Re: Subject: Glitchy sound in Steam games after hard drive upgrade

2024-04-23 Thread debian-user
Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 2024-04-22 16:50, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > What are the old and new hard drive model numbers and specs? > > The old drive is a Western Digital WD5000YS (500GB SATA). > The new drive is a Western Digital Red, WF40EFPX (4TB SATA). According to my searches, there's

Re: Strange New Installation Behavior

2024-04-22 Thread debian-user
Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d...@ewoof.net> wrote: > On 22 Apr 2024 09:00 -0400, from s.mol...@sbcglobal.net (Stephen P. > Molnar): > > I downloaded and ran the 512 check sum on a copy of > > Debian-12.5.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso and ran the Graphical Install mode on > >

Re: NextGov: Linux XZ Utils Backdoor Was Long Con, Possibly With Support

2024-04-05 Thread debian-user
Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > Continues to sound like one single perp is destroying the TRUST > factor that an untold number of future programmers must meet. That's > heartbreaking. It has never sounded like a single perp to me. 'Jia Tan' is an obvious sock puppet as are the other names who pushed

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-03-29 Thread debian-user
Curt wrote: > On 2024-03-28, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > Security, as Bruce Schneier [1] says, is a process. Not a product. > > A process that is essentially out of your control. I would hope it is, given how little I or most people understand about security. > This is the elephant in

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-03-28 Thread debian-user
wrote: > [1] https://xkcd.com/1200/ Here in the UK the most important part of that xkcd for most people simply isn't true. Anything financial has a separate login procedure and all that I use time out after a period of inactivity (even some stupid non-important government things). I expect the

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-19 Thread debian-user
Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d...@ewoof.net> wrote: > For most values of "you", most attackers don't care about _your_ > account, or _your_ system; they care about _any_ account, or _any_ > system. Actually targeted attacks do happen, but very rarely compared > to what might be thought of as

Re: Root password strength

2024-03-19 Thread debian-user
Dan Ritter wrote: > Jan Krapivin wrote: > > I read Debian Administrator's handbook now. And there are such > > words: > > > > The root user's password should be long (12 characters or more) and > > impossible to guess. > ... > > > > The thin

Re: images in Perl/Tk

2024-03-19 Thread debian-user
ldn't recognize data in image file "test.jpeg" at > >> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.38/Tk/Image.pm line 21" > >> I've tried different images/pngs/jpgs with same error. > >> images load OK in other viewers. > >> Installed tkpng with apt. > >

Re: images in Perl/Tk

2024-03-18 Thread debian-user
e error. > images load OK in other viewers. > Installed tkpng with apt. > > Anybody successfully used images with Perl/Tk? You'll likely do better asking perl questions on e.g the perlmonks site. > Would Tk::JPEG/Tk::PNG from cpan be happy with the Debian Tk and may > possibly help recognis

Re: very poor nfs performance

2024-03-08 Thread debian-user
Stefan K wrote: > > Run the database on the machine that stores the files and perform > > database access remotely over the net instead. ? > > yes, but this doesn't resolve the performance issue with nfs But it removes your issue that forces you to use the sync option.

Re: very poor nfs performance

2024-03-08 Thread debian-user
Stefan K wrote: > > You could try removing the "sync" option, just as an experiment, to > > see how much it is contributing to the slowdown. > > If I don't use sync I got around 300MB/s (tested with 600MB-file) .. > that's ok (far from great), but since there are database files on the > nfs

Re: Spam from the list?

2024-03-06 Thread debian-user
s regarding classifying spam. Change it to not respect the particular header you think is causing problems. > Important is: The cause is not at debian server (which is fine!) and > not on my system (which is also fine), but on the provider server. > > To know this, I think we can safely

Re: Spam from the list?

2024-03-06 Thread debian-user
nsient connection > > > failures > > > > The mark "*SPAM*" does not appear in the archive > > > > This line is set by spamassassin on my own computer, when a spam mail > is marked as spam. Then it will be filtered out. But I can not see

Re: missing development package?

