Interpreting debsecan output

Hello, Today I was looking at "debsecan" for the first time. It has sent me a very long daily report containing entries such as: CVE-2021-3695 A crafted 16-bit grayscale PNG image may lead to a... - grub-common, grub-pc,

Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

Hello, On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 09:39:59PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 07:26:06PM -0600, William Torrez Corea wrote: > > *What made you decide the slowness is due to a missing partition?* > > > > I don't know, i assume this. > > I'm utterly at a loss to understand how

Re: changing uuid of mdadm array

Hello, On Sun, Oct 09, 2022 at 07:15:02PM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: > I wanted to change the uuid on a component of a md raid1 array. The same thing was asked on the linux-raid list last month (though for RAID-10) and didn't really get an answer:

Re: Duplicating 'boot sector' for GPT disks in RAID1

Hi, On Fri, Oct 07, 2022 at 02:50:06PM +0100, Andrew Wood wrote: > How can I ensure that the system is capable of booting from either remaining > disk in the event of a failure? Yeah, it's a mess with EFI. I wrote this in November 2020: "Redundancy for EFI System Partition: what do people

Re: How to configure (aka deal with) /tmp in the best way?

Hello, On Wed, Oct 05, 2022 at 02:31:01PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Oct 05, 2022 at 06:23:39PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > I haven't yet felt the need to adjust sizing or permissions on /tmp > > but if I did I'd just put an entry for it in /etc/fstab. > >

Re: How to configure (aka deal with) /tmp in the best way?

Hello, On Wed, Oct 05, 2022 at 12:04:31PM +0200, DdB wrote: > How are the more experienced people among you handle /tmp ? > Could i just benefit from your experience? I don't tend to mess with the Debian default for /tmp, which is to not to have it be a mount point at all, so it is on the root

Re: Error including file in nftables.conf

Hello, On Mon, Oct 03, 2022 at 10:36:53PM -0400, Dave Parker wrote: > So, I copied /lib/systemd/system/nftables.service to > /etc/systemd/system/nftables.service, set ProtectHome=false, ran "systemctl > daemon-reload", and now it works! This overrides the entire file with your copy in /etc. That

Re: Error including file in nftables.conf

Hello, On Mon, Oct 03, 2022 at 05:36:19PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Oct 03, 2022 at 05:01:21PM -0400, Dave Parker wrote: > > Oct 03 16:48:55 host systemd[1]: Starting nftables... > > Oct 03 16:48:55 host nft[926]: /etc/nftables.conf:4:1-37: Error: File not > > found:

Re: Re: SSD Optimization - Crucial CT1000MX500SSD1

Hello, On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 12:56:22PM -0300, Marcelo Laia wrote: > === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === > SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 > Num Test_DescriptionStatus Remaining LifeTime(hours) > LBA_of_first_error > # 1 Short offline

Re: Debian 8

Hello, On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 03:43:32PM +0100, David wrote: > The reason for Debian 8 is the software I want to run on it. This is a really bad idea. The whole thing is lacking security fixes, so it will only continue to get worse. If there was no way to make this software work on a

Re: SSD Optimization - Crucial CT1000MX500SSD1

Hi, On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 10:54:19AM -0300, Marcelo Laia wrote: > Recently, I bought a SSD SATA Crucial CT1000MX500SSD1. > > Nowadays, one week a go, debian testing system got crashed because partition > got read only. > > I suspect this is a reason from some upgrade and I suspect that an SSD

Re: Request: Could the maintainers update the non-free drivers please?

Hi Leroy, On Sat, Sep 17, 2022 at 07:43:45AM +, Leroy McFarland wrote: > The non-free drivers in Bullseye's repos are dated 20210315, more than a year > ago.​ What is the package name that you are looking at within non-free? Once you've worked that out, the next step is probably to report

Re: drive controller Q?

Hello, On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 11:50:35AM +0100, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > > On 9/14/22 14:55, Dan Ritter wrote: > > (This is definitely the case for mdadm and ZFS, probably less so > > for btrfs, and possibly not at all true for LVM.) > > As long as LVM is over mdadm it doesn't

Re: drive controller Q?

