Re: Corrupt root filesystem

2023-07-09 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 9 Jul 2023 17:54:35 +0100 Mick Ab wrote: > I do not have any SMART diagnostics, … Also no audible sign of any > imminent failure of either hard drive. Once you get this problem squared away, I suggest you get some SMART diagnostics installed. You don't always get any warning before a

Re: configuring zathura's print preview

2023-07-08 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 8 Jul 2023 13:35:43 -0700 Paul Scott wrote: > Can someone please direct me to documentation for or tell me how to > set what program does print preview for Zathura?  I would Zathura > would be a possibility. charles@jhegaala:~$ apt-cache show zathura | grep -i homepage Homepage:

Re: For syslog : apt-get install rsyslog

2023-07-06 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 7 Jul 2023 10:53:10 +1200 "C.T.F. Jansen" wrote: > The current default logging is unsatisfactory and needs to include a > text log. You can get much of the effect of /var/log/syslog with journalctl. "man journactl" for the gory details. Of particular use are the -f and -u options. --

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

2023-07-06 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 7 Jul 2023 08:14:44 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > > i have used wrong word, i don't mean that. you know English is my > > 2nd language. when we learn foreign language, we tend to parrot > > > You do not include in each of your messages, your name and your > location (at least, the

Re: override logrotate.timer from another package?

2023-07-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 5 Jul 2023 12:30:21 +0200 Harald Dunkel wrote: > On 2023-07-04 14:36:19, Charles Curley wrote: > [...] > Yes. Its my own metapackage to be installed on all our hosts in the > office to establish certain configuration standards, like hourly log > file rotation, our o

Debian Installer and Frame Buffer Setup

2023-07-04 Thread Charles Curley
I have a Lenova Yoga 13 which Debian Installer (d-i) for Bookworm (12.0.0) is having problems setting up. The initial boot screen is readable and usable but it occupies a square in the upper left corner of the display, not the entire display. When I select an option from the menu and let that

Re: override logrotate.timer from another package?

2023-07-04 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 4 Jul 2023 11:09:18 +0200 Harald Dunkel wrote: > I had added > > etc/systemd/system/logrotate.timer.d/hourly.conf > > to the package install file, but at upgrade time it complained > that nobody ran systemctl daemon-reload. Ain't this the job of > the DEBHELPER macro in the

Re: Raid Array and Changing Motherboard

2023-07-02 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 2 Jul 2023 18:23:31 +0100 Mick Ab wrote: > I am thinking of changing the motherboard because of problems that > might be connected to the current motherboard. The new motherboard > would be the same make and model as the current motherboard. > > Would I need to recreate the RAID 1 array

Re: Out of Range Monitor Problim

2023-06-29 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 29 Jun 2023 19:17:37 +0100 Gareth Evans wrote: > If no other displays are available to test the system (or systems > available to test the display) do you get the same behaviour from a > live cd/usb if you have or can make one? If you can run a live CD or USB image, let me suggest a

Re: Transport endpoint is not connected

2023-06-29 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 28 Jun 2023 23:32:56 -0400 hlyg wrote: > my usb extension line might cause trouble, it connect to back of pc > case at one end, at the other end is usb hub, it's handy because it > turns one usb socket to four sockets, and it works most of time, but > sometime it can cause trouble, i

Re: Debian 12 "bookworm" full upgrade

2023-06-28 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 28 Jun 2023 17:59:20 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: > In addition, you change "non-free" to "non-free non-free-firmware". > This is the new thing for bookworm. This should do it (mind the wrapping!): # If this is bookworm, and it hasn't already been done (e.g. by # preseeding), add

Re: digiKam dead, cannot import from camera

2023-06-26 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 26 Jun 2023 14:07:45 -0400 gene heskett wrote: > that got noisy, I turned on the plugged n camera for about 10 secs: > Jun 26 14:03:41 coyote systemd[2283]: > gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. In that case, use journalctl -f -u

Re: Why does Debian have code names for releases?

2023-06-26 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 26 Jun 2023 17:04:57 +0100 Darac Marjal wrote: > OK, a question back at you, then: Why do you feel the need to > remember Debian codenames? Imprimis: Because you use the code names as part of configuring systems, e.g. in /etc/apt/sources.list Secundus: Because some utilities and

Re: Why does Debian have code names for releases?