2024-03-04 Thread debian-user
t; > to: > > > > deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main > > contrib non-free > > I'm on bookworm. Pasting my current sources below. Is something > missing? > > /e/a/sources.list.d $ for f in *; echo "* $f"; cat "$

Re: How to upgrade the GLIBCXX and GLIBC to the specific version

2024-02-28 Thread debian-user
Gremlin wrote: > On 2/27/24 16:08, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > Gremlin wrote: > > > >> The provider is raspberry foundation and Raspian has been > >> dis-continued. > Nope that is just wrong. > > https://www.raspbian.org/

Re: How to upgrade the GLIBCXX and GLIBC to the specific version

2024-02-27 Thread debian-user
Gremlin wrote: > The provider is raspberry foundation and Raspian has been > dis-continued. There is such a thing as the Raspberry Pi Foundation but they are an educational charity. Pis are supplied by Raspberry Pi Ltd. Raspbian has NOT been discontinued, it has simply been renamed Raspberry Pi

Re: partition reporting full, but not

2024-02-20 Thread debian-user
Felix Miata wrote: > Keith Bainbridge composed on 2024-02-20 17:45 (UTC+1100): > > > I just removed 3 snapshots from my daily driver with no change in > > used space reported by df > > df doesn't know how to calculate freespace on btrfs. You need to be > typing > > btrfs filesystem df

Re: partition reporting full, but not

2024-02-19 Thread debian-user
David Christensen wrote: > On 2/18/24 19:20, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > I am convinced that the missing space is used by btrfs snapshot > > process. > > > Perhaps. But, are you re-balancing your btrfs file systems regularly? > >

Re: partition reporting full, but not

2024-02-17 Thread debian-user
Keith Bainbridge wrote: > Yes the / partitions are btrfs So the apparently missing space is perhaps taken up by btrfs snapshots.

Re: What sets LC_TIME?

2024-02-17 Thread debian-user
Greg Wooledge wrote: > That's all normal and expected. > > What's odd is that client *actually has* LC_NUMERIC and so on set in > its environment. Which... is not a problem if they're all set to the > correct values. It's weird, but not wrong. The problem for the OP > was that one of the

Re: f3tools vs Silicon Power 4T drive

2024-02-17 Thread debian-user
gene heskett wrote: > On 2/16/24 15:47, Stefan Monnier wrote: > >>> One of the 1T samsungs in the md raid10 isn't entirely happy but > >>> mdadm has not fussed about it, and smartctl seems to say its ok > >>> after testing. Other than that the gui access delay (30+ seconds) > >>> problems I have

Re: f3tools vs Silicon Power 4T drive

2024-02-16 Thread debian-user
gene heskett wrote: > On 2/15/24 15:45, Andy Smith wrote: > > > MD RAID isn't the only way to achieve redundancy. You also haven't > > explained why you need LVM. Depending on your needs, maybe a > > filesystem with redundancy and volume management features in it > > would be better. Like btrfs

Re: f3tools vs Silicon Power 4T drive

2024-02-15 Thread debian-user
Andy Smith wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 08:48:31PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > On 2/14/24 19:48, Andy Smith wrote: > > > Please show us the command you used¹ to do that, so we know what > > > exactly you are talking about, because as previously discussed > > > there's a lot of different

Re: SMART Uncorrectable_Error_Cnt rising - should I be worried?

2024-02-15 Thread debian-user
The Wanderer wrote: > It turns out that there is a hard limit of 65000 > hardlinks per on-disk file; That's a filesystem dependent value. That's the value for ext4. XFS has a much larger limit I believe. As well as some other helpful properties for large filesystems. btrfs has different

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-13 Thread debian-user
Greg Wooledge wrote: > Shred will determine the size of the file, then write data to the > file, rewind, write data again, etc. On a traditional hard drive, > that will overwrite the original private information. On modern > devices, it may not. Thanks for the excellent explanation :) One

Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

2024-02-11 Thread debian-user
David Christensen wrote: > On 2/10/24 16:10, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 04:05:21PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > >> 2024-02-10 16:03:50 dpchrist@laalaa ~ > >> $ shred -s 1K - | wc -c > >> shred: -: invalid file type > >> 0 > >> > >> > >> It looks like a shred(1) needs

