just

Re: Unidentified flying subject!

2024-02-09 Thread Richmond
Charles Curley writes: > On Fri, 09 Feb 2024 04:30:14 + > Richmond wrote: > >> So you need to store a lot of data and then verify that it has written >> with 'diff'. > > Yeah. > > I've been thinking about this. Yeah, I know: dangerous. > > What I wou

Re: Unidentified subject!

2024-02-08 Thread Richmond
Charles Curley writes: > On Thu, 08 Feb 2024 18:02:36 -0500 > Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> > Test it with Validrive. >> > https://www.grc.com/validrive.htm >> >> Looks like proprietary software for Windows. > > badblocks, available in a Debian repo near you, might be a suitable > replacement.

Re: Unidentified subject!

2024-02-08 Thread Richmond
gene heskett writes: > Well the 2T memory everybody was curious about 3 weeks ago got here early. > > From dmesg after plugging one in: > [629240.916163] usb 1-2: new high-speed USB device number 39 using xhci_hcd > [629241.066221] usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=048d, > idProduct=1234,

Re: what keyboard do you use?

2024-02-04 Thread Richmond
hw writes: > On Fri, 2024-02-02 at 20:09 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: >> [...] >> I have several of the now classic IBM Model M keyboards I procured in >> the '90s. Modern BIOSes don't like them even with a PS/2 to USB >> adapter so I gave up on them. > > They might work with a so-called active

man page for cut

2024-01-17 Thread Richmond
In the man page for cut it says: -b, --bytes=LIST select only these bytes But there is no equals sign in the actual syntax: echo hello|cut -b 2-5 ello echo hello|cut -b=2-5 cut: invalid byte/character position ‘=2-5’ Try 'cut --help' for more information. Why is this? (An

Re: GRUB -- Debian overrides? Or maybe I just don't understand it well...

2023-12-18 Thread Richmond
It's not ideal, but what I did when I had two disks and two operating systems was I installed two grubs, one for each OS, one on each MBR. I then used the BIOS menu to choose which disk to boot. This means each OS updates its own grub instance.

Re: differences among amd64 and i386

2023-12-14 Thread Richmond
fuf writes: > Good day! Near a half month ago I bought a comp. made into 2011 year > and didn't knew which Debian12 to put: i386 or amd64?, chose i386 as > thought that old comp. didn't take amd64. i386-netinst Debian 12 was > being installed perfectly,  and later I could to read a disk owned

Re: IMPORTANT: do NOT upgrade to new stable point release

2023-12-09 Thread Richmond
Greg Wooledge writes: > On Sat, Dec 09, 2023 at 07:18:20PM +, Michael Kjörling wrote: >> If you upgraded this morning, then I would expect that you are okay >> for now. > > That doesn't appear to be true. > >> Per #5 in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1057843 >> the bug is

Re: it: perhaps? gmail issues.

2023-11-22 Thread Richmond
In this article Google seems to think using standard webmail works with a screen reader. https://support.google.com/mail/answer/90559 It advises to turn on keyboard shortcuts. I suppose another option would be to use another webmail service to pick up email from gmail. Karen Lewellen wrote: >

Re: UFW/GFW Doesn't start up after running previously

2023-11-19 Thread Richmond
marathon writes: > On Sat, Nov 18, 2023 at 07:49:32AM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: >> On Sat, 18 Nov 2023 08:25:10 -0500 >> marathon wrote: >> >> > Using Debian Bookworm, on Lenovo X280 laptop. Each time after cold >> > startup or from suspend, I've found the ufw software is turned off >> >

Re: Panic again any idea

2023-10-20 Thread Richmond
Schwibinger Michael wrote: > Good morning > I did ask one year ago > but no answer here or in the www. > Debian has panic(=no booting) after update to 11. > Thank You for help > > Regards > Sophie > Boot from a rescue disk and look at the logs, or take a photograph of the screen when the error

Segmentation fault in Chromium

2023-10-02 Thread Richmond
I received a segmentation fault from chromium. Would it be logged anywhere? I searched journalctl but no mention of it. Chromium 117.0.5938.132 built on Debian 11.7, running on Debian 11.7 5.10.0-25-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.191-1 (2023-08-16) x86_64 GNU/Linux I expect such things cannot be

Re: Looking for a good "default" font (small 'L' vs. capital 'i' problem)

