Windows Update and dual booting linux

2024-08-27 Thread George at Clug
Hi, I noticed the below issue today. I think it only affects certain configuration of dual booting so not too many people should be affected. Does anyone know of people who have been affected? https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/21/24225108/microsoft-security-update-windows-linux-dual-boot

Re: update-alternatives: install with permanent arguments

2024-08-22 Thread Henning Follmann
ines... > > > > > do it manually, not with update-alternatives > > Why so? Could I not feed the script path to update-alternatives install? > > Well, if it works, then I guess it's OK. > Exactly. And if you want it less "hackish", build a deb where t

Re: update-alternatives: install with permanent arguments

2024-08-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 14:33:22 +0300, Dmitrii Odintcov wrote: > Hi Greg, > > > This has occurred to me, but seemed like a bit of a hack and less > convenient to transfer to other machines... > > > do it manually, not with update-alternatives > Why so? Could I

Re: update-alternatives: install with permanent arguments

2024-08-22 Thread Dmitrii Odintcov
Hi Greg, This has occurred to me, but seemed like a bit of a hack and less convenient to transfer to other machines... > do it manually, not with update-alternatives Why so? Could I not feed the script path to update-alternatives install? Thanks On Thu, 22 Aug 2024 at 14:02, Greg Woole

Re: update-alternatives: install with permanent arguments

2024-08-22 Thread Greg Wooledge
the file is saved (like `crontab -e` does, for > example) > > I cannot do `update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/editor editor > "$(which codium) --wait --reuse-window" 0` because the "alternative > path doesn't exist". > > Suggestions? Write a wr

update-alternatives: install with permanent arguments

2024-08-22 Thread Dmitrii Odintcov
Let's say I want to install VS Code / Codium as an alternative for `/usr/bin/editor`, but I want it to always run with `--wait --reuse-window` so that other software can rely on the editor returning after the file is saved (like `crontab -e` does, for example) I cannot do `update-alterna

Re: Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

2024-08-06 Thread Brian
> > > > > > Aug  2 07:05:20 named[76759]: transfer of '/IN' > > > > from #53: Transfer status: too many records > > > > > > > > There are about 1,400 records in that domain which has never posed a > > > > problem in the p

Re: Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

2024-08-02 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
x27; > > > > from #53: Transfer status: too many records > > > > > > > > There are about 1,400 records in that domain which has never posed a > > > > problem in the past. > > > > > > > > We have tried force transfers

Re: Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

2024-08-02 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 02/08/2024 11:35, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: That new upstream version (9.20.0) is in sid/trixie. Buster has this: You're right, I've been once more confused by the lack of any logical sequence between Debian release codenames. -- We are the people our parents warned us about. Eduardo M K

Re: Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

2024-08-02 Thread Jeffrey Walton
00 records in that domain which has never posed a > > > problem in the past. > > > > > > We have tried force transfers, purging journal files and nothing seems to > > > work. > > > > > > We rolled back the update to one performed earlier in the

Re: Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

2024-08-02 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
s, purging journal files and nothing seems to > > work. > > > > We rolled back the update to one performed earlier in the month and now > > everything is working. > > > > Anybody have any idea what is going on with this latest update? > > I think this

Re: Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

2024-08-02 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 10:55:55AM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On 02/08/2024 10:44, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 10:15:38AM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > > Maybe related to https://kb.isc.org/docs/rrset-limits-in-zones ? > > > > > > See also > > > https:/

Re: Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

2024-08-02 Thread Jeffrey Walton
3: Transfer status: too many records > > There are about 1,400 records in that domain which has never posed a problem > in the past. > > We have tried force transfers, purging journal files and nothing seems to > work. > > We rolled back the update to one performed earlier in the

Re: Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

2024-08-02 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 02/08/2024 10:44, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Fri, Aug 02, 2024 at 10:15:38AM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Maybe related to https://kb.isc.org/docs/rrset-limits-in-zones ? See also https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2024/msg00145.html (even if it does not directly apply

Re: Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

2024-08-02 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
urging journal files and nothing seems > > to work. > > > > We rolled back the update to one performed earlier in the month and now > > everything is working. > > > > Anybody have any idea what is going on with this latest update? > > Maybe related to https:

Re: Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

2024-08-02 Thread Brian
Aug  2 07:05:20 named[76759]: transfer of '/IN' > from #53: Transfer status: too many records > > There are about 1,400 records in that domain which has never posed a > problem in the past. > > We have tried force transfers, purging journal files and nothing seems &

