Re: Question About Free File Transfering Apps

2024-05-31 Thread David Wright
On Fri 31 May 2024 at 17:30:19 (+0100), mick.crane wrote: > On 2024-05-31 13:58, gene heskett wrote: > > On 5/30/24 20:09, mick.crane wrote: > > > On 2024-05-29 15:07, Carter Zhang wrote: > > > > Are there any free apps for GNU/Linux and Android to share files over > > > > LAN? There have already

Re: tree with dir size

2024-05-31 Thread David Wright
On Fri 31 May 2024 at 16:03:22 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 09:18:03PM +0200, Franco Martelli wrote: > > On 31/05/24 at 02:18, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > Confusing and useless. I still don't have a better answer than this: > > > > > > hobbit:~$ tree --du -Fh /tmp/x |

Re: Anybody Skype users here?

2024-05-30 Thread David Wright
On Fri 31 May 2024 at 08:48:33 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote: > On 31/5/24 08:04, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 31 May 2024 at 07:57:22 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote: > > > On 31/5/24 07:49, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > > > wget https://repo.skype.c

Re: Anybody Skype users here?

2024-05-30 Thread David Wright
On Fri 31 May 2024 at 07:57:22 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote: > On 31/5/24 07:49, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > wget https://repo.skype.com/latest/skypeforlinux-64.deb > > > > Trying to access that URL with SeaMonkey, to view the directory > listing (to find version numbers), returned the following; >

Re: After upgrade, what do you do about "removed" and "obsolete" packages ?

2024-05-30 Thread David Wright
On Wed 29 May 2024 at 18:20:25 (+0200), Thomas Schmitt wrote: > i wonder why none of the electricians on this list has an anecdote to > share about dealing with "obsolete" packages after upgrade. > No triumphs, defeats, or global catastrophes ? Nowadays I install new releases from scratch, helped

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-05-28 Thread David Wright
On Tue 28 May 2024 at 18:11:48 (+0100), debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Tue, 28 May 2024 11:31:29 +0100 "mick.crane" wrote: > > > > >Is there not some system that runs ethernet over the mains wiring or > > >did I misunderstand it. > > > > Yes, there is. I

Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable

2024-05-27 Thread David Wright
On Mon 27 May 2024 at 21:46:24 (+0200), Detlef Vollmann wrote: > On 5/27/24 20:02, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > > # apt install -t=bookworm db-util db5.3-util libc-bin libc-dev-bin > > > > > > > > I can never remember exactly what `-t` really does, but I suspect you'll > > > > need things like >

Re: "Repeaters", etc.

2024-05-27 Thread David Wright
On Mon 27 May 2024 at 22:23:01 (+0100), Brad Rogers wrote: > On Mon, 27 May 2024 17:09:02 -0400 > Paul M Foster wrote: > > >for internet (WHY aren't new houses wired with Cat5/6/7?). The local > > Cost > > Lack of understanding (in the building trade) We didn't meet any lack of understanding.

Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable

2024-05-27 Thread David Wright
On Mon 27 May 2024 at 14:02:47 (-0400), Stefan Monnier wrote: > >> > # apt install -t=bookworm db-util db5.3-util libc-bin libc-dev-bin > >> > >> I can never remember exactly what `-t` really does, but I suspect you'll > >> need things like > >> > >> apt install libc-bin/bookworm > > > > To

Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable

2024-05-27 Thread David Wright
On Mon 27 May 2024 at 12:23:41 (-0400), Michael Grant wrote: > [ … ] > so I thought I'd try the same process with db5.3, but removing db5.3 > wants to remove a slew of packages: > > # apt reinstall -s libdb5.3/bookworm > ... > Selected version '5.3.28+dfsg2-1' (Debian:12.5/stable [amd64]) for

Re: moving some packages back to bookworm stable

2024-05-27 Thread David Wright
On Mon 27 May 2024 at 09:56:54 (-0400), Michael Grant wrote: > What's the best way to get back to running just the bookworm stable > packages? I tried what I thought was the obvious way to fix this by > running: > > # apt install -t=bookworm db-util db5.3-util libc-bin libc-dev-bin >

Re: Address 127.0.1.1

2024-05-24 Thread David Wright
On Fri 24 May 2024 at 13:40:38 (-0400), Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 11:13 AM Paul M Foster > wrote: > > > > Folks: > > > > In my /etc/hosts file, there's a line: > > > > 127.0.1.1 yosemite.mars.lan yosemite > > > > I think Debian put it there. > > > > Later in the file, I've

Re: Aliases and OpenSMTPD

2024-05-24 Thread David Wright
On Fri 24 May 2024 at 13:08:56 (-0400), Paul M Foster wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 06:40:09PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 11:45:56AM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > > > > > If I send an email directly to pa...@yosemite.mars.lan from buckaroo, it > > > arrives.

