Re: Processors older than Intel Pentium 4

2022-07-16 Thread Tim Woodall
On Sat, 16 Jul 2022, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: Is anyone running Debian 11 on a processor older than Pentium 4? I ask because I would like to bump 32 bit OS support from i386 (1985) to i686 Pentium 4 and newer. Thanks I think I'm running it on an eeepc. I don't know what processor that

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

2022-07-10 Thread Tim Woodall
e configured. this can mess up your day if there is any risk of rogue RAs on the network Tim

Re: Problem mounting encrypted blu-ray disc or image

2022-07-09 Thread Tim Woodall
k 90 - nearly 7 years (prior to that I was using dvd), and I have never had an issue accessing old backups (which I do from time to time) Tim In my script I create a file, put an encrypted UDF filesystem into it and start writing compressed files into it. Unfortunately it can happ

Re: Any way to make apt ignore dpkg status file?

2022-07-09 Thread Tim Woodall
On Sat, 9 Jul 2022, Tim Woodall wrote: Hi $ APT_CONFIG=../apt/apt.conf.buster.amd64 apt-cache policy dpkg dpkg: Installed: 1.20.10 Candidate: 1.20.10 Version table: *** 1.20.10 100 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1.19.8 500 500 http://aptmirror17.home.woodall.me.uk/local buster

Any way to make apt ignore dpkg status file?

2022-07-08 Thread Tim Woodall
Is there any way to make this not see the installed version other than by using -o RootDir? Tim.

Re: Is there an easy way to get the latest version number of a source package that is available?

2022-07-08 Thread Tim Woodall
On Mon, 27 Jun 2022, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote: On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 10:44:25PM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: On Mon, 27 Jun 2022, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote: On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 03:31:01PM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: Hi, apt-get --only-source --download-only source will download

Re: Is there an easy way to get the latest version number of a source package that is available?

2022-06-27 Thread Tim Woodall
On Mon, 27 Jun 2022, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote: On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 03:31:01PM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: Hi, apt-get --only-source --download-only source will download the latest version of the source package. Is there a one liner that will give me the version of the package (including

Re: Is there an easy way to get the latest version number of a source package that is available?

2022-06-27 Thread Tim Woodall
On Mon, 27 Jun 2022, The Wanderer wrote: On 2022-06-27 at 10:31, Tim Woodall wrote: Hi, apt-get --only-source --download-only source will download the latest version of the source package. Is there a one liner that will give me the version of the package (including the epoch) without

Is there an easy way to get the latest version number of a source package that is available?

2022-06-27 Thread Tim Woodall
contains one release and then I don't need to use the -t at all. I run patched versions of some things and my scripts are supposed to notice that there's a new source but they were missing the bullseye updates until the weekend) Tim.

Re: OpenSSH: cause of random kex_exchange_identification errors?

2022-06-14 Thread Tim Woodall
On Tue, 14 Jun 2022, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2022-06-07 17:19:12 +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: On Tue, 7 Jun 2022, Vincent Lefevre wrote: I eventually did a packet capture on the client side as I was able to reproduce the problem. When it occurs, I get the following sequence: Client ? Server

Re: Needless DNS queries

2022-06-07 Thread Tim Woodall
On Tue, 7 Jun 2022, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jun 07, 2022 at 11:22:34AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: search Search list for host-name lookup. By default, the search [...] This may be changed by listing the desired domain search path following the search keyword with spaces

Re: OpenSSH: cause of random kex_exchange_identification errors?

2022-06-07 Thread Tim Woodall
On Tue, 7 Jun 2022, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2022-02-05 18:39:27 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: If it is sshd, ensure it is actually logging all you need, and carefully study the logs. Nothing interesting in the logs, according to the admins of the server. If nothing helps,

Re: Needless DNS queries

2022-06-07 Thread Tim Woodall
On Tue, 7 Jun 2022, Dan Ritter wrote: Dieter Rohlfing wrote: Hello everybody, When a client queries for a domain and the answer is NXDOMAIN, there is immediately a second query with the original domain name, but suffixed with the domain name of my home network. Example: 1. query:

Re: Installing Jessie on VirtualBox

2022-05-24 Thread Tim Woodall
-mirror apt-mirror 22621460 May 8 21:03 tarfiles/jessie.armel.chroot.tar.xz These are the minimal systems that are truely Debian - they have all the essential and required packages installed along with their dependencies and nothing else at all. Jessie is significantly smaller Tim.

