best way to have gcc-3.2 on woody?

Hello. In order to correctly build the cvs version of MPlayer, I've been told I need to use gcc-3.2, which is currently in unstable. My question, then, is: what is the best (as in most debian compliant) way to install it on a woody system? As far as I can see, I have these options: a) grab

Re: best way to have gcc-3.2 on woody?

On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Klaus Imgrund wrote: KIAFAIK mplayer compiles with no problems with gcc2.95 just don't use 2.96 KII didn't see anything in the doc's about needing 3.2 for cvs. True enough, but any bug report on a MPlayer built with gcc 2.x is met with the standard upgrade to 3.2 answer,

netscape opens mozilla window if mozilla is running: why? (not how)

Hello. According to alternatives, this is the situation: netscape - /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape - /etc/alternatives/netscape -/usr/lib/netscape/477/communicator/communicator-smotif - /usr/lib/netscape/base-4/wrapper In this last script, the variable use_ns_remote set to yes causes another mozilla

apache+libapache-mod-ssl vs apache-ssl?

Hello. Right now I'm using apache-ssl, but I noticed that it is something different from apache + libapache-mod-ssl. What is not clear to me is exactly how the two options differ and what the relative pros and cons of each choice are. Could anyone shed some light, please? TIA, Andrea. -- Mä

Re: traffic shaping https connections

On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, sean finney wrote: sfso, i'd like to set up a shaper that caps the bandwidth for https sfconnections. i've looked at both the route-based shaper (the one sfthat works with the shapecfg pkg), and the QoS/CBQ one + the sfHTB2 patch (which works with the shaper pkg). Have a

Re: traffic shaping https connections

On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, sean finney wrote: sfpriority traffic. a) is a little heavy handed i think and b) won't keep sfapache-ssl from disturbing my counterstrike games... I assumed, perhaps incorrectly, that preserving low latency would have been enough. If you really need to set some bandwidth

Re: accessing linux partitions from windows

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: SPDi do not know if this is a security issue. but this is surprising. It isn't: with physical access to your machine, anyone could boot of a cd/floppy, mount your root partition, zero out your root password and be your master from then on ;-)

Re: Compiling kernel for AMD CPU with gcc 3.02 How?

On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, John Foster wrote: JFkernel to build that works using the A7 for athlon xp 1.8 cpu JFselection in the .config file. ANY advice is appreciated. Thanks. I'm sure there is a smarter way to do it than the one I used, but this worked fine for me and is simple enough: - edit main

Re: is there any dummy bandwidth shaping script?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Patrick Hsieh wrote: PHI've tried shaper in Debian woody but it seems to be only capable of the PHshaping of outbound traffic. Is there any dummy script or utility that can PHeasily do the inbound/outbound traffic shaping? I'm

Re: is there any dummy bandwidth shaping script?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Patrick Hsieh wrote: PHDoes wondershaper still consume the full downstream bandwidth when it is PHshaping the download traffic? I'm not sure I understand you here but, if by consume full bandwidth you mean the downlink will

hdparm ignoring spindown_time in config when called with by-id symlink

Hi. My PC has two disks, a NVME for Debian/testing and an old 2.5 drive for an OS that shall remain nameless :) Since the 2.5 disc isn't at all used by Linux, I figured I might as well set a very aggressive spindown time of, say, 30s and I wrote this in hdparm.conf:

Re: digikam: does it make sense to report a bug already fixed upstream but not in debian?

Il 06/01/19 12:41, Étienne Mollier ha scritto: Since you can reproduce the bug in Debian, I guess it is worth a report, with a mention to the upstream bug page and, if possible the patch fixing it. Put information necessary to the context, but no need to copy the entire thread on KDE bug

digikam: does it make sense to report a bug already fixed upstream but not in debian?

