Re: Xorg fatal server error segmentation fault i686

Richmond composed on 2021-05-05 12:49 (UTC+0100): > I installed debian on an old PC i686. I chose the mate desktop. When I > tried to log in throught display manager I could not, so: > I closed X down with telinit 3 > I logged in on the console as root > I ran xinit -- :0 > I switched to a non ro

Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ?

On Wed 05 May 2021 at 12:01:07 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 10:36:53AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > OTOH perhaps monkeysphere has some reason to lock /etc/passwd et al > > during operation. Running strings on its binaries might throw up > > some 'pwd.lock' matches. Or o

Shorewall and libvirt

For years, up through Buster, I have had a nice setup with virtual machines on my laptops, with firewalling provided by shorewall and rules I have added over the years. As I move from network to network, the firewall is reconfigured, and the VMs continue to work. I also have scripts that detect my

Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ?

On Wed, 5 May 2021 10:36:53 -0500 David Wright wrote: > [W]hy are there dotfiles in /etc/ anyway. > (.git/, .java/, .etckeeper, .gitignore are the others.) What are they > hiding from? Indeed. And shouldn't one be backing them up? I see that amanda has been backing them up and that "add *" in a

Re: What is the best (and free) Linux softphone?

I think Linphone used to have a CLI interface, so you might want to look into it. I haven't used it in a long time, so I don't know what is its current status. I basically gave up on SIP (partly because of very spotty support for encrypted communications and for async messages like SMS) and recom

Re: What is the best (and free) Linux softphone?

Emanuel Berg writes: > Dan Ritter wrote: > >> They all speak the SIP protocol > > OK, what client should I get then? I use Zoiper on android. They seem to have a debian package available but I haven't tried it. https://www.zoiper.com/en/voip-softphone/download/current

Re: What is the best (and free) Linux softphone?

Emanuel Berg wrote: > Dan Ritter wrote: > > > If you want more advice, you'll need to tell us what you > > want to do and what your constraints are. > > communicate my style pretty fast I guess. I'm in Emacs all the > time, including now with Gnus, in a Linux VT, other than that > I use tmux in

Re: What is the best (and free) Linux softphone?

Emanuel Berg wrote: > Dan Ritter wrote: > > > They all speak the SIP protocol > > OK, what client should I get then? You could read about those three, and try out any or all of them. If you want more advice, you'll need to tell us what you want to do and what your constraints are. -dsr-

Re: What is the best (and free) Linux softphone?

Emanuel Berg wrote: > Dan Ritter wrote: > > > I'm not sure why you want each VM to have a softphone. > > > > Debian packages linphone, empathy and twinkle > > Can you then call other people with those or corresponding > software or can you call an actual smartphone using some app > or something?

Re: What is the best (and free) Linux softphone?

On 06-05-2021 05:31, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Dan Ritter wrote: > >> I'm not sure why you want each VM to have a softphone. >> >> Debian packages linphone, empathy and twinkle > > Can you then call other people with those or corresponding > software or can you call an actual smartphone using some ap

Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ?

David Wright wrote: > Yes, it was an assumption, and perhaps now we shall never > know. (Sampling the emails didn't appeasr to be an option.) > We also were not told whether 2757 notifications came in > over a week, a month, a year, or since openssh-client was > installed, whenever that was (possi

Re: Evolution

I have been to settings but found no errors. I removed the account and reentered it, no change. Still will not connect to internet. ? Sent from my iPad > On May 4, 2021, at 10:26 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On Tue, 27 Apr, 2021 at 18:49:55 +, Jerry Mellon wrote: >> Hello, >>

Re: Xorg fatal server error segmentation fault i686

Dan Ritter writes: > Richmond wrote: >> I installed debian on an old PC i686. I chose the mate desktop. When I >> tried to log in throught display manager I could not, so: >> >> I closed X down with telinit 3 >> I logged in on the console as root >> I ran xinit -- :0 >> I switched to a non root

Re: Xorg fatal server error segmentation fault i686

On Wed, 05 May 2021 18:36:50 +0100 Richmond wrote: Hello Richmond, >package called nvidia-detect for this architecture. Oops, I'm sorry - you're right - I didn't check properly. Again, sorry about getting your hopes up. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is

Re: Xorg fatal server error segmentation fault i686

Brad Rogers writes: > On Wed, 05 May 2021 15:31:25 +0100 > Richmond wrote: > > Hello Richmond, > >>01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation NV11 >>[GeForce2 MX/MX 400] [10de:0110] (rev b2) > > As mentioned by Greg; > > On Wed, 5 May 2021 11:14:44 -0400 > Greg Wooledge wrote:

Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ?

Greg Wooledge wrote: > I interpreted it as literally being thousands of instances > of the *same* file, the one shown in the Subject: header and > in the original message body. They were all from iwatch, but they were so many I don't know if they were exactly the same, and now I don't get any (ma

Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ?

On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 10:36:53AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > OTOH perhaps monkeysphere has some reason to lock /etc/passwd et al > during operation. Running strings on its binaries might throw up > some 'pwd.lock' matches. Or one could inotifywatch the program to > see how often it is run (unles

Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ?

