Re: Apt configuration - As Stable As Possible

On 2024-04-07 04:48 +0300, Cyprus Socialite wrote: > I am trying to configure Apt to follow a "stable where we can, unstable > where we must" logic. > > On the "Stable+Backports - Testing - Unstable - Experimental" stencil, I > would like to > > - install left-to-right (the stablest version

Re: [Sid] Nouveau: only one monitor after 6.6.15 to 6.7.9 upgrade

On 2024-04-03 21:39 +0200, Greg wrote: > I have two HP Z30i connected to Nvidia GeForce GTX 670. After last > upgrade I'm able to use only one monitor. > > When running linux-image-6.7.9: > > # dmesg | grep nouveau | cut -b 16- > nouveau :01:00.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga console > nouveau

Re: Dependency meaning

On 2024-03-21 10:02 +0100, Detlef Vollmann wrote: > This is essentially a follow-up on my question about the > 64bit time_t transition. > I'm trying to upgrade some packages manually. > For this, I'm trying to understand the dependencies. > > 'apt-cache showpkg libssl3t64' gives me this: >>

Re: cruft report: The new kid on the block

On 2024-02-16 09:06 -0500, Gremlin wrote: > cruft report: Fri Feb 16 08:54:01 2024 > missing: dpkg > /etc/network/if-post-down.d/wireless-tools > /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/ethtool > /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tools > /etc/network/if-up.d/ethtool > >

Re: Possible cifs stuck in stable kernel (linux-image-6.1.0-17-amd64)

On 2024-01-30 10:52 -0800, Xiyue Deng wrote: > (Please keep me in CC as I'm not subscribed to the users ML.) > > Hi, > > TL;DR I've been experience stuck file system operations on cifs mount on > latest stable kernel (linux-image-6.1.0-17-amd64, 6.1.69-1), and would > like to see if other people

Re: Can't view videos in firefox: VA-API test failed

On 2024-01-20 18:51 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Whenever I try to view videos in Firefox in my trusty Thinkpad T61, > Firefox just eats up the CPU but doesn't actually show the video. > > At startup I get the following message: > > [GFX1-]: vaapitest: VA-API test failed: failed to

Re: Probable bug in mc shell link when reading non-ASCII file names

On 2024-01-20 08:44 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2024-01-20 00:20 +0100, ju...@op.pl wrote: > >> I'm not sure if this is actually a bug in the mc package or maybe >> somewhere in sshd or in some library that uses ssh. That's why I >> didn't report it via repo

Re: Probable bug in mc shell link when reading non-ASCII file names

On 2024-01-20 00:20 +0100, ju...@op.pl wrote: > I'm not sure if this is actually a bug in the mc package or maybe > somewhere in sshd or in some library that uses ssh. That's why I > didn't report it via reportbug. Anyway, I noticed the effects only in > Shell Link in mc. SSH in the terminal

Re: removing gdb-minimal removed plasma-desktop?

On 2024-01-14 08:54 +0100, Morten Hauke Solvang wrote: > Short version: "apt remove gdb-minimal" seems to have also removed > plasma-desktop + a bunch of related packages. > > Curious if there are any good debugging tips for figuring out what > happened here. > Or maybe I'm missing something

Re: Where to report CVEs missing from the security tracker ?

On 2024-01-09 16:57 +0100, Jorropo wrote: > Hello, there are 6 CVEs on the golang-go package which are not on > https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/status/release/stable They are there, just not shown by default. Toggle the "include issues tagged no-dsa" checkbox to see them. > I

Re: systemd and timezone

On 2023-12-22 11:11 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 09:30:23AM -0600, David Wright wrote: >> https://wiki.debian.org/TimeZoneChanges >> >> still says: >> >> "In Debian releases Etch and later, /etc/localtime is a copy of the >> original data file. Check the contents of

Re: Upgrade to 12.3 fails due to missing nvidia firmware package

On 2023-12-06 15:24 +0100, Harald Dunkel wrote: > I have tried to upgrade to 12.3, but apparently the dependencies > of the new nvidia-kernel-dkms version cannot be fulfilled. > firmware-nvidia-gsp (= 525.147.05) is missing. I tried several > repositories. Note that Debian 12.3 has not been