Hi. Case in point: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395875 There is no corresponding bugreport for the Debian package; had I not found the upstream bug, I would have filed a report with nearly the same information, since my tests match the issue perfectly. Question is, for tracking

Re: kernel regression from stable to testing (acpi lid / EEEpc 1215p)

Il 04/01/19 20:11, Andrea Borgia ha scritto: What's the best way to handle this? IMHO it's quite likely a kernel issue, most likely upstream. Should I file a bug on linux-image-amd64 or directly on bugzilla.kernel.org? No comments? Meanwhile, I've been testing the kernels archived

Re: thunar: trash works for one user, not for another

Il 19/01/19 20:17, David Christensen ha scritto: The key item is that Thunar needs to be able to create a '.Trash-UID' directory in the file system mount point directory.  (I believe my mount point initially had an owner and group of root.root, and Thunar was complaining?) Hi, David. This

kernel build error on install-perf

Hi. Way at the end of the build process, when I already have the linux-image deb ready to install, it stops with the following error message: -x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x- install -m 644 Documentation/tips.txt -t

Re: kernel parallel builds?

Il 14/01/19 16:48, Andrea Borgia ha scritto: I am sort of bound to using the packaged kernel source, since I wanted to minimize the changes (applying only *ONE* known debugging patch) and also get a nice deb to install on the laptop. Replying to self so that it might belp others

Re: kernel parallel builds?

it's perfect for me :) Il giorno lun 14 gen 2019 alle ore 16:19 Thomas Pircher ha scritto: > Andrea Borgia wrote: > > I'm using this command from within the unpacked kernel source: > > fakeroot debian/rules binary > > If you are not bound to using Debian's packaged ke

Re: Question about changed logout behavior.

Johan, you mean this one? Il giorno gio 17 gen 2019 alle ore 18:15 Brian ha scritto: > On Thu 17 Jan 2019 at 17:50:54 +0100, Johan T-Katiska wrote: > > > > > Hi there, since starting using testing a month or so ago my xsession > > behavior (I pressume) seem to have changed. I get logged out > >

thunar: trash works for one user, not for another

Hi. On my father's desktop (using xfce on "testing"), thunar correctly shows recently deleted files in the trash using my account but, when my father tries it with his account, only very old deleted files are visible. "gio trash testfile" works, the homes are on the same filesystem and

Re: thunar: trash works for one user, not for another

Il giorno dom 20 gen 2019 alle ore 19:10 David Christensen < dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> ha scritto: > YW. Let us know what you find out. > The contents of the trash are by default sorted by last change date, separately for directories and files. There is no deletion date in the panel, AFAIK.

odd resolver issue

Hi. Two systems on same LAN, let's call them A and B, with domain "localdomain". Identical /etc/resolv.conf (generated by NetworkManager), including a "search localdomain" line. Identical /etc/hosts with only localhost aliases in it. From A: ping shortnameB (OK) ping shortnameB.localdomain

Re: odd resolver issue

Il 04/01/19 11:47, Martin ha scritto: Add a 'domain localdomain'. To resolv.conf? Let me figure out first how to get N-M to do that, then there's always the question of the different behaviour. When using dhcp and this option is missing, have a look at /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf. The

Re: odd resolver issue

Il 04/01/19 13:19, Martin ha scritto: Because networkmanager knows everything better than anyone else. I hear you, I hear you :P However, in this specific case it turned out that the problem was /etc/nsswitch.conf working) hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns

Re: odd resolver issue

Il 04/01/19 11:16, john doe ha scritto: Are the dhcp server's options the same for both clients (identical lease)? Assuming OpenWRT isn't doing something fancy behind my back, the config entries look identical: (this is global, so same lease) config dhcp 'lan' option interface

Re: odd resolver issue

Il 04/01/19 12:43, Andrea Borgia ha scritto: Il 04/01/19 11:47, Martin ha scritto: Add a 'domain localdomain'. To resolv.conf? Let me figure out first how to get N-M to do that, then there's always the question of the different behaviour. Did a side-by-side comparison of the output

