Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things

2021-12-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 02:35:43PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > I'd posted about my update a while back, and while some folks were > encouraging me to go all the way to 11 since it's the current version, > my thinking has been to see how things are working, what's changed, > what bro

Re: keyboard problem

2021-12-21 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 07:10:00PM +0100, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: > hi, > I have the following problem with my desktop keyboard layout > I tried to set a US layout, using the debian 'dpkg reconfigure' > , and that works for graphic applications, like firefox, but. not in text > terminalt for example

Re: linux-image-amd64 (5.10.84-1)

2021-12-21 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 03:01:27PM +0100, phil995511 - wrote: > Hello Andy, > > After tests on my Debian 11 virtual machine, the installation of the new > upgraded kernel is ok. > > philippe@station:~$ uname -a > Linux station 5.10.0-10-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.84-1 (2021-12-08) x86_64 > GNU/Lin

Re: How to see the list of CRITICALLY vulnerable packages in Debian?

2021-12-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 12:07:26AM +0100, maxwillb wrote: > https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/status/release/stable > > shows the list of packages currently considered vulnerable, but it does not > show the severity. > > For example, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-37973 has

Re: Re: How to see the list of CRIICALLY vulnerable packages in Debian?

2021-12-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
[Sent by mistake to maxwillb only - forwarding to the list] >From amaca...@einval.com Sat Dec 25 15:16:59 2021 Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2021 15:16:59 + From: "Andrew M.A. Cater" To: maxwillb Subject: Re: How to see the list of CRITICALLY vulnerable packages in Debian? Message-ID

Re: How to see the list of CRITICALLY vulnerable packages in Debian?

2021-12-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 11:51:50PM +0100, maxwillb wrote: > December 25, 2021 4:16:59 PM CET "Andrew M.A. Cater" > wrote:On Sat, Dec 25, 2021 at 03:36:12PM +0100, maxwillb wrote: > > > So you're raising issues that everyone knows but can't do a great deal a

Re: debian.org/security is wrong to say what it does

2021-12-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 01:19:53AM +0100, maxwillb wrote: > December 25, 2021 4:16:59 PM CET "Andrew M.A. Cater" > wrote: > > > So you're raising issues that everyone knows but can't do a great deal > > about given the difficulties > > I hate to

Re: Peak load handling by Debian repository servers ????

2021-12-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 08:15:54AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > How does Debian repository distribute load during peaks? > Where/how is this documented? > > Consider the case when many users may specify the same URL in sources.list . > If they all try to install packages at the same time there c

Documentation reference: [WAS Re: Peak load handling by Debian repository servers ????]

2021-12-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 08:28:17AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 12/26/2021 08:22 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 08:15:54AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > How does Debian repository distribute load during peaks? > > > W

Re: debian.org/security is wrong to say what it does

2021-12-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 09:36:47PM +0100, maxwillb wrote: > December 26, 2021 1:25:30 PM CET "Andrew M.A. Cater" > wrote: > > > but that doesn't mean that everything marked as vulnerable is still at risk. > Hi maxwillb I've tried to explain what I un

Dell E6250 laptop lockup [WAS Re: Debian 11.1 Firefox ESR 78.15.0esr add-on icons]

2021-12-26 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 07:45:15PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > On 12/25/21 12:48 PM, David Christensen wrote: > > On 12/5/21 2:46 AM, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > > > > > > > > > On 12/5/21 05:47, David Christensen wrote: > > > > debian-user: > > > > > > > > I installed debian-live-11.1.0-am

Re: Firefox ESR EOL

2021-12-27 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 08:14:17AM +, Tixy wrote: > On Sun, 2021-12-26 at 22:17 +, piorunz wrote: > > On 21/12/2021 01:06, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > > > > > As of a day ago, Firefox 91 is now in stable. My thanks to the > > > maintainers of the firefox debian packages and the build toolchai

Re: PDFsam Basic not updating

2021-12-27 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 07:30:38PM +, L Dimov wrote: > Hello, > > I am on Debian 11 Stable with only main repositories. I got a note in PDFsam > Basic that it needs to be updated due to a vulnerability. But running apt-get > update and apt-get upgrade does not upgrade PDFsam Basic (it is 4.2

Re: LVM passphrase

2021-12-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 08:55:29AM +1100, David wrote: > On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 at 21:06, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > > Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote on > > 28/12/2021 at 07:39:16+0100: > > > > I got two logical volume on my hard disk. > > > One is the swap > > > Other is the root > > >

Re: how to get non-latest backports deb file?

