Re: Signature not working

>>Do you mean that his -- t > > Of course I do. Then you're confused: his `-- t` is perfectly normal and valid (just as much as my `\tStefan` below which I occasionally change to `-- Stefan` depending on the indentation of the previous text). The signature problem you're apparently seeing in your

Re: VMs on external storage CPU overloading

> IMO, allthose question as irrelevant - the problem is the IO. You can try it > easily. get USB 2.0 and put a VM on it - I have and have had no such problems. I strongly suspect that there's something else at play. E.g. its VM is performing a lot of disk IO. Stefan

Re: VMs on external storage CPU overloading

> My CPU overloads like crazy. What makes you think so? Does it overheat? Is the "load average" too high? Where is the CPU time spent (i.e. e.g. what does `top` say, is it mostly in "wait"? "kernel"? "user"?)? Have you tried to install a similar (tho probably smaller) VM on your internal stor

Re: Are the assigned capacities sufficient for my setup?

> than half its size. NTFS creates a Master File Table smack in the > middle of the partition, and it's immovable. Well, generally - Are you really sure? I had the vague impression that `ntfsresize` acquired the ability to move those "immovable" files more than 10 years ago. Stefan

Re: SANE default scanner

>> >> The problem is with scanner that are >> I'm not sure where you found assignment of blame in what I wrote. > "The problem is" is an assignment of technical blame. I was just pointing out in which circumstances the problem appears. No blame was meant and when I reread it I don't see blame bein

Re: SANE default scanner

Nicolas George [2020-07-27 23:49:59] wrote: > Stefan Monnier (12020-07-27): >> Indeed. And given SANE's design, there shouldn't be much need for it: >> it assumes that either the scanner is local (via a hardware-specific >> driver, hpaio being one of them) or it&#x

Re: SANE default scanner

>> It's definitely possible with SANE. But apparently not with `hpaio`. > I insist: it is not possible with SANE to specify a list of extra > scanners. Indeed. And given SANE's design, there shouldn't be much need for it: it assumes that either the scanner is local (via a hardware-specific drive

Re: SANE default scanner

>> > Well, in between explaining why all the answers I got do not match the >> > question, I RTFS, and it seems indeed it is not possible with SANE. >> It's definitely possible with SANE. But apparently not with `hpaio`. > libsane-hpaio is a backend that conforms to the SANE standard. On one end,

Re: SANE default scanner

>> That's the kind of reason why I don't like using printer's own network >> facilities and prefer to connect them over USB to a local GNU/Linux >> server which can then share them over CUPS&SANE. > There will be no computer close enough to the printer to do the job. Indeed, it's not always a conv

Re: SANE default scanner

> net.conf is for scanner shared with SANE's protocol. Notice the "hpaio:" > fake URL protocol. That's the kind of reason why I don't like using printer's own network facilities and prefer to connect them over USB to a local GNU/Linux server which can then share them over CUPS&SANE. It also has t

Re: wifi bgn identification

> On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 07:56:16PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> With a laptop running Debian 10, is there an easy way to determine >>> whether the built-in wifi radio is b, g, or n? >>`iw phy` should give you all that data and a lot more. > I do not find that

Re: wifi bgn identification

> With a laptop running Debian 10, is there an easy way to determine > whether the built-in wifi radio is b, g, or n? `iw phy` should give you all that data and a lot more. Stefan

Re: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ?

> Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I guess it's still spin-down ^ like Sorry, my fingers didn't obey my brain, Stefan

Re: Do other owners of WD Gold disks hear a periodic plonk ?

> It is its way of saying it's an unsupported feature and you cannot > disable drive heads parking this way. Was worth the shot. I guess it's still spin-down: WD drives support it but just ignore the APM settings of "how long to wait before spin-down" and use their own algorithm instead.