Re: Will te UUID or blkid of a device change?

2024-05-23 Thread David Wright
On Wed 22 May 2024 at 21:19:35 (+0200), Hans wrote: > I am booting a lie system from USB-stick. In this live system I am creating > an > ISO-file, which I then want to dd onto another USB-stick. Do you want to copy the ISO to a file, a partition, or the whole device? > As I am doing this with

Re: How to run automatically a script as soon root login

2024-05-13 Thread David Wright
On Mon 13 May 2024 at 21:18:30 (+0200), Mario Marietto wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 9:05 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 06:06:37PM +0200, Hans wrote: > > > Am Montag, 13. Mai 2024, 13:24:17 CEST schrieb Greg Wooledge: > > > > On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 07:36:07AM +0200,

Re: Installing testing on Acer Aspire 315

2024-05-12 Thread David Wright
On Sun 12 May 2024 at 21:10:16 (-0700), Paul Scott wrote: > On 5/9/2024 1:59 PM, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Thu, 9 May 2024 09:32:32 -0700 Paul Scott wrote: > > > > > The error I'm getting is during "Install base system."  The only way > > > I knew to save the log was with a camera. Even though

Re: [off topic] High Sierra, was: Cindex

2024-05-12 Thread David Wright
On Sun 12 May 2024 at 21:52:05 (+0100), Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sun, 12 May 2024 22:27:58 +0200 "Thomas Schmitt" wrote: > > >Hah ! Do they think that ISO 9660 is dead enough so they can highjack > >its birth name ? > > Happens all the time (just saying - not condoning); > > Solid State Drive -

Re: Adding package to Debian Distro

2024-05-09 Thread David Wright
On Thu 09 May 2024 at 16:24:55 (-), Curt wrote: > On 2024-05-09, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Thu, 9 May 2024 14:09:52 - (UTC) Curt wrote: > > > >> I don't think there is a process by which you could add closed-source > >> IBM software to a bona fide Debian depository, even the non-free

Re: Lightweight Emacs for container?

2024-05-06 Thread David Wright
On Mon 06 May 2024 at 19:37:39 (+), Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > I usually use Emacs on full-blown Debian distributions, so I don't pay much > attention to how large it is. But I'm now starting to > play around with lightweight LXC containers, obviously headless, and would > like to keep

Re: Bookworm's /etc/mailcap seems to break s-nail

2024-05-06 Thread David Wright
On Mon 06 May 2024 at 14:53:10 (+0200), Jesper Dybdal wrote: > The package versions involved are: > * in Bullseye: >    mailcap/oldstable,now 3.69 all [installed,automatic] >    s-nail/oldstable,now 14.9.22-1 amd64 [installed] > * In Bookworm: >    mailcap/stable,now 3.70+nmu1 all

Re: [SOLVED] Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition

2024-04-25 Thread David Wright
On Fri 26 Apr 2024 at 11:27:24 (+0900), John Crawley wrote: > On 24/04/2024 22:37, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 24 Apr 2024 at 14:50:36 (+0200), Richard wrote: > > > upon gathering my thoughts for answering to you I found the solution to > > > this: update-init

Re: youtube-dl blocked?

2024-04-24 Thread David Wright
On Wed 24 Apr 2024 at 10:50:06 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 10:31:44PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > > The latest version of youtube-dl , makes it too old to try to use now; if > > you can get it working with youtube, good luck to you. > > > > An unmaintained package, that

Re: [SOLVED] Trouble/bug with initramfs-tools adding encrypted swap partition

2024-04-24 Thread David Wright
On Wed 24 Apr 2024 at 14:50:36 (+0200), Richard wrote: > upon gathering my thoughts for answering to you I found the solution to > this: update-initramfs can't handle the case that crypttab ends in the line > of the last entry and not in a new line character. I think there either > should be a fix

Re: youtube-dl blocked?

2024-04-24 Thread David Wright
On Wed 24 Apr 2024 at 06:58:02 (+0200), Marco Moock wrote: > Am 23.04.2024 um 23:15:17 Uhr schrieb Markos: > > > The site https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html > > > > is blocked? > > Please specify that more precisely. > Run > > host ytdl-org.github.io $ host ytdl-org.github.io

Re: [OFFTOPIC] youtube-dl blocked?

