Re: Graphics card switching request

2023-03-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 12 Mar 2023 18:44:19 +0100 Marcin Tchórznicki wrote: > Is there any way under Debian 11 to > be able to switch between integrated graphics card and Nvidia card ? > Some games do not work under Linux on the integrated card. Several. Your desktop may have something built in. On XFCE,

HDD vs SDD reliability

2023-03-12 Thread Charles Curley
There has been some discussion about the reliability of hard drives vs. solid state drives on this list. Here is an interesting data point. Backblaze: SSDs fail slightly less than HDDs https://blocksandfiles.com/2023/03/10/backblaze-ssd-vs-hdd/ -- Does anybody read signatures any more?

Re: question about rc.local

2023-03-09 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 20:44:43 -0500 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > (1) I rarely use the gmail webmail client, but (2) when I do, it is > not easy to bottom post, from memory, what I do is click on the place > near the bottom of a message that inserts the previous message (or, > at least shows it),

Excel Spreadsheet to PDF (was: Re: PDF on debian)

2023-03-09 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 10 Mar 2023 08:50:08 +0800 Corey Hickman wrote: > If I want to convert some excel files to PDF, what's the suggested > way? I know I can program with java to implement that, but if there > are existing command-line solutions I would like to try them. This really should have been a new

Re: question about rc.local

2023-03-09 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 09 Mar 2023 21:16:02 +0800 cor...@free.fr wrote: > What’s the right way to run rsync —daemon then? Thanks Why do you want to? Normally starting rsync on the client will start it up on the server. No special action on the server is required. -- Does anybody read signatures any more?

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-09 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 19:03:23 +0800 Corey Hickman wrote: > I always compose documents in debian via VIM. so if there is a PDF > plugin for VIM that would be great. Not a plugin for VIM, but if you run CUPS look into the debian package printer-driver-cups-pdf. -- Does anybody read signatures any

Re: No /

2023-03-07 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 07 Mar 2023 17:33:45 +0100 Michael Lee wrote: > Is it possible to reinstall the system and still retain the settings, > logins, etc.?  If you mean do a fresh installation, probably not. First off, make sure you back up everything you are likely to want. You can restore from your

Re: what method do you prefer for data transfer between nodes?

2023-03-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 5 Mar 2023 16:22:25 +0800 Ken Young wrote: > Hello, > > The methods I know, > > 1. scp > pros: the native tool in the OS > cons: you will either input password or put key pairs into servers for > authentication. Not so much of a con. I now automatically add my public keys to a machine

Re: Unable to associate to mobile hotspot

2023-03-02 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 2 Mar 2023 22:38:36 +0100 Lucio Crusca wrote: > Yes, there are, but I only posted the logs you asked for (grep -i > networkmanager). Here is what wpa-supplicat has to say about the > problem: Sorry about that. You are Sid, I'm on Bullseye. Different log file formats. I see some lines

Re: Unable to associate to mobile hotspot

2023-03-02 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 2 Mar 2023 19:37:59 +0100 Lucio Crusca wrote: > 2023-03-02T18:07:29.908378+01:00 t470 NetworkManager[678]: > [166849.9068] Config: added 'auth_alg' value 'OPEN' > 2023-03-02T18:07:29.908499+01:00 t470 NetworkManager[678]: > [166849.9068] Config: added 'psk' value ''

Re: Unable to associate to mobile hotspot

2023-03-02 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 2 Mar 2023 18:08:18 +0100 Lucio Crusca wrote: > Can you please help me spot the problem? This might give you some ideas. As root, run: grep -i networkmanager /var/log/syslog Or run "tail -f /var/log/syslog" and watch it do its thing. -- Does anybody read signatures any more?

Re: ssh bug known_hosts?