2021-12-29 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 09:18:24AM -0500, Dave Johnson wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to reproduce an issue and need a non-latest backports deb > file to test with. > > Specifically, pool/main/g/gpsd/python3-gps_3.20-12~bpo10+1_arm64.deb > > However that has been deleted from the mirrors as it h

Monthly FAQ for debian-user mailing list

2021-12-31 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
an-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 example

Re: Debian on Dell PowerEdge C6220?

2022-01-02 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jan 02, 2022 at 10:39:50AM +0100, didier gaumet wrote: > > Hello David, > > Dell provided RHEL and Suse commercial support for thos particular > model. So while Ubuntu nor Debian is not listed, i would imagine there > will be no problem > https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-uk/drivers/su

Re: Single broken package blocks whole package management

2022-01-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Jan 06, 2022 at 03:20:38AM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > On 6/01/22 02:32, Urs Thuermann wrote: > > After an dist-upgrade from Raspian 8 (jessie) to 9.13 (stretch) > > hundreds of packages still need to be upgraded and aptitude reports > > numerous conflicts. > > Firstly, the standard res

Re: still fixing stuff the upgrade broke...

2022-01-06 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Jan 06, 2022 at 12:55:51PM -, Curt wrote: > On 2022-01-06, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > The change there is that python2 and python3 are ridiculously > > incompatible with each other, so programs written in each need > > to call the appropriate interpreter. However, most python > > progra

Re: reduce size of debian-live-11.1.0-amd64-xfce+nonfree.iso installation

2022-01-06 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 06:37:53PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > debian-user > > I installed debian-live-11.1.0-amd64-xfce+nonfree.iso and updated onto a > amd64 computer for graphical desktop usage (e.g. "daily driver"): > > 2022-01-04 17:57:07 root@laalaa ~ > # cat /etc/debian_version ; una

Re: odd question re man pages

2022-01-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 05:01:05AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > debian 11.1, 64 bit net-install updated yesterday. > > I've noted that there can be links to a web page in a man page that are > underscored if you click on them while reading the man page, but clicking > the li

Re: odd question re man pages

2022-01-07 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 08:13:42AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jan 07, 2022 at 01:09:38PM -, Curt wrote: > > I'd rather just cut and paste the URI in the always-open browser, but > > then again I've never had that old hacker spirit. > > That's what I do too. I like my terminals to b

Re: Debian installation doesn't see my network

2022-01-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 08, 2022 at 12:13:41PM -0500, sciguy wrote: > This has happened with what I have tried so far: Debian and Ubuntu. I have > been accustomed to my network card being auto-detected and the internet > being automatically connected with an installation, but I am not getting > internet on ins

Re: Debian Live Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS780 [Radeon HD 3200] screen resolution

2022-01-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 08, 2022 at 06:52:32PM +, Richmond wrote: > I am currently running Debian 10. > > sudo lspci|grep VGA > 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, > Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS780 [Radeon HD 3200] > > sudo xrandr > > Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1440 x 900, maximum

Re: Bullseye default swap partition size?

2022-01-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 08, 2022 at 08:54:43AM -0800, John Conover wrote: > > I just installed Bullseye, using default "use entire disk" as the HD > configuration from the Graphical Install option on a Live USB SD. > > The swap partition size installed on the HD is 1 GB. > > Buster, etc., used to be about t

Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things

2022-01-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 11:03:55AM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Tuesday 11 January 2022 08:18:27 am Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 01:15:05PM +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Lu, 03 ian 22, 14:02:05, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > What I'm not clear on at this po

Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things

2022-01-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 12:42:11PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Tuesday 11 January 2022 11:24:27 am Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 11:03:55AM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > I don't do anything much under debian that needs to have sound working, so I > hadn't

Re: freeing up some space

2022-01-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 01:25:27PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > So I'm poking around with mc, and happened across /var/cache/apt/archives > which has a LOT of *.deb files in it, and which seems to include many > versions of the same package, some of them many years old, going all the

Re: freeing up some space

2022-01-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 04:32:20PM -0500, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > Apparently the info about what's in this directory is also stored in some > database somewhere, so just going in there and deleting a bunch of stuff > will probably break something... > Yes. > > > I've mostly used sy