Re: Home UPS recommendations

2024-02-09 Thread debian-user
Felix Miata wrote: > hw composed on 2024-02-09 12:07 (UTC+0100): > > > What other manufacturers could we buy UPSs from? > > I bought my first APC just last year, because it was what I found on > the shelf in WalMart, only 450VA, with "Best-in-class Service and > Support", more to protect

Re: xterm PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD selection [was: Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim]

2024-02-07 Thread debian-user
Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I have not said it is more “standard for terminals”, I have that it > > is more “standard” fullstop. It is more standard by the virtue of > > having worked for decades, C-Ins S-Ins S-Del existed way before the > > C-C C-V C-X tryptich, and still working today in most

Re: Copy from Firefox and paste into Terminal with Vim

2024-02-06 Thread debian-user
Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Feb 05, 2024 at 10:28:53PM -0800, David Christensen wrote: > > Continuing from above in Vim in Insert mode, if I then > > simultaneously press the Ctrl, Shift, and v keys, and then release > > all keys, Vim inserts the contents of the clipboard; as confirmed > > by:

Re: Many systemd units do not start anymore

2024-02-06 Thread debian-user
Christoph Pleger wrote: > Hello, > > on one of my server machines, suddenly many systemd units (e.g. cron, > autofs) do not start any more, neither at boot nor when trying to > start manually with "systemctl start ", this hangs till I abort > with Ctrl-C - though the commands defined in

Re: How can we change the keyboard layout? (was: what keyboard do you use?)

2024-02-06 Thread debian-user
Brian Sammon wrote: > On Mon, 05 Feb 2024 21:06:30 +0100 > hw wrote: > > > Yes, it's a misunderstanding: How can we change the keyboard > > layout? > > I recently dug into this because I am running Debian on a Chromebook, > and I wanted to map the Google-key (lo

Re: How can we change the keyboard layout? (was: what keyboard do you use?)

2024-02-06 Thread debian-user
hw wrote: > On Mon, 2024-02-05 at 14:34 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > [...] > > "The German layout differs from the English (US and UK) layouts in > > four major ways: > > It's missing out on yet another major way: Umlaute. If you reread the wikipedia page, you'll see that umlaut keys are

Re: Home UPS recommendations

2024-01-26 Thread debian-user
ghe2001 wrote: > Take a look at Tripp Lite: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripp_Lite > > I used them for years to back up a small domain -- they make > sine-wave electricity. One of the references in the wikipedia article looked interesting:

Re: counting commas

2024-01-19 Thread debian-user
Greg Wooledge wrote: > I won, and you lost There shouldn't be a comma in that sentence, in English. There is in the closely related expression "I won, you lost." > I really don't think I'd try this with shell scripts. The tools just > aren't designed for this. You really want tools that are

Re: No Release file for Security Update

2024-01-19 Thread debian-user
Tixy wrote: > On Thu, 2024-01-18 at 12:06 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > Tixy writes: > > > Where could your machine be getting this IP address from?  It's > > > the same IP address shown in your output when you used the > > > incorrect address 'ftp.security.debian.org' and for me that > > >

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

2024-01-16 Thread debian-user
hw wrote: > On Tue, 2024-01-16 at 11:27 +0100, Arno Lehmann wrote: > > I don't know anything about rtkit, but I may be able to parse > > English :-) > > > > Am 16.01.2024 um 10:42 schrieb hw: > > ... > > > The messages in the journal are actually weird: > > > > > > > > >

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

2024-01-14 Thread debian-user
phoebus phoebus wrote: > Hello, > > >> Clearly we don't know of any terminal > >> emulators that do what you want.  (I assume you've already looked > >> at kermit, and found it lacking... yes?  OK then.) > > I want to express my sincere gratitude for pointing me to this > project. I wasn't

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

2024-01-13 Thread debian-user
Charles Curley wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 09:59:48 -0500 > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > The real problem here is that we're all blind men trying to grasp > > the elephant. > > A good summary of what we know so far. I suspect that the OP should > question whether it's time to scrap the