2024-04-23 Thread David Wright
On Tue 23 Apr 2024 at 23:19:48 (-0400), Stefan Monnier wrote: > > The site https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html > > is blocked? > > Now that you got answers, a question: what made you post this here? > AFAICT this has nothing to do with Debian (if you use Debian, you'd > more

Re: youtube-dl blocked?

2024-04-23 Thread David Wright
On Tue 23 Apr 2024 at 23:15:17 (-0300), Markos wrote: > The site https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html > > is blocked? > > Is there any other alternative to download videos from Youtube in > Linux command line? That site works here, but I don't think that's important. It appears

Re: Debian non-free-firmware policy making OS misleading and Free Software unfriendly

2024-04-21 Thread David Wright
On Sun 21 Apr 2024 at 21:59:21 (-0400), Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Do you have any suggestion as to which list would be better to contact? > > Original: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2024/04/msg00324.html > > Maybe `reportbug debian-installer`? but perhaps without all the deception crap,

Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-04-15 Thread David Wright
On Mon 15 Apr 2024 at 18:52:33 (-), Curt wrote: > On 2024-04-15, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 14 Apr 2024 at 14:24:29 (-), Curt wrote: > >> On 2024-04-04, Max Nikulin wrote: > >> > > >> > If you do not trust Gmail as a web application, use a m

Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-04-15 Thread David Wright
On Sun 14 Apr 2024 at 14:24:29 (-), Curt wrote: > On 2024-04-04, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > > If you do not trust Gmail as a web application, use a mail application > > that supports IMAP. > > > > Gmail supports IMAP since more or less forever. AIUI the OP's problem was not when reading

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread David Wright
On Tue 16 Apr 2024 at 01:20:03 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote: > On 16/4/24 00:49, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 10:59:25AM -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: > > > On 4/15/24 10:01, gene heskett wrote: > > > > On 4/15/24 09:09, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at

Re: inconsistency in the symlinks under /etc/systemd

2024-04-12 Thread David Wright
On Wed 10 Apr 2024 at 14:36:20 (-0400), Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 7:00 AM Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > On one machine, I have > > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 2023-10-07 13:43:24 > > /etc/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/dm-event.socket -> > >

Re: inconsistency in the symlinks under /etc/systemd

2024-04-12 Thread David Wright
On Thu 11 Apr 2024 at 19:28:48 (+0200), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2024-04-10 23:47:36 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 11 Apr 2024 at 03:36:59 (+0200), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > On 2024-04-10 09:52:51 -0400, Dan Purgert wrote: > > > > I'd hazard it's a

Re: inconsistency in the symlinks under /etc/systemd

2024-04-10 Thread David Wright
On Thu 11 Apr 2024 at 03:36:59 (+0200), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2024-04-10 09:52:51 -0400, Dan Purgert wrote: > > I'd hazard it's a consequence of usrmerge being the "default state" in > > one installation and not the other. > > Both machines have always been usr-merged (i.e. from the Debian

Re: inconsistency in the symlinks under /etc/systemd

2024-04-10 Thread David Wright
On Wed 10 Apr 2024 at 12:33:21 (+0200), Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On one machine, I have > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 2023-10-07 13:43:24 > /etc/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/dm-event.socket -> > /lib/systemd/system/dm-event.socket > > and on another one, I have > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root

Re: network-priority?

2024-04-04 Thread David Wright
On Thu 04 Apr 2024 at 19:11:31 (+0200), Hans wrote: > again an easy thing, I did not understand and where I did not find a clear > answer in the web. > > Question: > > In network-manager I find "network-priority" set to "0". > > Is zero the highes priority or the lowest? This might be what

Re: readonly installer, (SOLVED)

2024-04-03 Thread David Wright
On Tue 02 Apr 2024 at 05:54:06 (-0700), David Christensen wrote: > On 4/1/24 11:35, DdB wrote: > > Am 01.04.2024 um 18:52 schrieb David Christensen: > > > A bad USB flash drive would explain why you cannot boot the Debian > > > installer.  Please buy a good quality USB 3.0+ flash drive and try

Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-03-31 Thread David Wright
On Sun 31 Mar 2024 at 09:42:37 (+0300), Antti-Pekka Känsälä wrote: > I'm mounting and unmounting through the stick icon's menu on Xfce desktop. > Maybe a fancy file chooser dialogue stays around analyzing the directory, > as you suspect? But I'm worried my Gmail in Firefox is capable of stealing >

Re: help needed to get a bookworm install to succeed

2024-03-31 Thread David Wright
On Sun 31 Mar 2024 at 11:18:30 (+0200), DdB wrote: > Already before assembling the hardware, grub was working from the SSD, > which got lvm partitioning and is basically empty. As i have no working > CD drive nor can this old machine boot from USB, i put an ISO for > bookworm onto an lvm-LV.

