Re: how comes bug reports are processed after 10 minutes?

On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 08:49:12AM +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > apparently it takes about 10 minutes between filing a bug report (no > attachments) and sending the confirmation EMail. Thats quite a long > time. Imagine you have to forward Debian's bug number to your own > in-house BTS. Yours only

Re: ntp & ntpsec headless installation issues in Debian 11 (bullseye)

On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 11:21:30AM +0300, Reco wrote: > It makes little sense to have two or more NTP clients installed on the > same host. Thus installing one should uninstall others. In jessie, stretch and buster, systemd-timesyncd was not a separate package. The systemd-timesyncd program was p

Re: swap maxed out when plenty of RAM available

On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 10:35:40AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Tue, 22 Mar 2022 14:55:34 + > Adam Weremczuk wrote: > > > It has 512 MB of memory and 512 MB of swap assigned and typically > > needs 50-100 MB to operate. > > The rule of thumb to which I am accustomed is to have a swap sp

Re: swap maxed out when plenty of RAM available

On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 01:00:42PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > That's the usual issue. The /tmp filesystem is usually configured to live > in RAM, That's not the default in Debian. Of course, it might have been set up that way on the OP's system. > at some point an application needed to us

Re: swap maxed out when plenty of RAM available

On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 04:00:23PM -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote: > On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 2:17 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 01:00:42PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > That's the usual issue. The /tmp filesystem is usually confi

Re: its been done again. No network

On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 09:02:27PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > Never mind, I finally remembered that /etc/dhpdcp.conf had the last word ... because you're not. using. Debian. Unless you customized the installer. Also, you misspelled the filename. The program in question is named "dhcpcd", whi

Re: systemd.resolved problems

On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 06:51:55AM +0800, Jeremy Ardley wrote: > Is there any compelling reason to use systemd.resolved over ordinary DNS ? > If not, why was it inflicted on debian? It's disabled by default. It's there if you wish to try it, but out of the box, it does absolutely nothing except s

Re: enabling systemd-networkd (was: its been done again...)

On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 08:48:21PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On Thursday, 24 March 2022 20:02:57 EDT Felix Miata wrote: > > Short form/highlights: > > 1-create config for NIC in /etc/systemd/network/ > > 2-systemctl disable networking.service > > 3-systemctl enable systemd-networkd.service > > o

Re: "E: Package 'gs' has no installation candidate" ...

On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 02:22:43PM +, Albretch Mueller wrote: > basically I need to extract, merge, ... pages from pdf files and gs > was the way to go? > Do you know what is going on? The program's name is gs, but the package's name is ghostscript.

Re: swap maxed out when plenty of RAM available

On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 04:51:51PM +, Adam Weremczuk wrote: > [Tue Mar 22 00:24:10 2022] Tasks state (memory values in pages): > [Tue Mar 22 00:24:10 2022] [  pid  ]   uid  tgid total_vm  rss > pgtables_bytes swapents oom_score_adj name > [Tue Mar 22 00:24:10 2022] [   2211] 0  2211   

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

On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 11:43:36PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > In passing, I'm mystified by your quoting mechanism thinking > it appropriate to display my time header in Chinese time: > $ TZ='Asia/Shanghai' date --date='Thu, 24 Mar 2022 21:09:41 -0500' > Fri Mar 25 10:09:41 CST 2022 > $ > > On F

Re: Why is debian Live (11.2.0) advancing the time on my windows laptop +5 hours? ...

On Sun, Mar 27, 2022 at 06:29:35PM +, Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 3/27/22, David Wright wrote: > > It looks as if you're dual-booting. > > No, I am not. Well, you are. Just not in the normal way. You've got one OS permanently installed on the disk, and one on a removable device. That's

Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured?

On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 07:41:53PM +0100, piorunz wrote: > And I wanted to highlight that this is not some trivial problem, at the > moment any rogue non-privileged process running on user account, or > simple coding error can destroy entire Linux session, be is a important > server with many servi

Re: Out of memory killer misconfigured?