Re: Instalacja Debian8 błąd w Release

2022-01-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 02:12:42PM +, piorunz wrote: > Witaj Wojciech, > > On 13/01/2022 11:02, Wojciech wrote: > > > > Kiedy mogę się spodziewać naprawienia ? > > Never. Jessie end of life was in June 2018, and LTS support has ended in > June 2020, one and half years ago. It's a surprise th

Re: Instalacja Debian8 błąd w Release

2022-01-15 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 01:48:39PM +, piorunz wrote: > On 15/01/2022 13:32, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 01:28:16PM +, piorunz wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > But IMHO, burden of keeping all archaeological versions of Debian > > > shouldn't be on Debian Project. Ther

Re: Please take this as constructive

2022-01-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 10:47:55PM -0800, R. Toby Richards wrote: > Every time that I search for solutions to my wifi drivers, the solution is > to apt-get install a bunch of drivers. Why does nobody realize that apt'ing > anything is a non-solution: How can I apt-get install if > I don't have ne

Re: cooperative.co.uk has address 127.0.0.1

2022-01-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 02:58:02PM +, piorunz wrote: > On 18/01/2022 13:19, Richmond wrote: > > Why do I see this? > > > > host cooperative.co.uk > > cooperative.co.uk has address 127.0.0.1 > My local DNS resolver says: > $ dig cooperative.co.uk > > ; <<>> DiG 9.17.21-1-Debian <<>> cooperativ

Re: Future of "his" packages in Debian

2022-01-21 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 10:58:15AM +0100, local10 wrote: > Jan 20, 2022, 22:09 by pior...@gmx.com: > > > On 20/01/2022 18:17, Marco Valli wrote: > > > >>> by Norbert Preining · 2022/01/14 > >>> > >>> After having been (again) demoted (blah) > >>> based on flimsy arguments, I have been forced to re

Re: Where is Debian 11 installer for amd64 that works please ?

2022-01-21 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 09:10:01PM +1300, C.T.F. Jansen wrote: > Greetings > > I have been trying to install Debian 11 on an Asus from 2018 with i5 using > amd64 install DVD's with 11.1.0 and 11.2.0 and a net install CD with 11.2.0 > . All three have fallen over because of installer bugs. > >

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-21 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 06:42:38PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > Hi all; > > System is an rpi4b/bullseye, uptodate. > I had to fix this a year or more ago with buster, but this system has > crashed and burned thanks to a 2T shingled drive. Notes if any were ever > made are gone. > > So how do I

Re: Why is Debian not telling the truth about its security fixes?

2022-01-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 02:23:48PM +0100, max wrote: > This is a text-only version of my post on > https://medium.com/@maxwillb/why-is-debian-not-telling-the-truth-about-its-security-fixes-85f0f85f19a0 > > It is missing hyperlinks and illustrations. Comments, corrections and > suggestions are v

Re: Why is Debian not telling the truth about its security fixes?

2022-01-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 07:01:24PM +, Tim Woodall wrote: > On Sat, 22 Jan 2022, max wrote: > > > > > WHY IS DEBIAN NOT TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT ITS SECURITY FIXES? > > > snip rant. > > I could have the opposite rant. WHY IS DEBIAN NOT TELLING THE TRUTH > ABOUT ITS STABLE DISTRIBUTION. > > B

Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH?

2022-01-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 03:05:22PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > Greetings all ff experts; > > Since installing bullseye, and your version of firefox, discovering that > dissenter is history, I just found that firefoxes forever retention of > bookmarks now has a max limit set way too low, or a ti

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 05:20:49PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > On Saturday, January 22, 2022 9:33:56 AM EST Charles Curley wrote: > > On Sat, 22 Jan 2022 07:47:01 +0100 > > > > wrote: > > > Reading the source [1], `set-hostname' seems to be obsolete. The > > > magic > > > word seems to be simply

[SUMMARY STATEMENT] Was: Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jan 22, 2022 at 08:29:42PM +0100, Marco Möller wrote: > On 22.01.22 15:24, songbird wrote: > > Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > ... > > > When this topic came up i googled around for learning about the actual > > > conflict. > > > This mail by Norbert Preining > > > > > >https://lists.debian.

Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 05:59:40AM -0500, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > > > On 2022-01-23 04:52, deloptes wrote: > > Marco Möller wrote: > > [Marco Moeller] > >> I feel that a concise statement from Debian insiders would gain a lot to > >> not provoke avoidable discussions and would r

Re: trying to get bookworm net going on an rpi4

2022-01-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 04:08:34PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > Greetings folks; > > Let me say first that I'm around 150 miles from any ipv6 capable network, > just to get that out of the way. > > Its booted to a text login and the first thing I did was import a saved > copy of the hosts file,

Re: trying to get bookworm net going on an rpi4

2022-01-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 05:26:17PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > On Sunday, January 23, 2022 4:28:56 PM EST Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 04:08:34PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > > Greetings folks; > > > > > > Let me say first that I'

Re: trying to get bookworm net going on an rpi4

2022-01-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 06:22:40PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > And I just noticed this is an arm64 build, I need an armhf, where can I > get that from? > Hi Gene, In the mail where I replied to you last night, I pointed out it was an arm64 build. Debian builds 64 bit for the Raspberry Pi 3 and

Re: USB UEFI recovery stick

2022-01-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 11:55:20AM +0100, deloptes wrote: > Thank you for the response > > David Christensen wrote: > > > I have a computer with an Intel DQ67SW desktop motherboard (released Q1, > > 2011).  The Setup utility allows me to select BIOS/MBR mode or UEFI/GPT > > mode.  d-i seems to de

[CODE OF CONDUCT REMINDER - WAS Re: Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?]

2022-01-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 12:44:52PM +0100, deloptes wrote: > max wrote: > > > For comparison, RMS is publicly against singular "they", and Debian > > developers voted not to censure him. > > https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html Seems like a double > > standard, but whatever. > >

Re: Status update {Re: PARTIAL DIAGNOSIS of Installation problems}

2021-03-10 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 04:26:06AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 03/10/2021 03:45 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Ma, 09 mar 21, 14:35:54, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > On 03/09/2021 07:00 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > On Ma, 09 mar 21, 06:32:33, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > On 03/08/2021

Re: /usr/share/doc/*/copyright

2021-03-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 12:44:49AM -0600, Ed Redd wrote: > Please post the General Public license at the bottom of the page? I > scripted my name on the license April 12 2020 and Debianized a package > manager. Now theyre trying to cover it up with a bullshit license Ed Can you please be a little

Re: /usr/share/doc/*/copyright

2021-03-14 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
y anybody else can go any further. All the very best, as ever, Andy C. > On Sat, Mar 13, 2021, 4:55 AM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 12:44:49AM -0600, Ed Redd wrote: > > > Please post the General Public license at the bottom of the page? I &

Re: Debian Stable Updates Announcement SUA 197-1

2021-03-23 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 10:40:01AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 3/23/21 9:44 AM, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 23 Mar 2021 at 07:52:52 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: > > > On 2021-03-23 at 07:43, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > > > I think the request was really "Please tell us how to use th

Re: Debian Stable Updates Announcement SUA 197-1

2021-03-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 04:04:29PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > On 3/23/21 12:31 PM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 10:40:01AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > > > > I use Stretch for my daily driver laptop (Dell Latitude E6520) and UniFi

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 10:34:53AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > This is essentially a reading list request. > I have never administered a LAN and believe in "learning by doing". > I have two laptops with clean installs of Buster. During installation server > software was installed on *ONE* of the

Re: Could a product with Chipset information for USB WiFi access dongle be advised please?

2021-03-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 06:15:16PM +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > My illustrious List Members and our Problem Solvers, Debian.org, > > This issue arose because of my need to bypass the non-accessible WiFi > network through the native card on my HP laptop. The network strength > is raed by network m

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-25 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 06:51:32PM +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Jo, 25 mar 21, 05:15:46, songbird wrote: > > > > for my own needs i just use a crossover cable and skip > > WiFi entirely - probably because in more ancient times > > i've done connections between machines via null modem > >

Re: Possible?! A Debian public repository for all complex code lines with examples and scripts?