Re: Debian 12.5 up-to-date Xfce, Firefox clings to USB stick

2024-03-30 Thread David Wright
On Sat 30 Mar 2024 at 21:06:27 (+0200), Antti-Pekka Känsälä wrote: > I was able to replicate this, by trying to send gmail to myself in Firefox, > attaching a binary on a mounted USB stick. Did you mount the stick yourself as a user (ie there's an fstab entry for it), or as root, or does an

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-03-29 Thread David Wright
On Fri 29 Mar 2024 at 10:31:09 (+0100), Emanuel Berg wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > >> Ah, surely it can't refer to that as that would be > >> completely ridiculous as it would imply "wanna install > >> stuff? sure, but then it isn't secure anymore"

Re: Could Gnome's "install pending software updates" cause installation scripts to misbehave?

2024-03-29 Thread David Wright
On Fri 29 Mar 2024 at 11:06:45 (-0400), Henning Follmann wrote: > On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 12:01:27PM +0100, Lucas B. Cohen wrote: > > > > I've had a bit of a headache understanding why my Debian bookworm system > > suddenly panicked at boot with an 'unable to mount root fs' error. Turns out > >

Re: making Debian secure by default

2024-03-28 Thread David Wright
On Thu 28 Mar 2024 at 12:36:56 (+0100), Emanuel Berg wrote: > Michael Kjörling wrote: > > >> "Secure by default" is an OpenBSD slogan BTW. Or they have > >> made it into one at least. But I'm not sure it is any more > >> secure than Debian - maybe. > >> > >>

Re: trying to parse lines from an awkwardly formatted HAR file ...

2024-03-26 Thread David Wright
On Sat 23 Mar 2024 at 11:55:04 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 09:54:05AM -0500, Albretch Mueller wrote: > > a) using a chromium-derived browser, which can be used to dump the > > HAR file log of the network back and forth, go, e. g.: > >

Re: testing new sdm drive

2024-03-26 Thread David Wright
On Tue 26 Mar 2024 at 04:38:52 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On 2/9/24 20:36, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: [ … ] > > It's not possible for me to know what went wrong. > > Have you created "reftestfile" inside "/mnt/disktest" directory? > > How many "testfile*" files, if any, were created on the

Re: Debian 11 PHP 7.4 – Mysql 8 - Can’t get Mysqli_connect to work

2024-03-26 Thread David Wright
On Tue 26 Mar 2024 at 09:43:37 (-0400), Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 6:04 AM Bernard wrote: [ … ] > > $ php -m | grep mysqli > > > > "If the MySQLi extension is enabled, we’ll see mysqli in the output. > > Otherwise, the output will be empty." > > > > php -m grep mysqli > >

Re: while rtfming crypttab

2024-03-19 Thread David Wright
On Tue 19 Mar 2024 at 13:09:55 (-0400), Henning Follmann wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2024 at 03:33:13PM +, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > > i saw several instances of > > "This option is ignored for initramfs devices and specific to the Debian > > crypttab format. It's not supported by

Re: After installing no access to the installed system.

2024-03-18 Thread David Wright
On Mon 18 Mar 2024 at 17:31:24 (+0100), Marco Moock wrote: > Am 18.03.2024 um 16:17:55 Uhr schrieb Thomas Schweikle: > > > EFI. While not installing grub, no boot entry is created too. > > This is to be expected. > > > It seems the installer fails silently at some point, after having > >

Re: /boot/grub/grub.cfg hex number reference

2024-03-13 Thread David Wright
On Wed 13 Mar 2024 at 18:59:30 (+), Gareth Evans wrote: > On Wed 13/03/2024 at 12:50, Michel Verdier wrote: > > On 2024-03-13, Gareth Evans wrote: > > > >> That suggests perhaps something to do with an FS UUID, but it doesn't seem > >> to appear in the output of any of > >> > >> # blkid > >

Re: Difference between bookworm installation files?