Re: Help ! No syslog anymore

On 2023-11-08 08:26 +, Bhasker C V wrote: > I moved my syslog to a different location '/tmp/server.log' A rather strange decision, since /tmp is usually pruned on reboot. > This was working all fine until I moved to selinux in enforcing mode. > > I have tried putting selinux in permissive

Re: Understanding package dependencies

On 2023-10-07 19:24 +0200, Steve Keller wrote: > Greg Wooledge writes: > >> Package: sysvinit-utils >> [...] >> Provides: lsb-base (= 11.1.0) >> >> When you remove the physical lsb-base package, the virtual package >> provided by sysvinit-utils remains, to satisfy the dependencies of >> ntpsec,

Re: usrmerge in bookworm

On 2023-10-06 22:32 +, Andy Smith wrote: > On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 04:42:56PM +0200, Urs Thuermann wrote: >> Greg Wooledge writes: >> >> > Yeah, usrmerge is a bit wonky in these early stages. >> >> $ apt-get changelog usrmerge | tail -n2 >> -- Marco d'Itri Tue, 04 Nov 2014

Re: Same Debian, different hardware = different OpenGL version?

On 2023-10-03 02:43 +0200, Anders Andersson wrote: > I recently installed Debian stable on my old desktop and my trusty old > Thinkpad X200, without messing with any driver settings. Both are > running the default gnome desktop with the same kernel. > > I installed the terminal emulator 'kitty'

Re: git setup

On 2023-08-22 03:00 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > After much searching and reading, I have not discovered how to set up > a pair of git repositories to work together. > > I write articles for publication. I typically spend anywhere from > several hours to many days on each article. It is

Re: apt policy / listing packages from repo

On 2023-08-10 09:30 -0500, David Wright wrote: >> I was looking for a way to list packages installed from a particular >> repo and/or sub-repo or whatever it's called (eg. main, non-free). >> >> Does anyone know of a way to do this, with apt policy or otherwise? > > What I do in this situation

Re: Determine packages made obsolete in Bookworm

On 2023-07-20 14:31 -0500, kjohn...@eclypse.org wrote: > I would like to discover which currently installed packages in > Bullseye (11) will be obsolete (no longer available from a Debian > repository) in Bookworm (12) _before starting the upgrade process_. > > It might be that there is a list of

Re: Raspberry Pi Debian after upgrade Bullseye => Bookworm -- problem Setting up ca-certificates-java

On 2023-06-22 03:12 -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Thu, Jun 22, 2023, at 12:04 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 22, 2023 at 2:49 AM Rick Thomas wrote: > snip >>> In this case, the package is already installed. >>> Unfortunately when I try to reinstall it, I get: >>> >>>

Re: debchange still wants to build for bullseye-backports after upgrade to Bookworm

On 2023-06-20 19:05 +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > Hello. > > I've successfully upgraded to Bookworm recently and trying to build a > backport package. > But the usual "$ debchange --bpo" still wants to build for > "bullseye-backports" and modifies "debian/changelog" by adding >

Re: Removing i386 architecture

On 2023-06-12 06:32 +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 09:27:11PM -0400, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > > [...] > >> Nice try. However, this isn't allowed, as it would apparently remove >> libcrypt1:i386, which is apparently a "system-critical" package. I'm >> not sure how

Re: Bookworm upgrade, usrmerge failure

On 2023-06-12 10:24 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 09:45:15AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> I think I might try grabbing an older-than-buster version of debootstrap >> out of snapshot.debian.org and see if I can manage to reproduce something. >> But don't count on my

Re: "dpkg-reconfigure" dash no longer works

On 2023-06-09 12:06 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2023-06-09 at 12:00, Charles Curley wrote: > >> On Fri, 9 Jun 2023 13:38:25 + >> S M wrote: >> >>> I noticed on a newly installed system with Debian 12 that >>> dpkg-reconfigure no longer allows to switch the /bin/sh symlink from >>> dash

Re: Running Debian without initramfs?

