Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 07:09:27PM +, Brian wrote: > On Sun 23 Jan 2022 at 13:53:01 -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > > On Sunday, January 23, 2022 1:26:56 PM EST Felix Miata wrote: > > > Greg Wooledge composed on 2022-01-23 08:42 (UTC-0500): > > > > On Sun,

Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing

On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 09:51:05AM +, Gareth Evans wrote: > I've just noticed that: > > $ who > > and > > $ users > > both return nothing, with or without sudo. > Can anyone replicate this or suggest what may have happened? I'm fairly sure > I've used who since upgrading from Buster. D

Re: I've been caught out

On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 05:01:21AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > gene@coyote:~/Debian-arm/linux$ patch -p1 ../patches/*.patch That's not how you do it. patch(1) can only accept one patch at a time, and it expects to see it on standard input. for p in ../patches/*.patch; do patch -p1 < "$p"; done

Re: DNS resolver issue

On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 07:05:27AM -0500, Henning Follmann wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 10:14:23AM +, Bhasker C V wrote: > > I am running example.local domain on my interface(192.168.2.1) (bind9) > > The domain is resolving fine. However I want to use 1.1.1.1 public DNS > > server for loo

Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing

On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 01:31:35AM +, Gareth Evans wrote: > /var/run$ sudo touch utmp > /var/run$ sudo chown root:utmp utmp > /var/run$ sudo chmod 664 utmp > /var/run$ ls -l utmp > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root utmp 0 Jan 25 00:08 utmp > /var/run$ who > /var/run$ > [logout, login] > /var/run$ ls -l /var/ru

Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing

On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 03:06:00AM +, Gareth Evans wrote: > On Tue 25 Jan 2022, at 03:02, Gareth Evans wrote: > > On Tue 25 Jan 2022, at 02:54, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> A google search led me to <https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/47749> > >> which says that

Re: I've been caught out

On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 09:12:52AM +0100, Urs Thuermann wrote: > Greg Wooledge writes: > > > On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 05:01:21AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > > gene@coyote:~/Debian-arm/linux$ patch -p1 ../patches/*.patch > > > > That's not how you do it.

Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing

On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 01:06:42PM +, Gareth Evans wrote: > Just realised I gave contradicting info earlier - I said both that I upgraded > from Buster (which is literally true) and that > > "But for root on ZFS per > > https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Debian/Debian%

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

On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 03:29:17PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 09:18:55AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > it's surprising that "The x64 binary are also somewhat larger than the > > > i386 > > > binaries" > > > > There is no fundamental reason why a 64bit architectu

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 09:27:17PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > Here is the bottom of /etc/dhcpcd.conf: WHY do you HAVE a dhcpcd.conf file if you don't use DHCP on your network? Or... well, you're not using Debian. You're using Raspbian, and Raspbian installs dhcpcd by default as I understand it

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 10:42:23AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > And the first word in "CONTENTS/usr/share/man/man5/dhcpcd.conf.5.gz" > should tell you that I don't have that file either, but I downloaded > dhcpcd5_7.1.0-2+b1_amd64.deb just as I did last time you raised this. > And if I type "man" i

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 07:26:49PM +, Brian wrote: > On Wed 26 Jan 2022 at 10:42:38 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > I've worked this way for 15 years and, unlike Gene, I'm not having > > to fight any battles over it. I'm sure mDNS is perfect for people > > with different demands from mine. > >

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 02:39:14AM +0300, IL Ka wrote: > By the way: some people use bare window managers instead of full-fledged > desktop environments. "Bare" is such a mean word. I call them traditional window managers. > > Some window managers (like TWM) can run on 8MB of RAM:). The smallest

Re: Is there an alternative filesystem hierarchy that could be adapted to Debian.

On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 02:56:16AM +0300, IL Ka wrote: > They also had small CRTs and slow dot matrix printers. > > Every single letter matters: open() has "O_CREAT" flag, not o_create. But: Ken Thompson was once asked what he would do differently if he were redesigning the UNIX system. His

Re: Is there an alternative filesystem hierarchy that could be adapted to Debian.