Re: hdparm ignoring spindown_time in config when called with by-id symlink

Il 02/01/19 12:15, Reco ha scritto: What about this: DEVNAME=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HTS543225A7A384E2024242DBNGWJ_ \ sh -x /lib/udev/hdparm >> /tmp/hdparm.log 2>&1 I had tried it, too, and it looks in line with the results: + set -e + [ -n

kernel regression from stable to testing (acpi lid / EEEpc 1215p)

Hi. On my EEEpc 1215p laptop, the upgrade from stable to testing broke the lid switch detection, since * another OS detects it just fine and acts on it; * the kernel from stable (4.9.0-7) does too Therefore, HW is ok (not obvious on an old laptop...) If I use the current kernel in testing

Re: kernel regression from stable to testing (acpi lid / EEEpc 1215p)

Il 09/01/19 00:07, Michael Lange ha scritto: Just because it is old does not necessarily mean that no one bothers. Sorry, that's not what I meant: I wanted to say the kernel is so old that it probably doesn't really matter if it is the debian or the upstream version I am using. That is,

Re: kernel regression from stable to testing (acpi lid / EEEpc 1215p)

quick note, the bug report has been filed: 919227

best way to correct (possibly) outdated information on wiki.debian.org

Hi. With respect to https://wiki.debian.org/SSDOptimization I see there is a minor issue with the weekly trim suggestion: in the current testing branch, those files are not present under /usr/share/doc/util-linux/examples/ I did file a bugreport on the util-linux package

Re: best way to correct (possibly) outdated information on wiki.debian.org

Il 30/12/18 16:23, Brian ha scritto: There is probably no need for an example file now that #889668 is closed. Incidentally - you opened the report, so you can close it; especially if you think it will save someone some work. Yes, that was my goal. I sent the following text to

Re: best way to correct (possibly) outdated information on wiki.debian.org

Il 30/12/18 17:09, Brian ha scritto: I am unfamiliar with the bts (?) method so cannot offer advice. I suspect the isse was the empty subject line but that error message was a hell of a convoluted way to say so :) Should I write to 916733-d...@bugs.debian.org, perhaps? This is the what I

Re: best way to correct (possibly) outdated information on wiki.debian.org

Il 30/12/18 15:48, Roberto C. Sánchez ha scritto: I would leave the bug report open. If it is a problem, the maintainer may add the example back to the package. If it was removed by upstream or there was some other intentional reason for the removal, he is likely to comment on it and close

Re: kernel regression from stable to testing (acpi lid / EEEpc 1215p)

Il 07/01/19 20:09, Michael Lange ha scritto: Since the error message looks different from yours I guess that this is probably a completely different issue, though. Most likely you're right, however there was quite a big rewrite of ACPI in 4.10 and I wouldn't rule it out completely. I

Re: hdparm ignoring spindown_time in config when called with by-id symlink

Il 02/01/19 14:35, Reco ha scritto: So udev is not to blame here. It's shell-based config parsing library. Possibly an upstream issue for hdparm, then. Nice :( Whitelist it. A file should be called /etc/apparmor.d/local/usr.bin.thunderbird. Thanks for the tip, saving for later. echo

kernel parallel builds?

Hi. How do I find out, and possibly tune, the degree of parallelization in the kernel build process? The "Kernel Handbook" doesn't say. I've got a fairly recent PC with plenty of RAM and a NVME drive, so I was shocked to find that rebuilding the debian kernel package took a few hours. Shocked

Re: kernel parallel builds?

I'm using this command from within the unpacked kernel source: fakeroot debian/rules binary I'll have another look, thanks. Il giorno lun 14 gen 2019 alle ore 13:59 Celejar ha scritto: > On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 12:55:40 +0100 > Andrea Borgia wrote: > > > Hi. > >

Re: missing avidemux Debian package

Il 25/01/19 19:44, deloptes ha scritto: # dpkg --get-selections before upgrade (is in the upgrade notes AFAIR > and then need to reinstall packages that are kept back. when reinstalling they pull the right dependencies. Indeed it is a bit of work ... like 20-30min, but upgrade is done every

kernel policy vs bug handling (how to followup #919227 ?)