On 2023-06-08 15:41 +0100, James Addison wrote: > Does anyone have experience running Debian systems without using an initramfs? I did this in the distance past, some 15 years ago or so. Have long abandoned that idea, though. > I'd be particularly keen to hear about laptop/desktop/server

Re: debuginfod.debian.net missing some build ids

On 2023-06-06 17:02 -0700, Jacob Rutherford wrote: > I've been trying to debug a binary that's linked against the libc6 package > from Sid, but some of my tools are telling me that debuginfo for the libc6 > sources aren't found on the debuginfod servers. The matching build-ids can > be found in

Re: X11 should not run as root or?

On 2023-06-02 16:32 +, therealcyclist wrote: > I tried the new Debian bookworm installer rc4 and i manually installed i3-wm. > I started i3 from tty with startx command as user. > to my surprise i found out that the xorg process is running as root. > that can't be intentional, can it? As

Re: Unable to run virsh on bookworm

On 2023-05-09 19:10 +, Sean Whalen wrote: > I've installed virt-manager on a Debian bookworm system, and that is > working fine. However, when I try to use the libvirt CLI client, > virsh, I receive this error message: > > virsh: /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvirt.so.0: version >

Re: Segfaults after upgrade to Debian 11.7 on virtualized systems with AMD Ryzen CPU

On 2023-04-30 14:56 +0200, Andreas Haumer wrote: > I have several virtualized systems around here. > > Yesterday I upgraded some of our Bullseye VMs to 11.7 and found, > that now all systems running on a host with an AMD Ryzen 5950X CPU now > crash with segfaults at various commands. > > I have

Re: W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/brand/yada*

On 2023-04-28 21:30 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > # inxi -Gxx > Graphics: > Device-1: Intel 82Q963/Q965 Integrated Graphics vendor: Dell driver: i915 > v: kernel arch: Gen-4 ports: active: DVI-D-1 empty: VGA-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 > chip-ID: 8086:2992# aka ancient > # grep MODULES

Re: linux kernel versions in stable

On 2023-04-22 12:13 -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > There are many signs of a new kernel version in the latest updates: > linux-libc-dev, linux-source, linux-kbuild all show an upgrade > available from 5.10.162-1 to 5.10.178-2. > > Conspicuously absent are any of the linux-image packages; the most >

Re: Pinning not working?!

On 2023-04-03 19:12 +, Thomas Schweikle wrote: > I'd like to pin audacious to version 4.1. I've defined in > /etc/apt/preferences.d/audacious.pref: > > Package: audacious* > Pin: version 4.1* > Pin-Priority: 1000 > > Package: libaudcore5* > Pin: version 4.1* > Pin-Priority: 1000 > > Package:

Re: new archive section: non-free-firmware

On 2023-01-28 13:11 -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 19:05:39 + > "Andrew M.A. Cater" wrote: > >> This all follows on the General Resolution a while ago. > > Right. I looked at the page to which Sven Joachim > referred. https://www.

new archive section: non-free-firmware

Some news for you who are running unstable or testing/bookworm and have firmware packages installed from non-free (most users who do not run Debian in a VM probably have): these firmware packages are being moved to a new section non-free-firmware, and you should update your sources.list(5) entries

Re: kernel errors

On 2023-01-23 16:13 +, Richmond wrote: > I put a dvd in and mounted it. Then rebooted. I saw these messages: > > [ 756.539018] pktcdvd: pktcdvd0: writer mapped to sr0 > [3.744658] sr 3:0:0:0: [sr0] scsi3-mmc drive: 62x/62x writer dvd-ram > cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray > [ 19.585098]

Re: Ctrl-C ignored after pasting a long text in an X terminal emulator

On 2023-01-22 05:17 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2023-01-21 21:19:06 -0600, David Wright wrote: >> On Sun 22 Jan 2023 at 03:50:17 (+0100), Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> > 3. Type Ctrl-C (one or several times) in the terminal. >> > But nothing happens. >> >> I presume that's because the input