2023-08-21 Thread Richmond
debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Cindy Sue Causey wrote: >> My own mind went to the place of thinking sans serif was about those >> very lines. I just didn't make it to thinking that would make it hard >> to find any alternate in that family. My long time preference is >>

Strange visual effects with Gnome

2023-08-18 Thread Richmond
I installed Debian 12 on a laptop. I found that when the mouse was moved up to the top menu bar it disappeared. If I managed to click on the menu the mouse was invisible over the menu too. Also I noticed the letter A from activities was missing. You will forgive me I hope for installing OpenSUSE

Re: Fan speed and control

2023-06-25 Thread Richmond
Emanuel Berg writes: > Richmond wrote: > >> Smart fan control is enabled in the CMOS > > Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor, AKA sea-moss? > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMOS > > The CMOS BIOS: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonvolatile_BIOS_mem

Fan speed and control

2023-06-24 Thread Richmond
I've noticed that the fan speed with Debian is much faster than the fan speed with Windows 10. I doubt very much that this is because Windows 10 is doing less processing. The fan speed with Windows 10 seems to vary quite a lot, where as Debian is consistently high when the room temperature is up

Re: root password of debian live cd?

2023-05-30 Thread Richmond
Timothy M Butterworth writes: > On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 2:03 AM hlyg wrote: > > > On 5/30/23 12:37, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > This seems to have been discussed like eight years ago: > > > >    https://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2015/05/msg00081.html > > >

Re: nvidia package 340xx

2023-05-21 Thread Richmond
Hans writes: > Am Samstag, 20. Mai 2023, 19:15:18 CEST schrieb Richmond: > >> Hans writes: > > >> > >> As far as I remember the problem in Nvidia does not support kernels > >> above 4. This is why my laptop is stuck on Debian 10, although I > did &

Re: nvidia package 340xx

2023-05-20 Thread Richmond
"Marlin S. Petre" writes: > On 5/20/23 1:15 PM, Richmond wrote: >> As far as I remember the problem in Nvidia does not support kernels >> above 4. This is why my laptop is stuck on Debian 10, although I did >> wonder if Debian 11 can run with kernel 4. >> &

Re: nvidia package 340xx

2023-05-20 Thread Richmond
Hans writes: > Dear debian team, > > I just discovered the "nividia-legacy-340xx"-packages in debian sid. > > However, as they were in buster, but NOT in bullseye, NOR in bookworm, > I wonder, if there is a chance, they will transfer from testing to > bookworm some day. > > I tested them on

Gnome: The Videos application quits when clicking on Activities

2023-04-25 Thread Richmond
I've noticed several times, when I am listening to an mp3 using the application 'Videos' that if I click on Activities to put the system into the view showing each task as a miniture window, that the Videos application abruptly quits. How can I find an error message for that? I've switched to

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-18 Thread Richmond
It's a long shot, but does either computer have wifi? Is it secured with wpa2?

Re: Where has the Gnome hot corner setting gone?

2023-03-29 Thread Richmond
Richmond wrote: > Cindy Sue Causey writes: > >> On 3/29/23, Richmond wrote: >>> I thought I had disabled hot corners, but occasionally, if I select and >>> swipe in the location bar of my browser, it activates hot corner. When I >>> went back to check

Re: Where has the Gnome hot corner setting gone?

2023-03-29 Thread Richmond
Cindy Sue Causey writes: > On 3/29/23, Richmond wrote: >> I thought I had disabled hot corners, but occasionally, if I select and >> swipe in the location bar of my browser, it activates hot corner. When I >> went back to check the setting which was in "multitaskin

Where has the Gnome hot corner setting gone?

2023-03-29 Thread Richmond
I thought I had disabled hot corners, but occasionally, if I select and swipe in the location bar of my browser, it activates hot corner. When I went back to check the setting which was in "multitasking" before, that tab has gone. Where is the hot corner setting now?

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-28 Thread Richmond
debian-u...@howorth.org.uk writes: >> I tried this in rxvt(-unicode), xterm, and lxterm (which is apparently >> part of the xterm package -- never heard of it before!). > > It's lxterminal, not lxterm, and it's part of LXDE so I'm surprised if > it's bundled with xterm. > lxterm and lxterminal

Re: Which takes priority, ipv4, or ipv6?