Re: Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

2024-08-02 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
are about 1,400 records in that domain which has never posed a problem in the past. We have tried force transfers, purging journal files and nothing seems to work. We rolled back the update to one performed earlier in the month and now everything is working. Anybody have any idea what i

Large Zone Transfers Failing in Latest Buster Update

2024-08-02 Thread Brian
which has never posed a problem in the past. We have tried force transfers, purging journal files and nothing seems to work. We rolled back the update to one performed earlier in the month and now everything is working. Anybody have any idea what is going on with this latest update? Thanks, Brian

Re: How to update environment variable output

2024-07-30 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 23/7/24 23:22, Keith Bainbridge wrote: Another is to fetch the epoch time value (%s) and then use that value in all future calls. With GNU date: now=$(date +%s) julian=$(date -d "@$now" +%j) dom=$(date -d "@$now" +%d) Good evening All - especially Greg This process has work

Re: How to update environment variable output

2024-07-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 21:08:29 +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > So when I opened my xterm this morning, I saw: >  keith@lenv0 > >  Tue 23Jul2024@19:19:30 205.2024 AEST >  :~   $> > > You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/keith > > > Pressed enter, and the day# updated: > >  keith@lenv0 > >  

Re: How to update environment variable output

2024-07-24 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 23/7/24 23:22, Keith Bainbridge wrote: On 23 July 2024 9:42:27 pm AEST, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 18:02:53 +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote: From the tab I had used earlier, ran source .bashrc then :/tmp/205.2024 $>mkcd /tmp/day$DOYR.$YEAR So you're setting

Re: How to update environment variable output

2024-07-23 Thread David Wright
On Tue 23 Jul 2024 at 15:00:12 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 13:38:48 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 23 Jul 2024 at 09:31:36 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 23:22:52 +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > > > The day# in my command prompt inc

Re: How to update environment variable output

2024-07-23 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 13:38:48 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 23 Jul 2024 at 09:31:36 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 23:22:52 +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > > The day# in my command prompt increments when I start in the morning. > > > Maybe I need to press ent

Re: How to update environment variable output

2024-07-23 Thread David Wright
On Tue 23 Jul 2024 at 09:31:36 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 23:22:52 +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > The day# in my command prompt increments when I start in the morning. Maybe > > I need to press enter. > > That makes it sound like you're setting the YEAR et al. var

Re: How to update environment variable output

2024-07-23 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 23:22:52 +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > The day# in my command prompt increments when I start in the morning. Maybe I > need to press enter. That makes it sound like you're setting the YEAR et al. variables in the PROMPT_COMMAND variable. If that's the case, it's *less*

Re: How to update environment variable output

2024-07-23 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 23 July 2024 9:42:27 pm AEST, Greg Wooledge wrote: >On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 18:02:53 +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote: >> From the tab I had used earlier, ran source .bashrc >> >> then >> :/tmp/205.2024 $>mkcd /tmp/day$DOYR.$YEAR > >So you're setting those variables one time inside you

Re: How to update environment variable output

2024-07-23 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 18:02:53 +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > From the tab I had used earlier, ran source .bashrc > > then > :/tmp/205.2024 $>mkcd /tmp/day$DOYR.$YEAR So you're setting those variables one time inside your .bashrc file? This is quite bad. What happens when you have a

Re: How to update environment variable output

2024-07-23 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 17:02:08 +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > mkcd () > { > mkdir -p $1 > cd $1 > } You're missing quotes. Two sets. You probably also want && between the two commands, to check for the success of the mkdir before attempting a cd. > in the form :~ $> mkcd > /mn

How to update environment variable output

2024-07-23 Thread Keith Bainbridge
Addendum 2 adding the full path to .bashrc failed So I tried opening a new xterm tab and ran Tue 23Jul2024@17:07:43 205.2024 AEST :~ $> mkcd /tmp/$DOYR.$YEAR and landed in /tmp/205.2024 $> Looking good From the tab I had used earlier, ran source .bashrc then :/tmp/205.2024 $>

How to update environment variable output

2024-07-23 Thread Keith Bainbridge
Addendum So I tried opening a new xterm tab and ran Tue 23Jul2024@17:07:43 205.2024 AEST :~ $> mkcd /tmp/$DOYR.$YEAR and landed in /tmp/205.2024 $> Looking good From the tab I had used earlier, ran source .bashrc then :/tmp/205.2024 $>mkcd /tmp/day$DOYR.$YEAR and landed in

