Re: Copy from xterm to text editor........ [solved]

2024-06-13 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 22:56:34 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 12:16:00PM +1000, Charlie wrote: > > Cannot recall what version of Debian stopped copying text in xterm > > by Ctrl + C or Shift + Ctrl + C So don't know how to copy from > > xterm > > xterm is a terminal

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Debian bookworm fails to install

2024-06-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Hi Hans! On Sat, Jun 08, 2024 at 11:43:38AM +0200, Hans wrote: > Hello! > > For those, who are interested in my discovering with bootcd, I attached a > screenshot of the > message, the installer told and why grub can not be installed. It might > explain more. > You might want to try OFTC

[SOLVED] Re: Debian bookworm fails to install

2024-06-08 Thread Hans
Hello! For those, who are interested in my discovering with bootcd, I attached a screenshot of the message, the installer told and why grub can not be installed. It might explain more. However, I suppose, there are not many people in the world, building a live-system + installer + bootcd on

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Debian bookworm fails to install

2024-06-08 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 8 Jun 2024 11:45:49 +0700 Max Nikulin wrote: Hello Max, >On 08/06/2024 00:48, Hans wrote: >> BUT - grub-efi-amd64-bin conflicts with grub-efi-amd64-bin-signed >No it does not. I have both installed. I think, the latter needs .mod The pedant in me would point out that actually, no,

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Debian bookworm fails to install

2024-06-07 Thread Max Nikulin
On 08/06/2024 00:48, Hans wrote: BUT - grub-efi-amd64-bin conflicts with grub-efi-amd64-bin-signed No it does not. I have both installed. I think, the latter needs .mod files provided by the former.

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Debian bookworm fails to install

2024-06-07 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 1:48 PM Hans wrote: > > Got it! Found the reason and a fix for it. > > Just not easy to find. It is an dependency-problem! > > What happened? > > Well, in ~config/mylist.list.chroot I added the package "bootcd", which shoul > exist in my live-system. During build this made

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Debian bookworm fails to install

2024-06-07 Thread Hans
Looks like a typo from me. apt-cache search grub-efi-amd | grep signed grub-efi-amd64-signed - GRand Unified Bootloader, version 2 (amd64 UEFI signed by Debian) grub-efi-amd64-signed-template - GRand Unified Bootloader, Version 2 (Signaturvorlage für EFI-AMD64) It is grub-efi-amd64-signed.

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Debian bookworm fails to install

2024-06-07 Thread David Wright
On Fri 07 Jun 2024 at 19:48:21 (+0200), Hans wrote: > Got it! Found the reason and a fix for it. > Just not easy to find. It is an dependency-problem! > > What happened? > > Well, in ~config/mylist.list.chroot I added the package "bootcd", which shoul > exist in my live- > system. During build

[SOLVED] Re: Debian bookworm fails to install

2024-06-07 Thread Hans
Got it! Found the reason and a fix for it. Just not easy to find. It is an dependency-problem! What happened? Well, in ~config/mylist.list.chroot I added the package "bootcd", which shoul exist in my live- system. During build this made no problems and all dependencies are ok. But - during

Re: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-06 Thread Curt
On 2024-06-03, Chris M wrote: > > Thunderbird is the name of a cheap wine? > A mutt is a mongrel dog, if that adds anything to the conversation.

Re: [solved] testing MATE upgrade broke panels, downgrading fixed it

2024-06-06 Thread songbird
songbird wrote: > > as an FYI, last night this wasn't a good idea: > > The following packages will be upgraded: >gir1.2-matepanelapplet-4.0 (1.27.1-2+b2 => 1.27.1-3) >libmate-panel-applet-4-1 (1.27.1-2+b2 => 1.27.1-3) >libmate-panel-applet-dev (1.27.1-2+b2 => 1.27.1-3) >

Re: WAS: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ).. NOW~~The dangers of .mbox mail clients?