Re: Postfix fails after upgrade from bullseye to bookworm

On 2023-01-20 21:11 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2023-01-20 20:45 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> My hunch is that postfix recomputes all the hashes in >> /var/spool/postfix/etc/ssl/certs, rather than copying the files from the >> host system into the chroot whi

Re: Postfix fails after upgrade from bullseye to bookworm

On 2023-01-20 20:45 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2023-01-20 11:55 -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > >> On Fri, 20 Jan 2023 19:17:37 +0100 >> Sven Joachim wrote: >> >>> Clearly something fishy is going on here. >> >> I concur. What I saw with htop w

Re: Postfix fails after upgrade from bullseye to bookworm

On 2023-01-20 11:55 -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jan 2023 19:17:37 +0100 > Sven Joachim wrote: > >> Clearly something fishy is going on here. > > I concur. What I saw with htop was a slew of calls to SSL. Here's > a sample of what it was doing. It is a proce

Re: Postfix fails after upgrade from bullseye to bookworm

On 2023-01-20 13:39 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 07:17:37PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >> It seems that postfix's startup time has greatly regressed, on my laptop >> there are very long delays both at boot: >> >> , >> | $ systemd-anal

Re: Postfix fails after upgrade from bullseye to bookworm

On 2023-01-20 09:34 -0700, Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jan 2023 11:52:29 -0700 > Charles Curley wrote: > >> That suggests there's something wrong with >> the way systemd is starting postfix. I will look into that later >> today. > > Not quite "later today", but: > > A bit of thinking

Re: PowerBook G4 OS

On 2023-01-10 12:45 -0800, Bob Crochelt wrote: > I have a Powerbook G4 currently running Debian 8 (Jessie). Is there a > more recent release supported on PPC, and where could I find it please? No, there is no more recent release, at least not of Debian. The powerpc architecture is still hosted

Re: Debian security team support for Bullseye?

On 2023-01-07 11:22 -0800, John Conover wrote: > How much longer will Debian security team support Bullseye? For one year after the release of Bookworm, whenever that may be. > The LTS Wiki page is kind of confusing as to when I have to upgrade to > Bookworm. It seems to project that the LTS

Re: Chroot and x32

On 2022-11-29 11:24 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > I'm running a Debian Unstable machine. I use it for Chroots. I noticed > x32 is not available when I attempted to setup a chroot with > debootstrap: > > $ debootstrap --arch=x32 --keyring > /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg \ >

Re: How to check for scheduled shutdown

On 2022-11-22 20:18 +0100, Kamil Jońca wrote: > Urs Thuermann writes: > >> After shutdown -h I see no way to see this scheduled shutdown. >> Before systemd, I could always see the shutdown process with its >> arguments using ps(1). > > Hm. > kjonca@alfa:~%man shutdown > SHUTDOWN(8)

Re: Causing segmentations fault; Was: Re: No Public Key

On 2022-11-14 11:39 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > If anyone figures out a way to make mutt NOT segfault when reading this > type of email, I'd love to hear it. Upgrading to 2.2.8 or later should do the trick. I can confirm that mutt 2.2.9-1 in unstable no longer segfaults displaying the message

Re: update-initramfs outside of /boot

On 2022-10-01 17:26 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Le 01/10/2022 à 17:16, Stefan Monnier a écrit : >>> My /boot is 235 MB (from deb 10 installer), however in testing I now have >>> 56MB initramfs files and update-initramfs cannot work for the 3rd kernel to >>> install (and apt autoremove keeps 2

Re: usr-is-merged package in bullseye?

On 2022-09-13 18:55 +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: > On Tue, 13 Sep 2022, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 04:45:40PM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: >>> There's a package usr-is-merged that will stop usrmerge being installed >>> with init-system-helpers (and so avoids bringing in its

Re: Seeing progross during fsck on boot

On 2022-09-01 22:51 +0100, Mike wrote: > A long time, maybe 11 years ago, I built a NAS box based around comodity > hardware and the Debian of the day. It's currently been through several > apt-get dist-upgrades and currently running Debian 11 with loads of old > config grandfathered into it. >

Re: uvcdynctrl on bullseye?

