Re: Vlan and DHCP

2024-04-19 Thread Anssi Saari
basti writes: > Whats wrong there? > Can someone put me in the wright direction? Must you use kea-dhcp? I researched a similar situation (I think, I'm not 100% from your description) and dnsmasq as DHCP server can handle this.

Re: Bookworm Networking Issues

2024-03-18 Thread Anssi Saari
Greg Wooledge writes: > For example, on my current machine, the network interface is named "eno1". > To bring this interface up, if it's not already up, I would run: > > ifup eno1 Um, ifup takes -a to bring all interfaces marked auto up. So that's the obvious command to try and if it

Re: Ethernet not working on a Dell notebook

2024-03-12 Thread Anssi Saari
fran...@libero.it writes: > sudo mii-tool enp19s0 -F 10baseT-FD > > The problem is that every time I shut off the notebook Ito have ethernet > connection again I have to give that command by terminal. Is > there the possibility to make default this ethernet module? Thanks and regards You can

Re: Getting my PCMCIA Serial card to work

2024-03-02 Thread Anssi Saari
Anders Andersson writes: > When I searched for "spectrum_cs" and "orinico" I got a lot of results > for some PC Card WLAN interface, which isn't right. Does anyone > recognize this? It should have a bog-standard 16550 compatible UART > and PCMCIA is more or less an ISA bus so I did not foresee

Re: Journald's qualities

2024-02-27 Thread Anssi Saari
Mariusz Gronczewski writes: > ... in what way? You need to resolve DNS first before you know which > interface the traffic is going out of. You can specify a domain via resolvectl domain for an interface. In my simple case I specify just ~. as the domain for my VPN and for my local domain it's

Re: Journald's qualities

2024-02-26 Thread Anssi Saari
Mariusz Gronczewski writes: > Offtopic but since Debian switched to systemd for DNS management on > VPNs and suc I need to restart it sometimes multiple times to just get > "right" DNS servers, because there appears to be no notion of priority: > > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/27543

Re: Timer doing apt update

2024-02-19 Thread Anssi Saari
Erwan David writes: > Hello, > > After each boot, the equivalent of apt update is automatically done in > background, through policykit (apt database is locked by > policykitd). So I think there is a timer triggroing this. I'd like to > disable this when my laptop is on expensive link (eg 4G

Re: What sets LC_TIME?

2024-02-16 Thread Anssi Saari
Greg Wooledge writes: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 03:34:12PM +0200, Anssi Saari wrote: >> Yah. It was ssh passing through all that. On serial console, locale >> settings are as expected: >> >> $ locale >> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 >> LANGUAGE=en_US:en >> LC_C

Re: What sets LC_TIME?

2024-02-16 Thread Anssi Saari
Greg Wooledge writes: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 10:24:07AM +0200, Anssi Saari wrote: >> With the recent LC_ALL thread, I noticed I have LC_TIME set by >> mysterious means on at least two headless systems, for example: >> >> $ locale >> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 &g

What sets LC_TIME?

2024-02-16 Thread Anssi Saari
With the recent LC_ALL thread, I noticed I have LC_TIME set by mysterious means on at least two headless systems, for example: $ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=en_US.utf8 LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.utf8 LC_MONETARY=en_US.utf8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8

Re: f3tools vs Silicon Power 4T drive

2024-02-15 Thread Anssi Saari
Stefan Monnier writes: > - Use an additional tiny dummy partition in which you can put any info > you like. This seems to be what Microsoft likes to do. At least I had the pleasure of tossing a "Microsoft reserved" partition out from my desktop recently, I think the Windows 10 installer

Re: what keyboard do you use?

2024-02-04 Thread Anssi Saari
Lee writes: > I figure there's a high percentage of keyboard jockeys here so .. > which keyboard do you like and why? I've had a fnatic ministreak for a few years. Why? - RGB backlight, I set it to a pleasant green. - remappable keys, remappings stored in the keyboard so it works the same

Re: Is 12.4 safe, or should I wait for 12.5?