2024-06-03 Thread David Wright
On Mon 03 Jun 2024 at 14:08:46 (-0500), Chris M wrote: > I am needing a "refresher course" on mail clients that use the .mbox > format to store emails. > It's been years since I've used this kind of mail client. > > Is there any "dangers" I need to know about? Like, keeping the mailbox > a

Re: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-03 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 3 Jun 2024 15:25:12 -0400 e...@gmx.us wrote: > The USAF Thunderbirds predate Gallo Thunderbird by at least a year. > They were founded in 1953, and the law allowing Gallo Thunderbird's > creation wasn't passed until the next year. The wine was certainly > out by 1957. The Ford

Re: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-03 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jun 04, 2024 at 03:45:11AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On 4/6/24 03:25, e...@gmx.us wrote: > > On 6/3/24 12:10, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > > > (who still hasn't figured out why Ford named a car, and the Air > > > Force named > > > its demonstration team, after that same cheap wine) > > >

Re: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-03 Thread Bret Busby
On 4/6/24 04:30, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 6/3/24 15:45, Bret Busby wrote: On 4/6/24 03:25, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 6/3/24 12:10, James H. H. Lampert wrote: (who still hasn't figured out why Ford named a car, and the Air Force named its demonstration team, after that same cheap wine) The USAF

Re: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-03 Thread Chris M
debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Chris M wrote: I love Evolution and Claws to a point. Its a PITA to forward emails with HTML in them, like the Informed Delivery email I get each morning letting us know whats coming in the USPS that day. Claws forwards mails with a text/html part just fine.

Re: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-03 Thread eben
On 6/3/24 15:45, Bret Busby wrote: On 4/6/24 03:25, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 6/3/24 12:10, James H. H. Lampert wrote: (who still hasn't figured out why Ford named a car, and the Air Force named its demonstration team, after that same cheap wine) The USAF Thunderbirds predate Gallo Thunderbird

Re: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-03 Thread debian-user
Chris M wrote: > I love Evolution and Claws to a point. Its a PITA to forward emails > with HTML in them, like the Informed Delivery email I get each morning > letting us know whats coming in the USPS that day. Claws forwards mails with a text/html part just fine. What's your actual problem with

Re: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-03 Thread Bret Busby
On 4/6/24 03:25, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 6/3/24 12:10, James H. H. Lampert wrote: (who still hasn't figured out why Ford named a car, and the Air Force named its demonstration team, after that same cheap wine) The USAF Thunderbirds predate Gallo Thunderbird by at least a year.  They were

Re: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-03 Thread eben
On 6/3/24 12:10, James H. H. Lampert wrote: (who still hasn't figured out why Ford named a car, and the Air Force named its demonstration team, after that same cheap wine) The USAF Thunderbirds predate Gallo Thunderbird by at least a year. They were founded in 1953, and the law allowing Gallo

WAS: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ).. NOW~~The dangers of .mbox mail clients?

2024-06-03 Thread Chris M
I am needing a "refresher course" on mail clients that use the .mbox format to store emails. It's been years since I've used this kind of mail client. Is there any "dangers" I need to know about? Like, keeping the mailbox a certain size? or a certain amount of emails per folder etc? The last

Re: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-03 Thread Chris M
James H. H. Lampert wrote: I will say that one should probably not expect perfection from an email reader that's named after a cheap wine. In my experience, T-Bird is the worst email reader I've ever used . . . except for *every other* email reader (without a single exception) I've tried.

Re: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-03 Thread Dan Ritter
Bret Busby wrote: > On 4/6/24 00:10, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > > I will say that one should probably not expect perfection from an email > > reader that's named after a cheap wine. > > > > ? USA-centric reference. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavored_fortified_wine -dsr-

Re: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-03 Thread Lee
On Mon, Jun 3, 2024 at 2:14 PM Bret Busby wrote: > > On 4/6/24 00:10, James H. H. Lampert wrote: > > I will say that one should probably not expect perfection from an email > > reader that's named after a cheap wine. > > ? Thunderbird wine was extremely inexpensive and 42 proof. In retrospect I'm

Re: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-03 Thread Bret Busby
On 4/6/24 00:10, James H. H. Lampert wrote: I will say that one should probably not expect perfection from an email reader that's named after a cheap wine. ? Bret Busby Armadale Western Australia (UTC+0800) .