2023-03-27 Thread Richmond
Vincent Lefevre writes: > On 2023-03-27 12:48:13 +0100, Richmond wrote: >> I have configured an ipv6 tunnel. If I visit this site: >> >> http://ip6.me/ >> >> The "normal" test shows my ipv4 address, and the: >> >> http://ip6only.me/ >&

Re: Which takes priority, ipv4, or ipv6?

2023-03-27 Thread Richmond
Jeremy Ardley writes: > On 27/3/23 19:48, Richmond wrote: >> >> So how is the preference determined? It seems to be determined by the >> DNS, but why or how do I tell for example with host -v? > > When you as a DNS about a hostname it can return an A rec

Which takes priority, ipv4, or ipv6?

2023-03-27 Thread Richmond
I have configured an ipv6 tunnel. If I visit this site: http://ip6.me/ The "normal" test shows my ipv4 address, and the: http://ip6only.me/ shows the ipv6 address. However if I switch my DNS from opendns to the one provided by my ISP and then run the "normal" test it shows the ipv6. The note

Re: should CLI have a nice UI today?

2023-03-24 Thread Richmond
cor...@free.fr writes: > Hello, > > Should CLI (command line interface) have a nice UI library? > today web dev has so many libraries that make web pages with > rich/colorful interactive views. > But CLI is still in dull mode. That should be improved in these days. > for example, run "df -h" we

Re: Windows Subsystem for Linux Debian

2023-03-07 Thread Richmond
didier gaumet writes: > Le 07/03/2023 à 21:17, Richmond a écrit : >> I have Debian 11 on Windows Subsystem for Linux, but it is using a >> version 4 kernel. (I have established that it is debian 11 by looking in >> /etc/issue, and /etc/apt/sources). The Kernel says it i

Windows Subsystem for Linux Debian

2023-03-07 Thread Richmond
I have Debian 11 on Windows Subsystem for Linux, but it is using a version 4 kernel. (I have established that it is debian 11 by looking in /etc/issue, and /etc/apt/sources). The Kernel says it is Microsoft: 4.4.0-19041-Microsoft #2311-Microsoft So I guess this is not really a kernel? as the

Re: Need help to install gnucobol

2023-02-08 Thread Richmond
Amine Derk writes: > Hello, > > I'm trying to use debian for the first time. and I'm not able to > install Gnucobol. > > aderkaoua@LAPTOP-6B841S0M:~$ sudo apt-get install gnucobol > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > Reading state information... Done > E: Unable

Re: kernel errors

2023-02-05 Thread Richmond
Max Nikulin writes: > On 05/02/2023 03:12, Richmond wrote: >> The errors about sr0 come before the stuff about resume. > > Does the following command generate similar errors (taken from initrd > scripts, UUID is intentionally not from the set of existing > partitions)?

Re: kernel errors

2023-02-04 Thread Richmond
Richmond wrote: > David Wright writes: > >> On Sat 04 Feb 2023 at 17:38:25 (+0000), Richmond wrote: >>> David Wright writes: >>>> On Sat 04 Feb 2023 at 12:37:27 (+), Richmond wrote: >>>>> Max Nikulin writes: >>>>>> O

Re: kernel errors

2023-02-04 Thread Richmond
David Wright writes: > On Sat 04 Feb 2023 at 17:38:25 (+), Richmond wrote: >> David Wright writes: >> > On Sat 04 Feb 2023 at 12:37:27 (+), Richmond wrote: >> >> Max Nikulin writes: >> >> > On 03/02/2023 01:47, Richmond wrote: >> &g

Re: kernel errors

2023-02-04 Thread Richmond
David Wright writes: > On Sat 04 Feb 2023 at 12:37:27 (+), Richmond wrote: >> Max Nikulin writes: >> > On 03/02/2023 01:47, Richmond wrote: >> >> It might be a good way for someone to reproduce the error on some >> >> other >> >> machi

Re: kernel errors

2023-02-04 Thread Richmond
Max Nikulin writes: > On 03/02/2023 01:47, Richmond wrote: >> It might be a good way for someone to reproduce the error on some >> other >> machine. I have no problems with the CD/DVD writer and have used it a >> few times recently. > > Do you see the same errors

Re: kernel errors

2023-02-04 Thread Richmond
"Thomas Schmitt" writes: > Hi, > > Richmond wrote: >> /tmp/initrd21/scripts/local:[ "${quiet?}" != "y" ] && log_begin_msg >> "Running /scripts/local-block" >> [...] >> local_block() >> { >>