On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 10:24:25AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > And oh, please: drop those whitespaces off file and directory names. This > makes teaching shell scripting to newbies a really #@%*&$¡~ chore. Unless > you want newbies to not learn scripting [1]. > > Cheers > > [1] The generic "

Re: Is there an alternative filesystem hierarchy that could be adapted to Debian.

On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 12:35:44PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > Thanks. So really the complaint is just that dpkg -S operates on the > paths of files as packaged, whereas type -p yields canonical paths, > I assume. It'll search through the directories in PATH, in order, and use the first one that

Re: Where can I change spamd logging?

On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 02:52:05PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > adding this "-s ~/gene/log/mail.log" inside the option "double quote > pair"> and issueing an /etc/init.d/spamassassin restart, didn't bother > it a bit. > > The way I read that manpage, it should have worked. First: do you actuall

Re: Google Translate stopped working

On Sun, Mar 14, 2021 at 04:13:59PM +, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote: > My home desktop (let's call it PC1) has been running Wheezy and firefox-esr > 68.9.0esr-1~deb9u1. I seriously doubt a deb9u* package (stretch-security) is going to work on a wheezy system. > apt-get remove firefox-esr >

Re: efibootmgr headach?

On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 12:01:51PM +0100, deloptes wrote: > I don't know about /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT > IMO it shouldn't be there > > # ls /boot/efi/EFI/ > debian > > The directory "debian" is the entry, you see when the PC boots. "debian" is obviously put there by the Debian installer. There may b

Re: WiFi Hardware not detected, during Debian NetInst Install

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 08:26:47PM -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote: > I think my best, followup is to state "how to recreate the problem". > > The Bug Report looks like a "temporary email list". Is that true? Can I > "submit updates"? Yes, you can reply to the bug to add information to the bug repor

Re: Debian Stable Updates Announcement SUA 197-1

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 10:34:12PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 22 Mar 2021 at 17:26:14 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > > On 3/22/21 5:03 PM, Keith Wyatt wrote: > > > > > As o[f] > > > now it will include the following bug fixes. They can be found in "buster- > > > proposed-updates", wh

Re: Slow connections - DNS problems?

On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 12:20:23PM +, pioruns2019 wrote: > You can use DNS Benchmark by Steve Gibson, written like 20 years ago in > assembly language. This will test your various DNS configurations and > diagnose them: > > https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm > > Use Wine to run it. > > wi

Re: Subject: Re: Slow connections - DNS problems?

On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 02:44:37PM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > I tried removing the 192.168.0.1 line along with the "search telus" > line. I didn't notice any difference, but could this be because > this stuff is buffered somewhere? Perhaps I need to kick something > to make sure the new file i

Re: kernel sources for Debian 10.6 security update kernel 4.19.0-12-amd64

On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 07:52:20AM +, Eerapu, Nipuna Sri wrote: > Hi Team, > > I am trying to download kernel sources for kernel 4.19.0-12-amd64 and getting > below error. > > As part of my project, I want to compile drivers for this kernel version. > > root@linux-ndeb106:/usr/src# uname -r

Re: how to record sound to mp3

On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 06:29:43PM +, Long Wind wrote: > i ask other question: which command can merge two mp3 file?this command is > mp3 file version of DOS command "copy file1+file2 file3" The Unix version of that is: cat file1 file2 > file3 However, this is NOT something you can do with

Re: how to record sound to mp3

On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 07:51:42PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote: > On the other hand, Ogg files are NOT concatenable, even those that > contain only Vorbis audio. Some player will ignore the discontinuity at > the concatenation points, but not all. I was told *by the developer* (Monty, in #vorbis I

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

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 10:59:20AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > To be completely clear, Debian did change sh from Bourne-ish sh > to dash in Squeeze -- 2006 or so. Squeeze was released in 2011. Debian originally used bash as /bin/sh (as most Linux distributions did, back in those days). At some po

