Re: Slow boot, looks like due to filesystem mounts

2023-12-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 10:14 PM Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 16/12/2023 05:08, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > The resize operation included deleting swap > > at /dev/sda2, increasing disk size of /dev/sda, extending /dev/sda1, > > and recreating swap at the end of /dev/sda as /dev/sda2. > [...] > > $

Re: raid10 is killing me, and applications that aren't willing towait for it to respond

2023-12-16 Thread Anssi Saari
gene heskett writes: > Is this info helpful? I don't know really. I was thinking about the file dialogs or requestors and how they often try access previously used locations. For example, I've learned not to download with Firefox to a network drive. I don't know if Firefox is still like that

Re: ntpsec as server questions

2023-12-16 Thread Max Nikulin
On 05/12/2023 01:41, Greg Wooledge wrote: unicorn:~$ LC_TIME=en_US.utf8 printf '%(%c)T\n' Mon 04 Dec 2023 01:34:42 PM EST Sadly, you're restricted to the choices offered by your installed locales. If you can't find an installed locale which has an acceptable LC_TIME format, then you can try to

Re: [XFCE] Quel widget a le focus ?

2023-12-16 Thread benoit
Bonjour, Si tu ne trouves pas que tu veux en python, il reste la possibilité d’utiliser/appeler ce qui existe sous X avec la librairie subprocess https://pypi.org/project/subprocess.run/ Mais c'est moins bien -- Benoit Envoyé avec la messagerie sécurisée Proton Mail. Le vendredi 15

Re: raid10 is killing me, and applications that aren't willing towaitfor it to respond

2023-12-16 Thread Anssi Saari
Greg Wooledge writes: > In Gene's case, the problem (long startup time of some applications) does > not appear to be related to his disks, but rather, to something in the > desktop environment or its underlying services. But isn't it fairly easy to try another desktop environment to eliminate

Monthly FAQ for Debian-user mailing list (modified 16th December 2023)

2023-12-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Debian-user is a mailing list provided for support for Debian users, and to facilitate discussion on relevant topics. Some guidelines which may help explain how the list works: * The language on this mailing list is English. There may be other mailing lists that are language-specific, for

Re: Problem with /var/cache/apt/archives/

2023-12-16 Thread john doe
On 12/16/23 14:45, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I am running Bookworm on my Debian computer. When I installed the OS I selected the option for separate /var etc, and selected the default sizes of the partitions. When I ran sudo apt update this morning I received the error message: E: You don't

was nvramtool removed from the package repository?

2023-12-16 Thread Albretch Mueller
$ sudo apt-get update Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye InRelease Reading package lists... Done $ $ sudo apt-get install nvramtool Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package nvramtool $ uname -a Linux

Re: Problem with /var/cache/apt/archives/

2023-12-16 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
"Stephen P. Molnar" writes: > I am running Bookworm on my Debian computer. When I installed the OS I > selected the option for separate /var etc, and selected the default > sizes of the partitions. > > When I ran sudo apt update this morning I received the error message: > > E: You don't have

Re: dhcpd.conf Q?

2023-12-16 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 10:42:33AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > Persuant to the dhcpd discussion, I have install a local isc-dhpd-server. I > setup a $20 wide block, starting at 192.168.71.100 I'm going to take a guess that you mean your pool is from .100 to .119 (or .120?) as I've never

Re: dhcpd.conf Q?

2023-12-16 Thread gene heskett
On 12/16/23 11:41, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 10:42:33AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: Persuant to the dhcpd discussion, I have install a local isc-dhpd-server. I setup a $20 wide block, starting at 192.168.71.100 I'm going to take a guess that you mean your pool is from

QNAP et son .deb

2023-12-16 Thread Frederic Zulian
Bonjour, QNAP fourni pour ses NAS un .deb : QNAPQfinderProUbuntux64-7.10.0.1204.deb C'est un paquet pour Ubuntu mais je pensai qu'il s'installerait tout de même sur ma Debian Au vu du message d'erreur, il lui faut la version 18.04 d'Ubuntu. Une idée pour contourner le problème ? Tentative

Re: raid10 is killing me, and applications that aren't willing towaitfor it to respond

2023-12-16 Thread David Christensen
On 12/16/23 00:26, Anssi Saari wrote: Greg Wooledge writes: In Gene's case, the problem (long startup time of some applications) does not appear to be related to his disks, but rather, to something in the desktop environment or its underlying services. But isn't it fairly easy to try

Re: was nvramtool removed from the package repository?

2023-12-16 Thread Albretch Mueller
On 12/16/23, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=nvramtool=names=all=all > Last appearance is Debian Buster (oldoldstable, LTS). > But there's a package with a like-named binary, which might be > what you are looking for: >

Why is /var/lib/apt/lists not in /var/cache?

