Re: Stupid question

2022-02-12 Thread Chuck Zmudzinski
On 2/12/2022 4:04 AM, Hans wrote: Dear list, I am thinking of a solution of a problem. But I have an understanding problem, maybe you can give some background knowledge. The problem: I have one harddrive, there are two linuces installed. The partitions are as followed: kali-linux: 1st

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-12 Thread tomas
On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 11:45:05PM +0100, Felmon Davis wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2022, Curt wrote: > > > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-memory-or-cpu-resources > > > > Firefox may use more system resources if it's left open for long periods > > of time [...] > what

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-12 Thread tomas
On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 09:21:00AM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: [...] > The version of Firefox used in Jessie (and presumably later versions) creates > (typically mutlitple) files ...you mean "processes", not files, right? > named "Web Content". I don't know

Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is the best course of action?

2022-02-12 Thread Stella Ashburne
Hello Dearie I am happy to hear from you again and hope that everything's fine with you and your family. > Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2022 at 6:23 AM > From: "David" > To: "debian-user" > Subject: Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is > the best course of

Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is the best course of action?

2022-02-12 Thread Stella Ashburne
Hello Dearie > Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2022 at 8:34 AM > From: "David Wright" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is > the best course of action? > > > Installing those two would add 170 more packages to my system,

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-12 Thread piorunz
On 11/02/2022 22:16, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: Somewhere in their help or documentation they even say that you shouldn't leave it running for extended periods of time. Never heard such a thing. Do you have source? -- With kindest regards, Piotr. ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-12 Thread tomas
On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 06:22:48PM +, piorunz wrote: > On 11/02/2022 17:58, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > > > It seems to be the fashion nowadays to leave one's web browser up 24/7, > > with dozens of tabs open.  Personally I can't understand this - I seldom > > have more than two or three tabs open

Re: Request free live CD

2022-02-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 10 feb 22, 20:05:32, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 16:47:18 +0100 > wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 03:05:26PM +0100, Dozzyjean Dozie wrote: > > > Please I will be very much interested to get a live CD from you, please > > > what are the prerequisites that are needed to be

Re: Stalled system shutdown

2022-02-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 11 feb 22, 13:36:09, José Luis González wrote: > > I wonder if the package ntopng is necessary for something. If I remove > it nothing else complains. I didn't know this package before. At least on buster/arm64 nothing depends on it. Was the package manually installed or does the

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-12 Thread Curt
On 2022-02-11, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Friday 11 February 2022 11:06:01 am Celejar wrote: >> I seem to have a serious memory leak on my system (Lenovo W550s) - the >> memory usage seems to slowly but more or less steadily keep increasing. >> >> This is a more or less normal (I think)

Re: Installation on a Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13

2022-02-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 11 feb 22, 15:24:55, Charles Curley wrote: > > 1) The graphics are terrible. Both graphical and text mode are > scrunched into the top third or so of the screen, with two copies > across the top. They are damn near unreadable. That's likely because your graphic chip is not properly

Re: Stupid question

2022-02-12 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, February 12, 2022 04:04:43 AM Hans wrote: > But how can I tell grub, to use the kernel of the second /boot? > > I dunno, if it is possible at all, to get a dual boot, the way I want it. > With a combination of Windows + Linux on one harddrive this is working, > however, just because

Re: Pasenme la descarga directa, por favor.

2022-02-12 Thread JavierDebian
El 11/2/22 a las 06:17, José Manuel Garrochena Boza escribió: Necesito el firmware realtek rtl_nic/rt18168g.fw para poder instalar kalinux 2021 net installer con mi TP-LINK USB Internet. Gracias.

Stupid question

2022-02-12 Thread Hans
Dear list, I am thinking of a solution of a problem. But I have an understanding problem, maybe you can give some background knowledge. The problem: I have one harddrive, there are two linuces installed. The partitions are as followed: kali-linux: 1st primary -> /boot 2nd >

Re: Pasenme la descarga directa, por favor.

2022-02-12 Thread 황병희
Dear José, writes: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 10:16:13AM +0100, José Manuel Garrochena Boza wrote: >> Necesito el firmware realtek rtl_nic/rt18168g.fw para poder instalar >> kalinux 2021 net installer con mi TP-LINK USB Internet. > > Esto es una lista de correos para usuarios de Debian

Re: Stupid question

2022-02-12 Thread harryweaver
12 Feb 2022, 19:04 by hans.ullr...@loop.de: > Dear list, > > I am thinking of a solution of a problem. But I have an understanding > problem, > maybe you can give some background knowledge. > > The problem: I have one harddrive, there are two linuces installed. > > The partitions are as

Re: Pasenme la descarga directa, por favor.

2022-02-12 Thread tomas
On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 07:27:52PM +0900, 황병희 wrote: [...] > Well i don't know Spanish, by the way! ...and I don't know Korean. I guess you span a much longer bridge between Korean and English than I could hope to span between Spanish and English. So my respect to you :-) Cheers -- tomás

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-12 Thread Curt
On 2022-02-12, piorunz wrote: > On 11/02/2022 22:16, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: >> Somewhere in their help or documentation they even say that you shouldn't >> leave it running for extended periods of time. > > Never heard such a thing. Do you have source? > See my other post in this thread.