Hi. In an earlier post[1] I mentioned an ACPI LID issue with my laptop, which has been fixed in the current 5.x series[2]. My questions: 1) other than commenting on my own bugreport[3] with this information, should I do anything else, like closing it or adding some special tags? As far as

Re: Laptop fails to suspend

Il 30/03/19 00:56, Sam Smith ha scritto: I have an older Lenovo T520 laptop that I've ran Debian on for years and I have never had any issues with putting it to "sleep" or suspending when closing the lid. However after upgrading from stretch to Buster, suspend fails to work. While

Re: prevent apt from downgrading packages

Il giorno ven 1 mar 2019 alle ore 10:46 Alexander V. Makartsev < avbe...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > On 01.03.2019 13:27, Felix Rubio wrote: > > I have mix stable+testing (~1200 packages from stable, ~20 packages > from testing). I have the following contents in > /etc/apt/preferences.d/pinning:

Re: prevent apt from downgrading packages

before_ the upgrade when I had to purge a few packages and libraries from the old "debian-multimedia" repo... after that, the upgrade to testing went well and not a problem since. Il 01/03/19 11:18, john doe ha scritto:> On 3/1/2019 11:07 AM, Andrea Borgia wrote: There are no good answers

Re: iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode

Hallo, Klaus. It would seem that the file you are looking for is in this package: https://packages.debian.org/stretch/firmware-iwlwifi Installing it should fix your problem. Regards, Andrea. Il giorno mar 19 feb 2019 alle ore 11:45 Klaus Jantzen < k.d.jant...@mailbox.org> ha scritto: > Hi, >

Re: Running Debian on an AMD Ryzen system

Hi, Sam. Unless you go for the "G" variant of Ryzen (with embedded GPU(, you should be good to go with no special care if you use the current "testing". If you decide to use "G" as I did, you should probably opt for this kernel: https://github.com/M-Bab/linux-kernel-amdgpu-binaries Regards,

Re: How to get a clean situation for nvidia drivers

Duh :) Other than feeling a bit stupid, now I have to find out why the system had that package installed. Thanks, Andrea. Il giorno mer 13 mar 2019 alle ore 12:37 ha scritto: > On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 12:27:51PM +0100, Andrea Borgia wrote: > > Il giorno mar 12 mar 2019 alle ore 22

Re: How to get a clean situation for nvidia drivers

Good idea, I'll check the metapackage, though. Il giorno mer 13 mar 2019 alle ore 13:17 Brad Rogers ha scritto: > On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 12:55:40 +0100 > Andrea Borgia wrote: > > Hello Andrea, > > >Yup, my bad: I assumed that the package still had a reason to be > >in

Re: How to get a clean situation for nvidia drivers

Il giorno mar 12 mar 2019 alle ore 22:34 Boyan Penkov < boyan.pen...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > I installed nvidia-legacy-390, uninstalled nvidia-legacy-checker, and my > machine survived a reboot with the GUI coming up nicely. > Perhaps a silly question but... how do I know whether my card is a

Re: How to get a clean situation for nvidia drivers

Brad Rogers ha scritto: > On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 12:27:51 +0100 > Andrea Borgia wrote: > > Hello Andrea, > > >Perhaps a silly question but... how do I know whether my card is a > > Maybe. > > >[AMD/ATI] RV370 [Radeon X300/X550/X1050 Series] > >

Re: puzzled: debian 9.8 already?