2023-06-26 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 26 Jun 2023 10:18:30 +0200 (CEST) Roger Price wrote: > Is there some reason why Debian still continues to invent and use > code names? At least use some sequence of code names with an order to them. Ubuntu's code names are in alphabetical order. Maybe the names of the elements? --

Re: Bookworm: Network Manager and firewalld

2023-06-24 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 24 Jun 2023 20:22:27 +0200 john doe wrote: > Is there any reason why you favored Firewalled? It is available from Debian repos, uses nftables, and looks to be well documented. So far, it has worked well. I haven't had a machine using firewalld out in the wilds of the Internet. The down

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 13:37:01 -0400 gene heskett wrote: > > > > Gene, this is a long shot. Do you have any KDE or qt components > > installed? > > > in packagekit: > kde search = desktop-base, girl.2-webkit2, libblockdev2, > libblockdev-crypto2, libblockdev-fs2, libblockdev-loop2, >

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 16:52:47 +0200 Anders Andersson wrote: > I'm running Gnome. Maybe synaptic is not compatible with xfce? Nope. I have synaptic running here with xfce4 on Bullseye. synaptic0.90.2 amd64 xfce4 4.16all -- Does anybody read signatures any more?

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 10:10:26 -0400 gene heskett wrote: > I am not a gnome fan. Packagekit says all 157 synaptic dependencies > are present and accounted for, but it will not run here, bitching > about wayland and root. > > So IMNSHO, there must be a dependency that isn't satisfied on an > xfce4

Re: How does the bookworm amd64 netinst 738MB iso fit into a 700MB cd-r?

2023-06-19 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 14:10:48 +0100 Joe wrote: > Tom used to get 1.7MB on a 1.44MB > floppy, If you mean Tom's rootboot, tomsrtbt: he got some of that "compression" by adding extra tracks beyond the 1.44MB. It is also possible to add an extra sector per track. (But not all floppy drives

Bookworm: Network Manager and firewalld

2023-06-17 Thread Charles Curley
I have been looking for a replacement for shorewall, and determined to try firewalld. The user can configure it from a GUI (firewall-config), or from the command line. The latter means one can also write scripts for it. Great! So I have installed Bookworm, firewalld, and Network Manager (NM) on a

Re: TP Link TL-WN722N adapter & ath9k-htc driver.

2023-06-15 Thread Charles Curley
On 15 Jun 2023 07:43:01 -0700 pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > An old Sharp Mebius here has 32 bit bullseye. > > When booting, this message appears. > ath9k_htc: Device endpoint numbers are not the expected ones Did you try searching on that exact language? That often produces useful results.

Re: RTL8812au support for wifi adapters

2023-06-13 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 13 Jun 2023 09:20:46 -0300 Mateus Arruda wrote: > Hi, this is my first time reaching a Linux distribution team and also > english is not my primary language, so please forgive me if I make > any mistakes. No worries. Although you may do better on a list for your primary language. See

Re: RAM

2023-06-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 21:06:06 +0100 Mick Ab wrote: > I have seen the dmidecode command being used, but the reliability of > the information returned is not reliable. > > Is there any command that will reliably give the required RAM > information ? Any tool, dmidecode included, is no better than

Re: bookworm upgrade report: boring

2023-06-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 12 Jun 2023 08:50:54 -0400 Celejar wrote: > This is the part that always stresses me out; I often have changes in > the default config files that I don't want to lose, but I'm also > worried about not getting the latest versions of the config files. I > usually try to accept the new

Re: "dpkg-reconfigure" dash no longer works

2023-06-09 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 9 Jun 2023 13:38:25 + S M wrote: > I noticed on a newly installed system with Debian 12 that > dpkg-reconfigure no longer allows to switch the /bin/sh symlink from > dash to bash. You can still change it manually (rm ; ln -s). -- Does anybody read signatures any more?