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

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 10:46:23AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 26 Mar 2021 at 19:11:24 (+0530), Susmita/Rajib wrote: > > It is clearly noticed that wide applications of tricks with wildcards, > > regex and redirections aren't simply available in the man pages. Nor should they be. The man

Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 02:07:26PM -0500, Doug Windle wrote: > I have new in box Dell R440 that I am trying to install Debian 10.7.0. The > install process of Debian goes fine until after reboot. After the OS > install and upon reboot/startup of OS with GNOME I get a tearing/scrambling > of the l

Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 02:36:08PM -0500, Doug Windle wrote: > The Dell R440 does not have GPU and it is using only the onboard graphics to > drive the display. That's good. It's probably an Intel chipset. Now, use lspci -nn and dmesg | grep -i firmware to see what you need to do.

Re: Dell R440 with Debian 10.7.0 Display Issues

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 08:47:38PM +, Brian wrote: > On Fri 26 Mar 2021 at 15:22:01 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Issues with video chipset drivers/firmware are extremely common, especially > > if one installed with the "official" images, rather than the "unof

Re: Minisforum X35G hangs on first boot.

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 04:14:47PM -0500, R. Ramesh wrote: > Looking at /var/log/lightdm/x-0.log, we see >(EE) >Fatal server error: >(EE) Cannot run in framebuffer mode. Please specify busIDs for all >framebuffer devices >(EE) >(EE) >Please consult the The X.Org Foundati

Re: My X server not working. I think it cannot find /dev/dri/card0 [Solved]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 06:51:21PM -0500, R. Ramesh wrote: > >    00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 8a56 > >    (rev 07) Google gave me . It says: This requires a later kernel t

Re: A simple screensaver that works - any improvement possible?

On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 11:29:55AM +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > I created a folder and in it the ssvr script and another, activate.sh. > Within the latter, the line: ./ssvr.sh ssvr.sh > > Program running, but screensaving not initiated after inactivity. > Codeline: > [code] xautolock -time 1 -loc

Re: DNS problems on Raspberry Pi 400 (Debian 10.9)

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 12:14:59AM +0200, Moritz Kempe wrote: > -- Firefox > Hmm. We’re having trouble finding that site. > > We can’t connect to the server at github.com. > -- Chromium > This site can’t be reachedCheck if there is a typo in github.com. > DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN > moke@rpi4-

Re: DNS problems on Raspberry Pi 400 (Debian 10.9)

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 01:42:36PM +0200, Moritz Kempe wrote: > > grep ^hosts: /etc/nsswitch.conf > -- > hosts:  files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mymachines I don't know what "mymachines" is. I don't see it in the man page. What happens if you get rid of the "mymachines" field?

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 01:26:32PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Dan Norton composed on 2021-03-31 12:46 (UTC-0400): > > > # cd /etc > > # cat resolv.conf > > domain attlocal.net > > search attlocal.net > > nameserver 192.168.1.254 > > [something removes additional nameserver lines that I add]

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 01:43:23PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > Is there technical documentation that explains how name resolution works in > Linux 4.19.0-16-amd64 and/or Debian 10? (e.g. design and implementation, > userland tools, etc..) It's not the kernel. At all. The standard name res

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 11:50:56AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > domain attlocal.net > > search attlocal.net > > I don't recall your answering Alexander's question: what benefit are > you getting from those two lines? Do you have a number of machines > at home that are being placed in that domain

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 04:15:07PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > Sort of building on this question, and just trying to educate myself, if the > DSL modem had a caching nameserver: > >1) would your computer need to specify the IP of that modem (presumably) > 192.168.1.254 to take advanta

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 05:36:51PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, April 02, 2021 04:35:58 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > >2) would the caching feature be bypassed if your computer used the > > >public > > > > > > DNS name servers (e.g.,

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 10:48:09PM -0400, Dan Norton wrote: > # cat /etc/resolv.conf > domain attlocal.net > search attlocal.net > nameserver 1.1.1.1 > nameserver 1.0.0.1 > ...and this works very well. I like it because it cuts out more > of google's monitoring of my browsing (I use Brave browser a

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

On Sat, Apr 03, 2021 at 12:05:54PM -0400, Dan Norton wrote: > On 3/31/21 1:33 PM, David Christensen wrote: > > "$ host -v -t A www.debian.org 192.168.1.254 > > > Dan -- did you run the above test? This may help isolate if the problem > is Debian 10 or your AT&T gateway." > > $ host -v -t A www.