2023-03-01 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 2 Mar 2023 03:48:49 +0800 jeremy ardley wrote: > 2. The known hosts file used is /etc/ssh/known_hosts rather that > ~/.ssh/known_hosts - which causes a permissions error I am not seeing that, for either root or my regular non-root user. You indicated you created your ~/.ssh/config as

Re: solution to / full

2023-03-01 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 1 Mar 2023 14:35:17 +0100 lina wrote: > My / is almost full. > > # df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > udev126G 0 126G 0% /dev > tmpfs26G 2.3M 26G 1% /run > /dev/nvme0n1p2 23G 21G 966M 96% / You can find the large

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2023 #163

2023-02-28 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 01 Mar 2023 00:11:39 +0300 skazka wrote: > Unsubscribe That is not how you do it. Instead look at the headers for any email from the list (CTL-h on many mail readers), and locate the header "List-Unsubscribe:". That will give you at least one way to unsubscribe. In my mail reader,

Re: XFCE updates

2023-02-22 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 22 Feb 2023 22:20:39 + ghe2001 wrote: > What, if anything, happens to the updates advertised by XFCE? Do > they go into Sid? Testing? Eventually. Debian seems to do things by the upstream release. Right now, XFCE for Bookworm/testing is 4.18, Bullseye/stable 4.16. -- Does

Re: hard disk installation method fails

2023-02-18 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 18 Feb 2023 14:05:20 -0700 Charles Curley wrote: > Oops. I was talking about grub, you about the initrd. Sorry for the > confusion. I did some more testing. I have three machines set up for testing this setup. dti386: virtual machine, 1 GB memory, pentium2 processor. It will r

Re: hard disk installation method fails

2023-02-18 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 18 Feb 2023 19:09:39 + Brian wrote: > loop.ko is a kernel module. It is needed to mount an > installer ISO to access its contents. But it is not > present in the installer's initrd. lsinitramfs reveals > that fact. The first email at #724931 has it right: Oops. I was talking about

Re: hard disk installation method fails

2023-02-18 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 18 Feb 2023 18:55:03 +0700 Max Nikulin wrote: > Due to the following message I am confused if it should work for > Debian: > > Brian to debian-user. Re: problem with loading installer (hard disk > method) Thu, 29 Dec 2022 17:42:59 +. >

Re: hard disk installation method fails

2023-02-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 18 Feb 2023 12:05:11 +0800 lsg wrote: > Really? i am afraid vmlinuz and initrd pair in iso file don't include > program that search disk for iso file, as pair in hd-media directory > does > > Debian11.6/main/installer-amd64/current/images/hd-media > > though it's possible to boot iso

Re: hard disk installation method fails

2023-02-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 18 Feb 2023 09:17:43 +0800 lsg wrote: > it will be easier if i can determine if they match by matching file > name of iso file with that of vmlinuz and initrd pair (their file > names shall all include same version number) That wouldn't help. My method pulls the kernel and initrd from

Re: Partitioning an SSD?

2023-02-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 17 Feb 2023 19:33:32 + "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > It's likely that LILO will go with Bookworm - I think it's more or > less unmaintained if I recall correctly, so someone needs to help you > getting this one to work. Is this your only machine? It doesn't seem to be in Bookworm

Re: hard disk installation method fails

2023-02-16 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 16 Feb 2023 23:57:31 -0500 lsg wrote: > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s04.en.html > > to reproduce my problem, you need 3 files: vmlinuz, initrd.gz and > corresponding iso file > > add entry to grub menu, boot it to see if it can locate iso file, > there is no need

Re: lpr hangs on emojis

2023-02-16 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 16 Feb 2023 21:46:40 -0600 Greg Marks wrote: > Does anyone have a good way of printing text that contains emojis? I took your test.txt file, html-ized it, and looked at it in a browser. I then "printed" it to a PDF file. Both showed the  emoji. I didn't actually print it, but that

Re: hard disk installation method fails

2023-02-16 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 17 Feb 2023 05:13:34 +0800 lsg wrote: > this is quite unbelievable, it's most widely-used platform: amd64 > > installer says "No kernel modules found", probably due to kernel > mismatch > > debian-11.6.0-amd64-netinst.iso is at sdb1, vfat partition, i've > checked it with sha256sum >

Re: snapd vs apt

2023-02-16 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 17 Feb 2023 01:48:15 +0800 winnie hw wrote: > When both snapd and apt sources are available, which one should I > choose for package installation? Though I found the package versions > in snapd are a bit newer than apt. Newer isn't necessarily better. Recall the definition of upgrading:

Re: ipv6 maybe has arrived.

