Re: Internal server error 500 for bugs.debian.org pkgreport of apt-listchanges

2021-08-14 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
rm affect that? https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2021/08/msg1.html Maybe the site wide adjustment hasn't caught up yet or something? Or not... :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Internal server error 500 for bugs.debian.org pkgreport of apt-listchanges

2021-08-14 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 8/14/21, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 8/14/21, Brian Thompson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA512 >> >> Hello everyone, >> >> I'm getting a 500 error when trying to access the apt-listchanges, apt, >> and apt-listd

Re: PSA: 'apt-get update' new-Debian-release error fix

2021-08-16 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
e only place still showing similar, too. Yesterday I debootstrap'ed in anticipation of new and not so stable. Only a couple font packages failed as no longer available, and the rest were already hoarded locally here. My previous experience had been that a LOT of packages are not available

Re: Aw, snap!

2021-08-17 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
route. That's occasionally one of those "executive decisions" we Users end up making depending on our individual needs. The wicd-curses package that is how I access the Internet is from experimental and has been 100% reliable for a year or more. Thank you, Developers! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: how would you do this?

2021-08-18 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
oing on about hacking and cracking, knowing what's calling what sounds like a nice, SANITY enabling idea. Bonus points if it can be taught to throw out alerts about any unusual calls once a longstanding "normal" pattern is discerned. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Can't switch back to gnome on xorg

2021-08-24 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
een fixed such that Debian's not as tolerant about clashes. That would be a good thing because it would be about the safety of our systems overall. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: colors messed up after X screen lock (buster with xfce)

2021-08-28 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
The only reason I know the backup copy was flubbed is because of that really nasty looking visual glitch. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Why ``color_prompt`` is only set for ``xterm``? (colored prompt examples)

2021-09-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
original snippets. I'm really liking that blinking reminder as to where one is. That might be just what I've always wanted to cognitively distinguish between chroot and root terminal tabs. That's been a worry quite often over time. Thank you! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Why ``color_prompt`` is only set for ``xterm``? (colored prompt examples)

2021-09-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ry literally. I experienced THAT fail firsthand and now try to remember to plug anything I copy into a plain text editor before then recopying over to a terminal. Am wondering if, am more like hoping that this quotation marks part of it would have stood out when I research how to further customize my own setup. This will be a priceless personalization if I can eventually coerce it to say "(debootstrap) chroot" in place of some of the characters there. Shh, don't tell me how. Lead a fish to water, yada-yada. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

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

2021-09-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
en in the past while deleting a site's entire cookie lineup because their site's not working properly. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: buggy N-M (was: Debian 11: Unable to detect wireless interface on an old laptop) computer

2021-09-28 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
and thus not user-friendly for *me*. I still see other people rave about it. That's cool. At the end of the day, it means our brains function (comprehend) differently, but we all seem to be arriving at the same place: Connected to whatever it is we need to use. That's where the beauty of Debian offering CHOICE comes into play. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: About User and password on Debian 10

2021-09-30 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
d out like this before. It happens when I accidentally copy over a partition's vmlinuz and initrd.img files into a wrong directory in my LILO hierarchy. Oops! Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: USB memory stick quality [was: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive]

2021-10-01 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
late sitting right above the arrow keys. Last night the prices were within a couple dollars of each other (plus the same outrageous shipping). In the past, the prices have sometimes been $20 apart for what is obviously the exact same item. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: What do we have that will save a manpage as we see it on-screen

2021-10-01 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
that appear at the bottom, too. Others here sometimes do something a little fancier than only that ">" (greater than sign), but I can't remember what it is nor if it applies to something as straight forward as this one. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: You have been removed from the list (repeatedly)

2021-10-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
y the way. < snipped for brevity > >> >: Re: network problem >> >On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 10:00:45PM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: >> >> hi, >> >> I have the following problem on my laptop. >> >> my /etc >> >Please stop the message. we have already unsubscribed our email address. Did you write the "Please stop" part? It appears to be attributing the "we have already unsubscribed" to you, Greg, which is certainly not what you're trying to do. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Ot: 6 or 7 nights to download a CD (was: Re: RJ-11 phone line)

2021-10-08 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
Age of Technology. Beyond that, COVID-19 has turned quality of at-home Internet service into a checkpoint regarding one's employability. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: How i can resolve the problem of packages?