How to update environment variable output

2024-07-23 Thread Keith Bainbridge
Good afternoon All For reference, today is Tue 23Jul2024@15:41:47 205.2024 AEST This is part of my command prompt, generated by PS1='\n \u@\h \n\n $(date +"%a %d%b%Y@%H:%M:%S %j.%Y %Z") \n :\w $> ' My calculation is that today is day 205 When I run this function mkcd () { mkdir -p

Re: update system periodically

2024-07-22 Thread Erwan David
On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 04:06:55PM CEST, Michael Kjörling said: > On 22 Jul 2024 05:47 +0800, from cor...@free.fr: > > I have been running an old debian 11 for many days. > > is it safe to run 'apt upgrade' and 'apt update' periodically? > > for exampl

Re: update system periodically

2024-07-22 Thread David Wright
On Sun 21 Jul 2024 at 22:01:58 (-0600), Charles Curley wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jul 2024 18:43:28 -0500 > David Wright wrote: > > > I run the following from root's crontab: > > > > apt-get -qq -o Acquire::http::Proxy="http://192.168.1.14:3142/"; > >

Re: update system periodically

2024-07-22 Thread Michael Kjörling
On 22 Jul 2024 05:47 +0800, from cor...@free.fr: > I have been running an old debian 11 for many days. > is it safe to run 'apt upgrade' and 'apt update' periodically? > for example put them into crontab. `apt update` (and `apt-get update`) will only update the pac

Re: update system periodically

2024-07-21 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 22 Jul 2024 05:47:58 +0800 cor...@free.fr wrote: > I have been running an old debian 11 for many days. > is it safe to run 'apt upgrade' and 'apt update' periodically? > for example put them into crontab. I suggest you do the next update manually. Then you

Re: update system periodically

2024-07-21 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 21 Jul 2024 18:43:28 -0500 David Wright wrote: > I run the following from root's crontab: > > apt-get -qq -o Acquire::http::Proxy="http://192.168.1.14:3142/"; > update && apt-get -qq -d -o > Acquire::http::Proxy="http://192.168.1.14:31

Re: update system periodically

2024-07-21 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Mon, Jul 22, 2024 at 05:47:58AM +0800, cor...@free.fr wrote: > is it safe to run 'apt upgrade' and 'apt update' periodically? > for example put them into crontab. I prefer to use apticron to download updates daily and tell me about them, and then for me to

Re: update system periodically

2024-07-21 Thread David Wright
On Mon 22 Jul 2024 at 05:47:58 (+0800), cor...@free.fr wrote: > I have been running an old debian 11 for many days. > is it safe to run 'apt upgrade' and 'apt update' periodically? > for example put them into crontab. I run the following from root's crontab: a

Re: update system periodically

2024-07-21 Thread Greg Wooledge
, for a stable release to receive a security update which breaks backward compatibility. In such cases, there should be a NEWS file excerpt, which is shown to you by apt or apt-get, which explains the changes. You'll want to be aware of any such changes, which would not be the case with a fully

Re: update system periodically

2024-07-21 Thread Bret Busby
On 22/7/24 07:34, Bret Busby wrote: On 22/7/24 05:47, cor...@free.fr wrote: Hi list, I have been running an old debian 11 for many days. is it safe to run 'apt upgrade' and 'apt update' periodically? for example put them into crontab. I ask this question because I

Re: update system periodically

2024-07-21 Thread Bret Busby
On 22/7/24 05:47, cor...@free.fr wrote: Hi list, I have been running an old debian 11 for many days. is it safe to run 'apt upgrade' and 'apt update' periodically? for example put them into crontab. I ask this question because I am worried that some software updates may

Re: update system periodically

2024-07-21 Thread eben
On 7/21/24 17:47, cor...@free.fr wrote: Hi list, I have been running an old debian 11 for many days. is it safe to run 'apt upgrade' and 'apt update' periodically? for example put them into crontab. I wouldn't have the upgrade run automatically, because maybe there

update system periodically

2024-07-21 Thread coreyh
Hi list, I have been running an old debian 11 for many days. is it safe to run 'apt upgrade' and 'apt update' periodically? for example put them into crontab. I ask this question because I am worried that some software updates may conflict with each other after running in