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-08 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 08 Jun 2023 23:15:36 +0200 "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > I understand from the link that it has a 64 bit Celeron J4105 CPU. > So its EFI would want an "amd64" ISO. A Celeron should be able to run i386 Debian. But the amd64 might be a better use of its capabilities. -- Does anybody read

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-08 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 08 Jun 2023 20:01:20 + Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Here it is: > > > https://www.amazon.it/KUU-Notebook-Prozessor-Bluetooth-portatile/dp/B0C4TGXKBC/ref=sr_1_2_sspa?crid=3PK1MW55MAOA Hmm, never heard of that vendor. You might do better with one of the Debian Italian language lists.

Re: Please help with not booting from USB so to install Debian

2023-06-08 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 8 Jun 2023 18:36:27 + Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I want to install Debian on a new machine but don't manage to boot > from USB stick. It might help if you identified the new machine. You might also check web sites related to Linux on that manufacturer's products. E.g. thinkwiki

Re: Debian USB Wifi

2023-06-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 4 Jun 2023 21:56:03 -0600 Charles Curley wrote: > I can suggest that you should avoid the ASUS USB-N 13 > Adapter Wireless-N300. This, in spite of the claim of Linux support on > the box. I retract this for Bookworm. It appears to be running just fine on my i386 Lenovo R5

Re: Debian USB Wifi

2023-06-04 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 4 Jun 2023 21:52:28 -0300 Rodrigo Cunha wrote: > I want to buy a usb to wifi network. How do I check if the > hardware(usb) has debian support? 0) Try it. 1) Search on the name of the device and the word "linux". 2) Each USB device has a unique identifier, eight hexidecimal characters

Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?

2023-06-02 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 2 Jun 2023 09:12:02 + Victor Sudakov wrote: > I'm currently going to migrate some FreeBSD VMs from bhyve to a linux > host. I hope KVM will have no problem with their raw disk images. You might look into the Debian vagrant-mutate package. apt show vagrant-mutate -- Does anybody

Re: Error Messages

2023-06-02 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 2 Jun 2023 12:01:10 +0100 Mick Ab wrote: > Ram :- > > I don't know the make of the Ram - someone built the PC for me. > > 16GB DDR4-3200MHz RAM (2 x 8GB sticks, I understand You may be able to get the make of the RAM (and more) with: dmidecode | less then search ('/') on Memory

Re: Error Messages

2023-06-01 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 2 Jun 2023 06:32:51 +0200 wrote: > > > > That sounds like your hard drive has run out of space. Running free > > should tell you which one(s)? are out of space. > > Probably typo: "free" tells you about RAM. Try "df", best with option > "-h": > > df -h Yes, a mis-remembering.

Re: Error Messages

2023-06-01 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 1 Jun 2023 19:42:27 +0100 Mick Ab wrote: > May 27 13:58:08 piglit kernel: [2083218.337088] EXT4-fs warning > (device dm-0): ext4_dirblock_csum_verify:400: inode #53: comm opera: > No space for directory leaf checksum. Please run e2fsck -D. > May 27 13:58:08 piglit kernel:

Re: Settings: focus when mouse over window?

2023-05-31 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 31 May 2023 23:53:35 -0400 Nicholas Papadonis wrote: > I installed Debian 11. Does anyone know how to get this > functionality? I looked through settings however didn't see an > option. That would depend on which desktop you installed. In XFCE, Settings -> Window Manager -> Focus

Re: Problem with apt maybe related to installation/configuration of apt-cacher-ng

2023-05-31 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 31 May 2023 11:36:19 +0200 Dennis Heddicke wrote: > Acquire::http {Proxy "http://localhost:3142";}; > Acquire::https {Proxy "http://";}; I'm not comfortable with your second line there. First, you have for https a non-secure http. I suspect they should match. Second, if you are going to

Re: NetworkManager, Iphone, Bullseye, and Bookworm

2023-05-28 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 28 May 2023 19:26:03 +0200 didier gaumet wrote: > Hello, > > Perhaps just a small setup modification on the Iphone: > https://www.idownloadblog.com/2020/11/04/iphone-personal-hotspot-wi-fi-bands-tutorial/ Thanks. I had already found the "Maximize Compatibility" toggle, and used it.