On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 09:03:14PM +0100, piorunz wrote: > On 29/03/2022 20:16, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Resource limits are a thing. man setrlimit (you may have to install > > manpages-dev first). > > How do I use it? I've read manual but that would need to written

Re: Predictable Network Interface Names

On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 05:35:12PM +0200, basti wrote: > as I can read here [1] network names should be stable. > (Stable interface names even when hardware is added or removed) > [1] > https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/ Sorry, but you've been lie

Re: Predictable Network Interface Names

On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 07:18:07PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Wed 30 Mar 2022 at 13:32:53 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Yes. You've now seen direct evidence of the lie. I guess I won't need > > to post links to the wiki articles that say the same thing you've alre

Re: Predictable Network Interface Names

On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 04:00:42PM -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > Does anyone here know how the BSD-derived "free" unices handle this > situation? I haven't used OpenBSD in several years, but the last time I used it, it went something like this: The OpenBSD kernel has drivers for lots of diffe

Re: Predictable Network Interface Names

On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 05:55:11PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > For most consumer sytems the interface name matters not one bit, because > it's auto-discovered on install, will never change, and there's little > likelihood that another interface will be added. It's like you haven't even read this

Re: Upgrade from Buster to Bullsye: what to do about source.list for buster-backports

On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 06:53:26PM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > I've been following the update guide and only have one apt source.list left > to handle: buster-backports: > > Do I change it to bullseye-backports or just comment the line out? Comment it out, and only add bullseye-backports (later)

Re: startx xauth fails after upgrade to Bullseye 11.3

On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 10:27:25PM -0700, Larry Doolittle wrote: > I seem to have rediscovered Debian bug 889720 > xauth crashes when directory name matches host name > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=889720 > (Feb 2018) > > So, nothing to do with the Bullseye upgrade. > I must h

Re: exit bash during installation

On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 09:38:45AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > Early in an installation I wanted to find the machine's local IP > address in order to configure the network manually terminal (Alt-F2). > Finding that commands to get the local addresss were not available, I > went to exit bash. Al

Re: Where do you get Virtualbox

On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 06:57:04PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Alas, you cannot always choose exactly what you use a must comprimise a > little. For virtualbox one of my interrogations is that the package in sid > is very good, is stable, but it never goes to testing. There ust be a > reason, but I

Re: fluxbox partial installation

On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 02:52:59PM +0200, Nathanael Schweers wrote: > Haines Brown writes: > > Fluxbox gets installed, but no ~/.fluxbox directory shows up. Did you run it? > > Another question: can the ~/.fluxbox directory hierarchy simply be > > copied over from a working system? > That’s how

Re: fluxbox partial installation

On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 02:02:14PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > 10.7.5 User configuration files (“dotfiles”) > > The files in /etc/skel will automatically be copied into new user > accounts by adduser. No other program should reference the files in > /etc/skel. > > Therefore, if a program needs a

Re: fluxbox partial installation

On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 08:00:12PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > /etc/skel would be a potential cause for users to discover a file > that they themselves hadn't generated in some way, but I see that > its three entries haven't been changed in donkey's years. unicorn:~$ ls -a /etc/skel ./ ../ .bas

Re: fluxbox: appliaction lacks frame

On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 02:55:38PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > Usually when I start an application under fluxbox it has a frame, At > top is the application name and buttons to hide or maximize and there > is a left scrollbar. > > I installed Chromium and it lacks the top frame and left scrol

Re: password

On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 07:56:56PM -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: > I understand that debian 11 does not establish a root password during > installation, regardless of what the installer says. This is not correct. > To get a root > password, I need to add > rw init=/bin/bash > to the grub start up s

Re: networking.service fails

On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 02:38:39AM +0200, Dmitry Katsubo wrote: > I've exercised several directions to solve the issue, however I've failed. > Would be great if somebody can share his idea. After upgrading from Debian > buster to bullseye I still have the same issue: Upgrading from one release t

Re: password

On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 10:19:52PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > I've never installed any version of Debian without a root password > over a period of 25 years, ie since buzz. I type it here: We're still waiting for the plot twist in which it's revealed that they're not actually installing Debian.