2024-01-30 Thread Anssi Saari
Charlie Gibbs writes: > I followed the update steps exactly, accepting all defaults. If that were true, and you followed the steps in *the release notes* you could for example compare what packages you had before and after. But I guess you mean you followed the extremely minimal steps in the

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

2024-01-26 Thread Anssi Saari
"Roy J. Tellason, Sr." writes: > On Thursday 25 January 2024 09:03:36 am Anssi Saari wrote: >> Western Digital at least claims to have solved the leaking >> problem with helium and since they've been making those drives for over >> a decade, I thi

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

2024-01-25 Thread Anssi Saari
gene heskett writes: > I carefully note, the use of Helium and its problems is very carefully > ignored. I suppose helium is not required for SMR drives and could be used in CMR drives too... Western Digital at least claims to have solved the leaking problem with helium and since they've been

Re: Powered USB hub [was: Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help]

2024-01-25 Thread Anssi Saari
Max Nikulin writes: > Purchasing a powered USB hub, I made a mistake. I have not checked > compatibility with hubctl in advance. > https://github.com/mvp/uhubctl/ Wow, that's very cool. I wonder if there's anything similar for USB switches? I have one that's software controllable but it's not

Re: ip link versus nmcli device, WIFI

2024-01-23 Thread Anssi Saari
David Wright writes: > On Mon 22 Jan 2024 at 06:36:57 (+0200), Anssi Saari wrote: >> And you're sure wwx028037ec0200 is a WIFI device? My WWAN device >> sometimes comes up with a wwx ID like that, sometimes wwan0. I even >> explicitly rename it to wwan0 if that happen

Re: ip link versus nmcli device, WIFI

2024-01-21 Thread Anssi Saari
Geert Stappers writes: > Hello, > > > > Here on a laptop does `ip link` see a WIFI device, > but `nmcli device` does not. And you're sure wwx028037ec0200 is a WIFI device? My WWAN device sometimes comes up with a wwx ID like that, sometimes wwan0. I even explicitly rename it to wwan0 if that

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

2024-01-19 Thread Anssi Saari
gene heskett writes: > The OOM death of the system was the xfce4 terminal apparently being > set for unlimited scrollback and that was eating the memory. Switching > to Konsole with has the ability to control the scrollback to 200 > lines, and its taken all 32G's as .cache and 1536 1k blocks of

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

2024-01-19 Thread Anssi Saari
Franco Martelli writes: > I don't know if it is a good idea, in fact it exists a special > partition type for RAID array listed in fdisk, I used that for my > RAID: One case against using partitions on mdraid: if your array gets messed up, you get to recreate those partition tables yourself and

Re: How to prevent rtkit from giving firefox higher priority?

2024-01-16 Thread Anssi Saari
Tom Furie writes: > Fewer than when things don't work when you *do* have dbus, apparently ;) > There doesn't seem to be an overwhelming need for it once you step away > from the DE's. I don't have a DE on my main desktop but still it looks like I have five dbus-daemons and one dbus-launch

Re: Seeking a Terminal Emulator on Debian for "Passthrough" Printing

2024-01-12 Thread Anssi Saari
phoebus phoebus writes: > We have noticed that PuTTY allows "passthrough" printing but > unfortunately, it only works unidirectionally and requires the use of > a serial software printer which also supports only unidirectional > flow. While PuTTY can manage connections to devices via the serial

Re: serial-getty-ac8jik2j76sc5ckafg5...@public.gmane.org does not start

2024-01-09 Thread Anssi Saari
Rainer Dorsch writes: > Hello, > > I tried to start a serial console on ttyS0, but when I try to start the > serial-getty service, it does not return: > > root@master:~# systemctl status serial-getty@ttyS0.service > ○ serial-getty@ttyS0.service - Serial Getty on ttyS0 > Loaded: loaded

Re: The current package wpasupplicant doesn't support WPA3-Personal authentication. What alternatives to it exist?

2024-01-03 Thread Anssi Saari
Stella Ashburne writes: > Unfortunately, the current package wpasupplicant is unable to do > WPA3-Personal authentication. Are you sure? WPA3-Personal is hardly new so Bookworm should have the support. Even the package description says that. > What alternatives to it exist? I don't think

Re: Nvidia driver on Debian 10

2024-01-03 Thread Anssi Saari
Marco Moock writes: > Am 03.01.2024 um 11:52:59 Uhr schrieb Thomas Anderson: > >> Here is the output. Wow, a lot. > > All those lines with ii at the beginning mean the package is installed. > > apt remove *nvidia* -s > > Check if the result is ok and then run it without -s (-s only > simulates).