Re: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-03 Thread James H. H. Lampert
I will say that one should probably not expect perfection from an email reader that's named after a cheap wine. In my experience, T-Bird is the worst email reader I've ever used . . . except for *every other* email reader (without a single exception) I've tried. I'm particularly irritated

Re: SeaMonkey et al - was - Re: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-02 Thread Chris M
Bret Busby wrote: On 3/6/24 04:14, Chris M wrote: Felix Miata wrote: It might be worth checking what language the emails are in. Thunderbird allows you to specify fonts separately for each writing system (e.g. if you want to specify fonts for Japanese or Greek or Khmer messages, you can

Re: [ SOLVED ] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-02 Thread Chris M
Bret Busby wrote: Hello, Chris. We appear to be 13 hours ahead of you (see my signature), so, the time here, is now about 0430. I am a creature of the night. OH man, 4:30 AM! That's way too early for me! Andika?  Search for it in Synaptic... :) I am not sure whether

SeaMonkey et al - was - Re: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-02 Thread Bret Busby
On 3/6/24 04:14, Chris M wrote: Felix Miata wrote: It might be worth checking what language the emails are in. Thunderbird allows you to specify fonts separately for each writing system (e.g. if you want to specify fonts for Japanese or Greek or Khmer messages, you can do). For English and

Re: [ SOLVED ] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-02 Thread Bret Busby
On 3/6/24 03:56, Chris M wrote: Bret Busby wrote: Whilst, at groups.io, two different Tbird email users lists exist; one for blind people, and, the other, for those of us who still have sufficient sight, and, these messages about Tbird, should, more properly, be directed to the Tbird users

[ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-02 Thread Chris M
Felix Miata wrote: It might be worth checking what language the emails are in. Thunderbird allows you to specify fonts separately for each writing system (e.g. if you want to specify fonts for Japanese or Greek or Khmer messages, you can do). For English and comparable languages, you want to

[ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-02 Thread Chris M
Bret Busby wrote: For Language Choose the languages used to display menus, messages, and notifications from Thunderbird. I have set English (GB) which, I expect, will confound anything that tries to impose characters that are not what I want. Bret Busby Armadale Western Australia

[ SOLVED ] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-02 Thread Chris M
Darac Marjal wrote: It might be worth checking what language the emails are in. Thunderbird allows you to specify fonts separately for each writing system (e.g. if you want to specify fonts for Japanese or Greek or Khmer messages, you can do). For English and comparable languages, you want to

[ SOLVED ] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-02 Thread Chris M
Bret Busby wrote: Whilst, at groups.io, two different Tbird email users lists exist; one for blind people, and, the other, for those of us who still have sufficient sight, and, these messages about Tbird, should, more properly, be directed to the Tbird users lists, try the following. In

[ SOLVED ] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-02 Thread Chris M
UPDATE: I might of found a solution to my problem: I somehow stumbled across: https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/seamonkey/addon/no-small-text/?src=search Then launched Seamonkey browser and set the " NO SMALL TEXT" settings to: https://imgur.com/a/DvJaTeG If you're in the US scroll down

Re: [solved] Re: No login with Debian 12 ssh client, ssh-rsa key, Debian 8 sshd

2024-06-01 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
Just to compare, when Red Hat released 9.0 maybe 2 years ago (9.2 is current until 30 June) they disabled by default many older key-lengths and algorithms in SSL that were known to be weak. This caused issues for existing installations. You could either re-enable the weaker methods (easy but a

Re: [Solved]: What DE to replace GNOME with?

2024-06-01 Thread songbird
DdB wrote: ... > But i cannot endorse on bookworm without finding alternatives viable to > my handicap. Does that mean, i am back to square one? > Currently, i am 6 years behind (still on debian 10), because i was not > willing to lose functionality i am used to. BTW: the GNOME team did that > to

Re: [solved] Re: No login with Debian 12 ssh client, ssh-rsa key, Debian 8 sshd

2024-06-01 Thread Max Nikulin
On 01/06/2024 16:42, Thomas Schmitt wrote: debug1: Remote protocol version 2.0, remote software version OpenSSH_6.7p1 Debian-5 (I wonder what the string "Debian-5" may mean. The Debian 12 machine has debug1: Local version string SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_9.2p1 Debian-2+deb12u2 So "-5" is not

Re: [Solved]: What DE to replace GNOME with?

2024-06-01 Thread Dan Ritter
DdB wrote: > Am 01.06.2024 um 11:02 schrieb Andrew M.A. Cater: > > You would need to go from buster - bullseye to bookworm anyway. > > > > Read the Release Notes for Bullseye to pick up on any changes. > > > > Do note also that Bookworm is currently supported: Bullseye security > > support ends

Re: [Solved]: What DE to replace GNOME with?