Re: networking.service fails

On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 10:48:31PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 04 Apr 2022 at 02:38:39 (+0200), Dmitry Katsubo wrote: > > On 2021-02-17 14:21, Henning Follmann wrote: > > > > > Are you using eth0, eth1? > > > Or are you using predictable network names? > > > https://wiki.debian.org/Network

Re: toshiba video problem

On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 12:17:14PM -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: > Yes, thanks, Dan. The issue now is a way to make the xrandr > adjustments permanent. The entry to .xprofile did not work. Also not > in .profile. To the best of my knowledge, Debian does not use ~/.xprofile when starting a standar

Re: toshiba video problem

On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 06:39:45PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 05 Apr 2022 at 12:51:03 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 12:17:14PM -0400, Noah Sombrero wrote: > > > Yes, thanks, Dan. The issue now is a way to make the xrandr > > > adjust

CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

If you don't want to read the background information, the question is: How is one *supposed* to figure out which autodetected printer is the correct one, apart from trial and error? == Today I had to print something at work

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 06:03:47PM +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Fri, 2022-04-08 at 17:59 +0100, Tixy wrote: > > On Fri, 2022-04-08 at 12:10 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > Unfortunately, I was not able to find ANY way to determine the IP > > > addresses of the auto

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 08:08:22PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 12:10:37 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > How is one *supposed* to figure out which autodetected printer is the > > correct one, apart from trial and error? > Now contact you highly paid sys admins to

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 08:28:31PM +0200, didier gaumet wrote: > CLI: > > # avahi-browse -r _print-caps._tcp > (from the avahi-utils package) I tried this with and without the -r (which according to the man page asks to "resolve services", but it doesn't say what kind of resolution it's doing).

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 08:24:00PM +0100, Brian wrote: > avahi-browse -rt _ipp._tcp > > is better. That one actually works. It completes in under 1 second, and it includes IP addresses in its output. Out of curiosity, I tried omitting the -r option, to try to figure out what "resolve" means i

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 08:52:26PM +0100, Brian wrote: > You didn't like my bus analogy, did you? I don't think it's a very good analogy for this situation. > What makes you think that knowing an IP address tells you where > any machine of any description is located? Because the device is (was)

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 12:05:01AM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Fri 08 Apr 2022 at 21:07:18 +0100, Tixy wrote: > > I wasn't expecting a different IP address but, given Greg's experience, > > I think we have a differnet understanding of what The OP's experience > was. I knew the printer's IP address b

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 12:56:12PM +0100, Brian wrote: > It woould have been far, far more useful to have had the queue name on > the card. Perhaps it can be added? Printing then becomes a two minute, > no-fuss job: > > lp -d DESTINATION FILE I'm not on site now, so I can't recall all of the in

Re: updatedb.mlocate

On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 06:18:31PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > mlocate is a transitional package in Debian. It installs plocate. Which > means Roy is likely running plocate anyway. Therefore mlocate can be > removed. This is not the case in Debian 11 (stable). It appears to be true in testing

Re: updatedb.mlocate

On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 03:40:41PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On Saturday, 9 April 2022 12:04:18 EDT Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > So around midnight I am seeing a burst of activity, which sometimes > > interferes with whatever else I happen to be doing at the time. > > Looking at the process

Re: updatedb.mlocate

On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 04:59:04PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On Saturday, 9 April 2022 16:35:26 EDT Greg Wooledge wrote: > > grep daily /etc/crontab > > Matches mine too Greg, so I expect thats default, but why is Roy's going > off at about midnight? We'd have

Re: updatedb.mlocate

On Sat, Apr 09, 2022 at 09:26:58PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > Two of my machines have their database files dated at midnight or one > minute after. > > Possibly because updatedb is run by a systemd timer, not cron. ?? unicorn:~$ ls -l /var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db -rw-r- 1 root mlocate 289

Re: updatedb.mlocate

On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 11:33:53AM +0200, Linux-Fan wrote: > Greg Wooledge writes: > > unicorn:~$ less /lib/systemd/system/mlocate.timer > > [Unit] > > Description=Updates mlocate database every day > > > > [Timer] > > OnCalendar=daily > > Accuracy