Il 16/02/19 21:22, Ryan Campbell Cunningham ha scritto: If you would like to, you may read the Debian 9.8 release announcement at . Thank you, Ryan. And also Steve for the additional info on the interim security release. In

Re: How to file a proper bug report

Hello, TJ Just a quick note on "AMD open driver": I assume you have been using the standard kernel in Buster, right? Have you tried this version? https://github.com/M-Bab/linux-kernel-amdgpu-binaries I have a Ryzen with embedded graphics and it works quite nicely, though I am no gamer.

puzzled: debian 9.8 already?

Hi. apt-get just gave me this warning: N: Il repository "http://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian stretch Release" ha modificato il valore "Version" da "9.7" a "9.8" (In Italian, that is "value for version changed from 9.7 to 9.8") Given that 9.7 was just released (I checked the website), is

Re: missing avidemux Debian package

TLDR it's complicated :) https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=203211 Il giorno ven 25 gen 2019 alle ore 13:09 bapt x ha scritto: > Hello, > > Is there a reason for avidemux video editor is not being in the official > Debian package repository? > I see multimedia packages like VLC

Re: missing avidemux Debian package

Il giorno ven 25 gen 2019 alle ore 17:40 deloptes ha scritto: > David Wright wrote: > > And to be fair, that has been spelled out in the Release Notes ever > > since etch was released in 2007. Before that, the warning was less > > explicit. > Of course, it was not my intention to blame anyone

Re: missing avidemux Debian package

I had TONS of problems upgrading from stable to testing due to libraries installed from d-m over time, in fact :/ Third time was a charm, though: I had learnt about that and premptively removed everything that was not in the main repo :) Il giorno ven 25 gen 2019 alle ore 16:34 Frank McCormick <

Re: Fwd: error 500 when clicking bug link

Il 02/02/19 23:25, Steve McIntyre ha scritto: Error 500 on the bugs page for src:linux is unfortunately common. In this case, it's a timeout on the backend retrieving and formatting all the bugs. There are *lots*... Yup, I saw that, when it worked. Thanks for the explanation. Basically, it's

Re: Fwd: error 500 when clicking bug link

Il 03/02/19 17:53, Jude DaShiell ha scritto: That being the case, maybe the best option would be to run report-bug if your machine can send out e-mail. Yup, reportbug works fine here and I can see how that might be an option, however the error message was fairly specific: "write to

Re: Fwd: error 500 when clicking bug link

Il 02/02/19 16:44, David Wright ha scritto: Maybe it's been fixed. When I click on that link, I arrive at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=linux which looks like: Now, that's quite some timing! I retested right before sending the mail and it was still crashing. Either that

Fwd: error 500 when clicking bug link

Hi. I reported this issue a couple of weeks ago and I haven't heard back from anyone. The problem is still there: how do I bring this to the attention of someone who can actually fix it? Regards, Andrea. Messaggio Inoltrato To: ow...@bugs.debian.org From: Andrea Borgia

kernel symlinks, still needed?

Hi. AFAIK the following symlinks in "/" were required for LILO and are no longer needed with GRUB2: initrd.img initrd.img.old vmlinuz vmlinuz.old Is there a reason for keeping them around nowadays? Thanks, Andrea.

Re: kernel symlinks, still needed?

Il 25/05/19 19:24, Sven Joachim ha scritto: If you stick to grub, not really. You can safely delete them, and use do_symlinks = 0 in /etc/kernel-img.conf so that they will not come back. Thanks, I've just done as you suggested :)

Re: kernel symlinks, still needed?

Il 26/05/19 00:19, Brian ha scritto: Booting from a GRUB prompt can be a little easier when you know that the kernel and initrd can be reached from /. In those cases where the system doesn't boot on its own, I dig out the USB drive where I keep the ISOs and run from there. It's rare enough

lightdm-gtk-greeter: disabling "suspend" or other entry

Hi. I'm using lightdm-gtk-greeter and I would like to disable some of the options, for example "suspend". I've found a package called lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings but it doesn't seem to do what I want: in the "Panel" tab, I can remove the whole "power menu" indicator but not drill down and

Re: kernel policy vs bug handling (how to followup #919227 ?)

