Re: Misremembered

2022-02-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 15 feb 22, 12:41:28, John Hasler wrote: > Andrei POPESCU writes: > > When it loads a kernel or chain-loads another boot-loader it basically > > hands over control completely, > > Which is what DOS does. That was possibly not the best choice of words from my sid

Re: Stupid question

2022-02-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 15 feb 22, 11:59:59, David wrote: > On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 at 07:57, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Lu, 14 feb 22, 10:41:52, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > > > > How does it decide which partition to boot from? I think this is what > > > the OP is asking. > &g

Re: Misremembered (was: Re: Stupid question)

2022-02-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 14 feb 22, 17:23:52, David Wright wrote: > > On 2/14/2022 10:19 AM, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > > > > > Not sure about the Debian installer (except that it does boot and > > > run Linux, but not sure it ever switches to another kernel > > > midway), but the Grub bootloader is kind of a

Re: 5.15 kernel just won't do on Intel Rocket Lake...

2022-02-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 16 feb 22, 00:50:21, David wrote: > > I just wrote about two places where Debian kernel packages with > "trunk" in their names are visible. But I do not know what those > packages are. If you can explain what those packages are, > what their life cycle is, and why they are named "trunk",

Re: Stupid question

2022-02-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 14 feb 22, 10:41:52, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > > That's a good clarification that the active partition is a Microsoft thing > implemented by the bootcode Microsoft installs in the MBR of the device > chosen to boot from. Now for an unanswered question: What > does bootcode installed by

Re: dual booting, was Re: Stupid question

2022-02-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 13 feb 22, 11:01:48, David Wright wrote: > > Typically, one would have a primary, "master" linux system which would > be used to write an MBR pointing to itself. The other, legacy system > would have its grub.cfg kept up-to-date, but would never touch the > MBR by running grub-install.

Re: Stupid question

2022-02-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 13 feb 22, 02:40:27, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > > This is my understanding of how grub works. > > It looks you are using the old MBR partitioning scheme. The logical > partition indicates that. > So I also assume you are using the legacy booting (not UEFI). So the first > thing that >

Re: Memory leak

2022-02-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 13 feb 22, 08:03:39, Tixy wrote: > On Sun, 2022-02-13 at 07:30 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 11:45:05PM +0100, Felmon Davis wrote: > > > On Sat, 12 Feb 2022, Curt wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: Installation on a Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13

2022-02-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 11 feb 22, 15:24:55, Charles Curley wrote: > > 1) The graphics are terrible. Both graphical and text mode are > scrunched into the top third or so of the screen, with two copies > across the top. They are damn near unreadable. That's likely because your graphic chip is not properly

Re: Stalled system shutdown

2022-02-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 11 feb 22, 13:36:09, José Luis González wrote: > > I wonder if the package ntopng is necessary for something. If I remove > it nothing else complains. I didn't know this package before. At least on buster/arm64 nothing depends on it. Was the package manually installed or does the

Re: Request free live CD

2022-02-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 10 feb 22, 20:05:32, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 10 Feb 2022 16:47:18 +0100 > wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 03:05:26PM +0100, Dozzyjean Dozie wrote: > > > Please I will be very much interested to get a live CD from you, please > > > what are the prerequisites that are needed to be

Re: 5.15 kernel just won't do on Intel Rocket Lake...

2022-02-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 10 feb 22, 09:27:26, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 10 Feb 2022 at 03:39:26 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote: > > ...if you have a bad BIOS, and wish to boot with more than one connected > > display. > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/intel/-/issues/4762 explains the issue, > > which > > has

Re: One-user system. Was "One user system."