Re: kbrequest as in older /etc/inittab

2024-01-01 Thread Anssi Saari
Mike McClain writes: > Prior to the introduction of systemd /etc/inittab had this line in it: > kb::kbrequest:/bin/echo "Keyboard Request--edit /etc/inittab to let this > work." > and I found it useful to tie a call to openvt to Alt Up which went > well with ALT Right or Left arrow to move

Re: GRUB -- Debian overrides? Or maybe I just don't understand it well...

2023-12-21 Thread Anssi Saari
Mark Fletcher writes > The question is, what values are config_directory and prefix set to? Grub sets config_directory to point to the directory where it's reading it's config from. In other words, /boot. But why not just use 40_custom? It copies whatever is in the file (after the header) to

Re: Mouse single click handling?

2023-12-20 Thread Anssi Saari
local10 writes: > It's a Logitech Trackman Marble Trackball mouse (T-BC21 model). I like > this model but for some reason they just don't seem to last as long as > they used to. Maybe they have cost reduced it so much it doesn't last as well any more. Looks like there are some other models from

Re: raid10 is killing me, and applications that aren't willing towait for it to respond

2023-12-16 Thread Anssi Saari
gene heskett writes: > Is this info helpful? I don't know really. I was thinking about the file dialogs or requestors and how they often try access previously used locations. For example, I've learned not to download with Firefox to a network drive. I don't know if Firefox is still like that

Re: raid10 is killing me, and applications that aren't willing towaitfor it to respond

2023-12-16 Thread Anssi Saari
Greg Wooledge writes: > In Gene's case, the problem (long startup time of some applications) does > not appear to be related to his disks, but rather, to something in the > desktop environment or its underlying services. But isn't it fairly easy to try another desktop environment to eliminate

Re: raid10 is killing me, and applications that aren't willing towait for it to respond

2023-12-14 Thread Anssi Saari
gene heskett writes: > It repeats per gui access. Starting a gfx program such as OpenSCAD, or > qidislicer from an xfce4 terminal cli, is delayed for this similar but > not always identical lag. And reports odd warnings etc while its > getting ready to open its gui. Does this happen with

Re: Telnet

2023-12-05 Thread Anssi Saari
debian-u...@howorth.org.uk writes: > gene heskett wrote: >> On 12/4/23 05:22, Anssi Saari wrote: >> > debian-u...@howorth.org.uk writes: >> > >> >>> I concur, and would add that even on an isolated network one >> >>> should prefer ss

Re: Telnet

2023-12-04 Thread Anssi Saari
debian-u...@howorth.org.uk writes: >> I concur, and would add that even on an isolated network one should >> prefer ssh. First, to be in the right habit. Second because it will do >> things that telnet won't, like tunnel X. > > Ah but will it tunnel wayland?? Enquiring minds want to know :) Yes.

Re: ntpsec as server questions

2023-12-04 Thread Anssi Saari
jeremy ardley writes: > timedatectl status I think you mean timedatectl timesync-status since that lists the NTP server among other things. Interestingly, looks like my Debian router uses my ISP's NTP server which it likely knows through DHCP whereas my little Ubuntu-running Raspberry Pi uses

Re: connect two hosts over wifi without router?

2023-11-27 Thread Anssi Saari
Hans writes: > Hi folks, > > hmm, looks like the only way is using a hotspot, either one as a vitual one > using hostapd (or some similar software). I don't know much about drones but even a cursory look seemed to indicate some drones can act as wifi hotspots themselves? And newer drones

Re: high delay while printing

2023-11-27 Thread Anssi Saari
Stefan K writes: > Hello Debian guys, > > I hope someone can help me with my problem because I'm a little bit > frustrated and I don't have absolutely no clue how to fix that. > > I have a Debian 12 based print server running, all printers are > connected via IPP which works so far but it takes

Re: Work environment

2023-11-27 Thread Anssi Saari
Rolf Blum writes: > In order to expound on the contribution of Karl Vogel: > It gives me two big monitors (I regret that there is no space for a > third one) > a ergonomic mouse and a trackball > and my keyboard(G19) I think is roughly 10 years old, one of the best > investments into computer

Re: Request advice on Optimal Combo-usage of Gmail and Mailman, as mentioned in Msg-Id. "2023/11/msg00443"

2023-11-18 Thread Anssi Saari
Charles Kroeger writes: >> If you ever do find one, please let me know. The lack of such a thing is >> the primary reason why I don't do E-mail on Android *at all*. > > https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail > > I use this. It is what you want. I proposed it already but apparently it doesn't do