Re: kernel errors

2023-02-03 Thread Richmond
"Thomas Schmitt" writes: > Hi, > > Richmond wrote: >> No local block. :-? > > Maybe you can find our from where the message comes: > > grep -r 'Running.*scripts.*local-block' /tmp/initrd21 > > grep -r 'Running.*scripts.*local-block' /tmp/initrd21

Re: kernel errors

2023-02-03 Thread Richmond
David Wright writes: > On Thu 02 Feb 2023 at 21:58:54 (+), Richmond wrote: >> "Thomas Schmitt" writes: >> > >> > (If not there, then in the /scripts/local-block directory of the initrd ?) >> >> I don't know how I would look in that. Is it i

Re: kernel errors

2023-02-03 Thread Richmond
Michel Verdier writes: > Le 2 février 2023 Richmond a écrit : > >> There is no such file. Earlier I ran this: >> >> find / -print|grep "scripts/local-block" >> >> and it found nothing, which led me to believe it is some temporary file... >>&

Re: kernel errors

2023-02-02 Thread Richmond
"Thomas Schmitt" writes: > Indeed. But why should only the kernel be brain damaged ? > > (I expect some generic UUID searcher for block devices. Probably the sr > devices are near the end of its iteration. So one would not see any > protest in the log if the UUID is found on the device which is

Re: kernel errors - SOLVED

2023-02-02 Thread Richmond
piorunz writes: > On 02/02/2023 14:05, Richmond wrote: >> After I did this, the errors went away. >> I don't know why the errors reference sr0, it's a mystery. > > They will most likely come back, this error is related to optical > drive, nothing to do with swap sp

Re: kernel errors - SOLVED

2023-02-02 Thread Richmond
Richmond writes: > It may be a coincidence but yesterday I installed some > libguestfs-tools. Now I see errors when booting, which also appear in > /var/log/messages: > > kernel: [9.506798] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] tag#12 FAILED Result: > hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE c

Re: kernel errors

2023-01-25 Thread Richmond
Richmond writes: > "Thomas Schmitt" writes: > >> Hi, >> >> i wrote: >>> > If you have some blank optical medium, then try whether the emitter of >>> > the read attempt can be discouraged if the drive is perceived as offering >>>

Re: kernel errors

2023-01-25 Thread Richmond
"Thomas Schmitt" writes: > Hi, > > i wrote: >> > If you have some blank optical medium, then try whether the emitter of >> > the read attempt can be discouraged if the drive is perceived as offering >> > just one block of 2048 bytes. > > Ri

Re: kernel errors

2023-01-25 Thread Richmond
"Thomas Schmitt" writes: > I assume that you will see the same result there. lsblk -b -o VENDOR,MODEL,SIZE,PHY-SEC,LOG-SEC /dev/sr* VENDOR MODEL SIZE PHY-SEC LOG-SEC HL-DT-ST HL-DT-ST_DVDRAM_GH15F 1073741312 512 512 5.10.0-21-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.162-1

Re: kernel errors

2023-01-25 Thread Richmond
"Thomas Schmitt" writes: > > Are users of Debian 10 (actually of kernel 4.19) here who are willing to > run > lsblk -b -o VENDOR,MODEL,SIZE,PHY-SEC,LOG-SEC /dev/sr* > directly after booting with empty drive tray ? lsblk -b -o VENDOR,MODEL,SIZE,PHY-SEC,LOG-SEC /dev/sr* VENDOR MODEL

Re: Ctrl-C ignored after pasting a long text in an X terminal emulator

2023-01-24 Thread Richmond
Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 01:51:08PM +0000, Richmond wrote: >> I didn't test it for the reason I stated. I think it would be better for >> OP to test it as he won't do any more damage than he has already done. > Here's how you can reproduce the problem witho

Re: kernel errors

2023-01-23 Thread Richmond
David Wright writes: > On Mon 23 Jan 2023 at 13:34:50 (+), Richmond wrote: >> It may be a coincidence but yesterday I installed some >> libguestfs-tools. Now I see errors when booting, which also appear in >> /var/log/messages: >> >> kernel: [ 9.506798