2024-06-01 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 1 Jun 2024 11:47:59 +0200 DdB wrote: Hello DdB, >BTW: the GNOME team did that to me repeatedly In fairness, it's not just Gnome that erodes features. TBH, they *all* do it. I've seen features removed from Plasma, Claws Mail, Tellico, loads of stuff. Worst of all is when the removal

Re: [Solved]: What DE to replace GNOME with?

2024-06-01 Thread DdB
Am 01.06.2024 um 11:02 schrieb Andrew M.A. Cater: > You would need to go from buster - bullseye to bookworm anyway. > > Read the Release Notes for Bullseye to pick up on any changes. > > Do note also that Bookworm is currently supported: Bullseye security > support ends round July 31st this year

[solved] Re: No login with Debian 12 ssh client, ssh-rsa key, Debian 8 sshd

2024-06-01 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > If I am not mistaken, the problem you are experiencing is due to using > RSA/SHA-1 on the old machine. Max Nikulin wrote: > My reading of /usr/share/doc/openssh-client/NEWS.Debian.gz is that ssh-rsa > means SHA1 while clients offers SHA256 for the same id_rsa key.

Re: [Solved]: What DE to replace GNOME with?

2024-06-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jun 01, 2024 at 08:52:14AM +0200, DdB wrote: > Am 31.05.2024 um 12:57 schrieb DdB: > > Hello, > > > > > > Now is the time to plan ahead for years to come and i don't know, what i > > should do. > > > > DdB > > Thanks for all your input. > In the meantime, i did check for the specific

[Solved]: What DE to replace GNOME with?

2024-06-01 Thread DdB
Am 31.05.2024 um 12:57 schrieb DdB: > Hello, > > while being on old-old-stable still (buster) and preparing for an > upgrade to bookworm, i noticed, that GNOME once again lost compatibility > to my preferred extensions, giving me a hard choice to either go on with > my outdated system as long as

[solved] Re: No login with Debian 12 ssh client, ssh-rsa key, Debian 8 sshd

2024-05-31 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, the following line in ~/.ssh/config did the trick: PubkeyAcceptedAlgorithms +ssh-rsa This lets ssh -v report: debug1: Offering public key: /home/.../.ssh/id_rsa RSA SHA256:... debug1: Server accepts key: /home/.../.ssh/id_rsa RSA SHA256:... Authenticated to ... ([...]:22) using

Re: no more sound after upgrade (trixie/sid) [SOLVED]

2024-05-26 Thread Lucio Crusca
In the end, the problem had nothing to do with APT pinning, mixing Debian flavors, nor anything else mentioned in the previous messages. I've just noticed that in my XFCE mixer there is a tab "Configuration", where you can set the audio profile. I don't even know what an audio profile is

[SOLVED] Re: speaker-test: no correct sound output on LFE and others speakers

2024-05-17 Thread Franco Martelli
digital out but this is not your setup. You can have a look at [1] for software fixes on this. [1] https://alsa.opensrc.org/SurroundSound I solved by buying a Toslink (S/PDIF) optical cable, and using thus the "Surround 5.1 Digital output" and unplugging the three jacks analog

Re: [SOLVED] Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition

2024-04-29 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed Apr 24, 2024 at 1:50 PM BST, Richard wrote: > upon gathering my thoughts for answering to you I found the solution to > this: update-initramfs can't handle the case that crypttab ends in the line > of the last entry and not in a new line character. I think there either > should be a fix for

Re: [SOLVED] Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition

2024-04-26 Thread John Crawley
On 26/04/2024 12:56, David Wright wrote: On Fri 26 Apr 2024 at 11:27:24 (+0900), John Crawley wrote: Innocent question: what difference does the comment make vs just ending the file with an empty line? Nothing for the computer, but visibility for me. Say you print the file on paper. All you

Last line [was: Re: [SOLVED] Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition]

2024-04-26 Thread Max Nikulin
On 26/04/2024 10:56, David Wright wrote: Editor examples: a windowed emacs buffer has a ≣ decoration at the extreme left edge after the last line of text, so that you can distinguish an absence of lines from empty lines. Perhaps that decoration should be explicitly enabled. However it

Re: [SOLVED] Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition

2024-04-25 Thread David Wright
On Fri 26 Apr 2024 at 11:27:24 (+0900), John Crawley wrote: > On 24/04/2024 22:37, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 24 Apr 2024 at 14:50:36 (+0200), Richard wrote: > > > upon gathering my thoughts for answering to you I found the solution to > > > this: update-initramfs can't handle the case that

Re: [SOLVED] Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition

2024-04-25 Thread John Crawley
On 24/04/2024 22:37, David Wright wrote: On Wed 24 Apr 2024 at 14:50:36 (+0200), Richard wrote: upon gathering my thoughts for answering to you I found the solution to this: update-initramfs can't handle the case that crypttab ends in the line of the last entry and not in a new line character.