Il 08/06/19 12:18, Andrei POPESCU ha scritto: On Mi, 27 mar 19, 21:22:18, Andrea Borgia wrote: 2) maybe I am not using the proper keywords but I can't seem to find information on Debian kernel policy, specifically: when does a new kernel from upstream enter "unstable"? Usually

testing: weird resume (black or frozen screen)

Hi. Running the testing branch and using xfce, the last couple of resumes from hibernation were problematic: the first one had the suspend dialog still visible with the "yes" button still pushed in, all applications were open, the mouse could move but not actually click anything. Keyboard

Re: Laptop fails to suspend

Il 28/04/19 00:25, Sam Smith ha scritto: INFO: task kworker/7:1:73 blocked for more than 120 seconds. INFO: task bash:9164 blocked for more than 120 seconds. So does this mean I have an issue with cpu hotplugging or is that normal? AFAIK it isn't normal but I wouldn't know how serious it is

Re: testing: weird resume (black or frozen screen)

Il 22/04/19 21:20, Andrea Borgia ha scritto: This meant that X session was not locked and, now after resuming, the apps are still there and the mouse moves. Thing is, nothing else works: can't click anywhere, alt-tab does nothing, only switching back to console works. Clock is stuck at 20

Re: testing: weird resume (black or frozen screen)

Il 20/04/19 18:16, hdv@gmail ha scritto: I see the same type of problems. Hmm, I'm not so sure about it: in my case the sytem works except (parts of) X and it is most likely not kernel-related. In your case it doesn't even resume properly, it seems. You might want to have a look at

Re: testing: weird resume (black or frozen screen)

Il 21/04/19 13:44, hdv@gmail ha scritto: I hope you can get rid of your problem soon as well! Glad I could help, let's see if I get lucky. Regards, Andrea.

Re: OT Calibre

Most definitely, yes. I had a look and there seems to be no bugreport about this, yet: https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre

Re: testing: weird resume (black or frozen screen)

Still no solution but an interesting tidbit: I've tried running pm-hibernate from the console with debugging. This meant that X session was not locked and, now after resuming, the apps are still there and the mouse moves. Thing is, nothing else works: can't click anywhere, alt-tab does nothing,

Re: OT Calibre

Il 22/04/19 21:51, Bob Bernstein ha scritto: Where is the 'Quit' or 'Exit' button in Calibre's gui? It seems there's no specific quit button but I can close it without problems by clicking the "X" button at the top right corner of the window (using xfce4).

openvpn-systemd-resolved vs gui

Hi. After seeing some warnings in the system logs, I decided to investigate and found out that I am supposed to enable this script to integrate the dns information supplied from the server into the local configuration. Do I really have to do it if I am not worried about dns leaks? I'm actually

Re: Is Buster ready?

If you want to try a newer kernel with AMD graphics built in, try this: https://github.com/M-Bab/linux-kernel-amdgpu-binaries Il giorno mar 3 set 2019 alle ore 20:10 Alessandro Vesely ha scritto: > On Tue 03/Sep/2019 16:28:48 +0200 Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> On Mon, 2 Sep 2019 22:50:41 +0200

Re: openvpn-systemd-resolved vs gui

Il 01/09/19 19:09, john doe ha scritto: After seeing some warnings in the system logs, I decided to investigate and It would help if we could see those warnings as well. Sep 2 16:59:40 clarisse systemd[1]: openvpn@update-systemd-resolved.service: Service RestartSec=5s expired,

Re: openvpn-systemd-resolved vs gui

Il 02/09/19 19:52, john doe ha scritto: Those messages are error messages, if I were you I would put the missing file 'scripts/update-systemd-resolved' in the directory '/etc/openvpn/scripts' or look in your openvpn config file for the '--up script' directive. They sure behave like warnings,