Re: kernel errors

2023-01-23 Thread Richmond
Sven Joachim writes: > On 2023-01-23 16:13 +0000, Richmond wrote: > >> I put a dvd in and mounted it. Then rebooted. I saw these messages: >> >> [ 756.539018] pktcdvd: pktcdvd0: writer mapped to sr0 >> [3.744658] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] scsi3-mmc drive: 62x/62x wri

Re: kernel errors

2023-01-23 Thread Richmond
"Thomas Schmitt" writes: > Hi, > > Richmond wrote: >> kernel: [9.506798] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] tag#12 FAILED Result: >> hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE cmd_age=2s >> kernel: [9.507009] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] tag#12 Sense Key : Not Ready >> [cu

Re: Ctrl-C ignored after pasting a long text in an X terminal emulator

2023-01-23 Thread Richmond
Greg Wooledge writes: > It doesn't work, presumably for the same reason that Ctrl-C doesn't work. > The xterm's pty's input buffer is full, and it simply ignores all keyboard > input from that point forward. > > (Are people not actually *testing* these things before proposing them?) I didn't

kernel errors

2023-01-23 Thread Richmond
It may be a coincidence but yesterday I installed some libguestfs-tools. Now I see errors when booting, which also appear in /var/log/messages: kernel: [9.506798] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] tag#12 FAILED Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE cmd_age=2s kernel: [9.507009] sr 3:0:0:0:

Re: Ctrl-C ignored after pasting a long text in an X terminal emulator

2023-01-22 Thread Richmond
Vincent Lefevre wrote: > The following issue is reproducible in several terminals, e.g. xterm > and GNOME Terminal, and several shells, e.g. bash and zsh. > > 1. From the shell in an X terminal emulator, run an X application > in foreground, e.g. emacs-gtk or xterm. > > 2. Paste a long text (e.g.

Bitlbee user

2023-01-17 Thread Richmond
Why is there a user called bitlbee on my system (nologin) when bitlbee is not installed? Also there is a user saned but sane is not installed.

Re: I've noticed a general protection fault

2023-01-17 Thread Richmond
Richmond writes: > This occurs during shutdown. I've also noticed occasional delays "a stop > job is running". These occur when I am using a desktop > environment. Currently I am using gnome. > > kernel: traps: dconf worker[2353] general protection fault > ip:7fe4564e

I've noticed a general protection fault

2023-01-17 Thread Richmond
This occurs during shutdown. I've also noticed occasional delays "a stop job is running". These occur when I am using a desktop environment. Currently I am using gnome. kernel: traps: dconf worker[2353] general protection fault ip:7fe4564ec4a6 sp:7fe448e31090 error:0 in

Re: Seamonkey

2022-11-18 Thread Richmond
David Wright wrote: > On Fri 18 Nov 2022 at 19:37:24 (+0800), Richard Jones wrote: >> There doesn't seem to be a seamonkey package for Debian stable. Am I >> mistaken? or is there a reason for it to not be supported? >> >> I'm presuming I can download and install from the seamonkey site but >>

Re: debian freezing

2022-10-18 Thread Richmond
Pierre Frenkiel writes: > Has anybody a solution? > I saw this problem with the nouveau video driver, and the solution was to use the nvidia driver.

Re: Screenshot with Gnome

2022-07-26 Thread Richmond
Curt writes: > On 2022-07-26, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 05:03:09PM +0300, Antti Talsta wrote: >>> On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 12:40:53PM +0100, Richmond wrote: >>> > I am trying to take a screenshot of a selected area. >>> > I think s

Screenshot with Gnome

2022-07-26 Thread Richmond
I am trying to take a screenshot of a selected area. The Wiki here: https://wiki.debian.org/ScreenShots says I can use "take screenshot" from the menu. On my menu I have "screenshot" but it doesn't work (although I think it used to) it just displays a tiny box which I cannot make larger.

Re: Bug 895378 has been fixed on Ubuntu, will it get to Debian?