Re: approx in debian 12

2023-11-15 Thread Anssi Saari
"Russell L. Harris" writes: > root@mollydew:/home/rlh# systemctl daemon-reload > root@mollydew:/home/rlh# systemctl restart approx > Failed to restart approx.service: Unit approx.service not found. > root@mollydew:/home/rlh# systemctl status approx > Unit approx.service could not be found. >

Re: Password managers

2023-11-14 Thread Anssi Saari
Max Nikulin writes: > For Chromium it is better to have a password manager > (gnome-keyring/kwallet/keepassxc/etc.) with D-Bus interface. It needs > a key to encrypt passwords saved in browser and likely cookie store. > Encryption is not applied otherwise. What about Firefox then? Does it work

Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router

2023-11-14 Thread Anssi Saari
Charles Curley writes: > My FIT-PCs that provide network services are getting old, and i386 > Linux is slowly fading away. So I would like to replace them with a > router/gateway computer. I built a router with an APUD4D board and case from pcengines.ch. They're going out of production but are

Re: Request advice on Optimal Combo-usage of Gmail and Mailman, as mentioned in Msg-Id. "2023/11/msg00443"

2023-11-13 Thread Anssi Saari
The Wanderer writes: >> And those are getting rare, I can't find a nice MUA for Android with >> proper threading. > > If you ever do find one, please let me know. The lack of such a thing is > the primary reason why I don't do E-mail on Android *at all*. Possibly FairEmail would fit the bill.

Re: Hardware for a back up server? [WAS Re: How to use dmsetuup?]

2023-11-13 Thread Anssi Saari
Stefan Monnier writes: > My home NAS is in a completely different category: > an ARM SBC with on-board SATA. Much smaller, extremely quiet (no fan), > and between 5W and 10W of power consumption depending on whether it's > mostly idle (the overwhelmingly common case) or not. So which ARM SBC

Re: How do I connect my new wifi router (Mi Router 4C)?

2023-11-09 Thread Anssi Saari
Martin writes: > I just enabled it (again) now: > root@redmoon:~# systemctl enable nftables.service > Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/nftables.service → > /lib/systemd/system/nftables.service. > root@redmoon:~# systemctl status nftables.service > ○ nftables.service -

Re: How do I connect my new wifi router (Mi Router 4C)?

2023-11-05 Thread Anssi Saari
Martin writes: > #!/usr/sbin/nft -f > > table ip masqrule {} > flush table ip masqrule > table ip masqrule { > chain postrouting { > type nat hook postrouting priority srcnat; policy accept; > ip saddr 192.168.231.3/24 ip daddr != 192.168.231.3/24 masquerade > } > } > > When I

Re: Network tcp/iptables issue with XRDP

2023-10-25 Thread Anssi Saari
Henggi writes: > Oh wow… that’s interesting. I had no idea about „nft“ (I just knew > „iptables-nft“) which seem to be very different. > I think I have dig down where those „nft" rules are coming from while > iptables-nft is completely empty. Thanks, great clue! Typically you'd have a

Re: How do I connect my new wifi router (Mi Router 4C)?

2023-10-25 Thread Anssi Saari
Martin writes: > Hello, > > With wifi antena I receive a (rather weak) signal that connect my > computer to internet. I have to use windsurfer antena booster > (http://members.multiweb.nl/schaaijw/windsurfer_wifi_en.pdf) > to get usable signal. So my computer have internet signal from > wifi

Re: xrandr 1600x900 (ThinkPad X220T VGA-port) becomes 1440x900 (Samsung SyncMaster S20A300B)

2023-10-20 Thread Anssi Saari
Max Nikulin writes: > A decade ago I used a HDMI to DVI adapter plugged into the monitor (a > case a bit larger than a DVI male connector having a HDMI slot). I > would check if DP to DVI or DP to HDMI converters exist and have no > compatibility issues (e.g. I have heard of bugs related to

Re: "sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb" ... (then no device listed)

2023-09-27 Thread Anssi Saari
David Wright writes: > You'd have to specify a set of criteria to test. I just treat > /media/samsungd like any other filesystem, copying files in the > usual manner. Well, when I last tried MTP in Linux I got maybe half of a directory listing and then it hung there. Concluded it doesn't work

Re: "sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb" ... (then no device listed)