Re: updatedb.mlocate

On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 06:03:13AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > Thats fine, as long as the systemd stuff is disabled by finding an entry > in the presently logged in users ~/.config, but I do not consider that as > a user item. thats (updatedb) sysadmin stuff, and much of this hoohah > could be

Re: updatedb.mlocate

On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 03:49:02PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > Systemd already supports this. > > * AccuracySec=   Specify the accuracy the timer shall elapse with. [...] > Within this time window, the expiry time shall be placed at a host-specific, > randomized, but stable position. > > * Rando

Re: updatedb.mlocate

On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 09:34:42AM +1000, David wrote: > On Mon, 11 Apr 2022 at 09:24, David Wright wrote: > > > systemctl disable mlocate.service before you fiddle with its > > configuration, then enable it afterwards. > > Hi, I think you need "stop" and "start" there, not "disable" and > and

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 03:40:12PM +0100, Brian wrote: > A third way forward: > > "implicitclass://Canon_LBP351dn_f9_7a_4a_/" is the URI for this printer. > Canon_LBP351dn_f9_7a_4a_ is the printer's Service Name. > > avahi-resolve -n Canon_LBP351dn_f9_7a_4a_.local > > should give the IP addre

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 05:47:07PM +0100, Brian wrote: > What does > >avahi-browse -rt _ipp._tcp | grep -B3 port > > give for this device? = eno1 IPv4 Canon LBP351dn (f9:7a:4a) Internet Printer local hostname = [dhcp-10-76-172-100.local] address = [10.76.172.

Re: CUPS - how to match autodetected printers to physical ones

On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 06:47:59PM +0100, Brian wrote: > BTW. I am interested in how using /usr/lib/cups/backend/snmp went. > Its drawback is that not all printers provide an snmp service. wooledg:~$ /usr/lib/cups/backend/snmp network socket://10.76.172.120 "HP LaserJet 4250" "hp LaserJet 4250" "

Re: disable IPv6 debian

On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 10:34:25AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > user@debian:~$ cat ipv6 > #!/bin/bash > if [ $1 == "on" ] > then >     ip -6 route add default via dev > elif [ $1 == "off" ] > then >     ip -6 route delete default > fi Quotes are in the wrong place. The [ builtin com

Re: disable IPv6 debian

On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 11:21:46AM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > Another improvement to the script would be to have the script toggle the > default route on or off, depending on the existence or not of the default > route, for the case when there is no argument to the script. That requires some

Re: disable IPv6 debian

On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 08:06:23AM +0800, wilson wrote: > > > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > if [ "$1" == on ] > > this sounds strange. why a string doesn't need "" around in shell script? You only need quotes to force a literal interpretation of

Re: disable IPv6 debian

On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 08:20:40AM +0800, wilson wrote: > Can you help check if my this script has any issue? > #!/bin/bash > > PORT=$1 > if [ -z $PORT ];then "$PORT" should be quoted here. > echo "$0 port" As a usage message, this is rather minimal. At least put "usage: " in front of it.

Re: disable IPv6 debian

On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 09:47:11PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2022-04-15 at 20:47, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 08:20:40AM +0800, wilson wrote: > > >> ps -efw |grep $PS |grep -v grep > > > You're also going to exit your script with the

Re: extract values from a string

On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 10:37:14AM +0800, wilson wrote: > in shell script, how can I use regex to extract values from a string? "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ``I know, I'll use regular expressions.'' Now they have two problems." > for instance the string: "black berry 12". >

Re: disable IPv6 debian

On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 04:20:15PM +0800, wilson wrote: > does bash shell have the list/array concept? Bash has indexed arrays (since forever) and associative arrays (in version 4.0 and above). > ~$ list="1 2 3 4" > > ~$ for i in $list; do echo $i; done > 1 > 2 > 3 > 4 > > is this a list access

Re: disable IPv6 debian

On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 08:07:09AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > ...Huh. That's so unintuitive that it hadn't even occurred to me to test > it before posting, but I just did test it (with 'ps', not 'foobar', > because there's a reason why 'ps' would be special for this purpose), > and you're correct

Re: extract values from a string

On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 06:12:17PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > FWIW, bash has an =~ operator for regex matching whithin [[ ]]. There are > even special variables to pick up the capturing matches. > > Not portable, but arrays (which have been warmly recommended around here) > aren't, either.