2022-07-08 Thread Richmond
Richmond writes: > This bug: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=895378 > > sky2: sky2: did not recover correctly after waking up from S3 > > seems to be fixed on Ubuntu here: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1798921 > &g

Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root

2022-05-16 Thread Richmond
David Christensen writes: > On 5/15/22 06:53, Richmond wrote: >> David Christensen writes: >>> On 5/14/22 05:57, Richmond wrote: >>>> writes: >>>>> On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 10:50:46AM +0100, Richmond wrote: > >>>>>> Is there a

Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root

2022-05-15 Thread Richmond
David Christensen writes: > On 5/14/22 05:57, Richmond wrote: >> writes: >> >>> On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 10:50:46AM +0100, Richmond wrote: >>>> Richmond writes: >>>> >>>>> David Christensen writes: >>> >>

Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root

2022-05-14 Thread Richmond
writes: > On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 10:50:46AM +0100, Richmond wrote: >> Richmond writes: >> >> > David Christensen writes: > > [...] > >> > I expect there is some component of xfce4 which is supposed to prompt >> > for the root passw

Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root

2022-05-14 Thread Richmond
Richmond writes: > David Christensen writes: > >> On 5/13/22 09:02, Richmond wrote: >>> David Christensen writes: >>>> On 5/12/22 07:17, Richmond wrote: >>>>> David Christensen writes: >>>>>> On 5/11/22 06:55, Richmond wrote:

Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root

2022-05-13 Thread Richmond
David Christensen writes: > On 5/13/22 09:02, Richmond wrote: >> David Christensen writes: >>> On 5/12/22 07:17, Richmond wrote: >>>> David Christensen writes: >>>>> On 5/11/22 06:55, Richmond wrote: >>>>>> I have a network manager

Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root

2022-05-13 Thread Richmond
David Christensen writes: > On 5/12/22 07:17, Richmond wrote: >> David Christensen writes: >> >>> On 5/11/22 06:55, Richmond wrote: >>>> I have a network manager applet on my xfce4 desktop. I am logged in as a >>>> non root user, and I

Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root

2022-05-12 Thread Richmond
David Christensen writes: > On 5/11/22 06:55, Richmond wrote: >> I have a network manager applet on my xfce4 desktop. I am logged in as a >> non root user, and I can select edit connections and change the IPv4 >> settings to DHCP address only and then put in a DNS, th

Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root

2022-05-11 Thread Richmond
I have a network manager applet on my xfce4 desktop. I am logged in as a non root user, and I can select edit connections and change the IPv4 settings to DHCP address only and then put in a DNS, then save. If I look at /etc/resolv.conf though nothing has changed. Restarting networking or rebooting

Bug 895378 has been fixed on Ubuntu, will it get to Debian?

2022-03-19 Thread Richmond
This bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=895378 sky2: sky2: did not recover correctly after waking up from S3 seems to be fixed on Ubuntu here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1798921 Will this fix get to Debian? I guess it will go up to kernel

Re: xfce suspend not working

2022-03-16 Thread Richmond
Richmond writes: > I was using MATE but I installed xfce. When I select the suspend button > a message appears saying suspend in 30 seconds. If I click suspend the > screen locks. If I wait the system does not suspend. If I log in again > an error message says suspend failed tim

xfce suspend not working

2022-03-16 Thread Richmond
I was using MATE but I installed xfce. When I select the suspend button a message appears saying suspend in 30 seconds. If I click suspend the screen locks. If I wait the system does not suspend. If I log in again an error message says suspend failed timeout reached. There seem to be conflicting

Re: linux kernel and nvidia - never ending story

2022-03-08 Thread Richmond
didier gaumet writes: > Le mardi 08 mars 2022 à 12:12 +0000, Richmond a écrit : > [...] >> I don't know if there are >> any distributions other than debian which still support kernel 4. > > A RHEL 8 clone (Almalinux, Rocky Linux...) should do: kernel is blocked > to

Re: Problems with custom install of MATE

2022-03-08 Thread Richmond
Richard Owlett writes: > As I have a very low data cap and wish to avoid some "recommended" > components I have done: > 1. a text mode install [including "standard utilities"] using >debian-11.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso . > 2. apt-get --no-install-recommends install mate-desktop-environment > 3.

Re: linux kernel and nvidia - never ending story

2022-03-08 Thread Richmond
Hans writes: > Dear list, > > how find the correct words, without being upset or stepping on > someones feet. But I believe, debian hates Nvidia, and debian does > not want, to use Nvidia. > > I am now for a long time using debian and also using nvidia graphic > cards for almost the same long

Re: Google smtp and pop

2022-03-06 Thread Richmond
Marc Auslander writes: > Google has now said they are pulling the plug on userid/password > authentication for apps. > > I use fetchmail and exim4 to get and send mail. Neither, AFAIK, > supports OAUTH2. I'm also still on stretch but will update if I have > to. > > So what suggestions does

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