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

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!]

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!]

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. > > > &

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

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 "TimeoutStopS

Re: Home UPS recommendations

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 mo

Re: How can we change the keyboard layout?

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!]

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: > > > > [...] > > > > > > Wha

Re: How can we change the keyboard layout?

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

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 don

Re: How can we change the keyboard layout?

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 keyb

Re: what keyboard do you use?

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 real

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

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 runnin

Re: script/history

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 his

Re: Q: Gnome network odd

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.

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 https://

Re: Q: Gnome network odd

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 > > > would

Re: Q: Gnome network odd

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

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

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 > >> > >> how

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

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

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

Re: Encrypted partiotions - which files related?

On Mon 29 Jan 2024 at 16:12:30 (+0100), Hans wrote: > > That appears to be too much overhead to me... virtual machines (for > > server as full OS) seem much more appropriate to me, in particular as > > differences between in-VM and physical devices are pretty much (not > > completely, though!) abst

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

On Mon 29 Jan 2024 at 19:31:50 (+0100), Michael Kiermaier wrote: > On 1/29/24 18:59, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 12:05:24AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > > > On 29/01/2024 19:40, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > Let me test that as well > > > [...] > > > > unicorn:/tmp$ xyz dir\

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

On Mon 29 Jan 2024 at 12:59:39 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 12:05:24AM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > > On 29/01/2024 19:40, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > Let me test that as well > > [...] > > > unicorn:/tmp$ xyz dir\ with\ blanks/dir2/file > > > > "okular" is important h

Re: Q: Gnome network odd

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 that time, > Gnome network icon was odd. That appered as like question mark. So > after i googling, i removed some file in /etc. Then OK! The Internet is > started. (i

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

On Mon 29 Jan 2024 at 07:40:13 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 09:32:18AM +0100, Michael Kiermaier wrote: > > I would like to run okular opening the pdf file > > ~/dir1\ with\ blanks/dir2/file.pdf > > via command line. In konsole I type > > okular ~/dir1\ with\ b

Re: File has unexpected size (x != y). Mirror sync in progress? [IP: ...] ...

On Sat 27 Jan 2024 at 14:50:25 (+), Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 1/19/24, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 19 Jan 2024 at 22:19:21 (+), Albretch Mueller wrote: > >> Package dependencies to me are just DAGs, > > Are they? No circular dependencies? > >

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

On Thu 25 Jan 2024 at 12:24:21 (-0500), Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Thursday 25 January 2024 09:03:36 am Anssi Saari wrote: > > On Tue 23 Jan 2024 at 06:32:54 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > > > On 1/23/24 06:12, Gremlin wrote: > > > > On 1/23/24 06:04, gene heskett wrote: > > > > > On 1/23/24

Monospace fonts, Re: Changing The PSI Definition

On Fri 26 Jan 2024 at 07:25:13 (-0500), Dan Ritter wrote: > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 07:32:38PM -0500, Thomas George wrote: > > > The current PSI works perfectly but I don't like the pale green prompt. > > > > > > Tried editing .bashrd , /ext/fprofile and /ext/bash.bashrc

Re: Home UPS recommendations (Was Re: rsync --delete vs rsync --delete-after)

On Fri 26 Jan 2024 at 19:03:33 (+0100), Roger Price wrote: > I currently have two Eaton Ellipse ECO 1600's. I change the batteries > every 4-5 years, but this is not as easy as it should be. It is not > evident that only one of the four back panel screws needs to be > removed. I took me a while

Re: Playing a sound when initrd wants a password

On Fri 26 Jan 2024 at 16:13:26 (+0100), Nicolas George wrote: > Hi. > > Yet another strange question. Is there a supported¹ way to have > cryptsetup play a specific sound when it asks the password for the root > partition from the initrd? > > I think brttty (braille) is already running at this po

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

On Wed 24 Jan 2024 at 23:46:31 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote: > On 24/01/2024 00:16, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 24 Jan 2024 at 00:00:57 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote: > > > Server-side code mixing 2 data streams into single channel may be a > > > bit more simple than a

Re: keyboard buttons

On Tue 23 Jan 2024 at 18:09:00 (-0600), Mike McClain wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > You could try running: > > > > $ xmodmap -e 'keycode 124=' # to override XF86PowerOff > > > > $ xmodmap -e 'keycode 150=' # to override XF86Sleep > >