Re: Installing Jessie on VirtualBox

2022-05-24 Thread Tim Woodall
t (to get the packages, the dependencies, the install plan and to install everything beyond the point where apt itself can be run in a chroot) and dpkg to unpack and install up to that point. It can handle armel, i386, and amd64 for Jessie) Tim.

Re: What is the neat way of organizing files in /etc/network/interfaces.d ?

2022-05-16 Thread Tim Woodall
On Mon, 16 May 2022, Stella Ashburne wrote: Hi guys I connect to the internet using one of the following methods: It's really hard to understand what you're wanting to do. option 1. Use a mapping You have "interfaces" like wlo1-doozy wlo1-home wlo1-cafe And a script whose job is to

Re: preseed d-i disable security update

2022-05-12 Thread Tim Ye
On 2022-05-12 20:07+0200, john doe wrote: On 5/11/2022 1:51 PM, Tim Ye wrote: I would ask this question on the 'debian-boot' mailing list. Thank you I'll mail 'debian-boot'.

preseed d-i disable security update

2022-05-11 Thread Tim Ye
you, - Tim

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

2022-04-28 Thread Tim Woodall
? (And why do I have two signal repos???) Do you? Isn't it the Release file and then the Packages file that are fetched? Presumably you're up to date on the others (except vivaldi) Tim

Re: HTTP Proxy

2022-04-27 Thread Tim Woodall
On Wed, 27 Apr 2022, Larry Martin wrote: I am using my home router IP address 192.168.1.0 device number 45. This doesn't make sense. Are you sure it's not one of: 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.254 192.168.1.45 (if it's the latter then you do not want to use the same address on the machine you're

Re: What do folks use to mirror repositories

2022-04-19 Thread Tim Woodall
done something like this before - I'd guess there are much leaner solutions, even stunnel might work. depending on name resolution it might have to be a suffix rather than a prefix. Tim.

Re: slrn broke after power failure

2022-04-19 Thread Tim Woodall
On Tue, 19 Apr 2022, Tim Woodall wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2022, Charlie Gibbs wrote: Again, my issue is not with the spool, but why slrn seems to be trying to bypass it and access the server directly. Unless that "server read failed" message is a red herring... So I got intereste

Re: slrn broke after power failure

2022-04-19 Thread Tim Woodall
ere to connect and I don't know how but I bet that magic file has got corrupted on your system... Tim.

Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured?

2022-04-19 Thread Tim Woodall
ot; and explains how to make the critical process less likely to be killed. You could do the same with your desktop environment. Tim.

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-16 Thread Tim Woodall
On Sat, 16 Apr 2022, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 09:47:11PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: On 2022-04-15 at 20:47, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 08:20:40AM +0800, wilson wrote: ps -efw |grep $PS |grep -v grep You're also going to exit your script with the

Re: disable IPv6 debian

2022-04-15 Thread Tim Woodall
fault )" ]] && echo no Hopefully will print no if there is no default route. Tim.

Re: force IPv6 dynamic address?

2022-03-24 Thread Tim Woodall
On Thu, 24 Mar 2022, Jeremy Ardley wrote: On 24/3/22 1:11 am, Tim Woodall wrote: I believe it's setting this to 2 that you want (I think there's a setting to go in eni to do this too) https://sysctl-explorer.net/net/ipv6/use_tempaddr/ My concern is that if I go to 1 or 2 then logging

Re: bind9 slave sending notifies

2022-03-24 Thread Tim Woodall
er { none; }; transfer-source-v6 2001:8b0:bfcd:***; listen-on { 192.168.*.*/32; 192.168.*.*/32; }; listen-on-v6 { any; }; notify explicit; } in options. I don't see my slave sending any notifies. Tim

Re: force IPv6 dynamic address?