Hello, On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 04:38:35PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 9/14/22 16:03, Dan Ritter wrote: > > The glory of software RAID over SATA3 is that they don't have to > > be on the same controller at all. All the clever systems put > > identifiers on each of the participating drives and

Paying Debian contributors (Was Re: Advantages/Disadvantages of Open Source Software)

Hello, On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 10:04:48PM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > I am not against giving maintainers like Steve just compensation for the > work they do fixing bugs, and by compensation I mean money. It's a very tricky subject to propose to start paying (some?) people in what was

Re: Should a serious bug have made in into bullseye 11.5?

Hello, On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 10:15:41AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > There are automated processes that stop package migration at > certain severity levels, but they can't guess that something that > was filed at a low level really should have been higher. I think in this case the package was

Re: Should a serious bug have made in into bullseye 11.5?

On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 12:00:20PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Obviously, no one desires for there to be bugs, so your question > doesn't really make sense. "Should bugs make it into Debian releases"? Ah, sorry, I think I misunderstood - you are literally asking if the presen

Re: Should a serious bug have made in into bullseye 11.5?

On Sun, Sep 11, 2022 at 09:23:17PM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: > Should https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1017944 have > made it into debian 11.5? I thought serious bugs shouldn't make it into > stable? I'm trying to read your email charitably in the sense that you are wondering how

Re: booting 5.10 686-pae kernel on domU

Hello, On Sun, Sep 04, 2022 at 01:54:16PM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: > and remove pvshim=1 I think this was your issue. pvshim is PV-inside-PVH. So the hypervisor that starts your guest kernel is in PV mode, which as mentioned is not supported for 32-bit in newer Linux kernels. Modern Linux

Re: booting 5.10 686-pae kernel on domU

Hello, On Sun, Sep 04, 2022 at 11:07:35AM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: > Should I be able to boot a 686-pae i686 kernel on a xen domU (bullseye - > but bookworm fails too) The Linux kernel removed PV mode 32-bit Xen domU support at version 5.9. What type of virtualisation are you using? (show us

Re: Disk error?

Hello, On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 08:23:11AM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: > dpkg-deb (subprocess): decompressing archive > '/tmp/apt-dpkg-install-zqY3js/03-libperl5.34_5.34.0-5_arm64.deb' > (size=4015516) member 'data.tar': lzma error: compressed data is corrupt […] > Am I right that this must be a

Errors while performing postgresql backup (Was Re: Softraid & partclone)

Hi Testler, On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 07:54:03AM +0300, Testler Test wrote: > > Let's see the output of "cat /proc/mdstat". > > The raid status is as follows. No problem appears. > > # cat /proc/mdstat > Personalities : [raid1] > md2 : active raid1 sdb3[1] sda3[0] > 232623424 blocks super

Re: Softraid & partclone

Hi Testler, On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 10:43:46PM +0300, Testler Test wrote: > > Read the device that contains the data, /dev/mdX. Or add your new drive > > to the RAID, wait for synchronization, then remove it. > > Postgresql is installed on the system. Disk states are healthy. > However, the

Re: how to change device number in RAID array

Hi Gary, On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 10:00:34AM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > I'm running Debian/Bookworm on an AMD64 system. I recently added a second > drive to it for use in a RAID1 array. What was the configuration of the array before you added the new drive? Was it a RAID-1 with one missing device?

Re: Why are some Debian bugs ignored for a long time?

Hi Chuck, On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 08:20:21PM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > On 8/19/2022 6:59 PM, Andy Smith wrote: > > Volunteers cannot be forced to do work, else they are not > > volunteers. > > The fact that Debian is created by volunteers and therefore the chances

Re: Why are some Debian bugs ignored for a long time?

Hello, On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 05:06:38PM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > On 8/19/2022 4:44 PM, piorunz wrote: > > On 19/08/2022 18:57, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > > > I have noticed that some Debian bugs are ignored for a long time, > > > sometimes even when the person who submitted the bug

Re: Can I install Debian operating systems for money?

Hello, On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 12:20:39PM +0200, Roger Price wrote: > On Wed, 10 Aug 2022, Andy Smith wrote: > > I had a negative experience with LPI about 15 years ago where I > > signed up for one of their tests at a conference (FOSDEM) just out > > of interest and then in

Re: Can I install Debian operating systems for money?