Re: ip link versus nmcli device, WIFI

On Mon 22 Jan 2024 at 06:36:57 (+0200), Anssi Saari wrote: > Geert Stappers writes: > > > > Here on a laptop does `ip link` see a WIFI device, > > but `nmcli device` does not. > > And you're sure wwx028037ec0200 is a WIFI device? My WWAN device > sometimes comes up with a wwx ID like that, someti

Re: rfkill list wlan, Hard blocked: yes

On Sun 21 Jan 2024 at 21:57:20 (+0100), Geert Stappers wrote: > On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 12:59:01PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 21 Jan 2024 at 18:58:43 (+0100), Geert Stappers wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 10:44:04AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > > >

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

On Wed 24 Jan 2024 at 00:00:57 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote: > On 22/01/2024 22:33, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > That's the way it was built -- just mimicking the "real terminal cum > > > firmware" which was replaced with "DOS/Windows PC cum terminal > > > application". > > > > I think it's more tha

Re: I've an editable .pdf form I need to fill out

On Sun 21 Jan 2024 at 14:50:59 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > On 1/21/24 14:29, John Hasler wrote: > > Klaus writes: > > > Did you notice, that I was talking about the reduced, crippled OpenSource > > > browser: chromium > > > > I wrote: > > > In what way is it crippled? > > > > Gene writes: > >

Re: keyboard buttons

On Mon 22 Jan 2024 at 11:43:36 (-0600), Mike McClain wrote: > On my keyboard there are some buttons in the top right corner above > the number pad. one marked with circle with an x over it, one with a > moon the third with analarm clock ringing. > Wondering what they were and how they were

Re: ThinkPad Extra Buttons as /devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/input/input16

On Mon 22 Jan 2024 at 07:40:00 (+0100), Geert Stappers wrote: > On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 04:34:23PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 21 Jan 2024 at 22:41:01 (+0100), Geert Stappers wrote: > > > Pressing "Function key with symbol of computer sending signal" has no

Re: ThinkPad Extra Buttons as /devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/input/input16

On Sun 21 Jan 2024 at 22:41:01 (+0100), Geert Stappers wrote: > Pressing "Function key with symbol of computer sending signal" has no > effect. Which could be caused by the horrible state of keyboard. > When keyboard is needed, is an USB-attached keyboard needed. Usual use > case of the laptop is "

Re: rfkill list wlan, Hard blocked: yes

On Sun 21 Jan 2024 at 21:57:20 (+0100), Geert Stappers wrote: > On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 12:59:01PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 21 Jan 2024 at 18:58:43 (+0100), Geert Stappers wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 10:44:04AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > > >

Re: I've an editable .pdf form I need to fill out

On Sun 21 Jan 2024 at 13:11:46 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > Most informative. thank you a lot Eike. I have, on another workspace > after installing it "xournal" has opened that pdf, I have enabled the > add annotations function but not killed a tree to test print. I see > both "print" and "Expor

Re: Regarding: ip link versus nmcli device, WIFI

On Sun 21 Jan 2024 at 18:24:53 (+0100), Geert Stappers wrote: > On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 05:34:53PM +0100, Marco Moock wrote: > > Am 21.01.2024 um 17:21:13 Uhr schrieb Geert Stappers privat: > > > > > It was a firmware thing. > > > > How did you solve it? > > > > In the private[1] message was, b

Re: rfkill list wlan, Hard blocked: yes

On Sun 21 Jan 2024 at 18:58:43 (+0100), Geert Stappers wrote: > On Sun, Jan 21, 2024 at 10:44:04AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 21 Jan 2024 at 17:33:57 (+0100), Geert Stappers wrote: > > ( https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2024/01/msg01038.html ) > > > [7

Re: ip link versus nmcli device, WIFI firmware related

On Mon 22 Jan 2024 at 00:05:08 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote: > On 21/01/2024 23:33, Geert Stappers wrote: > > The repair: > > > > wget > > http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-iwlwifi_20210315-3_all.deb > > > > sudo dpkg -i firmware-iwlwifi_20210315-3_all.deb > >