Re: [Sid] ahci: disk order

> HDD=/dev/sdb, SSD=/dev/sda. Is there any way to fix the disk order? I would The usual recommendation is to change the way you work such that you don't depend on those names. Personally, I use LVM so all my "partitions" (called "logical volumes") have a name that I chose. I started using LVM fo

Re: Verifying authenticity of Debian CDs

> when I run the command > gpg --verify SHAxSUM.sign SHAxSUM > I get a message saying that > > Can't check signature: No public key You should have the needed key(s) in /etc/apt/trusted.gpg, but to be honest I don't know how to best pass those to GPG. Stefan

Re: Slow wifi-reconnection when waking up

>> Somehow NM is convinced that it should try an Ethernet connection >> first. You need a way to disabuse it of that notion. > Not necessarily. My netbook (stretch with NM) normally uses wires, and > that is the priority. I occasionally use wifi at home, and usually when > out, and use sleep quite

Re: Slow wifi-reconnection when waking up

>> Also, why does it wait 10s before it tries to connect to anything? > Perhaps because it's got to detect that it's actually lost network > connection in the first place? When the computer comes back from > hibernate or suspend a running program probably doesn't know anything's > happened other th

Re: Slow wifi-reconnection when waking up

>> Indeed I have a >> >> iface eth0 inet dhcp >> >> in there. But removing it doesn't seem to make any difference in this >> respect (even after `systemctl restart NetworkManager`). > In view of the fact that I haven't seen an "eth0" string for quite a > while, might it be worth checking yo

Re: slashes in filenames [was Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster]

>>> Yes. Unfortunately Systemd decided to forbid '/' in unit names, You can probably work around that by using '⁄', for example ;-) Stefan

Re: Slow wifi-reconnection when waking up

>> Somehow NM is convinced that it should try an Ethernet connection >> first. You need a way to disabuse it of that notion. Why doesn't it start with the last active connection? I suspect that for 99% of the users this will be the most common case. Also, why does it wait 10s before it tries to

Re: Slow wifi-reconnection when waking up

> I have no idea how to fix your problem. I do use NM though, and my wifi > is already connected in the time I unlock after my laptop has been > sleeping overnight. Right, that's what I remember it doing a couple years ago for me as well. Thanks for confirming! Stefan

Re: Slow wifi-reconnection when waking up

> Presumably the logs (daemon.log, syslog) should give details of > what's going on. Nothing I can see there seems relevant, no. I just see the messages about when the connection is done. > But I'm not clear about how it should determine that it woke up in the > same place, It doesn't need to.

Re: Slow wifi-reconnection when waking up

> You could set up networkmanager so that it ignores the ethernet port. > That should save you some time. > > See; > https://developer.gnome.org/NetworkManager/stable/NetworkManager.conf.html > > In particular the 'keyfile section' and 'ifupdown section', which detail > methods by which network int

Re: Slow wifi-reconnection when waking up

>> When I wake up from suspend, > My current laptop is nice and fast, with an nvme boot drive, so I've > been doing some investigations into speeding up boot times as well. Notice the apple-vs-oranges here. I'm talking about the time to reconnect to wifi after wake-up from suspend. Time to boot is

Slow wifi-reconnection when waking up

When I wake up from suspend, my Debian machines take a "long" time to reconnect to the wifi. Looking at the `nm-applet` icon in my XFCE4 panel, I see: - for about 10s the icon is "two computers" (which IIUC represents just NetworkManager). - then the icon changes to the one representing a wired

Re: Workstation configuration

> There once was a rule for Hewlett Packard Germany that every part > costs 5000 Mark. Back when there was a difference between PCs and workstations the main rule I remember was that about half the money went to the screen. > Actually i am in good hope for my next workstation for about 1600 EUR:

Re: Final CDs being written for Stretch - 9.13 release - prior to LTS

> Debian's 'DVD' images are isohybrid and work for booting from USB flash > drives, which is how I use them now [1]. So, for me, an image that only > works on a USB stick would be fine, but what benefit is gained by > removing support for optical media which some other people may need? The discuss

Re: Final CDs being written for Stretch - 9.13 release - prior to LTS

> There is a generation of machines that can boot from optical media > but not USB sticks. (I have one.) Indeed, IIRC my macmini-2,1 can boot from USB but only via EFI and not via "MBR aka BIOS". And my Thinkpad X30 can boot from a USB floppy but I never managed to make it boot from a "non-floppy