Re: extract values from a string

On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 12:31:34PM +1200, Ash Joubert wrote: > Python is a convenient and scriptable solution for many text processing > problems. You can call it from within bash: But you really *shouldn't*. What's the point of writing your script in two different languages, and having to run tw

Re: extract values from a string

On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 09:27:52PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > -- data.txt -- > black berry 12 > blue berry 14 > raspberry 9 > huckle berry hound 3 > bare-knuckle sandwich 27 > > -- test.sh -- > #!/bin/bash > > file="data.txt" > > while read -r line; do >productID=$(awk -F' ' '{$NF=""; print $

Re: Issues running TigerVNC on Debian WSL-2

On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 07:20:58AM -0700, mwoodpatr...@gmail.com wrote: > === tail /home/mwoodpatrick/.vnc/MarkSpectre14.:5901.log > === > > _XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: mkdir(/tmp/.X11-unix) failed, errno = > 11 errno 11 is EAGAIN, "Try again". How strang

Re: Issues running TigerVNC on Debian WSL-2

On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 10:59:44AM -0700, mwoodpatr...@gmail.com wrote: > Many thanks for the response. Much appreciated > > Permissions look ok > > ls -ld /tmp /tmp/.X11-unix > drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Apr 17 09:31 /tmp > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Apr 17 09:31 /tmp/.X1

Re: Issues running TigerVNC on Debian WSL-2

On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 03:44:33PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > I don't think this is something he broke himself; from the little I've > found, this appears to be something that's recommended or even required > for WSLg (the Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI) to work. *shudder* > > (You've also for

Re: Google Chrome and Bullseye upgrade: stable or bullseye

On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 06:37:04AM -0500, Tom Browder wrote: > I have all my apt lists ready for upgrading from Buster to Bullseye except > the separate one for Google Chrome. It currently says "stable" and it has > been that way through several upgrades. That's fine. I've done buster to bullseye

Re: After upgrade to bullseye, tty1-6 not working

On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 12:27:09PM +0200, Christian Britz wrote: > Wild-eyed speculation: The tweaks are probably still present in > /etc/default/grub. Remove them to see if the problems are related. (And run update-grub after editing the file.)

Re: how to register a system service

On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 04:13:20PM +0800, Henrik S wrote: > Given I have a program, I want to make it start/stop as the normal system > service such as postfix. > > How can I setup this? A beginner's guide is at .

Re: Desktop environment and VNC

On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 08:57:36AM +0200, Julius Hamilton wrote: > There are many VNC servers that can be installed from apt, but you also > need a desktop environment, which can be installed from tasksel. > > I see in tasksel that I already have Debian Desktop Environment and GNOME > installed. >

Re: email lacks sender address

On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 11:37:00PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 10:16:09AM +0900, 황병희 wrote: > > Haines Brown writes: > > > > > (... thanks ...) > > > 521 5.5.1 Protocol error (154.24 ms) > > > Unverified address > > > > > > I reconfigured exim4 and it has no problem. > >

Re: email lacks sender address

On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 09:18:45AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 25 Apr 2022 at 12:04:55 (-), Curt wrote: > > I thought 'set use_envelope_from' took a boolean value (yes or no). > > Good proofreading, thanks. The fact that this mistake did not > produce an error message may be down to t

Re: AW: AW: AW: Here Newbie---Amateur in Linux...Problem: Debian LXDE cannot boot.. Is it destroyed?//Second try Hotmail bug Sorry

On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 01:27:39PM +, Schwibinger Michael wrote: > What is firmware? > Do I need it? > Is it dangerous? Firmware is executable code that runs inside of a device (such as a network interface) rather than in your CPU. Many modern devices require some non-free firmware in order t