Re: hplip: hp-check error in line 630 since last update

2024-07-17 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 17 Jul 2024 13:55:55 +0200 Daniel Schröter wrote: Hello Daniel, >thanks for this information. Sounds more then similar ;-) :-) Thought so. I implemented the fix here, and can confirm hplip is up and running again. Good luck. -- Regards _ "Valid sig separator is {dash}{das

Re: hplip: hp-check error in line 630 since last update

2024-07-17 Thread Daniel Schröter
Hello Brad, thanks for this information. Sounds more then similar ;-) I'm going to close my bug report Bye

Re: hplip: hp-check error in line 630 since last update

2024-07-16 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 16 Jul 2024 11:01:30 +0200 Daniel Schröter wrote: Hello Daniel, > >I opened a bug report but didn't get an answer. >https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1076210 > >Someone has a workaround? See; https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1075760 Which is very simil

hplip: hp-check error in line 630 since last update

2024-07-16 Thread Daniel Schröter
Hello, someone else has the problem with hp-check since last update? $ hp-check /usr/bin/hp-check:630: SyntaxWarning: invalid escape sequence '\s' lsusb_pat = re.compile("""^Bus\s([0-9a-fA-F]{3,3})\sDevice\s([0-9a-fA-F]{3,3}):\sID\s([0-9a-fA-F]{4,4}):([0-9a-fA-F]{4,

Re: Audio broken by kernel update

2024-05-31 Thread eben
On 5/31/24 10:04, Evgeny Kapun wrote: After I upgraded my system, my integrated sound card (Intel HDA) stopped working properly. The sound plays, but it is severely distorted. If I boot the same system with an older kernel, it works. Currently, I am using kernel 6.6.13+bpo-amd64, because newer v

Audio broken by kernel update

2024-05-31 Thread Evgeny Kapun
After I upgraded my system, my integrated sound card (Intel HDA) stopped working properly. The sound plays, but it is severely distorted. If I boot the same system with an older kernel, it works. Currently, I am using kernel 6.6.13+bpo-amd64, because newer versions that I tried don't work (in

Re: Synaptic Update Error

2024-05-24 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 08:14:16AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > E: Release file for > http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/dists/bookworm-updates/InRelease is > expired (invalid since 1d 15h 6min 44s). Updates for this repository will > not be applied. Slightly worrisome. > deb http://debian.uc

Synaptic Update Error

2024-05-24 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
During a routine update I got the error: E: Release file for http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/dists/bookworm-updates/InRelease is expired (invalid since 1d 15h 6min 44s). Updates for this repository will not be applied. /etc/apt/sources.lis entries are: # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Timer doing apt update

2024-02-20 Thread Max Nikulin
On 20/02/2024 14:48, Erwan David wrote: Le 20/02/2024 à 03:20, Max Nikulin a écrit : busctl get-property \   org.freedesktop.NetworkManager \   /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager \   org.freedesktop.NetworkManager Metered It would also require to configure NetworkManager to set this correctly. E

Re: Timer doing apt update

2024-02-20 Thread Max Nikulin
On 20/02/2024 19:44, Greg Wooledge wrote: 1) This apt-daily.timer stuff is quite complex and difficult to discover and understand. I am sorry that I confused enough people by my statements. I believed that by default this timer runs "apt update" every day while upgrades are n

Re: Timer doing apt update

2024-02-20 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 07:44:55AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: >This thing has no configuration file by default; you have to read the >comments in the software itself to figure out what it does. Or, say, the Debian Administrator's Handbook. https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debia

Re: Timer doing apt update

2024-02-20 Thread tomas
On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 07:44:55AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: [...] > For me, it's a combination of two things: > > 1) This apt-daily.timer stuff is quite complex and difficult to discover >and understand [...] I gather this from the thread, yes. I just checked, and the scripts come with a

Re: Timer doing apt update

2024-02-20 Thread Greg Wooledge
day * apt-daily.service has Description=Daily apt download activities * apt-daily.service runs "/usr/lib/apt/apt-helper wait-online" and then "/usr/lib/apt/apt.systemd.daily update" If the end user doesn't actually read through this 538 line shell

Re: Timer doing apt update

2024-02-20 Thread Erwan David
Le 20/02/2024 à 12:46, Andy Smith a écrit : Hi, On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 08:52:09AM +0100, Erwan David wrote: I use KDE, and I do not know wether discover does an update by itself. I do not thind any setting about this I think it is very likely that KDE has an equivalent to GNOME, which does