Re: [SOLVED] Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition

2024-04-24 Thread David Wright
On Wed 24 Apr 2024 at 14:50:36 (+0200), Richard wrote: > upon gathering my thoughts for answering to you I found the solution to > this: update-initramfs can't handle the case that crypttab ends in the line > of the last entry and not in a new line character. I think there either > should be a fix

Re: [SOLVED] Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition

2024-04-24 Thread Richard
Hi Michel, upon gathering my thoughts for answering to you I found the solution to this: update-initramfs can't handle the case that crypttab ends in the line of the last entry and not in a new line character. I think there either should be a fix for this or at least a way to handle this case with

Re: SOLVED: Re: Glitchy sound in Steam games after hard drive upgrade

2024-04-23 Thread eben
On 4/24/24 00:46, Charlie Gibbs wrote: On 2024-04-22 16:50, Jeffrey Walton wrote: What are the old and new hard drive model numbers and specs? Correction: the 4TB drive is a Western Digital WD40EFPX.  I was reading it by shining a flashlight through a gap in the frame and squinting from a

SOLVED: Re: Glitchy sound in Steam games after hard drive upgrade

2024-04-23 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On 2024-04-22 16:50, Jeffrey Walton wrote: What are the old and new hard drive model numbers and specs? Correction: the 4TB drive is a Western Digital WD40EFPX. I was reading it by shining a flashlight through a gap in the frame and squinting from a wide angle because I didn't want to take

Re: SOLVED (was: Re: using mbuffer: what am i doing wrong?)

2024-04-14 Thread Marc SCHAEFER
On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 04:14:33PM +0200, DdB wrote: > - the resulting transfer is way faster than say ... ssh. AFAIK ssh is mono-threaded (like OpenVPN, unless you use the kernel module). wireguard is multi-threaded. The symptom will be one CPU ("core") at 100% and the rest mostly idle.

[SOLVED] Re: config files - newline possible?

2024-04-11 Thread Hans
Hi Greg, ah, I wasn't aware of this. This is really great news! And it will help me much. You made my day! Thank you very much. Best regards Hans > On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 08:42:20PM +0200, Hans wrote: > > in my case it is the config freom from bootcdwrite, which is > > bootcdwrite.conf. >

SOLVED (was: Re: using mbuffer: what am i doing wrong?)

2024-04-11 Thread DdB
Am 11.04.2024 um 15:49 schrieb Marc SCHAEFER: > Hello, > > On Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 03:13:01PM +0200, DdB wrote: >> from my research, the abbreviated takeaway is: > > I never used mbuffer, I use buffer combined with netcat-traditional: > ># receiver (TCP server on port 8000) >nc -l -p

[SOLVED Re: network-priority?

2024-04-05 Thread Hans
Hi all, thank you for the fast response. Your answers did help much and made everything clear. Have a nice weekend! Best Hans

Re: readonly installer, (SOLVED)

2024-04-04 Thread Anders Andersson
On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 4:06 AM Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > I have a 128 MB USB flash drive from back in the day that includes a write > > protect switch. There are few products today that offer that feature. > > Side note: AFAIK this "write protect switch" doesn't prevent writing. > It just

Re: readonly installer, (SOLVED)

2024-04-04 Thread David Christensen
On 4/3/24 19:05, Stefan Monnier wrote: I have a 128 MB USB flash drive from back in the day that includes a write protect switch. There are few products today that offer that feature. Side note: AFAIK this "write protect switch" doesn't prevent writing. It just tells your card reader that

Re: readonly installer, (SOLVED)

2024-04-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I have a 128 MB USB flash drive from back in the day that includes a write > protect switch. There are few products today that offer that feature. Side note: AFAIK this "write protect switch" doesn't prevent writing. It just tells your card reader that you'd like to avoid writing to it.

