Re: file born 30 seconds after its creation on ext4 - bug?

2022-04-30 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, sp...@caiway.net wrote: > how does one force to refresh this memory with a command? to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > What do you mean by "refresh"? What's in the cache is always > the "freshest" version: Indeed. With normal filesystem operations there should be no need to call something like

Re: Unwanted route appears at every reboot...

2022-04-30 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 03:29:34PM +0800, Jeremy Ardley wrote: > One other thing to check is if dhclient is running. Or dhcpcd. We get a *lot* of that from people who think or claim they're running Debian, when they're actually running "some variant of Raspbian that's been customized even more".

Re: Unwanted route appears at every reboot...

2022-04-30 Thread Jeremy Ardley
On 29/4/22 5:30 pm, nim...@paralog.it wrote: On gio, 2022-04-28 at 05:26 +0800, Jeremy Ardley wrote: I can definitely esclude that. I turned off my machine and nobody answer to ping to its address. One other thing to check is if dhclient is running. It can be started by

Re: CUnit - A Unit Testing Framework for C

2022-04-30 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 10:59:25PM -0600, William Torrez Corea wrote: > > I get the following error: > > cunit.c: In function ‘init_suite1’: > cunit.c:39:10: warning: comparison between pointer and integer >39 | if(NULL == (temp_file == fopen("temp.txt","w+"))){ > | ^~ The

Re: file born 30 seconds after its creation on ext4 - bug?

2022-04-30 Thread Curt
On 2022-04-30, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Indeed. With normal filesystem operations there should be no need to call > something like sync(2) in order to get a consistent representation of the > current filesystem state. > What does the following mean, then, in that light: Because of delayed

Re: Dual booting Debian on an Windows machine.

2022-04-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 09:09:19AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > Thanks for a quick reply. > > On 04/30/2022 07:23 AM, Christian Britz wrote: > > Generally it is easier to install Windows first, then Debian, but of > > course it is possible the other way round. > > My post evidently could have

Re: Unwanted route appears at every reboot...

2022-04-30 Thread David Wright
On Sat 30 Apr 2022 at 07:32:52 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 03:29:34PM +0800, Jeremy Ardley wrote: > > One other thing to check is if dhclient is running. > > Or dhcpcd. We get a *lot* of that from people who think or claim > they're running Debian, when they're

Dual booting Debian on an Windows machine.

2022-04-30 Thread Richard Owlett
I will be setting up a Windows laptop to dual boot Debian. If the machine has legacy BIOS, no problem as I've done that before. If it is a UEFI machine (possibly with secure boot, what should I be reading. TIA

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

2022-04-30 Thread Albretch Mueller
I had just installed Debian 11 onto a pen drive and as soon as I connected my computer to the Internet I started having such problems, which makes me wonder if the original installation disk was OK. lbrtchx

Re: Thunderbird importeren

2022-04-30 Thread hanbenes
Verzonden met [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com/) beveiligde e-mail. --- Original Message --- Op zaterdag 30 april 2022 om 17:31 schreef Willem Jager : > Op 27-04-2022 om 18:29 schreef hanbenes: > >> Wie weet een oplossing voor het volgende: >> Ik wil de email mappen uit een eerdere

Re: file born 30 seconds after its creation on ext4 - bug?

2022-04-30 Thread tomas
On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 12:31:07PM -, Curt wrote: > On 2022-04-30, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > > > Indeed. With normal filesystem operations there should be no need to call > > something like sync(2) in order to get a consistent representation of the > > current filesystem state. > > > > What

Re: Thunderbird importeren

2022-04-30 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Op 30-04-2022 om 21:06 schreef hanbenes:> Verzonden met ProtonMail beveiligde e-mail. --- Original Message --- Op zaterdag 30 april 2022 om 17:31 schreef Willem Jager : Op 27-04-2022 om 18:29 schreef hanbenes: Wie weet een oplossing voor het volgende: Ik

Re: Dual booting Debian on an Windows machine.

2022-04-30 Thread DdB
Hi, i am using - and recommending - refind Am 30.04.2022 um 13:50 schrieb Richard Owlett: > I will be setting up a Windows laptop to dual boot Debian. > If the machine has legacy BIOS, no problem as I've done that before. > > If it is a UEFI machine (possibly

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

2022-04-30 Thread Albretch Mueller
after editing it the unhashed line in my /etc/apt/sources.list are: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye-updates main deb-src

Re: Dual booting Debian on an Windows machine.

2022-04-30 Thread Richard Owlett
Thanks for a quick reply. On 04/30/2022 07:23 AM, Christian Britz wrote: Generally it is easier to install Windows first, then Debian, but of course it is possible the other way round. My post evidently could have been clearer. My friend's laptop will be purchased with Windows pre-installed.

Re: Dual booting Debian on an Windows machine.

2022-04-30 Thread IL Ka
> > > https://uefi.org/specifications > current is UEFI Specification Version 2.9 (March 2021) > > https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI_Spec_2_9_2021_03_18.pdf > although i still read > https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI_Spec_2_8_A_Feb14.pdf > when it comes to

Re: Dual booting Debian on an Windows machine.

2022-04-30 Thread Christian Britz
Generally it is easier to install Windows first, then Debian, but of course it is possible the other way round. The Debian boot manager can be configured to respect the Windows installation, the Windows boot manager does not know anything about other operating systems, so you should leave that to

Re: Dual booting Debian on an Windows machine.