On 2022-09-02 16:47 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote: > I'd like to use uvcdynctrl on a bullseye 64-bit system. But according > to https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=uvcdynctrl the package > is not available for any flavour of bullseye. It is available for both > earlier (stretch and buster)

Re: Substitute for archivemail

On 2022-08-31 08:47 -0400, Kenneth Parker wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2022, 5:36 AM riveravaldez > wrote: > >> On 8/30/22, Anssi Saari wrote: >> > Leandro Noferini writes: >> > >> >> In these days I upgraded the server to bullseye and so I have not yet >> >> archivemail: what could I use as

Re: Will firefox-esr move to version 102 in bullseye?

On 2022-08-24 15:01 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 07:52:44PM +0100, Tixy wrote: >> Mozilla stops supporting the old ESR a few months after a new one is >> released [1]. So I assume Debian would ship the new one, certainly at >> least at the point the old one gets known

Re: Bookworm : graphic glitches all over my screen after upgrade

On 2022-08-23 15:13 +0200, rudu wrote: > Coming back from holidays, I did a pretty huge upgrade of my Bookworm > system on my aging desktop (2009). > After a reboot, what I could see is best described via this snapshot : > https://wtf.roflcopter.fr/pics/rVcN0HFu/vgQCGy7g.png > > What I tried so

Re: Proprietary WiFi drivers for live mode

On 2022-06-25 18:11 +0300, Kristijonas Lukas Bukauskas wrote: > I have an old Dell laptop with Broadcom BCM43142 WiFi device > (https://wiki.debian.org/wl). It doesn't have a hard drive, so I > sometimes boot Debian from USB Memory Stick in live mode. > The problem is that WiFi doesn't work

Re: Restoring file capabilities in /usr

On 2022-02-16 20:03 +0100, d...@x.org.pl wrote: > Is there an easy method of restoring original file capabilities for the > entire /usr directory? > > The background is I wanted to move my /usr directory to another > partition and I copied it with "cp -ar ..." and deleted the original > content

Re: Any plan to upgrade bash to 5.1.16 on bullseye?

On 2022-02-16 11:18 +0100, Christian Britz wrote: > On 2022-02-16 10:16 UTC+0100, Daniel Qian wrote: >> Hi, >> >> There is a severe bug on GNU Bash which is fixed in 5.1.16. >> >> Bug info: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2022-01/msg00020.html >> >> While currently debian bullseye GNU

Re: Building a package for ScummVM 2.5.0

On 2021-10-12 21:48 +0200, Christian Britz wrote: > I am trying to build a Debian package for the latest ScummVM release > for personal use and need help. > I have no deep knowledge of Debian packaging, but in the past I had > some success with applying dh_make to source trees. I would probably

Re: gcc-10: options order important?

On 2021-09-03 12:24 +0200, Piotr A. Dybczyński wrote: > Hi, > > in contrary to previous versions, now in Debian 11 with gcc-10: > > gcc aa.c -lm -o aa works, but > > gcc -lm aa.c -o aa does not work, saying: > > /usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccWyhudO.o: in function `main': >

Re: APT testing and unstabe Firefox: can't find newest version from unstable

On 2021-09-03 19:05 +0200, Daniel M. wrote: > I'm running debian testing ("bookworm" at the moment) and have firefox > 88 installed from unstable. My sources.list contains testing and > unstable main, contrib and non-free lines and I have pinning set up to > 900 testing, 500 unstable.

Re: You are required to change your password immediately (administrator enforced).

On 2021-08-18 14:16 +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > On 8/17/21 21:55, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2021-08-17 19:59 +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: >> >>> >>> How can I make sure I don't have to change passwords on 400+ hosts? >> Do not run sid on 400+ hosts.

Re: You are required to change your password immediately (administrator enforced).

On 2021-08-17 21:55 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2021-08-17 19:59 +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > >> After the most recent update of a host running sid there was a >> password change dialog: >> >> You are required to change your password immediately (admin

Re: You are required to change your password immediately (administrator enforced).