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

On Sat, Apr 03, 2021 at 12:59:04PM -0400, Dan Norton wrote: > Isn't there a tidier way besides making resolv.conf immutable, > resulting in lots of /etc/resolv.conf.dhclient-new.* files? Maybe > stopping dhclient from overwriting resolv.conf[1]? > > - Dan > > [1]https://wiki.debian.org/resolv.co

Re: device names - so much escaping

On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 09:29:59PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote: > /dev/vg-backup0/d-rh-rm1-home > /dev/mapper/vg--backup0-d--rh--rm1--home > Apr 5 07:06:25 backup systemd[1]: > dev-mapper-vg\x2d\x2dbackup0\x2dd\x2d\x2drh\x2d\x2drm1\x2d\x2dsrv.device: > Job > dev-mapper-vg\x2d\x2dbackup0\x2dd\x2

Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster

On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 08:16:43AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > I just installed buster on a Dell 7010 and I have added two stanza's to > my .profile, to find a logout and back in does not establish a new > $PATH. > Any idea why its not working? How do you log in? Probably with a GUI, yes? ht

Re: No space left when: update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-5-amd64

On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 09:20:46AM -0300, Marco Ippolito wrote: > # df -h /boot > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/nvme0n1p1 236M 233M 0 100% /boot > > What do you recommend I do? Purge one or more of your kernel images.

Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster

On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 03:16:41PM +, Lee wrote: > On 4/7/21, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I just installed buster on a Dell 7010 and I have added two stanza's to > > my .profile, to find a logout and back in does not establish a new > > $PATH. > > Probably because you've go

Re: No space left when: update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-5-amd64

On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 08:40:58PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > While I'm a big fan of aptitude's patterns it's also not installed by > default. For basic uses 'apt' is fine as well and supports globs: > > apt list --installed linux-image-4* > > apt purge linux-image-4.9.10-?-amd64 Re

Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster

On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 09:41:51PM +, Lee wrote: > Interesting.. "echo foo" in .bashrc does break scp, but not "echo foo >2" That redirects to a file named "2". > .. but that doesn't work for bash, so hhrmm.. > /dev/stderr seems to > work in all cases: You wanted >&2 .

Re: Boot better have mounted on root or /boot ?

On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 08:55:47AM +0800, Robbi Nespu wrote: > $ df -h /boot/ > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda1 110G 62G 43G 60% / > > What actually the best way for boot directory? put on same root directory > like I have right now or it better to have it o

Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster

On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 11:14:48AM +0100, Tixy wrote: > I believe ">/dev/stderr" is not Posix standard and knowing the correct > standard way of doing this could be beneficial. That's correct -- it's not portable. On systems where /dev/stderr actually exists (such as Debian GNU/Linux), according

Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster

On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 07:50:23AM +, Curt wrote: > What about addressing his primary point rather than what in my > benefit-of-the-doubt humor I construe as a typographical oversight? I don't remember what the "primary point" was. Was it the same as the Subject: header -- .profile not being

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

On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 10:05:23AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > I have not figured out the difference between apt(8) and apt-get(8). It > looks like the former uses the latter as a back-end (?). Not quite. They both use the same libraries to do the actual work, but one does not actually exe

Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster

On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 01:21:21PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > My start-up files, .bash_profile, .bashrc, and other files that > they source, contain permanent printf commands. When they finish > printing their output, the next thing that's going to happen is > that the shell will emit a prompt. S