Re: Bug #961990

> This has been going on since the beginning of June, 2020, with no end in > sight. > Bug #961990 - IIUC, no activity since 2020-06-02. You show a session where you reject all the proposed solutions, but I don't see any justification why you reject those choices, so I don't know what you consider

Re: Final CDs being written for Stretch - 9.13 release - prior to LTS

>> At this point in 2020, I think it would be reasonable to only produce >> netinst images and jigdo (and live, but that's a different-ish >> project). Drop the DVD images. An alternative is to have "virtual ISO images", i.e. images which are constructed on the fly (presumably by jigdo) on the web

Re: Final CDs being written for Stretch - 9.13 release - prior to LTS

> Thank you Thomas. Yes, that's obviously why it was done.So - a quick look > on Wikipedia suggests that this was a current machine in 2006 and was > replaced in 2007 / 2008. So - if anyone has one running anywhere, it's > somewhere between 12-15 years old. If anybody knows of any that they really

Re: psu or firmware?

> New batteries for a Dell Vostro 1520 seem to run around $30 (according > to a quick search for "battery dell vostro 1520"). Adding "site:co.uk" to the query seems to indicate prices are more in the £40-50 range in the UK. Stefan

Re: psu or firmware?

> often for the price of a new battery you are already > a large part of the way towards just getting a newer > system (a raspberry pi might work for some people and > be much better instead). New batteries for a Dell Vostro 1520 seem to run around $30 (according to a quick search for "battery d

Re: problem with slow network transmission

> What I have been trying a lot is Webex teleconferencing for my job. Those > all work great, including voice and slideshows, but seem to crash miserably > (including a loss of sound) if even a single attendant puts up live webcam > video. Very large conferences that disallow that work fine. We'

Re: non function firefox

> Firefox is not working with wallmarts search function. Just one more reason to stay far away from Walmart. Stefan

Re: OT: Questions about (buying and) using a laptop docking station

> You could get a USB hub that could connect some peripherals -- > keyboard, mouse, printer, USB sticks... but nothing that will > handle video or power connections. > The generic laptop docks rely on high-bandwidth, high-power USB3 > ports, and laptop support for alternate video modes sent over >

Re: System unusably slow after Debian upgrade.

> It would also be good to look after the basics, like running "uptime" > to check the load average, "top" to see if there are processes running > amok, "df" to see if a file system is unexpectedly full, and so on. Yes, I'd recommend running `atop` on both machines during your test to try and see

Re: set gnome locales to C.UTF-8

> In GNOME, terminals are not children of the window manager, or even of > the session manager. When you ask for a terminal, GNOME sends a letter > to dbus, asking dbus to please make a terminal. Your gnome-terminal > is a child of dbus, and inherits its environment from dbus. Is that how `gnome

Re: Understanding the two-year release cycle as a desktop user (and a Debian newcomer)

> Right. You can also use a CD based Linux such as finnix to shrink an > existing LVM logical volume (LV), create a new LV for swap, and run > mkswap to lay down a swap partition on it. BTW, you don't need a separate CD or anything like that: you can use your initrd for that same purpose. I.e. at

Re: Understanding the two-year release cycle as a desktop user (and a Debian newcomer)

> I would happily consider using Debian Testing for example, but wherever I see > someone asking about it I always find someone discouraging from using it due > to the possibility of having broken or unsecure packages for a long time due > to it being automated. Other tools you can use: LVM snapsh

Re: XFCE doesn't start

>> I've bent my system bad. When I boot, it comes up in the CLI -- not in >> slim, to XFCE. It does the regular login and the .bashrc tricks, and >> startx starts XFCE just fine. [...] > But, if you want to diagnose your display manager, first figure out > which one you were trying to use. He said

Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation?

> You want to debate the validity of running av on any system these days is > ridiculous Then it should be trivial to prove me wrong by pointing to the large body of evidence to support your claim. Stefan

Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation?

>> > defense in depth / layered defense... would you recommend having a Linux >> > anti-malware? >> No. All those only try to recognize known threats. When a threat is >> known, the security hole it exploits is also known, and the fix for it >> already exists as well, so updating your distributio

Re: Anti-malware for my personal Debian workstation?