2024-03-13 Thread David Wright
On Wed 13 Mar 2024 at 07:36:09 (-0700), John Conover wrote: > > What is the difference between: > > debian-live-12.5.0-amd64-xfce.iso You're familiar with that one as an installer, and I presume you know that you can run a live system by booting from it. > And: > >

Re: strange time problem with bullseye/buster

2024-03-07 Thread David Wright
On Thu 07 Mar 2024 at 19:17:02 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > On 3/7/24 12:19, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 07 Mar 2024 at 11:29:47 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > > > On 3/7/24 10:59, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > > You should be able to verif

Re: strange time problem with bullseye/buster

2024-03-07 Thread David Wright
On Thu 07 Mar 2024 at 11:29:47 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > On 3/7/24 10:59, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > You should be able to verify that the systemd-timesyncd package is > > removed. > > > > > In some older versions of Debian, systemd-timesyncd was part of the > > systemd package, and was

Re: strange time problem with bullseye

2024-03-06 Thread David Wright
On Wed 06 Mar 2024 at 07:07:36 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 07:37:09AM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: > > It seems that you have solved the problem but here is another hint. > > "timedatectl" is a good high-level tool for querying and adjusting time > > settings. Without

Re: electrons/the Internet doesn't like … that I like to eat raw garlic, ...

2024-03-04 Thread David Wright
On Mon 04 Mar 2024 at 12:36:54 (-0800), David Christensen wrote: > On 3/4/24 08:37, Albretch Mueller wrote: > > _LINK="https://christuniversity.in/uploads/course/E_21-25_Lateral > > Entry(1)_20210618043317.pdf" > > When I click the above link in my mail client (Thunderbird), my > browser

Re: bash parameter expansion "doesn't like" dots?

2024-03-04 Thread David Wright
On Mon 04 Mar 2024 at 11:51:29 (+0900), John Crawley wrote: > On 04/03/2024 10:07, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 03 Mar 2024 at 17:58:53 (-0600), Albretch Mueller wrote: > > > bash doesn't seem to like dots too close to brackets: > > > > &

Re: [ *** ] Job anacron.service/stop running (15min 49s / no limit)

2024-03-03 Thread David Wright
On Sun 03 Mar 2024 at 13:27:50 (+0100), Eduard Bloch wrote: > * David Wright [Sun, Feb 11 2024, 10:20:16PM]: > > On Sun 11 Feb 2024 at 20:41:51 (+), Darac Marjal wrote: > > > On 11/02/2024 11:21, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > > > > > - How do I set a timeout/lim

Re: bash parameter expansion "doesn't like" dots?

2024-03-03 Thread David Wright
On Sun 03 Mar 2024 at 17:58:53 (-0600), Albretch Mueller wrote: > bash doesn't seem to like dots too close to brackets: > > echo "${_VAR//[^0-9a-zA-Z.,_-]/}" > > works fine. > > On 3/3/24, Albretch Mueller wrote: > >

Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie?

2024-02-28 Thread David Wright
On Wed 28 Feb 2024 at 22:32:57 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote: > On 28/02/2024 10:35, David Wright wrote: > > In which case, I'd write the remaining cron line as: > > > >@reboot sleep 99 && echo 13b1 0bdc > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/brcmfmac/new_id > > I

Re: where are the crontab files in Trixie?

2024-02-27 Thread David Wright
On Tue 27 Feb 2024 at 15:35:07 (+), Michael Kjörling wrote: > On 27 Feb 2024 10:15 -0500, from g...@extremeground.com (Gary Dale): > In this case you might even want the second to execute only when the > first completes _successfully_, so: > > @reboot /usr/sbin/modprobe brcmfmac && echo 13b1

Re: medically smart watches

2024-02-25 Thread David Wright
On Sun 25 Feb 2024 at 18:33:26 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > On 2/25/24 14:19, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Sunday 25 February 2024 05:16:21 am gene heskett wrote: > > > I have no idea how many EE's there are here in the states, > > > 10,000+ probably. There are only around 130 CET's. > >

Re: How can we change the keyboard layout?

2024-02-25 Thread David Wright
On Wed 21 Feb 2024 at 23:16:41 (+0100), hw wrote: > On Wed, 2024-02-21 at 12:55 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 13 Feb 2024 at 08:09:40 (+0100), hw wrote: > > > On Sun, 2024-02-11 at 10:35 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > > > On Wed 07 Feb 2024

Re: Issue with USB External Keyboard, External Mouse, and Screen Brightness on Dell Laptop

2024-02-22 Thread David Wright
On Thu 22 Feb 2024 at 13:49:54 (-0300), Marcelo Laia wrote: > Inspiron 5547 01 OCT. 2014 > > Some hardware details: > > - BIOS: > - Vendor: Dell Inc. > - Version: A13 > - Date: 05/27/2019 > - CPU: > - Product: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4510U CPU @ 2.00GHz > - Memory: > - Size: 16GB [ … ]

Re: How can we change the keyboard layout?

