Re: sleep(1) vs. sync(1) twice before umount(8)

2022-07-10 Thread Steve McIntyre
lag=sync" onto your dd call, or similar. *Or* you might want to call "sync" in a loop if you're worried you're about to lose power suddenly. This is what UPSes are for... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're t

Re: MAC address of bridge interfaces

2022-06-29 Thread Steve Keller
Steve McIntyre writes: > In my experience, the bridge may end up advertising the MAC of any/all > of the underlying interfaces, and that behaviour can be racy > sometimes. I noticed locally that *sometimes* I'd lose IPv6 > connectivity from my workstation when I started bridg

Re: MAC address of bridge interfaces

2022-06-29 Thread Steve McIntyre
Steve wrote: >I upgraded a Debian machine from stretch to bullseye and see >a change of the IP address of a ethernet bridge interface. > >The bridge has a physical LAN interface as one fixed bridge port >and additional ports for kvm virtual machines I may start. > >Before t

MAC address of bridge interfaces

2022-06-28 Thread Steve Keller
I set it to an address of my own preference? And why was this changed, why don't we still use the address of the physical port connected to it? Steve

Re: How to start Preseed installation on UEFI computer?

2022-06-08 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hans wrote: >Steve wrote: >> >> If you hit E, that will let you edit the currently-loaded grub >> config so you can append preseed and other options. > >I thought about that since hit all keys trying to get to cmd prompt >like when booting from BIOS. But I didn'

Re: How to start Preseed installation on UEFI computer?

2022-06-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
FI? If you hit E, that will let you edit the currently-loaded grub config so you can append preseed and other options. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews

Re: Why does this take so much time?

2022-04-23 Thread steve
Le 23-04-2022, à 17:01:22 +0100, Eric S Fraga a écrit : On Friday, 22 Apr 2022 at 19:37, Charles Curley wrote: I was in a position to help, so I did. I have not so far heard back from Steve whether he has found a solution. Just to add a data point, probably mostly for the benefit of the OP

Re: Why does this take so much time?

2022-04-23 Thread steve
Le 23-04-2022, à 07:13:32 -0600, Charles Curley a écrit : On Sat, 23 Apr 2022 11:06:29 +0200 steve wrote: cat signal-xenial.list deb [arch=amd64] https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt xenial main The keyring thing missing was I added it, but it didn't change anything, update still

Re: Why does this take so much time?

2022-04-23 Thread steve
cannot say when it appeared in the first place (thought it might go away by it's own). Le 22-04-2022, à 12:11:14 -0600, Charles Curley a écrit : On Fri, 22 Apr 2022 19:26:47 +0200 steve wrote: When I 'apt update', the following URL takes ages: Atteint :2 https://updates.sign

Why does this take so much time?

2022-04-22 Thread steve
Hi, When I 'apt update', the following URL takes ages: Atteint :2 https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt xenial InRelease Why? Do you see the same? Best, s

Re: Debian "Bookworm" Installation

2022-04-14 Thread Steve McIntyre
tition table will depend on whether you have booted the installer in UEFI (GPT) or legacy BIOS (MS-DOS) mode. You can override the that choice, but depending on your setup you *may* need to use expert mode to be asked the question about which partition type to use. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Package cvs2cl no more in Debian?

2022-03-12 Thread Steve Keller
On Debian stretch I have installed the cvs2cl package. In buster and bullseye it seems to be missing. Very sad :( Steve

No man page for gcc

2022-03-12 Thread Steve Keller
On debian bullseye I have installed GCC but don't find any manual page. What am I missing? Steve

Re: Problems with custom install of MATE

2022-03-09 Thread Steve McIntyre
it's your call on your own systems, of course. But could you *please* at least in future check for missing recommends that might be causing issues before mailing debian-user to complain about them? It's easy enough to do, and saves wasting the time of everybody

Re: User group "users"

2022-01-21 Thread Steve Keller
g here: # cat /etc/debian_version 9.13 # useradd -c Foo foo # id foo uid=1021(foo) gid=1021(foo) groups=1021(foo) # cat /etc/debian_version 11.2 # useradd -c Foo foo # id foo uid=1020(foo) gid=1020(foo) groups=1020(foo) Steve