2023-02-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 15 Feb 2023 07:57:09 -0500 gene heskett wrote: > 192.168.71.4 sixty40.coyote.den sixty40 > 192.168.71.7 vna.coyote.deb vna I think you have a typo in the line for vna. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com

Re: New Dell Inspiron 15 3000 Series 3511 sound problem on Debian 11 Stable

2023-02-10 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 10 Feb 2023 21:49:58 + Default User wrote: > And of course recommendations for a current laptop (preferably > reasonably priced) > that actual experience shows does work well with Debian would be > welcome. I recommend against the latest and greatest. Recent computers may use

Re: Debian Package Web Page seems not include non-free-firmware section

2023-02-10 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 10 Feb 2023 19:18:30 +0100 Computer Enthusiastic wrote: > The web page used to search packages in Debian repositories at: > > https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages > > seems not to search for packages in the recently created > "non-free-firmware" section for bookwork and sid.

Re: WiFi firmware issue in Bookworm

2023-02-10 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 10 Feb 2023 12:31:27 + piorunz wrote: > On 10/02/2023 04:29, Gary Dale wrote: > > Thanks. That points then to a problem with the package.debian.org > > page - it doesn't seem to search the new section. I found the > > announcement when I searched for debian non-free firmware. Right >

Re: No USB with qemu+macOS+USB+iPads

2023-02-08 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 8 Feb 2023 21:03:39 +0100 peze wrote: > Am 08.02.23 um 19:30 schrieb Charles Curley: > [...] > > If your host is linux, can you show me your qemu-parameters? > TIA > I was afraid you were going to ask me that. I run qemu via libvirt. So I will do a bit of detectiv

Re: No USB with qemu+macOS+USB+iPads

2023-02-08 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 8 Feb 2023 11:23:04 -0700 Charles Curley wrote: > Yes. I can hand a USB memory stick to a Debian guest, Debian > installer, bullseye and bookworm. Host is bullseye. One must still > mount it on the guest. And do not mount it on the host. -- Does anybody read signatures

Re: No USB with qemu+macOS+USB+iPads

2023-02-08 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 8 Feb 2023 22:07:37 +0700 Max Nikulin wrote: > Does it work if you pass a USB device to a Linux > guest (e.g. boot some live image)? Yes. I can hand a USB memory stick to a Debian guest, Debian installer, bullseye and bookworm. Host is bullseye. One must still mount it on the guest.

Re: Installing Debian11 on Lenovo P1 Gen5

2023-02-06 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 6 Feb 2023 11:43:17 +0200 Todor Petkov wrote: > This station has Ethernet RJ45 port with RTL8153 chipset > (according to lsusb), that's using Realtek r8152 driver. Is the firmware-realtek package installed? Please in future don't tell us what you think lsusb said, show us the actual

Re: OT: repair/replace cell in Li-ion battery?

2023-02-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 6 Feb 2023 00:29:12 +0100 (CET) local10 wrote: > Find out the exact battery model you laptop uses and then buy a > replacement battery of that exact model (on Ebay or whatever). Other > batteries may be better or worse but they may also be incompatible > with your laptop. And you may

Delay in login: lightdm and xfce4

2023-02-05 Thread Charles Curley
I have lightdm 1.26.0-7, lightdm-gtk-greeter 2.0.8-2, and xfce4 4.16 on Debian 11.6, on three machines. When I log in to an existing session, sometimes I get a snappy response and get the desktop quickly. Other times, there is a a delay, during which I have a black display with the pointer on it.

Re: Cannot rum multiple command on remote machine via SSH

2023-02-04 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 4 Feb 2023 11:24:37 + Ottavio Caruso wrote: > At night, I want to connect to LAP2 and perform these commands: > > $ sudo tlp setcharge 90 95 BAT1 # resets battery settings for > external battery > > $ hibernate.sh # a script that performs some housekeeping, puts > laptop into

Re: Syslog/Rsyslog/Systemctl issue

2023-02-01 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 1 Feb 2023 13:26:58 +0100 Freyja wrote: > For /run/systemd/journal/socket this is another story. > The folder journal does not exist at all. Well, that could be a problem. On one of my computers: root@jhegaala:~# ll /run/systemd/journal/socket srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jan 25 09:55

Re: ASCII formatting for plain text email

2023-01-31 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 23:06:44 +0100 Pierre Willaime wrote: > 1- a simple way to draw a line (without pressing 72 times on "-") > --- In emacs, ctl-u 7 2 -