Re: AW: AW: AW: Here Newbie---Amateur in Linux...Problem: Debian LXDE cannot boot.. Is it destroyed?//Second try Hotmail bug Sorry

On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 01:41:07PM +, Schwibinger Michael wrote: > What does mean > > firmware is free > firmware is not free? Firmware can be free OR non-free. Firmware for wireless interfaces is ALMOST ALWAYS non-free, because of proprietary secrets that the wireless chip manufacturer is f

Re: email lacks sender address

On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 08:05:46AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > If I understand correctly, which is always in serious doubt, it is > exim that constructs the Sender: line by combining /etc/mailname and > $LOCALHOST. Is this so? > > These values are present: > > $ nano /etec/mailname > lenin

Re: file born 30 seconds after its creation on ext4 - bug?

On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 03:11:22PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > So, perhaps there were no issues with openat, but when reading > the directory, the file could not be found because some internal > structures might have been incomplete. If so, this is a bug at the kernel level, perhaps in the VFS

Re: email lacks sender address

On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 10:46:53AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > In exim4 condiguration I select smarthost. Is your smarthost "mail.guardedhost.com"? > So did you mean the > recipient mail server must use smarthost? That's total nonsense. A smarthost is for relaying your outgoing mail.

Re: email lacks sender address

On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 11:05:20AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > If mailname (the value of /etc/mailname) is supposed to be my FQDN, > then that would be lenin.histomat.net > > $ hostname -f > lenin.histomat.net > > $ nano /etc/mailname > lenin.histomat.net

Re: HTTP Proxy

On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 12:23:12PM -0400, Larry Martin wrote: > I am installing Debian 11 from a single CD. My plan was to complete the > install via the internet. > I am using my home router IP address 192.168.1.0 device number 45. I have no idea what "device number 45" means here. > Howev

Re: email lacks sender address

On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 01:46:01PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > Thanks for the clarifation. I changed it to histomat because I want > outgoing mail to appear to come from hai...@histomat.net. OK! We're making progress now. Funny thing, though... I'm not sure that /etc/mailname actually does any

Re: email lacks sender address

On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 07:26:31PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Wed 27 Apr 2022 at 08:05:46 -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > > A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its > > recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: > > This message is from your

Re: email lacks sender address

On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 02:57:19PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > 4) The MAIL FROM address, which is the one that you're having trouble > with. Just to keep everything clear, the MAIL FROM address and the envelope sender address are the same thing. The colloquial use of "sender" (with lowercase s,

Re: file born 30 seconds after its creation on ext4 - bug?

On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 10:45:09PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Another option might be that your system's time was "reset". > This shouldn't happen, but it can happen if your NTP was down, the > machine got out-of-sync over time and you restart the NTP server at > which point it may(!) decide to

Re: HTTP Proxy

> > On Wed, 27 Apr 2022, Larry Martin wrote: > >> I am using my home router IP address 192.168.1.0 device number 45. On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 06:47:20AM -0400, Larry Martin wrote: > Yes. I used 192.168.1.45. I have about given up on the approach and will > probably go to the multiple CD version

Re: email lacks sender address

On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 12:02:50PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > $ cat /etc/mailname > acer.corp1 > $ cat /etc/hosts > 127.0.0.1 localhost > 127.0.1.1 acer1.corp acer1 > 192.168.1.14axis.corp axis > > # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts > ::1

Re: New Debian

On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 05:00:55PM +, Schwibinger Michael wrote: > we did download an ISO File. For the love of glob. *** WHICH ISO FILE?? ***

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 09:27:11PM -0500, Albretch Mueller wrote: > How do you install vlc on Debian BUllseye? > # time apt-get install vlc > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > Reading state information... Done > Package vlc is not available, but is referred to by

Re: Does this video on YouTube tutorial complacent with Debian 11 Bullseye System Administration?

> On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 12:04:11PM -0400, Tom D. wrote: > > I really need the latest tutorial. Why? Unix system administration changes very slowly. Most of the core concepts haven't changed much since the early 1980s. The only things that you need *urgently* are the steps to fix any problems

Re: Does this video on YouTube tutorial complacent with Debian 11 Bullseye System Administration?