2022-04-30 Thread IL Ka
this is possible: you just need to have two .efi files for your OSes: one for Windows and one for Linux. Use ``efibootmgr`` to manage it. If you have secure boot enabled, you need shim: https://wiki.debian.org/SecureBoot On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 3:06 PM Richard Owlett wrote: > I will be setting

Re: Dual booting Debian on an Windows machine.

2022-04-30 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 10:54 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/30/2022 09:01 AM, IL Ka wrote: > > this is possible: you just need to have two .efi files for your OSes: one > > for Windows and one for Linux. > > Use ``efibootmgr`` to manage it. > > If you have secure boot enabled, you need shim: >

Re: file born 30 seconds after its creation on ext4 - bug?

2022-04-30 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Curt wrote: > What does the following mean, then, in that light: > Because of delayed allocation and other performance optimizations, ext4's > behavior of writing files to disk is different from ext3. In ext4, when a > program writes to the file system, it is not guaranteed to be

Re: Dual booting Debian on an Windows machine.

2022-04-30 Thread IL Ka
I am not aware of any document, but here is how UEFI boot works: Harddrive is GPT-labeled and it has a partition with a special EFI flag. The partition is formatted as Fat32. Firmware (people tend to call it BIOS) contains configuration in non-volatile memory. This configuration consists of

Re: file born 30 seconds after its creation on ext4 - bug?

2022-04-30 Thread tomas
On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 10:33:34AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > sp...@caiway.net wrote: > > how does one force to refresh this memory with a command? > > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > What do you mean by "refresh"? What's in the cache is always > > the "freshest" version: > > Indeed.

Re: Dual booting Debian on an Windows machine.

2022-04-30 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/30/2022 09:01 AM, IL Ka wrote: this is possible: you just need to have two .efi files for your OSes: one for Windows and one for Linux. Use ``efibootmgr`` to manage it. If you have secure boot enabled, you need shim: https://wiki.debian.org/SecureBoot Following links from there suggests

Re: Thunderbird importeren

2022-04-30 Thread Willem Jager
Op 27-04-2022 om 18:29 schreef hanbenes: Wie weet een oplossing voor het volgende: Ik wil de email mappen uit een eerdere Linux Thunderbird installatie importeren in de huidige Debian Thunderbird installatie. Daarvoor heb ik de hele directory .thunderbird gecopieerd naar de plek waar deze

Re: Dual booting Debian on an Windows machine.

2022-04-30 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i have to add some technical nitpicking for the archives: IL Ka wrote: > I am not aware of any document, but here is how UEFI boot works https://uefi.org/specifications current is UEFI Specification Version 2.9 (March 2021)

sane-backend for Epson EcoTank ET-2711

2022-04-30 Thread Dieter Rohlfing
Hello everybody, I'm using an Epson EcoTank ET-2711. Printing with CUPS is no problem, but scanning with sane. According to http://www.sane-project.org/lists/sane-backends-cvs.html#S-EPSONDS the Epson EcoTank ET-2711 (vendor=0x04b8, product=0x1143) is completely supported by the sane-backend

Re: What is z3fold and do I need it? (error: /usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: 12: /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/local.conf: z3fold: not found)

2022-04-30 Thread Dekks Herton
z3fold a choice for zsap compressor module, normally if your seeing a problem you need to add z3fold to initramfs modules file and rebuild. see https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2021/10/03/setting-up-zswap-in-debian-11-gnu-linux/

how to install zoom for bullseye for i386

2022-04-30 Thread lou
i download  zoom_i386.deb from zoom.us and run dpkg -i: dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of zoom:  zoom depends on libgl1-mesa-glx; however:   Package libgl1-mesa-glx is not installed.  zoom depends on libegl1-mesa; however:   Package libegl1-mesa is not installed.  zoom depends

Re: sane-backend for Epson EcoTank ET-2711

2022-04-30 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 1 May 2022 00:25:13 +0200 Dieter Rohlfing wrote: > My guess is: none of the installed backends (Debian 10.12) handles the > ET-2711. What can I do? I know nothing of your printer, so this is a stab in the dark. One thing I'd check is whether the version of sane you have supports it. Web

Nettoyage du spam : avril 2022

2022-04-30 Thread Jean-Pierre Giraud
Bonjour, Comme nous sommes en mai, il est désormais possible de traiter les archives du mois d'avril 2022 des listes francophones. N'oubliez bien sûr pas d'ajouter votre nom à la liste des relecteurs pour que nous sachions où nous en sommes. Détails du processus de nettoyage du spam sur :

Re: how to install zoom for bullseye for i386

2022-04-30 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 10:07:23PM -0400, lou wrote: > > it seems i have solved it with 'apt --fix-broken install' That's one way, yes. The other way would be to use "apt install ./zoom*.deb" instead of "dpkg -i zoom*.deb".

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

2022-04-30 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 30 Apr 2022 16:45:01 -0500 Albretch Mueller wrote: > after editing it the unhashed line in my /etc/apt/sources.list are: > > deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main > deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main > > deb

Re: E: Package 'vlc' has no installation candidate ...

2022-04-30 Thread Charles Curley
On Sat, 30 Apr 2022 16:45:01 -0500 Albretch Mueller wrote: > and all seems to be fine and dandy. Good to hear. A bit of fine tuning: Unless you want the source for any package(s), comment out the deb-src lines. Comment in the deb-src lines only for packages that interest you. You have two

Re: how to install zoom for bullseye for i386

2022-04-30 Thread lou
it seems i have solved it with 'apt --fix-broken install' Thanks anyway!