2022-02-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 10 feb 22, 11:11:01, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wednesday, February 09, 2022 06:08:16 AM Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > I've switched to using sudo because it encourages me to use root only > > when strictly required. > > That's a good idea, but I'll mention what I do

Re: Installation "Bullseye"

2022-02-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 09 feb 22, 15:51:13, piorunz wrote: > On 09/02/2022 15:13, Dynosaw wrote: > > 2. Is it possible to install Debian-11 on an external, > >     pluggable, medium  such as a USB-pendrive or > >     a USB-harddisk? > >     Please note: I'm NOT talking about making a > >     "live USB" with

Re: Autostart command after network is available (usbip)

2022-02-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 08 feb 22, 17:49:16, Christian Britz wrote: > > > On 2022-02-08 17:44 UTC+0100, Christian Britz wrote: > > > [Install] > > WantedBy=multiuser.target > > Changed that to > > [Install] > WantedBy=network-online.target That's like putting the carriage before the horse ;) (and it

Re: Wrong libvirt version in bullseye installation

2022-02-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 07 feb 22, 14:34:20, Gary L. Roach wrote: > I have been trying to get a cleen copy of qemu/kvm installed but when I try > to install qemu-system I get: > >     libvirt-clients : Depends: libvirt0 (= 7.0.0-3) but 8.0.0-1~bpo11+1 is > to be installed. > >  The same for libvirt-daemon and

Re: Mini server hardware for home use NAS purposes

2022-02-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 03 feb 22, 06:35:40, Jeremy Ardley wrote: > > On 3/2/22 5:42 am, Henning Follmann wrote: > > > > > I'd suggest a Raspberry Pi 4B. The requirements you listed elsewhere > > > would make this a cheap and workable alternative. The only issue is > > > that any SATA disks would have to be run

Re: One-user system. Was "One user system."

2022-02-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 04 feb 22, 10:34:38, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > root@joule:/root# df | grep sd > /dev/sda27159288 6635136140768 98% / > /dev/sda4 131124764 12951820 111512132 11% /home > /dev/sdb13658244 2026200 1446196 59% /home/root/MY > > Note that / is 98% full

Re: Mounting NFS share from Synology NAS

2022-02-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 02 feb 22, 13:49:38, Anssi Saari wrote: > Greg Wooledge writes: > > > I'm unclear on how NFS v4 works. Everything I've read about it in the > > past says that you have to set up a user mapping, which is shared by > > the client and the server. And that this is *not* optional, and *is* >

Re: Security

2022-02-04 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 30 ian 22, 19:27:56, Reco wrote: > > > > > How does "people installing without recommends" translate to "GNOME > > users" is beyond me, > > Easy. Look closely at two graphical frontends to libvirt they provide in > main archive. > Now ask yourself - would I need these on a server? Who

Re: Security

2022-01-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 30 ian 22, 15:54:17, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 01:36:06AM +1300, Richard Hector wrote: > > On 29/01/22 04:17, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > > Servers shouldn't have pkexec installed in the first place, anyway. > > > > > > > libvirt-daemon-system depends on

Re: USB sound device present but NOT visible in ‘alsamixer’

2022-01-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 30 ian 22, 14:58:29, Pankaj Jangid wrote: > Andrei POPESCU writes: > > > Something is keeping the module busy, but according to lsmod it's not > > another module. > > > > In case you get any output from > > > > lsof | grep /dev/snd > &g

Re: USB sound device present but NOT visible in ‘alsamixer’

2022-01-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 30 ian 22, 12:47:27, Pankaj Jangid wrote: > Andrei POPESCU writes: > > >> During the boot process, the system detects everything. So there must be > >> something in the init sequence that I can trigger manually. > > > > You can try to unload and re

Re: USB sound device present but NOT visible in ‘alsamixer’

2022-01-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 30 ian 22, 11:02:34, Pankaj Jangid wrote: > Jude DaShiell writes: > > > alsactl --init > > may help. > > However alsa makes .lock files in /var/lock/alsa and you may find it > > helpful to delete the lock file first then once card is set run alsactl > > store. Those lock files sometimes

Re: SD Memory Card (was The Raspberry Pi that Took a Day Off.)