Re: NetworkManager, Iphone, Bullseye, and Bookworm

2023-05-28 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 28 May 2023 03:31:21 +0500 "Alexander V. Makartsev" wrote: > Probably, an updated "wpasupplicant" package is what you need. > The version in "bullseye-backports" is slightly older, so you might > need to build a backport from sources in "bookworm". Thanks. Upgrading wpasupplicant from

NetworkManager, Iphone, Bullseye, and Bookworm

2023-05-27 Thread Charles Curley
I recently upgraded from an iPhone 8 to a 14. All of my various WiFi capable computers worked great with the iPhone 8's Personal Hotspot. However, the new iPhone does not appear to like Bullseye. Two computers show the same symptoms: the iPhone does not seem to like the password previously stored

Re: virtualisation

2023-05-23 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 23 May 2023 11:33:56 +0100 "mick.crane" wrote: > On 2023-05-22 23:18, David Christensen wrote: > [...] > [...] > [...] > I had previously installed Ubuntu on this disk, > after installing Bookworm the Ubuntu EFI option in the BIOS was still > there. > I removed it in the BIOS

Re: thermal drivers

2023-05-22 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 22 May 2023 10:29:41 +0200 Aleix Piulachs wrote: > I’m using a laptop ASU’s f75a i3 3110m with bullseye 11.7 and I can’t > to activate the thermal drivers: fancontrol.service, fancontrol.pid, > lm_sensors.service. fancontrol.pid I don’t know to configure it Some modern computer firmware

Re: netmask question

2023-05-21 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 22 May 2023 04:49:07 +0200 cor...@free.fr wrote: > currently the netmask for an IPv4 is 255.255.255.255. > I am just not sure, why can't the netmask for IPv4 be 768.768.768.768? > Can I set that a netmask directly in linux OS? > If so we have much more IPv4 space available, even no IPv6

Re: Installation on NBD in the newly released

2023-05-20 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 20 May 2023 18:45:13 +0200 Tomasz Wolak wrote: > Debian installer, despite the fact that it contains nbd kernel > modules, was lacking the nbd-client, an application that would allow > to actually set the remote-attached device up and available for > installation. And the nbd-client had

Re: i386: Geode LX and NOPL

2023-05-20 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 20 May 2023 09:07:57 +0100 James Addison wrote: > Hi folks, > > I don't think that I should file this as a Debian bugreport, because > it's not a problem that I've experienced with Debian. > > And I don't think that it's appropriate to write to Debian developers > directly about it

Re: CUPS on Bullseye and Bookworm

2023-05-20 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 20 May 2023 08:24:39 +0200 john doe wrote: > > > > .home.arpa ? I had never heard of it until you mentioned it. You are > > suggesting that I change every reference to localdomain to > > .home.arpa? Implementing that change is going to be a major pain in > > the arse. > > My idea was

Re: Bookworm CUPS Printing Revisited

2023-05-19 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 17 May 2023 13:10:21 -0600 Charles Curley wrote: > Thanks to Brian on the thread "Re: CUPS on > Bullseye and Bookworm" I now have CUPS working on dragon, my bookworm > i386 architecture laptop. Dragon being an i386 arch machine, I booted ideapc (AMD 64) to the Bookwo

Re: Bookworm CUPS Printing Revisited

2023-05-19 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 19 May 2023 16:07:56 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Thu 18 May 2023 at 14:26:13 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > > [...] > > [...] > > [...] > [...] > > The PDF queue is not part of the printing system. |snarky comment omitted.| > > > Firef

Re: drivers for controller Qualcomm Atheros AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet

2023-05-18 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 19 May 2023 02:18:22 +0200 ap77@gmail.com wrote: > hallo my name is Aleix. Hallo, Aleix > i can't find drivers for my ethernet lan my laptop is an: > Asus F75A > intel core i3-3110M 2.4GHz > debian bullseye 10.0.23 If you're running Bullseye, you're running Debian 11.

Re: Bookworm CUPS Printing Revisited

2023-05-18 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 18 May 2023 15:09:00 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Wed 17 May 2023 at 13:10:21 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > > > Thanks to Brian on the thread "Re: CUPS on > > Bullseye and Bookworm" I now have CUPS working on dragon, my > > bookworm i386 architecture lapt

Re: No space left on device ...