Re: laptop freezes randomly - please help!! dell xps 15 with debian testing

2023-01-30 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 30 Jan 2023 18:59:19 +0200 Shalom Ben-Zvii Kazaz wrote: > In the past week my laptop freezes randomly, I can say it happens > every 2-3 hours. but there are actions that consistently always cause > a freeze, like opening Zoom or executing lspci in Terminator. lspci leads me to wonder if

Re: new archive section: non-free-firmware

2023-01-28 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 21:19:55 +0100 Sven Joachim wrote: > Sorry, that was my fault. I should have given the link to outcome of > the vote as well, it was Option 5 "Change SC for non-free firmware in > installer, one installer"[1]. Thank you. My question is answered. -- Does anybody read

Re: new archive section: non-free-firmware

2023-01-28 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 19:05:39 + "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > This all follows on the General Resolution a while ago. Right. I looked at the page to which Sven Joachim referred. https://www.debian.org/vote/2022/vote_003 Some of the proposals explicitly required the installer to do so.

Re: new archive section: non-free-firmware

2023-01-28 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 18:09:27 +0100 Sven Joachim wrote: > To use the new section, edit sources.list like this: > > before: > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free > > after: > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free > non-free-firmware Will

Re: Postfix fails after upgrade from bullseye to bookworm

2023-01-20 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 20 Jan 2023 21:30:22 +0100 Sven Joachim wrote: > Wow. Looking into the BTS, I found bug #895089[1], changed "c_rehash" > to "openssl rehash" in /usr/lib/postfix/configure-instance.sh as > recommended there, and now "systemctl restart postfix.service" > completes in two seconds! A

Re: Postfix fails after upgrade from bullseye to bookworm

2023-01-20 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 20 Jan 2023 21:30:22 +0100 Sven Joachim wrote: > Wow. Looking into the BTS, I found bug #895089[1], changed "c_rehash" > to "openssl rehash" in /usr/lib/postfix/configure-instance.sh as > recommended there, and now "systemctl restart postfix.service" > completes in two seconds! > >

Re: Postfix fails after upgrade from bullseye to bookworm

2023-01-20 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 20 Jan 2023 14:28:22 -0500 Greg Wooledge wrote: > More multiples of 30 seconds. I'm still thinking "DNS issue". In this case, laziness. The default timeout is 60 seconds. I added 30 to that. Then doubled it. Etc. That doesn't mean you are wrong. I'd like to know what that ssl command

Re: Postfix fails after upgrade from bullseye to bookworm

2023-01-20 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 20 Jan 2023 19:17:37 +0100 Sven Joachim wrote: > Clearly something fishy is going on here. I concur. What I saw with htop was a slew of calls to SSL. Here's a sample of what it was doing. It is a processor hog. root@white:~# ps aux | grep -i openssl root 4586 5.8 0.9 8256

Re: Postfix fails after upgrade from bullseye to bookworm

2023-01-20 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 13 Jan 2023 11:52:29 -0700 Charles Curley wrote: > That suggests there's something wrong with > the way systemd is starting postfix. I will look into that later > today. Not quite "later today", but: A bit of thinking about it, and I realized that the computer in que

Re: partition appears to be mounted, but not according to umount or lsblk

2023-01-19 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 23:03:14 + thyme after thyme wrote: > However, when i do > user@hostname:/$ sudo umount /mnt/data01-hdd > > umount complains thus: > umount: /mnt/data01-hdd: not mounted. First off, don't tell us what the program did, show us exactly what the program did by copying and

Re: Cloning a disk: partclone?