2022-01-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 29 ian 22, 16:39:31, Martin McCormick wrote: > > Many of the raspbian distributions have a #1 partition > that is a small fat32 lba partition for Windows users to be able > to activate debian from Windows. Is this even necessary once one > is using unix tools on the disk? At least

Re: Android apps on Debian

2022-01-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 29 ian 22, 14:38:50, John Hasler wrote: > local10 writes: > > First, identify the app you want to install, then download it from > > apkpure ( https://apkpure.com/ ) or similar sites. > > Apkpure has the Starlink app but as I had never heard of them (No reason > to, not having an Android

Re: Fwd: Debian 11: Tuning kernel parameters swappiness and watermark_boost_factor to stop SWAP Storm

2022-01-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 28 ian 22, 10:15:58, Steven J. West wrote: > Dear all, > > TL;DR/summary: > >- Tuning vm.watermark_boost_factor to 0 (disable) on Debian >significantly improves performance on memory-intensive tasks that utilise >SWAP space, by stopping preemptive kswapd freeing of memory, and

Re: btfs disk compatibility between i386 and amd64

2022-01-29 Thread Andrei POPESCU
> versions of a particular file system[1], but the other way around can be > a problem. > > That's interesting in itself. Makes some sense. > > On 1/28/22, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Mi, 26 ian 22, 17:33:04, Joseph Brenner wrote: > >> I was wondering if the on-di

Re: "mount -t ntfs" vs "mount.ntfs" ?

2022-01-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 28 ian 22, 11:34:44, Yvan Masson wrote: > > Could it be because `mount` uses kernel driver and `mount.ntfs` uses > ntfs-3g, and that the latter has better "quality" even for read-only? (Note > that this sentence is a complete guess) Try 'ls -l /sbin/mount.ntfs' ;) Kind regards, Andrei

Re: btfs disk compatibility between i386 and amd64

2022-01-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 26 ian 22, 17:33:04, Joseph Brenner wrote: > I was wondering if the on-disk data format for btrfs is > compatible between the i386 and amd64 code bases-- > e.g. would you expect to be able to swap data drives > between machines running either? In general yes. > I've got an old i386

Re: Security

2022-01-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 27 ian 22, 21:44:07, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2022, 12:39 PM Andrei POPESCU > > > > And please don't bother to reply with "there are no other users on this > > system I should worry about", the bad guys could still find ways to get > &g

Re: gnu screen and resizing terminal window

2022-01-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 26 ian 22, 18:45:41, Tim Woodall wrote: > I have to use PuTTY to connect to a debian server. For reasons that are > outwith my control the ssh session disconnects every 24 hrs. > > Therefore I run screen so after reconnecting I can recover to whereever > I was at. > > However, the PuTTY

Re: Security

2022-01-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 25 ian 22, 16:13:23, Nate Bargmann wrote: > I am subscribed to that list and get them too. > > I just see that three more messages popped in since this morning from > the security list. > > The complaints seem to be only about browsers. The inference seems to > be that the latest release

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 25 ian 22, 21:27:17, gene heskett wrote: > > It works fine with no complaints. > > Here is the bottom of /etc/dhcpcd.conf: > > # Example static IP configuration: > #interface eth0 > #static ip_address=192.168.0.10/24 > #static ip6_address=fd51:42f8:caae:d92e::ff/64 > #static

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 26 ian 22, 11:55:36, Greg Wooledge wrote: > 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

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 25 ian 22, 11:18:21, Brian wrote: > On Tue 25 Jan 2022 at 09:31:57 +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > Could you point to any (reasonably up-to-date) documentation or is it > > sufficient to just install avahi-daemon and libnss-mdns? > > 'apt install avahi-dae

Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing

2022-01-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 25 ian 22, 04:03:17, Gareth Evans wrote: > > Googling "Detected unsafe path transition during canonicalization" led me to > > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=260924 > > where a user sees this error because / is owned by the user rather than root. > > Lo and behold > > $

Re: USB UEFI recovery stick

2022-01-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 24 ian 22, 03:39:47, deloptes wrote: > > Hi all, > is there a way to have a USB UEFI stick that works similar to the Debian > installer - for example to boot into UEFI and recover the boot loader. > One machine here seems a bit older and refuses to boot into UEFI from the > USB - rendering

Re: trying to get bookworm net going on an rpi4

2022-01-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 23 ian 22, 22:43:49, Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 04:08:34PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > So what is the official, works in bookworm every time, way to totally > > kill ipv6, making it use ipv4 for everything? > > You don't need to; having IPv6 active doesn't

Re: Why is systemd starting Firefox?