Re: DHCP and search list for DNS domains

2022-01-21 Thread Steve Keller
RFC1035 compressed labels on the wire. For exam‐ > > ple: > > > >option domain-search "example.com", "sales.example.com", > > "eng.example.com"; Oops, I must have overseen it. I've read the man pages but probably I only read dhcpd(8) and dhcpd.conf(5), but missed dhcp-options(5). Thanks, Steve

User group "users"

2022-01-21 Thread Steve Keller
I see that on my Debian systems there is a user group "users" with GID 100, but by default no user gets added to it. So what is the purpose or reason to have it? >From old Unix installations I know the group "users" which every user was a member of, by default. Steve

DHCP and search list for DNS domains

2022-01-21 Thread Steve Keller
ce the man page for resolvconf is actually the man page for resolvectl which also refers to systemd-resolved. Steve

Re: I'm getting a dependencies error when trying to install roundcube 1.5.1 on my bullseye machine

2021-12-10 Thread Steve Dondley
I've not used apt to install packages from files but can you put ../roundcube*.deb? You need to install both roundcube and roundcube-core from your local build. If mt first suggestion doesn't work, try installing roundcube-core first. If you haven't built roundcube-core then you need to d

I'm getting a dependencies error when trying to install roundcube 1.5.1 on my bullseye machine

2021-12-10 Thread Steve Dondley
I'm running bullseye with roundcube version 1.4.11 currently installed. I am trying to upgrade to version 1.5.1. I followed the instructions at "SimpleBackportCreation" at https://wiki.debian.org/SimpleBackportCreation Everything went fine until the very last step: === $ sudo apt-ge

Re: How to NOT automatically mount a specific partition of an external device?

2021-12-01 Thread steve
Le 01-12-2021, à 09:26:00 +0100, l0f...@tuta.io a écrit : Hi, Hi, nice to see someone not hijacking my thread :) It seems like /etc/fstab in not read when plugging in the device. I know you've solved your issue with another way but, just out of curiosity, could the following command help

[SOLVED] Re: How to NOT automatically mount a specific partition of an external device?

2021-11-25 Thread steve
Le 25-11-2021, à 10:43:16 +, Jonathan Dowland a écrit : On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 09:28:03AM +0100, steve wrote: It seems like /etc/fstab in not read when plugging in the device. What's wrong? The thing doing the mounting is udisks (8). Checking that man-page, one thing you can do to

Re: How to NOT automatically mount a specific partition of an external device?

2021-11-25 Thread steve
Le 24-11-2021, à 20:29:19 +1100, Keith Bainbridge a écrit : Steve I use a line in /etc/fstab like this for just this purpose: UUID= /mount/point/you/want ext4defaults,noexec,noauto 0 2 Well, the partition still mounts to /media/steve/Samsung_T5 when plugged in. I put this in

Re: How to NOT automatically mount a specific partition of an external device?

2021-11-24 Thread steve
Thanks to you Felix and Keith for the answers. I will try. Have a nice day steve Le 24-11-2021, à 12:00:31 -0500, Felix Miata a écrit : steve composed on 2021-11-24 09:57 (UTC+0100): So is there a way to automatically mount /dev/sdh2 but not /dev/sdh1

How to NOT automatically mount a specific partition of an external device?

2021-11-24 Thread steve
Hi, I have an external ssd with two partitions. One is for Windows and the other one is an ext4 partition for data. Every time I plug in this ssd (via usb3), both partitions are mounted automatically. mount command gives: /dev/sdh1 on /media/steve/Samsung_T5 type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev

Re: 回覆: Debian boot entry won't generated after flash BIOS.

2021-10-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
ogic we followed there. >Best would be if your BIOS was preserving boot entries across upgrades >(BIOS flashing). Absolutely. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com “Changing random stuff until your program works is bad coding practice, but if you do it fast enough it’s Machine Learning.” -- https://twitter.com/manisha72617183

Re: Access to files in wiki.debian.org.