Re: 5.15 kernel just won't do on Intel Rocket Lake...

2022-02-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 10 feb 22, 09:27:26, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 10 Feb 2022 at 03:39:26 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote: > > ...if you have a bad BIOS, and wish to boot with more than one connected > > display. > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/4762 explains the issue, > > which > > has

Re: Pasenme la descarga directa, por favor.

2022-02-12 Thread 황병희
to...@tuxteam.de writes: > On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 07:27:52PM +0900, 황병희 wrote: > > [...] > >> Well i don't know Spanish, by the way! > > ...and I don't know Korean. I guess you span a much longer bridge > between Korean and English than I could hope to span between Spanish > and English. > > So

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-12 Thread rhkramer
On Saturday, February 12, 2022 05:11:31 AM Curt wrote: > Firefox may use more system resources if it's left open for long periods > of time. A workaround for this is to periodically restart Firefox. You > can configure Firefox to save your tabs and windows so that when you > start it again,

Re: Installation on a Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13

2022-02-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 12 Feb 2022 14:42:27 +0100 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 11 feb 22, 15:24:55, Charles Curley wrote: > > > > 1) The graphics are terrible. Both graphical and text mode are > > scrunched into the top third or so of the screen, with two copies > > across the top. They are damn near

Re: miracle of Firefox in the hotel.

2022-02-12 Thread tomas
On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 08:52:58PM +0100, Felmon Davis wrote: > > Greets! > > Sitting in a hotel in Hamburg, Germany, thankful for Firefox-esr which > provides the page necessary for logging into the network. I´m on Debian 10. > > this miracle of connectivity doesn´t seem to happen with Brave

Re: miracle of Firefox in the hotel.

2022-02-12 Thread Curt
On 2022-02-12, Felmon Davis wrote: > > Greets! > > Sitting in a hotel in Hamburg, Germany, thankful for Firefox-esr which > provides > the page necessary for logging into the network. I´m on Debian 10. > > this miracle of connectivity doesn´t seem to happen with Brave browser or > Iron. > >

Re: miracle of Firefox in the hotel.

2022-02-12 Thread Dan Ritter
Felmon Davis wrote: > > Greets! > > Sitting in a hotel in Hamburg, Germany, thankful for Firefox-esr which > provides the page necessary for logging into the network. I´m on Debian 10. > > this miracle of connectivity doesn´t seem to happen with Brave browser or > Iron. > > (a) what is the

Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is the best course of action?

2022-02-12 Thread Stella Ashburne
Hi, > Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2022 at 12:35 AM > From: "Bijan Soleymani" > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is > the best course of action? > > > 3. Remove it some sneaky that only removes libthai but leaves

Re: Installation on a Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13

2022-02-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 15:24:55 -0700 Charles Curley wrote: > I have a Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13, with a Realtek RTL8723A > wifi/bluetooth adapter, and an Intel 3rd gen core processor graphics > controller. I have firmware-11.2.0-amd64-netinst.iso from >

miracle of Firefox in the hotel.

2022-02-12 Thread Felmon Davis
Greets! Sitting in a hotel in Hamburg, Germany, thankful for Firefox-esr which provides the page necessary for logging into the network. I´m on Debian 10. this miracle of connectivity doesn´t seem to happen with Brave browser or Iron. (a) what is the mechanism FF uses for this feat? (b)

Re: miracle of Firefox in the hotel.

2022-02-12 Thread Brian
On Sat 12 Feb 2022 at 21:07:10 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 08:52:58PM +0100, Felmon Davis wrote: > > > > Greets! > > > > Sitting in a hotel in Hamburg, Germany, thankful for Firefox-esr which > > provides the page necessary for logging into the network. I´m on

Re: miracle of Firefox in the hotel.

2022-02-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 13/2/22 3:52 am, Felmon Davis wrote: Greets! Sitting in a hotel in Hamburg, Germany, thankful for Firefox-esr which provides the page necessary for logging into the network. I´m on Debian 10. this miracle of connectivity doesn´t seem to happen with Brave browser or Iron. (a) what is

Re: miracle of Firefox in the hotel.

2022-02-12 Thread Felmon Davis
On Sat, 12 Feb 2022, Dan Ritter wrote: Felmon Davis wrote: Greets! Sitting in a hotel in Hamburg, Germany, thankful for Firefox-esr which provides the page necessary for logging into the network. I´m on Debian 10. this miracle of connectivity doesn´t seem to happen with Brave browser or

Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is the best course of action?

2022-02-12 Thread Stella Ashburne
I did a minimal install of LXQt: sudo apt install lxqt-core lightdm and discovered that the following two packages were installed as well: libthai-data/stable,now 0.1.28-3 all [installed,automatic] libthai0/stable,now 0.1.28-3 amd64 [installed,automatic] *I do not speak or write Thai* When I

Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is the best course of action?