Re: readonly installer, (SOLVED)

2024-04-03 Thread David Christensen
On 4/3/24 08:16, David Wright wrote: On Tue 02 Apr 2024 at 05:54:06 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: On 4/1/24 11:35, DdB wrote: Am 01.04.2024 um 18:52 schrieb David Christensen: A bad USB flash drive would explain why you cannot boot the Debian installer.  Please buy a good quality USB 3.0+

Re: readonly installer, (SOLVED)

2024-04-03 Thread David Wright
On Tue 02 Apr 2024 at 05:54:06 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > On 4/1/24 11:35, DdB wrote: > > Am 01.04.2024 um 18:52 schrieb David Christensen: > > > A bad USB flash drive would explain why you cannot boot the Debian > > > installer.  Please buy a good quality USB 3.0+ flash drive and try

Re: Debian ISOs on USB stick, was: SOLVED

2024-04-03 Thread David Christensen
On 4/3/24 03:36, David Christensen wrote: On 4/3/24 00:30, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, David Christensen wrote: It's a relatively simple experiment to confirm that a USB flash drive with d-i changes after the first boot. This could still be   

Re: Debian ISOs on USB stick, was: SOLVED

2024-04-03 Thread David Christensen
On 4/3/24 00:30, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, David Christensen wrote: It's a relatively simple experiment to confirm that a USB flash drive with d-i changes after the first boot. This could still be https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1056998 where Lenovo BIOS and/or

Debian ISOs on USB stick, was: SOLVED

2024-04-03 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, David Christensen wrote: > It's a relatively simple experiment to confirm that a USB flash drive with > d-i changes after the first boot. This could still be https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1056998 where Lenovo BIOS and/or MS-Windows altered the USB stick. > Same for

Re: Debian ISOs on USB stick, was: SOLVED

2024-04-02 Thread David Christensen
On 4/2/24 08:56, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, David Christensen wrote: the Debian installer modifies the contents of the USB flash drive when it runs. Do you mean inside the range of the ISO image or outside by creating a new partition ? songbird wrote: if it is an iso image copied to the

Re: SOLVED

2024-04-02 Thread David Christensen
On 4/2/24 07:55, songbird wrote: David Christensen wrote: I thought about suggesting that in my last post, but did not want to complicate things. A key advantage of using a CD-R disc is that you can verify the disc contents and/or checksum against the ISO and/or checksum now and in the future.

Debian ISOs on USB stick, was: SOLVED

2024-04-02 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, David Christensen wrote: > > the Debian installer modifies the contents of the USB flash drive when > > it runs. Do you mean inside the range of the ISO image or outside by creating a new partition ? songbird wrote: > if it is an iso image copied to the USB stick it should not > be

Re: SOLVED

2024-04-02 Thread songbird
David Christensen wrote: > I thought about suggesting that in my last post, but did not want to > complicate things. A key advantage of using a CD-R disc is that you can > verify the disc contents and/or checksum against the ISO and/or checksum > now and in the future. This is not true for a

Re: SOLVED

2024-04-02 Thread David Christensen
On 4/1/24 11:35, DdB wrote: Am 01.04.2024 um 18:52 schrieb David Christensen: A bad USB flash drive would explain why you cannot boot the Debian installer.  Please buy a good quality USB 3.0+ flash drive and try again. A friend of mine just let me use an external CD-Drive with the netboot

SOLVED (was: Re: help needed to get a bookworm install to succeed)

2024-04-01 Thread DdB
Am 01.04.2024 um 18:52 schrieb David Christensen: > A bad USB flash drive would explain why you cannot boot the Debian > installer.  Please buy a good quality USB 3.0+ flash drive and try again. A friend of mine just let me use an external CD-Drive with the netboot image. This is already the

[SOLVED] Re: variables in bash

2024-03-28 Thread Hans
Hi, thank you all for the fast response. It helped a lot and made everything clear. The problem is solved. Have a nice eastern. Best Hans

Re: Wifi - unable to connect. [solved]

2024-03-04 Thread Kamil Jońca
Jeffrey Walton writes: > On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 4:58 PM Greg wrote: >> >> On 2/26/24 18:52, Kamil Jońca wrote: >> [...] >> > >> > What if: >> > network = { >> > ssid="ssid" >> > key_mgmt=WPA-EAP >> > eap=PEAP >> > identity="uid" >> > phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2" >> >

Re: Wifi - unable to connect. [solved]

2024-03-04 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 4:58 PM Greg wrote: > > On 2/26/24 18:52, Kamil Jońca wrote: > [...] > > > > What if: > > network = { > > ssid="ssid" > > key_mgmt=WPA-EAP > > eap=PEAP > > identity="uid" > > phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2" > > mesh_fwding=1 > >

Re: Wifi - unable to connect. [solved]

2024-03-04 Thread Greg
On 2/26/24 18:52, Kamil Jońca wrote: [...] What if: network = { ssid="ssid" key_mgmt=WPA-EAP eap=PEAP identity="uid" phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2" mesh_fwding=1 password="pas" } Bingo! Dzięki wielkie, ułatwiłeś mi życie. Regards Greg

Re: SOLVED Re: Disk corruption and performance issue.