2023-01-19 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 12:49:57 -0600 Tom Browder wrote: > + Can it do a complete clone on an active disk? Or do I need a live > CD or USB stick? I wouldn't try backing up a live partition due to issues with referential integrity. Suppose two interdependent files, A and B, change during the

Re: Libvirt dnsmasq oddity

2023-01-16 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 16 Jan 2023 08:29:52 +0100 john doe wrote: > Or use [1]. > > [1] https://libvirt.org/formatnetwork.html#network-namespaces Thanks. That appears to be working. Here's what I ended up with for my xml file. Note the added xml schema in the first line, and the three lines of

Re: Libvirt dnsmasq oddity

2023-01-16 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 16 Jan 2023 08:29:52 +0100 john doe wrote: > > Perhaps I should comment out one or both entries for hawk. > > > > Or use [1]. > > [1] https://libvirt.org/formatnetwork.html#network-namespaces Thank you. That and the dnsmasq option --no-hosts look like they will do what I want. I

Re: Libvirt dnsmasq oddity

2023-01-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 15 Jan 2023 18:18:00 -0600 Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > I would first want to find out why the samba server is doing that > "sometimes" but not others. > > My first guess would be that you have a hostname identified somewhere > that resolves to 2 different addresses, depending. And one or

Re: Recommended SSDs and 4-bay internal dock

2023-01-14 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 11 Jan 2023 18:20:05 +0100 Linux-Fan wrote: > IBM says that for enterprise drives (typically higher quality than > consumer- grade drives) only three months of data retention are > guaranteed at 40°C. And: This article is from 2021, too... Well, it turns out I was in a good position to

Re: Dependency omitted in the details of passwd package

2023-01-14 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 14 Jan 2023 23:23:14 +0200 Horia Marandoiu wrote: > Package: passwd (1:4.8.1-1) does not work without libpam-ldap , being > a library which is not listed on the dependency section of the page > dedicated to the package passwd Interesting. I have passwd 1:4.8.1-1 installed on Bullseye, I

Re: Postfix fails after upgrade from bullseye to bookworm

2023-01-13 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, 13 Jan 2023 12:00:31 -0500 Dan Ritter wrote: > Run the postfix executable by hand as root, and look for error > messages and log entries in /var/log/mail.log among other locations. Well, that was interesting. Thanks. In mail.log I found the following from an earlier run:

Postfix fails after upgrade from bullseye to bookworm

2023-01-13 Thread Charles Curley
I upgraded an i386 machine from bullseye to bookworm. Postfix now refuses to run. root@white:/var/spool# systemctl start postfix@-.service Job for postfix@-.service failed because a timeout was exceeded. See "systemctl status postfix@-.service" and "journalctl -xeu postfix@-.service" for

Re: Driver wifi

2023-01-12 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 12 Jan 2023 14:36:51 -0500 Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > The package firmware-realtek in non-free has drivers. Pedantic nitpick: the package firmware-realtek has firmware for various Realtek devices. The drivers (some of which require said firmware) are in the kernel. And it looks

Libvirt dnsmasq oddity

2023-01-10 Thread Charles Curley
I seem to have hit an oddity in how dnsmasq operates for libvirt. I have two host machines each with several guests. One of those is also the local samba server. Guests on the non-samba server can resolve the samba server's host name correctly, so far without fail. Guests on the samba server

Re: why rfkill not list my wifi device

2023-01-10 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 10 Jan 2023 19:31:40 +0800 lsg wrote: > Thank Alexander! i run lsmod | grep -iE "rfkill", it says > > rfkill 20480  2 cfg80211 > > both "modprobe rfkill" and rfkill return nothing Interesting. Running "modprobe rfkill" wouldn't return anything because the module is

Re: why rfkill not list my wifi device

2023-01-09 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 10 Jan 2023 11:51:54 +0800 lsg wrote: > according to web page by expert, rfkill without options shall list > wireless device, but it shows nothing though my wifi adapter is > active in buster > What hardware? A suitable lspci list might help. Mine shows: root@jhegaala:~# rfkill ID

Re: Why Debian packaging structure is so difficult

2023-01-09 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 9 Jan 2023 07:18:53 -0500 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > The best solution, IMHO, is to mirror using a tool that is aware of > the specific structure of apt repositories. Personally, I have had > excellent success with apt-cacher-ng, which functions much like a > squid proxy. You

Re: debian sid no boot after this morning's update

2023-01-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 5 Jan 2023 19:01:11 -0500 Frank McCormick wrote: >I did indeed. In checking what I had there were a couple of > differences which hadn't seemed to make much difference. But I have > fixed those now. > > I appreciate your help. Glad to help. Now you might wonder what might have