Re: bug considering accent marks

On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 11:53:27PM +0200, laurent aerens wrote: > Package: unknown > > Version: debian 9 - 10 > > Severity: minor This looks like you're attempting to generate headers for a bug report, except that you're writing to debian-user rather than to the bug tracking system, and you've a

Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster

On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 09:11:47AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 10 Apr 2021 at 15:21:57 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > I'm not a fan of it, because I actually like to export PS1, rather > > than setting it in .bashrc every time. I may be in the minority there. >

Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster

On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 09:10:24AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > For stdout, the problem is more serious. Every time you press TAB > expecting remote filename completion, you receive the profile output > from the other end, double-escaped (so a forest of backslashes). ...? What the *hell* are you

Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster

On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 05:00:23PM +, Lee wrote: > > really?!! What do you have in PS1? > PS1='\h:\w\$ ' > IMO, the if test needs an else and the directory name shouldn't be > typed out multiple times -- it belongs in an e-var: > > dir="$HOME/AppImages" > if [ -d "$dir" ] ; then > PATH=

Re: .profile not being src'd at login on uptodate buster

On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 10:18:19AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > I'm not using PS1 to test whether stdout is a terminal, but whether > the file is running interactively. From man bash: > > "PS1 is set and $- includes i if bash is interactive, allowing a > shell script or a startup file to test

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

On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 12:19:47PM +, Curt wrote: > I was going to snidely inquire who in their right mind would create an > executable called 'command-not-found', but then: > > curty@einstein:~$ apt-cache show command-not-found > > ... > > Description-en: Suggest installation of packages i

Re: Firefox HTTPS-only mode breaks sites that return 404 for HTTPS connections

On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 11:16:59AM +0100, piorunz wrote: > TLS 2.0/3.0 only Nitpick: TLS 1.2 and 1.3.

Re: command to start sshfs at bootup?

On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 08:11:37PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > I just checked this machine and 4 others, all of whom are mounted to > their own named directory as subdirs of /sshnet, which work perfectly > without a mention of it in any machines /etc/fstab. Adding the new > machine as the last

Re: command to start sshfs at bootup?

> > The first probable cause that comes to mind for me is that the sshd or > > the SFTP subsystem of sshd on this "3dprint" host is not working > > properly. Check the logs on that host and look for anything that might > > tell you more. > > no mention of sshfs in the logs of the other machines th

Re: SOLVED:command to start sshfs at bootup?

On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 09:21:55AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > It boiled down to something, someplace, not liking a hostname starting > with a number, I recalled I had to rename another machine a couple > months ago because it didn't work either. > > But I changed its hostname to dddprint, base

Re: command to start sshfs at bootup?

On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 11:31:20PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 17 April 2021 21:47:20 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > getent hosts 3dprint > nothing is returned. For the record, I cannot reproduce this on bullseye. unicorn:~$ grep hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf hosts:

Re: command to start sshfs at bootup?

On Sun, Apr 18, 2021 at 12:41:05PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 18 April 2021 10:05:36 Greg Wooledge wrote: > > I'm not saying that *all* programs will handle this hostname > > correctly, but bullseye's version of getent(1) does. Assuming of > > cour

Re: Whether Man pages could visually be structured in an abstract form to be understood easier

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 01:18:32PM +0100, Joe wrote: > Man pages were written as pure text files, beginning in a period when > that was pretty much all the Web could do. You can read man pages on a > server, which will not usually have any graphic display ability beyond > curses/ncurses. Man pages

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

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 07:38:45PM +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > One question, as I am having cold feet, expecting heartbreak. > > Does nouveau boot into GUI before purging the driver with any of the three: You're confused. Let's go back to basics. When your system is powered on, the first thin

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

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 03:27:37PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > If Nouveau is going to work - it will "just work", I think, as Felix Miata > says. If it definitely doesn't work at all and just freezes, > then you'll need to effectively reinstall, do the text only install trick, > install t