2024-02-26 Thread Tim Woodall
On Mon, 26 Feb 2024, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 06:25:53PM +, Tim Woodall wrote: Feb 17 17:01:49 xen17 vmunix: [3.802581] ata1.00: disabling queued TRIM support Feb 17 17:01:49 xen17 vmunix: [3.805074] ata1.00: disabling queued TRIM support from

Re: SOLVED Re: Disk corruption and performance issue.

2024-02-26 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 06:25:53PM +, Tim Woodall wrote: > Feb 17 17:01:49 xen17 vmunix: [3.802581] ata1.00: disabling queued TRIM > support > Feb 17 17:01:49 xen17 vmunix: [3.805074] ata1.00: disabling queued TRIM > support > > > from libata-core.c > > { "Samsung SSD 870*",

Re: SOLVED Re: Disk corruption and performance issue.

2024-02-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
>>> You should not be running trim in a container/virtual machine >> Why not? That's, in my case, basically saying "you should not be running >> trim on a drive exported via iscsi" Perhaps I shouldn't be but I'd like >> to understand why. Enabling thin_provisioning and fstrim works and gets >>

Re: SOLVED Re: Disk corruption and performance issue.

2024-02-26 Thread Gremlin
On 2/26/24 16:31, Tim Woodall wrote: On Mon, 26 Feb 2024, Gremlin wrote: re running fstrim in a vm. The Host system takes care of it I guess you've no idea what iscsi is. Because this makes no sense at all. systemd or no systemd. The physical disk doesn't have to be something the host

Re: SOLVED Re: Disk corruption and performance issue.

2024-02-26 Thread Tim Woodall
On Mon, 26 Feb 2024, Gremlin wrote: re running fstrim in a vm. The Host system takes care of it I guess you've no idea what iscsi is. Because this makes no sense at all. systemd or no systemd. The physical disk doesn't have to be something the host system knows anything about. Here's a

Re: SOLVED Re: Disk corruption and performance issue.

2024-02-26 Thread Gremlin
On 2/26/24 14:40, Tim Woodall wrote: On Mon, 26 Feb 2024, Gremlin wrote: Are you using systemd ? No, I'm not You should not be running trim in a container/virtual machine Why not? That's, in my case, basically saying "you should not be running trim on a drive exported via iscsi" Perhaps I

Re: SOLVED Re: Disk corruption and performance issue.

2024-02-26 Thread Tim Woodall
On Mon, 26 Feb 2024, Gremlin wrote: Are you using systemd ? No, I'm not You should not be running trim in a container/virtual machine Why not? That's, in my case, basically saying "you should not be running trim on a drive exported via iscsi" Perhaps I shouldn't be but I'd like to

Re: SOLVED Re: Disk corruption and performance issue.

2024-02-26 Thread Gremlin
On 2/26/24 13:25, Tim Woodall wrote: TLDR; there was a firmware bug in a disk in the raid array resulting in data corruption. A subsequent kernel workaround resulted in dramatically reducing the disk performance. (probably just writes but I didn't confirm) Initially, under heavy disk load I

SOLVED Re: Disk corruption and performance issue.

2024-02-26 Thread Tim Woodall
TLDR; there was a firmware bug in a disk in the raid array resulting in data corruption. A subsequent kernel workaround resulted in dramatically reducing the disk performance. (probably just writes but I didn't confirm) Initially, under heavy disk load I got errors like: Preparing to unpack

solved: How can we change the keyboard layout? (was: what keyboard do you use?)

2024-02-06 Thread hw
On Tue, 2024-02-06 at 01:37 -0500, Brian Sammon wrote: > On Mon, 05 Feb 2024 21:06:30 +0100 > hw wrote: > > > Yes, it's a misunderstanding: How can we change the keyboard layout? > > [...] > https://medium.com/@canadaduane/key-remapping-in-linux-2021-edition-47320999d2aa So this allowed me to

Re: (SOLVED) disable trackpad when mouse is connected (GNOME bug?)