Re: Timer doing apt update

2024-02-20 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 08:52:09AM +0100, Erwan David wrote: > I use KDE, and I do not know wether discover does an update by itself. I do > not thind any setting about this I think it is very likely that KDE has an equivalent to GNOME, which does the equivalent of "apt update&quo

Re: Timer doing apt update

2024-02-20 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 10:17:17AM +0100, Michael wrote: > i very much dislike the fact that my systems do things i am not aware of. I think one of the purposes of a Linux distribution is to pull together a collection of disparate software of their choosing and make default decisions for thei

Re: Timer doing apt update

2024-02-20 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, February 20, 2024 5:23:35 AM CET, Greg Wooledge wrote: I'm not sure how to interpret this combination of things. Do these default settings mean "the update/upgrade script will run, but it won't actually do anything"? kind of... lines 354-360 (on bookworm) of s

Re: Timer doing apt update

2024-02-19 Thread Erwan David
you using? GNOME will download updates and prompt you to install. To disable this open "GNOME software",m burger menu, "Update Preferences". The default behaviour of GNOME Software is to only download upgrades when on an unmetered connection so if you are using GNOME and this is

Re: Timer doing apt update

2024-02-19 Thread Erwan David
Le 20/02/2024 à 03:20, Max Nikulin a écrit : On 20/02/2024 02:35, Erwan David wrote: Le 19/02/2024 à 18:00, Max Nikulin a écrit :     systemctl disable --now apt-daily.timer apt-daily-upgrade.timer Perhaps it is possible to write a script that will respect connection.metered property set by N

Re: Timer doing apt update

2024-02-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
; Why are you shocked by this? Most of it is disabled by default (no > update / upgrade / unattended-upgrade). You have to set things like > APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists to 1. > > It's been there since Debian 9 (stretch) IIRC. > > The handbook has stuff about it. >

Re: Timer doing apt update

2024-02-19 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Mon, Feb 19, 2024 at 10:21:24PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Does anyone know when these things changed, and why on earth nobody > knew about it?! Did I miss a section in the release notes or something? Why are you shocked by this? Most of it is disabled by default (no update / u

Re: Timer doing apt update

2024-02-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Feb 20, 2024 at 09:20:11AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > > >     systemctl disable --now apt-daily.timer apt-daily-upgrade.timer > To avoid confusion, these timers are from the apt package, not from > unattended-upgrades. So they are active on most Debian hosts. Holy crap... when did this h

Re: Timer doing apt update

2024-02-19 Thread Max Nikulin
On 20/02/2024 02:35, Erwan David wrote: Le 19/02/2024 à 18:00, Max Nikulin a écrit :     systemctl disable --now apt-daily.timer apt-daily-upgrade.timer Perhaps it is possible to write a script that will respect connection.metered property set by NetworkManager. I disable the timers, thanks

Re: Timer doing apt update

2024-02-19 Thread Andy Smith
prompt you to install. To disable this open "GNOME software",m burger menu, "Update Preferences". The default behaviour of GNOME Software is to only download upgrades when on an unmetered connection so if you are using GNOME and this is what is happening, then as Max says

Re: Timer doing apt update

2024-02-19 Thread Erwan David
Le 19/02/2024 à 18:00, Max Nikulin a écrit : On 19/02/2024 14:35, Erwan David wrote: After each boot, the equivalent of apt update is automatically done in background, through policykit (apt database is locked by policykitd). So I think there is a timer triggroing this. I'd like to di

Re: Timer doing apt update

2024-02-19 Thread Max Nikulin
On 19/02/2024 14:35, Erwan David wrote: After each boot, the equivalent of apt update is automatically done in background, through policykit (apt database is locked by policykitd). So I think there is a timer triggroing this. I'd like to disable this when my laptop is on expensive lin

Re: Timer doing apt update

2024-02-19 Thread Anssi Saari
Erwan David writes: > Hello, > > After each boot, the equivalent of apt update is automatically done in > background, through policykit (apt database is locked by > policykitd). So I think there is a timer triggroing this. I'd like to > disable this when my laptop is o

Timer doing apt update

2024-02-18 Thread Erwan David
Hello, After each boot, the equivalent of apt update is automatically done in background, through policykit (apt database is locked by policykitd). So I think there is a timer triggroing this. I'd like to disable this when my laptop is on expensive link (eg 4G link, or abroad). So I'

Re: "I: update-initramfs is disabled (live system is running on read-only media)" ...