2024-02-21 Thread David Wright
On Tue 13 Feb 2024 at 08:09:40 (+0100), hw wrote: > On Sun, 2024-02-11 at 10:35 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 07 Feb 2024 at 06:58:39 (+0100), hw wrote: > > > [...] > I'd use multiple keyboards if I had to do that and just change between > keyboards. Do it if you

rec recording, Re: Upgrade to Bookworm, now GNOME keyring dies …

2024-02-21 Thread David Wright
On Mon 19 Feb 2024 at 13:26:17 (-0600), Nate Bargmann wrote: > > After seeing this twice this morning I recalled that I have a cron entry > to kill the 'rec' program. This was to break up audio files into hourly > segments when recording an amateur radio event. This was the cron > command: > >

Re: sudo udisksctl

2024-02-21 Thread David Wright
n 19/02/2024 11:26, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 18 Feb 2024 at 12:41:29 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote: > > > On 18/02/2024 11:40, David Wright wrote: > > > > $ udisksctl unlock --block-device /dev/disk/by-partlabel/Nokia01 > > > > > When sudo is > >

Re: partition reporting full, but not

2024-02-21 Thread David Wright
On Tue 20 Feb 2024 at 17:14:41 (+), debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > 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

Re: partition reporting full, but not

2024-02-21 Thread David Wright
On Mon 19 Feb 2024 at 10:26:05 (+1100), Keith Bainbridge wrote: > On 18/2/24 14:49, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > On 18/2/24 07:34, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > > > Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > > > Yes the / partitions are btrfs > > > > > > So the apparently missing space is perhaps taken up

Re: sudo udisksctl

2024-02-18 Thread David Wright
On Sun 18 Feb 2024 at 12:41:29 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote: > On 18/02/2024 11:40, David Wright wrote: > >$ ssh bhost > >$ udisksctl unlock --block-device /dev/disk/by-partlabel/Nokia01 > >Passphrase: > > AUTHENTICATING FOR org.freedeskt

Re: sudo udisksctl

2024-02-17 Thread David Wright
On Sun 18 Feb 2024 at 10:23:52 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote: > I have decided to ask the following in a separate thread. > > On 17/02/2024 02:59, David Wright wrote > (Re: f3tools vs Silicon Power 4T drive): > > lulu () { sudo udisksctl unlock --block-device > >

Re: f3tools vs Silicon Power 4T drive

2024-02-16 Thread David Wright
On Sat 17 Feb 2024 at 02:12:49 (+), Andy Smith wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 02:02:59PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > … which would be moot if only Gene could create partition PARTLABELs > > successfully. > > Sure, but we still don't know what Gene is trying to do or

Re: partition reporting full, but not

2024-02-16 Thread David Wright
On Sat 17 Feb 2024 at 13:38:56 (+1100), Keith Bainbridge wrote: > I have just rebooted this laptop to ensure it is 'fresh' > > / is reporting full. > > Trying to locate where I ran > > sudo du -hPx --max-depth=1 / > 0 /mnt > 181M /boot > 15M /etc > 0 /media > 236M /opt > 336K /root

Re: What sets LC_TIME?

2024-02-16 Thread David Wright
On Fri 16 Feb 2024 at 16:25:05 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 11:11:09AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 16 Feb 2024 at 09:12:24 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 03:34:12PM +0200, Anssi Saari wrote: > > > > Y

Re: f3tools vs Silicon Power 4T drive

2024-02-16 Thread David Wright
On Fri 16 Feb 2024 at 11:59:40 (-0800), David Christensen wrote: > On 2/15/24 12:59, gene heskett wrote: > > ... gigastones, I 5 of them but when all > > are plugged in there are only 3 becauae there are 2 pairs of > > matching serial numbers ... > > I recall 2 pairs of SSD's with matching

Re: f3tools vs Silicon Power 4T drive

2024-02-16 Thread David Wright
On Fri 16 Feb 2024 at 14:48:12 (+), Andy Smith wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 01:32:26AM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > On 2/15/24 16:20, David Wright wrote: > > ># gdisk -l /dev/sdz > > >GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.3 > > > > > >Par

Re: f3tools vs Silicon Power 4T drive

2024-02-16 Thread David Wright
On Fri 16 Feb 2024 at 01:32:26 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > On 2/15/24 16:20, David Wright wrote: > > On Thu 15 Feb 2024 at 20:44:52 (+), Andy Smith wrote: > > > On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 03:19:54PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > > > On 2/15/24 11:21, Andy Sm

Re: What sets LC_TIME?