Re: black screen (only mouse visible) after resume with xfce4 on kernel 5.2.0

Hello, Christopher. If this is the same problem I had (and discussed prior on this list), there is a bug in light-locker that seems to cause this behavior randomly even without hibernation. Consider switching from light-locker to xscreensaver; this resolved the problem for me. Thing is, I

black screen (only mouse visible) after resume with xfce4 on kernel 5.2.0

Hi. On two systens with fairly different hardware (a 6yr old laptop I am using now on holiday and my new home desktop), with kernel 5.2.0 (and possibly as low as 5.0.11) the following happens: boot, login X, hibernate (ok), resume (also ok), unlock xfce4, stare at mouse pointer alone on a

Re: thunderbird / icedove directory snafu ?

Il 22/07/19 08:24, Andrea Borgia ha scritto: Basically, the keep the TB version currently in testing happy, I need .icedove to be a symlink to .thunderbird even if I have completed the transition long ago. Filed a bug, even if I found a solution: 933274: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin

Re: lightdm-gtk-greeter: disabling "suspend" or other entry

Il 28/05/19 21:21, Andrea Borgia ha scritto: I'm using lightdm-gtk-greeter and I would like to disable some of the options, for example "suspend" Just for the record, I ended up removing the powermenu from the greeter and posted a question to S-E [1] to find out if finer grain

thunderbird / icedove directory snafu ?

Hi. I am aware TB in Debian went through a rebranding to Icedove and back to the original name because... well, reasons. The new userprofile directory is supposed to be .thunderbird and the system checks whether .icedove still exists and it's not a symlink: in this case it will abort and

xfce and hybrid sleep: only in menu?

Hi. I saw that the power menu now has support for hybrid sleep and have verified that it works reliably on my system (tracking "testing"). Therefore I wanted to make this mode the default when closing the lid but I can't seem to find this option in the power settings. What gives? :)

Re: black screen (only mouse visible) after resume with xfce4 on kernel 5.2.0

Il 14/09/19 22:30, Mike Kupfer ha scritto: Andrea Borgia wrote: how do I get xfce to use xscreensaver as locking when suspending? For Xfce4 4.12, it's on the Advanced tab of the Session and Startup settings. Sorry for the delay, Mike: I had a busy schedule and opted for using a "

Re: Document removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster

Il 30/06/19 18:17, Sven Hartge ha scritto: Other than that: Reinstalling the system with full disk encryption or just copying the files from the ecryptfs and then removing it are the only real other options. I'll explore f.d.e. for the laptop, I guess the desktop can live just fine with a

Re: Document removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster

Il 30/06/19 11:52, Curt ha scritto: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=928956 Due to #765854 ecryptfs-utils has been removed from Buster. The kernel module (ecryptfs.ko) is still built but depending on the upgrade path users will be unable to mount their encrypted home

Re: amanda stopped working: selfcheck fails

Il 02/12/19 01:32, Charles Curley ha scritto: How do you know this? Granted, upgrades are a likely culprit, but don't I log all config changes, timestamped and with relevant links to documentation or supporting evidence for the decision. Is there any reason you are doing production

Re: amanda stopped working: selfcheck fails

Il 01/12/19 22:29, Kamil Jońca ha scritto: I got the same today's morning. I found that in /etc/services was only: Good catch: it was recently modified and I'm pretty sure I didn't do it. This file is managed by netbase and look what I've found:

Re: alternatives to gmail?

Especially considering that gmail offers IMAP access and Pine, for example, works nicely with it :) Nicely, although the setup is a bit cumbersome. Il giorno mar 19 nov 2019 alle ore 10:06 ha scritto: > Hello Karen > > A quick web search for "gmail alternatives" gives plenty of answers, for >

amanda stopped working: selfcheck fails

Hi. I run backups with Amanda every weekend and today it failed, completely. What changes have happened, if any, were due to package upgrades, I haven't touched amanda, ssh or inetd in a long while according to my diary. Certainly not in the last week! Amanda Tape Server Host Check