Re: ip link versus nmcli device, WIFI firmware related

On Sun 21 Jan 2024 at 17:33:57 (+0100), Geert Stappers wrote: > [7.854942] iwlwifi :02:00.0: reporting RF_KILL (radio disabled) > [7.860452] iwlwifi :02:00.0: RF_KILL bit toggled to disable radio. > [8.356275] iwlwifi :02:00.0 wlp2s0: renamed from wlan0 Run rfkill and, if i

Re: counting commas

On Sat 20 Jan 2024 at 17:09:58 (-), Curt wrote: > On 2024-01-19, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 19 Jan 2024 at 17:25:10 (+), debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > >> Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> > >> > I won, and you lost > >> > >>

Re: su su- sudo dont work

On Sat 20 Jan 2024 at 09:14:30 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 01:26:06PM +, Schwibinger Michael wrote: > > Good afternoon. > > Root terminal is fine. > > What do I do wrong? > > What did I destroy? > > > > PC does have only one user=admin. > > > > Regards Sophie > > I

Re: counting commas

On Fri 19 Jan 2024 at 17:25:10 (+), debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > I won, and you lost > > There shouldn't be a comma in that sentence, in English. There is in > the closely related expression "I won, you lost." That's rather proscriptive. "I won and you lost

Re: standardize uid:gid?

On Thu 18 Jan 2024 at 07:31:05 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 05:38:37AM -, David Chmelik wrote: > > Couldn't Debian standardize uid:gid numbers for daemons? > > The thing is, Debian has tens of thousands of packages, and any one > of these packages is capable of creat

Re: File has unexpected size (x != y). Mirror sync in progress? [IP: ...] ...

On Fri 19 Jan 2024 at 22:19:21 (+), Albretch Mueller wrote: > Package dependencies to me are just DAGs, Are they? No circular dependencies? > [ … ] I haven’t found a book yet, explaining it all. > At times I have found great explanations about single aspects. What sales figures would you e

Re: normally start new xterms

On Fri 19 Jan 2024 at 09:06:05 (+0100), Thomas Schmitt wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > I coopted the otherwise useless "Windows" key (aka "Left Super" for > > WM things: Super-L makes an xterm: > > # Terminal > > Key "t" A 4 Exec exec xterm > > For me the Flying Windows keys pop up o

Re: Libreoffice hangs at start

On Thu 11 Jan 2024 at 16:41:36 (+0100), Hans wrote: > I am running Debian/stable with Libreoffice 7.4.7.2. (ok, this is not the > problem :) ) > > But: When I start Libreoffice, then the logo appears, the progress bar is > showing about 25 percent, then hangs for about 1 Minute. After it libre

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

On Thu 18 Jan 2024 at 00:57:07 (-0800), David Christensen wrote: > On 1/17/24 22:44, gene heskett wrote: > > One thing that bothers me is there is no way the installers parted > > shows partition names for non-raid disks. To me that is a serious > > bug. It appears from the help that it can LABEL a

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

On Thu 18 Jan 2024 at 12:28:58 (+0100), hw wrote: > On Wed, 2024-01-17 at 23:08 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 16 Jan 2024 at 11:47:53 (+0100), hw wrote: > > > On Mon, 2024-01-15 at 20:32 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jan 15, 2024

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

On Tue 16 Jan 2024 at 11:47:53 (+0100), hw wrote: > On Mon, 2024-01-15 at 20:32 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 08:08:36PM +0100, hw wrote: > > > > > > I don't understand why you involve a terminal emulator in the process. > > > Do you need to see the data that goes thro

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

On Wed 17 Jan 2024 at 15:02:05 (+0100), hw wrote: > On Wed, 2024-01-17 at 07:26 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 11:19:50AM +0100, hw wrote: > > > On Tue, 2024-01-16 at 08:41 -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 02:17:05PM +0100, hw wrote: > > > > > On

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

On Wed 17 Jan 2024 at 15:34:09 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > On 1/17/24 12:27, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > David Christensen wrote: > > > I suspect the conflicting serial numbers are causing problems in the > > > kernel, > > > as indicated by the /dev/disk/by-id/* problems. > > > > That's not in t

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

On Tue 16 Jan 2024 at 20:08:12 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > On 1/16/24 00:56, Felix Miata wrote: > > gene heskett composed on 2024-01-15 17:56 (UTC-0500): > > > > > Thanks for that composition: but it will be word wrapped: > > > root@coyote:~# for j in /dev/disk/by-id/* ; do printf '%s\t%s\n' >