Hello, On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 09:31:54AM +0100, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > On 09/08/2022 19:53, Dan Ritter wrote: > > You can't call yourself a Debian anything, but you can say that > > you are a consultant or contractor or business that sells Debian > > installation services. > > But the OP can

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

Hello, On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 05:15:15PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 15:04:13 + > Andy Smith wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 10:44:54AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > > I guess if I read that right, Verizon still supports IPv4 and has not >

Re: Need working repo for Deb7 - wheezy

Hello, On Sat, Aug 06, 2022 at 01:28:16PM -, Curt wrote: > On 2022-08-06, Andy Smith wrote: > > Anything between (and including) the OP's computer and > > archive.debian.org can [intercept and] deny the HTTP request. > > Is there no way of making this determination?

Re: Need working repo for Deb7 - wheezy

Hello, On Sat, Aug 06, 2022 at 06:52:29AM -0400, Amn wrote: > Black listed?!! > How does that work? Anything between (and including) the OP's computer and archive.debian.org can [intercept and] deny the HTTP request. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Need working repo for Deb7 - wheezy

Hello, On Fri, Aug 05, 2022 at 12:27:19PM -0400, Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 8:20 AM Brian wrote: > > W: GPG error: http://archive.debian.org/debian wheezy Release: The > > following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not > > available: NO_PUBKEY

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

Hello, On Wed, Aug 03, 2022 at 10:35:44AM +, Marco wrote: > Am Tue, 2 Aug 2022 23:02:12 + > schrieb Andy Smith : > > > Why do you believe that having their customer premises equipment do > > this for v6 is any different from having it do default NAT for v4? >

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

Hello, On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 06:23:26PM +, Marco wrote: > Am Tue, 2 Aug 2022 16:40:42 + > schrieb Andy Smith : > > > It's possible that some providers might do IPv6 NAT as well, but I > > think the majority would just apply some default and quite > > rest

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

Hello, On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 04:38:31PM -, Curt wrote: > I'm uncertain what happens with local addresses [in IPv6], if > anything. At the moment if you are using RFC1918 IPv4 addresses on your network, it's either an isolated network, or else it has a router that does NAT to convert those

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

Hello, On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 12:01:44PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > I know that IPv6 is a much larger address space so, iiuc, it would be harder > for a "cracker" to find IPv6, but I'd probably want to continue to run behind > NAT, so the idea that I wouldn't even know if my ISP

Re: Verison IPv6 -- I want to stick with IPv4 (was Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?)

Hello, On Tue, Aug 02, 2022 at 10:44:54AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, August 01, 2022 12:08:47 PM Lee wrote: > > Verizon FIOS finally rolled out IPv6 in my area. yay! > > I guess if I read that right, Verizon still supports IPv4 and has not > announced any plans to

Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?

Hello, On Mon, Aug 01, 2022 at 01:57:42PM -0400, Lee wrote: > The dhcpv6 server on the netgate allows for static mappings like > ::1:10 > where it fills in the network/64 portion from the delegation and uses > the ::a:b:c:d for the host address. I was hoping for something like > that w/

Re: ipv6: static ipv6 address with dynamic network address possible?

Hello, On Mon, Aug 01, 2022 at 12:08:47PM -0400, Lee wrote: > I'd like for my Debian server to have a static IPv6 address.. same > as I have for IPv4. But how to do that? > > I have a Netgate firewall that does a dhcp6 request for a /56 from > Verizon, then the firewall delegates a /64 to each

Re: Thoughts on logcheck?

Hello, On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 04:30:19PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > My thought is to configure rsyslog to create extra logfiles, equivalent to > syslog and auth.log (the two files that logcheck monitors by default), which > only log messages at priority 'warning' or above, and configure

Re: mailman3 hyperkitty_import reports sqlite3.OperationalError

Hello, On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 12:11:33PM -0500, kjohn...@eclypse.org wrote: > May I have your permission to submit a bug on README.Debian that > includes or derives from those three lines? (getting permission > to use other's work) Sure, they're not my original work; I just searched the web