2023-09-25 Thread Anssi Saari
David Wright writes: > On Sun 24 Sep 2023 at 22:13:20 (+), Albretch Mueller wrote: >> On 9/24/23, Marco M. wrote: >> > On most Android phones, you need to explicit allow data transfers. >> >> What do you functionally mean? I need for you to talk to me like >> this: a) go "Settings"; b)

Re: memtest86

2023-09-18 Thread Anssi Saari
Stefan Monnier writes: > Of course the `.com` version won't push all its own caveats in your > face, that would go against its own commercial interests. Indeed. Like a feature it has might not work due to other reasons. For example, I bought the memtest86 pro since I wanted to use the ECC error

Re: pppoe ipv6 PD

2023-09-07 Thread Anssi Saari
basti writes: > My changes where attached in my last mail. Did you seen it? > Have a look at the mailing archive: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/09/msg00157.html No, you posted only your new versions so I can't know what you actually changed. You posted originally that you have:

Re: pppoe ipv6 PD

2023-09-07 Thread Anssi Saari
basti writes: > Am 06.09.23 um 09:37 schrieb Marco: >> Am 06.09.2023 09:24 schrieb Anssi Saari: >> >>> That should be enough but I don't really know how pppoe works, I've >>> only used IPv6 with tunneling, 6rd and 6in4 with the late route48.org. >>

Re: Components of the computer

2023-09-06 Thread Anssi Saari
jeremy ardley writes: > In my experience, just about any aftermarket laptop battery you buy > off ebay or Amazon will have significantly lower capacity than > advertised. Aftermarket batteries can also be physically bad, i.e. not fitting properly. One reason why I finally retired my old

Re: pppoe ipv6 PD

2023-09-06 Thread Anssi Saari
basti writes: > Hello, > > I have switch my network config from ifup to systemd-networkd. > > IPv4 is working well but IPv6 is broken now. > > In the past I used dhcpcd to delegate the ipv6 prefix to my LAN > interface. It seems not working with systemd. > > On my PPP interface I get an IPv4 and

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-02 Thread Anssi Saari
"D. R. Evans" writes: > I don't think that debian has used used /etc/network/interfaces for a > while, at least not by default. Certainly there's nothing useful there > on the machine that I just upgraded and whose networking is failing to > configure itself correctly. I used to think that too.

Re: Please verify Gnome and KDE wiki articles for correctness

2023-08-26 Thread Anssi Saari
Nate Bargmann writes: > This Wiki is semi-private in that editing is not open to just everyone > but may only be done through an account (apparently I have one and now > have to figure out how to reset my password). Good for you. I tried creating an account but after putting in name password

Re: 11 to 12 - fresh install or upgrade

2023-08-07 Thread Anssi Saari
"Juan R.D. Silva" writes: > ... the freshly installed system always run smoother and was not > littered with any old junk left from the old system. I'd expect some objective data on the former. Did you actually do both fresh installation and upgrade and compared those? > Could you share your

Re: Unable to ssh to Debian 9 from 9 or 11

2023-07-16 Thread Anssi Saari
Roger Price writes: > Does the style of comment give a clue to the tool used ? Earlier you posted a list of firewall rules like this: iptables -L -n --line-numbers reports Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) num targetprot opt source destination 1

Re: Nvidia graphics driver naming convention

2023-07-16 Thread Anssi Saari
Nicolas Marie writes: > My question is about the package naming: is the > nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-470 specifically built for Tesla > graphics, and the fact that I can use it for my consumer Nvidia GPU is > a positive "side effect"? The description of package nvidia-tesla-470-driver seems

Re: Migrating from hard drives to SSDs

2023-07-14 Thread Anssi Saari
gene heskett writes: > One of the things apparently missing in today's support for the arm64 > boards such as the bananapi-m5, is the lack of support for the nvme > memory on some of these devices. I have quite a few of them, all > booting and running from 64G micro-sd's. Yet these all have,

Re: Information concerning support for nVidia GeForce 750

2023-07-14 Thread Anssi Saari
Yoann LE BARS writes: > Before doing anything wrong, is it possible to confirm that I > will be able to run the proprietary nVidia driver 525 on the > real-time kernel—and maybe Wayland? Currently there's a grave bug in Debian 12, related to Debian-packaged Nvidia drivers