2022-03-23 Thread Tim Woodall
On Wed, 23 Mar 2022, Tim Woodall wrote: On Wed, 23 Mar 2022, Jeremy Ardley wrote: I have a debian workstation with a static IPv6 address mapped in DNS as well as dynamic addresses which change with time. The problem I have is that when my thunderbird mail client connects to gmail it always

Re: force IPv6 dynamic address?

2022-03-23 Thread Tim Woodall
/net/ipv6/use_tempaddr/ Tim.

Re: Under each of these scenarios, what is the neatest and simplest way to manipulate the /etc/network/interfaces file?

2022-03-21 Thread Tim Woodall
On Sun, 20 Mar 2022, David Wright wrote: On Sat 19 Mar 2022 at 03:14:54 (+0100), Stella Ashburne wrote: There are instances in which my machine is connected to a mobile hotspot. And in some situations, it's connected to a smartphone via USB tethering. And when I'm in the office, I may

Re: Under each of these scenarios, what is the neatest and simplest way to manipulate the /etc/network/interfaces file?

2022-03-19 Thread Tim Woodall
ifdown usb0 edit file ifup wlo1 Will avoid the need to reboot. You can use mapping lines to achieve the same thing. mapping eth0 script /usr/local/sbin/map-scheme iface eth0_home inet static address 192.168.1.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.254

Re: Wayland vs X

2022-03-11 Thread Tim Woodall
On Fri, 11 Mar 2022, Marco M?ller wrote: Isn't it all about X by design to not be able to safely protect a running X applications to snoop on other running X applications, something like the content of a window cannot safely kept private? I remember to have read that Wayland was invented for

Re: Installing/Preparing Debian on a headless system

2022-03-09 Thread Tim Woodall
://itsfoss.com/debian-raspberry-pi/ This reply from Gunnar Wolf might help you too: Hello Tim! Tim Woodall dijo [Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 12:49:18PM +]: Hi, Many thanks for your debian images for the raspberry pi. They solved my confusion after I tried to do this myself and failed miserably. I

Re: wikis: moin-moin : plain text (was: Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0?)

2022-03-03 Thread Tim Woodall
On Thu, 3 Mar 2022, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, March 01, 2022 10:34:40 AM Tim Woodall wrote: I now discover that moinmoin is no longer in bullseye so my wiki-pages about it are all gone I don't remember many details about moin-moin (is there a dash?), but many (most?) wikis have

Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0?

2022-03-03 Thread Tim Woodall
On Thu, 3 Mar 2022, Stella Ashburne wrote: Dearie Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2022 at 1:59 AM From: "Brian" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? On Wed 02 Mar 2022 at 09:01:55 +0100, Stella Ashburne wrote: Are you saying that my

Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0?

2022-03-01 Thread Tim Woodall
On Tue, 1 Mar 2022, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 02:42:29PM +, Tim Woodall wrote: My /etc/network/interfaces has: # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8) # Include files from /etc/network/interfaces.d: source-directory /etc/network/interfaces.d Did you write

Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0?

2022-03-01 Thread Tim Woodall
On Tue, 1 Mar 2022, Stella Ashburne wrote: Dearie Thanks for your clarification. Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2022 at 8:16 PM From: "Tim Woodall" To: "Stella Ashburne" Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? On Mon,

Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0?

2022-03-01 Thread Tim Woodall
On Mon, 28 Feb 2022, Stella Ashburne wrote: Dearie, Thanks for your reply. Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2022 at 3:10 AM From: to...@tuxteam.de To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: What should I put inside the file called wlan0? So if you have this in your /etc/network/interfaces

Re: website

2022-02-23 Thread Tim Woodall
On Wed, 23 Feb 2022, lina wrote: Hi, Does anybody know what is the cost range to build the website for a lab? including all, basically layout is research | people | publication Thanks for your help, Does anyone know what is the cost range to build a lab? including all basically layout

Re: Xfce4: screen visible upon resume before xscreensaver locks it

2022-02-23 Thread Tim Woodall
On Wed, 23 Feb 2022, John Crawley wrote: On 23/02/2022 11:50, John Crawley wrote: On 22/02/2022 23:12, Celejar wrote: Hello, I'm running Xfce4 on a recent install of Sid. I have configured Xfce4 to "Lock screen before sleep" (in Session and Startup / General), but when I use xscreensaver,

Re: Mouse problem.