2023-05-18 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 18 May 2023 10:07:05 -0400 Default User wrote: > If I am running systemd-timesyncd on a single-user, internet-connected > computer, not needing to serve time signals to any other device, would > there be any reason to use ntp instead? NTP is a protocol, like TCP or UDP. One program that

Re: homebrew for debian or ubuntu

2023-05-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 17 May 2023 14:02:22 -0700 Dan Hitt wrote: > In a thread on backups, somebody mentioned backing up homebrew. > > So that means homebrew exists for linux, and that some active > participants here use it. Homebrew is a term for custom, one-off, or heavily customized. As in the now

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Mouse trouble on sid

2023-05-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 17 May 2023 19:01:30 +0100 Joe wrote: > Quick removal and replacement of mouse battery and problem solved. Interesting. Usually when my rodent batteries fail, it simply stops working. XFCE's power monitor also see the batteries for my keyboards and rodents. Logitech k330 and m215,

Re: CUPS on Bullseye and Bookworm

2023-05-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 17 May 2023 19:21:23 +0200 john doe wrote: > A few things, that I spotted while reading this thread and Im' not > sure if you got everything working! Thank you. No, I don't have everything working. > > - MDNS is using .local > - .localdomain should be moved to .home.arpa (see RFC)! :)

Re: No space left on device ...

2023-05-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 17 May 2023 12:48:28 -0400 Dan Ritter wrote: > Assuming you have network access close to boot time, you might > want to run an NTP daemon to get the time from a selection of > other servers. Concur. > > Debian runs a pool, which is configured by default in ntp-server > and chrony, at

Bookworm CUPS Printing Revisited

2023-05-17 Thread Charles Curley
Thanks to Brian on the thread "Re: CUPS on Bullseye and Bookworm" I now have CUPS working on dragon, my bookworm i386 architecture laptop. Or I should say, CUPS printing is more or less working but something else (GTK printing?) isn't. I can find the driverless printer on the network, create a

Re: CUPS on Bullseye and Bookworm

2023-05-16 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 15 May 2023 20:30:38 -0400 Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > > I also have an ancient i386 IBM R51 running Bookworm, dragon. On > > dragon, using system-config-printer, I can see the printer > > automagically discovered. I can open up the queue window for the > > printer, and request a test

Re: How to run a command / script on startup automatically in linux?

2023-05-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 15 May 2023 20:26:09 +0200 wrote: > Is it this mousepad? > > mousepad/stable 0.5.2-1 amd64 > simple Xfce oriented text editor > > > But the program doesn't launch at startup. Where I am going wrong? > > Does it fail to start because the command is run before the GUI > > starts

Re: How to run a command / script on startup automatically in linux?

2023-05-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 15 May 2023 13:42:52 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: > There's no need to do that. Debian already ships an rc-local.service. True. In order to edit it, the user should copy it into /etc/systemd/… and edit it there. There are commands in systemd to make that fairly painless. See man

Re: CUPS on Bullseye and Bookworm

2023-05-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 15 May 2023 12:18:56 -0400 gene heskett wrote: > this is interesting Brian, but how do I adapt it to my brother > printers? All I can get by substituting the queue name M234 is > "printer or class does not exist". Right. M234 is the name assigned previously. You get the URI(s) of

Re: How to run a command / script on startup automatically in linux?

2023-05-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 15 May 2023 22:44:37 +0530 "Susmita/Rajib" wrote: > ExecStart=/etc/rc.local start > TimeoutSec=0 > StandardOutput=tty > RemainAfterExit=yes > SysVStartPriority=99 > ExecStart=mousepad The fact that you have two ExecStart lines in there might have something to do with it. The exercise

Re: CUPS on Bullseye and Bookworm

2023-05-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 15 May 2023 15:42:51 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Mon 15 May 2023 at 08:07:12 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > > [...] > [...] > > > > Possibly just legacy habits. I'm not accustomed to this automation. > > > > Possibly. You are not alone in

Re: CUPS on Bullseye and Bookworm

2023-05-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 15 May 2023 07:31:29 -0600 Charles Curley wrote: > I solved that one. I had closed TCP port 9100. Opening that up on the > server got me running. However, that did not solve the problem for the > other two protocols. Correction. That didn't solve it. I realized that port 910