On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 10:53:21PM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: > So, I share the question of the OP. Does anybody with a sound knowledge on > Debian has a profound, up-to-date tutorial to recommend, or would know if > the one linked in the OP's question is indeed up-to-date and nicely Debian > compa

Re: Does this video on YouTube tutorial complacent with Debian 11 Bullseye System Administration?

On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 04:00:52PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 29 Apr 2022 17:04:32 -0400 > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 10:53:21PM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: > > > So, I share the question of the OP. Does anybody with a sound > &g

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 09:51:47PM -0500, Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 4/28/22, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Run these commands for additional information: > > > > cat /etc/apt/sources.list > > apt policy vlc > > # date; cat /etc/apt/sources.list > Fri 29 Apr 202

Re: CUnit - A Unit Testing Framework for C

On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 09:00:12PM -0600, William Torrez Corea wrote: > I install the library CUnit but I don't know how compile the program: > > cunit.c:30:10: fatal error: CUnit/Basic.h: No such file or directory > >30 | #include "CUnit/Basic.h" https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=c

Re: CUnit - A Unit Testing Framework for C

On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 10:59:25PM -0600, William Torrez Corea wrote: > > I get the following error: > > cunit.c: In function ‘init_suite1’: > cunit.c:39:10: warning: comparison between pointer and integer >39 | if(NULL == (temp_file == fopen("temp.txt","w+"))){ > | ^~ The cod

Re: Unwanted route appears at every reboot...

On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 03:29:34PM +0800, Jeremy Ardley wrote: > One other thing to check is if dhclient is running. Or dhcpcd. We get a *lot* of that from people who think or claim they're running Debian, when they're actually running "some variant of Raspbian that's been customized even more".

Re: how to install zoom for bullseye for i386

On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 10:07:23PM -0400, lou wrote: > > it seems i have solved it with 'apt --fix-broken install' That's one way, yes. The other way would be to use "apt install ./zoom*.deb" instead of "dpkg -i zoom*.deb".

Re: file born 30 seconds after its creation on ext4 - bug?

On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 01:30:08AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > I'm wondering whether the data are transferred from the VFS to ext4 > necessarily within the same openat system call or could just be kept > in the VFS as long as they are not needed elsewhere, i.e. the VFS > behaving like a cache.

Re: mutt upgrade in testing broke, downgrade worked

On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 11:23:58AM -0400, songbird wrote: > > 2.2.3-1 version works > 2.2.3-2 version does not work This isn't a useful bug report until you say *how* version 2.2.3-2 fails. Also, bugs should be reported to bugs.debian.org, not here.

Re: Odd reproducible problem - but is it a bug?

On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 03:43:41PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > Not bug - feature. I disagree. Strongly. It is a CHANGE, but it is not a feature. > See also su - > > It's in the release notes, I'm fairly sure. It's also at . It has also been

Re: how to install gcc-6 in debian bullseye

On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 03:25:20PM -0500, michaelmorgan...@gmail.com wrote: > Can anyone kindly instruct me how to install gcc-6 in Debian 11? I need > compile a software and was hinted gcc version (10) is too high. I have > old machine with gcc 6 and was able to compile it there. Stop looking at

Re: mutt upgrade in testing broke, downgrade worked

On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 05:58:31PM -0400, songbird wrote: > > On Mon, May 02, 2022 at 11:23:58AM -0400, songbird wrote: > >> 2.2.3-1 version works > >> 2.2.3-2 version does not work > > > > This isn't a useful bug report until you say *how* version 2.2.3-2 fails. > > mutt doesn't send mail. *si

Re: [WORKED AROUND] Re: mariadb does not run

On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 04:26:13PM +0200, Lucio Crusca wrote: > That makes me suspect there's a problem with the official > mariadb-server-core-10.6 Debian package, but it's very strange no such bug > has been filed yet (how could that happen only to me?). For any given bug, *someone* has to be th

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