2021-03-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 07:11:24PM +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > My illustrious Team Leaders and Movers of the Debian List, > We are all volunteers - the salutation is fine, but we're no more than volunteers here. > It has often been advised by experienced users of Debian for the > learners to fo

Re: Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Richard, So: You have two laptops. Both installed from the first DVD. Never connected to the Internet. Did you actually manage to install the firmware to make the WiFi cards work? Outwith that firmware, it is very unlikely that anything will work. [And this goes back to one of the previous email

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 11:28:07AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 03/30/2021 10:28 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > Richard, > > > > So: You have two laptops. Both installed from the first DVD. Never connected > > to the Internet. > > > > Did you act

Re: Wayland and GNOME 3

2021-03-31 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 05:31:59PM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > A while back I installed GNOME 3 (Buster), and it dragged Wayland in, and > now runs on top of Wayland. I like Wayland, but some things (like Synaptic) > don't work with it. Is there a way to run GNOME 3 on Xorg? > > Paul > > -- >

debian-user list info and guidelines (FAQ) - posted monthly

2021-04-01 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 examp

Re: ubuntu/snap future

2021-04-03 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Apr 03, 2021 at 07:38:53PM +0300, George Shuklin wrote: > I'd like to stir some debates. > > Ubuntu (which is 'enterprise friendly Debian with ambivalent feeling about > free software') started to push snaps onto servers for real. It looks to me > like they desperately want to jump away fr

Re: minimize daemon downtime for apt upgrade

2021-04-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 10:46:06AM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > Greetings! > > Scenario: > > I have a Sid desktop computer that acts as a router for my home network. > > If I wait for a few months to perform an "apt upgrade", many packages get > upgraded. > > The upgrade starts with shutting

Re: minimize daemon downtime for apt upgrade

2021-04-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 01:47:22PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 10:46:06 -0500 > Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > > > If I wait for a few months to perform an "apt upgrade", many packages > > get upgraded. > > ... > > > Is there something more elegant? > > As Dan Ritter already m

Re: upgrading firefox-esr from 78.6 to 78.9 results in non-working firefox

2021-04-11 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 01:48:09PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Le 11/04/2021 à 13:33, Eric S Fraga a écrit : > > On Saturday, 10 Apr 2021 at 13:18, David Wright wrote: > >> "my system (mostly Debian testing)" > > For clarity, it's testing but has a couple of packages from elsewhere > > (MS Team

Re: hello. Please help this big report go in the correct direction....

2021-04-14 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 06:38:18AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > Timothy Danielson wrote: > > don't read it if you feel huried,) I Respect what you do and I REALLY, > > REALLY hate to ask for this level of assistance. I'm using PureOS, which I > > guess is a derivative of Debian. I had started with 7

Re: pci 0000:00:01:0: MSI quirk detected; subordinated MSI disabled ...

2021-04-15 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 06:30:41AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 15 April 2021 03:50:19 didier gaumet wrote: > > > Le 15/04/2021 à 02:29, Albretch Mueller a écrit : > > > if I boot up passing to the kernel the start up option: > > > > > > knoppix64 debug pci=nomsi noapic > > > > > >

Re: Problem with Macbook 2,1 Installation Instructions

2021-04-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 06:20:19AM -0400, Carl N wrote: > Can anyone please help me with this installation? > > https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Apple/MacBook/2-1 > > the line: > grub-install --target=i386-efi --efi-directory=/mnt/usb > --boot-directory=/mnt/usb/boot --bootloader-id=boo

Re: new user MacBook

2021-04-17 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 06:39:50PM +0300, Thanos Katsiolis wrote: > Hello, > > I am a new user who would like to try Debian. > > I have a MacBook Pro (Early 11) which runs Mac OS, to which I want to also > install Debian. Will I have any issues installing Debian regarding hardware? > I would also

Re: [?]List of Best Debian-approved laptops in India

2021-04-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 08:01:46PM +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > My illustrious List Leaders and solution providers, > > My references are here: > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=149280 > {to avoid repetition) Rajib, Please do not do this. Please do not refer across to the forums a

Re: Can the latest stable Debian be compelled to run in vesa mode, rather than the motherboard graphics card, if the said card doesn't have drivers available? How?

2021-04-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 10:36:07PM +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > Namaste, my dear illustrious Team Leaders and Solution providers, > > The questions was asked by Dr. Cater here: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/04/msg00506.html > in relation to my post here: > https://lists.debian.org/d

Vendors not responding [WAS Re: [?]List of Best Debian-approved laptops in India]

2021-04-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 07:16:06AM +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > Perhaps these lines in the post: > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=149280 were missed. > > [quote="bkpsusmitaa"]Have been referring to the page: > https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn#OfficialDocumentation > [...]