Re: Strange emacs behavior after upgrade to bullseye

On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 12:39:13PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 12:00:05PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > For me the crucial message is > > > > basic-save-buffer-2: Unlocking file: Operation not permitted, > > /mnt/dor1rt/Local/ > > Managed/sb.blog > > Anyway, this i

Re: running cronjob output

On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 12:54:06PM +, brainf...@posteo.net wrote: > when i run a cronjob the output from the job is stored and mailed when the > job finishes. where is this output stored? can i read it while the job is > running? There might be a temp file or there might not. It's best not to

Re: Strange emacs behavior after upgrade to bullseye

On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 03:59:00PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > > > > basic-save-buffer-2: Unlocking file: Operation not permitted, > > > > > /mnt/dor1rt/Local/ Managed/sb.blog > Yes, correct, its mounted through virtualbox (vboxsf) and the host is a > window > system which uses NTFS (I think

Re: Strange emacs behavior after upgrade to bullseye

On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 11:08:57AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Because the error says it cannot use LOCKS. > > Because you can't do Unix file locking on a non-Unix file system. > > The error does NOT say "Permission denied". > > FWIW, the error comes from Emacs's own locking code which doesn'

Re: running cronjob output

On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 07:14:50PM +0200, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > > a b c d e /my/job 2>&1 | tee /var/tmp/my-job-output > > > Greg, I don't understand the usage of `tee` here as there is no associated > terminal session (cron is not interactive). tee(1) simply reads once and writes many times.

Re: running cronjob output

On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 07:46:58PM +0200, l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > Understood but why `tee` and not a simple redirection to a file (see below)? So they still get the email from cron.

Re: Zoom.

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 08:01:02AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Installed Zoom in Debian 10. > [...] > Ideas welcome. Instead of installing the Zoom package, try just using Zoom inside a web browser. I've used it inside Google Chrome without any problems. I can't vouch for how it will behave

Re: Zoom.

On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 02:21:56PM -0400, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 4/21/21, Richmond wrote: > > sudo apt install ~/Downloads/zoom_amd64.deb > > I just had to do this AGAIN yesterday. I download the dotDEB file then > "dpkg -i" it. It always fails due to missing dependencies. Somewhere > in th

Re: looks like I need an hid interface

On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 10:35:33AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 22 April 2021 09:52:57 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > The bullseye-RC1 iso files are out: Bullseye is frozen so there aren't > > many files moving at the moment - now would be quite a good time to > > try an installation - an

Re: bullseye fslint

On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 07:50:45AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > grep -i 'fs|filesystem'" finds rmlint, which looks like it might do the FYI that needs to be egrep, or grep -E, in order for the | character to work as you intend.

Re: bullseye fslint

On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 11:29:59AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-04-23 at 11:27, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 07:50:45AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > > > >> grep -i 'fs|filesystem'" finds rmlint, which looks like it might

Re: No networking after resume from suspend

On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 09:59:09PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > OTOH my startup files set Mywiredifname for scripts to use, where: > > Mywiredifname=$(ip -o link show | sed -e '/^[0-9]\+: [^e]/d;s/[0-9]\+: > \([^:]\+\): .*/\1/;q') > > $ echo $Mywiredifname > enp3s0 unicorn:~$ ip -o link show |

Re: bash completion and spaces

On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 12:04:45PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > what accounts for the three missing characters (namely SPACE, TAB, > > and NEWLINE)? > > They get eaten by the shell parser if you do not use quotation marks: > > $ echo $COMP_WORDBREAKS | wc -c > 11 > $ echo "$COMP_WORDBRE

Re: bash completion and spaces

On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 01:49:42PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > $ string=' hithere ' > > [...] > > $ printf '<%s> ' $string ; echo > > > > As C programmer i am now tempted to scream. > (This command should really not have the same name as printf(3).) There are a few changes between

Re: how to use fetchmail with MS Office 365 / davmail?