2022-02-22 Thread Tim Woodall
On Tue, 22 Feb 2022, Tim Woodall wrote: I have a problem with my mouse which operates through a KVM switch. Unplugging and replugging the dongle does fix it until I use the switch box again. But unplugging the computer from the KVM box and plugging it back in does NOT fix the problem

Mouse problem.

2022-02-22 Thread Tim Woodall
I have a problem with my mouse which operates through a KVM switch. Initially it works fine but once I switch away from the computer and then switch back, the scroll wheel is "amplified". Testing with xev I see 16 messages where I previously expected to see one. rmmod usbhid; modprobe usbhid

Re: systemd/dhcp v. ntpd

2022-02-17 Thread Tim Woodall
On Wed, 16 Feb 2022, Lee wrote: On 2/12/22, Tim Woodall wrote: On Wed, 9 Feb 2022, Lee wrote: Any idea what the chances are of getting an enhancement request for the dhcp client to add an ignore option; that says not use the option given by the dhcp server? isc-dhcp-client? zero. https

Re: systemd/dhcp v. ntpd

2022-02-11 Thread Tim Woodall
On Wed, 9 Feb 2022, Lee wrote: Any idea what the chances are of getting an enhancement request for the dhcp client to add an ignore option; that says not use the option given by the dhcp server? isc-dhcp-client? zero. https://www.isc.org/dhcp/ The client and relay portions of ISC DHCP are

Re: Query

2022-02-07 Thread Tim Woodall
On Mon, 7 Feb 2022, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2022 at 04:31:51PM -0500, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: On 2/7/2022 10:50 AM, William Lee Valentine wrote: I am wondering whether a current Debian distribution can be installed and run on an older Pentium III computer. (I have Debian 11.2 on

Re: Screen goes blank for 1-2 seconds

2022-01-27 Thread Tim Woodall
On Thu, 27 Jan 2022, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2022-01-27 11:41:44 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2022-01-27 10:05:16 +0530, Pankaj Jangid wrote: Since I have setup a new hardware - x570 chipset, rx570 GPU - I am facing a very strange problem. The monitor goes blank for a brief time, like

Re: gnu screen and resizing terminal window

2022-01-27 Thread Tim Woodall
, that gives me something to investigate. At the moment, adding that causes the screen to resize to 80x24 when I attach or detatch which is not what I want but it gives me something to explore. Tim.

Re: gnu screen and resizing terminal window

2022-01-27 Thread Tim Woodall
On Wed, 26 Jan 2022, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On 2022-01-26 1:45 p.m., Tim Woodall wrote: I have to use PuTTY to connect to a debian server. For reasons that are outwith my control the ssh session disconnects every 24 hrs. Therefore I run screen so after reconnecting I can recover

gnu screen and resizing terminal window

2022-01-26 Thread Tim Woodall
this work for anyone? (long term I'm hoping to get permission to install cygwin and then use a X server and xterms and ssh from inside them or, even better, a debian laptop, but for now I'm stuck with putty) Tim.

Re: mailutils-pop3d not able to get it working

2022-01-25 Thread Tim Woodall
On Tue, 25 Jan 2022, Franco Martelli wrote: On 25/01/22 at 19:46, Tim Woodall wrote: I use dovecot but imap rather than pop3. I used to use mailutils-pop3d but I don't remember why I changed. dovecot does support pop3. Tim. mailutils-pop3d is a nightmare I don't know how to setup it. Do

Re: mailutils-pop3d not able to get it working

2022-01-25 Thread Tim Woodall
use dovecot but imap rather than pop3. I used to use mailutils-pop3d but I don't remember why I changed. dovecot does support pop3. Tim.

Re: Why is Debian not telling the truth about its security fixes?

2022-01-22 Thread Tim Woodall
On Sat, 22 Jan 2022, max wrote: WHY IS DEBIAN NOT TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT ITS SECURITY FIXES? snip rant. I could have the opposite rant. WHY IS DEBIAN NOT TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT ITS STABLE DISTRIBUTION. Because I have a machine (actually more than one) sat running buster that has SSH

Re: How to best whitelist CDN deb.debian.org?