Re: /mnt usage

On Mon 15 Jan 2024 at 21:41:15 (-0800), David Christensen wrote: > On 1/15/24 20:05, David Wright wrote: > > And I've never created any mount point under /mnt. For a one time > > copy, /mnt is handy; always there, I don't have to mkdir at all. > > What about when yo

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

On Tue 16 Jan 2024 at 06:08:35 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote: > Tom Furie composed on 2024-01-16 08:18 (UTC): > > Felix Miata writes: > > >> /dev/sdc 18 /dev/disk/by-id/usb-Brother_MFC-J6920DW_BROG5F229909-0:0 # > >> How does a printer get a storage device assignment??? > > > By having some kind of

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

On Tue 16 Jan 2024 at 09:40:19 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 09:31:54AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > > David Wright composed on 2024-01-16 08:05 (UTC-0600): > > > On Tue 16 Jan 2024 at 00:55:52 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote: > > >> gene hesket

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

On Tue 16 Jan 2024 at 00:55:52 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote: > gene heskett composed on 2024-01-15 17:56 (UTC-0500): > > > Thanks for that composition: but it will be word wrapped: > > root@coyote:~# for j in /dev/disk/by-id/* ; do printf '%s\t%s\n' > > "$(realpath "$j")" "$j" ; done > > /dev/sr0

Re: smartctl cannot access mystorage, need syntax help

On Mon 15 Jan 2024 at 18:27:14 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > On 1/15/24 14:57, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 14 Jan 2024 at 20:15:16 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > > > On 1/14/24 18:57, Felix Miata wrote: > > > > gene heskett composed on 2024-01-14 18:39 (UTC-0500

Re: call me puzzled.

On Mon 15 Jan 2024 at 21:05:10 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 01:56:25PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 14 Jan 2024 at 18:17:58 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > > > On 1/14/24 12:53, mick.crane wrote: > > > > > > Isn&#

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

On Mon 15 Jan 2024 at 20:31:55 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > On 1/15/24 19:11, David Christensen wrote: > > On 1/15/24 16:03, gene heskett wrote: > > > On 1/15/24 18:41, gene heskett wrote: > > > > On 1/15/24 17:58, gene heskett wrote: > > > &

Re: smartctl cannot access mystorage, need syntax help

On Sun 14 Jan 2024 at 20:15:16 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > On 1/14/24 18:57, Felix Miata wrote: > > gene heskett composed on 2024-01-14 18:39 (UTC-0500): > > > Felix Miata wrote: > > > > My point was entirely about suitability of /mnt/ for fstab entries. > > > And my point is that for a one time

Re: call me puzzled.

On Sun 14 Jan 2024 at 18:17:58 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > On 1/14/24 12:53, mick.crane wrote: > > Isn't mbox (seen elsewhere) like one file? > > Without knowing what I'm doing I reckoned maildir would be safer. > > > > I've always found it to be safer as long as the max # of entries is > not

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

On Mon 15 Jan 2024 at 08:39:37 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > On 1/14/24 20:19, gene heskett wrote: > > On 1/14/24 19:48, David Wright wrote: > > > On Sun 14 Jan 2024 at 14:48:49 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > > > > On 1/14/24 07:42, David Christensen wrote: > &

Re: smartctl cannot access mystorage, need syntax help

On Sun 14 Jan 2024 at 18:15:13 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > /home/coyotebak would be in the raid, but something in the system > /backupdisk/ as a mount point would not be in the raid. But I have > mount points scattered about this system, literaaly all over that just > work, since when is /mnt s

Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

On Sun 14 Jan 2024 at 14:48:49 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > On 1/14/24 07:42, David Christensen wrote: > > I am confused -- do you have 4 or 5 Gigastone 2 TB SSD? > > 5, ordered in 2 separate orders. > > > > > So that one could be formatted ext4 and serve as a backup of the raid10. > What I

Re: Thunderbird filters

On Sun 14 Jan 2024 at 17:11:01 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > On 1/14/24 11:13, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 14 Jan 2024 at 01:57:59 (-0800), David Christensen wrote: > > > On 1/12/24 18:17, gene heskett wrote: > > > > On 1/12/24 15:58, David Christensen wrote: &g

Re: removing gdb-minimal removed plasma-desktop?