On 2021-08-17 19:59 +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > After the most recent update of a host running sid there was a > password change dialog: > > You are required to change your password immediately (administrator enforced). > You are required to change your password immediately (administrator

Re: PC fan getting very loud

On 2021-05-08 11:13 +0200, deloptes wrote: > Fujitsu ESPRIMO Q520 when opening some sh*tty web sitesin firefox the fan > gets extremly noisy. Such is the modern web. :-( > On a Fujitsu C700 with the same setup there is no such problem - although I > probably do not open these sites - but some

Re: Some services cannot start at boot time because /run is not initialized

On 2021-04-22 14:26 +0200, Dmitry Katsubo wrote: > Dear Debian community, > > I have noticed that all failed services were missing some directories under > /run directory. I checked the service which is supposed to create them: > > * systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service - Create Volatile Files and

Re: Debian chromium package enable_hangout_services_extension=false by default. How to turn it on during run time?

On 2021-04-18 07:56 +0800, Robbi Nespu wrote: > Hello! I not able to use "screen share" on google meet using chromium > browser. > > Each time I clicked on it, I get "your browser can't share your > screen" and dev tool > console don't complaint anything about it. > > I did a google-fu and found

Re: Need help finding the right package under which to report a bug

On 2021-04-18 12:31 +0800, Robbi Nespu wrote: > A quick or temporary solution are to git clone > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git > and copy thus selection (warning line) of missing modules to > /lib/firmware/amdgpu/ > > (Don't try my solution if you are

Re: [sid] efibootmgr not working on linux 5.10.x & LGA1155

On 2021-04-08 22:30 +0200, Grzesiek wrote: > On 3/18/21 9:55 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2021-03-18 21:03 +0100, Grzesiek Sójka wrote: >> >>> I noticed recently that efibootmgr stoped working. On all my Sid >>> machines I get the following: >&

Re: apt upgrade merging modified files

On 2021-03-25 04:39 -0400, Michael Grant wrote: > When I apt-update, sometimes I update something for which I modified a config > file and I get this menu: > > Configuration file '/etc/matrix-synapse/homeserver.yaml' > ==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation. > ==> Package

Re: Could a product with Chipset information for USB WiFi access dongle be advised please?

On 2021-03-25 18:15 +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > Could you please suggest me an USB WiFi dongle that is recommended by > Debian and available in India? > https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi#USB_Devices > and > https://wiki.debian.org/DeviceDatabase/USB > > Problem with Amazon is that the chipsets are

Re: [sid] efibootmgr not working

On 2021-03-18 21:03 +0100, Grzesiek Sójka wrote: > I noticed recently that efibootmgr stoped working. On all my Sid > machines I get the following: > > # efibootmgr > EFI variables are not supported on this system. > > But if I run Buster (the same hardware) then everything is ok. So this > is

Re: What does "Control: reassign -1 libaqbanking44" mean?

On 2021-03-12 02:13 -0400, Tony Rowe wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 12:36:59PM +0900, 황병희 wrote: >> Hi i am translator Debain webpage in Korean. >> >> At bug mailing, >> some user wrote in body of message [1] as below: >> >> #+begin_src text >> Control: reassign -1 libaqbanking44 >> #+end_src

Re: Is there an alternative filesystem hierarchy that could be adapted to Debian.

On 2021-03-10 17:13 -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I think all these shortened names derive from a time when computing >> resources were limited. If you're using an 80x25 terminal over at 50 >> bits per second to a time-shared mainframe, it's more comfortable to >> type "/usr" than it is to type

Re: The best way to install inkscape 1.0 on Debian stable

On 2021-03-05 17:02 +0900, A_Man_Without_Clue wrote: > What is the best way to install the latest version of the inkscape on > Buster? > > Buster installs inkscape 0.9 and I still encounter lots of bugs with it. > I would like to try the latest but what is the best way to install > newest

Re: official list of alternatives?