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

2024-01-13 Thread debian-user
phoebus phoebus wrote: > Hello, > > >> > Currently, PuTTY is an option but its current version has > >> > limitations that make it insufficient for our operational use. > >> > >> > >> Commission the PuTTY authors to add the missing features or pay > >> someone else to do it if they aren't

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

2024-01-12 Thread debian-user
Curt wrote: > On 2024-01-12, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk > wrote: > > Curt wrote: > >> On 2024-01-11, Max Nikulin wrote: > >> > > >> > There was a thread that "home" as the top level domain might not > >> > be really safe (

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

2024-01-12 Thread debian-user
Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Fri, Jan 12, 2024 at 11:08 AM Curt wrote: > > > > On 2024-01-12, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk > > wrote: > > > Curt wrote: > > >> On 2024-01-11, Max Nikulin wrote: > > >> > > > &g

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

2024-01-12 Thread debian-user
Curt wrote: > On 2024-01-11, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > > There was a thread that "home" as the top level domain might not be > > really safe (somebody might register it). A reserved domain is > > "home.arpa" so e.g. to have "thinkpad", the /etc/hosts entry should > > be > > > > 127.0.1.1

Re: Donate money

2024-01-08 Thread debian-user
noah poulton wrote: > Hi guys! > > > I was wondering, is there a way to donate to Debian via direct debit? > I want to to donate but I don't have a paypal account (and I don't > really want to create one). > > I live in the UK (if that makes a difference). Clicking on

Re: NFS: IPV6

2024-01-05 Thread debian-user
Marco Moock wrote: > Am 04.01.2024 um 18:19:57 Uhr schrieb Pocket: > > > Where can I find information on how to configure NFS to use ipv6 > > addresses both server and client. > > Does IPv6 work basically on your machine, including name resolution? > > Does it work if you enter the address

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

2024-01-04 Thread debian-user
Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 12:04:52AM +0100, Stella Ashburne wrote: > > > https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/wpasupplicant > > > > > The main heading of that web page is Package: wpasupplicant > > (2:2.10-12) > > > > Immediately below it is the sub-heading that states >

Re: Printer weirdness

2023-12-31 Thread debian-user
gene heskett wrote: > On 12/30/23 16:43, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 30, 2023 at 10:25:27PM +0100, Hans wrote: > >> Sorry, did I impress myself so wrong? > >> > >> What I meant, were the packages for the driver, which Brother > >> provide. > >> > >> If you want to know, take a look at

Re: Printer weirdness

2023-12-30 Thread debian-user
Hans wrote: > Am Samstag, 30. Dezember 2023, 18:06:43 CET schrieb debian- > u...@howorth.org.uk: > > Hans wrote: > One is a Brother DCP-125j (connected via USB-cable), the other a > Brother MFC- L3750CDW (coonnected via LAN to thze router). > > The Notebo

Re: Printer weirdness

2023-12-30 Thread debian-user
Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am looking for an explanation of a strange effect. > > The issue: > I have a customer, who is using debian and has connected two printers > (one of them with an integrated scanner and LAN, the other via > USB-cable). You'll probably get

Re: Firefox Warning [SOLVED]

2023-12-28 Thread debian-user
Mike McClain wrote: > You are correct Tixy and my apologies. > Raspberry Pi advertises itself as Debian ... That's true and maybe somebody should request them to change the sig-on message when you log in to something more accurate?

Re: Help: network abuse

2023-12-21 Thread debian-user
Alain D D Williams wrote: > On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 10:11:08AM -0500, Pocket wrote: > > > Use a firewall and set it up correctly. > > That I have done. > > The issue is broadband usage - ie before it hits the firewall. IIUC you have a residential system with an ISP connection with a

Re: System getting slower and slower (debian Testing)

2023-12-17 Thread Laurent Debian
Hi, please ignore the previous message It seems that upgrading from 6-0-1 to 6-0-5 fix the problem (that or autoremove) regards, Laurent Le dim. 17 déc. 2023 à 10:44, Laurent Debian a écrit : > Dear All, > I am running debian Testing, > I did two things recently, upgrading t

Re: dhcpd.conf Q?