2021-10-10 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
will be read-only if it remounts at all. Faulty USB hubs are the primary cause in my instances.That would involve having to spend money to fix. It's why I didn't want to type about this first. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Re: LUKS encryption help

2021-10-11 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
s a user makes after one successfully logs in to get to that point of access. Oh, goodness, I hope that came out at least halfway understandable, grin. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: general broad question for help in setting up linux server and suggestions

2021-10-15 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
. and my apologies in advance if that subject was already mentioned. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Error installing texlive-base

2021-10-15 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
n render some systems unbootable until things are manually updated within one's CHOICE of boot managers. For example, I use LILO and have a separate directory that I maintain to help it function. I have to manipulate the latest vmlinuz and initrd.img files within that dedicated folder then

Re: how to avoid the terminal overlap

2021-10-27 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
m that mess of buttons strewn across the top, but it is (much easier). The "never group" option has the added bonus of being a constant nag that browser windows need archived and closed, permanently if not sooner. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: which package is good for making poster

2021-11-02 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ng in case someone knows of them or can help test drive them for informational purposes. They appear to be command line tools, and both have manpages for flags and such. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: what is the best package to design the layout of the house

2021-11-03 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
knowledge of how to clip portions of videos to create a GIF, but that just takes a few seconds to learn. The animation effect occurred while I was moving items around in the graph block. They became "animated" in the preview block just below that on the right side. Pretty trick.. cool.

Re: what is flooding /var/tmp?

2021-11-24 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
up at the top of the search. IMPORTANT: They mention that one might need to run that "lsof" on the directory/files a few times if necessary before you finally receive usable information. It apparently needs to catch the culprit in the active act of doing whatever is going on. Best wishes... Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Pulseaudio regularly crashing; how to evaluate?

2021-12-08 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
us sorts wanting to delve a little deeper into their systems. Be aware that it might be possible to kill your system's sound capabilities if your system offers a lot of choices instead of just one and you're not sure about what you're doing. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: question about a .deb file

2021-12-09 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
s declared here at the end of this entire [statement]. It reminds me of "subject and predicate" sentence structuring in grammar. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: strange problem with usb wifi adapter

2021-12-11 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
kage after the next boot up? Would comparing something like lsmod before and after provide any insight? Just thinking out loud.. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: BUG: Debian 11 version of bibletime - was [Re: Problems with "Bible Time" and "Xiphos"]

2021-12-14 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
els like they're toying with ways to do something like accommodate for future growth (additions). Change happens. Always copacetic here as long as maintainers have made all appropriate respective alterations within the programming code so that everything continues to function as expected. Since some members are successfully reading their handbook here, sounds like that happened so something else is glitching somewhere. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Desktop "locking".

2021-12-16 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
atin alphabets in use in Central European languages and Vietnamese. Wikipedia" Cindy :)) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Need Support on Debian10 Kernel Upgrade

2021-12-16 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ember 2021 comes > here for help on upgrading the kernel on an old Debian system? Sounds like something I'd say (and actually have in the past). I didn't go to the length you did regarding research, but I did notice it had a style similar to something else in the last week or so...

Re: Dragging tabs in Google Chrome 97

2022-01-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
> I know this isn't the *best* place to ask for help with proprietary > browsers, but this is a pretty popular one, so there's a chance. Has > anyone else encountered this problem? More importantly, does anyone > know how to *fix* it? > > Being unable to rearrange tabs in a

Re: Bullseye default swap partition size?