On Sun 14 Jan 2024 at 08:54:35 (+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 so

Re: Thunderbird filters

On Sun 14 Jan 2024 at 01:57:59 (-0800), David Christensen wrote: > On 1/12/24 18:17, gene heskett wrote: > > On 1/12/24 15:58, David Christensen wrote: > > > Searching for the Thunderbird message filter configuration > > > files on my computer: > > > > > > 2024-01-12 12:31:57 dpchrist@taz ~ > > >

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

On Thu 11 Jan 2024 at 10:10:43 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote: > There was a thread that "home" as the top level domain might not be > really safe (somebody might register it). A reserved domain is > "home.arpa" so e.g. to have "thinkpad", the /etc/hosts entry should be > > 127.0.1.1 thinkpad.h

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Filling the FAT

On Tue 09 Jan 2024 at 15:30:49 (-0500), Stefan Monnier wrote: > David Wright [2024-01-09 10:07:26] wrote: > > but what seems most likely is that the root directory filled up. > > The size of that is fixed when formatted, at least up to FAT16. > > Long filenames will eat it

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Filling the FAT (was: playing CDROM music questions)

On Tue 09 Jan 2024 at 10:57:29 (-0500), Stefan Monnier wrote: > >>What are you talking about? FAT does not get “overloaded” by long > >>filenames. > > Seen it happen; > > I have serious doubts about the "it". > > > Long filenames, mixed case, and files saved at the beginning of > > a session of c

Re: tzdata-legacy [was: Re: systemd and timezone]

On Sat 06 Jan 2024 at 02:57:53 (-0600), Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2024 06 Jan 01:00 -0600, Max Nikulin wrote: > > US/Eastern & Co has been moved to tzdata-legacy as well. Currently used > > identifiers are based on cities: America/New_York. > > Ugghhh! > > I guess I'll be going to the legacy pa

Re: systemd-boot not asking password, not resuming from hibernate

On Sat 06 Jan 2024 at 20:04:57 (+0100), Richard Rosner wrote: > I just tried out systemd-boot. What I noticed, it doesn't ask for my > decryption password to decrypt both my LUKS2 encrypted root and swap > partition. This kinda defeats the purpose of encrypted drives. How do > I have systemd-boot f

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

On Thu 04 Jan 2024 at 19:49:43 (+0100), Richard Rosner wrote: > On 04.01.24 19:02, David Wright wrote: > > Could you post the new grub.cfg file, so that people running testing, > > and following along the thread later, can see how boot-repair fixed it? > > Keep in mind,

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

On Wed 03 Jan 2024 at 22:00:20 (+0100), Richard Rosner wrote: > On 03.01.24 21:04, Eddie wrote: > > On 1/3/24 14:23, Richard Rosner wrote: > > > So, since for whatever reason Grub seems to be broken beyond > > > repair, I today tried to just replace it with rEFInd. > > > Installation succeeded with

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

On Mon 01 Jan 2024 at 19:04:20 (+0100), Richard Rosner wrote: > On 01.01.24 18:13, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 01 Jan 2024 at 17:55:29 (+0100), Richard Rosner wrote: > > > On January 1, 2024 5:43:12 PM GMT+01:00, David Wright wrote: > > > > > > &g

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

On Mon 01 Jan 2024 at 17:55:29 (+0100), Richard Rosner wrote: > On January 1, 2024 5:43:12 PM GMT+01:00, David Wright > wrote: > > >Like this? > > > > └─sda6 8:60 406.2G 0 part > >└─luks-f3fbb9ba-a556-406c-b2

Re: Possibly broken Grub or initrd after updates on Testing

On Mon 01 Jan 2024 at 17:37:44 (+0100), Richard Rosner wrote: > So, I found a way to manually mount luks partition in Grub and boot from it. > > What I did to get there: > set root=(hd0,gpt2) > cryptomount -a > > This gave me the unencrypted version of the root partition as (crypto1) > > set roo

Re: single quote "'" in bash xterm or lxterminal

On Sun 31 Dec 2023 at 00:43:40 (-0600), Mike McClain wrote: > I > suspect logging into a system where you have no home for your primary > user might get interesting. That problem is simple to resolve. I have encrypted /home partitions on all my systems, but the root filesystem has a /home/primaryU