2022-01-19 Thread Tim Woodall
On Wed, 19 Jan 2022, Andy Smith wrote: Hi Andreas, On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 08:23:15AM +0100, Andreas Ames wrote: I am sitting behind a firewall, in my case esp. ZScaler. I am wondering, what the best way is to whitelist "deb.debian.org" for package management. I think you may be going

Re: How to best whitelist CDN deb.debian.org?

2022-01-19 Thread Tim Woodall
Don't know anything about ZScaler but I use the peek and splice feature of squid to block/allow domains. (you need to build custom debian packages for this). Of course, this only works as long as ESNI can be blocked. Tim. On Wed, 19 Jan 2022, Andreas Ames wrote: Hello all, I am sitting

Re: Request of urgent help....

2022-01-13 Thread Tim Woodall
. But making a disk level backup first is strongly recommended! It's really easy to make things worse. It's not obvious to me why there is a gap between the end of the HFS partition and the start of sda3. That might be expected or might mean the sector numbers aren't quite right... Tim.

telling firefox 91 to always accept self signed certificate.

2022-01-02 Thread Tim Woodall
help this. Before I downgrade back to the old version of firefox is there anything I can do so that this "just works" without prompting? Tim.

Re: Identity Theft

2021-12-21 Thread Tim Woodall
On Tue, 21 Dec 2021, The Wanderer wrote: On 2021-12-21 at 09:10, Tim Woodall wrote: Will umatrix still work in firefox 91? Certainly didn't work for me in android v92. Is uMatrix on the whitelist of extensions that are allowed on the mobile version of Firefox? Some good number

Re: Identity Theft

2021-12-21 Thread Tim Woodall
On Tue, 21 Dec 2021, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: Le 21/12/2021 ? 14:24, Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE a ?crit?: It is the second one, "Noscript" in one word [1]. Several look-alike have spawn over the years. I also use Umatrix [2], but it is more complex. For Firefox: [1]

Re: GRUB really slow to boot

2021-12-19 Thread Tim Woodall
On Sun, 19 Dec 2021, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sun, Dec 19, 2021 at 07:19:40AM +, Tim Woodall wrote: Check if the kernel log jumps from 1/1/70 to today as it boots. That would point to the RTC being bad when the kernel first starts. Not sure which log I'd need to look

Re: Need Support on Debian10 Linux Kernel UpgradeA

2021-12-19 Thread Tim Woodall
On Fri, 17 Dec 2021, Balasubramanian Ravuthan wrote: Hi Dan, Thanks for your reply. We need few more information. 1. Debian 10 Buster is not released with Linux Kernel 5.10 ; That means We cant upgrade Kernel 5.10 with Debian 10? - Please confirm. As Dan says, it's in backports. I've

Re: IPv4 specific issue with USB tethering between my Debian laptop and my phone

2021-12-19 Thread Tim Woodall
On Sun, 19 Dec 2021, didier gaumet wrote: Le samedi 18 d?cembre 2021 ? 23:52 +0100, Vincent Lefevre a ?crit?: [...] I haven't tried wireshark on the other end. I wonder whether there is a replacement tool that doesn't need an X11 connection, to just do the capture of the packets. [...]

Re: Broken libc6 running Sid (multiarch sytem)

2021-12-18 Thread Tim Woodall
On Sat, 18 Dec 2021, Mark Allums wrote: Preparing to unpack .../libc6_2.33-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libc6:amd64 (2.33-1) over (2.34-0experimental1) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.33-1_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite shared

Re: GRUB really slow to boot

2021-12-18 Thread Tim Woodall
On Sat, 18 Dec 2021, Dan Ritter wrote: Greg Wooledge wrote: Today I rebooted my machine for the first time in quite a while, after the kernel update that was released along with Debian 11.2. ... Eventually, after a minute or two, the system booted. Everything is working normally now,

Re: doas 101 question

2021-12-17 Thread Tim Woodall
@coppi:~$ doas s mailman3 doas: s: command not found dnewman@coppi:~$ doas /usr/local/sbin/s mailman3 ? mailman3.service - GNU Mailing List Manager .. Do you have an alias for s? tim@einstein(4):~$ l /home/tim/bin/l says hello world tim@einstein(4):~$ alias l='PATH=/bin l' tim@einstein(4):~$ l bash: l