2022-01-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 24 ian 22, 00:50:01, local10 wrote: > Jan 23, 2022, 23:24 by avbe...@gmail.com: > > > Does this command show anything useful when 'firefox-esr' is running? > >     $ systemctl --user status > > > > There's a few entries like the following: > >

Re: trying to get bookworm net going on an rpi4

2022-01-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 24 ian 22, 00:27:23, deloptes wrote: > > Don't know but I have following there (in /etc/sysctl.conf) > > net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1 > net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1 > net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1 > > and it does not disable ipv6 > > # lsmod | grep ipv > ipv6

Re: smartd

2022-01-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 23 ian 22, 19:09:48, Linux-Fan wrote: > pe...@easthope.ca writes: > > > > I knew nothing of RAID. Therefore read here. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID > > > > Reliability is more valuable to me than speed. RAID 0 won't help. > > For reliability I need a mirrored 2nd drive in the

Re: Why is Debian not telling the truth about its security fixes?

2022-01-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 24 ian 22, 07:47:01, max wrote: > January 22, 2022 2:23:48 PM CET max wrote: > > > https://medium.com/@maxwillb/why-is-debian-not-telling-the-truth-about-its-security-fixes-85f0f85f19a0 > > I've updated the post taking into account the feedback so far (There > weren't any corrections,

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 24 ian 22, 23:54:41, Brian wrote: > > Resolving hostnames on the local network is simple and reliable when > avahi-daemon and linnss-mdns are available. > > brian@desktop:~$ getent hosts envy4500.local > 192.168.7.235 envy4500.local > > Continually and nanually maintain /etc/hosts?

Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 24 ian 22, 01:37:55, max wrote: > January 22, 2022 1:52:16 PM CET "Marco Möller" > wrote: > > > Without transparency the Debian project does not present itself as > > community driven, but as a closer circle of directing minds hiding the > > reasoning for their decisions. > >

Re: Why did Norbert Preining (having maintained KDE) left Debian?

2022-01-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 23 ian 22, 10:52:48, deloptes wrote: > > I will be not surprised if I replace debian with something else in the > future. Not because I care that much about the CoC, but because the > ideologically motivated organization will not be able to deliver the > expected quality. Typically

Re: Kodi (SID)

2022-01-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 22 ian 22, 15:41:37, SDA wrote: > Greetings! > > The past week or so, up until today Kodi has been segfaulting on me - Anyone > else? > Starting from a term: > > failed to open zone.tab > libva info: VA-API version 1.13.0 > libva info: Trying to open

Re: Can't switch to different wifi network after switching users

2022-01-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 22 ian 22, 13:45:50, Luiz Romário Santana Rios wrote: > Hello, > > I'm running Debian 11 with KDE and I can't switch to a different > network if I switch to a different user. The first noticeable problem > is that every single listed network appears with the "Disconnect" > button, as if

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-23 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 22 ian 22, 07:13:18, gene heskett wrote: > > its for its own eth0 on the rpi4b. And I guess it is raspi specific. It > doesn't exist on this x86-64 bullseye install. Likely the source of your problems is that Raspberry Pi OS has DHCP enabled by default. It might have been done using

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 22 ian 22, 20:07:45, David Wright wrote: > > Because the basic /etc/hosts file looks something like: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > 192.168.1.1 router.corp router > 192.168.1.2 cascade.corpcascade > 127.0.1.1 acer.corp acer# 192.168.1.10 > # The following lines

Re: firejail: changing Ethernet network adapter name is breaking Firefox profile

2022-01-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 22 ian 22, 10:00:34, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > *Poof*, your Ethernet device name changes, since, by default [1] it's > named after the path in the USB device tree leading to your device. > Don't forget to stick your Ethernet dongle into the same port > afterwards. Else... *poof*. I

Re: firejail: changing Ethernet network adapter name is breaking Firefox profile

2022-01-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 22 ian 22, 09:52:45, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 22 Jan 2022 at 11:32:17 (+), piorunz wrote: > > On 22/01/2022 07:28, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Lu, 17 ian 22, 22:43:49, piorunz wrote: > > > > > > > > Problem is, every now and

Re: is it possible to install bullseye by copy whole disk?