2023-12-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
AFAICT, all of `/var/lib/apt/lists` is made of files fetched from repositories, which APT will re-fetch if missing. So, it sounds to me like it belongs in `/var/cache/apt/lists`, really. What am I missing? Or is it just a historical accident? Stefan "whose `/var/lib/apt/lists` is a

Re: Why is /var/lib/apt/lists not in /var/cache?

2023-12-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
David Wright [2023-12-16 11:30:01] wrote: > On Sat 16 Dec 2023 at 10:59:48 (-0500), Stefan Monnier wrote: >> AFAICT, all of `/var/lib/apt/lists` is made of files fetched from >> repositories, which APT will re-fetch if missing. >> So, it sounds to me like it belongs in `/var/cache/apt/lists`,

Re: QNAP et son .deb

2023-12-16 Thread Marc Chantreux
On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 06:36:48PM +0100, Frederic Zulian wrote: >  dpkg -i QNAPQfinderProUbuntux64-7.10.0.1204.deb > (Lecture de la base de données... 543315 fichiers et répertoires déjà > installés.) > Préparation du dépaquetage de QNAPQfinderProUbuntux64-7.10.0.1204.deb ... >

Re: dhcpd.conf Q?

2023-12-16 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 12:16:41PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > On 12/16/23 11:41, Andy Smith wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 10:42:33AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > > Persuant to the dhcpd discussion, I have install a local isc-dhpd-server. > > > I > > > setup a $20

Re: Desktop environment

2023-12-16 Thread Dan Ritter
William Torrez Corea wrote: > I have installed Debian 12 and use XFCE 4.18. The installation has a > problem, the windows do not adjust size and figure like the previous > version. In addition to the title, the fonts are very small. > > I don't know if it is a bug or configuration problem. I'm

Re: le bluez de la doc de bluez (+wireplumber)

2023-12-16 Thread didier gaumet
Le 16/12/2023 à 19:07, Marc Chantreux a écrit : lecture faite de toutes les docs, tout est trusted, paired et tout mais impossible de se connecter: il dit qi'il est en cours de connexion (busy). j'ai bien fais attention à ce que le casque soit ouvert a la négo. donc je ne sais pas quoi faire.

Problem with /var/cache/apt/archives/

2023-12-16 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
I am running Bookworm on my Debian computer. When I installed the OS I selected the option for separate /var etc, and selected the default sizes of the partitions. When I ran sudo apt update this morning I received the error message: E: You don't have enough free space in

Re: Problem with /var/cache/apt/archives/

2023-12-16 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 03:03:38PM +0100, john doe wrote: > On 12/16/23 14:45, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > When I installed the OS I selected the option for separate /var > > etc, and selected the default sizes of the partitions. […] > > Can I increase the size of the /var partition on

Re: le bluez de la doc de bluez (+wireplumber)

2023-12-16 Thread Marc Chantreux
hello, > • liste des périphériques :  bluetoothctl devices > • scan : bluetoothctl scan on > • appairer : bluetoothctl pair > • rendre un périphérique sécurisé/connu : bluetoothctl trust yep! toutes les étapes marchent sauf la connexion. comme je disais à Didier: je ne trouve rien qui

Re: le bluez de la doc de bluez (+wireplumber)

2023-12-16 Thread Marc Chantreux
salut, > je m'aperçois qu'il y a grosso-modo la même chose dans le wiki Debian: > https://wiki.debian.org/BluetoothUser > https://wiki.debian.org/BluetoothUser/a2dp lecture faite de toutes les docs, tout est trusted, paired et tout mais impossible de se connecter: il dit qi'il est en cours de

Re: dhcpd.conf Q?

2023-12-16 Thread debian-user
gene heskett wrote: [snip] > I use nano a lot, but it could use a larger font for these ancient > eyeballs. nano runs in a terminal so it doesn't control the font - the terminal does. How you change the font size in a terminal depends on which terminal program you are using. I expect $ man

Re: Problem with /var/cache/apt/archives/

2023-12-16 Thread tomas
On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 10:46:27AM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > Many thanks for the replies. > > I'll add 'sudo apt-get autoclean to' my update bat file. Bat? 驪 Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Problem with /var/cache/apt/archives/

2023-12-16 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 16 Dec 2023 20:30:27 +0100 wrote: > > I'll add 'sudo apt-get autoclean to' my update bat file. > > Bat? 驪 Yeah, bat file. That's what one uses to smooth the body putty on one's custom batmobile. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com

Re: raid10 is killing me, and applications that aren't willingtowaitfor it to respond

2023-12-16 Thread David Christensen
On 12/16/23 07:06, gene heskett wrote: On 12/15/23 22:58, David Christensen wrote: On 12/15/23 18:23, gene heskett wrote: I use the bleeding edge AppImage version of OpenSCAD, heavily, it has no such problems.  And no error outputs on the cli, it Just Works. Thank you for the reply.  :-)

Re: [XFCE] Quel widget a le focus ?