2022-01-08 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
d me by saying this HP is only using 89mb of swap. Genuine shock. I'm used to that number being more like 6GB of swap in use. I'm impressed because this session has been up about six hours and has headed into hibernation umpteen number of times the entire time. Thank you, Developers! I agree t

Re: freeing up some space

2022-01-11 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
those for the first time, especially without fully understanding what the notes are saying the options do, PLEASE make sure to back up your system first. Been there, done that without backing up in the past. It's not pretty.. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Debian 11 xfce

2022-01-12 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
s > Session and Startup > Application Autostart (tab) There may also be at least one other path to that same end, but that's the one that has always worked for me for things like this (and Magnus and...). Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Followup to my last...

2022-01-18 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ware installer for the b43legacy driver broadcom-sta-common - Common files for the Broadcom STA Wireless driver broadcom-sta-dkms - dkms source for the Broadcom STA Wireless driver broadcom-sta-source - Source for the Broadcom STA Wireless driver firmware-brcm80211 - Binary firmware for Broadcom

Re: cooperative.co.uk has address 127.0.0.1

2022-01-18 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
a few seconds each time then a-sumed it was somehow tied to the other end running their own server. The afterthought problem with it is the inevitable collision with others (obviously) doing the same across the Web. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: TDE File Manager options

2022-01-20 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
e it work. There was at least one thread about that quite a while back. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

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

2022-01-22 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
7;s missing if one keeps encountering an unbootable system Or not :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: firefox and limited bookmarks. WTH?

2022-01-22 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
a/firefox kept lunging around in their size instead of consistently growing larger over time. It's apparently not imagination, now. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Using Gmail on Debian mailing lists

2021-03-11 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
enience to > the person sending the message outweighs the trivial benefits to the > person receiving it. These are international lists, too. I enjoy being reminded of that via the attribution when a reply retains the author's language. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-12 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
VER stumbled upon anything written by anyone else. It never felt like there was room for accidental meetings with others who might help further the expressing of your concerns (for lack of a better way to put it). So anyway... Cindy.. :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: /usr/share/doc/*/copyright

2021-03-14 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ntact with "Ian"? Six or eight years ago? Or... this week? As asked before in some form, did he give you a last name? If it's Murdock, what was the email address that was used? Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: which mixer can show sound volume as colorful bar

2021-04-19 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ckages that I've seen apt-get update on occasion. Just thinking out loud... Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Zoom.

2021-04-21 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
debian.org then running the "dpkg -i" command on them, too, until every package is finally satisfied. I'm a-suming that yesterday's success was due to Bullseye getting ready to roll over into stable.. Maybe. Whatever the reason, yesterday was a good day for it to go that smoothly. Thank you to all who help make that happen. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: No networking after resume from suspend

2021-04-22 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
repeatedly clicking a reconnect button every couple of seconds then finally close the program in frustration. These last few days, just sitting here staring at the screen while counting seconds gives it time to churn out a successful connection. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: No networking after resume from suspend

2021-04-23 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 4/23/21, David Wright wrote: > On Fri 23 Apr 2021 at 10:49:00 (+0100), Richmond wrote: >> Cindy Sue Causey writes: >> >> > Questions where answers might help come to mind. Primarily, has this >> > always occurred, or did it just start up in the last couple

Re: No networking after resume from suspend

2021-04-23 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
I grep /var/log/kern* for the word "renamed" because that's what I always remember first. Except that then there's having to open kern.log in a text editor occasionally so yeah, dmesg rocks if one can remember to go that route. Grep works with dmesg, too. I just tested it. Only one line to read as output. Very cognitively friendly! :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Evolution

2021-04-28 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ing usability related there. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Howto disable automounting of all removeable media

2021-05-16 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ot;. Twitter took it down within a couple hours of a request for them to do so. There is still an "Account suspended" fragment hanging around out there on their website. Please be safe out there. It's not the same World we were living in 20 years ago. Toward both the good and th

Re: Debmirror

2021-05-18 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
rom my apt-get sources opens to the kind of downloadable packages you might be seeking. One of the things I learned early on with ALL Linux distributions was to play with visiting the repository pages in person to get a feel for their layouts. On rare occasions, I've used that method to downloa

Re: how to use mtp command line?