2022-01-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 22 ian 22, 09:40:39, David Christensen wrote: > > A simple case is to image the entire device. Boot the Debian Installer > (d-i) (or a live Linux distribution) and use dd(1) to copy the entire USB > drive to the entire HDD: > > # dd bs=1M if=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-...

Re: is it possible to install bullseye by copy whole disk?

2022-01-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 22 ian 22, 02:36:27, lou wrote: > i've installed bullseye on usb disk > > can i copy it to hard disk (sda2) and make necessary change in /etc/fstab > and > > then update grub of usb disk to boot sda2? Something like that should be possible, yes. For more visibility you might want to

Re: hostname is being reset, killing net on reboot

2022-01-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 21 ian 22, 23:51:20, gene heskett wrote: > On Friday, January 21, 2022 10:46:35 PM EST Greg Wooledge wrote: [lots of good stuff] > This is all well and good, Greg, but it still does NOT give a clue what > todo when the system picks a fictitious route out of its rear. In order to even

Re: Authentication required message window after nvidia drivers installation.

2022-01-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 21 ian 22, 15:24:29, Thanos Katsiolis wrote: > Hello, > > the title of the post says pretty much everything. > I have the NVIDIA Quadro P400 graphics card and installed the NVIDIA > drivers as described in Debian wiki NVIDIA Proprietary Driver >

Re: firejail: changing Ethernet network adapter name is breaking Firefox profile

2022-01-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 17 ian 22, 22:43:49, piorunz wrote: > > Problem is, every now and then, Ethernet adapter name changes, from > enp5s0 to enp6s0 for example. Those names are supposed to be stable. Are you doing any changes to the hardware when that happens? Kind regards, Andrei --

Re: AMD EPYC throttled to 400 mhz

2022-01-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 17 ian 22, 22:08:43, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > On 17.01.2022 18:40, Simon Kainz wrote: > > > > I did not set/change governor/driver settings, this is a stock debian > > kernel. > Is the server platform runs latest BIOS and firmware? > Things I'd try first if I was in your place. > I

Re: Chromium security updates

2022-01-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 20 ian 22, 00:08:52, Richmond wrote: > I see debian 10's chromium is currently on version 90.0.4430.212 > (Developer Build), whereas google-chrome is on Version 97.0.4692.99 > (Official Build) (64-bit). Does that mean it is out of date and has > security vulnerabilities? > >

Re: strange file query

2022-01-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 17 ian 22, 17:00:48, ghe2001 wrote: > > (I grew up, computer-wise, in the days of the 7" floppy disk -- a > megaByte still feels like a lot of disk space.) You generated more data than that with your first post sent to the 3000+ d-u subscribers, not counting replies ;) Kind regards,

Re: User group "users"

2022-01-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 21 ian 22, 14:49:09, Steve Keller wrote: > I see that on my Debian systems there is a user group "users" with GID 100, > but by default no user gets added to it. So what is the purpose or reason > to have it? > > >From old Unix installations I know the group "users" which every user was >

Re: Please take this as constructive

2022-01-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 18 ian 22, 22:06:33, The Wanderer wrote: > > Unless you mean "e.g., using a wired connection"? It's not clear that > that's an available option in this case, either, although there are > probably a lot of cases where it will be. (I've had the misfortune > recently, in my workplace, of

Re: Firefox PDF download - strange behaviour.

2022-01-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 18 ian 22, 11:35:04, The Wanderer wrote: > > Looking at that example, I note that it starts with the variable name > "currentDirHandle". I think it's intended, although not explicitly > stated, that the directory path specified in that function call is > *relative*; that would let the API

Re: Hyper-typematic and Firefox responsiveness in Weston.

2022-01-21 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 18 ian 22, 08:10:30, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > Thanks. Revised version. > > fire () { case "$#" in > 0) firefox-esr --display=:0 file:///home/peter/MY/Peter.html#Links & ;; > 1) firefox-esr --display=:0 "$1" & ;; > *) echo "Too many arguments." ;; esac > } According to the

Re: Just curious if there's anybody out there still using LXDE?