> defense in depth / layered defense... would you recommend having a Linux > anti-malware? No. All those only try to recognize known threats. When a threat is known, the security hole it exploits is also known, and the fix for it already exists as well, so updating your distribution to the lates

Re: Modern automounters and umount

> So either "udisksctl" is lying or something else is happening > behind the scenes (e.g. an over-eager automounter remounting > the file system again). Or the /dev/sdb1 is still mounted elsewhere. Stefan

Re: Modern automounters and umount

>> > $ mount | fgrep /dev/sr0 >> > /dev/sr0 on /media/ddval/ISOIMAGE type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime, >> > nojoliet,check=s,map=n, blocksize=2048,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmode=500, >> > fmode=400,uhelper=udisks2) >> > $ sudo umount /dev/sr0 >> > umount: /dev/sr0: not mounted > Try instead: sudo um

Re: LVM Boot fail

> Boot faults to an (initrd) prompt with a complaint that the /usr LV, > correctly identified by its UUID, does not exist. It does, but is not > activated. In fact, lvscan shows that only the root and swap LVs > are active, and the others are not. Why does the initrd want to check activation of so

Re: *nix

> That members of the most generalist species on earth should extol the > merits of the most extreme form of specialisation is something of an > ironic puzzlement here in the balcony seats. If you want to stay on top, you have to impose on others different rules than those you impose on yourself.

Re: Do one thing. Do it right

> The OP might be better off buying old stuff from ebay. Indeed, tho craigslist seems ethically superior. I suspect that "we"'ve built enough gadgets over the last 20 years that there really shouldn't be any need for me to buy some new electronic device for the rest my lifetime ;-) > Surely any

Re: Looking for Debian unofficial install for mac with firmware...

> As that text says, the "mac" ISOs do/did not contain anything extra > but rather lack/lacked of UEFI boot entry points and of any UEFI boot > software. Some MAC firmwares are said to take offense from UEFI > bootable ISOs. Simply try whether yours is among them. If any > mentioning of "Debian"

Re: local network capability scanner?

>> > I'm not aware that there's a faster way of sending the files once >> > you've unpacked the archive locally. After all, you've thrown away the >> > benefits of compression and aggregation. >> rsync? > Sure, if you're updating a tree. But AIUI the OP is transferring > a kernel source archive fro

Re: local network capability scanner?

> I'm not aware that there's a faster way of sending the files once > you've unpacked the archive locally. After all, you've thrown away the > benefits of compression and aggregation. rsync? Stefan

Re: local network capability scanner?

> also claims to be a gigahertz capable switch. IIRC gigabit ethernet doesn't run at gigahertz frequencies. > But file moves to/from the machines in the garage seems to indicate > theres a slow connection of around 10Mb/s someplace in that path. Is that really 10Mb/s (aka ~1MB/s)? Ste

Re: Why I don't like UUIDs (Re: can't mount sdf1 in stretch, gparted claims its fat32)

>> Every time you have to reboot, it means your OS has somewhat failed you. > i don't think that at all. remember that each person can > have different preferences, requirements and expectations. That's why I wrote "have to". Of course, if you choose to reboot it, it's not you OS's fault. > sy

Re: Why I don't like UUIDs (Re: can't mount sdf1 in stretch, gparted claims its fat32)

> Usually a UUID collision is a result of a subtle mistake, like cloning > a disk and then trying to mount a file system by UUID while the clone > is still attached. At least, that's the first scenario I can think of. I wouldn't call it a "subtle mistake". Instead it's what *always* happens when

Re: Why I don't like UUIDs (Re: can't mount sdf1 in stretch, gparted claims its fat32)

>>What he meant is that filesystem UUIDs are (re)created automatically >>based on a heuristic of what it means for a filesystem to be "the same". > You understand that he didn't actually say that, right? This seems like your > own personal bugaboo instead. Definitely. > I dislike using names beca

Re: Why I don't like UUIDs (Re: can't mount sdf1 in stretch, gparted claims its fat32)