2022-02-12 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On 2022-02-12 11:03, Stella Ashburne wrote: What should I do? What is the best course of action? It seems that basic X windows or GUI apps are compiled with libthai support. This is probably done in a way that they won't run without it being installed (failed to load due to missing library).

Re: Stupid question

2022-02-12 Thread David Christensen
On 2/12/22 01:04, Hans wrote: Dear list, I am thinking of a solution of a problem. But I have an understanding problem, maybe you can give some background knowledge. The problem: I have one harddrive, there are two linuces installed. The partitions are as followed: kali-linux: 1st primary ->

Re: adb install F-Droid.apk, icon gevonden

2022-02-12 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Op 11-02-2022 om 16:35 schreef Geert Stappers: On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 06:19:27PM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: Op mijn laptop heb ik `adb`, android debug bridge, ge-installeerd. (hostname van laptop is "trancilo") Op het verse Android device heb "Developer modus" via USB actief. ...

Re: solid state storage device with USB type-A plug for use as OS drive (was Re: Installation "Bullseye")

2022-02-12 Thread David Christensen
On 2/12/22 09:40, Stefan Monnier wrote: The relevant stat is the total data written specification. It's usually in "terabytes written". For a 1 TB SSD, 300TBW is bad. 600 is pretty bad. 1200 is okay for a desktop. 1800 is reasonable for some server applications. I think the "bad" vs "good"

Re: miracle of Firefox in the hotel.

2022-02-12 Thread Felmon Davis
On Sun, 13 Feb 2022, Bret Busby wrote: On 13/2/22 3:52 am, Felmon Davis wrote: Greets! Sitting in a hotel in Hamburg, Germany, thankful for Firefox-esr which provides the page necessary for logging into the network. I´m on Debian 10. this miracle of connectivity doesn´t seem to happen

Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is the best course of action?

2022-02-12 Thread David
On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 at 08:33, Stella Ashburne wrote: > > 3. Remove it some sneaky that only removes libthai but leaves everything > > else the same, and have things break and or apt/dpkg complain. > > > Could you show me how to do it please? Thanks. Hi Stella, With a small effort, you can try

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-12 Thread Felmon Davis
On Sat, 12 Feb 2022, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe things would work better with more swap, but I haven/t (and probably won't try that) -- in the reasonably near future (maybe after tax season), I plan to set up a new system with Debian 1 (whatever that is "code named"). increasing swap

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-12 Thread Felmon Davis
On Sat, 12 Feb 2022, Curt wrote: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-memory-or-cpu-resources Firefox may use more system resources if it's left open for long periods of time. A workaround for this is to periodically restart Firefox. You can configure Firefox to save your

Re: miracle of Firefox in the hotel.

2022-02-12 Thread Charlie Gibbs
On Sat Feb 12 15:17:38 2022 Dan Ritter wrote: > Felmon Davis wrote: > >> Greets! >> >> Sitting in a hotel in Hamburg, Germany, thankful for Firefox-esr >> which provides the page necessary for logging into the network. >> I'm on Debian 10. >> >> this miracle of connectivity doesn't seem to

Re: miracle of Firefox in the hotel.

2022-02-12 Thread Dan Ritter
Felmon Davis wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2022, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > The portal works by intercepting any web page request at all and > > answering with its own sign-up page. > > > > So, go to a page which you know will be served via plain HTTP. > > > > If you can't think of one, try

Re: miracle of Firefox in the hotel.

2022-02-12 Thread Felmon Davis
On Sat, 12 Feb 2022, Curt wrote: On 2022-02-12, Felmon Davis wrote: Greets! Sitting in a hotel in Hamburg, Germany, thankful for Firefox-esr which provides the page necessary for logging into the network. I´m on Debian 10. this miracle of connectivity doesn´t seem to happen with Brave

Re: Installation on a Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13

2022-02-12 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 12:05:54PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2022 14:42:27 +0100 > Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Vi, 11 feb 22, 15:24:55, Charles Curley wrote: > > > > > > 1) The graphics are terrible. Both graphical and text mode are > > > scrunched into the top third or

Re: Uninstalling a package removes other essential packages: What is the best course of action?

2022-02-12 Thread David Wright
On Sat 12 Feb 2022 at 17:03:06 (+0100), Stella Ashburne wrote: > I did a minimal install of LXQt: > > sudo apt install lxqt-core lightdm > > and discovered that the following two packages were installed as well: > > libthai-data/stable,now 0.1.28-3 all [installed,automatic] >

Re: miracle of Firefox in the hotel.

2022-02-12 Thread Felmon Davis
folks, I decided to waste more time and booted up the other laptop; it has MX installed. (I had forgotten; usually on TDE, a continuation of KDE3.) had to fool around with the configuration, also forgotten since that laptop usually boots straight to Windows 10 Pro. figured it out and, lo

Re: Stalled system shutdown

2022-02-12 Thread Flacusbigotis
> I wonder if the package ntopng is necessary for something. See manpage gor ntopng it's for monitoring network resources/activity. So if you aren't interested in doing that then you don't need it installed.