2024-02-16 Thread tomas
; context? Or is that irrelevant? > > A relatively simple, js-based web page I meant to say. Ah. A browser trying to render some thing from "out there". I see. > >> have searched and found out is that I will have to un/repack initramfs > >> ..., but I haven'

Re: "I: update-initramfs is disabled (live system is running on read-only media)" ...

2024-02-16 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 2/16/24, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 01:44:22PM -0600, Albretch Mueller wrote: >> I've got a relatively old laptop with an ATI Radeon HD card, which >> firmware I can't update. Wild pixelations happen even on relatively >> simple pages no

Re: "I: update-initramfs is disabled (live system is running on read-only media)" ...

2024-02-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Albretch Mueller wrote: > > How can you update the initramfs on read-only media? to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > You can't. Initramfs resides in the boot medium. To update it, > you have to write to said medium. One will have to create a new read-only medium. In case the ori

Re: "I: update-initramfs is disabled (live system is running on read-only media)" ...

2024-02-16 Thread The Wanderer
On 2024-02-16 at 14:44, Albretch Mueller wrote: > I've got a relatively old laptop with an ATI Radeon HD card, which > firmware I can't update. Wild pixelations happen even on relatively > simple pages not just videos. It seems to be a common problem. What I > have searched

Re: "I: update-initramfs is disabled (live system is running on read-only media)" ...

2024-02-16 Thread tomas
On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 01:44:22PM -0600, Albretch Mueller wrote: > I've got a relatively old laptop with an ATI Radeon HD card, which > firmware I can't update. Wild pixelations happen even on relatively > simple pages not just videos. It seems to be a common problem. What I

"I: update-initramfs is disabled (live system is running on read-only media)" ...

2024-02-16 Thread Albretch Mueller
I've got a relatively old laptop with an ATI Radeon HD card, which firmware I can't update. Wild pixelations happen even on relatively simple pages not just videos. It seems to be a common problem. What I have searched and found out is that I will have to un/repack initramfs ..., but

Can Linux update an old kernel [WAS Re: AW: AW: AW: su su- sudo dont work]

2024-02-10 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 01:21:55PM +, Schwibinger Michael wrote: > Yes. > > > I found out > I do use an old kernel. > > Can LINUX update a kernel? > Hi Sophie, Yes, of course. As root/sudo user, apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade But you still don't giv

Re: No Release file for Security Update

2024-01-19 Thread debian-user
Tixy wrote: > On Thu, 2024-01-18 at 12:06 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > Tixy writes: > > > Where could your machine be getting this IP address from?  It's > > > the same IP address shown in your output when you used the > > > incorrect address 'ftp.security.debian.org' and for me that > > > does

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 http://deb.debian.

Re: No Release file for Security Update

2024-01-18 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 10:59:48AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Host gives me the same result. However, apt says: > > 0% [Connecting to security-debian.org (57.128.81.193)] security-debian.org and security.debian.org are different names.

Re: No Release file for Security Update

2024-01-18 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2024-01-18 at 18:51 +, Tixy wrote: > > On Thu, 2024-01-18 at 18:16 +, Tixy wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2024-01-18 at 12:06 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > > > > > Tixy writes: > > > > > > > > Where could your machine be getting this IP address from?  It's > > > > > > > > the > > > > > > >

Re: No Release file for Security Update

2024-01-18 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2024-01-18 at 18:16 +, Tixy wrote: > On Thu, 2024-01-18 at 12:06 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > Tixy writes: > > > Where could your machine be getting this IP address from?  It's the > > > same IP address shown in your output when you used the incorrect > > > address 'ftp.security.debian

Re: No Release file for Security Update

2024-01-18 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2024-01-18 at 12:06 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Tixy writes: > > Where could your machine be getting this IP address from?  It's the > > same IP address shown in your output when you used the incorrect > > address 'ftp.security.debian.org' and for me that doesn't resolve to > > any IP addre

Re: No Release file for Security Update

2024-01-18 Thread John Hasler
Tixy writes: > Where could your machine be getting this IP address from? It's the > same IP address shown in your output when you used the incorrect > address 'ftp.security.debian.org' and for me that doesn't resolve to > any IP address. >From here both security.debian.org and ftp.security.debian

Re: No Release file for Security Update

2024-01-18 Thread Tixy
. > > > > There are other lines that also work, but you can't just guess randomly > > until you stumble across one. Read a trusted source, and copy what > > they tell you to use. Don't put "ftp." in front of things that don't > > need it. >