Re: getmail problem

2023-07-14 Thread Anssi Saari
Pierre Frenkiel writes: > hi, > > the problem with getmail is that it ignores my .getmailrc file: [...] > ( my config is  in ~.getmailrc and .getmail/getmailrc ) The latter should work. Run getmail --dump to see what it says about the configuration file location. Since I don't know how to

Re: Freezing mouse and other suff

2023-07-09 Thread Anssi Saari
Stefan Monnier writes: >>> computer.  I have an 8gb seagate ATA  harddrive, Inetl core i3-9100T CPU 310 >> Bank 9 suggests that the main memory might be ECC memory? > > Hmm... according to Wikipedia the i3-9100T does not support ECC memory. Intel says otherwise.

Re: Deactivating and Reactivating the display of a NUC 13

2023-07-03 Thread Anssi Saari
Stefan Schumacher writes: > Hello Timothy > >>Do both NUC's have the same behavior or is just one of them having > this problem? If just one of >them is having this behavior is it the > DP or HDMI? > > I have just done some tests and it's only the USB-C-to-DP NUC that is > problematic. The HDMI

Re: How to create a systemd service that interact with nftables service

2023-06-25 Thread Anssi Saari
André Rodier writes: > Hello, all. > > I have a simple script, to save / and store dynamic nftables sets. > > I would like to create a systemd service, that starts -after- nftables is > started, and stops -before- nftables > is > stopped. > > Any idea on how to achieve this, please ? It

Re: Follow recent stable Python versions

2023-06-22 Thread Anssi Saari
Dan Ritter writes: > You will want to let the Debian python packages alone, and > install new pythons from source in /opt/python-VER or such. Then > use venvs to make sure that you are always getting the python > you really want. There's a tool called pyenv which handles downloads, compilations

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread Anssi Saari
writes: > I infer that Synaptic, by requiring root privileges to be truly useful, > is mis-designed, since there isn't a daemon executing root level > commands in the background. Well, no. There is a common framework for this and it's called PolicyKit.

Re: nvidia package 340xx

2023-05-23 Thread Anssi Saari
Richmond writes: > Ubuntu 20.04 supports kernel 5.4 until 2025. So I might try that after > debian 10 expires. > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FocalFossa/ReleaseNotes#Linux_Kernel Off topic but they actually increased that to 2030 recently, at least on x86-64. I thought I could benefit from it with

Re: Ok so Now which backup should I use

2023-05-17 Thread Anssi Saari
writes: > On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 09:53:36AM +0300, Anssi Saari wrote: >> It's an odd claim. I typically don't have anything in /usr/local except >> what I put there myself [...] > Not many. An "apt-file search /usr/local" turns up exactly three packages. > And I

Re: Ok so Now which backup should I use

2023-05-17 Thread Anssi Saari
Celejar writes: > On Tue, 16 May 2023 09:52:07 +0800 > Jeremy Ardley wrote: > >> >> On 16/5/23 09:11, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: >> > I'd suggest backing up /etc, since that's where your system settings >> > are. I also back up /var, since that's typically where your logs and >> > mail

Re: Ok so Now which backup should I use

2023-05-16 Thread Anssi Saari
Maureen L Thomas writes: > I have everything I need including a third HDD. There are so many backup > programs I have to wonder which one will work for my needs. I > just need to make a backup of my home directory so if I do something stupid > like play with /var and have no idea how to fix

Re: how to find out regdomain/country of wifi network

2023-05-16 Thread Anssi Saari
hl writes: > i try old  FreeBSD-12.4, accept default FCC/US though i am not in US, > wifi scan succeeds Is it out of the question to actually set the regulatory domain to match the country you're in?

Re: EPSON ET M 1120 new printer: If You can read this, you are using the wrong driver

2023-05-16 Thread Anssi Saari
Will Mengarini writes: > * Brian [23-05/08=Mo 00:27 +0100]: >> https://download3.ebz.epson.net/dsc/f/03/00/14/48/15/1d37501ad39bd2b5753 \ >> cce3b2715b3e2fef557/epson-inkjet-printer-escpr_1.7.26-1lsb3.2_amd64.deb > > That includes a literal space in the middle of that hash > (because the

Re: No space left on device ...

2023-05-15 Thread Anssi Saari
Albretch Mueller writes: > I have been mounting an NTFS file system on a Windows laptop without > any problems whatsoever with a Debian Live DVD: Mounting how exactly? And what is the contents of /proc/mounts? Maybe you mounted the partition read only?