2024-02-16 Thread David Wright
On Fri 16 Feb 2024 at 09:12:24 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 03:34:12PM +0200, Anssi Saari wrote: > > Yah. It was ssh passing through all that. On serial console, locale > > settings are as expected: > > > > $ locale > > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > > LANGUAGE=en_US:en > >

Re: Does "LC_ALL=C" work on all shells?

2024-02-15 Thread David Wright
On Thu 15 Feb 2024 at 21:17:44 (+0100), Franco Martelli wrote: > On 15/02/24 at 03:28, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > # env LC_ALL=C script -t 2>~/upgrade-bookwormstep.time -a > > > ~/upgrade-bookwormstep.script > > > > Perhaps LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 is safer. At least several years ago some > > python scripts

Re: f3tools vs Silicon Power 4T drive

2024-02-15 Thread David Wright
On Thu 15 Feb 2024 at 20:44:52 (+), Andy Smith wrote: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 03:19:54PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > On 2/15/24 11:21, Andy Smith wrote: > > > You asked if "labels" would survive their associated partition being > > > put into LVM. > > > > > > I said, "yes if you mean

Re: f3tools vs Silicon Power 4T drive

2024-02-15 Thread David Wright
On Thu 15 Feb 2024 at 16:12:06 (+), Andy Smith wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 09:56:07PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > > > On 2/14/24 19:48, Andy Smith wrote: > > > > I hope you are putting a level of redundancy under that LVM or are > > > > using the redundancy features of LVM (which you

Re: Issue with USB External Keyboard, External Mouse, and Screen Brightness on Dell Laptop

2024-02-14 Thread David Wright
On Wed 14 Feb 2024 at 20:09:09 (-0300), Marcelo Laia wrote: > Unfortunately, the issue has worsened. Today, I observed that upon unplugging > the power cable, within one or two seconds, the screen dims (brightness is > set to zero), and both the external mouse and keyboard (USB) stop working. >

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

2024-02-14 Thread David Wright
On Tue 13 Feb 2024 at 11:21:08 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 09:35:11AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 13 Feb 2024 at 07:15:48 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 11:01:47PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > &g

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

2024-02-13 Thread David Wright
On Tue 13 Feb 2024 at 07:15:48 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 11:01:47PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > … but not much. For me, "standard output" is /dev/fd/1, yet it seems > > unlikely that anyone is going to use >&1 in the manner of t

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

2024-02-12 Thread David Wright
On Sun 11 Feb 2024 at 09:16:00 (-0600), David Wright wrote: > On Sun 11 Feb 2024 at 09:54:24 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 03:45:21PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > Still there's the discrepancy between doc and behaviour. > > > > T

Re: [ *** ] Job anacron.service/stop running (15min 49s / no limit)

2024-02-11 Thread David Wright
On Sun 11 Feb 2024 at 20:41:51 (+), Darac Marjal wrote: > On 11/02/2024 11:21, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > - How do I set a timeout/limit for anacron, that it cannot block forever > > during a reboot? > > It may be germane to point out that anacron.service already explicitly > sets

Re: Home UPS recommendations

2024-02-11 Thread David Wright
On Fri 09 Feb 2024 at 22:28:28 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote: > When you live on a power grid, extended outages are much less common than > when on > or near waterfront or political boundaries. Most of Florida's population has > no > out-of-state neighbors to share utilities with, making its grid

Re: How can we change the keyboard layout?

2024-02-11 Thread David Wright
On Wed 07 Feb 2024 at 06:58:39 (+0100), hw wrote: > On Tue, 2024-02-06 at 21:43 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 06 Feb 2024 at 11:28:11 (+0100), hw wrote: > > > [...] > > > I'm talking about wayland all the time; you brought Xorg up instead. > > > >

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

2024-02-11 Thread David Wright
On Sun 11 Feb 2024 at 09:54:24 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 03:45:21PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 09:37:31AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 08:02:12AM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > >

Re: How can we change the keyboard layout?

2024-02-06 Thread David Wright
On Tue 06 Feb 2024 at 11:28:11 (+0100), hw wrote: > On Mon, 2024-02-05 at 22:25 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 06 Feb 2024 at 00:11:43 (+0100), hw wrote: > > [...] > > > How can it be so difficult to get basic things like that right? It > > > still sucks

Re: Many systemd units do not start anymore

2024-02-05 Thread David Wright
On Tue 06 Feb 2024 at 09:51:02 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote: > On 06/02/2024 03:46, Michael Biebl wrote: > > If you are not using systemd-timesyncd, you could also consider > > disabling systemd-time-wait-sync.service (via systemctl disable). > > My guess is that this board does not have RTC, I

Re: How can we change the keyboard layout?