>> PS: The only problem with LVM names is that Linux doesn't let you >> rename a volume group while it's active (at least last time I tried), >> which makes it painful to rename the volume group in which lives your >> root partition. > How painful is it to dd a live cd, boot from it and rename? Ve

Why I don't like UUIDs (Re: can't mount sdf1 in stretch, gparted claims its fat32)

>> Me too, so I usually label the permanent stuff at least. UUID's can and >> will change for no detectable reason. > For those reading along or finding this in search results: no, filesystem > UUIDs don't change for no detectable reason. Don't implement anything based > on this theory. What he me

Re: can't mount sdf1 in stretch, gparted claims its fat32

>> I bet some of his RT patches caused a mess > Nope, I just needed to reboot. "Needed to reboot" in this context means "need to work around a bug". I have no idea whether that bug has anything to with the RT patches, but the fact that rebooting avoided the problem is at least no proof that the pr

Re: [epilogue] cpu frequence

> in fact when I restarted my laptop the problem returned. > By reading the link https://wiki.debian.org/CpuFrequencyScaling more > carefully Note that this page is pretty old/outdated. AFAIK nowadays the better option is to just throw away most of those tools and configs and just use the defau

Re: guys

> I probably shouldn't post this. > I see all these questions people trying to get their installations to work. > It is supposed to be files with documentation what they do. > Is there a reason things seem to get more complicated ? What's with all these "I"s? Stefan

Re: Ethernet trouble

> And counting interfaces has worked for me for a couple decades, on many > systems and several OSs. FWIW, this whole mess exists for the simple reason that there isn't any kind of "aliasing" available for network interfaces. When stable names were added to block devices, it didn't break anything

Re: Ethernet trouble

> For the rest of us, who didn't drink the OO kool-aid, overloading is > just a nightmare. Even outside of OO, most languages overload `+` to mean "integer addition" when applied to integers and "double-precision float addition" when applied to double-precision floats. IOW while I agree that over

Re: graphics woes :-(

> anything at all, then, after a very long time, I see the stream of Linux text > messages that indicates booting, but I never see a graphical login screen. > (The delay before the messages appear is far longer than a normal boot cycle > -- indeed, I had given up waiting for something to happen and

Re: Planning a Debian NAS

> I want to set up a file server on my home LAN with just consumer-grade > hardware, and run Debian stable on it.  For hardware, I am probably > going to get a refurbished mid-range tower with a four to six 3.5" SATA > drive capacity, and put WD Reds in it. Unless you already own that hardware you

Re: Clarification Re: Displaying an arbitrary file in _both_ HEX and ASCII

> I posted in two fora (here and a LUG mailing list). > *NOBODY* picked up on two key features I presumed obvious ;/ That's likely because noone cares about what you want. Bloody bastards! While I'm here, let me give another suggestion (besides the use of Emacs, which I gather you think is not a

Re: Displaying an arbitrary file in _both_ HEX and ASCII

Emacs comes with `hexl-mode` which provides some of that. The `nhexl-mode` (which you can subsequently install via `M-x package-list RET`) is an alternative which provides a few extra features. > I need to: > 1. Simultaneously display in _both_ HEX and ASCII format I'd expect they all do, tho t

Re: dropbox security situation

> I use full disk encryption (cryptsetup / LUKS), so the password file > is secure at rest, and when I'm actually using the system, if > gpg-agent is used, then anyone with access to the machine can access > the password file anyway. That assumes a single-user situation. But in case someone manag

Re: Metavariable [was: Help with --regex in locate]

> I think the canonical name is "metasyntactic variable" [1]. I've > seen also just "metavariable", although Wikipedia would say that > the latter belongs in the realm of logic [2], not programming. AFAICT those two usages are one and the same: when you see "foo" it's because the code is actually

Re: usb snooper

> How else can one put a keyboard and mouse on an r-pi except via a usb port? I thought you were using bluetooth? Stefan

Re: usb snooper

> I have what I believe to be noise or crosstalk causing interference > between a wireless keyboard mouse and the machine they are controlling, > which is an rpi4. The app itself doesn't expose any usb traffic to the > user. The effect is as if the finger was lifted from the key for a > hundre

Re: USB WIFI Adapters?