2023-12-16 Thread debian-user
gene heskett wrote: [snip] > I use nano a lot, but it could use a larger font for these ancient > eyeballs. nano runs in a terminal so it doesn't control the font - the terminal does. How you change the font size in a terminal depends on which terminal program you are using. I expect $ man

Re: why would "tr --complement --squeeze-repeats ..." append the substitution char once more? ...

2023-12-11 Thread debian-user
Albretch Mueller wrote: > echo "abc123" > file.txt > ftype=$(file --brief file.txt) > echo "// __ \$ftype: |${ftype}|" > ftypelen=${#ftype} > echo "// __ \$ftypelen: |${ftypelen}|" > > # removing spaces ... > ftype2=$(echo "${ftype}" | tr --complement --squeeze-repeats > '[A-Za-z0-9.]' '_'); >

Re: Image handling in mutt

2023-12-11 Thread debian-user
songbird wrote: > wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 10, 2023 at 01:28:20PM -0500, songbird wrote: > >> wrote: > > there is rarely a need to e-mail me directly. > > >> ... > >> > That's why I cringe when people name executables "foo.sh". What > >> > do you do when you decide to rewrite the thing

Re: Hardware TOTP on Linux

2023-12-08 Thread debian-user
piorunz wrote: > On 06/12/2023 07:45, Andre Rodier wrote: > > If you also know a small phone supporting Debian, it could be fine > > as well. **I don't need phone functions like, bluetooth, wifi, > > etc.** > > Pinephone tick this box. It works quite well, for earl

Re: debian forgot usr pw

2023-12-08 Thread debian-user
y...@vienna.at wrote: > On Fri, 8 Dec 2023 12:17:35 +0700 > Max Nikulin wrote: > > > > On 08/12/2023 08:49, gene heskett wrote: > >> I've now set a root pw, about 34 chars, so they'll be a couple > >> eons > >>guessing it AND (horrors) have written it down. > > > > Consider pass phrases.

Re: how to firefox settings

2023-12-06 Thread debian-user
fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > on a page in firefox use tools -> page info -> permissions > i notice override keyboard shortcuts is set to allow > where can i change the defaults for this Defaults are built-in; you can't change them (except by modifying the source and recompiling). You can

Re: Isolated Web Co Session crash Firefox-ESR

2023-12-06 Thread debian-user
Karl Vogel wrote: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2023 at 06:04:36AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 06, 2023 at 02:42:32AM +0800, jeremy ardley wrote: > > > > > I have discovered a magic bullet for solving running out of memory > > > sudo sync; sudo sh -c 'echo 3 >

Re: Telnet

2023-12-04 Thread debian-user
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 ssh. First, to be in the right habit. Second > >>>

Re: Telnet

2023-12-03 Thread debian-user
Charles Curley wrote: > On Sun, 3 Dec 2023 14:01:38 -0500 > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > The question is whether anyone should be running a telnetd *server*. > > On an isolated network, it might be acceptable. But it's really a > > bad habit that should be stomped out aggressively, as machines >

Re: Mailing List

2023-12-01 Thread debian-user
Pocket wrote: > Anyone one else having trouble with the mailing list? > > Have received any messages since Nov 30 > > I can not tell if I am still subscribed > > I get > > Error: Overload > > On the https://lists.debian.org/users.html page Your message made it to the list. Various people

Re: Hardware Advice Wanted: Router

2023-11-14 Thread debian-user
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Mon, Nov 13, 2023 at 03:57:28PM -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > > 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. > >

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

2023-11-13 Thread debian-user
"Susmita/Rajib" wrote: > I have been listening to the conversations on my thread begun with my > post https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2023/11/msg00505.html > > In my first email itself I had mentioned that I use "Gmail webmail > email-server". So have

Re: How could the missing MySQL extension required by WordPress be installed?

2023-11-11 Thread debian-user
Marco wrote: > Am 11.11.2023 06:58 schrieb Susmita/Rajib: > > > mysqli > > > > MysqlI Support => enabled > > Client API library version => mysqlnd 7.4.33 > > Active Persistent Links => 0 > > Inactive Persistent Links => 0 > > Active Links => 0 > > Can you now try to create your own php

Re: How could the missing MySQL extension required by WordPress be installed?