Re: kbrequest as in older /etc/inittab

On Sun 31 Dec 2023 at 23:09:42 (-0600), Mike McClain wrote: > Prior to the introduction of systemd /etc/inittab had this line in it: > kb::kbrequest:/bin/echo "Keyboard Request--edit /etc/inittab to let this > work." > and I found it useful to tie a call to openvt to Alt Up which went > well w

Re: Firefox Warning [SOLVED]

On Thu 28 Dec 2023 at 09:11:34 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote: > On 28/12/2023 03:38, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > Virus unlikely - flatpak / snap or any other packaging for Mozilla > > could do anything ... I suspect it's just an artefact of downloading > > the Mozilla site version rather than the Deb

Re: Firefox Warning [SOLVED]

On Wed 27 Dec 2023 at 18:19:16 (+), Tixy wrote: > On Wed, 2023-12-27 at 11:05 -0600, Mike McClain wrote: > > If I recall correctly, Firefox used to have a checkbox in the > > preferences to permit or deny auto updates. In this version 121.0 for > > the Raspberry PI, that's no longer so and I'm

Re: GRUB -- Debian overrides? Or maybe I just don't understand it well...

On Fri 22 Dec 2023 at 11:24:22 (+), Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Fri, 22 Dec 2023 at 01:21, David Wright wrote: > > > > What sort of mess? I would have thought Grub would ignore excess > > kernels dropped into /boot. > [ … ] > It saw a Debian kernel (6.1.somethi

Re: difference in seconds between two formatted dates ...

On Sun 24 Dec 2023 at 23:05:53 (+), Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 12/18/23, Max Nikulin wrote: > > Timestamp format you have chosen is ambiguous. > > > > TZ=Europe/Berlin date -d '@1698539400' '+%Y%m%d%H%M%S' > > 20231029023000 > > > > TZ=Europe/Berlin date -d '@1698543000' '+%Y%m%d%H%M%S' > >

Re: systemd and timezone

On Fri 22 Dec 2023 at 18:52:09 (-0500), Pocket wrote: > On 12/22/23 18:04, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 22 Dec 2023 at 16:16:07 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 08:59:42PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > > 1. https://bugs.debi

Re: systemd and timezone

On Fri 22 Dec 2023 at 14:54:13 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 01:29:09PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > With the proviso that I don't know what "restorecon" does in > > postinst scripts, this list of .debs has been prefixed by > > c f

Re: systemd and timezone

On Fri 22 Dec 2023 at 16:16:07 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 08:59:42PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > > 1. https://bugs.debian.org/803144 > > 2. https://bugs.debian.org/346342 > > Wow, OK. Fascinating historical context in there. > > I've updated

Re: systemd and timezone

On Fri 22 Dec 2023 at 11:11:18 (-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

Re: systemd and timezone

On Fri 22 Dec 2023 at 08:55:04 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 02:17:47PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > whereas /etc/timezone [1] is just the > > global default for the (libc) applications to fall back to whenever they > > don't have specified one. > > > > [1] Or whate

Re: GRUB -- Debian overrides? (but on original thread topic, not so much)

On Thu 21 Dec 2023 at 22:19:47 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote: > David Wright composed on 2023-12-21 19:20 (UTC-0600): > > On Thu 21 Dec 2023 at 21:38:46 (+), Mark Fletcher wrote: > > >> My very first attempt involved using Debian's > >> /boot partition as the

Re: difference in seconds between two formatted dates ...

On Thu 21 Dec 2023 at 07:15:12 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 10:52:33PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > Sorry for the synecdoche, but I think it expresses the comprehensive > > setting of UTC across the entirety of the computer and its operating > >

Re: difference in seconds between two formatted dates ...

On Thu 21 Dec 2023 at 06:38:55 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 10:52:33PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 20 Dec 2023 at 08:37:46 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 12:00:29AM -0600,

Re: GRUB -- Debian overrides? Or maybe I just don't understand it well...

On Thu 21 Dec 2023 at 21:38:46 (+), Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Wed, 20 Dec 2023 at 06:01, David Wright wrote: > > > > I can't see anywhere where the OP claims to have set up LFS for > > booting itself, as opposed to being booted from a Debian Grub. > > It only

Re: difference in seconds between two formatted dates ...

On Wed 20 Dec 2023 at 08:37:46 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 12:00:29AM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > [...] > > > Yes, I'm guessing that the OP is in my timezone, as just a few of > > their previous posts have -5/-6 offsets. But most are

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