Re: IPv4 specific issue with USB tethering between my Debian laptop and my phone

2021-12-16 Thread Tim Woodall
On Fri, 17 Dec 2021, Vincent Lefevre wrote: Dan Ritter wrote: ip link set USBNET0 mtu 1450, or something like that. I don't know NetworkManager's syntax for that; random googling suggests that they at least had a historical problem with not being able to set MTU on anything other than a pure

Re: IPv4 specific issue with USB tethering between my Debian laptop and my phone

2021-12-15 Thread Tim Woodall
On Wed, 15 Dec 2021, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2021-12-15 06:09:12 +, Tim Woodall wrote: On Tue, 14 Dec 2021, Dan Ritter wrote: Vincent Lefevre wrote: Hi, When I use USB tethering between my Debian/unstable laptop and my Samsung Galaxy Note10+ phone (Android 11), everything is OK

xmodmap settings lost when (usb) keyboard reattached.

2021-12-15 Thread Tim Woodall
this setting when the keyboard is (re)attached, is there some other, better, way to make this setting stick? Tim.

Re: IPv4 specific issue with USB tethering between my Debian laptop and my phone

2021-12-14 Thread Tim Woodall
On Tue, 14 Dec 2021, Dan Ritter wrote: Vincent Lefevre wrote: Hi, When I use USB tethering between my Debian/unstable laptop and my Samsung Galaxy Note10+ phone (Android 11), everything is OK with IPv6 connections (e.g. "wget -6"), but IPv4 connections freeze (e.g. "wget -4" or "ssh -4"). I

Re: brave browser cannot print.

2021-12-14 Thread Tim Woodall
On Tue, 14 Dec 2021, Brian wrote: On Tue 14 Dec 2021 at 06:35:20 +, Tim Woodall wrote: Someone off-list suggested vivaldi which looks closer to what I want a browser to be - many/most things being configurable (and much closer to what firefox used to be) so I'm probably going to stop

Re: brave browser cannot print.

2021-12-13 Thread Tim Woodall
) On Mon, 13 Dec 2021, Brian wrote: On Sun 12 Dec 2021 at 18:11:55 +, Tim Woodall wrote: I've installed brave-browser but it cannot print. I get: "The selected printer is not available or not installed correctly. Check your printer or try selecting another" This machine is

brave browser cannot print.

2021-12-12 Thread Tim Woodall
e. Looks like brave doesn't have any way to set the proxy - so it's not going to work for me on android[1]. Not a debian question but does anyone know if there are any browsers that still allow setting the proxy, particulary on android? Tim. [1] I don't use android much but the OS is *incredib

Re: telling if we've actually booted from /boot/xen-4.14-amd64.gz

2021-12-12 Thread Tim Woodall
On Sun, 12 Dec 2021, Tim Woodall wrote: On Sun, 12 Dec 2021, Andy Smith wrote: Hi Tim, On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 10:11:04PM +, Tim Woodall wrote: Is there a simple way to tell if the kernel/hypervisor that was used to boot is the one currently installed in /boot. I do not do this - I

Re: telling if we've actually booted from /boot/xen-4.14-amd64.gz

2021-12-11 Thread Tim Woodall
On Sun, 12 Dec 2021, Andy Smith wrote: Hi Tim, On Fri, Dec 10, 2021 at 10:11:04PM +, Tim Woodall wrote: Is there a simple way to tell if the kernel/hypervisor that was used to boot is the one currently installed in /boot. I do not do this - I build my own hypervisor packages when

Re: I'm getting a dependencies error when trying to install roundcube 1.5.1 on my bullseye machine

2021-12-10 Thread Tim Woodall
do apt-get upgrade to update the roundcube version after you'd built it. Tim

Re: telling if we've actually booted from /boot/xen-4.14-amd64.gz

2021-12-10 Thread Tim Woodall
On Fri, 10 Dec 2021, Charles Curley wrote: On Fri, 10 Dec 2021 22:11:04 + (GMT) Tim Woodall wrote: Is there a good way to do what I want (which is to avoid missing an automatic upgrade and then not rebooting for months)? If you are using the unattended-upgrades package, you can set