On 2021-02-14 01:57 +0300, IL Ka wrote: > Hello. > > There is a list of alternatives in ``sensible-browser`` including > ``www-browser``, ``x-www-browser`` etc. > > This makes me think that all alternatives must be documented somewhere in > debian policy. What makes you think so? Many

Re: gnome-control-center

On 2021-01-31 17:09 +, Gareth Evans wrote: > I'm trying to install gnome-online-accounts on Debian 10.7 with Mate: > > > $ sudo apt install gnome-control-center gnome-online-accounts > [...] > Package gnome-control-center is not available, but is referred to by another > package. > This may

Re: Can I remove i386 packages?

On 2021-01-23 15:47 +0100, steve wrote: > Le 23-01-2021, à 09:55:29 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de a écrit : > >>On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 09:19:33AM +0100, steve wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have the following i386 packages installed on my system. Can I removed >>> them without any side-effects? >>> >>> apt

Re: Upstream Default (FOSS) DDX Driver for NVidia GPUs is not Nouveau

On 2021-01-20 16:45 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > In 2008 a new technology DDX driver's development was begun: > > The new technology made it hardware independent, able to be used

Re: Python 3 wicd

On 2021-01-19 10:16 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 19 ian 21, 02:54:25, Gareth Evans wrote: >> There is apparently a Python 3 fork of wicd (or two) but I can't >> figure out what state they're in - are either of these likely to >> become available in Buster repos? Backports? > > Wicd is

Re: Backup debconf state

On 2021-01-19 16:09 +0100, Erwan David wrote: > Hello everybody > > If I want to be able to fast reinstall a debian after a crash, I > already backup /etc (including /etc/apt), a file with the output of > apt-show manual > to get the list of manually installed packages, /etc, but It would be >

Re: How to restore BIOS-based backup on a UEFI machine

On 2021-01-14 17:05 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > I don't think so, the only important thing is that on the restore > machine you need to set up an EFI system partition[1] from which the > system boots. It has to be formatted as FAT32 and mounted under > /boot/efi when you install gr

Re: How to restore BIOS-based backup on a UEFI machine

On 2021-01-14 16:41 +0100, Jesper Dybdal wrote: > I backup my Buster server simply as a (compressed, encrypted) cpio archive. > > Restoring it to a BIOS-based machine is simple: boot a rescue cd, > partition the disk, restore all files, fix fstab if necessary, run > update-grub and grub-install

Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU

On 2020-12-26 18:44 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2020-12-26 at 18:28, Felix Miata wrote: > >> I suggest a good place to start would be to goto /etc/default/grub >> and switch from whichever mode is employed to the other, either plain >> text to graphical, or vice versa, then regenerate

Re: The .xsession-errors problem

On 2020-10-26 18:35 +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: > It seems that ~/.xsession-errors file can still grow to infinity in > size. Sometimes it grows really fast. This is nothing new: we have all > seen it and talked about it. What do you do to maintain this file? > > - Do you just delete it when

Re: Can't scroll back with Shift+PageUp in TTY

On 2020-10-24 13:40 +0200, Yvan Masson wrote: > I just discover that Shift+PageUp and Shift+PageDown in TTY does not > work on my Debian computers (1 running testing, one running stable, > and 2 VMs running stable). It works on another VM running CentOS > 8. And it works on my testing box when

Re: libXp -- was there a better way?

On 2020-10-23 23:53 +0100, Mark Fletcher wrote: > I occasionally use a specialist piece of software called xephem, which > is old but doesn't to my knowledge have a newer replacement that's 1% as > good. I tried to fire it up the other night for the first time since I > installed buster. It

Re: SSD and HDD

On 2020-10-11 13:48 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote: > On Sun, 2020-10-11 at 19:47 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: >> "Percentage Used Endurance Indicator" > > Where do you see that? For a SATA SSD: # smartctl -l devstat $SSD Cheers, Sven

Re: SSD and HDD

On 2020-10-11 17:45 +0100, mick crane wrote: > Bearing in mind I rarely do installs and when I do usually let the > installer do its thing. > Got a PC that has SSD and a HDD. I see that you are supposed to avoid > writes to SSD for longevity. No, you are not. I put an SSD into my desktop