Re: debian sid no boot after this morning's update

2023-01-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 5 Jan 2023 09:12:58 -0500 Frank wrote: >   Yes, the file exists and is owned by lightdm. I don't know whether > this is > correct as I can't find any info on who should own it. It would be more useful to those trying to help you if you showed the actual results rather than telling us

Re: VLC not ejecting CD/DVDs

2023-01-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 04 Jan 2023 09:34:38 +0100 "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > > One of those four methods is via SCSI. When I specify that method, > > eject ejects the CD/DVD. > > charles@jhegaala:~$ eject -s /dev/sr0 > > Does > eject -r /dev/sr0 > work too ? Yes. charles@jhegaala:~$ eject -r /dev/sr0 ;

VLC not ejecting CD/DVDs

2023-01-03 Thread Charles Curley
VLC is not ejecting CD/DVDs when I run it as my regular user, charles. I get the error message "qt interface error: could not eject /dev/sr0". I have not tried it as root. eject, however, does work when run by the same user. root@jhegaala:/dev# ll cdrom cdrw sr0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jan

Re: request a replacement for Thunderbird + Enigmail

2023-01-03 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 3 Jan 2023 09:04:12 -0500 Jeffrey Walton wrote: > Claws email with the GPG plugin is popular. It may be a good fit for > you, too. > > https://www.claws-mail.org/plugin.php?plugin=gpg Concur. You didn't indicate whether you use mbox or maildir format (or something else). Claws-mail

Re: Customize XFCE4

2022-12-27 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 27 Dec 2022 12:21:51 +0100 Klaus Jantzen wrote: > The information about themes I found is somewhat confusing as there > are references to GTK-2.0 and to GTK-3-0. > > Which GTK is actually used? Both. Some XFCE4 programs that comes with Bullseye use GTK3, others GTK2. And the GTK people

Re: Wifi won't work under debian 11.6, please heeeeelp

2022-12-21 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 21 Dec 2022 20:19:59 + "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > If you can bear to reinstall: you might try reinstalling with the > unofficial > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/11.6.0+nonfree/amd64/iso-cd/firmware-11.6.0-amd64-netinst.iso > which

WiFi Debugging Help

2022-12-21 Thread Charles Curley
In the course of helping (I hope) another user with a WiFi problem, I stumbled across what could be a useful tool for such issues: https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users In particular, those with Intel WiFi adapters will find this page useful:

Re: Wifi won't work under debian 11.6, please heeeeelp

2022-12-21 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 21 Dec 2022 14:19:26 + (UTC) Mansour zermello wrote: > hi, im a moderate user of linux, recently i installed Debian 11.6 on > my dell laptop but like you know it already the wifi dont work by > default and i was lost in different suggestions how to make it work ( > so so many

Re: HP Pavilion Laptop PC 15-eh0000 (9WD46AV) Not Charging

2022-12-18 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 18 Dec 2022 23:20:04 -0500 Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > Is anyone else experiencing an issue with HP Laptops not charging? It > will work perfectly fine for a while and then simply not charge. I > thought maybe it was a bad power adapter. I bought a new adapter but > it still does the

Re: My X freezes on cold days - how to get back control

2022-12-18 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 18 Dec 2022 17:55:59 -0600 Ram Ramesh wrote: >   When left overnight in dpms state, my Xorg stays in that state > ignoring any key inputs when I attempt to use the system next day > morning.  This happens only when the overnight temps go low enough to > trigger some issue. This

Re: latest testing update broke my laptop

2022-12-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 17 Dec 2022 11:39:51 -0800 David Christensen wrote: > … the practical answer is install and > find out. There are other ways besides "install[ing] and find[ing] out". https://linux-hardware.org is a very useful tool. And one should consider contributing as well. "apt show hwinfo".