Re: mailman3 hyperkitty_import reports sqlite3.OperationalError

Hi, On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 02:39:53PM -0500, kjohn...@eclypse.org wrote: > re: 4. mailman 'import21' appears to work: > > $ mailman import21 t...@example.com /var/lib/mailman/lists/tl2/config.pck > r...@example.com is already imported with role MemberRole.owner > > re: 4. 'hyperkitty_import'

Re: exiftool

Hello, On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 10:03:05AM +0100, mick crane wrote: > I'm sending a load of images to somebody and I want them to be > Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license > Don't want to plaster over images so think to add to exif data. I've not done it personally but this seems to

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

Hello, On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 10:31:36PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sunday, July 10, 2022 06:48:10 PM Andy Smith wrote: > > Otherwise I'm afraid your claims about IPv6 so far have been quite > > bizarre, on the level of "IPv6 ate my homework" or &q

Re: Twice load - rndc.key ?

Hello, On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 09:39:27PM +0200, Maurizio Caloro wrote: > but why i have now so meny querry-errors, and REFUSED? > > 11-Jul-2022 21:37:08.587 query-errors: info: client @0x7f22c342c254 ip#61640 > (redirector.googlevideo.com): query failed (REFUSED) for >

Re: libpq-dev package

Hello, On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 07:19:08PM -0500, Igor Korot wrote: > Trying to compile my program it fails by not finding the > pg-config script and libpq-fe.h file. You were already shown apt-file. Regards, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: What package I can find aclocal in?

Hello, On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 06:24:16PM -0500, Igor Korot wrote: > Trying to guess I found the package autotools-dev, but that was not it. > > Should I keep it? I don't know. Perhaps remove it and install it again later if you find you have the need. > What does it contain? $ apt show

Re: What package I can find aclocal in?

Hello, On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 05:43:33PM -0500, Igor Korot wrote: > What package can I find aclocal in? $ apt-file search bin/aclocal automake: /usr/bin/aclocal-1.16 automake1.11: /usr/bin/aclocal-1.11 Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

Hi Charles, On Sat, Jul 09, 2022 at 06:51:22PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > it is up to you to housebreak your applications to use IPv4 first. If you find yourself having to do this, something is probably broken. Broken things do exist, but it is really quite rare. What you've written here

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

Hi Gene, Before we go any further let's just remember that this thread was started by someone wanting to disable IPv6 for no specific reason. They had decided they needed to do so to fix some problem they were having, when in fact they had ALREADY disabled IPv6, so there is no possibility

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

Hello, On Sat, Jul 09, 2022 at 04:52:27PM +0200, Roger Price wrote: > When I try to start fetchmail I get the error message > > Jul 09 10:22:57 titan fetchmail[7286]: > reading message > mail...@rogerprice.org@mail.gandi.net:1 of 7 (8954 octets) >

Re: Debian 11: How to disable IPv6

Hello, On Sat, Jul 09, 2022 at 03:52:03PM +0200, Roger Price wrote: > I would like to disable IPv6 adapters in order to persuade > fetchmail to talk to exim4. Sounds like you have a misconfiguration that should be fixed, rather than disabling IPv6 to work around it. >

Re: Setting up Mailman3 under Debian (using packages)

Hi, On Fri, Jul 01, 2022 at 07:23:18PM +0100, Matthias Scheler wrote: > I'm trying to migrate the mailing lists on my server from legacy Mailan to > Mailman 3 to be able to finally update the system from Buster to Bullseye. > I've found guides how to migrate the configuration and lists but I

Re: Cron removal - unstable, question

Hello, On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 11:56:26PM +0100, Štěpán Košan wrote: > really sorry to bother with a stupid question, however I was wondering, I > got a warning that CRON is about to be removed in the upgrade, but it seems > it's still on. Is there a plan to remove it eventually? I have not seen

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

Hello, On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 11:47:46AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 09:01:48 EDT Andy Smith wrote: > > Gene, come on. You know how to select and paste out of an xterm. It > > does not matter what that xterm is doing, whether it is displaying a >

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

Hello, On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 07:31:36AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > On Saturday, 11 June 2022 00:49:57 EDT David Wright wrote: > > > AFAIK, there's no way of recording the screens if you use text mode > > > locally, rather than remotely. Hence the instructions I have been > > > posting.