Re: Bookworm soft lockup

2023-05-15 Thread Anssi Saari
Christian Gelinek writes: > Is anyone else seeing a similar problem? What can I do to avoid this? > Do we need anything else to narrow it down further? Only time I've seen a soft lockup was from a bad CPU. There were a bunch of them and eventually the computer hung. Going back to the slow

Re: Debian installation using debootstrap and grub-install - no entry in ESC boot menu

2023-04-25 Thread Anssi Saari
Valentin Caracalla writes: > But this doesn't work either. Same problem here. However I can make > such an EFI installation using official installation media on the same > machine and that does work. That recipe (and the whole post) was hard to read but don't you need some flags for the ESP

Re: Debian installation using debootstrap and grub-install - no entry in ESC boot menu

2023-04-25 Thread Anssi Saari
Valentin Caracalla writes: > Previously, I've successfully installaed Debian using official > installation media on this machine (also using BIOS boot interface), > so I know that it works in principle. I can't see anything wrong with the script. Did that installation use GPT and a BIOS Boot

Re: is nft running? how do I get info?

2023-04-25 Thread Anssi Saari
Bonno Bloksma writes: > Also trying command completion with the nft, or even nf, show no > results. Using just the n for completion gives just the networking > service. It seems others covered your other issues so I'll just comment on this. Maybe your command completion is just bad? I can't

Re: is nft running? how do I get info?

2023-04-24 Thread Anssi Saari
Bonno Bloksma writes: > Hi, > > After years of using ipchains and later iptables as firewall I am now trying > to use nft. :-) > > I thought I understood it all and as far as I know I have a working config. > But just trying to get a listing of the running config shows NOTHING. >

Re: Vsync causes stuttering in various games regardless of uncapped performance

2023-04-20 Thread Anssi Saari
flavonol writes: > Hello Debian community, > > Whenever I enable vertical sync in any one of various video games (including, > but not limited to, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Team Fortress 2, > Minecraft Java Edition & Hollow Knight), framerates frequently drop to > between around 30 to 50 frames

Re: Debian Stretch : X server won't start after update

2023-04-15 Thread Anssi Saari
Charles Curley writes: > On Fri, 14 Apr 2023 19:41:37 +0100 > Brian wrote: > >> I thought stretch is unsupported by Debian. Where did the update come >> from? > > Stretch is oldoldstable, and under LTS support. > https://www.debian.org/releases/ Actually LTS support for Stretch ended in

Re: Commands service and systemctl.

2023-04-15 Thread Anssi Saari
pe...@easthope.ca writes: > Does the relationship between service and systemctl parallel that > between ifconfig and ip? service is a legacy command? I guess that's one way of putting it. Simply put, the systemctl command is for controlling systemd services. The service is for running SysV init

Re: ICMP router advertisement (ipv4)

2023-04-12 Thread Anssi Saari
Dan Ritter writes: > Tunnelbroker.net can use a dynamic update feature so that the > static IPv6 address is only momentarily interrupted when the > underlying v4 address is changed out. This is quite reliable if > you hook it to the the DHCP client's post-up function. I don't understand the

Re: ICMP router advertisement (ipv4)

2023-04-11 Thread Anssi Saari
Jeremy Ardley writes: > Your only option seems to be to sign up with some external IPv6 > provider. This service (I've never used it so beware) says it gives > you ipv6 etc for free. What their business model is I'm not sure > https://tunnelbroker.net/ I doubt that's going to work for him

Re: questions about cron.daily

2023-04-07 Thread Anssi Saari
Greg Wooledge writes: > On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 05:45:08PM -0500, David Wright wrote: >> Users (including root) write their crontabs anywhere they like, >> typically in a directory like ~/.cron/. > > Is that... normal? I can't say I've ever seen anyone keep a private > copy of their crontab in

Re: Buster => Bullseye: packages kept back

2023-03-28 Thread Anssi Saari
Jesper Dybdal writes: > On 2023-03-26 23:12, Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 5:16 AM Jesper Dybdal >> wrote: >>> Yesterday, I upgraded Buster => Bullseye. >> For completeness, here is the Debian procedure for a release upgrade: >> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUpgrade . >

Re: How do I specify a custom apt dependency between kernel image and its headers?