> I have no experience with AC, but for N and below the Asus USB-56 has > "just worked" flawlessly with several generations (7, 8, 9) of Debian; > also the Asus RT-N66U. Of course, you have to remember that those product names can be "reused" for completely different internal hardware, so while a

Re: Backup Times on a Linux desktop

> On linux with all that decision freedom it can be good and bad cause you have > to think about things :D All the answers I've seen mention the use of "cron" but I'm not sure what they mean by that, nor am I sure what is your typical use of the desktop (e.g. is it always ON?), so I think it's wor

Re: Backup Times on a Linux desktop

> Suppose that you backup 2000 files in a day and inside this backup a chunk > is deduped and referenced by 300 files. If the deduped chunk is broken > I think you will lost it on 300 referenced files/chunks. This is not good > for me. I don't know what other backup software does, but at least `bu

Re: KISS gpg

>> AFAICT the sockets are not created in GNUPGHOME, so your "gpg with other >> GNUPGHOME" will still talk to the same agent and confusion will ensue. > yes seems the only way is true a different user, as it seems to be per > design one user - one agent, which also makes sense as the agent is the >

Re: KISS gpg

>> so even changing $HOME won't help and I don't see any envvar which >> influences it.  I suggest you contact the GPG development folks (maybe >> open an issue for it). > > Not sure - cause if you close gpg and agent etc. and set the GNUPGHOME and > start again all the work will be done in the new

Re: KISS gpg

>> So I think you're stuck with copying by hand the actual file that >> holds the private key (somewhere in ~/.gnupg) if you want to "export" >> it. Once you've done that, you can put it in "another-dir" with >> a similar structure and then use >> >> gpg --homedir ../another-dir --change-pass

Re: KISS gpg

> The current default version of GnuPG, since 2015, necessarily uses a > client-server agent to access the private keys. While it is convenient > and secure for everyday use, but for some tasks, the efforts it makes to > protect my files from myself prevent me from doing the tasks I want. Not sure

Re: Accessing a host with variable IP addresses / connection types

> I use a much better supported system called Debian. It did > require me to spend a bit more on the firewall hardware, but on > the other hand it is tremendously speedy and configurable. I like this option as well, but I find it hard to come across suitable hardware. I need: - ≥2 ethernet ports

Re: Hex editor with ASCII line underneath the line of hex.

>> Which hex editor shows a line of hex with the corresponding ASCII under the >> line of hex ? > I suspect that it shouldn't be too hard to get something working if you > start from nhexl-mode in Emacs: And indeed, I just added a `nhexl-separate-line` user config to nhexl-mode to do that. Just a

Re: Hex editor with ASCII line underneath the line of hex.

> (similar to the output of `od -t xz`). BTW, I see that `od -t x1c` is using a format like the one you're asking for (it's not an *editor*, tho). Stefan

Re: Hex editor with ASCII line underneath the line of hex.

> Which hex editor shows a line of hex with the corresponding ASCII under the > line of hex ? I suspect that it shouldn't be too hard to get something working if you start from nhexl-mode in Emacs: E.g. from abcdefghabcdefgh you can go to XX

Re: Hard disks auto-spinning-down

>     logger "Setting spindown on disk drive: $DISK_DEV" >     sdparm --flexible -6 --set SCT=4000 $DISK_DEV >     sdparm --flexible -6 --set STANDBY=1 $DISK_DEV I found sdparm inscrutable so far so I'm really curious how you came up with the above incantation (`sdparm -al /dev/sdb` do

Re: I support the founder of FreeSoftware

> Donald Trump will go down in history as the greatest President in the > last 100 years, maybe more. I guess I could live with that, but only if he goes down quickly. Stefan

Re: When/how/why to use "sudo", "su" or "su -" -- was [Re: rocks n diamonds]

> Do you have any problem with my statement: >> Today Linux is being used by an individual who is the _only_ >> user of a standalone system (e.g. laptop). Permission issues >> are much more intuitive in the Unix world than for a single >> user/owner of a laptop. I do: "Linux" is many different thi