2023-12-16 Thread Pierre ESTREm
Bonsoir, J'utilise la librairie subprocess pour Popen et vocaliser avec espeak dans un Player que j'ai réalisé. Je doute que ça fasse ce que je souhaite. Le but est qu'un programme (bash ou Python) m'indique quelle icone a le focus dans le Bureau de façon à vocaliser son nom et/ou exécuter

Re: Problem with /var/cache/apt/archives/

2023-12-16 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 08:45:41AM -0500, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I am running Bookworm on my Debian computer. When I installed the OS I > selected the option for separate /var etc, and selected the default sizes of > the partitions. How many disks are there? *How* did you partition them?

Re: was nvramtool removed from the package repository?

2023-12-16 Thread tomas
On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 02:04:26PM +, Albretch Mueller wrote: > $ sudo apt-get update > Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye InRelease > Reading package lists... Done > $ > > $ sudo apt-get install nvramtool > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > Reading

Re: Problem with /var/cache/apt/archives/

2023-12-16 Thread Felix Miata
Stephen P. Molnar composed on 2023-12-16 08:45 (UTC-0500): > I am running Bookworm on my Debian computer. When I installed the OS I > selected the option for separate /var etc, and selected the default > sizes of the partitions. Separate filesystem for /var/ is a pointless complication for

Re: Monthly FAQ for Debian-user mailing list (modified 16th December 2023)

2023-12-16 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > * It may also be useful to for someone to post a summary email from time to > time to explain long threads. You did not move the old "to" but rather added a new one during the change from the text in 2023/12/msg00045.html to the new one: > > * It may also be

Re: was nvramtool removed from the package repository?

2023-12-16 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 02:04:26PM +, Albretch Mueller wrote: > E: Unable to locate package nvramtool Note to future readers: the actual question was contained in the Subject: header rather than the body. The original Subject: header said, "was nvramtool removed from the package repository?"

Re: raid10 is killing me, and applications that aren't willingtowaitfor it to respond

2023-12-16 Thread gene heskett
On 12/15/23 22:58, David Christensen wrote: On 12/15/23 18:23, gene heskett wrote: I use the bleeding edge AppImage version of OpenSCAD, heavily, it has no such problems.  And no error outputs on the cli, it Just Works. Thank you for the reply.  :-) Do you mean the following?

dhcpd.conf Q?

2023-12-16 Thread gene heskett
Greetings; Persuant to the dhcpd discussion, I have install a local isc-dhpd-server. I setup a $20 wide block, starting at 192.168.71.100 then setup 3 host entries. I have it working but apparently I need some clarification as a status request gets me a squawk about the host paragraph that is

Re: Problem with /var/cache/apt/archives/

2023-12-16 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
Many thanks for the replies. I'll add 'sudo apt-get autoclean to' my update bat file. On 12/16/2023 09:55 AM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: "Stephen P. Molnar" writes: I am running Bookworm on my Debian computer. When I installed the OS I selected the option for separate /var etc, and selected the

Re: Problem with /var/cache/apt/archives/

2023-12-16 Thread Pocket
On 12/16/23 08:45, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I am running Bookworm on my Debian computer. When I installed the OS I selected the option for separate /var etc, and selected the default sizes of the partitions. When I ran sudo apt update this morning I received the error message: E: You don't

Monthly FAQ for Debian-user mailing list (modified x2 16th December 2023)

2023-12-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Debian-user is a mailing list provided for support for Debian users, and to facilitate discussion on relevant topics. Some guidelines which may help explain how the list works: * The language on this mailing list is English. There may be other mailing lists that are language-specific, for

Re: Problem with /var/cache/apt/archives/

2023-12-16 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 16 Dec 2023 10:46:27 -0500 "Stephen P. Molnar" wrote: > I'll add 'sudo apt-get autoclean to' my update bat file. Or add it to your crontab. root@tsalmoth:~# grep clean /etc/cron.d/curley 0 4 18 * * root apt-get -y autoclean root@tsalmoth:~# --

Re: Why is /var/lib/apt/lists not in /var/cache?

2023-12-16 Thread David Wright
On Sat 16 Dec 2023 at 10:59:48 (-0500), Stefan Monnier wrote: > AFAICT, all of `/var/lib/apt/lists` is made of files fetched from > repositories, which APT will re-fetch if missing. > So, it sounds to me like it belongs in `/var/cache/apt/lists`, really. > What am I missing? Or is it just a

Re: dhcpd.conf Q?