Re: I'm getting a dependencies error when trying to install roundcube 1.5.1 on my bullseye machine

2021-12-10 Thread Tim Woodall
On Fri, 10 Dec 2021, Steve Dondley wrote: I'm running bullseye with roundcube version 1.4.11 currently installed. I am trying to upgrade to version 1.5.1. I followed the instructions at "SimpleBackportCreation" at https://wiki.debian.org/SimpleBackportCreation Everything went fine until

telling if we've actually booted from /boot/xen-4.14-amd64.gz

2021-12-10 Thread Tim Woodall
is ok, only the hypervisor check has failed with the recent update. For the kernel I grep for uname -r and uname -v. This update has fixed my power-off problem though :-) Tim.

Re: upgrade - packages have been kept back

2021-12-10 Thread Tim Woodall
On Fri, 10 Dec 2021, teamas...@mad-hatters-teatime.teanet.org wrote: On Thu, 9 Dec 2021 23:09:34 + "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: On Thu, Dec 09, 2021 at 11:58:33PM +0100, teamas...@mad-hatters-teatime.teanet.org wrote: hey, i have not been using debian for long and not sure how to proceed

Re: question about a .deb file

2021-12-08 Thread Tim Woodall
Tim.

Re: Apt pinning.

2021-11-29 Thread Tim Woodall
On Mon, 29 Nov 2021, The Wanderer wrote: Is there a reason you're using '+' as your separator? Yes - because, for example, squid I'm building with extra settings so I want my version to be higher than the corresponding buster/bullseye version. There is no backporting involved. I think this

Re: Apt pinning.

2021-11-29 Thread Tim Woodall
On Sun, 28 Nov 2021, David Wright wrote: I envisaged that what you wanted was: Debian ver. Task Your ver.Installed (highest) ver. 1.0 1.0 1.0 ? 1.0 1.0 patch 1.0 1.0 ? 5:1.0

Re: Apt pinning.

2021-11-27 Thread Tim Woodall
On Sat, 27 Nov 2021, David Wright wrote: On Sat 27 Nov 2021 at 19:07:14 (+), Tim Woodall wrote: Yes, I don't think I can do this with a generic pin. Maybe pinning origin "" to -100 might work - not sure if that will uninstall or downgrade (I'll experiment). I think adding exp

Re: Apt pinning.

2021-11-27 Thread Tim Woodall
On Sat, 27 Nov 2021, Dan Ritter wrote: Tim Woodall wrote: Can anyone tell me exactly what this Pin line I have actually does - or even better point me to a webpage that has more than "if you want to do this use this" type of example? (FTAOD I know that this isn't right and is in

Apt pinning.

2021-11-27 Thread Tim Woodall
rade if any packages are using make during configuation. Tim.

Re: what is flooding /var/tmp?

2021-11-25 Thread Tim Woodall
On Thu, 25 Nov 2021, Marc Auslander wrote: On 11/24/2021 10:40 PM, sp...@caiway.net wrote: Hello, My /var/tmp directory gets flooded by big files named: sort01ei1t sort01Eq7u sort01sLAs ... sortzZZtvv the files are approx. 13 Gb each. In 24 hours > 6000 are written. My big partition is

Re: Machine won't power off after upgrade to bullseye.

2021-11-24 Thread Tim Woodall
On Tue, 23 Nov 2021, Tim Woodall wrote: I have an old machine that I've just upgraded to bullseye. Now that it's upgraded it does not power off when I do halt -p. I see the following error: (copied so hopefully no typos) Will now halt. [ 183.942475] ACPI BIOS Error (bug): Could not resolve

Re: Machine won't power off after upgrade to bullseye.

2021-11-23 Thread Tim Woodall
On Tue, 23 Nov 2021, Brian wrote: On Tue 23 Nov 2021 at 18:02:03 +, Tim Woodall wrote: I have an old machine that I've just upgraded to bullseye. Now that it's upgraded it does not power off when I do halt -p. What happens with 'poweroff'? What is the difference between poweroff

Machine won't power off after upgrade to bullseye.