2023-11-11 Thread debian-user
"Susmita/Rajib" wrote: > Dear illustrious leaders and the senior members, Debian-user ML, > > I liked the following two papers of Prof. Shri C K Raju: > ajol-file-journals_601_articles_221195_submission_proof_221195-7072-545591-1-10-20220325.pdf > https://www.ajol.in

Re: How to use dmsetuup?

2023-11-09 Thread debian-user
Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, Nov 08, 2023 at 05:19:01PM -0700, Tom Dial wrote: > > On 11/7/23 17:19, gene heskett wrote: > > > What do I do if a gpt partition table has already been made and > > > an ext4 system is already installed? IOW just how "bare" a disk > > > is needed? Is

Re: How to use dmsetuup?

2023-11-05 Thread debian-user
David Christensen wrote: > On 11/5/23 01:04, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Lesson learnt: Never overwrite the two youngest backups. > > I try to use the term "backup" to mean a data copying process whereby > older data is overwritten by newer data. > > I try to use the term "archive' to mean a

Re: How to use dmsetuup?

2023-11-04 Thread debian-user
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Nov 04, 2023 at 01:20:08PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > [...] > > > Indeed it does clarify the mechanics. thank you. Now do I have to > > zero them first before I can then create (pvcreate) them, > > Not necessarily. Unless, of course, there are sensitive

Re: How to compare one folder to one directory

2023-11-02 Thread debian-user
"Loris Bennett" wrote: > writes: > > > On Thu, Nov 02, 2023 at 09:12:45AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > >> Loris Bennett wrote: > >> > What's the objection to 'folder'? I don't use it myself, but it > >> > seems fairly reasonable to me. Many desktop environments use an > >> > old hanging

Re: Alternative to NetworkManager on Debian 12

2023-11-01 Thread debian-user
wrote: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2023 at 10:17:16AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > > to...@tuxteam.de composed on 2023-11-01 12:12 (UTC+0100): > > > > > More "down to the bolts" folks use ifupdown (I do). If I stick an > > > Ethernet cable into my laptop I want to be able to say "sudo ifup > > > eth0".

Re: Need help with PGP signature verification

2023-10-08 Thread debian-user
"Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > Hi, > > Tom Browder wrote: > > I'm willing to trust published PGP key fingerprints for signers of > > Rakudo downloadable files. > > Do i get it right that you talk about https://rakudo.org/downloads ? > > > Question:  How can I get the fingerprint from the

Re: Does the debian kernel sends the gratuitous arp ?

2023-10-08 Thread debian-user
Geert Stappers wrote: > On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 09:19:32PM +0200, Geert Stappers wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 05:52:16PM +0530, Balaji G wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I am using "Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)" with kernel > > > version 5.1

Re: How can I get verbose shutdown from the GUI (Mate)?

2023-10-03 Thread debian-user
Ottavio Caruso wrote: > Am 03/10/2023 um 10:43 schrieb Bret Busby: > > Also, why do you not use, instead of the command that you specified, > > shutdown -h > > or, (if instead, wanted, for example, after doing a kernel update) > > shutdown -r > > ? > > Because all of these are just an alias to

Re: btrfs snapshots (of root file system)?

2023-10-01 Thread debian-user
hw wrote: > Hi, > > with btrfs, how do I make a snapshot of the root file system? The > purpose is to update software and being able to go back to a previous > state if necessary. > > There doesn't seem to be a command to create snapshots but only > subvolumes? How does a subvolume turn into

Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World"

2023-09-24 Thread debian-user
Tom Browder wrote: > Every time I set up a new host, I have to jump through the hoops > trying to get the same PATH for ordinary users as well as root, > regardless of how they log in. Reading the man pages doesn't help my > old brain with all the caveats. > > Can anyone offer a foolproof,

Re: Can't mount NFS NAS after major upgrade

2023-09-18 Thread debian-user
Steve Matzura wrote: > mount /mnt/bigvol1/dir-1 /home/steve/dir-1 -o bind,ro In addition to what others have observed it might be worth mentioning that the -v option to mount (i.e. verbose) often gives more information about what's going on.