Re: No Release file for Security Update

2024-01-18 Thread John Hasler
Host gives me the same result. However, apt says: 0% [Connecting to security-debian.org (57.128.81.193)] and times out. Using "nameserver 8.8.8.8" changes nothing. -- John Hasler j...@sugarbit.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: No Release file for Security Update

2024-01-18 Thread John Hasler
Thomas George wrote: > I typed the above line exactly. apt-get update searches for > security.debian.org:80 [57.128.81.193] and times out, no connection Gene writes: > And that is not the address I get from here It's the one I get from here, and it times out. My DNS is working. -

Re: No Release file for Security Update SOLVED

2024-01-18 Thread Thomas George
-get update The result was  bookworm InRelease, bookworm-updates InRelease, bookworm-secutity Relesse 404 Not Found [IP: 146.75.30.132 80] Reading package lists Done bookwoom-security Release does not have a Release file. How do I fix this?

Re: No Release file for Security Update

2024-01-18 Thread Thomas George
On 1/17/24 22:54, Todd Zullinger wrote: Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 08:40:58PM -0500, Thomas George wrote: deb http://ftp.security-debian.org/debian-security/ bookworm-security main non-free non-free-firmware Stop guessing, and *read* what you were told to use. https://list

Re: No Release file for Security Update

2024-01-18 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 10:59:34AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > And that is not the address I get from here > ping -c1 security.debian.org > PING security.debian.org (151.101.2.132) 56(84) bytes of data. > 64 bytes from 151.101.2.132 (151.101.2.132): icmp_seq=1 ttl=59 time=15.8 ms > > Your dns isn

Re: No Release file for Security Update

2024-01-18 Thread gene heskett
trusted source, and copy what they tell you to use.  Don't put "ftp." in front of things that don't need it. I typed the above line exactly. apt-get update searches for security.debian.org:80 [57.128.81.193] and times out, no connection . And that is not the address I get fro

Re: No Release file for Security Update

2024-01-18 Thread gene heskett
trusted source, and copy what they tell you to use.  Don't put "ftp." in front of things that don't need it. I typed the above line exactly. apt-get update searches for security.debian.org:80 [57.128.81.193] and times out, no connection But, but it Just Works here. . Cheer

Re: No Release file for Security Update

2024-01-18 Thread Thomas George
tell you to use. Don't put "ftp." in front of things that don't need it. I typed the above line exactly. apt-get update searches for security.debian.org:80 [57.128.81.193] and times out, no connection

update of bookworm-security failed Formerly Re: No Release file for Security Update

2024-01-18 Thread Thomas George
debian.org/debian-security/ bookworm-security main non-free non-free-firmware None have worked perfectly, apt-get update gives this root@Phoenix:/etc/apt# apt-get update Hit:1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease Hit:2 http://ftp.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease H

Re: No Release file for Security Update

2024-01-17 Thread Charles Curley
free-firmware > sources.list (END) The first thing I'll suggest is that you replace http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ with http://deb.debian.org/debian More to the point, the security URL I have is http://security.debian.org/debian-security > > > root@Phoenix:/etc/apt# apt-get

Re: No Release file for Security Update

2024-01-17 Thread Todd Zullinger
Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 08:40:58PM -0500, Thomas George wrote: >> deb http://ftp.security-debian.org/debian-security/ bookworm-security main >> non-free non-free-firmware > > Stop guessing, and *read* what you were told to use. > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2024/

Re: No Release file for Security Update

2024-01-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 08:40:58PM -0500, Thomas George wrote: > deb http://ftp.security-debian.org/debian-security/ bookworm-security main > non-free non-free-firmware Stop guessing, and *read* what you were told to use. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2024/01/msg00778.html Your source

Re: No Release file for Security Update

2024-01-17 Thread Thomas George
rity main non-free non-free-firmware None have worked perfectly, apt-get update gives this root@Phoenix:/etc/apt# apt-get update Hit:1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease Hit:2 http://ftp.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates InRelease Hit:3 https://linux.brostrend.com stable InRelease

Re: No Release file for Security Update

2024-01-17 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 11:31:52AM -0500, Thomas George wrote: > # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 12.2.0 _Bookworm_ - Official amd64 DVD > Binary-1 with firmware 20231007-10:29]/ bookworm main non-free-firmware This one, before you commented it out, only contained non-free-firmware and *not* non-free

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