Re: Mounting /dev/shm noexec

On 2020-10-02 22:35 +0300, Valter Jaakkola wrote: > I an effort to increase security one of the things I'm trying to do is to have > no world-writable directories where anything (well, binaries at least) could > be > executed from. I use Debian Linux 10 amd64. (I'm a home user.) > > When I run

Re: Question on 'dpkg --get-selections'

On 2020-09-11 22:03 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Is there any option to have 'dpkg --get-selections' NOT include > automatically installed packages? No, dpkg has no notion of automatically installed packages, that is an apt concept. > Otherwise, all packages show as manually installed,

Re: unable to login

On 2020-09-03 15:20 +0100, anthony gennard wrote: > Greg Wooledge on 1st September very kindly gave me a detailed reply to my > cry for help. > > I tried to follow his reply but I have lost all my memory following a > stroke. > So it took me some time to do so as I had to relearn the basic file >

Re: No irq handler for vector

On 2020-08-27 19:14 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:53:01 +0200 > john doe wrote: > > Hello john, > >>What should I do to correct whatever they are telling me? > > Seems to be being worked on ATM. I don't think that is actually the case, the activity in the archlinux forum

Re: /dev/fd is missing, how comes?

On 2020-08-08 07:39 +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi folks, > > after booting my desktop PC this morning it seems that /dev/fd is > missing. This breaks dkms. > > How comes? Which tool/package/service was supposed to create the > symlink for /dev/fd? It used to be created by udev:

Re: aptitude problem with control file (in stretch)

On 2020-08-07 14:08 +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > On 8/5/20 6:29 PM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> I am not sure I understand what you actually want to do, though. >> > > I am maintaining a set of meta packages, referencing the packages > to install on my hosts. To avoid havin

Re: Atheros wifi problem

On 2020-08-05 18:01 +0100, Hilary Snaden wrote: > Following the recent discussion about Atheros AR9271 wifi no longer working. > > After the most recent kernel update to 5.7.10-1 (2020-07-26), my > AR9271 wifi dongle is recognised again, but there is now a worse > problem: if I use the dongle,

Re: aptitude problem with control file (in stretch)

On 2020-08-05 12:33 +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > On 8/5/20 11:03 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> I am surprised to read that, considering that your installed lxc >> version >> does not actually fulfill the dependency. Note the epoch. >> $ dpkg --compare-versions 1:2.0.11-

Re: aptitude problem with control file (in stretch)

On 2020-08-05 09:42 +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > I've got a problem with upgrading a private package in Stretch. The control > file says: > > Package: sample-lxc > Architecture: all > Depends: ${misc:Depends} > , cgmanager | systemd > , debootstrap >

Re: apt update; apt upgrade, from local mirror not working

On 2020-08-01 22:49 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Take 2: > Why does the fact my local mirror only has one of my 2 enabled > architectures, cause apt upgrade to stop working altogether? Because apt expects all enabled architectures to be actually present by default, which looks like a

Re: grub update and reinstallation

On 2020-08-01 12:23 +0100, Graham Seaman wrote: > On 01/08/2020 07:50, Tom Dial wrote: >> I have a laptop that became unbootable because >> the initial loader failed to find a symbol (grub_calloc) and balked. >> Like the one mentioned here, it uses legacy boot. One explanation has it >> that this

Re: apt update; apt upgrade, from local mirror not working

On 2020-08-01 17:35 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > So I have a local sid+testing mirror I've been using for years, and just > updated it: > > nice /usr/bin/debmirror --nocleanup --verbose --progress > --allow-dist-rename--arch=amd64 >

Re: aptitude: a way to reinstall a package and all its dependents?

On 2020-07-31 15:10 +0200, local10 wrote: > Am looking for a way to reinstall a package and all "subpackages" the > package depends on. Normally I use aptitude to install packages. Something like this should do the trick: # aptitude reinstall mypackage '~i~Rmypackage' See the "Search term

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