2021-09-22 Thread Steve McIntyre
with my 1P address and the names of the files I need. I >do however find it passing strange that while the wiki had apparently been >locked down since mid-August or earlier, in mid-September I did have >access on wiki to both but not since. I've responded to Ken off-list to s

Write *once* storage (was Re: write only storage)

2021-09-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
er be altered (or read back). -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews

Re: Hundres of dovecot imap errors with fts_solr plugin polluting /var/log/mail.err

2021-09-17 Thread Steve Dondley
I think this is some kind of parsing bug from the response from solr. The number of pairs of errors returned is the same number of hits received during the search. So if I do a search with 7 results turned up, I get 7 pairs of errors. Fixed with the following: 1) simplified config file by re

Re: Hundres of dovecot imap errors with fts_solr plugin polluting /var/log/mail.err

2021-09-17 Thread Steve Dondley
The bug I patched also threw a similar kind of error. See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=970692. But this error is cropping up for every user on the system. A google search turns up nothing on a uid other than '0'. I don't know if this is another debian issue or a misconfig

Hundres of dovecot imap errors with fts_solr plugin polluting /var/log/mail.err

2021-09-17 Thread Steve Dondley
I'm running debian bullseye. I've had issues running solr on debian in the past due to some kind of bug. I was able to get solr working with dovecot by upgrading the os. After the upgrade, everything works perfectly fine and the search feature in my client using solr now works. However, I get

Re: Looking for guidance on reporting a bug on the roundcube package

2021-09-12 Thread Steve Dondley
Debian is interested in *all* issues affecting a user. The triager will help sort it out. If it is a Debian bug, the fix woudld be applied in unstable and work its way through the system. The same happens with an upstream fix. So would I just be wasting my time and everyone else's by reportin

Re: Looking for guidance on reporting a bug on the roundcube package

2021-09-12 Thread Steve Dondley
Using free(dom) software sometimes require you invest resources in some other way, depending on the particular issue and how important it is to you ;) Agreed. But the package manager will have a much easier time than me at nailing down the problem and do it in much less time. I've already sp

Looking for guidance on reporting a bug on the roundcube package

2021-09-11 Thread Steve Dondley
First, thanks to everyone here and the Debian community, an amazing project. Running bullseye with package roundcube. I believe I have found a bug that I'd like to report. I am using reportbug to report it. When doing so, I got this message: Your version (1.4.11+dfsg.1-4) of roundcube appear

Re: Will my reportbug report be seen?

2021-09-11 Thread Steve Dondley
It doesn't state how the originator of the bug report can close it. Send a mail to xx-d...@bugs.debian.org. Give a reason for the closure. Got it. Thanks for the help.

Re: Will my reportbug report be seen?

2021-09-11 Thread Steve Dondley
On 2021-09-11 06:27 AM, Brian wrote: On Fri 10 Sep 2021 at 20:22:43 -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: On 2021-09-10 08:15 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 08:10:41PM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > > > > > Can I just leave this as is? Or can/should I correct it s

Re: Will my reportbug report be seen?

2021-09-10 Thread Steve Dondley
This may happen in a timely manner, or it may not. Your best bet at this point is to wait a few days and see what happens. If nobody fixes it up before then, you might consider replying to the bug and supplying an actual description of the bug. OK, sounds like a plan. I see in the link I pr

Re: Will my reportbug report be seen?

2021-09-10 Thread Steve Dondley
On 2021-09-10 08:15 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 08:10:41PM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: > Can I just leave this as is? Or can/should I correct it somehow? Ok, while I was writing that last email, I got another confirmation: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.

Re: Will my reportbug report be seen?

2021-09-10 Thread Steve Dondley
Can I just leave this as is? Or can/should I correct it somehow? Ok, while I was writing that last email, I got another confirmation: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=994068 So I'm probably good?

Will my reportbug report be seen?

2021-09-10 Thread Steve Dondley
I used reportbug for the first time. The experience was a little confusing. It appears to have gone through because I got an confirmation email: Email subject: 1.4.11+dfsg.1-4: Please see issue at github: https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/issues/8198 Email body:

Re: sources.list 's security line

2021-09-06 Thread Steve Dondley
On 2021-09-06 05:53 AM, riveravaldez wrote: Hi, after reading the various sources of documentation (handbook, wiki, FAQs, Release Notes, etc.) I think I'm finding myself with kinda four options for the security line in /etc/apt/sources.list Those being: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-sec

Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-08-31 Thread Steve Dondley
"sudo which hash" shows nothing. Not sure whey. sudo is an external program, which launches other external programs. When you type "sudo which hash", your shell (zsh) forks a child, and that child executes "sudo". sudo does its authentication/authorization dance, and then executes "which ha

Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-08-31 Thread Steve Dondley
(tl;dr: use type, not which) OK, thanks.

Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-08-31 Thread Steve Dondley
There's `hash -r' for that (bash, dash). I'd bet that zsh has something along that lines, too. Cheers - t Ok, it is there after all, as a built-in. I was mindlessly trying "sudo hash -d fzf". I guess trying with sudo doesn't work. "sudo which hash" shows nothing. Not sure whey.

Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-08-31 Thread Steve Dondley
On 2021-08-31 11:19 AM, Steve Dondley wrote: This sounds like a stale-hash situation. According to my understanding, the shell will typically keep a cache of what path it found a given command at when it checked for that command in $PATH, so it doesn't have to re-do the filesystem access

Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-08-31 Thread Steve Dondley
This sounds like a stale-hash situation. According to my understanding, the shell will typically keep a cache of what path it found a given command at when it checked for that command in $PATH, so it doesn't have to re-do the filesystem accesses on every run of the command; this mapping of kn

Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-08-31 Thread Steve Dondley
OK, so I dropped the new fzf into /usr/local/bin. I confirmed it is the correct version with: admin@ip-172-30-0-226 /usr/local/bin $ ./fzf --version 0.27.2 (e086f0b) "echo $PATH" reports: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games So it looks like any binary in /usr/local/bin should load fir

Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-08-31 Thread Steve Dondley
On 2021-08-31 10:48 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 10:45:50AM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: Now I'm just wondering if it would be better to keep the old fzf around and put the new fzf into a directory that $PATH loads before /usr/bin. I'm thinking this might be the

Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-08-31 Thread Steve Dondley
Either way, the simplicity of the tool (in terms of it being a single binary artifact that is deployed) makes it unlikely that you would encounter any issues in doing this. Regards, -Roberto OK, thank you, Roberto. fzf comes with some shell integration tools like key bindings that can be inst

Re: Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-08-31 Thread Steve Dondley
Their build tooling seems very sparse. In particular, it does not support DESTDIR or PREFIX variables. However, that might be OK in this case, as it appears to only produce and install a single artifact: a binary called fzf. If I were in your position, I would run 'make' and then manually pl

Tips/advice for installing latest version of fzf?

2021-08-31 Thread Steve Dondley
Running bullseye with fzf package 0.24.3-1+b6. Newer versions of fzf (> .27.) have some advanced abilities I'd like to use but newer versions are not available in backports (at least not that I could tell) I'm thinking of building fzf manually per the instructions here: https://github.com/ju

Re: How to avoid systemd/udev unpredictable NIC names

2021-08-30 Thread Steve Keller
r release-notes in section 5.1.6 Steve

Re: How to avoid systemd/udev unpredictable NIC names

2021-08-30 Thread Steve Keller
re. 20 years ago until about 10 years ago I knew every single daemon on my system and I knew exactly what each one did do. Now there are dozens of daemons, interacing in obscure ways, poorly documented, so I don't know much of a current system anymore. I consider this a major security problem since any malicous new daemon would probably go unrecognized quite a long time. Steve

Re: How to avoid systemd/udev unpredictable NIC names

2021-08-30 Thread Steve Keller
Greg Wooledge writes: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 04:41:55PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > > Steve Keller wrote: > > > I plan to upgrade a server from Debian stretch to buster. Having read > > > the release notes I wonder what's the best way to avoid the new schem

How to avoid systemd/udev unpredictable NIC names

2021-08-30 Thread Steve Keller
, etc. shouldn't be used. So I'm still confused what to do after the upgrade to buster to keep my network names. Steve [1] Unfortunately, much of the Linux community and many distributions try to get as far away from its Unix roots as possible, away from the good KISS pr

Re: moderators, I would appreciate if you could interfere

2021-08-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > >As Steve did not send this mail to you, I would not take it personally. Exactly, thanks. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management c

Re: moderators, I would appreciate if you could interfere

2021-08-19 Thread Steve McIntyre
ad to warnings; repeated bad behaviour may lead to temporary or permanent bans for offenders. If you're trying to label that as "politically correct" then I think you may need to change your expectations. The "principles of open source" do not include a free pass to b