On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 01:27:07PM +0100, Eric S Fraga wrote: > And to think that email was once a simple yet effective tool. It's been > hijacked. Spammers took control of it years ago. It's been dying off, slowly. While we're swapping anecdotes, I'll give what limited insight I have into my o

Re: Installing Debian 10.9 Buster on iMac G5 (powerpc)

On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 04:38:21PM +0200, didier gaumet wrote: > From what I understand (If I understand correctly), your processor is a > powerpc64 Big Indian, not a powerpc64 Little Indian [...] That's "Endian", not "Indian". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness

Re: When to reboot after dist-upgrade?

On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 09:16:40AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Me, I basically only reboot in 2 cases: > - the power went out > > > Stefan There are two difficult problems in computing: naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors.

Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d

On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 09:17:38AM -0700, John Conover wrote: > Searching for exim in /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/* > and /lib/systemd/system/* yields nothing. > > How do I stop exim from launching across boots? Presumably there is a systemd service, which is enabled. You will wa

Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d

On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 10:03:43AM -0700, John Conover wrote: > That was the question, Greg: > > "Searching for exim in > /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/* and > /lib/systemd/system/* yields nothing." > > so, it wasn't there. Which service?, (or how to find out?) So... I

Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d

On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 10:27:17AM -0700, John Conover wrote: > > Thanks, Greg. "update-rc.d -f exim remove" is the command for > /etc/init.d. But its broken. You forgot to reply to the list. Nobody with any sense uses update-rc.d for system admin work. It's there for Debian packages to use, a

Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d

On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 01:27:56PM -0700, John Conover wrote: > As per the man page for System V init, to disable launching of exim: > > update-rc.d -f exim remove What man page is this allegedly from, exactly?

Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d

On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 01:46:29PM -0700, John Conover wrote: > > Try: > > man update-rc.d > man 8 update-rc.d > Please stop top-posting, and please reply to the list. > Greg Wooledge writes: > > On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 01:27:56PM -0700, John Conover wrote

Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d

On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 10:14:45PM +0100, Joe wrote: > ...and buster. It's exim4.service as stated by: > systemctl --type=service | grep exim According to packages.debian.org[1] there is no such file in any package. Of course, that's not proof of the nonexistence of such a file, because it might

Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ?

On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 03:11:53AM +0200, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Kushal Kumaran wrote: > > The manpage at > > https://manpages.debian.org/buster/iwatch/iwatch.1.en.html > > shows log output similar to what you see. Check your iwatch > > configuration and see what it is doing. > > Thanks, but I've n

Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ?

On Tue, May 04, 2021 at 09:32:49PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > It looks reasonable for determining whether your system files are > being interfered with. But you just showed one example from the > log, which was for the /etc/.pwd.lock lockfile. I assume you don't > have 2757 of these but, rather,

Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d

On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 12:07:29PM +0100, Joe wrote: > On Tue, 4 May 2021 18:44:12 -0400 > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > Could you kindly tell us what "systemctl status exim4.service" says > > on this buster machine of yours? Perhaps your command is turni

Re: Xorg fatal server error segmentation fault i686

On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 08:20:21AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > As your non-root user, write a .xinitrc: > > #!/bin/sh > xterm & > exec mate-session > > and then run > > startx > > Tell us what happens then. If it crashes, let us see your > /etc/apt/sources.list and anything in sources.list.d/ I

Re: exim update not responding to update-rc.d

On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 05:27:13PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 05 mai 21, 07:46:03, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > You're using a package that has not yet been converted to systemd. It's > > still using an old init.d script, and systemd is perform

Re: Xorg fatal server error segmentation fault i686

On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 03:31:25PM +0100, Richmond wrote: > > 1) Identify your video hardware. Use "lspci -nn" for this. > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation NV11 > [GeForce2 MX/MX 400] [10de:0110] (rev b2) OK. This is... a rather old device.

Re: repeated system mail, /etc/.pwd.lock ?

On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 10:36:53AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > OTOH perhaps monkeysphere has some reason to lock /etc/passwd et al > during operation. Running strings on its binaries might throw up > some 'pwd.lock' matches. Or one could inotifywatch the program to > see how often it is run (unles

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