2023-12-16 Thread gene heskett
On 12/16/23 14:17, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: gene heskett wrote: [snip] I use nano a lot, but it could use a larger font for these ancient eyeballs. nano runs in a terminal so it doesn't control the font - the terminal does. How you change the font size in a terminal depends on

Re: Problem with /var/cache/apt/archives/

2023-12-16 Thread Max Nikulin
On 16/12/2023 22:46, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I'll add 'sudo apt-get autoclean to' my update bat file. I have APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages "false"; in a file inside "/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/". However I use apt-cacher-ng. In you case this settings may be excessively aggressive.

Re: Debian 12.4.0

2023-12-16 Thread David Wright
On Thu 14 Dec 2023 at 21:07:25 (-0500), Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 12/14/23, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Thu, 14 Dec 2023 17:01:19 -0500 David Sawyer wrote: > > > >> This may seem to be a simple problem. I set up Debian with a password > >> that I wrote down to be sure. > > > > Password for

Re: dhcpd.conf Q?

2023-12-16 Thread David Wright
On Sat 16 Dec 2023 at 14:21:48 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > On 12/16/23 14:17, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > gene heskett wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > I use nano a lot, but it could use a larger font for these ancient > > > eyeballs. > > > > nano runs in a terminal so it doesn't

Re: Why is /var/lib/apt/lists not in /var/cache?

2023-12-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Some packages will stay the same for years, but in the past week > I can see four occasions when changes in list contents have occurred > on oldstable. So there's little similarity. The question is not really whether "apt/lists" is similar to "apt/archives", but whether the content of

Re: ⚠ No actualicéis a Debian 12.3 ⚠

2023-12-16 Thread JavierDebian
El 10/12/23 a las 06:15, Camaleón escribió: Hola, Pues eso, acabo de leer que se retrasa por problemas con un bug de ext4 (corrupción de archivos) y en Debian recomiendan PAUSAR las actualizaciones, sobre todo en sistemas que tienen configuradas las actualizaciones desatendidas. Debian 12.3

Re: Problem with /var/cache/apt/archives/

2023-12-16 Thread Joe Pfeiffer
Charles Curley writes: > Does anybody read signatures any more? I certainly don't.

Re: Why is /var/lib/apt/lists not in /var/cache?

2023-12-16 Thread Max Nikulin
On 16/12/2023 22:59, Stefan Monnier wrote: AFAICT, all of `/var/lib/apt/lists` is made of files fetched from repositories, which APT will re-fetch if missing. So, it sounds to me like it belongs in `/var/cache/apt/lists`, really. APT running by a regular user is unable to write to

Re: Debian 12.4.0

2023-12-16 Thread Kevin Price
Am 14.12.23 um 23:01 schrieb David Sawyer: > I use the password that I wrote down it is not accepted. Keyboard layout? We've seen that with the kernel that comes with 12.4.0. -- Kevin Price

Problems with password entry [WAS Re: Debian 12.4.0]

2023-12-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Dec 17, 2023 at 01:39:34AM +0100, Kevin Price wrote: > Am 14.12.23 um 23:01 schrieb David Sawyer: > > I use the password that I wrote down it is not accepted. > > Keyboard layout? We've seen that with the kernel that comes with 12.4.0. > -- Hi Kevin, There is no obvious reason why

Re: Why is /var/lib/apt/lists not in /var/cache?

2023-12-16 Thread David Wright
On Sat 16 Dec 2023 at 12:50:51 (-0500), Stefan Monnier wrote: > David Wright [2023-12-16 11:30:01] wrote: > > On Sat 16 Dec 2023 at 10:59:48 (-0500), Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> AFAICT, all of `/var/lib/apt/lists` is made of files fetched from > >> repositories, which APT will re-fetch if missing.

Re: Why is /var/lib/apt/lists not in /var/cache?

2023-12-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
Max Nikulin [2023-12-17 09:10:29] wrote: > On 16/12/2023 22:59, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> AFAICT, all of `/var/lib/apt/lists` is made of files fetched from >> repositories, which APT will re-fetch if missing. >> So, it sounds to me like it belongs in `/var/cache/apt/lists`, really. > APT running by

Re: differences among amd64 and i386

2023-12-16 Thread Tixy
On Thu, 2023-12-14 at 18:19 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Bridge > > Instruction set x86-64 > Instructions    x86, x86-64 > > You could run amd64 on this machine.  Right now, you have a choice > between the two, but some distributions have already dropped

Re: Local time in databases

2023-12-16 Thread David Wright
On Wed 13 Dec 2023 at 00:03:57 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote: > On 08/12/2023 11:38, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 07, 2023 at 10:18:44PM -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > > > All of these considerations are what brought Oracle to create a > > > proprietary > > > "datetime" datatype