2024-01-25 Thread Keith Bainbridgge
Good afternoon Another option is to use a keyboard shortcut. My last laptop came with this set up using a Fn key combo (eg fn-f5) So I'm using a key that was set to answer MSteams calls - what? Check keyboard - shortcuts - touchpad. cinnamon gives options of toggle/switch on/ switch-off. I

Re: (SOLVED) disable trackpad when mouse is connected (GNOME bug?)

2024-01-25 Thread Max Nikulin
On 25/01/2024 21:42, Max Nikulin wrote: Try     lsusb --verbose --tree I have received a private reply. Please, send messages to the mailing list in such cases. I intentionally combined -vt options and I find output more convenient than for just "lsusb -t". The "-t" option changes

Re: (SOLVED) disable trackpad when mouse is connected (GNOME bug?)

2024-01-25 Thread Max Nikulin
On 25/01/2024 20:42, Henning Follmann wrote: The issue is a usb hub. Somehow GNOME thinks this hub is a mouse. Try lsusb --verbose --tree perhaps somebody plugged in a tiny receiver for a wireless mouse and forgot about it.

(SOLVED) disable trackpad when mouse is connected (GNOME bug?)

2024-01-25 Thread Henning Follmann
On Wed, Jan 24, 2024 at 03:30:23PM -0500, Henning Follmann wrote: > Hello, > for a while I am using > > gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad send-events > 'disabled-on-external-mouse' > > which really worked fine. > > But since last week this does not work anymore; in the way

Re: SOLVED: Re: Chromium oops: libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so

2024-01-24 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 07:33:59 + Tixy wrote: > On Tue, 2024-01-23 at 13:34 -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > [...] > > As you've already found out, that's not the latest one, and if I'm not > mistaken is the one that introduce a wifi bug [1], so that could > explain it getting stuck in the

Re: SOLVED: Re: Chromium oops: libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so

2024-01-23 Thread Tixy
On Tue, 2024-01-23 at 13:34 -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > I went to shut down the machine, and it got stuck trying to shut down > wpa_supplicant and Network Manager. Ten minutes into the shutdown, I > finally pulled the plug. A few reboots and shutdowns later, I decided > to try another kernel. I

Re: SOLVED: Re: Chromium oops: libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so

2024-01-23 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 09:25:58 +0700 Max Nikulin wrote: > On 24/01/2024 03:34, Charles Curley wrote: > > So I purged the newer kernel, inux-image-6.1.0-15-amd64 > > The current kernel is linux-image-6.1.0-17-amd64 > > Perhaps you have not restored your sources.list or apt preferences > after

Re: SOLVED: Re: Chromium oops: libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so

2024-01-23 Thread Max Nikulin
On 24/01/2024 03:34, Charles Curley wrote: So I purged the newer kernel, inux-image-6.1.0-15-amd64 The current kernel is linux-image-6.1.0-17-amd64 Perhaps you have not restored your sources.list or apt preferences after the accidents with kernel bugs. Check that nothing extra is added and

SOLVED: Re: Chromium oops: libva error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so

2024-01-23 Thread Charles Curley
run chromium, I get: > > charles@jhegaala:~$ chromium & > [2] 33609 > charles@jhegaala:~$ libva error: > /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dri/iHD_drv_video.so init failed > > charles@jhegaala:~$ I seem to have solved this problem, entirely by accident. I went to shut down the

[SOLVED] Re: Libreoffice hangs at start

2024-01-22 Thread Hans
Hi all, I could obviously solve the problem. It was not, as formerly guessed, the /etc/hosts file, the reason was found in ~/.cache/* In ~/.cache/* I found several old files of documents (*.odt, *.ods). The customer told me, that not all files could be opened. Some opened fast, others real

SOLVED Re: No Release file for Security Update SOLVED

2024-01-18 Thread Thomas George
  The following sources.list which I copied from wiki.debian.org/SourcesList works perfectly for me deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main non-free-firmware contrib non-free deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main non-free-firmware contrib non-free deb

Re: No Release file for Security Update SOLVED

2024-01-18 Thread Thomas George
  New sources.list file works perfectly deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main non-free-firmware contrib non-free deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main non-free-firmware contrib non-free deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-updates main non-free-firmware contrib

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