Re: Recommendations for data layout in case of multiple machines (Was: Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time)

Hello, On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 06:30:18PM +0200, Linux-Fan wrote: > Andy Smith writes: > > It's a way of working that's served me well for about 25 years. It's > > hard to imagine going back to having data spread all over the place. > > What do you use as your file serve

Re: 26th pass at installing 11-3, fails

Hello, On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 05:15:28PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > So 26th reinstall attempt, following David's instructs to do an ssh from > another machine to install So can we see the copy and paste of this first screen that you have a problem with? > So, how to I do a text copy/paste

Re: trying to install bullseye for about 25th time.

Hello, On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 11:30:26AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > For Gene, he could conceivably just rename the RAID setup that he has mounted > under /home to some new top level mountpoint. (Although he probably has some > scripts or similar stuff that looks for stuff in /home/

Re: ssh-agent: I want to start using on all my remote hosts

Hello, On Fri, Jun 03, 2022 at 09:43:53AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > 1. Will starting the ssh-agent service interfere with my current ssh login > (using keys with NO passhrase). It only matters at the point of authentication, so existing SSH sessions will not be affected. > 2. Is there

Re: ssh-agent: I want to start using on all my remote hosts

Hello, On Fri, Jun 03, 2022 at 09:52:26AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > And edit file /etc/ssh/ssh_config to change > > # ForwardAgent no > > to > > ForwardAgent yes > > Then reboot. This is a config file for the ssh client, i.e. the "ssh" command. As such it's read every time you run

Re: declarative (config file) way idea of handling the OS by way of the old system

Hello, On Thu, Jun 02, 2022 at 02:46:49AM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Except for people aging and dying I didn't understand any of > this post ... I'm happy to explain any part of it that you were not able to understand, but you'll have to be more specific. I must have been very unclear indeed

Re: Debian license issue

Hi Lidiya, On Wed, Jun 01, 2022 at 04:14:49PM +0300, Lidiya Pecherskaya wrote: > Is it possible to get information on the type of license under which the > Debian software is available? Each package installs a file /usr/share/doc//copyright with its exact license. In general all packages that

Re: declarative (config file) way idea of handling the OS by way of the old system

Hello, On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 08:05:28AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > For a single user's machine, it's unlikely to be rewarding > except intellectually. It is however a great way to document a system for those that don't get around to making free text notes. The language of the configuration

Re: perl listgarden module

Hi Russell, On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 02:39:21AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > I am attempting to run the ListGarden RSS generator on Debian 11. > Perl 5 (version 32) needs the ListGarden module. There is no such published module that I can find, so it seems likely that this is part of

Re: What is a repository? What is a metapackage?

Hello, On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 08:50:22AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > A goal of the Debian installer is to create a system that can be used by > *ALL* people to use for *ANY* possible purpose. Including yours… [problems with Debian installer] > I plan to get around these problems by

Re: disable IPv6 debian

Hello, On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 10:39:03AM +0530, didar wrote: > On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 10:58:01PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > If you happen to know their IPv6 addresses and can trust that those > > assignments will remain stable then you may prefer instead to add > &

Re: OT EU-based Cloud Service

Hello, On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 03:22:04PM +0900, 황병희 wrote: > i did get one server located in Frankfurt, Germany. At there i did > install Postfix under Debian 11 Bullseye. The name is > <>. Opening ports are 25, 587 and 2525. The > role is outbound only. Do be aware that the netblocks of many

Re: disable IPv6 debian

Hello, On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 10:34:25AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > I have an issue with a few websites that seem to hang with ipv6 If you happen to know their IPv6 addresses and can trust that those assignments will remain stable then you may prefer instead to add prohibited routes for

Re: mngtmpaddr IP

Hi, On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 12:53:14PM +0530, Jevin Gala wrote: > I am un-able to find how to disable mngtmpaddr IPv6 IP in Debian 11 in a > KVM VPS. > > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/default/use_tempaddr file shows 0 but it's still > assigning mngtmpaddr IP to the VPS. You may need to set that for

OT: Which browser does jwz use? (Was Re: Does this happen often with sid?)

Hello, On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 06:16:23PM +0200, Christian Britz wrote: > I would have been definitely interested which browser [jwz] > recommends / uses these days. Ten years ago it was Safari: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/04/why-i-use-safari-instead-of-firefox/ It seems likely it will

Re: Under each of these scenarios, what is the neatest and simplest way to manipulate the /etc/network/interfaces file?