2022-01-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 15 ian 22, 17:13:55, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > > There are probably a lot more packages like this out there. I use MOC > for playing music, and I don't think it's been updated (upstream) in > years. The versions in Debian seem to confirm this (just a few commits between

Re: Multiple 7zip extract

2022-01-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 16 ian 22, 20:44:12, Gokan Atmaca wrote: > Hello > > > $ cd destination-directory-for-extracted-files > > $ find top-directory-of-tree-containing-archive-files -type f -name \*7z > > -exec 7z e {} \; > > I'm already able to import into a single folder with the following. My > problem is

Re: Multiple 7zip extract

2022-01-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 16 ian 22, 18:59:49, Gokan Atmaca wrote: > Hello > > I have hundreds of 7z compressed files in different folders. I want to > open them. Every extracted file must be in the same directory. How can > we do this? If I understand your question correctly `find` with the `-execdir` action

Re: Just curious if there's anybody out there still using LXDE?

2022-01-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 15 ian 22, 14:45:04, c. marlow wrote: > Are there any LXDE users STILL out there? Yes, I'm using it on my current daily driver at home. > Today, I have been having this discussion on Debian's Reddit about LXDE > and it's future. > > Even though LXDE is DEAD when it comes to development

Re: How do I change disk ?

2022-01-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 11 ian 22, 17:22:08, Pierre Couderc wrote: > Thank you. I am surprised;  update-grub is enough to install grub correctly > on all drives...?? No, 'update-grub' is only used to update /boot/grub/grub.cfg. > > - install grub on the new harddrive (grub --install /dev/sdb or > > update-grub

Re: Bullseye default swap partition size?

2022-01-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 09 ian 22, 08:58:35, John Conover wrote: > Andrew M.A. Cater writes: > > On Sat, Jan 08, 2022 at 08:54:43AM -0800, John Conover wrote: > > > > > > I just installed Bullseye, using default "use entire disk" as the HD > > > configuration from the Graphical Install option on a Live USB SD. >

Re: Defaulting sound output to HDMI port

2022-01-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 07 ian 22, 11:43:34, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > I have a computer in the living room which is hooked up to our TV > via an HDMI cable. I use it to play MP3s, videos, and games. > Our TV is hooked to our stereo system to get good-quality sound. > However, audio isn't passing through the HDMI

Re: still fixing stuff the upgrade broke...

2022-01-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 07 ian 22, 20:50:20, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > > What you do on your host machine doesn't affect what goes on inside the > virtual system (machine inside virtual box). In case this wasn't obvious. I'd bet that e.g. upgrading the virtualization software can (and probably

Re: Default sound level always zero for externally plugged usb sound system

2022-01-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 15 ian 22, 10:30:50, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Try `alsactl store` > > Didn't know that one, thanks. Do you happen to know if they deliver to > Canada? > > > (might need root). > > Hmm... I only have dollars and francs :-( As far as I know it takes only altairian dollars, but you

Re: python-apt create_pin question

2022-01-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 14 ian 22, 08:09:30, Antonio Russo wrote: > > Hello! > > I'm trying to use apt_pkg to get a "best candidate" for a package, but with > slightly different constraints than I have set up in /etc/apt/preferences.d. > > I am trying to use Policy.create_pin to do so, but cannot seem to get it

Re: Why do experimental packages (e.g. clang-13) get in unstable?

2022-01-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 14 ian 22, 15:37:21, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 10:56:19AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > So clang-13 1:13.0.1~+rc1-1~exp4 testing is in testing/unstable, > > but the changelog says: > > > > llvm-toolchain-13 (1:13.0.1~+rc1-1~exp4) experimental; urgency=medium >

Re: Instalacja Debian8 błąd w Release

2022-01-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 15 ian 22, 13:48:39, piorunz wrote: > > And lastly, Debian archive nowhere says and/or guarantees that files > will be kept there forever. "forever" is a very, very, very long time ;) Who can guarantee something like this, and if anyone would, why would you believe them? Kind regards,

Re: OT: anybody uses eero 6 WiFi router?