[Maybe OT] How to launch nextcloud without launching Plasma

2021-08-18 Thread steve
reboot, I cannot use nextcloud to synchronize files anymore. And that's an issue. I went through the nextcloud documentation but failed to find if an option exists to be put in the user nextclouf.conf file or in the related autostart file. Any ideas? Thanks a lot. Steve

Re: Root location

2021-08-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
ticularly to a novice. > >If the OP wants to run a 64-bit OS in the end, they should install a >64-bit OS to begin with. We finally now have a cross-grading tool in Debian: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/debian-crossgrader written by Kevin Wu as a GSoC project last year. It has wor

Aw: Re: GRUB command-line with timeout

2021-07-17 Thread Steve Keller
u're really saying? No, I'm not saying that anything is too much. Just that I prefer CLI and not to see the menu. It just a matter of my own personal taste. Not really important. Steve

Re: Bref rapport d'investissement pour mai 2021

2021-07-14 Thread steve
Bonjour Xavier, Oui bien reçu. Mais c'est celui de mai, je pensais qu'on parlait de celui de juin (mais c'est probablement trop tôt). Par ailleurs, j'ai posté ce matin les documents pour le mandat de gestion. Excellente journée Meilleures salutations Steve Le 14-07-20

Re: Offensive variable names [was: Cool down ...]

2021-07-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
ering the garbage in your signature... -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews

Re: GRUB command-line with timeout

2021-07-13 Thread Steve Keller
gs were this way. And I am almost always in favor of comand-line interfaces, especially in such low level situations as a boot loader. So I'd like to be dropped into CLI but with a timeout, since I reboot the machine in question remotely in most cases. Steve

GRUB command-line with timeout

2021-07-01 Thread Steve Keller
menu. But still I'd like to have the timeout after which a default entry is boot if no command is entered at the prompt. Can that be configured in GRUB? Steve

Re: Debian stable - updates

2021-06-25 Thread steve
Le 25-06-2021, à 06:38:32 -0600, D. R. Evans a écrit : For years I have run debian stable on my main desktop machine (the one I am using to type this e-mail). It has had fewer major issues than any other distribution I have tried. Some even say that Debian is becoming annoying for that very r

Re: What command to use to output to a text file?

2021-06-23 Thread steve
; in the file my_text_file.txt The '>' does the trick. If you want to append some text to an already existing file, use '>>'. Hope that helps. Best Steve

Re: debian installation issue

2021-06-21 Thread Steve McIntyre
osoft and a number of representatives from the Linux distros, I *can* confirm that Microsoft care about Linux and SB working well. Hell, they're even using SB (shim, etc.) themselves for their own small Linux distro. That's not a *guarantee* of future goodwill, but they're not about to bre

Re: [jo...@debian.org: Debian Presence on Freenode]

2021-06-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
robbine...@gmail.com wrote: >On 6/16/21 9:11 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> For the new Libera.Chat network, we established a group registration and >> will also hand out Debian cloaks to members again. Please open an issue >> in our new Salsa project, if

Re: [jo...@debian.org: Debian Presence on Freenode]

2021-06-16 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 09:15:01PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: >Hi, >Does the new IRC server used by Libra.chat will include a version >release as Debian package ? I've no idea, to be honest. Sorry... :-/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

[jo...@debian.org: Debian Presence on Freenode]

2021-06-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
doing so. Most of them aren't DDs but spend huge numbers of hours looking after our community for us. -- bye, Joerg - End forwarded message - -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "Since phone messaging became popular, the youn

Re: debian installation issue

2021-06-12 Thread Steve McIntyre
whole hard >drive or the start of a particular partition, chosen during >installation. I'm guessing it's the same for GPT partitioning. It's ... complicated. :-) See https://wiki.debian.org/Grub2#UEFI_vs_BIOS_boot for documentation I've written comparing how GRU

Re: OT: Strange behavior in Firefox -- google searches start by searching another URL / domain

2021-06-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
hat's your right. But connecting old software to the internet is *dangerous*. You appear to be worried about a third-party website/domain potentially tracking your activity, but I think that should be the least of your concerns at this point. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Hello, we need to package solanum, a new IRCD server.

2021-05-27 Thread Steve McIntyre
reading the many >repetitive message you sent, seems more like a big huge "I". Please take a step back and re-read what you wrote here. You've read a *lot* into a short message that I'm guessing may be from a non-native English speaker. Maybe try and a be a little more welcoming,

Re: xv (was Re: Changing background automatically, Mint 20.)