2021-05-23 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ki MTP page, although it > doesn't have much on mtp-tools: > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Media_Transfer_Protocol Ditto on ArchWiki all the way around. That's how I learned to use A LOT of *Debian* early on. I think it boiled down to how their way of writing up their docu

Re: Upgrading to Bullseye?

2021-05-27 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
apt-get is the sign that tweak needs addressed by the TRUSTED outside/third party vendor. That complaint will occur because the vendor doesn't know to sniff the User's dot sources file(s) for their own repositories in the same way vendors already take a poke at our longstanding dot list files (based on personal experience). Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: A Grub Boot Question about initrd

2021-06-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ne singular UUID per each partition. Because there is SO MUCH information in that file, that tiny detail didn't immediately leap off the page as surely being a problem in the making. I never did figure out what was occurring because the second UUID, the wrong one, NEVER matched anything in my

Re: grub2 boot menu

2021-06-25 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
thought process is that maybe hearing it further described will trigger a fellow lurker's interest in learning more about how their Debian works right from the boot beginning. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Bug#990086: apt-key is deprecated in bullseye, how to manage keys instead

2021-06-26 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
would be viable, usable. > Documentation for actions requiring specialized tools is rather of the > form "use foo to add an entry to baz", e.g. in the context of GnuPG it > would be "use gpg to add this public key to " (which is also a > file, but must be manipulated with specialized tools). Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: the Amazing Poly

2021-06-30 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 6/30/21, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2021 at 05:57:45PM +0300, ellanios82 wrote: >> - the Amazing Poly : short & to the point [vimeo] > > ? Maybe this? https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/05/msg00241.html Cindy.. -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking R

Re: why pdf file at archive.org is so slow to open

2021-07-04 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
ronment viewer, but I have it installed on XFCE4. I just fake purged it to see what else it would uninstall. Only 4 other packages, for whatever that might be worth per each, our own personalized Debian installs. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Buster error no release file

2021-07-07 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
r. It might also help to share the entire contents of your "/etc/apt/sources.list" file if you find one on your setup. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Busybox Debian commanding

2021-07-07 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
uld be dragged into view from the right side, I could suddenly log in to a normal, long session just fine. That was an odd trigger toward success when the real problem was about mismatched kernels. -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: badblocks

2021-07-07 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
g station, and off it went without asking for verification first. The harmed hard drive is sitting untouched until I brave up toward attempting a software autopsy in hopes of salvaging data. The holdup is that I'm mentally not prepared to hear I lost that data forever. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Code Hosts with sights on the inevitable [Was: Working for free....]

2021-07-13 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
pass away? Github's hosting an account that has been dormant for about four years now. It may be one of the few places on this planet where anything about that developer is available. Calling that information priceless today is putting it mildly because there's a possibility that his passi

Re: Upgrade problems?

2021-07-21 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
It's about a bug I tried to submit to Security a couple years ago. I got shut down, kind of a cyber hand thrown up in my face. STILL "not amused". It was about my own "/" multiple times over becoming owned by something else every time I untarred one particular package. The

Re: Upgrade problems?