Re: Debian failed

2022-12-16 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 15 Dec 2022 22:35:04 -0600 George Olson wrote: > I had enough of a functional > graphics environment and terminal to change all my sources to > Testing, which goes by the codename Bookworm, because to me that was > easier than trying to figure out how to use backports to install a >

Re: multiple messages

2022-12-11 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 10:59:02 -0800 David Christensen wrote: > Thunderbird message duplication bugs have existed for several years. > My work-around is to periodically delete older messages and/or delete > duplicates in Junk, Trash, etc.. This is one place claws-mail would come in handy. It has

Re: t-bird vs filters to sort msgs

2022-12-11 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 18:00:31 + Joe wrote: > You might look at Claws-mail. Second the nomination. There is some documentation on the web site. https://www.claws-mail.org -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com https://charlescurley.com/blog/

Re: CR/LF

2022-12-11 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 11:48:36 -0500 Jim Popovitch wrote: > Ahh, sorry for using a descriptive acronym that I have used for > decades to define an end-of-line. Whether it's in-fact a CR/LF, or > just a LF, doesn't really change the original question about the > addition of a end- of-line being

Re: installation partition recommendations

2022-12-11 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 09:38:42 + Semih Ozlem wrote: > sdd1 is for swap > sdd2 is for boot > sdd4 is for /boot/efi > > sdd1 and sdd4 are fat32 > sdd3 is ext4 One problem I see is that sdd1 should be Linux swap, not fat32. But I doubt that that is your problem. -- Does anybody read

Re: CR/LF

2022-12-11 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 10 Dec 2022 23:16:12 -0500 Jim Popovitch wrote: > > There is still no CR. At all. Ever. This is not Microsoft > > Windows. > > Why would you assume Windows is involved? This is about running cmds > from Debian 11 to Debian 11. Because you originally asked about a CR/LF (carriage

Re: CR/LF

2022-12-10 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 10 Dec 2022 21:01:29 -0500 Jim Popovitch wrote: > Why does this produce a CR/LF > > ~$ TEST=$(ssh -o LogLevel=QUIET -t user@server "echo -n ''"); echo > ${TEST} > > whilst this same command does not: > > ~$ ssh -o LogLevel=QUIET -t user@server "echo -n ''" Because the second echo

Re: Synaptic on Debian 11.3 fails to install "kate"

2022-12-07 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 7 Dec 2022 13:16:58 -0600 David Wright wrote: > > A a general rule, confirm. It can't hurt (other than the time it > > takes) and might help a lot. You should use the same tool to update > > that you use to upgrade. > > Does synaptic not use the same lists as APT? I thought it was >

Re: Synaptic on Debian 11.3 fails to install "kate"

2022-12-07 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 8 Dec 2022 02:08:09 +0800 Bret Busby wrote: > … it is my understanding, in > thinking about it further, after I had suggested running apt install, > that the correct, or, recommended procedure, before installing any > additional packages, is to always, first, run apt update, to ensure

Re: xfce4 tooltips

2022-12-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 05 Dec 2022 12:44:33 + fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > i upgraded to bullseye > xfce4 is 4.16 > how do i get rid of tooltips > i can get rid of some but not all You didn't say how you got rid of some of the tooltips, so I'll guess here. This is after a bit of searching on the

Re: Questions about installing Debian on a laptop

2022-12-04 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 4 Dec 2022 14:52:22 +0100 Gabor Urban wrote: > What are the most important issues selecting a laptop I should be > mindful about? The first thing I would do, even before buying the thing, is consult Hardware for Linux to see what experience others have reported.

Re: Debian failed

2022-12-04 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 04 Dec 2022 15:52:31 +0100 hw wrote: > so I wanted to have Debian on a Precision R7910 with AMD graphics card > and it failed because it refuses to use the amdgpu module. I tried > forcing to load it when booting and it still didn't work. > > So I'm stuck with Fedora. What's wrong

Re: Detailed Leafpad manual [not just manpage]?

2022-12-04 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 4 Dec 2022 12:56:57 + "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > Might I suggest gedit or similar. Or even emacs or vim :) In Emacs' case (and probably in vim's) there may well be a mode that will do what the OP wants. Text mode will maintain auto-indentation for you. Also, look into outline mode

Re: Debian wiki update: ask for review

2022-12-01 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 1 Dec 2022 22:03:16 +0100 Yvan Masson wrote: > I made a few modifications based on your comments: > https://wiki.debian.org/GRUB2?action=diff=28=27 > > Hope it is clear now. Much better, thank you. -- Does anybody read signatures any more? https://charlescurley.com

Re: Debian wiki update: ask for review

2022-12-01 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 1 Dec 2022 16:07:53 +0100 Yvan Masson wrote: > I have just updated the GRUB2 page on the wiki to briefly explain how > GRUB2 should be configured in case of software RAID [1]. As I am not > an expert nor an English native, could someone have a look to check > this? Being a native

Re: Startup Ethernet instability

2022-11-28 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 28 Nov 2022 19:31:06 -0800 Matthew McAllister wrote: > 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8125 > 2.5GbE Controller (rev 05) First question: do you have the firmware-realtek package installed? -- Does anybody read signatures any more?