Re: Chromium under Xfce/bookworm anyone?

2023-09-13 Thread debian-user
Celejar wrote: > I have no choice - there's at least one important site (of a major > financial institution) that I need that simply doesn't work with > Firefox. If I had anything to do with any financial institution, major or not, that was so incompetent that their website wasn't browser

Re: just a question about the iwlwifi_20230515-3 file

2023-09-06 Thread debian-user
Charles Curley wrote: > On Tue, 5 Sep 2023 19:47:00 + > "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > > > At this point, you are not root and so dpkg -i complains. > > Actually she is root (the # in the prompt, and the username@host at > the beginning of the prompt, assuming she hasn't played with her >

Re: door bell like sound effect

2023-08-29 Thread debian-user
gene heskett wrote: > On 8/28/23 12:20, zithro wrote: > > On 28 Aug 2023 09:29, gene heskett wrote: > >> Greetings; > >> > >> odd request: > > > > Yeah, almost unreal ^^ > > > >> > >> Somewhere, for some unk reason, there is a sound file file that > >> plays at max volume, usually around

Re: LaTex Unicode entry issues

2023-08-26 Thread debian-user
Charles Kroeger wrote: > I just have a really large list of UTF-8 characters and if I need one > I copy it and zap it in. I suppose this is not cool but, chacun a son > gout. > > a fun site if you want to write someone in UTF-8 runes. > >

Re: btrfs check Causes File Corruption

2023-08-20 Thread debian-user
"Longhao.Chen" wrote: > Hello everyone, I use Btrfs as the file system on my laptop. > Yesterday, I was preparing to backup a snapshot to an external hard > drive using btrfs send, and the following error occurred: > > ERROR: send ioctl failed with -5: Input/Output error I use btrfs but don't

Re: Looking for a good "default" font (small 'L' vs. capital 'i' problem)

2023-08-19 Thread debian-user
Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > My own mind went to the place of thinking sans serif was about those > very lines. I just didn't make it to thinking that would make it hard > to find any alternate in that family. > > My long time preference is developer-weary-eye-friendly > fonts-anonymous-pro for

Re: UNUBSCRIBE

2023-08-11 Thread debian-user
Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 01:52:53PM +, davidson wrote: > > I guess this means that any of us could have bounced^[1] the OP's > > mail straight to > > > > debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > > Except then the user would not l

Re: Why or why not back up "/lost+found"

2023-08-11 Thread debian-user
wrote: > On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 03:42:01PM -0400, Default User wrote: > > Hi! > > > > When backing up my system I have been using this exclusions list: > > > > /dev/* > > /proc/* > > /sys/* > > /tmp/* > > /run/* > > /mnt/* > > /media/* > > /lost+found > > > > There are many sources online

Re: logging no longer standard?

2023-08-09 Thread debian-user
gene heskett wrote: > Someplace where an AppImage looking for a missing dependency might > express its displeasure at not finding everything it needs? I've always thought that was a main advantage of starting anything from the command line - there's an obvious place for the output - the

Re: debian image questions

2023-08-03 Thread debian-user
Andy Smith wrote: > Hi Bill, > > Your question is more suited to debian-user so I've redirected > there. Please send replies there (I've set reply-to for that purpose > also). > > On Wed, Aug 02, 2023 at 08:40:51PM -0400, Bill Miller wrote: > > why cant i just in

Re: perl module listgarden

2023-08-03 Thread debian-user
_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.32 /usr/share/perl/5.32 > >>/usr/local/lib/site_perl) at listgarden.pl line 21. > >>BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at listgarden.pl line 21. > > > >ListGarden does not appear to be a Debian package: > > > >https://pac

Re: Is it possible to downgrade openssl?

2023-07-29 Thread debian-user
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On 28/07/2023 17:04, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > I have an AppImage from Creality which segfaults with a QT ssl > > error. Googling tells me that the latest version of OpenSSL (3.x) > > omits some X509 functionality, which can be found in OpenSSL-1.1. > > (And someone

Re: How to create /home BTRFS subvolume on a second disk during installation?