On Wed 05 May 2021 at 07:26:34 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 09:32:49PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > It looks reasonable for determining whether your system files are > > being interfered with. But you just showed one example from the > > log, which was for the /etc/.pwd

Re: Xorg fatal server error segmentation fault i686

Dan Ritter writes: > Richmond wrote: >> Dan Ritter writes: >> >> > Richmond wrote: >> >> I installed debian on an old PC i686. I chose the mate desktop. When I >> >> tried to log in throught display manager I could not, so: > ... >> >> What can I do? Perhaps use a different xserver. The displ

Re: Xorg fatal server error segmentation fault i686

On Wed, 05 May 2021 15:31:25 +0100 Richmond wrote: Hello Richmond, >01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation NV11 >[GeForce2 MX/MX 400] [10de:0110] (rev b2) As mentioned by Greg; On Wed, 5 May 2021 11:14:44 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: >Or else look for this nvidia detection

Re: What is the best (and free) Linux softphone?

Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > I already have an Asterisk-based FreePBX VoIP IP PBX SIP server > virtual appliance (VirtualBox). > > I am trying to save as much money as possible as I live in extreme > poverty in Singapore. My proposed solution is to install many Linux > virtual machine

Re: Xorg fatal server error segmentation fault i686

On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 03:31:25PM +0100, Richmond wrote: > > 1) Identify your video hardware. Use "lspci -nn" for this. > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation NV11 > [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] [10de:0110] (rev b2) OK. This is... a rather old device.

Re: Xorg fatal server error segmentation fault i686

Greg Wooledge writes: > On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 08:20:21AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: >> As your non-root user, write a .xinitrc: >> >> #!/bin/sh >> xterm & >> exec mate-session >> >> and then run >> >> startx >> >> Tell us what happens then. If it crashes, let us see your >> /etc/apt/sources.l

What is the best (and free) Linux softphone?

Subject: What is the best (and free) Linux softphone? Good day from Singapore, I already have an Asterisk-based FreePBX VoIP IP PBX SIP server virtual appliance (VirtualBox). I do not want to spend so much money on buying physical IP phones. Recently, I migrated my Fortigate 60D firewall, Huawe

Re: Xorg fatal server error segmentation fault i686

Richmond wrote: > Dan Ritter writes: > > > Richmond wrote: > >> I installed debian on an old PC i686. I chose the mate desktop. When I > >> tried to log in throught display manager I could not, so: ... > >> What can I do? Perhaps use a different xserver. The display driver is > >> nouveau. > >

Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d

On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 05:27:13PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 05 mai 21, 07:46:03, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > You're using a package that has not yet been converted to systemd. It's > > still using an old init.d script, and systemd is performing a conversion > > on the fly. > > > >

Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d

On Mi, 05 mai 21, 07:46:03, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > You're using a package that has not yet been converted to systemd. It's > still using an old init.d script, and systemd is performing a conversion > on the fly. > > The basic start and stop subcommands will work fine, but disable may > not wor

Re: Xorg fatal server error segmentation fault i686

Scrap the previous /etc/apt/sources I forgot I was using ssh into a different pc. cat /etc/apt/sources.list # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 10.9.0 _Buster_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20210327-10:50]/ buster contrib main # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 10.9.0 _Buster_ - Official i386 DVD Binary

Re: Xorg fatal server error segmentation fault i686

Richmond writes: > I installed debian on an old PC i686. I chose the mate desktop. When I > tried to log in throught display manager I could not, so: > > I closed X down with telinit 3 > I logged in on the console as root > I ran xinit -- :0 > I switched to a non root user in the xterm window on

Re: Xorg fatal server error segmentation fault i686

On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 08:20:21AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > As your non-root user, write a .xinitrc: > > #!/bin/sh > xterm & > exec mate-session > > and then run > > startx > > Tell us what happens then. If it crashes, let us see your > /etc/apt/sources.list and anything in sources.list.d/ I

Re: Xorg fatal server error segmentation fault i686

Richmond wrote: > I installed debian on an old PC i686. I chose the mate desktop. When I > tried to log in throught display manager I could not, so: > > I closed X down with telinit 3 > I logged in on the console as root > I ran xinit -- :0 > I switched to a non root user in the xterm window on t

Xorg fatal server error segmentation fault i686

I installed debian on an old PC i686. I chose the mate desktop. When I tried to log in throught display manager I could not, so: I closed X down with telinit 3 I logged in on the console as root I ran xinit -- :0 I switched to a non root user in the xterm window on the display I typed export DISPL

Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d

On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 12:07:29PM +0100, Joe wrote: > On Tue, 4 May 2021 18:44:12 -0400 > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > Could you kindly tell us what "systemctl status exim4.service" says > > on this buster machine of yours? Perhaps your command is turning up > > one of the automatically convert

Re: [Off topic] videos of german state TV, was Re: HTML syntax.