2022-01-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 12 ian 22, 21:56:47, Juan R.D. Silva wrote: > Hi folks, > > Shopping for a new ISP came across company that uses exclusively eero 6 > router. Anyone to share your experience/opinion about the thing? > > 2 concerns of mine are: > - cloud based private network management > - Amazon owned

Re: OT: Recommendation for a new Debian laptop

2022-01-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 12 ian 22, 08:54:50, john doe wrote: > Debians, > > i've been using a laptop for a fiew years now and before this laptop > dies on me I would like to buy a new laptop. > > I'm thinking about two options: > - Buying something of the shelph and installing Debian on it > - Buying a pine64 or

Re: freeing up some space

2022-01-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 11 ian 22, 16:32:20, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Tuesday 11 January 2022 02:25:47 pm Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > > On 1/11/22, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > > So I'm poking around with mc, and happened across /var/cache/apt/archives > > > which has a LOT of *.deb files in it, and

Re: Replace line in file based on pattern

2022-01-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 02 ian 22, 21:22:33, Paul M. Foster wrote: > > I'm not interested in hacking a bunch of servers. Just one. The whole > purpose here is to restore a system to more or less its original > configuration when a reinstall must occur. A reinstall must occur when there > is a severe hardware

Re: Default sound level always zero for externally plugged usb sound system

2022-01-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 30 dec 21, 19:48:41, Pankaj Jangid wrote: > > Is there a way to tell Debian to save the previous volume level of > externally plugged-in device? Try `alsactl store` (might need root). Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: Hyper-typematic and Firefox responsiveness in Weston.

2022-01-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
Slightly late to the party ;) On Jo, 30 dec 21, 19:48:05, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Hi, > > Debian 11 is easily arranged so that "startx" or "weston" can be > issued at the console command line. That allows simple qualitative > comparisons. > > In weston, keyboard response can be

Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things

2022-01-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 03 ian 22, 14:02:05, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > Running pulseaudio --start fixed that problem, but now I show two instances > of it runninng. > > In the one that was running to start with, the command line shown to > me in system monitor includes "daemonize=no". I would guess

Re: Need Support on Debian10 Kernel Upgrade

2022-01-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 02 ian 22, 20:59:45, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 18 Dec 2021 at 12:36:49 (+0100), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Jo, 16 dec 21, 09:53:33, David Wright wrote: > > > > > > Anyone think it ironic that a multinational IT company with a > > > market capitalis

Re: How to secure access to SD cards a la USBGuard?

2022-01-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 02 ian 22, 20:52:25, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 10 Dec 2021 at 17:20:52 (+0100), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Lu, 06 dec 21, 10:18:49, David Wright wrote: > > > On Sun 05 Dec 2021 at 13:33:41 (+0100), Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > On Vi, 12 nov 21,

Re: linux-image-amd64 (5.10.84-1)

2021-12-26 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 21 dec 21, 15:01:27, phil995511 - wrote: > > I had to force the installation of the 5.10.84-1 kernel with this command : > > apt update && apt install linux-image-amd64 -y && apt install > linux-headers-amd64 -y && apt install firmware-linux firmware-linux-nonfree > > I'm afraid I will

Re: Identity Theft

2021-12-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 21 dec 21, 10:13:07, Jeremy Ardley wrote: > On 21/12/21 10:09 am, Jeremy Ardley wrote:s. > > There is a type of attack called cross-site scripting (XSS). It's mostly > > been eliminated by latest version browsers, but there are always > > zero-day vulnerabilities. > > > > The effect is

Re: BUG: Debian 11 version of bibletime

2021-12-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 21 dec 21, 05:31:31, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 12/18/2021 08:55 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Sb, 18 dec 21, 07:00:56, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > > > > Please demonstrate this by showing us the actual run of apt-file as well > > > > as

Re: Firefox ESR EOL

2021-12-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 20 dec 21, 06:42:47, gene heskett wrote: > > The first arm board builder to give us two pcie slots or two net ports. or > even 2 parports WILL OWN this market if the MSRP is under $100 with 2 gigs of > ram. Ideal would be one pci-e, and one net port. SSD's can be put on the > pi4's >