2023-07-29 Thread debian-user
Erick Delgado wrote: > Enviado desde mi iPhone > > > El jul. 27, 2023, a la(s) 09:18, Sarunas Burdulis > > escribió: > > > > On 7/27/23 07:14, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > >> [...] > >> Your image shows that you have three persistent pa

Re: How to create /home BTRFS subvolume on a second disk during installation?

2023-07-27 Thread debian-user
Erick Delgado wrote: > > El jul. 26, 2023, a la(s) 17:07, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk > > escribió: > > > > On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 16:27:54 -0400 > > Erick Delgado wrote: > > > >> Unfortunately I am unable to provide the output by text since I am

Re: How to create /home BTRFS subvolume on a second disk during installation?

2023-07-26 Thread debian-user
sumed you knew pretty much what you were doing, since you're trying a somewhat unusual installation for Debian. You can post a photo somewhere if you need to and post a link to the mailing list. >> El jul. 26, 2023, a la(s) 16:04, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk escribió: >> >> Erick

Re: How to create /home BTRFS subvolume on a second disk during installation?

2023-07-26 Thread debian-user
Erick Delgado wrote: > Dear Debian users and developers, > I would like to know if it’s possible to create the /home BTRFS > subvolume on a second disk (nvme, etc.) during expert installation? > If so, how? The reason I ask is because I was following this YouTube > video (h

Re: Wireless temperature & humidity measurement

2023-07-14 Thread debian-user
zithro wrote: > On 14 Jul 2023 10:53, Joe wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Jul 2023 09:27:12 +0200 > > Bruno Kleinert wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> I'm looking for a wireless way to measure temperature and humidity > >> indoor with hardw

Re: Wireless temperature & humidity measurement

2023-07-14 Thread debian-user
Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2023 14 Jul 02:37 -0500, Bruno Kleinert wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm looking for a wireless way to measure temperature and humidity > > indoor with hardware off the shelf and software included in Debian > > 12 bookworm. > >

Re: Migrating system from u-sd to nvme memory on arm64's?

2023-07-13 Thread debian-user
jeremy ardley wrote: > In the same vein, it's really a bad idea to run video surveillance on > a SSD as overwriting the complete SSD every couple of weeks will > trash it in no time. There are probably SSDs that boast to do this, > but the standard now is using carefully designed spinning drives

Re: file server

2023-07-12 Thread debian-user
lina wrote: > I need to extract the data for downstream analysis. after that, these > data can be removed. Do you need all the data present at the same time to extract it? Obviously you won't need as much storage if you can analyse/extract it in sections. > On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 2:24 PM

Re: configuring zathura's print preview

2023-07-09 Thread debian-user
Brian wrote: > On Sun 09 Jul 2023 at 10:42:52 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > > > On 7/9/23 4:40 AM, Brian wrote: > > [...] > > > > The file displayed by zathura is not the file that is sent to the > > > printing system. The latter can be viewed by using Print to File. > > > > > > The print

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

2023-07-07 Thread debian-user
jeremy ardley wrote: > On 7/7/23 19:28, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > > > That may be or not, but is irrelevant. Accurate attribution of > > quotes is important, IMHO, and not difficult to do. So doubling > > down on your mistake instead of a simple mea culpa

Re: why bookworm isn't called deb12?

2023-07-07 Thread debian-user
jeremy ardley wrote: > On 7/7/23 16:59, Bret Busby wrote: > >> On 7/7/23 16:30, Bret Busby wrote: > >>> Microsoft didn't invent anything. > > > > I did not post that statement as the original poster of that > > statement. > > Your comment about  BSOD strongly suggests you agree with the >

Re: Deactivating and Reactivating the display of a NUC 13

2023-07-06 Thread debian-user
Stefan Schumacher wrote: > I have exchanged the connections - one NUC from HDMI to USB-C and the > other from USB-C to HDMI. The problem persists. Yes, but did it stay with the NUC or move with the cable?

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