2021-07-21 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
d and then reconstructed for less than moral purposes. Cindy :) On 7/22/21, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 7/21/21, Tixy wrote: >> On Wed, 2021-07-21 at 12:04 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: >>> On 2021-07-21 10:52 a.m., Kushal Kumaran wrote: >>> >>> frank@fed

Re: debian-user list info and guidelines (FAQ) - posted monthly

2021-08-04 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
t's not. I'm actually shy in one-on-one instances. If it ever happens, please consider taking whatever legal means necessary to help that not happen to someone else. It HAS happened. There's a suspended Twitter account because I asked Twitter to do so. It had my pictures, my name,

Re: Reply configuration (was: All-in-One printer: HP OfficeJet 8012)

2021-08-11 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
configured to do automatically. Gmail handled it properly just now... Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: apt-upgrade (Bullseye) shows 1 pkg not upgraded

2021-08-11 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
n tried, my apologies. [0] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html See under "2.4.1. Advanced package management operations with commandline" Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Haskell Platform

2022-01-27 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
a bug against the haskell-platform package. There are some folks over at reddit, too, if that's anyone's thing: https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/ Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Screen not blanking

2022-02-06 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
by the way. Other desktop environments like Trinity will hopefully have their own similar user-friendly features. Afterthought based on the power management potential for conflict: Are there any possibly related warning or error messages showing up via e.g. dmesg? Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Stalled system shutdown

2022-02-11 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
7;s been ages since I first realized that was occurring. It was an eye opener into that there's still a lot to learn about how operating systems and their packages work under the hood. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: /etc/adjtime (setting the hardware clock to local time on Debian 11)

2022-02-11 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
e yet. That manually created file then works flawlessly for me here, but my needs are simple. I think the hardware clock is set to UTC, by the way. Cindy :) ** N.B. Debootstrap was priceless as a method of installing Linux on dialup Internet connections.. in case that still helps anyone else. -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: Captive Portal Alternatives (Was: Re: miracle of Firefox in the hotel)

2022-02-13 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
eems like it might be pretty easy for perps hovering out in a parking lot or maybe a nearby building to create a fake captive portal that resembles what users would be expecting to see from the, yes, FREE Internet provider. That would only be possible if this is working like I'm imagining is being described here. That imagination involves a webpage such as what I once encountered popping up unexpectedly while trying to access WIFI through a local grocery store a few years ago. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: cinnamon - slow boot up times

2022-02-16 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
a few times. It's a no from me because it won't let me uninstall GRUB without destroying the entire operating system in the process. The releases I've test driven won't uninstall GRUB without auto-uninstalling a massive amount of important packages. That's about User CHOICE, my p

Re: Misremembered

2022-02-16 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
from us posting on here, too. That was a topic on here a while back. That first name at AOL occasionally changes to something other than my own. On too regular an occasion, it becomes a relative's first name, instead. That potentially hints at some heavy duty online stalking being perped in the name of obvious phishing. Please be safe out there. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: about 10th new install of bullseye

2022-02-18 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
#x27;s case. Is the computer just stopping and standing at that screen, or is it shutting off? Mine shuts off. This might be an apples and oranges thing where I typed a bunch of noise. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *

Re: After Feb 24 update my X11/KDE stopped working (can't log in). (using debian testing)

2022-02-25 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 2/25/22, Karel Gardas wrote: > On 2/25/22 13:29, Christian Britz wrote: >> Hello Karel, >> >> please try it with a temporary clean profile. >> > > thanks for the idea, indeed after creating a random new and clean user > and attempt to log into the Plasma (X11) session I went in well. > > On my

Re: Hibernate on a Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13: XFCE problem?

2022-02-26 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 2/25/22, Charles Curley wrote: > The appears to not offer hibernate. Neither hibernate nor hybrid sleep > are available in the logout menu. Calling an XFCE command to hibernate > ("xfce4-session-logout --hibernate") does nothing. Suspend is available > and works. Mine's XFCE4 on Bookworm. It

Re: strange boot messages

2022-02-27 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 2/27/22, Michael Grant wrote: > I'm running Debian 11.2 stable on a Linode (a popular VPS). After a recent > update, I think from > around 25th of January, I'm starting to see some strange messages in > my logs: > > systemd[1]: First Boot Complete was skipped because of a failed condition > ch

Re: Monitor (screen) move without human action

2022-03-04 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 3/4/22, Marcelo Laia wrote: > Hi, > > Monitor (screen) of my Notebook Inspiron 15 I15-5547-A20 move and click > randomly without an human action. > > Here is a video https://youtu.be/y2RIZnx_4HY > > What could be? Hi.. I don't have an answer, it's a question, instead. To help others who will

Re: apt-key deprecation.