Re: CUPS on Bullseye and Bookworm

2023-05-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 15 May 2023 12:09:33 +0100 Brian wrote: > Useful data but an aside first: > > The pdl= key lacks image/urf. HP claims AirPrint support for the > device (URF=V1.4,...). It looks like you have been sold a pup. A > firmware update? I will look into that later today. > > > root@dragon:~#

Re: CUPS on Bullseye and Bookworm

2023-05-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 15 May 2023 14:22:14 +0100 Brian wrote: > > Not that I know of. > > Blocking port 5353 (mdns) is not unknown. True. It is open (udp) on hawk (server) and ideapc, where I am running shorewall (iptables). dragon has firewalld, which simply shows the service, mdns, as open, but does not

Re: CUPS on Bullseye and Bookworm

2023-05-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 14 May 2023 14:04:51 -0600 Charles Curley wrote: > I also enabled "port 9100" printing on the printer, and went directly > to it: > > socket://hpm234ethernet.localdomain:9100 > > The printer spun its wheels, reported an error and stopped without > printin

Re: No space left on device ...

2023-05-14 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 15 May 2023 00:32:01 + Albretch Mueller wrote: > when I try to save or download a file I consistently get the same > error message: > > $ cp "No space left on device" > No_space_left_on_device.txt > bash: No_space_left_on_device.txt: No space left on device That *shouldn't* work. I

Re: CUPS on Bullseye and Bookworm

2023-05-14 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 14 May 2023 23:30:25 +0100 Brian wrote: > On Sun 14 May 2023 at 14:04:51 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > > We take it that dragon, hawk and the printer are network connected. > > Give what you get from dragon with > > avahi-browse -rt _ipp._tcp > avah

Re: CUPS on Bullseye and Bookworm

2023-05-14 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 14 May 2023 19:48:07 +0200 john doe wrote: > On 5/14/23 19:29, Charles Curley wrote: > [...] > > The below, is what I would try: > > - On the non-working client, Are you restricting outbound traffic at > all Not that I know of. > or for testing purposes ca

CUPS on Bullseye and Bookworm

2023-05-14 Thread Charles Curley
I have an HP HP_LaserJet_MFP_M234sdw_C0FB67_USB_, one of those modern "no driver" multifunction printers. It works fine on Bullseye. I have the printer hooked up via USB to a server, hawk, and it prints just fine. I have a client, ideapc, which sees the printer and prints to it just fine. I also

Re: User is not in the sudoers file

2023-05-08 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 8 May 2023 19:41:35 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: > Wanna be lazier? Nah. I'm too lazy to edit my script. :-) -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/

Re: User is not in the sudoers file

2023-05-08 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 8 May 2023 17:27:24 +0200 wrote: > (2) add your user to the sudo group. I'd prefer (2). usermod -a -G sudo I'm lazy. I have that in a script. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/

Re: I installed 11.6

2023-05-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 5 May 2023 23:27:45 -0400 Maureen L Thomas wrote: > I installed debian 11.6 and updated the needed packages to 11.7. > Does anyone know which utility changes the window settings. That would depend on which window manager|desktop you have installed. On the off chance that it is XFCE,

Re: Wi-Fi broken on Dell E6520, Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 AGN, Debian 11.7 Xfce

2023-05-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 5 May 2023 12:29:53 +0200 zithro wrote: > That would be nice for them to tell you what THEY consider a valid > MAC addr, as I don't think Debian produces MACs with z or x in it ... > Maybe they check against a valid manufacturer (which is the 1st half > of the MAC addr, iirc called OUI)

Re: Wi-Fi broken on Dell E6520, Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 AGN, Debian 11.7 Xfce

2023-05-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 4 May 2023 21:08:07 -0700 David Christensen wrote: > A further problem -- Debian Well, it isn't really Debian, it's Network Manager. > is changing the MAC address of the Wi-Fi > adapter ("MAC address spoofing", a security "feature") to MAC > addresses This is a security feature for