Re: black screen (only mouse visible) after resume with xfce4 on kernel 5.2.0

Il 03/10/19 17:55, Mike Kupfer ha scritto: If you're asking how to use xscreensaver specifically (e.g., instead of Xfce's own locker (new in 4.14)), you can specify a particular locker using the Xfce settings editor. (Set /general/LockCommand to whatever you want; take a look at the

Re: Hardware for Debian

I have an ASRock B450M-HDV (for AMD Ryzen) and it works. with UEFI boot, too. Running "testing" because of the amdgpu driver. Il giorno mer 12 feb 2020 alle ore 13:15 Malcolm Beeson-Earwicker < malc...@emale.eu> ha scritto: > I've been a Debian user for about twenty years now, and have found

Re: 3200G Ryzen 3 / Vega 8 for Buster?

Il 05/02/20 08:55, Felix Miata ha scritto: Is it enough to upgrade to buster-backports kernel and AMD firmware to run Xorg on the 3200G CPU/APU? The R7 Kaveri motherboard/APU of a friend who is virtually blind fried. When he has hardware trouble, it's me gets to figure out howto and fix it. He

kernel is tainted, why?

Hi. Running "testing" with the "5.3.0-3-amd64 #1 Debian 5.3.15-1" kernel package on ASRock B450-HDV mobo with Ryzen 2200G cpu, I noticed that the kernel is marked as tainted, with the following flags: "GW" According to the docs[1] this means: * all modules are GPL-compatible

Re: kernel is tainted, why?

Il 03/01/20 17:03, Dan Ritter ha scritto: amdgpupro driver taints the kernel; amdgpu itself does not. I don't think I ever attempted to install the proprietary drivers (don't need them) and I only have this: /lib/modules/5.3.0-3-amd64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu.ko Anything

Re: Problem with GPU Randeon Vega 8 Graphics from AMD Ryzen 3 3200G

Out of curiosity, what mobo do you have? I have a ASRock B450HDV and the same CPU/GPU combo, running fine with kernel from current "testing". Il giorno mar 10 mar 2020 alle ore 01:15 Dimitris P ha scritto: > I tried it too and even kernel from experimental with no luck > > Στις Τρίτη, 10

Re: Problem with GPU Randeon Vega 8 Graphics from AMD Ryzen 3 3200G

Hmm, I don't see anything wrong in the kernel logs and I have this same CPU, also with "testing". My mobo has 3 outputs and I am only using HDMI. Are you perhaps using more than one output? Il giorno dom 8 mar 2020 alle ore 22:12 Dimitris P ha scritto: > Hello all today I got my new pc that

Re: APT had planned for dpkg to do more than it reported back

Il 29/04/20 17:36, Sven Joachim ha scritto: Unless there are good reasons to report it, I'd say I can let it drop, right? It's up to you. If the message comes up again, I would report it, but probably not at the first incident. I think it's the first time I ever saw it in years, I'll report

APT had planned for dpkg to do more than it reported back

Hi. testing/unstable system here, just did an upgrade and I got the following message: W: APT had planned for dpkg to do more than it reported back (372 vs 389). Affected packages: texlive-latex-base:amd64 texlive-latex-extra:amd64 texlive-latex-recommended:amd64 texlive-pictures:amd64

Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition?

Il 13/05/20 00:21, Patrick Bartek ha scritto: I can't find anything definitive on this question. Some say, 100MB is fine; others 215 or 550 is a safe choice. It all seems to be just opinions. I had the same doubts about a year ago and went with the recommendation of a larger partition,

Re: Smallest Usable EFI Partition?

only that as a separate partition, though, the rest of /boot lives in the main partition. Il giorno mer 13 mag 2020 alle ore 02:36 Rick Thomas ha scritto: > On Tue, May 12, 2020, at 3:37 PM, Andrea Borgia wrote: > > Il 13/05/20 00:21, Patrick Bartek ha scritto: > > > I c

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