2022-03-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 3/5/22, Erwan David wrote: > Hi, > > When I update my packages I get the warning : > > W: > https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/dists/buster/InRelease: > Key is stored in legacy trusted.gpg keyring (/etc/apt/trusted.gpg), see > the DEPRECATION section in apt-key(8) for details. >

Re: evince has died a horrible death. Sob...

2022-03-11 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 3/11/22, gene heskett wrote: > Thats been the most complete pdf viewer I've ever used. But I just tried > to look at a doc I have looked at hundreds of times over he last years, > and it got all upset all over itself, while I was logged into that > machine with an ssh -Y login. > > What its its

Re: Claws-mail Address Book Bug?

2022-03-13 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 3/12/22, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sun, 13 Mar 2022 09:19:52 +1100 > Charlie wrote: > >> Discovered that when I looked for the mailing list on the net. >> I dare not say googled because there is some controversy about > > IKWYM, but in most circles that word is still the 'go to' one as

Re: packages built with golang

2022-03-15 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 3/15/22, Dan Ritter wrote: > Cousin Stanley wrote: >> Cousin Stanley wrote : >> > The data is already on your system, so >> > there's no transmission happening. >> >> I do not understand this. > ... > >> Does the Debian package manager >> really download package information >> for al

Re: recommend music player?

2022-03-16 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 3/16/22, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: > On 16.03.2022 22:54, kaye n wrote: >> Hello Friends! >> >> I am currently using Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) >> >> Can anyone recommend a good music player with an equalizer where I can >> choose Pop, Rock, etc. >> >> Thank you! > That could be "Qmmp".

Re: Debian DSA-5095-1 : linux - security update

2022-03-17 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 3/17/22, Peter Wienemann wrote: > > You can check its status using > > dpkg -l linux-headers-amd64 That has interesting feedback. I've been using the following for a slightly different trek toward a similar end (includes what mine says right now): $ apt-cache policy linux-headers-amd64 linux

Re: update, reboot required?

2022-03-19 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 3/19/22, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 10:55:03AM +0100, Toni Mas Soler wrote: >> I restart Dbus from time to time. Actually, I stop Dbus if i don't >> need, that is when I do not use X (almost allways). >> Do you mean my action is not effective? > > The fact that you're "almos

Re: Predictable Network Interface Names

2022-03-31 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 3/30/22, Dan Ritter wrote: > Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 07:18:07PM +0100, Brian wrote: >> > That's good advice, but are MAC addresses memorable? >> >> Doesn't matter. You can choose a memorable name. The MAC address is >> simply the data point you place in the config file

Re: fluxbox partial installation (SOLVED)

2022-04-02 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 4/2/22, Haines Brown wrote: > > Thank you. The problem turned out to be that my hostname somehow > changed. It was originally but then it became > -10. The only way I can account for this is my senility > (87). This is my third email attempt at this. I started to say that sounds odd. I init

Re: Problem downloading "Installation Guide for 64-bit PC (amd64)"

2022-04-07 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 4/7/22, Richard Owlett wrote: > I need a *HTML* copy of "Installation Guide for 64-bit PC (amd64)" for > *OFFLINE* use. > > The HTML links on [https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual] > lead *ONLY* to Page 1. > > Is the complete document downloadable as a single HTML file? Have y

Re: Problem downloading "Installation Guide for 64-bit PC (amd64)"

2022-04-07 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 4/7/22, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 4/7/22, Richard Owlett wrote: >> I need a *HTML* copy of "Installation Guide for 64-bit PC (amd64)" for >> *OFFLINE* use. >> >> The HTML links on [https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual] >> l