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-01 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 1 May 2023 18:52:09 +0100 Brad Rogers wrote: > If memory serves, should one try to do that, warnings are issued. > > Not quite HAL in "2001, A Space Odyssey", but near enough. :-) Ah. I don't recall that I've ever tried that. Maybe one should experiment on a throw-away VM. :-)

Re: disk usage for /usr/lib on bullseye

2023-05-01 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 1 May 2023 13:51:06 + Bonno Bloksma wrote: > Guessing on what I see these are libraries for older kernel versions. > I usually clean up older kernel versions by using # apt autoremove" > All 3 servers have 1 older kernel version installed according to apt > autoremove. Autoremove

Re: Proper use of checkrestart

2023-04-29 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 29 Apr 2023 05:38:05 -0400 Jeffrey Walton wrote: > I have a script that fully updates a machine each night around 4:00 > AM. It also reboots the machine as required. You might look at the unattended-upgrades package, which does exactly this. (Except for the 4:00 AM, but you can adjust

Re: Putting important stuff exclusively in the subject [was: is it imminent that bookworm becomes stable?]

2023-04-25 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 25 Apr 2023 13:26:32 +0800 hl wrote: > i've read list archive: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/,  i > still don't know who can read mail body but can't read subject at > same time Exactly so: you don't know "who can read mail body but can't read subject at same time". So you should

Re: efi problem

2023-04-23 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 23 Apr 2023 15:15:22 -0400 songbird wrote: > that's my thoughts at this point. hope you will make better > progress on this soon. :) No worries. I have USB sticks, CD-RWs, etc. I just did the experiment to see how well it worked. Thanks for the thoughts, though. -- Does anybody

Re: efi problem

2023-04-23 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 23 Apr 2023 16:34:03 - (UTC) Curt wrote: > Install grml-rescueboot I just tried it. It may work with a grml CD ISO; I didn't try it. The code builds the grub.cfg entry correctly, and that works. But grub refused to boot the debian netinst image I provided. -- Does anybody read

Re: Second monitor doesn't quite work

2023-04-19 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 19:43:01 -0700 Charlie Gibbs wrote: > Any idea why the second monitor is sort of there but not quite? > Below is a copy of the xorg.conf generated by the Nvidia setup > utility. You might benefit from arandr. It lets you set up the monitors as you see fit, then it will save

Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)?

2023-04-18 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 21:12:33 -0400 Default User wrote: > (Not so) fun fact: Clonezilla always refuses to back up swap > partitions. I don't know why. Because there is no reason to do so. It has nothing in it of any value, except possibly to a cracker, and even that is stale. -- Does anybody

Re: /etc/fstab question (problem)?

2023-04-18 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 10:59:19 -0400 Default User wrote: > What to do? I suspect that what you need to do is: 1) Preserve the current contents of /tmp, 2) Adjust fstab to include the /tmp partition, 3) Mount the /tmp partition 4) Restore the contents of /tmp You should probably do all of

Re: Am I infected with a rootkit?

2023-04-18 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 22:07:16 +0800 Jeremy Ardley wrote: > The only way to be sure you are secure is to check the client list on > the router. If you have something you don't recognise then that may > be an intruder. You might also look into arpwatch and arpalert. -- Does anybody read

Re: Apt sources.list

2023-04-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 15 Apr 2023 11:00:52 -0400 wrote: > Okay. Let's open this can of worms. The ONLY reason https is used on > most sites is because Google *mandated* it years ago. ("Mandate" means > we'll downgrade your search ranking if you don't use https.) There is > otherwise no earthly reason to have

Re: Debian Stretch : X server won't start after update

2023-04-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 15 Apr 2023 05:34:36 +0100 (BST) Tim Woodall wrote: > On Fri, 14 Apr 2023, Charles Curley wrote: > > [...] > [...] > [...] > That page is out of date. On the LTS page itself: > > Debian 9 "Stretch" > > i386, amd64, armel, armhf

Re: Apt sources.list

2023-04-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 15 Apr 2023 14:01:27 +0100 Alain D D Williams wrote: > While we are talking about this, is there any reason why all the > http: should not be https: ? > > I have done this on my own machine without ill effect. One reason is if one is using a local cache which does not inspect https

Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using the wrong driver

2023-04-14 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 15 Apr 2023 06:36:53 +0800 Jeremy Ardley wrote: > On 15/4/23 06:22, The Wanderer wrote: > [...] > If you look hard enough you find epson does support it. > > https://download.ebz.epson.net/dsc/search/01/search/searchModule > > and search for M1120 > > you find > > ET-M1120 Series

Re: Debian Stretch : X server won't start after update

2023-04-14 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 14 Apr 2023 19:41:37 +0100 Brian wrote: > I thought stretch is unsupported by Debian. Where did the update come > from? Stretch is oldoldstable, and under LTS support. https://www.debian.org/releases/ I would encourage the original poster to consider installing bullseye rather than

Re: update-initramfs

2023-04-13 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 13 Apr 2023 13:57:04 -0500 David Wright wrote: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/04/msg00405.html > > I was left with a system whose Grub menu only contained entries for > the new system, because os-prober no longer scours all the other > partitions for OSes any more.¹ To get

Re: Black screens on old nVidia card

2023-04-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 10:59:43 -0700 Charlie Gibbs wrote: > $ cat /etc/debian_version > 11.5 Hmm, the current version is 11.6. Maybe there's a fix in the upgrades you haven't yet installed??? > [ 1406.213319] NVRM: GPU at PCI::01:00: > GPU-d7903bd4-9549-9f07-5796-886c12d2031c > [

Re: Is perl still the No.1 language for sysadmin?

2023-04-02 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 02 Apr 2023 22:32:51 +0200 Emanuel Berg wrote: > and SQL is pronounced "seekwell" :) No, it's pronounced "sqwill", as in something you really don't want to drink. > > Okay, my school isn't old school but it is getting there ... Give it time. -- Does anybody read signatures any

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-27 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 21:20:45 +0200 Siard wrote: > To type ♠ , for example: > > - hold Ctrl+Shift > - type U2660 > - release Ctrl+Shift Nice to know about, but it requires knowing the UTF code for the characters you want. That's a bit like trying to navigate the Internet with IP addresses

Re: Playing Card Symbols

2023-03-27 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 12:04:53 -0400 Thomas George wrote: > I am amazed that the playing card symbols spade, heart, diamond and > club don't appear any of the collections in my Debian Buster > programs. I can insert them in the text I type by entering > CTRL-SHIFT-Uunicode but if this text in a

Re: good freedom-respecting computer for running Debian

2023-03-20 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:02:10 +0100 Lionel Élie Mamane wrote: > I also kinda hope for something rather quiet, too, > I've been developing increasing tinnitus and I already wear > noise-cancelling headphones when next to my desktop :-| Take a look at https://silentpc.com. > > It seems the only

Re: Debian 12 IPv6 client?

2023-03-14 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 14 Mar 2023 12:29:22 +0800 jeremy ardley wrote: > (I'm quite annoyed they have done away with /var/log/syslog) See the README in /var/log for work-arounds. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/

Re: Debian Installer: Specifying the preseed file device?

2023-03-13 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 16:36:11 + Brian wrote: > That still leaves the first problem. How do you fancy running > everything from a USB stick? Not really, but that might work. Thanks. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/

Re: Debian Installer: Specifying the preseed file device?

2023-03-13 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 14:58:08 + Brian wrote: > It is what d-i sees the partition as that is important and you > do know in advance. That's problem 1. Problem 2 is that the hard > disk partitions are probably ext4. At the opening stage of d-i > I do not think ext4 drivers are available. Both

Re: Debian Installer: Specifying the preseed file device?

2023-03-13 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 08:19:26 +0100 wrote: > On Sun, Mar 12, 2023 at 04:08:28PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > > I can specify the path to the preseed file when booting Debian > > Installer (d-i). Is there any way to tell it that the preseed file > > is on device X, say /dev/

Debian Installer: Specifying the preseed file device?

2023-03-12 Thread Charles Curley
I can specify the path to the preseed file when booting Debian Installer (d-i). Is there any way to tell it that the preseed file is on device X, say /dev/sdb1? Once d-i is booted and in the installation menu, I can activate a console, manually umount the incorrect partition, and manually mount

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