Re: Default date output format changed after an upgrade to buster

> And the only solution to Zeno's Paradox that I've been able to identify > relies on the notion that space and time are not infinitely > subdivisible. Really? I thought the solution is that while the distance is divided at each step, the time between each step is also divided, so you end up perf

Re: 24-hour vs. 12-hour time, ambiguity, and abbreviations (was Re: Default date output format changed after an upgrade to buster)

>> >> It seems intuitively obvious to me that between 11:59 Ante-Meridiem and >> >> 12:01 Post-Meridiem must lie 12:00 Meridiem. (Though 12:00:01 - one >> >> second later - would be Post-Meridiem again.) In my interpretation of this part of the world, it's never exactly noon nor exactly midnight:

Re: Nautilus doesn't let me open files with the default application

> Regression? Does this look familiar? > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=874003 It does: I removed /home//.config/xfce4/helpers.rc and the problem seems to have disappeared! Thanks, Stefan

Nautilus doesn't let me open files with the default application

When I select a file and: - double-click - hit RET - hit C-o - select "Open with " in the menu Nautilus only refreshes the current window, placing the selected file at the top and nothing else (where I expect that it should launch the application, passing to it the selected file name). The only

Re: Buster Installation - Partition phase - Inode option to choose - SSD or Mechanical HD

> you described. The man page doesn't tell us what the default value is, > but the Arch wiki says it's one inode per 16384 bytes. > > Since the default inode size is 256 bytes, that tells us the inodes > take about 1.5% of the space

Re: Buster Installation - Partition phase - Inode option to choose - SSD or Mechanical HD

> How do I search for answer to my inadequately phrased question below. > 1. I assume that sector size is a _TERM_ reserved for something fixed >when the disk is manufactured. > 2. What is the proper search term to use for something whose dimensions >would be "megabytes/inode"? {I'll use "b

Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

> As a computer user who happens to be blind, one of the > most frustrating issues is the fact that except for expensive > servers, none of these boxes output any machine readable text > when booting up or in setup mode such as when the coin cell that > powers the CMOS BIOS gives up the ghost

Re: Debian Buster: Is it safe to use on autodefrag on a Btrfs filesystem that is used for (Restic) backup only with no Btrfs snapshots or subvolumes?

> Btrfs is not my thing, but I looked at the reference that was posted, > and the Gotchas referred to within, and they mention log files having > tens of thousands of extents. Doesn't sound very good. Maybe it doesn't sound very good, but except for very specific circumstances, it makes no visible

Re: Debian Buster: Is it safe to use on autodefrag on a Btrfs filesystem that is used for (Restic) backup only with no Btrfs snapshots or subvolumes?

> Is it safe to use autodefrag for my use case? It sounds like it might be "safe" (the text doesn't actually say it's unsafe, but just that it has downsides). I do wonder why you'd want to do that, tho. Fragmentation is typically something that clueless Windows users worry about (a left over fro

Re: A followup on github discussion

> It now seems to be established that putting Open Source software up on > a public server is protected speech. Exporting copies of closed source > proprietary software, however, is not. This means that Microsoft has to > avoid knowingly exporting restricted material to certain countries. My und

Re: Hibernation takes too long

> I attached a screen shot of read write speed. > The 2 min hibernation time is when there is little or no contents > present. If I have many things opened, it would take more. Also, if the problem is in the time it takes to write the hibernation data, then those 2 minutes should mostly be spent w

Re: Wpa_Supplicant Fails Authentication

>> > Just had to install the non-free Realtek firmware package which I did BTW, the "rtlwifi" family of drivers in Linux kernel (which includes things like rtl8192cu and various others, and which used to live in the "staging" part because it was not a well-enough behaved citizen) has been remove

Re: Hibernation takes too long

> What is the proportional size between RAM and swap? There's no such thing. They're both sized depending on your particular needs. Stefan

Re: Hibernation takes too long

> Afaik it's advised to copy files to SSDs and not copy blockwise (dd) because > layouts can differ very much and performance would suffer. As long as the filesystem is properly aligned on a 4KB boundary, I don't think there'll be any noticeable difference. I highly doubt this explains the 2 minu

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