2021-11-23 Thread Tim Woodall
this problem before. Now I've got it on two different (older machines) I'll try downgrading the kernel back to 4.19 but has anyone else seen anything like this? Tim.

Re: Why can I not uninstall this package? (fwd)

2021-11-19 Thread Tim Woodall
Apologies, meant to reply to the list. I thought answering N to reply to all went to the list, not to the author - something else I need to fix... -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2021 19:10:24 + (GMT) From: Tim Woodall To: The Wanderer Subject: Re: Why can I

Why can I not uninstall this package?

2021-11-19 Thread Tim Woodall
.postinst -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 132 Aug 25 2009 libvolume-id0.postrm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root2179 Aug 25 2009 libvolume-id0.symbols -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29 Apr 19 2009 libvolume-id0.shlibs Tim.

Re: Monitors not coming out of power save when turned off

2021-10-29 Thread Tim Woodall
udev but I got into a tangle where it hung during boot and was a right pig to find and fix what had gone wrong so now I rely on manually running it when monitors change. I can post it if useful but it's very specific to my setup. (I'm HDMI rather than DP but I assume it's the same) Tim.

Re: Mutt can not delete mails

2021-10-28 Thread Tim Woodall
ething I didn't understand all those years ago when writing to /tmp failed) Tim.

Re: how to avoid the terminal overlap

2021-10-26 Thread Tim Woodall
On Tue, 26 Oct 2021, lina wrote: Hi, Once upgraded to the new system, I found that they would gather the same app in one tab. Such as Xfce terminal all in one, I want them to be listed one by one, not to be degenerated into one. Thanks for your suggestions, and sorry for the description, I

Re: ip6tables rule being rejected.

2021-10-10 Thread Tim Woodall
On Sun, 10 Oct 2021, Reco wrote: On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 12:06:25PM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: When I try to add the following rule: # ip6tables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 2001::/64 -d ! 2001:1::/64 -j ACCEPT Bad argument `2001:1::/64' Try `ip6tables -h' or 'ip6tables --help' for more

ip6tables rule being rejected.

2021-10-10 Thread Tim Woodall
Hi, When I try to add the following rule: # ip6tables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 2001::/64 -d ! 2001:1::/64 -j ACCEPT Bad argument `2001:1::/64' Try `ip6tables -h' or 'ip6tables --help' for more information. It is rejected. (Ignore the fact that this rule doesn't make a huge amount of sense,

Re: New mdadm RAID1 gets renamed from md3 to md127 after each reboot

2021-10-01 Thread Tim Woodall
On Fri, 1 Oct 2021, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Tim Woodall writes: On Fri, 1 Oct 2021, Reiner Buehl wrote: On 01.10.2021 16:11, Felix Miata wrote: Mine (old) is like so: # head -n3 /etc/mdadm.conf HOMEHOST DEVICE containers partitions ARRAY /dev/md0 metadata=1.0 name=msi85:0tmp UUID=... I

Re: New mdadm RAID1 gets renamed from md3 to md127 after each reboot

2021-10-01 Thread Tim Woodall
On Fri, 1 Oct 2021, Reiner Buehl wrote: On 01.10.2021 16:11, Felix Miata wrote: Mine (old) is like so: # head -n3 /etc/mdadm.conf HOMEHOST DEVICE containers partitions ARRAY /dev/md0 metadata=1.0 name=msi85:0tmp UUID=... I tried changing the HOMEHOST from to but that did not help.

Re: upgrading and stuff

2021-09-26 Thread Tim Woodall
On Sat, 25 Sep 2021, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 06:22:17PM -0400, songbird wrote: Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: [Upgrading from Debian 8.11] don't waste any more time trying to upgrade from a version that ancient. I've done 8 to 10 (by way of 9) on ten different

Re: write only storage.

2021-09-22 Thread Tim Woodall
Thank you very much! It might be a little while before I get time to experiment properly with this but I've saved this email for a free weekend. Tim. On Wed, 22 Sep 2021, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Tim Woodall wrote: If I wrote one session per day that would be c 30 sessions per disc

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