2021-05-23 Thread Steve McIntyre
the viewer and sxiv gives me that facilty. >My recollection is neither qiv nor feh gave me that. Maybe I didn't >look hard enough. Aha! Thanks for the suggestion! I've been looking for years for a replacement for xv myself. I've been playing with

Re: Restoring sticky bits after accidentally moving /usr directory

2021-05-19 Thread Steve Dondley
On 2021-05-19 06:30 AM, Hans wrote: Am Mittwoch, 19. Mai 2021, 00:26:18 CEST schrieb Steve Dondley: I believe, there is no easy way. However, if interested, I can send you my list of permissions of /var and /usr. These are not changed by me with one exception (/var/log/motion/motion.log, as

Restoring sticky bits after accidentally moving /usr directory

2021-05-18 Thread Steve Dondley
I goofed up and accidentally moved my /usr directory while trying to make room on a full drive. I was able to recover, but I'm finding that services are not working because the sticky bits for many files /usr/bin/* were lost. For example, I can't send email with exim because of this error: Fa

Re: vim not seeing many Unicode chars

2021-05-18 Thread Steve Dondley
On 2021-05-18 12:23 PM, Tom Browder wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 11:08 Steve Dondley wrote: > > On 2021-05-18 10:25 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > > I'm running Debian Buster. Inside a terminal window I can use Emacs and can > see and enter Unicode chars. > > B

Re: vim not seeing many Unicode chars

2021-05-18 Thread Steve Dondley
On 2021-05-18 10:25 AM, Tom Browder wrote: > I'm running Debian Buster. Inside a terminal window I can use Emacs and can > see and enter Unicode chars. > > But in the same terminal, when I run vim, I have trouble editing or seeing > most Unicode chars above ASCII. Type ":set fileencoding?" fr

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

2021-05-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
p...@sojka.co wrote: >On 5/6/21 1:10 PM, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> >> This line: >> >> efivarfs 16384 0 >> >> suggests the cause of the problem for you. efibootmgr (and other tools >> using libefivar) will look into both: >>

Re: How do I get a copy of log_server_status perl script for apache2?

2021-05-06 Thread Steve Dondley
So, I guess you would download an upstream Apache source tarball, extract it, and copy the log_server_status script out of the extracted tarball and into /usr/local/bin. Or wherever you want it. Interesting. First time I've seen a debian package remove a file like that. It can also be do

How do I get a copy of log_server_status perl script for apache2?

2021-05-06 Thread Steve Dondley
I have a stock apache2 server installed with apt-get. There is supposedly a perl script for getting machine-readable output of the apache status: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/programs/log_server_status.html However, I can't find this script anywhere on my Debian Buster install and a packa

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

2021-05-06 Thread Steve McIntyre
the problem for you. efibootmgr (and other tools using libefivar) will look into both: * /sys/firmware/efi/vars (the old, deprecated interface that was removed in 5.10) * /sys/firmware/efi/efivars (the new interface, provided by efivarfs) As you have efivarfs loaded but with use-count of 0,

Re: ctrl-p not working as expected at bash command prompt on debian docker container

2021-04-26 Thread Steve Dondley
On 2021-04-26 02:43 PM, Steve Dondley wrote: I downloaded and ran this docker image: https://hub.docker.com/_/debian It works, but typically when I hit the ctrl-p key at the bash prompt, it acts like the up arrow key and shows the previous command. However, I have to hit ctrl-p twice to show

ctrl-p not working as expected at bash command prompt on debian docker container

2021-04-26 Thread Steve Dondley
I downloaded and ran this docker image: https://hub.docker.com/_/debian It works, but typically when I hit the ctrl-p key at the bash prompt, it acts like the up arrow key and shows the previous command. However, I have to hit ctrl-p twice to show the previous command and twice each time to s

qemu-user fails with big-endian & shared libs on Debian buster

2021-04-25 Thread Steve Keller
again. I simply don't know, what this depends on. Can anyone help with this? BTW, the Debian buster/amd64 system is itself a virtual machine on a host running Debian stretch/amd64 and kvm, which is a script calling qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm. Steve

Re: How do I add --allow-tell option to debian-spamd command?