Basics for text mode install [WAS Re: Can the latest stable Debian be compelled to run in vesa mode, rather than the motherboard graphics card, if the said card doesn't have drivers available? How?]

2021-04-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 08:15:45AM +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > On Sun, 18 Apr 2021 17:56:46 +, "Andrew M.A. Cater" > wrote: > [QUOTE] > [...] > I followed through the screenshots you provided. > [...] > You can't ignore the source - you may hav

Building Xorg using Linux from Scratch [WAS Re: Can the latest stable Debian be compelled to run in vesa mode, rather than the motherboard graphics card, if the said card doesn't have drivers availabl

2021-04-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 09:40:54AM +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > Would the setps as described in the following link be necessary? > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/x/xorg-server.html > > --- > Installation of Xorg Se

Basics for fresh install [WAS Re: Can the latest stable Debian be compelled to run in vesa mode, rather than the motherboard graphics card, if the said card doesn't have drivers available? How?]

2021-04-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 10:00:59AM +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 00:12:29 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Ref: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/04/msg00530.html > > "... > Unless and until all traces of NVidia's driver installation and associated > configuration changes h

Problems opening Linuxquestions link [WAS Re: Attempt to use the chipset NVIDIA Corp MCP79 [GeForce 8200M G] (rev b1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) with Dix. Teacher-Guide, Mr. Felix Miata]

2021-04-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 11:04:23AM +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > Changing the subject Line: > From: > Can the latest stable Debian be compelled to run in vesa mode, rather > than the motherboard graphics card, if the said card doesn't have > drivers available? How? > Last thread: https://lists.deb

FW: Re: Attempt to use the chipset NVIDIA Corp MCP79 [GeForce 8200M G]

2021-04-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 15:04:34 + From: "Andrew M.A. Cater" To: Susmita/Rajib , debian-u...@lits.debian.org Subject: Re: Attempt to use the chipset NVIDIA Corp MCP79 [GeForce 8200M G] (rev b1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) with Dix. Teacher-Guide, Mr. Felix Miata User-Agent: M

FW: Re: Attempt to use the chipset NVIDIA Corp MCP79 [GeForce 8200M G]

2021-04-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
From: "Andrew M.A. Cater" To: Susmita/Rajib , debian-u...@lits.debian.org Subject: Re: Attempt to use the chipset NVIDIA Corp MCP79 [GeForce 8200M G] (rev b1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) with Dix. Teacher-Guide, Mr. Felix Miata User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) On Mon, Apr 19,

Re: FW: Re: Attempt to use the chipset NVIDIA Corp MCP79 [GeForce 8200M G]

2021-04-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 11:31:58AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 03:27:37PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > If Nouveau is going to work - it will "just work", I think, as Felix Miata > > says. If it definitely doesn't work at all and

Re: looks like I need an hid interface

2021-04-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 07:59:19PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 19 April 2021 14:24:09 deloptes wrote: > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > A warning to others, a "sudo apt install avrdude" did a just barely > > > announced reboot of my machine, and it has taken me nomonally half > > > an hou

Re: looks like I need an hid interface

2021-04-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 10:40:36AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 10:35:33AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 22 April 2021 09:52:57 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > The bullseye-RC1 iso files are out: Bullseye is frozen so there aren't > &g

Re: looks like I need an hid interface

2021-04-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 01:18:06PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 22 April 2021 13:00:42 deloptes wrote: > > > Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > The bullseye-RC1 iso files are out: Bullseye is frozen so there > > > aren't many files moving at the

Re: looks like I need an hid interface

2021-04-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 02:47:43PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 22 April 2021 14:23:13 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 01:18:06PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Thursday 22 April 2021 13:00:42 deloptes wrote: > > > > Andre

Re: TDE (Trinity Desktop Environment) vs KDE

2021-04-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 04:23:02PM -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote: > I saw TDE discussed in another, recent Thread, and had to look it up, as I > am not familiar with it. > > How does it compare with the current KDE? Other than a qemu VM with KDE > (so that I can examine it), I haven't used KDE in y

Re: looks like I need an hid interface

2021-04-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 03:37:02PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 22 April 2021 15:10:34 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 02:47:43PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Thursday 22 April 2021 14:23:13 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > &

Re: Command not found not working on kali linux

2021-04-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 12:33:27AM -0400, Xhorium Tech wrote: > OBTAINING FOLLOWING PROBLEM > > command-not-found version: 0.3 > Python version: 3.9.1 final 0 > Distributor ID: Kali > Description:Kali GNU/Linux Rolling > Release:2021.1 > Codename: kali-rolling > Exception informa

debian-user list info and guidelines (FAQ) - posted monthly

2021-05-01 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 exam

Re: debian-user list info and guidelines (FAQ) - posted monthly

2021-05-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, May 01, 2021 at 03:17:39AM -0700, Weaver wrote: > On 01-05-2021 20:07, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > debian-user is a mailing list provided for support for Debian users, > > and to facilitate discussion on relevant topics. > > > > Some guidelines which may help

Re: Debian statistics about the contributing entities?

2021-05-01 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, May 01, 2021 at 02:57:28PM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: > Hello, > Do we have for Debian some statistics about who (companies, institutions, > universities, private volunteers, ...) are contributing to Debian, i.e. as > package maintainers, admins, maybe Debian specific code programmers, and

Re: How to reference xxxdvd1.iso in sources.list

2021-05-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 03:32:31PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 06:42:57AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > [...] > > > Somebody has written on the general topic but what I had seen was > > not in the debian.org hierarchy. What I had seen accommodated > > multiple ISO9

Re: How to reference xxxdvd1.iso in sources.list

2021-05-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 06:53:28PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 03:47:34PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > Hi, Andrew > > thanks for chiming in > > > If you _really_ want to have one .iso to mount - this is where the 16G .iso > >

Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?

2021-05-16 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 02:45:12PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 01:31:49PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > I'll bite ;} > > When is it the right tool? > > When you're using it to convert ebcdic to ascii, while swapping bytes and > reblocking an ancient file from a barely

Re: Debian-friendly laptop

2021-05-20 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 11:49:56PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 19 May 2021 22:48:18 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > Or perhaps more than a bit more ;) I see that the Librem 14 version > > > 1 starts at $1470, for an i7 10710U, 8GB RAM, 250GB SSD, 14" > > > 1920x1080 screen, no WLAN. I'

Fix Kali Linux command not found error [WAS Re: Bug reportin ]

2021-05-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 06:47:17PM -0400, Mohamud Ali wrote: > dictionory > Sorry, command-not-found has crashed! Please file a bug report at: > http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting > Please include the following information with the report: > > command-not-found version: 0.3 > Python version: 3.9

Re: examples for man pages

2021-05-29 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, May 29, 2021 at 08:41:02AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > A couple of months ago there was a discussion of practical problems with > adding examples to all man pages. > > Someone pointed to a website of examples indexed by man page name. > Unfortunately I didn't bookmark it and my attempts

Re: Coerce "MATE terminal" to display black on white text?

2021-05-31 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 08:41:37AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > The MATE terminal "Help"(sic) claims VT102 emulation but does not say how to > obtain it. > IIRC the VT100 series were *physically* a B&W display. > Web search gives no useful information. > Help please. > TIA > > MATE terminal is

debian-user list info and guidelines (FAQ) - posted monthly

2021-06-01 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 exam

Re: Debmirror

2021-06-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 02:34:12AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Hi ! > I've did a mirror with debmirror. > All seem good when I look at the folders and files. > But when I do apt-update it complains about contents-amd64 file missing !? > > Got some ideas? > -- > Polyna-Maude R.

Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd

2021-06-06 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 08:17:38PM -0400, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 6/5/21, Martin McCormick wrote: > > First I greatly appreciate all this information as the idea is to > > fix a problem I probably created long ago though I am not sure > > how but the short story is that apt-get upgrade ran up

Re: help me diagnose rt2800usb

2021-06-09 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Jun 09, 2021 at 08:02:31PM +, Long Wind wrote: > i've modified some details to protect privacy > > root@debian:~#  ip  link set wlx0022c0001a95 up > root@debian:~# iwlist wlx0022c0001a95 scanning | grep SSID >  ESSID:"WiFi-950" > The firmware you need for these Realtek chips is pro

Re: Debmirror

2021-06-10 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 01:34:56PM -0300, Francisco M Neto wrote: > Hello again, > > On 6/5/21 4:33 AM, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > > I used to make my own mirror using aptly but as it need to sign with a > > new key all the mirror it does, it does take lot of time and that's > > exce

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