Thomas Schmitt wrote: > I agree that it is not people-friendly to try preventing the use of a > video after it was depublicated by state TV. The concept of Depublication > is technically an unrealistic fiction and also a blow to the payers of > state TV fees ("Rundfunkgebuehren"). > > Given the g

Re: [sid] efibootmgr not working on linux 5.10.x & LGA1155

On 4/10/21 7:52 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2021-04-08 22:30 +0200, Grzesiek wrote: On 3/18/21 9:55 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2021-03-18 21:03 +0100, Grzesiek Sójka wrote: I noticed recently that efibootmgr stoped working. On all my Sid machines I get the following: # efibootmgr EFI variabl

Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ?

On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 09:32:49PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > It looks reasonable for determining whether your system files are > being interfered with. But you just showed one example from the > log, which was for the /etc/.pwd.lock lockfile. I assume you don't > have 2757 of these but, rather,

Re: [Off topic] videos of german state TV, was Re: HTML syntax.

On Wed, 05 May 2021 09:51:59 +0200 "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > > But i really do not see any such censoring with the video about > environmental problems with electrical cars. It was aired and then > available for two months. Business as good or bad as ever. > Even the WEF are fairly upfront ab

Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d

On Tue, 4 May 2021 18:44:12 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 10:14:45PM +0100, Joe wrote: > > ...and buster. It's exim4.service as stated by: > > systemctl --type=service | grep exim > > According to packages.debian.org[1] there is no such file in any > package. > > Of co

Re: [Off topic] videos of german state TV, was Re: HTML syntax.

Hi, i wrote: > > the song "Meine Oma ist 'ne alte Umweltsau" (= "My granny is an old > > environmental hog"), sung by a children choir Michael Lange wrote: > Still seems to be available on yt, though. Legally it could now be "Zeitgeschichte" (= "contemporary history") and thus be exempted from t

Re: [Off topic] videos of german state TV, was Re: HTML syntax.

Hi, i wrote: > > i really do not see any such censoring with the video about > > environmental problems with electrical cars. deloptes wrote: > But it was on youtube and was removed and I could not find it I agree that it is not people-friendly to try preventing the use of a video after it was d

Re: [Off topic] videos of german state TV, was Re: HTML syntax.

Hi, On Wed, 05 May 2021 09:51:59 +0200 "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: (...) > The reason for not eternally offering videos for download is in the > legal framework of german state TV. (In german: > "Rundfunkstaatsvertrag", now "Medienstaatsvertrag".) > > State run TV collects mandatory fees from all h

Re: [Off topic] videos of german state TV, was Re: HTML syntax.

Thomas Schmitt wrote: > We had cases of self-censoring which led to depublication. I remember > the song "Meine Oma ist 'ne alte Umweltsau" (= "My granny is an old > environmental hog"), sung by a children choir and produced by TV station > WDR in 2019. That video was retracted after conservative

Re: [Off topic] videos of german state TV, was Re: HTML syntax.

Hi, Michael Lange wrote: > Oddly, it seems like the German public TV station ZDF blocked the video > for Germany due to "intellectual property rights" which are not explained > any further. The reason for not eternally offering videos for download is in the legal framework of german state TV. (In

Re: [Off topic] videos of german state TV, was Re: HTML syntax.

Hi, On Wed, 05 May 2021 09:16:55 +0200 deloptes wrote: > Michael Lange wrote: > > > now I got curious too. > > Oddly, it seems like the German public TV station ZDF blocked the > > video for Germany due to "intellectual property rights" which are not > > explained any further. Maybe the real co

Re: [Off topic] videos of german state TV, was Re: HTML syntax.

Michael Lange wrote: > now I got curious too. > Oddly, it seems like the German public TV station ZDF blocked the video > for Germany due to "intellectual property rights" which are not explained > any further. Maybe the real copyright holders still hope to earn money by > somehow selling their do

Re: Piano live recording

David writes: > On Tue, 4 May 2021 at 18:17, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >> I've just bought a Behringer UMC404HD audio interface and want to record >> live piano by placing two microphones one at the trebles and one at the >> bass. Is it better to use mono or omni directional microphones? In >> p

Re: [Off topic] videos of german state TV, was Re: HTML syntax.

Felmon Davis wrote: > I got intrigued (and again apologies for my error!) and weird but I > found it here: . > > I'm pretty sure it's the right video but check. > > also I wonder if the link will work for you. Cool. This is great help - THANK YOU! Do

Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ?

David Wright wrote: > Myself, I find inotify-tools more useful: I use inotifywait > in a loop, waiting for a browser to close files in its > cache. I then examine their filetype and copy the ones > I want, giving them sensible (timestamp) names. Very useful > for capturing (typically, live) video.

Re: [Off topic] videos of german state TV, was Re: HTML syntax.

Hi, On Wed, 5 May 2021 01:06:30 +0200 (CEST) Felmon Davis wrote: > On Tue, 4 May 2021, deloptes wrote: > > > Felmon Davis wrote: > > > >> you can view it on youtube (if that's compliant with your principles) > >> at > > > > this is exactly the probl