2024-02-05 Thread David Wright
On Tue 06 Feb 2024 at 00:11:43 (+0100), hw wrote: > On Mon, 2024-02-05 at 20:59 +, Michael Kjörling wrote: > > On 5 Feb 2024 21:06 +0100, from h...@adminart.net (hw): > > > [...] > > > --- and then I need to be able to change the keyboard layout in > > > wayland sessions unless I use an US

Re: what keyboard do you use?

2024-02-05 Thread David Wright
On Fri 02 Feb 2024 at 20:25:09 (-0500), Lee wrote: > I bought a Dell desktop in 2019 and the keyboard just died :( > > ssh in from another machine & do a 'sudo reboot now' and get an alert > about 'Keyboard not found.' on power up. The keyboard also doesn't > work in another machine so it's

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

2024-02-05 Thread David Wright
On Mon 05 Feb 2024 at 21:06:30 (+0100), hw wrote: > On Mon, 2024-02-05 at 15:26 +0100, Loris Bennett wrote: > > hw writes: > > > On Sun, 2024-02-04 at 18:23 +, Michael Kjörling wrote: > > > > On 4 Feb 2024 12:08 -0600, from n...@n0nb.us (Nate Bargmann): > > > > > xmodmap trickery? I am

Re: script/history

2024-02-04 Thread David Wright
On Sun 04 Feb 2024 at 16:01:29 (+), Gareth Evans wrote: > On Sun 04/02/2024 at 13:24, Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 04/02/2024 16:46, Gareth Evans wrote: > >> Re the script command, does anyone know of a way [ … ] > > [...] > >> man script says > >> > >> "SEE ALSO > >> csh(1) (for the

Re: Q: Gnome network odd

2024-02-04 Thread David Wright
On Sun 04 Feb 2024 at 13:57:13 (+0900), Byunghee HWANG (황병희) wrote: > On Fri, 2024-02-02 at 10:41 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 02 Feb 2024 at 07:37:34 (+), Tixy wrote: > > > On Wed, 2024-01-31 at 22:12 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > > > On Tue 30 Jan

Re: install Kernel and GRUB in chroot.

2024-02-02 Thread David Wright
On Fri 02 Feb 2024 at 21:12:30 (+0700), Dmitry wrote: > Going to read carefully. > > https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/ch04s03.en.html > > Interesting that Buster has more documentation than current release. It appears the balance has now been spun off into a wiki page, at

Re: Q: Gnome network odd

2024-02-02 Thread David Wright
On Fri 02 Feb 2024 at 07:37:34 (+), Tixy wrote: > On Wed, 2024-01-31 at 22:12 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > > I also have a more vague memory that you could put config into > > > /etc/network/interfaces then in some circumstance NetworkManager > > >

Re: Q: Gnome network odd

2024-02-01 Thread David Wright
On Fri 02 Feb 2024 at 01:18:51 (+0900), Byunghee HWANG (황병희) wrote: > On Wed, 2024-01-31 at 22:12 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 30 Jan 2024 at 07:05:55 (+), Tixy wrote: > > > On Mon, 2024-01-29 at 23:49 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > &

Re: Q: Gnome network odd

2024-01-31 Thread David Wright
On Tue 30 Jan 2024 at 07:05:55 (+), Tixy wrote: > On Mon, 2024-01-29 at 23:49 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > I would tend to think that: > > > > . The debian-installer installs ifupdown by default when you don't > >   install a Desktop Manager like Gnome, >

Re: How to insert symbols into emails

2024-01-30 Thread David Wright
On Wed 31 Jan 2024 at 02:46:22 (+), fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jan 2024, Franco Martelli wrote: > > On 30/01/24 at 01:14, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > >> so i defined my compose key > >> in "/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose" file i see a definition > >> > >>

Re: Bug: Tab completion for pdf files with blanks in path

2024-01-29 Thread David Wright
On Tue 30 Jan 2024 at 10:34:21 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote: > On 30/01/2024 02:51, David Wright wrote: > > . Press HOME, > > . Type any letter that makes a "wrong" command name (eg aokular), > > . Press END, > > The escape "Esc /" workaround has been

Re: Q: Gnome network odd

2024-01-29 Thread David Wright
On Tue 30 Jan 2024 at 10:13:34 (+0900), Byunghee HWANG (황병희) wrote: > On Mon, 2024-01-29 at 09:35 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 29 Jan 2024 at 21:36:39 (+0900), Byunghee HWANG (황병희) wrote: > > > > > > For months ago, i did upgrade Debian 12 to Debian Sid. At t

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