Re: Libreoffice: printing "dirties" the file being printed

2022-04-08 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 4/7/22, Gareth Evans wrote: > On Thu 7 Apr 2022, at 09:58, Jonathan Dowland > wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 07:08:11PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: >>>Tools menu/Options - General; 'Printing sets "document modified" status' >> > >> Does anyone have any insight into why this is an option? Mor

Re: Debian 9 Xfce intermittent keyboard and mouse erratic behavior or lockup

2022-04-20 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 4/20/22, Dieter Rohlfing wrote: > Am Wed, 20 Apr 2022 00:43:35 -0700 > schrieb David Christensen : > >>I have been experiencing intermittent storms of random keyboard and >>mouse GUI events over the past year or more: > > Same for me. > > System is Debian 9.13 (kernel 4.19.0-0.bpo.19-amd64, XFC

Re: no update possible

2022-05-03 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 5/3/22, Peter Ehlert wrote: > > On 5/3/22 06:29, Schwibinger Michael wrote: >> Good afternoon >> >> Thank You >> >> Terminal >> and root terminal do say >> >> command not found. > > please post Exactly what the command is that you entered > > > and Exactly what the error message is > > > *copy

Re: Disable connections to Internet without user's consent

2022-05-17 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 5/17/22, Dan Ritter wrote: > Andrea Monaco wrote: >> >> I wonder all the ways a standard installation and configuration connects >> to the Internet without the user's consent, and how to disable it. >> >> I can think of the automatic check for updates and the automatic >> security updates. Any

Re: Debian desktop environment

2022-05-28 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 5/28/22, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Brian wrote: >> > Careful! If you go on like this you will end up installing bullseye :). > > Keith Bainbridge wrote: >> Bookworm? >> SID? > > In any case: Not Testing ! > > Currently a zillion of packages get marked for autoremovial from Testing > becau

Re: debian-user message size limit

2022-06-17 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 6/17/22, Gareth Evans wrote: > Is there a limit for message size on debian-user? > > I can't find any such info on > > https://lists.debian.org/ > > https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ > > but a couple of recent large-ish messages (one ~270K with two s

Re: Is there an easy way to get the latest version number of a source package that is available?

2022-06-27 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 6/27/22, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 03:31:01PM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: >> Hi, >> >> apt-get --only-source --download-only source >> >> will download the latest version of the source package. >> >> Is there a one liner that will give me the version of the package >> (

Re: Stop XFCE saving the state?

2022-07-05 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 7/5/22, Ash Joubert wrote: > On 06/07/2022 10:53, John Conover wrote: >> How to stop XFCE saving the state when logging out of Bullseye XFCE? > > Uncheck the box "Applications (XFCE X with mouse icon) / Setting / > Session and Startup / Logout Settings / Automatically save session on > logout".

Re: How can I find out why apt-get is keeping a package back?

2022-07-10 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 7/10/22, David Wright wrote: > On Sun 10 Jul 2022 at 15:24:11 (-0700), L L wrote: >> How can I find out why apt-get is keeping a package back? > > I usually look at the output of apt-cache show . I accidentally stumbled upon that I can "apt-get upgrade " and see what is likely the trigger for

Re: Getting rid of backuppc password protection.

2022-07-17 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 7/17/22, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 16 Jul 2022 at 19:13:25 (-0700), Gary L. Roach wrote: >> I used apt install to install the standard debian package and used apt >> purge to uninstall. Further, I used rm -r to clean up the directories >> that were left. If it helps: >> > > Were I to install

Re: OT, Recommendation for low cost laptop

2022-07-18 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 7/18/22, James H. H. Lampert wrote: >>> Another place to look is your local laptop store. My current laptop, >>> as well as its predecessor, are refurbished ThinkPads I bought there >>> for about $300. They run Linux just fine. > > "Local laptop store?" > > Not quite sure I've heard of such a

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