Re: Risc-V [OT: Firefox ESR EOL]

2021-12-25 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 20 dec 21, 09:53:54, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Dec 19, 2021 at 01:44:35PM -0500, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside > wrote: > > [...] > > > Would you have some suggestion if I'd like to try out a Risc-V board ? > > Feeding your fave search engine with, e.g. single board computer

Re: Broken libc6 running Sid (multiarch sytem)

2021-12-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 19 dec 21, 07:24:56, Tim Woodall wrote: > On Sat, 18 Dec 2021, Mark Allums wrote: > > > > Preparing to unpack .../libc6_2.33-1_amd64.deb ... > > Unpacking libc6:amd64 (2.33-1) over (2.34-0experimental1) ... > > dpkg: error processing archive > >

Re: 8 -> 9 update changing things

2021-12-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 18 dec 21, 11:24:34, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > There remains the sound issue in the virtualbox. Could it be that > Debian isn't running PulseAudio but something else? That would > account for the guest OS not being able to talk to it... As far as I'm aware there is no default

Re: Firefox ESR EOL

2021-12-19 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 18 dec 21, 14:22:58, David Newman wrote: > On Dec 18, 2021, at 12:44, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > > > >  > >>> On Fri, Dec 10, 2021, 3:56 AM Andrei POPESCU > >>> wrote: > >>> On Jo, 09 dec 21, 23:24:11, Marco Möller wrote: > >

Re: BUG: Debian 11 version of bibletime

2021-12-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 18 dec 21, 07:00:56, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > Please demonstrate this by showing us the actual run of apt-file as well > > as the output of > > > > dpkg -L bibletime-data Care to provide these as well? > richard@debian-11:~$ su > Password: > root@debian-11:/home/richard#

Re: Need Support on Debian10 Kernel Upgrade

2021-12-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 16 dec 21, 09:53:33, David Wright wrote: > > Anyone think it ironic that a multinational IT company with a > market capitalisation of $50 billion as of September 2021 comes > here for help on upgrading the kernel on an old Debian system? Many questions on this list originate from

Re: realtek bluetooth puzzle

2021-12-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 16 dec 21, 23:30:37, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > [10200.545324] usb 3-1: Product: DISK > > [10200.545329] usb 3-1: Manufacturer: Realtek > > [10200.545637] usb-storage 3-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected > > [10200.546006] scsi host6: usb-storage 3-1:1.0

Re: Need Support on Debian10 Kernel Upgrade

2021-12-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 16 dec 21, 16:12:37, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 12:28:17PM +, Balasubramanian Ravuthan wrote: > > Hi Team, > > > > We are looking support from you on the Linux Kernel upgrade on Debian > > 10. Please help on this. > > This is a user's list, not a support

Re: How to get linux headers or source code for debian 8.0 kernel 3.16.0-4-amd64 ?

2021-12-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 15 dec 21, 10:33:05, David wrote: > On Wed, 15 Dec 2021 at 03:18, Kiyanovski, Arthur wrote: > > > TL;DR - How do I get the Linux headers or source code for kernel > > 3.16.0-4-amd64 Debian 8.0? > > The version number of a Debian kernel package is not the same > thing as the version

Re: BUG: Debian 11 version of bibletime

2021-12-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 14 dec 21, 04:20:00, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 12/13/2021 08:10 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > > Richard Owlett composed on 2021-12-13 12:18 (UTC-0600): > > > > > I reinstalled bibletime and xiphos. > > > Using bibletime I installed Bible, concordance, etc. > > > F1 and F2 do NOT display the

Re: Problems upgrading from Debian 10 to 11

2021-12-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 14 dec 21, 21:27:28, James Dutton wrote: > > I tried the newer xrdp/xorgxrdp .deb from the debian repo, but they > did not install (dependent on different libs not in Bullseye. > I then compiled xrdp and xorgxrdp from git sources, and they compiled > and ran ok in Bullseye. > That is what I

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