Hello, On Sat, Mar 26, 2022 at 08:48:35AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Maybe I should remove the trinity-3c-app-mailcom block, since it > no longer seems to be doing anything helpful...? Looking at my mailbox I've got hundreds of hits matching that, from many differently apparently-real people

Re: its been done again. No network

Hello, On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 11:46:53AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > Gene is not running Debian and is again wasting everyone's time by > > asking about it here, despite being repeatedly asked not to. So for > > anyone finding this in the archives, Gene's problem is not with > > Debian, it is

Re: its been done again. No network

Hello, On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 09:10:06PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > gene heskett composed on 2022-03-23 20:40 (UTC-0400): > ... > > So how do I get rid of it so I can have a net with MY default route and > > bring it up to date? > > https://wiki.debian.org/SystemdNetworkd works for my static

Re: force IPv6 dynamic address?

Hello, On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 05:11:31AM +0800, Jeremy Ardley wrote: > How can I make my system and/or thunderbird use the constantly changing > dynamic IPv6 address instead? If you add your static address with a preferred_lft of 0 then it will be marked as "deprecated" which means it will

Re: got a mdadm puzzler

Gene, I just don't know where to start with finding relevant bits to quote from your text. I find it unlikely that several of the drives you have bought should all be failed and dead. I'm concerned that you're prematurely jumping to conclusions and junking them. It's normal for the device nodes

Re: packages built with golang

Hello, On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 12:53:21PM -0700, Cousin Stanley wrote: > $ apt-cache show hugo > > The usual package information was returned > along with, in my opinion, an unsightly mess > entailing a long string of 88 entries > naming individual golang packages > following

Re: got a mdadm puzzler

Hello, On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 01:06:39PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > On Saturday, 12 March 2022 08:50:07 EST Andy Smith wrote: > > I think it still might be worth changing the cable and/or moving the > > drive about to see if the error follows the drive or stays wi

Re: got a mdadm puzzler

Hello, On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 02:11:23PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > On Friday, 11 March 2022 13:11:14 EST Andy Smith wrote: > > Hello, > > > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 07:18:56AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > > 2. I've had since the last of about 20 installs o

Re: got a mdadm puzzler

Hello, On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 07:18:56AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > 2. I've had since the last of about 20 installs of bullseye, a very early > boot message about ata6 at the 10 and 20 second marks of the reboot IF > it was not a full powerdown reboot. Did you not at any point think that

Re: Files on /dev/shm/ disappear

On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 02:28:07PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > logind removes things from /dev/shm for a user if it's not a > system user, when that user's session ends. In case it wasn't clearly enough explained why this is happening: it clears out /dev/shm when the user's LAST sessio

Re: Files on /dev/shm/ disappear

Hello, On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 07:54:53AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Someone who knows systemd, dbus, and all that stuff might be able to > suggest next steps. I'm not really that person but yes, logind removes things from /dev/shm for a user if it's not a system user, when that user's

Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

Hello, On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 07:41:01PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > In something of 150 or more installs of bullseye - we do a bunch with > each release of images with a point release - I don't think I've ever > seen brltty installed "by accident" so I'd love to know exactly what you > do

Re: Cannot upgrade circular udev dependency

On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 07:19:34AM -0800, David Liontooth wrote: > Hi -- I have a machine, Linux ancient 2.6.36.2 #1 SMP Sun Dec 26 06:19:57 > PST 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux. […] > Since release 198, udev requires support for the following features in > the running kernel: > > - inotify(2)   

Re: You know what? Not only Debian but Fedora 35 has libthai too....and more

Hello, On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 12:06:27PM +0100, Stella Ashburne wrote: > systemd was developed by Red Hat's folks, wasn't it? According to > one camp, one of its nefarious intentions is to help the NSA to > easily build backdoors to snoop on their targets of interest. You are listening to the

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

Hello, On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 07:36:55AM +0100, Stella Ashburne wrote: > > From: "David Wright" > > Leave it. Worry about bigger issues than the odd library. > > > For all you know, the odd library which is this Thai file in > question may contain poorly designed code, ill-intentioned >

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

On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 07:31:58AM +0100, Stella Ashburne wrote: > Hello Dearie > > I am happy to hear from you again and hope that everything's fine with you > and your family. > > > Sent: Sunday, February 13, 2022 at 6:23 AM > > From: "David" > > To: "debian-user" > > Subject: Re:

Re: systemd[1]: Starting Daily apt upgrade and clean activities...