2021-04-22 Thread Steve Dondley
On 2021-04-22 03:40 PM, Steve Dondley wrote: I recently uninstalled the stock buster package of spamassassin (3.4.2) and installed a newer version from backports (3.4.4). On 3.4.2, I had the debian-spamd command configured with the --allow-tell option. It was easy to set up as I recall

How do I add --allow-tell option to debian-spamd command?

2021-04-22 Thread Steve Dondley
I recently uninstalled the stock buster package of spamassassin (3.4.2) and installed a newer version from backports (3.4.4). On 3.4.2, I had the debian-spamd command configured with the --allow-tell option. It was easy to set up as I recall. However, with 3.4.4, things seem a little more com

Re: Problem with Macbook 2,1 Installation Instructions

2021-04-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
lar to the Bay Trail netbooks - it's 64-bit but with crappy firmware that's limited to 32-bit only. Carl: please try the multi-arch netinst from https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/multi-arch/iso-cd/debian-10.9.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso instead. That will start in 32-bit UEF

Re: Problem with Macbook 2,1 Installation Instructions

2021-04-17 Thread Steve McIntyre
-bit only. Carl: please try the multi-arch netinst from https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/multi-arch/iso-cd/debian-10.9.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso instead. That will start in 32-bit UEFI, then install a 64-bit system with a 32-bit version of Grub etc. You should not need to do anything speci

Re: efibootmgr headach?

2021-03-26 Thread Steve McIntyre
he issues raised in this thread. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "You can't barbecue lettuce!" -- Ellie Crane

Re: Non-free firmware [was: Debian install Question]

2021-03-04 Thread Steve McIntyre
x27;re produced on the same machine as our official images, using the same software to build them. There's just some small config tweaks, that's all. In our team, we are ~always looking for more people to help, both for testing and development. We're a small group of volunteers, an

Re: shadowy, sort of fly by night debian mirrors? ...

2021-02-24 Thread Steve McIntyre
has *no* place at all on Debian mailing lists, nor anywhere else in our community. Please keep this kind of garbage to yourself in future, or you will be blocked from posting to Debian lists. Steve, for the Community Team. -- Steve McIntyre 93...@

Re: Need Support for Dell XPS 15 7590, Hard Drive Make Micron 2300 NVMe 1024 GB

2021-02-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
g...@extremeground.com wrote: >On 2021-02-18 09:48, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> zcor...@yahoo.com wrote: >>> Just received a new laptop, and both Debian Stable, and Debian >>> testing would not detect the hard drive.  Any possibility this can be >>> added to the t

Re: Need Support for Dell XPS 15 7590, Hard Drive Make Micron 2300 NVMe 1024 GB

2021-02-18 Thread Steve McIntyre
he drive may be configured in "RAID" mode. If so, switching to "AHCI" will most likely solve your problem. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "You can't barbecue lettuce!" -- Ellie Crane

btrfs?

2021-02-13 Thread Steve Mynott
Is anyone running btrfs (either on bullseye or buster)? I've been running on U20.04 and the stability seems fine and I wondered if my experience was typical?

Re: Download Pages are, Locked??!???

2021-02-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
Stephen wrote: >Suddenly the download pages are forbidden? > >What is going on? Apologies, something screwed up and left the release directory not readable. Fixed now. :-/ -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.st...@einval.com "You can't barbecue

Re: OT: Router behaviour

2021-02-04 Thread steve
mesh by plugging one of the devices in the modem/router rj45 plug. The wifi 6 protocol has a lot of advantages over the older protocols (and that's not marketing). Nobody is complaining anymore in the house :) Best Steve

Re: Can I remove i386 packages?

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

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-23 Thread steve
Le 22-01-2021, à 13:21:53 -0600, David Wright a écrit : On Fri 22 Jan 2021 at 08:06:37 (+0100), steve wrote: Le 21-01-2021, à 20:41:05 -0600, David Wright a écrit : > I always archive the output of udevadm for my disks (actually > I just copy the /run/udev/data/b8\:* files). I

Re: Too many levels of symbolic links

2021-01-23 Thread steve
Le 22-01-2021, à 13:40:20 +0100, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : > Could you inspect the /dev directory from a live image or similar (i.e. > with the affected system not running)? Yes I can do that. What should I look for? As usual, the error message gives the name of the symlink: sdc6, so that sho

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