Re: Dell Precision 3570 - Debian instead of Ubuntu

2022-11-28 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 28 Nov 2022 10:04:33 +0100 "B.M." wrote: > I'm going to buy a Dell Precision 3570 laptop in the next couple of > weeks. Since it's a Build Your Own device, I can order it with Ubuntu > 20.04 LTS pre- installed instead of paying for an never used Win 11 > :-) > > Since all our other

Re: Starting Tomcat 10 at bootup

2022-11-26 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 26 Nov 2022 06:40:24 -0500 Amn Ojee Uw wrote: > If from the command prompt or a shell script, I run this code sudo > '/opt/tomcat/bin/catalina.sh run', Tomcat runs nicely, but it grabs > the Terminal, if I close the Terminal, Tomcat just stops working. > Obviously not a perfect

Re: Installing Tomcat 10

2022-11-23 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 23 Nov 2022 21:33:13 -0500 Amn wrote: > /*/HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found/**/ > /**/2022-11-23 21:24:54 ERROR 404: Not Found./* Because the file isn't there. Maybe there's a newer version since those instructions were written? Is there any reason not to use the

Re: Debian 11 - Remove sid and go back to stable

2022-11-23 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 23 Nov 2022 15:11:10 -0500 Amn wrote: > Hi folks, I thought it would be a good idea to install the sid > packages, but a lot of things are not working properly, so I would > like to go back to stable source packages only. How can I do that? Back up and re-install Bullseye. Downgrading

Re: How to check for scheduled shutdown

2022-11-22 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 22 Nov 2022 21:11:55 +0100 Sven Joachim wrote: > > kjonca@alfa:~%sudo shutdown --show > > No scheduled shutdown. > > > > Am I overlooked something? > > Perhaps that the --show option was only added in systemd 250 and is > not available in Bullseye and older Debian releases. I

Re: How to check for scheduled shutdown

2022-11-22 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 22 Nov 2022 09:09:56 -0600 David Wright wrote: > > > I haven't tried editing, say, the noisiness, to see whether I can > > > stop the flow of Wall messages on all my xterms. > > > > *My* shutdown has a command line option (-Q) for the latter. Dunno > > about yours ;-) > > #

Re: Problems with gv after upgrade

2022-11-21 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 21 Nov 2022 16:40:53 + Rodolfo Medina wrote: > My PS file is regularly read by evince, simply with > > $ evince file.ps > > Instead, with gv, as I always did before: > > $ gv file.ps > > the application starts but the file won't open Not enough. Show us *exactly* what you

Re: general squawk about unattended-upgrade

2022-11-16 Thread Charles Curley
On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 13:03:20 -0500 gene heskett wrote: > Please relay to the devs that this utility is dangerous, and needs the > ability to scan the system for stuff that cannot be interrupted, and > exit quietly if it finds one of the un-interruptables running. Did you have

Re: /boot size and kernel updates

2022-11-13 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 13 Nov 2022 14:45:15 + "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > Ideally, you shouldn't need more than the current kernel and, > perhaps, the previous version. One nitpick: I believe that installing a new kernel means installing the new kernel, and only if that is successful removing an old one.

Re: RFC: What would be the "correct debian way" to clean up unwanted languages from an installation?

2022-11-13 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 13 Nov 2022 16:32:51 +0100 DdB wrote: > every backup contains loads of unnecessary language files, and i saw > them scroll by during rsync. So one day, i wanted to get rid of those. You might take a look at the localepurge package. -- Does anybody read signatures any more?

Re: ping

2022-11-13 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 13 Nov 2022 06:13:38 -0800 pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > root@joule:/home/root# /bin/ping -c 3 192.168.0.12 > PING 192.168.0.12 (192.168.0.12) 56(84) bytes of data. > 64 bytes from 192.168.0.12: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.079 ms > 64 bytes from 192.168.0.12: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.114 ms >

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