2023-03-28 Thread Anssi Saari
Ram Ramesh writes: > I have nvdia card that requires binary driver to work in my system. Xorg is > unable display anything with free driver. Since nvidia-driver has to be > built for each kernel install, I need to install headers also. This seem to > work automatically for any standard kernel

Re: PDF on debian

2023-03-15 Thread Anssi Saari
Dan Ritter writes: > Apart from Windows-derived GDI printers, the majority of laser > and inkjet printers have a PostScript interpreter built in, even > if its primary use is in interpreting PDF files. I think that's probably outdated info too. My cheapie Epson XP-3100 supports some bitmap

Re: Bookworm system randomly not responding (was Re: Bookworm system not responding on high memory usage)

2023-03-14 Thread Anssi Saari
Xiyue Deng writes: > As this system has been running Bullseye for a few years with zero > problem, I'm hopeful this should work for Bookworm as well. If you have > anything in mind that may worth a try please feel free to share. The > more ideas the better. To me the interesting question is,

Re: switch gateway automatically

2023-03-11 Thread Anssi Saari
Timothy M Butterworth writes: > what are you currently using as a WAN router? You can use Debian as a router! > You can configure two default > Gateway's with the primary using a metric of 600 and the backup with a metric > of 700. This will require two > NICs. For failover it's also possible

Re: question about rc.local

2023-03-10 Thread Anssi Saari
Nicolas George writes: > Anssi Saari (12023-03-09): >> Perhaps a note, since today in Debian by default it's systemd which runs >> /etc/rc.local. There's no guarantee it's done last like there was in SysV >> init since systemd runs stuff in parallel. Network availability als

Re: question about rc.local

2023-03-09 Thread Anssi Saari
Corey Hickman writes: > does debian 11 still use /etc/rc.local for startups after rebooting? > > for instance, I want to start a process after system rebooting, where should > I put the command? Perhaps a note, since today in Debian by default it's systemd which runs /etc/rc.local. There's no

Re: nvidia-driver gets a code 1

2023-03-07 Thread Anssi Saari
Charles Kroeger writes: > Where is this nvidia-open-kernel-525.89.02 ? Seems like it's lost to history. Bookworm non-free has nvidia-open-kernel-525.85.12. So maybe you just need to run apt update to have up to date package lists and then run apt upgrade? > There was an advisory by Andreas

Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .

2023-03-06 Thread Anssi Saari
David Wright writes: > So what was wrong with using a .link file like: > > [Match] > Type=wwan > [Link] > NamePolicy=keep kernel > > or > > [Match] > Type=wwan > [Link] > Name=my4g > > Did this not work? Nothing was wrong but I just added a few lines to my management script to

Re: how to activate my wireless card? nmtui only shows wireless connections . . .

2023-03-05 Thread Anssi Saari
Curt writes: > * UNPREDICTABILITY > it turns out even after all this [**an enumeration of complications and corner > cases**] there are still reported cases of interfaces changing their name on a > reboot. I have just this fun kind of unpredictability in my router's 4G module. Mostly, it comes

Re: Test ECC memory

2023-02-21 Thread Anssi Saari
krys...@ibse.cz writes: > PS: Some commercial memtests should allegedly be able to inject ECC > errors (for example the one from passmark), have anyone tried those? I've tried Passmark's memory tester (the commercial one which includes ECC error injection), but I've had no luck. My desktop has

Re: Test ECC memory

2023-02-21 Thread Anssi Saari
Dan Ritter writes: > We see ECC errors irregularly and infrequently on both Intel and > AMD CPUs. How/where do you see those on a Debian system? I looked into this briefly but didn't get anywhere.

Re: snapd vs apt

2023-02-17 Thread Anssi Saari
Brian writes: > On Fri 17 Feb 2023 at 05:55:03 +0800, winnie hw wrote: > >> Most versions in snapd are newer than apt. such as ruby, >> >> snap install ruby # version 3.2.1, or >> apt install ruby # version 1:3.0~exp1 > > I cannot better the existing very informative replies. > It comes down

Re: X11 and hot-plugged keyboards and multiple layouts

2023-02-14 Thread Anssi Saari
Nicolas George writes: > Nicolas George (12020-02-19): >> 8<8<8<8< xi2watch.c >8>8>8>8 > > Hi. > > I am replying to my own mail of three years ago where I explained how to > configure X11 to set different layouts on different keyboards and handle >

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