Hello, On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 02:25:35PM -0500, Lee wrote: > Apparently the syslog message > systemd[1]: Starting Daily apt upgrade and clean activities... > is caused by systemd / apt-daily.timer - correct? No, that one is from apt-daily-upgrade.timer: $ grep -r "upgrade and clean"

Re: Autostart command after network is available (usbip)

Hello, On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 05:44:25PM +0100, Christian Britz wrote: > On 2022-02-08 16:46 UTC+0100, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 03:46:09PM +0100, Christian Britz wrote: > >> Is this to be done via systemd? > > > > Yes, that's where you should be doing this. > > That is

Re: Resize2fs Questions

Hello, On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 05:57:45PM +, Gareth Evans wrote: > > On 31 Jan 2022, at 17:37, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Andy, I appreciate the data doesn't go anywhere, but... > > >> then I delete P2 and then add a > >> new partition which defaults to 2. >

Re: Resize2fs Questions

Hello, On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 05:27:56PM +, Gareth Evans wrote: > > On 31 Jan 2022, at 14:41, Martin McCormick wrote: > > > > #I should be telling resize2fs to squeeze everything in to a 7GB > > #partition. > > sudo resize2fs /dev/loop0p2 +7G > > [...] > > then I delete P2 and then add a

Re: Resize2fs Questions

Hello, On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 08:40:49AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > #I should be telling resize2fs to squeeze everything in to a 7GB > #partition. >sudo resize2fs /dev/loop0p2 +7G […] > fdisk prompts for the first sector with a default of 2048 but I > type in 137215. The last sector

Re: Btrfs best practices: defrag?

Hello, On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 08:38:41PM +, piorunz wrote: > My current fstab mounting: > > noatime,space_cache=v2,compress-force=zstd:3 0 2 > > Will autodefrag break COW files? Like I copy paste a file and I save > space, but defrag with destroy this space saving? Yes, I believe so. That

Re: Security

Hello, On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 03:05:51PM -0500, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Kind of strange that some people complains we lag behind when I get > information everyday that fixes are available for packages in the stable > / old stable release. I think you are getting worked up over

Re: how to test and compare performance of bullseye for i386 and amd64

Hello, On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 08:30:20PM -0500, a wrote: > i've installed debian 11 for both arch on same PC, amd64 seems faster > > is there some tool to demonstrate performance of PC? Regardless of performance you should be more concerned that 32-bit x86 parts of the Linux kernel have more

Re: trying to get bookworm net going on an rpi4

Hello, On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 06:22:40PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > On Sunday, January 23, 2022 5:43:49 PM EST Andy Smith wrote: > > However, if for your own eccentric reasons you insist: > > > > # echo 'net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1' > > > /etc/sysctl.d/dis

Re: trying to get bookworm net going on an rpi4

Hi, On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 04:08:34PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > So what is the official, works in bookworm every time, way to totally > kill ipv6, making it use ipv4 for everything? You don't need to; having IPv6 active doesn't cause any problem even if you don't have a default route that

Re: smartd

Hello, On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 07:09:48PM +0100, Linux-Fan wrote: > To really profit from the enhanced reliability, you need to play > through the recovery scenario, too. I recommend doing this in a VM > unless you have some dedicated machine with at least two HDDs to > play with. If wanting to

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

Hi delptes, On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 01:30:03PM +0100, deloptes wrote: > I do not know you and I do not insult you > I am fed up of guys like you. > you are one of those smart, morally superior *** *, who know they are > better. > I even do not expect you will understand what I am saying

Re: "Package was removed from Debian because of a variable name" myth (?) (was: Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?)

Hi Mick, On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 11:52:12AM +, mick crane wrote: > On 2022-01-23 11:38, Andy Smith wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 11:17:25AM +, mick crane wrote: > > > I was a little concerned about the direction of travel when that > > > software > >

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